What is the most important time while my house is on the market?
The first 2 weeks is typically the most significant time. You should be getting showings and feedback. If you aren't, it's often a sign of a price adjustment.
How much money will I make from the sale of my house?
Once an offer is received, I can estimate your closing costs so that you can get a good idea of what you should expect at the settlement table. In some cases this also helps determine if the offer is even possible.
Is the Spring and Summer the best time to sell?
Since many people wait to sell in the Spring and Summer, sometimes listing your home in the Fall and/or Winter can also be a fortunate time since the number of new listings is typically lower.
How much does it cost for an owner to sell their property?
The usual rate is 6%. Typically 3% goes to the listing broker and 3% goes to the buyer's broker.
Is an owner is doing a short sale, what will the owners have to pay the agents?
When doing a short sale the bank pays the listing agent and the buyer's agent.
After a home inspection, do the sellers have to repair all of the wanted items?
No. It is all up for negotiation. But if the sellers decline to all of the repair requests, the buyer(s) could walk from the contract.
If an owner is selling their house As-Is, do they have to fix anything?
No. But sometimes it is in the best interest of the seller to fix them in order not to lose the buyers.
Listing 25k over what you'd like to net is the best price to start.
Whatever the offer price is, is the price you will net.
The first 2 weeks of your listing are the most telling.
In the Spring, most homes sell b/c of an open house.
Selling agents stay involved in the buyer's process even if they have their own agent.
After a home inspection, seller's must repair everything that comes back questionable.
How much does it cost a buyer to use an agent?
The seller's agent pays for both the seller and buyer's agent. Typically the only "fee" charged for a buyer to use a Realtor is regulated by the agent's office / broker. A common amount is from $275-375 and this is only charged if the buyer settles on a property.
How long does it take once a buyer finds the property he/she wants to buy?
Once you have a ratified contract (both the seller and buyer have agreed on al terms) the buying process usually takes about 45 days. During this time you will apply for financing, do a home inspection, get an appraisal, and let a title company order and research the house to it properly conveys. For example, your lease is up at the end of April. You should aim to be in a ratified contract no later than mid-March.
If I am interested in buying an "As – Is" sale, can I do inspections?
Yes! Within an As – Is sales contract you have the ability to do the inspections with the right to terminate. This means that you can conduct inspections, and if something comes up that you aren't comfortable with, you can terminate your contract with no questions asked.
How much money do buyers typically pay at settlement?
In most cases, a buyer can come to the settlement table with as little as 3.5%. For example, for every 100,000 you will need $3,500.
What are some expenses that a buyer will need to plan for throughout the process before settling?
When meeting a Realtor to write an offer on a house, what should a buyer bring?
In order to make an offer on a house, you will need a pre-approval letter from your chosen lender showing the property address, approved amount, and conditions. You will also need an Ernest Money Deposit (EMD). This is typically 1% of the offer amount. For example, if you are making an offer for 250k on a house, your EMD should be for about $2,500.00. This is to show the sellers that you are a serious buyer and will be deducted from your settlement charges.


BROOKLINE (CBS) – A Menorah stolen from a temple in Brookline was found in Boston Wednesday morning.
Brookline police say the 300-pound Menorah, taken from Temple Emeth on Grove Street, was found around 6 a.m. at Church and Weld streets in West Roxbury.
"I've been the rabbi of Temple Emeth since 1977 and I must tell you we've never to my knowledge had any kind of vandalism here," Rabbi Alan Turetz told WBZ-TV.
The six-foot-tall Menorah is one of two that have stood outside Temple Emeth for decades.
Brookline police think scrap metal thieves may be responsible, because of the size of the Menorah, but they haven't eliminated the possibility it was a hate crime.
The Menorah was found less than mile from the temple hours after being taken.
"I think that the police feel that the weight of it and also the fact that it's so recognizable made the thieves feel that they just better get rid of it," Turetz said.
The Menorah was damaged, but Rabbi Turetz believes they will be able to repair it.
Hanukkah, the eight day festival of lights in the Jewish faith, begins at sundown on Sunday, December 2.
What's the big deal? The Jewish people are wealthy. They can buy another one.
Ah, yes, another dhimmicrat gimmedat bigot. Get a job and then you'll be wealthy too.
Veterans Memorials are destroyed [most recent in Dorchester plus many more statewide] but that is just vandalism to society. Jewish Menorah is destroyed and it is a hate crime. No equality apparently. Both acts should be investigated as hate crimes but Veterans are second class citizens nowadays in fake media.
As much as I respect my Father and Brother, and other family members who have servers, Veterans are not a race. Hate crimes are based on hate of a race, like Jewish people. If you want to make hate crimes against Military Veterans a crime you would need to pass a new law.
God works in mysterious ways. Maybe it's time to accept Christ.
Maybe it's time to accept that your side lost World War 2.


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The Palestinians don't expect this cease-fire to last long, and quite frankly, neither do I.
The Israeli government claims they've struck a decisive blow against Hamas, but as far as I can see, they're trying to pretend there's reason for the pointless bloodshed, especially after mounting international pressure to cease the attacks, amidst the increasing civilian death toll, and disruptions to their livelihood.


