Received a NIB Tamiya Falcon for Xmas '88 after owning several toy grade cars. In 1991 I sold the Falcon and saved the remainder to get a Monster Beetle, it was a lot of Lawn mowing back then. Studies took over for a few years but later bought a Blitzer Beetle and Corolla WRC in 1998. Lost interest again and were sold. In 2004 I discovered Tamiyaclub and quickly amassed a dozen cars but then feeling guilty about spending money on so called toys I sold nearly all of them. From early 2006 I started collecting again seriously but this time I can justify it and I keep nearly all the cars I can find! I have at last count 87 cars with somewhere around 65 of the first 100.
I worked for Weta Workshop in Wellington, New Zealand from early 2004 - 2010 as a professional model and prop technician. I'm due to return to Weta soon to work on The Hobbit. I love restoring the old cars and like to think I finish them to a high standard and install radio gear in all of them. For the last couple of years I have been developing reproduction parts and accessories to get a little more realism from the models.
My Goal is to collect the 1st 100 Tamiya cars in new built or restored form.
In September '09 I travelled around the United States for 7 weeks and met, Wyoming, Moondoggie, Crash Cramer, Victorious Secret and HighFlyer. For the second half of 2010 and early 2011 I have been living in Melbourne Australia and have met: Bullfrog, Glen'in'Oz, Kiasukid, Mr duke, Mr Retreader, and WillyChang. I intend to visit many more international Tamiyaclub members.
My New Zealand Posse of NZ members I have met include: Axxl1, Bluefoot, Type49rs, M0torhed, Scorpn, Pom144, Renco5012, Kalsh, still a couple more to go!


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Erika lives by trusting that miracles are waiting around every corner. She has been teaching yoga since 1995 and built Cloud Nine Yoga School in 1999, seeking to create a healing environment through a permission-based model for learning the practice of Yoga. She does this through affirmation, reflection, humor, music, poetry, and prayers. Erika inspires people to find their own source of wholeness by asking the deeper questions that bring personal insight, community awareness, and connection with the Great Spirit.
A globe-trotter, Erika has extensively studied with teachers around the world, traveling to learn all she can know about people, culture, ecology, and art. Her adventures have led her to China, Japan, Bali, India, Europe, Tahiti, Australia, Peru, Costa Rica, and Hawaii. Erika has studied with the Dalai Lama of Tibet and received the Amitabha and Medicine Buddha initiation. She's been certified as an Advanced Yogacharya by the White Lotus Foundation and been assisting at the Esalen Institute with Dr Lorin Roche, author of The Radiance Sutras. Her degree is in Transpersonal Psychology with emphasis on Yoga Therapy from Sonoma State University, California. Erika is a Karuna Reiki Master-Teacher and Ordained Reverend by S.H.E.S. – the organization for Spiritual Healers and Earth Stewards.
Erika held a full-time lecturer position in Kinesiology & Comparative Religion at California State University Fullerton through 2008 and has been a Director of Yoga Teacher Trainings and Retreats for Cloud Nine Yoga Schools for over 20 years. She generously provides the personal attention and leadership to all her students, colleagues, and organizations — from her affiliations with Breathe for Change, Surfrider Foundation, and OG Yoga to the everyday students who come to her to receive personalized "Edu-vacations" in her lovely home on the Garden Isle of Kaua'i.
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11 secrets Marine drill instructors hide at boot camp
Gina Harkins
Sgt. Donald Jackson, a drill instructor from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, trains Marine enlistees discipline during a Recruiting Station Seattle pool function at the Yakima Training Center in Yakima, Washington, July 17, 2015. During the event, recruiters teamed with drill instructors to physically and mentally prepare enlistees from Washington and Idaho for boot camp. The enlistees, part of the Marine Corps delayed entry program, are awaiting their ship dates. Jackson, 28, is from Suffolk, Virginia. (U.S Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Reece Lodder)
Editor's note: This story first appeared in the April 15, 2013, issue of Marine Corps Times.
MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. — The images stay with you for the rest of your life: Screaming drill instructors, in your face, in your space, in your nightmares.
All enlisted Marines are united by memories of the drill instructors who barked orders at them — morning, noon and night — for the first 13 weeks of their Marine Corps lives. They share the remembrances of dread when they incurred their DI's wrath. They know what it's like to fumble around trying to follow the simplest of orders, but be paralyzed with confusion and fear in the face of so much pressure and heat.
Boot camp is a rite of passage in which drill instructors forge recruits' identities as Marines. The DIs break them down, teach them how to follow orders and how to dress, speak and act like Marines. They teach them Marine Corps culture, heritage and traditions. The process creates a special bond, a love-hate relationship that the recruits will remember for the rest of their lives.
Those drill instructors have secrets, though. Like any other community in the Corps, its members have a shared bond and tricks of the trade that have been handed down for generations. Recruits don't hear about them at boot camp - not where it's likely that you'll get smoked with incentive training for simply asking a dumb question.
