The fall months and cooler weather in the U.S. and Canada mark the beginning of the busy or "high season" in Los Cabos. Hotel occupancy rates climb and rentals of local condos soar. Similarly, interest in Cabo real estate begins to increase.
When visitors ask me about the Cabo real estate market, I candidly respond sales have been slow, but now I am beginning to observe an increase in demand. I personally witnessed prices of Cabo real estate steadily decline throughout last year; however, 2016 has seen significant reductions in real estate prices across the board. Here's my opinion as to why: Over the past two years, local tourism has continued to increase, but has yet to return to the levels prior to hurricane Odile in September 2014. Simply stated, we do not have the tourist traffic we had two years ago.
Another contributing factor to fewer buyers of Cabo real estate is the decline in petroleum prices, which has caused the Canadian dollar to lose 20-30% of its value. Consequently, Canadian purchasers have lost a quarter to a third of their buying power. Reduced prices on Cabo real estate may present a great deal for some, but the current exchange rate on the Canadian dollar eliminates the value.
Current conditions in Los Cabos describe what is referred to as a "buyer's market," meaning there are more properties for sale than available buyers to purchase them. This typically contributes to a reduction of real estate prices.
What does this mean for those looking to buy? It translates to good selection and great prices. Indeed, when it comes to warm climate, quality of life and affordability, it is hard to find a better opportunity than real estate in Cabo. For example, in San José del Cabo a variety of two bedroom condos in a good location with nice amenities, security and an ocean view are available for under $250,000. Cabo San Lucas offers similar available options. Incredibly, there are one-bedroom condos within walking distance of the beach, restaurants and shopping for less than $70,000! The rental market in Cabo is very strong, which can help cover expenses when the owner is away.
Single-family homes close to the beach are available in Cabo for as little as $400,000, all the way up to several million for a luxury model in a top gated community. Nearly all single-family homes have swimming pools and most are in gated communities, many with golf courses and other amenities.
Although Cabo is known for its luxurious lifestyle, there are a lot of affordable properties available within most budgets. In order to find out more about these properties, it is important to use a licensed and experienced real estate agent that is familiar with the market. They say when considering purchase of real estate that location is important. The truth is, timing is important, too. And now is the time to buy!


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Today Derek and I discuss the effectiveness of video emails. Most people want to build a database or contact list, but don't know what to do with it once they have it. I'm going to share with you today reasons why a video message is so much more effective than a plain text format email. After all you have a database to generate referrals.
That's why a video message is more appealing. You need to stand out and seem genuine.
What your actual goal should be with a video message.
Derek tells me why he thinks my video messages are effective.
Common excuses agent use for not using video messages.
At the end of the day the secret is being personable and causal.


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Houston: Bellaire Uptown Transit Center Due in 2020
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Houston: Bellaire Uptown Transit Center Due in 2020|
Feature Photo (above): Looking west from the U.S. 59 to southbound I-610 interchange ramp, the frontage property south of Westpark Drive (far left) will be the future site of the Bellaire Uptown Transit Center. Image: Google Streets.
Updated: 8-2-2018
Original Post: 7-23-2018
by Adolfo Pesquera
Houston (Harris County) – The Uptown Houston District anticipates reaching the construction stage on the long-awaited Bellaire Uptown Transit Center by October, according to a filing by the project's design engineer.
The $17 million project has been on the district's drawing board since at least 2013.
Walter P. Moore, the architectural/engineering firm, filed a progress report with the state July 18 giving an estimated start of October 2018, and an estimated completion date of April 2020. That is about one year later than the original estimated completion period.
The transit center will be the southern hub in a bus transit master plan that includes improvements to Post Oak Boulevard. According to the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, the north end of the Uptown BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) will connect to the Metro system at the Northwest Transit Center (near the interchange of Interstates 10 and 610).
The project site for the Uptown Transit Center. Courtesy of City of Houston public records.
"A new transit center on Westpark Drive will connect at the south end," according to Metro.
A Metro map of the future connection between the Northwest Transit Center and the Uptown Transit Center in Bellaire.
The reconstruction of Post Oak Boulevard through Uptown is part of the project, and a key component of the reconstruction is the addition of dedicated bus lanes. Uptown Houston announced in June that construction on the dedicated bus lanes had begun.
The transit center will be located on just under 3.5 acres of undeveloped land south of Westpark Drive near the U.S. 59 and Interstate 610 interchange.
Walter P. Moore describes the facility as a three-story transit center and parking lot.
"The proposed structure will be cast-in-place (concrete)," the Moore report states.
The first level will be used by local Metro buses and BRT buses coming in off Westpark Drive. The second level will be public parking–a Park-N-Ride. The third level will be reserved for Metro buses that are coming to and from U.S. 59; this implies there will be new entrance and exit ramps to the site from the freeway.
"Between the surface parking lot and the elevated second floor, there are anticipated to be approximately 239 parking spaces," Moore stated.
"The users of the facility will be parking in the public parking spaces and then either catching their bus on the ground level or on the third floor. The users will get from level to level by utilizing elevators.
"The roof level (third floor) will have a canopy system to protect waiting bus-goers from the elements," Moore said.
In another sign that activity is ramping up, Vernon G. Henry & Associates Inc. submitted a plat to the city for approval of the future transit center site. It was approved July 19 by the Planning Commission on condition that it be amended in a re-plat to include wastewater capacity and stormwater detention systems. The project returned to the Planning Commission on Aug. 2 for a variance allowing development next to a street (Anderson Street) that has a width of less than 60 feet.
The Uptown Houston District, a tax increment redevelopment zone also known as Harris County Improvement District #1, has described the road project as "an exquisitely designed grand boulevard while preserving existing automobile access, substantially improving transit service and creating a beautifully landscaped pedestrian environment."
The project began out of a recognition that Uptown lacked effective commuter transit service. The district employs about 80,000 people and the lack of service is a detriment to growth.
Illustration of Post Oak Boulevard with dedicated bus lanes. Courtesy of Uptown Houston District.
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San Antonio: Tampico Apartments 4% LHTC Application Headed to TDHCA Board
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About the Author: Adolfo Pesquera
Adolfo Pesquera (Reporter/Editor) is a veteran news journalist. He has worked for Hearst Corp., American Lawyer Media, News Corp and Freedom Communications. His work has been published in newspapers and magazines across the USA. He is a journalism graduate of UT-RGV. He writes, edits and creates digital pages for VBX.
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No visit to Speyside would be complete without a visit to the Speyside Cooperage, the only cooperage in Britain with a visitor centre.
In the heart of Scotland's rolling hills lies Speyside Cooperage, the only working cooperage in the UK where you can experience the ancient art of coopering.
Since 1947, the family owned Speyside Cooperage has produced the finest casks from the best American Oak. Today the cooperage continues to work and produce the age-old product, still using traditional methods and tools. Although shipped across the world, many of the casks remain in Scotland, providing a vital ingredient in Scotland's whisky making process.
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Sarah Palin no match for Bill Clinton in November
When it comes to political endorsements give me Bill Clinton over Sarah Palin any day.
Yes I know the media is trumpeting Palin as the new Moses who will lead all candidates she supports to the promised land.
She won three out of four races on Tuesday night but in the process, may have made it more difficult for those candidates to win in a general election.
While a Palin endorsement is gold in a Republican primary, especially where Teabaggers are concerned, that same endorsement can be turned into clay by a Democratic opponent.
That is because Sarah Palin is a polarizing figure who does not help draw any middle of the road votes, but merely reinforces a tea party hardline vote.
That can work, but already you can see that Palin's endorsement of Carly Fiorina in California will be used against her by Democrat Barbra Boxer in the general election.
So while Fox News were proclaiming 'you betcha' when asking if Palin's endorsement worked, the jury will still be out to see if she can help deliver office, especially in the California senate race.
Bill Clinton on the other hand needs no introduction at all.
His endorsement of Blanche Lincoln in the Arkansas senate race was the margin of victory for her.
She ran from the right and Clinton helped her overcome a huge move by Labor unions to muscle her out of power.
Clinton works in general elections too.
He recently was a key figure in ensuring that Mark Critz held on to Congressman John Murtha's seat in Pennsylvania when he campaigned there for him throughout the last weekend.
In an ironic twist, candidates are calling Clinton to come rally for them while Obama is being left home in the White House.
That will happen again next week when Clinton takes a plane to Nevada to stump for Senator Harry Reid who is in the battle of his life to get re-elected.
Bill Clinton may be more popular than ever -- the debacle around his wife's campaign now long behind him.
He is still the uber political meister, a man whose impact can never be underestimated.
People now remember the Clinton years with low deficits and low unemployment with nostalgia as the good old days.
Clinton is a proven asset.
Sarah Palin has yet to reach that stratosphere in a general election battle.
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Q: Saving a record sends the pluralized value for type attribute in PATCH request I am developing a simple TODO manager application in Ember using ember-data and JSONAPISerializer.
I have the following model which represents a task
app/model/task.js
export default DS.Model.extend({
    title: DS.attr ('string'),
    description: DS.attr ('string'),
    isComplete: DS.attr ('boolean')
});

