Halls of Valor is a dungeon whose entrance is located in Stormheim on the continent of The Broken Isles in the World of Warcraft game. The minimum level for this dungeon is 100. The main anagonist race in this dungeon are Vrykul. The dungeon contains 5 bosses. The end boss of Halls of Valor is Odyn.
Halls of Valor is a dungeon that is Odyn's home. You must complete the front and then the side bosses before taking on God-King Skovald and Odyn himself. You don't kill Heimdall or Hyrja, you just damage them a lot and neither do you get to kill Odyn, you only demonstrate to him what you can do. The Wolf section of this raid is similar to the Hunter's mount scenario.
Hymdall is a relatively easy boss, it is best that he is tanked in the same spot, no need to move him. Those that are not close by, need to be aware of the swords that spin round which need to be avoided. The swords cannot be destroyed, you just need to avoid them.
Hyrja will jump down from her platform and change into combat role. They'll be two lines of energy, one to left mini-boss and one to the right mini-boss. The tank needs to move Hyrja left and run when needed.
The left mini-boss will create a shield which all the players need to hide under for protection. The right mini-boss will fire energy balls from the centre which need to be avoided if possible.
This is a three stage battle, the first stage is that you weaken Fenryr then you chase it then you kill it. Fenryr will run off when it is bleeding and take to her den. Before you engage her a second time, you should clear all the wolf packs that are surrounding her and protecting her otherwise it will be a bloodbath. Clear the trash, engage and leave.
If you have played the entire Stormheim quest line then you will have encountered this boss along the ways. Now is the time to combat him. When Odyn is about to challenge you, Skovald will interrupt and request that he be given the opportunity to fight and so he has his turn.
The main thing to watch is when the shield comes up and you have to be inside the area otherwise you will receive a lot of damage and possibly die. Apart from that, there's nothing else to worry about.


We believe that the years after High School are a pivotal time in the life of a young person. At West Colonial Hills, it is our commitment to invest in the spiritual walk of our college students and young professionals. We do this by offering solid Biblical teaching/discipleship for this specific age group and by equipping them to serve in the ministries of our church.
We would love for you to join us for Life Group @ 9:00 AM on Sunday mornings. We meet upstairs in the adult class hallway.
On Sunday & Wednesday evenings we encourage you to join with the Student Ministry for their Sunday Small Group Bible Study time (5:00PM) and the Wednesday Night Worship & Bible Study (6:30PM). This is an excellent opportunity for College Students & Young Professionals to invest in the generation coming behind them!
We have a strong tradition at WCHBC of taking various short term Mission trips each year during Summer Break. Ask Pastor Neal about joining us this July in Washington D.C. as we minister alongside the people of Bon Air Baptist Church.


