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Q: cross product proof - vector between 2 other vectors I am struggling with a cross product proof and need help with getting it started.
A vector $\mathrm Z$ has an endpoint on a line between vectors $\mathrm P$ and $\mathrm Q$. Prove that:
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\mathrm Z \times (\mathrm P-\mathrm Q) = \mathrm P \times \mathrm Q.
$$
I assume I need to define $\mathrm Z$ in terms of $\mathrm P$ and $\mathrm Q$ but I am not sure how to proceed.
Any ideas would be welcome.

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The Worship Service begins at 10:00 a.m.
There will be special activities for children. You will find a reading center and a coloring center in the sanctuary.
Scripture: The Palm Sunday story and Mark 11:1-11.
During this time, we will be putting our words into action. There will be music playing while we assemble our kits. Feel free to hum, sing, or whistle while you work.


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Erin & Ben Napier Share Wedding Video to Celebrate 12th Anniversary: 'Got a Little Teary'
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Ben and Erin Napier are celebrating their 12th anniversary by sharing some behind-the-scenes footage of their big day — including their entire wedding video!
The stars of HGTV's Home Town both shared posts on Instagram on Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of their I do's, which took place on November 22, 2008, at the University of Mississippi's Paris Yates Chapel, each sharing a sweet message to the other in their captions.
"Found our old wedding video and got a little teary. 12 years ago today," Erin, 35, wrote alongside a four-minute video, which she shared via IGTV. "Still so thankful to be your wife, @scotsman.co," she continued, tagging Ben, 37.
The video, set to the songs "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken" by Camera Obscura and "By Your Side" by Blue Mountain, gives fans a peek at all the wedding festivities, from taking photos with family and friends, to their kiss at the altar, to driving off on their honeymoon.
The footage also offers a glimpse of Erin's two bridal looks: a lace gown with a netted veil for the ceremony, and a frilly-sleeved cocktail dress for the reception!
Ben chose to share two sweet photos from their wedding day: one of him and Erin walking back down the aisle as newlyweds, and one of them sharing a smooch on the dance floor.
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"12 years ago. We said I do. We've said it everyday since, and will say it everyday going forward," he wrote in the caption. "Being @erinapier's husband is the only thing I'm really great at. I have to work at everything else."
The pair have been together for over 16 years, after meeting while attending Jones County Junior College in Mississippi.
"He was like a celebrity crush to me," Erin told PEOPLE in an April 2020 cover story , admitting that she admired her husband-to-be from afar. "He was the president of every club and very popular but not exclusive. I would see someone eating alone in the cafeteria, and there was Ben, pulling up a chair beside them."
The secret attraction was mutual. "I remember seeing Erin the first week of school," Ben said. "She was walking across the student union, and she had a pixie haircut. I didn't know what a pixie cut was at the time, but I knew I liked it."
Still, they didn't hit it off right away. During a chance meeting at McDonald's, "I was so nervous talking to him I crashed and burned," Erin said with a laugh.
"We had about three more encounters like that," she admitted. It wasn't until she interviewed Ben for the school yearbook that they both knew they'd found the one. "Six days later we decided we would get married, and that was that."
Erin, a graphic designer by trade, and Ben, a former church minister, found HGTV fame after a producer for the network spotted their renovation of the 1925 craftsman cottage they were fixing up for themselves in their hometown of Laurel, Miss.
Now, the pair who share 2-year-old daughter Helen, also have a booming home reno business, two retail stores, a furniture line and a hit TV show (now in its fourth season). Their spinoff show, Home Town Takeover, is set to air in 2021.
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The sun's out and so are we – on our latest hunt for the most delicious grub in Hong Kong this summer.
Antonio Lai, the brain behind crowd-favourite watering holes such as Quinary, Origin, the Envoy and VEA Restaurant & Lounge, opened a new cocktail parlour in late July. Named Room 309, the bar is decked out like a discreet hotel room inside The Pottinger Hong Kong with space for only 20 people.
The menu offers a range of cocktails, with personalised options also available. To enter, cocktail connoisseurs need to check-in at "The Reception", where they will be given a key card to enter the room. Despite similarities (a hidden, elusive entryway being the main point), Room 309 is adamantly keeping a distance from calling itself a speakeasy.
Pirata Group has certainly kept itself busy this year. Last month it opened Chifa and Madame Ching – and this month it will be opening Hugger Mugger, a British-style salon in the heart of Central.
Located just a stone's throw from Tai Kwun, the new hip cultural hub in Central, Hugger Mugger offers cocktails inspired by British cultural legends. Think: Ian Fleming-inspired dry martinis (shaken not stirred, of course) and a Charlie Chaplin-inspired cocktail made with apricot brandy and sloe gin. Other legends with a starring role in the cocktail menu include William Shakespeare and Pink Floyd.
Find it here: Basement level, 43-55 Wyndham Street, Central. Opens mid-August.
The two-Michelin-starred restaurant Tin Lung Heen's six-course tasting menu features Hokkaido horsehair crab front and centre this month. Highlights of the menu include steamed crab roe served with rice cracker, as well as simmered fresh abalone and crab claw in supreme stock.
Another not-to-be-missed dish is stewed house-made noodles with clam and garlic in crab sauce. Dinner ends on a sweet note, with a selection of desserts including chilled mango cream with sago and pomelo.
Find it here: Level 102, The Ritz-Carlton, International Commerce Centre, Kowloon. HK$2,180 (US$278) per person, additional HK$1,200 for wine pairing. Throughout August.
Daniel Calvert of Belon, in Hong Kong, and Yusuke Namai of Ode, in Tokyo, are joining forces for a two-part collaboration dinner. First Namai will be joining Calvert in Hong Kong on August 7, before Calvert returns the favour and joins Namai in Tokyo on August 29.
The two chefs will be showcasing their savoir faire in classic French cuisine, which they have reimagined for the modern cosmopolitan crowd in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Find it here: 41 Elgin Street, Central. HK$1,488 per person. August 7.
Antonio Romero joins La Rambla by Catalunya for two nights, where he will be showcasing his approach to Spanish cuisine. Romero honed his skills inside the kitchens of some of the world's most exclusive restaurants, including el Bulli, Arzak and Maison Pic. He is currently the head chef of Suculent restaurant in Barcelona and is featured on Condé Nast Traveller Spain's 'Top 25 Restaurants in Spain' list.
La Rambla executive chef Ferran Tadeo joins Romero for the collaborative affair. Dishes to look forward to include crispy chicken skin with glace cockscomb by Romero, and pigeon, curry and tapioca by Tadeo.
Find it here: 3071-73, Level 3, IFC Mall, Central. HK$1,400 per person; HK$2,200 per person including wine pairing. August 7 and 8.
Igor Macchia returns after three years to Cucina this August to showcase his spin on classic Italian dishes. He will be presenting a four-course tasting menu featuring dishes such as warm salmon fillet with smoked mayonnaise, miso and sesame for the starter course, and saffron risotto with burrata, pan-fried langoustine and coffee powder.
For the main course, expect kingfish with salad soup, vegetables, capers and olives which features fresh yellowtail from Japan. For dessert, diners will be treated to Macchia's own deconstructed version of the humble tiramisu. Dubbed Chef Igor's Tiramisu, it uses milk mousse instead of mascarpone cheese for a lighter texture and taste.
Find it here: Level 6, Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel, Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui. HK$888 per person, additional HK$550 for wine pairing. August 10-12.
Kashiwaya Hong Kong is teaming up with caviar house Kaviari for a one-night only collaboration dinner on August 16. Kashiwaya, a kaiseki restaurant, is the brainchild of grandmaster chef Hideaki Matsuo, who founded the first Kashiwaya restaurant in Osaka, Japan.
Kaviari is well known for its house-aged, farm-raised caviar. The 11-course menu includes highlights such as soba with caviar, perilla flower and leek, and Japanese rice with caviar and grilled sea urchin.
Find it here: 8/F, 18 On Lan Street, Central. HK$2,500 per person. August 20–25.


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MPAA RATING: R (for strong language, including racial epithets, and for disturbing/violent material and sexual references)
Veteran filmmaker Spike Lee earned his first Academy Award Best Director nomination with BlackKKlansman. The story, set in the early 1970s, is based on true events in the career of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Stallworth, a rookie at the time of this story, joined forces with veteran cop Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) to go undercover and infiltrate that region's Ku Klux Klan, also referred to by its members in the film as "the Organization."
Described as a comedy/drama, it is challenging to find much to laugh about here, although there is humor, and irony, in the very fact that a person of color was able to earn the trust of the KKK, including that of Grand Wizard David Duke (Topher Grace), albeit through smoke and mirrors. The screenplay by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Spike Lee, is based on the memoir written by Stallworth.
Washington and Driver, along with a fine supporting cast, give strong and convincing performances in this film that is uncomfortable to watch, as it should be. There has been criticism of this effort related to discrepancies about what occurred versus areas in which creative liberties were taken, but such is the case in many films that are "based" on true events.
Although the story takes place in the 1970s, it is beyond sad that racism and hate crimes continue to be common occurrences to this day, a point emphasized at the end of the film as Lee includes actual footage of the white nationalists' march on the University of Virginia campus and street protests in Charlottesville; a montage of horrific images by which the filmmaker has added an exclamation mark to this cinematic essay.


