Hitting a plateau in your growth? Struggling to structure your business? Facing burnout? Failing to grow your database and build better relationships?
Ideally, the right real estate coach will be someone who has dealt with everything you're going through right now and can advise you on things that will be coming in the future and making sure you're headed in the right direction. Top coaches are typically experienced industry veterans who understand what it takes to get in the game and be successful.
Hiring a coach means you put that experience on your side and receive personal consultations, support, and someone to keep you motivated and hold you accountable.
Coaches often have different specialties too. With the shaman-like status and cult-like following so many of the industry's top coaches receive, it's hard not to get swept up into the hype. But is a real estate coach right for you? The answer lies in aligning your business needs with the right expertise.
You can even get coaching on specific systems for your business. For example, at BoomTown, we offer BoomTown coaching services for maximizing your use of the BoomTown system. Whether it's an industry expert and veteran coach, or a client partner who has mastered the system for success, you are carefully matched with the right mentor based on your unique business needs. BoomTown Partner Coaches are experts in the industry who can help you expand your business, set and attain your business goals, and create a thriving team culture. BoomTown Peer Coaches are actual BoomTown users who can help you leverage the BoomTown system on everything from lead conversion and integrating tools, to team accountability and recruiting.
Make sure the coach or company has a proven track record of successfully helping other agents to reach their goals. The best coaches are often the ones who have been in your shoes, so dig a little deeper to find what their background is, what they specialize in, and if you think they'd be able to have a deep understanding of your business, your problems, and offer insight and advice.
Usually, ample information should be available on their website to see who they've worked with before, testimonials, and success stories. These are great ways to find folks in similar situations to yours and see how coaching helped them overcome their obstacles.
While you want to check off "industry and coaching experience" first, the immediate next concern is how up-to-date their practice is in this digital age. We know technology and marketing are changing every day, but are the methods and teaching of this coach? They understand the marketing needs of modern real estate agents. Make sure you're working with someone who can help you leverage technology to boost your marketing, streamline your work, and grow your business.
One-size-fits none. While many businesses can benefit from the same advice, most likely you'll maximize your return from a coach if they are well versed in your unique business and able to identify potential pitfalls to avoid, problems to overcome, and strengths to play up. Like a soccer coach should know the talents and weaknesses of his players, and build success strategies around them, a real estate coach should do the same for your business.
Take a look at Real Estate Coach Tom Ferry in his BoomTown Unite keynote speech. Here's a wonderful example of the energy and can-do strategies a coach can lend to your business.
When you're researching coaches, many will offer a consultation to evaluate your business. Take advantage of this! Fill them in on what you're doing for lead generation, relationship building, and team systems. Take their feedback and see if they "get it" and can target areas for improvement immediately.
Different coaches and coaching companies offer a wide variety of on-demand support and availability. Depending on your business needs and your own personality, you may need someone who is on-call for questions and issues as they arise, or you may prefer to take it slow, with routine scheduled sessions on a weekly basis.
Sometimes simply attending a training course, workshop, or seminar might suffice for a certain amount of time. Either way, make sure you've looked into what is offered and make sure you're comfortable with the level of support they offer.
As we all know, sometimes "fire drills" happen, and you want to know you'll have help if you need it.
Some coaching can even take the form of attending seminars and training courses, or something as simple as subscribing to a marketing podcast and implementing the strategies of seasoned vets like Gary Vaynerchuk. Be sure to investigate all possible offerings that might meet your needs.
It's also worth noting that with the larger coaching companies, you're signing up for a "program" developed by a famous coach, but you're ultimately working with a coach that's under the head honcho, and effectiveness can vary.
If you're just starting out, and trying to keep a very tight budget, consider a more affordable, local coach who can help you start to grow your business before jumping to the industry "coaching franchises" with their hefty fees.
Beware of anything that sounds too good to be true or a "get rich quick scheme." Some parasitic companies are out there to sucker agents into long-term contracts for programs that don't deliver, so always do your homework and verify the company or person you're looking to work with.
Many real estate agents gravitate towards coaches to seek accountability, motivation, and expert consulting. It's a second set of eyes on their business, an expert opinion, or a kick in the pants when they need it. Although many remain skeptical of the effectiveness of most coaching practices, most who use the, seem to agree that the effectiveness of their advice also depends on the receptiveness and commitment level of the one being coached.
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Welcome to the Renaissance and the outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce, Something Rotten. Created by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Wayne Kirkpatrick, and successful screenwriters Karey Kirkpatrick and John O'Farrell, Something Rotten was lauded by audience members and critics alike, receiving several Best Musical nominations and hailed by Time Out New York as " the funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years&quot.
Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as " The Bard." When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing, and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world's very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of the opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that
reaching the top means being true to thine own self, and all that jazz. Something Rotten features large song and dance numbers, and a wacky cast of over-the-top characters, each given his or her own special moment in the show to shine. Throughout its Broadway run, the musical received a show-stopping standing ovation from audiences… in the beginning of the first act! It's become clear that "nothing's as amazing as a musical," so don't miss your chance to bring this history-twisting tale to your stage.
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Here's what's to be done for maintaining GCC.
those for us (and GNU/k*BSD) as well.
rename to `gnu-user` to reflect this?  TODO.
TODO, probably needs porting, if we need this.
libgcc/config/i386/morestack.S:	cmpl	%gs:0x30,%eax		# See if we have enough space.
libgcc/config/i386/morestack.S:	movl	%eax,%gs:0x30		# Save the new stack boundary.
libgcc/config/i386/morestack.S:	movl	%ecx,%gs:0x30		# Save new stack boundary.
<gnu_srs1> Hi, I assume gcc -fsplit-stack is not yet supported?
<braunr> lenght of 0 ?
a size of 0 ..
valid for us (yet), I think.
`--enable-gnu-unique-object`, but GNU/Hurd is not.
Alternatively, can we use `#ifndef inhibit_libc` for this (these?) file(s)?
`/usr/include` patch*, but glibc still installs into `/include/`?
<youpi> not from features.h ?
<gnu_srs> Hi, looks like __GLIBC__ is not defined by default for GNU?
<tschwinge> gnu_srs: See the email I just sent.
included in the kFreeBSD build of webkit.
<gnu_srs> It is defined in their build, but not in the Hurd build.
<tschwinge> I might raise this upstream at some point.
Testresults same as for GNU/Linux.
is used in libgcc for ObjC wrapper stuff and similar in libstdc++.
* Does this make sense for us?
is `targetm` set?  All TARGET_C99_FUNCTIONS and TARGET_HAS_SINCOS gone?
+    // area isn't at the very bottom of the calling functions stack.
+    // number of parameters up to multiple of 4.
+    // parameters.  param_size is 5 * size of a stack slot.
+            // area isn't at the very bottom of the calling functions stack.
+            // number of parameters up to multiple of 4.
+            // parameters.  param_size is 5 * size of a stack slot.
+    // define _GNU_SOURCE before *any* #include.
+    // already defined when it is #included.
<tschwinge> Yes.  That most likely needs disabling for us.
<tschwinge> I'll hve a look eventually.
Only enabled for GNU/Linux, but actually seems to be portable.
need a long list and the same option will work for future compilers.
It can also be used to compile interrupt handler.
Will this be useful for GNU Mach, too?
Why is `TARGET_PRINTF_POINTER_FORMAT` `#define`d in `gcc/config/linux.c`?
* config/linux.h (TARGET_PRINTF_POINTER_FORMAT): Define macro.
* targhooks.c (linux_printf_pointer_format): Define new function.
`--enable-default-pie`, but GNU/Hurd is not.
on kepler.SCHWINGE and [[5 h 14 min|performance#measure]] on laplace.SCHWINGE.
`sed`ed away in `log_build*`.  TODO.
where this is added to `XCFLAGS` for `i86-*-linux*` only.  TODO?
[[binutils]] issue?  Should be aligned by Samuel's binutils patch.
vs. `i86-*-*`, but apparently is important only for *x86_64* anyway.
that correct?  Probably futex support.
kepler.SCHWINGE and [[5 min|performance#measure]] on laplace.SCHWINGE.
A lot of the failures are due to gcc's unwind support not knowing about signal trampoline on GNU/Hurd, this is a TODO.
spawn -open -1 failed, 1 5, The system has no more ptys.  Ask your system administrator to create more.
started FAILing (ICE) on kepler.SCHWINGE).
All have basically the same backtrace.  TODO.
define `CHECK_TEST_FRAMEWORK` to run these tests?
gnatmake --GCC="/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/xgcc -B/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/" -gnatws -O2 -gnat95 -fstack-check -I/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/testsuite/ada/acats/support cb1010a.adb -largs --GCC="/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/xgcc -B/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/"
TO A TASK IS EXCEEDED.
gnatmake --GCC="/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/xgcc -B/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/" -gnatws -O2 -gnat95 -fstack-check -I/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/testsuite/ada/acats/support cb1010c.adb -largs --GCC="/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/xgcc -B/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/"
gnatmake --GCC="/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/xgcc -B/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/" -gnatws -O2 -gnat95 -fstack-check -I/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/testsuite/ada/acats/support cb1010d.adb -largs --GCC="/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/xgcc -B/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/"
EXECUTION OF A SUBPROGRAM IS INSUFFICIENT.
... and all (\?) following.
runtest/expect runs, as also seen in GDB testing.
Nothing to note in gnat.log either.
unwinding through signal frames (typically located in *-unwind.h) to pass*.
$ ../../../../../../gnatmake --GCC="/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/xgcc -B/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/" -gnatws -O2 -gnat95 -fstack-check -I/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/testsuite/ada/acats/support cb1010a.adb -largs --GCC="/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/xgcc -B/home/thomas/tmp/gcc/hurd/master.build/gcc/"
also been using `-fstack-check`, without running into timeouts.
Last successful run of the testsuite was on 2015-01-20.
hurd (1:0.6.git20151012-1) breaks libc0.3 (<< 2.19-15~) and is installed.
Version of libc0.3:hurd-i386 to be configured is 2.19-11~.
Restoring a root filesystem image last upgraded on 2015-05-10.
`stack_check1.exe` process, the shutdown/reboot proceeds.
tree available for make check?  or it's a pure installed-tree test?
<jsm28> dnovillo: Source tree, install tree, no build tree.
the */testsuite trees to a testing area?
is pointed to the source tree to find sources.
mounted at the same path on host and target.
source tree i need to copy.
<dnovillo> jsm28: for libstdc++ do you write a different site.exp?
<dnovillo> i noticed that it generates a different site,exp there.
settings that only some testsuites use).
configure script in the temporary directory where you will run runtest.
I don't think any GCC testsuites we use have requirements like that.
<jsm28> dnovillo: --srcdir option to runtest.
simply copy the subset of files i want tool.exp to find.
cases that need files from other sub-directories.
<dnovillo> like g++.dg gcc.dg using stuff from c-c++-common.
<dnovillo> i'm not having it pick up the right driver.
testsuites, since some read .exp files from other directories.
does not even error out.  runtest just does nothing and returns 0.
<dnovillo> any libstdc++ maintainer around?
into the running testsuite/ dir?
<dnovillo> seems to be done in advance by make.