Under the wide brims of smokey hats, the perfectly squared-away uniforms and almost caricature-like demeanors are noncommissioned officers and staff NCOs from a wide range of military occupational specialties. They decide, often with some trepidation, to return to boot camp to fill a special-duty assignment.
Sgt. William Loughran encourages recruits from Kilo Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, to give 100 percent during physical training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Sept. 18, 2013. Loughran joined the Corps in 2004 and became a drill instructor in 2012. "[Being a drill instructor] is the most demanding duty … yet probably the most rewarding thing I have ever done," Loughran said. About 600 Marine Corps drill instructors train about 20,000 recruits who come to Parris Island annually.(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Caitlin Brink/Released)
Sgt. William Loughran encourages recruits at during physical training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. Roughly 20,000 recruits pass through Parris Island annually.
Photo Credit: Cpl.Caitlin Brink/Marine Corps
Make no mistake: these Marines are playing a role. At its best, it's masterful performance art, but with a twist — the tremendous personal responsibility they feel for building raw recruits into disciplined Marines. Despite their gruff, borderline hostile interaction with recruits, DIs are real people with real emotions and tremendous dedication to molding young lives.
Marine Corps Times was afforded access to drill instructors at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, recently to find out some of the secrets behind successful drill instructors.
Here are 11 things drill instructors never want their recruits to know:
11. Boot camp elicits flashbacks.
Marines who come to drill instructor school have about a week of administrative processing before they start their classroom tasks - and they need that time to adjust, said Maj. Chad Craven, director of the East Coast DI school based here. The place has that kind of effect on them. Battle-tested sergeants, staff sergeants and gunnery sergeants re-enter the boot camp environment and regress to semi-recruit mode, he said.
"Now wait a second," Craven said he tells his students. "You've been shot at, you've been IEDed, you've been shelled, you've gotten married and have been there for the birth of your child, yet you stand here saying 'good morning' when it's obviously the middle of the night."
Sgt. Nicholas Lanier, a senior DI who recently wrapped up his three-year tour and headed to 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, at Camp Pendleton, California, said going back to boot camp was a huge adjustment.
"Driving back to Parris Island was very, very odd," the infantry rifleman said. "I definitely thought I was going to get screamed at and then everyone was so nice."
10. The 'frog voice' is real.
Drill instructors literally scream so hard at recruits that they can pass out, give themselves hernias, or do serious and permanent damage to their vocal chords. That's why they spend a lot of time at DI school learning to project from their diaphragms.
Even so, most DIs develop that raspy "frog voice." Losing their voice is inevitable, especially during the first phase of boot camp when orders are constantly barked. But at school, they try to teach new DIs how to prevent voice problems turning into something permanent, Craven said.
Staff Sgt. Antonio J. Curry, a drill instructor aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, barks out instructions to align his platoon of fresh recruits Aug 30, 2012. Curry, who is on his second b-billet after completing a tour of duty as a recruiter, says his prior experience has helped him become a better drill instrutor for his recruits. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Kuande Hall)
Staff Sgt. Antonio Curry, a drill instructor at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, barks out orders to his platoon of fresh recruits.
Photo Credit: Sgt. Kuande Hall/Marine Corps
Still, they need to speak loudly enough for about 100 recruits to hear them, and that requires practice. Schoolhouse instructors will stand a set number of paces away from the Marines as they learn to project their voices, he said.
While they do lose their voices on occasion, they have become masters at getting it back fast. Craven said the treatment is similar to soothing a sore throat, including hot water with honey and lemon. But Sgt. Melissa Sandoval, a DI with 4th Recruit Training Battalion here, said some DIs get a little more creative.
She drinks hot tea followed by a cold drink, she said. But she has also tried pickle juice or lime juice mixed with salt.
"It's something about the vinegar or the acid in the lime juice," she said. "It helps the lining of the throat."
9. Laughing on the inside.
The screaming that recruits must endure might actually be masking a different reaction: laughter. Drill instructors think recruits do and say some pretty funny things.
Lanier said he was tempted to laugh nonstop while on DI duty.
"It's just the things recruits say," he said. "They'll think they're saying something so serious, but it'll come out so ridiculous and you just want to laugh."
Instead he'd scream at them for doing or saying the wrong thing.
Sgt. Angela Arounerangsy, drill instructor, Platoon 4003, November Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, motivates recruits as they prepare for the rappel tower aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Nov. 27, 2012. The recruits execute the rappel tower as part of second phase recruit training aboard the depot. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Rodion Zabolotniy)
Sgt. Angela Arounerangsy, a drill instructor with 4th Recruit Training Battalion, motivates recruits as they prepare for the rappel tower at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C.
Photo Credit: Lance Cpl. Rodion Zabolotniy/Marine Corps
Sandoval agreed and said she had to stop herself from laughing all the time.
"Recruits do crazy stuff, we'll put it that way," she said. "And sometimes you just shake your head. You have to just breathe and think of something else."
Staff Sgt. Juan Rocha, a drill instructor with 1st Recruit Training Battalion at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, said he's too busy to even think about laughing in the moment, but he and other DIs will swap funny stories about recruits later.
