Luxury 6 Bed 2 storey villa 10 minutes from Disney.
This sought after villa has two master suites and boasts 20ft ceilings in formal dining room, living room and family room. 5ft square paintings surround you as you relax, listening to your choice of music from built in 10inch speakers throughout this executive villa. The sound continues with 4 speakers in the pool and Jacuzzi area. Watch T.V. in your own room or on a LCD flat screen wall mounted 5.1 surround system in the family room. Outside of this tranquil space there are a variable bounty of entertainment and attractions..... Please Enjoy.
All marble counter tops in baths and kitchen.
10" Speaker system throughout house and in pool area.
NEW Games Room now in effect.
My family and I stayed at the Vista Cay resort condo for 13 nights in April. We were not disappointed at all. The condo has everything you need and more! The pool is a 2 second walk, the pool is spacious and the grounds are well cared for. We have been traveling to Florida every year for the past 7 and this was the nicest and largest condo we have stayed in. The location was perfect! Very close to everything nice and handy to have Pub-lix and Walgreen's with in walking distance. My parents enjoyed the Shingle Creek golf course across the street. The rental transactions were smooth and Wayne is pleasant to deal with. I will be recommending this condo to my friends and family. Thanks again!
We enjoyed our 5 day stay at the condo. Wayne went out of his way to make sure everything was perfect, making a special trip to bring a coffee maker. The condo is very roomy and is located with easy access to everything you would need, including a Publix grocery. We have booked again for this coming year. Thank you so much Wayne for making our trip enjoyable and comfortable.
We are back home in South Florida and want to thank you for the stay at your Paradise/Vista Cay Condo. The apartment is lovely and the location was excellent for our short trip.
Everything inside the property was very comfortable and in absolute working order.
Great and conveniently located place to stay in Orlando!
we were delighted with liberty hall.
it was clean and very well maintained.
our family of twelve stayed. very spacious and pool is a nice feature.
we had access to store 5minutes away was publix and cvs and much much more.
the game room keep the older kids happy and the little ones played safely there also. it was wonderful to cook good meals. the photo dose not do full justice to this spacious home away from home. the neighborhood is clean and nice. diney is easy access.
What awesome accomodations!! The location to Disney was closer than anticipated and only an 8 minute drive which couldn't have been easier. The house was very spacious and cleaner than any home we have rented. We enjoyed the heated pool, game room and peaceful lake view ambiance. It was the perfect Disney vacation for all. I also want to add that Wayne and Jessica were more than available and happy to answer all our questions. Thank YOU!
We absolutely loved the home! We were so close to Disney, it took only minutes to get there. The home and pool were very well kept. The home is beautiful and so roomy. We had no problems at all and would recommend this home. If you want a great location, beautiful home , fantastic price and great management personnel there is no need to look anywhere else!
We could not have had a better place for our Girl Scout Troop to stay. The house was absolutely perfect as a matter of fact our girls decided to stay and play in the pool one morning instead of going to Universal for the whole day. Wayne and his wife were great and checked to make sure we had everything we needed. This was by far the absolute best Vacation Rental I have ever had and will stay with no one else when I return to Kissimmee. Thanks againg for helping to make our trip so wonderful.
Wow, what a beautiful and comfortable home from home!! It was a sure delight staying at your Liberty Hall home with many amenities at hand to enjoy the kids really loved the new games room, and lots of fun on the new bunk beds. I hope all your future guests are able to benefit from the excitement this home offered us!!
Our extended family enjoyed our stay in your home. Everything is as pictured. Our grandchildren,(and parents)enjoyed seperate bedrooms, pool and play room. Unlike a hotel where , when the kids go to bed, you had to shut down for the evening. Also liked being very close to Disney. Didn't have to go on I-4. Would stay again and will reccomment to my friends, but not too many.
We stayed in this villa in Feb of 2008 during speedweek. Everyone loved it. The house is very spacious and well decorated. There was more than enough room to accomadate 10 of us. The owners are awsome to deal with. They really take care of you and they make sure everything is perfect. If your looking for a great place to enjoy your holiday, dont look any further. You wont find anything better.
Nice big house with lots of rooms. Each year me and my wife book a house to allow other families to come with us. This house has lots of rooms for more then one family. We like the location a lot. It was close to shopping centers like a super Walmart and close the all of the parks. We liked the house so much that we are booking it again.
This home is beautiful and clean! The rooms are spacious and awsomely decorated. We had a wonderful 5 days despite Florida's 19 degree windchill and the coldest 4 days in many years! Being from Michigan, it didn't stop us from seeing all the close attractions available in the area. I will not hesitate to contact Wayne Brown again on our next trip to Florida!
THe villa is ery spacious and beautiful. We enjoyed it very much. The location is very convienient and close to the major attractions, shopping and restaurant. We will return.
The owner does not have high speed intenet access at his home. He does have dial up, which obviously is slow, but is an option!
As of February 2007 this home now has high speed broad band internet - wireless!!!
Mr. Brown the house was wonderful my family had a graet time thank you so much. Can't wait until next year.
Wayne, thank you very much for the rental....the house is beautiful...and very conveinent...i will be renting this house again.
It was our trip with the whole family, which may be a 'once in a life time' because of the difficulty of family together planning for such a time.
So our 'year of a million dreams' is now a reality of the past. Memories & pictures for a lifetime.
The house was great. Much bigger and nicer than the pictures showed. We had a little trouble with the heat in the pool, but wheen we called, it was corrected right away. I was nervous about booking sight unseen, but after our stay I would highly recommend this to all my friends and family. I would definitely stay there again. Thanks for a wonderful vacation.
We just came back from the vacation home and found it exceeded our expectations. The home was much prettier in person than the photos showed. Very close to all of the theme parks and, of course, Wal-Mart!! I have already recommended this home to four friends looking to rent in the next two years. I will definitely stay there again if it is available!! Michelle, thanks for all of your help, you have been wonderful, once again. It is always a pleasure renting from you. Hope to see you back in a few more years!!!
The house is very beautiful. I will recommend the house to my friends. Mr Brown was helpful. Only one thing, when we paid for heat pool, it would be pleasant if the pool was heated all day long.
Thasnsk for adding to the guest book - for future guests, the pool is heated for a 9 hour period - thru the day and switches off when up to temp - 85 degrees!!!!
We enjoyed our stay at your beautiful home immensely. Perfect central location to everything and very comfortable. I would not hesitate to stay there again if it were available.
WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME THE HOME WAS CLEAN AND BEAUTIFUL I WOULD NOT HESITATE TO CALL MR. BROWN AGAIN FOR NEXT YEAR.
Excellent accomodation - definitely beats staying at a hotel. We would not hesitate to return next time.
We wanted to say that we enjoyed the rental experience at the home we rented in Liberty Hall.
Homeowner Response: Thasnsk for adding to the guest book - for future guests, the pool is heated for a 9 hour period - thru the day and switches off when up to temp - 85 degrees!!!!
Homeowner Response: The owner does not have high speed intenet access at his home. He does have dial up, which obviously is slow, but is an option!As of February 2007 this home now has high speed broad band internet - wireless!!!
Homeowner Response: Thank you so much for adding the first comment into our guest book.
This is a new guest book - no one has yet stayed in the home. We hope a guest will add a comment soon!
Deposit: A refundable security/damage deposit of $300 is required. 25% of the rent is required to complete the booking (balance due 45 days in advance).
Cancellations and Refunds: If you cancel anytime, payments (less 10%) are refunded if the unit is re-rented.


