1. Buy worsted weight yarn if you're stashing for a sweater. All the cute patterns use worsted weight. chicknits sweater patterns use worsted weight.
2. Knitting Math which boggles my engineering mind. I did swatch!!! First swatched using #7's since I knit fairly tight. Hm. I was getting about 22 sts/4 inches. Pattern calls for 20. Wash and block the swatch only to have it say "aren't I full of holes?". Cheeky swatch. Then I tried the 6's where it said "Yeah, right, nice try. Try again." So, against all engineering logic and using some knitter's flogic decided to try knitting with the #7 and purling with the #6. YAY! It seems to have worked. Almost exactly 20 sts and 28 rows. Well, 14 rows = 2" since I abandoned the swatch for the sweater. That'll teach swatches to mock me.
3. Casting on with the smaller needles than called for in the swatch will result in a measurement smaller than what is stated in the measurement pictures. That would mean the bottom of this sweater is somehow about an inch and half smaller than it should be. It'd probably only fit Charlene.
4. The German Twisted Cast On is superhandy. I think I can do this just about as fast as the long tail cast on and makes a neater bottom row.
5. The Suspended Bind Off allows for some stretch room that my regular bind off does not. Nothing like binding off and making your item pull inwards at the top.
6. When knitting a sweater, don't knit the size that fits you with just your t-shirt on. Not only would you have to inhale to get into the sweater, do you really want to wear just a tank top under a wool sweater to avoid the Abercrombie "too-tiny-sweater-with-holes" look from two years ago? Didn't think so. And gauge is more forgiving if you go a size up. If you're between two size measurements, go up. For the love of sanity, go up. What if it shrinks?! Once again, dear reader, I urge you, go up.
So far there is only an inch of ribbing which isn't so interesting. I'll post some of my dual needle size action when it gets to the stockinette section! Or when it looks less like a headband and resembles something that will be the back of a sweater.
Now that's a list of very helpful tips! I really like the looks of the suspended bind off.
You're right about #6, of course, but I can't get past the "I'm sure it will fit me by the time I finish knitting it".
Yeah - like that really works.
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The Cenacle, a popular site for pilgrims near Jerusalem's walled Old City, has ancient, worn surfaces and poor illumination, hampering a study of its history.
So researchers from Israel's Antiquities Authority and European research institutions used laser technology and advanced photographic techniques to create richly detailed three-dimensional models of the hall built in the Crusader era.
The project helped highlight obscure artwork and decipher some theological aspects of the second-floor room, built above what Jewish tradition says is the burial site of King David.
"We managed, in one of the… holiest places in Jerusalem, to use this technology and this is a breakthrough," Amit Re'em, Jerusalem district archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority, told Reuters of the project, which began in 2016.
Re'em pointed to reliefs of what he described as the symbols of the "Agnus Dei," a lamb that is an emblem of Christ, and the "Lion of Judah" on keystones in the hall's vaulted ceiling.
Some archaeologists have questioned whether the room is the actual venue of the Last Supper, the final meal which the New Testament says Jesus shared with disciples before his crucifixion.
Ilya Berkovich, a historian at the INZ research institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences who worked on the project, said the endeavor opens "incredibly new horizons" with enormous potential.


Destination Port Stephens publishes a range of electronic and paper publications throughout the year. Two main consumer pieces are printed, namely the annual Visitors Guide and the Free Map. Both feature extensive information, maps and member advertisements.
Visitors Guides are distributed throughout all Visitor Centres in NSW, businesses around Port Stephens and surrounding areas, at all consumer and trade shows, at information stands at many Sydney hotels, motels, backpacker hostels and at the airport. Maps are distributed to businesses throughout Port Stephens.
Feel free to share the link off the Tourism Website to the current interactive Visitors Guide.


Nick and I went to Bali for Chinese New Year. We have a villa there in Cemagi. The flight takes about four hours from Hong Kong. I usually watch a movie, but I've travelled so much recently that I have basically seen every movie that they have on their flights. So on my flight to Bali, I opened the inflight sales magazine and took a look to see if there was anything interesting.
Hmm … looked pretty convincing, so I bought it. I started using it in Bali and have been using it for about two weeks now and I have to say that I LOVE it!! As you know, I also love the snail cream, but like I said, it is good to use one jar and then take a break, so I've been using this instead of the snail cream. It has brighten my face and feels firmer. I guess the Japanese companies know best what works for Asian women who want clean, pale, white skin.
When we were in Bali, we were invited to dinner at my friend's villa. It was a gorgeous, enormous villa (makes our look puny)! During dinner, my girlfriend said that she would like to take a short break from being a mom, daughter and wife and just do whatever she wanted to. I asked her what she would like to do and she wasn't sure. But I totally get what she means because wouldn't it be nice to do something that is completely different from what people expect of you? Or just take that time to get to know yourself better?
So, I've been thinking about that question for myself. If I could take a couple of months, what would I do? Well, I decided that I don't want to hang out in the beach resort and write a book because as you know, I can't stand the sun. I don't want to help with a NGO because I've done that and I'm sure I would get frustrated, which is the opposite of what this time off is supposed to do. I don't want to start a business because I've already done that and again, I wouldn't do something that was stressful. I don't want to go to golf camp, yoga camp, spa, resort, etc. because I've done that already. I would want to do something that would make me a better person, but I don't want to be bored and I don't want to be extravagant. Finally, after much thought, I've decided that I would go to a silent retreat. I have a few friends who did this and they all said that it was one of the best things that they have ever done. I know that it will be hard not to talk (especially ME!) but you can mediate and do yoga and do other things. Wouldn't it be nice to just not check emails and just be still? I've found this website below … let's see if I actually do it!


Yes, that's right! You can print your own designs and artwork onto the socks. CES is the ONLY place where you can truly customize your personal pair of custom socks. Just click on the start designing button above to get started.... Life is short. There's no time to be boring. You won't be able to help but tap those toes when you wear socks in virtually every colour, pattern and print under the sun.
5 Ways To Wear The Newest Sock Trends Yes, you read that right, socks have become the hottest accessory. From being a partner-in-crime to your canvas shoes in school to now being an editorial statement in the fashion world, socks have now gotten a major upgrade.... If there's one fall accessory that's deeply underrated, it's the sock—and no, we don't mean your everyday no-show or workout socks. Instead, we're talking about those statement-making types that will subtly grab anyone's attention: animal-print socks.
Go ultracute and pair with a printed sweater and long socks.
If there's one fall accessory that's deeply underrated, it's the sock—and no, we don't mean your everyday no-show or workout socks. Instead, we're talking about those statement-making types that will subtly grab anyone's attention: animal-print socks.
Photo of Go ultracute and pair with a printed sweater and long socks.
Without the socks, this is just a plain outfit that anybody on the street would wear. Add the socks – and all of a sudden, you've got style! Add the socks – and all of a sudden, you've got style!
You might say I am a stupid woman, as socks plus sandals is a trash look, but take a look through latest fashion collections and you will see it's OKAY to wear socks with sandals. Anyway, here are 20 stunning style tips on how to wear these sandals this cold season.


