Long time poster here in Boston but wanted to send you fine folks my band Parks' two tunes.
We're releasing a 7" vinyl single this Saturday actually at Brighton Music Hall (Boston).
Kinda Vampire Weekend/Spoon-ish but catchier!


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Q: Issue using new image added to ImageList in TreeView VBA I am having trouble using a new image that I put in my image list programatically. All old images work fine. The new image I am trying to use in my TreeView is Comment.bmp.
Public Sub loadImageList()

il_ForTreeview.ListImages.Clear

il_ForTreeview.ImageHeight = sldr_treeSize.Value
il_ForTreeview.ImageWidth = sldr_treeSize.Value

    With il_ForTreeview.ListImages
       .Add , "IntermediateEvent", LoadPicture(Application.CurrentProject.Path & "\icons\IntermediateEvent.bmp")
       .Add , "Outcome", LoadPicture(Application.CurrentProject.Path & "\icons\Outcome.bmp")
       .Add , "EndState", LoadPicture(Application.CurrentProject.Path & "\icons\EndState.bmp")
       .Add , "Comment", LoadPicture(Application.CurrentProject.Path & "\icons\Comment.bmp")
   End With

End Sub

Now whenever a node has an ID_Type of 2 it should have its image set to the Comment.bmp.
Private Sub addChildren(tv As TreeView, nodParent As Node, rsReqs As DAO.Recordset, lngParentID As Long)
   ...
      Set nodX = tv.Nodes.Add(nodParent, tvwChild, genReqNodeID(rsReqs!PK_Main), Left(rsReqs!mem_Req, 200))
      Select Case rsReqs!ID_Types
         Case 1 'Head
            nodX.Image = "Head"
         Case 2 'Comment
            nodX.Image = "Comment"
         Case 3 'IntermediateEvent
            nodX.Image = "IntermediateEvent"
         Case 4 'EndState
            nodX.Image = "EndState"
      End Select
      ...
   Loop
End Sub

And I definitely have the Comment.bmp file in my icons folder. The problem seems to be that the program doesn't recognize the name of the new image because if I change the new file to be named one of the others like "EndState" the image loads in fine. Is microsoft access cacheing the old image list??
The error i get is
frm_Phases Form_Current 35601 Element not found

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Astrid Jóhanna Andreasen (* 31. Juli 1948 in Vestmanna) ist eine färöische Künstlerin, Briefmarkengestalterin und wissenschaftliche Illustratorin.

Andreasen wuchs in Vestmanna auf, ihr Vater Andreas Andreasen (1906–1974) war Lehrer, ihre Mutter Daniella Andreasen Hausfrau. Andreasen fing schon früh mit der Kunst an, indem sie die Gedichtbände ihres Vaters illustrierte. 1968 bis 1970 ging sie im dänischen Kerteminde auf die Handwerksschule mit der Absicht, Lehrerin für Stickerei zu werden. 1974 machte sie eine Ausbildung zur Ergotherapie an der Beskæftigelsesvejlederskolen in Hellerup. In den 1970er Jahren arbeitete sie als Therapeutin im Nationalkrankenhaus in Tórshavn, wo sie geistig Behinderten beibrachte, sich mit Stickerei, Malerei und anderen Kunstformen auszudrücken. Ab 1984 bis 1986 lernte sie auf der Kunstakademie in Aarhus Zeichnen und bildliche Weberei und 1990 bis 1991 auf der Gerlesborg-Kunsthochschule (Gerlesborgsskolan) sowie in der Marinebiologiestation auf Tjärnö (Schweden) wissenschaftliche Illustration mit dem Schwerpunkt Meerestiere.

Astrid Andreasen arbeitete von 1999 bis 2016 als wissenschaftliche Illustratorin für das Historische Museum der Färöer. Als Künstlerin ist sie vor allem für ihre Textilkunst bekannt, die auch in der Sammlung des Kunstmuseums der Färöer vertreten ist. Zusammen mit ihrer Tochter Katrin (* 1971) erschuf Andreasen 2005 das Altarbild der Kirche von Vestmanna, einen Lebensbaum aus Holz und Metall. Unter den Sammlern der Briefmarken des Postverk Føroya ist Andreasen international bekannt.

2018 wurde Andreasen mit der mit 75.000 Kronen dotierten Ehrengabe des Landes ausgezeichnet. Andreasen lebt mit ihrem Ehemann in Tórshavn.

Literatur

Weblinks

 Astrid Andreasens Seite auf mynd.fo
 Green Renaissance: Itchy Fingers, Video über Astrid Andreasen, 2019, youtube.com
 Astrid Andreasen: Robbenbaby Halichoerus grypus, Motivarbeitsgemeinschaft Allgemeine Zoologie e.V., 2020
 Wissenschaftlicher Artikel von Dorete Bloch mit Zeichnungen von Astrid Andreasen, Frødi, 2004
  (Kurzbiografie auf Färöisch)
  (Kurzbiografie auf Englisch, mit Fotos)

Einzelnachweise

Kunststicker
Briefmarkenkünstler (Dänemark)
Grafiker (Färöer)
Färinger
Geboren 1948
Frau