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American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was born in Port Arthur, Texas. He studied art at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Academie Julian, Paris. Since 1951 Rauschenberg's work has been exhibited extensively in major museum exhibitions worldwide. He was the recipient of numerous awards including the Grand Prize at the 1964 Venice Biennale, a National Medal of Arts in 1993 and a Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Centre, Washinton D.C. in 1996. He also received a Grammy Award for Best Album Design for the pop group Talking Heads in 1984. Rauschenberg was elected a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, Boston, in 1978, made an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 1981 and elected an Honorary Royal Academician of the RA in 2000.
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Folk Music and Dancing with Children
Family scene with children dancing at sunset on the Gulf of Naples with a view of the island of Capri (ca. 1825-1835), a 74.5 x 98.5 cm oil on canvas by Franz Ludwig Catel (1778–1856).
Listening to pop music—like the rest of modernity—marks an education in unreality, which is no education at all. Folk music, on the other hand, is invariably rooted in the concrete reality of life.
Sebastian Morello
My wife and I were both shocked and disturbed by our children's intolerance of classical music. We had always listened to classical music, especially on car journeys or when lounging, ponderingly, on the sofas in the evening. The greats—Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Handel, Schubert, Haydn, Debussy, Verdi, Sibelius, Elgar, Vaughan Williams—often accompanied us. If we were feeling especially merry, Vivaldi would sound out. We sometimes solemnly sat to sacred pieces, especially Tallis, Byrd, Palestrina, Victoria, and Allegri. The moderns sometimes appeared: Messiaen, Tavener, MacMillan… Then the children began to declare their disgruntlement. Their incapacity to endure some chamber music or a work of polyphony was disheartening.
One thing was clear, though: we were not going to start playing pop music. Pop music, generally speaking, is evil. It corrupts the soul and makes people stupid. Pop music has become increasingly corrupting over the decades since its emergence. And now, each pop song appears to consist of a three-and-a-half minute intro. The beat goes on and on, and the occasional abstract platitudinous remark is sung in an electronically manipulated voice about some base emotional impulse, and then the beat continues. One sits there, waiting for the song to actually take off, and it never does. In this way, pop music reflects the modern mind, which is always on the verge of possessing the utopian epoch, marching forth to abstractions uttered as promises… but it never actually takes off.
One alternative would have been to play early pop: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, even Elvis Presley. This would be, though, like trying to avoid the corruption of the soul by just slowing down the corrupting process. It's all the same rubbish as the noises we produce today, but it just sits upstream a little. Perhaps the most terrible thing about pop music, and early stuff is as guilty as our current clamours, is that it relies on abstractions—isolated emotional states, usually emanating from disordered appetitive impulses—described in something pretending to be song. In this way, pop music—dislodged from the particular and relocated in the realm of abstractions—attempts to belong to everywhere and to everyone at once. It is a universal kind of music, and by attempting to belong to everywhere it belongs to nowhere. Listening to pop music—like the rest of modernity—marks an education in unreality, which is no education at all.
What music, then, were we to play on long journeys in the car or in the house that the children would find tolerable? We started playing folk music. Not modern folk-pop, but real folk music. We found recordings of old English folk songs, and in the car we would sing along to The Lincolnshire Poacher, Because I Were Shy, Jack Hall, The Barkshire Tragedy, and good old bawdy numbers like The Raggle Taggle Gypsy and Gently Johnny my Jingalo. We learned the words to John Barleycorn, Drink to me only with Thine Eyes, The Derby Ram, John Anderson, Sovay, As I Roved Out, Star of County Down, and some good old hunting songs like Tally Ho! My Fine Sportsmen and John Peel. We discovered the great figures at the heart of the mid-20th century folk revival—before it was hijacked and ruined by the pop production industry—like Luke Kelly, Martin Carthy, and The Chieftains. Our kids loved it all.
An astonishing feature of all authentic folk music is its antipathy towards abstractions. The songs are generally stories about a particular community, in a particular place, going through a particular event at a particular time, and the particular individuals or couples that underwent it. Folk music is invariably rooted in the concrete reality of life. Take the following opening lyrics of The Lincolnshire Poacher, for example:
When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire
Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years
Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear
Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.
As me and my companions was setting out a snare
'Twas then we spied the gamekeeper, for him we didn't care
For we can wrestle and fight, my boys, and jump from anywhere
We know, within two verses, that this is a story about a man who was an indentured servant, not far off a slave, living in Lincolnshire, who was fettered in this way for nearly seven years. He clearly broke the contract of his indentured servitude and left his master, soon being without the proper means to feed himself. Hence, he took up poaching, venturing out in the evenings to snare hares. He was joined in this highly illegal activity by others, no doubt with equally unfortunate histories, with whom he had to carefully avoid the gamekeepers of the land on which they were poaching. Gamekeepers, incidentally, are a respected but rough breed. Clearly, for this young man and his friends, encounters with such keepers in the past necessitated learning how to fight and wrestle. All this we learn within a minute of the song beginning.
Now, compare the lyrics above to the opening two verses of Ariana Grande's Bang Bang:
She got a body like an hourglass
But I can give it to you all the time
She got a booty like a Cadillac
But I can send you into overdrive, oh.
You've been waiting for that
Step on up, swing your bat
See, anybody could be bad to you
You need a good girl to blow your mind, yeah.
One can imagine these words written in excrement on the cell wall of a sectioned psychopath. What, though, can we learn from these lines? Well, there is a woman—we do not know who she is—who is characterised by an unfortunate body-shape, being compared here to an egg timer fastened to a large American car (an image that is somewhat difficult to form in the mind). Verse two is even more cryptic, but I am informed that the 'bat' refers to the male reproductive fundament; the rest seems to require arcane decipherment in order to bring to the fore the complex sexual psychology being deployed, for which I am unqualified.
I'll try to be serious. In truth, what we have in the second example is total rubbish, produced to ensnare people. In the first example, however, we have a story, deeply bound up with something real, contextual, cultural, and historical, which is also entertaining and memorable. It is difficult to imagine a situation in which my children could suitably encourage me to join them in a sing-song of Mrs. Grande's allocutions or the apparently more aristocratic Lady Gaga's most praised tracks like Poker Face or Bad Romance. My family and I have, however, many a time sat around the table after breakfast on a Saturday morning and sang our favourite folk songs together. The children have an amazing capacity for picking up the lyrics, and it's a joy to listen to them.
My wife and I were confirmed in our low-cultural response to our children's intolerance of classical music last summer whilst holidaying in north Devon. Having spent the afternoon below the enchanting Tintagel Castle—a hallowed place wrapped in Arthurian legend—paddling about at the beach under the gaze of Merlin's cliff-face carving, we hopped into the car and headed back to our lodgings. As we wound down the narrow country roads of Cornwall and drew close to the Devonshire border, the children began to complain that they were hungry.
We pulled into a rustic village, at the top of whose square was a thatched pub, The Green Dragon. In we walked and were greeted with smiles and head-nods. "May we have a menu?" I asked. The lady behind the bar replied, "We're serving sausages and mash tonight." "Four sausages and mash then, please."
The pub was serving one kind of meal and one kind of ale. So, that made ordering a simple affair. As we finished our food (which was exactly what we all needed after a day of walking on Cornwall's north coastal hills and swimming in the sea for hours), we watched through the window as a large yellow van pulled into the village square. The back doors of the van swung open, and out jumped ten Morris dancers. I will never forget the look on my children's faces as they watched what appeared to be a gang of oversized hobbits leap out and spring about with a wooden horse. Soon, the villagers had all come out of their cottages to enjoy the spectacle. We ate up, picked up our pints—lemonades for the sprogs—and wandered out to watch the Morris dancers.
There we sat in the twilight for the next hour or so watching the wonderful dances and listening to that old music that appeared to have the sounds of the centuries encased within it. The children clapped and danced around too. My affectivity, so warped and darkened by decades of exposure to modernity, could hardly cope with the wholesomeness of it all. Our children, formed in their aesthetic attachments by hundreds of hours of folk music, listened and danced and claimed the whole event as their own. This was, they judged, their culture and their music.
My children are not Cornish. They're barely English. But my wife and I have enough sense to know that there is no such thing as a citizen of the world. The only true belonging is local belonging, and we always knew that the imperative before us in the raising of our children was to induct them into a cultural inheritance that they can call theirs. They couldn't, we decided, live as aliens in this world. Indeed, the minimum we could give them was the experience of being at home in the world. Folk music has been a major part of teaching the children, implicitly and by habit, that history, place, culture, and real things matter. In short, folk music helps to purify us of the rationalism that is in the very air we breathe in the modern world.
When the energy is low, or irritability begins to cover the domestic sphere with its dark mantle, we put on some folk music and dance together around the house. I scoop my children up into my arms and leap around, singing at the top of my voice. They clap and laugh and sing along, and for a brief moment all the stupidity and perversion of the modern world, for us at least, disappears. It is quite likely that, in a few decades if not before, when I lie on my deathbed and make my final confession, begging for the Lord to save me by the merits of His passion and death, I will not wonder why I didn't write more books or publish more academic papers. I will probably wonder why I didn't spend more time dancing with my wife and children to old folk songs—that this is a cliché makes it no less true.
Sebastian Morello is a lecturer, public speaker, and columnist. Trained by Sir Roger Scruton, he has published books on philosophy, history, and education. He lives in Bedfordshire, England, with his wife and children. He is essays editor of The European Conservative.
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When the Mayans presented Prince Philip of Spain with jars of beaten cocoa, they offered what they valued most. This was the drink of kings.
In La Celeste Praline the chocolate shop of the film Chocolat, Vianne (who was blown by the North winds to the village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes) changed the lives of people with chocolate. She concocted elaborate blends and offered her soothing confectionary like sorceresses prescribed elixirs. As her sweet magic began to work, love flourished again in the village.
Are we therefore to assume that eating chocolate is like falling in love? In some ways it is, because cocoa contains a chemical called phenyl ethylamine also known as the 'love molecule' or the 'love drug'. This anxiety numbing 'drug', stimulates happiness and contentment in the brain. Cocoa also contains an important mineral, magnesium, which helps reduce anxiety, depression and insomnia. Whenever we are down or sad we automatically reach for chocolate.
Let's admit for a moment that eating chocolate in moderation is a remedy. Let's also admit that whenever we feel the need for instant comfort there is no better way than to bake a deliciously gooey chocolate cake.
With the Easter winds about to blow soon in our direction, I thought of this old favourite of mine: a flourless chocolate cake. Soft, moist and easy to make, it is simply scrumptious!
Butter a 18 cm (7 inch) spring form cake tin and dust it with cocoa powder.
Using the paddle attachment, mix the eggs until they begin to froth.
Add sugar and keep mixing until the creamy blend turns to whitish colour and almost doubles in volume.
In a bain-marie, melt the butter and chocolate or microwave for to 2 minutes. Stir when melted.
Add vanilla and cognac to the egg mixture.
Fold in the melted chocolate and butter.
Finally gently mix in ground almonds.
*Cooking time will vary from oven to oven. The centre of the cake should remain fairly soft to the touch.
Gently warm cream and butter in a saucepan over very low heat.
Add the chocolate pieces and leave to slowly melt.
Allow 10 to 15 minutes cooling time before spreading over the cake with a palette knife.
I am going to buy the ingredients today! I can't wait to make this cake: it looks amazing! Thank you so much for sharing and for such a unique way of cooking!