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Pompeo says US averted nuclear war between India, Pakistan
Shaun TANDON
Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo wrote in a book published Tuesday that India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 and that US intervention prevented escalation.
"I do not think the world properly knows just how close the India-Pakistan rivalry came to spilling over into a nuclear conflagration in February 2019," the likely future presidential contender wrote in "Never Give an Inch," his memoir of his time as Donald Trump's top diplomat and earlier CIA chief.
India in February 2019 broke precedent by launching airstrikes inside Pakistani territory after blaming a militant group there for a suicide bombing that killed 41 Indian paramilitary soldiers in the flashpoint Kashmir region. Pakistan shot down an Indian warplane, capturing the pilot.
Pompeo, who was in Hanoi for a summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said he was woken up with an urgent call from a senior Indian official.
"He believed the Pakistanis had begun to prepare their nuclear weapons for a strike. India, he informed me, was contemplating its own escalation," Pompeo wrote.
"I asked him to do nothing and give us a minute to sort things out," Pompeo said.
Pompeo said that US diplomats convinced both India and Pakistan that neither was preparing to go nuclear.
"No other nation could have done what we did that night to avoid a horrible outcome," Pompeo wrote.
Pompeo, who wrote that Pakistan "probably enabled" the Kashmir attack, said he spoke to "the actual leader of Pakistan," then army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, in an allusion to the weakness of civilian governments.
Pompeo at the time publicly defended India's right to act. In his book, Pompeo spoke highly of India and, unlike officials in New Delhi, made no secret of his desire to ally with the South Asian democracy "to counteract Chinese aggression."
India, followed by Pakistan, tested nuclear bombs in 1998, a watershed moment. Then-president US Bill Clinton later famously said that Kashmir, divided between the two nations, was "the most dangerous place in the world."
- 'I'm still trying to kill you' -
Pompeo writes extensively in the book of his diplomacy with Kim Jong Un, which included preparing three meetings between the young totalitarian leader and Trump.
He recalled a chilling first conversation as he flew into Pyongyang in March 2018 on a clandestine trip as CIA director.
"'I didn't think you'd show up. I know you've been trying to kill me,'" Pompeo quotes Kim as telling him.
"I decided to lean in with a little humor of my own: 'Mr. Chairman, I'm still trying (to) kill you.'"
But Pompeo described a budding understanding with Kim as the Trump administration offered incentives to lower tension.
Pointing to Kim's smoking habit, Pompeo wrote that he told Kim he would take him to "the nicest beach in Miami and smoke the best Cubanos in the world. He told me, 'I already have a great relationship with the Castros.' Of course, he did."
As for their substantive conversation, Pompeo said Kim spoke candidly on concerns about China, usually viewed as North Korea's main ally.
Told that China believes North Korea wants US forces out of South Korea, "Kim laughed and pounded on the table in sheer joy, exclaiming that the Chinese were liars."
Kim "said that he needed the Americans in South Korea to protect him from the CCP, and that the CCP needs the Americans out so they can treat the peninsula like Tibet and Xinjiang," Pompeo wrote, referring to the Chinese Communist Party.
- Xi 'hates you' -
Pompeo became known for his hawkish stance on China, controversially accusing Beijing of spreading the "Wuhan virus," in a derogatory reference to Covid-19.
He said that Trump told him with an epithet that Chinese President Xi Jinping "hates you" and asked Pompeo to "shut the hell up for a while" as the United States needed health supplies from China.
"I was not happy that the president had tweeted that the CCP was doing a good job on the virus and praised Xi," Pompeo said.
"But I understood the circumstances -- we needed health equipment and were at the CCP's mercy for it. I worked for the president, and I would bide my time."
Pompeo has not ruled out running against Trump for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, although early polls show little support for Pompeo.
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Teacher's home becomes school in destroyed Ukraine village
Teacher Oleksandr Pogoryelov occasionally strolls up the sloping road to the school in his village in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine where he taught for more than two decades.Parents have been supportive, he said, but the village is emblematic of tensions in many communities in the Donetsk region, where pro-Russian separatists had been fighting Ukrainian forces for years.
VALORANT pros fight back against trolls and crypto gamblers with 'Pro City'
Some direct invites were given to pro players, which included those that are part of a VALORANT franchise team or are contracted with a tier-one organisation.
US bans two Serbian ex-lawmakers wanted for Hague witness tampering
The United States said Friday it would refuse entry to two Serbian ultra-nationalist former members of parliament wanted by a UN court for witness tampering in a trial over crimes against humanity."The United States continues to stand with all Serbians in support of democracy and the rule of law and will continue to promote accountability for those who abuse public power for personal gain," State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.

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HONESDALE - The Wayne/Pike Suicide Awareness Committee meets on Thursday, April 27, at Wayne Memorial Hospital, 601 Park Street, Honesdale, beginning at 7 p.m.
The group provides a positive support time to help deal with suicide and loss of a loved one. Individuals 16 years of age and older are welcome to attend the meetings. The meeting takes place in Conference Room #3, 2nd floor (take the Orange elevator "A").
The committee hosts the Wayne/Pike Suicide Awareness Walk each year, and on Saturday, September 23, it will be at the Wallenpaupack Area High School. Registration begins at 9 a.m. and the walk begins at 10 a.m.
For more information, contact Michelle Valinski at 570-253-9200. Volunteers are welcome to serve on the Wayne/Pike Suicide Committee.


I had the pleasure of meeting NY Times best selling author, Ridley Pearson, at a recent book signing for his latest release, The Return. The small bookstore was busting at the seems with Kingdom Keeper fans and people were lined up outside in the rain to get an autographed book. Seeing the excitement on children's faces when they met Ridley made it clear that he has reached celebrity status—not something many authors can say. I asked Ridley about his books as well as some wisdom on writing for middle grade.
Middle Grade Mafia: Being such a prolific writer, can you share some of your writing habits with us, especially when you're on a busy book tour?
Ridley Pearson: I write whenever possible. I have long days at home, and grab every free minute when on tour.
MGM: Fans of the Kingdom Keepers include girls and boys, teens and even some adults (like me). Why do you think it has such broad appeal?
RP: I think initially the Kingdom Keepers and The Return had/have appeal because of everyone's love of the parks and going backstage in the novels. Hopefully that has grown to a love of the characters and the world they live in.
MGM: On a similar subject, the series says its for grades 5th-9th. Middle Grade writers often hear conflicting advice on content for this audience ranging from ages 10-14. Can you give us your advice on the subject?
RP: I don't pay much attention to ages or grades. I try hard to write stories that excite the imagination.
MGM: So many people are familiar with Disney parks, do you find this a challenge or benefit in creating your world?
RP: I have the rare opportunity to regularly visit the Disney Parks and show readers what I find. That can't help but benefit us all!
MGM: Fans can participate in the some fun fan fiction at www.kingdomkeepersinsider.com, how did you come up with this idea?
RP: I wanted badly to include my readers on the the end of the first Kingdom Keeper series. I worked with several companies to come up with a way to accomplish that. I had 150,000 readers voting on the direction of the story. It was so great!!!
MGM: Writers always like to hear how successful authors got their start. Can you give us an idea of what your experience was like?
RP: My publishing career took 8 years of writing 6+ hours to get my first novel published.
MGM: Do you still find time to read? If so, what do you enjoy reading?
Thank you to Ridley for taking the time to answer our questions. To learn more about Ridley's books, visit his website and follow him on Twitter.


Wear this hand-painted shawl as a bear wrap, or layer as a scarf. This rich piece will be wonderful cloth accessory for all seasons, warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Absolutely, this will be a breath of happy spring for anybody who gets it! These scarves are hand-dyed in the assortment of colours and handwoven physically in the old conventional way. Surely, no mechanized pieces of machinery and no polyester or chemicals used. As it is pure silk texture, natural colours refined from walnuts, indigo and other natural sources. The natural dye of this ikat colour gives you a youthful glow and you're good to go with colourful look outfit.
A gorgeous Ikat scarf pure silk threads texture handmade by Uzbekistan craftsmen. This scarf would be adorable, probably, since unique Ikat design is the work of an individual. And he thinks passionately and feelingly about his every choice of colour as well as form in order to create a sympathetic composition. That makes silk scarf polka dot ikat wrap special. Besides, painting is euphoria, a wonderful awareness streams through craftsman into each silk. The bliss he feels in their creation is fair the starting of something similarly delightful. Expressing Salaam and cherish into each scarf, silk gets to be a delivery person from your heart to your adored ones.


seems your forum update has some problems with Tapatalk.
I can't see "PM / private messages" inside Tapatalk.
Do I need to upgrade to newer Tapatalk version to fix this ?
Or will it be available soon ?
The extension plug-in in the forum software is causing the problem, we have to wait for a new version.
But just like Robin, I think the need for tapatalk has become less important with the new version of the forum software, it now has a decent mobile version.
Good morning, as Robin says connecting this forum to Tapatalk app, now, PM message section is disappeared but I like this new version of this forum. Great work! Many Compliments go to Luit and his staff!
If Tapatalk can be integrated without any additional work it's no problem to wait some weeks for it.
Mobile view looks good, better than previous forum software.
trancemaster2k wrote: If Tapatalk can be integrated without any additional work it's no problem to wait some weeks for it.
As soon as it is available we will install a new extension, but since Tapatalk has to release this, I cannot promise anything.
At the moment we have installed the most recent extension for this phpbb version.


