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WS410: Valuing The Dollar: The Importance of The NOI with Ryan Smith
by Whitney Sewell | Dec 5, 2019 | Podcast | 0 comments
More often than not syndicators focus on cash flow and the larger numbers of the deal believing that this ensures success. Our guest today, Ryan Smith, takes a different approach when it comes to deals, focusing instead on the net operating income (NOI). By using the NOI as the starting point, rather than the overall cash flow, it allows syndicators to take a more nuanced approach and also makes deals more attainable.
Ryan is a firm believer in a 'big things have small beginnings' approach and by concentrating on the NOI, it is possible to reverse engineer the steps needed to reach the desired destination. This not only means that the value of a dollar changes meaning entirely, but also that large goals have smaller, measurable steps that can be taken. Ryan takes us through an example to illustrate how his NOI-centric principles work in practice. He also shares with us some of the ways he increases NOI on his own investments, why it is not possible to generate wealth through income alone and much more. Tune in today!
The distinction between the value of cash flow and the equity value of cash flow.
Why Elevation Capital Group focuses on NOI and the three best performing asset classes.
Discover some of the reasons that wealth generation revolves around the NOI.
Focusing solely on cash flow gears you to favor to lower quality, higher-risk assets.
The value of a dollar: why it is so important not to underestimate the value of a single dollar.
How Ryan's principles could be applied to a hypothetical portfolio.
Big things have small beginnings: understand your desired endpoint and create a map to it.
If your goal is NOI growth, you can reverse engineer the steps you need to get there.
Switching rents to market, adding revenue stream and cutting expense – ways to increase NOI.
An example of a property Ryan acquired where he increased the NOI.
Managing and mitigating risk is how Ryan prepares for the predicted downturn.
Why having a flatter organizational structure improved Ryan's business.
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About Ryan Smith
Ryan Smith is a Principal at Elevation Capital Group, with more than 15 years of extensive business experience in market valuation, property analysis, management systems, due diligence, and finance. Elevation, through its affiliates, has acquired properties worth more than 475 million dollars and has an interest in over 175 assets across more than 30 states.
Ryan graduated from the University of Tampa with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. While Ryan ultimately chose to pursue a path of entrepreneurship, he was also a highly recruited athlete both for both baseball and basketball and was drafted as a senior in high school by the Baltimore Orioles, and again in college by the Anaheim Angels. He currently lives in Orlando with his wife Jamie and their four children.
[0:00:24.1] WS: This is your daily Real Estate Syndication show. I'm your host Whitney Sewell. Today, our guest is Ryan Smith. Thanks for being on the show Ryan.
[0:00:32.9] RS: Thanks for having me.
[0:00:34.5] WS: Yeah. Ryan is a highly recruited athlete. He was drafted as a high school senior by the Baltimore Orioles and again, in college by the Anthem Angels. But ultimately made the decision to pursue an entrepreneurial business career. He lives in Orlando with his wife Jamie and their four children. He serves as a Principal of Elevation Capital Group bringing more than 15 years of extensive business experience in market valuation, property analysis, management systems, due diligence and finance.
Elevation, through its affiliates, has acquired properties worth more than 475 million dollars and has an interest in over 175 assets across more than 30 states. Ryan, thank you very much for your time today and being on the show and just bringing value to myself and the listeners as well. Tell them a little more about who you are or what you're up to right now and let's dive in.
[0:01:25.2] RS: That's a complex one. But what we're focusing on I will say is, we focus on mobile home parks and self-storage. Generally buying existing assets that are not as efficient as they should be and adding value from the perspective of growing NOI, operating income over time. Occasionally, we'll build from the ground up, that's more limited in the more recent past. Anyway, that's our focus.
[0:01:45.7] WS: You had mentioned that we also talked about it before the show about how it all revolves around NOI and I would love for us to dive in to that a little bit and you elaborate on what that means exactly so thee listeners can really understand the importance of that.
[0:01:58.8] RS: I think there's a distinction between first and foremost, cash flow which a lot of your listeners may be coming from a former revenue, a job and so typically, you leave that lily pad looking for a similar lily pad. So, you say, "Okay. I've got to make X dollars to pay my bills so I'm going to get in to this thing called real estate and look to it to produce income sufficient to also pay my bills." What somebody may be overlooking is not just the value of the cash flow which is valuable but the value of that cash flow.
Some people aren't clear on the distinction between those two things. And so, our entire focus is the value of cash flow and as a byproduct cash flow. That value of cash flow evolves around NOI, net operating income, and the value that that brings to our business and those who participate both in the cash flow it produces but more importantly, the value, the equity component or the wealth creation component of it.
That defines everything that we do. First and foremost, what type of assets we buy over the last 20 years, the two best performing asset classes for same store NOI growth as told to many public sources that you know, people can find or if you want some of them, feel free to reach out, I'll send them to you. But in short, the two best events, self-storage, there's number one, over the last roughly 20 years, mobile home parks, manufactured housing is number two, and then apartments is number three.
If you really get the value of NOI and what it can do for you, to me it makes to then participate and invest and grow a portfolio in that space. That's our focus.
[0:03:33.9] WS: I'd like for you to elaborate on this NOI thing and even more so of why it's so important and it is, it is so important. I liked how you also talked about leaving one lily pad looking for a similar one and that's kind of where we're stuck at a lot of times when we're leaving a day JOB and jumping into this real estate game where we don't understand the importance, you know, the big picture or there's the NOI and the importance of that cash flow. Can you elaborate on why it all revolves around the NOI?
[0:03:59.8] RS: Sure. First, I'll take it in pieces because it's kind of a value change so to speak. First and foremost, there's a principle which you may or may not agree and speaking to the listener, you may or may not agree, but I think you'll find, it's very hard to earn yourself rich. The tax laws do not accommodate for you to grow wealthy through income generation and just pure savings and budgeting and those things.
To get wealthy to the extent that that's what you're trying to do, not everybody is that their goal. But if you want to create wealth, you have to do that through equity or value creation, not income generation. The reason why this is so important is then the second kind of principle is this: Let's assume you have an opportunity to buy a property out of five cap, a sustained five cap, not a lofty evaluation, paying more than its worth. Let's say a property today, that will be worth five cap, or valued at five cap 10 years from now. Let's say you're also able to buy a property today, that will be 10 cap today and 10 cap in 10 years.
Five cap you have a 10 cap, if you are purely going for cash flow, which one do you think you would prefer? Well, if you're going for cash flow, you probably go for the 10-cap asset because it stands to make more cash flow. Maybe you can borrow at 6%, maybe six and a half, 7% depending on the condition of the properties so you have a 10 cap, you're borrowing let's say a seven to a three points of spread. You have a little bit more cash flow and maybe a five cap or you're borrowing at three and a half percent.
You have three points of spread versus one and a half points of spread. What somebody is also missing or could be missing maybe is that at a five cap, a dollar, one dollar of NOI is worth 20 times that dollar. One dollar divided by .05 is 20. At a 10 cap, $1 divided by .1 is 10. For every dollar I can add to a property that's a sustained five cap is worth twice as much as every dollar you add at a sustained $10.
You have more cash flow maybe which is tax as ordinary income. I have twice as much equity, which is not taxed based on today's tax code because it's not realized. Secondarily, from a risk standpoint, because I'm buying a five cap, you know, saying as an example, market may be more predictable, more stable. So, I might have a more predictable path to NOI growth over a prolonged period of time. My NOI growth trajectory and maybe a little bit more unpredictable, not guaranteed but more predictable.
And the value of my dollar, assuming all things equal is twice as much and I still have cash flow along the way. That's why number one, understanding the value and I can go in to more that 20-time multiple, you know, maybe we want to go into a little detail on that. But that's why if you're solely focusing on cash flow, it actually dictates your whole investment model, or tends to and kind of gears you to going to lower quality assets, more turn around heavy, more risk, more smart gets, in the mobile home park space. You may be buying in tertiary or worse markets, a lot of park owned homes, private utilities.
You're taking on heaps of risk for this one thing called cash flow where there might be a better way to go about it in the long run. That's a mouth full.
[0:07:10.8] WS: No, that was really good and I would like for you to elaborate a little more like you said or go back and go do that again a little bit or explain a little more in detail.
[0:07:18.5] RS: Sure. I think it's important to talk about everything and in terms of the value of one dollar and I say that because a lot of times, there's a lot of content out there, there's aa lot of noise and there's a lot of big numbers and there's a race to the top in terms of hundreds of millions and billions and it seems like a lot of hyperbole. But I run to the office that way. Run to the value of a dollar, okay?
Because you know, it's been said that big things have small beginnings, okay? Go to the small beginning and start there. And then the challenge is over time don't change. Don't lose focus.
