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Would you Adam and Eve it…?
May 31, 2015 /in Blog /by Office Admin
A some what rhetorical question, but one that did rather flabber my gast this week. In recent weeks, I have commented on how I still find myself surprised/amused/bemused/entertained at being spun any number of porky pies as to why a home owner has chosen not to list their property with myself. Following up a valuation done earlier in the week, I was told that Cheshire and Co had received a definite 'nul points' and would therefore be receiving a further 'nul points' in fees. Asking him as to the reason why, I was told, "Because I didn't like you". Well blow me down with a feather. Not like the Chesh? Pray, how can that be? And ladies of the Chesh Fan Club, please calm yourselves, there is no need to call the Samaritans or call on any of the gods to organise for some hideous fate to befall the gentleman in question. This was, I have to say, the first time in thirty odd years that a potential client had said this to my face; so ten out of ten for honesty. It did make me think for a while and reminisce on how all those years ago, the fledging Chesh was given some sage advice by his first boss. When attempting to gain any instruction, never forget these three things that the owner will be considering:
1. How do you value, my house/farm/cow/ewe/wife/daughter? (the unspoken words being that it has to reconcile with what I think that it is worth-even though I am asking you as the professional to value it).
2. What is your fee?
3. Do I like you? (at least more than my wife/daughter)
1. and 2. will always trump 3.
Thinking of this, I went back through my notes on the property that I had recently visited. I lost on all 3 counts:
1. He wanted £30k more than I thought it was worth. He had come to this conclusion because he had read a report from the National Statistics Office report that stated that house prices are now up 9.6%-some 13% higher-than in 2008. I complimented him on his research but asked whether he had also read in the same report that house prices in Wales are only up 0.5%-if that-so no change from 2008.
2. He told me that he already been quoted an all in fee of £500 by another agent.
3. Totally irrelevant. By this stage I was already in the realms of herding cats or bottling fog. And it didn't help that my professional expertise, including knowledge of the aforementioned NSO report, did not reassure him of my capability or specialist knowledge but contradicted what he-the non-estate agency professional-wanted to hear and selected to use in his case for a higher valuation.
In conclusion, I didn't value it high enough and in using my professional expertise I inadvertently insulted him. I wouldn't like to wager what the £500 agent gave as a valuation, but I would hazard that for £500 the agent does not back up their valuation with NSO figures and knowledge of industry reports. And there you have it; we return to the theme that like of the agent (Number 3.) is determined by the answers given to questions 1. and 2.
That said, here at Cheshire and Co we are continually trying to improves the service that we offer to clients. With my next valuation, I am planning to offer a free puppy/kitten/signed Ed Miliband T-shirt/ tip on the 3.30 at Windsor. Any other suggestions, please send on a postcard to the office.
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Now, now children…
The jungle drummers of the Cwmbran environ were at it so hard last week that even Roger Taylor might have been pushed to keep up. Like the characters in a Jane Austen novel, the negotiators (and anyone who had access to any form of telephonic instrument-branch managers were not immune) could barely contain themselves following the publication of a fellow independent estate agent's article on his website. In his treatise, he revealed some home truths about other agents; specifically those agents who come under the corporate banner. Whilst the tone of his delivery may not have been to everyone's taste, the content was indeed very accurate. So much so, that the points he 'articulated' had already been touched upon, conjugated and highlighted in many earlier blogs of Cheshire and Co. I am not for one moment accusing the gentleman of plagiarism-indeed imitation is the best form of flattery-but it did amuse me that a fellow independent agent should raise the same issues as we have on previous occasions. The issues raised were characteristics of the species corporatum agens. Several members of this close band of professionals (Band of Brothers has nothing on them…) were united in their ire at his effrontery. I understand that the regional director of one such corporate behemoth actually took the time out of his busy diary to write to the agent concerned to complain that this really wasn't cricket. The cynical might opine that the notion of fair play rather got knocked into touch with a Kevin Pietersen approach when one of the regional director's more junior employees knocked on the door of an elderly lady to tell her that they had 40 people wanting to view her property, nay buy it-right now! One could even say that the karma fairy turned up…wielding a cricket bat.
The squabbling continued throughout the week as the property portals Zoopla and OnTheMarket (OTM) engaged in a 'handbags at dawn' scenario. Despite losing 23% of its agents to OTM, Zoopla claimed to be unconcerned because since January, "The number of enquiries to OnThe Market had dropped considerably" [sic] Well that's alright then. OTM then upped the ante in the hissy fit stakes by querying the veracity of the Zoopla analysis, stating that it was, "Simply…another desperate set of unsubstantiated claims geared to stemming the flow of agents away from it as they join OntheMarket" [sic] Ooooh! I think that this calls for the old refrain of "Fight, fight, fight!" Meanwhile, outside the kindergarten, the daddy of them all, with the lion's share, (and that of mummy lion, the baby lions and various estranged lion family members), Rightmove, sat back toting a large cigar, laughing.
Come on boys and girls, at least pretend to be grown ups.
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No more racehorses for Chesh !
May 18, 2015 /in Picture of the Week /by Office Admin
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No, not the words of the Prince of Denmark bemoaning his fate (as was his wont), but what I asked of a landlord this week. Do you really think that this renting lark is for you, my old china?' I am still capable of having my flabber gasted by the ridiculous reactions of first time landlords who, whilst reading all the press about how buy-to-let properties are the new Valhalla, simultaneously leave their common sense in the same place that Sally Bercow left her self-respect. This week we contacted a "new" landlord who had just purchased his "first of many" buy-to-let properties. We informed him that the locking system on the 40 year old aluminium double glazed front door had seized whilst the door was open! The reaction of the landlord was, "I knew those tenants would be trouble". Tenants, who are retired and are not prone to swinging or crashing through front doors; think the demographic of the Specsavers adverts where the fitness instructor turns up to the local bingo hall. After explaining the risk to the security of his property I confirmed that our contractor had already visited the house and could fix the problem for £140. I was told that his mate could do it cheaper and that he would get back to me. True to his word, he did, to tell me that actually his mate couldn't do it for less than we had quoted and couldn't actually get there for some time. Fortunately, history had taught me to already book our contractor to carry out the work. Whilst the mass press reporting on how to be a landlord focuses on the terrific yields; what it invariably fails to mention is that on order to earn these yields, a landlord has to be prepared to spend at least some money on upkeep. Whilst the property is quite literally the property of the landlord, it is the home of the tenant and they are paying the monthly rental for the privilege.
The advice of my father-who counselled me on my courting technique- came to mind this week. If you really, really like a member of the fairer sex, try not to appear too desperate. The same could be applied to vendors who impart at every opportunity that they, "don't need to sell" and "I won't take less than …" Cue a viewing of their property. The interested parties have barely left the postcode when a breathless home owner is on the phone, "Well? Did they like it? Have they made an offer? What other properties are they looking at?" If we rang the people that we had escorted on a viewing within an hour of having bid them farewell, we are straying into territory that is no longer under the banner of 'Efficient and Professional' but closer to 'Fricking Desperate and We Need To Pay The Rent On The Office'. People continue to think that a property transaction is a cat and mouse game and that they need to play their cards so close to their chest that retrieving them is akin to an SAS mission. Whilst I appreciate that nobody wants to be caught with their pants down, the too cool for school mentality is wearing, a waste of time and as a result, affects people where they feel it the most, in their pocket. Potential purchasers are equally culpable. Having viewed a property with feigned disinterest accompanied by any number of theatrically announced comments on what they really, really don't like, they 'nonchalantly' ask the agent, "What will they take for it?" Being an independent agent and not having to worry about the behemoth of a PR machine that is part of the corporate structure, I can politely enquire of both parties, "Do you want to buy it? Do you want to sell it?" It is then up me and my years of experience (from about the time that Moses' mother was putting down a deposit on the basket), to bring both parties together to a mutually agreeable point for exchange. To all potential landlords, I would urge them-before they spend their recently cashed-in pension fund-to speak to a rental agent who can bring their experience to discuss the great benefits and possible pitfalls of becoming a landlord.
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Jeffrey Archer has nothing on this…
The events within the 24 hour period of 7-8 May would have been dismissed as wholly unbelievable if introduced in the last pages of a novel penned by the former Conservative MP. Kane and Abel was given its very own Trotskyite production five years ago as Familias Miliband indulged in fratricide and the cynics amongst us might say that in writing his manifesto, Miliband E. penned the longest suicide note in history. But who would have given credence to the final act of the party leaders standing before the Cenotaph-only one of whom was still in a job-whilst the others had committed hara kiri shortly before the service to mark the 70th anniversary of VE Day? Old Faithful, The Sun, summed it up yesterday with its headline, "Awkward". Not half. One could say that the former Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson in the phrase invariably attributed to him of, "A week is a long time in politics", got his calculations wrong by about 6 days, 22 hours and 27 minutes; if, as is alleged, certain former party leaders were-at 0930hrs-writing their victory speech and planning the new carpets at No's 10 and 11. When at 10pm the preceding evening, Mr, "that is a fascinating insight" Dimbleby said with a certain incredulity that the exit polls showed that Cameron was going to win, it was revealing to see the reaction of many of the experts. Not least Paddy, 'I am now in hospital having my hat removed from my upper colon' Ashdown or my fellow country man and serial loser Neil 'The British people are being conned' Kinnock. As regards the "Welsh Windbag" I noted that his daughter-in-law, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the Danish Prime Minister was wearing a very smart green dress adorned with a large red rosette as she supported her husband, Stephen in his successful bid to become MP for Aberavon. It brought to mind the colloquial sartorial phrase, "Red and green should never be seen, without a colour in between". As many of Kinnock Junior's party colleagues discovered as the night wore on, that colour was blue. Oh well.