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California's Changing Approach to Like-Kind Exchanges
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 1031 allows nonrecognition of gain or loss where property held for investment or for productive use in a trade or business is exchanged for like-kind property held for the same purpose. An issue arising under Section 1031 involves multiple owners of a real estate business entity holding one or more investment properties, where some owners want to maintain their investment while others want to cash out their investment. One common technique when the owners want to go their separate ways with investments is for the entity to redeem the interest of the member in exchange for an undivided interest in the property (a so-called "drop-and-swap"). Thereafter, the entity and the former owner join in the sale of the property to a buyer. Following the sale, the former owner can direct its share of the sale proceeds to a qualified intermediary to be reinvested in like-kind property without recognizing gain.
While California law conforms to Section 1031, the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) has historically taken a much more restrictive approach than the IRS. Particularly in the area of drop-and-swaps, the FTB has disqualified attempted 1031 exchanges by asserting the step transaction doctrine and examining a series of integrated transactions as a whole. But in 2015, the California State Board of Equalization (BOE) departed from the FTB's narrow interpretation of the rules, unanimously overruling the FTB's disallowance of like-kind exchange treatment under Section 1031. The BOE does not often issue formal guidance that may be cited as precedent. However, the 2015 decision—In re Rago Development Corp., 2015-DBR-001— was issued as a formal opinion. The decision involved a "swap-and-drop," which is an exchange followed by a capital contribution of the replacement property to an entity in return for an ownership interest in the entity. In that opinion, the BOE rejected the FTB's assertion that the step transaction doctrine should treat it as though the taxpayer had exchanged real property interests for interests in an LLC.
More recently, in August 2018, the new California Office of Tax Appeals (OTA) (which replaced the BOE as an administrative board) issued an opinion rejecting the FTB's disqualification of Section 1031 like-kind treatment based on the step transaction doctrine. In Appeal of Mitchell, the taxpayer held an interest in a general partnership owning a single property as its sole asset. The majority of the other partners sought to cash out their interest, but the taxpayer wanted to maintain her investment in real estate through a 1031 exchange. A sale of the property was arranged and the partnership redeemed the taxpayer's partnership interest for a TIC interest in the property. Thereafter, through a qualified intermediary, the taxpayer's proceeds from the sale were reinvested in qualified property outside of California.
The FTB issued a Notice of Proposed Assessment to the taxpayer in Mitchell, asserting that the transaction did not qualify as a 1031 exchange and that she must recognize gain from the sale of the property. Asserting the step transaction doctrine, the FTB argued that the taxpayer failed to meet the "exchange" requirement of Section 1031 because the partnership, rather than the taxpayer, made the sale of the property and the taxpayer was only a conduit for the sale.. On this point, the FTB stressed the fact that the partnership, and not the taxpayer, negotiated the sale of the property with the buyer. Additionally, the FTB asserted that the taxpayer did not satisfy the holding requirement for a Section 1031 property because she only held her TIC interest in the property for two days—the days between the redemption of her partnership interest and the sale of her TIC interest in the property to the buyer. The OTA disagreed.
As to FTB's argument that the step transaction doctrine applied, the OTA referred to the Tax Court and Ninth Circuit decisions in Magneson v. Commissioner, 753 F.2d 1490 (9th Cir. 1985) and Bolker v. Commissioner, 760 F.2d 1039 (9th Cir. 1985) to ignore the series of integrated transactions accomplishing the exchange. In Magneson, the court acknowledged that combining the steps of a transaction may not be appropriate if the transaction could not have been achieved directly. In Mitchell, the fact that some of the partners sought to cash out their investment while others sought to continue their investment presented such a situation. The OTA also rejected the FTB's support for the argument that the transaction failed because the taxpayer did not negotiate directly for the sale, since the taxpayer worked directly with the managing partner and the partnership's attorney in structuring the multiple steps leading up to the sale. Further, in response to the FTB's argument that the taxpayer did not "hold" the property for investment, the OTA explained that Section 1031 does not require ownership of the relinquished property for any period of time. Moreover, citing Bolker, the OTA noted that courts have allowed simultaneous or immediate transfers of replacement property following an exchange.
A potential distinction between the facts of Mitchell and Magneson is the nature of the interests held by the taxpayers. While both cases involved general partnership interests, Magneson involved a limited partnership and Mitchell involved a general partnership. While the court in Magneson did focus a significant portion of its opinion on the nature of a general partnership interest, it did not make any distinction based on which type of partnership the general partner held its interest in. Rather, the opinion explained the similarities between holding property via a general partnership interest and through a TIC interest. This portion of the decision, however, was mostly aimed at distinguishing partnership interests from corporate shares. Ultimately, the court in Magneson focused much more on the underlying property, providing that the "critical basis for [the] decision is that the partnership, in this case, had as its underlying assets property of like kind to the Magnesons' original property, and its purpose was to hold that property for investment."
In both Magneson and Bolker, the court reasoned that the individual transactions in either series would not have triggered a tax, and therefore the combination of transactions should not have triggered a tax. Following this reasoning, the OTA found that the transaction involved "the use of a series of reasonable, necessary, and integrated transactions to delay, not avoid, the recognition of gain, which section 1031 allows." These decisions by the BOE and the OTA are an indication that California may be finally aligning itself with the federal standards for qualifying 1031 exchanges (although the FTB has not yet decided whether it will request a rehearing).
For more information, contact Tax Partner Jeffry Bernstein at jbernstein@coblentzlaw.com. Research analysis provided by Jessica N. Wilson.