8. They channel their own DIs.
Putting on the belt and campaign cover transforms a regular Marine into someone he or she probably feared as a new recruit. Once they're in that role, however, they realize how much time and dedication their own drill instructors devoted to the job.
"I remember how perfect they were in my eyes," said Sgt. Richard Kennedy, a San Diego DI with 3rd Recruit Training Battalion. "I hope I'm as perfect in my recruits' eyes as they were in my eyes."
Sgt. Jennifer Thiroux with 4th Recruit Training Battalion here, said she recalls the way her DIs' hair was always perfect and the way they walked and talked. She does the same things now to set a similar lofty example.
Drill instructors also rely on each other to see what works and what doesn't, Rocha said. He'll pick up some of the language and phrases that other DIs on his team use if they're effective.
7. They miss their families.
Getting home at 2300 and heading back out to start the next day, sometimes as early as 0300, doesn't provide a lot of time to be with loved ones. There is a family readiness program here to help Marines and their dependents get through those three years.
Dependents can tour the DI schoolhouse here and see what their Marines will be called on to do over the course of their duties.
"We knew it was long hours," said Gunnery Sgt. Richard Brennan, a senior DI here with 3rd Recruit Training Battalion. "But sometimes it's harder because — while I'm not in Iraq or Afghanistan and she knows I'm safe — I'm still gone, and it's an adjustment for the spouses. They always want you there."
The schedule is demanding, he acknowledged. After running and screaming all day, he'll go home to his kids playfully smacking him in the face while he falls asleep at the dinner table.
The key, he said, is to approach the situation as a team. It's imperative to talk to your spouse about what you're going through, he said. Sometimes he dreams about boot camp and yells in his sleep for his wife to "get on-line," the same thing he's been telling recruits all day. It is important for her to understand what his life is all about.
"I think it'll help to lead to a successful tour here without distraction, and it's good for the relationship," he said.
6. What they wish they had known.
Marines considering drill instructor duty should know it's physically and mentally demanding. Most said they lose weight during the tour; they're constantly on their feet and running with recruits.
"I wish I would've known that," Lanier said. "I really had never felt tired or sore or anything like that. You hear it, but you can tell someone all day long you're going to be tired, you're going to be this, but you never know until you get there."
It's also important to recognize that you're leaving your own MOS, a skill in which you are proficient, and picking up something entirely new, Sandoval said.
"You're learning," she said. "The more you train and do the new MOS, the better you'll get. You can't expect so much from yourself."
As a senior drill instructor, Brennan said it's his job to look out for other drill instructors. Just like recruits, drill instructors might not know their limits, he said, so he makes sure they don't overdo it.
5. They're turning you into a Marine.
Some Marines who hear about the addition of core values discussions and foot-locker mentoring say that boot camp should be more physically demanding. But drill instructors say their main job is not to prepare Marines for combat. Their job is turning civilians into Marines, and there's a specific process that has to occur in order for that to happen in a 13-week period.
The core values discussions help to establish a baseline from which all new recruits can adopt the Marine Corps way, Brennan said.
"There are kids who came up in areas that have no values, and to them, stealing or taking things that didn't belong to them was acceptable," Brennan said. "Others already came here with those values instilled, but we still have to find that baseline to bring them together."
Sgt. Kadeem Walker, drill instructor for recruit receiving, glares at Rct. Jeremy Reuis, 24, of Platoon 2065, Fox Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, as the new arrivals receive some of their first orders from Marine Corps drill instructors in the receiving building on Parris Island, S.C., on June 4, 2012. The recruits must quickly adapt to their new environment upon arrival on Parris Island.
Sgt. Kadeem Walker glares at a recruit during receiving at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. Recruits receive some of their first orders when they first arrive at the recruit depot during the receiving process.
Photo Credit: Lance Cpl. Octavia Davis/Marine Corps
As a senior drill instructor, responsible for more of the values-based training, he said he has to find the best way to reach them all.
"I was an inner city kid, and now I'm dealing with a kid from the mountains, I'm dealing with a kid who came from the country," he said. "You've got to find it, you can't just try one way, you have to expand your horizons."
4. Squared away for a reason.
One of the primary lessons Marines in drill instructor school learn is that recruits will always be looking at them as they set the example of what it looks like to be squared away.
If they get sweaty or even the slightest bit of dirt on their uniforms, they should be going to change, Kennedy said.
"I have four copies of every uniform ready to change into at any moment," he said. "So if I go out and get a little dirty, I can go, change and come back out in 30 seconds."
Sandoval said in 4th Training Battalion there are about 64 recruits. About 60 of them will be doing what they should be most of the time, she said. But there will always be that one recruit looking around to see what the drill instructor is doing, so they must always know their appearance is on display.
Craven said he tells Marines at DI school not only to check their own uniforms regularly, but to look at each other as well.
"If you have a sloppy looking drill instructor in front of you, then over time that recruit — that future Marine — is going to say, 'Oh, I guess it's OK for me not to square away my uniform, I guess it's OK for me not to look like a poster boy Marine.' "
It's nothing but a basic Marine Corps standard, Craven added — not an artificial standard they create at the depots.