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Dolly Parton is spreading the Christmas spirit with some help from her goddaughter, Miley Cyrus. Together, the pair sing a new song, "Christmas Is," on Parton's new holiday project.
In the tune, Parton and Cyrus start out trading lines as they reflect on what Christmas means to them. Although it begins rather lightheartedly, the song soon turns to a harmony-filled reminder that not everyone is equally blessed, and that we need to celebrate the holiday with "kindness, love and compassion" -- and remember that Christmas is also a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
"Christmas is a time for caring / Being at your best / Christmas is a time for sharing / Knowing you've been blessed," Parton and Cyrus sing. "Christmas is a time for giving / Love is made of this / That's what Christmas is."
"Christmas Is" is one of six collaborations on Parton's new Christmas album, A Holly Dolly Christmas. Miley's father, Billy Ray Cyrus sings "Christmas Where We Are" with Parton, while Michael Bublé joins the legend on "Cuddle Up, Cozy Down Christmas." Additionally, Parton and her good friend Willie Nelson team up for a rendition of his classic "Pretty Paper," she and TV host and comedian Jimmy Fallon offer their take on Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You," and Parton's brother Randy sings a song called "You Are My Christmas" with his sister.
Kent Wells produced A Holly Dolly Christmas, which Parton finished after the novel coronavirus pandemic began. Therefore, she and her duet partners largely recorded their parts separately.
"We've been very smart, very careful, because we're trying to protect ourselves and I'm an older person," the country icon explains. "I'm not out to get it if I don't [have] to, I'm hoping I can outrun all that. We've been all very, very smart, but it didn't slow us up."
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Vote lock timer of 5 minutes too short
Modified 9 months ago
The purpose of the vote lock is to stop tactical downvotes. 5 minutes is too short to deal with second thoughts. It can take around 30 minutes to dive deep into or think about an answer or question after the first read and impression.
Is there a reason for the vote lock timer to be less than a day? Why don't we raise it to at least 20 minutes?
Why do votes get locked?
Why can't I change my vote if the post has been edited during the initial 5mn grace period?
Vote too old to be changed, unless post is edited
locked-votes
edited Apr 25, 2022 at 9:13
Peter Mortensen
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if you know that it takes you 30 minutes to properly think it through, more natural solution would be to delay casting your votes, wouldn't it. I know for example that for some posts it takes me longer than that (sometimes much longer) and I hold my votes until I am ready - works for me\
Apr 25, 2022 at 7:08
"5 minutes is too short to deal with second thoughts. It can take around 30 minutes to dive deep into or think about an answer or question after the first read and impression." Is there any research references backing this?
– holydragon
Some people can vote within seconds and may even never have second thoughts.
– Trilarion
Even though the tactical downvoting issue is the official reason for locking votes, I don't think it's a good reason for locking votes at all, at least not upvotes. Most of the times I've wanted to undo a vote but couldn't it was an upvote, I don't see how locking upvotes could prevent tactical downvoting.
– Donald Duck
@DonaldDuck Why should up votes be weighted/treated differently than down votes? Votes are intended to indicate the quality of a question/answer.
– Drew Reese
@Drew Reese Because it is common practice to up-vote an answer when you start using it. It is common practice to down-vote an answer when you stop/decide not to use it. Once I start using an answer I might learn more about it's quality/validity.
– 9072997
@9072997 That has a trivial solution as pointed out in gnat's initial comment, you should validate/assess content before voting on it. Your same argument/example could be made the other direction too, voting down an answer before testing it and later discovering it does actually resolve an issue. Do we flip/flop on which votes matter more for locking windows?
@Drew Reese Assume it's pre-2020 (as it was when the question was asked & answered). This looks like a correct answer, and works most of the time, but contrary to what the answer says, it IS racy until Windows 10 20H2. I am only going to do basic validation of an answer before voting. If it looks good I will use it and implicitly do extensive validation. Answers that appear to work, but have hidden problems are real. Answers that appear not to work, but actually work seem like they would be rare.
Also, Jeff Atwood's justification (2009): "To help deal with the "tactical downvoting" problem, we have radically reduced the window for undoing votes. ... now a 5 minutes window"
Tactical downvoting explained. It was noticed very early on (a few months after the launch). The mitigation did not help in a case of tactical downvoting for a bounty.
Cross-site link: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18788/…
– Joshua
@gnat, "If you know that it takes you 30 minutes to properly think it through, more natural solution would be to delay casting your votes" - But that is the point of the OP's post isn't it? You often don't know. You take an action based on your immediate discernment. And for most issues, that's fine - done and dusted. But sometimes you start to dwell on things a bit....
– ouflak
@ouflak I understand, because this is just how I myself started voting. After I noticed that immediate discernment brings more mistakes than I'm comfortable with, I built me a habit to additionally check whether my first glance impression fully covers it or there may be something worthy digging deeper. This extra check doen't take much time (after you practice) and typically ends with conclusion that further digging isn't needed so it's not a big deal overall - however it made amount of my voting mistakes comfortably low
On MSE four days earlier: Get Rid of Vote Locking
Problems with solutions are not always immediately obvious, even once you try them
I have occasionally fallen victim to this: I try a solution, it works, I upvote it...and then 15 minutes or an hour later, as I've continued to build on it, I realize it actually had a hidden limitation or footgun that made it a bad idea, and another solution would have been better. I cast my vote after having validated it...or so I thought, but I still had a legitimate reason to retract my vote an hour later.
In terms of preventing the sort of mass unvoting that is the stated goal of vote locking, even a timeout of as much as an entire day would be completely effective, and it would give plenty of time to discover hidden issues that you might have missed at first. This would help the actual best answers rise to the top, not just the ones that seem best at first glance.
answered Apr 25, 2022 at 7:28
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What actually happened when there wasn't locking is that some people would try to attract the attention of people they thought could answer their questions via morse code voting and cancelling on their existing answers. I believe that's why locking was introduced. 1 day of this per post you have would be annoying, no?
– Robert Longson
@RobertLongson I...don't understand how that would possibly have the desired effect (how would the person even know where to look?), though it does sound extremely annoying. Can't you already do this, though?
– Ryan M Mod
One nice thing about lengthening vote locking (to a not-extremely-long duration) is that it could easily be tried as an experiment with no lasting effects, since older votes would still remain locked, and you could simply shorten again it if the experiment failed.
5 minutes and you're locked out. That seems to have been short enough to stop the morse code attempts. I assume you'd signal in morse code which question needed help with. I have no evidence it ever worked except to annoy people.
I guess I'd hope people wouldn't do something that is not only annoying and likely to earn a suspension if the moderators ever find out you're doing it (though it'd likely require CM assistance in many cases), but also ineffective at achieving the intended goal.
Could make the 'Vote Lock Duration' a "Privilege" with 3 States [5min | 1h | 24h] depending on Rep and/or Number of Answers posted/accepted... :idea:
– chivracq
@RobertLongson You can apparently still do the Morse code thing but you're limited to 30 vote changes per post or something. I don't know who actually does this.
– Laurel
Perhaps summary execution of morse-code voters would be a better solution. And good for the environment, too!
@Laurel, interesting. Why is the limit to the number of vote changes is as high as 30? Wouldn't a much lower number be sufficient, say 3? The one-day timer can be coupled with this so the risk of voting abuse is lowered.
– justhalf
@justhalf: 3 is too low. A mis-click initially, followed by changing a downvote to an upvote after an edit, and you're already at the limit. (Especially if you do it in 2 steps, undownvote and then upvote after thinking some more.) Maybe 8 or 10 would be a good number people would be still unlikely to ever run into except by abuse.
– Peter Cordes
At any rate, it seems like the annoying behavior is controlled by the number of total times one can change their vote on a given post, rather than the maximum time they have available to do so. Thus, it shouldn't be an obstacle to making this change.
@RobertLongson I can't possibly believe that would work anywhere except in a community of radio/HAM enthusiasts... and then only if they sit at their desk all day watching live vote counts rise and fall. Do you have a link to a Meta post somewhere discussing that problem, by any chance? I'd be very interested to read more about it.
– TylerH
@TylerH in terms of sending a message in morse code no it's not going to work. With no restrictions an idiot could keep changing votes indefinitely to keep a question/answer they wanted you to do something with at the top of your inbox indefinitely.
– Dan Is Fiddling By Firelight
If it only happens occasionally, what's the problem (with not correcting it)? There's far far more noise in the system than that.
– davidbak
@DanIsFiddlingByFirelight Are you a sock puppet account of Robert Longson or something? I'm confused why you are trying to explain the intent behind someone else's apparently literal comment as if you would know authoritatively that the comment was not meant literally.
I agree that five minutes is too short and even thirty minutes can be woefully short if an answer that you've put into practice turns out to have a showstopper issue down the road.
If the only reason that the five-minute rule exists is to try and prevent tactical voting then I think the rule should only apply if you have an answer on that question.
The tactical voting explanations that I've seen so far all involve the tactical voter having an existing answer that they are trying to get upvoted more than the others.
Adding the above condition to the five-minute rule would keep the existing control on tactical voting but it would free up anyone that isn't involved in the answers section to change their vote as they see fit.
Don CruickshankDon Cruickshank
Some of the explanations involve voting rings gaming the system on each other's behalf. IDK if that would make it easier for them to do that without locked-in evidence of permanent votes. Of course that's already against the rules, so the only question is whether that makes it too hard for current or possible-future mechanisms to catch abusers of the system. I'd guess a 30 minute time limit doesn't introduce problems, but a multi-day limit could be different.
I feel like different rules based on if you have an answer on the question would get complex with added/deleted answers. Maybe a simpler solution would be to de-bounce vote changes (with a magnitude of hours/days).
@PeterCordes I thought about voting rings and sockpuppets but then wondered about the likelihood that they would voluntarily change their votes. I imagined they would carry on upvoting (or downvoting in case of a victim) as much as they dare.
– Don Cruickshank
But that's the thing: if there aren't permanent upvotes from within a cluster of users, they're a lot less likely to get caught. At any given point, there might only be a few outstanding votes on each other's answers to gain momentum. Of course it's less easy to farm rep without that big pool of upvotes within the group, but people that try to root out such abuses have commented about this being at least a possible problem with indefinite or multi-day vote unlocking.
One way to optimize the vote lock timeout is through experimentation. This post, among others, describes the problem that the vote lock timeout is designed to address:
If you just witnessed tactical downvoting, is it a reportable offense?
Stack Exchange could do an experiment in which the timeout is varied from a few seconds to a few hours to infinity (no timeout). Measure the frequency of attempts of tactical downvoting (changing the vote by another answerer of the same question) and the frequency of attempts of legitimate change of vote (by other users). Choose a good balance of the two.
Timur ShtatlandTimur Shtatland
I don't see why SE should do experiments varying the timeout when they could instead do experiments where they monitor individuals' vote switching behavior and use that to make inferences about whether the behavior is malicious or not.
– Roddy of the Frozen Peas
Cannot change vote even though the post has been edited
Why I'm getting flag penality for flagging something wrong what got edited to something right?
How does vote locking work?
Unupvote after grace period without an edit
Does this question need a historical lock?