The corresponding JSON data from back-end looks like this
{
    "data": {
        "id": "1",
        "type": "task",
        "attributes": {
            "title": "Complete Ember TODO manager application",
            "description": "Build a simple Ember application for easily managing tasks",
            "is_complete": "false"
        }
    }
}

I have added editing support for task using the following controller.
app/controllers/tasks/task.js
import Ember from 'ember';

export default Ember.Controller.extend({
    isEditingTask: false,

    actions: {
        startEditTask() {
            this.set('isEditingTask', true);
        },
        doneEditTask(id) {
            this.set('isEditingTask', false);
            this.get('model').save();
        },
    }
});

When not in editing mode, an edit button is shown, which triggers the startEditTask action. When in editing mode a done button is show which triggers the doneEditTask action.
I have verified that the done button does generate a PATCH request.
The problem is that the JSON sent to the back-end has the type as tasks not task. Is this expected?
JSON sent with PATCH request is as follows
{
    "data": {
        "id": "1",
        "type": "tasks",
        "attributes": {
            "title": "Allow editing of a task",
            "description": "Allow the user to change various properties of a task",
            "is_complete": "true",
    }
}

A: Probably it's too late, but I've faced similar issue today and as far as I see based on these:
JSON API response and ember model names
http://emberjs.com/api/data/classes/DS.JSONAPISerializer.html
http://jsonapi.org/format/#crud-updating
If endpoint is plural (eg. api/tasks), ember expects the type to be plural as well

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Outstanding follow up to their only other album I could find, Radiant Transmission (check that one out if you haven't already). This is a more consistently solid effort and I've had it on heavy rotation. Bad Liquor Pond is a 60s influenced psychedelic alternative type of band from Baltimore, an obvious comparison would probably be Brian Jonestown Massacre for most people although I would compare them more to Asteroid #4 and House of Fire.
The first four songs are all incredibly great, catchy tunes with plenty of great sounding guitars and memorable hooks. They go more psychedelic and bring out the sitars for Great Planes and Silence in You. The remainder of the album mixes up some slower and more rockin' guitar based songs. The Crescent Ship and Apocalyptic Love Jam are probably my two favorite tunes but there are no bad songs on here.
Bad Liquor Pond was a psychedelic rock band based in Baltimore, Maryland. formed in 2006, the group released 3 albums, "The Year of the Clam, " "Radiant Transmission," "Blue Smoke Orange Sky" & the 7" vinyl single "Let The River Come."
Through the rest of 2006 and 2007 the band constantly played shows and worked on recording, bringing Paul Fuller on board to fulfill the drumming responsibilities while original drummer, Poridge Blackwell shifted to bass guitar. After releasing their debut album "The Year of the Clam" in August of 2007 on Baltimore's MT6 Records, Bad Liquor Pond embarked on a small tour of the north east coast and in the following months gained attention from local, national and international outlets.
In January of 2008 Bad Liquor Pond performed live on the Pat Duncan Show on WFMU 91.1 in New Jersey and shortly afterward founding member / guitarist Bobby Parrish decided to leave the group for personal reasons. Immediately following Bobby's departure the band began recording their second album and recruited Melvis Fargas on guitar.
August 8th, 2008 marked the release of Bad Liquor Pond's 2nd album "Radiant Transmission" (Morphius Records / MT6 Records). This album branches off from the drone oriented mystical vibe of the first record and follows the band further along their journey into the depths of modern psychedelic rock and roll. Bad Liquor Pond's sophomore offering draws from even more influences, incorporating elements of rhythm and blues, garage rock, psychedelic and Americana.
The new CD has gotten nothing but great reviews so far and the band has continued playing through 2009 in support of the record, playing with national acts such as Xiu Xiu, Glasvegas, Spindrift, Hopewell, The Black Hollies, Strangers Family Band and Heavy Hands.
Currently, the band is preparing to head back up to New York at the end of August in support of the release of a new 2 song limited edition 7" vinyl pressing that will be released around the same time.
The band has since dissolved and recruited new musicians, recording a full length album under the new name, MORELS.
Bad Liquor Pond was a psychedelic rock band based in Baltimore, Maryland. formed in 2006, the group released 3 albums, "The Year of the Clam," "Radiant Transmission," "Blue Smoke Orange Sky" & the 7" vinyl single "Let The River Come."
The band has since dissolved and recruited new musicians, recording a full length album under the new name, MORELS, Released in 2015.


