Chanel surprised the whole fashion scene with their Chanel Supermarket runway for Paris Fashion Week. The runway took place in a fake Chanel Supermarket, filled with stunning people and incredible Chanel products. Going to the supermarket has never been so fab!
At Bonocle we were very happy to see so many glasses on the show. Who said you can't wear your sunnies in the supermarket?!
Even Rihanna went out for a shopping tour!
Thom Browne's models at Paris Fashion Week at École Militaire showed the Spring 2014 collection wearing aviators and a bold red lips, creating the season's eccentric inspiration from the military.
Photo from Thom Browne's instagram.
Not only did Kenzo show awesome eyewear for FW 13, they also had eyes printed all over! "It's all about protection and warding off evil spirits," Humberto Leon and Carol Lim said of the eyes. As if they would need it with all the love they've received lately.
One of the biggest talk-abouts of last years eyewear moments was definitely the collaboration between Damir Doma and MYKITA. At this years Berlin Fashion Week we finally got the great confirmation: the story continues!
3. Available in my favorite colour: red, check!
5. Retro shape in a modern and innovative way, check!
Looking forward trying them on as soon as I get the chance! Excited!
Cutler & Gross' optical frame "0692"in Grey, Blue and Crystal appeared on the Rikard Nicoll runway, especially renewed with black mirror and crimson blue lenses for this occasion.
The frame did great together with the designer's collection of industrial post-punk / neo-classical wardrobe essentials.
I bumped into this picture while surfing on bon's website and it just caught my attention. Love the whole look, combining a classic female look with a balanced electric futurism. The sunglasses are very delicate, they almost look like Christian Dior eyewear did back in the 80's.
What to say… Aren't these glasses just kind of awesome?!
On my wish-list! From PRADA SS13.
Also available in tortoise, black and blue etc of what I've seen.
Sunglasses made of shiny stainless steel and horn, WOW!
Just another Bonocle-favorite from MYKITA… I have to say, they are KILLING it! Amazing collaborations coming out from the berlin-based eyewear brand every single year. Can't wait until seeing these sunglasses in real life at their launch party in Paris this weekend! Exited!
This time the ALTEWAISAOME SS13 collection includes a very important accessory: sunglasses! ALTEWAISAOME has designed a bold collection of sunglasses in collaboration with swedish eyewear company KunoQvist.
says Marcus Gårdö founder of KunoQvist.
Raul Mazzoni painting, picture from (HERE).
MYKITA Mylon meets the runway! This collection really redefines the borders between the worlds of sports and fashion.
Photos from The MYKITA Blog.
MYKITA Mylon at SS13 Zero + Maria Cornejo Fashion Show in NY.


Does eating too much sugar and carbohydrates contribute to poor thyroid health and the formation of chronic disease? Can eating a hunter gatherer diet like our ancestors fix the problem? Let's find out.
Is there a connection between the paleo lifestyle and thyroid health? We'll examine the answer to this questions, but first let's define a few things.
While the term paleo has been a buzzword in the world of nutrition and dieting for several years now, most people have a misconception of what paleo or hunter gatherer diet means – often mistaking a paleo/primal lifestyle for a strict adherence to a particular food list notably absent of grains, beans, legumes, and dairy.
Paleo, or the "hunter gatherer diet", as it is also known, is so much more. As humans, we are all born with a genetic DNA map to health and happiness. In fact, every species was born with their own DNA maps.
Unfortunately, over the past 10,000 years humans have thrown away that map and unknowingly taken a detour in the wrong direction, which opened the door and invited in the diseases of modern life and jeopardized our thyroid health.
Ever since paleo became a popular buzz word, people have been grossly misinterpreting it on a variety of levels. Paleo, primal, ancestral, hunter gatherer and evolutionary health are all terms that describe the same movement. The biggest misconception about a paleo lifestyle is that it is merely a list of foods you can or cannot eat.
This could not be further from the truth. The paleo/primal lifestyle is different from any other eating strategy out there today. It enables you to get off the carbohydrate-dependency hamster wheel, which is the cause of poor thyroid health and so many diseases, and allows you to transition into a fat-burning machine.
If you are a sugar-burner, your body is dependent on (i.e., addicted to) fueling itself on glucose. If you are a sugar-burner, you trained your body to function this way; many people do this unwittingly based on flawed, conventional diet wisdom that instructs people to eat every two to three hours and/or adopt a low-fat/high-carbohydrate diet.
You crave grain-based carbohydrates like bread, rice, cereal, and baked goods/treats.
You can't seem to burn fat.
You are hungry every two to five hours.
You have drops in energy during the day.
I used to be royally obsessed with food. At one point I thought about joining Overeaters Anonymous because I didn't understand why I was so food-obsessed. I couldn't go more than three to four hours without eating, or I would get very cranky and feel exhausted and mentally drained.
Like many people, I thought the "eat every two to three hours" philosophy was the healthiest eating strategy, based on the information I read in almost every diet book on the market. And it certainly seemed in line with the symptoms I had when I did not follow that routine, so I believed the strategy had merit.
However, at the time I didn't realize that there was a much easier and healthier way: eating the way our bodies were genetically programmed to operate.
If you are a fat-burner, you can use the fat from your diet and the fat stored in your body to fuel yourself. Fat has been the primary fuel source for humans for 2.5 million years, both from storage and as the predominant macronutrient in the human diet.
In fact, it was the energy-rich, high-fat elements of animal products (particularly omega-3 fatty acids) that facilitated the development of a more complex brain and allowed humans to branch out from their predominantly vegetarian ape cousins to eventually rise to the top of the food chain.
Our DNA preference for fat-burning conflicts with the government food pyramid, which suggests that carbohydrates should form the foundation of a healthy diet.
The government food pyramid recommends eating six to eleven servings of grains per day and two to four servings of fruit, along with limiting fat intake and other irrational suggestions that lead to health issues and poor thyroid health.
Our modern high-carbohydrate, grain-based diet has sparked a dependency on external carbohydrates for energy at the expense of efficient fat metabolism. We are the only living things on the face of the Earth who have "food issues." Animals in the wild don't require food every two to three hours to maintain energy and stamina.
Humans have burned fat as their primary source of energy throughout human evolution. Our hunter gatherer ancestors were not only lean and fit, but they did not have diseases of modern life, such as type 2 diabetes, poor thyroid health/hypothyroidism, and autoimmune disorders, until the abrupt transition to a grain-based diet.
The agricultural movement, and the decline of human health, entered the picture ten thousand years ago, once humans settled down in one area, stopped wandering, and started to domesticate animals. Dairy came on the scene about seven thousand years ago, and sugar showed up only two hundred years ago.
A high-carbohydrate, high-insulin-producing diet inhibits fat metabolism, making you dependent upon regular carbohydrate feedings in order to sustain mental and physical energy.
This promotes a lifelong accumulation of excess body fat, an exhaustion of your adrenal glands' fight-or-flight stress responses, thyroid health issues, along with emotional tribulations related to eating. Living life as a sugar-burner is a never-ending struggle to balance calories in with calories out.
A grain-infused, high-carbohydrate diet also promotes inflammation and free radical damage in the body, accelerating the aging process and contributing to all health problems, including heart disease and cancer.
Our ancestors ate a hunter gatherer diet high in animal flesh and animal fat along with very low-carbohydrate/low-sugar consumption. Did you know that humans can live their entire lives without ever eating a single carbohydrate, but we could not survive without protein and fat?
Not only will our bodies produce glucose on their own, but excess protein goes through a process called gluconeogenesis, which converts excess protein into glucose. So in times of overeating animal flesh in the wild, human bodies would turn that excess protein into carbohydrates.
We were all born with a perfect genetic formula to live long, happy lives and spend our time in lean, fit bodies with an abundance of mental and physical energy. The introduction of grains, sugar, dairy, and excess carbohydrate consumption has, over time, turned millions of people into sugar-burners who are glucose dependent.
A sugar-burning existence will put you at risk for developing food addictions, hypoglycemia, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, thyroid health issues, and adrenal gland problems, all of which negatively affect thyroid hormone metabolism.
Did Our Hunter-Gatherer Ancestors Have Thyroid Issues?
Based on the Paleolithic eating and lifestyle habits of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, it's highly doubtful they had thyroid health issues such as hypothyroidism. The earliest mention of thyroid issues dates back to around 10,000 years ago in China.
Coincidentally, wheat and barley were introduced to China from the Middle East during that time, reflected in the name of the mythical Chinese emperor "Emperor of the Five Grains." Glutens (present in grains) are the biggest known triggers for autoimmune Hashimoto's disease (an autoimmune disorder that affects the thyroid gland).
I find it interesting that the first recorded occurrences of thyroid issues in China coincided with the introduction of grains into their society.
In order to reap the benefits of a paleo/primal lifestyle, it is necessary to transition your body from a glucose-dependent sugar-burner to a fat-adapted fat-burner. The only negative in this transition is that it takes about three to four weeks of mental willpower to succeed.
You don't have to lift a finger in terms of exercise in order to make this transition, but it does require a level of willpower as your body becomes un-addicted to glucose to fuel itself. During this period of transition, your brain will trick you into thinking you are hungry, and mental/ physical energy lapses can occur.
In actuality, your brain is an addict that is going through glucose/carbohydrate withdrawal and is trying to trick you into consuming its drug of choice—sugar. Becoming fat adapted is the process of breaking an addiction cycle. One month of mental willpower for a lifetime of freedom was worth it to me.
Becoming fat adapted not only changed my body, brain, and spirit, it improved my thyroid health and enabled me to reduce my thyroid medication. Adopting a paleo lifestyle inherently addresses underlying causes of adrenal fatigue and blood sugar issues which helps your endocrine system function more efficiently, including thyroid hormone metabolism.
Low-intensity exercise combined with a weekly sprint session or high intensity training session.
Lifestyle: getting adequate sleep, sunlight, fresh air, and stress reduction/management.
Elle Russ's book, The Paleo Thyroid Solution is available to purchase on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers. Click here to learn more about her book.


