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Explainer: What are the Alternatives to the Property Tax?
Consumption Tax, Income Tax, Property Tax, Sales Tax
Property taxes have been levied by governments in Texas since before its independence from Mexico. How the tax has been levied however has changed over time.
In the last few decades, the burden of property taxes has exponentially increased as a portion of the overall taxes paid by Texans. The Tax Foundation reported in 2021 that Texas had the 6th most burdensome property tax in the United States. Wallethub reported just a year earlier that Texas ranked 7th in the nation. This happened despite Republicans maintaining every statewide elected office and control of the legislature for the better part of two decades and promises to address the issue.
Their own party platform calls for the abolishment of such a tax:
178. Abolish Property Tax: We support replacing the property tax system with an alternative other than the income tax and requiring voter approval to increase the overall tax burden. We urge the Legislature to develop a transition plan that is a net tax cut (one of the solutions could be a consumption tax).
The collection of property taxes in Texas is based primarily on both the subjective valuations of appraisal review boards and tax rates established by local taxing entities with almost no feedback from those that are being taxed. It is a system of perpetual rent to the government, ultimately meaning that property owners never truly own their property. It is immoral.
Efforts have been made in the last few legislative sessions to address the growing burden. Those that have been successfully passed by the legislature have merely slowed the growth of such burdens for certain classes of Texans, something that lawmakers have dubbed "relief."
Concerns are almost immediately raised by taxpayers and lawmakers alike when the elimination of property taxes is brought up in normal discourse relating to the continuation of government services primarily funded by the collection of such taxes. Alternatives to the collection of such a tax exist, here are a few:
Definition: a tax applied to the sale or purchase of a good or service; generally applied at the time of purchase.
An organization known as Eliminate the Property Tax supports restructuring the Texas tax system by replacing over 60 separately levied taxes with what they deem as a lone transparent consumption tax.
There are different types of consumption taxes. Some include:
Definition: a tax applied to each step in the supply chain of a good or service; the difference between the value of an item at the time it starts production and the value of the item at the time it is sold.
In the 87th regular legislative session in 2021, State Rep. James White (R-Hillister) authored legislation that would repeal local sales taxes and collection of property taxes and replace them with a system of value-added taxes. The legislation was never granted a public hearing in the House Ways & Means Committee.
In the 83rd regular legislative session in 2013, former State Rep. George Lavender (R-Texarkana) authored legislation that sought to repeal the state sales and use tax, motor vehicle sales tax, rental taxes, cigar and tobacco product tax, hotel occupancy tax, manufactured housing sales tax and several other levied taxes and instead impose a state value-added tax at 7 percent with an allowance of local taxing jurisdictions to impose their own local option value-added tax of up to 3 percent. The legislation, known as the Texas Tax Reform Act of 2013, was heard in the House Ways & Means Committee but ultimately never voted on.
Definition: a tax on sales or on the receipts from sales.
According to the Texas Comptroller, Texas currently "imposes a 6.25 percent state sales and use tax on all retail sales, leases, and rentals of most goods, as well as taxable services. Local taxing jurisdictions (cities, counties, special purpose districts, and transit authorities) can also impose up to a 2 percent sales and use tax for a maximum combined rate of 8.25 percent."
The current state Limited Sales, Excise, and Use Tax Act was passed into law in 1981. At its inception, however, in 1961 the sales tax percentage was that of 2 percent. It grew to 3 percent in 1968, 3.25 percent in 1969, 4 percent in 1971, 6 percent in 1987, and arrived at its current rate in 1990. Since then, the list of cities that charge an additional sales and use tax has grown as well for a range of purposes which include providing property tax relief and municipal development.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is promoting a plan that would purportedly eliminate property taxes by the year 2033 by lowering government spending, eliminating the largest portion of the property tax calculation; school maintenance and operations (M&O) taxes, and redesigning the state's tax code so that local governments are instead primarily funded by sales taxes.
In the second-called special session of the 87th legislature, State Rep. Cecil Bell (R-Magnolia) authored legislation that sought to use 90 percent of surplus general revenue funds to eliminate all M&O taxes. Though it boasted 75 authors (half of the lawmakers in the House of Representatives), it was never granted a hearing in the House Appropriations Committee.
In the third-called special session of the 87th legislature, State Rep. Tom Oliverson (R-Cypress) authored legislation he had also filed in previous sessions that sought to use surplus state revenue to 'buy down' the M&O taxes. Though it passed the House Appropriations Committee it was never considered by the House Calendars Committee and set on a calendar for the entire House of Representatives to consider.
Definition: a tax levied by a government directly on income, especially an annual tax on personal income.
The state of Texas has never collected a state income tax.
In 2019, the Texas Legislature passed a proposed constitutional amendment seeking to prohibit the imposition of an individual income tax by codifying that prohibition in the Texas Constitution. Later that year, Texas voters approved Proposition 4 by nearly 75% and now the Texas Constitution includes a provision prohibiting the imposition of such a tax.
The current constitutional amendment and protection would have to be repealed, requiring an additional constitutional amendment and for a two-thirds majority in each legislative chamber, and majority support of Texas voters to support it, in order for an income tax itself to be instituted. This would be an extremely unlikely avenue for property tax replacement in this state.
For decades, lawmakers and statewide elected officials have promised remedies to the ever-growing property tax burden on Texas property owners. In this cycle, several candidates for elected office have varying plans for how to ultimately eliminate the collection of a property tax. Texans for Fiscal Responsibility believes that the property tax is immoral and supports its ultimate elimination.
Viable plans exist to move Texas off of the immoral practice of collecting property taxes to fund government services. The question that remains however is whether the political will exists to actually follow through and move beyond paying lip service to the issue?