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Sail Freighter Friday - Cutty Sark (1869-1922 and beyond)
NOTE: This week's post is a guest post from the Royal Museums Greenwich in the UK about the Cutty Sark, one of the most famous of the Tea Clippers. To learn more about the Cutty Sark check out the Royal Museums Greenwich website.
CUTTY SARK in her current state at Royal Museums Greenwich. PetraDraha, 2017.
Cutty Sark is the sole surviving tea clipper ship in the world. It wasn't the first or the biggest; it wasn't the fastest or most successful; it wasn't even its owner's favourite. But it is the last one left. And it is because of its survival that it has become one of the most iconic ships in the world: a symbol of the romantic 'age of sail'; of the peak of clipper ship design; of Britain's identity as a nation of tea-drinkers; of the exploitation and wealth of the British Empire and vital importance of merchant shipping to Britain, both then and now.
Cutty Sark was launched in 1869, in Dumbarton, Scotland. It was built exclusively for the China tea trade, in which a fashion had developed for consuming the first of the season's fresh tea. Thus it paid to be fast and as one of the last tea clippers to be built, Cutty Sark had some claims to be the pinnacle of a design, already at its apex. It is an 'extreme clipper', having all the design characteristics of clipper ships but with extra abundance. Clippers, typically, have three main design traits: a long, narrow hull; a sharp bow at the front of the ship for cutting through the waves rather than riding atop and a huge sail area. By the 1860s, composite construction, combining wood and iron to make a ship strong but lighter and with greater cargo space, was the favoured method of construction. Cutty Sark was one of these composite ships.
S1717: A painting of "Cutty Sark" by Frederick Tudgay in 1872, commissioned by owner John Willis. Courtesy of Royal Museums Greenwich.
Clipper ships were pioneered by the Americans in the early nineteenth century. These small, fast and agile ships, able to zip along 'at a clip', put an emphasis upon speed rather than cargo space. The gold rushes in California and then Australia in the middle of nineteenth century meant that orders for vessels flooded the American market. Spurred by the need to obtain even a slight advantage in speed, American designers were bold and inventive, developing clippers which seemed to turn ship design on its head. Across the Atlantic, British shipping was at risk of stagnation. A series of reforms, including the end of the East India Company's monopoly on trade in the east prepared the scene. The first British clipper ship, Stornaway, was built in Aberdeen in 1850.
Tea first came to Britain in the middle of the seventeenth century. Initially hailed for its medicinal qualities, it was mainly enjoyed by the wealthy. But thanks, in part, to an extensive smuggling network, tea soon became a popular beverage for all. Little more than one hundred years after its introduction, tea was embedded in the very fabric of British life. As a tea clipper, Cutty Sark played its role in converting tea from exotic leaf to national staple. It would deliver over 4.5 million kgs of tea to Britain in just eight years.
Yet it never lived up to its promise. In a somewhat poetic twist of fate, the Suez Canal was opened just five days before Cutty Sark was launched. These two feats of engineering, one which would seal the fate of the other were inextricably linked, providing a marker in time, almost a 'before and after' in the world of shipping. The canal provided a 'short-cut' out to China and back. Rather than having to sail all the way around the continent of Africa, ships could now cut through the Mediterranean and Red Sea reducing the voyage by over 3,000 miles. But the challenging navigation of the Mediterranean and relative windless conditions and expensive tolls on the canal itself meant that it was only viable for steam ships. Ships like Cutty Sark would have to stick to the long route. In 1870, the year of Cutty Sark's maiden voyage, there were over fifty other sailing ships heading out to China and back. By 1878, there were just nine. Unable to compete, Cutty Sark was forced from the trade for which it had been built after just eight voyages, a tea clipper without any tea.
E8980: The Suez Canal in the early 1880s. Courtesy of Royal Museums Greenwich.
After leaving the tea trade, Cutty Sark spent the next few years tramping: taking whatever cargo it could from port to port. It is not without irony that in this period the ship regularly transported coal for steamships' coal stations. In fact, in total it transported more coal than tea in its career. While the network of coal and water stations required for the efficient passage of steamers developed around the world, the quickest and most reliable method of getting their fuel to them was by sail.
When John 'White Hat' Willis, the ship's owner, elected to place Cutty Sark in the Australian wool trade, it was as if Cutty Sark had found its calling. The trade, at the time, too far away for steamers to contend in, suited Cutty Sark. The route home took the ship around Cape Horn and the 'roaring forties', the fastest trade winds in the world, allowing the ship to make full use of its impressive spread of canvas to surge home. Under the confident leadership of Captain Richard Woodget, the ship's longest serving and most successful master, Cutty Sark consistently broke records. Its best passage was just 73 days back to London, racking up speeds of up to 17.5 knots an hour and enjoying a new reputation as one of the fastest ships afloat.
A5473: Crew and guests on Cutty Sark in Sydney in 1887. Captain Richard Woodget is in the back row, third from right wearing a Tam O'Shanter hat in honour of the ship's name. Courtesy of Royal Museums Greenwich.
In 1895 an aging Willis, with no heirs to pass his fleet onto, sold Cutty Sark to a Portuguese firm. Renamed Ferreira, the ship became a general cargo carrier – carrying anything from coal to whale bone and fish guano - traversing the Atlantic between Portugal, the West Coast of Africa and the continent of America. In 1922, after departing London, Ferreira was damaged in a storm, had to call in at Falmouth for repairs and experienced astonishing good luck. There was probably not much more working life left in the ship, so when the local retired sea captain Wilfred Dowman, spotted Ferreira, the ship's fortune was changed forever. In 1895, Dowman had been a 16 year old apprentice, who watched as Cutty Sark surged past his ship, leaving a lasting impression on the young man. Twenty-seven years later, Ferreira was a shadow of its former self yet Dowman's memory had not dimmed. He knew it was a special vessel. Together with his wife, Catharine, the pair were committed philanthropists who paid well over the odds to bring the ship back to Britain, restore it and rename it Cutty Sark once more. Two years later, it reopened as a cadet training ship and visitor attraction.
Following Dowman's premature death, the ship was given to the Incorporated Thames Nautical College to serve alongside HMS Worcester as a cadet training ship in Greenhithe on the Thames.
With the outbreak of the Second World War, the cadets were evacuated and Cutty Sark suffered from a terrible lack of maintenance. By the end of the war, sail-training was no longer deemed necessary and Cutty Sark's future looked bleak. But befitting of the ship's story, it was thanks to a passionate individual and a stroke of good luck that it is here today. HMS Implacable had fought at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 but by the late 1940s, like Cutty Sark, it was in very poor condition. Recognising the ship's significance, a place in Greenwich was offered to it but its restoration costs were soon deemed to be too expensive in an age of austerity. Instead the ship was scuttled. Understandably, this caused an outcry which Frank Carr, then director of the National Maritime Museum, was able to utilise to save Cutty Sark. He persuaded the London County Council to give the Greenwich site to Cutty Sark; he engaged the support of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and together they formed a society which raised public funds to restore the ship and create a new dry dock for it. They were also keen that Cutty Sark adopt yet another identity: that of memorial to the Merchant Navy, the days of sail and the 44,000 from the merchant service lost in both world wars. In 1954 the ship was floated into its new dock and final resting place. Three years later, after an extensive restoration, the ship was opened to the public by HM The Queen.
In total, more than 650 men from 30 different nations served on Cutty Sark during its years as a British ship. Most would do so only once. On average, just 28 men would serve per voyage but it could be as few as 19. The oldest to serve was 54 and the youngest 14. These men had eleven miles of rigging and 32,000 square metres of sail to contend with in some of the most challenging conditions imaginable. The ship has visited nearly every major port in the world and transported millions of kgs of goods around the globe. Built to last just 30 years, it now sits in Maritime Greenwich, more than 150 years old and an inspiration to a new generation of sailing cargo ships.
To find out more, please visit: Cutty Sark
Louise Macfarlane is the Cutty Sark Curator at Royal Museums Greenwich, UK.