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Introducing Reera Crossover Iran Khodro
Author : Ali Gheyji
The first national crossover named Reera
Greetings to all the followers of IR Lux Karz specialized website. In this article, we want to deal with the newest product of Iran Khodro The Reera Crossover, in a relatively in-depth manner; So be sure to stay with us until the end of the article.
After the complete withdrawal of Peugeot from Iran in 1997, two half-finished projects were in the hands of Iran Khodro. One of those projects was the Peugeot 301, which we know today as Tara, and the other was an unknown project called K125, which today is called Reera has changed.
But where does Reera's name come from?
This name is one of the most famous poems of the precious poet Nima Yoshij. The poem Ray in 24 lines and 4 stanzas is the result of the poet's soliloquy or whispering to himself, and ambiguity and sadness can be considered as its main theme. Also Ray in the local language of Mazandarani It means rain. It is interesting to know that the prototypes of this Reera crossover will be molded and manufactured at the Iran Khodro factory located in Babol.
At what stage of construction is Reera?
According to the Minister, by the end of summer, the car must pass technical and specialized tests, and after the successful completion of the tests, it will reach the stage of eliminating defects and then molding and production, and it will enter the car market from the beginning of 1402. Iran is offered.
What are the technical specifications of Reera crossover?
Iran Khodro Reera will probably use two engines. One is the famous TU5 engine with a 1.6-liter engine that can produce 113 horsepower and 144 Nm of torque. Paying attention to the fact that it is turbocharged, it can produce 168 horsepower and 245 Nm of torque. The gearbox of each version is probably 6-speed automatic AT type, but with that being said, there is a possibility of producing a manual gear version as well.
Needless to say, the Ray crossover will be built on the localized IKP1 platform, which is shared with the Tara platform. If you don't know where this platform came from, I have to tell you that it is the same PF1 platform inherited from the PSA group, which has been Iranized. Ray's car will be completely designed as a front-wheel drive, and whether or not it will be 4-wheel drive is uncertain, like many other issues. For example, it has been said that the electric version as well as the three-cylinder version will be produced.
Reera Features
Crossover Reera will be available in two versions, normal and full option. There are no features in the normal version, but the full option version has an electric panoramic roof, light sensor, rain sensor, six 10-point airbags, electric power steering, parking brake. It will be electric, auto-held, electric gear lever, wireless mobile phone charger, digital front amp (cluster), push-button start, touch screen, blind spot radar, linear radar, tire pressure and temperature sensor, LED lights technology, etc. .
Apperance Reera Iran Khodro
First of all, I must say that according to the main platform, Reera will be placed in the category of B+ crossovers, and its dimensions are about Peugeot 2008 or Nissan Juke. As usual, there are many uncertainties about the face and design of this car. has it. Among other things, this is a clumsy copy of the Chinese Lamari Imai. Even a part of it is borrowed from Santa Fe 2021.
In any case, the design of Reera crossover, with its elongated front lights, round and egg-shaped, is not similar to the photos published in the past. Also, the rear lights also raise the doubt that Ray's is exactly the same Lamari Ima, with this difference. that there is no news of the narrow strip of lights across the back door.
Many believe that Iran Khodro has made a sudden unveiling to escape the pressure of public opinion as a result of the price increase. The proposed price of this crossover is currently around 600 million tomans. What do you think?
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Kusheba's (PEAK) Dreams in Sight With Irwindale Victory
April 11th, 2014 by JaimeB
Irwindale hosted Week 10 of the PEAK Stock Car Dreams National Series.
Monroe, Connecticut's Paul Kusheba held serve in week 10 of the PEAK Stock Car Dreams National Series and moved one step closer to the coveted season-ending prize of a spot in the 2014 PEAK Stock Car Dreams Challenge driver combine conducted by Michael Waltrip Racing. Although Kusheba's points for the tenth week won't count toward his overall total, it did him no harm as his closest pursuers in the championship skipped the week's sim-racing at half-mile Irwindale Speedway.
Kusheba entered the week with a 66 point lead over Ray Alfalla and an 87 point advantage on third place, Byron Daley. Although many of the top drivers were missing for the week, Kusheba could not take advantage. Despite winning the week's top race, the 131 points he earned at Irwindale represented his lowest haul of the season and therefore, would not factor into his overall total.
The week's feature race took place on Sunday night at 7:45pm, with a Strength of Field of 2068. Kusheba started from the pole with Kyle Heckman on his outside and went on to lead all 70 laps to take a 2.257 second win over Heckman. Hunter Sego, Justin M Allen, and Brandon Atkinson rounded-out the top five finishers. Kusheba set the fastest lap of the race turning the 1/2-mile oval in 18.085 seconds and, later in the week, scored another flag-to-flag win in a close battle with Division Two points leader, Wesley Wilborn.
If Kusheba continues on to win this season's championship, his performance on the schedule's short tracks will be what earned him the title.
"I was really excited for Irwindale because it was back to the short tracks." – Paul Kusheba
"I was really excited for Irwindale because it was back to the short tracks which is my strength," said Kusheba. "I had a real fun race with Kyle (Heckman) in my top split, but unfortunately there weren't any high enough strength of fields to beat any of my other eight weeks, so this was a drop week for me. I'm really looking forward to South Boston next week, but the season-ending race week in Charlotte is going to be very interesting."
Kusheba split the top total for Week 10 with Alex Kan, who also earned 131 points. Division 4 driver, Matthew L Meech tied for third place with Logan Seavey scoring 124 points. Christopher Bell's 123 points rounded-out the top five for the week.
Although 11th for the week with 118 points, Michael Laraia picked-up five wins in eight starts leading 278 of the 560 laps turned for the week. Rookie driver, Dean Heldt logged 690 laps in 11 starts.
With pro drivers Alfalla and Daley taking the week off, Kusheba was able to maintain his 66-point lead heading into the final two weeks of the season. Tyler Hill is a distant fourth place, having only run seven races to date, while Division 2 leader Wesley Wilborn holds the overall fifth place spot in the standings.
Wilborn strengthened his hold on the Division 2 title at Irwindale.
Division winners in week 10 at the Irwindale Speedway were: 1 – Paul Kusheba 131 (New England). 2 – Wesley Wilborn 122 (Georgia). 3 – Austin Stamper 113 (Florida). 4 – Matthew L Meech 124 (California). 5 – Hunter Sego 118 (West). 6 – Carl Stange 93 (Plains). 7 – Trevor Arvidson 84 (California). 8 – Derek Edwards 81 (Carolina). 9 – Matthew Catania 96 (Carolina). 10 – Tim Allen 55 (Carolina). Rookie – Jorg Beutner 77 (DE-AT-CH).
Division leaders at press time are as follows: 1 – Paul Kusheba 1660 (New England). 2 – Wesley Wilborn 1257 (Georgia). 3 – Kyle Heckman 1182 (California). 4 – Lewis King 857 (Mid-South). 5 – Shawn Baisden 682 (Ohio). 6 – Carl Stange 647 (Plains). 7 – Bill Rowlands 537 (Atlantic). 8 – Derek Edwards 586 (Carolina). 9 – David Warhurst 425 (Georgia). 10 – Tim Allen 469 (Carolina). Rookie – Jeremy Canute 580 (New York).
If Kusheba can pull-out another strong showing in Week 11 at South Boston, he could put the clamps on the championship before the season-ending race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. They don't get much shorter than the tiny oval in South Boston, Virginia and that is where the PEAK Stock Car Dreams National Series heads next. The historic .4-mile oval should be right in Kusheba's wheelhouse and if he can keep his car out front and avoid the dangers of lapped traffic, he should head to Charlotte with an extended points lead.
The PEAK Stock Car Dreams National Series offers one iRacer the chance of a lifetime: a reserved seat in the 2014 PEAK Stock Car Dreams Challenge driver combine conducted by Michael Waltrip Racing in June. The seat will be awarded to the overall winner of the PEAK Stock Car Dreams National Series, an official twelve week series featuring the Chevrolet Impala SS stock car. The winner must be at least 16 years of age, reside in the United States and be able to safely enter and exit a racecar. In addition, every iRacer who displays a PEAK logo on their Impala and competes in at least one race in all twelve weeks of the PEAK Stock Car Dreams National Series is eligible to win an Obutto r3volution chassis and one of 50 custom PEAK /iRacing hats.


