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namespace bp = boost::python;

void register_PropertyHelper_class(){

    { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper
        typedef bp::class_< CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper > PropertyHelper_exposer_t;
        PropertyHelper_exposer_t PropertyHelper_exposer = PropertyHelper_exposer_t( "PropertyHelper" );
        bp::scope PropertyHelper_scope( PropertyHelper_exposer );
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::boolToString

            typedef ::CEGUI::String ( *boolToString_function_type )( bool );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "boolToString"
                , boolToString_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::boolToString )
                , ( bp::arg("val") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::colourRectToString

            typedef ::CEGUI::String ( *colourRectToString_function_type )( ::CEGUI::ColourRect const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "colourRectToString"
                , colourRectToString_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::colourRectToString )
                , ( bp::arg("val") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::colourToString

            typedef ::CEGUI::String ( *colourToString_function_type )( ::CEGUI::Colour const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "colourToString"
                , colourToString_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::colourToString )
                , ( bp::arg("val") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::floatToString

            typedef ::CEGUI::String ( *floatToString_function_type )( float );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "floatToString"
                , floatToString_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::floatToString )
                , ( bp::arg("val") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::imageToString

            typedef ::CEGUI::String ( *imageToString_function_type )( ::CEGUI::Image const * );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "imageToString"
                , imageToString_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::imageToString )
                , ( bp::arg("val") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::rectToString

            typedef ::CEGUI::String ( *rectToString_function_type )( ::CEGUI::Rectf const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "rectToString"
                , rectToString_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::rectToString )
                , ( bp::arg("val") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::sizeToString

            typedef ::CEGUI::String ( *sizeToString_function_type )( ::CEGUI::Sizef const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "sizeToString"
                , sizeToString_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::sizeToString )
                , ( bp::arg("val") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToBool

            typedef bool ( *stringToBool_function_type )( ::CEGUI::String const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "stringToBool"
                , stringToBool_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToBool )
                , ( bp::arg("str") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToColour

            typedef ::CEGUI::Colour ( *stringToColour_function_type )( ::CEGUI::String const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "stringToColour"
                , stringToColour_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToColour )
                , ( bp::arg("str") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToColourRect

            typedef ::CEGUI::ColourRect ( *stringToColourRect_function_type )( ::CEGUI::String const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "stringToColourRect"
                , stringToColourRect_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToColourRect )
                , ( bp::arg("str") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToFloat

            typedef float ( *stringToFloat_function_type )( ::CEGUI::String const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "stringToFloat"
                , stringToFloat_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToFloat )
                , ( bp::arg("str") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToImage

            typedef ::CEGUI::Image const * ( *stringToImage_function_type )( ::CEGUI::String const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "stringToImage"
                , stringToImage_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToImage )
                , ( bp::arg("str") )
                , bp::return_value_policy< bp::reference_existing_object >() );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToRect

            typedef ::CEGUI::Rectf ( *stringToRect_function_type )( ::CEGUI::String const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "stringToRect"
                , stringToRect_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToRect )
                , ( bp::arg("str") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToSize

            typedef ::CEGUI::Sizef ( *stringToSize_function_type )( ::CEGUI::String const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "stringToSize"
                , stringToSize_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToSize )
                , ( bp::arg("str") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToUBox

            typedef ::CEGUI::UBox ( *stringToUBox_function_type )( ::CEGUI::String const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "stringToUBox"
                , stringToUBox_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToUBox )
                , ( bp::arg("str") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToUDim

            typedef ::CEGUI::UDim ( *stringToUDim_function_type )( ::CEGUI::String const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "stringToUDim"
                , stringToUDim_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToUDim )
                , ( bp::arg("str") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToURect

            typedef ::CEGUI::URect ( *stringToURect_function_type )( ::CEGUI::String const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "stringToURect"
                , stringToURect_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToURect )
                , ( bp::arg("str") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToUVector2

            typedef ::CEGUI::UVector2 ( *stringToUVector2_function_type )( ::CEGUI::String const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "stringToUVector2"
                , stringToUVector2_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToUVector2 )
                , ( bp::arg("str") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToUint

            typedef unsigned int ( *stringToUint_function_type )( ::CEGUI::String const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "stringToUint"
                , stringToUint_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToUint )
                , ( bp::arg("str") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToVector2

            typedef ::CEGUI::Vector2f ( *stringToVector2_function_type )( ::CEGUI::String const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "stringToVector2"
                , stringToVector2_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::stringToVector2 )
                , ( bp::arg("str") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::uboxToString

            typedef ::CEGUI::String ( *uboxToString_function_type )( ::CEGUI::UBox const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "uboxToString"
                , uboxToString_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::uboxToString )
                , ( bp::arg("val") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::udimToString

            typedef ::CEGUI::String ( *udimToString_function_type )( ::CEGUI::UDim const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "udimToString"
                , udimToString_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::udimToString )
                , ( bp::arg("val") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::uintToString

            typedef ::CEGUI::String ( *uintToString_function_type )( unsigned int );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "uintToString"
                , uintToString_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::uintToString )
                , ( bp::arg("val") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::urectToString

            typedef ::CEGUI::String ( *urectToString_function_type )( ::CEGUI::URect const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "urectToString"
                , urectToString_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::urectToString )
                , ( bp::arg("val") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::uvector2ToString

            typedef ::CEGUI::String ( *uvector2ToString_function_type )( ::CEGUI::UVector2 const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "uvector2ToString"
                , uvector2ToString_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::uvector2ToString )
                , ( bp::arg("val") ) );

        }
        { //::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::vector2ToString

            typedef ::CEGUI::String ( *vector2ToString_function_type )( ::CEGUI::Vector2f const & );

            PropertyHelper_exposer.def(
                "vector2ToString"
                , vector2ToString_function_type( &::CEGUI::PropertyHelper_wrapper::vector2ToString )
                , ( bp::arg("val") ) );

        }
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "boolToString" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "colourRectToString" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "colourToString" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "floatToString" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "imageToString" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "rectToString" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "sizeToString" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "stringToBool" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "stringToColour" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "stringToColourRect" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "stringToFloat" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "stringToImage" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "stringToRect" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "stringToSize" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "stringToUBox" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "stringToUDim" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "stringToURect" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "stringToUVector2" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "stringToUint" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "stringToVector2" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "uboxToString" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "udimToString" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "uintToString" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "urectToString" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "uvector2ToString" );
        PropertyHelper_exposer.staticmethod( "vector2ToString" );
    }

}


In an old water tower was built a triplex particularly atypical: octagonal spaces with windows on each pan, spiral stair, circular roof terrace with panoramic view over the bay of Saint-Cyr / La Ciotat.
The apartment of 45m2 is developed on 3 levels fully optimized and artfully arranged. Upstairs is a living room of 25m2 with US kitchen opening onto a terrace of 15m2. The 2nd floor consists of a large bedroom of 20m2 with an open bathroom, and a dressing room on the mezzanine. On the 3rd floor we find a laundry area and roof terrace.
Brightness, calm and originality characterize this property.


