Nancy Sarnoff brings the news.
Homeowners aren't the only ones feeling the sting of rising property taxes.
The owners of the Arabia Shrine Center said mounting tax bills caused them to sell their property.
"It's regrettable, but the ever-increasing taxes just make it prohibitive," said John McDonald, a local official of the fraternal organization, noting that the property's 2006 tax assessment was $108,000. "There was no relief in sight."
Apartment developer Ameriton Properties bought the 7.75-acre site at 2900 North Braeswood between Kirby and Buffalo Speedway.
The sale price was not disclosed, but a source familiar with the deal said Ameriton bid more than $21 million, or $63 per square foot.
Creech, of Stan Creech Properties, said the Shriners property could sell for upwards of $45 a square foot, or $11.4 million based on increasing values in the inner city.
The property was appraised at $3.3 million in 2007, according to Harris County tax records.
Appraised at $3.3 million, sold for $21 million. That's about 15% of the sales price. I realize that this still left the Shriners with a tax bill they couldn't afford, and I'm very sad to see them go (and to eventually see yet another apartment complex replace that cool building), but doesn't that huge disparity suggest that something is very wrong with the method by which the county appraises properties? How can they be off by nearly an order of magnitude from what the market can and will bear?
The 144,632-square-foot facility that's hosted arts galas, roller derbies and other fundraisers was appraised at $3.5 million in 2006, according to Harris County tax records.
So, sales price nearly doubles, yet tax appraisal goes down. What's up with that?


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Amazon Kindle Fire HDX review
Chris Hall, Editor · 12 November 2013 ·
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Quick verdict
The Kindle Fire HDX offers a compelling package, with a powerful tablet and lovely display at a good price, buy the lack of Google Play support means you're not always going to be on the cutting edge of what other Android tablets will offer you.
Read full verdict
Great display
Plenty of power
Great sound quality
Some interesting software features
Lack of Google Play support means very little parity with the rest of Android
Design might not be for some
No native movie/TV downloads from Lovefilm is a limitation
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(Pocket-lint) - The latest update to Amazon's home-grown tablet range brings the HDX. It comes in two sizes - there's an 8.9-inch model and a 7-inch model - and we've been nestling down with the smaller model to review.
It's priced to compete with Google's own Nexus 7, costing the same £199 for the 16GB model, but only if you opt in for "special offers" which essentially means you accept adverts on the lock screen. It costs an extra £10, so £209, to buy it without these ads.
This isn't just about pricing, however. Amazon is pouring everything it can into the Kindle Fire HDX, competing on all fronts, looking to offer a compelling package that will draw you away from the best of Android and Apple. Should you be considering the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX over its rivals?
Design angles
From the front the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX looks very much the successor to the Kindle Fire HD it supplants. A sombre, no-nonsense finish sees the 7-inch display framed in a tactile border.
READ: Amazon Kindle Fire HD review
But where soft curves lay before, now we have angles. Flip the Fire HDX over and there's an angular design around the back. It adds some detail, with the majority of the rear covered in the same tactile soft-touch plastic as before.
Where previously there was a metal strip running across the back a third of the way up from the bottom, housing the speaker grilles, there's now a glossy plastic strip across the top instead.
Again, it houses the speaker grilles, but where the metal strip of the Fire HD added a touch of the premium, the plastic bar on the HDX cheapens the overall look. The glossy black matches the Amazon logo, but it's a fingerprint magnet and we found ourselves constantly wiping it clean.
We're torn on the design. Sometimes we think it looks futuristic, like the aggressive angles of the Lamborghini Aventador, at other times we think it looks like a squashed box.
Either way, it's nice enough to hold. That tactile material provides grip for your fingers and at 303g, it's fairly light too. It's a touch heavier than the rival Nexus 7, which the Kindle Fire HDX most closely goes up against. It measures 186 x 128 x 9mm, so will slip into a larger pocket easily.
READ: Nexus 7 (2013) review
On the rear edges are the device's buttons, the volume rocker and the standby button. They're positioned to be easy to use when gripping the tablet and we can't say we had a problem with them, except when using the Origami Leather Cover that Amazon offers: open the cover and you can't get to the buttons.
Show me fire
The tablet race is dominated by resolution at the moment, with more and more tablets coming to market offering sharper and sharper displays. That's no bad thing in our eyes - literally - because you spend your time with a tablet staring at its screen and higher resolutions and advancing display technologies are banishing the grainy or off-coloured devices of the past.
This is one of the areas where the Kindle Fire HDX sets out its stall. The name is inspired by the racked-up resolution, with 1920 x 1200 pixels on this 7-inch display. That results in 323ppi, matching that of the Nexus 7, close to that of the new iPad mini with Retina display.
It's a welcome sight too. The display is nice and bright and the viewing angles are very good too. The display is a touch warmer than some, which gives a nice punch and vibrancy to colours and we're happy with the whites too, even if there are some brighter whites available elsewhere. At times we noticed a blue tinge around the edges of the display, only really noticeable when reading or viewing things with a white background, but that's about all we have to complain about.
There's plenty of brightness on offer for outdoor viewing, most likely to combat reflections when sitting next to a window where natural light can stream in and potentially cause reflections. Amazon's choice of a mostly black or grey user interface is more prone to reflections than lighter shades, but we're picking here.
The Amazon Kindle Fire HDX has a great display: it's sharp, it's packed full of detail and offers wonderfully vibrant colours, which is exactly what you want on a device of this size.
Dolby strikes back
Last year, we were blown away with the sound quality of the Kindle Fire HD, thanks to its twin Dolby speakers. The Kindle Fire HDX repeats the performance, delivering some impressive quality audio, some of the best you'll find on a tablet.
We'd say that the HTC's BoomSound speakers - found on the HTC One and HTC One max - will give it a run for it's money, but there's plenty of volume and sufficient detail to mean that listening to music or watching a movie without headphones is perfectly enjoyable.
The speakers don't suffer from their positioning on the rear of the tablet, but if you're holding it in portrait orientation on that edge, it's easy enough to muffle one of the pair with a stray finger. In the Origami Leather Cover we tested the Kindle Fire HDX with, there's a sufficient gap behind the speakers to deflect the sound back towards you, so it still sounds good when mounted.
One of the other neat features is that the HDX's video and music players offer on-screen volume controls, so you don't have to reach around the back to use the volume rocker - instead you can just tweak the level by touch.
Slip on a pair of quality headphones and you'll find it's equally impressive. The rich audio may be a little on the bassy side for some, but we suspect that most will appreciate the sound of the Kindle Fire HDX. It will put a smile on your face.
A little firecracker
Aside from the impressive display and the great audio, there's plenty of power packed into the Kindle Fire HDX. There's a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset, with 2GB of RAM. It's a powerful loadout, rivalling the latest smartphones and devices like the Sony Xperia Z Ultra.
That stands the Kindle Fire HDX in good stead for the future, but it also means that things are slick and fast. Everything is very smooth, apps are quick to open and the HDX handles everything you'll throw at it.
Like other Snapdragon 800 devices, throw intensive tasks at it and you'll feel the tablet heat up around the back as it starts working hard, but it doesn't seem such a problem as it is on some smartphones we've tested, like the Sony Xperia Z1 for example.
READ: Sony Xperia Z Ultra review
There are options for 16, 32 or 64GB of storage, priced at £199, £239 and £269 respectively, but there's no option for microSD card expansion, so - and as is always the case - you pay over the odds for getting that additional internal storage. A 32GB UHS-1 card on Amazon is about £17, but sadly you can't benefit from that.
You also lose a chunk of storage to the OS: on the 16GB model, you only have 10.9GB of storage available straight out of the box.
Connectivity is good, with the option for 4G LTE if you choose, and a 3G offer from Vodafone giving you 5GB of data for 90 days, 20GB of Amazon Cloud Storage and a £5 Amazon Appstore credit - although we suspect most will suffice with the Wi-Fi version of the HDX.
The battery will give you 11 hours of play time, with a low-power mode that will give you 17 hours of music playback. We found these figures to be pretty accurate too. Of course, fire up something demanding and it will cut through the battery faster, but on the whole, this is typical performance for a tablet. Good stuff.
User interface and apps
So far, so impressive. The HDX offers a lot of hardware for your money. It's in the user interface, however, where Amazon really sets itself apart from other Android devices out there. Some might see this as good, some might not.
