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Chapter 253B
Section 253B.092
253B.091 253B.0921
Physicians and surgeons
2014 Subd. 2 Amended 2014 c 291 art 3 s 3
1998 Subd. 2 Amended 1998 c 399 s 30
1997 253B.092 New 1997 c 217 art 1 s 60
253B.092 ADMINISTRATION OF NEUROLEPTIC MEDICATION.
Subdivision 1.General.
Neuroleptic medications may be administered to patients subject to early intervention or civil commitment as mentally ill or mentally ill and dangerous only as provided in this section. For purposes of this section, "patient" includes a proposed patient who is the subject of a petition for early intervention or commitment.
Subd. 2.Administration without judicial review.
Neuroleptic medications may be administered without judicial review in the following circumstances:
(1) the patient has the capacity to make an informed decision under subdivision 4;
(2) the patient does not have the present capacity to consent to the administration of neuroleptic medication, but prepared a health care directive under chapter 145C or a declaration under section 253B.03, subdivision 6d, requesting treatment or authorizing an agent or proxy to request treatment, and the agent or proxy has requested the treatment;
(3) a substitute decision-maker appointed by the court consents to the administration of the neuroleptic medication and the patient does not refuse administration of the medication; or
(4) the substitute decision-maker does not consent or the patient is refusing medication, and the patient is in an emergency situation.
Subd. 3.Emergency administration.
A treating physician may administer neuroleptic medication to a patient who does not have capacity to make a decision regarding administration of the medication if the patient is in an emergency situation. Medication may be administered for so long as the emergency continues to exist, up to 14 days, if the treating physician determines that the medication is necessary to prevent serious, immediate physical harm to the patient or to others. If a request for authorization to administer medication is made to the court within the 14 days, the treating physician may continue the medication through the date of the first court hearing, if the emergency continues to exist. If the request for authorization to administer medication is made to the court in conjunction with a petition for commitment or early intervention and the court makes a determination at the preliminary hearing under section 253B.07, subdivision 7, that there is sufficient cause to continue the physician's order until the hearing under section 253B.08, the treating physician may continue the medication until that hearing, if the emergency continues to exist. The treatment facility shall document the emergency in the patient's medical record in specific behavioral terms.
Subd. 4.Patients with capacity to make informed decision.
A patient who has the capacity to make an informed decision regarding the administration of neuroleptic medication may consent or refuse consent to administration of the medication. The informed consent of a patient must be in writing.
Subd. 5.Determination of capacity.
(a) A patient is presumed to have capacity to make decisions regarding administration of neuroleptic medication.
(b) In determining a person's capacity to make decisions regarding the administration of neuroleptic medication, the court shall consider:
(1) whether the person demonstrates an awareness of the nature of the person's situation, including the reasons for hospitalization, and the possible consequences of refusing treatment with neuroleptic medications;
(2) whether the person demonstrates an understanding of treatment with neuroleptic medications and the risks, benefits, and alternatives; and
(3) whether the person communicates verbally or nonverbally a clear choice regarding treatment with neuroleptic medications that is a reasoned one not based on delusion, even though it may not be in the person's best interests.
Disagreement with the physician's recommendation is not evidence of an unreasonable decision.
Subd. 6.Patients without capacity to make informed decision; substitute decision-maker.
(a) Upon request of any person, and upon a showing that administration of neuroleptic medications may be recommended and that the person may lack capacity to make decisions regarding the administration of neuroleptic medication, the court shall appoint a substitute decision-maker with authority to consent to the administration of neuroleptic medication as provided in this section. A hearing is not required for an appointment under this paragraph. The substitute decision-maker must be an individual or a community or institutional multidisciplinary panel designated by the local mental health authority. In appointing a substitute decision-maker, the court shall give preference to a guardian or conservator, proxy, or health care agent with authority to make health care decisions for the patient. The court may provide for the payment of a reasonable fee to the substitute decision-maker for services under this section or may appoint a volunteer.
(b) If the person's treating physician recommends treatment with neuroleptic medication, the substitute decision-maker may give or withhold consent to the administration of the medication, based on the standards under subdivision 7. If the substitute decision-maker gives informed consent to the treatment and the person does not refuse, the substitute decision-maker shall provide written consent to the treating physician and the medication may be administered. The substitute decision-maker shall also notify the court that consent has been given. If the substitute decision-maker refuses or withdraws consent or the person refuses the medication, neuroleptic medication may not be administered to the person without a court order or in an emergency.
(c) A substitute decision-maker appointed under this section has access to the relevant sections of the patient's health records on the past or present administration of medication. The designated agency or a person involved in the patient's physical or mental health care may disclose information to the substitute decision-maker for the sole purpose of performing the responsibilities under this section. The substitute decision-maker may not disclose health records obtained under this paragraph except to the extent necessary to carry out the duties under this section.
(d) At a hearing under section 253B.08, the petitioner has the burden of proving incapacity by a preponderance of the evidence. If a substitute decision-maker has been appointed by the court, the court shall make findings regarding the patient's capacity to make decisions regarding the administration of neuroleptic medications and affirm or reverse its appointment of a substitute decision-maker. If the court affirms the appointment of the substitute decision-maker, and if the substitute decision-maker has consented to the administration of the medication and the patient has not refused, the court shall make findings that the substitute decision-maker has consented and the treatment is authorized. If a substitute decision-maker has not yet been appointed, upon request the court shall make findings regarding the patient's capacity and appoint a substitute decision-maker if appropriate.
(e) If an order for civil commitment or early intervention did not provide for the appointment of a substitute decision-maker or for the administration of neuroleptic medication, the treatment facility may later request the appointment of a substitute decision-maker upon a showing that administration of neuroleptic medications is recommended and that the person lacks capacity to make decisions regarding the administration of neuroleptic medications. A hearing is not required in order to administer the neuroleptic medication unless requested under subdivision 10 or if the substitute decision-maker withholds or refuses consent or the person refuses the medication.
(f) The substitute decision-maker's authority to consent to treatment lasts for the duration of the court's order of appointment or until modified by the court.
If the substitute decision-maker withdraws consent or the patient refuses consent, neuroleptic medication may not be administered without a court order.
(g) If there is no hearing after the preliminary hearing, then the court shall, upon the request of any interested party, review the reasonableness of the substitute decision-maker's decision based on the standards under subdivision 7. The court shall enter an order upholding or reversing the decision within seven days.
Subd. 7.When person lacks capacity to make decisions about medication.
(a) When a person lacks capacity to make decisions regarding the administration of neuroleptic medication, the substitute decision-maker or the court shall use the standards in this subdivision in making a decision regarding administration of the medication.
(b) If the person clearly stated what the person would choose to do in this situation when the person had the capacity to make a reasoned decision, the person's wishes must be followed. Evidence of the person's wishes may include written instruments, including a durable power of attorney for health care under chapter 145C or a declaration under section 253B.03, subdivision 6d.
(c) If evidence of the person's wishes regarding the administration of neuroleptic medications is conflicting or lacking, the decision must be based on what a reasonable person would do, taking into consideration:
(1) the person's family, community, moral, religious, and social values;
(2) the medical risks, benefits, and alternatives to the proposed treatment;
(3) past efficacy and any extenuating circumstances of past use of neuroleptic medications; and
(4) any other relevant factors.
Subd. 8.Procedure when patient refuses medication.
(a) If the substitute decision-maker or the patient refuses to consent to treatment with neuroleptic medications, and absent an emergency as set forth in subdivision 3, neuroleptic medications may not be administered without a court order. Upon receiving a written request for a hearing, the court shall schedule the hearing within 14 days of the request. The matter may be heard as part of any other district court proceeding under this chapter. By agreement of the parties or for good cause shown, the court may extend the time of hearing an additional 30 days.
(b) The patient must be examined by a court examiner prior to the hearing. If the patient refuses to participate in an examination, the examiner may rely on the patient's medical records to reach an opinion as to the appropriateness of neuroleptic medication. The patient is entitled to counsel and a second examiner, if requested by the patient or patient's counsel.
(c) The court may base its decision on relevant and admissible evidence, including the testimony of a treating physician or other qualified physician, a member of the patient's treatment team, a court-appointed examiner, witness testimony, or the patient's medical records.
(d) If the court finds that the patient has the capacity to decide whether to take neuroleptic medication or that the patient lacks capacity to decide and the standards for making a decision to administer the medications under subdivision 7 are not met, the treating facility may not administer medication without the patient's informed written consent or without the declaration of an emergency, or until further review by the court.
(e) If the court finds that the patient lacks capacity to decide whether to take neuroleptic medication and has applied the standards set forth in subdivision 7, the court may authorize the treating facility and any other community or treatment facility to which the patient may be transferred or provisionally discharged, to involuntarily administer the medication to the patient. A copy of the order must be given to the patient, the patient's attorney, the county attorney, and the treatment facility. The treatment facility may not begin administration of the neuroleptic medication until it notifies the patient of the court's order authorizing the treatment.
(f) A finding of lack of capacity under this section must not be construed to determine the patient's competence for any other purpose.
(g) The court may authorize the administration of neuroleptic medication until the termination of a determinate commitment. If the patient is committed for an indeterminate period, the court may authorize treatment of neuroleptic medication for not more than two years, subject to the patient's right to petition the court for review of the order. The treatment facility must submit annual reports to the court, which shall provide copies to the patient and the respective attorneys.
(h) The court may limit the maximum dosage of neuroleptic medication that may be administered.
(i) If physical force is required to administer the neuroleptic medication, force may only take place in a treatment facility or therapeutic setting where the person's condition can be reassessed and appropriate medical staff are available.
Subd. 9.Immunity.
A substitute decision-maker who consents to treatment is not civilly or criminally liable for the performance of or the manner of performing the treatment. A person is not liable for performing treatment without consent if the substitute decision-maker has given written consent. This provision does not affect any other liability that may result from the manner in which the treatment is performed.
Subd. 10.Review.
A patient or other person may petition the court under section 253B.17 for review of any determination under this section or for a decision regarding the administration of neuroleptic medications, appointment of a substitute decision-maker, or the patient's capacity to make decisions regarding administration of neuroleptic medications.
1997 c 217 art 1 s 60; 1998 c 313 s 8,9; 1998 c 399 s 30,31