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When I was a kid, Anne Frank was my hero. When I first read the diary, I must have been about the age Anne was when she began writing to "Kitty," the journal she received from her father upon entering the hidden attic annex that would become her family's home for over two years during the Nazi occupation.
While the world outside was imploding, and Jewish families like hers were being herded into cattle cars and taken to concentration camps, forced labor, and (in most cases) horrific death, Anne and her family, along with another family and a dentist, lived in hiding behind and above her father's business.
For over two years.
Everyone knows the story. And the outcome. Aside from Otto Frank, Anne's father, they all died after being discovered by the Nazis and taken to concentration camps.
Anne's Words Took Wing
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They all died, but their story lived on—thanks to the discovery of the small, cloth-bound journal Anne had hidden in the Annex before being taken away.
Through Anne's writings, we know who these people were and how being exiled together inside the back attic of a small building in the center of the city for two years made them behave, brought out the worst and the best in them and allowed them to dig deeper for meaning each day.
Anne was 13 when she began the diary. In many ways, she was typical of any 13-year-old girl. In the beginning of the journal, she is angry at her mother and sister. She feels misunderstood, maligned. She turns to her father for comfort. She is still young enough to crawl into his bed at night when the bombs are dropping nearby, and she is afraid.
Her concerns are trivial at first – she collects images of her favorite Hollywood movie stars and tapes them on the wall in her room. She recalls childhood disputes at school and wonders about the whereabouts of her former friends and rivals.
As days turn into months and years, though, Anne's writing takes a more urgent voice—as though, realizing this could be her one shot at discovering and making sense of life—she begins to philosophize about the nature of humanity and the world she is no longer a part of.
She falls in love with Peter—the slightly older son of the Van Dam family, residing one floor above her own in the annex. She discovers romance and spends her evenings gazing at the sky with Peter through the dirty windows that must remain covered all day.
Confessing, a few months later, that she has outgrown the romance and that the two, while unsuited for each other long-term, will remain good friends, Anne writes the final passages in the journal before being discovered and sent to her eventual death—that in spite of everything, she still believes people are "good at heart."
This is the "why" of Anne's journal and the reason, I believe, it spoke to our hearts. The story is remarkable – true – but the message of hope and faith in humanity, in spite of the evils of the world—that is why this little cloth-bound journal, written in private by a teenage girl trapped in an attic, transformed the lives of so many, including me– a teenaged misfit searching for meaning from her second-floor bedroom in Houston, Texas in the 1970s.
Why Did She/Do We Write?
Anne was writing in a vacuum. Though she began her journal writing for herself – to the imaginary friend she called "Kitty"—by the journal's end, it's obvious her intended audience has broadened. She is a writer—with an intention. She is writing for the masses.
She may not know her journal will be discovered and published on her death, but she is writing FOR an audience, nevertheless. Her writing has intention.
I believe she planned to use her journal as the source of a book someday.
It is that intentionality in her writing that allowed the message—penned in a vacuum— to take wing. The intention in Anne's writing gave the journal flight.
Anne inspired the writer in me—even as a kid. I began keeping journals and kept the practice up for many years, well into my 30's. I wrote for myself, and sometimes I imagined a future audience.
I wrote to figure things out, to describe what I saw, to bring to life on the page little moments of my day. The nebulous "other" was usually there, unformed in my mind. My intention was also nebulous. Just to write, to document, to explore, I guess.
Sometimes I imagined someone reading what I wrote. Other times, I blushed at the thought that someone might find my journal and misunderstand or judge. But I usually wrote with abandon and trusted that my writing was mine alone.
When I had kids, my journal writing slowed, then all but stopped. I prejudged every word—worried that they would be hurt if they knew what was in my heart on any given day. I worried that the Universe would punish any perceived ingratitude on my part and disrupt my family's well-being.
Wishes, regrets, dreams were things to be hidden—even from myself. My journaling was so constrained that it no longer offered the release or meaning I had always experienced before. So I stopped journaling—just about the time blogging became a thing.
The Search for Meaning in a Limitless Cyberscape
The irony of today's blogging phenomenon is that everyone now has an unlimited platform to share their thoughts with the world, but the open forum appears to be most lacking in intention—the one thing that propels writing into the realm of inspiration.
We all have something to say. Everyone feels compelled to share everything—from cute kitties to physical woes and existential questions, political arguments, social commentary. What feels lacking is a reason.
I remember an aphorism I heard in the early '80s, during an EST seminar my mom convinced me to attend.
"For something to exists, there has to be another thing. If something is everything, then it is also nothing."
All and nothing are the same thing.
We live in a cyber environment of everything and nothing at the same time. It is difficult to find meaning. There's too much of everything. It all feels like nothing.
Release the Genie
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Author, blogger, teacher, and all-around marketing guru, Seth Godin, says that genius is within all of us—it is there to be released, like the genie in the bottle. (The genesis of both words–and that of genesis— is the same, "gen," meaning "inborn.")
The reason most people don't allow their genius to be unleashed upon the world, he says, is fear. Fear that something bad might happen. Fear they might fail if they try.
Fear, he explains, is hard-wired in our DNA. It was useful for keeping us out of sticky situations with Wooley Mastodons. But it's an evolutionary hold-over that is most often not useful to us now.
When we fear failure – in marketing, blogging, business, etc.—it's a false fear because nothing terrible will happen to us if we try and put ourselves out there. We might fail, true. But we won't be eaten. Each failure we experience is an opportunity to learn and grow and be better at what we do.
We should let our genies out of the bottle, and see what happens.
The Importance of Why: "Would They Miss Me if I were Gone?"
Here's the real reason everything feels like nothing most of the time. We have no obstacles to hold us back, but most of us also have no INTENTION. For a message to grow wings and take flight, it has to be fueled by intention. Real intention—one that will create CHANGE. Anything else will just keep the message running in place on a comfortable, but useless, treadmill of mediocrity.
Godin, in a taped interview with Chase Jarvis for Creative Live, says the question we all need to ask ourselves about what we do is, "What is it FOR?"
If there is no purpose to make us feel good about having done it or to create meaningful change in someone else; if it's just about making money or searching for Internet fame, then it's just more empty noise in the void of everything.
He suggests bloggers ask themselves what matters and –as a measure of whether or not what they are doing matters—"Would they miss me if I were gone?"
He reminds permission marketers and bloggers, "We are living in the most crowded creative universe in history…You are not entitled to any attention."
"Dig deeper," he recommends, "to be remarkable."
The way to be remarkable, he suggests, is to produce work that people will remark on. Write with the intention of creating change, and care enough about the work you produce to create the type of content that people will remark upon and share.
You have access to everyone and everything.
Can you make change happen?
Anne Frank changed the world with a pen and cloth-bound journal, from an attic.
Posted in blogging, essay, literary, parenting, social networking, Uncategorized, writing on January 20, 2019 by Tammy Quinn McKillip. Leave a comment
There's a wonderful scene in a Chevy Chase movie where a family has just completed a journey across America to see the Grand Canyon. Having finally arrived, the family gets out of the station wagon, walks to the edge of the abyss and, with their arms around each other, they collectively heave a great, appreciative sigh, then shrug their shoulders and get back into the car to go home. The moment is great comedy because who can't relate? When something is too overwhelming for words—too intangible, out of reach—even when it is right there in front of us, there is no way to capture it; no amount of drinking it in that can solidify the experience or make it more real. You just can't eat it. There it is. Time to get back in the car.