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Judas Horse
**BLOG TOUR** Judas Horse by Lynda La Plante
Police are investigating a spate of violent burglaries but when a mutilated body is found inside a Cotswolds house, they realise that this is more than just opportunistic crime. Detective Jack Warr finds himself encountering numerous dead ends as he unearths the secrets in the local community, hoping to get to the core of this organised gang. When he meets Charlotte Miles, a woman with links to the group, Warr wants to use her to lure them into committing one last job with the aim of catching them in the act. With violent acts escalating, Jack knows that he must get this right to avoid more blood being spilled.
It is always a pleasure to read a Lynda La Plante book, someone I have admired since watching the original Prime Suspect on television. After reading the first in the Jack Warr series, Buried, last year, I couldn't wait to see where Lynda took this character next, especially after finding out his origins. Although this could definitely be read as a standalone, I found that Buried served as a great introduction to the character, helping us to understand what made him tick, whereas this book has given us the opportunity to see more of Jack as a detective. I found myself liking the character more as the book progressed, admiring his determination and policing skills, even if his tactics may not be strictly legal sometimes!
The plot moves on at a good pace and is well developed. From the horrific discovery at the start of the book, the plot progresses well until we discover how this fits in with the rest of the story, taking us on a journey through the privileged Cotswolds where nobody's home seems safe. I had never heard of a Judas Horse before reading this book and I loved the idea of using the weak link as an insider to lead the police to the gang. We meet a myriad of characters throughout the book, each one, police, victim and criminal, bringing a different element to the story.
The Jack Warr series is promising to be another huge hit for Lynda La Plante and I look forward to seeing where she takes him next.
With thanks to Zaffre Books and Net Galley for my copy and to Tracy Fenton at Compulsive Readers for organising the blog tour.
Monthly Round Up – March 2021
March has definitely been one of my leanest months, reading-wise, as for some reason, it seems to be taking me an age to read a book. Hopefully April will bring a better ability to concentrate!
When the Evil Waits by M J Lee
After the cliffhanger in the previous book, we see DI Thomas Ridpath adapting to new circumstances whilst investigating the murder of a young boy. A great addition to a very readable series and I recommend them highly if you have not yet started to read them.
The Lost Girls of Foxfield Hall by Jessica Thorne
A multi-genre time travel novel which sees new employee Megan Taylor trying to alter the course of history. Just what did happen to Lady Eleanor Fairfax in 1939, and can Megan stop it from happening? With a touch of history, magic, science fiction and romance, there is something here for everybody!
Judas Horse by Lynda la Plante
The second book in the Jack Warr series sees the detective investigating a spate of violent burglaries in his own inimitable way. After getting to know Jack in the first book in the series, we start to see more of his policing in this one. I thoroughly enjoyed it and my review will follow as part of the blog tour.
The Girl in the Painting by Steve Robinson
The eighth in the Jefferson Tayte series (although this could be read as a standalone) sees the genealogist now teaching family history. He can't resist helping with some research, however, when one of his students asks for help in identifying the subject of a painting. In true JT style, it's not long before danger heads his way… Review to follow.
Her stomach lurches as she sits in the windowless room. He throws her phone to the ground, grinds it against the floor with the heel of his shoe and brings his face closer to hers. There was no turning back now, her life as she knew it was gone.
Books I Have Acquired
When the lifeless body of a man is found on an industrial estate, Detective Kim Stone arrives on the scene and discovers he's been tortured in the worst way imaginable.
But as she breaks the devastating news to the victim's wife, Diane Phipps, Kim can't help feeling that something isn't quite right about the woman's reaction.
Twenty-four hours later, the victim's family disappears into thin air.
Then a second body is found staked to the ground in a local nature reserve.
Desperate to crack the case open quickly, Kim and her team unravel a vital clue – a fiercely guarded secret that links both victims and could cost even more lives.
A secret that some police officers are also protecting.
Faced with deceit from those she should be able to trust, family members who won't talk, and local reporter, Tracy Frost, opening a can of worms on the case of a woman murdered by her husband a year ago – Kim is in deep water like never before.
Kim must find the motive if she is to find the killer who is systematically targeting and torturing his victims. But can she unlock the shocking truth and stop him before he strikes again?
A portrait painting is stolen from a London home. Shortly afterwards, the owner, Nat, calls on genealogist Jefferson Tayte for his help. She believes the subject of the painting, a young girl called Jess, is a past relative and wants to learn more about her. The problem is that Nat's research has hit a brick wall – Jess appears to have vanished from the slums of Victorian London soon after the portrait was painted.
When Tayte learns that the theft is connected with a recent murder, he's right to be wary, but solving crimes through genealogical research is what he does best. He quickly becomes intrigued by the girl in the painting and agrees to help. What became of her? Who stole the painting, and why would they kill for it all these years later?
As Tayte and Nat go in search of the answers, can they solve the mystery and bring the murderer to justice? Or will they become the killer's next victims?
Three sisters. Three ships. One heartbreaking story.
1911. As Emma packs her trunk to join the ocean liner Olympic as a stewardess, she dreams of earning enough to provide a better life for both her sisters. With their photograph tucked away in her luggage, she promises to be back soon – hoping that sickly Lily will keep healthy, and wild Ruby will behave. But neither life at sea nor on land is predictable, and soon the three sisters' lives are all changed irrevocably…
Now. When Harriet finds her late grandmother's travelling trunk in the attic, she's shocked to discover a photo of three sisters inside – her grandmother only ever mentioned one sister, who died tragically young. Who is the other sister, and what happened to her? Harriet's questions lead her to the story of three sister ships, Olympic, Titanic and Britannic, and a shattering revelation about three sisters torn apart…
The discovery of a body in the Liverpool docklands unearths long forgotten secrets. Reporter Anne McCarthy is keen to prove herself and dives into the case with abandon. There she finds Michael, an old Irish caretaker who knows far more than he's letting on and may have
a connection to the body.
Vinny Connolly is starting a postgrad degree, researching Liverpool's migrant history and a burgeoning Scouse identity. But Vinny has been neglecting his own family history and stranger Michael might know about
his father's disappearance in the 70s.
Escaping poverty in Ireland and fresh off the boat, Michael falls in with Wicklow boys Jack Power and Paddy Connolly, who smuggle contraband through the docks, putting them at odds with the unions. While organisers rally the dockworkers against the strikebreakers and rackets. A story of corruption, secret police, and sectarianism slowly unravels.
But will the truth out?
As the conflict heightens, Michael questions the life sprawling out ahead of him, while in the present, Anne races to solve the mystery, but is she prepared for what she'll find?
I shall now reveal the truth of the legend behind the hound of the Baskervilles. No Baskerville should ever cross the moor at night. With a deadly phantom hound on the loose and a mysterious man living on the moor, Devon is a dangerous place to be. But Holmes and Watson must put their fears aside. The country's favourite crime-fighting duo need to unravel the strange case of Sir Charles Baskervilles murder before his nephew meets the same fate.
The Wheel Spins is the novel about young and bright Iris Carr, who is on her way back to England after spending a holiday somewhere in the Balkans. After she is left alone by her friends, Iris catches the train for Trieste and finds company in Miss Froy, chatty elderly English woman. When she wakes up from a short nap, she discovers that her elderly travelling companion seems to have disappeared from the train. After her fellow passengers deny ever having seen the elderly lady, the young woman is on the verge of her nerves. She is helped by a young English traveler, and the two proceed to search the train for clues to the old woman's disappearance.
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Monthly Round Up: December 2020
The last month of the year and I'd hoped to make a dent in the books that appear to be multiplying on Net Galley, but instead I seem to have added some more! I am a bit late with this month's round up as I've had no internet access for over a week – nightmarish first world problem!
People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield
A great new take on the infamous Jack the Ripper story. When a young woman starts to suspect that her new husband could be the Whitechapel killer, we are drawn deep into the London underbelly that is not featured on any tourist map.
Lost by Leona Deakin
The second in the Dr Augusta Bloom series follows the aftermath of an explosion. When one of the injured disappears only to reappear some time later, there is a mystery to solve. Where did he go and why can't he remember anything about what has happened to him? I'm enjoying this series and have downloaded the third book to read soon.
The Christmas Carol by M J Lee
Genealogist Jayne Sinclair takes on an unusual case when she is asked to prove the provenance of a first edition of A Christmas Carol. Taking us back to Victorian Manchester and the possible inspirations for many of the characters, we encounter Charles Dickens as he sees how the mill workers of Lancashire live. A great festive tale.
Silent Night by Nell Pattison
The second in the Paige Northwood series sees the sign language interpreter aiding the police when a deaf teenager goes missing and his head teacher is found murdered. This is another series I am really enjoying due to the different slant taken on the investigation.
The Island by C L Taylor
A YA book from an author whose books I have loved over the past few years. A group of teenagers aim to spend a week on a deserted island, living off the land with the help of a local guide. When things go drastically wrong, their lives are put in danger. Can they work out what is going on and escape from their nightmare? Review will form part of this month's blog tour.
The Burning Girls by C J Tudor
When a vicar arrives at their new church, it is not long before they realise that all is not well in this village. Just what exactly happened to the previous vicar and why are people still obsessed with the burning of local marytrs hundreds of years previously? This is another sure-fire hit for the author of The Chalk Man. My review will form part of the blog tour later this month.
The Game by Luca Veste
When a young woman goes missing and another is found dead, D C Mark Flynn has his work cut out trying to convince his colleagues that the cases are connected and that they are players of something known as 'The Game'. Just who is the shadowy figure behind this game and can the players ever leave?
Silent Voices by Patricia Gibney
The words blurred as she read the note from the killer. She could feel her blood turning to ice. Shivers ran up and down her spine. 'Before you make the biggest mistake of your life, meet me. If you don't, her blood will be on your hands. She is with me. You know where to find us'.
When twenty-five-year-old Beth Mullen returns home, expecting to find her twin Rachel waiting for her, the silent house sends a shiver down her spine. She races upstairs to find her beautiful beloved sister cold in her childhood bed, her sparkling blue eyes closed forever, the morning after attending a glittering party…
Newly engaged Detective Lottie Parker knows that Rachel has been murdered the minute she enters the bedroom. Rachel's neck is bruised and a shard of glass placed in her throat. Confronted with such a horrifying killing, Lottie wastes no time in pursuing every clue.
While interviewing the partygoers, Lottie discovers that Rachel's handbag and keys are nowhere to be found. But as she is searching for them, a brilliant young doctor is found murdered with glass in her throat. The doctor was nowhere near the party and Lottie is forced to question everything. Two beautiful young women with the world at their feet have been brutally silenced. Why did the killer need them to die?
Desperate to find proof of what really happened to Rachel that night, Lottie gets close to the hostess of the party, whose two daughters were friends with Rachel. But Lottie's hunt for the truth is getting under the killer's skin, and when Lottie's fiancé Boyd goes missing, will she be able to find him before it's too late? Or will he too be silenced forever?
The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths
The Night Hawks, a group of metal detectorists, are searching for buried treasure when they find a body on the beach in North Norfolk. At first Nelson thinks that the dead man might be an asylum seeker but he turns out to be a local boy, Jem Taylor, recently released from prison. Ruth is more interested in the treasure, a hoard of Bronze Age weapons. Nelson at first thinks that Taylor's death is accidental drowning, but a second death suggests murder.
Nelson is called to an apparent murder-suicide of a couple at the isolated Black Dog Farm. Local legend talks of the Black Shuck, a spectral hound that appears to people before they die. Nelson ignores this, even when the owner's suicide note includes the line, 'He's buried in the garden.' Ruth excavates and finds the body of a giant dog.
All roads lead back to this farm in the middle of nowhere, but the place spells serious danger for anyone who goes near. Ruth doesn't scare easily. Not until she finds herself at Black Dog Farm …
'Do you know what a Judas Horse is? When the wild mustangs are running free, you corral one and train it. When he's ready, you release him and he'll bring his team back into the corral – like Judas betraying them…'
Violent burglars have been terrorising residents across the English countryside. But when a mutilated body is discovered in a Cotswolds house, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary group of opportunist thieves.
As Detective Jack Warr investigates, he discovers locals with dark secrets, unearths hidden crimes – and hits countless dead ends. With few leads and the violent attacks escalating, he will have to act as audaciously as the criminals if he hopes to stop them.
When Warr meets Charlotte Miles, a terrified woman with links to the group, he must use her to lure the unsuspecting killers into one last job, and into his trap. But with the law already stretched to breaking point, any failure will be on Warr's head – and any more blood spilled, on his hands…
Hunt by Leona Deakin
The Foreign Secretary is being held under the Terrorism Act. He will answer the police's questions on one condition – they let him speak to Dr Augusta Bloom.
He asks Bloom to track down his niece, Scarlett, who hasn't spoken to her family for ten years. The last they heard, Scarlett was getting involved with Artemis – an organisation dedicated to women's rights and the feminist movement, led by the charismatic Paula Kunis.
But as Bloom learns more about Artemis, she's torn. Is this organisation everything it claims to be, or do they have a secret side and an alternative agenda? And if so, what has become of Scarlett?
The only way to find out for sure is for Bloom to go undercover. But will she make it out safely – or will she become the next Artemis woman to disappear?
The Girl on the Platform by Bryony Pearce
'The train doesn't slow. We aren't stopping. We are going to burn past, leaving her behind in a swirl of leaves and dust. I blink. And then men are there, two of them. They lift the squirming girl to her feet, haul her towards the van… and then we are past.'
I am the girl on the platform.
When new mother Bridget catches her train home from London, she witnesses something terrible: a young girl is taken from the platform, right before her eyes.
No one knows where I am.
But no one is reported missing and with Bridget the only witness, she is written off as an attention seeker. Nobody believes her – not even her own husband.
Can you find me?
But Bridget knows what she saw, and becomes consumed with finding the little girl. Only she can save the child's life… but could delving into the mystery cost Bridget her own?
A Del of a Life by David Jason
"So lithe,' they say. 'So spry and sparkling. So uncannily youthful. How on earth do you do it?'
Well, what can I tell you? An hour of tai chi first thing in the morning, an HIIT work-out with my personal trainer, a bowl of steamed kale and a handful of almonds for lunch, and then two hours of yoga in the afternoon followed by an ice bath – this is a routine which I'm sure would work miracles for anyone of any age, although I can't be entirely sure because I haven't myself adopted any aspect of it at any point.
Fortunately, during my life and career I have been given all sorts of advice and learned huge amounts from some great and enormously talented people. I've been blessed to play characters such as Derek Trotter, Granville, Pop Larkin and Frost, who have changed my life in all sorts of ways, and taught me lessons that go far beyond the television set. And I've worked a few things out for myself as well, about friendship, ambition, rejection, success, failure, adversity and fortune.
With any luck, some of these thoughts and observations will chime with episodes and challenges you have faced, or are facing, in your own life. And if they don't… well, hopefully, at the very least you'll get to have a good old laugh at my expense.
So lean back, pour yourself a glass, and try not to fall through the bar flap . . .'
Why Mummy's Sloshed by Gill Sims
I just wanted them to stop wittering at me, eat vegetables without complaining, let me go to the loo in peace and learn to make a decent gin and tonic.
It genuinely never occurred to me when they were little that this would ever end – an eternity of Teletubbies and Duplo and In The Night Bastarding Garden and screaming, never an end in sight. But now there is. And despite the busybody old women who used to pop up whenever I was having a bad day and tell me I would miss these days when they were over, I don't miss those days at all.
I have literally never stood wistfully in the supermarket and thought 'Oh, how I wish someone was trailing behind me constantly whining 'Mummy, can I have, Mummy can I have?' while another precious moppet tries to climb out the trolley so they land on their head and we end up in A&E.
Mummy has been a wife and mother for so long that she's a little bit lost. And despite her best efforts, her precious moppets still don't know the location of the laundry basket, the difference between being bored and being hungry, or that saying 'I can't find it Mummy' is not the same as actually looking for it.
Amidst the chaos of A-Levels and driving tests, she's doing her best to keep her family afloat, even if everybody is set on drifting off in different directions, and that one of those directions is to make yet another bloody snack. She's feeling overwhelmed and under appreciated, and the only thing that Mummy knows for sure is that the bigger the kids, the bigger the drink.
Wishing everyone a very happy new year!