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Biographie

Ingénieur diplômé de l'université de Liège, Louis Schmidt s'installe à Etterbeek (Bruxelles) en 1911. Il fut bourgmestre d'Etterbeek de 1932 à 1944.

Voir aussi
Liste des bourgmestres d'Etterbeek

Naissance à Lodelinsart
Naissance en avril 1877
Décès en février 1944
Décès à 66 ans
Bourgmestre d'Etterbeek

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A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or paddling pool is a container that is filled with water to enable swimming or other leisure activities. Pools can be sunk into the ground or built above ground (as a freestanding construction or as part of a building or other larger structure), and are also a standard feature aboard oceanliners and cruise ships. In-ground pools are most commonly constructed from materials such as concrete, natural stone, metal, plastic or fiberglass, and can be of a custom size and shape or built to a standardised size, the largest of which is the Olympic-size swimming pool.
Many health clubs, fitness centers and private clubs, such as the YMCA, have pools used mostly for exercise or recreation. Many towns and cities provide public pools. Many hotels have pools available for their guests to use at their leisure. Educational facilities such as schools and universities occasionally have pools for physical education classes, recreational activities, leisure or competitive athletics such as swimming teams. Hot tubs and spas are pools filled with hot water, used for relaxation or hydrotherapy, and are common in homes, hotels, clubs and massage parlors. Special swimming pools are also used for diving and other water sports, as well as for the training of lifeguards and astronauts.
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Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named Harpy.