But in short, one dollar, let's talk about the value of a dollar. One dollar of NOI, net operating income per month. Let's say you buy a property and you increase, let's say all you do is raise the rent on a net base is $1 a month. 12 months a year, $12 a year. The value of that asset, assuming let's say a 10 cap, divide that $12 a year, annual NOI that you added to the property, the new NOI, divided by .1 or 10%.
That has a multiplying effect of you now have $120 of value. If you buy a property, you add a dollar a month of NOI, that's worth $120 in value. I say this, I'll make one point of connection. When I was growing up in this industry and learning a lot and I'm sure you and others have had the same experience, you meet people and you say this, "I work so much harder than them, yet they have a result 20 times what I have, what do they know that I don't?" I think we've all had that, they know something that I don't know or they're just that much better. In most cases, what II have found is they know the value of the dollar, they don't value simply cash flow and that's been the distinction.
Why do I say all of that? Going then back to this example, let's say that $1 a month, let's say you buy a property, that's a five, sustained five cap, good market, all of that. You think it will be a five cap for the long run. In that case, you have $1 a month, 12 a year, divided by .05 so you have $240 of value. So now, the question I would pose to you and you can pose it to your kids, how many of your kids would go into a Walmart and not leave that parking lot until they found a dollar? Well some would, sounds like a lot of work, kind of sweaty mess, the whole deal.
But if that dollar was worth 240, if you gave each one of your kids $240 for every dollar they found in that parking lot, you need more jars, right? Because it's been said adults, our kids with wrinkles, we're not much different, okay? If you look at a dollar like just a dollar, but if you look at a dollar at 240, for me, that's compelling. Our whole daily focus every day is very simple. Every time we visit a property, every time we buy a property, it's all about buying a property and managing in a way where we-add as many of those $1 a month as possible because everyone we find is $240 in value and that's imperative. Pretty simple.
What does this all mean? Let me make one more point here and then I'll go back and it's pretty interesting. Start with the end in mind and work back. Going back to the concept that we meet people and they must know something that we don't know, right? If you buy a property and you add a dollar a month, net operating income, some people would say, "Well great, I have $12 a year of cash flow."
And you may have taxes, let's say you pay ordinary income and let's say, 40% of that goes to tax or whatever, not going to the whole appreciation and cost discussion but anyway, in that case, you may have $6, $7 of net after tax cash. Well, the person who understands the value of that dollar has $240 plus the $7 of cash flow. They have a huge result, not just the cash flow. Then, starting with this concept, you can start with the end in mind and work backwards, let's do that really quickly. Let's say one of your listeners, let's say if they have a goal of 10 million dollars of net worth, okay?
Just picking a number out of thin air. Your goal may be higher. It may be lower, you may not believe in having net worth goals, anyway, let's say it's 10 million. If your goal is to create 10 million dollars of net worth, at a five cap, you need 500,000 of NOI, of net operating income. If you create $500,000 of NOI add a five cap, you 10-million-dollar net worth. That seems daunting, right?
500,000 is a huge number, hard to wrap your mind around, okay? Let's divide that into monthly increments. 500,000 divided by 12, you want to just round it out, say 40,000 roughly just like 40,000 a month. You need $40,000 roughly a month of NOI. I mean, you have a 10-million-dollar net worth. It's still daunting. So, let's keep going.
Let's say your goal is a thousand units, say your goal is to own a thousand units. So, what's 40,000 divided by a thousand. I believe that's $40, is that right? Let's say it's $40, I believe it is. $40 a month. So, now you need $40 a month of NOI, you need to buy a thousand units and add $40 a month over any period of time, five years, 10 years, and you have a 10-million-dollar net worth.
Now let's put a time on it, let's add data to the discussion. Let's take the $40 and let's say it turned out to do this in five years. What's $40 divided by five? $8 a month. You need to buy a thousand units and increase the NOI by $8 a month per year for five years. And if you do that, you've created 10 million dollars of net worth, okay?
This afternoon, the value of, for less than the value of your lunch that you'll spend at Starbucks or wherever you're going to go eat lunch, probably spend 10, 12, $15 on lunch. If you bought a thousand units and only added $8 of NOI, found a way too either rent more units, add other sources of income, cut expenses that amounts to $8 per year for five years straight, you create a 10 million dollars in net worth for yourself. What if it takes you seven years?
[0:13:11.8] WS: Yeah, or 10 years?
[0:13:13.8] RS: Yeah, the point in it is, the value of the dollar cannot be under estimated, it shouldn't be, I'll say. I see it under estimated often, I don't think it should be.
[0:13:23.8] WS: Yeah, just the $5 you have in your wallet, right?
[0:13:26.3] RS: Right, the only bad added value component and then I'd be happy.
[0:13:30.1] WS: Right. Yeah, I love how you broke that down. You really started at a high level where most people would think, "Wait a minute, that's not achievable." You know, almost sign it off, right? Don't even talk to me about that. But then just really bringing it down to I mean, a manageable way almost to achieve it to actually see a way to get there, I love that.
You know, tell me about though, getting to that 1,000 units, or getting to that – your mobile home park, self-storage that's been your asset class, your avenue to getting to this. I don't know if that's your goal or not, you know, the 10 million dollars' net worth over a certain amount of time. But you know, I'd love to know just some actionable steps too to help the listener to see that thousand units as achievable.
[0:14:12.0] RS: Yeah. This is me, my personality, I'm not much of a, put 10,000 units on the board, although now, we own and/or operate more than 10,000 units, you know? But I see people who advertise the total number of units and that's fine, it's not good or bad, that's somebody's goal for themselves.
To me, my goal is to be the best I can be every day and if that means I acquire more units, terrific.If that means I focus solely on the units I have for the pursuit of the dollar, that's great. But with regards to your question of more of a starting point, you know, like I said a minute ago, I think big things have small beginnings.
Sometimes people feel compelled to get to a big goal and they skip over the small details and the most important details of, "What am I building? What foundation am I laying for the house that I'm" – you know, they're going to that design of the roof and they haven't even dealt with the foundation yet. So, to me that's why this NOI concept for us, for me is foundational. It then dictates what asset class I pursue, how I manage. So, if the dollar is really as valuable as I am posited here, should I be in the field walking the properties regularly or should I manage from an office? If I can find a dollar that's worth 240, my feet need to be in the field.
You know I need to be looking at property finding ways, every time I visit a property that we can add value. So, to me that is the simple beginning of what the business is built on and then dictates how then you should live and everything else. Not helpful at all to somebody who's just starting because everybody wants specifics like, "Do this. Like do that." But I would get really clear with what you are going for. If you are starting by saying, "Okay, I get value of NOI, I want to create NOI over time."
Then from there all the follow-on questions and answers come. You know, "Well. Okay what asset class do you want to pursue?" Well, look at historically maybe the best in terms of what has produced NOI growth overtime, what is projected by experts and what do you think might be the best going forward, the most resilient cycle, resilience all of these things. And then from there putting together an operating model that really take the properties from where they are and where they need to be from an NOI perspective.
If you have 200 units or 500 units, going back to the example a second ago that was a thousand but if you were able to add $16 a month of NOI for five years, well now you only need 500 units to do the same outcome. That is why the units don't really matter. It just depends on you could do more than you ever dreamed in life with 200 units if you do it well. It just depends. Sometimes it may take 5,000 units if you do it not well. It just depends.
[0:16:47.7] WS: Finding ways to add these dollars to your properties, what are you doing? You know you even mentioned like sitting in office versus actually going out there and looking for ways to increase your NOI. What are some ways that you have done that?
[0:16:58.3] RS: Yeah, so every property is different. You know there is a general theme of what we are doing, which is NOI ideally growing it. Then there is the sub themes, which is switching rents to market. We are adding other revenue streams to property, which I will give you a couple of examples and then cutting expenses. So just to pick a property to give you an example, we bought a property about nine months ago in Katy, Texas and what by me I mean one of the funds that I'm a manager of called Fund Seven.
So, we bought this property about nine months ago in Katy, Texas, which is a suburb of Houston. Very simply it is a three-story storage facility. They had an occupancy issue that we identified was due to the way the building was constructed. So, they had this novel idea that wasn't – didn't work, where they put these giant fans on the second and third floor. The thought was if you blow air fast enough to the second and third floor it will somehow equal cold or cool or climatized.
Where in Houston you are just blowing hot air at a high rate of speed, it just makes it really fast-moving hot air. It didn't work out well and the fans were really noisy. So, they had a really tough time leasing the second and third floor. So, we bought the property. Put it under new management. Did what we normally do but we climatized the second floor, climatized the third floor. We've owned that property for about nine months and what we thought that it was roughly 60% occupied now, it is over 80% occupied.
So, when you look at that, you say okay 500 units, 20% occupancy that is a 100 new units of absorption. What is the NOI? Well it is higher so that is an example. Now on mobile home parks a little bit different. So, we regularly actually take a mobile home park and add a storage solution to it. Kind of an independent storage where we put in like a traditional storage solution in it as another line item of revenue but that wasn't there before.