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Nadia Murad's Extraordinary Courage to Live and Fight ISIS
by Saltanat Berdikeeva | Nov 3, 2019
As a humble Yazidi woman, Nadia Murad endured indescribable horrors at the hands of ISIS, bent on genocide. Talking about her own suffering and those of other Yazidis, she calls not for sympathy, but for global action to bring ISIS to justice and to restore the dignity, security, and normal life of thousands of Yazidis.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad at European Councils Europa building in Brussels, Nov. 26, 2018 (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
For the first time ever, an Iraqi woman became a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the prize to Iraqi war survivor, Nadia Murad, along with Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."
Murad, a young, petite, frail Iraqi Yazidi woman with beautiful eyes that still carry the deep sadness of her past, endured indescribable horrors at the hands of terrorists from the so-called Islamic State (also known as ISIS). The news of being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize brought her joy, but it also revived her personal, almost unspeakable, trauma as a captive sex slave of ISIS.
Yazidis are a minority group in northern Iraq. With a population of around 550,000 in Iraq prior to 2014, an ethnic and religious group of Yazidis speak a Kurdish dialect, Kurmanji, and practice an ancient religion that worships a single God and the "leader of the angels" in the form of a peacock. A smaller number of Yazidis live in Syria and Turkey. The extremist Sunni ideology of ISIS considered Yazidis infidels and "devil worshipers." When ISIS pushed Iraqi government forces out of a number of cities and started establishing territorial control in Iraq in 2014, Yazidis were targets of the terrorist group's systematic extermination campaign.
While Murad survived the ordeal of repeated rapes, torture, and beatings, she has put aside her own trauma—and shame—to come forward to tell the world about the genocide that ISIS has attempted to commit against her people.
A global public figure and a staunch political activist since 2016, Murad has been tirelessly recounting the chilling details of the ISIS crimes against humanity.
A global public figure and a staunch political activist since 2016, Murad has been tirelessly recounting the chilling details of the ISIS crimes against humanity, even though it opens her wounds every time. She has said that she felt she had the responsibility to bring ISIS to justice and to honor the lives of all of the murdered and brutalized Yazidis.
Nadia Murad speaks to Donald Trump during a meeting with survivors of religious persecution in Washington on July 17, 2019 (AP Photo Alex Brandon)
Murad lived a simple life with her large family in Kocho, a village of 1,800 people in the Sinjar Province in northern Iraq. They raised sheep and wheat on their small farm. As she recounted during her speech at Harvard University this past spring, "People wouldn't think that a farm in the desert would be a great life. But it was our life, it was peaceful to us, and we would love to have experienced it just a little bit longer."
As a small girl, her dream was to finish secondary school and open a beauty parlor in her village. The dream was shattered when she was 21 years old. ISIS took over Kocho in 2014, capturing her and her family.
Although she along with 3,000 other Yazidi women and girls were sold into sexual slavery, her mother and six brothers were executed upon capture and thrown into mass graves. She learned about their murders after she had escaped from a three-month long captivity.
Since the start of ISIS's genocide campaign, nearly 100,000 Yazidis have fled Iraq. According to some estimates, ISIS killed or abducted close to 10,000 Yazidis within a matter of days in 2014. Terrorists either killed young Yazidi boys or took them to become fighters to kill their own people.
So far, nobody has been held to account for the genocide of the Yazidis.
ISIS executed at least 5,000 Yazidi men when the group took over northwestern Iraq. Believed now to be in captivity, more than 3,000 Yazidis are still missing. Some freed Yazidis have returned to Iraq as the terrorist group lost its territorial grip on this country. So far, nobody has been held to account for the genocide of the Yazidis.
Murad considers herself lucky in that she managed to escape from ISIS. She stresses that thousands of other Yazidi women were brutalized more severely than she was and are still enslaved. While she may have been lucky to have run away, ISIS treated her no better than others during her captivity.
"I endured rape, torture and humiliation at the hands of multiple militants before I escaped . . . . One day, I want to marry and have children. I will have to deal with the trauma of my rape personally and quietly. But like most Yazidi women, I am prepared to repeat my story, as long as it helps to achieve justice and to support genocide survivors," wrote Murad in her New York Times op-ed last year.
After escaping ISIS, with the help of a Sunni family in Mosul, she initially found refuge in Iraqi Kurdistan. Later, she was reunited with her sister in Germany, where she lives now. Dedicating her life to defending human rights and bringing ISIS to justice, Murad became one of the world's prominent activists. Her persistent efforts to draw the world's attention to the genocide and ongoing suffering of the Yazidis led to the UN investigation into the ISIS crimes against the Yazidis.
In 2016, UN designated Murad its first Goodwill Ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking.
In 2016, UN designated Murad its first Goodwill Ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking. That same year, she launched her advocacy organization called Nadia's Initiative, which gives voice and assistance to survivors and victims of genocide. In 2017, she published a harrowing account of her captivity and the crimes committed against the Yazidis in her memoir called The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State.
Murad has been pushing world leaders to help find and free the missing Yazidis, prosecute ISIS militants for their crimes, help resettle displaced refugees of her community back in Iraq, rebuild their homes, and provide basic utility services, such as clean water, electricity, and sanitation. She is part of the global advocacy that has been pressuring the Iraqi government and global leaders to take these actions. She took this message to the White House, when she met with President Donald Trump in July 2019.
With so much courage, persistence, and dedication to restore dignity to the Yazidis and to hold perpetrators accountable for the genocide, Murad is an extraordinary woman who moves mountains—with enough allies and support. Whether the world will keep its attention on the plight of Yazidis and do something to help her people is still unclear.
Turkey's incursions have already led to widespread carnage and bloodshed, with dangerous implications also for the Yazidis in Syria.
President Trump's October 6 decision to pull U.S. troops out of Syria created an opportunity for Turkey to attack the Kurds (a minority group denied recognition in Turkey) in northeastern Syria. Turkey's incursions, greenlighted by this decision, have already led to widespread carnage and bloodshed, with dangerous implications also for the Yazidis in Syria.
Since 2011, Kurdish forces in Syria have provided protection to religious minorities, including the Yazidis. They saved thousands of Yazidis when ISIS attacked the latter in Iraq in 2014. With Kurdish forces now being under attack from Turkey, Yazidis are afraid of losing the protection of the Kurds. Since the beginning of the Turkish military assault two weeks ago, hundreds of Yazidis have been displaced in northeastern Syria. They fear that ISIS followers in the area may be encouraged to start attacking them.
The world may need a thousand Nadia Murads to bring an end to ISIS and to help her people. But as a force of one, she continues to persist. Hopefully, her efforts will pay off.
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Chewbacca Mom hits 150M views in just about one week.
Facebook Live Video is now available for Facebook Pages via the Page Manager app.
Google recently held its annual "Google Performance Summit" event, at which they made a number of announcements related to Google AdWords and Analytics. As a Google Partner, David was invited to view the live stream, and provides some insight into the event on this episode. Against a backdrop of data and intent, Google reiterated just how uniquely positioned they are to provide big value to businesses trying increase sales—both online and at brick and mortar.
The mobile evolution is no more. It's now the mobile revolution… oh, and it already happened.
Google has been in beta testing with its "Store Visits" metric in AdWords for 2 years. They have already measured over 1 billion store visits.
Beta customers for this program include Target, where 97% of its customers shop digitally. 3/4 of Target shoppers begin online. (The vast majority of shoppers today begin on mobile… so their experience starts on a 5″ screen.) Target experienced that 1/3 of customers who clicked on a mobile ad came in for a store visit.
Over 1 billion people are now using Google Maps. Google is testing ways to refine the location data within Google Maps so that accuracy increases beyond what is available from the device's GPS unit. This includes Wi-Fi networks, beacons, and surveys.
AdWords advertisers have an array of new options being made available to them. We'll cover most of these on an upcoming show, but Larry Kim already published a reasonably thorough piece on the top 5 big changes.
Hemingboard is a keyboard for iOS—and now Mac (Android & Windows are in development)—that provides you synonyms, rhymes and puns while you type. Fun stuff!
ModernApp.co is back for another visit to the Tool of the Day segment. We've talked about them before, but now they have a Facebook chat bubble, which allows visitors to your site to message your Facebook Page via Facebook Messenger—just like a chat head from Facebook Messenger on mobile. If you answer later (after the visitor leaves your site), you're in a real Facebook Messenger conversation.


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Het Marin County Civic Center is een modernistisch overheidsgebouw in San Rafael, de hoofdplaats van Marin County (Californië). Het Marin County Civic Center ligt langs de U.S. Route 101 en wordt in het noordwesten afgebakend door de South Fork Gallinas Creek. In het oosten ligt een woonwijk en een lokaal natuurreservaat, het San Pedro Open Space Preserve. In de omgeving liggen nog twee kleinere reservaten alsook een staatspark en een park van de stad San Rafael.

Geschiedenis
Het bouwwerk was de laatste grote opdracht van architect Frank Lloyd Wright. De bouw begon in 1960 en werd in 1962, na Wrights overlijden, voltooid door zijn protegé Aaron Green. Allerlei bijgebouwen werden voltooid in de late jaren 60 en 70. Het gebouw is erkend als California Historical Landmark en National Historic Landmark. Het hoofdgebouw is genomineerd voor de UNESCO Werelderfgoedlijst als onderdeel van tien projecten van Frank Lloyd Wright.