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Uncategorized November 8, 2020
Plight of "Punita" : A common tale of \'powerless\' women victims of trolling
CYBER CRIME AGAINST WOMEN BY DEBARATI HALDER
In 2012 "Nirbhaya" a young female paramedic was brutally gang raped in a cold December night in Delhi, India. Within a few days the police nabbed the offenders and arrested them. All 6 of them were from northern parts of India who came down to Delhi for making their living. All of them were working as transport workers including driver, conductor, cleaner etc. Within a few days of their arrest, the victim died because of the impact of the assault and internal injuries. The charges against the accused were enhanced from rape to include murder under the Indian Penal Code. Among the 6 accused persons, the prime accused committed suicide. Even though the case was taken over by fast track trial court, it took around 10 months for the trial court to convict the accused and award death penalty to the surviving 5 accused. The death penalty was upheld by the Supreme Court of India in 2017. In between one of the accused pleaded to be considered as minor and was declared as minor and hence was dealt under the Juvenile justice administration system. However neither the Supreme Court, nor the high court prevented the accused persons from exercising their rights to appeal against the capital sentence. The Supreme Court considered this case as rarest of rare cases. Except the minor, other convicted accused did not however succeed in their respective pleas to the Supreme Court to reverse the sentence to life imprisonment and the President for mercy petition.[1] All four of the adult convicts were hanged in the wee hours of 20th March, 2020. Immediately after this the Covid 19 lockdown was clamped strictly almost all over the world preventing several litigants, victims to approach the courts as courts also suffered due to pandemic.
None of the convicted persons in NIrbhaya case came from socio-economically forward class. Except one, others did not complete their basic education as well.[2]Some researches including the controversial India's Daughter documentary[3]claimed that lack of education could have been the main reason to defy the laws for violating women in this regard. While almost all such researches and findings were concerned about the perpetrators, not many looked into the fate of the wives of such sex offenders who may not have received primary education and may not have been allowed to access justice for themselves because of being women and living in patriarchal societies. Punita, wife of Akshay Thakur, who was one of the convicts, tried her level best to convince the courts and the society at large in her own way that if her husband was hanged, she and her minor son would have to die. On the final day of hearing she was seen shouting, crying, beating herself and fainting before the Supreme Court building. Her actions attracted media and she was probably encouraged to continue to do what she was doing because that would add more TRP to the stories that were being made on Nirbhaya sentencing. Soon she made headlines in almost all domestic and foreign news channels and she was center of debates for and against death penalty. Simultaneously she was targeted by internet trolls vigorously.[4]
In the recently held 9thinternational victimology conference organized by Jindal institute of Behavioral Sciences[5]I had addressed the issue of cyber victimization of Punita through my paper titled "Critical analysis of the case of wife of Nirbhaya rape convict: therapeutic jurisprudence & cyber victimological perspectives". While the media could successfully (and probably rightly) generate public sympathy for the rape victim and her family, they generated extreme hatred to Punita because she was apparently 'supporting her husband'. The internet platforms added fuel to the fire in this hate campaign. If one sees the news reports on Punita Devi on the social media handles of the news media channels, one would get to see that the comments posted about her and opinion generated on her created extremely negative profile of hers which would go a long way to prevent her from getting any job in any private or public sector. It was a visual victimization of Punita on cyber space which still exists on cyber space and will be existing forever. In my earlier research on visual victimization of women on cyber space, I had observed that the victims of such visual victimizations may now know about their online victimization because they may never get access to the internet and digital communication media as their urban counterparts may get, which may eventually help the later to reach the criminal justice machinery to remove these contents.[6]
Women such as Punita are often seen as 'co-accused' by the public at large. Coming from socio-economically backward communities and being educationally challenged, most wives of sex offenders in several Asian countries (where patriarchy rules), may not be allowed to access justice for themselves. Apparently she approached the family court in her native district for divorce because the Hindu Marriage Act under S.13B(2ii) allows women to get 'quick' divorce under special grounds which includes conviction of husband for rape, sodomy, bestiality etc.[7]But she was too late in approaching the court. She did not want to live as a widow of a hanged rapist. She preferred to be a divorcee. Women in such situations are blamed by the families and public at large for failing to satisfy their husbands sexually and materialistically which may have encouraged the later to go ahead for raping and sexually assaulting other women. These women cannot go ahead for divorce while the trial is on because this would not only attract social taboo, it will also push such women to extreme poverty: they have to leave the matrimonial homes, they may not be accepted in their parental homes and they may not get any financial support from anyone.
How can Therapeutic Jurisprudence help? Justice Krishna Iyer a legendary judge who introduced new paradigm to reformative justice in India mentioned about applying Therapeutic jurisprudence in the prisons for reforming the prisoners in 1970's.[8]But after him we did not get to see the use of the term by the judges while dealing with reformative criminal jurisprudence in India. In numbers of my researches however I have shown that the concept of Therapeutic Jurisprudence has submissively influenced the Indian judges.[9]The spirit of Therapeutic Jurisprudence may help wives of sex offenders especially in countries like India. In my earlier research titled "Free Legal Aid for women and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: A critical examination of the Indian model",[10] which was published In the edited book volume titled Methodology And Practice Of Therapeutic Jurisprudence Research edited by Stobbs Nigel, Bartel Lorana & Vols.M , I had observed that women especially from socioeconomically backward communities may not be permitted to access justice even if the legal counseling is freely available through free legal aid clinics. This situation may be improved by vigorous campaigning by legal aid volunteers and law students. The law students, practitioners and judges must be sensitized about Therapeutic jurisprudence and law's therapeutic effects which may bring tremendous change in women empowerment. Wives of sex offenders go through tremendous traumatization primarily because they feel cheated in their marriages and then feel threatened when it comes to social security for them. As such, mental wellbeing of these women are least taken care of when the court decides to charge the husbands, i.e. the accused in sex offences. In my presentation in the international victimology conference mentioned above, I have proposed that courts must consider to parallelly counsel such wives through free legal aid cells so that they may be made aware about their rights for divorce, matrimonial alimony, child custody and maintenance for child.
Further, I have also proposed that courts must suomotu consider to pass restraining order for the media houses regarding airing the images of grieving wives, who may or may not be accompanied by their children. These women do not make any 'drama' to stall the execution of sentences for supporting their husbands. They express their anger, frustration and fear for their own future which is dependent on the longevity of their husbands. Unfortunately their expression of fear, frustration etc are hugely consumed sadistically by the society at large and due to the non-ending presence of the clippings on the internet, such women may be profiled in a negative way. I have proposed that the scope of Right to be forgotten must be expanded in such cases which the courts must take up extending the power of judicial intervention for ensuring the privacy rights of women. Interestingly many courts across the globe are shifting burden to the website companies for not removing objectionable contents especially when it comes privacy of women and children. India has laws for website liabilities in this regard under S.79 of the Information Technology Act, 2000(amended in 2008). This provision read with Information Technology (reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information ) Rules 2011 mandates that web companies shall be held liable if they do not take down objectionable contents within due time. This brings two major points to be considered: who reports it? Whether this can be considered as 'protected speech and expression'. Indian judicial understanding regarding freedom of speech on internet is expanding and courts have started using judicial discretion to not to consider each and every speech as speech falling outside the purview of Article 19(1)(A) of the Indian constitution which guarantees freedom of speech and expression as a fundamental right. It is obvious that women such as Punita would not know about such legal jurisprudence. The courts therefore must consider adding this issue in the bag of 'reformative and rehabilitative considerations' when awarding the sentences (including life sentence or capital sentences). This may go a long way to prevent secondary victimization of the wives of sex offenders who are 'innocent victims' of the entire situation.
It is therefore hoped that if the issue of online as well as real life victimization of the wives of the convicted sex offenders are seen from the Therapeutic Jurisprudential aspects, the rights of women to access justice, rehabilitation and privacy may be secured.
Prof(Dr) Debarati Halder, LL.B, LL.M, Ph.D(Law)(NLSIU) is a Professor at Unitedoworld School of Law, Karnavati University, Gujarat, India. She is the founder of Centre for Cyber Victim Counselling (www.cybervictims.org) and the India chapter head of International Society of Therapeutic Jurisprudence. She is the pioneer in introducing Therapeutic Jurisprudence as a part of credit course in legal education in India. She can be reached @debaratihalder@gmail.com
[1]See for more in PTI(2020) Nirbhaya case convicts to be hanged at 5.30 a.m. as Supreme Court dismisses plea against rejection of mercy petition. Published on March 20.2020 in The Hindu. URL: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/nirbhaya-case-convicts-to-be-hanged-as-supreme-court-dismisses-plea-against-rejection-of-mercy-petition/article31114747.ece Accessed on 21.03.2020
[2] For more, see in Profiles: Who were the Delhi gang rape convicts?. Published in https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-23434888#:~:text=Courts%20convicted%20six%20people%20for,student%20in%20a%20moving%20bus. On March 20. 2020, accessed on 21.03.2020
[3] For more, see in Banned film India\'s Daughter shown in rapists\' slum
. Published in https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-31865477 . On March13. 2015, accessed on 21.03.2020
[4] For example see the comments @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzwPrx1l9Hg Accessed on 29.10.2020
[5] The conference proceedings and my presentation are available @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9__aYyD9cA
[6] Halder D., & Jaishankar, K. (2014). Online Victimization of Andaman Jarawa Tribal Women: An Analysis of the Human SafariYouTube Videos (2012) and its Effects. British Journal of Criminology, 54(4), 673-688. (Impact factor 1.556). DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azu026.
[7] Section 13(2)(ii) in The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 states
"A wife may also present a petition for the dissolution of her marriage by a decree of divorce on the ground………. that the husband has, since the solemnisation of the marriage, been guilty of rape, sodomy or bestiality"
[8] See for more in Md Ghiasuddin vs State of AP . reported in (1977) 3 SCC 287. Available at: http://www.indiankanoon.org/
doc/1850315/,
[9] See Halder, Debarati, Why Law Fails to Be Therapeutic in Spite of Therapeutic Judicial Efforts: A Critical Analysis of Indian Legal Education From the Therapeutic Jurisprudence Perspective (October 28, 2018). Unitedworld Law Journal, Vol 2, Issue: I, ISSN: 2457-0427, (2018) pp 173-182, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3274175
[10] Halder, D. (2019), Free Legal Aid for women and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: A critical examination of the Indian model. In Stobbs Nigel, Bartel Lorana & Vols.M (eds.), Methodology And Practice Of Therapeutic Jurisprudence Research. USA: Carolina Academy Press.
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How to Use an Apple Music Song as Your Alarm
By Paula Bostrom updated on 04/21/2016
Getting up in the morning can sometimes be a challenge. And waking up to the blaring beep or buzz of an alarm can make it even worse.
If you use your iPhone as a wake up device in the mornings you can choose to wake up to your favorite song instead. Here's how:
Open Apple Music and either find a song in your My Music Library or any song in Apple Music as long as you're a subscriber.
Tap the three dots to the right of the song and select Make Available Offline to download the song to your phone.
Open the Clock app and either create a new alarm (by tapping the + sign at the top right of the screen) or edit an existing one (tap Edit in the upper left corner and then tap the alarm you want to edit).
Tap Sound > Pick a song.
Go to either Songs or Artists to locate your song and select the song you downloaded.
Paula Bostrom
Paula is a freelance media broadcaster and journalist. She enjoys life at home with her husband, two kids, two dogs, two cats and a parrot. Her iPhone is never more than two feet away from her and she can't imagine life without it.


