What Car Expenses Can I Deduct for Business Driving?
Business owners and employees who drive for business purposes can deduct expenses for the use of personal cars or company cars for business purposes. In both cases, the expenses must be documented (more on this below) and must specifically business-related to be deductible. Personal expenses and other non-business expenses that are described below are not allowable business driving expenses.
Expenses for commuting back and forth to work are not deductible for business owners or employees.
The IRS allows two different ways to deduct expenses for business driving: actual expenses and a standard mileage deduction. Which you choose depends on your situation and on IRS allowances and limitations.
The standard IRS mileage deduction for business driving, which changes every year, is the easiest to use. You just multiply the business miles driven for the year by the rate for that year and use that amount on the appropriate tax form.
Read more about the benefits, drawbacks, and limitations of the standard deduction versus actual expense deduction. Not included in the standard deduction are parking and tolls; you may deduct these expenses in addition to taking the standard deduction.
There are some limitations on using standard versus actual expenses.
If you start out using the standard method, you cannot usually switch to actual expenses. You must use the standard method with leased vehicles. You cannot use the standard method if your business has five or more cars, and if you take certain types of depreciation (see below).
The expense of driving a car for business is a legitimate business expense, and you can deduct these expenses on your business tax return.
How you record the deduction for your business depends on your business type and the type of tax return your business files. Most small business owners use Schedule C to report business profits and losses.
Some employers reimburse employees for the cost of driving, while others do not. If your employee driving expenses are reimbursed, you can't deduct them as an expense on your personal tax return. You can't get a tax deduction for an expense your employer paid you for.
Employees who drive for business purposes can deduct the non-reimbursed cost of business driving under the following circumstances. To get the deduction, you must be able to prove you have paid these expenses if you want to use the actual mileage rate, or prove the miles driven, if you want to use the standard mileage rate.
Employee deductions for business driving are recorded on the personal tax return, along with other allowable business expenses, on Form 2106.
Complete, showing all information including the date, location, mileage, actual expense, and business purpose.
Accurate, meaning you should have backups for individual expenses.
Timely, at the time of the expense, not created later.
Read more about how to create excellent records for business driving expense deductions.
If you use the standard deduction, you cannot deduct depreciation on the vehicle. Special rules apply if you use your car 50% or less for business purposes.
Depreciation and car expenses is a complicated subject, so be sure to check with your tax advisor before you make any decisions on which deduction method to use.
For personal use of the car: You must separate business and personal use of the car, whether it is your personal car or a business-owned car. Personal expenses are never deductible.
For commuting expenses (going back and forth to work from home).
Use of the car to transport business material while commuting, or to make business phone calls on your cell phone. The IRS says these circumstances still don't make the expenses deductible because you are using the car primarily for commuting.
Putting display material that advertises your business on your car doesn't qualify as business driving. Only specific business use of the car can be deducted.
Daily driving costs between your home and temporary work sites in your metropolitan area.
Driving expenses between your home (not your home office) and a second job, on your day off from your primary job.


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The landmark that welcomes Mexicans in the Midwest
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The arch was built in 1990 to recognize the Mexican presence in Chicago after decades of living in the shadows. (Scott Strazzante / Chicago Tribune)
CHICAGO —
The emblematic arch in the Little Village community in Chicago, modeled after similar structures at the entrance of hundreds of pueblos in Mexico, is a cultural marker that welcomes residents and visitors to the Mexican-American and immigrant neighborhood.
Built in 1990 to recognize the Mexican presence in Chicago after decades of living in the shadows, the arch was the result of a joint effort by the city, then alderman Jesus "Chuy " Garcia and immigrant business owners.
"The objective was to welcome the community because in the 60s, 70s and 80s in La Villita there was resistance against Mexicans. There always was," said Salvador Pedroza, honorary director of the Little Village Chamber of Commerce (LVCC). "Later came better times."
During that time there were four organizations of merchants that were polarized by the particular interests and prejudices among the different ethnic groups that settled in Little Village, said Mike Moreno, owner of Moreno's Liquors, and also honorary director of LVCC.
"I wanted to combine those four groups and from there we got together to establish one chamber [of commerce]," said Moreno. The next step was to establish a cultural landmark not unlike the Puerto Rican flags we find in Humboldt Park, according to Moreno. In fact, the original idea was to build one iron structure on each end of 26th St.
However, Garcia wanted "to do something very traditional and Mexican, and we all agreed that it should be an arch at the entrance to the community," resembling the cement arches found in many Mexican towns, Moreno explained.
Although the neighborhood boundary begins on Western Ave., organizers decided that the commercial corridor really started on 26th St. & Albany, next to high-traffic businesses like Los Dos Laredos Restaurant and Discount Mall.
The arch was designed by Mexican architect Adrian Lozano, now deceased. The builders, Ronald J. Baltierra and David Ramirez, are Mexican-American Vietnam War veterans.
It took six months to build the arch without interrupting traffic. The cost of labor and materials totaled $275,000, according to the non-profit organization Little Village Community Council. The majority of the cost was covered by the city; a portion by the Chamber through donations from local businesses.
They wanted to build something that resembled the look and the function of cement arches found in many Mexican pueblos and ranchos. (Courtesy LVCC)
In 1991, the Mexican government donated a bronze clock made by the oldest clockmaker in Mexico, Relojes Centenario, and presented by former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari as a way to strengthen binational relations. That time, Mayor Richard M. Daley gave the Mexican president the keys to the city, according to the Tribune.
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox recognized the arch, too, during a visit to Chicago in 2005.
Maybe due to Chicago's harsh winters or maybe because of an electrical incompatibility, the clock almost never worked despite neighborhood hardware stores and even a state-sponsored engineer who tried to repair it. Five years ago, a Relojes Centenario engineer traveled to Chicago funded by LVCC to fix the clock once and for all, but it still misses the mark.
Latinxs, mostly of Mexican descent, make up one-third of Chicago's population. While they used to concentrate in neighborhoods like Little Village and Pilsen, today they spread throughout the city, especially the Southwest Side, and into the suburbs.
Since 2013 the Chamber has invested about $100,000 to remodel, clean the graffiti, and maintain the arch presentable to the world, according to several LVCC directors.
In recent years there have been talks about how to modernize the arch. Local leaders have circulated the idea of digitizing the clock to add advertisements and promote tourism. But not without criticism from the residents who have grown fond the monument just as it is.
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New prosthetic limbs are self-learning bionic hands
3D rendered image of the new prosthesis rotating to throw a ball. (c) University of Göttingen
Scientists at Imperial College London and the University of Göttingen have used machine learning to improve the performance of prosthetic hands. After testing their prototype on five amputees, they found that new machine learning-based control was far better at providing natural, fluid movements than the currently available technology. The researchers said the findings, could spark a "new generation of prosthetic limbs."