There are some images that can just not be described with words alone—the giant gumdrop of a California sunset as it melts into the Pacific Ocean; the smell of Georgia pines after a rain storm; the life and energy of Times Square after the theaters let out; wisps of hair on your shoulder on the first warm day of the year. In trying to describe the ineffable, one relies upon the reader's own history to fill in the blanks.
Likewise, there are experiences that are so utterly subjective that one can never truly share their worth. And there is always the difficulty of a culture-gap. Manhattan is a concept which is so totally alien to my relatives in rural Texas that, after feebly suggesting various stretches of their imaginations, I often end my explanations with the tired phrase, "You'd have to be there to understand…" I have the same problem explaining the beauty of listening to country music while driving all night down an old, dusty, two lane highway to folks from New York City …They just can't get it. There's no point of reference, and the experience is too elusive to capture with mere language.
What I'd most like to capture and be able to recreate in a way that would resonate for the universal reader is the sensation of a Southern thunderstorm. In attempting to define such an experience, words can only wrap their way around the invisible forces of nature—outlining in the sketchiest, loosest way what is transient and filled with power. Words can describe the warm, salty taste of a gulf breeze, but they cannot convey the electric thrill that every Texan knows when that breeze begins to cartwheel across the shore, damp and full of potential and warning. I can tell you in words of the clouds—rich, blue and gold—slowly gathering into larger, heavier and deeper blue-black and silver groups, crowding each other into cauliflower bunches across the steel-gray sky, rumbling and growling with intensity and a promise of force. But I cannot make you feel the spark of fire that catches when the first flashes of lightning explode inside the clouds and illuminate their edges. I can't truly capture the sound of those first heavy drops of rain as they land on the windshield of a van or the rhythmic hissing as the wind blows the downpour across the roof. I mean, I can tell you, but if you have no shared context, the images may not come to life for you—no matter how true-to-life.
I can tell you what it's like to be drenched to the bone, but I cannot reproduce the sensation of wet feet inside of wet shoes, or the smell—warm and weedy. For me, the sounds, smells, sights and tastes of a Texas thunderstorm are co-mingled things, inseparable, incapable of true translation. The oil in the Gulf of Mexico lends the air a thick brownness, salty and flavorful. The wind carries silvery currents back and forth across the road. There are times when it is impossible to see anything beyond the beating streams of water on the windshield. Traffic stops. Gutters overflow into the streets and barefoot children scream at the thunderclaps and run to catch crawdads in the overflowing ditches.
The storms can last from a few seconds to a day or more. When they leave, the air is crisp; the ground is littered in pine needles and leaves. The flood waters run off into the bayous and rivers, and the birds come out of hiding to celebrate the sunshine.
Inside homes, people turn from the Weather Channel back to their soaps and realty shows. The watches and warnings have moved on to another part of the county and life—for a while filled with danger and noise—returns to routine. One neighbor might call another to ask if any trees were downed in the storm or to share the story about the thunderclap that like to give her a dadblaned heart attack.
A Texas thunderstorm is a miracle that for me, as a writer, remains elusive and breezy. Unless one already has a point of reference—a similar memory of salt and wind and sound—there is no way to convey it with mere words. It is a living thing, vibrant, explosive, willful and majestic. It can be tasted. But no matter how hard you try, you just can't eat it.
Posted in blogging, essay, literary, metaphor, ocean, poetry, social networking, Texas, thunderstorm, Uncategorized, weather, writing on March 10, 2015 by Tammy Quinn McKillip. Leave a comment
Our family has eaten dinner in front of the television set for the past two years. Strangely, we are all comforted by that, and to propose that we do otherwise would cause a major upheaval in our house. Aside from the 45 minutes to an hour or so that we spend together watching a show and eating, each of the four of us pretty much revolve in our own little universe, behind closed doors.
My 9 year-old daughter is working her way through the entire Harry Potter series and is addicted to educational computer games, Disney preteen sitcoms where everybody is sarcastic and rude to each other, and collecting Pokemon on her DS. My 13 year-old son received a space-ship-like computer for his birthday last year (not from us—from a way-too-generous family friend), and we have hardly seen him since. My husband spends his days and nights doing temp work from his computer in what used to be the formal living room/music room but has now become his office. I spend most of my life on the third floor, in my attic office, writing, reading or playing with my mini-recording studio. Okay, I smoke up here, too. Shut up.
My husband and I take turns cooking dinner (lately, my daughter has been helping out in the cooking department, as well, having received several kids' cookbooks for her birthday last year). When dinner is almost ready, we scream upstairs for the family to come down, and we set placemats on the coffee table and two TV trays placed in front of the easy chairs bookending the sofa. We scream a few more times until everyone is finally in one place, then we serve the food and commence to argue about what to watch. Sometimes, this argument lasts until we have all finished eating, and we clear the plates and send the kids back upstairs to wash, brush their teeth, or finish their homework.
We frequently binge-watch an entire series over a month or two. I was introduced to and followed the saga of the various Dr. Who's throughout the entirety of last year before we moved on to Sherlock. When we watch movies, it often takes us a week or so to get through them, bite by bite. On the weekends, we will watch a film straight through, but during the week, we're bound by school schedules and bedtime routines, so continuity is compromised.
Speaking during a program is discouraged, but my kids and husband are incapable of not speaking for more than a few minutes at a time, so we always have the mute button close at hand, so as not to miss any dialogue. Sometimes we have to rewind and watch a scene several times because of random interruptions by one or more of the four of us. When this happens, we scowl at one another and sigh loudly. Dinner conversation is limited to what we can fit in during commercials or pauses.
I am aware that this sounds sad and dysfunctional. But it is what comforts us.
There was a time when we indulged in sit-down meals at the table, like the Waltons. When the kids were little, we'd snap them into their booster chairs, cut their food, dab the sides of each little messy mouth with a napkin and giggle over the cute things they did and said. They loved our company then and even had fun teasing and playing with each other. I felt a swell of pride every time I put steaming platters of freshly cooked vegetables and meatloaf or home-cooked gumbo on the table in front of my family. This was me being a mom—a real mom. It was a role I embraced with the pleasure of a child playing dress up. My mother had never cooked (she wasn't allowed–it was the 60's). Sit-down meals were TV dinners in foil packages with peel-back tops. TV trays were metal things that pinched your fingers when you put them in the corner.
None of that nonsense for my family. Look how far I've come, I'd think, on my own, without anyone showing me how. My family is sitting at a table eating food I cooked for them.
We have a formal dining room with a massive Oak, claw-footed table which we pile with mail, backpacks, books, packages, and other debris. Twice a year—at Thanksgiving, and on Christmas Day eve, we scrape the table's contents into cardboard boxes, clean the oak with a sponge and a dry rag, then adorn it with one of two thrift-shop lace tablecloths, a centerpiece candle, and mostly matching, shiny flatware. We dig out the mismatched gravy boats, salt and pepper shakers, and as many unchipped China plates as we can find in our kitchen cabinets, and we sit down over a turkey or ham dinner, like civilized people. The kids hate this and are antsy and uncomfortable with no safe place to put their elbows and nothing civil to say to one another.
We have a long pine farm table in the kitchen, and this is where we eat together on the rare occasions the cable is out or we have a sleepover guest. The kids eat breakfast at this table when they make it down in time and aren't about to miss the bus. On weekends, this is where we eat soup or drink hot chocolate with marshmallows after coming inside and kicking off our snow boots.
The rest of the time, the table is empty.
Posted in bipolar, blogging, dining, essay, food, humor, mental health, parenting, writing on March 10, 2015 by Tammy Quinn McKillip. 1 Comment