Many construction projects suffer many challenges, not because of issues arising later, but because of mistakes made right at the beginning. The challenge with mistakes made at the beginning is that their effect may not be felt until it's too late, or they may affect every subsequent step of the project.
If you're thinking about getting started on a metal building construction project, it's important to get certain things right at the beginning. This will save you a lot of disappointment in the future.
As far as mistakes go, few will haunt you worse than choosing the wrong contractor for the job. Once you've committed to working with a particular contractor, you'll have to put up with them until the end or risk paying a hefty amount for terminating the contract. What you need in a contractor is someone with the right experience, good communication skills, integrity, ability to foresee challenges, etc. Ensure that the contractor you're choosing has these qualities before you sign on the dotted line.
Another problem that can affect a metal building project from start to finish is getting into the habit of making last-minute design changes. For starters, this makes the process much more expensive than it needs to be. Making all these changes will require that certain things be repeated or could lead to wastage of material. You'll have to shoulder these costs.
Additionally, last-minute changes are inconvenient for manufacturers, builders, and most other people involved in the construction project. These changes can cause delays, forcing them to reschedule certain things. This can affect your working relationship going forward.
It's extremely inconvenient to start working on a project only for funds to run out before the job is completed. This is problematic for you and everyone else involved in the project. It's important to ensure that your finances are in order before the project even starts. Projects that stop and restart tend to cost more in the long run.
One or two things will go wrong during the construction process. Poor weather can delay the project for some, or a batch of concrete may fail a test. It's important to anticipate such challenges and have a plan with the contractor on how such issues are handled. Having contingencies can be vital if the project is to be completed on time.


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Watch: Accelerate TV's Fashion Fix is a great idea but needs serious work
Every body's getting into video these days. And Access Bank's digital platform Accelerate TV isn't content to slag behind while everyone else caters to our fashion needs. They've recently launched their new digital tv show 'Fashion Fix' hosted by Mercy Ajisafe.
This is the first digital tv gig for the former model and current radio host and TV presenter. The first episode of the show just dropped and this is what we got from our first watch.
Fashion Fix is halfway between a fashion advice column and a makeover show with Ajisafe being both host and mannequin. The show follows the basic premise of offering advice on the style choices for important events and situations and will feature prominent industry insiders. The first of which is Yummie of Style By Youmee, the current it-stylist who has worked with prominent industry people like Rita Dominic and Waje Iruobe.
The first episode tackles all the dress pitfalls you could encounter on your first date and Yummie (using Ajisafe as her clothes horse) guides us through all the do's and dont's of making a great first impression without having it all hang out. The show would have seemed a lot better if they had, had someone else model the clothes, but hey beggars can't be choosers. It's too soon to tell if the show will be helpful to real watchers or not, but for now, we're cautiously optimistic.
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I suppose a lot of runners think about Boston, but most of them are much faster than I am. I've thought about it too, but in an abstract kind of way. It's like thinking about being the President or launching a wildly successful startup. Cool if it happens, but don't hold your breath.
Things changed for me shortly after the Mountains 2 Beach Marathon. My goal for that race was to break 3:30. That seemed like a stretch goal, but one that was achievable: the perfect kind of goal. I did far better than I expected, coming in 2.5 minutes ahead of target. I was tired, but thrilled with my time.
That's when the problems began. You see, as I get older, those Boston guys expect less and less from me. I checked out the official rules, and sure enough, your qualifying time is based on your age on Boston Marathon day, not your age when you run the qualifying race. Hmmm, perhaps this year was my opportunity to "sneak" into Boston… All I need to do was shave another 2.5 minutes off that PR.
Boston does a rolling admission process, so I actually wanted to run a 3:20, not a 3:25. Given the interest in Boston for next year, that seemed like the best way to guarantee a spot.
Guess what? Qualifying for Boston is hard at ANY age. I was pretty disappointed last Sunday, but in a way I'm glad I didn't make it. I mean, if I had actually qualified the first time I really tried what life lessons would I learn?
Having said that, I'm far happier with my 3:38:03 than I would have been with 3:25:03. That would have been a HUGE life lesson.
I miss running marathons for the fun of it. I typically have a goal now and there is advance planning involved. I spend more time checking my watch than enjoying the beauty of the course. Having said that, I am PSYCHED that I broke through the 3:30 mark. I'm still not even close to qualifying for Boston, but this was a huge personal accomplishment!
And that's why we all run, right?
I did a 3:38:50 last year and my goal was to break 3:30 this year. I wasn't sure if that was possible. On the positive side, I've been working with a coach for the past 7 weeks. On the negative side, I hadn't run a marathon since 11/11/2012.
I looked at my splits from last year and put together a little race packet to share with my buddy Benny so that we could strategize. The basic plan was to try to keep the average pace close to 8:00 for the first loop, then do some sub 8:00s for the downhill portion to bank some time, then slow down at the end (I always do, might as well plan for it) and hit 3:30 at the end. Pretty simple.
Before we get into all the details on the masterful execution of this plan, here's a shot of Benny and I at the expo the day before.
Before I forget: Ojai 2 Ocean is now Mountains 2 Beach. I'm sure there is some drama somewhere in the name change, but not really sure what it is. In any event, it is the same course, same organizer, etc.
Benny and I showed up bright and early. Ready to run that PR! But there was a porta potty crisis (for the race, not us) and we wound up starting 8 minutes late. We were undeterred.
The first few miles flew by. Then there was the dreaded uphill bit and a walk break at mile 5. We continued on. Elapsed time at 6.2 miles: 50:03. Only 27 seconds slower than an 8:00 pace.
We descended along the bike path into the Ventura River Basin. The first part of the course was pretty, but heading down into the valley was beautiful. At one point Benny remarked that the view was a 6 on a scale from 1 to 5. I agreed and looked back at my watch 🙂 Our fastest mile in the downhill segment was a 7:22. The slowest (and only one over 8:00) was an 8:10 for mile 16. That's because we took a walk break just after we passed mile 15.
Somewhere between mile 16 and 17, Benny and I had our Titanic moment and I continued on alone.
The last 6 were tough. They always are. I had almost a 3 minute buffer to keep me under 3:30. I only wound up using a bit of it. My final splits were 8:12, 8:07, 8:12, 8:24, 8:07, and 7:52, followed by a crazy sprint at the very end. Coach Lori said those were "fast man real runner splits." High praise!
So everything went according to plan, as crazy as that sounds. Here's a photo of me looking happy after it was over.
To summarize: Beautiful course. Fast course. Small, well organized race. Great support. And a big PR!