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AC/DC? - Time to switch the UK's power distribution from AC over to DC
By Geoff Harvey
AC/DC? - A much needed shock to the system
It is the future. It is inevitable. So why not now? There will never be a more propitious time to start switching the UK's power distribution from AC over to DC. According the Committee on Climate Change, we will need a quadrupling of our electrical supply capacity to support electrification of heat and transport. The huge investment in new power distribution infrastructure is a once in a hundred-year opportunity to replace our anachronistic AC power distribution with something much better and truly modern: a DC power distribution system. Moreover, the timing is perfect to lobby for the Government's Ox-Cam Arc national infrastructure project [1] to be built as the UK's (and possibly the World's) first major DC power zone.
Working with the Green Lib Dems, I hope we can develop a policy motion for the Lib Dem Spring Conference, urging UK investment in the technology and for the Ox-Cam Arc national infrastructure project to be a trailblazing DC zone. It is hoped that a bill can then be introduced to Parliament and can gain cross party support, as has the Local Electricity Bill.
It is an irony and an anachronism that our AC (alternating current) grid power distribution, first championed by Nicola Tesla over 130 years ago is completely unsuited to the job of charging Elon Musk's eponymous Tesla motor car! To charge the powerful DC (direct current) batteries of an EV, the AC power from the grid must first be rectified, a process that converts the 100 times a second huffing and puffing of AC power into the strong steady flow of DC, which is what batteries crave. The conversion process adds additional expense and turns some of the precious electrical energy into heat.
As time goes on, transmitting power via AC becomes more and more incongruous, since more and more power is both generated and consumed as DC. Photovoltaics generate DC power directly. Most domestic appliances are now DC internally and can easily be made AC/DC agnostic. The IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) estimate unnecessary losses in converting to AC and back to DC as being up to 13% or total generation capacity. DC transmission is already used for long distance links (e.g. the +/- 515kV Norway-UK Interconnector) because DC power transmission, as an engineering fact, is inherently much lower loss. The IEC have been working on the new international standards that will support a new world that is DC [2]. In South Korea, a DC village has already been built as a technology pilot and now a small island is to made DC only. [3]
As a nation, we must leverage the huge investment that will be needed to upgrade the power networks to provide the fourfold increase in power predicted to be needed. It would be a missed opportunity to invest in more AC infrastructure when DC is quite clearly the future. By establishing the UK as a leader, not a follower, DC switchover can be part of the Green Recovery and an export opportunity.
Seizing an opportunity for change
Ideally, an entirely new housing and industrial development would be built as a pilot to eclipse the South Korean example in scale. The timing of the Government's Ox-Cam Arc national infrastructure initiative could not be better. Green LibDems should campaign to gather Party and local political support and to argue for the Government's Ox-Cam sustainable economic arc to be built as the UK's first DC zone - an initiative which might be called Ox-Cam Spark! Such an initiative could not fit better with the stated vision and aims proclaimed for the Arc. This is what a press release stated earlier this month, with the launch of the Ox-Cam Arc prospectus: -
Jeremy Long, Chair of the Arc Local Enterprise Partnerships Group, said: "Our vision is for the Arc to be a global hub for innovation, and home to exemplary models of green development that will inspire communities around the world. The Arc's place is at the forefront of the UK's green recovery and this will be made possible through bold leadership that focuses on the big opportunities. The Arc's world-leading innovation across multiple sectors can deliver prosperity for the UK. We now need the commitment from Government and international investors to make the ambition a reality."
The first step in this initiative could be to co-build a super-grid level HVDC clean energy spine by laying a high voltage DC cable alongside the forthcoming East-West Rail link. EWR is proposed to extend along the Arc and then to Norwich, but the cable at least, would continue to the North Sea coast to link up with new offshore wind capacity.
There are many technology synergies available combining a DC spine with East-West rail. One of them is that locos create huge power surges on acceleration/deceleration, so that this argues strongly for track-side battery storage. Batteries are also needed for e-bus and EV charging so batteries support a coherent and integrated clean transport infrastructure. Furthermore, the new railway is correctly orientated to have solar PV along its entire length. The special planning status of the Arc may allow onshore wind outside of and in advance of current NPPF restrictions.
So far, little work has been done on the energy infrastructure of the Arc, so an opportunity exists to make a truly visionary proposal. The HVDC spine will be significant enabler for the many grid connected clean energy assets that will be needed to meet 2050 net zero and give UK a technology foothold in an emerging market. As a second phase, LVDC (Low Voltage DC) expertise and hardware will be developed for last mile distribution into the home. I believe that HVDC and LVDC are technology areas that play very much to the strengths of the existing Ox-MK-Cam industries and universities and can be part of the Green Recovery.
There is also a developing countries and emerging economies aspect to this - the DC microgrids which are springing up in off-grid parts of the world will almost certainly be the seeds for future coalesced wide area DC power distribution in emerging economies. Since they have no AC legacy infrastructure, developing areas can entirely skip any involvement with AC and go straight for DC distribution. Therefore, the engineering expertise to connect and operate wide area DC distribution is a potential export opportunity for the UK.
Technical and engineering benefits and challenges
When we talk about 240 Volts AC, we actually mean a sine wave with a peak of 339V, which is the amplitude needed to have the same heating effect as 240V DC when hooked up to a simple load like an electric heater. A disadvantage of AC is that e.g. for 50Hz, power is transmitted in 100 pulses of it per second. Just like pushing water through a hose pipe, it is much more efficient to create a steady flow than to push a series of rapid pulses. Cables need to be designed to withstand a specified maximum voltage before the insulation breaks down. A cable that can withstand the 339V peaks of 240Volts AC would transmit exactly twice the power if fed with 339V DC. This simple fact alone would lead to significant reduction in the cost of power transmission cables and pylons, obviously. But it turns out there are other losses that occur with AC which are either absent or at a lower level with DC. Firstly, there is something called the skin effect. As a consequence of mutual inductive coupling of the filaments of current within a cable, the current flows preferentially near the surface of a conductor with AC, so the current carrying capacity of the inner cross-section is wasted. For 50Hz, roughly only the outer 9mm of a copper conductor carries significant current. For DC, the whole cable gets used equally. Corona loss, the slight glowing and crackling around high voltage lines is also higher for AC overhead lines. The combination of these factors means that if we were designing our national grid now, from scratch, we'd almost certainly use DC [4]
The main reason we use AC for power transmission is that, historically it made it easy to increase and decrease voltage using a piece of technology known to 19th century engineers, called a transformer. The losses in power transmission are lower, the higher the voltage that is used, because the current can then be lower for a given amount of power. Indeed, doubling the transmission voltage from 100kV to 200kV results in a fourfold reduction in resistive losses. These days we have advanced high voltage transistors that can be used with very much smaller magnetic components to step-up and step-down DC voltage, allowing us to have our cake and eat it. Moreover, where transformers can only step up or down in a fixed ratio, DC to DC converters can adapt that ratio on the fly. Many parts of the UK are now 'constrained' no-go areas for any further clean generation, because when power flows the 'wrong way' from consumers who now are generators, it upsets all the careful tweaks and adjustments, and makes it impossible for DNO's (Distribution Network Operators) to maintain voltage within their legally contracted limits. So, DC distribution is almost a prerequisite for flexible wide area clean energy networks.
Now that so much of our clean energy generation and consumption is inherently DC, there are benefits for cost and reliability when we switch to DC distribution and avoid ever having to go via AC-DC or DC-AC conversion. Because AC transmits power in pulses and DC, smoothly, internal energy storage is required whenever you convert from one to another. This means normally, a bank of capacitors to store excess energy from the AC peak and then use it to fill in the trough. Even so, in Cambridge recently, the City Council was refused permission by the DSO (Distribution Service Operator) to install EV chargers, because the AC-DC converters were causing too much harmonic distortion; a concern that would not arise within a DC system. And capacitors are not only expensive, they are also not on the steep downward price trajectory of semi-conductors and importantly are the least reliable of all electronic components you would find in an inverter. DC to DC conversion (to step up or down in voltage) can run at switching speeds 1000x higher or more, compared to 50Hz and therefore can use smaller, cheaper, more reliable capacitors. In terms of active devices, the simplest DC to AC inverter requires 6 to 8 transistors, whereas a simple DC-DC step-down converter requires one or two transistors and is increasingly, smaller, lighter, cheaper and uses much less copper and iron, compared to a transformer.
There are some safety concerns which differ between AC and DC. Firstly, it is an advantage that AC comes in pulses of power when, for example, a lighting strike causes a temporary power outage. The zero power crossing points of AC allow 100 opportunities per second for reconnection of tripped isolators to happen with minimal arcing. With DC, large resistors are needed to limit the surge current into the capacitors of the downstream DC-DC converters. Dealing with reconnection after trip is regarded as one of the most demanding technical challenges.
A second safety concern is more one of public perception since part of the mythology is that DC is inherently more dangerous since (so the argument goes) the muscles contract continuously under DC and if you gripped a live metal bar, you would not be able to let go, whereas AC would offer brief intervals when you could let go. But whether true or not, there are counter arguments. For example, AC is more likely to send one's heart into fibrillation (normally fatal). AC shock causes more sweating than DC, lowering the body's resistance, in turn increasing the current flowing through the body. Whatever the truth is, the IEC acknowledge that introduction of DC would be difficult unless it can be shown to be at least as safe as AC, and this is the aim. [5]
As with any technology that constitutes a system, we can peel away layers of complexity, only to reveal new complexities at a more granular level but I hope that I have shown enough to see that if we were to design a power distribution and sharing system today, from scratch, AC distribution would be regarded as an almost ridiculous complication and a liability. We should, therefore, take full advantage of unique circumstances, to replace it with something better.
[1] The Oxford Cambridge Arc was first proposed by the National Infrastructure Commission in 2016 with the aim to double the £115billion GVA economic output of the geographic arc from Oxford to Cambridge including other important settlements such as Milton Keynes and Bedford. Up to 1 million new homes are planned along the Arc, also the route of a new East West Rail infrastructure project, that is now at a detailed planning stage. The initiative has ongoing support at the highest level within Central Government. https://www.semlep.com/oxford-cambridge-arc/
[2] IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) LVDC: electricity for the 21st century. https://www.iec.ch/lvdc/
[3] HongJoo Kim , Youngpyo Cho, Jaehan Kim, Jintae Cho, Juyong Kim Demonstration of the LVDC distribution system in an island https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8316218
[4] Gunnar Asplund. Sustainable energy systems with HVDC transmission http://desertec-uk.org.uk/reports/HVDC_Gunnar_Asplund_ABB.pdf
[5] Ohio State University [course notes] More about "The Fatal Current" https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/physics/p616/safety/more_current.html
Geoff Harvey