Enough political comment. Hang on one moment, did I mention that the other Ed had gone as well? Shame. What has been interesting, if not surprising is the clamour from various members of the party (un)faithful who have desperately tried to absolve themselves of any culpability for it all going horribly wrong. To give Miliband E. credit, he was gracious and unswerving in accepting responsibility for the cataclysm. In every walk of life one meets any number of people who say one thing with total conviction and then do the complete opposite. I often ask a potential vendor what it is that they want or expect from an estate agent. Much well considered, sensible, erudite nonsense comes out. What they really want is someone who will do it for £500 or less. Why not say that at the start and save everyone time? The other classic, is "I won't take less than £150k, I know what it's worth…" only to see it on with another agent some months later with an asking price of £120k. What has happened to the notion of straight talking or at least something approaching the truth? As has been opined before in this blog, any agent can tell a vendor that their property is worth vastly more than it is in reality-just to get the instruction. Invariably the home owner believes the agent's every word, because obviously their home IS worth £30k more than any other property in the street… because the agent said it was. We are all human, and our condition means that we will always be unwavering in our belief that when we are told something that we want to hear it is obviously the truth. Something with which I am sure Miliband E, would concur as he reads the papers today and puts down his coffee mug on his brand new, avant-garde coffee table from the 'Tombstone' range.
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The important questions of the week…
May 4, 2015 /in Blog /by Office Admin
The last week, nay the last 48 hours, have thrown up some life-changing questions that demand an attempt at being answered. To begin:
1. Chantelle, Kimberley, Taylor-May, Shannon, Kylie or perhaps following that other 'royal' couple, the Kardashians, could it be one of the points on a compass? The newest princess on the block is awaiting a name. I think that 'South' Wales has a certain je ne sais quoi, although one of her middle names being Pontnewydd or Pantygasseg might be pushing it and the Royal Mint could throw something of a hissy fit.
2. Was 'The Fight of the Century' fixed? Already the t'internet is full of videos claiming to provide irrefutable evidence that the Mexican had to lose. Pacquiao's camp are (some may say understandably), calling foul on the points decision. This one will run for longer than it took to get the fight staged in the first place.
3. Ed Miliband's Charlton Heston, tablet of stone. Words fail me and it has to be said most of the journalists who were there at the unveiling. In crossing the divide of the eons of time-with a biblical theme meeting that most modern of phenomena-text speak, I ask succinctly, WTF?
Further down the list of imponderables and not accruing anywhere near the column inches or pontificating is whether the election has caused a "slump in the housing market" as was claimed in various media outlets in the past seven days. According to data collated from the likes of Zoopla, Foxtons and the NAEA, there are on average 23 less people registered as house hunters per branch of estate agent. This is data taken from the same source that states that on average there are 343 house hunters registered in each of these branches. Forgive my impertinence, but if an 'average' estate agency has 343 individuals registered as 'looking to buy' I would opine that they are not doing their job particularly well. Of this 343, there would be about 50 who are classed as 'hot' (stop sniggering at the back), who are ready to go and buy a property. Without straying too far into corporate territory, the 343 claim is on a par with personnel from market competitors calling vendors and claiming that they have at least 40 people desperate to buy who want to come and view the property on Saturday. In all such instances, I advise the vendors to politely ask the breathless negotiator to name them.
Yes, things are a little quieter at the moment than perhaps expected or in comparison to 2014. By this, I mean the number of times that the phone rings during the course of the working day. What differs here at Cheshire & Co is that-unlike Foxtons who reported a drop in the first quarter's turnover for 2015, compared to 2014-we have seen an increase in turnover. Is this due to more efficient working practices, luck or GC's new Kier Starmer-esque quiff…?
Finally, a question that will be answered by next weekend and the last frenzied days of political campaigning. Friday is traditionally moving day in the property world; who will be moving house this Friday?
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131 Christians Everyone Should Know
Posted on June 25, 2019 by brucesbiblepage
Christian ruler of a "holy" empire
"Our task [as secular ruler] is externally, with God's help, to defend with our arms the holy Church of Christ against attacks by the heathen from any side and against devastation by the infidels."
Pepin III, King of the Franks, knelt with his sons to be anointed by Pope Stephen III in conscious imitation of the anointing of King David by the prophet Samuel. And like David's son Solomon, Pepin's son Charles would preside over a renowned cultural and religious flowering.
Expanding borders
Charles received his education from his mother and the monks of Saint Denis. He could speak and read Latin and his native Germanic tongue, but he never learned to write, though he tried to his entire life. He mastered the military and political arts close to his father's throne.
When Pepin died in 768, Charles was in his mid-20s: vital, energetic, and at six feet three-and-a-half-inches tall, he towered over his subjects. When his brother, Carloman, died in 771, Charles was left as sole ruler of the Franks.
Charles's early reign was marked by incessant warfare, which expanded his control in all directions. His longest wars (772-785) were in an area just below modern Denmark, against the Saxons. As he conquered, he converted them to Christianity at the point of the sword.
Pope Hadrian then asked for his help in the south, calling on Charles to deliver him from the Lombards. Charles obliged and quickly compelled the Lombard king to retire to a monastery. He took the crown for himself in 774, and now ruled over much of what is modern Italy. During an Easter visit to Rome that year he was greeted by the pope with the words; "Behold another Constantine, who has risen in our times."
Charles's 778 campaign against the Spanish Moors did not go as well and he was forced to withdraw. (An unimportant defeat in the Pyrenees formed the theme of the heroic epic, The Song of Roland, one of the most widely read poems of the Middle Ages.) Charles was determined to establish a secure border south of the Pyrenees, and he finally did so in 801, when he captured Barcelona.
In the meantime, he had turned his attention to the southeast border of his lands and conquered and absorbed Bavaria. Looking southeast, he pushed farther east along the Danube River into the territory of the Avars. His defeat of these fierce warriors not only netted him 15 large wagons of gold and silver but highlighted his political and military superiority to the Byzantine Empire to the east.
New Roman emperor
His triumph culminated on Christmas 800, when in one of the best known scenes of the Middle Ages, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne "Emperor of the Romans."
Charles told his biographer that he attended the service unaware that the pope was going to do this, but modern historians discount this as overly modest. In addition to complex political reasons for wanting the title, Charles had theological reasons. Charles was also a great student of Augustine, much taken with his idea of the City of God. He believed the church and state should be allied as forces in the unification of society.
Charles delineated the roles of state and church in a letter to Pope Leo: "Our task [as secular ruler] is externally, with God's help, to defend with our arms the holy Church of Christ against attacks by the heathen from any side and against devastation by the infidels and, internally, to strengthen the Church by the recognition of the Catholic faith. Your share, Most Holy Father, is to support our army with hands upraised to God, as did Moses in ancient days, so that the… name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified throughout the world."
Charles, then, believed the title, "Emperor of the Romans," made him the successor of the Roman emperors. (Never mind that the Byzantine emperors had thought the same of themselves for centuries!)
Defender of the Church
Charles took seriously his mission to "internally strengthen the church." Indeed, within his kingdom he was far more influential in church affairs than was the pope.
Charles appointed and deposed bishops, directed a revision of the text of the Bible, instituted changes to the liturgy, set rules for life in the monasteries, and sent investigators to dismiss priests with insufficient learning or piety. He had his deacon, Paul, publish a collection of homilies for use throughout the kingdom, instructing him to "peruse the writings of the Catholic fathers and, as in a flowery meadow, pick the choicest blooms and weave a single garland of all that can be put to use."
Charles also took an active interest in the two main religious controversies of his era, adoptionism (which held that Jesus was not "God from God" but was adopted as God's son during his lifetime) and iconoclasm (which condemns icons as idolatry). In his reforms, Charles showed that, like Constantine, he believed he was overlord of the church.
Education was also carefully tended. The partially illiterate Charles believed that success in his political and religious reforms depended on learning: "Although doing right is better than knowledge, knowledge comes before doing." Charles was a patron of scholars, creating a school for his many children in the palace and accumulating an impressive library. The only copy of many classical texts we have today came from the pens of monks he set to work. He required each cathedral and monastery to set up a school and compelled the children of nobles to attend (who might otherwise have considered this beneath them).
Charles's government helped set the feudal system deeply in place. His armies were made of nobles, bound to him by oaths and granted tracts of land to support themselves and their soldiers. He published his laws in "capitularies," and sent them throughout the realm by missi dominici,pairs of inspectors who made sure his orders were obeyed in castles and churches.
This energetic political, cultural, and religious reform, is today known as the Carolingian Renaissance and is one reason Charles was given the appellation, "Great," in Latin, Charlemagne.
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Rumour: Insider reports suggest that third parties have had positive feedback towards the NX.
In a Fortune article, it was suggested that Nintendo had begun talks with third party publishers over plans for the NX platform this year. According to inside sources, there was a positive reception for Nintendo's next generation plans.
Nintendo will still need to maintain content for the Wii U in the interim, however, but the Japanese game giant are keen to continue to use the GamePad in interesting ways.
Do you think Nintendo can recapture third party attention in the west with the NX?
Same thing was said for Wii U before it was released... Look what happened. Doesn't really mean anything at this stage and that's if it's even true anyway.
That is what they said about the Wii U too. Not to sound negative or anything, but let's be realistic and use earlier experiences as a measuring stick in this case. I do hope that Nintendo finally finds a way to make third parties jump on train again (they would win the console war without the shadow of a doubt if this becomes the case) which would be the first time since SNES.