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From Happy Families food pouches, to their puffs, and their teethers I haven't found a product from them I dislike. We decided to try out their new Happy Tot Yogurt and it was delicious and very creamy (yes of course I tried it first). The great thing about this brand of Yogurt from other brands is that it is made with no added sweeteners! Which is amazing in my book and apparently really hard to come by!
Our breastfeeding journey started on May 13, 2016 after 22 hours of labor. Charlotte came into the world on her own time but quickly latched right after thanks to the male (yup I said it) nurse in our L&D Room, he was super helpful and helped get her to latch immediately. We transitioned to our postpartum room, and that's when things went a little south. It was extremely hard to get Charlotte to nurse on my own, and I was always pushing the little button in our room to ask for help. The first night her nursing was a hit or miss and one of the nurses said, "just give her a pacifier and get some rest." "We'll wake you when she's hungry." Well folks worst advice ever, because the next morning my child wouldn't latch at all and it was miserable.


At the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Property and Construction Group, Colin Stanbridge was the moderator when Tony Pidgley CBE, Chairman of the Berkeley group and LCCI President, went head-to-head with Councillor Darren Rodwell, Leader of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.
"Actually it was Darren and Tony's idea. Last year they both appeared on a panel session and felt frustrated that they had not been able to tackle the issues around housing that they felt strongly about. They therefore challenged London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) to host an 'open and honest' debate about the real issues affecting London.
We agreed to hold it at our Property and Construction Summer Reception. This prestigious networking event is one of the highlights in the sector's diary and is exclusively for members of LCCI to help them make new business connections, raise their profile within the industry and keep up-to-date with industry trends and developments.
I was sure that the spirit in which Tony and Darren had entered this event would ensure that the debate would be seriously illuminating and provide insights into both what divides the developer and the council leader and what they agree on. I believe that this relationship is key to how we tackle arguably the capital's biggest problem on how we build up to 50,000 new homes a year that are within the buying power of Londoners rich or poor.
Both argued their points robustly: greenbelt, land banking, CILs, Section 106, and costly bureaucracy were all debated with great passion. Deep breaths were drawn by the room full of senior executives from the property and construction businesses when Cllr Rodwell accused the industry of being too focused on profits. Tony Pidgley responded with examples of Kidbrooke Village, where the Royal Borough of Greenwich Council and Berkeley have worked closely for the benefit of the community. It is one of London's most significant new housing-led developments; a £1 billion regeneration transforming the area into a new community in partnership with the borough and the Mayor of London.
Questions from Peter Murray, Chairman of NLA on Crossrail 2; Adam Gaymer, Executive Director at Anthology on measuring success of apprenticeships, and Jean Duprez, Director of Duprez training company widened the debate on skills and London's growth.
In the end, both agreed that the solution to major challenges lay in partnerships between the private and public sector, with Cllr Rodwell citing the work of Be First: Barking and Dagenham's commercially driven body which is wholly owned by the council and managed by regen eration experts from the private and public sector, and led by Sir Bob Kerslake.


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Consumer spending on video in Europe 2008-2017, by sector
Consumer spending on video in Europe from 2008 to 2017, by sector (in million euros)
by Katrin Kienast, last edited Nov 12, 2018
This statistic shows consumer spending on video in Europe from 2008 to 2017, by sector. Spending on digital video increased from 64.3 million euros in 2008, to 5.7 billion euros in 2017. Spending on physical retail video decreased to roughly 3.3 billion euros in 2017.
Retail video (physical)
Rental video (physical)
Digital video*
TV/VOD**
* Spending on digital video includes the purchase or rental of movies and TV series over the open internet through transactional models, also known as EST, DTO, Internet VOD, or on a subscription basis.
** Spending on TV VOD includes the delivery of movies and TV content on a transactional (VOD, NVOD,/PPV) basis via calbe/satellite/IPTV services.
Distributor level excludes and consumer level includes VAT/sales tax.
Figure for rental video no longer published after 2013.
Data for 2008 was published earlier by the source.
Online video in Europe
Most popular video on-demand and streaming services in the UK 2017, by age
SVOD services take-up in the United Kingdom (UK) Q1 2014-Q2 2017
All 4 on-demand viewing time in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by platform
BBC iPlayer on-demand viewing time in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by platform
Statistics on "Video on demand in the United Kingdom (UK)"
Leading services
Users & Usage Behavior
Forecast of Video-on-Demand revenue by segment worldwide from 2017 to 2023 (in million U.S. dollar)Forecast of Video-on-Demand revenue by segment worldwide 2017-2023
Consumer revenues for on-demand audiovisual services in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2017 (in million euros)Consumer revenues for video on-demand (VoD) services in the UK 2011-2017
Forecast of Video-on-Demand revenue by segment in the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2023 (in million U.S. dollar)Forecast of Video-on-Demand revenue by segment in the United Kingdom 2017-2023
Forecast of Video-on-Demand ARPU by segment in the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2023 (in U.S. dollar)Forecast of Video-on-Demand ARPU by segment in the United Kingdom 2017-2023
Percentage of households subscribed to video on-demand services in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1st quarter 2014 to 1st quarter 2018Share of subscription video on demand (SVOD) households in the UK Q1 2014-Q1 2018
Daily broadcast and non-broadcast content consumption in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by device (in minutes)Daily broadcast and non-broadcast content consumption in the UK 2017, by device
Number of on-demand audiovisual services in the United Kingdom (UK) as of December 2018, by typeOn-demand audiovisual services in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by type
Number of video on-demand (VoD) services in the United Kingdom (UK) as of December 2018, by genre Video on-demand services in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by genre
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Most popular video streaming services based on share of audience demand in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017 Most in-demand video streaming services in the UK 2017, by share of demand
Thinking about when you watch TV programs or films, do you use any of the following services?*Most popular video on-demand and streaming services in the UK 2017, by age
Total viewing time for BBC iPlayer on-demand in the United Kingdom (UK) during the week ending September 9, 2018, by platform (in million minutes)BBC iPlayer on-demand viewing time in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by platform
Sky Go on-demand viewing time in the United Kingdom (UK) during the week ending September 9, 2018, by platform (in million minutes)Sky Go on-demand viewing time in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by platform
Total viewing time for All 4 on-demand in the United Kingdom (UK) during the week ending September 9, 2018, by platform (in million minutes)All 4 on-demand viewing time in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by platform
Distribution of video viewing time in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016 and 2017, by platforms and devicesUK video consumption breakdown 2016-2017, by platforms and devices
Share of respondents who watched on-demand television in the United Kingdom (UK) in January 2017, by viewing time per week and providerTime spent viewing on-demand TV per week in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, by provider
Reasons for using Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Now TV in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1st quarter 2018Reasons for using SVoD services in the United Kingdom (UK) Q1 2018
Time spent watching broadcaster video on demand (BVoD) per day in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2017, by platform (in minutes)Daily broadcaster video on demand (BVoD) viewing in the UK 2013-2017, by platform
Share of viewers watching broadcaster video on-demand (BVoD) in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by locationShare of BVoD viewers in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by location
Change in quality perception of video on-demand services in the United Kingdom (UK) in January 2017, by age groupQuality perception change of video on-demand services in the UK 2017, by age group
Consumer spending on physical video software in France 2008-2017
Consumer spending on digital and physical video in Norway 2008-2014, by sector
Consumer spending on digital and physical video in Denmark 2008-2017
Consumer spending on video in Spain 2009-2015, by sector
Consumer spending on video in Europe 2008-2013, by format
Transactions in the digital video market in Germany 2007-2013
Consumer spending on video in Italy 2008-2017, by sector
Consumer spending on video in France 2008-2017, by sector
Consumer spending on video by format in the United Kingdom (UK) 2016
Consumer spending on video in Germany 2008-2014, by sector
Consumer spending on video by format in the United Kingdom 2011-2021
Consumer spending on video in Europe 2008-2017
Consumer spending on video in Germany 2008-2013, by format
Consumer spending on video in France 2008-2013, by format
Consumer spending on video in Italy 2008-2013, by format
Population who have used TVoD in Sweden 2015, by age group
Consumer spending in Serbia 2007-2011, per capita
Industry revenue of »rental of video tapes and disks« in Slovakia 2011-2023
Private household consumer spending on communication services in Germany 1998-2017
Online video usage in the United States
Online Videos in China
Mobile video in the United States
Digital video market in Germany
United Kingdom video market: key data 2017
Video on demand in the Netherlands
Spain's video market: key data 2016
Germany's video market: key data 2014
France's video market: key data 2014
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Italy's video market: key data 2014
European video: the industry overview 2014
Forecast of Video-on-Demand revenue by segment worldwide from 2017 to 2023 (in million U.S. dollar)
Consumer revenues for on-demand audiovisual services in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2011 to 2017 (in million euros)
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Forecast of Video-on-Demand ARPU by segment in the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2023 (in U.S. dollar)
Percentage of households subscribed to video on-demand services in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1st quarter 2014 to 1st quarter 2018
Daily broadcast and non-broadcast content consumption in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017, by device (in minutes)
Number of on-demand audiovisual services in the United Kingdom (UK) as of December 2018, by type
Number of video on-demand (VoD) services in the United Kingdom (UK) as of December 2018, by genre
Take-up of the leading subscription video on-demand services in the United Kingdom (UK) from 1st quarter 2014 to 2nd quarter 2017 (in 1,000 households)
Most popular video streaming services based on share of audience demand in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2017
Thinking about when you watch TV programs or films, do you use any of the following services?*
Total viewing time for BBC iPlayer on-demand in the United Kingdom (UK) during the week ending September 9, 2018, by platform (in million minutes)
Sky Go on-demand viewing time in the United Kingdom (UK) during the week ending September 9, 2018, by platform (in million minutes)
Total viewing time for All 4 on-demand in the United Kingdom (UK) during the week ending September 9, 2018, by platform (in million minutes)
Distribution of video viewing time in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2016 and 2017, by platforms and devices
Share of respondents who watched on-demand television in the United Kingdom (UK) in January 2017, by viewing time per week and provider
Reasons for using Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Now TV in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1st quarter 2018
Time spent watching broadcaster video on demand (BVoD) per day in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2017, by platform (in minutes)
Share of viewers watching broadcaster video on-demand (BVoD) in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018, by location
Change in quality perception of video on-demand services in the United Kingdom (UK) in January 2017, by age group
Consumer spending on physical video software in France from 2008 to 2017 (in million euros)
Consumer spending on digital and physical video in Norway from 2008 to 2014, by sector (in million NOK)
Consumer spending on digital and physical video in Denmark from 2008 to 2017 (in billion DKK)
Consumer spending on digital and physical video in Spain from 2009 to 2015, by sector (in million euros)
Consumer spending on video in Europe from 2008 to 2013, by format (in million euro)
Number of digital video purchase and rental transactions in Germany from 2007 to 2013 (in millions)
Consumer spending on digital and physical video in Italy from 2008 to 2017, by sector (in million euros)
Consumer spending on digital and physical video in France from 2008 to 2017 by sector (in million euros)
Consumer video spending in the United Kingdom in 2016 (in million GBP)
Consumer spending on video in Germany from 2008 to 2014, by sector (in million euros)
Distribution of the consumer video market in the United Kingdom in 2011, 2016 and 2021, by video format
Consumer spending on video in Europe from 2008 to 2017 (in million euros)
Consumer spending on video in Germany from 2008 to 2013, by format (in million euro)
Consumer spending on video in France from 2008 to 2013, by format (in million euro)
Consumer spending on video in Italy from 2008 to 2013, by format (in million euros)
Share of population who have used TVoD in Sweden in 2014/2015, by age group
Consumer spending in Serbia from 2007 to 2011, per capita (in U.S. dollars)
Industry revenue of »rental of video tapes and disks« in Slovakia from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
Private household consumer spending on communication services in Germany from 1998 to 2017 (in billion euros)