In 1970 vond er een incident plaats, waarbij Jonathan P. Jackson drie zwarte gevangenen trachtte te bevrijden door de rechter op de zaak en vier andere personen te gijzelen. De gevangenen werden verdacht van de moord op een blanke cipier die kort daarvoor betrokken was bij de dood van drie zwarte mede-gevangenen. Toen Jackson en de gevangenen wilden vluchtten uit het Civic Center, brak er een vuurgevecht uit. Onder andere Jackson en de rechter overleden daarbij. Het incident kreeg grote media-aandacht en leidde tot een klopjacht op Angela Davis en de Black Panthers.

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Bouwwerk in Californië
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Boubacar Boris Diop, Basma Abdel Aziz and Abdellatif Laabi Longlisted for the 2017 Best Translated Book Prize
by Otosirieze Obi-Young
Thirty-five books have been named on the fiction and poetry longlists of the 2017 Best Translated Book Prize. On the 25-strong fiction list are Senegalese author Boubacar Baris Diop's novel Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks and Egyptian author Basma Abdel Aziz's novel The Queue, and on the 10-strong poetry list is Moroccan author Abdellatif Laabi's collection In Praise of Defeat.
Since 2008, the Best Translated Book Prize has honoured the finest original translation of a work of fiction or poetry into English. Given by the Three Percent magazine, the $5,000 prize money is donated by Amazon.
Diop's novel, the first ever to be translated from Wolof to English, is the story of a man who, after losing his son, finds himself in a desperate need to communicate to his grandson, whose whereabouts he is unaware of, through notebooks. Its translation from the Wolof was done by Vera Wulfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop. Below is its description on the Mookse and Gripes.
The first novel to be translated from Wolof to English, Doomi Golo: The Hidden Notebooks is a masterful work that conveys the story of Nguirane Faye and his attempts to communicate with his grandson before he dies. With a narrative structure that beautifully imitates the movements of a musical piece, Diop relates Faye's trauma of losing his only son, Assane Tall, which is compounded by his grandson Badou's migration to an unknown destination. While Faye feels certain that his grandson will return one day, he also is convinced that he will no longer be alive by then. Faye spends his days sitting under a mango tree in the courtyard of his home, reminiscing and observing his surroundings. He speaks to Badou through his seven notebooks, six of which are revealed to the reader, while the seventh, the "Book of Secrets," is highly confidential and reserved for Badou's eyes only. In the absence of letters from Badou, the notebooks form the only possible means of communication between the two, carrying within them tunes and repetitions that give this novel its unusual shape: loose and meandering on the one hand, coherent and tightly interwoven on the other. Translated by Vera Wülfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop.
Aziz's novel, set in an Egypt crippled by totalitarianism, follows a young man as he tries to obtain permission to treat himself from the mysterious government, as well as a doctor who must choose whether to flout orders and help people without the authorities' knowledge. It was translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette. From the Mookse and Gripes:
In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a centralized authority known as 'the Gate' has risen to power in the aftermath of the 'Disgraceful Events,' a failed popular uprising. Citizens are required to obtain permission from the Gate in order to take care of even the most basic of their daily affairs, yet the Gate never opens, and the queue in front of it grows longer.
Citizens from all walks of life mix and wait in the sun: a revolutionary journalist, a sheikh, a poor woman concerned for her daughter's health, and even the brother of a security officer killed in clashes with protestors. Among them is Yehia, a man who was shot during the Events and is waiting for permission from the Gate to remove a bullet that remains lodged in his pelvis. Yehia's health steadily declines, yet at every turn, officials refuse to assist him, actively denying the very existence of the bullet.
Ultimately it is Tarek, the principled doctor tending to Yehia's case, who must decide whether to follow protocol as he has always done, or to disobey the law and risk his career to operate on Yehia and save his life.
Written with dark, subtle humor, The Queue describes the sinister nature of authoritarianism, and illuminates the way that absolute authority manipulates information, mobilizes others in service to it, and fails to uphold the rights of even those faithful to it.
Abdellatif Laabi's In Praise of Defeat is his seventeenth poetry collection. As fiercely political as he is prolific, his work and activism earned him imprisonment and torture in the 1970s and '80s in Morocco.
Here is the full longlist.
The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz,
translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette (Egypt, Melville House).
The Young Bride by Alessandro Baricco, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (Italy, Europa Editions).
Wicked Weeds by Pedro Cabiya, translated from the Spanish by Jessica Powell (Dominican Republic, Mandel Vilar Press).
Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lúcio Cardoso, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson (Brazil, Open Letter Books).
On the Edge by Rafael Chirbes, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa (Spain, New Directions).
Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi, translated from the French by Je rey Zuckerman (Mauritius, Deep Vellum).
Zama by Antonio di Benedetto, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen (Argentina, New York Review Books).
A Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska, translated from the Macedonian by Christina Kramer (Macedonia, Two Lines Press).
Doomi Golo by Boubacar Boris Diop, translated from the Wolof by Vera Wülfing-Leckie and El Hadji Moustapha Diop (Senegal, Michigan State University Press).
Night Prayers by Santiago Gamboa, translated from the Spanish by Howard Curtis (Colombia, Europa Editions).
Angel of Oblivion by Maja Haderlap, translated from the German by Tess Lewis (Austria, Archipelago Books).
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans, translated from the Dutch by David McKay (Belgium, Pantheon).
Umami by Laia Jufresa, translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes (Mexico, Oneworld).
Last Wolf and Herman by László Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes and John Batki (Hungary, New Directions).
Oblivion by Sergei Lebedev, translated from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis (Russia, New Vessel Press).
Thus Bad Begins by Javier Marías, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa (Spain, Knopf).
In the Café of Lost Youth by Patrick Modiano, translated from the French by Chris Clarke (France, New York Review Books).
Ladivine by Marie NDiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump (France, Knopf).
Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldaña París, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (Mexico, Coffee House Press).
Moonstone by Sjón, translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb (Iceland, FSG).
Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky (Japan/Germany, New Directions).
Vampire in Love by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa (Spain, New Directions).
My Marriage by Jakob Wassermann, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann (Germany, New York Review Books).
Moshi Moshi by Banana Yoshimoto, translated from the Japanese by Asa Yoneda (Japan, Counterpoint Press).
Super Extra Grande by Yoss, translated from the Spanish by David Frye (Cuba, Restless Books).
Berlin-Hamlet by Szilárd Burbly, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet (Hungary, New York Review Books).
Of ings by Michael Donhauser, translated from the German by Nick Ho and Andrew Joron (Austria, Burning Deck Press).
Instructions Within by Ashraf Fayadh, translated from the Arabic by Mona Kareem, Mona Zaki, and Jonathan Wright (Palestine, Operating System).
Cheer Up, Femme Fatale by Yideum Kim, translated from the Korean by Ji Yoon Lee, Don Mee Choi, and Johannes Göransson (South Korea, Action Books).
In Praise of Defeat by Abdellatif Laâbi, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith (Morocco, Archipelago Books).
Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik, translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert (Argentina, New Directions).
The Thief of Talant by Pierre Reverdy, translated from the French by Ian Seed (France, Wake eld Press).
tasks by Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, translated from the Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen (Cuba, co-im-press).
Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska, translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk (Poland, Tavern Books).
Antígona González by Sara Uribe, translated from the Spanish by John Pluecker (Mexico, Les Figues Press).
Congratulations to Boubacar Baris Diop, Basma Abdel Aziz and Abdellatif Laabi.
The shortlists will be released on April 18, and the winners announced on May 4, 2017.
Read the full announcement on World Literature Today.
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非漂 [Fēi Piāo] April 2017 Newsbriefs – Bruce Humes March 01, 2020 06:36
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SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT TO PROBE IMPACT OF BREXIT ON CONSTRUCTION
The potential impact Brexit could have on Scotland's construction sector is to be investigated by a Holyrood committee.
The economy, energy and fair work committee inquiry will also consider the effect technological changes and automation will have on the industry - which employs more than 154,000 people, 7% of the Scottish workforce.
The construction sector recruits more apprentices than any other industry, with 6,104 people starting modern apprenticeships in 2017-18. But only 1% of this group were female, showing work is needed to boost gender balance.
Consultants have also suggested that productivity in the sector has flat-lined since 1994, in contrast to a 30% increase that has been seen across the economy as a whole.
Questions the committee would like to explore include:
How important is the construction sector in Scotland as an economic enabler?
What are the causes of the sector's productivity challenges?
What is the future economic outlook and implications of Brexit for the sector?
What are the sources of and barriers to accessing finance in the sector?
Do you have any suggestions on opportunities to enhance procurement practices across the sector?
What are your views on the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre?
How will technological changes (e.g. robotics, automation) impact the sector and how can Scotland take advantage of this change?
Committee convener Gordon Lindhurst said MSPs are keen to discover how challenges facing the building industry can be overcome.
He said: "Construction is a vital sector in Scotland as it drives and underpins the economy with its knock-on effect on other sectors. As well as being a major employer, the sector also delivers infrastructure for housing, transport, education and community, and contributes £21.5 billion to Scotland's gross domestic product. However, the sector has its challenges and we want to hear views and suggestions on how these can be overcome. We also want to find out how we can encourage young people to work in the industry."
The inquiry will also examine the role of the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre, which aims to help businesses "deliver transformational change in construction".