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An H1 bulb is a halogen bulb that is used in the headlights and fog lights of vehicles. The bulbs are manufactured in different levels of light intensity, which is represented by the exterior color of the bulb. Although the bulb may appear to be red, green, or blue, when installed, the bulb produces white light. Halogen bulbs produce a light intensity that is closer to natural sunlight than traditional bulbs. Replacing an H1 bulb is just as easy as replacing any other type of headlight bulb.
Open the driver's side door of the car and pull the hood release lever.
Exit the vehicle and go to the hood of the car. Place your fingers under the edge of the hood and detach the hood release. Open the hood as far as it will go and insert the hood prop pole.
Place your fingers onto the back of the headlight area and pull out the headlight connector plug by pulling toward the rear of the car. The connector is a small plug from which wires extend. The connector will detach from the headlight, but not from the car.
Place your fingers around the headlight cover and remove it by pulling it toward the rear of the car.
Unhook the clip attached to the headlight by pulling out slightly and pushing downward.
Grasp the old H1 bulb and pull it straight out to detach it from the car.
Compare the old H1 bulb to the new H1 bulb to make sure they are the same size.
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Bible > Commentaries > Numbers 21:13
◄ Numbers 21:13 ►
From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
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EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)
(13) On the other side of Arnon.—Better, by the side of the Arnon. (Comp. Deuteronomy 2:24; Deuteronomy 2:26.) The Hebrew word which is here used does not determine on which side of the Arnon the encampment was. (Comp. Numbers 22:1, and Note.)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
21:10-20 We have here the removes of the children of Israel, till they came to the plains of Moab, from whence they passed over Jordan into Canaan. The end of their pilgrimage was near. They set forward. It were well if we did thus; and the nearer we come to heaven, were so much the more active and abundant in the work of the Lord. The wonderful success God granted to his people, is here spoken of, and, among the rest, their actions on the river Arnon, at Vaheb in Suphah, and other places on that river. In every stage of our lives, nay, in every step, we should notice what God has wrought for us; what he did at such a time, and what in such a place, ought to be distinctly remembered. God blessed his people with a supply of water. When we come to heaven, we shall remove to the well of life, the fountain of living waters. They received it with joy and thankfulness, which made the mercy doubly sweet. With joy must we draw water out of the wells of salvation, Isa 12:3. As the brazen serpent was a figure of Christ, who is lifted up for our cure, so is this well a figure of the Spirit, who is poured forth for our comfort, and from whom flow to us rivers of living waters, Joh 7:38,39. Does this well spring up in our souls? If so, we should take the comfort to ourselves, and give the glory to God. God promised to give water, but they must open the ground. God's favours must be expected in the use of such means as are within our power, but still the power is only of God.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The Arnon, now the Wady Mojeb, an impetuous torrent, divided the territory which remained to the Moabites from that which the Amorites had wrested from them, Numbers 21:26.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
13. pitched on the other side of Arnon—now El-Mojib, a deep, broad, and rapid stream, dividing the dominions of the Moabites and Amorites.
Matthew Poole's Commentary
On the other side of Arnon, or rather, on this side of Arnon, for so it now was to the Israelites, who had not yet passed over it, as appears from Deu 2:24. But the same words, Judges 11:18, are to be rendered on the other side of Arnon, for so it was to Jephthah; and the same preposition signifieth on this side, or beyond, according to the circumstances of the place.
Between Moab and the Amorite, i.e. though formerly it and the land beyond it belonged to Moab, yet afterwards it had been taken from them by Sihon, Numbers 21:26,28. This is added to reconcile two seemingly contrary commands of God, the one that of not meddling with the land of the. Moabites, Deu 2:9, the other that of going over Arnon and taking possession of the land beyond it, Deu 2:24, because, saith he, it is not now the land of the Moabites, but of the Amorites.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon,.... A river on the borders of Moab:
which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites; according to Jarchi, they went round the land of Moab, all to the south and east, and came not into the border of Moab, as Jephthah said, Judges 11:18 but before they came hither they had a station at Almondiblathaim, Numbers 33:46.
for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites; a river which divided these two countries, and bounded them; and Moses is the more particular in this account, to show that the Israelites took nothing from the Moabites, but what the Amorites had taken from them, they being charged not to distress the Moabites and Ammonites, Deuteronomy 2:9, see Jephthah's defence, Judges 11:15.
EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
13. on the other side of Arnon] This probably means north of it, the direction being considered from the point of view of the march; cf. Jdg 11:18.
The Arnon, now known as the Wady-el-Mojib, was a large stream which flowed westward into the Dead Sea at about the middle point of its eastern side. For a fuller description see on Numbers 21:14.
which is in the wilderness] i.e. that part of it which is in the wilderness. The clause defines more exactly one of the many streams which compose the river, perhaps the Wady Wâleh which flows into it from the north about 4½ miles from its mouth (see Enc. Bibl. [Note: nc. Bibl. Encyclopaedia Biblica.] 3170 note 1). It shews that the Israelites were still eastward of Moab in the district of the upper reaches of the river and its tributaries, all of which might loosely be called the Arnon (G. A. Smith, H. G. [Note: . G. Historical Geography of the Holy Land.] 558). This district, here and in Numbers 21:23 called 'the wilderness,' is named 'the wilderness of Kedemoth' in Deuteronomy 2:26.
that cometh out from the territory of the Amorites] This describes the wilderness, not the Arnon. The uncultivated region of the upper Arnon stretched away eastward from the Amorite country.
Arnon is the border of Moab] i.e. the northern border. At an earlier time the Moabites had possessed some land north of the river, and the Ammonites had lived north of them as far as the Jabbok. But shortly before the arrival of the Israelites, the Amorites had driven the Ammonites eastward into the desert, and the Moabites to the south of the Arnon (Numbers 21:26, Jdg 11:22). Thus directly the Israelites crossed the Arnon they were on the eastern border of the Amorites' country, and, with a view to striking westward to the Jordan, they asked Sihon's permission to pass through his country. In Deuteronomy 2:26-37 this and the subsequent fight with the Amorites are related correctly at this point. But in Num. the journey through the Amorite land is related (Numbers 21:16-20) before the hostility of Sihon is described.
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 13. - Pitched on the other side of Arnon. The Arnon was without doubt the stream or torrent now known as the Wady Mojeb, which breaks its way down to the Salt Sea through a precipitous ravine. It must have been in the upper part of its course, in the desert uplands, that the Israelites crossed it; and this both because the passage lower down is extremely difficult, and also because they were keeping well to the eastward of Moabitish territory up to this point. It is not certain which side of the stream is intended by "the other side," because the force of these expressions depends as often upon the point of view of the writer as of the reader. It would appear from Deuteronomy 2:26 that Israel remained at this spot until the embassage to Sihon had returned. That cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites, i.e., the Aruon, or perhaps one of its confluents which comes down from the northeast. For Arnon is the border of Moab. It was at that time the boundary (see on verse 26). Numbers 21:13
Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament
The next encampment was "beyond (i.e., by the side of) the Arnon, which is in the desert, and that cometh out of the territory of the Amorites." The Arnon, i.e., the present Wady Mojeb, is formed by the union of the Seyl (i.e., brook or river) Sade, which comes from the south-east, not far from Katrane, on the pilgrim road, and the Lejum from the north-east, which receives the small rivers el Makhreys and Balua, the latter flowing from the pilgrim station Kalaat Balua, and then continues its course to the Dead Sea, through a deep and narrow valley, shut in by very steep and lofty cliffs, and covered with blocks of stone, that have been brought down from the loftier ground (Burckhardt, pp. 633ff.), so that there are only a few places where it is passable; and consequently a wandering people like the Israelites could not have crossed the Mojeb itself to force an entrance into the territory of the hostile Amorites.
(Note: It is utterly inconceivable that a whole people, travelling with all their possessions as well as with their flocks, should have been exposed without necessity to the dangers and enormous difficulties that would attend the crossing of so dreadfully wild and so deep a valley, and that merely for the purpose of forcing an entrance into an enemy's country. - Ritter, Erdk. xv. p. 1207.)
For the Arnon formed the boundary between Moab and the country of the Amorites. The spot where Israel encamped on the Arnon must be sought for in the upper part of its course, where it is still flowing "in the desert;" not at Wady Zade, however, although Burckhardt calls this the main source of the Mojeb, but at the Balua, which flows into the Lejum. In all probability these streams, of which the Lejum came from the north, already bore the name of Arnon; as we may gather from the expression, "that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites." The place of Israel's encampment, "beyond the Arnon in the desert," is to be sought for, therefore, in the neighbourhood of Kalaat Balua, and on the south side of the Arnon (Balua). This is evident enough from Deuteronomy 2:24, Deuteronomy 2:26., where the Israelites are represented as entering the territory of the Amoritish king Sihon, when they crossed the Arnon, having first of all sent a deputation, with a peaceable request for permission to pass through his land (cf. Numbers 21:21.). Although this took place, according to Deuteronomy 2:26, "out of the wilderness of Kedemoth," an Amoritish town, it by no means follows that the Israelites had already crossed the Arnon and entered the territory of the Amorites, but only that they were standing on the border of it, and in the desert which took its name from Kedemoth, and ran up to this, the most easterly town, as the name seems to imply, of the country of the Amorites. After the conquest of the country, Kedemoth was allotted to the Reubenites (Joshua 13:18), and made into a Levitical city (Joshua 21:37; 1 Chronicles 6:64).
The Israelites now received instructions from the Lord, to cross the river Arnon, and make war upon the Amoritish king Sihon of Heshbon, and take possession of his land, with the assurance that the Lord had given Sihon into the hand of Israel, and would fill all nations before them with fear and trembling (Deuteronomy 2:24-25). This summons, with its attendant promises, not only filled the Israelites with courage and strength to enter upon the conflict with the mightiest of all the tribes of the Canaanites, but inspired poets in the midst of them to commemorate in odes the wars of Jehovah, and His victories over His foes. A few verses are given here out of one of these odes (Deuteronomy 2:14.), not for the purpose of verifying the geographical statement, that the Arnon touches the border of Moabitis, or that the Israelites had only arrived at the border of the Moabite and Amorite territory, but as an evidence that there, on the borders of Moab, the Israelites had been inspired through the divine promises with the firm assurance that they should be able to conquer the land of the Amorites which lay before them.
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Is Min Hyuk your kegemaran drummer?
for anda what is "KANG MIN HYUK"????????
What did anda think of Kang Min Hyuk when he was in Heartstrings?
What do anda Cinta about Kang Min Hyuk?
You:: Oppa!! anda didn't have to clear your schedule for me! I feel ok!
Min Hyuk: No anda don't!! I will stay here untill anda feel happy and healthy like usual! That's a promise!
You:: Oppa!! anda are so sweet!!
Min Hyuk: Thank you. Besides, i know anda would do the same for me right?
You: anda don't have to pay for an expensive resteraunt for me oppa! We can go somewhere else if anda want.
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Q: Calling a JFrame method from another JFrame on Button Click I searched on stack overflow for the similar answers for my question, but neither of them helped me.
So my problem is the following:
I have a main JFrame called Main_Window, on which I have a JTable and a JButton. After clicking the Button another JFrame (Update_Window) opens from Which I can update the table. The Update_Window JFrame has two TextFields and a SUBMITButton.
Briefly, I want to update my JTable in the Main_Window from the Update_Window JFrame. After I type something in the TextFields and Submit with the Button, the data should appear in the Main_Window's JTable, but it is not working.
This is my Main_Window JFrame:
    private void updateBtnActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
        Update_Window newWindow = new Update_Window();
        newWindow.setVisible(true);
        newWindow.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
    }