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Medicare's perfect storm
The roots of modern GOP resistance to healthcare reform date back to 1964, when Johnson clobbered Goldwater
By Andrew Leonard
Signing of the Medicare Bill July 30, 1965: Left to right, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Lady Bird Johnson, President Harry S. Truman, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Bess Truman
History remembers Lyndon Johnson as the creator of Medicare and Medicaid, but Barry Goldwater, the arch-conservative Johnson annihilated in the 1964 presidential election, deserves his fair share of the credit. A month before Election Day, Goldwater interrupted his campaign in Arizona to fly back to Washington for the sole purpose of voting no on a key precursor to what became Medicare. The Johnson campaign capitalized immediately with a television ad pointing out that Goldwater had voted "against a program of hospital insurance for older Americans."
Democrats already controlled the House and Senate before the 1964 election, but a coalition of Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats had hitherto managed to stymie every attempt to make that crucial first step toward what the American Medical Association's spokesperson Ronald Reagan decried as "socialized medicine." But on Election Day, Johnson's landslide victory ushered in majorities so huge that reaching a goal Democrats had been seeking since Harry Truman's first term finally became inevitable. Johnson's mandate was undeniable, and even the powerful Arkansas Democrat Wilbur Mills, chairman of the all-important House Ways and Means Committee, who had long stalled a House vote on Medicare, was forced to acknowledge it. As Johnson told Vice President Humphrey in March 1965, with the kind of Southern slang laxative analogy that only he could pull off, in the new political atmosphere, "Medical care will go through like a dose of salt through a widow woman." And he was right.
So who knows? If Goldwater hadn't been such a bad candidate, Medicare might have been delayed further, or even forestalled indefinitely.
There were other factors, of course. In the mid-1960s, the United States was in the middle of one of its greatest all-time sustained economic booms, providing room for Americans to dream big and act magnanimously. Lyndon Johnson boasted an unparalleled knowledge of the ins and outs of the legislative process and was probably better at twisting arms to get his way than any other post-WWII president. A perfect storm was required for the creation of Medicare and Medicaid -- a fact awesomely attested to by the difficulty Democratic presidents have faced ever since in attempting to further improve the healthcare safety net. The fact that Obama, who not only lacks the legislative skills of Johnson but faces a united front of Republican politicians distinguished primarily by their utter absence of twistable arms, managed to get anything passed at all in the middle of a horrible economy is all the more amazing when you look back at all the advantages Johnson enjoyed.
But from the vantage point of 2011, the question of whether 1964's perfect storm permanently altered the healthcare landscape of the United States now seems open to question. Medicare is still hugely popular, but a combination of rising costs (driven by demographic changes and accelerating medical expense inflation) and decades of Republican success at reducing the relative proportion of taxes paid by Americans, has resulted in a Catch-22. We like our expensive social welfare system, but we aren't willing to pay for it. Even worse, as it gets more expensive, we are willing to pay less and less! Furthermore, the Republican Party has never accepted its defeat in 1964 -- in fact, you can easily argue that the rise of the modern conservative movement got its start from the twin motivations of Goldwater's debacle and Johnson's Great Society successes.
The budget proposal released last week by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan includes the most substantial assault on Medicare and Medicaid as we know them in decades. And even if Ryan's agenda breaks on the rock of popular outcry and Senate Democratic resistance, that still doesn't solve the problem of how to pay for the programs. Obama, far from being remembered as the president who expanded healthcare coverage for all Americans, might end up as the leader who presided over the first significant retrenchment of these pillars of the Great Society.
Which makes it all the more amazing to go back and look at the legislative sausage making involved in the creation of Medicare and Medicaid. Because if there's anything that jumps out from accounts of the struggle Republicans waged against any involvement by the government in medical care, it was how similar their proposals were to important aspects of the Affordable Care Act today. Republicans attempted to fend off the specter of socialism by proposing plans in which the government would provide subsidies to private insurers that supposedly create incentives encouraging them to cover the elderly. Sound familiar?
That some kind of fix to the system was necessary became increasingly obvious to both sides, as Peter Corning wrote in "The Evolution of Medicare: From Idea to Law."
The need for some program was almost self-evident; the sharp decrease in personal income and greatly increased medical needs of those who had reached retirement age conspired with the rapidly rising cost of medical care to create an imperative. Alternative solutions had been tried or examined and had been found wanting. Consequently, political support for Medicare had gradually increased, while the opposition diminished. Some observers detected a significant fall-off of antagonism toward Medicare within the business community during 1964-65. One sign was the fact that some local Chambers of Commerce reportedly broke with the position of the parent body in Washington, which had always stoutly resisted the proposal. In addition, public support for Medicare rebounded after the brief slump in 1962; polls during 1964 indicated that about two-thirds of the electorate again favored the idea.
The final brilliant stroke that co-opted nearly all opposition was Wilbur Mills' decision to incorporate a key Republican proposal as an addition to the legislation being pushed by Johnson. Originally, healthcare for the elderly was envisioned as targeted solely at hospitalization costs -- remember the TV advertisement reference to "hospital care"? Treatment by physicians outside of hospitals was not included -- in part because the costs of such care simply weren't very large compared to hospitalization, and in part because of the staunch opposition from the AMA. But hospital care ended up being Medicare Part A. A "voluntary" program in which participants would pay a premium to the government in return for coverage of physician care -- the Republican proposal -- became Medicare Part B. Doctors were bought off by the support, and away we went.
And how far we've come! Today, once again, just about everybody recognizes that we face a serious problem. The ranks of the uninsured are growing, medical cost inflation is out of control, and something needs to be done. But once again, Republicans still call attempts to involve the government in a solution "socialized medicine." Only this time, what they call socialism is darn close to what they used to support as an alternative to the heavy hand of government.
Andrew Leonard
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Adaa Khan On Shooting For A Music Video In Rishikesh: "For The Time Being, You Actually Get To A Different Zone"
Adaa is very fond of travelling and shooting in Rishikesh for this music video gave her many memories.
Adaa Khan On Shooting For A Music Video In Rishikesh: "For The Time Being, You Actually Get To A Different Zone"(Pic Credit: Instagram/adaakhann)
Television actress Adaa Khan, who was recently in Rishikesh for the shoot of a new music video, says that working in a music video takes her to a different zone.
While the title of the music video is yet to be finalized, Adaa says, "Whenever I have done a music video. it's been a very fulfilling experience, for the time being, you actually get to a different zone."
The song is sung by 'Hud hud dabangg' fame singer Divya Kumar. Adaa Khan is very happy with the way the music video is coming along.
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"This song has a beautiful story of a girl who gives up everything and searching for the love of her life which I can't reveal now. One should wait and watch the music video," shares Adaa Khan.
"Shooting in the freezing Rishikesh was so much fun, I had a great time. While shooting, we had been to places like Laxmanjhula, by the Ganga river, local cafes and visiting these places was wonderful. And the weather made the experience even more memorable," she added.
Unfortunately, when Adaa was there a glacier broke in the state. But, luckily, it wasn't close to the area where Adaa was.