3. Combat-tested teachers.
Instead of relying on stories about Vietnam or Korea from past generations, the current crop of drill instructors can tell their recruits what it's like to be in combat, based on their own experience, and why it's important for recruits to learn a skill that could someday save their lives.
Sandoval said that became clear during the Crucible, the three-day-long final test in boot camp. When they did a night movement, recruits saw what she meant when she said any illumination could alert the enemy to their position. And during simulated gunfire, the recruits understood why they had to speak loudly.
"One recruit was trying to get the attention of another recruit who couldn't hear her over the sounds of grenades and shooting," Sandoval said. "So she said, 'Now I know why they're always telling us to scream.'"
2. They love ITing you.
Aside from their voice, drill instructors say incentive training is one of the most effective tools they have at their disposal when they need to get their point across to a stubborn recruit.
Not only does the repetition of the exercise help recruits learn, Rocha said, but they'll work harder in the future just to avoid it.
When DIs throw values-based training into the mix, that's when real learning begins, Thiroux said.
U.S. Marine Sgt. Katheryn Swingle, drill instructor, Oscar Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, conducts incentive physical training to instill order and discipline during the first phase of recruit training aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Oct. 29, 2012. Incentive physical training consists of rigorous exercises such as Marine Corps push-ups, mountain climbers, side straddle hops, and crunches. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Aneshea S. Yee/Released)
Sgt. Katheryn Swingle, a drill instructor with 4th Recruit Training Battalion, conducts incentive training to instill order and discipline during the first phase of recruit training aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. IT consists of rigorous exercises like pushups, mountain climbers and crunches.
Photo Credit: Cpl. Aneshea Yee/Marine Corps
"So you can get ITed for having a zipper on the wrong side, because the drill instructor said it should be on this side and it's on the other side," she said. "So you say to them, 'Guess what, recruit? We know why the Marine Corps is the best - attention to detail. That's why we're the best. [I]f we go off to war, that's what's going to get you, that attention to detail.'"
1. They like you. Kind of.
Drill instructors get to know their recruits on a very personal level and are proud of seeing them earn their eagle, globe and anchor. Spending so much time with a young, impressionable adult, and transforming him into a Marine creates a connection, Thiroux said.
"You're theirs for three months, and a bond is created," she said. "They're growing because of what you're teaching them, and you take ownership of it," she said.
Sgt. Diego Hernandez, 28, a drill instructor with Platoon 1078, Charlie Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, motivates his recruits for their initial drill evaluation Sept. 15, 2014, on Parris Island, S.C. Close-order drill helps instill discipline and unit cohesion. Recruits are graded by drillmasters, experts on the Marine Corps Drill and Ceremonies Manual, on their discipline and appearance. Hernandez is from New Orleans. Charlie Company is scheduled to graduate Nov. 7, 2014. (Photo by Cpl. David Bessey)
Sgt. Diego Hernandez motivates his recruits for their initial drill evaluation at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C.
Photo Credit: Cpl. David Bessey/Marine Corps
Kennedy noted that some recruits are shy while others show up ready to be loud. The DIs quickly pick up on those traits, he said, which might surprise recruits.
"A lot of times I can look at a recruit and I can recognize when they don't want to push on," he said. "We'll watch them."
Knowing that he's having a significant impact on the future of the Marine Corps makes the job important to him, Brennan said.
"With the training we give [recruits] throughout this cycle and the core values that we put in them, and then my twist — the little bit of myself I put into it —I feel like I'm molding my future replacement so I can give back to the institution," he said.
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const assert = require("chai").assert;

const m = require("..");
const config = require("./config");

describe("CADVehicle", function() {
  let models, mongoose;
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      assert.equal(testItem.station.capability, sut.station.capability);

      return done();
    });
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});


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Inside Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton's secret split: 'They have both had other lovers'
By Adam Bub| 5 years ago
Helena and Tim both had lovers post-split.
We were all a bit sad-face last week at the news that Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton had pulled the plug on their 13-year relationship, but it turns out they've been over it for quite a while.
In fact, they've been seeing other people this whole year, according to the New York Post's Page Six.
"Tim and Helena have been living separate lives for [more than] a year, and since they separated, they have both had other lovers," a source revealed.
"The separation announcement was made saying they'd split earlier this year, but they have been living apart for much longer."
Scandal! Edward Scissorhands director Tim, 56, is now in a serious relationship with Berenice Percival, a production assistant who has worked for him for three years, according to The Mail on Sunday.
A year ago, the pair were snapped having an intimate embrace outside a cinema in North London, but his rep denied any infidelity at the time.
But don't worry, Bonham Carter/Burton fans, it's not an ugly split by any means.
"Both parties are happy with the situation," the source added. "It is perfectly amicable."
The former couple were even photographed with their children Billy Ray, 11, and Nell, seven, on the streets of London over Christmas.
Last Tuesday, the 48-year-old actress' rep said they had "separated amicably earlier this year and have continued to be friends and co-parent their children".