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2009 Henry Awards: Real-time winners
By John Moore
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Check back here often for real-time updates on the Colorado Theatre Guild's 2008-09 Henry Awards, starting Monday at 7 pm. And at 10 p.m., go to www.denverpost.com/theater for full report and analysis …
Outstanding season for a company: Denver Center Theatre Company
Outstanding play: Glengarry Glen Ross, DCTC
Outstanding musical: Les Miserables, Arvada Center
Henry Awards: How voting changes for 2010
The Colorado Theatre Guild has adopted a new voting system for the 2009-10 Henry Awards. The eligibility opened June 1, and the panel of judges will no longer simply fill out a ballot at the end of the year indicating their five favorites in each of 21 categories.
In previous years, the panel then voted a second time from among the five nominees in each category to determine the actual winners. This year there were nine judges, six of them critics. All of them had to have seen 50 shows during the eligibility period to earn a vote.
This year, a wider panel of up to 30 critic and citizen judges has been formed, Read more…
Phil Gottlieb memorial confirmed for June 30
It's been confirmed that the celebration of local actor Phil Gottlieb's life will be at 4 p.m., Tuesday, June 30, at Bethany Lutheran Church. That's at 4500 E. Hampden Ave. in Cherry Hills Village.
The run of "The Fantasticks" that is to star Matt Gottlieb, with his mother, Mary, on piano, has been dedicated to the memory of Phil, who was to have played Mortimer before the heart attacks that finally took his life on Monday.
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Henry Awards move to the Denver Center
The Colorado Theatre Guild's 2009 Henry Awards will be announced June 29 at the Space Theatre at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, it was announced Monday.
The Guild's annual fundraiser honors the best in theater among metro-area member companies. To be eligible, shows must have opened between June 1, 2008, and May 31, 2009.
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Audition for the Denver Center Theatre Company
The Denver Center Theatre Company has announced auditions for Equity and non-Equity actors for the 2009-10 season.
Auditions for actors who are members of Actors Equity will be held on Sunday, May 24.
Auditions for non-Equity actors will be held In cooperation with the Colorado Theatre Guild on Friday, May 22, and Saturday, May 23.
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Virginia Borden Maier, Health Professions Advisor
Students attending St. John Fisher College may plan a program that will allow them to apply to any of the health-related professional schools in fields such as medicine, dentistry, optometry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, podiatry, chiropractic medicine, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, or public health. These schools actively seek students with strong science backgrounds who are liberally educated and have diverse interests and talents.
"Pre-health" is not a major at St. John Fisher College. The majority of pre-medical and other pre-health students are biology or chemistry majors, but students intending to enter the health professions may choose any academic major. Academic prerequisites vary among professional schools, but most programs require a minimum of:
Two semesters of biology with labs
Four to five semesters of chemistry (general, organic, and biochemistry) with labs
Two semesters of physics with labs
Two semesters of college English
Courses in psychology and sociology are strongly recommended, as are statistics, anatomy, and physiology. The range of excellent humanities and social science courses available at St. John Fisher College provides pre-health students with a well-rounded perspective on society and health.
Students interested in a career in the health professions are urged to make contact with the health professions advisor during their first year at Fisher so that they may receive guidance as they pursue their subsequent studies. The health professions advisor provides materials and advice to assist students in understanding all aspects of the preparation process, from choosing courses to preparing for pre-professional exams, selecting schools, preparing for the interview, and making decisions regarding acceptances and alternatives.
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The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development (Diversity day) is a United Nations sanctioned international holiday for the promotion of diversity issues. It is currently held on May 21. The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed this holiday due to UNESCO's Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity in November 2001. It was proclaimed by UN Resolution 57/249.
Diversity Day, officially known as "The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development", is an opportunity to help communities understand the value of cultural diversity and learn how to live together in harmony. This day was created as a result of the destruction of the Buddha statues of Bamiyan in Afghanistan in 2001.