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This beautiful long sheath dress is close fitting to show off your curves. With side slits and a back zipper, it's the picture of tropical sophistication in any one of our hand painted batik fabrics. Add a matching shawl and this elegant dress goes seamlessly from day to evening.


Fresh flowers are such a fantastic treat and make for a simple yet effective hostess gift for a dinner party, birthday or Christmas gathering. Interior stylists, home stagers and decorators love using flowers in homes as decoration as they add a natural and organic element to any room design. And, let's be honest, who doesn't love receiving a big bunch of gorgeous blooms?!
However, when it comes to prolonging the shelf life of a gorgeous bouquet, many of us often struggle with taking care of our fresh flowers. So, we got in touch with expert florists Interflora Australia, to get a few tips on how to care for your fresh flowers and enjoy them for longer.
Flowers make people smile. Receive a bunch of gorgeous flowers from friends or family and you'll be beaming for hours. If you're lucky enough to have received a beautiful bouquet, here are some tips to help keep them fresh for longer.
The first thing you'll want to do after you've received a bunch of flowers is to trim the stems. This opens up the flower's drinking vessels - enabling it to absorb more water - which helps it stay fresh for longer! Cut the stems diagonally, removing at least 2cm from the ends, before placing them in a vase with fresh, room temperature water.
Make sure that there are no leaves beneath the water once the flowers are in the vase. When leaves sit beneath the water they begin to rot and dirty the water. Cut flowers require pristine water to help them last longer.
Some places are better than others when it comes to keeping your flowers fresh for longer. Flowers thrive in locations that are not too hot or too cold. Place your flowers in a cool spot away from direct sunlight and away from air conditioners, heaters, fans and any electrical devices that produce heat – this includes TVs. It's also a good idea to keep your flowers away from fruit. Interestingly, ripening fruit releases a gas called ethylene, which can harm cut flowers!
Your flowers have been trimmed and placed in a clean vase with fresh water, and set in a flower-friendly location – what next? Flowers thrive with fresh water so be sure to change the water every couple of days (re-trimming the stems if necessary). Treat your flowers with a touch of flower food to help them last even longer.
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Ben Rice is a young US bluesman with bags of talent and mighty fine fretwork. 'Wish the World Away' is maybe his first solo effort though some may recognize the name from a joint release with Lucy Hammond, a few short years ago, an album that also hit the spot in many ways. In addition, Rice has also put out a host of albums with his own band and picked up a Best Guitarist Award from those guys at the Memphis IBC awards in 2015.
With this thirteen-track offering, Rice has not only pushed the solo boat out,but exposed his own writing to the critical spotlight. A dozen of the tracks come from his own pen with Stevie Wonder making up the total with a fine cover of Higher Ground, here given a more fret-focussed feel and quality.
The album kicks off strongly with a fine, roaring bit of resonator guitar matched by Rice's fine vocal depth before ripping through a range of emotions, slide-work and straight-on, full-tilt acoustic-driven blues music., with twists and turns featuring similarly impressive electric guitar. For those yet to discover this guy, Rice may well prove to be something of genuine surprise, and for lovers of steel and slide fretwork a positive pleasure.
Recorded at US drum-master Jimi Bott's Roseleaf Studios in Portland, Oregon, the album has a wonderfully polished feel and vibe, no doubt helped by Bott's own input as both performer and producer, as Bott is easily one of the US's finest drum sidemen. Overall, this is an album well worth tracking down, guaranteed to be something of a pleasure for most blues lovers whatever the stripe might be.