Professor Dario Farina, senior author of the paper from Imperial's Department of Bioengineering, said: "When designing bionic limbs, our main goal is to let patients control them as naturally as though they were their biological limbs. This new technology takes us a step closer to achieving this."
Current technology works by directly controlling the prosthetic motors with a few muscular signals. The new bionic hand, developed in collaboration with Imperial and the University of Göttingen, uses a human-machine interface that interprets the patient's intentions and sends commands to the artificial limb. It contains eight electrodes that pick up weak electrical signals from the patient's stump, before amplifying them and sending them to a mini-computer, also located in the prosthetic.
The mini-computer then runs the machine learning algorithm to interpret the signals, before commanding the hand's motors to move in the way the patient wants. Patients found they were able to easily rotate the wrist and open the hand either simultaneously or separately. They also found the movements far more natural than the conventional bionic limbs they were used to.
In addition to types of function, patients could also control the speed of individual movement independently of other movements. For example, patients could turn the hand slowly but open it quickly at the same time. The researchers say this is an essential component for movements that feel natural.
Prior to use, the patient and bionic hand underwent training so the machine learning algorithm could 'learn' how to interpret their unique electronic signals. Professor Farina hopes to eliminate the need for this in future prototypes, without sacrificing personalisation to specific patients. "The new bionic hand is not only more natural but it is also superior in terms of functionality in daily tasks than what's currently available to patients. Following this clinical study, we hope to have this available on the market for patients within three years," Professor Farina said.
The researchers are currently working to gain greater control over the hand, including the ability to move individual fingers, and eliminate the need for electrodes by transferring signals wirelessly within the patient's body.
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Velečevo  is a village in the municipalities of Ribnik, Republika Srpska and Ključ, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Demographics
According to the 2013 census, its population was 409, all living in Ključ and none in the Ribnik part.

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Populated places in Ključ
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New Churchill Fellowship in honour of Trails Pioneer
The Churchill Fellows' Association of South Australia in conjunction with the Churchill Trust are raising funds to offer a Terry Lavender Churchill Fellowship to investigate ways to improve, manage and promote outdoor recreational trails in South Australia.
A public appeal for donations towards this Fellowship was launched at the Uraidla Hotel last Sunday, 20 August 2017.
"We're hoping that the South recipient of this award will work with us to investigate ways to further develop, improve, manage and promote outdoor recreational trails and pursuits to the world," State Manager of Parks and Tourism Chris Thomas said.
"We're working hard with a range of stakeholders in the Hills to connect up trails, make them shared use to be more inclusive and present them with fresh and consistent sign age.
"Ultimately, we want our guests to have the best possible visitor experience in the Hills."
Originally from the UK, Terry Lavender moved to Adelaide with his wife Ann in 1969. In 1978, he became the main designer for the Heysen walking trail and oversaw its construction until its completion in 1992.
In 1991, Terry was awarded the Churchill Fellowship to study the development of recreation trails and their impact on tourism in England, USA and Europe.
Terry marked the routes and trails throughout the Mount Lofty and Flinders Rangers and helped establish the Friends of the Heysen Trail. Terry's work was recognised when he was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in 1994.
Terry sadly passed away in 2004 but his legacy lives on.
The Lavender Federation Walking Trail that runs through the Murrylands, Adelaide Hills and Barossa was named in his honor.
Terry's wife Ann Lavender was "quite surprised" to hear about the new Fellowship.
"I feel quite honoured and privileged that this Fellowship has been named after Terry," she said. "He has left such a legacy for South Australia and it probably needed someone of his strength, stamina and perseverance to have achieved it all."
Churchill Fellow and organiser Annie O'Connell said the Fellowship is a fantastic opportunity for South Australian residents.
"The recipient will be able to travel the world to meet with experts working in a similar space and by seeing what they're doing they can bring back new ideas to South Australia," she said.
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For donations of $500 or more you can contact the Churchill Trust directly on 02 6247 8333 or email seo@churchilltrust.com.au to make suitable arrangements.
The Churchill Trust is recognised as a not-for-profit organisation by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). Bequests and donations are fully tax deductible to fund a Churchill Fellowship.
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18. KEYNES
NICHOLAS KEYNES and MATILDA (18)
A community history of Winkleigh parish notes that: 'there is in England a gap in the records for the 15th century. So we have very little information about this period in England, and next to nothing in Winkleigh. It was a very prosperous period, mainly owing to the wool trade. There are few mentions of any records of the wool trade in Winkleigh, but it may have left its faint trace in the field names 'woolhouse meadow', which are on the old route to Bideford and there was a Guild for the woolcombers of the parish.
'Prosperity for many was also due to the consequences of the Black Death, which so reduced the population that peasants were now able to work for wages, freeing themselves from the restrictions of the feudal structure. The changes an increased prosperity can be seen by comparing tax documents of the 14th and 16th centuries, but for the 15th, you will be lucky to find anything!'[1]
The gap is certainly evident in tracing the history of the Keynes family in this century. Both earlier and later, we have information about wives and Inquisitions Post Mortem, giving much information about properties owned and the age of at least the son and heir. For Nicolas we have only: 'John, wch had issue Nicolas, wch had issue John'.[2] We do not know his mother's name.
Because of the poverty of information, it is difficult to assess dates of births and marriages with any certainty. But there is a file of property deeds mentioning Nicholas and his wife dated 1418. Calculating from the known dates of birth of his grandfather and of the grandson who later succeeded to the manor, we can estimate Nicolas's own birth date at around 1431. This was the year when Joan of Arc relieved the siege of Orleans and was then betrayed to the Burgundians and burned at the stake for heresy, under guard of the English army.
We may assume that Nicolas's father John Keynes was lord of the manor of Winkleigh Keynes, since both his ancestors and his descendants were. But the once vast estates of the family in four counties had shrunk. They held only Winkleigh in Devon, and some properties in Dorset.
The Hundred Years' War was slowly coming to an end. As a young man, Nicolas may have fought in the closing stages, perhaps in the unsuccessful defence of Normandy in 1450 or of Bordeaux in 1453, after which the war was over.
MATILDA. We know Matilda's name only from a collection of property deeds dated Aug 1418. All of them relate to land owned by John Keynes senior, which is to pass at his death to his son Nicholas and his wife Matilda. This means the couple must have been married in or before 1418. That would give them a possible birth date in the late 14th or the very early 15th century.
The properties are in the parish of Buckerell, 3 miles west of Honiton.[3]
Unfortunately, we do not have any information about Matilda's parentage.
It was probably around this time that Nicolas married. Other Keynes men who were lords of the manor married women from similar landed families in Devon or Somerset, and we can assume Nicolas did the same.
We estimate the birth of their eldest son John in the 1450s.