    public void putDataIntoTable(Integer data, int row, int col) {
        jTable1.setValueAt(data,row,col);
    }

This is my Update_Window JFrame:
    private void submitBtnActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
        quantity = Integer.parseInt(quantityTextField.getText());
        price = Integer.parseInt(priceTextField.getText());
        Main_Window mw = new Main_Window();
        mw.putDataIntoTable(price,3,2);
    }

I think my problem is here Main_Window mw = new Main_Window();, because this creates a new Instance and it doesn't add the data to the correct window, or something like that.

A: Yes, you are right. The line Main_Window mw = new Main_Window(); is definitely wrong.
Better solution is:
public class UpdateWindow extends JFrame {
    private final MainWindow mainWindow;
    public UpdateWindow(MainWindow mainWin) {
        mainWindow = mainWin;
    }
    private void submitBtnActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
        quantity = Integer.parseInt(quantityTextField.getText());
        price = Integer.parseInt(priceTextField.getText());
        mainWindow.putDataIntoTable(price,3,2);
    }
}

Also you need to correct the call of constructor for UpdateWindow
private void updateBtnActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
    UpdateWindow newWindow = new UpdateWindow(this);
    newWindow.setVisible(true);
    newWindow.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
}

Please note: I've corrected your class names as it proposed by Java naming convention. Main_Window -> MainWindow, Update_Window -> UpdateWindow.
When my suggestion don't solve your problems, please provide a [mcve] so we can better identify your problems.

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Vaporware Watch
By Felix_dup1
April 2, 2002 in The Keyboard Corner
Felix_dup1
Does anyone know if the following long-ago announced products are indeed shipping?
Alesis Andromeda (I know it shipped before - is it shipping again?)
M Audio Surface One
Minimoog Voyager
And feel free to add to this list. I know delays happen, but it's a shame if products don't hit when they're supposed to!
Anoplura
The Andromeda is shipping again. The first shipment from the new factory came in a couple of weeks ago. Right now, the quantities are pretty small. The first batch was just over 30 units, the second - due this week - will be closer to 50. Europe will get a shipment of about 100 next week. Production will continue to slowly ramp up as we get the new factory on line.
I was especially curious on the Andromeda, as it wasn't showing up in the Synthesizer section on the Alesis website. Got a little worried!
My Voyager is slated for delivery in early July.
Jaydubz
Logic 5.0
btw, Alesis airSynth finally shipped! (how long did that take?)
Novation ReMOTE controller for Reason?
Novation Remote Controller for Reason
...Bueller? Bueller?...
...anyone know the whereabouts of these?
Any other missing Vaporware out there?
Gus Lozada
Originally posted by felix:
Not yet...
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Summer NAMM this week in Nashville - sure would be exciting if some of these materialized...
Logic PhatChannel
M Audio MidAir
-They will start shipping in August. I've been promised mine the first week of September.
Who knows. I would bet that It won't come out until after Oct. 1st. That way It'll only be available for mac.
FrankieP
I had read somewhere (I forgot which magazine) that Novation scrapped the Reason Controller thingy.
Digital Performer 3.1 was supposed to be delivered first quarter of this year. Now, I don't expect it until after OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) ships on August 24th. The AES convention in early October seems like a good bet.
I ordered a "Vaporware Watch" a few years ago. It never arrived!
Ba Da Bum!
Enthusiasm powers the world.
Craig Anderton's Archiving Article
Steven Denike
I think the pain of waiting for 'new' classics is a double~edged sword for the marketers . . . on the one hand, you need to 'whet the public's appetite' for a product beforehand, but by the time the product's out, they may be fed up with your company!
I'm a sucker for wavetable synthesis; it's one of my favourite aspects of the SunSyn and if CreamWare doesn't release their Noah, I may eventually buy a MicroWave . . .
But I'm also a B3 lover, so imagine how excited I was with a completely upgradeable machine that offered those two for starters!
Their web site used to read, 'For a long time, there hasn't been a reason to buy a new synth. Coming this summer, all that has changed.' Now that has changed, too . . . the Noah page reads "For a long time there's been no good reason to buy a new synthesizer.
Starting spring 2003, there's Noah."
So what's going to happen between now and Spring 2003? What happened to the demo units they had at MusicMesse (that's the kind of thing that set it apart from a mere vaporware announcement in the first place!)
P.S. . . . Who's receiving their minimoog Voyager at the beginning of August? I thought they would have already started manufacture!
And yes, Andromeda back in production means one less 'I wonder what I could have done with . . .' running around in my head . . . very versatile, I wish the 'sound' was stronger . . . maybe that's changed since the first edition?
Steven Denike said:
If you were really a sucker for wavetable synthesis, youd already own a MicroWave. [j/k]
Regardless of what Creamw@re does, go for the MicroWave anyway...the part of your brain that craves a deep mod matrix will thank you.
It's been a while, and happily enough, some of the products that took a while to ship have become reality:
- Minimoog Voyager
- Hartmann Neuron
Others haven't quite made it to market yet (correct me if I'm wrong):
- M-Audio Surface One
Some have changed:
- Novation ReMote 25 (see it at www.novationusa.com)
And new vaporware has emerged (ok, it's not really vaporware, but it was announced a long time ago and still hasn't shipped):
- Alesis Ion
Anyone else want to add cool new gear that they can't wait to buy (if it ever got around to shipping)?
I was at Alesis yesterday. The Ion has encountered a few more delays...looks like they won't be starting beta for a few weeks; and, if the beta goes well, they won't start programming the presets until mid-March.
Looks like my original estimate of a May 2003 ship date may not have been that far off...
Magpel
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Check out the Sweet Clementines CD at bandcamp
Mark Zeger
I'm still waiting for DP for OS X.
I'm not expecting it for a while, but I'll buy MOTU Mach Five as soon as it ships. That looks like a big winner if it lives up to the specs.