Motivated by the botanical specimens she discovers while walking through parks and gardens on her various travels, tattoo artist Pis Saro designs beautiful plant portraits on the legs, arms, and spines of her global clients. Designed straight from nature, Saro's works are nearly imperceptible from the plants she sketches, often holding each side-by-side in the wonderfully composed images she shares regularly on Instagram.
This year Saro's tattoo work has taken her to Turkey, Lebanon, Germany, Holland, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland.


All terrain vehicle (ATV) tyres are made for ATVs and four-wheeled motorcycles also called "four-wheelers" or "quads." ATV tyres are large, chunky, wide-profile tyres designed to perform well in a variety of commonly encountered off-road conditions.
Good quad tyres can make all the difference between sure-footed traction and complete loss of grip when tackling muddy hillsides and water-logged gaps on farms. A good set of tyres can help put more power from the engine to the ground, provide a more balanced stance digging into muddy, swampy ground conditions and keep you moving where other vehicles would fear to tread.
There are ATV tyres for every type of terrain. ATV tyres suitable for road use are identified by their "E-mark", meaning they are road legal and tread patterns are specifically designed for working on tarmac. ATV tyres designed for specific conditions, such as mud, sand or sports will perform better in those conditions than general-purpose tyres. In recent years the use of quads on farms in particular has grown significantly.
At Agrigear, the BKT range of ATV tyres caters for all terrains and purposes from recreational farm work to professional racing tyres, with sizes ranging from 6" to 12" in rim width.
Browse ATV tyres here on Agrigear's website www.agrigear.ie.
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The EARTHMAX SR41 tyre is an OTR (off-the-road) radial tyre from BKT. The EARTHMAX SR41 tyre is available in a few select sizes including 26.5R25 and 29.5R25 both with a 2star rating.
Travelling at a speed of 50km/h, the 26.5R25 EARTHMAX SR41 tyre can carry a load 11.5 tonne per tyre, whilst the 29.5R25 tyre can carry a load of 14 tonne per tyre.
The EARTHMAX SR41 (E-4) tyre is a cut-resistant all-steel radial tyre specially suitable for articulated dump trucks. This tyre is an upgrade of the EARTHMAX SR40 (E-4) tyre with an improved tread pattern featuring strong tie-bars that offer superior sturdiness of the block grips. The all-steel casing and strong steel belt provide excellent stability along with very high resistance to snags and punctures. The additional step on the lug edges of the EARTHMAX SR41 tyre offers extra traction while the high tread depth provides extra mileage.
Technical information about EARTHMAX SR41 range of earthmover tyres from BKT is available on the Agrigear website www.agrigear.ie.
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The world's first non-studded winter tyre with studs. With a press of a button, the driver can bring out the studs to improve the grip of the tyre. The idea of the combined non-studded and studded tyre is that the driver can make the switch when the conditions clearly change. Studs are not used on dry roads and stable winter conditions, but they can be activated in icy weather for extreme safety.
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SAIC Wins Task Order to Help U.S. Customs and Border Protection Assess Threats From Travelers and Cargo Crossing the Border
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) was awarded a task order worth up to $973 million by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to continue to operate, maintain, and enhance CBP's cornerstone system for identifying travelers and cargo that present a potential security threat.
The award for CBP's Targeting and Analysis Systems Program Directorate (TASPD) Information Technology Operations and Maintenance, Upgrades, Updates, Modifications and Enhancements Services task order, made under the General Services Administration's Alliant 2 contract, includes transition, a one-year base period of performance, four one-year option periods, and a six-month optional extension of services. The total award value including all options is $973 million. The award was announced in November.
Bob Genter, President, Defense and Civilian Sector, SAIC
"SAIC is proud of the trust the Department of Homeland Security and CBP have in our team's ability to deliver mission-critical, innovative solutions," said Bob Genter, president, Defense and Civilian Sector. "TASPD is a great example of how CBP has applied advanced technologies that continually deliver new capabilities to this 24x7x365 mission, while remaining responsive to the ever-changing national security landscape. SAIC will leverage our deep expertise in technologies including cloud, machine learning and AI, and SecDevOps to help CBP achieve its mission of enabling secure trade and travel."
Under the task order, SAIC will continue to develop and maintain CBP's targeting and analysis systems that integrate technologies and data in real-time, enabling CBP officers, analysts, and agents to flag shipments and travelers for additional examination and inspection. SAIC will deploy new capabilities such as cloud-based analytics and AI/machine learning to facilitate legitimate travel and trade, identify high-risk travelers and cargo faster, and enable CBP to maximize application of its skilled workforce.
SAIC says they will continue to enhance these systems in response to evolving technologies, threats, and mission requirements, and accelerate CBP capabilities to safeguard America's borders. SAIC will evolve the TASPD portfolio from a collection of specialized applications to an ecosystem of capabilities and services shared across the enterprise using mission-driven agile processes and innovative technologies.
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HomeMay their memories be for a blessing. Share your stories about those who have died of Covid-19.
May their memories be for a blessing. Share your stories about those who have died of Covid-19.
Jodi RudorenMarch 25, 2020Image by iStock
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This unprecedented pandemic is challenging every aspect of our lives, upending daily routines as wells as Jewish rituals. And now: members of our community are dying of this disease. We must find new ways to memorialize them.
Government officials are updating us daily about how many people have the virus, how many are hospitalized, how many have passed. But they are not numbers; they are individuals — mothers and fathers, friends and colleagues, rabbis and teachers and neighbors. We want to celebrate their lives.
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The questionnaire asks for some basic facts about the individual, as well as a photograph of them, and a personal story, like something you might tell at a shiva. And please feel free to share this form with others.
We will publish responses as they come in. May their memories be for a blessing.
Jodi Rudoren
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You can see properties' information of UNO objects.