Sir William Pole tells us that Margaret, daughter of Nicolas Keynes, of Winkley, married Richard Chichester of Ralegh, in the parish of Pilton, 'thauncient seite & dwellinge of ye name'.[4] Matching the generations of these two family trees, however, it seems more likely that this Nicolas Keynes was two generations earlier, and great-uncle to the 15th century Nicolas. His name occurs on a number of documents.
We do not know when Nicolas's father John died and Nicolas became lord of the manor. In the absence of death dates, we cannot even be certain that John died first.
The oldest surviving memorial stone in Winkleigh church is to Edmund Keynes and is dated 1456. It lies to the north of the Gidley Chapel.[5] Edmund may be Nicolas's brother.
In 1453 the young prince Edward was born, son of Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou. Henry's cousin, Richard of York, who had a strong claim to the throne, was now no longer the heir presumptive. The scene was set for the Wars of the Roses, between the houses of Lancaster and York. Nicolas would be expected to support, and probably fight for, the side of his overlord, Lord Spenser. With Henry often incapacitated by mental illness, Queen Margaret led the king's side. It was a bitter and bloody struggle. In 1460 the king's army was defeated, but Richard of York was killed attacking the queen's forces in the north. The following year, Richard's son entered London to be proclaimed king as Edward IV.
Nicolas's son John grew to manhood under the new royal House of York.
For a brief year, from 1470, Henry was restored to the throne. But in 1471, the Lancastrians suffered a crushing defeat at Tewkesbury. Henry's son was killed, Queen Margaret was captured, and King Henry imprisoned in the Tower. Edward IV was king again. Later that year, Henry died in the Tower, almost certainly murdered by Edward and his brother Richard, later Richard III.
Nicolas died before June 1476, since his son John signed a deed relating to the manor of Winkleigh Keynes that month.[6] He was probably in his mid-forties or younger.
[1] Lesley McLean, ed., Winkleigh: A View of their Parish by the People of Winkleigh, (Beaford Arts Centre, 1997), p.37.
[2] Sir William Pole (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon,(1791), p.432.
[3] National Archives: Devon Record Office: Z1/4/3-7.
[4] Pole, p.403.
[5] Lawrence Molland, A History of the Parish of Winkleigh in the County of Devon, (MS; WSL), p.133.
[6] IPM John Keynes 1494, [WSL].
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New Telerik DevCraft Release Enables Developers to Create Responsive Experiences for Any Screen
Telerik® today announced the latest advancements to its industry-leading DevCraft suite for web, desktop and mobile development. Following the highly-successful release of the Telerik Platform, the new release of Telerik DevCraft focuses on UI, mobile, data, reporting and productivity enhancements for .NET platforms. With features such as responsive design, map reporting and document processing, Telerik is ensuring customers have the innovations needed to stay ahead of the development curve by enabling application development for any screen.
"Telerik DevCraft remains a key focus for the company and is a pillar of our overall product portfolio," said Vassil Terziev, co-founder and CEO, Telerik. "With this release, we continue to address customer pain points with features such as responsive design, document processing and offline data storage. Our commitment to our customers is to provide a portfolio of end-to-end tools and services so developers can pursue a modern, adaptive development strategy, regardless of platform preference."
According to Gartner, "Responsive Design is rapidly gaining popularity among developers, designers, tool makers and Web platform vendors, driven in part by multichannel development to address mobile Web and app requirements, along with traditional websites, in a unified approach."[1]
Telerik is the first to introduce a server-side responsive layout framework and adaptive UI capabilities for ASP.NET AJAX, embracing the emerging shift in mobile and web development. Developers can target the myriad of screen sizes and devices available today by building responsive and adaptive web applications faster.
Telerik is also expanding its adaptive screen capabilities with new mapping functionality in Telerik Reporting. The new Map Report offers developers the ability to add geolocation to reports, which can be viewed on any device as well as plot 2D data charts to provide richer geographical context to users.
Telerik now offers enhanced offline data storage in Telerik UI for Windows Phone—a unique capability enabling users to access key application data when offline, without sacrificing device memory. Telerik is also the first vendor to provide its Data Storage Engine for both Windows Phone and Windows 8, allowing users to capitalize on the expected unification of Windows and Windows Phone, slated for later this year.
Also new with this release is the instrumentation of UI for WinForms with Telerik Analytics, which enables developers to refine their efforts by leveraging important data such as application interactions, crash reports and feature usage. The result is improved usability of applications for the end user.
Profiling is considered a time-consuming task and is typically left until post-deployment. With this DevCraft release, Telerik offers native profiling functionality for the first time through JustTrace, providing users with the ability to profile any native application written in C++. In addition, all Windows 8 app developers can benefit from Telerik JustMock and its lite and elevated mocking in WinRT, making the process of .NET mocking and unit testing easier.


It's finally happening! Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao has just confirmed that his next fight against Australia's Jeff Horn will be held in the UAE.
The match, which is said to be taking place sometime in April, will mark Pacquiao's first fight in the region, which isn't as a result of a lack of trying, as the 38-year-old welterweight boxer has reportedly been trying to land a fight in the region for quite some time now.
More specifically, since he first arrived in Dubai two years ago. During a Q&A session held at Dubai's Emirates Terminal 3 in 2015, the now Filipino senator confessed: "I'm surprised because they know me here. I want to fight here, I feel so happy to be here in Dubai. This is my first time here. Thank you for the warm welcome, especially to the Filipino people here in Dubai... thank you." No, Manny, thank you 'cause this is going to epic.
If you like us, can't wait to see the 5ft 5in "Pacman" fight, then perhaps this will help with the wait. Warning: viewer discretion is advised as the following footage contains strong scenes of violence which may be unsuitable for children.


Northampton is a part of the Card Factory network, located at The Grosvernor Shopping Centre, 30-32 Newlands Walk, Northampton, Northampton, NN1 2EB. The shop serves visitors arriving from nearby localities. In order to contact this outlet you might telephone the number 01604 605298. Northampton is usually open on Monday: 09:00 - 18:00, Tuesday: 09:00 - 18:00, Wednesday: 09:00 - 18:00, Thursday: 09:00 - 18:00, Friday: 09:00 - 18:00, Saturday: 09:00 - 18:00. Its Sunday opening hours are: 10:30 - 16:30.
Other locations in the neighbourhood are WH Smith in WHSmith Grosvenor Centre, Northampton - only 0.01 miles away, Burton in Northampton New - about 0.01 miles away, McDonald's in Grosvenor Centre - at a distance of 0.02 miles, Next in Northampton - about 0.02 miles away and Burton in Northampton - at a distance of 0.02 miles.


Wire wrapped bracelet in muted shades of celery green with sepia brown undertones, surrounded by clusters of Czech fire polished glass delicately wire-wrapped by hand.
This piece drapes and dangles gracefully on the wrist and is finished with a fabulous hammered bronze toggle clasp. It's really quite tasteful and luxe.