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Let's build something better together
Central England Co-op is marking Co-op Fortnight by shining a light on what it has been doing to support communities and some of the great acts of co-operation carried out by colleagues throughout the Coronavirus pandemic.
Co-op Fortnight takes place between Monday, June 22 and Sunday, July 5 and the slogan for this year's campaign is 'Let's Build Something Better Together'.
The annual event is organised by Co-operatives UK and this year the Fortnight aims to harness the new culture of co-operation and change in everyday behaviour brought about by the Coronavirus pandemic to raise awareness of co-ops and the values that run through our diverse sector.
Central England Co-op has been determined to demonstrate its co-operative values to support communities during these uncertain times.
Among the ways it has done this has been through the setting up of five community hubs in Burton, Derby, Leicester, Lichfield and Stafford, working collaboratively with local councils and organisations to identify vulnerable members of the community and delivering packages of food and essentials.
When the retailer heard from its food bank partners about the huge spike in demand for their services at the same time as a drop in donations as the impact of the pandemic first hit in March, it launched an urgent food bank appeal and made five figure donations to both FareShare Midlands and FareShare East Anglia to support their vital work.
Central England Co-op also stepped in to support its charity partner Dementia UK with a donation of £25,000 to their urgent fundraising appeal, with other charity donations made by the Society including £40,000 to two charities as part of an effort to help support those impacted by a rise in domestic violence.
The Society showed its appreciation to the NHS by introducing a 10% discount for staff in its stores, while it delivered 1,000 'thank you' packages to care home staff across the country to show its appreciation for their efforts on the frontline.
Meanwhile, the retailer's colleagues who have been working around the clock in its food stores ensuring their communities have access to food and essentials and in its funeral homes supporting families say goodbye to loved ones, have also gone above and beyond to display their co-operative spirit.
This has included everything from delivering shopping to regular customers who have had to self-isolate and making donations of treats to hospital staff, to making vital PPE for carers in their spare time and fundraising with head shaves and long-distance runs.
It has also seen colleagues postpone retirement or even return from retirement to support teams on the frontline, as well as Members volunteering to do their bit and help in its stores.
Tanya Noon, Central England Co-op Member and Community Relations Officer, said: "Co-op Fortnight is a great opportunity to celebrate our co-operative difference alongside our partners in the wider movement and it is particularly timely during these uncertain times.
"Co-operation has been there for all to see over this challenging period and we have witnessed the real differences that can be made in our communities when we all co-operate.
"It has been inspirational to see how our colleagues have combined ensuring our communities continue to have access to vital essentials and services during this uncertain time, with supporting good causes, helping vulnerable residents and recognising fellow frontline workers, showcasing the true spirit of co-operation when it has been needed most."
You can read all about what Central England Co-op has been doing to support its communities during the Coronavirus pandemic by visiting a dedicated online hub at www.centralengland.coop/updates
A campaign video from Co-operatives UK about this year's event is below.