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What Are Housing Starts, and Why Should Home Buyers Care?
What exactly are housing starts? This term, so often thrown around by housing policy wonks and quoted in dense financial reports, refers to the number of new homes on which builders have started construction in any particular month. The latest figures can be found in the U.S. Census Bureau's monthly New Residential Construction Report (along with the number of building permits granted and residences completed), and are widely regarded as a key indicator of our nation's economic health.
But if you're not a financial adviser or high-end investor, why should you care, exactly? Because they directly affect regular home buyers. Here are some things you need to know about housing starts, including how they're doing, what the data mean, and how this might affect your own efforts to buy a home.
What do housing starts really tell us, anyhow?
Housing starts reflect the strength of the U.S. economy since, simply put, new construction signals more jobs, higher salaries, and an abundance of loans to fund businesses and other endeavors.
For context: In 2005, when the economy was thriving, housing starts peaked at 2.068 million units. In 2009, during the depths of the Great Recession, housing starts bottomed out at 554,000 units. Since then, housing starts have crept upward every year to total 1.226 million units in 2016, more than double what they had been seven years earlier.
For 2017, "we're relatively optimistic," says Andres Carbacho-Burgos, a senior economist at Moody's Analytics who studies the U.S. housing market. "By end of 2017, we expect housing starts to be closer to 1.7 million," or a 10% increase over a year earlier.
Although housing starts data are released around the 17th of every month, experts warn against reading too much into month-to-month fluctuations, because housing starts are closely tied to … the weather. After all, building houses is far easier when Mother Nature cooperates.
As a result, housing starts follow a seasonal pattern, tending to rise in the spring, peak in the summer, ebb in the fall, and drop to their lowest levels during the winter. This is why analyses typically compare any particular month's housing starts to the same month a year earlier, rather than to the month before.
What do housing starts mean for home buyers?
A rise in housing starts is good news for home buyers, particularly for the one-third who say they want to buy a brand-new home. For those folks, they'll have more options to pick from, and odds are they'll be at lower prices, too.
People looking to buy existing (or previously lived-in) homes benefit from healthy housing starts, too, points out Danielle Hale, managing director of housing research at the National Association of Realtors®. The reason: A high number of houses, both new and old, drives down prices for all residences, not just the shiny new ones.
This should also be a welcome relief to many home buyers, because the supply of homes for sale is currently at a 20-year low nationwide, which has pushed home prices higher over the past few years. Now, finally, housing starts data suggest that home prices will level off, or even drop in some markets. At least, that's the hope.
Although housing starts are seeing modest growth, homebuilders are being held back by a variety of problems. Many blame lack of labor, a problem that originated in the late 2000s when massive numbers of construction workers were laid off in the wake of the housing bust. Since then, the demand for construction workers has bounced back, but many aren't answering the call, having turned to other industries (like landscaping), according to the Wall Street Journal.
"There aren't enough construction workers to keep up," says Robert Dietz, chief economist at the National Association of Home Builders. In fact, a recent report by the NAHB found that there are approximately 200,000 unfilled construction jobs in the U.S., a jump of 81% over the previous two years.
Another problem holding back builders is permits. Bradley Gaskins, an official at the American Institute of Architects, recently told the Journal that the group's members are seeing permit approvals take longer—for instance, stretching to six to eight months in hot markets such as Florida and California, compared with the typical two to three months.
Builders are also grappling with the rising cost of materials. Currently, the U.S. government is considering a 20% tariff on Canadian lumber imports, and since Canadian imports represent about 28% of all softwood lumber purchased in the U.S., the NAHB warns the tariff could increase the price of an average single-family home by $1,236. In fact, just the anticipation of the tariff has pushed up lumber prices by about 22% since the start of this year.
The upshot? "If you're buying new construction, you may need to pay more money than you would have a few years ago," says Dietz.
However, keep in mind that "housing starts describe the state of the home construction market in broad strokes," says Hale. In other words, not all areas and markets will feel the same effects.
"Housing starts could be concentrated mainly on high-end homes, which would mean that only the upper tier of the housing market would be affected," Carbacho-Burgos explains.
Geography also plays a role. According to Carbacho-Burgos, housing starts are particularly strong in large metro areas in the South (think Charlotte, NC; Nashville, TN; or Austin, TX), meaning that home buyers who want a wide selection of new homes or low prices may want to consider moving to those areas.
"At the end of the day, all real estate is local," says Dietz. So be sure to research your particular area using online tools like realtor.com/local, where you can find out the average home sales price and other info that will help guide your search.
We know, we know. You raced to the post office just in time to meet the deadline to send your tax forms to the IRS, bemoaning those receipts you just couldn't find anywhere and cursing your procrastination which led to the last-minute crush again. So while you still have taxes on your mind, why not prepare ahead so you're sitting pretty by the time you file in 2018? Here's a roundup of homeowner tax breaks you should prep now, so you can take full advantage of them next year and avoid the last-minute scramble.
If you're working on a La-Z-Boy in the living room, it might be time to clear out the guest room and assemble that Ikea desk. That way, you can take the home office tax deduction in 2017. The "simple method" allows you to take $5 per square foot for a total of $1,500. You could also go for a more complicated deduction: a percentage of your home's electric bills and other expenses.
Keep in mind that you have to use the room "regularly and exclusively" for business, says Dave Du Val, a tax expert and chief customer advocacy officer at TaxAudit.com. If you're an employee, the office must be for the convenience of the employer (e.g., you're a salesperson in New York for a company whose only office is in California). Last but not least, you'll need to tabulate your expenses as you make them in 2017, so keep a logbook and save those receipts.
Is 2017 the year you want to finally do that kitchen remodel or bathroom addition, but money still feels too tight? Then you might want to consider taking out a home equity line of credit, or HELOC. The interest on a loan up to $100,000 is tax-deductible, says Du Val. That means those upgrades just got a whole lot cheaper.
Alas, the clock ran out on most tax credits available to homeowners who went green at the end of 2016. However, there is one remaining energy-efficiency credit still available to homeowners: solar energy.
"You can take a credit of up to 30%, with no cap, on the equipment and installation costs of solar energy panels and solar water heaters you purchase in 2017," says Jacob Dayan, partner and co-founder of CommunityTax.com.
There's good reason to go solar this year in particular. In addition to this major credit being set to reduce to 0% over the next five years, the president can easily eighty-six the credit entirely before the Dec. 31, 2021, expiration date by signing a bill into law.
Just keep in mind that to qualify, the equipment must be used to generate power or heat water in your primary or second home. It can't be used for a swimming pool or spa.
Got a big tax bill coming in 2017? One way to offset that is to prepay your property taxes in order to reduce your tax burden. How would it work? Say you receive a tax notice in December 2017 with a due date of Jan. 31, 2018. You could go ahead and pay it in December if you want to deduct the amount from your current year's income instead.
This move is best for those who expect their income and tax burden to be higher in 2017 than in 2018.
"If you're expecting the opposite, then you should defer the tax payment until after Dec. 31 so you can deduct it the following year," says Du Val.
All homeowners should keep a detailed record of improvements to their homes. These improvements—like a new roof, new furnace, or bathroom addition—increase a home's value. When it comes time to sell, the amount you spent on improvements or renovations can seriously reduce the capital gains taxes you'll pay, according to Du Val.
If you plan to buy a new home in 2017 or refinance the loan on the place you're in already, this is an opportunity to save on taxes in terms of points. Also known as a loan origination fee, loan discount, or discount point, it is basically prepaid interest that persuades lenders to give you a lower interest rate on the loan.
There are tax benefits, too: You can deduct those points for the same year you buy a home. If you refinance, you can deduct them over the life of your new loan. Either way, it's a good thing.
Many home sellers have heard of home staging—a service where professionals arrange furniture and artwork in rooms to make them look their best (and entice buyers to make an offer). But now, thanks to technology, there's another option that doesn't involve shifting heavy furniture around your home: virtual staging. So just what is virtual staging and how does it work? It's where home stagers take digital photos of empty (or badly furnished) rooms, then use photo-editing software to add pretty couches, tables, and other furnishings.
Virtual staging first became popular during the Great Recession, since it helped banks and other homeowners make barren, run-down houses look presentable quickly, and on the cheap.
"It helped people visualize what could be there," says Brian Balduf, chief executive of VHT Studios, a virtual staging company in Rosemont, IL.
Virtual staging costs around $100 per room—far less than traditional staging, which will run homeowners around $2,000 to $2,400. Another benefit to virtual staging is its versatility. While a traditional stager can do only one look for a room at a time, a virtual stager can pull off plenty of different home decor styles to appeal to various buyers.
Virtual staging also allows a room to be converted for different uses—such as a child's bedroom with toys and bright colors for a family, or a study with office furniture for an older couple. It can also help eliminate items that might turn off certain buyers, like fur coats in a walk-in closet. Exterior virtual staging is also a growing field, showing how a house looks by day or night, or surrounded by lush greenery in the summer versus under a soft layer of snow in the winter.
Balduf also notes that virtual staging can help reluctant buyers put their home on the market, if they're holding back because they haven't painted the house yet or cleaned out a garage filled with junk.
"It's a nudge to the seller that makes it easier," he says.
Last but not least, virtual staging can benefit sellers by eliminating privacy concerns. If you have family photographs on the walls or other items that might reveal personal information (like college pennants), you can keep them up, then just have them erased in your photos. All in all, that's far easier than having strangers tramping through your house, hoisting in new furniture, and taking out what you've got.
But isn't it wrong to doctor photos?
However, virtual staging does raise concerns about false advertising, so it's helpful to be aware of certain ethical boundaries. While virtual stagers can swap out furniture or remove garbage cans from an exterior shot, most say they won't ever remove something permanent from a photo, such as a water tower or a high-tension electrical pylon.
"Removing a water tower crosses a line," says Balduf, who says he often has to caution agents and sellers on this issue. Still, he says adding a fire in a working fireplace or greening up grass is acceptable in virtual staging.
When in doubt, just note in your listing that the photos have been virtually enhanced and ask your real estate agent to give buyers a heads-up that it won't look the same in reality. That way, sellers will know that's how the home could look—and they'll have a blueprint for how to make it so.
Homeowners love their bathrooms. We totally get it—you spend a decent amount of time in there, and you want it to be the ultimate Zen oasis. And since potential buyers want that, too, you're likely willing to splurge to make your lavatory lush and plush.
But one person's lush can be another's flush—as in flush away that weird or ugly bathroom decor before it drives you insane, or would-be buyers straight to another home.
No matter how lavish you think your loo is, beware of the design trends that will simply make buyers turn up their noses. And your bathroom doesn't have to be a lime-green, laminate horror show to turn off buyers; there are some more subtle design trends that can also cause buyers to take a pass.
So before you take the plunge, assess these seven trends that design experts and home buyers would like to flush from the bathroom right now.
Stark white kitchens and baths have been a huge trend over the years, but their time in the spotlight is mercifully coming to an end, reports Tonya Bruin, CEO of To Do–Done Handyman Services.
The problem? Homeowners are finding it's impossible to keep this room clean.
"White tile and flooring can stain very easily, and any little mark glares at you from across the room, tainting the crisp, clean concept of an all-white look," she explains.
"I have so many homeowners coming to me now to ask for these white baths to be torn out and replaced with a more varied color design," she adds.
If you're guilty of going all-white but don't want to tear out the whole room, there are ways to easily temper the look: Paint the walls, and add pops of color with bright towels, a bath mat, floral window valance, or sink skirt.
A sparse bathroom can be relaxing: No clutter! Clean lines! But if the look is too bare, you'll end up with a space that simply doesn't work for everyday life. Just ask design expert Jessica Filoso, of real estate company CLV Group, who's seen her share of near-empty bathrooms.
If your bath is on the empty side, keep buyers' fears at bay by adding some more storage and personality. Étagères are a perfect spot for towels, toiletries, and tissue paper—and they're chic and lightweight, too, so you can keep your minimalist theme.
Need more pizzazz? Hang a colorful piece of art, add a textured hamper, or arrange a trio of potted palms or ferns in the corner.
Mustard. Salmon. Avocado. In small doses, they're nice hues (and delicious foods!). But they aren't very welcome in today's powder room.
"Colors like these tend to be tacky-looking and make your bathroom feel like it's stuck in the 1980s," says Scott Allis with Miracle Method, a bath and kitchen refinishing company.
A retro look is a fine goal, but when it comes to selling the bathroom, it's best to stick to a quiet palette—and balance the colors appropriately.
The most appealing, modern look is a mix of three colors in a 70/20/10 distribution.
"Use the neutral one most of the time (70% of the walls, floor, tile), a rich contrasting color for 20% of the look, and then an accent shade for the last 10%," Heinemann explains.
So you're willing to shell out the dough to update your bathroom before you put your home on the market. Bravo! But when it comes to replacing your bathtub, we have a word of caution: Be realistic.
You might have scoured dozens of design magazines and come to the conclusion that your bathroom won't be luxurious unless you can soak in a big, beautiful piece of porcelain. But who really has the time?
"This elaborate, oversize fixture is far from practical and actually has low resale value," Heinemann says.
Indeed, the appeal of bathtubs has declined in recent years. As long as there's one bathtub in the house (for buyers with kids), there's no need for more—or a big, ostentatious soaker.
"Homeowners use these tubs once a month, tops," Heinemann adds.
Instead, put your money into a quality, high-efficiency, water-saving shower.
His-and-her sinks seemed like a good idea for a while: She has a dedicated spot for hair and makeup, and he has a personal basin for his shaving and grooming. But after years of carving out space in master baths for two matching sinks, designers and home buyers are backing away from the trend.
"Today most people wish they had more counter space, rather than that second sink," Heinemann says.
But don't rip out your two-sink look unless you're already planning a bathroom rehab.
"Instead, add shelving near the sinks so there's more storage," Heinemann advises.
This one might make you pause—home buyers are all about more storage, right? But these mirrored boxes aren't the way to go about it, says Andrea Stanford, vice president of marketing and partnerships at the online estate sale marketplace Everything But The House.
Yes, open shelving—which has been popular in kitchens for years—is making its way to the bathroom.
"People have beautiful products nowadays, and they want them to be seen and accessible," Stanford says.
"A more modern storage trend now features plush stacks of towels, beautiful soaps displayed on a tray, and stand-alone vanities for perfume and makeup," she adds.
As for the stuff you don't want people to see, add a couple of woven baskets with matching lids.
There are some designers who will still install subway tile by default, but this ubiquitous design trend is starting to fade.
"Large-format tile is a good way to go, as are mini mosaics and geometric tiles," says Nicole Rojas, a decorating guru with Tellus Design in Southern California.
Similarly, when it comes to hardware and accents, cool finishes (nickel and chrome, for example) are taking a back seat to brushed gold and even black, Pila reports.
Luckily for you, hardware is quite easy and inexpensive to swap out, so you can give your bathroom a modern makeover in an afternoon's time.
Moving is tough, even when it goes well. But if something goes wrong? Well, it can go really, really wrong. As proof, check out these moving horror stories that can even happen to smart people—plus some hard lessons they learned—so you can keep them from happening to you. We've got you covered!
Lesson learned: When moving, you'll want to take special precautions with items you value, whether for financial or sentimental reasons.
"Most carriers have a clause in their contract stating they will not be liable for damaged or missing personal items such as jewelry, passports, checkbooks, coins, stamps, and the like," says Nancy Zafrani of New York City–based Oz Moving & Storage.
To protect these things, "You may want to group together the items you are most concerned about and have those specifically inventoried—and then have the boxes sealed with tamper-evident seals. Upon delivery, make sure to inspect all items and document any missing or damaged items on the manifest before the movers leave," she advises.
Lesson learned: Always get a quote in person, rather than over the phone, so movers can eyeball your belongings. Your "three rooms of stuff" might be the same as six rooms for someone else. Also, opt for a flat rate over hourly so there are no surprises on moving day, says Adam Pittenger, CEO of Moved.
Lesson learned: Disreputable movers may be rare, but never forget that you're essentially entrusting your valuables to someone who could easily carry them off—pretty easily we might add. So, make sure to do a little due diligence by seeing, first of all, if any complaints have been filed by checking with the Better Business Bureau.
For an interstate move, visit the U.S. Department of Transportation's Protect Your Move site, which has a searchable database that shows if the company is registered, licensed, and insured and if any complaints have been filed.
"If you collect this intel, chances are good that you are working with a quality moving company," notes Pittenger. This makes it more likely the company will show up and do the job right.
Lesson learned: Make sure the contract adequately reflects the expectations you've set for timing, but understand that in a long-distance move, your items may well arrive a few days behind schedule, says Pittenger—but not months, of course. But, you'll want to play it safe and cover yourself for a few extra days.
"Often long-distance moves are batched together, but the moving company should be transparent with the dates and details," he says.
Lesson learned: A lot of people try to save money during their move by doing it themselves, but they often just end up hurting themselves or their belongings. At the very least, before you start a DIY move, measure the biggest pieces, then measure the doorways, stairways, and the truck you're planning to use to make sure everything will fit. Getting in over your head and having to call emergency help is going to cost more than paying for qualified helpers in the first place!
'Flip or Flop Vegas': Will Couple's Cringeworthy Choice Actually Work?
Aubrey and Bristol Marunde of "Flip or Flop Vegas" rarely play it safe when renovating a house. As proof, in the latest episode, "Go Bold or Go Home," they choose a paint color combo that truly makes us cringe, initially.
Granted, the 2,2000-square-foot property near Nellis Air Force Base they bought in a short sale needs work. Lots of work! Built in 1999, when the Southwestern craze was beginning to fade, the home has random split levels and Mayan-pyramid-type steps all over—even on top of room dividers and reaching to the ceiling.
"My first thought is that we just entered an Aztec cave," says Bristol.
So Aubrey's idea is to take the home back in time: to the '80s. "People who buy our properties are looking for something a little bit bold, a little bit edgy," she says.
But are they eager to go '80s edgy? Here's how she tries to make it work.
But since this is Vegas, she decides to take the major risk of using dark blue. Next, she goes even bolder by using metallic gold accents and hardware.
You read that right: gold.
Aubrey can't decide on the right shade of blue—she doesn't want it to be too bright, yet if it's too dark, it'll look black. She picks a navy shade and has Bristol paint one interior door to test the color. She thinks the result looks awesome, and decides to use it on the other interior doors, the kitchen cabinets, and the master bathroom vanity.
Once you've made a choice, go all in!
Aubrey is firm about her blue-and-gold retro '80s theme, so when one of her suppliers tells her he has blue mirrors left over from a nightclub remodel, she is all over it. Where will they go? The kitchen, of course!
This is not the Marundes' first rodeo. They know that neighborhoods have all sorts of restrictions about landscaping and paint color. So they smartly check in with the powers that be—the homeowners association, or HOA—and find that only certain exterior colors are allowed. They decide to freshen up this house in the mostly desert-colored hood with a pre-approved gray, which makes a nice transition to the blue interior.
Aubrey needs unfinished kitchen cabinets so she can paint them her beloved blue, but can't find any that fit right, so she takes advantage of her handy husband. He builds not only the kitchen cabinets, but also a blue, space-saving barn door to go in front of the bathroom. By doing this, they save thousands of dollars, which helps them come in a full $6,000 under their $30,000 renovation budget.
But will that be enough to make this very specialized flip fly?
They decide to list it at $298,000, which is at the very top of the comps in the area. After only two weeks on the market, they accept an offer for $290,000. Their total investment is $234,000 and the closing costs are $12,000, which means they profit $44,000 on their big-time gamble. Only in Vegas!
Do you feel emotionally ready to buy a home, but your lack of capital or credit history has resigned you to renting? There is a middle ground: a rent-to-own home. This arrangement is a godsend to renters who want to build equity in a home without surmounting the hurdles that come with buying a home outright. So how do you find such a dreamy scenario? Read on for the steps to take and pitfalls to avoid.
Finding a property owner agreeable to a rent-to-own scenario might not be easy.
"Probably about 5% of the market is transactions such as this," says real estate agent RJ Avery, of Richardson, TX. And they tend to be in smaller cities or towns—transitional areas, where the real estate market isn't very desirable or competitive.
In short: You might have to search in areas that might not have everything you'd like, such as a good school district or great restaurants down the block. In those areas, a property owner might be eager to just go ahead and lock in a decent purchase price.
Your best bet are property owners who reluctantly backed into becoming landlords—in other words, they tried to sell the home, were unsuccessful, then began renting it out instead.
Unlike landlords who own many properties and are committed to raking in rent dollars, these landlords by default often own just one single property, and might be gung-ho to get the property off their hands.
Additionally, typical rent-to-own agreements specify that repairs and upgrades be made by the tenant (like most terms, of course, this is negotiable), an item that could also sway wavering sellers looking to minimize their obligations as landlords.
There are actually two types of contracts: a lease-purchase and a lease-option. With a lease-purchase contract, you're locked into buying the home by the conclusion of the contract. If you don't, you will forfeit all the money you've supplied to the seller over those years and could also face legal action. If you choose this route, you should be absolutely clear on your long-term plans and financial outlook. Plenty can happen to your life and livelihood that could affect whether you can (and want to) own this house.
A lease-option contract is less rigid. In this arrangement, you can choose whether or not to purchase the home by the contract's end, and the landlord must honor it. This agreement gives you a choice to opt out of the purchase within the agreed-upon time frame, offering a bit more wiggle room if you're uncertain you want to own the place. But even in this case, you might forfeit your deposit and equity, so it's important to be sure that rent-to-own is the direction you really want to take.
Is rent-to-own right for you? Only you and your potential seller can determine that for sure. If you are renting a property you love, need the time to build up credit and/or down payment, and have an amenable landlord, it might be the right choice.
First things first: This contract must include the amount you plan to offer as your deposit. Bruce Ailion of Re/Max Town and Country in Atlanta reminds buyers to consider this number carefully before submitting an offer.
Whatever contingencies are included in an offer, each comes with a clause indicating how many days a buyer or seller has to satisfy them. If buyers discover something they don't like within that period, they can exit the contract without penalty, says Adriana Mollica, a real estate agent with Teles Properties in Beverly Hills, CA.
If you want to buy a house but don't have oodles of cash lying around, you'll need to learn how to get a mortgage—that all-important home loan used to purchase property that you will then pay back for years or even decades to come.
The vast majority of home buyers need a mortgage to achieve their dream of homeownership, but that doesn't mean lenders just hand them out to everyone who asks. There's a process, with requirements you'll have to meet. So before you even set foot in a home, make sure you know the steps to secure financing.
This step will also help you pinpoint any concerns lenders might have with your application, and give you time to fix these flaws so you're in great shape to make an offer once your dream home does come along.
Getting pre-approval is critical if you want your home-buying efforts to succeed. Why? Because a pre-approval letter from a lender shows home sellers that you've got the financial backup necessary to buy their home. Without it, sellers have no guarantee you can afford their place and, in many cases, won't take you seriously.
Don't confuse pre-approval with pre-qualification, which is basically a conversation with a lender about your finances where you don't need to provide any paperwork.
After you've made an offer on a home and signed a sales contract, most lenders will want to check out what you're buying with their money—and size it up for themselves with a home appraisal. This means a home appraiser will assess the market value of the house using comparable homes, or comps, much like you and your real estate agent did when coming up with how much to offer on the home.
Most times, the appraiser's price will end up approximately the same as your own—in which case all is good, says Rick Phillips, an appraiser and real estate agent in Vienna, VA. And if the appraisal comes in higher than what you're paying, you're getting a good deal. For example, if you're paying $700,000 for a home and the appraiser says it's worth $710,000, you've instantly gained $10,000 in home equity.
However, if the appraisal comes in lower than what you've agreed to pay for the home, that can be trouble, because lenders will loan you only as much money as the assessment says it's worth. That means you'll have to pay the difference—or persuade the seller to lower the sales price to what the lender thinks is fair. Another option is to challenge the appraisal by either filing an appeal or ordering a second appraisal. In most cases this all works out—and if it doesn't, keep in mind your lender is essentially keeping you from overpaying for a dud.
When you buy a home, you "take title" of the property—meaning you become the rightful owner. And your lender wants proof! As such, it'll ask for a title search, which involves paying a title company to search public records for any heirs insisting the property is theirs, liens (from contractors who worked on the home but were never paid), or other problems. Hopefully all goes well, but in case not, this extra step could save you from a seriously scary situation where you're fighting for ownership, or responsible for paying back old liens yourself.
Once the title is cleared, you can close the deal. That's where buyer, seller, a lender representative, and any others involved in this process meet to sign all the paperwork, transfer all money owed, pass along the keys, and move on with their lives!
A carport may sound like a fancy British way to say "garage," but it's actually much more—or, to be accurate, much less. That's because a carport, unlike a garage, is merely a covering to protect your car (or motorcycle or boat) from rain, sun, and snow. Open on three or four sides, carports provides shelter from the elements, but at a far lower price than a garage. If that sounds up your alley (or driveway more like it), read on for a slew of carport ideas to get started.
Carports are typically associated with condominium or apartment complexes, where residents just want a covered parking spot, says Steve Brant with Brant Regency Estates & Homes in San Diego. But they're becoming an increasingly popular feature in single-family homes as well. For one thing, they're inexpensive to build compared with a garage. For another, even if homeowners have a garage, it's often stuffed to the rafters with everything but the car itself—sporting equipment, boxes of memorabilia and decorations, an extra fridge—or the space has been converted to a home gym, man cave, teen hangout, or other type of living space.
All of which leaves your car outside, victim to the pounding rain and snow, the searing sun, not to mention a low-flying bird or two. And that's where a carport can come in.
Carports don't only help keep your car in mint condition, they keep us humans comfortable, too. When precipitation hits, you don't have to rush to your car in your driveway under an umbrella, or run the AC to cool down your car if it's been baking in the sun.
Carport vs garage: Which is better?
The big downside of carports, however, is that your car will be protected only so much. It will still be exposed to dust, dirt, and damage, and security will be more of an issue. And unlike garages, carports don't offer much storage space to speak of; you'll have to stash that motor oil and toolkit somewhere else!
All things being equal, it's preferable to choose a home with a garage, whether attached or detached, Brant advises.
"In addition to the obvious benefits of security and storage, garages offer significant resale implications," he says, noting that a single-car garage can add approximately $10,000 in value over a property that lacks one.
Still, if building a garage isn't in your budget or this space is already busting at the seams, a carport is a great option to keep your car covered. Just be sure to check your HOA rules to see if carports are even allowed and what sorts of permits and limitations you may need to honor.
Prefab carport kits can range in price from around $100 for a simple metal canopy that will provide some shade to over $2,000 for a sleek, modern-looking polycarbonate job designed to resist more extreme weather elements. Custom carports can be had in every look, from minimalist to luxury with prices to match.
Carports typically come in three forms. The simplest is as a free-standing structure.
Another option is to have it attached to the side of your house or garage.
Carports can even be built into the structure of the house.
And just because a carport is less expensive than a garage doesn't mean it can't look amazing. To soften the look of a carport, consider planting flowers and shrubs around it (which offer added protection from the elements). If the roof of your carport is flat and sturdy enough, you can use it as a deck.