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I-Team: Not So Golden
August 4, 2010 (CHICAGO)
He may have spent six figures on Oxxford suits, become a coast-to-coast celebrity and be one of Illinois most infamous politicians but Rod Blagojevich is on the verge of being broke. He has leveraged his home in Chicago and a condo he still owns in Washington and almost cashed out his $2.6 million campaign fund to cover legal fees incurred before his trial even started. That has left his wife Patti and daughters Annie and Amy with a bleak financial future as forecast by Blagojevich himself on an FBI undercover tape played during the trial.
"Amy is going to college in six years and we can't afford it. I can't afford college for my daughter," said Blagojevich on the tape.
If convicted, Blagojevich would probably be in prison then. But his outstanding legal bills would have been paid in all likelihood by the very taxpayers he has been accused of cheating.
When federal agents raided the Friends of Blagojevich campaign fund office in December of 2008, there was more than $2.5 million in contributions available.
According to court records, only $76,000 remain with most of the money having gone to attorneys, including his current criminal defense team that at trial opted not to put on any defense at all.
On Wednesday, even as the jury continued deliberations, attorneys for both sides met with Judge James Zagel to discuss the possible forfeiture of what prosecutors consider Blagojevich's ill-gotten gains, if he is convicted of racketeering, including more than $438,000 in cash believed to include wife Patti's commissions from questionable real estate deals.
At trial's end, Blagojevich attorneys are expected to a file motions with Judge Zagel asking for the public to pay final legal costs that could total hundreds of thousand of dollars. The ex-governor's brother Robert has already filed a motion to have his current legal tab totaling $350,000 paid by the Blagojevich campaign fund.
Judge Zagel hasn't ruled on that motion yet, but with the campaign fund nearly bone dry, Blagojevich's brother may have no choice but to petition the court for public payment of his last legal expenses as well.
Robert Blagojevich celebrates his 55th birthday this Saturday. He was a successful banker and businessman in Nashville, TN where he and his wife still live. If the government is to pay remaining legal bills, he too will have to file financial disclosure papers and convince the judge.