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417 Magazine 417 Magazine Issues September 2016 Inside East Wind, Tecumseh's Intentional Community
Inside East Wind, Tecumseh's Intentional Community
Supported by a multi-million-dollar nut butter business, an intentional community has quietly existed in Tecumseh for more than 40 years. We sent a writer to find out about this slice of counterculture in our own backyard.
Written and Photographed by Vivian Wheeler
Editor's note: To respect the values of the East Wind community and the individuals who have chosen new names to reflect their identities, sources are identified by their first names only.
Ryn moved because she graduated from college at the start of the recession. Taralynn joined because her bipolar disorder can make it hard to function in a 9-to-5 job. For Sumner, he saw it as an opportunity to explore his interests. It was Deborah's way to escape the culture of her parents' generation. For my brother, Boone, it was the best way he knew how to fight for a better future. There are as many reasons for moving to East Wind as there are people living at East Wind—about 73 currently—but for everyone I talked to, it centered around the idea of a way of life that valued experiences over possessions and people over profit. There you'll find a simpler life, one unbridled by the constraints of bills and appointments and paychecks and traffic jams and alarm clocks.
East Wind is an egalitarian intentional community in Ozark County. It sits just a few miles north of the Arkansas border in Tecumseh, Missouri. East Wind was a part of the back-to-the-land movement in southwest Missouri due to the affordability of land. It was established in 1974 after its sister community, Twin Oaks, reached capacity. Today, East Wind and Twin Oaks, along with a handful of other communities, comprise the Federation of Egalitarian Communities (FEC), which means the communities hold their land, labor, income and other resources in common.
Multiple greenhouses on the East Wind property help extend the growing season and provide year-round produce for the members.
Getting to the Commune
In the '60s and '70s, thousands of communes were started across America. Few of them are still standing today. East Wind is not only standing but also thriving thanks to two businesses, a nut butter–making business and a rope sandal business. The nut butter business alone netted just more than $540,000 in sales in 2015, and projections are even better for this year. In the history of East Wind, there have been dips in membership, but for the past four years, the community has continually run a waiting list. I wanted to see firsthand how this place functioned and to meet the people living there. I wanted to peek behind the proverbial curtain and see what life was like.
My brother had been interested in communal living for years. Last summer he broke up with his girlfriend, quit his job and drove from Princeton, New Jersey, to Springfield. He made it to East Wind, where he began his three-week visitor's period, a trial run required for all prospective members. After that, he went on the waiting list, as East Wind was at its population capacity, which meant it was back to Springfield with me for a few months. Then in January of last year, he got the email that his spot was available. He's been living there ever since, and in June I decided it was time to visit.
To be honest, my trip wasn't entirely driven by a desire to visit my brother. I was more than a little curious to explore this enclave of counterculture. It was hard to believe that such a successful example of communal living was right here in 417-land.
Andrea, a recent college grad, works in the garden during her visitor's period.
Life at East Wind
East Winders refer to the outside world as Babylon, which, by default, makes the community Zion. As I turned off of Highway 160 and onto a gravel road, I was officially no longer in Babylon. Pulling into East Wind, I was struck by how beautiful it was. I had seen pictures, but they didn't compare to the real thing. East Wind encompasses almost 1,200 acres, more than 800 of which serve as an unofficial nature preserve with another 345 acres holding infrastructure, gardens and pastures. Lick Creek winds its way through the property, providing several idyllic swimming holes.
Nari plays the accordion in front of Rock Bottom.
It was dinner time when I arrived. I joined my brother and his fellow communards—cos for short—for a meal at Rock Bottom, the building that houses the kitchen and serves as the most popular hangout spot. In addition to Rock Bottom, several other buildings dot the community. The Music Room is not actually a music room, but another hangout spot that's frequented by many of the long-term members. Then there is the actual music room. It doesn't have an official name, but it's filled with instruments. Foopin is the food processing building. Nuts Butts is the nut butter factory. Hammocks serves as the office building, computer room and community meeting space. Commie Clothes is the community's closet. There's the Man Hut, where male visitors stay, and Sunburst, the female counterpart, where I would be staying during my visit. After settling into my room, I fell asleep surprisingly fast considering it was June and there was no air-conditioning.
In the morning I woke up and headed to Rock Bottom in search of coffee. My days at East Wind would all start like this. I would pour a cup of coffee and then check the day board to see if anyone had posted work that needed to be done.
As a guest of my brother, I technically wasn't required to work; however, I wanted to get a taste of what daily life was like, so I committed myself to trying to meet work quota. Quota is 35 hours during most weeks, reduced to 27 hours during holiday weeks, which happen once a month. For the most part, people can fill their work quota however they wish, and the possibilities are numerous. Just about anything that benefits the community can count as work.
Members and visitors are required to find work to do on their own. This was more challenging than I expected. My brother was also less help than I thought he was going to be. He was surprisingly busy and quite industrious, which was a bit of a departure from the time he spent living with me. He told me just to ask around to see what needed to be done. I learned there was always work to be done in the expansive gardens. I weeded tomatoes and mulched cucumber beds. Herb processing was another job that was never finished. There were two herb gardens, and they were full of peppermint, bergamot, chamomile, feverfew, Echinacea, holy basil and other plants that would be used to make medicinal tinctures. I wiled away more than one afternoon sitting under the natural gazebo made of wood beams and covered in wisteria while I picked leaves off of peppermint plants and tiny white and yellow flowers off of chamomile stalks. Through working I found out pretty quickly that I packed wrong for the trip. I had packed mostly athletic shorts, but I should have brought comfy, lightweight skirts, which is what most of the women wore because it's easier to pee in the woods when you don't have to pull down your shorts.
The bathroom situation took a little getting used to. The bathrooms are called Filmores, named for the last president to not have a flush toilet, and they work on a composting system. Buckets and peanut shavings replace toilet bowls and water. The buckets are collected and replaced each day, and the waste is composted for three years then used to fertilize the gardens and orchard.
The first time I tried to make use of a Filmore, I quickly abandoned ship. This particular bathroom had curtains instead of doors, and when I realized there was someone using one of the stalls, I chickened out and pretended that I just needed to grab a paper towel.
The East Wind community has a dairy and meat cow program. The dairy cows get milked every morning.
Members spend a lot of time at Lick Creek during the hot summer months.
When I wasn't working or trying to find an unoccupied Filmore, I spent a lot of time at the creek. I usually went swimming by myself. Most people swim in the nude, and as much as I wanted to embrace the full East Wind experience, I wasn't ready to swim naked in broad daylight with a bunch of people I didn't know. One day it was particularly hot and I decided to go for a swim in my birthday suit. I grabbed a couple of beers and a towel and walked to the swimming hole farthest away, thinking I would be safe. I disrobed at the bank and splashed into the water. I was halfway through my second beer when a group of four people showed up to enjoy the water. Camped out between my clothes and me, the group relaxed and chatted. Periodically they would swim and we would talk. As the sun got lower in the sky, my feet and hands started to turn into prunes, but I was determined to outlast them. As free-spirited as I consider myself, I could not imagine walking out of the water—completely nude—to put on my clothing. Eventually they headed back up the hill and I was able to get out of the water.
As I was putting my clothes back on I realized the only thing that seemed out of the ordinary for the group of people I was swimming with was probably how long I was in the water. Nudity anywhere at East Wind is not unusual, and by the end of week I didn't think twice about. As I was walking back up to Rock Bottom, I couldn't help but think how quickly different cultural differences start to feel normal. I ran into my brother who was just finishing up a shift in the nut butter factory. They had gotten in two $60,000 orders that week, and things were busier than usual.
Getting Down to Business
The nut butter business produces organic and regular peanut butter, cashew butter, almond butter, organic tahini and plain packaged peanuts. East Wind Nut Butters can be found all over the Midwest in a variety of stores. You can even find them in certain Walmarts. What members are required to perform each week depends on demand and is set by the production managers, but it typically ranges anywhere from zero to nine hours a week.
Member Virgil works filling jars with almond butter in Nut Butts, the nut butter production factory.
Members turn in their hours each month on a scoop sheet, and hours are recorded by the labor manager. If a member falls too far behind on their hours, they can face expulsion. While I was visiting, a preliminary member, Mouse, fell more than 115 hours in the hole, which according to the bylaws meant automatic expulsion.
I'm not sure why Mouse chose his name, but it seemed to be fitting. Mouse is soft-spoken and shy. He has short, blond dreadlocks and is rarely seen without sunglasses on. Having not yet lived at East Wind for a year, Mouse wasn't a full member, but he stopped turning in his scoop sheets to protest the labor system.
"People don't talk to each other," he said. "I see the whole labor system as one of these avenues where people kind of use these rules and regulations to hide behind so they don't have to talk to each other." He thought the scoop sheets were infantilizing and didn't think they would be necessary if members were capable of directly communicating with each other. Mouse hadn't actually stopped working; he had simply stopped turning in his scoop sheets.
A meeting was called, and about 40 people gathered outside of Rock Bottom. Members took turns speaking. Many of them expressed an acknowledgment of Mouse's objectives, and some people even said they would also like to see the labor rules revisited, but almost everyone who spoke mentioned how they did not appreciate the way Mouse was going about things. They didn't like that he was simply refusing to follow procedure. They felt he should work within the system to change things. By the end of the meeting they decided to give him a week to get a petition passed. I recently asked my brother what happened. It turned out Mouse's petition failed and he ended up leaving.
Members gather outside of Rock Bottom for a meeting to discuss Mouse's labor deficit.
Meeting the Members
Despite the outcome of Mouse's labor dispute, very few members actually get kicked out of community. When people leave, it's typically because they want to. Even in the meeting, it was evident that most people wanted to figure out a way Mouse could stay. I heard from multiple people during the week that they believe in giving people second, or third or fourth, chances. Or, as one member put it: "East Wind will give you as much rope as you need. Just be careful not to hang yourself with it."
A high value is placed on personal freedom at East Wind, which is interesting considering the nature of the place. There have even been scholarly pieces written about the interplay between the individual and the community at East Wind. For most us, part of living a happy life means finding your perfect balance between freedom and security. For Deborah, one of the 16 founding members and the only one currently living at the community, East Wind offers her the maximum of both. "The amount of security I get for the amount of freedom I get, that ratio can't be beat anywhere else I lived or anywhere else I've ever heard of," she says. "I have more freedom here than I could have anywhere else in this country. And certainly as much security."
A hammock by the creek is a popular destination for warm-weather napping.
Part of that freedom means being able to create a new identity. Many members change their name when they come to East Wind. While I was there I met a Sage, an Earth Pig, a Luida, a Willow, a Faye, a Mandar and even a Mr. Poopy Butthole. People will change their names depending on their mood. One member, Taralynn, posted a note on the day board while I was visiting that explained she would like to be called Mirror. And people respected her request for a new name.
I asked Ryn, a woman who has been living at East Wind for five years, why she thinks so many people change their names. "A lot of people come here, and they discover new things about themselves, or they grow quite a bit over the first year or two of their membership," she says. "It's part of that process of truly being able to define yourself as opposed to being defined."
Ryn has defined herself as one of the hardest workers at East Wind. As the food production manager, she's in charge of a whole slew of duties that range from putting up garden vegetables and processing meat to making cheeses and drying herbs. She has a shaved head, thick glasses and an accent I've never heard before. Her speech is peppered with folksy colloquialisms that belie her intense intelligence. Originally from Maryland, Ryn graduated from Oberlin College in 2010, and moved to East Wind shortly after. She's 28 years old, and I as sit across from her, it's hard not to compare myself to her.
I also graduated from college in 2010. I am also 28 years old. If this were a Shakespearean play, we would be foils: our superficial similarities serving to highlight our stark differences. Her skills read like a laundry list of meaningful and useful knowledge: woodworking, blacksmithing, canning and preserving food, animal husbandry and farming. The last new thing I learned was how to use Snapchat, and I'm not even very good at it.
Bert, an East Wind member for more than 20 years, also values the personal freedom East Wind allows him and uses much of his free time to create math-inspired art, examples of which can be seen across the property. Moving to East Wind strained his relationship with his family, but he has found a family in fellow communards. "These are wonderful people," he says. "There's a genuine interest and compassion for each other that is here that I don't think you find universally outside East Wind. When somebody falls or stumbles here, they're quick to pick you up, metaphorically."
Coming Back to Reality
Not everyone is so lucky. Sixteen percent of people in southwest Missouri are food insecure, a fact that seems almost unbelievable in this day and age. And Ozark County is one of the poorest counties in Missouri. According to the United States Census, almost 21 percent of the people fall below the poverty line. Ozarks Food Harvest works with local food banks to help alleviate some of the need for food, and twice a month East Wind sends volunteers to assist. One morning while I was there, I piled into a large white van with four other people from East Wind and drove to a defunct factory that now serves as a temporary food bank.
We spent four hours filling boxes with canned vegetables and fruit, Jif peanut butter, boxes of packaged dinners, dried beans, Eggo waffles and frozen chicken. People drove up in their individual cars and stood in line, waiting to check in and pick up their allotments. One lady had a walker, so I helped her out to her vehicle. Her car clock read 12:07. I thought of everyone back at East Wind. It was lunch time. People would be filling up on fresh veggies, organic meat and raw milk. They would be dining on non-GMO millet and gluten-free noodles. I slid the box into her back seat and told her to have a good day.