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Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) has managed to post $7.01 EPS in its fourth quarter report. First Call had estimates of $6.61 EPS and we had a whisper number somewhere in the $7.00 neighborhood. Annualized return on equity was 34.6% for the fourth quarter of 2007. Book value per common share increased 25% to $90.43 in 2007. Assets under management rose $868 billion.
Net revenues in Investment Banking were $1.97 billion, 47% higher than the fourth quarter of 2006 and 8% lower than a particularly strong third quarter of 2007. Net revenues in Trading and Principal Investments were $6.93 billion, 4% higher than the fourth quarter of 2006 and 16% lower than the third quarter of 2007. Net revenues in Asset Management and Securities Services were $1.84 billion, 29% higher than the fourth quarter of 2006 and 6% lower than the third quarter of 2007. Non-compensation expenses were $2.41 billion, 26% higher than the fourth quarter of 2006 and 12% higher than the third quarter of 2007.
Shares are up almost 2% at $212.90 in pre-market trading. Its 52-week trading range is $157.38 to $250.70. This one has managed to dodge the big bullet in the sub-prime mess as it had been hedged. Maybe it really should change its name to Golden Slacks.
Jon Ogg can be reached at jonogg@247wallst.com; he produces the SPECIAL SITUATION newsletter and he does not own securities in the companies he covers.