When you select Properties scope, information of the current target object is shown.

## Looking at Property Information

Properties are listed every line in the information edit.

|Name|Type|Value|Info.|Attr.|
|----|----|----|----|----|
|CharFontName|string|Times New Roman|Maybevoid|
|AvailableServiceNames|[]string| -SEQUENCE-|Pseud|ReadOnly|

In the case of CharFontName property, type of its value is "string", value is "Times New Roman", no Info., property value is "Maybevoid".

Next AvailableServiceNames property has "[]string" type value means a sequence of string type value. Its value is shown like "-SEQUENCE-" means -type- value can not be converted to string. Its Info. column shows "Pseud" describing this property is a pseud property (see below about pseud property).

## Pseud Property

Pseud property is very depends on the implementation of the binding of the language which you use to write a macro.

There are two types of properties. One is normal property. And another is mapped by the introspection and these properties are called "pseud property".
For example getArgs method is maped to Args property and it is pseud property. Pseud properties do not have their entries in com.sun.star.beans.XPropertySet interface, therefore, you can not to get these property values through XPropertySet interface (getPropertyValue and setPropertyValue methods can not use to get these property values).

If getXXX method and setXXX method is there, XXX pseud-property is readable and writable. If only getXXX method is supported, it it read-only and only setXXX method is supported, it is just write-only.

Pseud property is created from method having prefix like get, set and is.

MRI uses XPropertySet interface of the target to get its property values, therefore, values of pseud properties are not able to get. However pseud properties are used frequently in codes. Therefore MRI calls the base method of the pseud property when you call a pseud property in the convenient purpose.

If you want to know about Attribute well, see com.sun.star.beans.PropertyAttribute constants group.

In the case of a property having a string type value, CR and LF are replaced by "\r" and "\n". And long texts are abbreviated.

## Special Notations

Sometimes MRI shows special notations in the type, value and information of a property.

In the type information, these notation is used.

|Type|Description|
|----|----|
|[]type|Sequence of value type|

These notations are shown in the value information.

|Value|Description|
|----|----|
|""|Empty string.|
| -void|No value.|
| -UPPERCASE-|Value could not be converted to the string type.|
| -Error-|Error raised during to get its value.|

Pseud or other information are there and listed in the table below.

|Information|Description|
|----|---|
|Pseud|Pseud property.|
| -----|Its value could not to get|
|Ignored|Listed in the ignored list of properties.|
|Attr.|Attribute of an interface.|

## Getting Property Values

Set the mode to "Get" from the Mode menu of the MRI window and double click a line shows a name of a property that you want to get its value. MRI shows values according to the type class of the properties.

## Setting Property Values

If mode is set to "Set", you can set a property value having numerical, string, enum or boolean type value.

When you double click a line, the property is not read-only and it has numerical, string, enum or boolean value, the dialog box is shown. Input a new value of the property in its edit box. A inputted value is converted to appropriate type value for the property.

Boolean type value is converted in this rule, 0 or false: False, 1 or true: True and others: False (string type notation is compared in its lowercase).

If the property is pseud property, the method corresponds to the property is called. See Methods Needing Arguments section about calling a method.

When you set a property value, MRI reloads the information of the property and tries to keep the carret position and scrolled value of the information edit.

## Modifier Keys

You can get or set property values by double clicking on the information edit. You can use Ctrl and Alt keys as modifire key.

|Key|Description|
|----|----|
|Ctrl|Suppress actions caused by double clickings.|
|Alt|Temporary, change the mode Get to Set or Set to Get.|

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Anything really - quite like running uphill, no idea why!
Turned 40, wanted to lose weight and gain some level of fitness before the inevitable heart attack arrived. I started jogging around the streets, Park Run came soon after closely followed by joining this club.
1. Join the club, you are already fast enough (guaranteed), its brilliant for beginners and you will improve so much quicker than just jogging by yourself. 2. Don't try to do too much too soon, listen to your body.