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Anna Kournikova (named by its author as "Vbs.OnTheFly Created By OnTheFly") was a computer worm written by a 20-year-old Dutch student named Jan de Wit who called himself 'OnTheFly' on February 11, 2001. It was designed to trick email users into opening a mail message purportedly containing a picture of the tennis player Anna Kournikova, while actually hiding a malicious program. The worm arrives in an email with the subject line "Here you have, ;0)" and an attached file called AnnaKournikova.jpg.vbs. When launched under Microsoft Windows the file does not display a picture of Anna Kournikova but launches a viral Visual Basic Script that forwards itself to everybody in the Microsoft Outlook address book of the victim.
Around March 26, 1999 Melissa was put in the wild by David L. Smith of Aberdeen Township, New Jersey. (The virus itself was credited to Kwyjibo, who was shown to be macro virus writers VicodinES and ALT-F11 by comparing MS Word documents with the same globally unique identifier—this method was also used to trace the virus back to Smith.) On December 10, 1999, Smith pleaded guilty to releasing the virus and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, serving 20 months. He was also fined US $5,000. The arrest was the result of a collaborative effort involving (amongst others) the FBI, the New Jersey State Police, Monmouth Internet and a Swedish computer scientist. David L. Smith was accused of causing $80 million worth of damages by disrupting personal computers and computer networks in business and government.
Netsky is a prolific family of computer worms which affect Microsoft Windows operating systems. The first variant appeared on Monday, February 16, 2004. The "B" variant was the first family member to find its way into mass distribution. It appeared on Wednesday, February 18, 2004. 18-year-old Sven Jaschan of Germany confessed to having written these, and other worms, such as Sasser. Although individual functions vary widely from virus to virus, the Netsky family perhaps is most famous for comments contained within the code of its variants insulting the authors of the Bagle and Mydoom worm families and, in some cases, routines that removed versions of these viruses. The "war" as it was referred to in the media caused a steady increase in the number of variant viruses produced in these families.
As of June 2004, Bagle had approximately 28, Netsky approximately 29, and MyDoom approximately 10. Other symptoms of Netsky included beeping sounds on specified dates, usually in the morning hours. The worm was sent out as an e-mail, enticing recipients to open an attachment. Once opened, the attached program would scan the computer for e-mail addresses and e-mail itself to all addresses found. Until October 2006, the P variant of this virus remained the most prevalent virus being sent in e-mail throughout the world, despite being over two and a half years old. It was surpassed by a variant from the Stration malware family in November 2006.
CIH, also known as Chernobyl or Space filler, is a Microsoft Windows 9x computer virus which first emerged in 1998. Its payload is highly destructive to vulnerable systems, overwriting critical information on infected system drives, and in some cases destroying the system BIOS. The virus was created by Chen Ing-hau, pinyin: Chén Yíngháo) who was a student at Tatung University in Taiwan. Now he is the chief executive officer, and founder of 8tory. 60 million computers were believed to be infected by the virus internationally, resulting in an estimated $1 billion US dollars in commercial damages. Chen claimed to have written the virus as a challenge against bold claims of antiviral efficiency by antivirus software developers. Chen stated that after the virus was spread across Tatung University by classmates, he apologized to the school and made an antivirus program available for public download; the antivirus program was co-authored with Weng Shi-hao, a student at Tamkang University. Prosecutors in Taiwan could not charge Chen at the time because no victims came forward with a lawsuit.
These events led to new computer crime legislation in Taiwan. The name "Chernobyl Virus" was coined sometime after the virus was already well known as CIH, and refers to the complete coincidence of the payload trigger date in some variants of the virus (actually the virus creation date in 1998, to trigger exactly a year later) and the Chernobyl disaster, which happened in the Soviet Union on April 26, 1986. The name "Space filler" was introduced because most viruses write their code to the end of the infected file – however, CIH looks for gaps in the existing program code, where it then writes its own code. This does not increase the file size and in that way helps the virus avoid detection.
Zeus is a Trojan horse made to infect Windows computers so that it will perform various criminal tasks. The most common of these tasks are usually man-in-the-browser keylogging and form grabbing. The majority of computers were infected either through drive-by downloads or phishing scams. First identified in 2009, it managed to compromise thousands of FTP accounts and computers from large multinational corporations and banks such as Amazon, Oracle, Bank of America, Cisco, etc. Controllers of the Zeus botnet used it to steal the login credentials of social network, email and banking accounts.
In the US alone, it was estimated that more than 1 million computers were infected, with 25% in the US. The entire operation was sophisticated, involving people from around the world to act as money mules to smuggle and transfer cash to the ringleaders in Eastern Europe. About $70 million were stolen and in possession of the ring. 100 people were arrested in connection of the operation. In late 2010, the creator of Zeus announced his retirement but many experts believe this to be false.
Surfacing in 2004, Mydoom was a worm for Windows that became one of the fastest spreading email worm since ILOVEYOU. The author is unknown and it is believed that the creator was paid to create it since it contains the text message, "Andy; I'm just doing my job, nothing personal, sorry," It was named by McAfee employee Craig Schmugar, one of the people who had originally discovered it. 'mydom' was a line of text in the program's code (my domain) and sensing this was going to be big, added 'doom' into it.
The worm spreads itself by appearing as an email transmission error and contains an attachment of it. Once executed, it will send itself to email addresses that are in a user's address book and copies itself to any P2P program's folder to propagate itself through that network. The payload itself is twofold: first it opens up a backdoor to allow remote access and second it launches a denial of service attack on the controversial SCO Group. It was believed that the worm was created to disrupt SCO due to conflict over ownership of some Linux code. It caused an estimate of $38.5 billion in damages and the worm is still active in some form today.
Code Red first surfaced on 2001 and was discovered by two eEye Digital Security employees. It was named Code Red because the pair were drinking Code Red Mountain Dew at the time of discovery. The worm targeted computers with Microsoft IIS web server installed, exploiting a buffer overflow problem in the system. It leaves very little trace on the hard disk as it is able to run entirely on memory, with a size of 3,569 bytes. Once infected, it will proceed to make a hundred copies of itself but due to a bug in the programming, it will duplicate even more and ends up eating a lot of the systems resources.
It will then launch a denial of service attack on several IP address, famous among them the website of the White House. It also allows backdoor access to the server, allowing for remote access to the machine. The most memorable symptom is the message it leaves behind on affected web pages, "Hacked By Chinese!", which has become a meme itself. A patch was later released and it was estimate that it caused $2 billion in lost productivity. A total of 1-2 million servers were affected, which is amazing when you consider there were 6 million IIS servers at the time.
Crypto Locker is a form of Trojan horse ransom ware targeted at computers running Windows. It uses several methods to spread itself, such as email, and once a computer is infected, it will proceed to encrypt certain files on the hard drive and any mounted storage connected to it with RSA public key cryptography. While it is easy enough to remove the malware from the computer, the files will still remain encrypted. The only way to unlock the files is to pay a ransom by a deadline. If the deadline is not met, the ransom will increase significantly or the decryption keys deleted. The ransom usually amount to $400 in prepaid cash or bitcoin.
The ransom operation was eventually stopped when law enforcement agencies and security companies managed to take control part of the botnet operating crypto Locker and Zeus. Evgeniy Bogachev, the ring leader, was charged and the encryption keys were released to the affected computers. From data collected from the raid, the number of infections is estimated to be 500,000, with the number of those who paid the ransom to be at 1.3%, amounting to $3 million.
"Computer Viruses." GradesFixer, 28 Jan. 2019, https://gradesfixer.com/free-essay-examples/computer-viruses/. Accessed 24 April 2019.


At AWCI, we understand that we will never be able to out-dream God. Nothing is too big for Him. We believe that He is calling us to dream a new dream, as a ministry and as a Spirit-filled church. Our Christian ministry in Columbia, South Carolina, must grow, and God's house must be taken to a new level of excellence. The story we tell you is not one of bricks and mortar. It is about our future and our goals for discipleship and Christian outreach. We ask you to pray as you read the following vision from our Christian leadership, which is spread across multiple phases.
We plan to build a 21,000 sq. ft., 300-seat facility for the youth of our church and our community. This youth center will feature a cafe, drama and dance ministry rooms, game rooms, and classrooms for breakout sessions.
In the next phase, our Christian ministry plans to add a 36,000 sq. ft. family life and community fitness center for fellowship. This facility will feature the most innovative fitness center in the state, including a gym, a jogging track, two cardio rooms, strength-training rooms, and additional fitness rooms, as well as 25 classrooms. This building will provide an excellent venue for fellowship and for obtaining a fitness level that leads to a healthy and effective life.
The final phase of our Christian outreach will be the building of a new sanctuary designed to accommodate 3,000 people. We also plan to establish a Christian academy to provide care and instruction for children from the cradle to high school. In conjunction with our current family, marriage, life improvement, and substance abuse ministry, as well as our prison ministry, this new academy will help to revolutionize our community, our state, and the world. Get in touch with us today to find out more.


Are you new to the topic of modern slavery a.k.a. human trafficking? Here's some basic stats to help get you familiar with the issue of slavery today.
Over 27 million people in our world are slaves today.
80% of slaves are women/girls.
50% of slaves today are children.
Human Trafficking does not necessarily mean people are transported out of their country or city but approximately 17,500 slaves are trafficked into the USA each year.
Poverty, lack of education and homelessness are things that can make a person (especially child or woman) particularly vulnerable to being trafficked.
Traffickers use force, coercion, deception, threats and even brain washing to take advantage of the vulnerable.
The average prostitute in the USA is a slave/trafficked person.
Help me to develop this introduction to Human Trafficking. What do you think should be included in an "Intro to Slavery Class"? Add your comments here.


A reimagining of Shakespeare's Play. Inventive, bold and original…. the versatile troop explore a physical, visual, and passionate take on the bard, making the title worthy of the word " Dream".
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If a number of youth come to GA from one congregation, can one adult be a sponsor for more than one youth?
Each adult sponsor may sponsor no more than 3 youth.


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Viewfinder Joins Square
Growing our NYC engineering presence with the Viewfinder team.
Written by Bob Lee.
We are excited to announce that the Viewfinder team is joining Square. The team is incredibly talented, having built an app that blends beautiful design and highly technical engineering to create personal, human experiences. This too is our mantra at Square, and the Viewfinder team's expertise in building simple, elegant mobile applications will help us in our mission to make commerce easy for everyone.
The Viewfinder team will work on seller initiatives out of our New York office. As senior members of our East Coast team, they'll help expand our NYC presence and achieve our goal of tripling the size of our engineering team in the city within the next year.
On a personal note, I couldn't be more excited to work again with Spencer, Peter, Ben, et al. Spencer and Peter first crossed my radar in the 90s when they created GIMP, the popular open source image editor. We crossed paths again at Google where they kindled the Google NYC engineering office and spearheaded key infrastructure like Google Servlet Engine and Colossus, Google's exascale distributed file system.
The team's passion, experience, and dedication to pushing the envelope makes them a perfect fit for Square, and we're thrilled to work with them. Bob Lee - Profile Reinventing something as fundamental as paths was hard. The solution we came up with may seem obvious, but there were…medium.com


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An Undertaking In Getting Real Owls To Carry Letters In Harry Potter
by Aquahoya1/ July 14, 2014/ Adventure, Fantasy/ No Comments/
Fact: The Owls in Harry Potter Movies were Trained to Carry Real Letters
The Harry Potter series ranks among the most magical fantasy movie productions. In the movies, owls carry messages from one wizard to another and accompany Harry Potter and his friends on multiple adventures. Originally, the production tried to train bats to carry letters, but this was scrapped due to the fact that the bats tended to urinate during flight.
The owls were actually trained to carry letters but the process was far from easy. The graphics team had to write one letter after the other to make these look authentic. The problem was that most of these were too heavy for the owls to carry. Even after the team identified the correct size for these letters, the owls needed six additional months to learn how to fly and carry those at the same time. Getting the owls to do what you want is far easier in the literary world where it's as simple as a stroke on a keyboard or a pen mark on a piece of paper. Training the fictional owls was not a problem encountered by J.K. Rowling when she wrote the original series of books. This is the beauty of being the writer and if you're as successful as she is, you can take any liberties you want in the creative process in the knowledge that fans will enjoy your work. Having your body of work brought to life on the big screen must be such a gratifying experience and is most likely the ultimate goal for most interested in publishing a book at some point in their lives.
Owl trainer Gary Gero revealed some additional information about the films. Some of the owls were presented as different species, even though some of them were the same species (the Brown Owl and the Tawny Owl). He said that all of the owls used in the movies were real, except for a few stunts that were animated. Since different species (there are 200 species of owl) of owls tend to be aggressive towards each other, filming parts of the movies where they had to appear together proved to be a real challenge.
Since the movies aired, one of the trainers whose owls were used in the movie, admitted a string of animal cruelty offences.
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Euchiton es un género de plantas con flores perteneciente a la familia de las asteráceas. Comprende 36 especies descritas y de estas, solo 17 aceptadas.