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Newsletter - 20th January 2016
Free weekend at Findmypast - 72 hours to make history ENDS MONDAY
LostCousins is also free this weekend ENDS TUESDAY
How to find MORE cousins
Did your ancestors emigrate?
Whole genome tests: from $3 billion to $725 in 13 years
Surprise announcement from Findmypast BREAKING NEWS
Friends Reunited to close
Mocavo to merge into Findmypast.com
How distant can 'lost cousinship' be? GUEST AUTHOR
Distant cousins in genealogy
East of England DNA over one-third Anglo-Saxon according to study
Great War mystery solved?
Help solve the mystery of Sir John Franklin's expedition
Jefferson Tayte will be back in April
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Before they were famous....
GRO circulates notes on December meetings
Peter's Tips
The LostCousins newsletter is usually published fortnightly. To access the previous newsletter (dated 13th January) click here, for an index to articles from 2009-10 click here, for a list of articles from 2011 click here and for a list of articles from 2012-14 click here. However I strongly recommend that you do what I do, and use the customised Google search below (it only searches these newsletters, so you won't get spurious results):
From noon (London time) on Friday 22nd January until the same time on Monday 25th January all four of Findmypast's sites will be free (the only records excluded from the offer are the modern UK Electoral Registers and the recently released 1939 Register).
Existing subscribers haven't been forgotten - if you have a Britain, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand, or US & Canada subscription you will have access to World records over the weekend. If you have a World subscription 3 days will be added on!
It's a great opportunity to fill in gaps in your tree (Findmypast has hundreds of millions of records and newspaper articles that you won't find at any of their competitors' sites), whilst for those of you who haven't used Findmypast recently it's a chance to discover how much more powerful the new site is.
Please use one of the links below to go to the Findmypast site of your choice:
One good turn deserves another, so I've decided that LostCousins will also be FREE this weekend.
Even better, my offer starts right now and won't end until midnight on Tuesday - which means that you'll have plenty of time to enter relatives on your My Ancestors page and connect to the new cousins you've been matched with. To take advantage of this offer simply:
(1) Log-in to your LostCousins account (if you can't remember your password you can get an automated reminder)
(2) Check your My Cousins page for new matches - click Make contact or Accept invitation
(3) Go to your My Ancestors page and click the Search button to look for more matches
(4) Add more relatives to your My Ancestors page and click Search again to look for even more matches
See the next article for some tips to help you find lots of new cousins.
Tip: it doesn't matter if your cousins don't respond during the offer period, just so long as you find the match and click 'Make contact' this weekend. And if anyone doesn't reply within 14 days I'll chase them up on your behalf (how about that for service!).
Beginners often make the mistake of assuming that their direct ancestors are the only people they need to enter on their My Ancestors page. They are important, of course, but realistically most of us already know our 1st cousins and many of our 2nd cousins - who are the relatives who share our grandparents and great-grandparents.
There are big advantages in finding 3rd, 4th and 5th cousins - not least of which is that someone who is researching our ancestors from a different perspective will often have a better insight into the 'brick walls' that inevitably bring our research on a particular line grinding to a halt. But it's not just about exchanging past research and collaborating in the future - sometimes our cousins carry the answers we're seeking within their DNA (see the article Distant cousins in genealogy for a more detailed discussion).
You'll get most matches at LostCousins when you enter the members of your ancestors' extended families who were recorded in the 1881 Census - so the winning strategy is to trace your collateral lines forwards until you get to 1881, then enter them all on your My Ancestors page.
At the very least you should aim to trace collateral lines from the 1841 Census onwards
If you live in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US - or, indeed, anywhere other than Britain - it's worth remembering that provided you have British ancestry, most of your living cousins are still living in Britain. After all, when someone emigrated they might have taken their family with them, but they certainly wouldn't have taken their entire extended family!
Although the 1881 Census is the main one that we use, a few years ago I added the 1841 England & Wales census to the list, to make it easier for members whose direct ancestors migrated in the late 18th or early 19th century to search for their cousins. Nevertheless, if you can trace your collateral lines through to 1881 you'll have a much greater chance of success - because more members have entered more relatives from 1881 than all the other censuses added together!
The Human Genome Project was launched in 1990, with the aim of sequencing the entire human genome within 15 years at a cost of $3 billion; a first draft was published in 2000, and a finished version was published in 2003.
We're all used to the price of technology plummeting - the memory chips in my first (1978) computer cost 7 million times more per byte than modern memory chips - but even I was surprised to discover that it's possible to get a whole genome test for just $725 from FullGenomes.
Admittedly that test probably won't be as accurate as the $3 billion sequence, but for genealogical purposes it might be good enough. However I won't be ordering a test just yet - I'll leave that to the pioneers!
"From the 16th February 2016, Findmypast's premium record set, the 1939 Register, will be made available
to 12 month Britain and World subscribers as part of their subscription packages, giving them unlimited access to the records of 30.5 million people.
"And there is more good news for our subscribers. We are freezing the price of their next renewal on our 12 month subscription packages as we increase the price of new subscriptions by 20% on February 16th.
"In the past year alone, almost half a billion records have been added to the site. We plan to add the same number again this year to ensure value for our subscribers and to help them discover even more about their family story. We have opened a further 2.5 million closed 1939 Register records and continue to open thousands more every week.
"Findmypast now offers access to over eight billion records and we are committed to adding thousands of new records every week."
Whilst price increases are never welcome, the fact that Findmypast are adding the 1939 Register to existing subscriptions is really positive - and it's important to remember that even after the increase the cost of a Britain subscription will still be about 20% less than it was in October 2009 when the 1911 Census was added!
Tip: watch out for my next newsletter - I'm currently trying to arrange an offer with Findmypast that will offer a discount on the existing subscription price!
Founded 16 years ago by Steve & Julie Pankhurst with their friend Jason Porter, Friends Reunited was a forerunner of Facebook - and a highly-successful one in its heyday. Sold to ITV in 2005 for upwards of £120 million the company was re-sold to BrightSolid, the parent company of Findmypast in 2009 for a much lower price - but they were more interested in the Genes Reunited subsidiary , and the website ended up in the hands of the original owners.
Sadly I received an email this week which announced that Friends Reunited is to close - you can read a blog posting by Steve Pankhurst here. There will be a short period to allow members to download images they have posted, but it's not yet clear what other features will be available - there are some friends from my childhood who I am only in touch with through that site.
Also, as one of the world's first online social networks the connections and conversations at Friends Reunited surely have heritage value? I would argue that they're an important part of early 21st century culture, certainly in the UK. But what do YOU think?
Mocavo, the genealogical search engine which was acquired by Findmypast in June 2014, is to be incorporated into the Findmypast.com website. I have to admit that I've not used Mocavo very much, partly because it's quite US-oriented, and partly because I was confused about which records were free and which ones weren't.