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You've found the perfect rental property at the right price—but what's next? Many people jump into a lease before reading the small print, but as we become more and more aware of the potential asbestos-related risks in older buildings, what are our rights when it comes to asbestos-exposure in rental units?
What Is My Landlord's Responsibility?
Unlike federal laws around paint hazards or mold, there are no landlord-specific disclosures regarding asbestos exposure in rental properties. However, the landlord must provide habitable premises, so if you fear that there is asbestos in your building such as from a cracked ceiling or floor tile, then your landlord is responsible for fixing the conditions to avoid significant injury to the tenant.
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) ensures that owners of buildings constructed before 1981 are responsible for locating any existing asbestos. As asbestos was used so prevalently in the construction industry, it's impossible to know just how much was used and where. It's your landlord's responsibility to inform you of any presence of asbestos, carry out the necessary checks and, if required, remove harmful asbestos.
If your landlord is looking to renovate the property you live in, you are within your right to ask whether they are contracting an asbestos removal company, and to seek a copy of that documentation.
Because of the asbestos in rental properties, many older buildings are now undergoing 'asbestos abatement,' which is the removal of known, unstable asbestos to prevent dangers down the line. This work is generally carried out in a controlled way to ensure the least amount of disruption and the least about of harm. It's good practice for landlords to get on board with asbestos abatement as once the asbestos is removed they can provide tenants with documentation signed off by an accredited professional.
Asbestos is generally safe until it becomes disturbed, but during renovations or due to wear and tear, it can sometimes break-up and become friable. Once the fibers are airborne, they are easily inhaled and can cause mesothelioma.
As a tenant, you have a right to a livable home. As asbestos is a hazardous substance, exposed asbestos must be dealt with by your landlord. OSHA's regulations protect the right of tenants by placing duties on landlords themselves.
If you suspect there's undisclosed or unstable asbestos in your rental unit or home, the first action is to talk to your landlord. Whether you only suspect that asbestos is present in your property or you know for sure, it's the responsibility of your landlord to perform the necessary checks with an asbestos professional, send samples off to a lab and either repair or remove the product if it's considered unstable.
The OSHA protects tenants for this kind of work as landlords must provide a habitable space for their tenants. If you need to move out of the property during this time, you may be able to negotiate a temporary place to live. Ask if your landlord will reimburse you for alternative accommodation until the asbestos-related work is complete.
What Should I Do if My Landlord Doesn't Comply?
If your landlord fails to inform you about the presence of asbestos or does not provide a habitable home, you must put your safety first. Call your local environmental or housing agency to arrange temporary accommodation until the necessary work can be carried out. If your landlord does not agree to your terms and you are unable to move out of the property due to lease-agreements, you should seek legal advice.
If you believe you've come into contact with asbestos through your rented living accommodation, and you believe this exposure may have caused an asbestos-related illness, you maybe be able to file a claim. Contact a qualified asbestos lawyer in your state for more information or call the Mesothelioma Justice Network today at (888) 360-4215 for answers to your legal questions.
"Asbestos abatement/renovation in apartment building, about to sign lease". Retrieved from: https://ask.metafilter.com/305525/Asbestos-abatement-renovation-in-apartment-building-about-to-sign-lease. Accessed on December 7, 2018.
"Is the Landlord Responsible for Disclosing Asbestos in My Rental Unit, or at Least Fixing It?". Retrieved from: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/is-the-landlord-responsible-disclosing-asbestos-rental-unit-least-fixing.html. Accessed on December 7, 2018.
"Landlord's Responsibility For Removing Asbestos from an Apartment". Retrieved from: https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/personal-injury/landlords-responsibility-removing-asbestos-apartment.html. Accessed on December 7, 2018.