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Will VR Take Away our Privacy?
Virtual reality has the potential to enable so many amazing utopian futures, but it also has the potential to become one of the most intimate surveillance technologies that could create a Big Brother dystopia of political and economic control. But if privacy considerations are built into virtual reality technologies from the beginning, then Accomplice investor Sarah Downey argues that the metaverse could actually be one of the last bastions of privacy that we have in our lives.
Downey has a legal background in privacy and previously worked at a privacy start-up, and she's currently investing in virtual reality technologies that could have privacy implications such as the brain-control interface company Neurable that can detect user intent.
Privacy Facilitates Authentic Free Speech
Downey believes that privacy is a fundamental requirement for freedom of expression. In order to have the full potential of First Amendment that guarantees the freedom of speech in the United States, then you need to have the protections of the Fourth Amendment that protects a reasonable expectation of privacy. She makes the point our digital footprints are starting to bleed into our real lives, and that this will lead to less authentic interactions in the real world.
The advertising business models of Google and Facebook rely upon creating a unified profile that connects your online behavior to your actual identity, which creates a persistent digital footprint that follows you where ever you go. As search histories have been subpoenaed into child custody cases or social media posts get people fired, it's created an online environment where shared content is being considered public and permanent not ephemeral.
This has a chilling effect that creates what Downey calls a "fraudulent shell that limits authenticity." The erosion of a truly private context has created a stale and boring environment that has limited her authentic expression on sites like Facebook, and she warns that our unified digital footprints will start to spread into the real world as augmented reality technologies with facial recognition start to spread. As we start to loose the feeling of anonymity in public spaces, then we'll all be living out the first episode of season three of Black Mirror called "Nosedive" where every human interaction is rated on a five-star scale.
Weakening the Fourth Amendment by Sharing Private Data
Downey also argues that the Fourth Amendment is based upon a culturally reasonable expectation of privacy, which means that our cultural use of mobile and web technologies has had a very real legal effect on our constitutional rights. There's a subjective interpretation of the law that's constantly evolving as we use technology to share the more intimate parts of our lives. If we feel confident enough to share something with a third-party company, then it's not really legally private and can be subpoenaed and used within a court of law.
Creating Unified Super Profiles
There are different classes of private information, and so companies like Google and Facebook are able to collect massive behavioral histories of individuals as long as they don't share access to the personally identifiable information. They can anonymize and aggregate collective behavioral information that's provided to their advertising customers, which enables them to create a business model that is based upon detailed surveillance of all of our online behavior.
Google recently quietly created an opt-in that links all of your historical web browsing history from DoubleClick to your personally identifiable account, and Facebook actually buys external financial and mortgage data to tie into your web browsing and social media interactions.
The Intimate Data We'll Share with VR
Now with virtual reality technologies, Oculus' privacy policy says that they can capture and record "information about your physical movements and dimensions when you use a virtual reality headset." This is starting with head and hand tracked information, but if this is correlated to the VR experience then the content of your gaze and what you're looking at could already start to be recorded, stored forever, and combined with other public or commercially available information in your Facebook super profile.
As of right now, none of the information gathered by a virtual reality technologies has been determined to be definitively classified as "personally identifiable information," which enables VR hardware companies and application developers to capture and store whatever they like. But once there are eye tracking technologies with more sophisticated facial detection or one day brain-control interfaces, then VR technology will have the capability to capture and store really intimate data including facial expressions, eye movements, eye gaze, gait, hand & head movements, engagement, speech patterns, emotional states and, from EEG, brainwaves, attention, interest, intent, and potentially even eventually our thoughts. The rules we make today about how basic information like head and hand movements in VR can be used will set a precedent ahead of these more sophisticated and precise tracking technologies.
VR Biometric Data is Not Personally Identifiable (Yet)
There are some existing biometric identifiers that can connect information gathered from your body that can personally identify you, which include things like facial features, fingerprint, hand geometry, retina, iris, gait, signature, vein patterns, DNA, voice, and typing rhythm. Right now your gait, voices, or retina or iris as captured by an eye tracking camera could be biometric data that proves to be personally identifiable. It's also likely that the combination of other factors like your body, hand, and head movements taken together may prove to create a unique kinematic fingerprint that could also personally identifiable you with the proper machine learning algorithm. This could mean data is being anonymously stored today that could eventually be aggregated to personally identify you, which is a special class of PII that requires special legal protections.
OpenBCI co-founder Conor Russomanno told me that EEG brainwave data may turn out to have a unique fingerprint that can not ever fully be anonymized and could be potentially be tracked back to individuals. What are the implications of storing massive troves of physical data gathered from VR headsets and hand tracked controllers that turns out to be personally identifiable? Downey suggests that the best answer from a privacy perspective is to not record and store the information in the first place.
VR Companies Are Not Being Proactive with Privacy
There's a set of self-regulatory principles for online behavioral advertising that companies have collectively agreed to follow to help with the Federal Trade Commission's oversight of companies protecting the privacy of individuals. But up to this point all of the major virtual reality companies have not taken a proactive approach to educate, be transparent and provide consumer controls to opt-out of what may be recorded and stored from a VR system.
Google has the most detailed privacy Dashboard to be able to review and control what they've recorded from your regular account (included interactive maps of location history and voice recordings of talking to Google Assistant), but they don't have any specific information related to virtual reality yet. You can see what ad preference categories that Facebook has selected for you, but their Privacy Policy explanation pageshows very little of the raw data that they've collected. The HTC Vive links to HTC's privacy policy, which hasn't been updated since September 29, 2014 and predates the Vive so there's no specific VR information. And there's no specific indication of VR data being capturing or tracked in Valve's or Samsung's privacy policy.
Oculus' Privacy Policy is the only one to call out any specific VR data being collected, which means that either other companies aren't recording any head or hand tracked information yet, or they're not properly disclosing the fact that they are.
Oculus' Independence from Facebook is Fading
The site VRHeads did a great comparison of the different privacy policies of VR companies pointing out some of the commonalities and differences. They also flagged Oculus' privacy as concerning saying, "The company states that all of that information is necessary to help make your game experience more immersive; they also use the data to make improvements on future games. But permanently storing that data, and then sharing it? That's a bit invasive."
Oculus made this statement about privacy in response to an UploadVR report from April, 2016:
We want to create the absolute best VR experience for people, and to do that, we need to understand how our products are being used and we're thinking about privacy every step of the way. The Oculus privacy policy was drafted so we could be very clear with the people who use our services about the ways we receive or collect information, and how we may use it. For example, one thing we may do is use information to improve our services and to make sure everything is working properly — such as checking device stability and addressing technical issues to improve the overall experience.
Lastly, Facebook owns Oculus and helps run some Oculus services, such as elements of our infrastructure, but we're not sharing information with Facebook at this time. We don't have advertising yet and Facebook is not using Oculus data for advertising – though these are things we may consider in the future.
Just because Oculus hasn't shared information with Facebook as of early 2016, that doesn't mean that they won't and they don't plan to in the near or far future. In fact, it's likely that they will otherwise they wouldn't have included the legal language to do so.
The boundaries of independence between Oculus and Facebook have been fading lately. Facebook has been taking more and more of an active part in running Oculus as shown by the Oculus logo including mention of Facebook, with CEO Brendan Iribe recently stepping down, and with Mark Zuckerberg giving a much more in-depth demo about the future of VR and Facebook at the recent Oculus Connect 3.
Any early comfort that Oculus would be run as an independent company from within Facebook is starting to fade, and the bottom line is that there's nothing stopping Oculus from feeding as much intimate data about body movements into Facebook's unified super profiles of personally identifiable users. It's starting with physical movements, but it's likely that future generations of VR technology will have deeper tracking technologies built in, like eye tracking and biometric sensors. Oculus' privacy policy is laying down the legal framework to be able to capture and store everything you look at and interact with in virtual worlds; these policies will increasingly matter as VR becomes a more important part of our lives.
The Metaverse as the Last Bastion of Privacy?
As these online profiles start to merge into our real world with augmented reality technologies, it could vastly reduce our sense of privacy. So Downey is optimistic about the potential of a virtual reality metaverse could become one of the last bastions of privacy that we have, if VR technologies are architected with privacy in mind.
Downey encourages VR application and hardware developers to minimize data collection and to maintain as little data as possible. She also suggests to not personally identify people, and to use decentralized payment options like Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies as to not tie information back to a singular identity. Finally to avoid using social sign-ins so as to not have people's actions be tied back to a persistent identity that's permanent stored and shared forever.
Open Questions to VR Companies for Regulators
Virtual reality technologies are going to have increased scrutiny from public policy creators in 2017, and there has already been a Senate Commerce hearing about Augmented Reality in November of 2016.
Some of the open questions that should be asked of virtual reality hardware and software developers are:
• What information is being tracked, recorded, and permanently stored from VR technologies?
• Is this information being stored with the legal protections of personally identifiable information?
• What is the potential for some of anonymized physical data to end up being personally identifiable using machine learning?
• Why haven't Privacy Policies been updated to reflect what VR data is being tracked and stored? If nothing is being tracked, then are they willing to make explicit statements saying that certain information will not be tracked and stored?
• What controls will be made available for users to opt-out of being tracked?
• What will be the safeguards in place to prevent the use of eye tracking cameras to personally identify people with biometric retina or iris scans?
• Are any of our voice conversations are being recorded for social VR interactions?
• Can VR companies ensure that there any private contexts in virtual reality where we are not being tracked and recorded? Or is recording everything the default?
• What kind of safeguards can be imposed to limit the tying our virtual actions to our actual identity in order to preserve our Fourth Amendment rights?
• How are VR application developers going to be educated and held accountable for their responsibilities of the types of sensitive personally identifiable information that could be recorded and stored within their experiences?
The technological trend over the last ten to twenty years has been that our behaviors with technology have been weakening our Fourth Amendment protections of a reasonable expectation of privacy. As we start to provide more and more intimate data that VR and AR companies are recording and storing, are we yielding more of our rights to a reasonable expectation of privacy? If we completely erode our right to privacy it will have serious implications on our First Amendment rights to free speech.
As virtual reality consumers, we should be demanding that VR companies do not record and store this information, in order to protect us from overreaching governments or hostile state actors who could capture this information and use it against us.
In order to have freedom of expression in an authentic way we need to have a container of privacy. Otherwise, we'll be moving towards the dystopian futures envisioned by Black Mirror, where our digital footprint bleeds over into our real life that constrains all of our social and economic interactions.
Is VR going to be the most powerful surveillance technology ever created or the last bastion of privacy? It's up to us to decide. We need to make these privacy challenges to VR companies now before they become ingrained in our expectations.
Via: Road To VR