Shelli – In the original post on goat's milk, you said you add it to styling products as well – So spill!!! Now, of course I have not been able to snag fresh goat's milk since it apparently only flows abundantly in NJ O_O, butttttt, Walmart has it in canned condensed form, so I gots da goods! : ) I'm also a henna girl, so I'm wondering if you add it in there somewhere besides the final cleanse and such AFTER indigo. I'm probably doing henna this w/end, so just thought it'd be good to ask.
Hey lady. I haven't added it to anything but the other conditioner when I was trying to thicken it. I use a styler, Curl Prep Sweet Buttah, that has it as the first or second ingredient. I was wondering about how it would work in henna as some people use coconut milk with great success. However, I've never tried either. I still just use green tea, honey, and Sally's GVP Matrix Biolage Conditioning Balm in my henna mix. If you do add it, definitely let us know how it works out!!!
I tried the goat milk mask last night- I love the way it makes my hair feel!!
I have been putting goat's milk in my henna mix and it is amazing!


Once, The Netherlands were worth a trip to smoke a legal joint, enjoy the views of windmills, feel the sea and smell colourful tulips besides a few underground parties. Nowadays, the country is worth to stay the whole summer to attend some great Psytrance festivals like Psy-Fi, Solstice and Space Safari.
When you think about Psytrance in The Netherlands, Psy-Fi is the first name, that comes to one's mind. The festival in Leeuwarden has developed into the country's biggest Psytrance festival uniting the world' best artists of the scene. The fifth edition takes place in August.


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Blue Jays Top Yanks, 2-0, Complete 3-Game Sweep
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Blue Jays relief pitcher Roberto Osuna reacts after striking out Chase Headley to end the game.
Josh Donaldson and Jose Bautista each hit a long home run, and the Toronto Blue Jays earned their eighth straight victory by beating the New York Yankees 2-0 Sunday to complete a three-game sweep that tightened the AL East race.
Marco Estrada tossed three-hit ball into the seventh inning against the suddenly slumping Yankees, outpitching Masahiro Tanaka during Toronto's second consecutive shutout. In a series that featured the top two offenses in the majors, New York mustered only one run.
With their 11th win in 12 games, the streaking Blue Jays pulled within 1 1/2 games of the first-place Yankees. It was the first time since May 2003 that Toronto swept New York in a series of at least three games.
Yankees star Brett Gardner slammed down his helmet with two hands after grounding out to end the third. The next inning, he was hit in the back by Bautista's home run ball when a fan in the left-field stands threw it back onto the field.
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If the Christian is supposed to tithe, the Apostle Peter sure missed his chance to tell the Believers in the early Church in Acts chapters 2&4 that they were supposed to tithe the proceeds from their sales to the Church.
If the Christian is required to tithe, the Apostle Paul sure missed the chance to tell the many churches he wrote to in his missionary journeys that the congregation was to give ten percent of their monetary income to the Church they attended. Not even in the Pastoral Epistles, which detail much of how the saint is to behave in the Church of God, is there even a hint of anyone being told to tithe.
If the Christian is requried to tithe, why the deafening silence in the New Testament post-crucifixion epistles?
I do not agree with the Faith Promise Campaign. Faith Promise has one vowing to give "x" amount of money per month for a year.
The problem? It's not Biblical.
2. Giving should be according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have. Not one of us know what will happen from one day to the next. According to James, our life itself is "but a vapour". We don't know if some medical need will take a good portion of our future monetary income. or a lay-off from work, or even inflation will cause us to need more for food on our tables and household bills. Faith Promise has us vowing to give money that we don't have yet, nor really know if we will have.
Faith Promise works in total contradiction to 2 Corinthians 8:12.
Nip It,… Nip It in the Bud!
James 1:14-15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
When temptations arise, we are to submit ourselves to God,… not yield to those temptations and deal with them when they have progressed to something far more damaging to our souls.
Likewise, when we see something in our midst that could potentially lead others into sin, we should do all we can to, "Nip it in the bud." Lay the ax to the root to get rid of the problem. Address the problem in the early stages of developement.
Otherwise,… the problem will always be there and will grow worse.
A few years back, someone told me that he had talked to five (5) different "Biblical Scholars" about my stance on Scriptural tithing and they all informed him that I was wrong.
My response was simple. I didn't consult with "Biblical Scholars" to arrive at my conclusion… I went straight to the source… the infallible and inerrant word of God. I would hope this would be the actions of all who want to be approved (2 Tim. 2:15) in God's eyes.
How can one be taking up the word of God when one is embracing and teaching doctrine that is contrary to that which holy men of old penned down as they were moved by the Holy Spirit to do?
The word "tithe" in relation to God's commanded tithe appears only 14 times in 13 verses of the KJV. (Lev. 27:30,32; Num. 18:26; Deut. 12:17; Deut. 14:22,28; 2 Chr. 31:5; Neh. 10:38; Neh. 13:12; Matt. 23:23; Lk. 11:42) This tithe is from agricultural increase only.
The word "tithes" in relation to God's commanded tithe appears only 23 times in 20 verses of the KJV. (Le 27:31; Nu 18:24,26,28; De 12:6,11; De 26:12; 2Ch 31:12; Ne 10:37,38; Ne 12:44; Ne 13:5; Am 4:4; Mal 3:8,10; Lu 18:12; Heb 7:5,6,8,9) This tithe is from agricultural increase only.
The word "tithes" in relation to a voluntary tithe appears only 1 time in 1 verse in the KJV. (Gen. 14:20) Context reveals that this tithe is from war spoils and not from Abram's own property or riches.
The word "tithing" in relation to God's commanded tithe appears only 2 times in 1 verse of the KJV. (Deut. 26:12) This tithe is from agricultural increase only.
The phrase "the tenth" in relation to God's commanded tithe is found only 2 times in 2 verses of the KJV. (Lev. 27:32; Num. 18:21) This tithe is from agricultural increase only.
The phrase "the tenth" in relation to a voluntary tithe is found only 2 times in 2 verses in the KJV. (Gen. 28:22; Heb. 7:4) This tithe is from spoils of war and not from Abraham's own property or riches.
The phrase "the tenth" in relation to a forced tithe by man is found only 2 times in 2 verses in the KJV. (1 Sam. 8:15,17) Those who choose man to rule over them tithe according to the invention of their ruler. They have rejected God.
The phrase "a tenth" in relation to a voluntary tithe is found only 1 time in 1 verse in the KJV. (Heb 7:2) This tithe is of war spoils and was not of Abraham's property or riches.
There is only one tithe in the entire Bible that may have contained money, and that is the tithe given to Melchizedek by Abram in the Valley of Shaveh.
Abram gave Melchizedek tithes of the spoils of war. Abram had promised God he would not keep any of the spoils as his own lest he give Bera, the king of Sodom, occasion to brag that he had made Abram rich.
This reveals that what Abram tithed was not his own property, but the property of others! Nor did Abram tithe his monetary income to Melchizedek. Rather, he tithed the spoils of war.
Further, Abram is never said to have ever tithed again. A one time tithe to Melchizedek,… of the spoils of war,… is this whose tithe we are to emulate? Then only a once-in-a-lifetime tithe is required; and that of war spoils, not of one's monetary income.
Jacob is revealed to have promised God that he would give him a tenth of all that God would give him. A careful study of the word of God will reveal that what Jacob vowed to tithe was not monetary income,… he vowed to tithe a tenth of the land that God promised to give Jacob and his descendants.
God required tithes of agricultural crops and livestock from the children of Israel. (Lev. 27:30-34) They were "holy" to God. Set apart by the Patriarch Jacob.
Are we to tithe in the manner that the children of Israel tithed? If so, then it is to be agricultural, restricting it to only landowners who have crops and livestock. It is to be taken to farming communities in the Promised Land, not anywhere else in the world. Of those tithes, the tither is to eat with his family. How many pastors tell their congregations to eat a tithe with their families? It is highly doubtful that any pastors do.
The long and short of it is, that which pastors tell their congregations is God's tithe today, cannot be found anywhere in the pages of God's Holy word. Today's monetary tithe requirement doctrine is the invention of man, not a decree of God.
Brethren, open your Bibles and study. Don't read, but STUDY. You will find what I have written does not conflict with what the word of God says concerning the tithe or tithes God has commanded in His word.
What does conflict with His word, is the monetary tithe being taught in the pulpits by men who are supposed to be teaching truth rather than error. They are supposed to preach the word, not inventions of man.
Our giving is not to be of necessity, (2 Cor. 9:7) yet pastors make it such. Our giving should not be because of guilt, yet pastors have no problem making their congregation feel guilty by accusing them of "robbing God" if they don't tithe.
The Bible tells us to choose in our own hearts what we want to give. (2 Cor. 9:7) If we follow God's instruction rather than distorted doctrine, God will be pleased with us.
Now, I ask, why does one need some kind of Theological Degree to study the word and come to the same conclusions I have on the topic of tithes? It appears that Theological Degrees have not helped the aforementioned "Biblical Scholars" to rightly divide the word of Truth, for they teach contrary to what the Scriptures teach on the subject of tithing.
Will I bow to the demands of the preacher who teaches that I am to tithe my money to the Church? Not until that preacher can provide Scripture from the word of God that says the Christian is to tithe his or her monetary income to the Church. In all my years of studying the word of God, I have yet to find said Scripture.
Proverbs 3:9-10 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
It is clear that both the Proverbs passage and the Malachi passage are speaking of God blessing with an increase of crops. But are the two passages speaking of the same thing? The answer would depend upon the interpretation of the Hebrew word "hown" found in Proverbs 3:9.
The Hebrew word "hown" found in Proverbs 3:9 is a word that the Hebrews used to signify wealth. When we think of wealth today, we think of money, i.e.; silver, gold, dollars, cents, lira, yen, pesos, etc., etc.
However if "hown" is speaking of that which is to be tithed, then substance (wealth) in Proverbs 3:9 cannot be speaking of money in any form. We know this because of what God declares His holy tithe to consist of in His word.
At the time of king Solomon's reign, (the primary author of the Proverbs) the children of Israel were under the jurisdiction of the Mosaic Law. Under the Mosaic Law, money was not tithed.
In the above passage, we see that the tithe of the land was the seed of the land; (edible products harvested from the ground) the fruit of the tree; (edible products harvested from trees) and every tenth livestock animal that passed under the rod. (as the livestock owner was counting them) The tithe only consisted of agricultural products… it was never money!
It is clear to see that in light of what God said the tithe consisted of, Proverbs 3:9 could not have been speaking of monetary wealth if the verse is referring to Gods commanded tithe.
For dollars, man shears a sheep and that wool passes through many hands in the process of merging wool with linen to manufacture a paper-like material and ultimately to the Bureau of Printing and Engraving where inks are printed on it to transform it into our modern dollar. The same can be said of our coins. Silver, gold, copper, nickel and zinc are mined from the ground, sent to refiners, then to the mint where they are again melted and poured into die casts that give to us pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half-dollars, etc..
In Matthew 22:17-21, Jesus tells His audience that money that has been stamped with the ruling government's image on it belongs to the ruling government. In other words, it is man's invention, not God's creation. God created the silver and gold, yes. But man took that silver and gold and made it into something God never intended it to be,… a product of man's design.
Money is the product of man's imagination, agricultural produce are the product of God's design.
If, however, the word "hown" were speaking of all wealth; i.e., possessions, dollars, coins, etc., then Proverbs 3:9 cannot be referring to tithing at all since the Law did not require the Israelite to tithe his money.
Then, the key word of Proverbs 3:9 would have to be the Hebrew word "kabad", translated "Honour". The Hebrew word "kabad" was used to demonstrate 'responsibility.' It simply meant 'to be chargeable to.' The children of Israel had a responsibility to be faithful stewards with their wealth, being careful of how they used it. That is what the word 'kabad' signified.
I believe that Proverbs 3:9 is Solomon instructing his son to be responsible with his wealth, He was not saying "Tithe your silver".
This would mean being responsible with all agricultural crops, giving the tenth of those crops to whom God had ordained to receive the tenth. It would also mean not being wasteful with the food that God had provided for man's sustenance. And yes…not being wasteful with the monetary wealth as well.
Proverbs 3:9 also speaks of firstfruits, which Deuteronomy 26:1-4 describes as a small handful or basket of fruit given as a small token from agricultural crops at the beginning of harvest.
Solomon wrote: "Honour the LORD with thy substance, AND with the firstfruits of all thine increase." The word "AND" in Proverbs 3:9 signifies the LORD required something in addition to responsibility, in addition to the tithe,… He also required an offering of firstfruits.
Those who teach and believe the monetary tithe requirement doctrine enter the discussion with absolutely no Scripture to prove their doctrine to be correct. Likewise, they offer absolutely no Scripture to prove that which I preach to be wrong.
I provide Scripture to support everything that I teach and preach. And yet, many claim that I am poisoning the minds of the members of the Church with my doctrine.
Be as the Bereans of Acts 17:11. Receive what I teach with readiness of mind. Then, search the Scriptures I have given to see if they say what I have presented.
When you find that they do, you will realize that I am not poisoning Church members minds at all. Rather, I am administering an antidote to the poison that the monetary tithe teachers have already given you.
I administer Truth from God's word to counteract the lie of the monetary tithe requirement doctrine.