She shares, "I was eating breakfast when I suddenly started getting calls from my family and friends if I am okay are not. Fortunately, we were all safe, though I could see there were police vans and sirens were on to alert people."
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What to do when you didn't include a floorplan in the model complex, and that is the only floorplan left to sell. What about if you're selling a previously owned home that isn't accessible often? Do you have a desire to show the benefits of the surrounding area as a selling point?
We blended video with still imagery to create a virtual tour of a completed home before the new homeowners moved in, and the uploaded the video to the website. Guess what? While it's not furnished, IT WORKED! I think you'll agree that video captures the space well and shows off the attributes we wanted to highlight.
Click and enjoy!
The goal in any sales cycle is to get the sale. In homebuilding, the cycle is longer than most products out there, and the attachment is even greater. You become friends with your customer. You meet their family and share special moments. You become more than familiar with the local area, the businesses and neighbors. It's bittersweet when you close that last escrow and turn out the lights, and I have to say that is the feeling I have with Citrus Lane.
She began as the first community to built in Loma Linda after a two-decade old moratorium. She was surrounded by orange groves with a no-growth vibe amongst its neighbors. The launch was difficult, and the initial sales slow, until more developers came into the market place. That opened the doors to increased traffic, lining the newly paved roads with beautiful new homes and lovely landscape and the promise of new parks with grassy areas and room for children to play.
Citrus Lane turned a corner and sales were abundant after nearly a year of pioneering a new community. The resistance melted into embraces from the local residents that realized something shiny, new and full of life can be as appealing as the once neglected and overgrown parcels of land. Change is a two-sided coin. Keep flipping it and you alternate between reminiscing its former glory and experiencing what is new today – yet again will be tomorrow's history. Change, well that's something that will never change.
I'm looking forward to driving by Citrus Lane over time to watch it grow and morph into one of the classic communities in Loma Linda. SeaCountry Homes…JOB WELL DONE!
The BlueWater community in Summerly, Lake Elsinore is almost sold out with sales breaking expectations. If you're looking for a home that has all the upgrades features and lush landscaping, you want one of the gorgeous model homes! Don't wait too long because the doors close quickly on these opportunities! Click to www/seacountry-bluewater.com for more details.
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Citrus Lane Comes to Life!
The first new residents moved into their new homes just in time to decorate and celebrate the holidays! Completion of the first homes also means new homesites are being released. Check out http://citruslanehomes.com to learn more!
Sales Recap at The Strand
The Strand at Headlands is Wrapping up 2017 with Over $127,000,000 in Sales! We're working on a Year End Report, so stay tuned for more great news going on in Dana Point!
The Strand in Dana Point
This is a one-of-a-kind beachfront community that is the last offering of custom homesites in Orange County. Starting from $2mil for a lot and up to $26mil for a completed home, Create-a-Buzz is so excited to be joining The Strand Team with a focus on marketing initiatives.
Please stand by as I post available homes and lots from time to time, and be prepared for an epic "WOW" factor!
Home Sales Zoom to Highest Pace in Decade
Daily Real Estate News | Friday, April 21, 2017
This spring's housing mantra: Going, going, gone! "Severe" housing shortages are prompting existing homes to sell significantly faster this year, propelling home sales to the highest pace in more than a decade, the National Association of REALTORS® reported Friday.
Strong sales gains in the Northeast and Midwest were behind most of the nationwide 4.4 percent month-over-month increase in existing-home sales in March. The West was the only major region of the U.S. to see a modest decline in sales activity last month.
The following is a closer look at how existing-home sales performed across the country in March:
Source: National Association of REALTORS®
Northeast: Existing-home sales jumped 10.1 percent in the region, reaching an annual rate of 760,000. Sales are now 4.1 percent above a year ago. Median price: $260,800, which is 2.8 percent higher than a year ago.
Midwest: Existing-home sales rose 9.2 percent to an annual rate of 1.31 million in March, and are 3.1 percent above a year ago. Median price: $183,000, up 6.2 percent from a year ago.
South: Existing-home sales increased 3.4 percent to an annual rate of 2.42 million, and are 8.5 percent above March 2016. Median price: $210,600, up 8.6 percent from a year ago.
West: Existing-home sales in the West dropped 1.6 percent to an annual rate of 1.22 million in March, but remain 5.2 percent above a year ago. Median price: $347,500, up 8 percent from March 2016.
"The early returns so far this spring buying season look very promising as a rising number of households dipped their toes into the market and were successfully able to close on a home last month," says Lawrence Yun, NAR's chief economist. "Although finding available properties to buy continues to be a strenuous task for many buyers, there was enough of a monthly increase in listings in March for sales to muster a strong gain. Sales will go up as long as inventory does."
Total existing-home sales—which include completed transactions for single-family homes, townhomes, condos, and co-ops—reached a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.71 million in March. The sales pace is 5.9 percent above a year ago. Further, existing-home sales are now the strongest month of sales since February 2007 (5.79 million).
Here's a closer look at some of the key indicators from NAR's latest housing report, reflecting March housing numbers:
Home prices: The median existing-home price for all housing types was $236,400, up 6.8 percent from a year ago when it averaged $221,400.
Days on the market: Properties stayed on the market for an average of 34 days in March, down significantly from 47 days a year ago. Short sales took the longest to sell at a median of 90 days in March; foreclosures sold in 52 days; and non-distressed homes took a median of 32 days—which is the shortest length of time since NAR began tracking such data in May 2011. Forty-eight percent of homes sold in March were on the market for less than a month.
All-cash sales: All-cash transactions comprised 23 percent of sales in March, down from 25 percent a year ago. Individual investors make up the biggest bulk of cash sales. They purchased 15 percent of homes in March, up from 14 percent a year ago.
Distressed sales: Foreclosures and short sales made up 6 percent of existing-home sales in March, down from 8 percent a year ago. Broken out, 5 percent of sales in March were foreclosures and 1 percent were short sales. On average, foreclosures sold for a discount of 16 percent below market value; short sales were discounted an average of 14 percent.
Inventories: Housing inventory at the end of March rose 5.8 percent to 1.83 million existing homes available for sale. Inventory is 6.6 percent lower than a year ago (1.96 million). Unsold inventory is now at a 3.8-month supply at the current sales pace.
"Bolstered by strong consumer confidence and underlying demand, home sales are up convincingly from a year ago nationally and in all four major regions despite the fact that buying a home has gotten more expensive over the past year," Yun says.
Check Out The Citrus Lane Brochure
We're all so excited to part of Loma Linda's newest community, Citrus Lane. There's very little new construction in this area, so we're receiving a wonderful reception from the locals and everyone is really anticipating a successful grand opening next month.
I wanted to give you a sneak peek at what is yet to come for Citrus Lane! Hot off the press is the sales brochure with floor plans and features. There's a lot of amazing standard features for a house this size, meaning you won't have to spend a ton in upgrades to get the home of your dreams! What a treat!
Please share your thoughts! We love feedback!
Look Out Loma Linda…Here Comes Citrus Lane!
It's been years since the residents of Loma Linda and Redlands have had a brand new choice in home buying! This nice parcel of land nestled among acres of citrus grove and is slated to grand opening in the first quarter of 2017. Check out these HUGE homes at the newly designed website we just launched at www.citruslanehomes.com.
U.S. New-Home Sales Unexpectedly Surge to Almost Nine-Year High
Check out this interesting Bloomberg news report on new home sales! Good new for those of us in the industry.