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Soboba, sheriff negotiate peace after shooting deaths.
By Gale Courey Toensing -- Today staff
SAN JACINTO, Calif. - The chairman of the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians is working with local law enforcement officials and federal agents on a plan to improve cooperation and reduce conflicts following the deaths of three tribal members in shootouts with sheriff's deputies on the reservation in early May.
Robert Salgado said he could not yet discuss the details of the negotiations that began at a May 16 meeting with representatives from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, the BIA and the federal Justice Department, which is acting as a mediator in the negotiations.
''Now we've got a little gag order going; then when we get done with all our package of changes, we'll have a press conference,'' Salgado told Indian Country Today.
The May 16 meeting occurred just four days after a deadly gun battle in which deputies shot and killed 36-year-old Joseph Arres and 30-year-old Angelica Lopez, also known as Tamara Angela Hurtado, both enrolled members of the Soboba Band.
According to the sheriff's department, deputies were dispatched to the reservation in response to a 911 call ''in reference to an assault by a deadly weapon.''
The Los Angeles Times reported that Arres had a warrant out for his arrest at the time of his death and, according to court records, he twice pleaded guilty in 2006 to being a felon or narcotics addict in possession of a firearm. Arres' mobile home in San Jacinto burned down shortly after he died.
Salgado said the tribe has hired a private investigator to probe the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
Those deaths followed the killing May 8 of Eli Morillo, 26, during a long gunfight with deputies and SWAT members in armored vehicles on the reservation. In 2002, his brother, Peter, was shot and killed by police off the reservation.
The May 12 incident provoked anger and frustration on the reservation after the sheriff's office sent in helicopters and a SWAT team of more than 100 deputies who locked down the reservation, refusing to allow residents to return to their homes and confronting others at gunpoint.
Salgado said the sheriff's department trampled on the tribe's civil rights by violating the limits of their jurisdiction under Public Law 280 - a 1950s termination-era law that gives certain states criminal jurisdiction on Indian land. He threatened to bring legal action against the sheriff's department.
Salgado carried a ceremonial eagle feather to the May 16 meeting, prayed for the families of the dead, and offered an apology for saying the sheriff's deputies behaved like Gen. George Custer and the ''7th Cavalry'' and turned the reservation into a ''war zone.''
''The escalation of violence has produced bad blood between myself and the sheriff's department. As the leader, you have to hold your cool; but when you get your back up against the wall, you express your feelings. If I offended anyone, I'm sorry,'' Salgado said at the start of the meeting, which was held on the reservation at the Country Club at Soboba Springs, according to the Los Angeles Times.
''I did apologize, yes,'' Salgado told ICT. ''Well, you know, the old Indian way is you've got to ask for forgiveness, but they didn't say anything, so I dusted my hands off. It's on them now.''
At the end of the meeting, the grim-faced participants filed out of the room, stood stiffly at a podium, read a prepared statement and refused to take questions.
Dale Morris, the BIA's regional director, said the meeting was ''an important and productive first step toward reviewing and defining policies and procedures to effect change that will benefit all those concerned,'' according to the report.
Salgado said the core issues to be resolved concern communication, cultural sensitivity and respect for tribal sovereignty.
''It's really about communications and the government-to-government relationship - mostly between the tribal government and the sheriff's department.
''We're looking for just the understanding that they recognize we are leaders, that they be sensitive to our tradition and beliefs, and recognize the tribe's sovereignty. And that they should not overstep the bounds of Public Law 280 and just acknowledge that we are running our community on a good merit and they shouldn't look at us all as criminals.''
The tribe will continue to meet with the sheriff's office and other parties around every two weeks to detail a plan of action. But a legal action against the sheriff's department is still an option. ''We're still in the process of looking at that issue.''
The reservation has remained calm since the tragic shootings.
The Soboba Band's security force does not carry weapons. The sheriff's office responds to 911 calls from the reservation. California was one of six states upon which P.L. 280 was imposed when that law was passed in 1953. The only way out of the mandate would be if the state were to retrocede from the law, giving back criminal jurisdiction over tribal land to the federal government.
But that's not likely to happen any time soon.
''It's kind of hard because you've got so many small tribes who don't have the finances to do their own police work, so they have to rely on the state,'' Salgado said. ''We have 108 tribes in the state of California and I'd say 75 to 80 percent of them are on the poverty level.''


This is the Hasegawa Spitfire - I took this on after realizing I have never built a spitfire. Time to rectify this oversight with a Spitfire in the colors of the Polish squadron.
This kit actually came out I believe over 20 years ago, but it still holds up very well against today's newest kits. The cockpit is well-detailed, but did use the Eduard colored zoom kit to replace the panel and add misc details in the cockpit.
The cockpit was painted cockpit green, followed by a dark oil wash. It bit harsh if you looked at it straight-on, but will make the details discernable once it's closed up.
The rest of their build is straight out of the box and was fairly straight-forward. No big gaps, no fit issues, everything goes where it suppose to. This Mk. IX kit is well done, however note that the side door is not posable, so if you wanted to show off the cockpit more, you need some minor surgery. The landing gear fits into an underside plug that establishes the correct angle with no fuss. The kit does have unused parts for other editions of the spitfire. You do get a choice of rounded or clipped wings in this box.