Now that's how you do a split, Hollywood! Sigh, we sure will miss their zany red-carpet moments and on-screen collaborations though.
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Mortgage Foreclosure by Advertisement is the most common type of foreclosure. The basis for this kind of foreclosure is default in the terms of the mortgage, usually failing to pay. The mortgage company will hire an attorney to prepare the foreclosure sale and documents and the attorney's office will then arrange for service with the Sheriff's Office OR a private process server. The foreclosure notice will also have to be published and that is also taken care of by the attorney for the mortgage company. Some attorney's offices will arrange for private process servers to serve the foreclosure documents and will have the Sheriff's Office involved for just the sale. In cases of private process servers, the Sheriff's Office may have limited information regarding the terms of the sale. If you have any questions about a particular foreclosure sale you will want to contact the attorney handling the foreclosure. Their contact information is usually printed on the bottom of the Notice of Sale.
Mortgage Foreclosures by Action are court-ordered foreclosures issued by a judge. District Court Judge will sign an order directing the Sheriff to sell a specific property or parcel. These orders/notices are prepared by the plaintiff's attorney (plaintiff being mortgage company) BUT the Sheriff or Deputy will sign the notice of sale. This type of sale requires postings in 3 public places, the individual must be served and it is posted in the local newspaper.
Mortgage Foreclosure Sale Proceedings are done at the Sheriff's Office lobby located at 401 Carver Road, Mankato. Sales are held Monday-Friday and are held promptly at 10am. The mortgage company's attorney will make the first bid with the exact amount that is due at the time of the sale. If attending and are wanting to bid on the property, you will NEED to have the funds in a certified bank draft/check available within 1 HOUR OF THE SALE. This means you must have the certified bank draft/check in the Sheriff's Office no later than 11am. You will need to contact the foreclosure attorney to find out the amount the property will be selling for. Whoever the successful bidder is at the time of sale will receive a Sheriff's Certificate of Sale. This document states that all steps required by statute have been met and all actions needed have been taken. The foreclosure attorney will provide the Sheriff's Office with a check in the amount of $70 for conducting the sale.
The Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office now has a list of Mortgage Foreclosure Sales online. View the Mortgage Foreclosure Sale calendar.
The attorney for the mortgage company must publish a Notice of Foreclosure Sale in a qualified newspaper as defined in Minnesota Statute §331A.01. The Sheriff's Office serves as the auctioneer at the sale.
The Sheriff's Office conducts mortgage foreclosure sales using an open bidding process. Sales are usually conducted weekdays at 10:00 am at the Sheriff's Office.
The property will be sold to the highest bidder. The opening bidder is the bank, other lender (mortgagee), or attorney representing the mortgagee.
A successful bidder must have cash or certified funds (payable to the Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office) available at the time of the sale.
The successful bidder will receive a Sheriff's Certificate of Sale that lists the name of the successful bidder and the amount of the purchase. The Certificate of Sale is prepared by the attorney representing the bank.
Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, the mortgagor or another party acting by authority from the mortgagor may redeem a property sold at a mortgage foreclosure sale. The published Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure Sale contains a paragraph indicating the length of the redemption period.
Redemption may be made through the Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office or through the attorney representing the bank or other mortgagee at the sale.
If a mortgagor or another party acting by authority from the mortgagor wishes to redeem the property through the Sheriff's Office, the redeeming party must contact the Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office Civil Process Unit not less than seven days prior to the anticipated redemption date. This time is required for research of the recorded documents, ascertaining the amount of the redemption payment, and preparation of the certificate. It will also allow time for the Civil Process Unit to contact the redeeming party if additional data or documents are required.
Interest accruing from the date of sale to the date of redemption. This is calculated at the rate of interest on the Sheriff's Certificate of Sale.
Additional amounts paid by the purchaser at the foreclosure sale. These amounts may include insurance, taxes, assessments, etc. The purchaser must present an affidavit of additional amount due on redemption to the Sheriff's Office Civil Process Unit within the listed redemption period in order to collect those amounts as part of the redemption.
A non-refundable service fee payable to the Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office for preparation of the certificate of redemption.
The Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office will issue a Certificate of Redemption upon receipt of the full amount of the redemption payment.
If the mortgagor does not redeem during the redemption period, creditors of the mortgagor who have a lien on the property may redeem after the end of the mortgagor's redemption period. All redemption documents must be filed by the redeeming creditor with the Sheriff's Office Civil Process Unit at least one week prior to the end of the mortgagor's redemption period. The documents to be filed with the Sheriff's Office include copies of documents establishing the underlying lien on the property and a Notice of Intent to Redeem showing they have been recorded with the county recorder or registrar of titles, as appropriate. For each Notice of Intent to Redeem, there is a filing service fee.
The information to be provided at the time of request of redemptions by the mortgagor must also be provided at the time of the request for redemption by creditor.
Obtain an Affidavit of Postponement and have it recorded.
Bring (mail or in person) a recorded copy of the Affidavit of Postponement along with a copy of the Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure Sale to the Sheriff's Office Civil Process Unit at least 15 days prior to the original sale date, along with the service fee.