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Name: Loris Lombardo
Email: info@lorislombardo.it
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loris.lombardo2
Website: https://www.lorislombardo.it/
Best Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/user/3rebounds
Biography: Loris Lombardo was born in Savona, Italy, in 1985. A multi-percussionist, drummer, composer as well as the founder of the first Academy of handpan in Italy and author of the first handpan manual in the world, "HANDPAN. The Complete Manual" (Handpan Manuale Completo). Searcher of sounds and musical timbres, Loris Lombardo's music is the result of the constant evolution of his experience as a musician, which began with the study of drums and then of classical percussion at the G.F Ghedini Conservatory of Music – where he graduated with full honours -, and soon moved onto the study of traditional multi-cultural music, leading him to gain the knowledge of unconventional concepts and sounds and allowing him to eventually create his own original and groundbreaking style.
Winner of numerous international contests, he has his one-man show: "Handpan & Percussions Concert". He holds workshops and courses all over Italy and Europe with the aim to spread the culture of this new and captivating instrument – the handpan.
Graduated with full honours in classical percussions from the G.F Ghedini of Cuneo Conservatoire, in drums from the NAM School under Tullio De Piscopo, from Soncino Percussion Academy and also the Ultimate Drum Experience in London. Successively, he dedicated himself to the study of percussion from every part of the world, including India, Turkey and the Middle East. Winner of two international drum and percussion competitions: World Drum Contest 2011 and Percfest 2012.
He has performed his "HANDPAN & PERCUSSIONS CONCERT" in a number of theatres around Europe and has recorded twenty CD's (one as a solo artist).
A director and teacher at the Handpan & Percussions Academy, where he has also created the first course dedicated to the study of the handpan/hang.
In 2017, he published his book, "Handpan Manuale Completo", the first method in the world dedicated to the study of the handpan techniques and he performed as soloist in the TV show Italia's Got Talent, getting a resounding success and standing ovation, acclaimed by the public and praised by the jury (from which he received the unanimous consent), including Claudio Bisio, Luciana Littizzetto, Nina Zilli and Frank Matano.
Loris holds handpan seminars throughout Europe, teaching his innovative approach to playing, a fusion of techniques and rhythms derived from various instruments from all over the world. He writes articles for some of the best Italian drum and percussion magazines; he is sponsored by MEINL PERCUSSION, PEARL and HARDCASE TECHNOLOGIES.
In 2018 he gave life to the brand "Lombardo HANDPAN", producing handpans in his name.
His musical collaborations include: Andrea Braido (Mina, Vasco Rossi, etc.), Orchestra della Magna Grecia (as a soloist with the singer Simona Molinari), Antonio Marangolo, Clara Moroni (Vasco Rossi), Beppe Gambetta, Carlo Aonzo, Marlene Kuntz, Richard Barbieri, Max Manfredi, etc.
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JuJu Smith-Schuster Is Back Dancing On Tik Tok After The Steelers Clinched The AFC North
by Grayson Weir December 27, 2020 5:58 pm
JuJu Smith-Schuster has been at the center of internet controversy this season after he posted TikTok videos of himself dancing on the opposing team's logo at midfield before each game. The Steelers began the season undefeated through the first 11 games of 2020 but lost three consecutive games in Weeks 13, 14 and 15, and Smith-Schuster's dances came under scrutiny amidst the skid. Players on the Buffalo Bills and the Cincinnati Bengals both commented on the move, saying that it gave them motivation prior to the game.
@juju
Keep it going tonight 🥶🤩🤣 #fyp #nfl #steelers
♬ Adderall (Corvette Corvette) – Popp Hunna
On Wednesday, prior to this weekend's potential division-clinching game against the Colts, Smith-Schuster told reporters that he was going to stop dancing on the logos going forward. He did not post a TikTok on Sunday.
"For the betterment of myself and my teammates, I'm going to stop dancing on the logos," he said.
The comments came just one day after Pittsburgh head coach Mike Tomlin said he was going to speak with his young receiver about his dancing.
"I am aware of it," Tomlin said. "And I do plan to talk to JuJu. But we're professionals. I doubt any of those antics and things of that nature are legitimate motivating factors as you step into professional stadiums. It's about respect."
While the pregame ritual came to an end, Smith-Schuster was not dancing. After catching nine passes for 96 yards and a touchdown in a win over Indianapolis, he and his teammates posted a video of them all dancing to the same song in the locker room with the caption "AFC North Champs."
SQUAD @rayraymccloudiii @chase @jaysam @diontae video credit : @duckhodges #fyp #nfl #steelers
♬ original sound – JuJu Smith-Schuster
It was a clear message to the haters and it was well-deserved.
Grayson Weir
Associate Editor at BroBible covering all five major sports and every niche sport imaginable, found primarily in the college space. I don't drink coffee, I wake up jacked.
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Q: How to get text from shadow root element? I have a web page that I am automating using Puppeteer. I want to get a text out of shadow root element. My confusion is that shadow root element visibility is enabled by enabling property in the browser setting. But when the script run a new browser instance is launched with shadow root disabled by default. So how can I access the element. Is there any way to enabled shadow root pro grammatically. I am attaching screenshot of my DOM element.

A: You can use query-selector-shadow-dom npm package for this purpose with puppeteer.
const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
const {  QueryHandler } = require('query-selector-shadow-dom/plugins/puppeteer');
(async () => {
    try {
        await puppeteer.__experimental_registerCustomQueryHandler('shadow', QueryHandler);
        const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
            headless: false
        });
        const page = await browser.newPage();
        await page.goto('http://some-site.com/');

        await page.waitForSelector('shadow/div'); // if it'd have a class you could replace "div" with the ".class-name"
        const shadowDiv = await page.$('shadow/div');
        const text = await page.evaluate(el => el.innerText, shadowDiv);

        await browser.close();
    } catch (e) {
      console.error(e);
    }
})()

You mentioned you need to apply shadow DOM in chrome settings, I suggest to create a chrome profile (Custom Profile 1) with the required settings and then use this profile with puppeteer:
E.g.:
const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
    headless: false,
    args: [
      '--user-data-dir=C:\\Users\\user.name\\AppData\\Local\\Chromium\\User Data',
      '--profile-directory=Custom Profile 1'
    ]
  })

The example above is for Windows, see more platforms and more info here.