And then what we do to create demand for storage is we manage the property as well and that we don't allow for junk to stay in the yard. What makes a mobile home park look like a trailer park, typically there is a long list. But one of the things is the stop that should be on the inside, left on the outside, couches, chairs just stuff where the grass grows around it. It just looks horrible. I wouldn't want to live in a community like that and we don't want our residents to tolerate that.
So, we have a very strict policy over that and so the stuff has to go somewhere and we find that it doesn't all of that. But the point is that we give you a place for that stuff to go. So, we manage well, we make you move the stuff and then we give you a place to put it if you want to keep it. If you want to keep it on your property, we'll also bring in tough shed, covered parking, whatever it is and most of the residence can't afford for that cost.
So, what we will do as the park is we'll go buy a tough shed, put it down or something similar and let's say it costs $3,000. We, the park will buy it, we will put the shed on your property and then we charge you what amounts to $30 a month, one percent of the cost is added to your lot rent.
So, number one, the quality of the park goes up because the stuff goes bye-bye and whether it is through independent storage and on-site storage, it also creates a line item of revenue to the extent that the resident wants to use our capital instead of theirs. There is many other examples but that is one.
[0:20:04.7] WS: That is awesome, wow. Unfortunately, we just got a few minutes left but this has been great. I've really enjoyed this Ryan. But a few questions though, what has been the hardest part of the syndication journey for you?
[0:20:15.2] RS: You know there has just been a lot – I can't single out a hardest one. There is just head wins and tail wins and you learn as you go. So, we are on our 7th fund about probably next year we'll start our 8th fund. And every fund is moderately different than the pre-sticky one because you learn something. There is just life lessons on every fund and structural changes. There is just a lot of things you learn.
[0:20:38.4] WS: And how are you preparing for this potential down turn that everybody is talking about?
[0:20:42.8] RS: Yeah it is a good question. So, we try to manage and mitigate our risk. So, number one we are in spaces that are referred to as cycle resilient or low beta from a market correlation standpoint. Those storage in mobile home parks have historically been lower beta asset classes, meaning they are not as tied to the overall market. If the market were to fall out tomorrow, affordable housing would still be in demand. We like that aspect.
Number one the asset classes that we buy, I am going to speak to that in a way. But then internal to the way we buy, we want to buy in primary and secondary markets. We want to buy a really nice properties in really good markets and be one of the leaders in the market rather than a laager. If there is ever a softening in demand, we think we'll have the product everybody wants and we want to manage it that way.
Then from a financing standpoint, I am only tree topping these. But from a financing standpoint, you know today you can go high leverage, you can then in some cases go 80% leverage. We think that is too high so we moderately use debt. We typically obtain 50 to 60% in terms of leverage. A lot of people who are buying real estate then we'll start backwards in that. They'll say, "Well the higher the LTB I can go the less money I have to raise." We start with what do we think is the best model and then we raise the capital.
We need to do the best model that we think is the best. Anyway, we use low leverage and then we keep our expenses lean. So, we are already there now and that was in responses to what we think might happen. That is the way we upgrade in the last couple of years and anyway.
[0:22:05.8] WS: What is a way that you have recently improved your business that we could apply to ours?
[0:22:08.2] RS: I would say overtime just the management approach of flattening our property management structure. Historically, we utilize a process at one point became pretty inefficient, which was where you have the onsite managers reporting to a district manager, reporting through a regional manager. You know you have this militaristic structure that gets pretty bogged down in terms of people talking to people, talking to people.
So, information wasn't flowing that efficiently and so what pivoted to was a flatter structure so that presently we have four VP's and all VP's are responsible for all properties, both mobile home parks, both storage, all regions. And so, each property is seen and walked usually three to four times per year by a combination of those VP's. So that Jeff, who is one of our VP's is very different than Sandy so both properties are managed ultimately by Jeff and Sandy.
They manage the managers and then the other two VP's cycle through. Then in addition to that Jamie, myself and Brian physically walk the properties twice a year. So that is a much flatter organizational structure. We do use technology and I can pull real time reports right now so we can see where things are but I think a flatter organizational structure was a huge group at from a cost standpoint and performance.
[0:23:26.6] WS: I think most people would lean more towards the military structure like you talked about at first. But after you talked about it like that I can see how information up to you is going to be difficult to achieve right? Or it is going to change numerous times potentially by the time it gets there it is all like that and then just having the different perspectives too of different VP's actually being on the ground, different people are going to see different things.
So, it is going to be important to them, yeah great idea. So, what is your best advice for caring for investors?
[0:23:54.2] RS: For caring for investors?
[0:23:55.7] WS: So, they want to come back to the next deal?
[0:23:57.8] RS: Set reasonable expectations and then perform. I know that is overly simple if an investor asks us a typical question, "What question did I not ask that I shouldn't ask, you know?: You can get that all the time and it is, "Well, I don't think you spend enough time on risks." And by the way, we have section eight of our PPM that goes through a ton of risk and at the end it says this is not all the risks. So I don't think you spend enough time on the risk associated with the investment.
That is not the easy path but it is the right path. And then as you are talking about the business, understating expectations and then making it really conservative and achievable. And then when we go out and we hit those expectations people will say I am going to add several emails that say you have done everything you said you would do. That is the goal.
[0:24:40.5] WS: What would you say is the number one thing that is contributed to your success?
[0:24:44.0] RS: When you get a mile down the road, you know there is always several miles but that was one step further than one step short of a mile, you know? So, you just keep taking the next step and you have that kind of a corny cliché things where believe in yourself and have vision and all of those things. But I would say, the part you can't teach is perseverance and a high pain tolerance. The high pain tolerance most people don't have.
They have a vision and they have self-belief until it gets painful and then they divert. Don't let me lead your belief, it's been highly painful. You know you have times in the business where you're like, "Wow, I didn't see that coming," where you get surprised and what you envisioned as the outcome wasn't the outcome, you know those kinds of things.
[0:25:19.6] WS: Is it Mike Tyson that says everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face?
[0:25:23.7] RS: Yeah, exactly. Things like that. So, I think having a high pain tolerance and knowing why you are doing it. I mean obviously they have a reason beyond yourself, which you tend to believe and maybe faith and depending on the person but anyway, I would say all of those things.
[0:25:38.6] WS: And before we have to go, tell us how you like to give back.
[0:25:40.9] RS: Just really quickly, I guess to me if you like to give back I'll say then everything you should do should be geared to a degree on that. There shouldn't be a part of – this is just me. There shouldn't be a part of your life where you say, "Okay this is where you don't give back and here is where I do give back as a mea culpa for the times that I didn't." Anyway, I think if life is stewardship then the way you earn should be giving to others as much as the way you give.
So, my wife and I have formed, specifically we formed giving circles, giving groups and we have a number over middle Orlando that were involved then and there is more that's we are not involved in, which we love. And if anybody wants to do this, reach out, we have a blueprint, we'll help you with it. But it is 12 people, couples, singles, men, women, however you want to do it but for example, it is $2,500 a year. There's 12 people so that it is $30,000 a year, you meet twice a year as a group.
To get together and decide who in your community to give the gift to. It could be 30,000 it could be two 15,000-dollar gifts. What I realize many years ago when we did our first one is, "Man, we really don't know a lot of people that are in that great a need." That was condemning in a way, we needed to expand our social fabric. There wasn't a lot of vulnerability within our sphere of friends and so that to me is probably the biggest gift we can all give another is to give up.
When you become financially successful to a degree you have less vulnerability and more control. So, to a degree if we can give up some of that control, take on somebody else's vulnerability, I think you can transfer that. I think that is a huge gift. So anyway, within those giving circles that's been life giving for Jamie and I.
[0:27:10.2] WS: That is awesome. Well I appreciate you sharing that. That is incredible, I hope it is inspiring to a lot of the listeners as well. Even you talking about how I'd help you to see your sphere of influence even the people around you or how you need to maybe interact with some other people that are in need and you can help and it is awesome. I appreciate you selling that very much and tell the listeners how they can get in touch with you and learn more about you.
[0:27:30.8] RS: Oh, I think most people are running away from me now like this guys is nuts. But if you do, I'd love to help you out anyway I can. So, my direct line is 407-602-7662. My email is ryan@elevationcg.com. I'm happy to help.
[0:27:46.1] WS: Great show Ryan, thank you so much.