It's no secret that I am a huge fan of vintage clothing. I have pieces in my closet that my Nana wore 50 years ago. So while on vacation in Monterey, I couldn't resist spending an afternoon exploring the town's many vintage stores.
Seven stores and lots of shopping bags later, I can say it was a successful trip! My favorite finds range from a bright 70's inspired dress to a beaded cardigan from the 50's. While these may seem like two vastly different styles, they both seamlessly mix into my core wardrobe.
The key to wearing vintage is pairing it with modern pieces for a fresh look. It's easy to think that something sweet, like my beaded cardigan, should only be paired with a soft dress. Instead I added a little modern edge with a black lace body suit, cigarette pant and a sleek cape.
I keep the same rule of thumb for jewelry that I have for clothing. Layer newer pieces with your vintage ones to keep them feeling costume. It's a fun contrast and leaves lots of room to play and have fun.
Posted on April 19, 2017 by Kimberly Gant and tagged vintage Parker Free People Gap.


Built in the very beginning of the fifteenth century, this tower is named after the project manager, a Mr. Henri or Thierry.
Technically and esthetically, it is the most outstanding example of Swiss Medieval fortress architecture-a fifteenth-century Mario Botta building of sorts! It is a 31-meter-high, semicircular shell structure of perfect blockwork with loopholes of great interest. The lower part of the walls is 3 meters thick.


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The latest chapter of the pet Pokémon's Terrance, the text of the 996th chapter, the astronomy
Regent Chancellor Colonel Hansen's three elves are not strong enough, and the guards who came in have never had elves. In the face of Elite Four, one of Alliance's highest forces, they have little room for resistance.
After Colonel Hansen was frozen, he couldn't use his strength and let Togepi escape to Misty. In addition, the Togepi in the park returned to Princess Sara.
As the temperature plummeted, the garden was frozen into snow, and all the Ash people snorted and began to wonder why Terrance would be here.
"you are……Alliance Elite Four ? "
Togepi jumped back into his arms and made Princess Sara a little awakened. Some brains looked at the young man who was about the same age.
The Hoenn Alliance is an Alliance of Hoenn Region and even many other Regions. The independent small country like Mira is not qualified to be a senior in power. It does not have any say, in contrast, as the highest in Alliance. One of the fighting powers, the Elite Four, symbolized by the Alliance force, is definitely an unattainable figure for the Mira Ancestral Room.
"Compared to that, the princess still handles chores as soon as possible."
Terrance took back Ninetales and watched Colonel Hansen, who had been frozen and purple in the forward direction, with a horrified color.
Next, this culprit will certainly lose ground for attacking the Alliance Elite. His followers should be able to see the situation. To do this, if the Mira Ancestral Room can't rectify the kingdom by thunder, it is too inferior.
I…I understand
Princess Sara's face was a decisive color. Sorry to see Ash's group of people, I hurriedly started to carry Togepi out of the place.
"Terrance Big Brother, how come you are here."
After seeing Terrance, Ash and May were very surprised, but the little victory on the side was a little absent-minded. The father who worshipped in his heart was defeated by Terrance. Although it has been a long time, it is still unacceptable for Xiaosheng.
"I have something to do here, but you, how come here?"
"Not a Rocket!"Misty looked around, but the Rockets had long since ran away, and it really made her angry.
With this answer, Terrance smiled and didn't continue to ask. "As you can see, there is some confusion inside the Mirage Kingdom. There may be many changes involved. You should leave here as soon as possible."
"The Naplu Road Museum should be not far from here. I remember that the Fallarbor Conference is also going on, May are you going to attend?"
"That is of course."May said: "Don't look at me like this, the last time I was able to get the ribbon medal, I will definitely win the Fallarbor Conference this time, and I will also challenge the Fallabor Gym and get it. Fallarbor Badge !"
"And me, Fallabor Gym, I will also challenge."Ash is not far behind.
"In this case, I will wait for you at the Fallabor Gym."Terrance laughed.
At this time, Xiaosheng couldn't help but come out and said: "Terrance Big Brother, congratulations, become the Elite Four…"
"Small victory…"Terrance saw a small win and smiled. "Thank you."
As for Xiaosheng, after nodding, I don't know what I'm thinking, maybe I'm thinking about how to beat Terrance after my father's Retaliate, how to become a Trainer…
At the same time, when Terrance Help Ash and others left, Princess Sara quickly found a reliable person and explained things to the current king.
"Colonel Hansen, this bastard, I want to succumb to our Mirage Kingdom!"After the King of Mira heard the news, the first reaction was not to anger Encore Colonel Hansen, but to anger him not long eyes, dare to attack the Alliance Elite.
"Is that Elite particularly young? Is it the new Fairy Elite, Terrance? "
Colonel Hansen has been resentful. The king has a lot of thoughts, but this is a matter of the kingdom. It is not without a solution. But if Alliance Elite is held accountable for the attack on Mira, his king cannot escape responsibility. Mira's royal family may Disintegration, because Rival is completely and Colonel Hansen is not a heavyweight character.
"Father, don't worry, the person who calls himself Alliance Elite should have no plans to pursue responsibility…"Princess Sara explained quickly that this is not a solution.
If, in the Terrance of unauthorized access to Mirage Kingdom, the claim that Regent Chancellor Colonel Hansen only unknowingly expelled the intruder, the Mira royal family did not necessarily ignore it, but Terrance Was an unreasonable party, but Princess Sara knew that she could not explain it, nor could he let things move in that direction, and that the Mira Royal Family and Alliance Elite were not equally present at all, compared to Princess Sara, who believed that there would be a better way to deal with it, At the very least, let things be moving in a better direction.
"Father, can you handle this matter for me? I have contact with Terrance Elite and I can definitely solve this problem perfectly."
"But you go to the Alliance Elite. After I deal with Colonel Hansen, I will go to see the Alliance Elite with you."The ancestors of the Mira sigh sighed. If it was the Terrance Elite, then it would be better to let the peers like Princess Sara come into contact.
Then, within the Mirage Kingdom, there was a lot of people in the chaos, but the most disappointing thing for the king was that the home of Regent Chancellor Colonel Hansen turned out to be as clean as a housewife. When the soldiers arrived, it was almost everywhere. The dust is invisible.
"I want our Rockets to do things in the white, no doors!"On the roof, the Rockets trio looked at the soldiers who came in and out, and smiled. The valuable things in Colonel Hansen's family had been moved to a safe place. They were paid, and they didn't have to pay for it. So much effort to steal Misy's Togepi.
"Terrance Elite, Regent Chancellor Colonel Hansen has been involved in you, I am very sorry."
"Princess Sara is very kind."Terrance smiled slightly.
At this point, Princess Sara has verified that Terrance's Elite identity is true and more cautious.
"Terrance Elite came to Mirage Kingdom, but for the evolution of Togetic? Today Togetic has evolved successfully and is loved by all Togepi in Togepi Paradise. I think it should be the reason why Terrance Elite has restored Togepi to its original appearance. In fact, this event is not only good for Togepi, but also as a symbiosis with Togepi Paradise. Mirage Kingdom, the kingdom has also benefited a lot, Terrance Elite, please be sure to express my gratitude. "
After all, Princess Sara took a deep bow and didn't have the chance to explore Togepi with Terrance.