Winners of a competition held to find the best dressed Whitby and Staithes businesses during the recent Cook250 festival have been announced.
The Original Whitby Jet Store, W Hamond, was crowned best dressed business in Whitby and the Staithes accolade was awarded to Upstairs with Miss Kitty, purveyor of seaside style.
Businesses were encouraged to get into the spirit of the Cook250 celebrations by using a Captain Cook theme and their imaginations to dress up their shop fronts and window displays for the festival, which took place from 6 to 8 July in celebration of the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's first expedition to the South Seas.
The competition entries were judged by Colin Pyrah OBE, Scarborough Borough Council Tourism and Corporate Marketing Manager and Welcome to Yorkshire Area Director, Janet Deacon, and the owner of Whitby's Sutcliffe Gallery, Mike Shaw.
The judges felt that W Hamond and Upstairs with Miss Kitty excelled in the criteria of quality, imagination, colour and how closely they incorporated the Captain Cook theme into the presentation of the goods they sell.
W Hamond won a Sutcliffe Gallery framed print of the town's Captain Cook statue and four tickets to see James at Scarborough Open Air Theatre in August. Upstairs with Miss Kitty won a spa day for two with afternoon tea at Raithwaite Hall, Sandsend.


Jabalpur Army Bharti 2018 is going to be conducted by RO Jabalpur in the month of May 2018. All the candidates of Rewa, Satna, Jabalpur, Seoni, Balaghat, Mandla, Narsinghpur, Katni, Dindori, Anuppur, Shahdol, Sidhi, Umaria & Singrauli can participate in Army Rally in Jabalpur May 2018 and fill the online Army Bharti in Jabalpur registration form 2018 before the last date.
Here is good news for all the candidates who want to join the Indian army that Recruiting Zone Head Quarter Jabalpur is going to going to conduct to invite the candidates through Jabalpur Army Bharti 2018 for the post like solider GD Posts, Tradesman posts, soldier technical posts. In this open Bharti rally in Jabalpur candidates of Rewa, Satna, Jabalpur, Seoni, Balaghat, Mandla, Narsinghpur, Katni, Dindori, Anuppur, Shahdol, Sidhi, Umaria & Singrauli are invited.
So all the interested candidates who are willing to apply for Army Rally in Jabalpur May 2018 can fill the online application form before the last date. Candidates can know all the latest details and updates regarding Jabalpur Indian Army Vacancy registration form and dates, admit card from this page.
It is golden opportunity to get a job in Indian Army Department. Candidates are advised that they should be read official notification of Jabalpur Army Bharti 2018. Recruitment notification will give complete detail. If you are eligible and interested, then fill the online application form as soon as possible.
This open Bharti Rally will be organized by RO Jabalpur in the month of May. The Army Rally in Jabalpur May 2018 Registration process has been started for the candidates of serval districts of Jabalpur as we have mentioned above. All the interested candidates should start applying for the Army Rally in Jabalpur May 2018.
The Indian army board will release the admit card before the few days of the examination date. All those candidates who have applied for Jabalpur Army Bharti 2018 will soon get the Admit Card. All the candidates can download the admit card from the official website of Indian army board.
Jabalpur Army Bharti Admit card 2018 will be available just 3 days after the online application submission. All the candidates are advised to download the admit card before few days of the examination without it candidate would not be able to appear in the examination so all candidates are advised to download the admit card before appearing in the exam and carry along with them at the time of examination.
Hope this article will be helpful for you if you have any query or doubt regarding Jabalpur Army Bharti 2018 you can write in the comment box. Our team member will assist you in a better way. Atay connected with this page for more updates.