Sometimes I feel as if the great joke of life is the fact that we live in a world where we have enough resources to feed everyone and yet there are people starving to death while others throw away perfectly good food. I understand that, for a whole slew of complicated reasons including, but not limited to, logistics, politics, geography, cultural norms, ad infinitum, this is not a simple issue to fix. But still, this sense of injustice sits right below the surface of everyday life for me. It's like a constant itch that I can ignore most of the time, but when I start to scratch it, it becomes incessant and acute. And I scratch it until I become exhausted, and then I go back to ignoring it, resigned and helpless before its towering enormity.
For the week I was at East Wind I didn't feel helpless. I realized it was the first time in my life I could be positive that every person I met had a safe, dry place to sleep and enough to eat. Heading back to Babylon would mean air-conditioning, plumbing, restaurants, my own shower and all the creature comforts I love. But it also would mean going back to a world where not everyone has enough to eat or a somewhere to live. I wasn't sure the trade-off was worth it.
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Young churchmen and people struggling with faith sought his advice, including such well-known social figures as the writer and philanthropist Hannah More, and the young William Wilberforce, a Member of Parliament who had recently suffered a crisis of conscience and religious conversion while contemplating leaving politics. The younger man consulted with Newton, who encouraged Wilberforce to stay in Parliament and "serve God where he was."
In 1788, 34 years after he had retired from the slave trade, Newton broke a long silence on the subject with the publication of a forceful pamphlet Thoughts Upon the Slave Trade, in which he described the horrific conditions of the slave ships during the Middle Passage. He apologised for "a confession, which … comes too late … It will always be a subject of humiliating reflection to me, that I was once an active instrument in a business at which my heart now shudders." He had copies sent to every MP, and the pamphlet sold so well that it swiftly required reprinting.
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Police in Kazakhstan have killed dozens of protesters who tried to storm government buildings, according to media reports, as a Russia-led military alliance approved a peacekeeping force to the Central Asian country to quell unrest triggered by a rise in fuel prices.
Saltanet Azirbek, spokeswoman for the Kazakh police, told Khabar-24 television channel on Thursday that "extremist forces" had attempted overnight to storm administrative building as well as police departments in the country's largest city, Almaty.
"The dozens of attackers were eliminated, their identities are being established," she said.
The casualties came amid continued unrest in Kazakhstan, with hundreds of protesters rallying in Almaty's main square on Thursday, despite the presence of dozens of troops and several armoured personnel carriers.
A Reuters news agency journalist on the scene reported hearing gunshots as the troops approached the crowds.
The fresh protests come a day after demonstrators stormed the presidential palace and the mayor's office in Almaty and set both on fire. Crowds also briefly overran the Almaty airport on Wednesday, prompting several flight cancellations.
The Kazakh Interior Ministry said at least eight police and national guard troops had been killed in the unrest while 300 were injured.
As tensions escalated, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev late on Wednesday appealed for help from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a Moscow-based alliance of six former Soviet countries.
CSTO's chairman, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, said on Thursday that the alliance has now approved sending an unspecified number of peacekeepers to Kazakhstan.
In a statement on Facebook, Pashinyan said the troops will be sent "for a limited period with the aim of stabilisation and normalisation of the situation" in Kazakhstan.
He also blamed "outside interference" for the mass protests.
State television reported on Thursday that the National Bank of Kazakhstan had decided to suspend work of banks in the country for the safety of their workers, while Middle Eastern carriers flydubai and Air Arabia said they have cancelled flights to Almaty.
The Kazakh president had earlier vowed to take harsh measures to quell the unrest and declared a two-week state of emergency for the whole country, expanding one that had been announced for both the capital of Nur-Sultan and the largest city of Almaty.
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Tokayev had also sacked the cabinet in response to the unrest.
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Online learning empowers students and offers alternatives to traditional higher education.
The rising cost of higher education has sparked a revolution in online learning. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) offer a learning experience that wouldn't otherwise be available to many of the students flocking to these free, online-only classrooms.
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Amazons in Britain plus Rexit and Hexit
I enjoyed this book – reading about the warrior women who rode into battle, skilled with bows and arrows, and other weapons.
But what really excited me was finding out that archaeologists discovered the remains of Amazons (possibly from Sarmatia, part of the ancient Scythian empire) at a Roman cemetery in Cumbria, near Hadrian's Wall.
The reason for my excitement is that it validates my entirely hypothetical notion that Queen Cartimandua of the Brigantes tribe in northern Britain could have had a female warrior lover. (Ref: The Starling Hill Trilogy)
Sadly, during my time excavating at Vindolanda, near Hadrian's Wall, the only bones I uncovered were from cows. The Roman legions based there ate a lot of beef!
Rexit and Hexit
I'm trying not to read too much about Brexit although it's hard to avoid, especially now. But it occurred to me we've had two continental splits in the past with different outcomes.
There was Rexit – when the Romans left Britain. The country then descended into 600 years of the 'Dark Ages' with tribal warfare breaking out everywhere. Although there is now some archaeological evidence to suggest that it wasn't all a dark time. Just that we have no written records. And those of us of a romantic bent are happy to believe that King Arthur was a real person and was successful in uniting the tribes.
And then there was Hexit – when Henry VIII gave notice to the Pope that he wasn't following the church's rules on divorce anymore. Instead of the country hitting a downward slide…it reasserted itself strongly on the world stage during Queen Elizabeth the First's reign…particularly with the exploits of Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh.
I can't possibly predict how this current 'exit' will work out. Maybe sometime in the future historians and archaeologists will be able to fathom what actually happened. At the moment it feels like we could be on the brink of another 'dark age'.
My latest book, Deuce, doesn't have anything to do with Amazons, Roman Britain, or Brexit. It's romantic fiction.
Positive reviews are always a joy, knowing that your written work has connected with a reader. This reviewer has encapsulated what I was trying to achieve with this book…describing it much better than I have managed to do in previous blogs.
"The story is so well told. It has love, unexpected family complications, passion and surprises. I could not put it down. I wanted to know what happened next to these characters. They felt real and I began to care about them. They each had to face the fact that time does not stand still and people change. Sometimes that means accepting differences and sometimes it means putting yourself in their shoes. Jen Silver has a talent for crafting characters and storylines that really resonate. She subtly weaves real events into her work and that makes the reader feel more engaged. 'Deuce' may be my favourite of her novels so far."
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Seals, Surrogacy, Second Chances
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I've used these words as a tagline for my latest book, Deuce.
Why? Because I think the title isn't really too indicative of what the story is about. When someone asks me to describe the plot, I have difficulty putting it into words, in any coherent way.
Seals: This has relevance as Charlotte, one of the main characters, is a marine biologist and her specialist subject was studying the grey seal population in the North Sea. Particularly poignant at a time when they were dying in great numbers from a mysterious disease.
Surrogacy: This word also concerns Charlotte. She gave birth to one child when she was at university and gave her up for adoption…in an arrangement with a lesbian couple.
Second chances: Again, Charlotte…her research vessel was lost at sea and she's been living on the Faroe Islands with no memory of her life before. The reader meets her in the prologue when she seas a beached seal and her memories start to return. She remembers that she had a lover, Jay, and a new baby…the one they were going to bring up together.
Jay is an ex professional tennis player. That's where the deuce analogy comes in. Her life after Charlotte's 'death' has felt like one of those matches where gaining two points to win seems out of reach…continually returning to 'deuce'…an even score.
Chapter One starts twenty-three years after Charlotte's disappearance. Jay is engaged to be married. Both children Charlotte left behind are grown up.
In preparation for doing a reading from the book at the now cancelled Diva Literary Festival, I recorded the piece I was planning to read. In this scene, Jay's fiancée Amanda comes to her house wanting to know about Charlotte and also where Jay spends her weekends.
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Does she get the answers she wants? How does Charlotte's return to 'life' affect those she left behind all that time ago?
Read the book to find out.
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The internet is no longer a luxury. It is seen as a necessity by most of us and rightly so. Right from stores to studies, a lot of it has moved on to the net. This shift from the real world to the virtual one has given rise to e-commerce, which has gone from being a forte of the larger companies to becoming a means of making money for the individual user too. There are many users who are buying new laptops and computers in order to connect to the net and make money online.
One of the most attractive aspects of the online market is that it is alive round the clock which means that users can pick and choose a time convenient to them instead of having to follow a nine to five schedule. Of course there are some rules that do come into play in this arena too, but mostly it is a much easier place than the real world, when one is looking to make money.
Almost everyone on the ecommerce circuit has heard of this one. Interestingly it still works and so the ship has not sailed yet for this one. The idea here is simply to join another merchant's affiliate program and then promote that link on your website. If a prospect buys after clicking on your link, you get a commission from the merchant. Simple, easy, effective and does not require financial investment. The best part is you do not even need to have a product. Perfect online money making method for those new to ecommerce!
All the worlds a market for online freelancers. There are umpteen sites where freelancers are offering their services to a global market. We have writers from India working for sites run in the USA or even web designers from Australia working for some employer in China. Right from Elance to Guru, there are several sites one can sign up for. In some cases the membership is free while in others there is a fee involved. Of course here the competition is tough and it does take time to build a reputation for yourself.
Whoever said what's in a name was definitely not talking about the internet. Domain names play a huge role in ecommerce and there is significant profit to be made in the buying and selling of domain names. There is the GoDaddy site where one can buy the domain name from and then sell it for a profit. Again simple but does require a bit of an initial investment.
Right from EBay to Quicker you can auction your stuff on all of it. The sign up is free and in most cases you will find a buyer who is interested in what you want to sell.
In case you have a product to sell then launching an ecommerce website will also help you make money. The advantages here are that you do not need real time store space or sales persons and can get your product to the consumer without these expenses thus bettering your returns. Of course the investment of setting up site is required not to mention maintaining it and driving traffic to the site.
Google Adsense will pay good money to those who have an active and popular blog. The idea here is simply to allow them to place a link on your blog and for every click you will be given a commission. Much like freelancers, bloggers also take a while to build up their popularity and the skill factor is very important indeed.
If you have a flair for writing you can really make a lot of bucks online. Simply get your eBook in order and promote and sell it on sites like Amazon, Kobo and even Barnes and Noble. Keep in mind the competition is tough here since there are over 8 million books being sold on Amazon itself.
The mobile market is merging with the internet at a rather fast pace. This is where mobile phone app testers are stepping in. The idea here is to test the new apps that are being created and try and identify the bugs in the programs. Testers are paid for discovering the bugs. This again is a task where building up a reputation comes into play.
There are a lot of surveys that need to be filled out and they are up for grabs on the net. Some of these surveys pay well while others not so much. The trick is to look for sites where these surveys are available and then sign up for as many as you can.
As an affiliate when a product sells you get a commission for the sale. However as a reseller you get 100% of the sales. Becoming a reseller does need you to invest some money, but if you choose your product carefully the profits are not too hard to come by. Here you buy the resale rights of the product and then sell it on your own.
Here you buy in bulk from a manufacturer but do not collect the product. You then go on to sell the product on the net and for every order you receive the payment while the manufacturer ships the product to the buyer. This allows you to make a profit without having to bother with the storage or the shipping.
If you have the information to offer and there are people out there who want it then there is good money to be made from membership sites. Here the members pay a fee for signing up and then they are given the info they require via emails.
The number of ways that one can make money online is not limited to 12 but goes on and on. In the virtual market, like any other commercial place, vision is the key to success. Identifying the next big wave is the trick to making big bucks.
Linda Williams is a freelance writer who writes passionately about gadgets and tech. She is from Denver, CO, where she lives with her husband and three daughters.
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From the streets of Detroit to the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame…and now live at the Imperial Theatre in New York City, New York. Catch "Ain't Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations" on Tuesday 31st August 2021. If you loved their everlasting hits "My Girl", "Just My Imagination", "Papa Was a Rolling Stone," and so many more, you'll love them even more as you witness the life stories behind the songs, the stage, the triumphs, and the life and times of the illustrous American vocal group The Temptations. Give in to this sweet temptation, get your tickets now!
Five guys, one dream… The Temptations took that musical journey from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. We all know that. But do you know the stories behind the songs..their bond of brotherhood, family, loyalty loosened by betrayal? "Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations" will take us to that bitter-sweet spot, as this biomusical takes center stage at the Imperial Theatre in New York City, New York, on Tuesday 31st August 2021. This is one amazing throwback to this iconic group's signature dance moves and unmistakable harmonies, as the robust cast dish out their smash hits, "My Girl", "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)", "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", and a whole lot more! Too tempting, too irresistible to let go. Buy your tickets now!