You can read more about the plans here on Dick Eastman's blog - his genealogy newsletter is an amazing 20 years old this month!
Perhaps the most exclusive venues in London - yet cold, badly-lit, and uncomfortable - closed sections of the London Underground network are so popular that the occasional tours sell out very quickly, as you can see from this page on the London Transport Museum website.
You'll find a short video tour of the shelters below Clapham South tube station (which accommodated up to 8,000 people a night during World War 2) here on the BBC website.
See the Hidden London website for hundreds of ideas for places to visit when you're in the capital.
This article by Anthony Adolph, professional genealogist, broadcaster and author, draws on some of the concepts in his latest book:
Views of the relevance of cousinship vary: a lot of people will argue that first cousinship, derived through sharing grandparents, or second cousinship, derived through sharing great grandparents, is valid and relevant, but anything more distant doesn't really count.
But the more people like us spend time researching our ancestry, the broader the net can be cast. When I worked in a genealogical office in Canterbury I discovered an 8th cousin twice removed living literally over the road, and more recently I was delighted to discover, two years before her wedding, that one of my 10th cousins once removed was Kate Middleton.
How much further the net can be cast in terms of such precise statements of relationship is limited only by genealogical records. Through the Fairfax family, who are my common link with the Duchess of Cambridge, I can take a line back for us both to the Percys of Northumberland, who were descended from Edward III, and this provides reliable genealogical lines back as far as you can trace Edward's ancestors – back to the AD 500s at least through his Wessex ancestors, and yet further back through his various descents from European royalty. Millions of people worldwide can trace similar lines back to these same royal root-stocks, and with any of them it is possible to calculate a precise and delightfully distant degrees of cousinship.
But genealogy is about much more than written records. It's self-evident that all humans are our cousins, one way or another and, in the last few decades, genetics has added a surprising new precision to our knowledge of the degrees of relationship involved. The Y chromosomes carried by all human males identify 20 groups (called haplogroups) from which all male-lines descend, and show us how these groups are themselves related. They thus define a great family tree of humanity, as defined by the male line, Y chromosome. The mitochondrial DNA, which each of us inherited from our mothers, equally falls into 35 haplogroups, also interrelated, forming another great family tree of humanity, as defined by the female line. The male lines go back to a man, dubbed the 'genetic Adam', who probably lived in Africa about 80,000 years ago, and the female lines (including Adam's female line ancestry) go back to a woman, dubbed the 'mitochondrial Eve', who probably lived in Africa about 140,000 years ago. A new way of defining cousinship, therefore, is by common membership of these genetic haplogroups and their numerous sub-groups, as revealed by genetic testing.
All such tests affirm our common descent from the tiny group of early Homo sapiens who evolved in Africa, about 200,000 years ago. They had evolved out of earlier Homo species, and they in turn had evolved out of earlier species of apes, monkeys, earlier mammals, cynodonts, earlier synapsids, reptiles, amphibians, fish, sea-worms, early metazoa and, ultimately, single-celled ancestors, floating about in the primal seas some 3,500 million years ago. This greater pedigree, traced through the study of biology and fossils in the 19th and 20th century and now increasingly honed through genetic studies, not only provides a detailed account of our ancestry right back to the dawn of life, but also defines our cousinship to all other forms of life on earth.
The birds in the garden are your cousins, as are the spiders on the dahlias, the dahlias themselves, the fungus on their leaves and the bacteria in your stomach. They're all long-lost cousins, connected by an unbroken chain of generations, within the great family tree of life.
Anthony Adolph is the author of Tracing Your Aristocratic Ancestors, which investigates how far back you can trace through noble and royal lines, and In Search of Our Ancient Ancestors, which takes the story right back to the dawn of life on Earth (you can see my review here). Both are published by Pen & Sword: for more details about these books and the services that Anthony offers, or to read some of the other interesting articles that he has written, please see his website.
Reading Anthony Adolph's article it suddenly struck me that if either 'genetic Adam' and 'mitochondrial Eve' had failed to reproduce none of us would be here today!
There was a time - not so very long ago - when every human being then living (who has descendants living today) was the ancestor of everyone currently living. In other words, we all share precisely the same ancestors if you go back far enough - though in different proportions and on different lines.
But whether you find that piece of information comforting or a matter of profound concern, it isn't going to help you knock down the 'brick walls' in your tree; I can state with complete confidence that you and I are related, but unless we can identify where the connection is, the fact that we are related is of no genealogical value. Even if we have an autosomal DNA match it won't tell us who the common ancestor is, and if - as often happens - our common ancestor has a surname that doesn't currently appear in both (or either) of our trees we might struggle to work out what the connection is.
The great thing about connecting with a cousin through LostCousins is that you'll often know who the common ancestor is even before you've made contact - and you'll definitely know who it is once you correspond, no matter how many generations back the connection might be.
Clearly you'll share a larger proportion of your tree with someone who is a 3rd cousin than with someone who is a 4th or 5th cousin - but even a 5th cousin shares a significant chunk (1/32nd) of your tree.
Note: according to research by Ancestry DNA we each have an average of 17,300 5th cousins and 174,000 6th cousins - so there's no shortage of cousins for us to find. Of course, they won't all be researching their family tree, nor will they all be LostCousins members, but even if you connect with only 10 or 20 new 5th cousins it could really transform your research by providing new insight into the origins of the ancestors you share.
These days DNA testing is the main hope for those of us with seemingly impenetrable 'brick walls', and you might be surprised to learn that when it comes to autosomal DNA testing, distant cousins tend to be more useful than close cousins. That's because when you're analysing your DNA results and sorting through the hundreds of matches, it's an enormous advantage to be able to work out which of your ancestors contributed a particular part of your DNA - and the fewer ancestors you share with your cousin, the easier it is to determine precisely which contributed the shared DNA.
So, if you're one of those who dismisses matches with 'distant' cousins as of relatively little value, I would suggest that it's time to think again!
Research published yesterday in Nature Communications and reported in this article on the BBC website found that on average 38% of DNA in the modern population of the East of England derives from Anglo-Saxon migrations.
In the last 2000 years there have been several mass migrations into the British Isles, starting with the Romans, and continuing with Anglo-Saxons between 400-650 AD, Scandinavians during the Viking period from 800-1050, and the Normans in 1066.
Previous estimates of the contribution Anglo-Saxon invaders have made to English DNA have varied from 10-40%. Although the latest findings are based on DNA analysis of the remains of just 10 individuals, they are notable because whole genome analysis was carried out (although, because of the difficulty of working with ancient DNA, for 9 of the 10 samples the coverage was less than the 10x coverage offered by the test that you and I could purchase for $725).
The researchers used a technique they call rarecoal which fits a demographic model to the distribution of shared rare variants across a large number of samples, enabling fine scale analysis of subtle genetic differences and yielding explicit estimates of population sizes and split times.