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Square 2 Design Eco Concept Home for Danube Delta
Square 2 Design, a Romanian design group, recently revealed an eco-friendly concept home for the Danube Delta. As you can see, the eco-house features a wall covered in foliage and an indoor greenhouse, making the garden an integral part of the home itself, rather than an addition.
The group claims that the interiors and furniture are constructed from biodegradable and recycled materials, making them environmentally friendly too. I think in the past Romania's had a bad reputation in the West for being a backward country but this sort of innovative design and eco-thinking demonstrates just how forward-thinking this country can be.
You can find out more about Square 2 Design here.
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Omega Mission Hills World Cup European Qualifier
The Estonian Golf & Country Club will have the honour of hosting the 2009 Omega Mission Hills World Cup European Qualifier from September 24 – 27. Two-man teams from around the globe are expected to battle it out for the three qualifying spots available and the chance to take part in the Omega Mission Hills World Cup at Mission Hills, China from November 26 – 29.
The PGA European Tour will have responsibility for overseeing the European qualifying tournament and will work closely with the both staff and members of the Estonian Golf & Country Club to deliver a memorable Estonian experience for competing players.
Estonian Golf & Country Club, which opened in 2005, is one of the finest golf courses in Eastern Europe and one of only eight European Tour courses in Europe. Locals say that when God created the coastal land of the Estonian Golf & Country Club, he must have intended it to be a golf course, as it winds its way so harmoniously along the Baltic Coast and the Jägala River delta. The club boasts not only the beautiful 18-hole Sea Course with its spectacular sea views and signature par four 13th, but also the historic nine-hole Stone Course, which meanders through impressive rock formations and gigantic stones from the ice age. Situated just half-an-hour from the centre of Estonia's capital city, Tallinn, and only a 15-minute drive from Tallinn International Airport, the club is ideally situated and can be accessed easily from all major cities in Europe.
Hole 3
The format for the first and third rounds of the Omega Mission Hills World Cup European qualifier will be fourball (betterball), with foursomes (alternate shot) to be used in the second and final rounds. The Official World Golf Rankings will determine the first 18 nations to qualify for the Omega Mission Hills World Cup itself and the European qualifier will join the Asian and South American qualifiers to determine the balance of the field. The leading three teams from each qualifier will earn a place in the Omega Mission Hills World Cup.
The Omega Mission Hills World Cup was first played in 1953 as the Canada Cup. The event is set to continue through to 2018, and most probably beyond, at Mission Hills, following the signing of an agreement in 2007 which brought the prestige watch manufacturer Omega together with the club which introduced the game of golf to China, by first hosting the World Cup in 1995.
John Jay Hopkins, the noted Canadian industrialist, brought to reality a dream that golf could promote goodwill between nations with the inaugural World Cup played in Montreal in 1953, then called the Canada Cup and re-titled the World Cup in 1967.
For further information on the Estonian Golf & Country Club visit www.egcc.ee
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About Charlotte
I was born in Surrey, raised in Hampshire, but now reside in Bayswater, in London. My interest in history and passion for Eastern Europe developed when, at the age of nine, I read Judith Kerr's novel 'When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit'. After spending many summer holidays in Slovenia, I studied much Russian history at A Level, and then went on to attain an Upper Second Class Honours Degree in East European History from UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies. During my vacation periods I enjoyed travelling throughout this incredible region and to date have visited: Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Croatia, Bosnia, Hungary, Slovenia and Germany. I am currently learning to speak Russian and will study my Masters in East European History on a part-time basis from autumn 2009.
I love food and all things cultural, particularly East European. I write feature articles for Anglomania, a sport, culture, fashion magazine and work as an editorial assistant for Glam Media UK. I have previously worked for TopTips.com, Emap, Conde Nast, The Telegraph and The Sun.
In this blog I am indulging my love of Eastern Europe, and utilising the web I shall tell tales of my travels, and impart my knowledge of the region's culture, history and food.
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In my last post, I shared some very interesting information from Dr Paul Dobransky's ebook called MindOS™ - "The Operating System of the Human Mind". I love the way he explains complex emotional behaviour in a logical, straightforward manner. He showed how avoiding anxiety in our grief is really a passive response to anxiety. While avoidance can be helpful in the first few months after our spouse dies, eventually we need to actively deal with our anxiety if we ever want to heal.
In tonight's post, I'll continue Dr Paul's teaching about responding to our anxiety "signal." As he already explained, anxiety is a signal that we have fears, challenges, change or risk to face, and there are only three ways to respond to anxiety. In my last post, we covered the only passive response, namely avoidance or impulsiveness. This post will look at one of the two active responses to anxiety: worry and complaining.
When we think destructively with anxiety, Mind OS calls that "Victim-thinking", "martyr-thinking", or masochism, where you take on a "poor me" attitude, erroneously believing that you are truly hopeless, or helpless. You worry about the future and complain without offering solutions. You regret the past, and essentially are WISHING you controlled the uncontrollable, "dumping" your anxiety into someone else's boundary.
Doing all this may seem harmless, but it is NOT. You are dumping your anxiety into someone else to let them worry about FOR you. It is childish, WIN/LOSE behavior, where you WIN relief but someone else LOSES their sense of peace, by absorbing your negative energy.
Is an adult person who walks and talks and can do adult things ever truly hopeless or helpless? NO! Never. Sure, a CHILD can't just go out and get a job, or buy a home to fix their problems, but adults CAN. To think otherwise is an illusion. When we get masochistic, victim-like beliefs about the world, it forces others to participate in the mechanics of OUR illusion. This is where anxiety connects to depression.
When we decide to take the destructive, immature "quick-fix" of immediate gratification, we find that others can sometimes be convenient "dumping grounds" for our complaints and worries. This happens especially if they have holes in their boundary where we can "push their buttons," shame and manipulate them into accepting our anxiety FOR us. We then "WIN" and they "LOSE."
Note that all the traits that go with playing the victim are also characteristics of nonbiological depression, and they are an illusion. We complain to the boss, we whine and moan about how helpless we are, we allow ourselves to believe there is no hope, and finally find ourselves winding into masochistic depressive thinking.
Now you're probably reading this and thinking, "uh, HELLO!!! My spouse is DEAD. This is NOT a molehill. It is a thousand Everests!!!" And I agree. It is probably the most painful, agonizing ordeal we ever have to go through in our whole life.
Keep in mind that this ebook was not written for the bereaved, so it can come across as a bit harsh and uncaring. Yet the phenomenon of dumping our anxiety into someone else's boundary is all too common. Why do you suppose "friends" and acquaintances vanish after the funeral? They cannot deal with our immense sorrow, so they avoid us, adding to our losses.
But to grieve, we absolutely must get our feelings out by talking! We need to talk about our anxiety and fears in order to heal, but if we tell our friends, they can't deal with our hopelessness and they leave! How unfair is that? And how do we resolve this paradox?
Well, you've probably already guessed the answer: bereavement support groups. Try to find a support group like Bereaved Families of Ontario, one run by volunteers who have themselves suffered a similar loss. The primary reason to attend these groups is precisely to express your sense of "poor me," hopelessness and helplessness, worry about the future, complaints without solutions, regret about the past, and wishing you controlled the uncontrollable, all that unflattering stuff in the first quoted paragraph above. The major difference here is that support group attendees can relate to you and support you, unlike your friends and acquaintances.
You are not expecting these strangers to worry about all this stuff for you — you just want (and need) for someone to listen. You need to get your pain and frustrations out. Keeping them bottled up inside is a recipe for lifelong misery. And when you are finished talking, you can be there to listen for someone else who needs you just as much as you need them. Sitting with someone else in pain is one of the most powerful gifts you can ever give another human being. And when you give this gift to someone else, you heal yourself in return.


Charlestown Nevis (February 12, 2019) – Nevispages reached out to the Hon. Patrice Nisbett for his take on Friday, February 8, 2019 for his take on the press release by the NIA dated Thursday, February 7, 2019. That release indicated that the Vance Amory International Airport was to be handed over to B&L Worldwide Ltd, a company operated by a politician from St. Kitts, Mr. Jonel Powell.
"What was Alexis Jeffers thinking when he and the NIA Cabinet saw it fit to give away the control of Nevis' Airport without asking the permission of the people of Nevis? This is a joke", Nisbett indicated.
"The interest of Nevis must always be front and center in every decision the NIA and all elected officials in Nevis make. How could Jeffers think that giving away our Airport, in this very secret deal, is in the best interest of Nevisians? Where is his Patriotism to the people of Nevis?", Nisbett added.
Nisbett went on, "Every Nevisian should feel insulted and angry that local Nevisian businessmen were not allowed the opportunity to engage the government to seek investors. Instead, the company managed by an inexperienced St. Kitts lawyer and politician Mr. Jonel Powell, closely aligned with CCM, was given the opportunity to run Nevis' Airport. This is cronyism at the highest level".
Efforts by this media house to reach the Hon. Alexis Jeffers were unsuccessful.


Duane originates from a sheep and beef farm in Dannevirke, Central Hawkes Bay. After graduating from Massey with an honours degree in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, he spent 6 years in Hawke's Bay working on agricultural policy and economics before making the move to rural banking early in 2005. Duane is looking forward to expanding ASB's rural business focussing on his old stomping ground - Southern Hawke's Bay.


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Content API
Automating OpenByLaws.org.za with Laws.Africa
15 July 2019, by Greg Kempe
Municipal by-laws are part of the legal foundation of effective communities, small businesses, and local service delivery. However, they are often difficult to find, are out of date, or are in big PDF files that are difficult to work with.
OpenByLaws.org.za solves this problem by making South African by-laws easy to find, read and share. It includes the by-laws for a growing number of municipalities, including Cape Town, Johannesburg and eThekwini, and, through local partnerships, a number of smaller towns such as Cape Agulhas.
Open By-laws uses Laws.Africa to provide rich, interactive functionality to readers, and to automatically update its website every night. This means that it's quick and easy to make the by-laws available to residents, municipal staff, and law enforcement, using either computers or mobile phones.
Quick and Easy: Legislation as Data
Open By-laws uses the Laws.Africa Content API to automate website updates. Every night, Open By-laws automatically pulls in the latest by-laws from Laws.Africa and publishes them on the openbylaws.org.za website. This includes images, gazette information, inline definitions, and by-laws in HTML, PDF and ePUB formats.
Traditionally, a website like Open By-laws would be painstakingly maintained by hand. Every change would require an editor to ensure that the headings are correctly formatted, the table of contents is updated, definitions are linked, and that the PDF version matches the webpage version.
The Laws.Africa Content API treats legislation as data, which means we can completely automate these tasks. Formatting is applied automatically, the table of contents is generated automatically, definitions are linked automatically, and the PDF versions are—you guessed it—generated automatically.
In addition, because the legislation is available as structured data (rather than as a Word document or a PDF), Open By-laws can add rich functionality. For example, specially defined terms are linked and their definitions are shown in a pop-up:
What else can be done with the content API?
The Laws.Africa Content API is very powerful. It provides a simple interface to extract and work with machine-friendly legislation, and associated metadata, using the open Akoma Ntoso XML markup standard.
Using the Content API, you can include African legislation in your website or app, build interactive tools to help users explore legislation relevant to them, or use machine learning to do research and analysis.
Find out more about the Laws.Africa Content API at laws.africa/api.
Who keeps the by-laws up-to-date?
The Laws.Africa editors and contributor community keep the by-laws up-to-date. When new by-laws and amendments are published in the government gazettes, they are updated on the platform, reviewed, and made available through the Content API.
Anyone can become a contributor. Laws.Africa provides training, support and guidance. The work is divided into tasks that are clearly described and easy to do.
For example, here are the tasks and by-laws for Cape Town.
Contributions feed into the legislation commons which is freely available online, to everyone. Apply to Laws.Africa to become a contributor if you'd like to help out.
Making even more by-laws freely available
Laws.Africa and Open By-laws are partnering with South African municipalities to put their by-laws online and provide training on how to maintain them on the Laws.Africa platform. If you're interested, please email info@laws.africa.
You can find out more about how to use the Laws.Africa Content API in your website, app or research at laws.africa/api or by emailing us at info@laws.africa.
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The Havana Street store has the same easy-browsing layout, trendy art, and robust selection that have become synonymous with the Green Solution brand. Its more intimate size does not hinder the selection, instead it allows the location to fit in among the neighborhoods conveniently located off Colfax.
Havana has two identically stocked displays containing over a dozen types of strains and an equally large selection of concentrates, edibles, and topicals produced by NectarBee. In addition to these ready-to-use products, the Havana location also offers clones, seeds, and plenty of merchandise and smoking accessories. Don't be overwhelmed though, your attentive Retail Associate will be there to guide and inform you of our current offers, so you can optimize your experience.
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The myHEALTHware app allows patients to submit a medical question to their connected clinic (requires that clinics have activated this feature for patients).
A patient can submit a medical question to the clinic by logging in to the myHEALTHware app and taping on the New Message button. Select Ask A Medical Question.
A New Message dialog will appear with the clinic name defaulted as the Send To:. To modify the clinic selected, tap on the To: column, otherwise, continue to enter the Topic and Message.
Enter the Topic and Message for the conversation. If you wish to add an attachment to the conversation, click Add Attachment.
The medical question will be sent to the clinics conversations inbox for review.