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The Westin Resort & Spa – Whistler
Located in Canada's beloved British Columbia, The Whistler is one of Canada's proudest hidden gems. Voted the No. 1 Ski Resort in North America by SKI Magazine Readers for 2015, The Westin Resort & Spa, Whistler caters to both those who ache to hit the slopes and those who are just as happy to spend their days strolling through town.
Chosen almost five years ago as one of the locations for the 2010 Winter Games, The Village, as it's locally nicknamed, has retained all of its beauty in the wake of the Olympics.
It's a true family hotel, but that shouldn't deter the childless at all. You have your choice between four different types of rooms: the Deluxe Studio Suite, which features a king-sized bed, a comfortable queen-sized pullout sofa, kitchen, and also a balcony, patio area; a One-Bedroom Suite featuring a queen-sized bed, a dining area and a kitchen; a Two-Bedroom Suite, and lastly, the Penthouse Mountain Suite that boasts over two floors of living space, breathtaking views of The Village and the mountains, as well as every amenity needed to keep guests cozy and comfortable.
Grill & Vine and the FireRock Lounge round out dining options on site, and more await downtown. To add to its long list of accolades, earlier this year The Westin Resort & Spa was selected as a 2014 SPG Member Favorite in the "Best Winter Escapes" category.
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Under New Jersey state law, in order to legally operate a motor vehicle, it is required that the operator have a valid driver's license. If a person is caught driving without a license, there are many applicable charges to the offense and it can include hefty fines and as many as 60 days in jail.
There are sometimes mitigating circumstances for driving without a license, such as being unaware that the license had been suspended or revoked, mistakenly believing one's foreign driver's license was valid in the U.S., or an emergency that made it unavoidable to drive illegally.
Driving without a valid license in New Jersey can lead to the aforementioned penalties as well as others if the individual never had a driver's license in New Jersey or anywhere else. For example, if there is a conviction, the accused person will be fined an amount of at least $200 and will not be allowed to get their driver's license for six months after the conviction.
Oftentimes, a person might not have known that their license was suspended or had been revoked. Accruing a certain number of points on one's license for a variety of traffic offenses in New Jersey—like DUI, running a stop sign, speeding—will eventually result in the suspension of the license. This generally occurs after 12 or more points were placed on the license. It's quite possible that the driver didn't know he or she had the driver's license suspended and was unknowingly driving without a valid license. In other circumstances, the license might have been suspended because of a separate issues, such as not appearing in court on a scheduled date or for failure to pay child support.
Immigrants might be under the impression that because they had a valid driver's license in another country, that they also are legally able to drive in the United States. If the person is a visitor, they should get an international driving permit to drive legally in New Jersey. If the person is a resident, they must get a New Jersey driver's license to drive legally in the state.
In the event of an emergency, it will still be illegal for a person without a driver's license to operate a motor vehicle, but if the situation is serious enough, then there might be a reduction or dismissal of the charges for driving without a license.
The punishments for driving without a license can be expensive and have long-term consequences. If the individual is charged with driving without a license, they will be subject to fines ranging from $200 and up, with potential jail time of up to two months, and the inability to have a driver's license for as many as 180 days from the time of conviction.
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Welcome to Episode 31 of Cold War Conversations.
We speak with Doctor Grace Huxford, author of the Korean War in Britain – Citizenship, Selfhood and Forgetting. Grace's book is available on this link with a 50% discount using discount code PODCAST before 16th Nov 2018.
The Korean War was known as the "forgotten war", but it is key in understanding the early Cold War tensions and later repercussions that continue through to today.
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The subjects we cover include the social impact of the Korean War within Britain, the UK view of the war, prisoners of war and brainwashing as well as protests against the war.
We welcome Dr Grace Huxford.
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British Official History of the Korean War
Korea: The War before Vietnam Hardcover by Callum A. MacDonald
British Prisoners of the Korean War Hardcover by S P MacKenzie
Name, Rank, and Serial Number: Exploiting Korean War POWs at Home and Abroad by Charles S. Young
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Betrayal in Berlin
Steve Vogel is a veteran journalist who reported for the Washington Post for more than two decades. He is also the author of Betrayal in Berlin a new book that tells the story of one of the West's greatest espionage operations of the Cold War.Now I'm sure you are enjoying your weekly dose of Cold…
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A British Communist Working in East Germany
John Tarver was born into a middle-class family. He joined the British Communist Party on his 18th birthday in 1948 because he felt the Soviet Union had made the most effective resistance to fascism.He worked as a party activist in Britain and made several trips to the GDR where he would get a job at…
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Working in the sensitive side of the US Navy
Jay Lieberman talks about his early childhood memories of the Cold War as well as his long career in the US Navy.He tells a fascinating story of how he obtained high security clearance in the US Navy and served at a number of classified command facilities including the 2nd Pentagon and the Fleet Ocean Surveillance…
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Millet recently welcomed another new business to town. Eco Nets has opened its doors at 5015-45 ave., located west of the corner of Hwy 616 and Hwy 2A. Eco Nets not only has a store front, they also manufacture their product on site.
Proving that necessity really is the mother of invention, owner Shauna Johnson's development and perfection of Eco Nets was the answer to the health concerns of her daughter's 20 year old mare. After researching metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance, the idea for the Eco Net was born. Not only do the nets satisfy the chewing requirements of the horse, they also reduce the amount of feed consumed by turning what would be one big bite into 5-7 nibbles. This also helps to alleviate problems like ulcers, cribbing, colic, stress and boredom while reducing wasted feed.
The nets proved to be so successful in turning around the mare's health that friends took notice and wanted nets of their own. Through word of mouth the demand for the Eco Net grew. What started as a product created to help a family pet quickly grew into a business. In 4 short years Eco Nets has gone from a small home based business in a garage to its current location in Millet, where it employs 7 people on the manufacturing end of the operation.
If you prefer to see your product before you buy, you can always stop by the store front or one of the over 50 retailers that now carry Eco Nets. Eco Nets will also be at the upcoming Edmonton Farm and Ranch Show March 27 -29 and The Main Event in Red Deer April 25-27.