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const FLASH_TIMEOUT = 2000;
class FlashMessagesStore extends EventEmitter {
  constructor() {
    super();
    Dispatcher.register(this.onAction.bind(this));
    this.flashes = [];
    this.id = 0;
  }

  /**
  * Add new flash message
  */
  addFlash(type, message) {
    this.id += 1;
    const flash = { type, message };
    flash.id = this.id;
    this.flashes.push(flash);
    this.emit('change');

    //TODO reimplement this
    setTimeout(() => {
      var index = this.flashes.indexOf(flash);
      if (index != -1) {
        this.flashes.splice(index, 1);
      }
      this.emit('change');
    }, FLASH_TIMEOUT);
  }

  getFlashes() {
    return this.flashes;
  }

  /**
  * Return new flash message to display
  */
  pop() {
    return this.flashes.pop();
  }

  onAction(action) {
    switch (action.actionType) {
      case FlashMessageConstants.FLASH_NOTICE:
        this.addFlash('success', action.message);
      break;

      case FlashMessageConstants.FLASH_ERROR:
        this.addFlash('error', action.message);
      break;

      case SessionConstants.SESSION_CREATE_SUCCESS:
        this.addFlash('success', 'Signed in successfully.');
      break;

      case SessionConstants.SESSION_CREATE_FAILURE:
        this.addFlash('error', 'Cannot sign in: ' + action.error);
      break;

      case SessionConstants.SESSION_DESTROY_SUCCESS:
        this.addFlash('success', 'Signed out successfully.');
      break;

      case ProfileConstants.PROFILES_FETCH_FAILURE:
        this.addFlash('error', 'Cannot fetch profiles: ' + action.error);
      break;

      case RegistrationConstants.REGISTRATION_CREATE_FAILURE:
        this.addFlash('error', 'Cannot create new account: ' + action.error);
      break;

      case RegistrationConstants.REGISTRATION_CREATE_SUCCESS:
        this.addFlash('success', 'Created new account! You can now log in!');
      break;
    }
  }
}

export default new FlashMessagesStore();

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Katedra Świętej Marii w Burgos (hiszp. Catedral de Santa María de Burgos) – świątynia w hiszpańskim mieście Burgos, znajdująca się od 31 października 1984 roku na liście światowego dziedzictwa UNESCO (jedyna hiszpańska katedra, która samodzielnie widnieje w tym spisie). Jest przykładem zmian zachodzących w architekturze gotyckiej w całym okresie trwania tego stylu.

Historia i opis
W miejscu, gdzie mieści się obecnie katedra, znajdowała się wcześniej świątynia romańska. Rozwój miasta i wzrost liczby mieszkańców dały impuls do podjęcia decyzji o wybudowaniu większego kościoła. Inicjatorem budowy świątyni był biskup Maurycy. Prace nad budową katedry rozpoczęły się 21 lipca 1221 roku. Budowę rozpoczęto od prezbiterium; fasadę budynku zakończono w drugiej połowie XIII wieku. W kolejnych wiekach świątynie rozbudowywano, dodając kaplice boczne, kaplicę Condestable, iglice na wieżach. Całość została ukończona w 1567 roku. Wzorem dla architektów były trzynastowieczne świątynie angielskie i francuskie.

Katedra została wzniesiona na planie krzyża łacińskiego o wymiarach 84 na 59 metrów, posiada trzy nawy z wysuniętym transeptem, z głębokim prezbiterium i ambitem. Do głównej części katedry na przestrzeni wieków doklejono kilka budowli, m.in. za ołtarzem głównym powstała w latach 1482–1496 Capilla del Condestable, ufundowana przez konstabla Kastylii Pedra Fernándeza de Velasco wraz z żoną. Projektantem kaplicy był Szymon z Kolonii, który zaprojektował również fasady wież i kaplicę św. Anny. Innymi znanymi architektami byli Felipe de Borgoña, Juan de Vallejo i Juan de Castañeda. Ostatnie prace konserwatorskie wykonano w 1994 roku; kosztowały one 30 milionów euro.

W świątyni ulokowane grobowiec hiszpańskiego bohatera narodowego – Cyda. Stał się on jednym z symboli rekonkwisty, czyli walk chrześcijan z Maurami, które doprowadziły do wyparcia muzułmanów z Półwyspu Iberyjskiego.

25 stycznia 1869 roku w katedrze doszło do zamachu na gubernatora Isidoro Gutiérreza de Castro y Cossio. Po tym wydarzeniu Hiszpanię ogarnęła fala antyklerykalnych protestów.

Katedra w Burgos została uznana za zabytek narodowy 8 kwietnia 1885 roku. Sylwetka budowli znajduje się na będącej w obiegu okolicznościowej hiszpańskiej monecie o nominale 2 euro..

Galeria

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Katedra Burgos – galeria

Katedra w Burgos
Architektura gotyku w Hiszpanii
Katedry rzymskokatolickie w Hiszpanii
Religia w Burgos

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The Chinese government is bringing a stricter control over the Web by addressing the topic of anonymity. A new law passed in 2012 requires Chinese end users to provide their real identity to access the Internet from any computer or mobile phone, but also to be able to use all the services that can publish information. It is still possible to intervene under a pseudo, but only after passing this check.
According to the Chinese government, this measure is part of a series of laws aimed at increasing the protection of personal information on the Internet and ensuring national security in the country. Already, China has one of the strictest types of control in the world with its 500 million Internet users. Its censorship system prevents access to U.S. sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter and filters keywords which are politically sensitive on social networks and allowed search engines.
In 2012, these measures have not prevented the spread of a series of web scandals over the life of the party leadership. Dissidents have indeed learned to deal with censorship, using diverted terms or private networks such as VPN, which give access to inaccessible sites. The fight against online anonymity is the Chinese authorities' key approach to address such vulnerabilities. But "these new rules should not change the lives of the Internet users," warns a blogger based in China as "identity check when subscribing to an online service is already the case." However, it should make it more difficult for dissidents who seek to get online anonymously from an Internet cafe. The relationship between a text and its author will be thus easier to set.
Besides the issue of online anonymity, this law which was passed in late 2012 requires websites to "stop immediately the transmission of illegal information" as soon as they are notified about it, so as to encourage the public to report these "illegal activities". The text also introduces less controversial measures against spam or the use of personal data for advertising purposes. These days, several articles in the Chinese press have pointed out the dangers of freedom of expression on the Internet.
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Hot damn. Brother JT of the United States of America returns to rock us after a few eternities in the wilderness of other-investigation. Here is the lead track from his forthcoming album on Thrill Jockey (info here).
Brother JT was featured in Arthur No. 8 (Dolly Parton cover), published several universes ago, with an interview by Jay Babcock and a guide to JT's discography by David Katznelson. (Copies of this magazine still exist. You can buy one here.)
And, lookout Ma, JT's started up his TRIPPIN' BALLS series again. New episode here with guest MIGHTY TWIG HARPER…
March 20, 2013 by Jay Babcock	Categories: Uncategorized	| Tags: Brother JT, David Katznelson, Twig Harper | Leave a comment
About Jay Babcock
I am the co-founder and editor of Arthur Magazine (2002-2008, 2012-13) and curator of the three Arthur music festival events (Arthurfest, ArthurBall, and Arthur Nights) (2005-6). Prior to that I was a district office staffer for Congressman Henry A. Waxman, a DJ at Silver Lake pirate radio station KBLT, a copy editor at Larry Flynt Publications, an editor at Mean magazine, and a freelance journalist contributing work to LAWeekly, Mojo, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Vibe, Rap Pages and many other print and online outlets. An extended piece I wrote on Fela Kuti was selected for the Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000 anthology. In 2006, I was one of five Angelenos listed in the Music section of Los Angeles Magazine's annual "Power" issue. In 2007-8, I produced a blog called "Nature Trumps," about the L.A. River. Today, I live a peaceful life in the rural wilderness of Joshua Tree, California, where I am a partner in JTHomesteader.com with Stephanie Smith.
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The front organizer pockets are perfect for your pens, keys, mobile phone or any other items that need quick access. There is a secure zipped pocket behind the flap. The main compartment of the sling bag has a padded tablet section, an inner zip on the wall of the sling bag, a medium size pocket and a slip pocket. The outer side zip is an intelligent feature to expand the bag when you need that extra space.