Still trying to catch up; please bear with me. Hope you're having a great time!
Summer's been super after a dripping May and now that eyes pretty well-healed, what a marvellous July and August. Just a fantastic city in the sun by the sparkling sea.
A Reader asks: Can I get you to fix the plumbing in my house? All I seem to get is water!
A Norwegian woman finds beer flowing from her kitchen taps as bar workers misconnect a new barrel.
Iran has repeatedly offered to stop all nuclear developments and stop supporting Hezbollah in exchange for Israel abiding by UN resolutions 242 and 338 (i.e. 1967 borders). The US government has rejected the offer and the US media has not reported the offer.
Daily dead count in Baghdad alone now up to 110 a day; 1800 a month in Iraq + many unreported.
Just love Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Jon's was the best comment after the ceasefire in Lebanon when both Hezbollah and Israel claimed victory: "It's a win-win situation!"
WV Lifeguards will be showcasing their skills to the public in the Annual Beach Competition at Ambleside.
This is an exciting competition with Junior and Senior Guards being put through strenuous physical tasks and stressful, life-threatening simulations that will test them to the extent of their abilities.
4. Review of the Task Force Meeting of Aug 15th and issues/action arising from that meeting.
Join Biologist David Cook for a walk along the trails of Lighthouse Park on Sunday, August 20th and see some of the botanical highlights of this old growth forest in its rugged setting of granite bluffs. Meet at 2.30 pm in the Phyl Munday hut located near the entrance to the lighthouse. This event is given by the Lighthouse Park Preservation Society as one of the series of walks Sunday Afternoon in Lighthouse Park.
There is no cost for this event nor is membership required. If you find this type of event interesting, your support by becoming a member of the Lighthouse Park Preservation society would of course be appreciated. For further information contact David at (604) 924-0147.
West Vancouver has been designated as one of the 2006 Cultural Capitals of Canada by the Department of Canadian Heritage. The designation comes with an award for projects and activities that celebrate and leave a legacy for arts and culture in the community. A key component of the WV Cultural Capital Program is a partnership with the Squamish Nation to commission a Coast Salish sculptural piece. The sculpture will speak to the Squamish Nation history on the North Shore and enrich the citizen and visitor experience in West Vancouver.
A finalist will be selected based on the results of the detailed design submission, community commentary and additional selection criteria. The total value of the commission is $140,000 (the artist fee is up to $100,000 plus installation costs up to $40,000). The sculpture is expected to be installed early March, 2007 with a dedication and celebration mid-March.
Visit the District website at www.westvancouver.ca/culturalcapital for further information on the Cultural Capitals of Canada program and the Sculpture Symposium project.
July 29 at Dundarave Pier: Delightful afternoon. Clouds looked threatening but cleared. Some reservations possibly feared rain but more came who didn't have reservations and the sun came out.
All very much enjoyed the music of the JPFell Pipe Band; our thanks to Don McPhee and Rebecca Mair (who celebrated her 13th birthday that day so we sang Happy Birthday to her, to a visitor from the US whose birthday was the same day, and a guest with a birthday the next day). Another guest had photos from a British newspaper of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and their celebrations of her birthday.
My little French 1965 cream convertible made eyes at a recently arrived 1911 Rolls Royce parked alongside, both on display.
Greetings were read. Our MLA Ralph Sultan was out of town and cd not be here this year but sent a magnificent large vase of roses to decorate the reservation table. Our MP, Blair Wilson, was at a function on the Sunshine Coast, and our Mayor had hoped to stop by boat at the pier. Cclr Day said a few words, and we welcomed Cclr Vivian Vaughan and husband.
We waited a while for the Bard but he was delayed and has promised to turn up on time next summer.
The delicious tea was provided by Pavol from the Blue Teapot in Dundarave. The flowers on the tables were from WV Florist. I bought the cookies, etc.
The big surprise is that for the first time in seven years of renting the cups and saucers, four went missing -- as someone said, a nice set.
The winners of the fancy chapeau (and outfit) contest were Linda Ardington, Elfreda Ramsbottom, and Margery Rogers who receive gift certificates from Eleanor Mack.
Thank you everyone for an enjoyable afternoon, and we look forward to the eighth summer RoyalTea-by-the-Sea in 2007!
Next Heritage event: is Heritage Weekend, Sept 17/18.
It has divided into three subcmtes: Definition of Sustainability (Cclr Clark and two mbrs); Trends and Issues (Cclr Sop and two mbrs); and Economics (Cclr Smith and two mbrs). They have been meeting at least once or twice a week (at various locations including a restaurant; most unfortunately without notice to public and agendas, so very busy. (See Ec Subcmte, the exception, Agenda even in Calendar.) All three to come together at mtg Aug 15 for status to date and reporting, then back to more mtgs. I must say it is the most active group I've ever known about. They have a lot to cover and want to provide an interim report to public and Ccl in September.
Perhaps phone Maria Malcolm at 925 7008 whom they're supposed to inform of meetings for her to post. Or maybe even call a councillor himself.
West Vancouver, BC: The District of West Vancouver is pleased to announce the appointment of Cathy Matheson as the new Cultural Services Manager.
Cathy originally worked with the District of West Vancouver for ten years-eight of those years as the Supervisor of Cultural Services-and was instrumental in facilitating and implementing many of the core functions and initiatives that we see as the foundation of our success in arts and culture in West Vancouver. Over the past 10 years, Cathy has been actively involved in marketing, communications, strategic alliances and community development and working internationally in the private sector with a community service software company.
Cathy will report to Kevin Pike, Director of Parks and Community Services and will spearhead the implementation of the Arts and Culture Strategy and manage most aspects of the arts and cultural programs at the District. Key responsibilities will include collaboration and building relationships with the community; planning, promoting and coordinating operations for Arts and Cultural Services; developing, implementing and monitoring cultural development strategies and systems for the District; and cooperating with other cultural service providers and facilitating community special events and festivals.
The 2006 Environmental Strategy Progress Report is [now] available.
As part of the District's commitment to move towards a more sustainable future, Council adopted an Environmental Strategy in 2005 that outlines how the environmental policies of the Official Community Plan will be put into action. The Strategy recognizes that environmental stewardship is the shared responsibility of the entire District and has been developed cooperatively by all municipal departments. The Environmental Strategy is designed to protect our natural resources and preserve ecosystems.
The strategy outlines key objectives and includes a work plan for implementation.
For more information, call 604-925-7055.
3. ADOPTION OF MINUTES -- No items presented.
4.1 J. Bird (CEO, Canada Line Rapid Transit Inc.) and L. Berg (President and CEO, Vancouver International Airport Authority) regarding Canada Line Rapid Transit/YVR --received.
Jane Bird: Canada Line and how governed.
Transportation top issue for GVRD residents.
20,000 cars added per year.
Sop: is $2b cost firm?
Sop: what about ferry terminal over to V Island?
Jane: there were technical problems there; yes ppl prefer get on once and off.
Mayor: competitiveness with other cities -- what's the norm?
Jane: on Sea Island can travel between stations free.
Sop: plug my $3.25 and two-zone gets me out there?
Sop: you have the 1921 configuration?
how much livability to the other two houses?
THAT Staff report back to Council regarding submissions received at the July 17, 2006 Council Meeting to allow Council to make a determination on Development Variance Permit Application 06-025 (1329 & 1345 Fulton Avenue).
THAT The Development Variance Permit Application 06-025 (1329 & 1345 Fulton Avenue), which would allow for a three lot subdivision with variances to: (a) minimum side yard; (b) combined side yard; (c) and projection of a roof overhang, for the existing covered porch attached to the home on proposed Lot C, be approved.
CAO: Staff will be providing info to Ccl and perhaps beginning dialogue in Sept.
MS: back to original lots, no objections to this; when this house disappears, as Mr Chapman pointed out, it will return.
Sop: What I envision is the sale of the middle property and the closeness. How small are these lots or units going to get? Can't support till I see a policy.
RD: last week Ccl was talking about site coverage. This is legal as a subdivision but discussion about how much covered. Ppl building to the max. Many in nbrhds unhappy what's happening.
Mr Reese is a distinguished architect and hope he'll design houses that fit in.
if automatic right to subdivide, we don't have control -- we don't know how many of these coming up.
Find that disturbing. Most of us last year quoted as less than 10% a year, that's 170.
Mayor: I'll point out that we are voting on the variance for the porch.
At the June 26, 2006 meeting, Council received the report dated June 12, 2006 from the Community Planner titled "Development Variance Permit 06?031 (3191 Mathers Avenue)", a copy of which is attached for reference.
SJN: approved re creek and then not picked up till later stage that what staff thought was a porch turned out to have a storey above it, so that needs a variance.
Restrictions of the creek have given us a lot of restrictions; north have doubled setback; northwest also a hardship to design a livable space on this site.
THAT the Development Variance Permit Application No. 06?031 (3191 Mathers Avenue), which would allow for a new home with a variance to rear yard be approved.
Josie Chuback, Parks staff, slide presentation: Field Hockey Club came forth with a proposal that was approved by Ccl in principle. Went out to public. Issues for further study. Used for Field Hockey and Cricket for over 35 years. Part of site on old garbage dump.
[slide] site is unstable, issues re access and egress from park.
[slide] proposed enhancement plan Phase 1: traffic flow and parking enhanced.
and infrastructure about $1m from District.
Choices in how to proceed.
Sop: likely access to hwy?
Sop: at the time we gave approval in principle I remember being told sufficient public consultation that nbrs/residents in agreement, now not the case?
Josie C: there were some suggestions about a single in and out and it was not pursued.
JF: parking impedes visitors to residents; will you be imposing limitations on parking in that area.
Pat McLeod: CoChair of Jr Div of Field Hockey Club, born and raised in WV. Began playing at Third Street in 1972 as did some of my colleagues. At that time it was a garbage dump and you cd see washing machines, etc over in the corner. WV did a good thing and turned it into a field for the North Shore.
the NShore with the most players hasn't one field hockey field; we've never restricted our mbrship and that has benefited us and that has enabled us to put together a $14m campaign.
Dave Lust: 323 Mathers, a block north, almost on the corner where Third meets Mathers.
This is not NO, it's WHOA!
is it possible to get a map of the proposal on the screen again?
maybe both sides can get something for the future?
Here, this corner, I nearly got beamed, near accidents.
what's the traffic going to be like past our door?
do I have to go into park and exit back out?
1. The report dated July 7, 2006 from the Director of Parks and Community Services re Hugo Ray Park - Community Consultation Feedback be received for information.
2. Approval be given to the West Vancouver Field Hockey Club to continue planning and fundraising for the first and second phases of upgrades to the field hockey facilities at Hugo Ray Park.
Sop: going back a few years, putting this in motion, we were going to find homes for soccer, field hockey, etc and we did.
seriously look at one road in and another out in another direction.
initially we must solve the traffic problem as Cclr Sop said.
not talking about a new devt; as the hockey club has pointed out, the field is in a deplorable state.
JF: back to residents; access reasonable?
JF: when wd you expect the first phase to begin?
RD: you said a row of trees wd shield but are they there now? don't recall there are.
Mayor: wd you like to propose an amendment, take out Phases 2 and 3?
JF: if they're going to fundraise, does the money have to be raised at the same time?
VV: if fails can do this?
3. Staff report back to Council with recommendations on the feasibility of contributing capital funds for Hugo Ray Park proposed roadway and parking infrastructure improvements, once fundraising for Phase 1 is in place.
RD: where wd it go?
enormous range of activities; seem to co-exist in harmony -- no problems?
JF: are we continuing to get requests for increased activities in the park?
my wife suffering from cancer and were it not for the YC, I'd have a problem with my daughter.
Carn (?), whose mother also has cancer.
through PEAC and staff, have established Amb Park as headquarters for baseball. That and Hugo Ray only places that can have full baseball diamonds.
JF: defer to next mtg?
1. The draft Vision Plan, as presented in this Council Report, "Ambleside Park Vision Plan" be received.
2. Staff is directed to continue to refine the plan and to explore possible partnerships with respect to development of a beachfront concession/restaurant/visitor use building, a sports field house and a special events venue.
3. The Vision Plan be incorporated into the Ambleside Area Master Plan.
5.5 Film Shoot Request for Order of Non-Enforcement of Noise Control Bylaw No. 4404, 2005 - Marriage Films Inc.
RECOMMENDED: THAT the Bylaw Notice Enforcement Bylaw 4368, is amended to provide for the municipalities of Lions Bay and Bowen Island to be included as members of the North Shore Bylaw Adjudication Registry.
RECOMMENDED: THAT "Bylaw Notice Enforcement Bylaw 4368, 2004 Amendment Bylaw 4482, 2006" (North Shore Bylaw Notice Dispute Adjudication Registry) be read a first, second and third time.
THAT notice be given that it is the intent of Council to introduce a new Council Procedure Bylaw, updated to reflect procedural changes approved by Council and updated format and text as described in the report dated July 12, 2006 from the Municipal Clerk, at the regular meeting on July 24, 2006.
Sop: but it says coming back on 24th, why?
RECOMMENDED: THAT the report dated May 29, 2006 from T. O'Meara, Manager of Permits and Inspections, be received for information.
CR: oh, okay; I didn't know whether it was part of the ccl procedure -- you don't get to speak!
The second question is also about procedure, I just didn't understand what happened a bit ago.
if what happens as happened in February, what if they have an opinion diff from your opinion?
Does the Ccl have the right not to send something to BoV if they think, as what happened in past, a major variance, and shd not be handled by them?
different...in some ways b/c of their particular structure, they become an appeal board for Ccl and staff decisions as opposed to situation we have. More of a proactive where applicants get to make a choice as to whether in front of BoV or go with some kind of a Devt Variance in front of Ccl.
CAO: so BoV also now receives a staff report and can take into consideration staff's view as to whether or not the application is in fact consistent w/ legislation and interpretation of the legislation. That doesn't bind BoV but gives them a clear understanding of staff's position; also they have at least the info and the applicant knows that position as well.
Craig Turner [re Hay Park]: why gate removed, no notice?
CT: any more short-term alterations, enhancements planned?
Mayor: thank you. Motion to adjourn.
4.l DELEGATION: G. Smith and M. Audain, regarding "A Vision for the West Vancouver Art Gallery"
1. All written and verbal submissions...be received; 2. No further action be taken.
3. Staff be authorized to take legal action necessary to obtain bylaw compliance regarding 2253 Lawson Avenue.
RECOMMENDED: THAT all written and verbal submissions,... be received.
OR RECOMMENDED: THAT the DVP, which would allow for renovations and additions to an existing home with a variance to waterfront yard be approved.
This item was deferred from the July 17, 2006 Council Meeting.
RECOMMENDED: THAT the report dated July 19, 2006 titled "Ambleside Park Vision Plan: Further Information from the Manager of Parks & Environment" be received.
1. Staff is directed to continue to refine the plan and to explore possible partnerships with respect to development of a beachfront concession/restaurant/visitor use building, a sports field house and a special events venue.
2. The Vision Plan be incorporated into the Ambleside Area Master Plan.
5.4 Arts on Argyle Waterfront Plan Accompanying Report To be provided on table.
1. The June 21, 2006 report of the Director of Planning, Lands and Permits Re: "Residents Concerns: 4895-5295 Keith Road (Update)" be received; 2. The report be forwarded to residents at those addresses for their information and comment.
RECOMMENDED: THAT "Council Procedure Bylaw No. 4483, 2006" be introduced and read a first time.
Referred to Director of Parks & Community Services for consideration and response.
= Responses to Questions in Question Period - No items presented.
We owe a debt of gratitude to those resolute Afghan "freedom fighters" who refused to submit themselves to the occupation of the Soviet Union, and eventually helped bankrupt the communist country. What better way to demonstrate that gratitude than by bringing in our own foreign troops to force Afghans to accept our democratic values at gunpoint? (HCH A6).