The long awaited boost to the catch-up viewing and listening window for BBC programmes on the iPlayer has arrived, with audiences given 30 days to catch-up on BBC TV and radio programmes.
The 30 day catch-up arrives just in time for gangster drama Peaky Blinders, the second series of hit BBC drama The Fall, Human Universe and Detectorists on BBC iPlayer and drama such as The Archers, Once and Future King, Good Omens and comedy Just A Minute on BBC iPlayer Radio, all of which will benefit from this extended availability period.
Previously, only a few programmes were available for longer than the original 7 day window as part of a series catch-up service. As recently as July when BBC iPlayer went down over a whole weekend, the 7 day window could not be extended, meaning viewers missing out on catching up on some shows. Rights issues associated with extending the catch-up period on most shows has now been addressed.
Importantly, the 30 day window doesn't yet apply to downloads as opposed to the normal streaming service. The extended timeframe hasn't yet been implemented on YouView or Virgin Media.


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This Is Us first hit NBC, and millions of viewers, in fall of 2016, and it instantly resonated with audiences in a very powerful way. I was late to the party, but luckily, the show is still going strong. High viewership and conversations across social media can attest to that. Just last month, I began playing catch up when I started watching episodes on Hulu.
You know how TV shows tend to hit the dreaded second season slump? Well, This Is Us didn't fall victim to that. I'm powering through Season 2. The characters remain dimensional and nuanced, and their stories, though very different, are consistently compelling. These people come together in their humanity. They come together because they are family. And we, their audiences, come together in front of our screens because we love to watch these characters and see where their stories lead.
My attention was captured, and held, during the critical first episode. Stories were revealed, characters illuminated, lives connected, and emotions experienced. The emotions were powerful. I cried during that first episode, and it wouldn't be the first time. I cried during a lot of other episodes throughout that first season, too. I cried as lives and relationships were explored and revelations surfaced. The stories unravel gradually, leaving me an emotional wreck in the process. So many tears cried, more than I've ever cried over a TV show.
So tell me, why do I, and millions of others, keep coming back for more? I'm getting to the end of season two, and there's still no shortage of emotional moments; the kind that make me cry…and cry. Why do I subject myself to this?
Hmmm. Could it be that This Is Us is packed with emotional bonuses, more so than your average network drama? That emotion is what drives the storytelling along, what brings the stories together, and what brings us, the viewers, into the fold?
I call it a "colossal emotional punch." This Is Us wouldn't be the show that it is without its scattering of colossal emotional punches throughout its story lines. They are deftly executed and unpredictable. This is what you want and this is what your fundraising needs.
Emotion, and wanting to feel and experience emotion, is deeply woven into who we are. Our humanity. The fact is, humans like to feel and experience emotions. We enjoy it. We're compelled to make decisions based on emotions. My decision to repeatedly return to This Is Us, to binge-watch it, is driven by the emotions the shows characters and stories inspire me to feel. If you're a loyal viewer, chances are, emotion is what compels you to keep on watching it, too.
Many fundraisers, sad to say, shy away from sharing the emotional component of their work. They insist that their donors need to be *educated.* That they need to create awareness. Some of them even find the use of emotional storytelling exploitative or manipulative. But it is the emotional component that always draws donors to your work. Can you identify the colossal emotional punch in your stories? Building up to the powerful moments in your stories will inspire your donors. They'll never forget you, why they gave to you, and why they want to give to you again.
They'll keep on coming back to you.


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Q: How to call destructor in C # XNA I have a object and simply want to destroy it on some event. How to call the destructor in XNA?

A: Set the object to null and the Garbage Collector will pick it up on it's next run.
As a side note, if the object is something that you create often (enemies, bullets etc..), then you may want to use a pool instead of deleting the object. This would mean that object is recycled, and thus, the garbage collector is called less often which will increase performance.

A: While your mileage may vary, my preference is to use IDisposable and Dispose() of objects I no longer need. This is esp. true when you are using unmanaged resources, but having the Dispose() set up declares intent.
See this resource on GC.SuppressFinalize for a good example of how to implement IDisposable.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.gc.suppressfinalize.aspx

A: Set reference to this object to null.

A: After setting the object to null, if you want for some reason the object to be collected immediately, call GC.Collect().