This year's Best of the Bar Lifetime Achievement Award goes to a man who colleagues say exemplifies true leadership in the courtroom, in the community and as a retired Marine general.
Albert C. Harvey, a senior shareholder at the Memphis offices of Lewis Thomason, has spent his nearly 50-year career defending doctors accused of medical malpractice, a controversial congressman, Big Tobacco and some of the most iconic buildings in town.
After graduating from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1967, Harvey worked as a law clerk for Tennessee Supreme Court Judge Larry Creson for one year before joining what was then Thomason, Crawford and Hendrix as the firm's first associate.
Harvey's career with Lewis Thomason was shared with his duties as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps Reserve, from which he recently retired with the rank of Major General. Harvey has taken that experience to the classroom, initiating the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law's first course on National Security Law.
Harvey has also given back to the legal profession by serving in leadership positions with the American Bar Association at the local, state and national levels. That service will continue when Harvey takes on the role as head of the Senior Lawyers Division two years from now.
Harvey will be honored at the annual Best of the Bar awards ceremony Tuesday, March 7, at Opera Memphis, from 5:30-8 p.m. Gold Sponsor is First Tennessee. Bar Sponsor is Blue Sky Couriers. Automotive Sponsor is Jaguar Land Rover Bluff City. Supporting Event Sponsor is Behind the Scenes.
Click here to see the article in the Memphis Business Journal by Michelle Corbet.


Duarte Kiwanis President Mirna de Lira Lopez had an inspirational idea. She wanted to combine her 30th birthday party and her installation as Duarte Kiwanis President. The 30 for 30 event resulted in over $1,700 being shared with 30 charities. Checks were given to those participating organizations who are members of the Duarte Community Coordinating Council at the DCCC October meeting.
Very pleased to receive checks, and shown above, are representatives of the Duarte Historical Society, Duarte Rotary Club, Duarte Education Foundation's Music Matters, Friends of the Duarte Library, Duarte Chamber of Commerce, Duarte Woman's Club, Santa Anita Family YMCA and NAACP-ACTSO.


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using ColossalFramework.UI;
using UnityEngine;

namespace NetworkSkins.GUI.Abstraction
{
    public abstract class ListPanelBase<TListBase, TPrefabInfo> : ListPanelBase
        where TListBase : ListBase<TPrefabInfo>
        where TPrefabInfo : PrefabInfo
    {
        protected TListBase list;

        public override void OnDestroy() {
            list.EventItemClick -= OnItemClick;
            base.OnDestroy();
        }

        public override void Build(PanelType panelType, Layout layout) {
            base.Build(panelType, layout);
            list.EventItemClick += OnItemClick;
        }

        protected override void CreateList() {
            list = AddUIComponent<TListBase>();
            list.Build(PanelType, new Layout(new Vector2(390.0f, 0.0f), true, LayoutDirection.Vertical, LayoutStart.TopLeft, 0));
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        protected abstract void OnItemClick(string itemID);
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}

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The software and IT industry is a growing field worldwide. The UK is the front-runner in attracting software companies throughout Europe. It is home to many global players and has more than a lakh specialist software firms. The public sector engagement and investments by the UK government is the reason for companies setting shop in the UK.
Another factor attracting companies is that it is very easy to set up a business in the UK. It also has competitive tax rates for foreign investors. The corporate tax is 28% which is the lowest amongst its competitors. The UK leads in innovation and offers a good research base. It also has a large talent pool of IT engineers and world class institutes which are a plus.
1) e-business: The UK is amongst the leading locations for e-business. It has the infrastructure and the technology in place for facilitating e-business. As e-business is the way of the future, companies initiating e-business operations will find the UK a great option.
2) Broadband availability: The Internet is driving most businesses today and hence broadband connectivity is essential for all businesses. The penetration of broadband technology is 28.1% in the UK, which is higher than that of the European Union. Hence, the UK can be a great option for investment.
3) Wi-Fi availability: the UK is next only to US in number of verified Wi-Fi hotspots. This is a plus for all software companies looking to set up operations in the UK. Wireless technology is set to grow and it also offers more mobility and options.
4) Secure servers: It has the largest number of secure servers after the US and Japan. Hence, security is great and businesses don't need to worry about data leaks and loss. This is very important to maintain customer trust and support.
In addition, the cost of operations in the UK is highly competitive. Companies can choose providers and tariffs rates according to their requirements from a host of providers in the UK.
Also, the UK has many institutes and universities offering software related training and research. The UK thus has a large pool of qualified professionals which is a boon for software and computing industries.
The UK is a leader in innovation. It has many universities that are dedicated to the cause of innovation. These institutes are coming up with newer technologies and ways to improve productivity. Hence, businesses can avail themselves of the newest technologies by setting up operations here. In addition, they can also work with these world famous institutes to develop software that is related to their field.
Hence, it is a wise idea to invest in the IT and computing sector. You can avail yourself of the best resources at very competitive rates and amass huge profits for your organization by investing in the UK.
In 1986 we threw open our doors and changed the face of the UK recruitment market forever.


Download Shrouded Tales: The Shadow Menace Collector's Edition Game for PC at Windows 7 Games!
Friendly Cactus Limited proudly presents a new chapter in the Shrouded Tales series! Your training is finally over and you're about to become a fully-fledged mage, just like your friend Veronica! What should be a joyous occasion is spoiled when the city of Grimsdale is attacked by an unknown force! When Veronica goes missing, it's up to you to find them and track down the source of the chaos. Can you save your friend and the world from falling into eternal darkness? Find out in this eerie hidden-object puzzle adventure!


where can I get Mandrake?
is there a free copy of Mandrake I can download?
believe it or not, lqo has it!
Not to mention the Mandriva site, and its many download mirrors.
That link is pretty old, Sarge.
Try the latest distro, fewer bugs and more hardware compatability.
i586 (Pentium 1) which doesnt support much that newer processors can do.