Amazon's choice of interface puts content first, with a timeline running across the home screen that takes you to the content you've most recently engaged with - be that a game, music, movie, book or magazine.
It's convenient for picking up and getting back to what you were doing, but there's no customisation to be done here. You can remove things from the "carousel", perhaps to hide the fact you've been reading Nuts Magazine, but that's about it.
There's also a grid view, so you can now flick up on the screen to access a more conventional grip of apps, rather than using the large-iconed carousel view. It's a welcome addition, as it means you get much more on one screen for quick access.
Before we deal with the main content areas, it's worth mentioning that there's a lot of nice features in the Kindle user interface. You can elect VIPs in email, the browser is fast and you can easily get to things like photos and documents that you sync with Amazon Cloud drive.
Amazon leverages the cloud well and there are Amazon apps for most other platforms so getting files into your Kindle is always pretty easy, as is accessing content you've purchased from Amazon, like books and music.
In addition to the services that the Kindle Fire HDX launches with, there's more to come from the latest Mojito software, including enhanced accessibility features and a new FreeTime system designed to make it easier to hand your tablet over to your kids and let them enjoy their content.
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There's also a MayDay service that will give you support on your device, live, if you're having a problem. A quick swipe down and you can hit the MayDay button when you'll be connected to live support to solve your problem. You get a video connection to an assistant so you get to see a real human being, but they can't see you, only hear your voice. The MayDay assistant will be able to view your device's display, draw helpful arrows and stuff and solve your problem.
Although the HDX is an Android device, it sits on a customised version of Google's mobile OS. As such, you don't get access to Google Play and that's a fairly significant point, especially for existing Android smartphone users who will be used to one way of running things. Therefore this isn't the Android you'll get on the Nexus 7. You don't get that native Google Android experience.
In some cases that doesn't matter, because the Kindle's OS will happily sync with Google accounts to deliver you Gmail messages and Google calendar, but for those interested in apps, it makes quite a difference.
Android's proliferation means it offers a first-rate app experience in many cases, but the Amazon Appstore is slightly different. It's a curated experience, so although there are a lot of apps - and a lot of good apps we must say - you don't get everything and you don't always get the latest versions of apps either.
The danger for those who want lots of apps or want parity with their smartphone is that might not happen here. For example, the Facebook app will give you a little reminder to update your app for the best experience: click the link and the browser will take you through to the Google Play website, which doesn't help.
Elsewhere, although you have games, they're not always as up-to-date as regular Android. When we came to try and restore our cloud-saved Real Racing 3 game, we hit an error, because the Kindle app is out of date.
You can sideload apps, which is a work around for some apps you might find you can't live without, but by the time you start doing that, you probably have to ask yourself whether the Kindle Fire HDX is the right device for you.
If you're more into gaming then the Vega Tegra Note 7, complete with stylus, is available for £180 and is a decent Android alternative to even the Nexus 7. But it's not got the Kindle's content-centric OS.
READ: Advent Vega Tegra Note 7 review
Focusing on content, however, and you get strong offerings for books, with the familiar synchronisation with any other Kindle devices or apps you might have. The same applies to Amazon MP3 music: if you've spent money in the Amazon ecosystem, then you'll get a great experience from your Kindle Fire, all fully integrated.
When it comes to video, the Kindle Fire devices in the UK are equipped with Lovefilm. You get a free month's subscription, after that you'll have to pay for access to Lovefilm's streaming solution at £5.99 a month. There's a selection of movies and TV, but you don't get the option to download, so you'll need an internet connection to watch them. If you've got Wi-Fi only then that's no good for on the go, while if you're a long haul flight kind of watcher then you'll be unable to stream anything at all given current restrictions.
If you don't want to buy into Lovefilm, then you can download the Netflix app for a similar subscription offering, but what's really missing is something like Play Movies. Google's own service offers movie rentals or purchases of new films, with the option to download locally, which is really handy, especially for those travelling.
You can sideload movie files if you have them on your PC, we tested a number of file types and found plenty are supported, so it's not a huge barrier if you're happy to do that. Straight-up Android competitors, including the Kobo Arc 7HD, offer a straighter, simpler solution for keeping hold of your own content.
READ: Kobo Arc 7HD review
There is only one camera on the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX and it's forward facing. It's ideally placed for Skype calls and the like, or taking selfies. It will give you stills or videos, but it's a fairly basic offering.
There is no rear camera, but that's not the end of the world on a tablet, as we maintain that you're more likely to use your phone if you need to take a quick snap.
The Amazon Kindle Fire HDX does a lot to make itself a competitive offering. The detail in the display and the power on offer, for the price, make the Fire HDX a compelling choice of 7-inch tablet. It also offers excellent speaker performance.
But the Kindle Fire HDX finds itself in the same position as last year. It's fighting incredibly hard, but stuck to the Amazon track. There's a lot that's nice about the software that's on offer, there's plenty of refinement and it's lovely to use. Amazon has introduced new features, like MayDay to assist, and the offering for kids that will add to the appeal to parents, but still faces an Android world that's racing along, fuelled not only by Google, but by app developers and device manufacturers.
The result is that, when it comes to content, you can get everything in competition Android land - aside from Lovefilm. But on those other devices you get more freedom and you're part of the bigger system, with more choices.
If you're after a good quality tablet that performs well, with a great display, plenty of power, at a good price and you're more interested Amazon's content than having the latest apps, then the Kindle Fire HDX may well make you very happy. If you're looking for an experience that brings the familiarity of your Android smartphone, you may want to consider a straight Android tablet instead.
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2019 Yuejin Lantern Festival Invites Visitors to Come "Breathe With Light"
The 2019 Yuejin Lantern Festival, the outdoor nighttime art spectacle everyone has been waiting for, will be open to public from February 2 to March 3. Come experience the romantic festival located around Yuejin Harbor in Yanshui District, Tainan City before it ends! The theme for this year's Lantern Festival is "Breathing with Light". The curating team has invited artists and college students from home and abroad to submit entries and present a brand new look for the festival. A total of 32 light installations will dazzle visitors from all over Taiwan during the thirty-day event.
This year's Lantern Festival, with the theme "Breathing with Light", features 32 light installations. Nearly thirty domestic and international teams, including teams from France, Japan, and Brazil, were invited to take part in the event. These modern art teams uses new media and digital art technology to create light installations which integrates Yanshui's local culture and natural characteristics along the winding river bank. The artists will present three different moon-themed atmospheres in three respective "timelines" that form a circular path: "Travel of Time", "Call of the Environment" and "My Scenery with You". Visitors can wander among the artworks according to their own pace, immerse themselves in the art scenes, and breathe with the light installations.
Yuejin Lantern Festival features both traditional elements and artistic creativity, and has become one of the most significant lantern festivals in Taiwan during Chinese New Year. The festival, which has been held for eight consecutive years so far, always invites domestic and international artists to participate in the festival and engage in dialogues in art. In 2018, Yuejin Lantern Festival won the Red Dot Design Award - Communication Design Award , making the festival the first among numerous domestic lantern festivals to win this honor. Yuejin Lantern Festival is also an opportunity for upcoming new artists to shine. For example, Luxury Logico, the team behind the 2017 Taipei Universiade flame tower and "The Sound of Blooming" artwork at the 2018 Taichung World Flora Exposition, presented the large installation artwork "The Solar" at the 2014 Yuejin Lantern Festival. UxU Studio, which has long collaborated with Yuejin Lantern Festival, was invited to take part in the 2018 Amsterdam Light Festival. They are the first art team from Taiwan to have this opportunity. Among the artworks submitted by college students in 2016, the piece "Landipass Fly", instructed by Huang Chin-fu (Associate Professor of Department of Fine Art, Tainan University of Technology), was invited to take part in i Light Singapore 2019. This year, PITAYA from France, which has participated in various mayor light festivals around the world, actually proposed the artwork "Gradient Birds" that will be set up on Shuiyue Bridge at Yuejin Harbor. The piece follows the flight path of birds and forms a curve of light, as if building a magpie bridge with stop-motion animation and creating an intriguing movie-like scene.