…Faith gives us a title to the righteousness of Christ, and makes it ours not only by the promise of God, but as it is the bond of union between Christ and the soul. By faith it is that we are made mystically one with Christ, living members in his body, fruitful branches of that heavenly and spiritual vine. We have the communication of the same name. So also is Christ, saith the Apostle (1 Cor. 12:12), speaking there of Christ mystical, both his Person and his Church. We have the same relations, I ascend to my Father and to your Father (John 20:17). We are made partakers of the same Spirit, for if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his (Rom. 8:9), he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit (1 Cor. 6:17). And finally, the very life that we live is said not to be ours, but Christ liveth in us, and that we live by the faith of the Son of God (Gal. 2:20). So that being thus one with Christ, his righteousness becomes our righteousness, even as our sins became his: and God deals with Christ and believers, as if they were one person. The sins of believers are charg'd upon Christ, as though they were his; and the righteousness of Christ is reckoned to believers as theirs: neither is God unjust either in the one, or the other imputation, because they are mystically one; and this mystical union is a sufficient ground for imputation. Yet from this union flows the participation only of the benefits of his mediatorship: for we are not hereby transubstantiated or deify'd, as some of late years have blasphemously conceited; neither the Godhead of Christ, nor his essential righteousness as God, nor his divine and infinite properties are made ours; but only the fruits and effects of his mediation: so that hereupon God graciously accounts of us as if we had done in our own persons, whatsoever Christ hath done for us, because by faith Christ and we are made one.
Faith makes the righteousness of Christ to be ours, as it is the bond of that mystical union that there is between Christ and the believing soul. If Christ and the believer be one, the righteousness of Christ may well be reckoned as the righteousness of the believer. Nay, mutual imputation flows from mystical union: the sins of believers are imputed to Christ, and the righteousness of Christ to them; and both justly, because being united each to [the] other by a mutual consent (which consent on our part is faith) God considers them but as one person. As it is in marriage, the husband stands liable to the wife's debts, and the wife stands interested in her husband's possessions, so it is here: faith is the marriage-band and tie between Christ and a believer; and therefore all the debts of a believer are chargeable upon Christ, and the righteousness of Christ is instated upon the believer: so that upon the account of this marriage-union he hath a legal right and title to the purchase made by it. Indeed this union is an high and inscrutable mystery, yet plain it is that there is such [a] close, spiritual, and real union between Christ and a believer. The Scripture often both expressly affirms it, He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit (1 Cor. 6:17); and also lively illustrates it by several resemblances. It is likewise plain that the band of this union on the believer's part is faith: consult Rom. 11:17 with 11:20. And therefore from the nearness of this union there follows a communication of interests and concerns: insomuch that the Church is called Christ (1 Cor. 12:12, so also is Christ), and their sufferings called the sufferings of Christ (Col. 1:24; Acts 9:4). So likewise from this mystical union the sins of believers are laid upon Christ, and his righteousness imputed unto them: see this as to both parts: He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him (2 Cor. 5:21) and He hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, that the blessing of Abraham might come upon us (Gal. 3:13-14). It is still upon the account of this union that Christ was reckoned a sinner, and we are reckoned as righteous. And therefore as faith is the bond and tye of this union, so it is, without more difficulty, the way and means of our justification. By faith we are united unto Christ; by that union we have truly a righteousness; and upon that righteousness the justice of God, as well as his mercy, is engaged to justifie and acquit us.