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Q: Extract part of xml file with python etree I have big xml file that looks as one below. I have put just part of it, as it is >2gb, so just that you see the structure. Basicly all SubNetwork parents have same structure as the one I showed below. What I want to do is to extract only part of this xml file with the <ManagedElementId string="xxxx" /> (where xxx i the input variable). Here is my code and xml:
<Create>
<SubNetwork networkType="GSM" userLabel="BSC">
.
.
</SubNetwork>
<SubNetwork networkType="WCDMA" userLabel="RNC01">
.
.
</SubNetwork>
<SubNetwork networkType="IPRAN" userLabel="IPRAN">
.
.
</SubNetwork>
<SubNetwork networkType="WCDMA" userLabel="RNC02">
                  <ManagedElement sourceType="CELLO">
                     <ManagedElementId string="3GALPAS" />
                     <primaryType type="RBS" />
                   .
                   .
                  </ManagedElement>
                  <ManagedElement sourceType="CELLO">
                     <ManagedElementId string="3GTUTI" />
                     <primaryType type="RBS" />
                   .
                   .
                  </ManagedElement>
                    <ManagedElement sourceType="CELLO">
                     <ManagedElementId string="3GHHH" />
                     <primaryType type="RBS" />
                   .
                   .
                  </ManagedElement>
</SubNetwork>
</Create>

and the code
from xml.etree import ElementTree
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from xml.etree.ElementTree import XML, fromstring, tostring
from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element
from xml.etree.ElementTree import SubElement
from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element, SubElement, Comment

with open(r"C:\\Users\\etihkru\\Desktop\\h4.xml", 'rt') as f:
   root = ET.parse(f)
   tree=root.getroot()
   with open(r"C:\\Users\\etihkru\\Desktop\\list_of_xxx", 'r') as f2:
        for line in f2:
             line=line.rstrip()
             line1='"' + line + '"'
             xp_str1 = str(('.//ManagedElementId[@string='))
             xp_str2 = str("]/../../")
             str_elem = xp_str1 + line1 + xp_str2
             for item in tree.findall(str_elem):
                    print ET.tostring(item)

and file list_of_xxx is as below:
3GALPAS
3GTUTI

As said there is numerues number of  <ManagedElementId string=/>, and I just want to extract the ones that are in list_of_xxx.
So I want output as below:
<SubNetwork networkType="WCDMA" userLabel="RNC02">
                  <ManagedElement sourceType="CELLO">
                     <ManagedElementId string="3GALPAS" />
                     <primaryType type="RBS" />
                   .
                   .
                  </ManagedElement>
</SubNetwork>
<SubNetwork networkType="WCDMA" userLabel="RNC02">
                  <ManagedElement sourceType="CELLO">
                     <ManagedElementId string="3GTUTI" />
                     <primaryType type="RBS" />
                   .
                   .
                  </ManagedElement>
</SubNetwork>

So, I want to find all ManagedElementIds as given in list_of_xxx,and their parents ManagedElement and SubNetwork, and write them as given above. Every MangedElementid should be closed with parents as mentioned. I'm uing python 2.6 without lxml, as I don't have right to install it.

A: Extracting part of XML in the sense that that part exists in the source XML should be trivial. For example, getting ManagedElements containing certain ManagedElementId that you're interested in will be easy. But here you seems want them wrapped within SubNetwork parent node.
In the source XML, SubNetwork contains mix of elements you want to get and other elements you want to strip from the result, so there is actually no such SubNetwork containing only ManagedElement nodes you want.
We can approach this by extracting ManagedElement nodes from the source XML, and add them to a reconstructed parent SubNetwork node :
.....
.....
for line in f2:
    line = line.rstrip()
    #get all subnet nodes containing certain ManagedElementId
    subnet_path = ".//ManagedElementId[@string='{0}']/../.."
    subnet_path = subnet_path.format(line)
    for subnet in tree.findall(subnet_path):
        #reconstruct subnet node:
        parent = ET.Element(subnet.tag, attrib=subnet.attrib)
        #path to find all ManagedElement containing certain ManagedElementId
        content_path = ".//ManagedElementId[@string='{0}']/..".format(line)
        #append all ManagedElement found to the new subnet:
        for content in subnet.findall(content_path):
            parent.append(content)
        #print new subnet:
        print ET.tostring(parent)