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Rare H Boyd Concertina For Sale
By H Boyd Concertina, June 9, 2015 in Buy & Sell
metal ends
5 folds
H Boyd Concertina
Location:North Carolina
Rare H Boyd Concertina with case for sale. Purchased in 1999 from Chris Algar of Barleycorn Concertinas. Have handwritten invoices and notes from Chris to Gene. Concertina has metal ends with H Boyd in the metal work on the end. Label says Lechenal & Co, Patent Concertina, Manufacturers, London. 48 metal buttons, metal ends, 5 folds. No professional work done on the concertina since purchase in 1999. Concertina played by Gene, my late husband until 2006. Serial # 45843 pictured. Gene understood it was made in 1890. Kept in case, in heated and airconditioned home. Listed on http://www.ebay.com/itm/191654066174?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649 PayPal payment only. See Post #48 for detailed description of instrument by Cnet member Lawrence Reeves.
Edited August 7, 2015 by H Boyd Concertina
JimLucas
Ineluctable Opinionmaker
Location:Denmark
Rare H Boyd Concertina with case for sale. case.jpg C8.jpg C6.jpg C5.jpg C7.jpg C6.jpg C4.jpg C3.jpg C2.jpg C1.jpgPurchased in 1999 from Chris Algar of Barleycorn Concertinas. Have handwritten invoices and notes from Chris to Gene. Concertina has metal ends with H Boyd in the metal work on the end. Label says Lechenal & Co, Patent Concertina, Manufacturers, London. 48 metal buttons, metal ends, 5 folds. No work needed or done on the concertina since purchase in 1999. Concertina played by Gene until 2006. Kept in case, in heated and airconditioned home. Pristine condition. $4000. Free expedited shipping.
You seem to have neglected to mention: Who is Gene, and what's your relationship to him?
Wolf Molkentin
Location:Baltic coast, Schleswig-Holstein
I was thinking everybody knew, except myself...
Gene was my late husband. He passed in March of 2006.
Then not the Gene I knew, since he's been active more recently.
Sorry for your loss. I hope you find a buyer. I wish I could buy it, but I simply don't have the funds.
Mike Franch
Location:Baltimore Md. USA
Echoing Jim's sentiments. Although it's been several years, it must be poignant to sell his instrument.
A question for the list: would this be a New Model, or some other Lachenal model. Or would there be unique features for this retailer?
I do not know the year when this concertina was made, but according to my memory of what Gene told me, this concertina was around 100 years old when he bought it in 1999. I would rather the instrument be played and enjoyed than to be kept silent in storage. This is the link to the retailer where Gene originally purchased this concertina. http://concertina.co.uk/
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I did just find Gene's handwritten note in his concertina file which has these numbers on it. Looks like notes from a phone conversation. My belief is that 1890 is the year this instrument was made based on this note.
Cryptic as it is here goes: stopped at 8621 Chris Algar
5-fold
bowing valves, lever
flatwork r hand side
flatwork charged BOYD
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I emailed Chris Algar to see if he could make sense of these numbers. He said, "I can't really make a lot of sense of it. The 45000 could be an approximation of the serial number but I don't know what it is-you can't see it on the outside-although it would be on the inside.
If it was 45000 it would be more like 1900. It does have 5 fold bellows, and bowing valves.
I wonder if the word is "fretwork"-that does have "Boyd" set into the fret. As for the other numbers-they make no obvious sense to me. Sorry! Chris"
Edited June 14, 2015 by H Boyd Concertina
Laitch
Location:Vermont, USA
If this is the concertina that was owned and played by the contradance caller in down Durham, NC, it's got a very good vibe, indeed!
I would rather the instrument be played and enjoyed than to be kept silent in storage.
I hope my survivors would do the same. Instruments should be played.
You mentioned you have paperwork from Chris Algar. I presume you'll include it when you sell the instrument. That will tell the purchaser about one link in the chain of ownership. I hope you'd consider including a few words about your husband and how he used the instrument. That it was used by a contra dance caller and musician would add to the new owner's joy, I'd think, and might be the beginning of a chain of documentation. Some of us know when our concertinas were made, sometimes down to the day and month, but have no idea of their subsequent history until they came to us.
It would be nice if we all let people know about our link in the chain. Our instruments speak, but they won't tell that story!
Gene was playing this concertina on his front porch when I visited him at his home for the first time! Many fond memories are associated with this instrument and the concertina has much life in it yet to be lived through the next owner. I'd be happy to include what I have that is associated with the concertina. I believe there are some music books as well. There's a simple book about english concertinas and there's a fiddle book that I believe he used to teach himself songs.
Gene was famous in the contradance world. To this day, people are dancing "Gene Hubert dances" every night of the week all over the world.
At the time of his memorial dance, it was said that he wrote more contradances than anyone since the 14th century and was called the "King of Flow".
He taught himself to play the concertina, as he did a dulcimer that he made from a kit....just for fun. Gene was not famous for playing the concertina, but he thoroughly enjoyed playing it at home. He practiced regularly. So...that is some of the history of the owner.
Geoff Wooff
Heavyweight Boxer
Location:France
As far as I know these Boyd Lachenal's are New Models with personalised Fretwork. The stories of Harry Boyd being such a good customer he could demand that his ordered instruments be made by the best workers are probably true.
I have worked on several Boyd Lachenals and they all had good reeds and a very bright tone. Worth more than a ordinary metal ended New Model ??
Edited June 11, 2015 by Geoff Wooff
Gene's dances seem well-known among UK contradance societies.
For the contradance callers in the forum who understand dance figure lingo, here are some of them.
I thought I would post a link to Gene's picture here. This was his concertina. If anyone can tell me how to find the serial number, I would appreciate the assistance. It is not in the paperwork, and I have not located the serial number on the instrument.
http://www.susanmichaels.tv/dance/happy-birthday-gene-hubert/
Tradewinds Ted
Location:Now in Wisconsin! formerly in Lancashire.
Sometimes it is visible without opening it up, on the opposite end from the makers label, but I don't see it there in your pictures. The serial number might be written on the action board, inside one of the ends, if you are willing to carefully remove the six small screws that hold the end plate in place. (You may need to remove the screw on theend of the thumb strap as well, I can't tell) If you try this, I suggest opening only one end at a time; if the first one has no number then close it up again before trying the other end. Not absolutely necessary, but a good idea because it prevents juggling so many parts.
I know I've danced many of Gene's contradances over the last 30 years or so, and heard them called wherever I Iived, in the midwest, both coasts, and England. I met my wife at a dance, and I would expect some of his dances were called that evening. I don't expect that I ever met Gene, but anyone who has danced to his dances would be honored if they could play his instrument. I couldn't, as it is an English system concertina, and I play Anglo, and I'm not buying right now anyway, but I hope it ends up with someone who appreciates it.
Edited June 12, 2015 by Tradewinds Ted
Thank you Ted, I don't think I'll open up the concertina, but that is good information. I definitely don't want to juggle any parts!
I appreciate your kind words. Gene's legacy of contradances brings people together in joy to this day and forever as long as people are dancing on this earth. I know the concertina will end up with someone who appreciates it.
Chris Drinkwater
Location:London
Even if a serial number for this concertina is found, it would be difficult to accurately date it from the serial number because the Lachenal records, unlike the Wheatstone ledger records, have not survived and any attempt would be a guesstimate.


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Q: Custom IAuthorizationFilter injected with Ninject stops other ActionFilterAttribute from being executed In a project I'm working on there are two custom ActionFilterAttribute classes which are injected using ninjects BindFilter:
        kernel.BindFilter<LogErrorsAttribute>(FilterScope.Last, 0);
        kernel.BindFilter<CriticalErrorAttribute>(FilterScope.Last, 1);

These have been working fine.
I created a custom IAuthorizationFilter filter which is also injected using BindFilter:
        kernel.BindFilter<AuthorizationFilter>(FilterScope.Action, null).WhenActionMethodHas<Authorise>().WithPropertyValueFromActionAttribute<Authorise>("Roles", n => n.Roles).WithPropertyValueFromActionAttribute<Authorise>("Years", n => n.Years);

On it's own, this works fine too.
I just discovered that if I apply the Authorise tag to an action, the two custom ActionFilterAttribute classes are no longer called.
I'm stumped on why this would be occuring. My custom IAuthorizationFilter looks like this:
public class AuthorizationFilter : IAuthorizationFilter
{
    private readonly string[] RolesHaveAccessToApplication;

    public AuthorizationFilter()
    {
        //put roles which should allow user to see application, hardcoded for now, but later
        //this can be generated from the database
        var configRoles = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ApplicationRoles"];

        if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(configRoles))
            throw new Exception("The ApplicationRoles value has not been defined in the web.config file.");

        RolesHaveAccessToApplication = configRoles.Split(',');

    }

    [Inject]
    public IUserServices userService { get; set; }

    public string Roles { get; set; }
    public string Years { get; set; }

    protected bool AuthorizeCore(HttpContextBase httpContext)
    {
        if (!httpContext.Request.IsAuthenticated)
            return false;

        if(!Roles.HasContent() && !Years.HasContent())
        {
            return RolesHaveAccessToApplication.Any(role => RolesHaveAccessToApplication.Any(n => n == role));

        }

        var AuthenticatedUserRoles = System.Web.Security.Roles.GetRolesForUser();
        bool isAuthorised = false;

        //first, lets check against to see if the user has any roles related to the application
        isAuthorised = RolesHaveAccessToApplication.Any(role => AuthenticatedUserRoles.Any(n => n == role));

        //if they don't, we throw them to access denied page
        if (!isAuthorised)
            return false;

        #region CheckRoles
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Roles) && AuthenticatedUserRoles.HasContent())
        {
            var authRoles = Roles.Split(new [] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

            isAuthorised = authRoles.Any(role => AuthenticatedUserRoles.Any(n => n == role));
        }
        #endregion

        #region CheckYears
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Years) && AuthenticatedUserRoles.HasContent())
        {

            if (AuthenticatedUserRoles.Any(n => n == "Student"))
            {
                var yearRoles = Years.Split(new[] { ',' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
                var user = userService.FetchUser(httpContext.User.Identity.Name);
                if (user != null)
                {
                    isAuthorised = yearRoles.Any(n => n == user.Year);
                }
            }

        }
        #endregion

        return isAuthorised;
    }

    public void OnAuthorization(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
    {
        if(filterContext == null)
            throw new Exception("filtercontext is null");

        if (!filterContext.HttpContext.Request.IsAuthenticated)
            HandleUnauthorizedRequest(filterContext);

            if (AuthorizeCore(filterContext.HttpContext))
                SetCachePolicy(filterContext);
            else
                HandleUnauthorizedRequest(filterContext);