While SUGAR RUSH is a romance, the hero and heroine are facing off in the Annual Assembly of Chocolatiers. Which came first, your characters, Dulcie and Nick, or the concept of a H/H competing as the plot that brings them together? Was there any special inspiration behind either?
With a tagline of 'sweet & sassy short romance' one of the key elements of the Bliss imprint that makes it different from its sister imprints is that any love scenes are closed-door or 'fade to black'. What can you tell my readers about SUGAR RUSH that might convince those who love their romances filled with steamy love scenes to give it a try in spite of the lack of nitty gritty details?
I've always been a fan of the sweeter side of romance (no pun intended!), and with my other books, it's proven to be something people really seem to connect to. I think it's those very first sparks…the angsty 'does he like me or doesn't he?' phase of a relationship, that really gets a chance to be in the forefront. So many emotions can swirl even before anything steamy (or too steamy at least *grin*) happens, and the Bliss line gives us a chance to explore some of those feelings a little more closely.
In the age of e-commerce and big-box-chains Dulcie's small business dilemma isn't far-fetched at all. Publishing can even be a lot of the same and it's fascinating to see the wide variety of options an author now has to bring their stories to the masses. What has your writing journey been like and what's the best tip you can share with aspiring romance writers?
Absolutely! Times are definitely changing and I personally have had a lot of success with my self-published series. Now, with Sugar Rush I've been lucky enough to publish with the digital teams at Entangled and Bliss. I don't rule out anything for the future including traditional paper publishing, as each book is different and different formats can work for different types of books. I am a big believer that everybody's journey is unique and that there is no right or wrong way to go about living your dream.
Now that SUGAR RUSH has been out long enough for many readers to have snapped it up and devoured it, I have to ask: will we see more sassy and sweet Bliss releases from you in the future?
I have nothing under contract as of right now, but there is certainly a lot of sweet and sassy romance left in me, and Bliss and Entangled have been wonderful to work with!
If you were stranded on a desert island but could only bring 3 items featured in SUGAR RUSH what would they be?
Well, hopefully I can find a way to make electricity, because I'd love to take along Nick's fancy-schmancy coffee maker, some jazz music, and of course, Dulcie's family Spell Book of Sweets.
If I went into my favorite pub and ordered a SUGAR RUSH, a drink inspired by the book, what kind of cocktail would the bartender serve me?
Hmm…great question! I'd say definitely something in a Martini glass with a sugared rim and lots of chocolate flavor inside, topped with a chocolate-dipped cherry for good measure.
Lol – there's no such thing as being chocolated out! Actually I was on vacation in Niagara Falls on release day. What an amazing place to visit!
Thank you so much for the interview Rachel and congratulations on the new release!


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Диéго де Альмáгро младший (,  — , ) — испанский конкистадор, организатор заговора с целью убийства Франсиско Писарро. После организации восстания в Перу при губернаторе Кристобале Вака де Кастро был фактическим правителем в колонии.

Биография
Диего де Альмагро младший, или «Диего де Альмагро второй», или, как его ещё называли, «эль Мосо» (el Moso, с исп. — «парень») родился в семье испанского конкистадора Диего де Альмагро и индеанки из Панамы. Имя получил в честь отца.

Участие в конкисте Америки
В 1531 году эль Мосо сопровождал своего отца в экспедиции в Перу в составе отряда из сотни испанцев, которая захватывала север Империи Инков. В это время Франсиско Писарро отправился на юг, где устроил резню в Кахамарке и захватил в плен Инку Атауальпу. Альмагро вместе со своим отцом попал в Кахамарку только к 1533 году и не участвовал в разделе выкупа Атауальпы. Впоследствии люди Альмагро на всех получили лишь 20000 песо золотом, в то время как только Писарро получил 57220 песо. Диего Альмагро младший всюду сопровождал своего отца, вскоре между ними и братьями Писарро произошёл конфликт.

В 1534 году король Испании разделил завоёванные территории на 2 губернаторства — Новую Кастилию (на территории нынешнего Перу, между 1-й и 14-й параллелями), губернатором которой стал Писарро, и Новый Толедо (нынешнее Чили, между 14-й и 25-й параллелями), отданный Альмагро старшему. Большую часть доставшихся Альмагро в управление территорий ещё предстояло исследовать и завоевать, и 3 июля 1535 года он отправился из Куско на юг. Однако там он не нашёл золота, которое стремился найти, и при этом натолкнулся на упорное сопротивление индейцев, что вынудило Альмагро, дойдя до 30 градуса южной широты, повернуть обратно в сентябре 1536 года.

Борьба с братьями Писарро
Когда в 1537 году Альмагро вернулся, в Перу шло антииспанское восстание, которое возглавил Манко Инка Юпанки. Воспользовавшись тяжёлой для Писарро ситуацией, Альмагро захватил Куско и нанёс поражение армии, которую возглавляли братья Писарро, Эрнандо и Гонсало; братья Писарро были захвачены в плен, а Альмагро 8 апреля 1537 года провозгласил себя новым губернатором Перу. 12 июля он разгромил армию Алонсо де Альварадо, которая прибыла, чтобы освободить братьев Писарро из плена. Гонсало Писарро и Алонсо де Альварадо удалось бежать из плена Альмагро. Писарро начал переговоры с Альмагро, стремясь оттянуть время; в конце концов, ему удалось уговорить Альмагро отпустить Эрнандо и отправить в Испанию по несколько офицеров с обеих сторон для окончательного улаживания конфликта. Но после освобождения своего брата Писарро нарушил перемирие и продолжил войну с Альмагро, положение которого стало ещё затруднительнее из-за начавшейся у него болезни; 26 апреля 1538 года у Куско произошло решающее сражение, в котором победил Писарро. Альмагро попал в плен, был приговорён к смерти и 8 июля обезглавлен.

Эль Мосо поклялся отомстить за смерть своего отца, организовал убийство Франсиско Писарро, после чего объявил себя новым губернатором Перу. Однако его правление запомнилось репрессиями, в отношении сторонников Писарро, самый ярким эпизодом которых была казнь Антонио Пикадо (который был секретарем Писарро). Впоследствии, не получив поддержки большей части населения Лимы, вынужден был бежать в Куско вместе с Диего Мендесом.

Восстание Диего де Альмагро младшего стало первым актом неповиновения в Перу.

Гибель
Вскоре в Перу прибыл Кристобаль Вака де Кастро, уполномоченный занять губернаторский пост Перу в случае смерти Франсиско Писарро. Заняв губернаторский пост, Вака де Кастро принял решительные меры для подавления восстания Альмагро младшего. Гонсало Писарро предлагал свою помощь в подавлении восстания, но Вака де Кастро отверг это предложение. 16 сентября 1542 года состоялось решающее сражение при Чупасе, в котором Альмагро-младший потерпел поражение, пытался бежать, но был захвачен в плен. Альмагро и Мендеса привели в цепях к Куско. Диего по приказу Эрнандо Писарро был отправлен в Лиму под охраной Алонсо де Альварадо, где под давлением семьи Писарро губернатор Вака де Кастро приказал казнить Диего де Альмагро. Вака де Кастро посетил их в камере, с целью расследовать причины их восстания. Альмагро пояснил, что он восстал против не короля, а с целью защиты своего законного имущества. После исповеди и получения причастия Альмагро подошёл к виселице и на эшафоте попросил быть похороненным с его отцом, где впоследствии и был погребён.

Примечания

Литература
 Del Busto Duthurburu, José Antonio: Diccionario Histórico Biográfico de los Conquistadores del Perú. Tomo I. Lima, Editorial Arica S.A., 1973.
 Del Busto Duthurburu, José Antonio: La pacificación del Perú. Librería STUDIUM S.A., Lima, 1984.
 Enciclopedia Ilustrada del Perú. Tomo 1. Alberto Tauro del Pino. Lima, PEISA, 2001.
 Inca Garcilaso de la Vega: Historia general del Perú. Tomo I. Editorial Universo S.A. Lima, 1972.
 Prescott, Guillermo: Historia de la conquista del Perú. Tomo III. Editorial Universo S.A. Lima, 1972.
 Vargas Ugarte, Rubén: Historia General del Perú. Tomo I. Editor: Carlos Milla Batres. Lima, Perú, 1981.