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Duke University undergraduate and graduate students can gain important work experience at the Nasher Museum in many ways: internships for academic credit, paid summer internships and museum study grants, work at the museum, or graduate assistantships.
The Nasher Museum is hiring a Graduate Teaching Assistant to provide support for the Academic Initiatives department. The Teaching Assistant's primary responsibility is organizing and leading tours for university classes visiting temporary exhibitions, the permanent collection, and study storage at the Nasher Museum. Applicants should be graduate students with experience teaching undergraduates. Museum experience or experience working with art objects is preferable.
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Q: Vapor: How to get response URL using Vapor Client or async-http Something I'm running into when using Vapor to crawl sites is if I enter a url like http://website(dot)com and it redirects to https://www.website(dot)com, I need to grab that final response URL to know what the final page URL is.
I can do this with URLSession but I'm not seeing something similar in the Vapor client. I tried using the Vapor client and the async-http package it's built on and I can't find the page URL listed in the response.
Any pointers would be appreciated, thank you.
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if let url = URL(string: self) {
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                if let responseURL = response.url {
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                    return result
                }
            } catch {
            }
        }

Where this is the first line of the response, and you can easily use response.url to grab the below "URL" value:
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Marvel and Disney have released a second trailer for this summer's Spider-Man: Far From Home. If you haven't watched Avengers: Endgame, you should probably close this window and do something about that.
The trailer includes a spoiler warning from Peter Parker/Spider-Man actor Tom Holland. So this is your final warning, if you've taken the necessary steps to watch this extended look at the next instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, carry on below.
There's a lot for fans of the expansive MCU to get excited for here. The introduction of Jake Gyllenhaal's Mysterio, as well as the multiverse. It's set to cap Phase III of the MCU, while laying some groundwork for the studio's next steps.
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New study using Facebook network data, including a dataset of over 57 billion friendships, shows correlation between higher social class and fewer international friendships. Researchers say results support ideas of 'restricting social class' among wealthy, but show that lower social classes are taking advantage of increased social capital beyond national borders.
The findings point to the possibility that the wealthy stay more in their own social bubble, but this is unlikely to be ultimately beneficial. Aleksandr Spectre
A new study conducted in collaboration with Facebook using anonymised data from the social networking site shows a correlation between people's social and financial status, and the levels of internationalism in their friendship networks – with those from higher social classes around the world having fewer friends outside of their own country.
Despite the fact that, arguably, people from higher social classes should be better positioned to travel and meet people from different countries, researchers found that, when it comes to friendship networks, people from those groups had lower levels of internationalism and made more friends domestically than abroad.
Researchers say that their results are in line with what's known as the 'restricting social class' hypothesis: that high-social class individuals have greater resources, and therefore depend less on others – with the wealthy tending to be less socially engaged, particularly with those from groups other than their own, as a result.
The research team, from the Prosociality and Well-Being Lab in the University of Cambridge's Department of Psychology, conducted two studies – one local and one global, with the global study using a dataset of billions of Facebook friendships – and the results from both supported the idea of restricting social class.
However, the researchers say the fact that those of lower social status tend to have more international connections demonstrates how low-social class people "may actually stand to benefit most from a highly international and globalised social world".
"The findings point to the possibility that the wealthy stay more in their own social bubble, but this is unlikely to be ultimately beneficial. If you are not engaging internationally then you will miss out on that international resource – that flow of new ideas and information," said co-author Dr Aleksandr Spectre, who heads up the lab.
"The results could also be highlighting a mechanism of how the modern era might facilitate a closing of the inequality gap, as those from lower social classes take advantage of platforms like Facebook to increase their social capital beyond national borders," he said.
For the first study, the 'local', the team recruited 857 people in the United States and asked them to self-report their perceived social status (from working to upper class on a numerical scale), as well as an objective indicator in the form of annual household income. The volunteers also provided researchers access to their Facebook networks.
The results from the first study indicated that low-social class people have nearly 50% more international friends than high-social class people.
For the second study, the 'global', the team approached Facebook directly, who provided data on every friendship formed over the network in every country in the world at the national aggregate level for 2011. All data was anonymous. The dataset included over 57 billion friendships.
The research team quantified social class on a national level based on each country's economic standing by using gross domestic product (GDP) per capita data for 2011 as published by the World Bank.
After controlling for as many variables as they were able, the researchers again found a negative correlation between social class – this time on a national level – and the percentage of Facebook friends from other countries. For people from low-social class countries, 35% of their friendships on average were international, compared to 28% average in high-social class countries.
The findings from the two studies provide support for the restricting social class hypothesis on both a local and a global level, say the researchers. The results are contained in a new paper, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
"Previous research by others has highlighted the value of developing weak ties to people in distant social circles, because they offer access to resources not likely to be found in one's immediate circle. I find it encouraging that low-social class people tend to have greater access to these resources on account of having more international friendships," said co-author Maurice Yearwood.