    }

    protected void HandleUnauthorizedRequest(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
    {
        if (filterContext.HttpContext.Request.IsAuthenticated)
            filterContext.Result = new RedirectResult(new UrlHelper(filterContext.RequestContext).Action("Denied", "Home", new {Area = ""}));// new ViewResult { ViewName = "~/Home/Denied", View = new RazorView("Home") //ViewData = viewData };
        else
            filterContext.Result = new HttpUnauthorizedResult();

    }

    protected void SetCachePolicy(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
    {
           ..snip..
    }

}

//Used as a filter for actions, and ninject is configured to bind AuthorizationFilter to this
public class Authorise : ActionFilterAttribute
{
    public string Roles { get; set; }
    public string Years { get; set; }
}

Any help with resolving this would be appreciated.
Edit:
This is one of the other filters:
public class CriticalErrorAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
    [Inject]
    public IErrorServices ErrorService { private get; set; }

    public override void OnActionExecuted(ActionExecutedContext filterContext)
    {            //if the request is an ajax request, we don't want a redirect to happen
        //the controller dealing with the ajax request can fetch the critical
        //errors and pass them back to the user for display
        if (!filterContext.HttpContext.Request.IsAjaxRequest())
        {
            var criticalErrors = ErrorService.FetchCriticalErrors();

            if (criticalErrors.HasContent())
            {
                var helper = new UrlHelper(filterContext.RequestContext);
                var url = helper.Action("Error", "Home", new { area = "" });

                filterContext.Controller.TempData["CriticalErrorList"] = criticalErrors;

                filterContext.Result = new RedirectResult(url);
            }
        }
        base.OnActionExecuted(filterContext);
    }
}

If a domain object couldnt be hydrated, it would log a critical error. This filter checks for such errors, if they occur it directs the user to an error page.
Solved:
It turns out Darin was correct! But the issue was being hidden by my configuration of my filters.
Firstly, I had [Authorise] on navigation items, and secondly I was binding the CriticalErrorAttribute to every action.
So each time a menu was built (welcome, left, nav, sub) - this filter was firing. At some point during this chain of filter calls, results were being applied to filterContext.Result - the later results hiding the earlier (correct) result.
To overcome this issue, I tweaked the BindFilter configuration line for CriticalErrorAttribute to this:
kernel.BindFilter<CriticalErrorAttribute>(FilterScope.Last, 0).When( (context, ad) =>
context.RouteData.DataTokens["action"] != null && context.RouteData.DataTokens["action"] !=
"Error" && context.RouteData.DataTokens["controller"] != "Navigation");

Everything works perfectly now!

A: Here:
filterContext.Result = ...

you are assigning a result. And according to the documentation:

You can cancel filter execution in the OnActionExecuting and
  OnResultExecuting methods by setting the Result property to a non-null
  value. Any pending OnActionExecuted and OnActionExecuting filters will
  not be invoked and the invoker will not call the OnActionExecuted
  method for the canceled filter or for pending filters. The
  OnActionExecuted filter for previously run filters will run. All of
  the OnResultExecutingand OnResultExecuted filters will run.