There are a lot of other activities in the surrounding areas as well. Yongcheng Theater has scheduled a list of exciting performances and films, presenting a double delight of sight and sound. Old Qiaonan Street (Former Qiaonan Tourist Center) presents the annual "The Beauty of Narcissus—the Sculpture Exhibition of the Chinese Sacred Lily" to promote local lily sculptures. The Octagon Building, in response to the local lantern festival, organized a Paper Pulp Sculpture Exhibition; and students from the eco-friendly art classes directed by the Environmental Protection Bureau present delicate paper art that will delight the visitors. There is also the Xinyi Flower Sea along Xinyi Road, and the exciting beehive fireworks. Every year we see more and more people crowding into Yanshui during the Lunar New Year holidays. With a wide array of events and activities, we welcome you to visit Yanshui District and experience the history and charm of this small town called Yuejin.


Many people buy American furniture online, but what are the pros and cons of this, and how can you be sure you are buying genuine quality furniture and not just the same old stuff? If you jump into your car and drive to your nearest shopping mall you can actually see and perhaps even try out what you are buying, so why buy furniture online?
First, there is a difference between seeing and buying. Just because you visit an American furniture store in a shopping mall and try out some furniture there, it doesn't mean that you have to actually purchase it there. You can easily check out furniture in a store, and then buy it online where you might get better prices. A lot depends on the furniture and the store.
If you are seeking colonial furniture, a particular style such as Amish, or a manufacturer, such as American Craftsman, then you will be lucky to find an outlet for these types of American furniture near you. In cases such as these you will be almost certain to have to go online and either find your nearest stockist who might be a couple of states away, or find an online furniture store and order from there.
However, let's assume that the American furniture you are looking for is nothing unique and manufactured by a well-known firm such as Stickley, Sherrill or Southwood, or maybe even the Atlanta bedding firm, Jamison Bedding who can provide your mattresses. Each of those mentioned sells through dealers and outlets across the USA. Then you have a genuine choice between an online and a mall store.
When you visit a furniture store located in a shopping mall you can view the furniture you want to purchase rather than going by a photograph. You can sit or lie on the demo models, and try the drawers and doors. You can see the actual wood colors and finishes and there will be no shocks.
The range on furniture on display will be restricted. It is impossible for any store, no matter how large, to display every piece by every manufacturer. So, while you will be able to view and even try out some pieces, you will be restricted in your choice. You must then go back to photographs in the store catalogs – so you may as well do that from home.
You can check out the full range of products from each manufacturer. You can use online room planners to plan out your furniture layout, or the configuration of sectionals, and can often customize your American furniture when you order it. Many online furniture stores offer this service in the USA. You need never leave your home, you save on gas and you can take as long as you like.
You cannot see the items in the flesh so to speak, and cannot ask the store assistant for information. Sure, you can email for information, but that takes time while a store assistant can often give you an immediate reply. You cannot assess the beauty of the various wood alternatives, nor the difference between the finishes available.
It appears that each has its own particular advantages and disadvantages, so which is really best? The main advantage of a mall store is that you can see the products and try them out. If you are looking for a particular type of furniture hand-crafted by Simply Amish, one answer to this problem is to initially use an online American furniture store that markets this range.
Then take your time and go through the Simply Amish catalog. Check out the various items available and choose which you would like to buy. Select any customization you want, and then check up on the nearest stockist. Visit the store and check out the stock of the items in which you are interested. That way you get the best of both: you can take all the time you want to make your decision, decide on the customizations you want applied to your choices and then see the actual furniture. In fact, if you choose Stickley furniture or The Custom Shoppe among others, you can also use the online room planner to decide on the pieces you require.
You can decide to purchase from the store or the online website. It's your choice, and this enables you to compare offers. You can compare prices, discounts, delivery prices or any extras such as discount vouchers or free gifts. Buying quality American furniture online is easier than visiting a mall store, but by combining the benefits of each you can take full advantage of both online outlets and offline furniture stores.
. Look for a deal-a-day buying site that matches your interests. Each shopping website has its own twists and unique appeal. Some sites offer internet deals in smaller cities and local suburbs for people who don't want to drive all the way into big-city-downtown U.S.A. to redeem online coupons (vouchers). On the other hand, there are some that concentrate exclusively on specific large city areas, while others promote the service industry rather than offering actual products.
. Once you have found the collective buying service you like, don't hesitate to subscribe. Although each internet service is slightly different, as a subscriber, you will surely receive daily emails from the service of your choice about businesses offering enormous discounts in your area. You can delete the messages if you are not interested, but the idea is to get in on the action as quickly as possible. It's like arriving at the store first when you know there is going to be a terrific sale.
. If the deal of the day doesn't interest you, don't sign out yet. Take a look around their Recent or Nearby Deals to see if there are any still open. The process is similar to reading a newspaper. You do not want to forget Page 2 because there could still be important news there. In this case, browsing around other deals could actually pay off big. Suppose you find fantastic smart bargains on things you can really use!
. Carefully read the "About the Business" section of the deal and the "Fine Print" too. There is nowhere else in the advertising world where you can read so much in one place about a specific organization. You can browse menus, learn schedules, get reviews, and find details like phone, address, email, and web address This is where you will see exactly what the deal includes, and more importantly, what it does NOT include.
. If the price is fantastic for something special – say, a favorite restaurant in your town, it is a good idea to order more than one voucher. Most vouchers are good for an extended time, but be sure to check the expiration date. And think about buying them as gifts! Friends and family love to receive vouchers on special occasions or "just for love." If the deal you are looking at offers a gift option you are in the right place. The idea is very much like buying a gift card, but make sure that the expiration date on the voucher allows the recipient to redeem it in good time.
. There are excellent deals online that will save you a huge amount of money for services like sky diving, home furnishings, upscale skin care and spas. Shying away from a $600 deal because of price may be a mistake. Read the description carefully and if necessary, take the time to comparison shop by looking for undiscounted prices at similar businesses in your area.
. There is one major tip for maximizing your collective buying experience. Share it! Tell family and friends. Use Facebook and Twitter. Send emails. The more people who see the deal, and the more who buy, the better the prices will be in the long run. The "eyes have it", as they say, and the truth is that many lookers will assure lots of new customers for the business, new subscribers to the internet service, a wider variety of deals for you to browse, and better and more phenomenal prices for the things you want or need.
Finally, the auction-like, upbeat atmosphere of an internet buying site is just plain fun! There is the joy of discovery and in sharing what you have found with your family and friends. And, best of all, you can experience the immense satisfaction in getting a real bargain without ever leaving home!
Since early 2004, it has become more apparent every day that the online pharmacy industry is being destroyed. Who is doing such damage to bring the industry crashing down, you ask? So far, the people responsible are savvy businessmen who are using their skills to create temporary safety nets for black-hat operations using loopholes in international security. Many pharmacy businesses were just shut down, and 20 people arrested during a DEA operation to stop the illegal sale and importation of controlled substances into the United States. I'd rather call these businesses drug rings than online pharmacies because many offered these medications of questionable quality without a prescription.
Few online pharmacies are in good standing as far as I'm concerned. They include Health Solutions Network (previously known as MPLLC), IntegraRx, Shoppe.MD, DrugStore.com, various Canadaian pharmacies, and other pharmacies which do not sell controlled medications without prescriptions.
No need to spend your precious time in the queue at the local pharmacy! The new concept of online pharmacy stores have solved most of your problems. It saves your time and gives huge discounts as well. All you have to do is that shop for all your medical supplies and toiletries from the online shoppe to avail online pharmacy services.
You can buy beauty and skin care products, first aid kits, common over-the-counter medicines and drugs and many potentially embarrassing medical supplies like condoms and herbal sexual health medicines.
You can also buy home-testing devices for pregnancy or alcohol and drug intake. Saves you from a lot of awkward questions because the products are delivered anonymously at your doorstep!
The best part is that if you buy from online pharmacy services, you get huge discounts!! Most of the companies involved in the trade are in start-up phase and are giving large discounts to attract a dedicated customer base.
Those of you with little children can buy medicines to stock like cold-cough, first aid kids, nappies, vitamins and essential minerals in one go and save a huge amount of money! The best part will be if you buy from a site that gives you cashbacks for your purchase as well. You will end up paying almost 40% less than your local pharmacy.
So the next time, your pharmacy bills run high, remember you can save almost 40% by ordering from online pharmacies in UK!
Online pharmacy is a new concept wherein you buy your medical supplies online. It saves your precious time and a lot of money as well due to heavy discounts these retailers offer!
The benefits of online shopping are endless. No lines or crowds, no lost car in the parking lot. No bags to shuffle and carry from store to store and no running around looking for deals. The best part, however, is not having to leave your home, so it's no wonder Canadians spend billions of dollars each year on online shopping. Many retailers say their websites are as busy as their stores, especially during the holiday season.