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Investing into a pre-owned or a used car has its own set of benefits. You pay much less than what you would pay for a new one (depreciation helps) and can upgrade to a car from a higher segment. The same holds true when you are on a limited budget but want a 'big' car for upping your social status in the society. So which are the best used cars under 2 lakhs in India? We set a max cap of Rs 2 lakh and have come up with the top 10 options. Note that the list is in alphabetical order.
The SX4 is a perfect example of a 'badi gaadi'. It comes backed by Maruti's peace of mind and a very powerful 1.6-litre engine. If you want a diesel option, be ready to shell out in excess of INR 2 lakh. That said, even the petrol unit isn't bad when it comes to fuel economy. Plus you get SUV rivalling ground clearance and a trust worthy companion for peaceful long drives.
The DZire is India's largest selling sedan right now. However, the demand for its old petrol model is less which means you can get a 2009 or earlier one for less than Rs 2 lakh. The DZire might not offer you a good design or spacious interiors but when it comes to peace of mind and trust factor, it scores high. Be careful of high mileage versions, especially those with a CNG kit.
The Tata Manza was launched to lock horns with the Maruti Dzire. However, it failed to garner much interest inspite of offering segment leading features and space. This also means that in the used car space, the Manza offers tremendous value for money. You can pick a 2010 model for under Rs 2 lakh and that is a lot of car for the money. This includes both the petrol and diesel engine options. If you want the best used sedan car for being chauffeured around in comfort, this is our pick.
Just like the Honda Civic, even the Toyota Corolla is a proper premium sedan. However, getting a good car under Rs 2 lakh is a tough task. It ain't impossible but you will have to spend a lot of time finding one. Further, most old Corollas are being run with a CNG kit and such cars are completely avoidable. The Corolla offers bullet proof reliability and excellent rear seat comfort.
The Optra was one of the first 'luxury' big cars in India under Rs 10 lakh. It's got typical American car characteristics of being spacious and very comfortable. The best part is that you can probably get the 2.0-litre diesel version which was manufactured from 2007 onwards. This is a highly potent engine with excellent performance and is one of the best used sedan cars for diesel lovers. The petrol versions are commonly fitted with a CNG kit so do watch out for that.
When launched, the Linea was the best looking sedan in its segment. With pure Italian lines, it turned heads easily on the road. However, with poor sales even today, finding a well kept Linea for a low amount is an easy task. You can easily pick a refurbished 2009-2010 petrol model for as low as 1.75 lakh if you bargain hard. A diesel version too can be had for under Rs 2 lakh. This is definitely one of the best used sedan cars for petrol heads.
The Fiesta was one of the most under-rated Ford cars in recent years. It is still a common sight down South where it continues to do duty in the commercial sector, thanks to its reliable 1.4-litre diesel motor. However for enthusiasts, the 1.6-petrol version is a must have. It was the most affordable 100 bhp sedan in the market and even today, if you find one for under Rs 2 lakh, don't wait and grab one!
India's favourite premium sedan has been a best seller for years. If you have always wanted to own a Honda sedan, this is it. The older generation version does not have the visual appeal but apart from that, its a gem of a car. This includes the bullet proof petrol engine, fuss free drive, spacious interiors and a comfortable drive. If you are lucky, you could even get the automatic version under Rs 2 lakh, making it one of the best used car sedans in India.
The Civic has to be every boy racer's dream car. Even today, it looks sporty with equally modern interiors. This car has really aged well and refuses to go out of style. And the best part? You can get a pre 2007 Civic for as low as Rs 2 lakh. That is brilliant value given what all the car offers. The impeccable 1.8-litre petrol motor, spacious interiors which look jazzy and a comfortable ride. Be careful of low fuel economy and extremely low ground clearance though.
Pros: Diesel engine is a gem!
Hyundai gave the mid-size sedan segment its first diesel automatic in the form of the Verna a decade back. If you do find a good example, we recommend going for the diesel option. It is not only good on performance, but also has great fuel economy and an optional automatic. Be careful of high mileage examples though.
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Emotional Intelligence Home Page
Copy of the Introduction to "Wisdom in Feeling" by Feldman and Salovey
Recently I came upon a copy of this chapter. I have heard of the book for quite a while, but have never seen it. I started reading with much interest and relatively high expectations. I liked the title of the book, "Wisdom in Feeling" It sounded like it might be a book that a normal person could read and also a book that would show that emotions have a practical survival value. As I read this introductory chapter, though, I felt disappointed and frustrated. Frustrated by the once again needlessly complicated language, or what I have called "Phidish" - the language of PhD's. From reading this chapter I saw that the authors wrote this book for other psychologists, not for normal people. (Yes, you could say that I am calling psychologists abnormal!) The authors even admit that they wrote this book for other psychologists as shown by the final sentence in the chapter:
Emotional intelligence may be an important conceptual framework for guiding research on emotional phenomena and their influence on the range of things that concern us as psychologists.
I was also disappointed that Peter Salovey did not write more of the book himself. I know he is a busy buy but if I really don't think much of these "edited" books which are just a collection of other people's journal articles Salovey only was a co-author on the introductory chapter, and even then he was not the primary writer, since Feldman is listed first. I had wanted to see more of Peter's own ideas about EI. After seeing how little he contributed to the book I question why he even has his name on it, except for the obvious reasons of fame and royalties.
Steve Hein
Here is a page I created a while back which shows the table of contents and also has some of my famous editorial comments
Wisdom in Feeling: Psychological Processes in Emotional Intelligence,
Edited by Lisa Feldman Barrett and Peter Salovey, Copyright © 2002
The concept of emotional intelligence has emerged as an area of intense interest, both in scientific (Mayer, Salovey, & Caruso, 2000; Salovey & Mayer, 1990) and lay (e.g., Goleman, 1995, 1998) circles. Because emotionally intelligent individuals are socially effective, definitions of the concept in trade books and the popular press have included personality attributes more generally associated with adaptive personal and social functioning that may or may not be related to skills and abilities in the emotional arena (Mayer et al., 2000). Scientific treatments have defined emotional intelligence in terms of mental abilities rather than broad social competencies. For instance, Mayer and Salovey (1997) defined emotional intelligence as the ability to perceive, appraise, and express emotions accurately; the ability to access and generate feelings to facilitate cognitive activities; the ability to understand emotion-relevant concepts and use emotion-relevant language; and the ability to manage one's own emotions and the emotions of others to promote growth, well-being, and functional social relations.