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Love Life Of The Meteorologist Couple, Maria Molina And Reed Timmer
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Published On: May 31, 2021 k Smith
Reed Timmer and Maria Molina's marriage only lasted from 3 years. Image Source: Social Media.
The Meteorologist Powerhouses
Underwater Engagement
Wedding Near An Active Volcano
Their Marriage Lasted Only For A Couple Of Years
Reed Timmer, a well-known American meteorologist, and storm chaser was married to Maria Janeth Molina for a brief period of time. Molina is also a meteorologist who worked for the FOX News Channel.
Both the individuals were a perfect match for each other, especially for their interests. Their marriage may have only lasted for a couple of years, but they sure did spend an adventurous time together.
Below, let's dig into Reed Timmer and Maria Molina's love life and get to know them better.
As mentioned above, the former lovebirds are both into meteorology. Timmer, born on 17th March 1980, starred on Discovery Channel's reality television series; Storm Chasers and also appeared in the documentary film Tornado Glory.
The meteorology star became interested in weather at an early age and is part of the multiple storms chasing teams. He also created a couple of storm-chasing vehicles by modifying them with the required equipment.
On the other hand, Maria Molina is a Ph.D. holder from the Central Michigan University and previously worked for FOX. The 34-year-old is currently doing an Advanced Study Program (ASP) postdoctoral at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
She is also a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist designated from the American Meteorologist Society and grew up in the Republic of Nicaragua.
Also Read: Mike Sievert And Suzanne Steiner Sievert's Love Life
Reed Timmer's ex-wife Maria Molina met him for the first time in 2014. The former couple was assigned to cover a tornado in Mayflower, Arkansas, where the magic happened.
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It was love at first sight at their very first encounter as they shared similar interests. They would eventually start dating shortly after they met in Arkansas.
The couple would unofficially get engaged the same year as the storm chaser had his friend capture his proposal with a tornado in the background.
Maria Molina and her ex-husband Reed Timmer would have an official engagement in March of 2015.
The most exciting factor of their engagement, other than it being a weather-themed event, was its underwater photoshoot. The shoot was handled by the professional underwater portrait photographer Adam Opris.
Reed Timmer and Maria Molina had an underwater engagement photoshoot. Pic Source: Adam Opris' Facebook.
The shoot took place in the swimming pool of Biltmore Hotel, Miami, and the ex-partners struggled to get the perfect shot. The meteorologist even commented that the pair swallowed tons of water. He also stated that while the photo looks beautiful the process was very difficult.
Nevertheless, they did seem to had a lot of fun, didn't they?
Reed Timmer and Maria Molina's wedding was more weather-themed than their engagement. On December 23rd, 2015, the former couple got married in one of the most unusual fashions.
Their wedding ceremony was conducted on top of one of the most active volcanoes in the Western Hemisphere, the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua. Regardless of the life-endangering risks, the event was a hit with a touch of fire and brimstone.
The entire ceremony showed the couple's love for meteorology. As Molina is a native of Nicaragua, their wedding had the perfect and thrilling setting. Even a dust devil hit the ceremony as Reed's soon-to-be wife was walking down the aisle.
Despite having such a unique engagement and wedding, Maria Molina and Reed Timmer's marriage only lasted three years.
There are many reasons why the extreme weather lovers separated. One such reason was Reed Timmer's love for storm chasing. According to his ex-wife, Reed was always chasing storms around rather than settling down.
The 41-year-old has a massive fan following for his daredevil adventures, due to which he is always pushing himself to extreme weather areas. Their marriage may have had an exciting buildup but fell short of lasting long.
In their short married life, the couple was the parents of two dogs, Gizmo and Cumulus.
Maria Molina's ex-husband Reed Timmer was quite a lady's man, unlike her. The Tornado Chasers star has had two confirmed relationships before tying the knots with the FOX channel anchor.
Reed has a thing for girls who are into meteorology, as all of his confirmed partners are fellow meteorologists. The P.h.D holder from the University of Oklahoma has dated Ginger Zee and Jene Young.
Similar to Molina, Zee and Young are both meteorologists and share the same interests as Reed. As for Maria, details regarding her previous relationships are undisclosed.
LIVE update from the KS/CO border with a TORNADO OUTBREAK anticipated today across a large part of the central and southern Plains. Threat of strong, violent tornadoes looks maximized in western KS/NE. Storm chasing for @RadarOmega_WX pic.twitter.com/XtI0piD6Xd
— Reed Timmer (@ReedTimmerAccu) May 26, 2021
Despite sharing similar interests and working in the same field, Maria Molina and Reed Timmer's love story didn't last long. As of today, both are doing what they love to do.
We wish the best to the ex-couples for the days to come and hope they cross each other's path again.
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BATON ROUGE -- Figures that show Louisiana pays well above several other Southern states to imprison its juvenile offenders prompted angry complaints from state lawmakers.
Louisiana spends more than $115,000 annually for each one, compared to $70,000 in Florida, $85,000 in Alabama and $34,000 in Arkansas. That's according to information provided Wednesday to the House Appropriations Committee by its budget analyst.
Lawmakers say the Office of Juvenile Justice seems to have too many employees at its three youth prisons. They also criticized plans to make budget cuts by eliminating prevention programs.
The head of the youth services office, Mary Livers, says she's working to improve efficiencies in her agency and to cut costs.
Last we heard, the Louisiana Legislature was closing Jetson Center for Youth in Baton Rouge and issuing a sort of gentleperson's agreement to establish "13 or 14" more regional rehabilitation centers modeled after Missouri's vastly more effective juvenile justice system. Now, the Louisiana Legislature is offended by the amount that the state spends per resident in a system that is ostensibly intended to rehabilitate young people sentenced to the inadequate number of centers we do have. This turnabout alone is enough to make the head spin.
In addition, it's hard to determine whether The Times Picayune or the legislators, or both, have now opted to term youth detention centers, or centers for youth, "youth prisons." But whoever is making this conceptual error should stop. There is supposed to be no such thing as a "youth prison" in the U.S. to start with, and that's a fact I'm appalled to have to remind anybody of.
Furthermore, that we spend more than Florida, Alabama, or Arkansas, is hardly anything to be ashamed of, now is it? I take it we don't spend more than Missouri, the state with the model we're supposed to be emulating.
This type of uncritical knee-jerk reporting and legislating is certainly living up to Louisiana's reputation as a backward state. Perhaps one way of cutting costs is to lower the number of youth detainees, now "prisoners," by ceasing to incarcerate so many young people for victimless offenses such as possession of marijuana. But this article gives so little information that it's impossible to get any sense of what exactly the legislators' complaints are. Here's another case in which there's no reflection on the idea that social spending is problematic in and of itself and that young people who get locked up for whatever reason are undeserving of anything.
I found your site while digging for info on Jindal and the budget cuts to schools. I got my alumni paper from Nicholls and it described the current budget cuts to schools, but also included something interesting. That Jindal wants the universities to tailor their programs to the needs of the state. Isn't that the very ideal of communism?
What Jindal conceives of as "the needs of the state" is to spend almost nothing on education. As an educator at an urban university, I know that the most desperate need in Louisiana is basic literacy, which many students enter college lacking. Courses that attempt to bring these students up to speed are fewer and the class sizes are higher, thanks to his latest legislation. The tuition for the classes is higher, as well, because of a tuition hike in response to crippling budget cuts.
By September, after what seemed like raising a six-month-old child, my sketches had turned into Why the Democrats Will Win in 2008 the Road to an Obama White House. It was my answer to the burning question everyone had back in March: Can he really win? Actually, not everyone thought it was a question. For many people, including Mark Penn, director of the Clinton campaign, the answer was an easy "no way." This strategic blunder made it that much easier for the Clinton campaign to be defeated. Then there were Black pundits like Shelby Steele, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, who came out with a 2007 book entitled A Bound Man, Why Obama Can't Win.
Being Black did seem to be an automatic disqualification, but then why did someone need to write an entire book arguing what should have been patently obvious? Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell came to my mind and I remembered that he could have run for president in 1992 as a war hero. But Colin Powell was Ronald Reagan's protégé and got a special pass on the race question. Black conservatives like Justice Thomas, Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell were careful to disassociate themselves from liberal thinkers and activists like Jesse Jackson, who lost, as expected, the 1984 and 1988 Democratic primaries. Ultimately, Colin Powell, in spite of all his honors, declined to run for president. His wife Alma feared for his safety. Common sense said that a candidate like Obama, for numerous insurmountable reasons, didn't stand a chance of winning the Democratic primary, let alone a general election in which 10% of the electorate is African American and Republicans controlled the White House for 20 of the preceding 28 years. But I decided that Obama's chances merited a closer examination. In it, I would bring to bear my gambling skills.
The masculinization of women experienced in the last few decades should cause despondancy and desperation:::It illustrates the deterioration of mankind's collective favor and is a clue the Gods are preparing for some event.