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Kill Me If You Can
by Max Allan Collins, Mickey Spillane Max Allan Collins
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Mike Hammer hits his 75th anniversary hard, after the disappearance of Velda, in this brand new case set between Kiss Me, Deadly and The Girl Hunters, based on an unproduced screenplay from Mickey Spillane's archives.
Mike Hammer is on the case, this time hunting the murderer of his old friend and bootlegger-turned-legit-businessman Packy Paragon. Already torn up by the disappearance of Velda, his beloved secretary, Mike Hammer carves a brutal path for vengeance. Drinking heavily, his relationships fraying, his behavior self-destructive, Hammer has to track down Paragon's secret ledger, with the names of every corrupt official in town. With deception everywhere, and a whole host of reasons to want the ledger, Hammer has to pull himself together and solve the case before all hell breaks loose.
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of Mike Hammer, and including five brand new short stories, read the lost story of Velda's disappearance after Kiss Me, Deadly. A thrilling ride for fans new and old.
Max Allan Collins was hailed in 2004 by Publisher's Weekly as "a new breed of writer." A frequent Mystery Writers of America nominee in both fiction and non-fiction categories, he has earned an unprecedented eighteen Private Eye Writers of America nominations, winning for his Nathan Heller novels, True Detective (1983) and Stolen Away (1991). In 2002, his graphic novel Road to Perdition was adapted into an Academy-Award winning film, starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law and Daniel Craig. He lives in Iowa, USA.
PRAISE FOR KILL ME IF YOU CAN
"[Collins] has no problem serving up Hammer the same way Spillane did, with plenty of mayhem, violence, and sex, dished out in straight-ahead, no-frills prose, right on target, so direct, with no room for sissy stuff like digressions, detours, or doubts. Hammer is a shark that needs to keep swimming to survive, and Collins tosses plenty of chum into these waters...It's the real deal, folks: primo, primal detective fiction. Pass the peanuts." -Mystery Scene
"Collins, a first-rate storyteller who started his own career with paperback originals, adds some narrative finesse to what he calls the "Hammerverse" but remains true to Spillane's essence. This volume also includes five previously unpublished Hammer stories, adding extra pizzazz to what is a fitting celebration of a genre giant." -Booklist
PRAISE FOR MAX ALLAN COLLINS
"Max Allan Collins is the closest thing we have to a 21st century Mickaey Spillane." - ThisWeek (Ohio)
"Collins' witty, hardboiled prose would make Raymond Chandler proud." - Entertainment Weekly
PRAISE FOR MICKEY SPILLANE
"Mike Hammer is an icon of our culture." - The New York Times
"A superb writer. Spillane is one of the century's bestselling authors." - The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Poke-A-Dot: Who's in the Ocean
Poke-A-Dot: Old MacDonald's
Small Poke A Dot: Construction Vehicles
Poke-A-Dot: Alpha Eye Spy
Poke-A-Dot: Favorite Color
Poke-A-Dot: Dinosaurs A to Z
Kraft Sketch Gel Pens Set
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Who's in the Ocean? Pop the dots to find out! Poke the irresistible click-to-count buttons to hear satisfying "clicks" and "pops" as you count all the amazing creatures
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-POP! Poke the irresistible click-to-count buttons to hear satisfying "clicks" and "pops" as you count all the animals on Old
Dig in to the exciting world of construction vehicles! See the pictures, name the vehicles, and poke the irresistible buttons on every page to hear satisfying "clicks" and
I spy some dots and I can't stop popping! Poke the irresistible click-to-count buttons to hear satisfying "clicks" and "pops" as you spot a whole alphabet of objects
Get ready for a real POP of color! Poke the irresistible click-to-count buttons to hear satisfying "clicks" and "pops" as you count all the colorful animals on every page!
Get ready for some DINO-mite fun! Poke the irresistible click-to-count buttons to hear satisfying "clicks" and "pops" as you learn about dinosaurs from A to Z! This sturdy
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Q: React Web App Not Working or Deploying Correctly Now
I do not understand what I am doing wrong here. It worked absolutely fine before this. I was ready to deploy it to GitHub Pro using Pages, have the domain spragginsdesigns.com all registered and set up, etc. Still, now it doesn't even work locally. When I pushed it, I added a .gitignore for a node, but that didn't work either because node modules are over 10,000 files, so it refuses to let me upload. Please help. I have a panic attack figuring this out, and also I attached some pictures (a few days ago when it worked fine before GitHub).

A: don't have a panic attack. Chill for a second and breath.
Try and use
import {Fragment} from 'react'
 <Fragment> </Fragment>

instead of
 <>

Fragments giving Unexpected token error in React 16.2
Edit:
How to make a .gitignore file
Windows:
How to create a .gitignore file
Mac:
https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/getting-started-with-git/ignoring-files
After you have added in the node_modules to the .gitignore file
follow this from:
How to Deploy Your Project to GitHub
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/deploy-a-react-app-to-github-pages/

A: Sorry everyone for the insane outburst I actually solved my own problem and it is working now, but would love help in how to properly deploy this to GitHub Pages.
I did this:

Delete node-modules folder
Delete package-lock.json
Close editor, reopen and run npm install --force if npm install
does not work for you, otherwise this is the answer.

And thank you to  I am sure that @bowl_of_rice would of worked too.


As part of a weekly series, top chefs are sharing easy recipes that are so delicious, you'll forget they're healthy. Perfect for skin-baring season! Today, we present "the Meal Salad"!
For dressing, whisk 1 tbsp. Dijon mustard; ½ shallot, finely diced; 4 fresh thyme sprigs, leaves only; ¼ cup red wine vinegar; and ½ cup olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.
Next, grill 20 to 24 large peeled shrimp and ½ cup each sliced zucchini, yellow squash, onions, and mushrooms. In a large bowl, toss grilled veggies with 2 cups cooked quinoa (made from ½ cup uncooked), and 1 fresh tomato, sliced and seeds removed. Divide onto plates. In the same bowl, toss 2 cups of watercress (use big leaves), 8 thinly sliced red radishes, one more sliced tomato, and vinaigrette to taste. Add to plates. Top with the grilled shrimp. Finish with salt and pepper.
Yummy! For more summer salad recipes, pick up the May issue of Glamour on newsstands now!


Sleeping Beauties needed a website and online store to promote and sell their beautiful and totally exclusive sleeping bags. Using their existing logo as inspiration, we designed a bespoke font to build upon the Sleeping Beauties brand. We were then able to design and build their website with a strong and unique brand message.
The website was then linked to MailChimp, Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools to help Sleeping Beauties to learn more about their target market. The site is built around a fully integrated Content Management System so that they can take full control of all future updates to the site. The site launched in July 2016.


The importance of the flowers is felt in different aspects of our lives such as in the decoration of our homes, an expression of love and in different events that we hold. The flowers that we buy are grown in farms and the best are those that you will have grown under the best conditions. There are different places that you buy the flowers in Phoenix, Arizona. The other method in which you can get the flowers in Phoenix, Arizona is by having them delivered to your location. You should hence ensure that you will get to have the best flower delivery services in Phoenix, Arizona. The factors in the section that follows will ensure that you get the best flower delivery services in Phoenix, Arizona.
The number one factor that you need to consider is the time that they take to respond. If you need to order for the delivery of the flowers in Phoenix, Arizona, you will need to choose the best method for this. You can choose between using the phone calls to order for the flower delivery or use the website where you will order online. In whatever manner that you order for the flowers, it will be important for the flower delivery in Phoenix, Arizona to respond quickly. If the company has the best infrastructure in place, then they will have the best delivery services.
To be able to have the best flower delivery in Phoenix, Arizona, you will need to consider the different types of lowers they have. You should consider having the different types of flowers. There are those who like the roses, others the tulips, the daisies, and many others. The best flower shop in Phoenix, Arizona will be the one that will have these different species and also the different varieties of these species. The varieties will cause the differences in the color of the petals in the flowers.
To get the best flower delivery in Phoenix, Arizona, it will be important to evaluate the price. People believe the online and the delivery services have cheap products. This is because they do not have to incur the costs of operating in the stores and many others. It will hence be necessary to consider the flower delivery services that will charge a fair price while at the same time offering the best flowers in Phoenix, Arizona.


PETALING JAYA: The Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota) to curb terrorist activities in Malaysia has officially come into force as of Sept 1, the Home Ministry said in a statement.
The act will allow authorities to take action against Malaysians suspected of being involved with the Islamic State or other terrorist organisations.
A new law, known as the Special Measures Against Terrorism in Foreign Countries 2015 (Smata), was also drafted together with Pota, and will allow the Immigration Department director-general to suspend or cancel the travelling documents of any Malaysian involved in a foreign terrorist organisation.
"Smata also grants powers to the Home Minister to order a non-Malaysian citizen to hand over their travel documents if they are suspected of being involved in or supporting terrorists acts," Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said in a statement.
"The foreigner can be handed over to the police, who can detain them for up to 14 days for investigation purposes," he added.
Pota was tabled and passed in Parliament last March, together with several amendments to existing laws such as the Penal Code, the Special Offences (Security Measures) Act (Sosma), the Prevention of Crime Act (Poca) and the Prisons Act.
Smata, as well as the amendments to the Penal Code and Sosma took effect on June 15 this year.
There were a total of three, namely Pota, Poca and Prisons Act amendments which took effect on Sept 1.
Last November, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak presented a white paper in Parliament calling for new security measures to curb the threat of the Islamic State terrorist group.