In late September 1915 Lieutenant John Kipling, who was barely 18 years old, disappeared during the Battle of Loos - but no body was ever found. His father, born Joseph Kipling, but known to posterity by his middle name of Rudyard was distraught, and spent the next four years trying to discover what had happened; only in 1919 did he accept that his son was most probably dead. Kipling, the author of works such as Kim and The Jungle Book died in 1935 without ever being able to visit his son's grave, yet by a cruel irony it was he who chose the phrase "known unto God" for the graves of unknown soldiers.
Fast forward to 1992: the Commonwealth Graves Commission changed inscription on the grave of an unknown soldier to read "John Kipling" - you can see the headstone here. However a story in the Daily Telegraph in 2002 questioned whether a mistake had been made, and the same concerns - which had been raised in a book (My Boy Jack?) were aired in a 2007 article in the Guardian.
But now, according to a press release from the Western Front Association which was timed to coincide with the 80th anniversary of Rudyard Kipling's death, authors Graham Parker and Joanna Legg have put forward a convincing argument that the body in the war grave is indeed that of John Kipling, despite the apparent inconsistencies.
I'll leave it to you to weigh the evidence, such as it is - but I suspect that were Rudyard Kipling alive today he'd be clamouring for a DNA test to remove all possible doubt!
Note: Rudyard Kipling also coined the phrase "lest we forget", which occurs in a poem he wrote commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
On 19th May 1845 an expedition led by Captain Sir John Franklin set sail from Greenhithe in Kent, bound for the Arctic, where he was hoping to complete a journey through the North West Passage.
Three years later, there had been no news of the expedition and a search party set out from England to discover the fate of the 129 men; others joined the hunt, attracted by the reward on offer, but succeeded only in finding the graves of 3 men who had died early on. Finally, in 2014 a Canadian search team located HMS Erebus, one of the two ships on Franklin's doomed expedition.
This month John D Reid, author of the Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections blog, and a speaker at Genealogy in the Sunshine last March published an appeal for help finding living relatives of the crew members so that their DNA can be tested against the DNA from the remains that have been found. There's a list of the crew members on John's blog here, but I've obtained a more detailed list from Professor Anne Keenleyside at Trent University in Ontario, Canada which I have posted here on the LostCousins forum.
The challenge is to identify crew members or their families on the 1841 England & Wales census, so that we can use the Historical Research feature of LostCousins to connect with living relatives. If you're interested in taking part head over to the forum - assuming you've been invited, that is. (You can find out whether you've been invited to join the forum by logging in at LostCousins and checking your My Summary page.)
Steve Robinson is probably the most successful author of genealogical mysteries around, so I'm sure many of you will be as delighted as I was to hear that the new Jefferson Tayte novel Kindred is due to be released on 12th April. It will be released simultaneously as a paperback and as a Kindle book in the UK and the US, and you can pre-order it by following one of the following links:
Steve Robinson's In the Blood was the first genealogical mystery I ever read - and the author lives less than 20 miles away from LostCousins - so I have a soft spot for Jefferson Tayte. You can read my 2012 interview with Steve Robinson here.
Last month I wrote about Smithfield sausage-maker William Harris, and his five sons named William - if you missed the original article you'll find it here. The article prompted a flood of correspondence from members who had encountered similar examples in their own researches, but I don't recall anyone telling me about the five sons of boxer (and grill magnate) George Foreman - who are named George Jr, George III, George IV, George V, and George VI. However, I was relieved to discover that his 7 daughters (two of whom were adopted) all have different names.
Where were you on 13th December 1965? I now know where I should have been - at school! It was only after the death of rock star David Bowie was announced 10 days ago that I discovered that his band had played at our annual Christmas Dance.
From The Brentwoodian, January 1966 p.8
He wasn't the only singer to become famous after performing at Brentwood School in 1965 - earlier that year a little known American folk singer had played in the same hall:
From The Brentwoodian, January 1966 p.59
By the time these paragraphs appeared in print Paul Simon was internationally famous - whilst he was in England his song The Sound of Silence (with Art Garfunkel) had been overdubbed by their producer and released as single, topping the US charts on New Year's Day 1966. Sadly I didn't attend the Paul Simon concert either - it was to be almost 40 years before I saw him perform live, with Art Garfunkel, at a reunion concert in London's Hyde Park.
The General Register Office for England & Wales has circulated a PDF document with notes on the meetings with stakeholders held in December - you can download a copy here.
(If you'd like to re-read my comments following the meeting I attended you will find them here.)
This year's Which? magazine survey of Internet Security software for Windows put the program I use, Kaspersky Internet Security at the top of the list. It also came top in the Computer Shopper survey (yet again). It's a ridiculously cheap way of protecting yourself against viruses, Trojans, and other types of malware, as well as phishing attacks.
Of course, there are free programs available that can stop some of threats - but that's rather like locking a door and leaving a window open. Like burglars, hackers attack the most vulnerable spot. One of the best things about Kaspersky is the low cost of multiple licences - to protect 3 devices (Windows or Android) costs less than £6 each; for 5 it works out at less than £5 each. Follow this link to Amazon.co.uk, or this one to Amazon.com
Tip: I never renew my licences - I buy a new copy of the program instead, since this invariably works out significantly cheaper.
I have to admit that the Sloe Gin I made last autumn (see my September article) tasted delicious when I eventually tasted it over Christmas - so I'll certainly be making more next year. However the real star was the Shepherd's Bullace Gin - a complete gamble, but one that paid off handsomely!
This is where any last minute updates and corrections will be highlighted - if you think you've spotted an error (sadly I'm not infallible), reload the newsletter (press Ctrl-F5) then check here before writing to me, in case someone else has beaten you to it......


You may have noticed postings like this one on your friends' walls, "Pete Smith has requested help against a Rival Family in Mafia Wars," and wondered what the heck was going on. It's Mafia Wars, a social game with more than 9.6 million monthly users [source: Inside Social Games]. The object of Mafia Wars is to work your way up to Godfather by performing tasks and getting your friends to play the game.
Mafia Wars has three main points of play -- Rank, Fighting and Respect. To ascend in the game you must increase these, which happens through recruiting other players and friends to your "family," earning virtual money from criminal activities, arming your family with weapons, and fighting other mafia families. See? Good clean family fun.
When you first begin playing the game, an elder named Luco guides you along. He'll show you how to recruit your Facebook friends to the game and offer other tips on how to build a large family. The game is text-based -- not a simulation or virtual world. You click on actions and then gather your "family" to help you out. Then you all split the money. The game keeps track of your activities, and whenever you need a hand, you can post requests to your wall.