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Just Be Open-minded: Benjamin Calls For Unbiased Debate Over Proposed Reformatting Of Two Day Cricket
Former fast bowler, Kenneth Benjamin.
By Neto Baptiste
Former West Indies, Leeward Islands and national cricketer Kenneth Benjamin is hoping that serious dialogue could be held regarding his proposal that would see the revamping of Two Day cricket in Antigua and Barbuda and a movement towards a franchise type structure.
Benjamin, who is also president of the Liberta Sports Club and coach of the successful PIC Blackhawks team believes that his proposal, which calls for at least six franchises with each housing a development team, could help to improve the longer format of the game here, while also preparing players for the next level.
"I am just hoping that it could be discussed, and if it is discussed and then the ABCA wants to have further talks, then I don't have any issue. They may discuss it and the clubs may just say hey, throw water on that and that's the end of that but it is basically up for discussion and I just want to be very clear that it has nothing to do with the white ball cricket," he said.
A copy of the proposal, which also suggests "incentives for good pitches" and "best vs best" competitions, has been sent to the game's governing body, the Antigua and Barbuda Cricket Association (ABCA).
Benjamin is hoping that all involved, including club presidents and players, could remain objective and open to change when perusing the document.
"It is a matter of discussions and being open-minded. I believe that too many of us are thinking about clubs, but the clubs will remain the clubs for the white ball cricket but this is to try and get cricket to a higher level. After a couple of years, the ABCA may look at it and say the standard is so good we want to go back and make the clubs play Two Day cricket but as it is right now, it is definitely not producing quality," he said.
One key element of the proposal is the manner in which players could be selected by the franchises where each will be allowed to "protect" eight players with all other players entering a draft system. Each franchise would then be given the opportunity to select six additional players in the draft.
This, according to Benjamin, would however exclude the country's international players.
"Once the draft is done and all of the six franchises have their players, both the development players and the senior league players then they would have to get on to these guys or their agents and negotiate with them to be a part of their franchise. A particular player can say I want to play with the franchise in the east or the one in the south or whatever, they would have that option to choose where they want to go," he said.
The former fast bowler's proposal also calls for the formation of a technical committee that will recommend how franchises are structured and the format of the competition amongst other aspects.
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: CEIPI-BETA-I3PM conference Film: « Intellectual Property and Digitalization - Challenges for Intellectual Property Management »
CEIPI-BETA-I3PM conference Film: « Intellectual Property and Digitalization - Challenges for Intellectual Property Management »
The CEIPI - BETA Project in Law and economics of Intellectual Property, in association with I3PM, organized on 4 may 2017 a one-day conference with the title Intellectual Property and Digitalization: Challenges for Intellectual Property Management. The conference addressed the revolutionary changes in the innovation system, affecting industries, universities and public institutions, resulting from the digital transformation. Three panels were devoted to "The Digital Transformation – from freedom to operate to risk management", "Big Data - ownership and use in the digital age", and "Patentability of technical software solutions and the exploitation model for digital innovation".
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The conference is available on the Internet:
Intellectual Property and Digitalization : Challenges for Intellectual Property Management
Confirmed speakers included:
Keith Maskus, Chief Economist for United States State Department, Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction and Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Sean O'Connor, Boeing International Professor, Director, Center for Advanced Study & Research on Innovation Policy, University of Washington School of Law
Gaetan Rassenfosse, Assistant Professor, Holder of the Chair on Innovation and Intellectual Property Policy, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Alissa Zeller, Vice President Global Intellectual Property at BASF
Aida Dolotbaeva, Legal Officer, Patent Law Division, WIPO
Francesco Lissoni, Professor of Economics at Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA), University of Bordeaux
Cedric Manara, Senior Copyright Counsel at Google
Emmanuel de Cuenca, EP Patent Attorney, Air Liquide
Bowman Heiden, Deputy Director, Center for Intellectual Property, University of Gothenbourg
Yann Ménière, Professor or Economics MINES ParisTech, Chief Economist of the European Patent Office
Catalina Martínez, Research Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council
Ryan Abbott, Professor of Law and Health Sciences, University of Surrey
Stephanie van Wermeskerken, Head of Intellectual Property Counseling at Philips.
Claudia Jamin, Group Vice President, Head IP Operations Europe, ABB Asea Brown Boveri Ltd
Timo Minssen, Professor, Centre for Information and Innovation Law, University of Copenhaguen
Reto Hilty, Professor, Director, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition
Alexander J. Wurzer, Adjunct-Professor at CEIPI, Director of studies of the Master in IP Law and Management of CEIPI, Director of St einbeis Transfer Institute Intellectual Property Management
Peter Bittner, I3PM President
Christophe Geiger, Professor, Director-General of CEIPI, University of Strasbourg.
Julien Penin, Professor, BETA, University of Strasbourg.
Xavier Seuba, Senior Lecturer, CEIPI, University of Strasbourg.