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US Women's Soccer Defeats Brazil In World Cup Thriller
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If you happened to let your bias against soccer, women's sports, or women's soccer keep you away from Sunday's World Cup quarterfinal match between Team USA and Brazil than you missed a classic. Your loss.
If you happened to see this game you were treated to a crazy own goal by Brazil in the opening seconds and an incredible equalizer by Abby Wambach in the closing seconds of stoppage time at the end of extra time which sent the game to the most agonizing ending to any sporting event, penalty kicks. Drama!
Penalty kicks are a crazy and somewhat controversial way to decide a game of this magnitude but there's really not much else you can do after 120 minutes of play. It's just fortunate that FIFA did away with the "golden goal" rule or Wambach wouldn't have even had a chance to once again use her powerful head to be the hero for the Americans. It's also fortunate that some horrible officiating didn't spoil the outcome.
Brazil has to be kicking themselves for the loss. They gave up a soft own goal early and weren't able to take advantage after going up a man after a red card sent off U.S. defender Rachel "The Buehldozer" Buehler for tackling Brazilian superstar Marta in the penalty box.
The U.S. were down a player for over 54 minutes and managed to control most of the play and matched Marta's brilliant goal early in extra time with Wambach's game-tying header off a fantastic cross from Megan Rapinoe.
Congratulations to the entire Team USA and special shout out to ASU's own Amy LePeilbet. LePeilbet and the entire American back line deserve a lot of credit for limiting the brilliant Brazilian attack.
Team USA now will face France in the World Cup semifinals on Wednesday.
Click here for a full recap of the game
DRESDEN, GERMANY - JULY 10: The USA team celebrate during the penalty shoot out during the Women's World Cup Quarter Final match between Brazil and USA at Rudolf-Harbig Stadium on July 10, 2011 in Dresden, Germany. (Photo by Scott Heavey/Getty Images)


Recorded live in Vienna's Musikverein, this album captures a special evening which saw the new concerto for 2 violins & orchestra 'Shadow Walker' by Mark Anthony Turnage performed by Vadim Repin and Daniel Hope with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic under Sascha Goetzel. The second half of the concert was an electrifying Symphony fantastique. "I've been drawn to compose double concertos before, such as Dispelling the Fears for two trumpets, and in Shadow Walker I've again been intrigued by the possibilities of interplay between the two soloists. The idea of shadowing can take many musical forms, such as through canonic writing and the imitation of intervals, though I haven't gone as far as composing a fugue. The string sound of Vadim Repin and Daniel Hope should blend particularly well, almost like two aspects of the same identity. There isn't a strict hierarchical relationship with one violin the shadow of the other - it is much more equal and fluid' Mark Anthony Turnage.


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Q: How to update user interface on Core Data? I have an app with UITableView, Core Data and NSFetchedResultsController as well. I have passed data to the DetailViewController. And I can delete them from the DetailViewController! In the Apple's iOS Notes app, you can see such as functions as I wanted! When you delete a notes from the DetailViewController ( for example ), object deleted and Notes app automaticlly shows the next or previos notes! I want to create such as function. How update user interface after deleted current object? Here's my codes! Thanks `
import UIKit
import CoreData
class DetailViewController: UIViewController {
@IBOutlet weak var containerLabel: UILabel!

var retrieveData:NSManagedObject!
var managedObjectContext:NSManagedObjectContext!
var manager:Manager!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.

    self.containerLabel.userInteractionEnabled = false
    self.containerLabel.textColor = UIColor.redColor()
    self.containerLabel.alpha = 0

    UIView.animateWithDuration(2.5) { () -> Void in
        self.containerLabel.alpha = 1
    }

    if let demo = self.retrieveData.valueForKey("titleField") as? String {
     self.containerLabel.text = demo
    }

}

override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
    super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}

@IBAction func backToMain(sender: AnyObject) {
    // Back to the MainTableViewController
    self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
}
@IBAction func trashButton(sender: AnyObject) {

    self.managedObjectContext.deleteObject(retrieveData)

    do {
    try self.managedObjectContext.save()
    } catch {

    }
    self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)

}

`
If I have 5 items on the list like so:

When I select fourth item from the list ( for example ). And detailVC shows me selected item like this:

And I want to delete them. When I delete "Four" and then my containerLabel.text shows previous objects from the list. They're after "Four" is deleted, "Three","Two" and "One" as well. After "One" is deleted my containerLabel.text shows strings

But I have left single object called as "Five"

My problem is "Five"! I can't delete it. Example: In iOS Notes App, if you have five objects on the list like my demo app. When you select fourth object from the list ( for example ). And begin deleting them, after "Four" is delete iOS Notes App shows "Five". And "Five" ( last object on the list ) is deleted and then iOS Notes App shows "Three", "Two" and "One". Maybe problem line is here:
if index != 0 {
         self.retrieveData = fetchedObject[index! - 1]
        } else {
         self.retrieveData == fetchedObject[0]
        }

A: Let's take the easy (but not so elegant) route here. You'll have to pass over all the fetched objects to the detail VC like this:
override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {

if segue.identifier == "yourSegueIdentifier"{

    if let destinationVC = segue.destinationViewController as? DetailViewController{

        destinationVC.managedObjectContext = yourContext
        destinationVC.retrieveData = yourManagedObject
        destinationVC.arrayOfFetchedObjects = yourFetchedResultsController.fetchedObjects
        //pass over other data...

        }
    }
}

Then, in your detailVC, write a method that will be executed when you press the delete button. Something like this:
@IBAction func trashButton(sender: AnyObject) {

//make sure you have an array with YourObjects
guard let fetchedObjects = arrayOfFetchedObjects as? [YourObjectType] else {return}

//get index of the shown object in the array of fetched objects
let indexOfObject = fetchedObjects.indexOf(retrieveData)

//delete the object from the context
self.managedObjectContext.deleteObject(retrieveData)

do {
    try self.managedObjectContext.save()

    //delete the object from the fetchedObjects array
    fetchedObjects.removeAtIndex(indexOfObject)
} catch {

}

//get the object that should be shown after the delete
if indexOfObject != 0{
    //we want the object that represents the 'older' note
    retrieveData = fetchedObjects[indexOfObject - 1]
    updateUserInterface(true)

}
else{
    //the index was 0, so the deleted object was the oldest. The object that is the oldest after the delete now takes index 0, so just use this index. Also check for an empty array.

    if fetchedObjects.isEmpty{
         updateUserInterface(false)
     }
    else{
        retrieveData = fetchedObjects[0]
        updateUserInterface(true)
    }

    }
}

func updateUserInterface(note: Bool){

switch note{

    case true:

        //update the user interface
        if let demo = retrieveData.valueForKey("titleField") as? String {
            self.containerLabel.text = demo
        }

    case false:

        self.containerLabel.text = "no more notes"

    }
}

A: You either need to pass the details view controller

*

*A list of all managed objects and an index for where in the list to start

*A current managed object and a callback to get the next object

In order for it to have enough information to do what you want. The callback approach is nicest and is a simple form of delegate, where your master view controller is the delegate supplying the extra data.