A: What kind of object? If is an Disposable/IDisposable you should call object.Dispose()
Otherwise, you can just use object=null, and it will be 'cleaned' automatically. This is not C you're working in ;)
If your 'object' is actually a complex class or something with more objects in it, you might want to consider making it an IDisposable class.

A: If the object holds any unmanaged resources then implement IDisposable (and use using or call Dispose() on it when you're done with it).
If it doesn't hold unmanaged resources then the garbage collector will claim it "at some point" when there are no more references to it.
GC.Collect() will make the garbage collector collect and it will "destroy" your object if there are no references to it. This is not a very good idea since it has performance implications (it takes time and promotes other objects into a higher generation making them last longer in memory before being reclaimed).
Why do you need the object destroyed at a certain fixed time?

A: What you want to do is call GC.SuppressFinalize() if you are handling the cleanup yourself...  Usually you use GC.SuppressFinalize() within an IDisposable class.  See this code example for the common use of IDisposable:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.gc.suppressfinalize.aspx
If you really need to have it Garbage Collected right away:
var myObj = new MyObject();

// This object will be cleaned up by the Dispose method.
// Therefore, you should call GC.SupressFinalize to
// take this object off the finalization queue
// and prevent finalization code for this object
// from executing a second time.
GC.SuppressFinalize(myObj);

But I caution you that you should really let the object go out of scope, and let the GC collect the objects naturally. The .NET runtime is very efficient at managing memory as long as you don't try to do it's job.
EDIT
After reviewing the comments, I see you forgot to leave an important piece of information, in that you were binding the object in question to other objects methods. This means that the object that you are trying to finalize is not going to finalize until the method used to watch the event has finalized, thus keeping around a ton of extra objects in memory.
What you can do to break this strong reference is use an object called WeakReference. Or use lambdas to to break the strong references.
See this for an example of using a WeakReference
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.weakreference.aspx
Or you can do something like this:
dym.cas += (x, y, z) => gameTime.ElapsedGameTime(x,y,z);

instead of
dym.cas += gameTime.ElapsedGameTime;

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Why Uber (UBER) Stock May Have Stagnated Since Uber IPO
The performance of Uber (NYSE:UBER) stock has come as a surprise to many. The transformational potential of Uber, along with the $74 billion market cap of Uber stock, have placed this equity on many watchlists. However, with Uber stock not moving too much lately, many wonder how it will perform over the long-term. Although Uber will change transportation as we know it, fear and uncertainty could undermine the potential of Uber stock.
Though Uber IPO was the largest IPO of 2019 so far, one might wonder whether Uber has also become the most lackluster newly minted stock. More than two months after the Uber IPO, the equity trades at about 2% below its IPO price. It has outperformed Lyft (NASDAQ:LYFT), which has fallen more significantly. However, Uber stock has not yet lived up to its hype.
Uber (So Far) Is Following in Netflix's footsteps
As I mentioned in a previous article, Uber has followed Netflix's (NASDAQ:NFLX) model. What I mean by that is that Netflix's goal from the beginning was to build a streaming-media business. That technology had not yet become available at the time of Netflix's founding, so when NFLX started, it focused on mail-order DVDs instead.
Likewise, Uber's ultimate goal is to transport people and goods using driverless cars. But since such vehicles have not become widely available yet, Uber is using human drivers.
From a marketing perspective,Uber has been successful. About 3.9 million drivers in 65 countries complete around 14 million trips per day for Uber. Also, as InvestorPlace columnist Nicolas Chahine mentioned, "Uber" has become such a household name that many now use the company's name as a verb. While the ubiquity of a company's name can hurt it if it's taken too far (as was the case for a moving-stairs manufacturer called Escalator), it does suggest the company is successful.
Uber Stock Faces Unusual Levels of Fear and Uncertainty
However, with Uber's current model, the cost of human labor has made it nearly impossible for the company to earn a profit. Consequently, until more autonomous vehicle are on the road, I find it hard to be bullish on Uber stock.
Additionally, the owners of Uber stock should not assume that Uber will have as easy of a time with driverless cars as NFLX did with streaming video. When Netflix moved its customers from DVDs to streaming media, it did not deal with any life-and death matters. But driverless cars can be deadly, so Uber will face more difficulty convincing people to use them.
Given the safety issues facing driverless cars, Uber could be burdened with high insurance costs and multimillion lawsuits . As a result, Uber stock may not attain the premium valuations reached by Netflix and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN).
Though these issues aren't discussed much in Uber news stories, the valuation of Uber stock may already reflect these concern. Uber stock trades at a trailing price-sales ratio of 6.4. That lags Netflix, which has a trailing PS ratio of about 9.7.
Most would call Uber stock "overvalued." though not as much as some stocks. However, given the potential headwinds facing the company, I think the owners of Uber stock will face a rough ride as the company works to sell driverless ride-sharing to the public.
The Bottom Line on Uber Stock
The high level of fear and uncertainty associated with the ride-sharing business could hold down the growth of Uber. As I mentioned previously, Uber has followed Netflix's business model. Specifically, like NFLC, Uber hopes to eventually profit from a major technological advancement .
Autonomous cars look poised to hit the roads soon. However, unlike streaming, driverless cars can be deadly. Selling much of the public on autonomous vehicles could prove to be difficult. Moreover, the liability issues and lawsuits that will likely be created by driverless cars will probably become a continuous threat to Uber stock.
Given the unprecedented level of fear and uncertainty that are going to plague the ride-sharing business, I do not recommend buying Uber stock.
As of this writing, Will Healy did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned stocks. You can follow Will on Twitter at @HealyWriting.
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presentations – laura niemi, ph.d.
Forthcoming May 2019: "Applied moral psychology: Addressing mental health amid moral complexity" (Talk). Moral Psychology Research Group. St. Louis, MO.
March 2019: "Morality in language and causation" (Talk). Philosophy Forum, Ohio University. Athens, OH. (Illness; materials available).
February 2019: "Words, conflict, and well-being" (Talk). Psychology and Language Preconference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Portland, OR.
September 2018: "Tracing the process of moral judgment in language and cognition" (Talk). York University Cognitive Science Speaker Series, Toronto, ON.
August 2018: "The role of moral commitments and narrative framing in judgment of victims" (Talk in She Said "Me, Too," He said "Not Me:" A Situationist Perspective on Sexual Harassment – Winner of Best Symposium Award OB Division). Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.
July 2018: "Explaining blame: How theories about violence influence apportioning of blame to self and others" (Talk). Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Ann Arbor, MI.
May 2018: "Brief Comment on Vogt" (Discussant). Happiness and Well-Being Project Capstone. St. Louis, MO.
March 2018: "Language, causation, and moral judgment" (Talk). Workshop on Causal Reasoning. Duke University.
February 2018: "Language, causation, and moral judgment" (Talk). Psychology & Language Preconference at Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
February 2018: "The experience of being denied credibility: Stress and epistemic injustice" (Talk). St. Louis Area Well-Being Workshop, St. Louis, MO.
October 2017: What forces influence people's views about victims? (Guest Lecture). Washington University in St. Louis.
October 2017:Does justice have a unique moral grammar? (Talk). Munk School of Global Affairs. University of Toronto.
October 2017: The experience of being taken at your word: A multi-method investigation (Talk). Moral Psychology Research Group. The Pennsylvania State University,University Park, PA.
July 2017: Moral values and the distribution of blame. (Talk). Jury Bias Litigation Group, American Association of Justice, Boston, MA.
July 2017: The space and time of contamination: Complete, continual, spreading effects. (Poster). Cogsci2017, London, UK.
July 2017: The behavioral and neural signatures of distinct conceptions of fairness. (Talk). Social Minds, Social Brains: Preconference, European Association of Social Psychology, Granada, Spain.
July 2017: Using psycholinguistic analysis to differentiate impurity from harm. (Talk). 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology. Granada, Spain.
June 2017: Understanding impurity and harm through conceptual semantic analysis and alteration of contamination judgment. (Poster). Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
May 2017: Moral values and the distribution of blame. (Talk). Association for Psychological Science Convention, Boston, MA.
February 2017: Morality in language. (Talk). Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.
February 2017: Morality in language. (Talk). Social Psychology Colloquium. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
April 2016: Implicit causality and moral judgment. (Talk). UMass Boston Baby Lab Meeting.
April 2016: Moral inference in minimal language processing. (Talk). Social Perception and Evaluation Lab Meeting, New York University.
April 2016: The behavioral and neural signatures of distinct conceptions of fairness: Impartiality, charity, and reciprocity. (Poster). Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) Annual Conference, New York University.
March 2016: The moral dimension of implicit verb causality. (Talk). CUNY 2016:29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Gainesville, FL.
February 2016: Implicit causality and moral judgment. (Talk). Language and Cognition Seminar, Department of Psychology, Harvard University.
November 2015: Implicit Causality and Moral Inference. (Talk). Expressive Language: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Origins. The Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning (ECOM) Research Group Workshop, University of Connecticut.
October 2015: Implicit Causality as Moral Inference-Making. (Talk). Boston Area Morality and Social Cognition Discussion Group, Boston University, Boston, MA.
June 2015: Decreasing Victim-Blaming by Intervening on Moral Focus: Policy Implications. (Poster). Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Washington, D.C.
February 2015: Implicit and explicit moral cognition in sexual victimization and coercion. (Talk). Co-chair: Symposium "The Role of Disgust in Morality: It's Complicated," Society for Personality & Social Psychology, Long Beach, CA.
May 2014: Comparing quantities under the influence of emotion: Differing effects on temporal and numeric processing. (Poster). Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.
May 2014: Examining Moral Norms. (Talk). Boston College Graduate Research Day, Chestnut Hill, MA.
April 2014: Implicit and Explicit Cognition in Moral Judgment of Sexual Assault. (Talk). Moral Psychology Research Lab, Brown University, Providence, RI.
April 2014: Implicit and Explicit Cognition in Moral Judgment of Sexual Assault. (Talk). Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Research, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
April 2014: Tracking Neural Representations of Fairness Based on Impartiality, Reciprocity, and Need. (Poster). Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, Boston, MA.
April 2014: Examining Moral Norms. Moral Psychology Research Group, Duke University, NC.
February 2014: Contamination and condemnation: Examining implicit and explicit attitudes about harm and purity in the case of sexual assault. (Poster). Society for Personality & Social Psychology Annual Convention, Austin, TX.
February 2014: Neural Representations of fairness based on impartiality, reciprocity, and need. (Talk). Social Brain Science Symposium, Boston, MA.
May 2013: Quantifying a Threat: Evidence of a Numerical Processing Bias. (Poster). 25th Annual Association for Psychological Science Convention, Washington, DC.
May 2013: Sexual crimes: Contamination and condemnation. (Talk). Moral Psychology Research Group. Brown University, Providence, RI.
January 2013: Care across boundaries versus keeping boundaries intact: Diverging links with Machiavellianism, social dominance orientation, and prosociality. (Poster). Society for Personality & Social Psychology Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA.
November 2012: Fewer things, lasting longer: The effect of emotion on quantity judgments. (Talk). 20th Annual Meeting on Object Perception, Attention and Memory, Minneapolis, MN.
October 2012: Machiavellian Morals: Uncovering the True Nature of Binding versus Individualizing Values. (Talk). Boston Area Morality and Social Cognition Discussion Group, Boston University, Boston, MA.
August 2012: Artful morality: Investigating mediators of value change. (Talk). International Summer School of Affective Science, Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland.
August 2012: Heightened incidence of depressive symptoms in adolescents involved in the arts. (Talk). American Psychological Association, Orlando, FL.