If you're a homebuilt aircraft owner, builder, or enthusiast, you won't want to miss the 1st annual DeLand Sport Aviation Showcase, set for November 3-5, 2016, at the DeLand (Florida) Municipal Airport … where homebuilts will share center stage with some of the finest manufacturers of recreational aircraft from around the country and world.
Nearly 100 exhibitors from as far away as Maine to Washington State and the Czech Republic to Brazil have confirmed their participation in Showcase 2016. They will be displaying and demonstrating a wide variety of recreational aircraft, including fixed-wing airplanes and ultralights, gyroplanes, powered parachutes, powered paragliders, and trikes…and their associated equipment.
They are all coming together the first week of November to highlight the Showcase's focus on flying for fun. The three-day show will also feature educational forums, workshops, EAA's Charlie Becker as a keynote speaker, and food concessions. In addition, demonstration flights will be available all day, every day.
A special Homebuilts Display will feature up to 50 aircraft and their proud owners and builders each day. Anyone wishing to participate – for one day or the whole event – is asked to complete an online Homebuilts Registration at www.sportaviationvillage.com/homebuilt-display-parking-registration/. The Homebuilts Display will be located adjacent to the Exhibitors Venue, providing easy access for Showcase attendees to view the various homebuilt aircraft that fly in each day.
The DeLand Showcase thanks its Sponsors – Viking Aircraft Engines, Aviators Hot Line, and Rapid Systems – and its Partners – Stemme, Swift Fuels, Americana Aviation/AeroJones, Jabiru NA, CubCrafters, and Passero Associates – for their generous support of this inaugural event.