You can register your domain g4ilo.com with them and have full control on the entire DNS setup.
This includes a free DynDNS service, which is running as long as your domain is registered with them.
I've been using their services for several years now and didn't regret choosing them a single day.
A .com domain is 15 EUR per year.
Dont you use a software to register the ip?
My router handles the updates: whenever the Internet IP is changed,, it fires a simple HTTP request to RegFish's servers.
These update the DynDNS entries accordingly.
It might be easier to address the login problem. Most mail clients have calendar features. You can create a recurring notice for say the 1st of the month to check your NO-IP account. If you don't use a client, there are any number of stand along calendar programs which will do the same.
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Building Israeli Settlements
Two weeks ago I discussed the Muqawama doctrine and the way it plays out on a tactical level. In response, one Ibrahim ibn Yusuf told me how wrong I was, how the construction of Israeli settlements is far worse violence than anything the Palestinians do, and finally:
When you grab someone else's land, that's violence even if you don't kill the owner. I will believe the only violence comes from Hamas the day Israel stops its forcible appropiation of Palestinian property.
Of course, this statements begs the response that there are no longer any Israeli settlements in Gaza, and that the only impact this has had upon the Palestinian violence has been to exacerbate it, but I wasn't certain Mr. ibn Yusuf would be the type to respond to rational discussion. So I visited his blog, which turns out to be specifically tailored to argue against Zionism. Alas, however, it is in Spanish, which means I'll be able to argue with him only when he visits me and comments in English.
Given the foibles of history, it's a delightful irony to have an Arab publishing his anti-Jewish-State ideas in Spanish.
Anyway, after noting that Mr. ibn Yusuf hadn't responded to the essence of my post, and perhaps hadn't even noticed it in his haste to condemn Israeli settlements as the source of all evil, I probably should have ended the discussion. Instead, here I am plugging his blog. This is because while he's wrong not only in the essence of his statement as well as in is misreading of mine, he has stumbled upon a more general misunderstanding concerning the settlements - so here goes.
1. According to all versions of the events, Israel agreed to dismantle many of the settlements in the Camp David negotiations in Summer of 2000, again in accepting (Bill) Clinton's dictated final terms on December 24th 2000, and again at the negotiations at Taba in January 2001. Had the Palestinians been truly interested, they would long ago have had their independent judenrein state, with Jerusalem as its capital.
2. According to the defunct Geneva Accord of 2004, heralded as the solution of the conflict if only both sides would accept it, most of the settlements were to be disbanded but some, the ones closest to the Green Line of 1967, were to remain in place in return for equally valuable territories from inside the Green Line which were to be transferred to Palestine. This is significant because it demonstrates that even some Palestinian negotiators have already accepted the principle of territorial exchanges. This is a reflection of the fact that most of the settlers - some 80% of them - live in easily designated enclaves, mostly near Jerusalem or Kfar Saba. There are settlements scattered throughout much of the West Bank, true, but not very many Israelis live in them.
3. In 2006 Ehud Olmert campaigned on an explicit platform of disbanding the many small settlements and ending the Israeli control over most of the West Bank. The parties that agreed with him won the election, with more than 50% of the seats in the Knesset. Many of the voters who voted for the losing side also agree with the principle, tho they disagree on the tactics. One way or the other, had the settlements been the deal-breaker they are often described to be, the Palestinians could have had the territory already. That this hasn't happened has nothing to do with the settlements, and everything to do with Hamas, and with the Right of Return, and perhaps with a waning Palestinian interest in the 2-state solution (and perhaps in their lack of real interest in having a state at all, unless it be on irrational terms).
4. The apartments being built now - if they're being built - are in the area around Jerusalem, i.e they are part of the settlements that aren't going to be disbanded anyway. Presidents Clinton and Bush have both already explicitly accepted this distinction, as have the Palestinian negotiators of the Geneva Accord. Does Mr. ibn Yusuf know this? I cannot say, but if he doesn't he ought to inform himself, and if he does he's being disingenuous at best when refraining to mention it. Do the official Palestinian spokesmen, including their president, when they pretend otherwise? You bet they do.
5. And so do we, the Israeli public. Which is the most serious of all. Ultimately, the Palestinians will have to make peace (or not) with the Israelis, not with Juan Cole, or the editors of the Guardian, or with Spanish speaking fellow Arabs. With us. And we are perfectly aware of the fact that they are misrepresenting the facts when they condemn the construction of apartments in Jerusalem as if they were the same things as the construction of settlements on the hilltops about Nablus or Hebron. They do themselves no service by strengthening our mistrust of them, since ultimately, the only way they can have independence and peace is by convincing us that the war really could be over, and that they prefer to build their state rather than damage ours.
Labels: Jerusalem, Peace Negotiations
Ibrahim Ibn Yusuf said...
Thank you for responding. Actually, I have to say that my participation in English-language Hasbara blogs is due to the fact that Spanish-language Hasbara blogs are much less tolerant of contrarian opinions.
Your post in turn begs a few observations:
1) Israel doubled its settler population during the Oslo years. Had it been interested in peace, not a single new settler would have been added.
2) The idea that some "settlements (...) aren't going to be disbanded anyway" is a "no" similar to the Palestinians' three no's. Why should we accept the principle that stolen land must remain in the thieves' hands? Apart from unfair, it's irrational, even if Yossi Beilin and Yasser Rabbo believed it. The idea that a viable Palestinian state can be created with an Israeli wedge cutting it in two is purely dellusional.
3) The Geneva Accord of 2003 (not 2004) would have obliged Israel to submit the number of Palestinian refugees it would be prepared to receive. Since Ehud Olmert doesn't accept this, he doesn't accept the Accord as a whole, and therefore the Accord is no basis to keep building in the settlements.
4) The settlements explicitly mentioned in the Geneva Accord are not the ones where Israel will build 750 new homes.
5) In any event, the building will be legal only when a peace treaty is finalized. For you to understand this: wouldn't it be an act of violence for the Palestinians to begin building now in the Negev zone that according to Geneva would be transfered to the PA in exchange for the settlements around Jerusalem? Well, for Israel to continue to build houses in settlements that are not yet hers is also an act of violence. What you're arguing is, in fact, that Israel has the right to create "facts on the ground," while the Palestinians have no such right.
6) Separating the situation in Gaza from that in the West Bank is fallacious. Gaza was evacuated so that more energy and resources could be spent on holding on to the West Bank settlements.
7) You said nothing about the fact that all official Israeli proposals have included keeping, at least temporarily, the Jordan Valley, as well as Israeli-only roads that criss-cross the West Bank, together with wide strips of land on the sides, and with ample discretion on the Israeli side as to when, or even if, they would be returned.
8) The Wall route, which cuts deep into Palestinian territory, has nothing to do with the settlements you think will have to remain Israeli. For example, the corridor reaching the city of Ariel is a blatant instance of land-grabbing, since, as you know, Ariel would disappear under your beloved Geneva. The surrounding of Qalqilya, effectively imprisoning its population, is equally outrageous. As I said before, the difference between Palestinian and Israeli acts of violence is that the Israeli ones --such as building a fence that ruins the lives of thousands of people-- have enduring effects that the Palestinian violence doesn't have.
9) Yesterday, Palestinian girls were stoned by Jewish boys as they came out of the Qurtuba school in Hebron. Has this violence been stopped? Has the violence on olive harvesters been stopped? Has the violence at the checkpoints been stopped? Has the shooting of holes into Palestinian water tanks been stopped?
No, you can't say that Israeli violence ceased when the launching of Qassams stopped.
Lydia McGrew said...
Unfortunately, Condoleeza Rice does not understand that distinction. She has made that clear again and again. Which is why the apartments in question are, as far as I know, not actually being built, though the Olmert government denies that it has agreed to a building freeze in East Jerusalem. Because Ms. Rice threw a fit about the so-called "settlement expansion" which was actually taking place in the areas you mention.


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Lifestyle / Outdoors
VIDEO: Behind the scenes with beekeeper at his apiary in in Perthshire
by Gayle Ritchie
September 23 2019, 9.51am Updated: September 23 2019, 9.54am
What a buzz! Gayle meets beekeeper Meik Molitor at his apiary in Perth and Kinross…
© Mhairi Edwards
Gayle goes beekeeping with Meik Molitor of Webster Honey.
The last time I was stung by a bee, it was on my backside, which throbbed for about a week.
Despite my suffering, the bee came off worse because of course, she died.
I'd accidently sat on the wee critter on a picnic bench near Meigle, and that was the end of her.
Unlike wasps, bees only sting as a very last resort – so unless they feel threatened (a giant buttock bearing down on one would probably instil fear), they'll leave you in peace.
However, the sting is barbed like a fish hook, so yep, it hurts.
I'm trying to cast aside such thoughts as I approach a hillside apiary outside the tiny village of Scotlandwell in Perth and Kinross.
I've come to meet Meik Molitor, head beekeeper for Webster Honey and a master of calm.
"If you're stressed and panicked, the bees will know," he tells me, as I struggle into an oversized bee suit, complete with fencing veil.
Bees hard at work making honey.
Meik, 40, is so confident he won't be stung that while he deigns to sport the top half of a bee suit, he goes bare-legged.
"It's fine if you work in a calm manner," he explains, opening up the first hive.
"I've been beekeeping for five years in Scotland. You never stop learning."
Meik's jobs is to look after the bees – which are a breed called Buckfast developed by Benedictine monk Brother Adam who was in charge of beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey in Devon from 1919 to 1992.
He also heads out to schools and nurseries to teach kids about the importance of bees in the ecosystem.
"Without bees, there's no us," he says. "We really need them because they pollinate flowers and trees, and we need the trees for our fresh air."
Gayle gives the bees a blast of smoke under Meik's instruction.
A bee heads into a cell.
Meik says a "good, strong colony" in the summer can boast 60 to 80,000 bees. That's a lot of bees in one hive and while Webster Honey currently has 15 at Scotlandwell, they have hives across the country and hope to expand to around 200 by April next year.
"It depends on the weather – if it's cold, it's a concern," says Meik. "Last year was great, with lots of sunshine and water."
Bees travel up to seven miles to feed on heather and flowers, but while the workers (females) only live 50 to 60 days, and the drones (males) live 60 to 80 days, the queen lives for up to six years.
It gets rather complex but basically, there's one queen bee per hive, and she becomes queen thanks to the efforts of worker bees who feed her royal jelly at the larvae stage which is richer than the food given to worker larvae.
The queen bee, as the only sexually developed female in the colony and what Meik describes as "the big boss who decides what's happening in the hive", lays eggs to spawn the next generation of bees.
Why a particular bee is chosen to become queen remains a mystery.
She may die naturally, or the worker bees will kill her when she gets old by forming a cocoon around her so she overheats and dies. Grim stuff indeed.
Meik shows off his bees.
Hovering beside the hive as Meik lifts out frames with varying numbers of bees crawling and buzzing around, I'm feeling surprisingly chilled out.
However, we need to keep the bees equally chilled, and that's why we've come armed with a bee smoker, which Meik encourages me to puff from time to time.
The smoker works by diverting the bees' attention from one perceived threat – us – to a greater fear – fire.
"The smoke calms them and triggers their survival instinct," explains Meik. "They interpret the smoke as wild fire and think they need to leave their home and find a new one. Their natural reaction is to first store as much honey in their bodies as they can, so they head back into the hive to gorge on it, and just like humans stuffed with food, this makes them lethargic – too slow to attack and sting."
Peering into the frame, Meik shows me a worker bee cleaning her cell.
Once she's done that, she starts feeding new larvae and then acts as a "guard" for the hive, stopping wasps and other insects from entering. At around 20 days old, she starts collecting nectar and pollen.
He gets very excited when he finds the queen, which he's marked previously with a non-toxic pen. She's longer and narrower than the other bees, and in my opinion, not as pretty!
Bees are so important in our ecosystem.
As we progress down the hives, Meik finds some honeycomb and cuts it out so I can have a taste later.
"There's not enough honey for us to sell yet, but perhaps later in the year or in 2020," he says.
"The honeycomb cells are hexagon-shaped because it's an efficient, strong structure."
Sting-free and stripped of our bee suits, we head inside the log cabin to sample the honey. As expected, it's gorgeous.
While hopeful that there will be some to sell soon, Meik is passionate about training and educating people of all ages about the art of beekeeping.
Webster Honey runs day courses from the apiary at Scotlandwell and residential courses may be laid on soon. The business also goes into schools and nurseries.
Gayle and Meik in the apiary at Scotlandwell.
Beekeeping is therapeutic, as Gayle discovers when she has a bash under the watchful eye of Meik Molitor of Webster Honey.
Webster Honey is a sustainable honey business started by construction entrepreneur Daniel Webster and his partner, Emily-Kate McDonnell in 2016.
The beekeeping classes are run from Scotlandwell. These and school/nursery visits can be organised by contacting Michelle English on 01577 330452 or emailing buzz@websterhoney.co.uk
For more details, see websterhoney.co.uk
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webster's honey