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There's joy in living with St. Nick
THE SECRET IS out. Although many people suspect it all through the year, they receive vivid confirmation in the days between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yes, it's true. I am married to the man who would be Santa Claus.
My husband is a very large man with a great belly, a lush white beard and rosy complexion. His eyebrows are going white and bushy. He has a rumbly, musical low laugh that causes people to take a second look at its source. Let's face it. It's typecasting.
For the last 25 years, my husband's greatest wardrobe concern has been for fuzzy red suits and black boots, white gloves and hats with pompoms on the end. His biggest appearance issues have been whether his hair is the right length, his beard is full enough and whether his hair is silver enough yet. He refuses a beard trim until after Christmas Day.
We have gone to great lengths to "whiten" him throughout the years. He started with felt beards, which were truly hideous, then graduated to curly, scraggly things on elastic bands that always seemed to reveal his own auburn beard beneath. Soon, he was using the spray-on white — until it gave him chemical pneumonia and he realized he couldn't tolerate the stuff anymore. For a while, he used peroxide, which gave him a flat white that I found horrifying. He bleached both his beard and his hair. I thought he most resembled a wild Santa returned from the dead. (And Mommy could kiss Santa Claus again!)
For many years, he rented suits and spats for his great role. After a while, it became apparent that he had to have his very own, custom-made suit. He had one made from a wine-colored velvet. He now has one, given to him by a friend who also is Santa Claus, that is a truer red, velvety and soft, rimmed in white which really shows the grime of hundreds of little hands, hugs and kisses.
At first, my husband was just Santa at our house. Two little wide-eyed boys suspended disbelief for several years. My younger boy once said, in a tone of awe, "Mommy, did you hear Santa? His voice sounds just like Daddy's." When they became old enough not to buy into the masquerade, they were enlisted as Santa's helpers. They wore red and green sweats, their own fur-trimmed caps, and bells on their tennis shoes. We rouged their cheeks and wrapped their torsos in ropes of silver or gold tinsel. That was fun for many years, until our older son hit middle school and his peers began to call him "Elf Boy."
Santa works alone now, or borrows my fifth-graders to serve as willing elves. I know he prefers not to work alone. I'm noticing him eyeing me, seeming to revel in my white-streaked hair and new granny glasses. Part of me worries that he will commission a seamstress to produce a fur-trimmed, long red dress for me. I'm not quite ready to do this yet. But we do talk often about what we could do together in retirement — 15 years or more down the road. Until then, he'll work solo.
I have always appreciated the innocence of children's belief in the jolly, old elf. But I delight even more in my husband's response. He is a happier, more energetic man at this time of year. He eyes shine when he tells me about the little ones who speak to him in Spanish (which he understands only dimly), the child who hugs him and says, "I love you, Santa!" who forgets to ask for anything, the teenage girl who sits in his lap and asks for her dad to come home safely, the people who want him to hold their beloved cat or dog.
This year, he cannot read aloud his beloved "Polar Express" due to his loss of sight, but he held the book to show the pictures as others kindly read the story. He leaves the reindeer home now, and my younger son or I drive him to his gigs.
One morning last week, for the second day in a row, I left my apartment with Santa in the car and all his paraphernalia. His sleigh bells were jingling merrily as we pulled away from the building. At that very moment, a woman came walking across the parking lot carrying her infant. I could see that she was pointing to Santa and talking to her child. We slowed to a stop beside them and I rolled down Santa's window. He spoke to her and she smiled, then we slowly pulled away. Several people waved to us from their cars and a couple of bus riders did as well.
When we got out of the car at school, several children at a nearby preschool were playing on the playground. "Santa! Hi, Santa!" they shrieked. My husband donned his cap and waved and waved. He finally let out a hearty, "Ho, ho, ho!" and the children shrieked some more. My mornings are never so friendly or sweet as when I am chauffeuring jolly, old Saint Nicholas.
After all these years, I'd have to say that I believe in Santa Claus.
Vicki Heisler is a fifth-grade teacher at Meeker Elementary School.


How can multifamily property managers tackle student turn?
As a multifamily property manager with communities near schools and universities, many of your leases revolve around the academic calendar. When schools release students for the year, it's the perfect time to evaluate how mobile inspection services can help minimize the effect of student turn.
On an episode of "Building Success: A Real Estate Podcast," Ben Chadwell and Ray Campbell from Happy Co. stopped by to discuss the time period between May and August when 70% of student housing turnovers occur. There are a lot of parties to manage in this process — relationships with residents, staff, vendors, and parents of residents are all in flux during this time. But if your processes are out of date or if you're caught unprepared, the student turn could be problematic for your multifamily properties.
According to Chadwell and Campbell, the best student housing communities are the ones that understand that while the student turn physically takes place in the summer months, the turn is a constant season.
The majority of inspections and maintenance repairs may take place during the turn, but the success of your multifamily properties shouldn't have to rest on the shoulders of these few months. The act of proactively inspecting and repairing units throughout the year makes the student turn far more manageable for multifamily property owners.
During the months of the student turn, hundreds of units will need to be inspected. What happens many times is that units that have not been proactively serviced may have unexpected property damage, malfunctioning equipment, and other damage recovery incidents. These issues lead to unforeseen move-in and move-out disputes, and at that point, residents and the parents of residents get involved. This creates more problems, especially if your processes for inspecting units and recording those results are out of date.
Adds an extra layer of communication between property level staff and leasing staff that often leads to errors.
Conducting inspections with a paper-based system exposes your processes to more errors, delays and inefficiencies that begin to pile up during the student turn. Staying on top of regular maintenance may take some of the pressure off, but if you're relying on paper, things are still going to go wrong. You need a comprehensive solution to truly master the turn.
Mobile inspection services aren't just crucial to helping you get through the student turn – they're vital to ensuring your success as a multifamily property manager.
By utilizing this type of process – one that can be taken on-the-go, uploaded to a central database, and still works offline – you can drive compliance higher and realize time savings.
Mobile inspections help you collect rock-solid documentation of apartment conditions at both move-in and move-out so that the number of resident disputes is reduced and your team will be able to effectively resolve those disputes quickly when they do arise. Implementing mobile inspection software with easy form customization capabilities can help streamline the inspection process while providing more helpful details at the same time.
With mobile inspection tools, you can also utilize forecasting analytics to track property progress between portfolios and benchmarks. These tools are designed to maximize the control you have over your multifamily properties by bringing them under one platform, centralizing the core processes of multifamily property management and making it easier to master the student turn than ever before.
The most successful multifamily property managers understand that while the student turn may only last a few months, the season itself is never truly over, and proactive maintenance aided by mobile inspection services can make all the difference. To learn more about the student turn and how your multifamily property can prepare, check out episode six of "Building Success: A Real Estate Podcast" and download Happy Co.'s 7 Essential Strategies to Nail the Perfect Student Turn.


What if we could see depression?
Would we still doubt its existence?
Would we still think that it's a sign of weakness?
Would we still believe that it's "just a bad day"?
Would we still assume that it's a cry for attention?
Would we still fear others' opinions of ourselves?
Would we still be too nervous to ask for help?
Would we lend a hand to those in need?
Would we find the courage to fight and keep going?
Would we finally understand that we are not alone?
A very special thanks to Alessandra Ortiz for these beautiful photo submissions. You can find more of Alessandra's work on her blog and Instagram. You can also read her previous submissions to Dear Hope, such as her piece, "Morning Routine" here, and her latest poem, "Her" here.
Want to submit to Dear Hope and share your story, art, or article related to mental health? Email wemustbebroken@gmail.com.
go back some steps and paint the rest the colors they were meant to be.
absent sounds without answers, potential apart metamorphosis.
splitting monochrome apart of the omniscient wind.
and they never learned anything.
aggressive how I wanted to make it shine.
thousands of glass shards unlocking doors.
incomplete sets of glass menagerie fog when I fall asleep.
shuffling the shutter, parallel to the stress it put me under.
IT ALL COULD HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT.
knowing what I will never be.
or dreams of what the world should be?
constantly hammering away against our wars with self-abandonment?
This piece is a collaboration between Zachary Johnson and Danny Kochanowski.