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on their second album, and this medium-tempo track has the growling menace of Killdozer. Anybody remember any of those bands?!
makes minimal electronic music with a darker, more organic feel than his contemporaries; his MySpace page lists his location as "Antarctica," and you can almost believe it.


If you're having trouble convincing your C-Suite to use video marketing, we're here to help. You may be fighting the perception that video marketing is a huge commitment. Managers think that video is time consuming, hard to track, and requires a lot of attention to detail. However, video marketing is a lot easier than they think, and it can reap huge rewards.
According to Wyzowl, 87 percent of businesses now use video as a marketing tool. Video has been seen as a powerful asset to consumers, with 79 percent of people say a brand's video has convinced them to buy a piece of software or app.
Video is the present and the future, and it is absolutely necessary for every brand and company to be using video to its fullest potential. There are so many reasons why video marketing works, but here are five reasons why you and your brand should unequivocally be using video in your marketing strategy.
48 percent of people said they'd be most likely to share video content with their friends, ahead of any other type of content. That means if you want to make an impact on social, you'll need to be posting videos.
The social opportunities for video are growing everyday, from posting on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Linkedin, to creating live videos, stories, and virtual reality. This flexibility allows you to pinpoint the exact content and distribution method that reaches your audience best.
In addition, video is much more engaging to social viewers than any other type of content. For example, Facebook notes that "many creators who post videos on Facebook prompt discussion among their followers, as do posts from celebrities." In fact, live videos on average get six times as many interactions as regular videos. Incorporating video into your posts drives higher engagement and interactions. In addition to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter videos also automatically play in your newsfeed, making videos more eye catching to followers than just text.
A study recently released by Deloitte found that Americans collectively check their smartphones upwards of 8 billion times per day. And, according to JWPlayer, more than 75 percent of worldwide video viewing is mobile. That means to reach that giant mobile audience, video is the way to go.
"The growing range of content that's available from on-demand services like YouTube, Netflix or Facebook Watch is also encouraging viewers to watch more frequently on smartphones and tablets while on the go," according to Mobile Marketer. Readily available video content makes it easy for users to engage on social media, and the demand for fast content is rapidly growing. Therefore big companies like Facebook Watch and Netflix are constantly adapting to meet the demands of their audience.
There are so many things in the world that are demanding a consumers attention — and there is only so much attention to go around. Because video uses both visual and aural stimuli, it dominates static advertisements in capturing audience attention. By catching your viewer's eye, video can raise awareness and possible ROI.
For example, in a heat map study done tracking consumer eye movement and attention on the search page, published on Moz.com, videos were shown to be particularly powerful in capturing eyeballs compared to static ads, even when these videos were not the first results.
On top of this, the average user spends 88 percent more time on a website with video. So if you're trying to use your website to make an impression, a video is a sure way to do it. You can easily track your website metrics by using Google Analytics.
According to Entrepreneur magazine, branding is "the marketing practice of creating a name, symbol or design that identifies and differentiates a product from other products." Emotional branding then, is creating an emotional connection to one company that separates it from the rest, creating brand loyalty over time.
It is those emotional connections that create higher ROI and audience engagement. According to Medium, 94% of respondents said they would be highly likely to recommend a brand they were emotionally engaged with. You can use video to reach the audience on an emotional level, while also pushing your product or message.
For example, Green Buzz Agency produced "A Boy and His Dog," which shows how with the help of Make-A-Wish® Mid-Atlantic, Cooper received a service dog to help him with his seizures caused by Dravet syndrome. By interviewing the parents to hear not only about the struggles of raising Cooper, but also their gratitude for Finn, we gave the audience an inside perspective into Cooper and his family. Additionally, this video premiered at the annual Evening of Wishes Gala, helping Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic raise over $720,000 to help support local wishes.
While traditional marketing methods are expected by audiences, video is a new experience, every time. Most people can still recall a video or commercial that made them laugh or cry, even if they saw it months or years ago. If making an emotional connection is the most effective method to get a consumer to take action, videos are the most powerful way available to deliver the message.
Put your keywords in your title, description, and in your actual video.
This will help google rank your video on its relevance to what the user is searching for. Google Trends and Adwords are both helpful tools in generating keywords for your video. Remember to also include the keywords in your actual video, for example as narration at the beginning. Google has voice recognition software that picks up on the words that you're actually using in your video and determines which keywords it should be ranking for.
Get traffic to your video.
You made great content, now share it! You can do this by posting your video on Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and including it in any blog posts or pages on your website. Adding a call to action to your post may help others share it too! You should also try to embed your video wherever you can, whether that is on an outside blog post or website.
All this is to say, if you're not using video, you should be. It is one of the most effective ways to reach audiences in this digital era, especially on mobile and social platforms. In the end, it makes the most impact on your viewers, and that will only help your bottom line.
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The Studio partnered with a real estate charity group to design and implement All Star Agent Auction an event website for a charity auction. Using a flyer the charity had already been using for the event, The Studio took the design elements, features, colors, and layout of the flyer and translated them into a website. The website included various professional profiles of agents being auctioned off as well as information on the charities benefiting from the event.
Along with event info, the committee wanted event ticket purchase buttons throughout the site and highly visible. The Studio placed buttons throughout as well as a persistent button in the upper left corner, hidden behind a page curl with animation. The website was designed to be mobile responsive, as was the animated page curl, which was operational on mobile devices, making is ideal for displaying crucial information while preserving screen real estate, no pun intended.
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Kyle A. Sleeth (born December 20, 1981) is a former starting pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization. Once touted as one of Major League Baseball's top prospects, his career in the Tigers' minor league organization was marred by injuries and he progressed no higher than Double-A; nonetheless, he showed enough promise to be placed on the Tigers' 40-man roster.

Career
Sleeth was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 18th round (534th overall) in the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft, but did not sign and instead attended Wake Forest. As a freshman in , he went 10–3 with a 5.08 ERA and 56 strikeouts in 78.2 innings pitched to lead the nationally ranked Demon Deacons in wins. After the 2001 season, he played collegiate summer baseball for the Cotuit Kettleers of the Cape Cod Baseball League and was named a league all-star. In , Sleeth went undefeated with a 14–0 record with a 2.97 ERA and 113 strikeouts in 118.1 innings pitched. He led the Atlantic Coast Conference in wins, was second in the conference in strikeouts, and third in ERA. Baseball America named Sleeth the top pitching prospect in college baseball that year.