There are a few setbacks to online shopping such as shipping costs and the one to two week delivery times. Online shoppers also run the risk of card theft and other forms of fraud. If you find online shopping is a preference, you may want to beef up your own personal security to safeguard your information.
First and foremost, it is always advised to shop from a trusted computer. Using public computers will get the job done, but at what cost? There is no way to know if their security is up to date, if phishing sites have been screened or if your credit card isn't being recorded. It's a much better idea to shop from your home computer where you can control security.
Shopping from sites you know or have dealt with before is also a way to guarantee a good experience. If you want to shop at a new online store, do a BBB (Better Business Bureau) check on them first, or ask people you know if they've used them. Look to make sure they offer a physical address and other contact information. Updating your software is a very important way to ensure your security is kept up to date with any new viruses. Make sure to keep all your anti-virus software, spyware and your computer's firewall up to date and activated.
When it comes time to pay for your purchase, make sure the website has a secure server. Once again, paying from a home computer rather than a public one offers extra security. Make sure the web address is an 'https' website and not 'http'. Also, make certain the company has a key icon or a padlock at the bottom of the screen. If the key or padlock is broken, you are not on a secure server. Most companies are protected by third party services like VeriSign, so look for their security features.
Online Shopping can be defined as the art of buying products on the internet through websites mostly using the credit card as a means of payment. These products are usually purchased from websites classified as being secure to accept credit card information of their customers without the fear of their information being stolen.
The art of online shopping was another invention of the development of the internet as a way of making it easier for people to buy products from the convenience of their home or office using their laptop or computer and their credit card. In fact this was a major breakthrough for the credit card companies who before the internet age relied on point of sale machines for their cards to be debited through a strike through or swipe process. Today credit cards can not only be used to withdraw money from ATM Machines or used in stores that have point of sale equipments but also to make orders online on any goods or services they might be interested in buying.
The advantages of online shopping by far outweigh their disadvantages even though the disadvantages cannot be overlooked which we will come to after the advantages are mentioned.
First an foremost the convenience of buying from your home or office is an innovation that would be forever embraced.Not only do you have the comfort of your place of abode to deal with but an opportunity to shop at any time of the day, 356 days a year without restrictions. Secondly there is the advantage of your product being shipped to your doorstep without you having to go anywhere to collect your package.
With the current economic crunch in play where everyone is trying to cut cost and where energy price hikes are making movement of people with their personal cars become reduced only to extreme necessity, it is really imperative to mention that online shopping goes a long way in cutting costs in the long run and ensuring you keep to your tight budget.
Online Shopping also gives you the advantage of having the time to check out the products you intend to buy, check for discounts, best deals, best prices and reduced shipping taxes.
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A lot of people come here to shop, as it is also a famous shopping destination. Many come here to visit the Aventura Mall, Loehmann's Fashion Island, The Shoppes at Waterways and other shopping centers. The city's population is estimated to be at 27,000, although the number of residents rises during the winter and summer seasons, as well as on other major holidays.
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According to Aventura's local government officials, the city is estimated to be about 97 percent built out. The bulk of this, according to local housing analysts, is condominiums. Local housing market observes say that single-family homes make up only 4 percent of the residential units currently for sale in this city, and that means that most of the area's 27,000 residents live in high-rises homes, and more developments are on the way.
For new housing projects, there are currently 16 residential developments approved or under construction in this small 3.2-square-mile city, which brings the total of new developments to around 3,500 new units online over the next few years.
Among the new projects includes Williams Island, which is a high-end private enclave originally developed by William Trump, and continues to be a focus of condo development, although officials note that nearly all the land on Williams Island has already been developed. In addition, a 30-story, 210-unit Belle Mare is coming in under the wire, as is Minto Communities' 24-story, 70-unit LaVogue condominium. According to building officials, there are many new condos who recently obtained their certificates of occupancy, which means more inventory for the city.
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CEDU's Parent, Brown -- Negotiating in Bad Faith?
Parents who are suing the school, and parents who have prepaid tuition, are "unsecured creditors" -- meaning that they are likely to get nothing.
George McCown: In a March 21 letter to parents at a Brown school in Idaho, George McCown praised Talbott as "the ideal individual to lead the company."
"This is a relationship-based program, and they closed this like it was a factory," a counselor at one of the schools told the Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane, Wash.
Brown Schools operate 11 boarding schools and educational facilities in Idaho, Texas, Vermont, Florida and California, according to its Web site. Facilities in Austin and San Marcos were sold to Psychiatric Solutions Inc. in 2003.
Brown Schools' bankruptcy filing puts lawsuit settlements in jeopardy: Plaintiff says company pressed for settlements, raises question of bad-faith negotiating.
In recent months, three Austin lawyers say, Brown Schools Inc. offered to settle claims by their clients for everything from sexual abuse by its employees to deceptive business practices.
But there was a catch, according to the lawyers: Brown Schools said the plaintiffs had to accept less money and delayed payments so that the Austin-based company, which operates facilities for troubled children, could avoid bankruptcy, a filing that would likely have left the families with nothing.
On March 25, Brown Schools filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in Bankruptcy Court, jeopardizing all of the payments. Most of the company's facilities have closed, putting 700 employees out of work.
The mother of one plaintiff, Donna Bowen, said company officials, including comptroller Brian Havel, told her just weeks before the filing that the company could start paying her settlement in September. A lawyer representing two other plaintiffs said his clients were promised money in April. Another lawyer said his client was told payment would start next January.
"My feelings are they certainly negotiated in bad faith," said Bowen, an Austin lawyer who agreed to a $30,000 settlement in February with the Rocky Mountain Academy, a Brown Schools facility in Idaho, on behalf of her son.
Bowen's case is among at least six in which Brown Schools agreed to pay a total of more than $500,000, according to interviews with lawyers and court records.
Bowen said Wednesday that her case had been set for trial in February in District Court in Travis County on her claim that Brown Schools improperly expelled her son in late 1999.
After she agreed to mediate instead, Bowen said Brown Schools officials told her in February the company would start payments in September. "They said there wasn't enough money right now, but in the fourth quarter, they'd have the resources," she said.
Based on the quick bankruptcy filing, Bowen said it now appears to her that "they knew at that time that they never intended to make payment."
Havel declined to comment on Bowen's comments or any aspect of the bankruptcy or litigation.
Steve Mierl, an Austin lawyer who has represented Brown Schools in several cases including Bowen's suit, said he has "no personal knowledge" of the company using the threat of bankruptcy to extract lower settlements.
"I won't say it didn't happen, but I don't personally know of any situation where it did," Mierl said. "Any dealings I had with them as far as talking to plaintiffs . . . were done in good faith."
The chairman of Brown Schools, Fenton "Pete" Talbott, did not return calls seeking comment. Talbott was named CEO as well as chairman on March 21 — just four days before the bankruptcy filing — by McCown, DeLeeuw & Co., a Menlo Park, Calif., investment firm that was the majority owner of Brown Schools.
In a March 21 letter to parents at a Brown school in Idaho, George McCown, a member of the schools' board of directors, praised Talbott as "the ideal individual to lead the company."
The settlements are among millions of dollars in unsecured claims Brown Schools listed in its filing. The company reported assets of less than $10 million and debts of $10 million to $50 million.
Unsecured claims are paid after secured claims, which typically are bank loans and other financing guaranteed by the company's assets. That makes recovery of other claims a long shot.
Two other lawyers said Brown Schools agreed to settlements but required postponed payment schedules, contending that was the only way the money would be assured.
"If you went to trial and hit them for a big judgment," company officials and their lawyers "made it clear to me they would file for bankruptcy," said Chris Elliott, a partner at Ivy, Crews & Elliott who represents a woman who alleges a Brown Schools counselor assaulted her in 2002, when she was 16.
"We were cognizant" of the company's financial problems, Elliott said. "At that point, you have to do what you can for your client."
Elliott said that Brown Schools had agreed to start paying his client in January, although the amount had not been finalized. Brown Schools hired numerous law firms to defend itself against claims. Its general counsel, Dallas-based Winstead Sechrest & Minick, said last month it withdrew because the company hadn't paid the firm.
Joey Mooring, a spokesman for Winstead Sechrest, said the firm would not comment on its work for Brown Schools.
John Thomas, who represents two families that settled sexual assault claims against Brown Schools, said his clients "gave up their day in court based on a promise they would be paid something to help get their lives back together."