Taxonomía
El género fue descrito por Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini  y publicado en Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles [Second edition] 56: 214–218. 1828. La especie tipo es: Euchiton pulchellus Cass.
Etimología
Euchiton: nombre genérico que proviene de las palabras griegas eu = "bueno", y chitón = "una túnica o cubierta".

Especies
A continuación se brinda un listado de las especies del género Euchiton aceptadas hasta julio de 2012, ordenadas alfabéticamente. Para cada una se indica el nombre binomial seguido del autor, abreviado según las convenciones y usos.

Euchiton audax (D.G.Drury) Holub
Euchiton brassii (Mattf.) Anderb.
Euchiton breviscapus (Mattf.) Anderb.
Euchiton collinus Cass.
Euchiton delicatus (D.G.Drury) Holub
Euchiton ensifer (D.G.Drury) Holub
Euchiton involucratus (G.Forst.) Holub
Euchiton japonicus (Thunb.) Holub
Euchiton lateralis (C.J.Webb) Breitw. & J.M.Ward
Euchiton limosus (D.G.Drury) Holub
Euchiton litticola A.M.Buchanan
Euchiton paludosus (Petrie) Holub
Euchiton polylepis (D.G.Drury) Breitw. & J.M.Ward
Euchiton ruahinicus (D.G.Drury) Breitw. & J.M.Ward
Euchiton sphaericus (Willd.) Holub
Euchiton traversii (Hook.f.) Holub
Euchiton umbricola (J.H.Willis) Anderb.

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AGA PRO Plus APRO36FDWHT is a 19.8 cu. ft. counter depth french door refrigerator with 4 adjustable glass shelves, humidity controlled drawers, internal water dispenser, ice maker and electronic touch controls. The color of this fridge is white.
AGA PRO Plus APRO36FDWHT french door fridge keeps up with the acclaimed Aga's design. Its water dispenser is discreetly located inside making it quite sleek. You can enjoy pure refreshment provided by internal water system and easy to use push button controls anytime. Sliding freezer baskets with food organizers, adjustable door shelves and gallon door storage shelves make organizing the food in your fridge a snap. It is also ENERGY STAR compliant, so it will not add much to your electricity bill.


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Q: AWS RDS to PgAdmin Error saving properties Unable to connect to server: timeout expired Short description: AWS RDS connecting server to PgAdmin 4, PostgreSQL 11
Done: I have done similar to this guy or to this aws guide but at the end when I click save it does not accept it for me. instead gives the following
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Error saving properties
Unable to connect to server:
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What I have tried to solve the problem:

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*The instance is active it is 2 hours after creation

*I have also allowed to access database with outside of AWS database client "YES"

*this stack overflow answer does not deliver results https://stackoverflow.com/a/37903485/10270590 actually after refreshing my security group like the guide says my whole database disappeared

*I have home wi-fi so there are no corporate firewalls or any of those issues Unable to connect to AWS RDS instance

*while reading the pervious server fault post I looked up my

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*RDS/Databases:  what was empty

*RDS/Security groups: empty and I have this message:

Your account does not support the EC2-Classic Platform in this region.
DB Security Groups are only needed when the EC2-Classic Platform is supported.
Instead, use VPC Security Groups to control access to your DB Instances.

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*I have tried which this question unable to connect to public postgresql rds instance that had 2 good answers but they gave the same error even after doing bot of the changes

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*https://serverfault.com/a/656119/535406

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A: By default, Public accessibility is set to false while creating database in AWS.
There are two option, either to select it to true while creating the database or in case if you forgot to select it, you can modify the database and set it true.

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*While creating the database, Additional connectivity configuration section is collapsed and so it is difficult to notice this setting.

Expand the section Additional connectivity configuration, and you will find the setting to set "Publicly accessible" to Yes

*In case you already created the database, then you can modify the database and set the "Public accessibility" to "Yes".

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3D Leap Motion Controller shipping date delayed 2 months until July 22nd for more testing
by Matthew Panzarino — in Insider
Leap Motion CEO Michael Buckwald today announced on a conference call that the shipping of the company's 3D Motion Controller would be delayed until July 22nd. The reasons behind it, Buckwald says, were about 'living up to expectations'.
"There's nothing catastrophically wrong," Buckwald added, "we're very proud of the product…if we'd tried very hard we would have been able to ship the product [at the original time] but we wouldn't have had the time to do the iteration and testing that we would want to do otherwise."
The testing process that it has yet to do will be more along the lines of the way that people interact with the OS and such, rather than technical things like latency or any manufacturing problems. There are 600k devices ready to ship. Buckwald said that the internal conversations indicated that they could ship something in May, but that they really needed more time to polish it. The around 12,000 units shipped to developers will act as the early testing round, with those developers getting the full consumer software suite that Leap Motion wants to perfect before the units ship.
Beta testing of the product will begin the first week of June and pre-orders will begin on a 'hard date' of July 22nd, he says. "This will be the first and only delay…we're 100% confident that there will be a product that we're proud of and that will delight and amaze our customers."
The company had previously announced that it will begin shipping its 3D Motion Controller to U.S. and international pre-orderers on May 13th, including a big launch in Best Buy stores. This marks a couple of months delay. Leap Motion recently announced Google Earth support and announced back in early April that it would be bundled with future HP devices. Buckwald noted that this delay will not affect that deal.
Here's the letter Buckwald will be sending to pre-order customers:
I wanted to reach out to update you on the status of our ship date. After a lot of consideration, we've decided to push back the date and will now be shipping units to pre-order customers on July 22nd.
This is not a decision we take lightly. There are hundreds of thousands of people in over 150 countries who have pre-ordered Leap devices, some as long as a year ago. These people are part of our community and there is nothing more important to us than getting them devices as quickly as possible.
We've made a lot of progress. When we first started taking orders back in May we were twelve (very tired) people in a basement. Now we are eighty (although still tired and possibly still in a basement). We've manufactured over six hundred thousand devices and delivered twelve thousand Leaps to amazing developers who are building applications that let people do things that just wouldn't have been possible before. These developers have given us great feedback that we've used to make huge improvements to the stability and polish of the product. We're really proud of Leap as both a company and a product.
The reality is we very likely could have hit the original ship date. But it wouldn't have left time for comprehensive testing. This will come in the form of a beta test that will start in June. We will give the 12k developers who currently have Leap devices access to the feature complete product including OS interaction (today developers only have access to the SDK). We will also invite some people who are not developers to join the beta test.
Ultimately, the only way we felt 100% confident we could deliver a truly magical product that would do justice to this new form of interaction, was to push the date so we would have more time for a larger, more diverse beta test.
I really appreciate your patience. I know it's been a long wait. Everyone that works at Leap is working tirelessly to make sure that wait is worth it. Thanks so much for your help and support.
David and I will be participating in an open video Q&A using Google Hangout tomorrow. We'll send along more specific information on that shortly. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact our support team at support@leapmotion.com or my personal email (buckwald@leapmotion.com). As always, we will not charge pre-order customer's credit cards until the devices have actually shipped.
Thanks again. Michael Buckwald
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'Tis the season—the season to indulge in a myriad of horror movies in an attempt to keep myself from sleeping at night. Unfortunately, I won't be losing any sleep over Insidious, an overly drawn out haunt flick that borrows a bit too much from other films and fails to thrill in its final act. Insidious tells the story of a family who recently moved into a new house to find themselves harassed by ghostly spirits. It starts innocently enough, a few slamming doors, some moved books, but the situation quickly escalates into scary figures running around and demons making appearances. Oh yeah, and the eldest child falls into a coma in the midst of all this.
Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne star as Josh and Renai Lambert. She is some sort of musician, and he is a school teacher. Josh can't handle all that is happening to his family, and so he just hides at work while his wife braves the spirits alone for much of the movie. She's sort of a whiny supermom. She has a baby, a young child, and another one that's stuck in homecare in a coma. Josh totally neglects his family, and doesn't even believe Renai when she explains all that has been happening. Seemingly to shut her up, he moves them out of the haunted house and into a rental home. But the spirits follow. Cue Josh's mom, played by Barbara Hershey, a revelation about Josh's past, and a hodge podge team of paranormal experts led by a goofy psychic.
What starts as a legitimately suspenseful horror movie, quickly turns into an overcomplicated parody of itself. Some awkward humor, a contrived plot explanation, and a completely underwhelming conclusion ruined this one for me. The movie seemed like it wanted to be a basic haunt-fest, but halfway through took a divergent path that was a bit nonsensical and very uninteresting. And yes, it is possible to show too much. The suspense of the early part of the film lies in the mysterious figures lurking in the shadows. Once the overly painted faces of the evil spirits are exposed, it's really no longer scary.
So much promise, but alas, not as good as I would have hoped.
Thumbs only about a quarter of the way up, and that's because the beginning wasn't too bad.
Insidious is the story of a family who's looking to start over. It's implied that they've had some issues in the past and we are seeing them at a point in their lives where they are looking to wipe the slate clean. Flawed characters and new beginnings are not all that uncommon in the horror genre, though we find out so little about their past, mentioning them bordered on pointless.
There are parts of this movie that seem like a blatant ripoff of Poltergeist. In particular, when the movie's finale begins to resolve itself. At times, it really felt like elements of the script were bordering on plagiarism. Interestingly enough, the imitation wasn't what bothered me. The execution of this final act are where I think things started to unravel.
For a healthy chunk of the movie, I was intrigued. I'd say a good two-thirds of this movie is a fun ghost story that kept me on the edge of my seat. There are so many bad horror movies out there, that when you come across a good one, you get excited. But towards the end, it really started to spiral out of control. The visuals weren't scary, but instead kind of goofy; which is death for a horror movie.
It wasn't a bad movie, but I will say that it is a good thing it ended when it did. This was a perfect example of "less is more". The very second they started to fully reveal what was going on, the movie started going down. Fortunately for the film, that was about 75% of the way through.
Rating: Thumbs half up.
This movie review was written for your reading pleasure on October 17, 2011.