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Q: Azure Data Factory HTTP connector not returning XML output For one of our clients we are trying to extract data from a somewhat old fashioned REST API which returns an XML response. We have already discovered that the REST API connector cannot be used for this purpose as it can only handle JSON reponses. We therefore switched to the HTTP connector instead which is giving back data, which we were then able to write to an Azure SQL DB sink. The strange thing is that the ADF output is always in JSON, despite the API response being XML.
At first we didn't think this was a problem but I just discovered that array handling is not being done correctly. If multiple records are returned everything is fine, but when only a single record is returned by the API the square brackets around the array are removed and ADF no longer recognizes it correctly in the mapping because it expects an array. As a result the single record is not written to the SQL database.
We have tried using the Content-Type: application/xml header to force an XML output, but that also didn't work. As the API really returns XML, it seems that ADF is converting this to JSON on its own accord and not doing it correctly.
Is there any way that we can handle an XML API in ADF using standard connectors? We don't have programmers on our team who can create custom connectors so that's not an option. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

A: Unfortunately, there is no connector supports REST APIs with XML responses in Azure Datafactory.
I am afraid as the only way possible is to have a Custom Activity or Azure Function Activity to invoke the REST API.
You can build a Custom activity with your own data movement or transformation logic and use it in a pipeline to transfer data to/from a data store that the service doesn't support, or to transform/process data in a way that the service doesn't support.
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Amit Aggarwal has 16 years' international legal experience across a spectrum of IP services, IP strategies, the monetisation of IP assets and litigation. He has worked with companies globally, ranging from multinational corporations to start-ups, having advised them on the development of their IP portfolios, acquisition of assets and IP licensing. He has been a part of number of patent transactions in the United States, Europe and India and continues to work closely with clients, advising them on how to best leverage their intellectual property.
Mr Aggarwal founded Effectual Services in 2010, after leading various teams for nine years at some of the best-known companies in India. Effectual Services is a leading IP strategy consultation company, working with clients across Europe, North America and Asia to provide services with a global perspective in their native languages from offices across the regions. At Effectual Services, Mr Aggarwal has worked with licensing departments and companies, helping them to acquire relevant patents, develop their patent portfolios and license their patents. He has also worked with start-ups to help design monetisation programmes and derive value from their intellectual property. He works closely with the R&D departments of consumer products companies and has helped them to link their product development with IP strategy, while also counselling them on their open innovation programmes. Mr Aggarwal has appeared as an expert witness in patent infringement cases and has prosecuted patents before the Indian Patent Office.