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Effects of fiscal policy in the North and South of Italy
Piacentini, Paolo and Prezioso, Stefano and Testa, Giuseppina (2015): Effects of fiscal policy in the North and South of Italy.
MPRA_paper_62372.pdf
Abstract: This paper contributes to a growing body of work within 'fiscal policy studies', investigating for the recent role of fiscal policy on the Italian economy. Using annual data collected on regional basis, this study estimates and compares the (impact and cumulative) fiscal multipliers across the North and the South, the less developed area, of Italy. With recourse to a simultaneous equation model for the two macro-regions of Italy, it estimates the overall impact of the measures of budget consolidation policies in the period 2011-2013. Our analysis reveals that tax rises and spending cuts hit the South harder than the North.
MPRA Paper
Keywords: Tax multiplier, Government spending multiplier, Fiscal Policy.
E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E23 - Production
E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook > E62 - Fiscal Policy
H - Public Economics > H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue > H20 - General
H - Public Economics > H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue > H24 - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
Giuseppina Testa
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COVID-19: Local
COVID-19: National
COVID-19: Business
News > Spokane
Pro bono ad campaign aims to make masks and social distance the new social norm in Spokane
Sun., Aug. 2, 2020
Matthew Sherlaw, medical student at University of the Washington School of Medicine, wears his Skida mask he bought from a small business in Vermont. (COLIN MULVANY)
By Adam Shanks adams@spokesman.com(509) 459-5136
Almost overnight, leaders in Spokane County are trying to create a new social norm.
Often cited as a key tool in the process of abating the spread of COVID-19 and reopening the economy, public health officials and business leaders are pleading with area residents: wear a mask.
But for most people, having a mask at the ready and strapping it on before entering a store is an entirely new behavior.
"A year ago, if you'd have worn a mask into a business, you would have gotten some funny looks," said Michelle Hege, president and CEO of Spokane advertising firm Desautel Hege.
Greater Spokane Inc. has embarked on a marketing campaign, created free by Desautel Hege, that encourages people to follow public health guidelines, like wearing a mask and social distancing, when they're outside the relative safety of their own home.
The new campaign will account for $750,000 of the $4.5 million of federal coronavirus aid set aside by Spokane County commissioners to help spur consumer confidence and help revitalize an economy stunted by the coronavirus.
GSI, which represents more than 900 area businesses, has played a central role in the region's coronavirus response from the beginning and spearheaded efforts that included the distribution of personal protective equipment to local businesses. It has partnered with the Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce, Downtown Spokane Partnership, Visit Spokane and the West Plains Chamber of Commerce.
The marketing campaign is being launched as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to increase in Spokane County, and some people vocally – and sometimes virally – refuse to abide by the state's mandate that Washingtonians wear masks when in public.
In June, the video taken by an unmasked woman refusing to leave the Grocery Outlet store in Spokane Valley was shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook. Earlier this month, a few dozen protesters lined up outside the home of Spokane County Health Officer Dr. Bob Lutz to decry the mask order.
And nationally, President Donald Trump declined, until recently, to wear a mask in public. He pressured states to loosen restrictions while minimizing the risk posed by the virus, despite warnings of public health officials.
So it's no wonder it has taken Americans so long to adopt the use of masks, when they're as regular as a shirt and shoes in countries like South Korea. Hege attributes the American sluggishness to the absence of a coordinated national response to the coronavirus and leadership at the national level.
"Consumers have been left wondering who to trust and who to pay attention to," Hege said.
Locally, elected leaders pushed Lutz to apply for the county to advance to Phase 3 of the state's reopening plan even as case counts rose on June 17, arguing that the hospitals were prepared and Spokane County residents were ready to return to work. Lutz turned down the request, and hospitals said they did not support a move into Phase 3.
"There is some community spread right now, but the key, though, is the community prepared to be able to respond to it? And I think we clearly demonstrated that we are," Spokane County Commission Chairman Al French told The Spokesman-Review in June.
But within two weeks, as cases and hospitalizations continued upward, leaders backed off. In a news conference this week, leaders defended their previous push for Phase 3 and said they continued to stress public health guidance even as they pressed to move forward.
"Masks were coming up, very much, in (calls to reopen) as we talked about the progression through phases. … We were really hopeful that we would get through and continue to drive the curve down," Spokane Valley Mayor Ben Wick said. "I don't think our message has really changed in trying to get masking and physical distancing to go through."
Young people, particularly, have perpetuated the virus' spread in bars and backyard barbecues, according to public health officials.
As of Friday, people between the ages of 20 and 29 account for 28% of the county's COVID-19 cases. It's an age group with which local leaders acknowledge they've struggled to connect.
"I don't think we did a good job of that initially, and now we're adjusting," French said.
Marketing to the younger demographic is different, French said, and leaders have to find a way to convince young people they're vulnerable, too.
"They're young and have a sense of invincibility, and because of that I think there's a general feeling – 'it's not going to affect me, it's only going to affect older people.' Guess what? It affected them. Then they took it home, and it affected older people," French said.
The health district is actively planning a separate campaign specifically targeting young people, according to Spokane Regional Health District spokeswoman Kelli Hawkins.
"It was beneficial to us having the community-wide campaign managed by GSI, allowing my team to focus more on targeted demographics. … I want to ensure messaging to this demographic is well planned out, not too rushed – knowing that it is an immediate need," Hawkins said.
Despite the loud opposition to masking from some, and general indifference from others, the Spokane Regional Health District said last week that surveys have shown an increasing number – more than 90% in recent observational survey – of people are wearing masks when entering local businesses.
Businesses want that trend to continue and to assure customers – and employees – that they are a safe place to be.
The new GSI campaign, created free by the creative team at Desautel Hege, is tagged "Spread Kindness, Not COVID-19."
"We're really trying to reach a wide variety of people, in all different perspectives, to look at the things that have been proven and our scientific community is telling us: If we want to be out and not in quarantine, if we hunker down and do these behaviors, we can begin to move forward," said Cara Coon, the vice president of communications and public affairs for GSI tasked with leading its COVID-19 marketing efforts.
Messaging will adorn the front doors of businesses that are hoping to draw potentially wary customers back inside.
"We spread kindness, not COVID-19," one window sign reads. "Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Keep 6 feet apart."
"They key thing is for those businesses to create an environment where, if I walk into their door, I can see the expectation, that they're practicing the safe behaviors," Hege said.
When COVID hit
When the pandemic hit Washington and Gov. Jay Inslee issued the Stay Home, Stay Healthy order, GSI was on the verge of launching its third ad in a marketing campaign called "Together, We're Greater," which highlighted its services for the business community.
GSI quickly dropped those plans.
"It just didn't make sense. It wasn't the information people needed to know at that time," Coon said.
GSI shifted focus and quickly scraped together a replacement ad titled "Resiliency" that called for strength and calm, featuring visuals of Bloomsday, Riverfront Park and Gonzaga University basketball.
The second COVID-related piece engineered by GSI was released in early April, fewer than two weeks after the first. It was produced in five days, and even included both of Coon's kids. Seven-foot former Gonzaga basketball star Robert Sacre also made a quick appearance.
Starring GSI CEO Alisha Benson and Lutz, the ad reminded people to practice social distancing and stand at least 6 feet apart.
In its third ad – parsed into three versions – GSI harnessed some local star power to encourage local residents to wear a mask. Released in June, the ads featured Lutz, former City Council President Ben Stuckart and author Jess Walter.
The spot was emblematic of the time in which it was produced, as each participant was filmed over a Zoom call.
Despite harried planning and little budget, the reach of the PSAs was substantial, according to GSI.
Combined, the three public service announcements reached more than 500,000 people. They were disseminated through Google, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, and even found their way into the mobile video game played by Coon's sibling.
"My younger brother calls it annoying, but I'm like, 'Hey, you texted me about it,' " Coon said.
Kindness, not COVID
Meanwhile, Desautel Hege was busy drawing up a campaign of its own.
As restrictions tightened earlier this year, Michelle Hege focused on what the firm could do for the business community. In addition to leading the ad agency, she serves as the chair of GSI's board.
"Because communications is my business and my world, I immediately started thinking about what we call social change marketing," Hege said. "It was early, and there was a lot of confusion and there was no money for anything. … We decided we would just start working on a campaign and be prepared to donate it."
Donate, it did, when commissioners released the funds necessary to support the campaign's distribution in July.
The result of Desautel Hege's work is beginning to plaster storefront windows and shoot through social media.
The basic premise of the campaign is simple: People will not reengage with businesses until they know it is safe to do so.
Desautel Hege set out to give businesses, particularly small businesses, the ability to communicate with customers in a welcoming way, while also demonstrating how to be safe.
Spurring change in behavior is a science, Hege said, and the conclusion is clearly that scare tactics don't work.
"They get people's attention, but they actually don't change behavior. So in our campaigns we really work on identifying the empowering action people can take," Hege said.
So instead of foreboding ads, Desautel Hege produced materials that are bright and eye-grabbing, asking, as the tag line emphasizes, local residents to spread kindness, not COVID-19.
It's hardly the first marketing campaign seeking to change individual behavior, Hege notes. Past PSAs have implored people to stop smoking, wear seatbelts or refrain from drunken driving.
But with COVID-19, the marketers, local businesses and public health officials need the campaign to be effective as quickly as possible.
The work is only just beginning.
GSI will administer $500,000 set aside for grants to local organizations that will support marketing efforts at local businesses. Ideas proposed thus far, Coon said, include "video shorts highlighting small businesses, a 'random acts of kindness' campaign, awarding people and businesses for demonstration helpful behaviors, (and) creating signage for consistent small business usage."
Visit Spokane has also been allocated $2.5 million in funds, which it will use to encourage tourism to the area as restrictions are eventually lifted.
"'We need to be able to convince people it's safe to come back to Spokane," French said.
Wolffy's Hamburgers on Hamilton Street permanently closing
Another 3 NBA games called off amid virus, 16 test positive …
Fed survey finds economy slowing in some areas of country …
Calls to reopen classrooms grow as teachers get vaccinated …
Britain's Johnson pledges UK vaccine program will run 24-7 …
Consumer prices up 0.4% in December led by higher gas prices …
To cancel or not?: IOC, Japan press ahead with Tokyo Games …


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A depth buffer, also known as a z-buffer, is a type of data buffer used in computer graphics to represent depth information of objects in 3D space from a particular perspective. Depth buffers are an aid to rendering a scene to ensure that the correct polygons properly occlude other polygons. Z-buffering was first described in 1974 by Wolfgang Straßer in his PhD thesis on fast algorithms for rendering occluded objects. A similar solution to determining overlapping polygons is the painter's algorithm, which is capable of handling non-opaque scene elements, though at the cost of efficiency and incorrect results.

In a 3D-rendering pipeline, when an object is projected on the screen, the depth (z-value) of a generated fragment in the projected screen image is compared to the value already stored in the buffer (depth test), and replaces it if the new value is closer. It works in tandem with the rasterizer, which computes the colored values. The fragment output by the rasterizer is saved if it is not overlapped by another fragment.

When viewing an image containing partially or fully overlapping opaque objects or surfaces, it is not possible to fully see those objects that are farthest away from the viewer and behind other objects (i.e., some surfaces are hidden behind others). If there were no mechanism for managing overlapping surfaces, surfaces would render on top of each other, not caring if they are meant to be behind other objects. The identification and removal of these surfaces are called the hidden-surface problem. To check for overlap, the computer calculates the z-value of a pixel corresponding to the first object and compares it with the z-value at the same pixel location in the z-buffer. If the calculated z-value is smaller than the z-value already in the z-buffer (i.e., the new pixel is closer), then the current z-value in the z-buffer is replaced with the calculated value. This is repeated for all objects and surfaces in the scene (often in parallel). In the end, the z-buffer will allow correct reproduction of the usual depth perception: a close object hides one further away. This is called z-culling.

The z-buffer has the same internal data structure as an image, namely a 2D-array, with the only difference being that it stores a single value for each screen pixel instead of color images that use 3 values to create color. This makes the z-buffer appear black-and-white because it is not storing color information. The buffer has the same dimensions as the screen buffer for consistency.

Primary visibility tests (such as back-face culling) and secondary visibility tests (such as overlap checks and screen clipping) are usually performed on objects' polygons in order to skip specific polygons that are unnecessary to render. Z-buffer, by comparison, is comparatively expensive, so performing primary and secondary visibility tests relieve the z-buffer of some duty.

The granularity of a z-buffer has a great influence on the scene quality: the traditional 16-bit z-buffer can result in artifacts (called "z-fighting" or stitching) when two objects are very close to each other. A more modern 24-bit or 32-bit z-buffer behaves much better, although the problem cannot be eliminated without additional algorithms. An 8-bit z-buffer is almost never used since it has too little precision.

Uses

The Z-buffer is a technology used in almost all contemporary computers, laptops, and mobile phones for performing 3D computer graphics. The primary use now is for video games, which require fast and accurate processing of 3D scenes. The Z-buffer is implemented in hardware within consumer graphics cards. The Z-buffer is also used (implemented as software as opposed to hardware) for producing computer-generated special effects for films.