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We had expected China's foreign reserves to fall to $3.106trillion in May from $3.125trillion in April, but the data surprised us on the upside at $3.111trillion.
The dollar index rose 2.43% in May on the back of the strong dollar rebound which directly lowered the value of non-dollar assets in the foreign exchange reserves. This had made us project a bigger fall in the reserves.
We also considered net inflows, but we might have underestimated the impact of China's opening up policies. Less than expected loss in foreign reserves could be the result of net direct investment driven by China's opening up of markets for foreign investors starting near the end of April. The industries that could have brought money into China include asset managers, automobile companies and other financial institutions.
If this is the underlying reason, then going ahead, China's foreign exchange reserves could fall at a more slower pace even when the yuan weakens, which means there will be more room for the yuan to weaken against the dollar.
We have already revised our yuan forecast to 6.60 until the end of 2018, and this seems much more likely now.


A new version of E-Formulas, v1.2, has been submitted to the App Store. This new version includes enhancements to the Voltage Drop calculation due to feedback requests. Also new in this version, the field values are remembered after you close the application. We should see this new version available in the store in a few days.
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San Jose voters will face a piece of #FakeNews on the June 2018 ballot, in the form of the Evergreen Senior Homes Initiative.
This initiative pretends to be about affordable housing for seniors and veterans, but it is really an attempt by two billionaire developers to line their own pockets by weakening San Jose's affordable housing laws and rewriting the city's long-standing planning goals.
It would increase traffic and exacerbate sprawl, while not guaranteeing a single unit of housing for veterans.
San Jose voters need to say no to this misleading and greedy initiative.
This initiative is opposed by a long and growing list of community leaders, including Democrats and Republicans, seniors and millennials, environmentalists and housing advocates. Never before has such a diverse group of people opposed a local ballot measure so quickly and unanimously.
At a time when San Jose has the dubious honor of being ranked by a recent study as the least affordable housing market in the entire nation, this initiative would allow these two developers to build less affordable housing than the city currently requires. Even worse, it would eliminate the timing requirement for affordable housing — meaning the affordable units could be built last in the development, or even not at all.
An independent analysis has found that the initiative would cost the city more than $17 million a year, putting even more demand on the city's already strained police, fire, parks and street maintenance departments. This will negatively impact the public safety and quality of life in every San Jose neighborhood.
The Evergreen Senior Homes Initiative would be especially harmful to the environment in San Jose. It would allow the building of 910 luxury homes on 200 hillside acres in Evergreen without state-mandated environmental review.
It would also allow similar developments that claim to be focused on seniors to be built in other undeveloped parts of the city, potentially opening up the fields, farmlands and open space of Coyote Valley to urban sprawl.
Most alarming of all, this initiative could set a bad precedent. If it passes, we could be in for a future where individuals or companies with enough money are able to subvert decades of careful planning and preservation efforts in order to get their pet projects approved and further enrich themselves.
The three of us have spent decades serving the residents of San Jose, trying to make the city we love the best it can be. We know San Jose voters are too smart to fall for this deceptive initiative. In June, vote "no" on the Evergreen Senior Homes Initiative.
Jim Beall represents District 15 in the California state Senate. Ken Yeager represents District 4 on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. Blanca Alvarado is a former member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.


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The Anthology Lounge is a new music lounge and premium wine bar located in Auckland's historic Karangahape Road.
This unique venue is the creation of expat Maryanne Bilham and her American husband Robert Knight. Both are world-renowned rock music and travel photographers who share a passion for music performance and fine wine.
The idea for Anthology Lounge arose from a conversation with old friend Slash, the night before Guns N' Roses played Auckland, February 2017. The guitarist wanted to find a cool, late night place to hang out after the show and they were at a loss to name a suitable haunt. Slash remembered enjoying an Auckland bar called Squid, but that was in the 1990s.
The lounge is designed as a space to hang out and enjoy fine wines and cocktails with friends, go to after a concert or dinner and enjoy good company and to see live music. It is hidden down a vintage flight of wooden stairs, the room is blessed with a high ceiling and large windows with a view of Auckland's cityscape.