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Sony Pictures Entertainment Spotlights Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu
Sony Pictures Entertainment will feature Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, the award winning founder of soleRebels in their upcoming landmark series Trading Secrets: Inside the Minds Shaping Global Business.
Commissioned by the BBC, this 8-part series will air worldwide to over 300 Million homes at the end of 2012. Filming for the project begins this week in Addis Ababa and then moves to Denmark over the coming weeks.
The series explores the new world of business through the experiences of the 16 greatest business leaders on the planet in an exciting and groundbreaking format. BBC will heavily promote the series through a fully integrated marketing campaign that combines TV, print, multimedia, and social media.
"Participants for this series were selected because they represent the most inspirational business leaders across the world today! Bethlehem through her ingenuity, business acumen, innovative strategies and deep commitment to building a global brand that serves consumers and workers equally well, has earned her place among this exalted group", stated Mat Steiner, Managing Director for Sony's GOGGLEbox division, the production entity producing the series.
In each episode, one legendary business figure will meet an equally legendary businessman or woman and their conversations will be filmed. These two seminal business minds will share with each other, and the global audience watching, their experiences of running a global business, the lessons learned and how their decisions and strategies have influenced the shift in the shape of the global business landscape.
Bethlehem, hailed for creating soleRebels, the 1st global consumer brand to emerge from Africa, will be partnering with business maverick Joergen Vig Knudstorp the Chief Executive Officer of the iconic company LEGO, the 3rd largest toymaker on the planet!
"I am excited about sharing what soleRebels is all about with LEGO's CEO Joergen Vig Knudstorp. He is someone that I greatly admire, not simply for the fact that he resurrected a cherished global brand making it even better and more meaningful in the process, but for the manner in which he did that – with authenticity and ethics driving the entire endeavor. Those elements are KEY drivers behind everything we do at soleRebels", stated Bethlehem.
These two business mavericks will meet at LEGO's storied headquarters in Billund Denmark where they will explore subjects ranging from:
How Vig Knudstorp pulled the beloved 80+ year old LEGO brand back from the brink of death and turned the company into a highly innovative, massively profitable multi-billion dollar globe straddling powerhouse – all while maintaining the underlying authenticity of the LEGO brand.
How Bethlehem built soleRebels from scratch inside her community – one of the world's most impoverished – turning it into a multi-million dollar global enterprise that creates incredible footwear that people around the planet are passionate about while generating creative employment & prosperity inside Ethiopia.
What sustainability means for their enterprises, both known for their innovative approaches to full product and company sustainability.
Their global growth strategies for the next 5 years including how they address their shared idea of allowing consumers to actively engage with their respective brands.
Tag: BBC, Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, Global Business, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Trading Secrets


Bursts Of Color | Spring 2011 Out Here Magazine | Tractor Supply Co.
Laying out a plan for a new flower garden needn't be a daunting task. Armed with some basic fundamentals, it should be fun and successful.
With so many styles or types of flower gardens, the possibilities are limited only by your imagination and the space in your yard.
Location, location, location is a term heard often in the real estate business and it is true in gardening as well. If a flowery border brimming with colorful blooms and butterflies is your dream, then you will need a sunny location that gets six hours or more of sun each day. Placing a border in front of a hedge, wall, or fence gives it an interesting backdrop and some structure.
A rectangular border with straight lines is tempting but sweeping "S" curves help to soften the lines and make it easier to mow (if it is on the edge of the lawn). A garden hose or stiff rope is a concrete way to visualize this. Mark with spray paint or a series of stakes.
A walk-through garden is a nice fit for a narrow area along the side of a building, driveway, or even in the front yard leading visitors to the main door. The path can be curved; straight; simply a means to get from point A to point B; or a quiet place with a comfortable bench.
An island garden — which stands alone in the midst of your lawn — has advantages of its own, providing a view from every side and allows for air circulation to keep plants healthy.
Walk around your yard and observe areas that may fit one of these flower garden ideas. Note the amount of sun or shade and the conditions of the soil. Does it stay wet or does it tend to be dry? Adding organic matter helps but knowing these conditions will help later with the plant selection process.
Now that you have considered the options and know where the new flower garden is to be located, you can begin to give shape to your dreams by creating a garden plan or design.
Use graph paper to draw in the overall dimensions (length and width) of the garden bed. Use the grids on the graph paper to help match the scale you want in your landscape design. In my garden plans, each square equates 6 inches.
Place a piece of vellum (thin, see-through paper) over the graph paper and draw paths, stepping stones, curvy border edges, arbors, ponds, or any hardscape that you have thought about. Don't worry about perfection; this is just a place to draw ideas. If you don't like it, simply erase or pitch it and get another piece of vellum.
When you have the general design down on your vellum, use color pencils and start placing plants by sketching shaded blobs or circles.
When choosing the plants for your new garden, study the cultural needs and size of each plant and adjust accordingly to your zone's requirements. If a plant does well in a cooler climate, for example, plant it earlier in the season.
Sometimes gardeners have plant challenges where a trial-and-error attitude is fertile ground for learning how, what, and where to plant.
Take the time to tour local gardens in your area to see which plants are flourishing before making the final plant selection.
Silver-gray and white light up the garden at dusk and dawn.
There are no hard, fast rules to color combinations. Use colors that go well with your surroundings, or with your type of home. Blue, yellow, white, and silver are nice together, as are pink, purple, white, and silver. Combine bright or bronze foliage with orange and red. A color wheel is a useful tool; if two colors are side by side they go together, while opposite colors contrast.
Plan blooms, interesting foliage, seed pods, or texture for every season.
Use grasses and see-through plants — those with delicate foliage and stems fine enough to see the plants behind them — to give movement.
Add a bit of comedy with an unusual color or foliage.
Repeat colors (and plants) to create harmony.
Weave ribbons of seasonal color with annuals.
Add swaths of bulbs in the fall where you see gaps.
Think about attracting birds, butterflies, and beneficial insects.
Pillars are easy to make and allow for vertical interest in a border. A tall wooden fence post wrapped with chicken wire (attached with long staples) provides vines, roses, and sweet peas a place to grab hold of as they grow upward.
If you're planting near a fence, leave about 1 foot or so of space at the back for air circulation and to make for easy access for working in the garden.
Cindy Shapton is a Tennessee writer and master gardener.
These plants for the garden layout above are only suggestions. Some may not work in your area but you can find plants with similar size and shapes at your local nursery.
3 Salvia — "Black and Blue"
3 Buddleia — "Blue Chip"
5 Salvia — "Victoria blue"