That was a Sleepaway Camp reference. Which could still wind itself up on this list ….spoilers? Maybe, but are you following any how? Friday the 13th actually happened in Halloween this year. For that perfect stormy Friday The 13th in the month of Halloween I've included the third entry from the franchise on the mega halloween horror movie countdown!
Ok. I'm just going to put it out there. Friday the 13th Part 3 (in gloriously bad 3D technology) is the best Friday the 13th film — EVER. No, culty fans of The Final Chapter or zombie heads from Friday the 13th 6 Jason Lives those are not as good as the third entry to the franchise. Why? The gore and kills are top notch both inventing new horrific ways to be murdered but also referencing past friday the 13ths (see pregnant dead chick and Kevin Bacon similarities). It also features the incarnation of the hockey mask which will soon become the moniker of the entire series. This entry is the friday experience and perfect for that stormy Friday the 13th party.


2010 Gone to Earth, Jersey Arts Centre, Jersey, C.I.
2002 The Submerged Forest, Jersey Arts Center, Jersey, C.I.
2001 The Dreaming Grounds, Jersey Arts Center, Jersey, C.I.
2000 Garden Seascape Series, Govt House, Jersey, C.I.
2004 Sublime Reclamation, Jersey Arts Center, Jersey C.I.
2003 Old Buildings, National Trust, Falles Fine Art, Jersey C. I.
2000 Perceptions, Underground Hospital, Jersey, C.I.
2004 The Artist Magazine, 'Forces of Nature'.


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A Bachelor's degree at an accredited college/university (or equivalent).
A minimum of three years of professional post-graduate experience.
GRE, GMAT exam (680 average) or IE Admissions Test. The test result from one of these exams is a prerequisite for admission.
o Two years work experience in an English speaking country.
o Undergraduate degree completed in English.
Candidates pay a non-refundable application fee of €120 to cover administrative costs.
The tuition fees for the International MBA November 2008 and April 2009 amount to €48,000 + €1,100 (contribution to the IE Foundation).
To reserve a place on the International MBA, intake students are required to make a deposit equivalent to 20% of the total program fees (€9,600) + the contribution to the IE Business School Foundation (€1,100).