The concept of emotional intelligence has been useful as an organizing framework in diverse contexts. It has been helpful to educators designing curricula for the purposes of improving children's social and emotional functioning (Mayer & Cobb, 2000; Salovey & Sluyter, 1997). It has been used by the human resources and organizational development fields to characterize skills important in the workplace other than specific job-related competencies (Caruso, Mayer, & Salovey, 2002; Cherniss & Goleman, 2001). Yet we wonder whether the excitement about the heuristic value of emotional intelligence has overshadowed a careful study of what it is, and in particular, the underlying psychological components that when brought together emerge as emotional intelligence. We expect that with a detailed explication of the multiple processes that characterize emotional intelligence, it will emerge as an organizing framework for investigators who study phenomena in which emotions play some role. The purpose of this volume is to examine these component processes using the model outlined by Mayer and Salovey (1997) as a starting point:
(1) perceiving and appraising emotion,
(2) using emotion to facilitate thought,
(3) understanding and communicating emotion concepts, and
(4) managing emotions in oneself and others.
By establishing the underlying processes that characterize each of these domains of emotional intelligence, the construct validity of emotional intelligence as a whole can emerge. As research on emotion progresses at many levels of analysis, from neuroscience to culture, the concept of emotional intelligence continues to evolve. The chapters in this book reflect some of these developments. One issue is whether it makes sense to talk of "accuracy" when referring to the representation of emotional events. Emotions are contextualized, emergent phenomena, such that there are no right or wrong responses—no accuracy in an absolute sense. However, some responses are better than others. Usually, judgments about the desirability of a response are culturally and temporally situated. Thus, it is sensible to measure emotional intelligence in terms of an individual's understanding and use of this consensual knowledge.
A second issue concerns the harnessing of emotions to encourage rational thought, stimulate creative problem solving, and motivate behavior. It is not a new idea that emotions play a pivotal role in assisting good decision making (e.g., Damasio, 1994; DeSousa, 1987), but the multiple ways in which this can occur are still being delineated. To begin with, emotional intelligence is more than just relying on feeling in reasoning. It is also harnessing the motivating properties of affect in
everyday life. Traditional discussions of passion and reason assume a strong boundary between the two. Although thinking and feeling are certainly experientially distinct, recent neuroscience investigations suggest that they may be less neuroanatomically separable than originally assumed (Lane & Nadel, 2000). As a consequence, the relationship between emotion and cognition may need to be reconsidered. Moreover, less attention has been paid to the role of emotion in instigating behavior when the behaviors in question are not related to immediate survival. Unless one lives in a war-torn part of the world or in a distressed urban center, the probability of confronting stimuli that threaten survival and provoke prototypical emotional events (of the kind described by Darwin, 1872/1998) is relatively low. A useful theory must account for those events, but should also be able to capture the more frequent, but perhaps less dramatic, emotional responses that characterize modern daily living.
As for the structure of emotion knowledge, we do not know whether emotion concepts have the functional properties of concepts in other domains such as animals, automobiles, and food, or whether they have unique properties. If emotion concepts are like other concepts, then are they best described as traditional feature-based categories (Clore & Ortony, 1991), fuzzy sets with prototypes (Russell, 1991), or theory-based groupings (Medin, 1989)? Are they permanent or fluid, changing in response to situational contingencies in the immediate external environment (Barsalou, 1983) or phenomenological experiences in one's internal environment (e.g., Niedenthal, Halberstadt, & Innes-Ker, 1999)? Of course, the most important questions concern the relations between how emotional information is represented and the manner in which such representations influence diverse elements in an emotional response.
Finally, theories about coping, mechanisms of defense, finding meaning in adversity, resilience, and flexible responding all converge on the notion that components in an emotional response often require active management. This idea is reflected in the fourth branch of emotional intelligence concerning the regulation—often strategic—of feelings and emotions in oneself and other people. Typically, theorizing on these issues focuses on the prevention, abbreviation, or transformation of negative emotion, but is this really the dominant motivation for emotion management? It is plausible, even likely, that negative emotional responses allow us to function effectively in certain situations. Even more likely is the notion that cultivating positive emotions can have adaptive value in its own right, over and above the amelioration of negative responses.
The chapters included in this volume link ongoing basic research on affect and emotion to the ideas embodied in the emotional intelligence concept. In doing so, they provide evidence for the value of emotional intelligence as a framework for organizing and advancing theory and research on emotion. These chapters also stretch the boundaries of the emotional intelligence idea in new and important ways.
Part I of this volume deals with the processes involved in perceiving and identifying emotions in oneself and others. Bachorowski and Owren describe the functional acoustics in an emotional signaling system. They argue that there are direct and indirect ways in which perceivers attribute emotion to targets on the basis of their nonlinguistic vocal properties. Especially interesting are the ways in which declarative knowledge about the vocalizer interact with prosodic features of the
vocal cues to produce an emotional impression in the listener. Perhaps even more apparent are the emotional cues provided on the canvas of the face. Elfenbein, Marsh, and Ambady describe the crucial role of reading facial expressions in emotional intelligence. Their chapter addresses how the meanings of facial expressions are interpreted against a contextual backdrop. Although facial expressions may provide some signal in an emotional transaction, they are not impervious to the influence of the relationship between sender and receiver, culture, social class, gender, and other features of the social environment. In the final chapter of Part I, Nelson and Bouton argue that the types of judgments described in the first two chapters may have their basis in associative learning. They detail the associative processes that modify or change the affective value of a stimulus. On the basis of the evidence they present, Nelson and Bouton argue that our learning histories are always with us. Although the affective significance of a stimulus may change, that change is often contextual (and therefore conditional in nature). As a result, learning histories are accumulative and to some extent indelible. These properties of acquisition and change in the affective significance of stimuli have profound implications for other aspects of an emotional response. Together, these three chapters begin to characterize how we come to view certain kinds of cues as emotionally meaningful, and certain types of information as emotionally relevant.