Asian stocks stalled near six-month highs Tuesday as investors weighed earnings in the U.S. and Japan.
Shares were little changed in Tokyo, Sydney and Seoul, while futures signalled Hong Kong equities will decline. The Singapore-traded SGX Nifty, an early indicator of NSE Nifty 50 Index's performance in India, rose 0.15 percent to 11,753 as of 7: 20 a.m.
U.S. stocks halted a three-day advance mixed after disappointing results from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. dragged down bank shares.
The yield on 10-year Treasuries was steady at 2.55 percent.
#BQMarketWrap | U.S. stocks fall after bank earnings; crude drops.
Topix index fell 0.2 percent.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index futures lost 0.4 percent.
S&P 500 futures were little changed. The S&P 500 fell 0.1 percent.
Brent crude remained unchanged at $71.16 per barrel.
WTI crude oil rose 0.1 percent to $63.49 a barrel after dropping 0.8 percent.
Aluminium gained for the session straight session, ended 0.11 percent higher.
Copper halted a two-day gain, ended 0.06 percent lower.
Lead snapped its four-day fall, ended 0.1 percent lower.
Tin halted its one-day gain, ended 0.24 percent lower.
Nickel resumed losses after a one-day gain, ended 0.24 percent higher.
LEEL Electricals: Mukat Behari Sharma, wholetime director and CFO has resigned due to his health and personal reasons. Ajay Dogra and Deepti Sahai, non-executive independent director has resigned due to health and personal reasons.
ICICI Lombard General Insurance: IRDAI has approved re-appointment of Bhargav Dasgupta as MD and CEO for a period of five years effective from May 1, 2019.
Company has received show cause notice from Directorate of Enforcement in relation to erstwhile Shriram Holdings (Madras) Pvt. Ltd. which was amalgamated with Shriram Transport Finance w.e.f April 1, 2012.
Shriram Holding had relevant approval for foreign equity participation of up to 74 percent. Shriram Holding had issued warrants to the extent of Rs 243.6 crore in 2006 which were converted into equity shares within the prescribed limit.
The notice alleges that the warrants were issued without relevant approvals. The company had sought clarification from Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) at that point of time.
However, Department of Economic Affairs said that the policy regarding issuance of warrants was not explicit in the year 2006 and an approval of FIPB was not required.
Company is under the bona fide view that it has not contravened any of the provisions of FEMA for which it has been alleged.
Polycab India shares to start trading on the exchanges after IPO gets 51.9 times demand at Rs 538 per share.
Rattanindia Finance sold 4.5 crore shares or 1.63 percent equity at Rs 2.43 each.


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Don't Expect Dries Van Noten To Tweet Anytime Soon
By Kenzie Bryant Apr 2, 2012, 11:00am EDT
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Belgian design god Dries Van Noten wrapped up the Alliance Francaise's Fashion Talks in New York last thursday night with some insight into his design philosophy, his inclination toward ugliness, and his strict upbringing in '70s era French fashion schools. But don't expect him to embrace social media any time soon. Instead, he prefers to put all of his communicative eggs in one basket: "Fashion shows are really my way of communication. I don't go on Twitter, I don't go to parties, I don't often do fashion talks like this. So for me, it's really what I want to communicate." Let's hope Tim Gunn won't be too lonely out there in the Twittershere all by himself.
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My Palestinian mother has a favorite expression that she likes to use. Whenever she wants the curtains pulled back, a window or door opened to the outside world, or just wants to get out of the house, to be outdoors, she would always say that she wants to "ashoof wijih rabie" (roughly translated: to see the face of my God).
The "face of God" to her, meant the beauty of God's creation, visible to all! The blue skies, the green hills, the moonlit nights, and the dew covered flowers, were all symbolic of the face of God, meant to be seen and enjoyed!
Last summer, while my family and I were in Palestine, we got to see and experience, first hand, the magnificence of God's face and the ugly face of occupation and oppression, the Apartheid Wall that is being built by Israel.
Even as a small child, I was enthralled by the simple yet awe inspiring natural beauty that surrounded me. The ancient olive trees, swaying in the morning breeze or covered in a blanket of white snow, the daily display of exquisite sunsets as the sun dipped below the surrounding hills, and my favorite one of them all, the magnificent moonlit nights whereby the moon would first appear to be resting on top of the hills, as if it were a giant spot light, and then arc across the sky, saturating the entire country side in its golden hue!
A few weeks back, I was talking on the phone with a friend of ours who lives in the neighboring village of Al-Ram. While we were talking, he quipped that in his neighborhood in Al-Ram, it gets darker much earlier than in the other areas. I laughed it off, thinking that he was making another one of his wise cracks, but he assured me that he was dead serious.
His home and place of business in al-Ram, which is located on the main road between Jerusalem and Ramallah, face due west. This used to be a blessing because he could sit on his porch in the late afternoons, drink a cup of tea and smoke a cigarette as he watched the sun sink slowly behind the hills, affording him a front row seat, perfect for enjoying the lovely sunsets.
This he informed me, has come to an end with the building of the abominable 30 foot high concrete wall that runs right down the middle of the main street which connects Jerusalem to Ramallah and beyond! The wall runs the length of the road, in a north to south direction. So as the sun begins to set, it literally does get darker earlier for those people that have homes and businesses in the "shadow of the wall", because the wall blocks out the sun as it sets in the late afternoon/early evening, casting a dark shadow on them!
And so, my friend says that he will no longer sit on his porch, much as had done for many years, enjoying the sunsets. All he sees nowadays when he looks out his windows or doors are the accursed Wall. He no longer sees "wijih rabbou" (the face of his God) when he looks out his door. Instead he sees "wijih althulum" (the face of oppression) and the ugly shadow that it casts… God's beauty, replaced by the ugliness of man!
Mike Odetalla was born in Beit Hanina. His website can be found at www.hanini.org.