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Q: Azure Logic Apps string.format() equivalent function I have a string as below
"{tenant}/{version}/lotTracking/lots?siteId={siteId}&itemId={itemId}"

In c# i can replace the place holders with string.format function. But in  logic apps am unable to find the equivalent function/Expression.
I found only concat function which does appending. But i am looking to replace relative path parameters in a string

A: There is no string format function  directly available in logic apps. What you can do is three options shown below
1) Use concat to create the strings, works absolutely fine
2) Use Azure function to create string utility function which does the job for you (Honestly this would just be an overhead for simple string concat)
3) Use transformations (requires integration account or azure function port of it)

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President Trump is taking credit for a new Foxconn LCD panel manufacturing plant, which is now under construction in southwestern Wisconsin. It's actually not clear why he is claiming credit, but in any case it might be better if he distanced himself from this project. While Foxconn has suggested that the project might eventually employ 13,000 workers, they have only promised 3000 jobs in the initial facility.
More importantly, the estimated cost of government subsidies has soared to $4.5 billion, or $4.1 billion if you exclude highway improvements that might have eventually occurred in any case. That's about $1774 per household in Wisconsin.
It's difficult to say exactly how big the subsidies are per job created, but most of the estimates I've seen are in the $300,000 to $600,000 per worker range. That's a lot of money to create jobs that pay roughly $50,000/year.
I suppose one could argue that it's worth subsidizing these jobs, as unemployment can impose severe costs on workers and their families. But that raises another important question—just where are these unemployed workers going to come from? Wisconsin's unemployment rate is currently 2.9%, the sort of number you generally see only in places like Switzerland and Japan. So where will Foxconn find the workers?
Gov. Walker has also pledged to spend $6.8 million on an ad campaign to help attract out-of-state residents for Foxconn. "We need bodies," he confessed. The Fiscal Bureau had estimated that about 10 percent of Foxconn workers will be Illinois residents, but a preliminary analysis commissioned by Walker's Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. estimated as many as half of the construction workers and Foxconn workforce could come from other states, primarily Illinois, as the State Journal reported.
If you look at a map of southeastern Wisconsin, you'll notice that the huge Chicago metro area lies just across the border, connected to the new Foxconn plant by I-94. And the unemployment rate in Illinois 4.6%, far higher than in Wisconsin.
So Wisconsin taxpayers will be spending an enormous sum of money subsidizing a new LCD factory, and then spend even more money bringing in Illinois workers to staff the plant. If people would explain all this to Donald Trump then he might stop trying to take credit for the project.
Update: This Reason TV video suggests that homeowners are being forced out for what is a private project, which is unconstitutional.
Transferring property to a private party is – unfortunately – not unconstitutional. Kelo v. New London made that clear.
AMW, I think the Court erred in that decision; it pretty clearly is unconstitutional, at least if done for a private purpose.
With the current trade war with China starting to heat up isn't it possible that Foxconn decides to cancel this project leaving the citizens of Wisconsin out of luck and money?
This s typical crony capitalism, "typical"in that the special treatment of the enterprise is given for narrowly "economic" reasons rather than to offset an externality. Repugnant, but given decentralized policy making, difficult to avoid except by public shaming.
Sadly, that is not how it works. If the court says it's constitutional, it's constitutional. I wish it were not so.
The Supreme Court ruled in 1926 that local governments could determine how you develop your own property.
One of the Supreme Court justices gratuitously penned an opinion that he did not like parasitic apartment buildings intruding on single-family detached neighborhoods.
And there it stands today.
Which case is that? I thought you meant Wickard, but that was private property held as wheat.
You make a big point of how much money it will cost Wisconsin but never write of how many years the cost is spread over. For example if it is spread over 20 years the cost per household will be lost in rounding with the normal fluctuation of taxes. So how much time is the cost spread?


The Resident Tourist: Jumby Journal, Whites . . .
There are so many stunning colors throughout the island that it only made sense for me to take advantage and color-coordinate my posts. Since we went to a white party BBQ on the beach last night, I thought I'd start there. White sand, white chairs, Pina Coladas at the beach, white wine getting ready, white jeans from Zara, white crop-top from H&M, and a white necklace I got in Turkey years ago.


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Did you know that germs and bacteria are hiding in your home, in places you least expect? Here, we shed light on 6 of the most surprisingly germy places.
Did you know that germs and bacteria are hiding in your home, in places you least expect?
People generally tend to avoid touching things which are noticeably dirty - dustbins, dirty plates or muddy shoes, for example. But there's a whole list of less obvious spots in your house that are breeding grounds for bacteria. These aren't just nooks and crannies, but rather, things we touch, put in our mouths and rub our faces with every day!
Here, we shed light on 6 of the most surprisingly germy places.
Before you put your toothbrush in your mouth, think about this. The University of Manchester found that a toothbrush can house about 10 million bacteria or more, and the University of Alabama reported that faecal germs exist on them too.
But don't panic, you can easily keep it clean! Just rinse your toothbrush thoroughly after each use, and make sure it's kept at a place that allows it to dry out completely. Remember to also replace your toothbrush once every few months and avoid sharing them with your partner or family member.
Many of the germiest places in your house are found in the kitchen, and it's no surprise, considering it's where all the food is. But have you ever thought that the dirtiest item would be the one you use to clean things? Your kitchen sponge probably contains a whole heap of bacteria, yeast and mould, accumulated overtime with all that washing and scrubbing of dirty plates.
The next time you do your dishes, remember to microwave your wet sponge for at least two minutes and make it a daily affair. Do also replace your sponge every two weeks.
If you're a parent, your little one's bath toys may contain more germs that you realise. Your child's rubber duckie may just be bobbing innocently on the bathtub, but their insides don't show you a pretty picture. A study by the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology and the University of Illinois found dense slimy layers of bacteria in each toy they cut in half.
Make sure you clean your child's bath toys regularly by soaking them in warm water and vinegar, before drying them well. After each use, remember to squeeze as much water as you can out of the toys and store them in a cool, dry place.
When was the last time you washed or cleaned your pet's toy? If you can't remember, chances are, it's already reeked with germ colonies from the environment your pet plays in. These toys can harbour bacteria that can be harmful to both you and your furry friend.
To wash the toys, soak and wash them in hot water and detergent, before running them under a hot dryer for at least 30 minutes. Make sure they are dry and clean before handling it with your pet!
If you love your coffee, love to clean it too! Coffee machines are one of the most notorious and hidden breeding grounds for bacteria. They're dark and damp, and saturated with mould, yeast and bacteria.
Read the instruction manual for the proper cleaning routine. But one good way is to add vinegar to the reservoir and let it soak for half an hour before brewing it. Run fresh water through it three times until the smell goes away. Besides that, do also clean the insides of the machine with a damp cloth, brush and some soap.
For all the girls out there, your make-up brushes and bags may be a cosy place for germs to dwell, especially if you bring them along for dinners and parties. You might want to think twice before you line your eyelashes with old, dirty mascara!
Wash your brushes and bags regularly with soap or cleansers and try to keep it away from damp and warm places. Instead, store them in a clean, dry place at room temperature. Apart from that, remember to replace your make-up every six months, especially if they are used for your eyes.
And now you know the top secret hiding spots for germs and bacteria in your home. Remember to keep them clean regularly, and if you suspect an eye or skin infection, don't hesitate to consult our doctors and get help within minutes. Click here if you'd like to consult a doctor today.


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The school receives Pupil Premium funding, which is additional to the main school budget. The Pupil Premium funding (currently £1320 per eligible child, per year) is allocated to pupils who are either currently eligible for free school meals or who have been eligible in the last 6 years*
Pupil Premium funding is intended to address the historic underachievement of children from poorer backgrounds in this country. By giving schools additional money when they have families from poorer backgrounds, the Government is seeking to 'close the gap' in achievement, meaning that any student from any background should be able to achieve at a high level. The money is intended to support schools to ensure this happens for students in their care.
As a school we have an excellent track-record of ensuring that ALL of our pupils achieve above national expectations and our key stage 2 results show that there is no differential between achievements of pupils eligible for free school means and those who are not. This means that we have been successful in ensuring there is no 'achievement gap' for the students at Vine Tree.
Pupil premium funding at Vine Tree is spent on a range of support and additional intervention which ensures that every child succeeds. You can read in more detail about our spending for 2018/19 below.
As a school we understand that not all socially disadvantaged pupils will be eligible for free school meals, for example those without recourse to public funds, and we reserve the right to allocate pupil premium funding to those children we identify as socially disadvantaged.
How is the impact monitored?
Assessment procedures at Vine Tree are extremely robust and we are relentless in monitoring and evaluating the progress of all children. This is done in our 'pupil progress' meetings each half term, where we identify any child who is not on track or has not made adequate progress, and then put in place targeted support for them. Students eligible for pupil premium funding are identified through this process and support mapped on to the range of resources the school has to offer.
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Pupil Premium Impact and Analysis
Pupil Premium and Free School Meals
Pupil Premium Plan
Pupil Premium - What we do.


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Q: Export multiple tables as a single excel with input cells in jquery I am trying to export multiple tables as a single excel worksheet. I am able to do that if I don't have any input cells. I have one tables where I have input cells. in this case there is no data for those cells. below is the code that I am using.