Furthermore, Z-buffer data obtained from rendering a surface from a light's point-of-view permits the creation of shadows by the shadow mapping technique.

Developments

Even with small enough granularity, quality problems may arise when precision in the z-buffer's distance values are not spread evenly over distance. Nearer values are much more precise (and hence can display closer objects better) than values that are farther away. Generally, this is desirable, but sometimes it will cause artifacts to appear as objects become more distant. A variation on z-buffering which results in more evenly distributed precision is called w-buffering (see below).

At the start of a new scene, the z-buffer must be cleared to a defined value, usually 1.0, because this value is the upper limit (on a scale of 0 to 1) of depth, meaning that no object is present at this point through the viewing frustum.

The invention of the z-buffer concept is most often attributed to Edwin Catmull, although Wolfgang Straßer described this idea in his 1974 Ph.D. thesis months before Catmull's invention.

On more recent PC graphics cards (1999–2005), z-buffer management uses a significant chunk of the available memory bandwidth. Various methods have been employed to reduce the performance cost of z-buffering, such as lossless compression (computer resources to compress/decompress are cheaper than bandwidth) and ultra-fast hardware z-clear that makes obsolete the "one frame positive, one frame negative" trick (skipping inter-frame clear altogether using signed numbers to cleverly check depths).

Z-culling

In rendering, z-culling is early pixel elimination based on depth, a method that provides an increase in performance when rendering of hidden surfaces is costly. It is a direct consequence of z-buffering, where the depth of each pixel candidate is compared to the depth of the existing geometry behind which it might be hidden.

When using a z-buffer, a pixel can be culled (discarded) as soon as its depth is known, which makes it possible to skip the entire process of lighting and texturing a pixel that would not be visible anyway. Also, time-consuming pixel shaders will generally not be executed for the culled pixels. This makes z-culling a good optimization candidate in situations where fillrate, lighting, texturing, or pixel shaders are the main bottlenecks.

While z-buffering allows the geometry to be unsorted, sorting polygons by increasing depth (thus using a reverse painter's algorithm) allows each screen pixel to be rendered fewer times. This can increase performance in fillrate-limited scenes with large amounts of overdraw, but if not combined with z-buffering it suffers from severe problems such as:
 polygons might occlude one another in a cycle (e.g.: triangle A occludes B, B occludes C, C occludes A), and
 there is no canonical "closest" point on a triangle (e.g.: no matter whether one sorts triangles by their centroid or closest point or furthest point, one can always find two triangles A and B such that A is "closer" but in reality B should be drawn first).
As such, a reverse painter's algorithm cannot be used as an alternative to Z-culling (without strenuous re-engineering), except as an optimization to Z-culling. For example, an optimization might be to keep polygons sorted according to x/y-location and z-depth to provide bounds, in an effort to quickly determine if two polygons might possibly have an occlusion interaction.

Mathematics

The range of depth values in camera space to be rendered is often defined between a  and  value of .

After a perspective transformation, the new value of , or , is defined by:

After an orthographic projection, the new value of , or , is defined by:

where  is the old value of  in camera space, and is sometimes called  or .

The resulting values of  are normalized between the values of -1 and 1, where the  plane is at -1 and the  plane is at 1. Values outside of this range correspond to points which are not in the viewing frustum, and shouldn't be rendered.

Fixed-point representation

Typically, these values are stored in the z-buffer of the hardware graphics accelerator in fixed point format. First they are normalized to a more common range which is  by substituting the appropriate conversion  into the previous formula:

Simplifying:

Second, the above formula is multiplied by  where d is the depth of the z-buffer (usually 16, 24 or 32 bits) and rounding the result to an integer:

This formula can be inverted and derived in order to calculate the z-buffer resolution (the 'granularity' mentioned earlier). The inverse of the above :

where

The z-buffer resolution in terms of camera space would be the incremental value resulted from the smallest change in the integer stored in the z-buffer, which is +1 or -1. Therefore, this resolution can be calculated from the derivative of  as a function of :

Expressing it back in camera space terms, by substituting  by the above :

This shows that the values of  are grouped much more densely near the  plane, and much more sparsely farther away, resulting in better precision closer to the camera. The smaller  is, the less precision there is far away—having the  plane set too closely is a common cause of undesirable rendering artifacts in more distant objects.

To implement a z-buffer, the values of  are linearly interpolated across screen space between the vertices of the current polygon, and these intermediate values are generally stored in the z-buffer in fixed point format.

W-buffer

To implement a w-buffer, the old values of  in camera space, or , are stored in the buffer, generally in floating point format. However, these values cannot be linearly interpolated across screen space from the vertices—they usually have to be inverted, interpolated, and then inverted again. The resulting values of , as opposed to , are spaced evenly between  and . There are implementations of the w-buffer that avoid the inversions altogether.

Whether a z-buffer or w-buffer results in a better image depends on the application.

Algorithmics
The following pseudocode demonstrates the process of z-buffering:
// First of all, initialize the depth of each pixel.
d(i, j) = infinite // Max length

// Initialize the color value for each pixel to the background color
c(i, j) = background color

// For each polygon, do the following steps :
for (each pixel in polygon's projection)
{
    // Find depth i.e, z of polygon
    //   at (x, y) corresponding to pixel (i, j)
    if (z < d(i, j))
    {
        d(i, j) = z;
        c(i, j) = color;
    }
}

See also
 Z-fighting
 Irregular Z-buffer
 Z-order
 A-buffer
 Depth map
 HyperZ
 Stencil buffer

References

External links
 Learning to Love your Z-buffer
 Alpha-blending and the Z-buffer

Notes

3D rendering

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British Galleries, Room 58, Bromley-by-Bow Room
Bradford Table Carpet
Table Carpet
London (embroidered)
This embroidery is described as a carpet, but it was intended for laying on a table as a costly and highly decorative cover, rather than on the floor. Its pictorial border would hang down vertically from the table's edge. The carpet would be covered up or removed if the table was used. 'Foot carpets' occasionally appear in contemporary paintings, in which case they are intended to indicate the high social standing of the sitter who can afford to have such an object underfoot.
Makers & Making
This carpet was produced in a professional workshop, and the absence of heraldry suggests that it was made for sale on the open market rather than for a specific commission. The embroidery is exceptionally fine, with approximately 62 stitches to the square centimetre. The tension of the embroidery stitches has pulled the canvas from a rectangular into a parallelogram shape.
Design & Designing
The design of the carpet has sometimes been described as depicting humankind's progression from the wild state to civilisation. It can also be seen more simply as a celebration of country pursuits. There are scenes of hunting, fishing and shooting, as well as the rural occupations of shepherd, milkmaid and miller, with watermill and windmill. Rural scenes were very popular in embroidered furnishings in the later 16th and early 17th century.
Linen canvas, embroidered with silk thread in tent stitch
Embroidering
Table carpet, embroidered, English, 1600-15
Central field is a grid with scrolling vine stems and bunches of grapes. There is a deep border on each side showing a country landscape.
The canvas gound is in one piece, pulled out of shape by the tension of the embroidery stitches. About 400 stitches to the square inch.
Maximum, under tension height: 179.5cm
Maximum, under tension width: 422cm
Dimensions checked: Measured; 02/08/2000 by KB/FH See diagram. Dimensions are post-conservation best estimates after measuring and consultation with Frances Hartog. Carpet is parallelogram-shaped.
British Galleries: The range of luxury furnishings used in wealthy households included embroidered carpets. They were not used on the floor but as decorative table covers. The colourful and lively borders on this carpet were intended to hang down around the edges of the table and to be clearly visible. The absence of heraldry suggests that it was made for sale on the open market rather than as a specific commission.(27/03/2003)
Purchased with Art Fund support
Owned by the Earls of Bradford at Castle Bromwich Hall, West Midlands.
John Lea Nevinson, Catalogue of English Domestic Embroidery of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries, Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Textiles, London: HMSO, 1938, p.7
Anthony Wells-Cole, Art and Decoration in Elizabethan England : The Influence of Continental Prints 1558-1625 (Yale University Press, 1997), p.244
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