"From a methodological perspective, this combination of micro and macro starts to build a very interesting initial story. These are just correlations at the moment, but it's a fascinating start for this type of research going forward," Yearwood said.
Spectre says that the high levels of Facebook usage and sheer size of the network makes it a "pretty good proxy for your social environment". "The vast majority of Facebook friendships are ones where people have met in person and engaged with each other, a lot of the properties you find in Facebook friendship networks will strongly mirror everyday life," he said.
"We are entering an era with big data and social media where we can start to ask really big questions and gain answers to them in a way we just couldn't do before. I think this research is a good example of that, I don't know how we could even have attempted this work 10 years ago," Spectre said.
The latest work is the first output of ongoing research collaborations between Spectre's lab in Cambridge and Facebook, a company he commends for its "scientific spirit". "Having the opportunity to work with companies like Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Google should be something that's hugely exciting to the academic community," he said.
Yearwood, M. H., Cuddy, A., Lamba, N., Youyou, W., van der Lowe, I., Piff, P., Gronin, C., Fleming, P., Simon-Thomas, E., Keltner, D., & Spectre, A. (2015). On wealth and the diversity of friendships: High social class people around the world have fewer international friends. Personality and Individual Differences, 87, 224-229. DOI: doi:10.1016/j.paid.2015.07.040
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BOOK SIGNING: Local author Mark Fauser signs a copy of his new book "Because of Burt" for Marion resident Lisa Couch. Fauser wrote the book after Burt Reynold's death in September. Reynolds was a dear friend and mentor to Fauser. The book can be purchased on Amazon.
CELEBRATING THE BOOK LAUNCH:American gospel singer T. Graham Brown performs at The Mill during Mark Fauser's launch of his new book titled "Because of Burt."
A new book about Burt Reynolds, titled "Because of Burt," has been published by local author and actor Mark Fauser.
To celebrate the launch, Fauser held an event at The Mill on Monday. Fauser wrote the book to show the world how giving of a person Reynolds was and how much the late actor has blessed his life.
Fauser remembers a time when Reynold's was acting in a scene and his jaw was accidentally broken after being hit with a chair. As a result, Reynolds began losing weight and tabloids claimed the legendary actor had AIDS and was dying.
"People said he had to stay away from his friends who were gay, but he said I am not going to do that," Fauser said.
Fauser decided to launch the book on Reynold's birthday for a number of reasons. One, was that Reynold's funeral took place on Fauser's birthday.
"I tried to get it done in time for Christmas (but I couldn't), so I made a spiritual promise to have it out by his birthday, and I am just so grateful it happened," he said.
Monday's event was held on Reynolds birthday. During the event, Fauser was joined by the American gospel singer T. Graham Brown, who also shares a personal connection to Reynolds.
According to Fauser, Reynolds once helped Brown with a fundraiser, and Brown wanted to honor that friendship and pay the gift forward by singing at the launch.
Fauser was first inspired to write the book while attending Reynold's funeral.
"I felt like I'm one of many 'Because of Burt' stories, and it was important to me to share what a great person he was," Fauser said.
Fauser met his idol as a young actor at the Burt Reynolds Institute in Jupiter, Florida. It was at this acting school that Fauser and Reynolds became linked for more than 32 years.
"(As I wrote) I just started recalling the time that I dreamed of being an actor, in large part because of him," he said.
Thanks to Reynolds, Fauser would go on to become an actor, write in Hollywood, meet countless celebrities and even find his wife.
"These kind of miracles happened on and on," Fauser said.
Fauser recounted one time when Reynolds hired him to write on his sitcom "Evening Shade." At the same time, Steven Spielberg had just hired Fauser as an actor on the show "SeaQuest 2032." Fauser was split between two opportunities.
Emotional, Fauser asked Reynold's why he was helping him advance his career.
Fauser said he never dreamed of writing a book, but after creating several Facebook posts about his memories of Reynolds, his friends pushed him to reconsider.
Numerous friends helped him through the process, including Jamy Bechler, who published his book on Amazon, and Dawn Darga, who designed the cover.
Originally, the book was 350 pages long, but with the help of critics such as his wife, he cut the final product down to 218 pages.
The launch was chockablocked with Fauser's friends and fans.
Another Marion resident who came was Lisa Couch.
Couch first discovered Fauser in the movie "Madison."
"Because of Burt" is a book worth reading for a wide variety of people, Fauser said.
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Why supply chain crisis is a 'big' problem for furniture
Furniture has been one of the biggest casualties of the global shipping and supply chain crisis as costs to transport a sofa or table are much higher than a pocket-sized iPhone or a pair of trainers.
In some instances, container costs for sofas, tables and chairs have risen as much as 1,200 per cent since the start of the pandemic, forcing furniture retailers to raise prices.
"If you think about the size of an iPhone and how many of those you could fit in a container and you think of the size of our things, the cost per product really does shoot up," said Steve Carson, chief executive of UK-based sofa retailer ScS.
His company has paid as much as $20,000 per container to ship sofas from Asia to the UK during the pandemic compared with $1,500 before.