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Muhammed en oppdiktet figur?
Har Muhammed overhodet eksistert? Er skikkelsen Muhammed en produksjon fra 800-tallets Arabia for å gi menneskeskapte lover en guddommelig autoritet? Den nederlandske arabisten Hans Jansen, forteller at det ikke finnes et fnugg av bevis for at Muhammed har eksistert. Eksempelvis er det ikke et eneste arkeologisk funn som kan sannsynliggjøre at Muhammed levde på den arabiske halvøya på 600-tallet.
Hege Storhaug, HRS
På Trykkefrihedsselskabets seminar om kvinner og islam 8.mai i København, la Hans Jansen frem mange interessante betraktninger om mangel på solide fakta knyttet til Muhammed, og, ikke minst, spesielle "tilfeldigheter", som at navnet på Muhammeds første hustru Khadidja betyr "dødfødt", mens navnet på hustruen som skal ha vært den han elsket høyeste, Aisha, betyr "levende". Aisha var for øvrig uten Muhammed frem til hun var ni år, deretter var hun gift med han i ni år inntil hans død. Videre: Muhammed misjonerte i Mekka i 10 år, for så å være statsleder i 10 år i Medina.
Vi har en mengde historiske kilder som beskriver Romerriket, som oppstod over 700 år før Kristus, men vi vet uhyre lite om de første muslimene, hevder Jansen.
Sappho.dk har publisert hele foredraget til Jansen:
Muhammed's example
Muhammad, as you all know, is the prophet of Islam. The word 'prophet' comes from Greek, and in Greek the word 'prophet' originally meant 'spokesman'.
Islam, we have to understand, teaches that Muhammad was God's spokesman and that he died in the year 632 in Medina, a town located in a geographical area that is now part of modern Saudi-Arabia.[i]
Islam commands Muslims to follow Muhammad's example down to the smallest details.
The obligation to imitate Muhammad makes it important to Muslims that they should know exactly how Muhammad behaved, and which acts and deeds he forbade, recommended, commanded or tolerated. Moreover, whatever he did is a legal precedent.
He was, after all, God's spokesman.
About Muhammad's way of life, Islam offers a large number of stories[ii] to the interested. Apart from these stories, the believers are blessed with the possession of voluminous and even canonized collections of his sayings.[iii]
We are urged to believe that these sayings and these stories embody Muhammad's example. That may be true, or it may not be true.
Lack of evidence
It would be reassuring if we had archaeological evidence that supported the official Muslim version of some of the events that these sayings and stories narrate or obliquely refer to – but there is no such evidence.[iv]
This, however, does not necessarily mean that such evidence does not exist. It might still be hidden in the sands of Arabia.
Nevertheless, this lack of archaeological confirmation is astonishing, but what is even more so is that the peoples and cultures with whom the armies of Islam came into contact in the first half of the seventh century of our calendar, do not mention Muhammad in their writings.
Even the words 'Islam' and 'Muslim' appear to have been unfamiliar until a relatively late date.
Please note that these cultures were advanced and literate. We here are talking about the Jews, the Armenians, the Greeks, the Syrians and the Persians.
None of these cultures has produced anything that comes even close to being a reliable testimony about Muhammad that dates from the period in which Muhammad supposedly lived, or from a period reasonably close to it.
Here too it has to be noted that such testimony may, in theory, be recovered in the future.
Is Muhammad a historical figure?
It may sound crazy but it is not as crazy as it sounds: a number of scholars consequently suspect that Muhammad is not a historical figure, but a literary character that was created by ancient Arab storytellers, perhaps early in the eighth century of our era.
If these scholars are right, it may become emotionally and intellectually much more difficult to take the reports about Muhammad's deeds as setting an absolute authoritative example of truly Islamic behaviour, as Muslims ought to do.
It goes without saying that in the eyes of a true believer, the authority of a human storyteller can never equal the divine authority of the Messenger of God.
It can be defended perfectly well that the stories and sermons about Muhammad's deeds have been created simply in order to give divine sanction to the man-made rules which these stories embody.
These stories enjoy religious authority, but they nevertheless may have little or no basis in historical reality. They are edifying, they may even be wise and good, like the Story of the Good Samaritan in the New Testament, but are they history?
Modern unbelievers will not lose any sleep over this question, but true believers would definitely feel cheated if the canonical stories about Muhammad were fiction, and possess no historicity.
Nobody will as yet dare to uphold that we are forced to reject the historicity of the prophet of Islam, but doubt is perfectly justified and it is difficult to see why Muslims do not set up research projects to clear up at least some aspects of this historicity question.
It cannot be that they are afraid of what they will find out. Or are they?
Of course no amount of scholarship could possibly answer the question of whether Muhammad was really the Messenger of God, but archaeology might tell us a number of things about ancient Arabia we would very much like to know and which would confirm or contradict the official Islamic general picture of the period.
Storytellers are not historians
It would be too courageous to reject the historicity of Muhammad, and Aisha [his child bride, ed.], and who knows who else, on the basis of the existing lack of evidence.
Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that it is often obvious that the storytellers of early Islam do not sound like real historians. It is their aim to convince their audience of political, legal and religious values.
They do not try to report about a past that they remember although it may sometimes look as if they do.
For instance, Koran 4:34 orders men to beat their wives, wa-Dribuuhunna. This, of course, is embarrassing. Beating women is not a particularly brave thing to do. So, when the storytellers describe Muhammad's last public appearance before his death, they make him say that men should beat their women only lightly.
Their story may represent historical memory, but, on the other hand, it is much more probable that it serves a different aim: to exonerate the Holy Book of Islam of preaching violence against unarmed women.
The storytellers intended to convince their public that Muhammad has indeed been a prophet from God. In order to do so, they assured their public that already Christians, even monks, had recognized him as such.
They had no real memory of such an event, but they wanted to convince their public that to recognize Muhammad as the prophet of God was a good thing.
If a neutral, Christian authority had already recognized Muhammad, they must have argued, how much more should others do so!
Muhammad and the monk
In this case, the storytellers could only get their message across if they could create a setting in which Muhammad might have actually met a monk. Hence they tell several stories of how Muhammad as a child went to Syria together with one of his uncles. There he met his monk, and the monk recognized him.
The many stories about Muhammad's travels to Syria are not the product of real historical memory, however vague, but a creation that was made necessary by the theological need to have Muhammad recognized as a prophet by Christians, preferably a monk.
The story about the meeting of Muhammad and the monk is improbable, it appears in many contradictory versions, but it served its purpose. For the same reason, the storytellers convey stories about a journey to Ethiopia, which the early Muslims undertook.
These stories contain no details, but if they do, the details are contradictory, an indication that they may have been invented – at least partly so, or perhaps, completely. It is difficult to say.
Men who preached that Muhammad has been the Messenger of God created the corpus of stories about Muhammad's life, and some of these stories may have been true. But which ones?
For some incidents, three or four versions are reported. Should scholars try and figure out which of the four versions is the 'true' one? Or perhaps the only true one, version five, has simply been forgotten?
We do not know these things, and we never will. However, the possibility that one of the versions they were familiar with might be the true one, strongly motivated the scholars of early Islam to preserve every story they could lay their hands on. This added to the chaotic state of the corpus of their stories.
More suspicions
It is not only the lack of archaeological confirmation and the peculiar literary character of the Islamic official version of the early history of Islam that evokes uneasy questions.
Even the names of some of the principle characters are suspect. Can it be coincidence that the names of Muhammad's two most prominent wives, Khadiga and Aisha, have meanings that are each other's opposite?
Arabic khadiiga means 'stillborn', hence 'dead', whereas Arabic 3aa2isha means 'living', 'alive'. Similar suspicions concerning the names of lesser figures abound.
And then, lastly, the most delicate problem: the chronology.
The chronology of the early history of Islam is uncertain, if only because at the time people did not have calendars or agendas. More seriously, not long before the death of Muhammad Islam completely changed the way in which years and months are counted.
Both the Koran and the collections of sayings and stories report this reform of the calendar extensively.
The storytellers, however, frequently date their stories to a month of the present Muslim lunar year, but not once to one of the leap months of the previous system.
Would Muhammad and the early Muslims have remained completely inactive in such a leap month? Did nothing fit to print or to report happen in any of these leap months? This is difficult to imagine.
Only one conclusion is possible. The storytellers appear not to have taken this well-attested reform of the calendar into account. Why is this worrying?
With this reform, in 631, the leap months of the earlier system were abolished. Not even the names of the ancient leap months have been preserved. The absence of leap months in the stories strongly suggests that the stories, in their present form, date from a period in which the earlier leap month calendar had been completely forgotten.
This means that the stories in their present form could be quite late.
We have to live with even more coincidences. The symmetry of the chronology of the official version of the early history of Islam is absolutely amazing. Muhammad spent ten years as a preacher in Mecca, followed by ten years as a statesman in Medina. Ten years before Troy, ten years travelling back to Ithaca. It is not impossible, but probable it is not.
The puzzle of Aisha
The earliest storytellers might have emphasized that Aisha was young when Muhammad died. The next generation of storytellers might have improved on the story.
If she was young when Muhammad died, she might actually have been only 18 in the year 632, the year Muhammad died. But then she was only nine when Muhammad first slept with her in 623!
Other storytellers might have made an additional point: Look at the beauty of the symmetry this creates: the number of years she lived with Muhammad as her husband after their marriage is equal to the number of years she lived without him previously.
The standard Islamic version of the history of early Islam is blessed with many such coincidences. These might, at the time, have helped believers to believe, which is a good thing, but modern sceptics find no pleasure in such coincidence, only suspicion.
We can easily see that some stories have sequels by simply reading them carefully. Other stories even have prequels. This is amazing, and it only makes our suspicions stronger.
If the chronology is defective, it is consequently highly improbable that Aisha was actually 9 years old when Muhammad started to sleep with her, as the Muslim sources report.
This is not without legal consequences. If the chronology of such reports is open to question, is it reasonable to use them as legal precedents?
Can specialists on Muslim law justify the marriage of very young girls to old men with an appeal to the reports on the life of Muhammad? The case looks extremely doubtful.
We know a lot about, for instance, the Roman emperors, and this from a wide variety of sources. We know almost nothing about the earliest Muslims.
We certainly know very little about the chronology of the first century of Islam. The stories we are asked to believe, display a degree of symmetry that is pleasing, but the real world is only very rarely symmetrical.
Muhammad, as you all know, is the Prophet of Islam. But we do not know much more than that, whatever the religious leaders of Islam claim to be the case.
[i] The Danish scholar Frants Buhl wrote the standard biography that assumes the sources to be at least partly historical: Das Leben Muhammeds, 1929, and often reprinted. First published in Danish in 1903, Muhammeds Liv med en Indledning om Forholdene i Arabien før Muhammeds Optræden. See also Hans Jansen, Muhammad: The Mecca and Medina Stories, (in press) 2012, 525 pages; or Hans Jansen, Mohammed: Eine Biographie, München (C.H. Beck) 2008, 492 pages (in German).
[ii] English translation of the standard collection of stories: Alfred Guillaume, The Life of Muhammad: A translation of [Ibn] Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah, First published 1955; many reprints.
[iii] The six canonized collections of sayings are usually referred to as Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Maga, Abu Dawud, Tirmidhi and Nasai, all from the late 9th century AD. Translations of these collections can easily be found on the Internet.
[iv] The Islamic sources also present a more general picture of the history of the early Islamic period but the available evidence does not support this picture either. Again, it is important to realize that an 'argument from silence', the argumentum ex silentio, is not proof of anything.