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How 24 Week Twins Inspired Two Parents to Give Back
April 20, 2017 by Graham's Foundation
Anne-Marie & Jonathan are not just Graham's Foundation NICU Ambassadors. They're also the parents behind one of the biggest annual Parents of Preemies Day celebrations! We had a chance to ask them about their prematurity journey and why they dedicated their time to helping a new generation of parents of preemies.
Q. What was your family's experience with premature birth?
A. My husband Jonathan and I were thrilled to learn we were pregnant with boy/girl twins. We have an older daughter, now seven, who was born at term and it never occurred to us that something like that this would happen. Unfortunately, around Week 22 gestation, one of the amniotic sacs on the twins ruptured and I was immediately put on bed rest at UCLA Santa Monica hospital. We were all committed to many weeks of bedrest until the twins could be safely birthed however, about two weeks later, I unexpectedly went into labor in the middle of the night and the twins had to be emergency delivered. They were born at 24 weeks and 2 days gestation and each child weighed about a pound and a half.
Both twins, Leo & Hannah, had a wide range of health complications and issues as a result of their extreme prematurity including skin and central line infections, infiltrations of the skin, bilateral inguinal hernias, and more. Around Week 33 gestational age, Leo developed a serious case of Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) and had to ambulanced to UCLA's medical center in Westwood where he was injected in one eye with an experimental drug. Consequently, he could not be move hospitals again and we now found ourselves with two babies in two different NICUs for the remainder of their time in the hospital as well as a then-three and a half year old daughter at home to care for. It was certainly a challenging time for us all. I experienced a wide range of emotions from despair to hope and experienced depression and anxiety throughout the babies' stay in the NICU. I was also pumping breastmilk for them every few hours, day and night, and this contributed to feeling both exhausted and overwhelmed.
HANNAH, Born at 24 weeks, 2 days, 1 lb, 9 oz – 100 Days in NICU
Hannah spent a total of 100 days in the NICU and Leo spent 107 days in the NICU and both children required several rounds of surgeries post-NICU to repair the hernias and skin infiltration. It was a real roller coaster of a ride as they often say about the NICU experience. I think that one of the hardest things was that Leo gained weight so slowly. Every night, we would call the NICU from home and get a report on his weight. It seemed like an eternity for him to put on a pound, especially compared with Hannah, who was growing at a faster rate.
LEO – Born at 24 weeks, 2 days, 1 lb, 6 oz – 107 Days in NICU
Today, Leo & Hannah are active, thriving and pretty typical four year olds. Both children benefited greatly from several years of early intervention services including physical, occupational and speech therapy. The kids attend a local pre-school and in another year are off to kindergarten and we couldn't be more thrilled about where they are now. Seeing them with their friends, one would never know the difficult start that they had in life. We marvel at their sturdiness and health after such a rocky beginning.
Q. What made you decide you wanted to give back? How did you hear about Graham's Foundation's NICU Ambassador program?
A. It was a pretty rough and dark time for us with the babies in the NICU and it seemed interminable. None of our family or close friends had been through anything similar to what we were experiencing so it was difficult to relate this with our inner circle. One of our favorite NICU Charge nurses mentioned Graham's Foundation to us and told us that the organization had a local NICU Ambassador who could talk with us if we wanted. We emailed Graham's and within a few days received a message from Nicole Bugna-Doyle, our local NICU Ambassador and mother of micropreemie twins herself.
Of all the social services the hospital tried to offer us including weekly parental support groups or occasional talks with the hospital's Social Worker, speaking with Nicole and later with her husband John was probably the single most powerful and effective thing we could have done during our medical odyssey.
We learned a lot from Nicole and she gave us many tips and insights on how to deal more effectively with the hospital, doctors, and insurance company, and also provided us with other resources available to families with preemies that we would not have otherwise known about. Seeing Nicole and John's beautiful twin boys also gave us enough comfort and hope as to help us see the "light at the end of the tunnel". It made us feel much more confident that our babies' time in the NICU would come to an end one day and that we would be able to finally take them home with us.
We feel so grateful for the medical care and early intervention services our children received and we know that a lot of families don't always have such access to care or such positive outcomes with their kids. Before we became NICU Ambassadors, we were told by a few of the other families that, once you go through the experience of having a child or multiple children in the NICU, all you want to do is help others go through the experience and "pay it forward". That message really resonated and stuck with us and this is primarily why we decided to get involved with Graham's Foundation and the NICU Ambassador program.
Q. What are your family's goals as NICU Ambassadors? What have you been able to accomplish in the role?
A. Jonathan and I become NICU Ambassadors for two local hospitals UCLA Santa Monica as well as St John's Hospital in Santa Monica. We are available for outreach when a family seeks help through the Graham's Foundation website. We also distribute NICU Care Packages and other items from Graham's Foundation for families in the NICUs at these hospitals a few times each year.
As well, we have organized and hosted a "Parents of Preemies Day" event for Greater Los Angeles at UCLA Medical Center for the past three years. These have been wonderful celebrations of the Parents of premature children and an opportunity to take a few hours on the first Sunday each May to meet other similar families, share stories, enjoy some entertainment, and connect with one another. With UCLA's generous support, we hope the event keeps growing and continues for many years to come.
Q. You host a Parents of Preemies Day event each year – what has the response been in your NICU?
A. The response from the NICUs, the medical staff and the hospital administration has been very positive. As mentioned, this year will be our third annual event and UCLA has been extremely supportive both in terms of providing resources like the event space, food and complimentary parking as well as helping us get the word out about Parents of Preemies Day to current or former NICU babies and their families.
We recognize though it may be hard for some families with babies still in the NICU to break away and come spend the afternoon with other families who have graduated already from the NICU. Sometimes the experience is too fresh and often painful for them to leave their baby's bedside and be comfortable with the idea of "celebrating" themselves, even if it's only for a few hours and that's ok.
Our hope is that we can plant seeds in the minds of these and other families about Graham's Foundation and Parents of Preemies Day and that once they are in a better place with their babies and families, they will consider becoming volunteers and helping others in turn.
Q. What do you think people should know about the NICU Ambassador program? What would you tell parents who are considering joining?
A. We think the program is fantastic and we wish more people knew about it. We are often surprised to speak with families who have had preemies and spent time in the NICU tell us that they wish they had heard about Graham's Foundation and the NICU Ambassador program while they were in the hospital. We would tell parents who are considering joining that they shouldn't hesitate because it is so rewarding and there is so much value in sharing your experiences and helping other families who are going through what you have been through. You may not think you will have much impact on them but believe us from personal experience, you will.
Q. What do you think the most important thing a new parent of a preemie needs to hear in the NICU?
A. First and foremost, they should know that you are not alone. It may feel like that at when you first arrive in the NICU but there are plenty of families out there who have gone through this and it's important to see them as a critical resource for you. Contact Graham's Foundation and use its' NICU Ambassador or Preemie Parent Mentors program as a way to reach out to other families in your area with preemies who have been through what you are experiencing. Having walked in your shoes, these parents can give you so much support and guidance that might not otherwise be available to you.
Also, we think it's important that parents of preemies get informed, ask questions, and don't be afraid to challenge your nurses and doctors if you think something is amiss or you feel your child is not being best served. Believe it or not, even with your newborn, you know your baby better than anyone else and it's crucial that you be their advocate and their voice at this early stage in their life.
Interested in sharing your prematurity story? Email christa @ grahamsfoundation . org with your story and photos or submit via this form.
Categories: Bringing Preemie Home, Life After NICU, Life in the NICU, Parenting Preemies, Preemie Issues, Preemie Multiples
About The Author: Graham's Foundation
Emily is our mentor for Life After NICU. She's available to support parents who are on the preemie journey beyond the NICU.
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Freehold title information for communities
From 1 January 2015, new rules give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities the option to convert some of their communal lands to freehold land.
The aim is to make it easier for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to invest in their own homes, businesses and communities.
The new rules will allow Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to own freehold in their own communities and, as owners, to mortgage, lease or run a business on their land. They will be able to sell their land to anyone on the open market if they choose to do so.
Important: communities do not have to take up the freehold option. It is up to each trustee to consult with their community to decide whether or not freehold is appropriate for the community.
If your community chooses the freehold option, freehold land will become available as soon as your community's freehold instrument has been approved and attached to your local planning scheme. This could be towards the end of 2015. Check with your trustee for more information.
What is freehold?
Freehold land is owned absolutely by the owner, with ownership registered as a freehold title.
The freehold owner can use the land as they choose, provided they follow the law and comply with planning requirements. The trustee and the government can't put restrictions on the use of freehold land the way they can for leasehold land.
As a freehold owner, you have the right to:
sell the land
lease the land and collect rent
use the land as security to borrow money (mortgage) for a home or business
build a home on the land
improve the land
run a business on the land.
Owning freehold makes you responsible for the land and any buildings on it. As a freehold owner, you are responsible for:
controlling weeds and pests on the land
fixing any problems with the house or land
getting insurance for the buildings
paying any local government rates and charges.
Availability of freehold land on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land
Freehold is an option in 34 Aboriginal shire councils and Indigenous regional councils. These are: Aurukun, Badu, Bamaga, Boigu, Cherbourg, Darnley, Dauan, Doomadgee, Hammond Island, Hope Vale, Injinoo, Kowanyama, Kubin, Lockhart River, Mabuaig, Mapoon, Masig, Mer, Mornington Island, Napranum, New Mapoon, Palm Island, Pormpuraaw, Poruma, Saibai, Seisia, St Pauls, Ugar, Umagico, Warraber, Woorabinda, Wujal Wujal, Yam and Yarrabah.
The freehold option only applies to town land within these communities. This is land identified in the planning scheme as 'urban' or 'future urban' use. Land outside the towns cannot be granted as freehold and must remain as communal land.
Native title must be either surrendered or previously extinguished before freehold will be granted.
Trustees can place further restrictions on what land is available. If your community decides to offer freehold, the trustee will consult with the native title holders and community and identify the available land.
Eligibility for freehold land
The legislation restricts the initial grant of freehold title to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander persons and their spouses or former spouses.
Trustees can add extra restrictions to reflect community wishes. For example, following consultation, the trustee could decide to make freehold land available in specific areas only to a particular family or group of families with a connection to that land.
Any restrictions on who is eligible to apply for freehold will be set out in your community's freehold policy. If you do not meet these eligibility restrictions, you cannot apply for freehold.
Resale of the land
Once freehold title to the land has been granted, there are no restrictions on who the land can be sold to.
Leaseholders and social housing tenants
If you are the tenant or leaseholder of land that is being made available for freehold, you (and only you) will be able to apply for freehold over that land.
You will need to meet the eligibility criteria (see above) and have been the leaseholder or tenant as of 1 January 2015.
If there are any buildings on the land, you will need to buy them as part of obtaining freehold (unless you already own them). For example, if you are a social housing tenant, you will need to apply to the housing department to approve the sale of the house. The department and the trustee will set the price for the house.
How to apply for freehold land
You can apply for freehold once the trustee has an approved freehold instrument for your community. The freehold instrument will set out:
what land is available for freehold
who is eligible to apply for freehold
how you can apply.
If you want to apply for freehold or have other questions please contact your trustee.
The Queensland Government is not funding the freehold process but will not charge for the land. The government will only receive the standard fees that apply to all land transactions.
The community's trustee will need to cover any costs of making the land available through the purchase price they set.
The cost of selling the land could vary significantly, depending on whether:
the land has already been surveyed
services such as road access are present or need to be provided
native title issues have been resolved.
Consultation and allocation processes
Your trustee will consult the community and native title holders to decide whether to offer freehold land and how to do it.
If freehold land is going to be made available, the trustee will put together a document (the freehold instrument). This document records the details of the land being made available and the process for allocating it. The Queensland Government must approve the document. Your local government will then attach it to its planning scheme.
The trustee will make sure the land is ready to be allocated. For example, they will ensure that native title and road access are addressed and that the land has been surveyed - these costs may be passed on to the person applying for freehold.
Once these steps have been completed, the trustee will begin allocating the land following the process that is set out in the freehold policy, for example, to an existing interest holder or by an auction, ballot or tender process.
If you are a leaseholder or a social housing tenant on the land, the trustee can allocate that land to you directly, as long you meet the eligibility criteria and the land is identified in the freehold instrument.
Read about the freehold allocation process in the freehold guide for trustees.
Contact your trustee or local government for more information about the freehold title option in your community.
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