Our model is not good at valuating stocks of financial companies, such as UDR.
We calculate the intrinsic value of UDR stock by summing up the current values of future distributable cash flows generated by the company and dividing the sum by the number of outstanding shares. As such, the intrinsic value calculation depends entirely on projections. The more accurate your projections of the company's performance are - the more reliable is the intrinsic value calculation result. Please make sure to check the stock valuation input data below and adjust it if necessary. The quality of the output (intrinsic valuation result) is only as good as the quality of the input. See also DISCLAIMERS.
UDR, Inc. is a self-administered real estate investment trust. The Company owns, operates, acquires, renovates, develops, redevelops, disposes of and manages multifamily apartment communities generally located in various markets across the United States. The Company's segments are Same-Store Communities and Non-Mature Communities/Other. As of December 31, 2016, the Company's consolidated real estate portfolio included 127 communities located in 18 markets, with a total of 39,454 completed apartment homes. As of December 31, 2016, the Company also had an ownership interest in 27 communities containing 6,849 apartment homes through unconsolidated joint ventures or partnerships. As of December 31, 2016, the Company's properties were in various locations, such as Orange County, San Francisco and Los Angeles in California; Seattle, Washington; Richmond, Virginia; Baltimore, Maryland; Orlando and Tampa in Florida; Nashville, Tennessee, and Dallas and Austin in Texas.
Revenue. Company's revenue (or sales) is always the starting point of any cash flow forecast. In the UDR stock intrinsic value calculation we used $ million for the last fiscal year's total revenue generated by UDR, Inc.. The default revenue input number comes from 0001 income statement of UDR, Inc.. You may change it if you feel that it should be adjusted for some unusual circumstances that are not expected to be repeated in the future or if you already know (from interim financial statements, for example) that this year's revenue is going to be quite different.
We use three input parameters to forecast the revenue growth rate in our UDR stock valuation model: a) initial revenue growth rate of 0% whose default value is the revenue growth rate in the most recent quarter compared to the quarterly revenue a year ago; b) terminal revenue growth rate of 5% whose default value is chosen to be close to the average nominal (i.e. not adjusted for inflation) GDP growth rate; and c) revenue decline factor of 0.9, which stipulates that revenue growth rate in each forecasted year will be equal to the difference of the revenue growth rate in the preceding year and the terminal revenue growth rate multiplied by this revenue decline factor (with the passage of time the revenue growth rate will be approaching the terminal revenue growth rate, but not quite reaching it - though the difference could be infinitesimally small).
The initial discount rate of 0%, whose default value for UDR is calculated based on our internal credit rating of UDR, Inc., is applied to the cash flow expected to be received a year from now (well, actually, to be precise, in the financial year following the base year - the last year for which we have financial statements). For each consecutive year the discount rate is multiplied by the discount rate multiplier of 1.05, e.i. each year it increases by 5%. Feel free to change this number to correspond to your level of risk assessment of UDR, Inc..
Variable cost ratio is the ratio of variable costs (i.e. costs that fluctuate with fluctuation of the volume of production) to the revenue expressed as a percentage. In the calculation of intrinsic value of UDR stock the variable cost ratio is equal to 0%.
Fixed operating expenses is just that - expenses that are not dependant on the volume of production. They are set to $ million in the base year in the intrinsic value calculation for UDR stock. These expenses increase with the level of inflation in subsequent years.
Interest rate on debt is the average all-in rate of interest paid by the company on its debt. It is set at 0% for UDR, Inc..
Corporate tax rate of 27% is the nominal tax rate for UDR, Inc.. In reality, companies find ways to pay much less taxes than that or not to pay them at all.
Cash flow adjustment could be used for any adjustment the investor deems necessary. Most commonly we use this field to account for stock options-related effects in excess of what is reported on the company's income statement. The cash flow adjustment is expressed as a percentage of the revenue, and in the current valuation of the UDR stock is equal to 0%.
Production assets are the company's assets used for manufacturing products or provision of services. In the valuation model input table they are expressed as a percentage of revenue and for UDR are equal to 0%.
Life of production assets of years is the average useful life of capital assets used in UDR, Inc. operations. It is used to calculate yearly capital expenditures needed to keep these assets in good order - we call it the maintenance CAPEX.
Working capital is the difference between the company's current assets and liabilities. In the model we use the ratio of working capital to revenue, which for UDR is equal to 0%. A negative number means that the company is apt at using financial resources of its suppliers and customers; a large positive number, on the other hand, means that it either provides in-kind financing to others or is not good at managing its inventories.
Book value of equity - $ million for UDR, Inc. - is used in calculation of the "floor" for intrinsic valuation based on the discounted cash flow (DCF) method. Even if the prospects are very bad for a company, its assets could always be sold now for their current fair market value.
Shares outstanding of 275.648 million for UDR, Inc. is needed to calculate the intrinsic value of one share.
Market capitalization is used here only for reference purposes and as a quick check that the share price and the number of shares outstanding numbers are correct - something especially to be cognizant about at stock splits. So, the market capitalization of UDR, Inc. at the current share price and the inputted number of shares is $12.2 billion.


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His story was featured in "Four Stars of Valor: The Combat History of the 505th Parachute Infantry" and "All American, All the Way: The Combat History of the 82nd Airborne Division," non-fiction accounts by Phil Nordyke, where he told the story of his time as a mortar squad leader with Brown, who had been a mortar squad leader with F Company.
After the Army, Brown went to work as an explosives technician at DuPont and Co. He is survived by two daughters, 10 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, according to his obituary.
Retired 1st Sgt. Harold Eatman was one of fewer than 2,800 paratroopers to have made all four World War II combat jumps with the 82nd Airborne Division.
Brown was one of about a dozen soldiers still alive who had made all four jumps. Retired 1st. Sgt. Harold Eatman died in July at the age of 102.