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Australian Open - Round 1 Recap
Four birdies were matched with four bogeys as Brooke Henderson posted an even round of 72 to be the best placed Canadian after the first day of the ISPS Handa Australian Women's Open.
South Korean golfers Jin Young Ko, and Jiyai Shin are on top of the leaderboard after brilliant opening rounds at the picturesque Kooyonga Golf Club in Adelaide, South Australia.
They are just in front of 10 players on -4 and a further 10 on -3 in a tightly bunched field.
Playing in the afternoon, Shin opened her tournament with a birdie on the first hole on her way to a bogey free 67 while fired nine birdies and two bogies to take the lead with a 7-under 65.
Henderson played in the morning and failed to take advantage of the calm conditions and perfect 21C temperature.
"I didn't play that great today, which is kind of unfortunate, but I feel like I did some really good things so I can definitely work on that for hopefully the next three days," the World No.14 said after her round.
"I've just got to hit a few putts because that's where things let me down a little bit today.
"I thought we had a really good plan for this golf course but a couple of mis-hit shots put me in the wrong position and a couple of putts that didn't fall my way but hopefully I'll fix that tomorrow.
There two other Canadians in the field Alena Sharp (74) and Anne-Catherine Tanguay (76) will have to play well tomorrow to make the cut.
South Korea's Sun Young Yoo and former World No.1 Lydia Ko were among the players to shoot 4-under while Americans Megan Khang and Erynne Lee are a further shot back on 3-under.
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The daily battle trauma survivors are engaged in is many times completely not understood by people who have not been traumatized.
The thing is, this lack of understanding makes total sense.
It would be natural, without the proper training, for a non-traumatized person to assume that all the reactions that a traumatized person is having are self-generated (unrelated to anyone else in their past or present). Because, if the non-traumatized person who is evaluating the traumatized person were to demonstrate that same behavior, due to the fact that there is no trauma physiology generating it inside of them, it would have to be self-generated by particular, skewed, ways of thinking and distorted ways of perceiving reality.
If the non-traumatized person who is evaluating the traumatized person were to demonstrate that same behavior, due to the fact that there is no trauma physiology generating it, it would have to be self-generated by particular, skewed, ways of thinking and distorted ways of perceiving reality.
And it would be natural for that non-traumatized person to, by extension, assume that the actual traumatic events also resulted from similar mental defects, like negative thoughts and negative perceptions. Because it's clear the person has WAY more mental defects and skewed and distorted ways of seeing reality than they do.
But this is far from the truth for trauma survivors.
The negative things a survivor experienced were not their own creation, did not originate in their minds, and are not fantasies or illusions. They were absolutely real. The negative things they experienced were horrific and painful, and in many cases, repeated daily over the course of years, leaving deep scars, marks and cracks throughout their psyche.
For example, some women are groped, sexually coerced, sexually manipulated, and raped frequently for many years. And some people are yelled at and physically threatened on a weekly basis for years. There are children who are beat for their entire childhood. And numerous combat veterans lived under threat of death for months at a time.
These people naturally will come to watch for "evil" in their environment and in the world as that is what they were subjected to, against their will. They will naturally be more "negative" and have more "negativity" in the way they think about the world.
There are four messages I've gotten a lot when I tell New Age /spiritual people that I write about PTSD.
You create your own reality, so you shouldn't do that.
You should not be writing or thinking about something so negative or else you will draw negative things into my life.
You should not maintain victim consciousness.
And you should not stay dwelling in the past.
But these don't make a lot of sense.
Nobody creates their own reality.
This is completely impossible because we are all interacting with each other.
People who desire power like to believe things like this, but we have limited power as we are all linked together within many systems, created by other people. We can't, by the way we think, change everything that others do around us, and everything they create around us. We are a participant in a large interconnected ever-changing weaving of the intentions, motives, and acts of every human being on the planet at this time. This web creates many true, real limitations on us.
And many of those real, other people in the world cause trauma to others in many different ways from small to large. People bear the responsibility for the harm their behavior causes others. They are responsible for their acts. And we are responsible for ours. But we are not responsible for their acts.
It is magical thinking to think we create our own reality. We can focus on certain goals within what is being created around us, and link with certain people. We can direct the focus of our minds. But we still must handle all real limitations and obstacles in these human systems as we go forward.
After a trauma happens, it can spiral downwards into more and more trauma. The trauma-based reality can create a number of feedback loops and downward spirals so it seems like we are attracting negative events. These negative things that happen after trauma further reinforce a negative take on reality. But all of this is also not really the fault of the trauma survivor. Technically, they are the fault of the perpetrator, because it was the perpetrator's acts that set the whole thing off in the beginning.
Negative Thoughts, Feelings and Perceptions –> bad things happening.
But there is no proof that this is the case. This is not logical.
And in fact, it could be dangerous to avoid negative thoughts because you erroneously believe they will cause something negative to happen.
Negative Thinking could actually prevent future trauma.
In terms of thinking negative thoughts drawing negative things to oneself, the exact reverse is true. If I had been more skeptical and thought about negative potential consequences more, I may not have PTSD today.
Before the huge traumas, (I always had CPTSD but this is just for the life-threatening traumas resulting in PSTD), I was thinking positively, trusting doctors to be good people, thinking they want what's best for me, that they are well trained, intelligent. All that was false. The truth was they were ignorant, not trustworthy, motivated by profit, not trained at all in what they were administering, and pretty stupid and careless. It would have done me a great service if I had had all those negative thoughts about what negative ways people can be and what negative things could happen, and done a huge amount of due diligence, based on being skeptical and the devil's advocate for myself. If I had done that I may have had an entirely different life.
So it's irresponsible to tell people to avoid thinking negative thoughts when negative thoughts could prevent a lifetime of pain and suffering.
In terms of victim consciousness, this is kind of the same thing. I was a victim but this does not infer that I am bad in any way; this is simply a fact of what happened. If I understand the facts thoroughly around how this came to pass, I will better be able to protect myself in the future from people with negative intentions.
And there are people with negative intentions everywhere; to ignore this fact is to be willfully ignorant.
Believing you are a victim = being smart and empowered.
Being aware of how you have been a victim and could be a victim again makes you better able to protect yourself in the world.
Victim consciousness is a state of awareness not a state of weakness if you believe victims are strong and not at fault for their victimization.
And regarding the admonition around staying stuck in the past, the fact is, it's important to honor your own timing.
It's necessary to go into the past in order to heal it and then be able to go forth into the future in a more whole, intact, confident way.
Nobody has the right to tell another person when they should stop working with things in their past because this is a completely personal thing.