A: Since this PR https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/pull/6509 you can use the builtin pierce query handler. In the HTML example that comes with the docs:

  <custom-element>

  </custom-element>

This call gives you access to the div in the shadow root:
await page.$$('pierce/div')

The query-selector-shadow-dom npm package proposed by @theDavidBarton shouldn't be needed anymore.

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New Short Term Letting Regulations, Planning and Development (amendment) Regulations 2019.
Summary of the new regulations and what they mean.
The Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government has introduced new Regulations which allow for the use of a "house" for the purposes of Short Term Letting, in a rent pressure zone, in restricted circumstances provided statutory notifications are sent to the relevant Local Authority.
The use of a house or part of a house situated in a rent pressure zone for short term letting purposes is a material change in use of the house or part thereof, as the case may be. (Section 3A of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended)
A short term letting' means the letting of a house or part of a "house" for any period not exceeding 14 days, and includes a licence that permits the licensee to enter and reside in the house or part thereof for any such period in consideration of the making by any person (whether or not the licensee) of a payment or payments to the licensor." (Section 3A of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended)
House includes apartments and flats for the purpose of this definition. Legal definition of a house under Part 1 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) is 'house'' means a building or part of a building which is being or has been occupied as a dwelling or was provided for use as a dwelling but has not been occupied, and where appropriate, includes a building which was designed for use as 2 or more dwellings or a flat, an apartment or other dwelling within such a building.
Restrictions on use of a "house" (including apartments and flats etc.)
The new regulations which allow for Short Term Letting in restricted circumstances in a rent pressure zone do not apply to any property that is not a principal private residence of a person(s).
This means that the use of a second property that is not owner occupied or tenant occupied cannot legally operate for the purposes of short term letting under the new Regulations. This includes properties whose principle use is for short term letting use. Full Planning Permission is required in such circumstances.
Anybody who is operating a property for Short Term Letting purposes in such circumstances, is carrying out unauthorised development, which is an offence under Section 151 of the Planning and Development Act 2000. Such an offence may be prosecuted by Dublin City Council and is subject to criminal sanctions on conviction in court.
Properties that the New Short Term Regulation Exemptions apply to:
A "house" (including apartments and flats etc.) which is a principal private residence and is occupied by the resident (landlord or licensor) can use up to 4 rooms accommodating no more than 4 people per room, with no restrictions on the number of days per year of use, provided that;
it does not breach any condition of a permission or any use specified in such a permission.
each letting is for a period of between 1 and 14 days.
an owner occupier or tenant is resident at the time of the Short Term Lettings.
the prescribed Start of Year, Form 15 Statutory Notification form is sent to Dublin City Council no later than 2 weeks from the commencement of the first Short Term Let of the year, for that property.
the prescribed End of year Notification, Form 17 Statutory Notification form is sent to Dublin City Council between the 1st of January and the 28th of January of the year after the lettings have taken place.
A "house" (including apartments and flats etc.) which is a principal private residence and is normally occupied by the resident (landlord or licensor) can be used for up to a maximum of 90 days per year, in periods of 1-14 days at a time, in the absence of the owner occupier(s) or tenant residing at that property.
In other words you can let your property for full time Short Term Letting purposes, provided that;
the total number of days does not exceed 90 days in a year( 1st January to 31st December).
an owner occupier or tenant is not resident at the time of the Short Term Lettings.
the prescribed Form 16, 90 Day threshold reached Statutory Notification form is sent to Dublin City Council which is only required if the 90 Day threshold is reached. This form must be lodged no later than 2 weeks after the threshold has been reached.
Please see link to online Form 15 (start of year notification)
Relevant form(s) to be completed and submitted online to Dublin City Council:
N.B. An automated reply will issue confirming receipt of notification by Dublin City Council.
If you have any further queries please see link to Department of Housing, Community and Local Government website that contains the full legislation and also some frequently asked questions.
https://www.housing.gov.ie/planning/private-rented-housing/new-regulation-short-term-letting
Should you require further information you can contact us at 01 222 6000
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Step Aside Jennifer Aniston: Matthew McConaughey Is The Next A-Lister to Join Instagram
Matthew McConaughey officially joins Instagram, check out his first post!
By Pamela Avila Nov 04, 2019 8:54 PMTags
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Welcome to Instagram, Matthew McConaughey!
On his 50th birthday, the actor decided to start his birthday week on a good note and announce that he's followed in Jennifer Aniston's footsteps to join the social media platform. While the Dallas Buyers Club actor has been active on Twitter since 2009, he hadn't quite made the leap to join the 'gram.
To mark the start of his Instagram account, McConaughey got a little creative.
For his first Instagram post, he shared a video of himself revealing that he's a little nervous about it all but that ultimately, he's looking forward to it.
"When people come to my page, I want them to see me," the actor said in the video. "Look, this is my first venture into sharing myself and my views with the world and I'm a little bit nervous about it because quite frankly, I know I want to have a monologue... I'm not quite sure I want to have the dialogue. But I know I have to have the dialogue, too [...] So I'm looking forward to it, I'm looking forward to it."
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"I'm looking forward to sharing who I am with you, to seeing if who I am translates, if what I want to share translates... if it tickles your funny bone, if it makes you think a second, if it makes your heart swell up a little bit, if it makes you take a quiet moment and go for a walk... let's have some fun with it though," he continued.
And it looks like the actor was more than excited to finally make the announcement because he also shared another video on his Twitter account about joining Instagram.
"Born November the 4th in 1969, got my dad's name the very same day, but not until I turned 50. Today. That I become @officiallymcconaughey. That's my Instagram handle. See you there," the Serenity actor said in the short clip posted on Twitter.
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McConaughey, who is an alum from the University of Texas at Austin, received some love from his alma mater.
"Happy birthday, Professor McConaughey and welcome to Instagram,"@utaustintx commented on his Instagram post.
The Texas native also recently became a professor of practice at the university's Moody College of Communication.


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• Florida ranks third in the nation in the production and use of aggregate products, consuming about 153 million tons per year. About 60 million tons of that comes from the Lake Belt region in western Miami-Dade County.
• The Lake Belt region has the state's highest-quality limestone able to produce aggregates that meet state DOT and federal highway and aggregate specifications for cement, concrete, concrete products and asphalt, which are needed to build roads, bridges, runways, schools, homes, hospitals, office buildings and public facilities.
protection plans, acting as a vital water storage area and as a buffer between urban areas to the east and the Florida Everglades to the west.
• Miami-Dade's limestone industry provides more than 14,000 jobs, has a $550 million payroll, and pays almost $22 million in local sales taxes and $10 million in property taxes each year.
• Through subcontractor Dyno Nobel, White Rock uses the most advanced and controlled blasting technology available, producing vibration levels well below established limits.


Unfortunetly for those who use it, PlayStation Home will never be on the PlayStation Vita or PlayStation 4 when Sony shuts it down for the PlayStation 3 early next year.
Community managers said that they are doing this due to to "a shifting landscape." With this shut down, Sony will no longer be publishing new content for Home after November 12. After that, users have until December 3 to download any content they want. When all of that is done, it will be totally shut down on March 31, 2015. With a few months before it goes down, users will receive some free unspecified content.


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Q: Examples of "unsuccessful" theories with afterlives I am looking for examples of mathematical theories which were introduced with a certain goal in mind, and which failed to achieved this goal, but which nevertheless developed on their own and continued to be studied for other reasons.
Here is a prominent example I know of:

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*Lie theory: It is my understanding that Lie introduced Lie groups with the idea that they would help in solving differential equations (I guess, by consideration of the symmetries of these equations). While symmetry techniques for differential equations to some extent continue to be studied (see differential Galois theory), they remain far from the mainstream of DE research. But of course Lie theory is nonetheless now seen as a central topic in mathematics.

Are there some other examples along these lines?

A: Ronald Fisher's theory of fiducial inference was introduced around 1930 or so (I think?), for the purpose of solving the Behrens–Fisher problem. It turned out that fiducial intervals for that problem did not have constant coverage rates, or in what then came to be standard terminology, they are not confidence intervals. That's not necessarily fatal in some contexts, since Bayesian credible intervals don't have constant coverage rates, but everyone understands that there are good reasons for that. Fisher wrote a paper saying that that criticism is unconvincing, and I wonder if anyone understands what Fisher was trying to say. Fisher was brilliant but irascible. (He was a very prolific author of research papers in statistical theory and in population genetics, a science of which he was one of the three major founders. I think he may have single-handedly founded the theory of design of experiments, but I'm not sure about that.)
However, fiducial methods seem to be undergoing some sort of revival:
https://statistics.fas.harvard.edu/event/4th-bayesian-fiducial-and-frequentist-conference-bff4

A: I quote at length from the Wikipedia essay on the history of knot theory:

In 1867 after observing Scottish physicist Peter Tait's experiments involving smoke rings, Thomson came to the idea that atoms were knots of swirling vortices in the æther. Chemical elements would thus correspond to knots and links. Tait's experiments were inspired by a paper of Helmholtz's on vortex-rings in incompressible fluids. Thomson and Tait believed that an understanding and classification of all possible knots would explain why atoms absorb and emit light at only the discrete wavelengths that they do. For example, Thomson thought that sodium could be the Hopf link due to its two lines of spectra.
Tait subsequently began listing unique knots in the belief that he was creating a table of elements. He formulated what are now known as the Tait conjectures on alternating knots. (The conjectures were proved in the 1990s.) Tait's knot tables were subsequently improved upon by C. N. Little and Thomas Kirkman.
James Clerk Maxwell, a colleague and friend of Thomson's and Tait's, also developed a strong interest in knots. Maxwell studied Listing's work on knots. He re-interpreted Gauss' linking integral in terms of electromagnetic theory. In his formulation, the integral represented the work done by a charged particle moving along one component of the link under the influence of the magnetic field generated by an electric current along the other component. Maxwell also continued the study of smoke rings by considering three interacting rings.
When the luminiferous æther was not detected in the Michelson–Morley experiment, vortex theory became completely obsolete, and knot theory ceased to be of great scientific interest. Modern physics demonstrates that the discrete wavelengths depend on quantum energy levels.