"At this point, we have serious doubts about whether the Brown Schools ever intended honor that promise."
Thomas, a partner at George & Brothers LLP, said the company early this year promised to start monthly payments in April to both clients. Both cases involve alleged sexual assaults by Edward Jared Johnson, a former staff member at the Brown Schools' Austin facility.
Based on a criminal complaint by one of the girls, Johnson pleaded guilty in 2003 to indecency with a child and sexual contact. He received a 54-month state prison sentence.
The bankruptcy filing could be the final chapter for Brown Schools, which was founded in 1940 in San Marcos. Over the decades, Brown Schools facilities served as a training ground for generations of social service workers in Texas.
Brown Schools operates 11 boarding schools and educational facilities in Idaho, Texas, Vermont, Florida and California, according to its Web site. Facilities in Austin and San Marcos were sold to Psychiatric Solutions Inc. in 2003.
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CEDU Closing: Buildings and Contents to be Sold May 8 2005
CEDU Closing: On Edison Schools April 30 2005
CEDU Closing: Pete Talbott's Resume April 27 2005
CEDU Closing: McCown DeLeeuw Sued ByEmployees April 14 2005
CEDU Closing: George Locker's Criticism of the CEDU Enterprise April 14 2005
CEDU Closing: 1990 Snapshot of McCown DeLeeuw April 12 2005
CEDU Closing: A Timeline of the CEDU Enterprise April 2005
CEDU Closing: Letter from a Former Faculty Member April 2005
CEDU Closing: Parents of CEDU Students Helping Economically Distressed Faculty April 7 2001
CEDU Closing: Economic Impact on CEDU Employees Devastating April 7 2005
CEDU Closing: 310 Employees Stiffed on Wages April 6 2005
CEDU Closing: Who is To Blame? April 6 2005
CEDU Closing: Running Springs Area Also Suffers Financial Impact April 6 2005
CEDU Closing: An Alumnus Pleads, "Save CEDU!" April 4 2005
CEDU Closing: A Parent's Response to CEDU's Closing April 3 2005
CEDU Closing: Bankruptcy Trustee Slams Door Shut, Then Open April 3 2005
CEDU Closing: Parents Out Prepaid Tuition, Employees Lose Retirement. McCown Deleeuw Still Solvent April 3 2005
CEDU Closing: King George Stays Open as Head Thinks on Feet April 3 2005
CEDU Closing Shocks Industry Reporter April 3 2005
CEDU Closing: Parent Company, Brown, Negotiating in Bad Faith? April 1 2005
CEDU Closing: More Details March 29 2005
CEDU Closing: Brown Schools, CEDU's Parent, Files for Bankruptcy March 29 2005
CEDU Closing: Margurite Sallee, The Brown Schools, and McCown DeLeeuw March 27 2005
CEDU Closing: All CEDU Schools Closing Immediately March 25 2005
CEDU Closing: Rocky Mountain Academy Folds Abruptly February 12 2005
Debunking "Tough Love" Programs April 11 2006
Advice for Parents Seeking a Therapeutic Program for Their Children January 21, 2006
Why The "Troubled Teen" Industry is Booming January 2, 2006
The Road To Whatever August 25 2005
Nonpublic School Governance April 23 2005
Why Parents Seek and Pay for Therapeutic Boarding Schools April 14 2005
NYT Article on the Therapeutic School Industry April 13 2005
Therapeutic Schools: What Happens to Poor Kids April 10 2005
Thinking of Sending Your Kid to A "Tough Love" Program? March 30 2005
Questions Parents Should Consider Before Placing A Child
NonPublic Schools: Part I--Overview
NonPublic Schools--Part II Evaluating Mission, Values, & Goodness of Fit for Your Child
NonPublic Schools--Part III Faculty and Staff Qualifications
NonPublic Schools--Part IV: Evaluating Academic Program
NonPublic Schools:Part V--On Accreditation
NonPublic Schools:Part VI--More Detail on Financial Issues: IRS Status
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It is a sad day when one of the finest Wilderness programs, CEDU's Ascent Wilderness Program, a program that saved my daughter's adolescence, and helped her to "get her life back" as she expresses it, and the other related emotional growth schools in the CEDU program have been so poorly managed by a "for profit" structure and "bottom-line" mentality that seems to run the holding company.
It is tragic that the holding company unilaterally closed down the CEDU program nationwide, with no substantive prior notice to those who care, to the staff. to the alumni parents, or to the families, and without any apparent efforts to try to effect a sale or conversion to a non profit status so that the work that was being done could continue.
I urge any who have an interest in salvaging the CEDU program to contact and include me in the process. Anyone interested in being part of such a process is asked to get in contact with me so that we can network with others to consider what, if anything,can be done to assist families and staff whose lives have been turned upside down by this process. I can be reached at my email address at cima4321@aol.com.
Posted by: Jonathan Lifschutz | Saturday, April 02, 2005 at 12:45 PM


My name is Bill Kokell.
I served in the military on the demilitarized war zone in Korea. I have utilized VA Health care as my primary health care since 1966 and, until recently, had no serious need for care. On December 24, 2014, I went to the local VA clinic complaining of chest pain and shortness of breath. I was surprised to find that they did not have working equipment to check my heart. After taking my blood pressure, the doctor told me to go home and do everything in moderation. So that is what I did. Then, on January 29, 2015, I again felt chest pain and this time I travelled 40 miles to the nearest VA hospital. At the VA hospital, they did an ultrasound and an EKG and scheduled a nuclear stress test for two weeks later. Once that was done, they sent the results to my local VA clinic where they told me I had suffered a heart attack. They then gave me heart medication and an inhaler. On April 6 I went to the VA hospital with chest pain and they admitted me. ( when I asked if I could go to a non-VA hospital closer to my home I was told by the doctor" you can, but you will be paying for it for the rest of your life"). They kept me at the local VA hospital until the night of the 7th, when they transferred me in a van to the NYC VA hospital. They told me I needed a stent, but would have to wait until a qualified cardiac interventionist was available. After waiting 4 days in the hospital and losing 11 lbs., I finally received a cardiac catheterization and 2 stents. I was discharged the next day, but returned with chest pain three weeks later and needed to go back to the city for another stent.
I believe the only way to solve the very serious VA problem is to offer government paid Medicare to all service members. With Medicare, instead of going to a 'VA clinic" I could have gone to the nearest ER, where, in all probability, I would have been treated right there for that heart attack. I was damn lucky. I survived the almost 5 month wait. Too many of us don't. We die waiting. I honestly think Medicare is the answer.
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Some Facts About Scientology That You May Not Have Known
by Joze Tomsic | Oct 26, 2021 | Religion, Religion & Science | 0 comments
The Church of Scientology is a religious sect with many followers, including some superstars. Read some lesser-known facts about Scientology.
Lately, Scientology has been talked about mainly in connection with superstars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta and the late singer Isaac Hayes. Celebrity Scientologists like to tell the public how they financially support their 'church' and try to convince others.
Scientology is a pseudoscience with all the elements of religion (belief in a higher power, high level of indoctrination, institutionality, prominent personality, code). Still, it is perceived as science fiction due to some scientific elements and fantastical elements (in the absence of empirical evidence). The founder, also the writer of sci-fi fiction Ron L. Hubbard (1911–1986), managed to convince millions of people worldwide that man is an immortal being and lived on other planets before his incarnation. According to him, human souls have originated from ancient intergalactic people who were brought to the planet Teegeeack (Earth) by the galactic dictator Xenu 75 million years ago and 'wiped out' innocent people with hydrogen bombs.
Today, Scientologists are convinced of human immortality, of a pure cosmic force that defines all people and calls it thetan. Their discursive sessions turn on all of a person's hidden abilities and erase his bad experiences from the past. Scientology doctrine rejects psychiatry (although the influence of Sigmund Freud is to be found in Hubbard's works) and, with special techniques called dianetics, attempts to erase human traumatic experiences, even those of prehistory.
At the end of the 20th century, religion was recognized in various countries, first in the United States.
Let's Look at Some Lesser Known Facts About Scientology
Scientology is probably one of the most codified religions ever; There are over 1000 books and brochures, all written by Hubbard and dubbed 'technology.' Most of the works are intended for the self-help of believers; some pieces also help with visual descriptions and recorded sessions, in which they also use plastic figurines and even teddy bears for the models.