In the race for Facebook game revenue, two companies have emerged as frontrunners. On Inside Social Games' Top 25 Facebook Games for May 2009, the company Playfish appears seven times. Its games include the No. 2-ranked Pet Society, as well as Geo Challenge, Word Challenge, Who Has The Biggest Brain, Bowling Buddies, Restaurant City and Minigolf Party. Zynga is the next best represented, with five out of the top 25. Its games include the No. 1-ranked Texas HoldEm Poker, then Mafia Wars, YoVille, Vampire Wars and Street Racing. Industry insiders are keeping an eye on Playdom, which is a success on MySpace and is about to make a move toward Facebook [source: Inside Facebook].


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Land, planning and development
Footpaths, byways and bridleways
Rights of way public notices
Byway Open to All Traffic 526 (Capel/Wotton) Closure Order 2020
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, Section 14(1)&(2)
The Surrey County Council
Wolvens Lane /Public Byway Open to All Traffic 526 (Capel/Wotton)
Temporary Prohibition Of Traffic Order 2020
The Surrey County Council Public Byway Open to Traffic 526 (Capel/Wotton) Temporary Prohibition of Traffic Order 2020 was made in order to protect the Byway from serious damage following surfacing and bank works, and to allow further works to take place.
The Order came into operation on 26 October 2020. It was due to expire on 5 October 2021 but has now been continued in force by the Secretary of State for Transport for a second time and will now expire on 5 October 2022 or until the completion of the remedial works if earlier.
The Order as continued prohibits any motorised vehicle with 4 or more wheels and any horse drawn vehicle over 1500mm (4'11'') in width from entering or proceeding along that length of Wolvens Lane/Public Byway Open to Traffic 526 (Capel/Wotton) from the junction with Sheephouse Lane, Wotton (Grid ref: 512978, 147384), to the junction with Public Byway Open to All Traffic 527 (Coldharbour Common Road) and Abinger Road, Coldharbour.
Wolvens Lane/ Public Byway Open to Traffic 526 will remain fully open for use by traffic on foot, horseback, bicycle and motorcycle.
The temporary closure will only operate while the County Council, or an authorised person acting on its behalf, displays signs prohibiting the said movements. Access to properties will not be affected.
There is no suggested alternative route for motorised vehicles with 4 or more wheels or any horse drawn vehicle over 1500mm in width.
Dated: 30 September 2021
Katie Stewart, Director of Environment, Transport and Infrastructure
Any Enquiries to: Countryside Access Team, Surrey County Council, Whitebeam Lodge, Merrow Depot, Merrow Lane, Guildford, GU4 7BQ. Tel: 03456 009009 or email: rightsofway@surreycc.gov.uk
Files available to download
Byway 526 Temp Closure Plan (PDF)
Plan showing the route of BOAT 526 closed to vehicles
Updated: 20 Sep 2021


When I originally put Finicky Eater on this site, the story was still in its infancy. As in a couple of months removed from being written and of first draft quality. It has since moved into a toddling second draft with another go round of editing awaiting it before advancing to a fast walk then run.
Little things tended to add up. Not that Kasha considered this as she grabbed her jacket and headed into the living room. Anticipation quivered in heightened senses becoming a fevered beat pulsing in her head; the soundtrack, devoid of music, was more than a precursor to the night's hunt. It had tapped into a primal rage with a drum solo that rivaled the human heart.
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Cineplex patrons receive discounted parking rates.
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Check out their new concourse-level store with direct mall access!
The removal of the former Bay Street entrance/exit stairs has begun.
Noise will be loud at times.
Follow onsite signage on P1.
BMO Bank of Montreal has reopened!
Be sure to pay a visit and check out their new state-of-the-art branch.


CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president, speaking ahead of next week's anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak, vowed on Saturday to unleash a firm response to any unrest and to press ahead with the fight against the country's Islamic militants.
Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi spoke at a ceremony marking Police Day, which falls on Jan. 25, the day the uprising began five years ago.
He posthumously decorated nearly 40 policemen killed in militant attacks, including eight generals and three colonels. Most of the widows who received the medals were accompanied by their children, including infants. El-Sissi, his eyes frequently welling up, carried the infants, hugged and kissed older children and posed with them for photos. He allowed several family members, including a boy no older than 12, to briefly address the large gathering.
Addressing the nation, el-Sissi said of those killed in terror attacks: "Don't let their blood go in vain and, by the way, we will not allow that ourselves, and I am saying that so everyone listens and takes note," he said.
"The security and stability of nations are not to be toyed with," he said, adding that the security of Egypt was the responsibility of all Egyptians, not just the police and the army. El-Sissi delivered his 30-minute address standing in the middle of the families of the policemen killed in terror attacks, with the sound of crying babies occasionally heard in the background.
El-Sissi, who as military chief overthrew in 2013 Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, has presided over a sweeping crackdown on dissent, jailing thousands of Islamists and scores of secular, pro-democracy activists who fuelled the 2011 uprising. He was elected to office in 2014 with a landslide.
El-Sissi made no mention of the January 2011 uprising in his comments. He has in the past paid tribute to the uprising, just as he has done to the so-called "June 30 revolution," the day in 2013 when millions of Egyptians demonstrated on the streets against the rule of Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood. However, some of el-Sissi's supporters in the media and in politics have taken to publicly vilifying the 2011 uprising as an attempt by foreign powers to weaken Egypt through local saboteurs.
The nearly two-hour ceremony, with its many emotional moments and high praise for police, confirmed the president's panache for populism, but also appeared to send a multitude of political messages. Foremost among these is that el-Sissi has endorsed the nation's highly militarized police force, paying no heed to growing complaints by rights activists that it has gone back to Mubarak-era practices like torture, random arrests and the use of excessive force.
The high praise of the police for their role in the fight against the militants and securing stability also signal the complete return of respectability to a force that melted away in the face of the 2011 uprising's protesters and took at least two years to fully shoulder its responsibilities again.
The posthumous decorations also offered a rare insight into the heavy toll endured by the police in the fight against the militants. Hundreds of army soldiers have been killed by the militants too, but the military has been secretive recently about its losses.
Egypt has been battling Islamic militants in Sinai for years, but attacks against security forces have significantly increased in frequency after Morsi's ouster and later spread to the mainland, with assassinations and bombings. The latest of these came Thursday when a bomb killed six people, including three policemen, in Cairo's twin city of Giza. The Egyptian affiliate of the extremist Islamic Group claimed responsibility for the attack.
The president spoke a day after the army said it would beef up security measures to safeguard vital installations and "confront any attempt to violate the law, impact the nation's security and stability." The announcement came amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent ahead of Monday's anniversary. Authorities have visited and searched as many as 5,000 apartments in the past 10 days, primarily in central Cairo, seeking to prevent protests. The administrators of several Facebook pages suspected of links to the Brotherhood have been detained and accused of using social media to call for protests.
Most secular and liberal pro-democracy activists are not expected to take to the streets on Monday to mark the anniversary, with many saying that doing so would only add to the number of protesters killed or detained by police. Morsi supporters, however, have been calling for protests, but these are likely to be restricted to neighborhoods where they maintain a heavy presence, not landmark squares or main streets.