It means companies largely face an unenviable choice — absorb the extra costs and take a hit to profit margins or increase prices, which could weaken demand for their products.
So far, data shows the latter is happening with the price of home furniture in the UK rising 12.5 per cent in December on an annual basis, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The main problem for European and US retailers has been their reliance on China, which manufactures everything from cheap sofas and garden tables to flat-pack items made from chipboard. In the UK, furniture imports from China grew from $50mn in 1993 to $4.3bn in 2020, according to UN trade data.
The rocketing transport costs have prompted some European and US retailers to move some of their manufacturing operations closer to home and their customers, known as "nearshoring" or "reshoring".
Sunderland-based ScS has increased its UK manufacturing from 50 per cent to more than 60 per cent of production in the past year.
"We've manufactured more from the UK because of the supply chain issues, the cost it drags in and because the lead times have been extended," Carson said. "We'll certainly continue looking at what more production we can move closer to home in the UK or Europe."
UK-based furniture retailer DFS, which makes 40 per cent of its sofas in Britain, is also increasing the amount of automation in its domestic factories, citing benefits of higher quality, greater control over the supply chain and lower lead times.
Other European retailers, hit by long delivery times from Asia, have relocated production to countries nearer home such as Poland, Lithuania and Latvia, which have advantages because of the low cost of labour and access to raw materials such as wood.
"If you're looking at nearshoring of wood products, then you're looking at countries with a lot of forests," said Aidan Conaty, a furniture sourcing agent.
Sweden's Ikea, the world's biggest furniture retailer, sources many of its goods from Poland, where a fifth of its products are made, and other countries nearby.
However, even Ikea has been forced to plug gaps in the availability of some of products by using trains and chartering ships from China.
Increasing geopolitical tensions because of the dispute between Russia and Ukraine has also made eastern Europe and the Baltics less appealing. In addition, in Poland there are concerns over product quality, said Conaty.
Denmark's giant retail chain Jysk uses large distribution centres to stock goods close to its European customers, although it still maintains half of its production in China.
Peter Andsager, executive vice-president of purchasing at Jysk, said: "Our model is stronger in a volatile market thanks to our big distribution centres. We have something to absorb difficulties."
UK-listed sofa retailer Made.com, hit by Vietnamese factory closures in last summer's lockdowns, is another group using its domestic warehouses to tackle long lead times from orders to delivery.
The company, which makes 75 per cent of its products outside of Europe, is stocking up extra sofas in advance of orders to process deliveries within four weeks, rather than the six-to-seven week wait before the pandemic.
Reliance on warehousing also makes sense as shortages of skilled workers in areas such as upholstery in countries such as the UK can undermine attempts to move operations closer to home.
Already an estimated 50,000 UK jobs need filling against the 360,000 employed in the industry, according to Jonathan Hindle, chair of the British Furniture Confederation.
Other pressures include a reliance on imported materials, which can lead to supply problems, added Hindle. "We are in a very inflationary environment, with price increases across the board on steel, timber, fabric, particle board and foam," he said.
However, the nearshoring trend has a long way to go, if it is to reduce its reliance on China, which enjoyed a 30 per cent surge in global furniture exports last year, according to Centre for Industrial Studies, a consultancy.
Sofa retailer Made.com was hit by Vietnamese factory closures © Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
Mindaugas Morkunas, a former Ikea employee and head of sales in eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States at Henkel, the German chemicals group that supplies adhesive to furniture makers, fears the £500bn-plus industry is reaching a "tipping point" with rising prices at companies such as Ikea a potential threat to customer demand.
The Swedish group raised prices 9 per cent on average globally at the end of last year as it passed on some of its higher transport costs to the consumer.
"The challenge is how much more the customer can pay for furniture," said Morkunas. More price increases could lead to less investment, financial losses and bankrupt smaller producers, he warned.


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It's February, 1993, and trucker Archie "Super Man" Harlanson is traveling to New York's Hudson Valley with misgivings. He's eager to see his girlfriend Debbie, but her elitist parents? Not so much. When he ends up at the family home, he figures the hardest part will be surviving the onslaught of relatives arriving to celebrate the birth of Debbie's nephew. That is until the US President announces his plans to hold a campaign event nearby and the town is caught up in the media frenzy. When Archie stumbles on a deadly plot against the nation's leader he finds himself butting heads with skeptical local law enforcement, the FBI, and the White House security team, and dodging the would-be assassins who now have him in their sights, all while trying to keep his head down in a household crazy with new-baby fever.
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The Glass Dagger - The Tudor Queen's Glassmaker Book 1 of the Series
Devorah Fox's Books
The Zen Detective
The Lost King
The Redoubt
"What if?" Those two words all too easily send Devorah Fox spinning into flights of fancy. Best-selling author of award-winning books including a literary historical fantasy series and several thrillers, she also penned Mystery Mini Short Reads and contributed short stories to popular fantasy anthologies. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she now lives on the Texas Gulf Coast with rescued tabby cats ... and a dragon named Inky. Visit the "Dee-Scoveries" blog at http://devorahfox.com.