L.Ron Hubbard is known as one of the biggest (and also the best) TV salespeople and motivational speakers who could be compared to Oprah today. He started as a science fiction writer and continued as a motivator and promoter of self-help. Later, in the development of self-help techniques, he developed the entire philosophy and religion of Scientology, 'selling' it as a science and a complete replacement for modern psychiatry.
At the time of the greatest popularity of Scientology in the 1960s and early 1970s, Hubbard and his team cruised the Mediterranean and the Caribbean on the ship Apollo. They called him the 'commander of the fleet'; he had a group gathered around him, which was called the 'naval organization.' His closest team consisted of teenagers in hot panties and shoes with thick soles. They even had a Scientology music group called 'Apollo All-Stars.'
Long before Bush's patriotic legislation, Scientologists conducted one of the largest covert wiretapping operations in American history. In six years, they have infiltrated most of the most important U.S. public agencies such as the IRS (U.S. Internal Revenue Service), the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), the U.S. Department of Justice, and others. The operation was called 'Snow White.'
Although they operate in a very mainstream and transparent way, their core is quite radical. The 'Maritime Organization is also made up of children who have given up everyday life at a very young age and signed billion-dollar contracts to serve the Organization. Their parents, primarily members of the sect, no longer influence the child after signing the contract. Children are raised on a ship and are entirely cut off from the outside world; parents can only see them on land once or twice a year. If the parents decide to take the child out of the Organization, they are forced to leave the religion.
Their current leader, David Miscavige, lives in a strictly guarded complex called Scientology international base, where he and his close associates make decisions completely separate from the outside world. Every now and then, in the shadow of public criticism of his religion, he appears in the media and sharply (and sometimes aggressively) defends their views. However, the World Headquarters of Scientologists is their religious center on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.
Despite the church's arrogance that it has many famous members, the latter is not supposed to be so many. However, some former believers believe the stars are an excellent PR apparatus that the Scientology Organization has under constant supervision. The celebrities have access to all the 'services of the Organization, all the centers around the world, they are also supposed to have their' religious assistants.' The latter is supposed to have an insight into the entire life and also the intimacy of stellar individuals (such as Tom Cruise or Dustin Hoffman). Assistants are expected to report regularly on the activities of dignitaries to headquarters.
The Church of Scientology has been tax-exempt as a religious organization in most American states since the early 1990s. The decision saved Scientologists tens of millions of tax money. At the turn of the millennium, the US State Department criticized the German government for not releasing tax restrictions for Scientologists in Germany as well. Namely, the German state understands the Church of Scientology as a business and for-profit organization and an anti-democratic and uncivilized society.
Today, Scientologists are received with reservations in most of the world, and attacks on them are also occurring. Some time ago, the global hacker organization Anonymus carried out the 'Chanology' project, which, through DDoS attacks on the Organization's servers and other hacking and communication activities, took a hostile stance against Scientology and declared religion inhuman. The Church of Scientology has launched a legal and media persecution against them, which is still ongoing.


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Guarachi Family Wines
Guarchi Family Wines. The first vintage of Guarachi Family Wines was in 2007. Proprietor, Alex Guarchi began Guarachi Family Wines by purchasing fruit from a number of prominent vineyards, both in Napa Valley and in Sonoma including Gap's Crown, William Hill's Broken Rock Vineyard and from Beckstoffer owned Las Piedras and To Ka Kalon. His last vintage of Beckstoffer designated vineyard wines was in 2018. His impetus for purchasing vineyard land was because of a Pinot Noir made by Paul Hobbs from Gap's Crown Vineyard which earned a high score. As a result of the subsequent demand, the next year Alex no longer had access to this coveted block within the vineyard.
His first vineyard purchase was Sun Chase Vineyard in the Petaluma Gap of neighboring Sonoma County. This vineyard is 250 acres of which approximately 39 acres are planted to Pinot Noir (roughly 60%) and Chardonnay (roughly 40%) divided into 20 separate vineyard blocks. A number of mostly Sonoma County producers craft vineyard designate wines from the site. Alex purchased Sun Chase Vineyard in 2013. In 2014 he purchased Meadowrock Vineyard on Atlas Peak.
Years ago we drove onto a special property high on the slopes of Atlas Peak, neighboring the stunning Antica Vineyard and within a short drive of the iconic Stagecoach Vineyard. At the time, this was home to Astrale e Terra, a producer for some nearly 20 years with noted winemakers such as Pam Starr, Bill Ballentine and for a time, Scott Harvey was their consulting winemaker. This was the vineyard that Alex purchased; it is a 50 acre site of which approximately 29 acres are planted to vines separated into 13 distinctive blocks.
This site is located within Soda Canyon and Foss Valley; from the top of this site, on a clear day one has spectacular views overlooking Foss Valley and nearby vineyards. The property ranges in elevation from about 1400 to nearly 1800 feet and sits above the fog line. The growing season is long with lots of sunshine. However, sunshine doesn't necessarily translate to warmer growing conditions primarily because of the elevation and it's more southern location which is closer to the moderating influences of the San Pablo Bay. Temperatures tend to be fairly moderate allowing for long hang time and slow development of flavors.
As soon as Alex purchased this site he realized he wanted to get the most possible out of the vineyard, but realized the site needed significant work. He estimates they replanted about 2/3 of the vineyard; today it is primarily planted to Cabernet Sauvignon but with tiny amounts of Malbec and Petit Verdot. A block of Syrah has since been grafted over to Cabernet Sauvignon – although Syrah does so well here that eventually a small block may be developed to both Syrah and more Petit Verdot. They continue to fine tune their vineyard practices and in 2021 produced a single block bottling from Meadowrock (blocks 11 and 12) and a two barrel production of Calera clone Pinot Noir from Sun Chase Vineyard.
The property is managed by Atlas Vineyard Management Inc., whose employees work extremely closely with winemaker Julian Gonzales, who Alex refers to as having been 'born between the vines' due to his innate knowledge of vineyards. Julian has been making the Guarachi Family Wines since the first vintage – initially as assistant winemaker to Paul Hobbs (who crafted the first 6 vintages) and now as head winemaker. Julian is meticulous in the vineyard with harvest decisions, sometimes made not row by row but as detailed as vine by vine. He will flag individual vines so that harvesters know which ones to pick. And based on this particular site, harvest often lasts up to 30 days between their first and last picks. And with the intensity of sunshine at this elevation, Julian is extremely careful with how tannins are managed, resulting in specific vineyard and cellar decisions.
The previous owner had made wine on the property, but after the transition in ownership, Alex had the building remodeled and sprayed with fire retardant material on the exterior. This saved the building in the 2017 Atlas Peak Fire, as the fire burned right up to its exterior walls and scorched some of their outdoor plumbing but did not actually burn the structure.
In addition to using grapes for their own wines, grapes are sold from Meadowrock Vineyard to a select number of producers. And Alex is a partner in the 383-acre Fern Creek Vineyard in Dallas, in Oregon's Willamette Valley.
The 2018 Guarachi Sun Chase Vineyard Chardonnay is deep gold in color; its aromatics are immediately engaging and include yellow pineapple, honeysuckle, baked pear and Golden Delicious apple complemented by pretty baking spices deeper into the bouquet including vanilla and a hint of caramel. Offers an intensity of fruit spanning the length of the palate with flavors of red apple, honeycomb, ripe tangerine and melted butter. Its texture is lightly rounded and creamy, a gentle viscosity which is complemented by a bright and lively finish filled with flavor. Its balance is its hallmark. This is a beautiful bottling. This wine was aged aged 11 months in 100% French oak.
The 2018 Guarachi Sun Chase Vineyard Pinot Noir is medium ruby in color; offers aromas of ripe raspberry, darker spice notes, red licorice and dried rose petals along with old cedar box and mocha. As the wine opens, shows additional notes of dried sage and other dried herbs. Smells and tastes like the varietal. This wine offers plenty of layers across the palate with flavors of cherry cola, raspberry and lingering notes of rhubarb. Its texture is rounded with a finish offering slightly dusty light tannins along with a noticeable juiciness. This wine was aged for 11 months in 100% French oak and is a blend of two Pinot Noir clones: 72% clone 777 and 28% Swan clone.