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CEO, director and chairman of companies. Has experience in leading huge projects amounting to tens of thousands of square meters of construction and an investment of hundreds of millions of NIS Served as a director in many leading public companies in the fields of income-producing and entrepreneurial real estate that builds and leases land in Israel and abroad (Poland, Canada, Belgium, USA and more) Amir served as a member of the Antitrust Court. An expert in corporate governance. Served for approximately 12 years as CEO of the Israel Exhibition Center. Has extensive experience in initiating planning and establishing exhibition and event complexes and conference centers and operating and marketing these complexes. And even serves as a consultant in this field. Amir served as chairman of the Castro company for about 9 years, which employs thousands of employees and has an international retail activity and operates about 400 stores in Israel. Served as a director in the companies "Properties and Building" as well as "Wadgar Investments" and "Shlomo Insurance" and also serves for about 3.5 years on the board of directors of Mishorim and also a director in the Skyline company. And as chairman of audit committees for balance sheets and remuneration in public companies Business consultant for corporate recovery and business development until their sale. And chairman of a startup company
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By Andy Crump | May 15, 2015 | 7:00am
Thirty years is a long time to wait for a sequel. If not for the passage of time, though, then George Miller's career trajectory since 1985 may have initially been reason enough to regard the latest installment in the dystopian Mad Max series with caution. The new film stars Tom Hardy as Max Rockatansky with Charlize Theron as his co-lead, a casting coup that earned goodwill from intrigued onlookers when first announced. When Miller showed San Diego Comic-Con attendees footage from the unfinished product in 2014, any and all initial doubt turned to buzzing fervor. Early apprehensions weren't misguided. They were just misplaced. If it takes a movie three decades to galumph into theaters, the least you can hope for is that it ends up being good.
Expecting more than just "good" feels like asking much, but Miller is clearly the generous type. Mad Max: Fury Road is better than just good. It's "great," perhaps even better, though piling on superlatives too quickly, too soon might do the film a disservice. If Miller had simply aimed just above the line of "serviceable," he still might have sated his audience's action cravings. But after maintaining a holding pattern for so long, "satisfactory" wouldn't have passed muster. Miller knew it, too, so he decided to swing for the fences. Try naming a modern blockbuster that has as much chutzpah as Mad Max: Fury Road. You can't, because there isn't one. This is what happens when you lay out all your crazy on the screen at once: glorious, crackling entertainment.
Mad Max: Fury Road occurs an unknown number of days after the last chronicle of Max's life and times. He's on the run, natch, and as the movie starts he's captured by lunatics who drag him back to a desert canyon fortress and turn him into a living IV bag for Nux (Nicholas Hoult), a soldier in the army of the wheezy, bigamist tyrant Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne, returning to the series after playing the villain in the original film). Joe is a festering representation of patriarchy who hoards a limitless supply of water from his parched subjects and maintains a fully stocked personal harem. He's a horrific antagonist for the ages.
When one of his lieutenants, Furiosa (Theron), betrays him by liberating his trophy wives (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Zöe Kravitz, Riley Keough, Abbey Lee, and Courtney Eaton), he and his fleet of tricked-out apocalypse-mobiles pursue them posthaste. By chance Furiosa and Max end up locking horns in the fracas, but they realize that each needs the other to stay alive. So they pile into her war rig with the emancipated girls and put pedal to the metal, with Joe's legion of maniacs at their heels and Nux dangling to their tanker. There isn't much setup here beyond that. Mad Max: Fury Road is just an explosive extended car chase, occasionally interrupted with interludes of economic character development and world-building.
Every single dollar of Mad Max: Fury Road's reported $150 million budget is in the frame at all times, but Miller is so unpretentious that you won't catch the price tag. Real people cruise in real vehicles across real expanses of desert. When the film does lean on computers, it's to fill in the margins or summon the occasional dust storm. Miller defines his aesthetic through physical texture, tells story through action, and shows no interest in the routine of contemporary Hollywood spectacle. He's made a two-hour Star Wars cantina scene stuffed to the gunwales with insanity. Immortan Joe's vanguard includes a car mounted with piles of speakers and a nutjob wielding a double-necked guitar that belches fire. It's both the most and the least demented idea the movie has on tap.
The film also stands alone, good news for anyone who hasn't seen the first three movies. You can walk into the theater blind and everything that happens from start to finish will make sense. That's Miller's intention, of course, but kudos to the man for pulling it off with such unhinged aplomb, and for spending heaps of Warner Bros.' money on what is essentially a feminist action movie. The marquee features Max's name, but the film's true hero is Furiosa, a freedom fighter battling against an oppressive male regime. Just when you think Mad Max: Fury Road is going to peg Max as the film's savior, Max gives the credit to Furiosa. She's the character driven by a purpose. He's just a survivor.
Hardy and Theron both lend muted gravitas to their roles—she has more spoken dialogue than him, if only just—and act through gesture and expression more than anything else. It's clear, though, that this is her movie more than it is his, a huge accomplishment in light of the film's intrinsic masculinity. Mad Max: Fury Road is an inclusive effort that invites us to join its heroes in breaking down gender dichotomies. Miller has made a phenomenal action film with a righteous cause, a movie that layers smart commentary atop jaw-dropping set pieces. May he ride eternal, shiny and chrome.
Director: George Miller
Writers: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nico Lathouris
Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Nicholas Hoult, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Zöe Kravitz, Riley Keough, Abbey Lee, Courtney Eaton
Boston-based critic Andy Crump has been writing online about film since 2009, and has been scribbling for Paste Magazine since 2013. He also contributes to Screen Rant, Movie Mezzanine and Badass Digest. You can follow him on Twitter. He is composed of roughly 65 percent Vermont craft brews.
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"K A over L and MLI"
Brent Cullimore
More than once, I got into an argument with a boss in the 80s. And I almost never had a boss who was a thermal engineer during that decade. They never knew what to do with us thermal people. Systems? Power? Materials? Propulsion? Avionics? Been there, done that, probably had a disagreement with the boss as I rotated through.
I spent the most time as part of a propulsion group. But when that boss dismissed my whole tribe by saying "thermal is just K A over L and MLI," he left a scar. Being a thermal engineer, I wasn't supposed to understand fluids, and I certainly couldn't be trusted to touch anything wet. I was just supposed to know how to calculate a conductance (KA/L) and how to wrap boxes with multilayer insulation (MLI).
The irony is that I had two offers from that corporation when I came out of grad school: one in the thermal department and another in the propulsion department. I chose the thermal group since they needed more fluids help, and since they were busy programming their own design and simulation tools. Apparently, had I accepted the propulsion offer, I would have magically acquired a different background too and been transformed into a trustworthy type. Allowed to turn valves and everything! But having accepted the thermal position, then having been placed inside a propulsion group anyway, I apparently had been lobotomized.
I was the Principal Investigator (PI) for a thermal R&D project, and I was given less than a fifth of the budget that the parallel propulsion R&D project received. Then I was asked to spend half of that tiny budget in travel costs, explaining how I used the remaining spare change to mess around with heat switches, evaporative coldplates, heatpipes, and capillary loops.
So when the propulsion project built a test facility whose liquid hydrogen (LH2) expenditures alone were more than my pre-travel R&D budget, I took notice. They were trying to keep LH2 in a cryostat for months or years, and had developed a complex system with a thermodynamic vent system (TVS): a throttle, an internal heat exchanger, and a vapor-cooled shield. But the darned thing took several days to come to equilibrium, burning through about a trailer full of LH2 per week while trying to test another set point on the TVS system throttle.
I offered to calculate the set point for them using my new-fangled FLUINT software. Maybe I was secretly hoping that they'd pass on their LH2 savings to my thermal R&D budget. Fortunately, the PI of the propulsion project, Dr. John Anderson, was a very kind and mentoring gentleman, who tolerated my questions and even let me turn the resulting model into an example problem for the newly minted SINDA/FLUINT User's Manual.
Not that he trusted the answer that I came up with (even though it was later shown to be about what they found in test, having bought several trailers full of that expensive stuff). After all, I was still just a thermal type who had accepted the wrong offer.
So there was a lot of nostalgic dust kicked up this last month as I replaced the old "Sample Problem F" with a modern incarnation using all the latest tools. Also a lot of chagrin over having been such a young hothead with an axe to grind, but that's off topic and requires apologies, so let's skip over it for now!
The original sample problem model was a "30 node wonder" with lots of hand calculations, because that is what we did in those days. We were using a VAX mainframe that charged us per CPU minute.
Of course, the new model uses thousands of nodes and is much more geometrically faithful, exploiting all of the wonderful CAD and FEA tools we have access to. It runs in a flash on a PC. It doesn't produce much better results, but there are few if any hand calcs and assumptions left. It is easier to peer review.
It is also easier for someone else to inherit and update. Which is good, because I won't be the one updating it 30 years from now to take advantage of new quantum computing.
Maybe by then they'll have figured out how to classify thermal engineers who work a lot with fluids.


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After Raising $200 Million Robotic Company Anaki To Shutdown
Anki, the robotics company that has raised over $200 million in venture capital, is laying off its entire staff and the startup is shuttering, Recode has learned.
In a teary all-hands meeting on Monday morning, CEO Boris Sofman told his staff they would be terminated on Wednesday and that close to 200 employees would be paid a week of severance, according to people familiar with the matter. Sofman had told employees a few days earlier that the company was scrambling to find more money after a new round of financing fell through at the last minute, imperiling the company's future.
The startup is frequently called "cute" for the little robots it produces like Cozmo, but it has raised serious money from investors like Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, whose co-founder, Marc Andreessen, at one point sat on the company's board.
Anki said last fall that it "approached" $100 million in revenue in 2017 and expected to exceed that figure in 2018. So this isn't some small lemonade stand closing down.
Leadership had previously told employees that it was fielding acquisition interest from companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Comcast.
The company said in a statement to Recode that it was left "without significant funding to support a hardware and software business and bridge to our long-term product roadmap."
Anki, founded by roboticists from Carnegie Mellon University, was a big deal in the robotics world at one point its first product, Anki Drive, was prominently featured onstage in a demo at an Apple event in 2013. But its buzz has cooled considerably in recent years as some investors grew skittish about hardware plays and others struggled to wrap their heads around what could reductively be considered just a toy business.
It's a tough time for the consumer robotics sector, with other companies like Jibo having had to shut down recently.
Despite being a popular choice at places like Toys R Us for its AI race cars, the company in recent years has tried to pivot from toys to becoming a more developed robotics company based on artificial intelligence. It's unclear what will happen to the company's assets going forward.
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