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Fox News anchor Shep Smith duked it out with colleague Chris Wallace on Friday over whether or not President Donald Trump's rhetoric is partly responsible for the targeting of his political opponents and critics by the MAGA bomber.
Earlier in the day, Florida Trump fan Cesar Sayoc was arrested after nearly a week long domestic terrorism spree in which he sent bombs to several of Trump's perceived "enemies," including former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, former Vice-President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Attorney General Eric Holder, former CIA Director John Brennan, Senators Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) actor Robert DeNiro, CNN headquarters, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
The assassination attempts shined a light on Trump's violent rhetoric, which Smith argued is partially responsible for the radicalization of Sayoc.
"You just can't ignore the politics of this, even if you wanted to," Smith said. "These are people the president has gone after rhetorically. These are people this guy targeted. It goes to the tone and tenor of the political discourse and the words that the president uses in his rallies."
Indeed, it's not a coincidence that Sayoc's targets are also those whom Trump has repeatedly attacked at rallies and on Twitter.
"I don't think you can draw any particular link or any responsibility on the part of the president for this action," Wallace responded, going on to say that Trump is not responsible because Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) is not responsible for the shooter who targeted GOP lawmakers at the Congressional baseball game last year.
But that's an absurd comparison, and Smith rejected it. Sanders never accused Republican lawmakers of being enemies of the nation, nor has he spewed violent rhetoric.
"Nobody is saying he's responsible," Smith said. "The rhetorical discourse has devolved over time and the president says we need to unify. Some of that begins with the rhetoric, does it not?"
He's not wrong, but Wallace continued his effort to distance Trump from the bomber.
"It would certainly be good, but I think it's separate and apart from the actions of this guy," he said. "This is a twisted person. I think that it's really incorrect to hold the president either by implication or directly responsible in any way for the misdeeds of a person that is a psychopath."
Yeah, a twisted person who covered his van with pro-Trump stickers and often attended rallies to hear Trump speak. He even had stickers with images of Hillary Clinton as a target.
In the end, Smith and Wallace agreed to disagree, with Smith leaving it to history to decide who is right.
"History will decide what the rhetoric has done in this society," he concluded.
Here's the video via YouTube.
But Smith is most definitely correct. Trump's violent rhetoric is inciting violence against Democrats and his critics. Again, every person Sayoc sent a bomb to has been viciously attacked by Trump and treated like an enemy of the state by him. It's not a stretch to say that Trump is partly responsible for Sayoc's actions. Without such rhetoric, Sayoc may not have been sent over the edge.
Trump is riling up his supporters into a violent frenzy and it's only going to get worse if people like Wallace continue to let Trump off the hook.
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Home	Analysis	Can't Stick the Landing: Why the Third Film in a Trilogy is (Almost) Always the Worst
Can't Stick the Landing: Why the Third Film in a Trilogy is (Almost) Always the Worst
by Collin Willis September 14, 2018
written by Collin Willis September 14, 2018
Why is the third film in a trilogy almost always the worst? Spider-Man 3, Return of the Jedi, The Godfather Part III, X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: the Last Stand, the list could go on and on. For some reason, the third film often fails to stick the landing. This isn't always the case, and several films break this pattern. Return of the King, Logan, and Toy Story 3 are all fine examples of third acts that exceed their predecessors. But, why is this still frequently the case?
Problems with the Ending
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In this writer's opinion, there are three key trends that cause the third act to fall flat. Sometimes there is more story to tell than there is a movie to tell it. Sometimes the studio gets antsy and tries to "fix" things. Other times there just isn't enough story left to tell. Sequels that can't stick the landing are often made more for money than it is for story. In order to better understand these causes, let's look at three popular trilogy clinchers that fell short of their predecessors.
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
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The final act in George Lucas' world-changing original trilogy is misremembered and romanticized. With the box office bomb of Solo, backlash to The Last Jedi, and nightmarish disappointment with the prequels, it's easy to forget just how "good" or "bad" Return of the Jedi is. Don't get me wrong, I love all Star Wars movies, even the bad ones; and unfortunately Episode VI is one of the bad ones. For the sake of this article, try to examine it only in the context of the Original Trilogy.
1977: Star Wars explodes onto the scene and literally takes over the entire planet. 1980: The Empire Strikes Back destroys all notions of what a sequel and a blockbuster can be. 1983. Unlike its predecessors, Return of the Jedi breaks no new ground and just can't stick the landing. This isn't to say that the film is bad. However, it is bad in comparison to the cinematic game changers that came before it.
Too Much to Tell
Return of the Jedi simply struggles from having too much story to tell in the Skywalker saga. Han Solo has to be rescued from Jabba the Hutt, Luke has to complete his training, Darth Vader has to be confronted, and the Empire/Emperor has to be defeated. Roughly the first forty-five minutes of the film are spent establishing Jabba the Hutt, establishing his domain, and rescuing Han. The entire arc of the Emperor, the downfall of the Empire, and Luke's intertwined end with Darth Vader are all crammed into the remaining ninety(ish) minutes.
Behind the scenes, Return of the Jedi suffers from too much of a return to form. Upon initial release, The Empire Strikes Back was not received with the highest regards. It failed to earn as much money as its predecessor and many fans criticized it for its dark tone and diverging branches of story. Many claimed that "nothing happened" as the story became more basic and less goal-oriented than A New Hope. In other words, the original has the end goal of the Death Star, while Empire just has an end goal of escape from the Empire. (Remind you of any recent Star Wars movies?).
George Lucas decided to react to this reception and, as a result, the tone, plot, and style of Return of the Jedi were shifted to be more in line with the original. The end result was an overly cheesy happy ending, ewoks, and a second Death Star. With too many loose ends to tie up, Episode VI just doesn't stick the landing.
Still, it is Star Wars, so it's fine in my book.
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Spider-Man 2 is my favorite movie of all time, so this one stings. Spider-Man 3 could have been Director Sam Raimi's Magnum Opus, instead, it was the beginning of a nearly ten year stretch of Sony-led Spider-Man movies. I am aware that Sony has produced every Spider-Man film, but their involvement isn't heavily felt until Spider-Man 3 and the failed reboot Amazing Spider-Man films.
The Humble Beginnings of Spider-Man 3
Much like The Empire Strikes Back, Spider-Man 2 failed to gross as much as its predecessor. Unlike Empire, Spider-Man 2 received greater critical praise and audience reception. Nonetheless, it did not bring in nearly as much money as Sony hoped it would. So, Sony, particularly producer Avi Arad, decided to micromanage the next Spider-Man film and give the fans what the studio thought they wanted. They saw Sam Raimi's plans for Harry's vengeful arc as the New Goblin and the grounded and emotional Sandman and said, "Hey, your movie has Venom in it now."* Sam Raimi was not thrilled and fought the studio on this for some time. Eventually, the director caved and made plans for a New Goblin and Venom movie.
Instead of allowing Raimi to rework the story so that it wouldn't be cluttered, cheesy, and forced, the studio said "No, we want Sandman, Venom, and the New Goblin."* If they had seen Batman and Robin ten years prior, Sony would have known that three villains can't share a movie or else that movie will be a disaster. Nevertheless, Sony meddled, Raimi phoned it in in protest, and we were delivered a sequel more deserving of the DCEU than the nearly perfect Spider-Man duo-logy that proceeded it. Spider-Man 3 doesn't just fail to stick the landing, it doesn't even manage to hit the pool it's jumping into. Instead it splatters all over the concrete, where Sony quietly sweeps it into the gutter.
A Note on Sony
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Sony is my least favorite studio. More frequently than any other studio, I see them meddle too much in their films and produce utter garbage. The pre-MCU Spider-Man franchises are a perfect example. The Ghostbusters reboot is another great example. Venom is probably going to be another example in this line of Studio meddling gone wrong.
Sony really wants to be Disney. Hell, every studio wants to be Disney right now. Why? Because Disney is the only studio really capable of maintaining franchises and universes at the moment. The DCEU, the Universal Monsterverse, The Extended Spider-Verse… The list of failed and/or failing shared universes is astounding right now. Sony just happens to screw this up more often than most. Film after film, Sony tries to force in "what audiences want" and artists are hindered from fully realizing their vision in the process.
Sony doesn't just fail to stick the landing, they can't even stick the takeoff.
*Paraphrased
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There are no great Jurassic Park sequels. There is a solid knockoff, Jurassic World, and an entertaining run-away-from-dino's sequel, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. However, all Jurassic Park films are lackluster in comparison to the original. The worst of these is Jurassic Park III.
There really isn't much to say about Jurassic Park III, because the movie doesn't have a lot to say either. Much like Fallen Kingdom it is a generic run-away-from-dinosaurs movie, that falls rather flat in terms of substance. The problem with this doesn't necessarily lie with the movie itself, but with the subject matter. Jurassic Park as a franchise struggles because it is restrained by its premise. Scientific experimentation gone wrong, the vanity of achievement, and the value of progress are themes explored in the original, and in The Lost World, and again in Jurassic Park III, and again in Jurassic World, and again in Fallen Kingdom.
Jurassic Park III fails because the franchise keeps beating a dead horse (itself). The problem is; you can beat a dead horse all you want, but it won't go any further. Sometimes the story is already wrapped up, and a sequel is just made for more profits and merchandising potential. This is the case with Jurassic Park III. By this point in the franchise, the characters are all very certain that bringing back dinosaurs is a terrible idea. The T-Rex isn't scary anymore. The chases aren't as tense and exciting, and the velociraptors have been reduced to an almost comical level. The characters seem almost as bored as the audience, and the same thematic questions are answered less provocatively for the third time.
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The third film isn't always the worst film in a trilogy, but more often than not, it is. There are three main causes that almost always apply to these films that can't stick the landing.
Too Much Story Left to Tell
There may be too many loose ends left to tie up. Two hours (or one film) might not be enough time to finish the character arcs and chains of events. Examples of this are Return of the Jedi, X-Men: Apocalypse, and The Dark Knight Rises.
Those Meddling Studios and Their Dumb Dogs
The studio gets involved because they want to make more money. Studio demands get in the way of the story in progress and the movie fails to stick the landing almost completely. This happens more frequently with superhero movies than other franchises. Examples of this are Spider-Man 3, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Batman Forever.
All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go
Other times, there simply isn't any more story to tell. However, there is more money to be made and a sequel is churned out as a result. Examples of this are Jurassic Park III, The Godfather Part III, and Jaws III.
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girleccentric September 18, 2018 - 12:29 am
And the fifty shades series too.
I think the first in the series was the best.
I love your posts… Insightful and analytical.
rollthereel601 September 16, 2018 - 1:44 pm
Dark Knight Rises was a great exception too, as well as Return of the King
pajamapopcorn September 14, 2018 - 11:45 am
Agree with all of it. Also, am I the only one wondering why they made a sequel to Jumanji? It was great the way it was. No diss to The Rock because he's awesome, but the movie wasn't good.
Anna (apeaceoflife) September 14, 2018 - 10:08 am
I like exceptions to rules: toy story? Back to the Future? Star Wars? If I'm pushing it…Die Hard? 3 isn't the worst, but not the best either. Incidentally, the first Die Hard is 30 this year and they're doing showings in London Cinemas in December 🙂
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This one will weed out any spoofers. You need someone who can plan long term and will see projects through, rather than take the easy route, do things which take little effort and assume nobody notices. If they have a blog with 200+ posts, they understand what a long-term content strategy is, because they have had to learn it. If they posted twice in the last 6 months, things have gone badly wrong. If they discuss why and give reasons which show that they have analysed the situation intelligently, fair enough. But if they have never had their own site/blog, it is more difficult to verify these things.
Most content managers will need to sell with ever word they write. This is the primary purpose of most commercial sites, whatever it is they are selling. Many will need to sell your company when talking to potential partners. They must know what the user wants the most and then give it to them. They must know how to close with users and must be able to use effective calls to action.
Today many content jobs are content/marketing jobs. This is only a good idea if there isn't a budget for two roles. Ideally, content will always be a standalone job and will not merely be part of somebody's duties. Nevertheless, even if the two jobs are separate, there will need to be a lot of communication between both employees. Both will need to know in detail what the other person's job entails. They need to know what the other is doing at any given time in order to work in tandem.
So you need a content manager. The first thing you need to decide is whether you need a content manager or do you need a data entry worker. If your immediate response to that is 'what's the difference', then you probably have problems ahead.
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