A: Continuing what was said by @GerryMyerson, the project of providing foundations for mathematics started by Frege was presented in a treatise called Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (Basic laws of arithmetic). The axioms of this treatise were proven inconsistent by Bertrand Russell in what we know today as Russell's paradox.
This paradox also affects naive set theory, understood as the theory comprising the following two axioms:

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*Axiom of extensionality: $(x \in a \leftrightarrow x \in b) \rightarrow a = b$. That is, if two sets $a$ and $b$ have the same elements, then they're the same set.

*Axiom (scheme) of unrestricted comprehension: $x \in a \leftrightarrow$ P$x$, for each formula P$x$. That is, to each property P uniquely corresponds one set $a$.
Naive set theory, thus understood, follows from Frege's axioms and seems to capture very well the notion of set. But since $x \notin x$ is a formula, the axiom scheme of unrestricted comprehension guarantees that the following is an axiom:

*$x \in x \leftrightarrow x \notin x$
Now, when we ask whether $x \in x$ or $x \notin x$, we obtain contradictory situations in both cases.
This paradox was solved by discarding this axiomatisation of set theory and, hence, Frege's axiomatics. But some logicians, mathematicians and philosophers have considered that perhaps this wasn't the right way to solve this. Instead of rejecting this naive set theory or Frege's theory, they propose to reject the principle of explosion or ex contradictione sequitor quodlibet:

*$P \wedge \neg P \rightarrow Q$. That is, from a contradiction follows any formula or statement.

This research programme is often known as the paraconsistent programme, because they work with paraconsistent logics. A logic system is said to be paraconsistent iff the logical thesis (4) is not valid in general. Hence, if the theory is inconsistent, it doesn't mean that anything follows from it (which means that it still may be useful). You can find out more about his programme in:

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*SEP: Paraconsistent Logic

*SEP: Inconsistent Mathematics

*SEP: Dialetheism
You will find there (specially in the second link) a whole programme for researching inconsistent mathematical theories, which are generally considered of no mathematical interest. (You will also find that mainly philosophers are working in this programme.)
Whether this programme is of any scientific value, that's for you to judge. But I accept this probably wasn't the kind of answer you were looking for. There is a chance, however, that you find it very interesting. I hope it helps in any case.

A: It's perhaps slightly (if any) exaggerated, but the development of algebraic number theory (particularly the study of cyclotomic fields) is strongly motivated by attempts to prove Fermat's last theorem.
And everyone knows the end of that story ...
To quote Wiki:
Fermat's last theorem:

The unsolved problem stimulated the development of algebraic number theory in the 19th century and the proof of the modularity theorem in the 20th century.

Cyclotimic field:

The cyclotomic fields played a crucial role in the development of modern algebra and number theory because of their relation with Fermat's last theorem. It was in the process of his deep investigations of the arithmetic of these fields (for prime n) – and more precisely, because of the failure of unique factorization in their rings of integers – that Ernst Kummer first introduced the concept of an ideal number and proved his celebrated congruences.

A: I think Dirac's equation is a good example. Dirac was looking for a special-relativistic version of Schrödinger's equation. For the probabilistic interpretation to work, it had to have only first-order time derivatives, unlike the field equations known at the time.
He found a Lorentz invariant field equation with first-order derivatives, and it turned out to have enormous theoretical importance since it kicked off the study of relativistic field theories and Lie group representations in physics.
But the Dirac equation isn't a relativistic version of Schrödinger's equation. It can't describe multiparticle entanglement, it doesn't violate Bell's inequality, you can't build a quantum computer in it, etc. From a modern perspective it's just the massive, spin-½ counterpart to Maxwell's equations.
A version of the Dirac equation appears in the Lagrangian of quantum electrodynamics and the Standard Model. But it's right alongside a version of Maxwell's equations, complete with second-order derivatives, which turned out not to be a problem after all.
It's often still taught in introductory courses that Dirac's equation explained the electron's spin and magnetic moment, but both of those retrodictions were essentially accidental. Dirac's argument for spin ½ would imply that all fundamental particles must have half-integer spin, which doesn't appear to be the case; and Weinberg says "there is really nothing in Dirac's line of argument that leads unequivocally to this particular value for the magnetic moment" (The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol. 1, p. 14).

A: "The modern study of knots grew out an attempt by three 19th-century Scottish
physicists to apply knot theory to fundamental questions about the universe".

A: E.H. Moore's General Analysis was to be a unifying framework for (at least) analysis.  This goal was never achieved, in part due to the rather complicated formalism used by Moore.
Nonetheless, a part of that theory, called Moore-Smith sequences or nets, survived and even thrived as a way of describing topology where it is known that sequences do not suffice.

A: Motives and the standard conjectures were developed by Grothendieck to prove the last of the Weil conjectures. They failed at this as none of the standard conjectures were proven - despite some progress on this, I would say we are not closer to proving the Weil conjectures via the standard conjectures today than we were when they were first formulated - and Deligne showed that Grothendieck's earlier invention of etale cohomology was perfectly sufficient to prove the Weil conjectures.
However, since that time different notions of motive were constructed, with different useful properties, in addition to Grothendieck's, and many of them have found applications in areas of algebraic geometry and number theory, with the first really big one being Voevodsky's Fields medal-winning proof of the Milnor conjecture.

A: String Theory!
String Theory was born in the context of strong interactions inside atomic nuclei, since the 60s-70s. The theory turned out not suited to describe the strong force, and was supplanted around 1973 by the rising Quantum Chromodynamics (our current best model for the strong force interactions). Among the reasons for the failure, there was the mandatory presence of unwanted spin 2 particles...
Those particles are now interpreted as gravitons! And String Theory is now seen as a theory of quantum-gravity, describing all the known forces (electromagnetic, weak, strong) and gravity at the same time! That's a pretty big afterlife!

A: (Converted from a comment to an answer as requested.)
Non-Euclidean geometry was initially developed in hopes of deriving the parallel postulate from the other axioms of Euclidean geometry, as can be seen in particular through the pioneering work of Saccheri in this area, who tried in vain to prove the parallel postulate by contradiction and ended up proving a large number of foundational results in what we would now call elliptic and hyperbolic geometry as a consequence. (See for instance this article of Fitzpatrick, or this McTutor article on Non-Euclidean geometry.)
Nowadays, the classical non-Euclidean geometries (the elliptic geometry of the sphere, and the hyperbolic geometry of hyperbolic space) play the important role of describing two of the basic model geometries in Riemannian geometry, namely the simply connected geometries of constant and isotropic positive or negative curvature respectively.  (In two dimensions, where Riemann curvature is effectively a scalar quantity, these two geometries, together with Euclidean geometry, are the only models needed; in higher dimensions there are however other model geometries of interest, such as the remaining five Thurston geometries of the geometrisation conjecture in three dimensions.)

A: This is a copy of a copy of some history of the origins of free probability by Dan Voiculescu extracted from a response by Roland Speicher, a developer of the field, to an MO-Q:
This is from his  article "Background and Outlook" in the Lectures Notes
"Free Probability and Operator Algebras", see
http://www.ems-ph.org/books/book.php?proj_nr=208

Just before starting in this new direction, I had worked with Mihai Pimsner,
  computing the K-theory of the reduced $C^*$-algebras of free groups. From the
  K-theory work I had acquired a taste for operator algebras associated with free
  groups and I became interested in a famous problem about the von Neumann
  algebras $L(\mathbb{F}_n)$ generated by the left regular representations of free groups,
  which appears in Kadison's Baton-Rouge problem list. The problem, which
  may have already been known to Murray and von Neumann, is:are $L(\mathbb{F}_m)$ and $L(\mathbb{F}_n)$ non-isomorphic if $m \not= n$?
This is still an open problem. Fortunately, after trying in vain to solve it,
  I realized it was time to be more humble and to ask: is there anything I can
  do, which may be useful in connection with this problem? Since I had come
  across computations of norms and spectra of certain convolution operators on
  free groups (i.e., elements of $L(\mathbb{F}_n)$), I thought of finding ways to streamline
  some of these computations and perhaps be able to compute more complicated
  examples. This, of course, meant computing expectations of powers of such
  operators with respect to the von Neumann trace-state $\tau(T) = \langle T e_e,e_e\rangle$, $e_g$
  being the canonical basis of the $l^2$-space.
The key remark I made was that if $T_1$, $T_2$ are convolution operators on $\mathbb{F}_m$
  and $\mathbb{F}_n$ then the operator on $\mathbb{F}_{m+n} = \mathbb{F}_m \ast \mathbb{F}_n$ which is $T_1 + T_2$, has moments $\tau((T_1 + T_2)^p)$ which depend only on the moments $\tau(T_j^k)$, $j = 1, 2$ , but not
  on the actual $T_1$ and $T_2$. This was like the addition of independent random
  variables, only classical independence had to be replaced by a notion of free
  independence, which led to a free central limit theorem, a free analogue of
  the Gaussian functor, free convolution, an abstract existence theorem for one
  variable free cumulants, etc.