  <title>JS HTML Tables to Excel</title>

Name

<input Hi>

Hey

Hello

Name

Night

Evening

Nite

  <input type="button" onclick="tablesToExcel(array1, 'Sheet1', 'myfile.xls')" value="Export to Excel">

Also let me know, how to add headers to the excel. And export as a single pdf
Thanks in advance


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35.8600	88.5	"to Shane Turner's house"
I've always been meaning to ask since I started following your logs that you monitor from two locations. Do you actually travel back and forth between the two places?
35.0800	141.3	"Hook up the trailer"
35.4400	136.5	Sounds like a company that gives rides on canoes on a river or creek. Been hearing during summer openings since 2010. No idea who this is.
39.5800	156.7	KS - Low Band Inter-Op Calling Channel "Test 1 2, test 1 2"
39.9600	82.5	WNHH912	Sheriff Dispatch - Randolph Co VA "Just past the Rich Mountain turnoff"
43.0600	146.2	Loading for customers, "Crushed concrete, pea gravel, fill sand"
44.5800	D412	Robot "Repeater, H O K I (fade)" "The time is (fade)"
45.1200	156.7	Possible Larimer County CO Recycling Center, "Toyota Tundra coming up with two yards of residential green waste, it's his first time going up"
46.3800	CSQ	Fire/EMS Dispatch - Loudoun Co VA "Monroe St SE" "Chapel Hill Ct" "Hillsborough Rd"
46.5000	179.9	Fire/EMS Dispatch - Monongalia County Vol Fire Companies Association Inc, Morgantown WV "Dumpster fire, 2130 Railroad, Republic Services"
47.5000	173.8	Carrier - no audio. Heard w/ band openings since 5/2013. Possible NC Emergency Mgmt.
43.180 D662, 43.280 162.2, and 43.020 162.2, are all Manatts Inc, used in various locations around Iowa.
41.8: how'd you know that?
i came across it about 6 mos ago and came to the conclusion it was Ft Bragg Range Control related on my own. But more by luck of mentioning Restricted flying areas and catching ground side from a high point. I have rx'd far less from it than the standard 41.75 or 46.75 etc. I have searched hi and lo for any info for it and came up with zilch.
mind cluing me in on how you came upon such info?
to keep from being to overly eagerbeaver here I'll start with two queries about your methods: as I imagine since you have a dedicated low-band set up you have come to decide on what you feel is optimum.
-how wide is your search range ie: most folks search just 30-50 (prob cause most scanners don't allow much higher) but i have confirmed quite a few 60's, twice gotten "search and store" hits with PL 151.4 in the low 70's, and recently got a hit on 51.5 which was luck as i have always avoided 50-54mhz for the standard reasons.
seriously, thanks again. i knew there had to be someone out there that was doing this but i have never noticed anyone pipe up about it. while i am bout 70mi west of bragg i am in the "FOB Stanly" region, so much of what i learn about things at bragg helps me learn what strategies to employ when things migrate over here periodically.
If you are looking for military stuff search 30-88 MHz in 25 kHz steps and remember that they run up to 15 kHz deviation (36 kHz bandwidth) and usually use 150 Hz tone which scanners don't have. Scanners will show the tone as 151.4 because that is the closest one which is within frequency error tolerance.
Always remember to submit your confirmed frequencies to the database if they are not listed!
It'll benefit all of us!
I recently added Smyth County's 37.040 earlier too.
35.4800	151.4	"Did you call in for a prescription refill?"
43.3200	D023	"Back up right there, that trailer"
43.8800	146.2	"2785 Persistence Drive, Ft Wayne" -- Any ideas on this?
45.9200	CSQ	Buses with students passing through San Antonio. Possible Fredericksburg ISD with expired license.
"43.8800	146.2 "2785 Persistence Drive, Ft Wayne" -- Any ideas on this?"
It may be this... Expired license though.
33.7400	CSQ	WPKV456	Fire/EMS Dispatch - Huntingdon Co, PA - "Across from Shy Beaver Boat Launch"
35.0400	151.4	Farmers - "I'm headed back to my field"
46.0400	218.1	"Come to the business office"
What are you using to monitor VHF-LOW and where can I find some recordings on the net? I have not been able to find any VHF-LOW military recordings on YT.
It's at the top of his posts.


The article reviews a variety of new online applications and services, such as: automated invoice dunning software; pay-in-advance invoice escrow services; and affordable business information and credit bureau searches.
Clear, Well-Documented Invoices: Always have invoices that are clear and simple where they need to be (due date, amount owed), but have sufficient detail where necessary (project description, services provided).
Keep Track of Your Unpaid Invoices: Don't wait until the 90 or 120 day mark to send reminders. By that time, it may be too late: either the customer no longer needs your credit/services, or you've fully performed your end of the deal. In collections, the squeaky wheel really does get the grease.
Get Advance Payment Where Possible: If it's a new relationship, ask for a retainer for all or part of your services. Don't worry about offending the new business; if it's a legit company, they'll understand.
Do Your Homework Before Lending Time or Money: If this economy has taught us anything, it's that there is no obligation to lend money or sell products to unfamiliar customers. If the customer doesn't have a track record with you, check out their business history, ask for referrals, or, if no such information exists, sell on a cash basis only. Otherwise, you're assuming all the risk.
Doing all of the above is time-consuming and sometimes expensive, and, in the end, nothing can guarantee that all your accounts will get paid. But, if a little advance research vets just one or two of the bad apples, then it will all be worth it.
An unpaid invoice plus a collection lawyer costs far more than the services described in the article.
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When attempting to write a military history dissertation, the process of picking a topic to cover can be a daunting task. Take a look at this list of dissertation ideas composed by a professional writer to help you get started.
Evaluate the outcome of the war and whether or not it achieved anything for the parties involved.
Acknowledge the effect he had on the people of Italy; was he popular with the people? Did they agree with his viewpoints and leadership style?
Explain his mistake in siding with the Nazi regime during World War II; what was the outcome and what could have been done to prevent it?
Evaluate his reign; was he successful? How did he benefit the Italian people? How did he harm them?
Describe Hitler's rise to power; how did he get there? How was he able to rise to power so quickly? What was the public's opinion of him?
How did Hitler manipulate the German people?
Explain how the country was in a weakened state and in need of a strong leader in the glum days after World War I.
How did the Nazi regime affect not only Germany but all of Europe, and the rest of the world?
Discuss Hitler's personal and internal conflicts that contributed to his incentives for the massive genocide that occurred.
In what ways was Hitler successful? In what ways did he fail?
Explain why he was able to stay in power for so long.
What were the incentives behind Poland's invasion in 1939?
Discuss the overall effect that Hitler's reign had on both Germany as well as the rest of the world.
Discuss the events that led to the launch of the second World War.
In what ways did World War II differ from World War I?
What was the reason behind the United States' delayed entry in the war?
List the countries involved and the alliances that were made.
Describe the large impact that the United States had on the war, and why.
Discuss the winding down of the war and the official outcome.
What was his military policy?
How did he put his policy into effect?
Discuss his intentions; did he intend to harshly rule the people of France, or liberate them?
Touch on the main problems that he faced when coming into power. Was he able to overcome any of them?
What were the principles behind Napoleon III's foreign policy? How were they implemented?
Describe the events that led to his demise. Could these events and this outcome have been prevented? Should they have been prevented?
Describe what the Italian Unification was.
Did this benefit the Italian people and government?
What were the problems that came about after the unification, and how were they solved?
Was the unification conducted for the purpose of economics or foreign policy? Perhaps both?
Identify Cavour and his part in the unification.
Why and how had Italy existed for such a long time before the unification?
In what ways was the unification beneficial for German liberals?
What was the importance of Bismarck to this event?
Touch on the things that the unification failed to make an impact on.
How did he come to power? When did he come to power?
In what ways did Stalin intend to alter Russia for the better?
Describe Stalin's leadership style and approach. Was it effective?
What was the public's opinion regarding Stalin?
Compare the differences between communism and fascism. In this way, compare the leading styles of Hitler and Stalin.
In what ways was Stalin successful? In what ways did he fail?
How and why did communism spread throughout the world?
What was the Crimean War? How and when did it occur?
What role did religion play in the Crimean war?
How, when, and why did the war end?
How and when did the war begin?
Who was involved in the war?
Describe the public's opinion of the war.
How did the war affect American citizens?
How, when, and why did the war come to an end?
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Merely cutting the banks apart won't avoid another financial crisis.
If you listen closely, you can almost hear "Gentlemen, start your chainsaws," as regulators and politicians in Washington begin to contemplate the fate of our "too big to fail" banks like Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC) and Goldman Sachs (GS).
Some want to cut up the banks according to the rules of Glass Steagall, separating banks from brokers and investment banks, while others are focused on splitting banks from insurance. Some want American banks to keep their US operations, but shed everything abroad. And still others want to bifurcate risk, putting "the casino" in one enterprise and "the utility" in another.
But no matter how you slice it (pardon the pun), "shrink and separate" -- to use Treasury Secretary Geithner's term -- is now clearly upon us.
Pretty simple stuff isn't it?
The media would like us all to blame derivatives, or "too big to fail," or oversized employee compensation and other emotional and/or confusing "flashpoints." But to me, those are all symptoms, not causes. As Messers Fuchs and Bosch suggest, the root was (and would argue, still is) a fundamental failure of basic risk management.
I've long believed that judgment isn't scalable. And when you couple this with the kind of innovation we've experienced in the financial-services space over the past 20 years (not to mention Wall Street's inherent profit motive), it's not hard to see how this crisis came about, particularly given the laissez-faire attitude of both regulators and politicians during this time period.
Many financial institutions took on risks they simply didn't understand, and unfortunately, their regulators didn't understand them either. This crisis was a collective failure.
But as I look at all of the proposals coming out of Washington these days, they're focused on how best to mitigate the consequences of failure. Nothing that I see is aimed at preventing failure from happening in the first place.
This is essentially the same policy response as the 1930s, when we "solved" that banking crisis by separating banks from brokers, launching deposit insurance through the FDIC, and raising the capital and liquidity requirements of all banks.
As I see it, from a regulatory perspective, we've reopened a tool box that's been closed for 75 years and taken out the same hammers and saws.
And now we're going to hammer the banks and cut them apart. And rather than tell the banks what risks they can or cannot take, we're going to hope that we've put in place enough levees that when the dam breaks again, the next flood won't be as big.
Don't get me wrong -- this approach will probably be sufficient to prevent another US banking crisis in the remainder of my life. But let's not fool ourselves: There will be more financial crises, particularly when we "solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."