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It's not exactly a secret that smartphones are becoming bigger and bigger as time goes by. When the first Galaxy Note launched back in 2011, it sported a 5.3-inch display which was considered to be huge. Well, fast forward 4 years, and you'll see a ton of 5.5-6'' devices which are considered to be perfectly normal. Times have changed, and we're seeing huge handsets available in the market, and it's not that easy to find many flagship handsets which sport displays smaller than 5.5-inches. We've come to a point when even the over 6-inch displays are considered relatively normal, and those devices are still considered phablets, even though there are a ton of 7-inch tablets available out there. Huawei has released the 6.8-inch P8Max phablet earlier this year, and Lenovo has announced something similar earlier this month, read on.
This Chinese smartphone OEM has unveiled the Phab Plus phablet recently, a 6.8-inch phablet. Lenovo did say that the device will be available for purchase soon, but they didn't give out the exact date. Well, it seems like the phablet is now listed in China, and available for purchase in China for 2,599 Yuan ($406). This phablet features a 6.8-inch 1080p (1920 x 1080) display, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of expandable internal storage (expandable via microSD card). The device is powered by the Snapdragon 615 64-bit octa-core SoC along with an Adreno 405 GPU for graphics. The 13-megapixel camera (OmniVision's sensor) is available on the back of this phablet, and a 5-megapixel shooter can be found up front. The dual-LED, dual tone flash is also available on the back of this device, and a 3,500mAh is located on the inside of the phone. The Dolby Atmos tech is also included in this package, and the phablet is 7.6mm thick, while it weighs 220 grams. Android Lollipop comes pre-installed here, and Lenovo's Vibe OS is installed on top of Google's OS. It is also worth mentioning that this is a dual-SIM device.
In terms of the design, the device sports the industrial look, its design is somewhat understated, which doesn't have to be a bad thing, of course. The power / lock and volume rocker physical buttons are located on the right-hand side of this phablet, and it doesn't sport capacitive buttons, but the on-screen ones as you can see in the gallery down below. There you have it, the Lenovo Phab Plus phablet is now available in China, and it remains to be seen if it will launch in any additional markets.