A: The chromatic polynomial of a graph was originally introduced as part of an attempt to prove the four-color conjecture (now a theorem), but was unsuccessful in that goal.  However, the chromatic polynomial continues to be studied to this day as an interesting algebraic invariant of a graph.

A: Multiplication of quaternions was introduced for use in physics for purposes for which cross-products of vectors came to be used and have been used ever since.
But today quaternions are used in computer graphics. I suspect they also have other applications.

A: Logic and set theory were developed by Frege, Russell and Whitehead, Hilbert and others in the late 19th, early 20th centuries with the goal of providing a firm foundation for all of Mathematics. In this they failed miserably, but nevertheless they have continued to develop and to be studied for other reasons.

A: Gauge-theory might be another example at the border to physics. The original idea of deriving physics from gauge-symmetries and indeed the use of the term/prefix "gauge-" (in German "Eich-") itself goes back a paper by Hermann Weyl in 1919 ("Eine neue Erweiterung der Relativitätstheorie"). In this paper he somehow tried to unify electrodynamics and general relativity using this approach, by postulating that the notion of scale (or "gauge") might be a local symmetry. This of course was a total failure as it contradicted several experiments.
It was only about a decade later that he and some others picked up the idea again, applied it to electromagnetism and quantum physics (this time with phase as a gauge) and made it work. And then of course in 1954 there came Yang and Mills and now Weyl's "failed idea" is at the core of the Standard model of physics. However the original goal of adding general relativity to the mix still hasn't been achieved.

A: The typical oracle methods of Computability theory AKA Recursion theory were shown to be insufficient to settle the P vs. NP problem by Baker, Gill and Solovay 1975.
Thus recursion theory became divorced from the problems of efficient computability and experienced a bit of a setback (not as many papers in Ann.Math. anymore etc.).
Nevertheless it continued as the study of in principle computability.

A: There is the ramified type theory of Bertrand and Russell, which at the time was seen as a great step forward and which is why they named it as the Principia Mathematica, hoping to set mathematics on the same solid foundations as Newton did with his Principia for natural philosophy, that is physics as it would be described now.
Its only with the flowering of a new field, computer science, did type theory come into its own ...
There is also Maxwells Theory, which as recognised was an enormous achievement, in particular by Heaviside, but was generally ignored, until a couple of decades later.


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Deck the Hallways
A Fixer-Upper Mystery
Written by: Kate Carlisle
Narrated by: Alex Barrett
Series: Fixer-Upper Mysteries, Book 4
Categories: Mysteries & Thrillers, Cosy Mysteries
Eaves of Destruction
Narrated by: Angela Starling
At the annual Victorian Home and Garden Tour, Lighthouse Cove, California's premier contractor, Shannon Hammer, realizes that the competition is about to turn deadly.... Shannon is in high demand among rival homeowners who will do anything to win Best in Show. One-upmanship and even espionage break out among neighbors, construction crews, decorators, and landscapers. Thanks to several new hires, Shannon is sure she can handle the extra load - until murder throws a wrench in the works.
Crowned and Moldering
When Mac Sullivan - famous thriller writer and Shannon's new beau - first moved to Lighthouse Cove, California, he bought the historic lighthouse mansion that the town is named after. Mac needs help cleaning up the place, and Shannon is more than happy to get her handywoman hands on the run-down Victorian. But during demolition, a grisly discovery is made among the debris - the bones of a teenage girl who went missing 15 years ago.
This Old Homicide
Contractor and part-time sleuth Shannon Hammer specializes in improving the quirks and flaws of the Victorian homes in Lighthouse Cove, California. The quirks and flaws of their residents are another story... Valentine's Day is approaching, and while Shannon is delighted to be friends with not one but two handsome men, not everyone in town is feeling the love. After her elderly neighbor Jesse Hennessey fails to make his daily appearance at the local diner, Shannon swings by his place to check on him.
Awesome. Enjoyable. Fun.
By Lisa Blais on 2019-10-13
A Wrench in the Works
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
Chloe is the cohost of a popular home-repair show on the Home Builders Network. Now, after 10 years, she has returned to her quaint coastal hometown to film several shows featuring her sister, Shannon, along with some special mini-segments on Victorian style and design. But Shannon quickly realizes things are not exactly blissful in TV land. Bree, the executive producer of the show, has a knack for stirring up sticky situations, and when she's found dead, Chloe and the entire crew are under suspicion.
Another success!!
In the seaside town of Lighthouse Cove, everyone knows the best man for the job is actually a woman - contractor Shannon Hammer. But while Shannon can do wonders with a power drill and a little elbow grease, her love life needs work. On a blind date with real estate agent Jerry Saxton, she has to whip out a pair of pliers to keep Jerry from getting too hands on.Shannon is happy to put her rotten date behind her, but when Jerry's found dead in a run-down Victorian home that she's been hired to restore, the town's attractive new police chief suspects that her threats may have laid the foundation for murder.
Fantastic. ❤'d it.
Word to the Wise
Written by: Jenn McKinlay
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
When a town newcomer who's gotten a bit too close to Lindsey ends up dead outside of the library, it's up to Lindsey to find the killer before it's too late.
In the fourth novel in the New York Times best-selling Fixer-Upper Mystery series, contractor Shannon Hammer must restore the Christmas spirit by clearing her father's name....
Even during the holidays, Shannon is more spackle than sparkle, which is why she leaps at the chance to transform a grand old Victorian mansion into 10 charming apartments for homeless families. Filled with the spirit of the season, all of Lighthouse Cove turns out to help - including her best friends, a troupe of far-from-angelic Santa Claus impersonators, and her father, Jack.
But their merriment is soon dashed by a heated scuffle between Jack and the miserly president of the bank who's backing the project. When the man is murdered, all eyes are on Jack, and visions of prison time dance in Shannon's head. Now she needs to pull off a crime-solving miracle before her father's Christmas goose is cooked....
Don't miss Framed for Murder, a Hallmark Movies & Mystery Original starring Jewel, based on the Fixer-Upper Mystery series!
©2016 Kathleen Beaver (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
Homicide in Hardcover
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The Cycle of the Gift
Good holiday story.
I enjoyed this book, but there were a number of places where the narrator repeats herself. It's as if changes were made, and the original narration was left in rather than edited out. That shouldn't happen when people pay or use valuable credits for books.
LOYL-00
This Audible book has some flaws
This story has left some loss ends without conclusions---but that could carry to the next story.
Just a warning-about the audible edit.
The biggest problem with this one book--- there are a hand full of time (mostly in the last quarter of the story) that repeat sentences already read. Very annoying.
I could do without the cheesy romance ...
I read the first 3 books in this series & loved them. Then there was a 2 year hiatus without audiobooks recorded & finally book 4 came out! While I liked the story and mystery itself, I found Shannon's romance story line to be incredibly juvenile and annoying. The whole mean girl rival sabotaging her relationship seems straight out of high school. The belief that Mac would be afraid to call or text her was so absurd that I had to remind myself time and time again that these were adults... It ruined a lot of the story
John William Young
Loved the book! I couldn't put it down! I worked as I listened! What a great book to encourage people to help each other! It has a great ending! Enjoy!
AZ Desert Gal
Crime doesn't pay. And some sweet surprises
This series is a feel good wholesome version of murder mystery genre. Some might find it too sweet for their taste. I don't mind that the heroine is focused on her career and her friendships and is taking romance slowly. I can see some formulaic aspects in the series, but I still enjoy the audible listening experience of this series.
Tonya hudgins
this was interesting
this eem to have more danger in it than normal i wished ir would have more about shannon,mac, kelly and babe angel in it that anything.
was disappointed that they didn't keep the babe.
Classic Shannon Hammer
Is 10 Santa's enough? what a cute baby.....It's not a kitten...What do I do with it?
Homes for needy families. The still evil and selfish Whitney and her sidekick Jennifer play high school games hoping to destroy a budding romance so they can laugh at their victims. Carpenter's. A Christmas Parade with a goal to get shelter pets homes. A mansion. oh yeah, of course, there is a murder needs solving
Marcia L. Berbeza
Murder in the Mansion
As with the previous novels in this series, Kate Carlisle has assembled a lively group of hometown characters. In this particular offering, our heroine is breaking down a mansion into separate apartments for previously homeless individuals and their families. I loved the descriptions not only of the people, but the tasks that they took on to ready the old dilapidated mansion made of quality materials, for habitation. The descriptions of stripping paint and refitting old built in items of furniture fascinated me. That is one of the things that this author does so well. Her descriptions of the carpentry and restoration of old Victorian homes are full of detail, but never boring. The murder occurred to a suitably villainous character, a banker. The culprit was not immediately identified since the victim had MANY enemies. Altogether enjoyable story.
Think light hearted Christmas story
A Wonderful Life for Shannon! Small town, a mean and hated banker, Shannon Hammer volunteering her time and construction company to turn a Victorian into apartments for low income families, and then throw in a dozen Santas. Except with all else that is going on, Shannon has to clear her father of murder. OH, such a WONDERFUL LIFE.
Kari A. Delaney
Lots of Repeats
I loved the story, but there are a lot of repeats. I would still recommend buying this book.