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You are here: Home / Latest News / Yangon New City Project to be Remodelled with Tower Blocks Included
Yangon New City Project to be Remodelled with Tower Blocks Included
July 14, 2017 by thiha
The current New City project in Myanmar's commercial capital will be remodelled to accommodate the city's projected population growth and tower blocks will be part of the new plan, according to a Yangon Region minister.
Daw Nilar Kyaw, the regional minister for electricity, industry and transportation, made the remarks on July 10 during a special parliamentary meeting.
Yangon will become a megacity with over 10 million residents within the next decade, so the city's administration plans to remodel the current new city project plan into a new one to suit the growing population density, she said.
According to the latest census, there are 7.36 million inhabitants in Yangon. The population growth in 2014-15 was 1.48 million. The projections suggest that there will be 8.68 million in 2020, 9.69 million in 2026 and 10.72 million residents by 2031, she added.
To cater for the increase in population, the city needs to expand in terms of geographical area and start building tower blocks, and the Yangon New City project needs to scale up as well, Daw Nilar Kyaw said.
"To accommodate Yangon's future population growth, expanding the city 'horizontally' is not sufficient.
"It also needs to expand 'vertically' to increase population density by building tower blocks and skyscrapers," she said.
The population density of Yangon was 120 people per square metre in 1973, 387 people in 1983 and 716 people in 2014. According to research statistics, the city can expand to accommodate no more than 2,500 people per square metre, she said.
To implement the Yangon New City project, a new Yangon Development Corporation will be established. The Corporation will be the highest authority to manage and make decisions regarding the project. Investments supporting the project will be sought from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Finance Corporation (IFC) and it will also be financed by commercial loans from abroad, said Daw Nilar Kyaw.
Regional MP Daw Sandar Min (NLD; Seikgyi Khanaungto 1), chair of the Financing, Economic and Planning Committee, demanded more information for the project.
"The minister said the New City project will be changed and remodelled again, but that is a great master project.
"We need to know the details and have more discussions about that project," she said, adding that the remodelled new city project should be discussed in detail at the next parliament session.
"I hope to have a chance to discuss the New City project in parliament," she said.
Moreover, the regional government should change or remodel the New City project only after open discussions with parliament and only with the parliament's consent, she said.
The New City project was confirmed by the authority earlier this year. It marked a change in mindset in the regional administration – a shift of focus from transforming existing downtown Yangon to building new urban centres bordering downtown.
In January, Yangon Mayor U Maung Maung Soe said the city is most concerned with quickly accommodating its rapidly growing population through prioritising zoning and expansion plans.
He told The Myanmar Times at that time that the regional government is moving forward with plans to extend the commercial capital by building up the western townships through the Yangon New City project. The expansion envisions building up Kyeemyindaing, Seikgyi Kanaungto and Twante townships to alleviate pressure on the current infrastructure and redirect foot traffic to new housing and commercial hubs.
In contrast, the 2040 master plan envisioned by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) largely targets improvements to existing urban infrastructure, he said. JICA's master plan, which includes upgrades to transportation and traffic management, and improvements to the water system, does not address the controversial new city development.
JICA submitted an updated version of its 2040 blueprint in December, redrawing its 2012 mock-up.
Source: The Myanmar Times
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David Duke: Trump Left The Door Open To Supporting My Candidacy
"So he did something, I think he felt like he did as much as he could do."
by Andrew Kaczynski
Posted on July 25, 2016, 8:19 pm
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White nationalist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke says Donald Trump "did as much as he could" to leave the door open to supporting his Senate bid.
On Meet The Press on Sunday, Trump was asked if he would support a Democrat over Duke. Trump answered, "I guess, depending on who the Democrat, but the answer would be yes."
During his radio show on Monday, Duke noted that Trump didn't rule out support for his candidacy.
"'Would you vote for a Democrat against David Duke' and Trump says, 'well, I guess it depends who the Democrat will be so the answer is yes,'" Duke said. "You know, like maybe if there's a good Democrat. But that's not the answer they wanted and the headlines there were all over the place, you know, Trump basically said he could possibly vote, he could vote for David Duke if he was running against a liberal Democrat. So he did something, I think he felt like he did as much as he could do."
Duke said earlier in the program that he's never in his political career seen his support as high as it was when he announced his candidacy for Senate as a Republican last week.
"Since my declaration, I've never ever seen the level of overwhelming support in my whole political life as I received when I announced my candidacy for the United States Senate in Louisiana," Duke said.
Duke also reaffirmed his support for Trump in the broadcast.
"I said to my people that they should support Donald Trump, I believe that absolutely with all my heart today because we have no other alternative than Donald Trump and I think he's doing some great things for the party and for our people," said Duke.
Andrew Kaczynski is a political reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
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Marie Joseph Paulin Henri Bourrillon, né le  à Mende et mort le  dans une ferme inconnue proche de Blšany en République tchèque, est un avocat français, maire de la ville de Mende et chef de la résistance en Lozère.

Biographie
Il participe à la Première Guerre mondiale dont il revient avec le grade de Capitaine, et reçoit la croix de guerre. Le , il est décoré chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.

En 1929, Henri Bourrillon, avocat de profession, est élu maire de la ville de Mende. Il échoue cependant à la députation de 1936.

En 1941 il est destitué par le régime de Vichy. Il est en effet contre ce régime et s'était déjà opposé à la mise en place du camp d'internement sur sa commune. Il avait d'ailleurs offert une dinde pour le noël 1939 du camp de Rieucros.

En décembre 1942 alors que la résistance commence à se mettre en place dans le département, il en devient le premier chef. En mars 1943, il est chef de département des Mouvements Unis de Résistance.

Le  il est arrêté par la Gestapo à la sortie du tribunal. Gilbert de Chambrun le remplace par Henri Cordesse à la tête de la résistance lozérienne. Bourrillon, lui, est incarcéré à Mende avant d'être, presque immédiatement, déporté. Il transite tout d'abord par Nîmes puis Montpellier et ensuite le camp de triage de Compiègne. C'est là qu'il rencontre Jean Baumel qui survivra aux camps nazis et pourra donc raconter leur histoire à son retour.

Ils sont alors conduit à Auschwitz, à Buchenwald puis à Flossenbürg. Dans ce dernier, Bourrillon tombe malade et est alors incapable de manger quoi que ce soit. Peu de temps après ils sont conduits à Flöha dans une usine d'aviation. Parmi leurs compagnons on retrouve Robert Desnos.

Nous sommes en , et les troupes américaines commencent à s'approcher des camps. Les gardiens de Flöha décident de fuir, emmenant leurs prisonniers avec eux en pays Sudète. Le 3 mai, et après 6 jours passés dans un hangar de Blšany, Bourrillon est incapable de se réveiller, il fait appeler Jean Baumel et meurt dans ses bras. Peu de jours après, ses compagnons d'infortunes seront délivrés.

Le corps de Bourrillon sera rapatrié en France, et il est, depuis le , inhumé au cimetière Saint-Gervais de Mende.

Hommages
La ville de Mende préserve la mémoire de son maire martyr des nazis et l'a honoré en donnant son nom à un collège, une place et un boulevard et en lui érigeant une statue.

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Naissance en avril 1891
Naissance à Mende
Décès en mai 1945
Résistant français
Maire de Mende
Maire de la Lozère
Déporté résistant
Avocat français du XXe siècle
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
Titulaire de la croix de guerre 1914-1918
Titulaire de la croix de guerre 1939-1945
Titulaire de la médaille de la Résistance française avec rosette
Mort en camp de concentration
Décès en Tchécoslovaquie
Décès à 54 ans


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Sondra has been a performer her entire life. She plays hand percussion and ukulele primarily these days. This is one example of a solo,
Blackbird by The Beatles. This can be incorporated with songs from the 1920's, and on. In her Assisted Living/Seniors programs, you can hear songs such as Dream A Little Dream, As Time Goes By, Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out, Til There Was You, and many more. The audience can sing along, or just sit back and enjoy! Pricing varies with your needs. Please contact for a quote.
Story/Music - Fanga
Sondra has been performing Fanga since the 1990's, as part of her storytelling programs. This performance is from the early 2000's, at the Boulder Public Library.
This song may have been written by the great Nigerian performer, Babatunde Olatunji, or he brought it from his home when he came to America in the 1950's. Sondra confirmed her playing and singing of it in a workshop with Baba at Naropa in 2001.
It is an easily accessible song for people new to African songs and rhythm. The dance is adapted from The Dances of Universal Peace. Fanga is an involving way that Sondra often ends her story programs, to get the audience up and moving, and singing on their way out! For elementary aged children to adult.
Other Performances
For four years, Sondra played with the Rocky Mountain Ukulele Orchestra. This is one performance for a Holiday show, a little known song called Hanukkah in Santa Monica by the great Tom Lehrer. Just to give you the idea of how fun a performance can be!
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Q: Cómo solucionar el too many requests from this IP, more requests available in 45564 seconds usando la api de stackoverflow Estoy usando la api de stackoverflow y realice tantas peticiones por segundo que bloqueo mi IP.
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Chan Hung lit
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Name Chan Hung-lit
Chinese name 陈鸿烈 (simplified)
Chinese name 陳鴻烈 (traditional)
Siblings Hao Chen
Pinyin Chen Hong Lie (Mandarin)
Jyutping Can4 Hung4 Lit6 (Cantonese)
Birth name Chow Hung-lit 周鴻烈 (Traditional)周鸿烈 (Simplified)Zhou Hong Lie (Mandarin)Zau1 Hung4 Lit6 (Cantonese)
Spouse Tsui Sai-wing (m. 1987–2009), Angela Pan (m. 1972–1980)
Children Chan Bing-sing, Chan Ban-hang
Movies and TV shows Off Pedder, Come Drink with Me, The Gem of Life, The Dance of Passion, When Heaven Burns
Similar People Angela Pan, Cynthia Khan, Cheng Pei‑pei, King Hu, Run Run Shaw
Died 24 November 2009 (aged 66) Hong Kong
Born 7 June 1943(age 66), Shanghai, China
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Chan Hung-Lieh (7 June 1943 – 24 November 2009), also known as Chen Hung-Lit and Golden Chan, was a Shaw Brothers actor famous for portraying villains from the 1960s to 1980s. In his acting hiatus, Chan was involved in the garment industry. He later resumed his acting career by joining TVB in 1995, left the following year and did not return again until 2003. He was the brother of Steve Chen Hao.
At 4:20 p.m. on 24 November 2009, while waiting to tape an episode of Off Pedder on TVB City, Chan Hung-lit complained of sudden chest pains and fell into a coma in the changing room. He was transported by ambulance to the emergency ward of Tseung Kwan O Hospital, where he died at 7:11 p.m. at the age of 66.
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'All About You' is a new three year partnership which supports carers of people living with dementia to take part in sporting or physical activities they used to enjoy prior to having carer responsibilities.
The project will provide a varied programme of activities which both carers and the person being cared for can participate in together, as well as independently of each other. Dementia cafes and other forms of support will also be available.
Shona Heazle, project co-ordinator at Cotman Housing Association, said "Carers of people with dementia often require support to stay active, many placing their own needs behind the needs of the person they care for. They may be reluctant to leave their loved one, even for a short period, knowing they will become distressed by unfamiliar faces and situations".
The initiative is one of three successful bids awarded to Cotman Housing Association by Sport England to help people stay active when their life circumstances change.
Building on the success of the first project 'Still On The Go' which helps older people to get active, the housing association also recently launched 'Make Your Move'. This project aims to reduce the number of people who drop out from physical activities as a result of moving house, particularly social housing. Customers will be helped to find low-cost and free activities in their local area and put in touch with like-minded people in their new community.
It will be delivered in Norfolk initially to all social housing residents - not just Cotman customers - and rolled out in Suffolk and Essex over the next four years.