The 2017 Guarachi Meadowrock Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is very dark ruby in color; the aromatics are a mix of ripe blackberry, boysenberry jam, Santa Rosa Plum, some initial notes of sweaty leather, freshly baked chocolate brownie and Graham Cracker. Also offers a hint of old cedar in the background and rhubarb stem. The fruit is forward and center on the bouquet with the oak being a complementary characteristic. This is high altitude Atlas Peak at its finest. Offers flavors of dark cherry, blackberry and black currant. The tannins bring a noticeable mountain grip, chewy, firm and extra long lasting. Juicy. Mouth watering. Lingers with cracked peppercorn and hints of dried tobacco leaf. There is plenty of depth and character in this wine to enjoy now, but it has all the 'stuffing' to be able to last for years to come.
Total production each year is about 1,500 cases. The wines are sold in a variety of ways including to restaurants with small percentage sold direct to consumer.
Guarachi Wine Partners (formally TGIC Global Fine Wine Company)
Alex was born in Santiago Chile and during his youth, nurtured a dream to play futbol in the United States. He came to the U.S. on a soccer scholarship at age 18, arriving in California two days before the 1976 Bicentennial. His goal was to play for the San Jose Earthquakes but a major foot injury while playing for San Jose State University derailed his career. He spent a year recovering and after graduating from San Jose State with a degree in business, he thought about importing wines from Chile to California because he noticed imported wines in the local shops were mostly from Europe.
He recalls most people thought he was a bit crazy as no one would be interested in those wines. One individual did not, a man who became his mentor – George Tralle who had a long career in Silicon Valley including providing micro chips to the Department of Defense. In 1984, both Alex and George financed their startup business. In the early days the business struggled; their focus was on selling imported Chilean wines in the San Jose Bay Area including in Napa and Sonoma. Their first client in Chile and resulting wines sold in California were from Viña San Pedro. But Alex noticed that wine buyers in this part of the state were partial to wines from the surrounding wine country rather than imported bottlings.
So Alex moved to Los Angeles and began operating out of a rented house and garage/cellar in Studio City. He recalls the space had no air conditioning; when the temperatures warmed up as it invariably does in Los Angeles, especially in Autumn hundreds of termites would exit the walls and run among the boxes of stored wines. Not an ideal situation. Ultimately, he found better success in the Los Angeles market with consumers more willing to trying wines from South America. Three years after he began importing Chilean wine, he began importing wines from Argentina.
There is no secret bullet to success but for Alex it was an entrepreneurial spark, believing in himself, to the core, developing an emotional attachment to his business and being able to take rejection. No after no after no, but little by little his persistence and efforts paid off and the early relationships he developed resulted in a growing business. And his timing; he took advantage of a market that was not yet developed; simply put, he created it.
He compares building relationships in the wine business to going on a first date. You don't tell the girl you love her right away, but if things look promising, you ask for a second date.
The big break for his business was when a friend introduced him to Costco; eventually Costco became his number one client with imported wines from Alex's portfolio represented through the country at their stores. Alex was instrumental in helping build sales for a number of now well-known luxury wineries including Viña Montes, Achaval-Ferrer and Bodega Norton among others and simultaneously changing people's perceptions of these wines, helped in part by the fact that these wineries improved the quality of their wines. And Alex insisted on better quality wines to make his job easier, selling in the U.S. market.
Guarachi Wine Partners is headquartered in Woodland Hills, California and since its inception now selectively distributes internationally including in Canada, China and Japan. For more information visit: www.guarachifamilywines.com and www.guarachiwinepartners.com
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The Viking way of death
Although Viking graves took certain standardised forms – in the detail of the rituals it was clear that almost every funeral was different giving the deceased a personalised send-off. Neil Price looks at the complexity of one particular burial site at Kaupang, Norway.
A boat burial from Kaupang, Norway, early 10th century. Illustration by Þórhallur Þráinsson, (© Neil Price)
Neil Price, Professor of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen 16 April 2014
Among the most fascinating things in the BP exhibition Vikings: life and legend are the numerous objects from burials and graves. The way that a people treat their dead can say a lot about their attitudes to life, and the Vikings were no exception. Although their graves take certain standardised forms – an earthen mound, a wooden chamber, a buried boat, and so on – in the detail of the rituals it's clear that almost every funeral was different, a personalised send-off. We know that this was an age of individuals, but what can we understand from this infinity of responses to death? Let's look more closely at just one example, which in all its unique complexity can stand for all the others.
The scene is a small, beachfront trading community, located in the outer reaches of the Oslofjord in Norway. We know this place as Kaupang, it just means 'market', but to its inhabitants it was known as Skíringssalr – something like 'the shining hall', perhaps named after its lord's residence on the hill behind. Nearly twenty years of excavations there have revealed rows of small houses and workshops strung out along the water's edge, with access to wharves where the ships came in from around the whole region. But this is for the living; outside the settlement, on promontories and on the low heights along the edges of the fjord, are the graves of the dead.
One of them seems at first to be a relatively simple affair. In the middle of the 9th century a man of indeterminate age was buried on his left side, probably dressed in a cloak because a brooch was found at his shoulder. His chest was pressed up against a large stone, and his body had been covered from the waist down with a cloth of very fine quality, drawn up like a blanket over his legs. With him were a handful of objects: two knives, a fire steel and two flints, a whetstone, some fragments of a soapstone bowl and what the excavators called an 'egg-shaped stone'. Little in this is particularly exciting, though even this meagre grave has its own character and individualism, everything in it being there for a reason. However, it is what happened next that is remarkable.
Several decades later in the early 900s, an 8.5m-long boat was placed exactly on top of the dead man, its keel aligned precisely along the axis of his grave (which tells us that its location was remembered). Inside the boat were the bodies of four people: a man, two women and an infant, together with a number of animals. Around and above the bodies, laid out together with them or deposited above them as the boat was filled with earth, were masses of objects. Let us look a little closer.
In the prow a man and a woman lay apparently on blankets covering the decking. The woman was aged about 45-50 when she died, arranged on her back with her right hand on her breast, ankles crossed and her feet pointing into the prow. Her head was resting on a stone, like a pillow. She was expensively dressed, her clothes held together with silver jewellery. From her belt hung a knife and a key. To her immediate right was a bucket. Balanced across her knees, a weaving sword.
A baby was wrapped in the woman's dress, bundled at her hip with her left hand resting on its head.
Lying head to head with the woman, arranged symmetrically with his feet pointing to the stern, was a man of unknown age. He had been placed slightly twisted, on his back but with legs flexed and bent to one side at the waist. Laid out around him were weapons: two axes, of which one was an antique; a throwing spear; a sheathed sword, its point precisely at his head, with two knives and a whetstone next to it; a shield (two more lay nearby); a quiver of arrows and therefore probably also a bow. A silver arm-ring lay above him. On his midriff lay an inverted frying pan. On the sword scabbard two spindle whorls had been carefully placed. A pot of German manufacture had been smashed and its pieces scattered over the man's body along with three glass beads, near a soapstone vessel. Two more of the latter were deposited at the man's feet. An iron dog chain was draped next to him, with a sickle somewhere nearby.
Amidships, a bridled horse had been killed and laid on the deck. Its throat was probably cut, and it seems to have been decapitated and roughly dismembered, its limbs and body parts then placed back in approximately their anatomical positions. A single spur was placed on the mangled corpse.
In the stern of the boat was a second woman, apparently buried sitting up, either in a chair or hunched up against the rising end of the vessel. From her location and posture it is possible that the steering oar of the boat was resting in her hands. A whetstone and a bridle-bit leant against her feet, which touched the carcass of the horse. She was well-dressed in high fashion. Behind her was a shield. To her right, resting on the deck, another of those enigmatic 'egg-shaped stones' and a weaving sword of iron. To her left, an unusual iron staff pinned down under a large rock. Somewhere near her was an axe. In the woman's lap was an imported bowl of bronze that had been scratched with runes, i muntlauku, 'in the hand basin'. The bowl contained some unidentified little metal objects, and the severed head of a dog. Its body lay across the woman's feet. One pair of its legs, perhaps detached, lay a little below the torso; the other legs were missing. Marks on the bones suggest crude carving of the flesh before the ragged skeleton was reassembled. Around the woman were also found fragments of wood and bark, pieces of sheet iron and objects of copper alloy; we do not know what they were.
Objects of this type have been interpreted as staffs used by Viking sorceresses. From Gavle, Sweden (left) and Fuldby, Zealand, Denmark (right). (Photo: © Nationalmuseet, Denmark)
The iron staff might offer a small clue to the nature of the dead steerswoman, as it is of a kind identified as a tool of the sorceresses called a völur, and other female magic-workers, who feature extensively in the Icelandic sagas. Several staffs of this kind can be seen in the exhibition.