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1.6 miles to Downtown Black Mountain and a short 29 minute drive to Asheville.
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Located on la Rue Mouffetard, the oldest street in Paris, Cave La Bourgogne is dark (particularly at night, as it is open late) and has an intimate atmosphere.
Cave La Bourgogne serves excellent, traditional French fare and prices are reasonable. It is a well-rounded and very typical, local dining experience.
Near the Les Gobelins metro stop, Café Marijan is ideal if you are looking for a place to relax and enjoy a bite and cup of coffee.
Whether seated outside along the street or indoors, the atmosphere has the authentic feel of a Parisian café.
Try: For a truly Parisian experience, it has to be un cafe crème.
Near the Hôtel de Cluny and the Cluny La Sorbonne metro stop is a classy venue: MONK - La Taverne de Cluny.
A relaxed environment, the tavern offers atmosphere and classic French fare. Frequented by university students and other locals.
Try: If you're considering trying escargots on your trip, this is the place to do it.
Also near Les Gobelins metro stop, the Boulangerie Rainette serves fresh pastries, bread, and desserts daily. Perfect for those with a sweet tooth.
Try: The chocolate eclair or a flaky mille-feuille (which is French for "thousand layers") are highly recommended. And it'd be a mistake to leave without a baguette for later!


Vintage Colonial: South Africa in the 50's explores the role of media in exposing the unseen and the retelling of history.
In this series, I've played up the distortions that occur when translating images from one generation of media to another in order to render the societal distortions of Apartheid era mid-century South Africa. Seemingly normal middle class family life of community and privilege is haunted by the shadows of its future and the impending turmoil of social and political change.
The South Africa in these images does not exist anymore, only in memories.
The process of creating these images involves the manipulation of media in a linear progression, starting with analog Super 8 home movies transferred to DVD and displayed on a large format LCD screen. The screen is photographed using a digital camera and printed onto paper as a semi-permanent representation of a moment in time. This result of this multi-generational process is a rendering of the unseen.


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No charges expected against Shawn Grate in Marion County, as Richland County mounts case
"I think it'd be a waste of the Marion County taxpayers' money to prosecute a guy who's got the death penalty," said Marion County Sheriff Tim Bailey.
No charges expected against Shawn Grate in Marion County, as Richland County mounts case "I think it'd be a waste of the Marion County taxpayers' money to prosecute a guy who's got the death penalty," said Marion County Sheriff Tim Bailey. Check out this story on marionstar.com: https://ohne.ws/2s7ySmP
Sarah Volpenhein, The Marion Star Published 3:11 p.m. ET May 23, 2018
Shawn Grate looks down as Judge Ronald P. Forsthoefel reads the 37 page jury instructions to the jury Monday in Ashland County Common Pleas Court. Tom E. Puskar, Times-Gazette.com(Photo: Tom E. Puskar, Times-Gazette.com/Pool)
MARION — Marion County officials do not have plans to pursue their own charges against suspected serial killer Shawn Grate.
On Monday, Richland County Prosecutor Gary Bishop said he planned to pursue his own case against Grate. Earlier this month, in neighboring Ashland County, a jury found Grate guilty of all counts, including four counts of aggravated murder, in the killings of Elizabeth Griffith and Stacey Stanley. Jurors recommended he receive the death penalty.
In Richland County, Grate is a suspect in the deaths of two other women: Candice Cunningham and Rebekah Leicy, of Mansfield.
As for Marion County, officials do not presently have plans to pursue charges against Grate for the homicide of the woman believed to be his first victim, whose remains were found in Marion County and whose identity remains a mystery.
"I'm in no hurry to prosecute him. In fact, I think it'd be a waste of the Marion County taxpayers' money to prosecute a guy who's got the death penalty," said Marion County Sheriff Tim Bailey. "I'd like to identify her (the Marion County victim) to get her back to her family. That's my priority at the moment."
Marion County Prosecutor Ray Grogan deferred to the sheriff's office, saying that investigators had not formally presented the case to prosecutors for charges.
"I know that the matter is still being investigated and so once that is completed, I'm sure that they will present it to us, and then we'll make decisions from that point," he said.
Bailey told the Star that ultimately, it was the prosecutor's call to make.
"If he wants to pursue a prosecution, I'm fully behind his efforts," the sheriff said.
Still, Bailey said he would recommend against prosecution at the moment.
On top of the cost to taxpayers, he worries that a prosecution in Marion County could interfere with efforts to identify the woman believed to have been killed in Marion County by Grate.
Detectives with the Marion County Sheriff's Office have met multiple times with Grate and interviewed him about the victim, whose skeletal remains were found off Victory Road in 2007, partly with the hope of uncovering clues to her identity.
Grate reportedly confessed in 2016 to killing the woman, dumping her body at a site about 100 feet off the road and later returning to burn the evidence.
Sheriff's deputies have been planning to show Grate several pictures of missing persons from the southern United States after the trial in Ashland County ended, to see if he recognizes any of them as the Marion County victim.
Recent isotope testing performed on bones of the Marion County victim found that she was likely from the southern U.S., according to Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation forensic artist Samantha Molnar.
More: New tests could help identify alleged Shawn Grate victim in Marion County
More: Jury: Shawn Grate deserves to die
In other news: Marion Correctional Institution faulted for letting inmates pirate movies, software
"Right now, he's being cooperative with us. If I turn around and serve him a grand jury indictment, I cannot imagine he'd be cooperative after that," Bailey said.
"My recommendation is we try to find out who this woman is and then look at the case facts and see if we have the evidence to prosecute him," he said. "What's another two or three weeks or another few months?"
The woman is believed to have been the first person Grate killed, likely around 2005. She is thought to have been between the ages of 15 and 30.
Grate reportedly told investigators that she was selling magazines in Marion County and that he lured her into his vehicle by offering to buy a subscription after seeing her on South Prospect Street, the Star has reported.
In Ashland County, Grate was ultimately found guilty of eight counts. He also pleaded guilty to 15 other counts midway through the month-long trial, with most of those counts involving a woman who was abducted and raped by Grate and who ultimately escaped with the help of police in 2016.
It was after Grate's arrest on Sept. 13, 2016 that he disclosed information about his other alleged victims in Marion and Richland counties.
An Ashland County judge will take jurors' recommendation of the death penalty into consideration and decide Grate's sentence on June 1.
Mansfield News Journal Reporter Mark Caudill contributed to this article.
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Barberey-Saint-Sulpice is een gemeente in het Franse departement Aube (regio Grand Est). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Troyes. Barberey-Saint-Sulpice telde op   inwoners.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Barberey-Saint-Sulpice bedraagt 9,36 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 163 inwoners per km² (per 1 januari 2019).

De onderstaande kaart toont de ligging van Barberey-Saint-Sulpice met de belangrijkste infrastructuur en aangrenzende gemeenten.