In , Sleeth returned for another year, going 7–3 with a 2.81 ERA and 102 strikeouts. He earned a spot on the All-Conference first team. On March 28, 2003, Sleeth tied the NCAA record for consecutive victories against Duke with his 26th straight win. He lost the bid to break the record losing against Florida State University on April 4, 2003. The 26 consecutive wins left him tied with former Brigham Young University pitcher Scott Nielsen, who established the mark in the  and - seasons. USA Baseball named Sleeth a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award, given to the top amateur baseball player in the country. In 2019 Sleeth was inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame for his accomplishments as a Demon Deacon.

Sleeth would become the 3rd overall pick in the 1st round in the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft for the Detroit Tigers. He did not sign his professional contract until August, delaying his professional debut until the following year.

He missed the  and part of the  season when he underwent Tommy John surgery on June 9. He announced his retirement March 28, .

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People from Thornton, Colorado


Did you know that there are wheelchair accessible parks pretty much everywhere now? When we talk about parks you may think I'm talking about amusement parks but that is only part of what I'm talking about. Sure, amusement parks are great and have become very wheelchair accessible but there are other types of parks that you might have to take the time to explore. Outdoor camping and hiking, wonders of nature, and city parks are a great place to spend a day or even a weekend for that matter and the good news is that cities and state government are making great strides in making these places available and accessible to the disabled. Being in a wheelchair is no reason to sacrifice your quality of life, and I'm here to tell you that there is nothing standing in your way. If you have an all terrain or off road wheelchair, well then, your miles ahead of the game.
You really shouldn't have any trouble with the bigger amusement parks anymore. Places like 6 flags and Disneyland have gone to great expense to make sure that they have the facilities required to keep their disabled or handicapped patrons comfortable. There is even an Amusement Park in Texas that is known for being 100% completely wheelchair-accessible. The name of the park is Morgan's Wonderland, They have discounts for the disabled and are operating as a non-profit so it really is great fun for the whole family.
Campgrounds are a little tougher to find but they are out there. If your planning on taking a long road trip and plan on using a campground then I urge you to call ahead and find out if they have the proper facilities. You will have more luck with the bigger campgrounds such as KOA but this doesn't mean they are the only ones. One of the most important questions to ask will be about the showers. Being in a wheelchair you might not be able to use their existing facilities and having a shower when your on the road can truly keep you refreshed. Keep in mind your roughing it out there so don't let this be a deciding factor. When you map out your trip you can schedule your stops based on calling ahead and finding the right places to stay. An hour or two spent on proper planning will pay off with a much more enjoyable trip. Don't forget to ask about paved trails that are wheelchair accessible ahead of time too.
When visiting state parks the same things apply as with the campgrounds. Call ahead or check the parks website, they should have wheelchair accessible trails and monuments clearly marked. Most state park visitors stay in hotels or cabins so call ahead and find out what they have available for those in wheelchairs. They may have rooms specially designed for the disabled and you can make a reservation. This ensures you'll have the most comfortable trip possible.
As you can see there are so many possibilities available to you. Get out there and spend some time in the great outdoors, you'll feel better because of it and the exercise you get at these wheelchair accessible parks will do you good.


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Q: Fastest way to create local copy of live InnoDB MySQL database? We have a MySQL database (InnoDB) on our live Ubuntu 12.04 server which has grown quite large (25gb+).
Every month or so we need to copy this database to our development machines to work on locally.
Previously we have exported the database with MySQL Workbench, downloaded the .sql file to our development machines, and then imported it, again with MySQL Workbench. The problem is now the database is so large, we can't do the restore quick enough for it to finish over the weekend! So on Monday morning we have a half-imported database to work with.
What do other people do in this situation?
The only solution I can think of so far, is doing the restore to an unused machine, then copying the data to all our development machines (5 of them). Would this work?

A: You can take a backup from the live MySQL with Xtrabackup.
Percona provides deb repository for Ubuntu. To install the repo for Ubuntu 12.04 follow instructions:

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*Install the key:
# apt-key adv --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 1C4CBDCDCD2EFD2A

*Add the source file:
# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/percona.list
deb http://repo.percona.com/apt precise main
deb-src http://repo.percona.com/apt precise main

*Update the local cache:
# apt-get update

*And install xtrabackup:
# apt-get install xtrabackup

To take a copy of the database run following:
    # innobackupex .

It will create a directory like "2010-03-13_02-42-44". Copy that directory to a development box, apply redo log:
    # innobackupex --apply-log /data/backups/2010-03-13_02-42-44/

Then the directory is ready to use. Copy it back to MySQL datadir and fix ownership:
    # cp /data/backups/2010-03-13_02-42-44/ /var/lib/mysql
    # chown -R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql

Then you may start MySQL.
More details you can find on http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-xtrabackup/2.1/how-tos.html

A: Alternatively you may consider setting up replications from the main server to your dev machines. It would require to have a direct connection from your master to the slaves (the dev machines), but it doesn't need to be permanent. If you connect it once a month then the master will replicate only the changes, which should still be much faster.
I doubt any other backup solution can do better than MySQL Workbench (which uses mysqldump behind the scenes). All solutions doing a normal backup have to dump the content and restore it later. The only alternative is to replicate changes (or move binary datafiles, which is a bad idea and may not work in the future).


Once a college youth festivals winner, Jassie Gill quickly climbed the industry, first with his songs in Punjabi, followed by films, to having made the Bollywood transition in 2018 with Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi. This affable Punjabi gabru is unstoppable in his music and film successes, becoming only the second Punjabi star to be equally popular in Bollywood. Little wonder then, that Jassie was the first choice for Chandigarh Times Most Desirable Man of 2018. This year you trumped Diljit Dosanjh to emerge on top of the Chandigarh Times Most Desirable Man 2018 polls.
This is so ironic. Last year when I was on number nine, my mom, who is now in Canada, had preserved the newspaper cutting, which is still lying at home. I didn't know that next year I will be on number one.
What is the definition of desirable for you?
I always believe that external beauty is god gifted. But to become desirable, I think I would qualify if people whom I meet, whether fans or friends, are able to relate to me as their own, not as someone unreachable. Being earthy and congenial, for me is being desirable.
And what about desirable traits in women?
I respect my mother a lot. She has always supported me, saved money to fulfill all my desires. So, for me, any lady who can make me feel as special, make those sacrifices especially for me, I would find her desirable.
In the quest of making films, it's possible that some concepts do become similar. But, in Punjabi, after Yaar Anmulle, there has been no film on dosti. This film is about strong bonds between three boys who are out of home for education. In depicting the friendship, it's a very new concept for Punjabi films.
You have also rendered a song, Churai janda eh in it. Was that your choice, or the music director's?
Usually, directors take their own decisions in giving songs. But, in this film, they did send me two-three options to choose from, and I chose to sing this romantic track, since I thought I can do justice to it. These light, romantic melodies, are my personal favourite.
Your naughty single with Neha Kakkar was a huge success in recent times. Whose selection was that song?
Neha is a dear friend of few years. We had been wanting to collaborate since long, and in fact the song was composed early last year. In singles, its my personal choice what I want to sing, unlike in films where we have to abide by the filmmaker's decisions.
You are also doing Panga with Kangana Ranaut. What's your role in that?
I can't reveal much, except that I play a supportive husband to Kangana in the film, and have a job in the railways. Next schedule of shooting is in Delhi, sometime in March.
Will you also be singing for the film?
Shankar ji is giving the music and if only he deems fit, he will send me something to sing too for the film. I always take up things I can do, not something that is outside my zone, or things that don't suit me.


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Tesla raises Full Self Driving price to $12,000 in U.S.: Musk
The driver assistance software cost US$8,000 in 2020, but has seen a few price hikes
Staff, Reuters
Jan 10, 2022 • January 10, 2022 • 1 minute read • Join the conversation
Reuters journalist Paul Ingrassia sits in the drivers seat of a Tesla Model S in Autopilot mode in San Francisco, California, U.S., April 7, 2016. Photo by Alexandria Sage /Reuters
Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that the electric carmaker will raise the U.S. price of its advanced driver assistant software dubbed "Full Self Driving" to US$12,000 on January 17.
The 20-per-cent price rise comes less than two years since Tesla raised Full Self-Driving (FSD) prices to US$10,000 from US$8,000 in 2020.
Tesla raises Full Self Driving price to $12,000 in U.S.: Musk Back to video
"Tesla FSD price rising to $12k on Jan 17. Just in the US." Musk tweeted.
Musk also added that the monthly subscription price will rise when FSD goes to wide release.
Tesla FSD price rising to $12k on Jan 17
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2022
"FSD price will rise as we get closer to FSD production code release," he tweeted.
Tesla has been expanding the release of a test version of its upgraded FSD software, a system of driving-assistance features — like automatically changing lanes and making turns, but the features do not make the vehicles autonomous.
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