Part II describes how affective experiences come to influence thought and action. Gohm and Clore provide an explicit framework for understanding how individuals rely on affective feelings as a source of information in social judgment. They suggest that there is significant variability in this process, however. Those individuals who report attending to their feelings, and experiencing those feelings in a clear, intense way, use them in the judgment process differently than do others. Gilbert, Driver-Linn, and Wilson also describe the informational value of affective experience, specifically the value of anticipated affective states. They describe the processes involved in "impact bias," the tendency to misjudge both the duration and the intensity of predicted affective reactions. They suggest that similar biases may play out in retrospective accounts of emotional reactions as well, leading to the idea that prospective and retrospective judgments have more in common with each other than they do with actually experienced affective states.
Schwarz's analysis suggests that the states of mind accompanying everyday moods are best suited for different kinds of cognitive tasks. The expansive orientation facilitated by pleasant affective feelings encourages top-down information processing that is creative and heuristic driven. In contrast, the detail-oriented focus facilitated by unpleasant affective feelings encourages bottom-up information processing that is stimulus driven, deductive, and engenders the careful scrutiny of incoming information. Schwarz's ideas about how moods tune the cognitive system have implications for a range of outcomes, including stereotyping, attitude change, and analytical reasoning. Niedenthal, Dalle, and Rohmann also discuss how feeling tunes cognitive processing. The emotional aspects of stimuli form a core organizing principle around which they can be grouped into concepts. Discrete emotional experiences function as the "glue" in perceiving these concepts. The implication is clear: People literally perceive the world differently depending on how they are feeling. Discrete emotions influence not only categorization processes, but other cognitive processes as well. DeSteno and Braverman discuss the various ways in which discrete emotional experiences affect attitude change. They argue that individual differences in emotional intelligence influence the mechanisms by which emotions have their impact. In doing so, they synthesize the affect-as-information perspective with the cognitive-tuning approach to provide an emotional spin on the popular elaboration-likelihood model of attitude change.
The final chapter in Part II provides a neuroanatomical basis for the idea that feelings influence strategic information processing and planned behavior. Using examples from psychopathology, especially obsessive–compulsive disorder, Savage details how one area of the prefrontal cortex, called the orbital frontal cortex, allows individuals to harness affective information during the early stages of responding to stimuli, especially those that are novel or ambiguous in some way. In a preliminary sense, Savage lays the anatomical foundation for how emotional information influences thought and behavior.
Part III deals with emotion concepts—individuals' knowledge base about emotion and their ability to represent symbolically elements of the emotional response. This issue has been a focus of systematic research in developmental psychology. Denham and Kochanoff describe much of this research in their review of the developmental milestones in children's understanding of emotion—how this understanding develops from the ability to label emotional expressions, identify emotion-eliciting situations, comprehend probable causes of emotion, appreciate the consequences of emotion, and infer the emotional experiences of others. These authors provide a useful summary of the development of an emotional knowledge base that may be involved in other aspects of emotional intelligence. Lane and Pollermann describe the different levels of sophistication that characterize individuals' understanding of emotional experience. Using a Piagetian framework, they suggest that there are different levels of development, from understanding emotional experience in simplistic ways (e.g., in global or physical terms) to a more
complex conceptual system that is precise and multifaceted. The complexity of a person's conceptual framework will determine, in turn, both the degree to which emotional experience can be represented mentally in a complex fashion and the complexity of the experience itself.
When laypersons think about emotional intelligence, they likely focus on regulation. In fact, managing the potential array of elements in an emotional response, and attempting to influence the feelings of others, are central aspects of competence in the emotional domain. Part IV of this volume concerns managing emotion. Gross and John are especially concerned with providing a framework for understanding the range of strategies involved in emotion regulation. Specifically, they contrast those strategies focused on managing the potential antecedents of an emotion response with those that change the response once it has occurred. They are also concerned with the effects of such strategies, in particular the consequences of suppression. Next, Tugade and Fredrickson point out the value of positive emotions. They suggest that positive emotions provide a powerful antidote to negative reactions. In addition, they highlight the intrinsic adaptive value of positive
emotions themselves. Their broaden-and-build model suggests that positive emotions provide us with the psychological resources to engage in the more adaptive antecedent-focused strategies described by Gross and John. The final chapter in Part IV explores the consequences of challenging the deeply held belief that hedonism alone is the primary motive for emotion regulation. Knowing that certain types of cognitive and behavioral tasks are accomplished better when our cognitive system is tuned by negative emotion, Parrott argues that there may be circumstances in which it is useful to cultivate negative emotions and unleash
their functional power. Contrary to being "hijacked" by negative emotion (e.g., Goleman, 1995), Parrott's analysis suggests that we may benefit from our negative feelings, which can sometimes be the guide to thinking clearly and behaving appropriately.
A good theory is generative. And although it is too early to know whether emotional intelligence is a foundation for creative research in emotion, Part V of this volume provides three illustrations of interesting directions for future research. Russell and Blanchard suggest that a person cannot be intelligent unless he or she knows what to be intelligent about. They argue that emotion is a category too broad for scientific discourse and suggest a lexicon for parsing the emotion domain that is consistent with many theories of emotion. Just as a well-developed emotion lexicon is important for functionally effective emotional behavior, these authors suggest that the definitional clarity resulting from a precise scientific lexicon can be important for effective future research on emotional intelligence.
The final two chapters provide examples of how emotional intelligence can make contact with research that is traditionally considered outside the realm of affect science. Ferguson and Bargh describe their work on automatic attitudes. They discuss the mechanisms through which individuals effortlessly integrate evaluative information from individual features of a novel object to provide an evaluative summary response to it. Aspects of this process appear to occur outside of consciousness and likely contribute to the initial affective appraisal of a stimulus. Blair reviews some of the literature on Theory of Mind, the ability to represent the mental states of self and others, and examines potential links to the various facets of emotional intelligence. Using examples from autism, where Theory of Mind is impaired, and examples from sociopathy, where emotional intelligence is impaired, Blair examines whether Theory of Mind is necessary for emotionally intelligent behavior.