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

Externe links

Gemeente in Aube


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ANKOR – Interview with the band
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Q: is it possible to turn off vdso on glibc side? I am aware that passing vdso=0 to kernel can turn this feature off, and that the dynamic linker in glibc can automatic detect and use vdso feature from kernel.
Here I met with this problem. There is a RHEL 5.6 box (kernel 2.6.18-238.el5) in my institution where I only have a normal user access, probably suffering from RHEL bug 673616.
As I compile a toolchain of linux-headers-3.9/gcc-4.7.2/glibc-2.17/binutils-2.23 on top of it, gcc bootstrap fails in cc1 in stage2 cannnot be run
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00002aaaaaaca6eb in ?? ()
(gdb) info sharedlibrary
From                To                  Syms Read   Shared Object Library
0x00002aaaaaaabba0  0x00002aaaaaac3249  Yes (*)     /home/benda/gnto/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
0x00002aaaaacd29b0  0x00002aaaaace2480  Yes (*)     /home/benda/gnto/usr/lib/libmpc.so.3
0x00002aaaaaef2cd0  0x00002aaaaaf36c08  Yes (*)     /home/benda/gnto/usr/lib/libmpfr.so.4
0x00002aaaab14f280  0x00002aaaab19b658  Yes (*)     /home/benda/gnto/usr/lib/libgmp.so.10
0x00002aaaab3b3060  0x00002aaaab3b3b50  Yes (*)     /home/benda/gnto/lib/libdl.so.2
0x00002aaaab5b87b0  0x00002aaaab5c4bb0  Yes (*)     /home/benda/gnto/usr/lib/libz.so.1
0x00002aaaab7d0e70  0x00002aaaab80f62c  Yes (*)     /home/benda/gnto/lib/libm.so.6
0x00002aaaaba70d40  0x00002aaaabb81aec  Yes (*)     /home/benda/gnto/lib/libc.so.6
(*): Shared library is missing debugging information.

and a simple program
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main () {
    struct timeval tim;
    gettimeofday(&tim, NULL);
    return 0;
}

get segment fault in the same way if compiled against glibc-2.17 and xgcc from stage1.
Both cc1 and the test program can be run on another running RHEL 5.5 (kernel 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5) with gcc-4.7.2/glibc-2.17/binutils-2.23 as normal user.
I cannot simply upgrade the box to a newer RHEL version, nor could I turn VDSO off via sysctl or proc. The question is, is there a way to compile glibc so that it turns off VDSO unconditionally?

A: The problem is solved with a simple patch or here:
Index: work/glibc-2.17/elf/dl-support.c
=====================================================================
--- work.orig/glibc-2.17/elf/dl-support.c
+++ work/glibc-2.17/elf/dl-support.c
@@ -212,16 +212,6 @@ _dl_aux_init (ElfW(auxv_t) *av)
       case AT_HWCAP:
    GLRO(dl_hwcap) = (unsigned long int) av->a_un.a_val;
    break;
-#ifdef NEED_DL_SYSINFO
-      case AT_SYSINFO:
-   GL(dl_sysinfo) = av->a_un.a_val;
-   break;
-#endif
-#if defined NEED_DL_SYSINFO || defined NEED_DL_SYSINFO_DSO
-      case AT_SYSINFO_EHDR:
-   GL(dl_sysinfo_dso) = (void *) av->a_un.a_val;
-   break;
-#endif
       case AT_UID:
    uid ^= av->a_un.a_val;
    seen |= 1;
Index: work/glibc-2.17/elf/setup-vdso.h
=====================================================================
--- work.orig/glibc-2.17/elf/setup-vdso.h
+++ work/glibc-2.17/elf/setup-vdso.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ static inline void __attribute__ ((alway
 setup_vdso (struct link_map *main_map __attribute__ ((unused)),
        struct link_map ***first_preload __attribute__ ((unused)))
 {
-#if defined NEED_DL_SYSINFO || defined NEED_DL_SYSINFO_DSO
+#if 0
   if (GLRO(dl_sysinfo_dso) == NULL)
     return;


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Education is precious - Malala
The Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban, believes that British girls take their education for granted.
PUBLISHED: 10:52, Sun, Oct 6, 2013
Malala Yousafzai has been invited to attend a reception at Buckingham Palace [PA]
Malala Yousafzai, now 16, angered the Taliban with her public, outspoken and courageous pleas for girls to be educated. She was shot by a gunman who boarded her school bus in the valley of Swat in northwest Pakistan a year ago.
The bullet went into her left eye socket but missed her brain.
She told BBC Panorama's Malala: Shot For Going To School programme: "Yes, I believe that, and I want to tell the students of UK to think that it is very precious, it's very prestigious, go to school.
"Reading a book, having a pen in our hands, studying, sitting in a classroom is something very special for us because once we were deprived from it and because what we have seen in Swat."
Life was tough for the bright and determined youngster as she was born into a society that did not value girls.
"When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, don't worry, next time you will have a son," she told Panorama.
"For my brothers it was easy to think about the future, they can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason, I wanted to become educated and I wanted to empower myself with knowledge..."
In January 2008 the Taliban, who controlled the region, declared that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. Acid attacks, abuse and even killing were used as punishment and Malala admits "I was afraid of my future".
With her father Ziauddin's backing, Malala kept an online diary and did interviews with journalists to encourage girls to seek education - but it also made her a target.
She does not remember being shot on October 9 2012 - but her horrified friends recall that the Taliban asked for Malala by name before shooting straight at her head. Everything, from schoolbooks to clothes, were soaked in blood and Malala was near death.
She travelled to Britain for treatment but her injuries were so bad that her father Ziauddin asked relatives to start arranging her funeral.
Despite being an anti-Taliban activist, he never believed they would target a child. " They flogged adult girls but they never killed children. We really didn't expect because we thought that they might have some values, terrorists might have some code of conduct," he told Panorama.
Malala slowly pulled through after being transferred to an army cardiology hospital with better intensive care.
Malala now lives in Birmingham with her family and started at Edgbaston High School for Girls in March 2013. She is determined to keep in touch with her Pashtun culture, believing that it teaches patience, peace and religious tolerance.
Her courage has made her a much-admired global icon, including making a speech to the UN on her 16th birthday.
She has been invited to a reception for Youth, Education and the Commonwealth, being hosted by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, at Buckingham Palace on October 18. It is thought the Queen was impressed by her bravery.
It has also made her a hot tip for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Malala told Panorama: "If I win Nobel Peace Prize, it would be a great opportunity for me, but if I don't get it, it's not important because my goal is not to get Nobel Peace Prize, my goal is to get peace and my goal is to see education of every child."
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Malala described her experience of settling in to her new life in Birmingham.
"I was feeling a little bit embarrassed and worried... the school was quite different compared to school in Pakistan," she said.
She said she was particularly surprised at the level of freedom afforded to women.
"It was difficult to adjust to this new culture and this new society, especially for my mother, because we have never seen that women would be that much free, that they would go to any market, they will be going alone with no men and with no brothers and fathers, because, in our country, if you want to go outside, you must go with a man - if even your five-year-old brother goes with you it's fine, but you must have someone else, a girl cannot go outside all alone."
Malala said she still very much saw herself as a Pashtun girl, despite her new life.
Ashed if she was becoming Western, she replied: "No, I'm not becoming Western. I'm still following my own culture - Pashtun culture."
She pointed out that her dress sense has not changed and that she still wore a head shawl.
Although she has been warned against returning to Pakistan for her own personal safety, Malala said she could not allow the thought or fear of a future terrorist threat to frighten her away from her mission to help Pakistan.
On the letter sent to her by a senior Taliban commander wishing her well but explaining why she was targeted, she said she "felt nothing".
However, she expressed relief at the Taliban finally admitting responsibility for shooting her, ending speculation among her doubters that she had been targeted.
She said: "It's nice to hear from them because they accepted 'Yes, we have shot Malala'."
On the apparent ideological divide between the West and East, Malala said: "I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups: West and East.
"I don't know what's the difference between West and East. The only thing they (the terrorists) see in the West is women wearing short dresses and skirts; that does not mean they have different ideology."
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Lenawee County's first same-sex adoption gives girl, 5, two moms
David Panian Daily Telegram News Editor @lenaweepanian
ADRIAN — A stepparent adopting their spouse's child isn't too unusual.
Monday's adoption in Lenawee County Probate Court of an energetic, 5-year-old girl was a little different in that, when the proceeding was over, she officially had two moms.
In what is thought to be the first same-sex adoption of a minor in Lenawee County, Kristina Bradley adopted her wife's daughter, Alexia, who wore a custom-made T-shirt that read, "Move out of the way, we have adoption papers to sign. It's Adoption Day."
The proceeding was witnessed by friends and family before visiting Judge Patricia N. Conlon, a retired probate judge from Kalamazoo County. Conlon has been filling in in Lenawee County while Probate Judge Gregg P. Iddings is serving a six-month suspension.
Conlon said she has long been a supporter of same-sex adoptions, though Michigan law for years prevented courts from approving them.
The U.S. Supreme Court's marriage-equality ruling in 2015 came in part from a Michigan case where a lesbian couple wanted to jointly adopt their children. Michigan law did not allow same-sex couples to adopt. The Supreme Court's ruling made Monday's proceeding possible.
The Bradleys have been together for five years and married for two.
"We had to wait for same-sex marriage to become a thing, then by law we had to wait a year (after being married)," Kristina Bradley said before the hearing.
Alexia's father has never been involved with raising her and had his parental rights terminated, Ashley Bradley said.
They said having Kristina adopt Alexia offers protection to her.
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Now Kristina will be able to legally make decisions about Alexia's care if something were to happen to Kristina.
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questions about their relationship and why the adoption should be approved.
"Alexia loves her a lot, and she deserves it," Ashley said.
"To me, I gave birth to her, kind of," Kristina said.
Conlon then made the adoption official.
"These are fun because I don't know anyone who puts a frame around their birth certificate," Conlon said after she signed Alexia's adoption certificate. "But people do put frames around their adoption certificate."


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