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GDP(PPP): 2006, $10.49 billion;GDP growth rate in 2003: 6.7%
Inflation rate in 2006: 2%
GDP per capita (2006 est): $2000.
Budget: Income .............. $225 million
Expenditure ... $308 million
Main Crops: tobacco, cotton, potatoes, vegetables, grapes, fruits and berries; sheep, goats, cattle, wool
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Despite the backing of major Western donors, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Kyrgyz Republic has had economic difficulties following independence. Initially, these were a result of the breakup of the Soviet trading bloc and resulting loss of markets, which impeded the republic's transition to a free market economy. The government has reduced expenditures, ended most price subsidies, and introduced a value-added tax. Overall, the government appears committed to the transition to a market economy. Through economic stabilization and reform, the government seeks to establish a pattern of long-term consistent growth. Reforms led to the Kyrgyz Republic's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on December 20, 1998.
The Kyrgyz Republic's economy was severely affected by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the resulting loss of its vast market. In 1990, some 98% of Kyrgyz exports went to other parts of the Soviet Union. Thus, the nation's economic performance in the early 1990s was worse than any other former Soviet republic except war-torn Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Tajikistan. While economic performance has improved in the last few years, difficulties remain in securing adequate fiscal revenues and providing an adequate social safety net.
Agriculture is an important sector of the economy in the Kyrgyz Republic. By the early 1990s, the private agricultural sector provided between one-third and one-half of some harvests.�In 2002 agriculture accounted for 35.6% of GDP and about half of employment. The Kyrgyz Republic's terrain is mountainous, which accommodates livestock raising, the largest agricultural activity. Main crops include wheat, sugar beets, cotton, tobacco, vegetables, and fruit. Wool, meat, and dairy products also are major commodities.
Agricultural processing is a key component of the industrial economy, as well as one of the most attractive sectors for foreign investment. The Kyrgyz Republic is rich in mineral resources but has negligible petroleum and natural gas reserves; it imports petroleum and gas. Among its mineral reserves are substantial deposits of coal, gold, uranium, antimony, and other rare-earth metals. Metallurgy is an important industry, and the government hopes to attract foreign investment in this field. The government has actively encouraged foreign involvement in extracting and processing gold. The Kyrgyz Republic's plentiful water resources and mountainous terrain enable it to produce and export large quantities of hydroelectric energy.
The Kyrgyz Republic's principal exports are nonferrous metals and minerals, woolen goods and other agricultural products, electric energy, and certain engineering goods. Its imports include petroleum and natural gas, ferrous metals, chemicals, most machinery, wood and paper products, some foods, and some construction materials. Its leading trade partners include Germany, Russia, China, and neighboring Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
The Kyrgyz Republic exports antimony, mercury, rare-earth metals, and chemical products to the United States. It imports grain, medicine and medical equipment, vegetable oil, paper products, rice, machinery, agricultural equipment, and meat from the United States. According to the National Statistics Committee, in 2002 Kyrgyz exports to the U.S. totaled $36.1 million;�for January through September of 2003, Kyrgyz exports to the U.S. totaled $5.5 million. In 2002 Kyrgyz imports from the U.S. totaled $47.4 million, much of which was equipment, food products, and commodities provided by assistance programs;�for January through September of 2003, Kyrgyz imports from the U.S. totaled $25.7 million.�


Growth defined. As a newer professor, my goal was to attend the 2018 LWI Biennial Conference and gather tools to help foster my personal growth as a professor. This conference not only helped in that area, but it also provided concrete tools to enhance my student's learning environment with lessons and rubrics that are geared toward mindset growth.
Two sessions in particular were transformative for me, and I have carried them with me since the conclusion of the LWI conference. The sessions entitled "Generation Z Goes to College"1 and "How to Use Learning Outcomes and Assessments to Foster Growth Mindsets in Your Legal Writing Course"2 were both exhilarating and resonated for separate reasons that formed a conduit circuit for a lightbulb moment.
The "Generation Z" session by Dr. Corey Seemiller explored and highlighted how the effects of societal changes have shaped and molded a new generation of students that are a pendulum swing away from the millennial generation. For example, members of Generation Z are more likely to want co-pilots as parents and to be more guarded about decision making. However, what stood out to me the most about Generation Z was the notion that these students want an approval relationship with professors and staff. The notion that familial relationships are now of transcendent importance within the academy is novel, in that students want to embrace us in their learning and in their feedback. During the presentation, I instantly recalled three examples in which my students had received lower grades than expected and immediately pleaded for me not to judge them based on this one isolated body of work and not to be disappointed in them. The term "disappointed" was jarring at the time, because it implied a personal connection. The presentation clarified that, in addition to the critique of their body of work, members of Generation Z are also looking for personal affirmation. It was an a-ha moment.
This notion of in-depth feedback leads me to the second transformative session, entitled "How to Use Learning Outcomes and Assessments to Foster Growth Mindsets in Your Legal Writing Course," by Trina Tinglum and Carrie Sperling. My goal in providing feedback has always been to enhance the students' ability to reach their maximum personal legal writing abilities through concrete course objectives. However, after the conference, I would like to research how the mindset of faculty demonstrates itself through instruction and interaction with students. Can we look at our syllabus and use it as a tool to foster an environment that enhances the objectives of students for enriched personal relationships and still maintain the requisite professional decorum? Can we use online and social media platforms within the normal lecture structure and still foster a growth mindset that is beneficial for both the student and professor? I do not have the answers, but I am looking forward to researching and implementing strategies to engage the next generation and help to foster a stronger mindset in my incoming class.
** Assistant Professor of Clinical Education at Southern University Law Center. Professor Nixon-Jones teaches Legal Writing and teaches in the Disaster Law Clinic.
1 Dr. Corey Seemiller, Plenary Session, LWI Biennial Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (July 12, 2018).
2 Carrie Sperling & Trina Tinglum, How to Use Learning Outcomes and Assessments to Foster Growth Mindsets in Your Legal Writing Course, LWI Biennial Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (July 13, 2018).


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Mercedes-Benz A-Class Limousine launched at Rs 39.9 lakh
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The new A-Class Limousine replaces the CLA sedan and the A-Class hatchback, new A35 AMG becomes the most affordable performance offering of the luxury brand in India.
Mercedes-Benz A-Class Limousine vs BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe: Specification Comparison
Harshit Srinivas, Correspondent, evo India
After a delay of almost a year, the Mercedes-Benz A-Class Limousine that replaces the CLA is finally here. Let see how it stacks up against its only rival, the BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe
Mercedes-Benz A-Class Limousine: First Drive Review
Sirish Chandran, Editor, evo India
Replacement to the CLA Coupe and head-on rival to the BMW 2 Series, the new A-Class Limousine prioritises comfort, space and interior quality
Auto Expo 2020: Mercedes-Benz roll in the A-Class Limousine
Kurt Morris, Sr Correspondent, evo India
Mercedes-Benz launch the AMG GT-4 at Rs 2.42 crore along with a host of other products at the 2020 Auto Expo
Audi A8 facelift: Mercedes-Benz S-Class and BMW 7 Series rival gets an update
The Audi A8 gets a few styling tweaks and refreshed interiors to keep up with its traditional German rivals
Mercedes-Benz launches Car to X with made in India S-Class
Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz has launched their IoT communication technology with the locally produced S-Class
Aatish Mishra
Aatish Mishra, Asst. Editor, evo India