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Every homeowner dreams of owning a private swimming pool. A private swimming pool is important in that you can have your swimming sessions without interference. However, it is a quite expensive venture which requires constant maintenance and repair. To repair your pool, choose an Orange County Pool Repair Company that will help to save on cost.
Although it is possible to do some maintenance and repairs the DIY way, it is recommended you hire pool maintenance and repair specialists. A reputable Pool Repair Company in Orange County will not offer quality services but also to save you money as indicated below.
A pool repair specialist minimizes remodeling and repair costs greatly. The reason is that they do not operate on estimates when it comes to adding chemicals, maintenance, and pool cleaning.
If you happen to put excess chemicals, you might end up damaging the pool liner or even the pool itself which can be very expensive to restore to normal functioning.
Doing pool repair and maintenance by yourself can cost you a lot of your valuable time. Although it is costly to some extent to hire a pool specialist, it becomes cheaper in the long run if you have some other productive tasks to do.
Reputable pool repair companies offer quality maintenance services which save a lot of money. They are able to use the right amount of chemical and keep track of the most recent reagents to use in a pool. You will realize that routine maintenance requires no diagnosis hence minimizing pool repairs.
To ensure that your swimming pool water is safe and healthy, there is a need for water testing from a swimming pool company. It is the responsibility of qualified professionals to collect samples of water from your swimming pool and take them to the nearest company for testing.
The checks must be timely and highly accurate hence a lot of time is spent. The chemicals must also be kept safe for them to be used another time. These services must be done by a specialist who has knowledge in this field. Otherwise, you will spend a lot of money solving the wrong issue.
When a reputable company is responsible for ensuring your pool is at the right conditions, you do not need to store the chemicals on your own. The company takes care of such compounds hence you avoid chemical-related accidents which could be very expensive.
From the above point, it is evident that delegating the pool maintenance responsibility to a professional company is more cost effective. A pool repair company will not only save you cost based on the amount you are spending to maintain your pool but also through ensuring safe and healthy fun while swimming.
When it is your first or subsequent time to build a pool either in your home, or any other place, you are supposed to be careful on the type of contractors that you are about to offer the construction work. This prompts you to ask some vital questions to ascertain if they are the right people to build or maintain your pool.
Orange County Pool Maintenance Contractor are the best professionals to contact for all your pool construction needs. They have many years of offering pool maintenance services in Orange County. Below are the most important questions for you to ask your pool contractors.
How many projects have you completed? Can I see photos of some of them?
Asking about your contractor's previous works that they have managed from the beginning to the end is one of the vital questions to ask the contractors. After asking about them, request for photos of the projects and also pictures of pools similar to yours. You should ask why they preferred to offer provide pool maintenance in orange county and whether you can contact their previous clients within the region.
Do you have additional services such as decking or landscaping that you provide to your clients?
You are supposed to ask them if they do provide other services to their clients apart from pool services. If they do not, ask if they can recommend you to another firm that provides the same services so as you may be able to get all the work done at the same time.
What other amenities and decorations do you provide for pools?
There are a lot of decorations and amenities that are provided for swimming pools once they are completed. Such amenities include lighting and plumbing. Your contractor should be able to provide such amenities or can connect you to another firm that can do the job for you if you want to add some more touch to your pool.
Why am I supposed to trust you on maintaining or building my pool?
This question is simple and straightforward. Good contractors should be able to answer this question immediately. If they tend to take time on answering this question, you should think of getting another contractor to do your work as the current ones don't believe in themselves and it shows that they are not competent enough to give the best result and of high quality.
How many years of experience do you have in this field and how long have your company worked under the same name?
Working with contractors who have been in the pool constructions for an extended period guarantees you a good outcome on their work. They always give you the confidence that they will complete your work and that they might not run bankrupt and leave your pool unfinished. In case of anything, you will be able to follow up the firm as you are guaranteed that they can't close down their offices because of any misunderstanding or trouble that they may encounter on their duties.
Owning a swimming pool is great, but keeping it clean and free from bacteria can be dreadful without a good pool cleaning services. If you do not have time for attending your pool, hiring Orange County pool cleaning service company is a great idea to keep your pool well maintained.
There are several things you should consider when you are looking for pool service in Orange County. This page gives insights on the most valuable considerations you should have in mind before hiring any services.
Since your pool is a significant investment, experience is beneficial when it comes to pool maintenance services. You do not want to hire a service company that has no training and longevity behind it. Best pool cleaning companies need to have been in the business for quite a long time, can provide the best advice on pool cleaning and maintenance and keep up with the trends.
For a business, customer referrals and reputation are the building blocks to its success. Getting testimonials from friends and neighbor concerning company services play a crucial role in selecting the best pool cleaning Service Company. Before choosing a company, it is vital to ask them for referrals from their former and current clients, call them and inquire about their experience.
The company that offers cleaning and maintenance services to your pool will be visiting your home every week to vacuum your pool, add chemicals and maintain equipment. You need to choose a cleaning company that you are comfortable with, and you can trust with your property. Additionally, they need to be open and in a position to show you how they test water during visits, how to run the vacuum and other number of items that you can do for yourself during holidays.
In addition to cleaning and maintenance, it is crucial to consider if a company to handle repairs. You need to know the company's ability to inspect the pool and take note of equipment operations and whether they can tell the presence of any potentials issues or technicalities. A good pool cleaning Service Company should have staff with knowledge and skills to repair and do replacement of your pool equipment.
Since pool cleaning services are plentiful, you need to consider a company with affordable prices and gives you good value for your money. Price is a factor that sets competition apart, and it is crucial to compare and evaluate the pricing of various companies before deciding on the company to offer services to your pool.
Pool cleaning is a sensitive issue. You need to hire a cleaning company with the best service that you can trust for your pool. This page gives just a few considerations when choosing a pool cleaning services. Are there other things a homeowner should consider when selecting pool cleaning services companies? Add to this list and let's help pool owners choose the best cleaning service companies.
Preparing for summer means planning for pool outings and taking vacations to the beach. As 2019 is approaching, cleaning the pool is necessary to avoid unnecessary expenses because of damaged pool equipment. Clear Expectations is among the renowned companies that does pool cleaning in Orange County that assist in cleaning and servicing pools when a person finds the job tedious.
Pool maintenance involves checking the pool's chemistry regularly. It also encompasses keeping healthy levels of calcium, pH, and alkalinity. Pool owner can contact pool service in Orange County to help them understand their pool chemical levels and ways of correcting the abnormalities.
Every pool needs chlorine because it helps to destroy algae and bacteria. However, a strong smell of the chemical does not guarantee that the pool is clean. A pool should have no odor, but the strong smell emanates from a mixture of chlorine and organic materials including urine, bacteria, and sweat.
Chlorine causes chloramine that leads to the strong scent when it combines with the contaminants. Therefore, a strong smell implies that there is insufficient chlorine to fight the bacteria or algae in the pool.
This indicates that the pool contains a lot of particles or an imbalance of chemicals. It can also imply the lack of filtration, sunlight, heavy rain, and poor water circulation. Therefore, a swimming pool should be cleaned immediately when the water is cloudy.
Besides green, pool water can appear brown or yellowish. These phenomena can result from the growth of algae in the pool or the presence of other contaminants. Therefore, a change in color in the pool water requires immediate cleaning.
Pools require regular cleaning and maintenance to ensure that the water remains clear and clean. Algae grow when the pool has a skewed chemical composition. A pool can also have algae when it has the right chemical balance. As a result, brushing off the floor and walls of the pool prevents them from further growing.
Pools offer a lot of fun to swimmers. A clean pool encourages people to plunge in and enjoy the cool water. However, a pool with abundant algae or debris discourages people from swimming. Therefore, cleaning the pool regularly makes it a healthy and enjoyable place to relax with friends and families.
In conclusion, pool owners anticipating to enjoy their pools should clean their pools regularly. A pool needs cleaning when the water is discolored or appears murky. Additionally, a strong scent of chlorine means that the pool contains contaminants.