Much of the popular media attention to the idea of emotional intelligence has focused on the measurement of an "EQ" (e.g., Gibbs, 1995). Although assessing individual differences in the abilities that constitute emotional intelligence is a useful endeavor, it is our view that the field will benefit from a deeper understanding of the processes that subserve these different skills. Such an analysis allows research on emotional intelligence to be better situated in the field of affect science, rather than merely a provocative contribution to the intelligence testing literature. Once situated there, emotional intelligence has the potential to organize what we know and stimulate new questions about how emotional phenomena serve adaptive personal and social functioning at many levels of analysis. Regardless of one's core theoretical preferences, there is a convergence of thought that emotions are functional. One cannot study the processes by which people emote or assign emotional value without considering their effectiveness. And, as learning theorist O. H. Mowrer (1960, p. 308) noted, the emotions "do not at all deserve being put into
opposition with 'intelligence.'" The spirit of Mowrer's comment is clear: We cannot understand the workings of the mind and their influence on behavior without understanding the role of emotional processes. Emotional intelligence may be an important conceptual framework for guiding research on emotional phenomena and their influence on the range of things that concern us as psychologists.
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The Wisdom in Feeling
Below is the table of contents from the book The Wisdom in Feeling, by Lisa Feldman Barrett and Peter Salovey (copied from David Caruso's site)
It looks like a collection of very academic articles, not many of which are really directly related to emotional intelligence. And not many related to wisdom. It also looks to me like Peter Salovey did not do too much except probably read some of the articles, help write the introduction and put his name on the book. Notice that he did not write, or even co-write any of the main chapters. And there is not even a chapter with Jack Mayer as an author or co-author. I'm not sure what is up with that. But it all looks a bit suspicious to me.
Also, from just the table of contents, it reminds me of Reuven BarOn's so called Handbook of Emotional Intelligence. I would like volunteers to read the book, or parts of it and send me notes -- similar to how I did for Reuven's book. Being in Peru, I can't go to the library and get the book like I could if I lived in the USA. It also is very expensive, 55 dollars. But if you want to buy it, please do so through this link to Amazon so I will get a little kickback.
Thanks, Steve
Introduction, Barrett and Salovey
I. Perceiving Emotion
1. Vocal Acoustics in Emotional Intelligence, Bachorowski and Owren
2. Emotional Intelligence and the Recognition of Emotion from Facial Expressions, Elfenbein, Marsh, and Ambady
3. Extinction, Inhibition, and Emotional Intelligence, Nelson and Bouton
II. Using Emotion in Thought and Action
4. Affect as Information: An Individual-Differences Approach, Gohm and Clore
5. The Trouble with Vronsky: Impact Bias in the Forecasting of Future Affective States, Gilbert, Driver-Linn, and Wilson
6. Situated Cognition and the Wisdom in Feelings: Cognitive Tuning, Schwarz
7. Emotional Response Categorization as Emotionally Intelligent Behavior, Niedenthal, Dalle, and Rohmann
8. Emotion and Persuasion: Thoughts on the Role of Emotional Intelligence, DeSteno and Braverman
9. The Role of Emotion in Strategic Behavior: Insights from Psychopathology, Savage
III. Understanding Emotion
10. "Why Is She Crying?": Children's Understanding of Emotion from Preschool to Preadolescence, Denham and Kochanoff
11. Complexity of Emotion Representations, Lane and Pollermann
IV. Managing Emotion
12. Wise Emotion Regulation, Gross and John
13. Positive Emotions and Emotional Intelligence, Tugade and Fredrickson
14. The Functional Utility of Negative Emotions, Parrott
V. Extensions
15. Toward a Shared Language for Emotion and Emotional Intelligence, Russell and Barchard
16. Sensitivity and Flexibility: Exploring the Knowledge Function of Automatic Attitudes, Ferguson and Bargh
17. Theory of Mind, Autism, and Emotional Intelligence, Blair
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The property values in the Montreal area have just skyrocketed
Amy Luft and Daniel J. Rowe	CTV News Montreal Published Wednesday, September 11, 2019 10:31AM EDT Last Updated Thursday, September 12, 2019 2:17PM EDT
Property values are up dramatically in the Montreal area according to a new assessment roll released Wednesday.
Overall, values have spiked by an average of 13.7 per cent in the agglomeration, which includes Montreal and 15 neighbouring cities; they were up only 5.9 per cent in the previous roll released three years ago.
Condo values have risen by 8.7 per cent, up from 2.7 per cent in 2017. Single-family detached homes are up 20 per cent.
Average values:
Condo unit: $365,000
Single-family home: $600,000
"The market has just completely exploded over the past few years since 2017," said residential real estate broker Rebecca Sohmer.
Property values are climbing fast, said Montreal's Executive Committee Chair Benoit Dorais.
"The most recent figures show that the real estate market is doing very well on the island of Montreal and market value of properties is rising sharply," he said.
To put it in perspective, in 2016, the average three-year increase was less than 6 per cent.
Borough increases
The highest borough increase is in Verdun, which sees property values rise 19.8 per cent. Sud-Ouest values are up 17.1 per cent, while those in the Plateau Mont-Royal are up 16.7 per cent. The boroughs of Outremont, Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie, Cote-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Ville-Marie, Lachine and Pierrefonds-Roxboro all have increases above 12.7 per cent, which is the average increase for boroughs in Montreal.
"I think Verdun and the Sud-Ouest has seen a lot of gentrification over the past few years, prospecting, a lot of flippers going in," said Sohmer.
Suburban increases
In the suburbs, the highest increases are in Ile Dorval (up almost 30 per cent), and Beaconsfield, which is up just over 25 per cent. Hampstead, Mount Royal, Kirkland and Westmount also rose over 20 per cent.
"There are a lot of transactions on the West Island. The properties are more popular than previously," said Dorais.
Non-residential values have increased on average by just under 10 per cent.
Does this mean higher taxes?
Higher property values usually mean higher taxes – but the city's message is this: don't panic.
The Plante administration said Wednesday that it is committed to lowering the 'mill rate,' which is the amount of tax payable on a property's value.
The new property tax rates for 2020 will be announced as part of the city's budget, which is expected to be released in late fall.
On average, Montreal homeowners will feel a 2 per cent tax increase, though for some, it will be more.
Homeowners can check the value of their property on the city's property assessment roll or at their local borough office.
Want to get into the market?
If you're just thinking about getting in on the hot housing market, don't wait too long, said Sohmer.
"I think buyers who are waiting to get in should not be waiting. You have to get in now," she said.
A house for sale in Montreal's Westmount neighbourhood, on December 11, 2015. (Ryan Remiorz / THE CANADIAN PRESS)


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