The whole burial was then covered with earth and complex stone constructions, building up to a low mound. The excavators also found patches of cremated bone and wood mixed here and there in the deposit, hinting at further rituals about which we know nothing.
In all of this, note the detail, the precision, the deliberate choice and positioning of objects. The treatment of these Viking-Age dead is eloquent in its sheer specificity.
So what were they doing, on the banks of a Norwegian fjord in the early tenth century? A burial of four people in a boat, itself placed on top of another grave, a few decades old. Were the man and woman a couple, with their child? Or were they unrelated? Who was the woman sitting in the stern, apparently some kind of witch? Did they all die together, either violently or through illness? Was one or more of them killed to accompany the others in death? Whose were the boat and the animals, or did they belong to none of the dead? What do the objects mean, and would a contemporary understanding of them even approximate to our own? What connection did all of this have with the man under the keel? One thing is certain: it does not resemble any kind of funeral familiar to us.
They died a long time ago and we do not know their names, but these people of the Viking Age faced the same eternal questions of life and its meaning as still puzzle us today. The boat burial at Kaupang was one of their answers.
Neil Price is a contributor to the exhibition catalogue and one of the presenters of Vikings Live, at cinemas around the UK on Thursday 24 April.
The BP exhibition Vikings: life and legend is at the British Museum until 22 June 2014.
Supported by BP
Organised by the British Museum, the National Museum of Denmark, and the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin


Storyteller, immigrant, copywriter, and cookbook author – for Ming-Cheau Lin it is all these different identities that have come together in the writing of her Taiwanese-South African cookbook Just Add Rice. Released in 2018, the book is a combination of amazing recipes – and more importantly the stories behind the foods. The Daily Vox team sat down with Lin to chat about the book, identity and the danger of stereotypes.
Food was an important part of Lin's life from a young age – whether it was helping her mother and grandmother in the kitchen or seeing her dad cook for the family. It was also the reason she was bullied in primary school – something she talks about in the book. She says she brought kimbap for lunch.
"My mother made that for me and this was the first time I realised I was so different from everyone else because I was mocked about my food. That's when the stereotypes came about: that's gross, disgusting, Chinks eat dogs," she says.
Every child of colour has had the experience of being mocked for bringing food that wasn't a plain cheese sandwich. While as a child she might have been mocked, Lin says those very same foods are trendy and cool to consume. It is for this reason she is very passionate about people of colour owning their stories and histories. "We should own our stories and own truths. It gives people from the culture a perspective knowing that they are not alone. That is important for people of colour," she says.
It was from that idea and her blog that her cookbook emerged. Butterfingers was something she started in college as a way to share easy-to-make home cooked Taiwanese recipes. Realising that there was great interest in the blog, she expanded in to go into the history and health benefits of the food she was making. Through the process of creating and expanding her blog, Lin says she realised many people thought Asia was one big country and other very damaging stereotypes. "I started using food as the medium to educate around these things. Stereotyping is about a lack of knowledge and once you do that you can hurt minority groups that aren't being represented in spaces," she says.
The stereotypes can also go beyond just plain ignorant and actually have direct harmful effects on people. Last year, two white men opened a restaurant called Mishowani. There was a lot of outrage about it, and rightly so. For Lin, this was extremely traumatic especially because white society just could not see what the problem was for Asian women. "I had to explain that the last time I was sexually harassed was when a white man screamed at me 'me so horny' and 'love you long time' because it was a joke to them. I was sexually harassed. It is not something to be laughed at or something for women of colour to get over," she says.
Being a third culture child, Lin says has made her realise the importance of diversity and being considerate of that especially in South Africa. "Basically a third culture child is when your foundation culture is different from the society around you. I am a first generation immigrant – even I have no memories from Taiwan – my home culture is Taiwanese. Being in South Africa even though it's a black country, the dominant culture is Western society," she says.
Lin says she wrote the book for her parents as a tribute to celebrate her culture and fight stereotypes, for her husband to learn, and for her East Asian community. "We are a diverse group of East Asians in South Africa and we aren't represented. For our food to be seen in our original light with the stories that come with them, the preservation of the holidays our people celebrate – you can't get this in a western East Asian cookbook. You can only get this with the stories that come from an authentic voice that has the lived experience," she says.
Just Add Rice is available at all good bookstores and online.
All images provided by Ming-Cheau Lin.


Actress and singer Ashley Tisdale took as much time as she needed in the creation of her third album, "Symptoms," and recruited Goldfinger frontman John Feldmann to produce. She believes teaming up with Feldmann has allowed her to create her most authentic album to date. Tisdale came to BUILD to talk about the album and its newest single, "Voices In My Head."


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Cops In Cuffs
NYPD Cop facing Prison after Breaking into Family's Home, Calling them "N*ggers"
A white NYPD cop was on vacation in Nashville when he kicked open a door to a house and terrorized the black family inside, claiming they were inside his home and calling them "n*ggers."
The cop was staying at an Airbnb next door.
Earlier this week, New York City police officer Michael J. Reynolds pleaded no contest to one count of aggravated criminal trespassing and three counts of assault.
The 25-year-old will be sentenced in November. Prosecutors are seeking prison, according to the Tennessean.
The incident took place on July 9, 2018 and was caught on surveillance video but it was not enough for the New York City Police Department to fire him.
Reynolds had been out drinking when he confused the home of Conese Halliburton with the Airbnb he was staying at next door at around 2:30 a.m.
"This is my motherf*cking house," Reynolds shouted at the family after kicking their door open and forcing his way inside. Halliburton was inside the home with her four sons, ages 20, 17, 11 and 8.
Her older sons ordered him to leave the home as she called 911. When the dispatcher said police were on their way, Reynolds, perhaps realizing he had screwed up, walked out of the house.
"Try to shoot me, and I'll break every f*cking bone in your f*cking neck," he told them before calling them "f*cking n*ggers," which was all captured on audio by the neighbor's surveillance camera.
But despite all that, Nashville cops did not arrest him that night, apparently honoring his Blue Privilege.
In fact, news of the incident was not reported by the media until more than a month later which was when police insisted they were "still investigating" the incident.
The NYPD said it has suspended him without pay "for a time" but he was then placed on "modified duty," meaning he was receiving a paycheck.
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deboinair
I don't even feel sorry for the family. They have a slave mentality. The two older sons should have beat him with a baseball bat. I bet if the intruder were black, they would have.
It's funny I'm from Miami and you will never see this happen. I mean I would love for a racist drunk cop from out of town with no jurisdiction break in my house. That's like giving a free kill pass. But that's the difference from black people from Miami vs the bible belt states.
Camo205
Hold on a minute! If he was staying there or next door then why would he kick in the door? Would his key not work? Is he so fucking ignorant he doesn't realize it's the wrong door? What if they would've shot him? Or at least take a bat to this jackass! Cops are gonna learn that sooner or later they'll be looked at as communist or nazi's! If u have to ask why then u must be a cop as well! Everybody knows that cops like nazis have no rules while everyone else has to follow the rules. Even then tomorrow is not a guarantee! They'll still shoot ur ass.
LadyHotdog
And if the racist cop had his firearm with him, the family would be dead.
i will be waiting to see how much time this POS gets! he is now a felon and no longer a safety issue to the public!
and if he had done this in NYC he would get a promotion. fuck this pig! he deserves nothing less then the max sentence!
Trackydog
You can't make this stuff up, police as a whole believe they are the law and are above it.
D Oracle
Reynolds was lucky, this is a nice family. They did everything right, and STILL the police in both cities protected this privileged criminal. Only when citizen lawsuits impact police pension funds will they stop protecting and promoting these "rotten apples".
Bug Nutty
Wouldn, t. You know his Blue Brothers did not arrest this Racist Piece of Shit, and he still collects a Paycheck from NY PD, WTF,, he should be in a Nashville jail, Tramp Cop, Asswipe!
You kick in my door in the middle of the night and hurl racial slurs at me and you're not walking out. You're going to be carried out with no fewer than three .452 holes in your center of mass and head. "Mozambique" can be a verb as well as a proper noun.
You see that,his superiors over him should be getting charged also because all they told him after watching video taped footage his actions were warranted but these courtrooms are just simply allow them to keep doing these things without repercussions.😡😎
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