Police have shown zero tolerance for anti-government street demonstrations since Morsi's ouster and, in view of el-Sissi's comments Saturday, are not likely to change that policy on Monday. However, there are fears that militants might take advantage of the anniversary to stage attacks against security forces.


Audio-Technica is a worldwide group of companies devoted to the design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of problem-solving audio equipment. Initially known for state-of-the-art phonograph cartridges, today Audio-Technica creates high-performance microphones, headphones, wireless systems, mixers and electronic products for home and professional use.
In late 2013, lotus823 partnered with Audio-Technica to offer the company online marketing services, including search engine optimization and content marketing along with full-scale social media management. Through this partnership, lotus823 was tasked with creating a unified, consistent, and searchable brand presence for Audio-Technica on the web.
To fully execute the campaign, lotus823 relied heavily on initial keyword research and analysis to integrate relevant keywords in content found on the Audio-Technica website and social media channels. Keyword categories that lotus823 focused on included: headphones (studio headphones, sports headphones, noise cancelling headphones); microphones (wired microphones, wireless microphones, studio microphones, digital ethernet microphones); gaming headphones (gaming headsets); wireless systems; and turntables.
In addition to using these keyword categories to create optimized website content, lotus823 also performed various SEO-related tasks, including maintaining the blog site, blog.audio-technica.com; drafting, optimizing, and publishing blog content to the blog site; optimizing press releases; maintaining the YouTube channel, and optimizing and uploading YouTube content; drafting recommendations for website changes; social link building, including bookmarking on popular sites such as Digg, Delicious, and StumbleUpon; and monitoring and reporting on website health, including crawl errors, Google Index status, mobile usability, and security threats.
Since the beginning of lotus823's relationship with Audio-Technica, 260 pages, including blog posts, have been optimized. lotus823 also optimized YouTube videos, which impacted Google organic search results.
Since partnering with lotus823, Audio-Technica's presence on the web has grown exponentially in many key areas. Comparing the first six months of 2014 (Jan. 1– June 30) versus the first six months of 2015, Audio-Technica's website traffic increased by 37% (1,333,992 vs. 1,831,901 visits). For that same time period comparison, organic search traffic increased by 118% (466,678 vs. 1,122,534 visits).


Gala in Graceada is a night to enjoy outdoor beauty, community, and the vision of a brighter tomorrow.
Gala in Graceada is Modesto's premier summer kickoff event! It is a celebration of public space in the heart of downtown Modesto. As a City of Great Neighbors, we invite you to join a night of good food, fun and friends, followed by some fine tunes to define the night.
The proceeds from this annual event will be put towards neighborhood park improvements and summer programming in Graceada and Enslen Parks. For 2019, the monies generated will be used to enhance and modernize the Enslen Community Club House, located in the southwest corner of Enslen Park. The vision is for this space to become an amazing indoor/outdoor space that will be a destination for positive park activities, community gatherings, and tourism. Additionally, some of the funds generated from Gala in Graceada will be used for summer programming in the park.
Gala in Graceada is an event hosted by the College Area Neighborhood Alliance, which is a part of Modesto Neighborhoods, Inc., non-profit 501(c) (3). Your generous contributions to the event may be tax-deductible. This is a 21 and over event.
Graceada Park is located in Central Modesto between Needham, Sycamore, and some other streets.


According to fund managers, one way to get around investor squeamishness about Europe is to go into stocks likely to stay on a growth course.
Institutional investors are showing increasing interest in European equities. In many cases, however, an inherent wariness about the prospects for European economies — despite the European Central Bank's much-anticipated plunge into quantitative easing last month — has prevented their interest from turning into outright enthusiasm. Arnaud Cosserat, CIO of Paris-headquartered investment management firm Comgest, describes the attitude as a case of what the French call "faute de mieux." They are investing in Europe for want of anything better, and this rather lukewarm attitude is shaping the way they do it.
Among the fund's 30 holdings is Paris-headquartered ophthalmic lens manufacturer Essilor. With a 35 percent market share, it is by far the world's biggest maker of corrective vision lenses. The company plows many of its profits back into research, allowing it to retain market share and build new markets through innovation. Its research budget is almost as large as the rest of the sector put together, says Cosserat. Essilor is gaining from two structural trends: the aging global population, which increases the likelihood of needing to wear lenses, and the rise of the middle class in emerging markets, which is increasingly able to afford them. The company has innovated in creating low-cost glasses and marketing them in countries such as China and India.
Roland Vetter, head of research at London-based utilities and infrastructure hedge fund firm CF Partners, agrees with the notion that banking on a European economic revival is not a one-way bet. His fund had invested in attractively valued European cyclical equities for much of the past year, including infrastructure construction companies, but has since switched over to companies with less exposure to the European economy. Enumerating the risks that could lead to weakness in European growth and a correction in stock markets, he cites the resurgence of populist parties in Europe, a lack of structural reform in several countries and uncertainty about Russia. CFP holds an investment in EDP Renováveis, a Lisbon-listed builder and operator of wind farms around the world — with a strong presence in the U.S. as well as in Europe. In addition to its global spread, the company sells most of its electricity output at guaranteed prices, which, he argues, are not affected by potential weakness in GDP growth.
One stock that could benefit from a European economic recovery, he believes, is Amsterdam-listed AkzoNobel, which makes paints and other coatings. F&C has invested in AkzoNobel on behalf of several clients. Its decorative paint business, which includes the well-known Dulux brand, was hit badly by the fall in European consumer confidence. Having the house repainted is a consumer purchase that can be put off in hard times. Yet official figures for household consumption, up a respectable 0.6 percent in the third quarter of 2014, however, suggests that European consumers are at least starting to loosen their belts and will be able to spring for a fresh new coat of paint.


The Beacon Hill Dollhouse Kit. This beautiful dollhouse is a great way to spend time with your daughter and will be a family heirloom for generations to come. Dignified and grand, the Beacon Hill has become the flagship of the Greenleaf line. Its sophisticated exterior is enhanced by a curved Mansard roof, and no detail has been omitted, including even a little window in the cellar! The Beacon Hill has seven rooms and two hallways that are large enough to furnish as rooms.
It's not painted inside or out, letting you express your own personal decorating tastes. The kit does not come with paint, furnishings, or other decorations. Recommended for children ages 12 and up; assembly with parent--7 and up. Finished houses are not recommended for children under 3.
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The item "NEW The Beacon Hill Wood Dollhouse Kit Victorian Heirloom 7 Rooms 2 Hallways" is in sale since Monday, June 29, 2015. This item is in the category "Consumer Electronics\Gadgets & Other Electronics\Other Gadgets". The seller is "fundwaysltd" and is located in Cedarhurst, New York. This item can be shipped to United States.