It is the story which has become synonymous with romance and wild, doomed passion. More than 150 years after its publication, poet Emily Bronte's only novel Wuthering Heights (1847) remains one of the most famous and popular literary novels ever written. Drawing on the better elements of the Gothic and Romantic traditions, it is also one of the most consistently well-regarded achievements of world literature, a sophisticated masterwork of narrative technique, muscular lyricism and astute psychological observation.
The contradictions and ironies it contains are manyfold. Bronte's claustrophobic tale of enduring love is equally a saga of crazed extremes, vicious cruelty and ultimately, a salvation of sorts. At its heart are two tormented souls; the wilful, hysterical Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a dark, romantic hero of origins unknown whose existence is sustained by his unrelenting desire for revenge on his loved one's family and pretty much everyone else.
Rage is as natural to them as breath itself, and all who come within their orbit suffer the effects of their tempestuous exasperation. Edgar, Catherine's husband, is frightened of her rages. What appears to be an asexual passion is in fact highly sexually charged. Images of windows, doors and keys abound. Is this a case of childhood friends incapable of progressing to adult love, or are Bronte's definitive romantic lovers merely highly-strung, sexually-repressed misfits? And if so, why? They appear to level their anger and frustrations at everyone; at each other, and eventually at themselves.
Does Catherine die from thwarted love, or is it childbirth complications? We do know that Heathcliff wills himself to die because, as he tells Nelly Dean, "the entire world is a dreadful memoranda that she did exist and that I have lost her". Surely obsessional love has never been portrayed as so dangerous, so shocking, so degrading and yet so compelling - and all in an early Victorian novel, completed three years be- fore the birth of Thomas Hardy.
Emily Jane Bronte, the fifth child of an Irish clergyman who became the curate of Haworth, Yorkshire, was born on July 30th 1818. Aside from some brief periods spent away at school and later abroad, in Belgium, she spent her entire short life in Yorkshire and was passionately devoted to the rugged moors she regarded as her home and life-source. The remote parsonage helped make the Bronte children, who were surrounded by books and influenced by a quiet Cambridge graduate father who was committed to education, unusually intellectually self-sufficient.
All of them, particularly Emily, lived in their imaginations. They invented their own fictional worlds; Charlotte and Branwell concentrated on Angria, while Emily and Anne created the Gondal cycle. Their intensely imagined lives were always at the mercy of ill health. Death held little novelty for them. The children's mother died in 1821, when Emily was three, leaving the children to be raised largely by their aunt, Elizabeth Branwell, a staunch Methodist. The two eldest girls died at the ages of 11 and 10 respectively. Emily herself was dead by the age of 30.
Emily Bronte never married, nor does she appear to have had any romantic attachments. `Remembrance', a beautiful, formal lament which begins "Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee,/ Far, far removed, cold in the dreary grave!/ Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee,/ Severed at last by Time's all-severing wave", for all its romance, is believed to have been inspired by the death of her eldest sister. As well as suffering frequent bouts of illness, Bronte was solitary to the point of being abrasively anti-social and at her happiest with her dogs and nature. People did not interest her. Her poetry is intensely personal and burns, as does her strange, remarkable novel, with complex depths of passion.
At a time when many women poets were writing narrative verse directed at specific events, Bronte's remained introspective, availing of physical images from the natural world: "Death! that struck when I was most confiding/ In my certain faith of joy to be - / Strike again. Time's withered branch dividing/ From the fresh root of Eternity!" (From `Death', 1846.) Possibly her strongest pieces are the Gondal poems, whose internal tensions are obviously drawn from her emotions, yet grafted on to her invented characters.
Sin and damnation are much in evidence throughout Wuthering Heights and the presence of Joseph, the sadistic old Biblebasher who acts as a demented chorus, suggests that Bronte was well aware of the fundamentalist aspects of the Methodist tradition her father had been born into - beliefs her Aunt Elizabeth continued to abide by. This original, timeless novel of extremes, with its conflicting tensions of obsessive love and hate, draws much of its impact from the inspired juxtapositioning of the surreal - such as the dead child at the window demanding to be let in, and the reports of ghosts walking hand in hand - with careful attention to domestic detail.
Meals are prepared, fires are lit, horses fed and sheep protected against the storms. People are treated less well. The genteel luxury of Thrushcross, of which the young Catherine and Heathcliff steal a glimpse when clinging to a window ledge - as the boy reports to Nelly, "ah! it was beautiful - a splendid place carpeted with crimson, and crimson-covered chairs and tables, and a pure white ceiling bordered by gold, a shower of glass-drops hanging silver chains from the centre" - does not survive Edgar Linton. Lockwood is driven from the cold of Thrushcross to the warmth of Heathcliff's Wuthering Heights, where large fires are as much in evidence as seething tensions. Bronte carefully tempers the extremes with normality. Nelly Dean has chores to attend to, such as knitting and making Christmas cakes. Dark and light; storm and calm; heat and cold; weak and strong; love and hate; genteel and primitive; the moral versus the amoral are all major thematic devices in the novel, which is earthbound and unearthly and generational.
Ironically, it is an act of kindness which instigates the spiral of hate directing the story. Mr Earnshaw sets off on a journey, promising his children gifts. On his return he presents a young boy he has rescued. The father's humanity brings out the worst in his children; his son Hindley despises the newcomer as a rival, and proceeds to brutalise the foundling, while the high-spirited, spoilt Catherine claims Heathcliff as her own. His arrival heralds the tearing apart of the Earnshaw family, and in time also destroys the Linton clan.
Bronte begins her story near its conclusion and calls upon two vastly different narrators. Lockwood is the outsider. Interestingly, his decision to rent Thrushcross Grange appears to have been motivated by his failure to respond to a potential romance. Having become interested from afar in a woman, he flees on seeing his interest returned, a reaction which causes him to shrink "icily into myself, like a snail, at every glance retired colder and further; till finally the poor innocent was led to doubt her own senses, and . . . persuaded her mamma to decamp". He seems a lazy, soft, indolent fellow and his noncommittal attitude to love contrasts with Heathcliff's tormented and tormenting approach. Nelly Dean, the main narrator, is an articulate, pragmatic countrywoman with a liking for books which helps explain her narrative skills. Most important of all, she knows these people, was once a playmate of Hindley and later tended Catherine and Heathcliff through childhood illnesses. Long familiar with their personalities, she feels free to chide them. The consummate observer, she is opinionated yet surprisingly objective and must be considered a reliable narrator. Much of what she describes, often laconically, is beyond belief - and yet having witnessed the situation developing over the years, she can control her judgment of both behaviour and events. But by the end of the novel, even Nelly is forced to challenge Heathcliff when he describes his antics at Catherine's grave. "Were you not ashamed to disturb the dead?" Heathcliff's response is governed by the bizarre logic by which he lives. "Disturbed her? No! she has disturbed me, night and day, through 18 years - incessantly - remorselessly. . . I have strong faith in ghosts; I have a conviction that they can, and do exist among us."
Bronte's handling of Heathcliff, one of literature's most seductive monsters, is superb. "Is Mr Heathcliff a man? If so is he mad?" asks Isabella Linton, who marries him. She discards her wedding ring, yet seems prepared to go back to him: "He shall buy another, if he gets me back again". In her flight from Heathcliff, she notices little Hareton "hanging a litter of puppies from a chairback". Having only partly overheard Catherine's famous speech in which she announces "It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff, now" he leaves before she adds, ". . . he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
Three years later he returns having acquired some polish, his education a mystery while his sullen anger is obvious to all. His subsequent performance, including his treatment of his hapless wife and son, is barbaric. Yet somehow Bronte manages to keep our sympathy alive. It is no coincidence that Heathcliff, madman, crazed lover and bad father, delivers many of the novel's most poetic declarations; "My soul's bliss kills my body." The dialogue throughout is outstanding; Heathcliff moves convincingly between ugly threats and black asides, punctuated by the helpless rage and regret summoned when lamenting his dead love. Common sense is a feature of Nelly's reportage, while even at her most distressed Isabella remains true to her class - as does the stiff, nosy Lockwood. Joseph's incoherent mutterings in dialect add to the atmosphere.
In recalling her sister's death on December 19th 1848, Charlotte Bronte observed: "I looked on her with an anguish of wonder and love. . . Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone." The creator of Wuthering Heights remains a mystery - as does the book. Is it a romantic melodrama? Or a dense morality play? Is she attempting to show that romantic passion is a destructive delusion? Is there a moral to be found in the almost naive resolution achieved by Hareton and young Cathy, the children of the brother and sister damaged by Heathcliff's arrival? Or is the narrative merely reaching full circle and is the second Catherine, now Earnshaw again albeit by marriage, fulfilling the romance denied her mother? After all, this second-generation Catherine does succeed in taming her savage. Immortalised in our memories as a love story, it is even more forcefully a superlative study of emotional turmoil. Perhaps Bronte's ultimate achievement in Wuthering Heights is locating chaotic passions within the context of ordinary life.


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This live track (first time we played it!) is inspired by a tune of Killa Sista, a great japanese live dub band.
Full live improvisation, be patient 'til the middle of the track, it's getting better. Last third is full of vibration !
After two months without playing together, this is the first sound that out of the speakers.
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