This beautiful two bedroom, two bath home features updated kitchen and bathrooms, quartz countertops, cathedral wood beam ceilings, fireplace, atrium and large windows throughout that offer plenty of light. Home was recently repiped with PEX. Located in the Colony Cove community (55+) with access to clubhouse, pools, and walking trails. Colony Cove is just across the street from the beach and minutes from downtown San Clemente's shops and restaurants. HOA covers landscaping, water, trash, sewer and basic cable.


This is it! Duck fans worldwide, wiggle your webbed feet for joy - the complete, chronological Keno Don Rosa collection is here! Uncle Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie headline a cast of classic Carl Barks bit-players, reinvigorated in fighting trim for Don's first 1987-1988 triumphs: "Son of the Sun," "Nobody's Business," "Mythological Menagerie," "Last Sled to Dawson," "Metaphorically Spanking" and more. Restored, recolored, and furnished with numerous editorial features, here's the first in a cracking, wakking Gemstone multi-volume series!
"I can't give many details about these projects yet, other than to confirm that for right now they're in the works. Plans have been known to change, though. Lars is correct: Amazon's listings often reflect projects (from all publishers) that may not ultimately come out as originally expected.
But at least you can see what we presently *want* to do.
The cover pictures at this point, by the way, are just quick "Americanizations" of similar volumes already published by Egmont. Our final editions may look very different (and may not be identical to Egmont's equivalents inside, either)."
"[...] things are pretty durn tentative. Our distribution arm asks us to submit our information for Amazon—and other online retailers—nearly a year in advance. So these early plans are often subject to change."
"As for our publishing schedule, and the use of Egmont's material, color, etc., all decisions are still up in the air. Sorry not to have more information yet."
"It's a reprint of the first Don Rosa Hall of Fame book from Denmark.
Unless something goes wrong, we plan to publish it."
May that Rosa own a book! What is that good for. She has written all the bad stories and has not listened to Barks.


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Q: What to do with third contact in DC barrel plug with only two input contacts My AC-DC adapter gives output of 12V and GND. I tried to search for suitable DC barrel plugs

and found that most of them have three terminals

So, pin 1 is positive in my case.
1. Which pin should I connect to GND, 2 or 3, in my PCB?
2. What should be done with the remaining pin?
3. Why are there 3 pins for 2 contacts? What is the advantage of this design?

A: The jargon for this type of connector is "switched jack". Not only is it common for barrel jacks to have switches, but also for some other types of jacks, like phone jacks of all types.
When you insert the plug, the connection between pins 3 and 2 breaks. This is useful for cutting a battery out of the circuit when a DC adapter is plugged in. Imagine you have a battery which is grounded via the 3-2 connection. When you plug in, 3-2 breaks and so the battery's ground connection is lifted.  Now the battery is protected from two unwanted actions: discharging, and being charged.  (It's still a good idea to put diodes in the circuit in case the switch fails for whatever reason.)
Or, this can be used for building a circuit which detects the insertion of the DC plug. For instance, when the 3-2 connection breaks, some microcontroller I/O pin could be pulled up to VCC, and then the firmware knows that the device is on an adapter.
If you don't take advantage of this, you can leave pin 3 unconnected in your PCB, or you can ground it so that it is permanently connected to 2.
In any case, the extra pin provides extra mechanical strength too. In other words, solder pin 3 to a pad, even if that pad has no traces to it.
In general there exist many types of switched jacks with various switch configurations. For instance, there exist stereo jacks which have a pair of switches that close when the plug is removed. This can be used on the input side of an audio (or other) device to ground high impedance amplifier inputs when nothing is inserted, so as not to leave them floating, inviting noise. On the output side, it can be used to disconnect main speakers when headphones are plugged in.
Jack switches are not always "break" switches (normally closed, open upon insertion); there are jacks with "make" switches also (normally open, closed on insert).
In some applications that use phone jacks, a "make" switch switch is simulated by using a stereo jack with a mono plug, or a stereo plug into a four-connection jack. If you insert a 1/4" or 1/8" mono (tip-ring) phone plug into a stereo (tip-ring-sleeve) jack, the plug's sleeve, it bridges the sleeve-ring contact, acting as the closure of a switch. This can be used to turn a battery-powered amplifier on when the plug is inserted: a common trick in electric guitars with on-board amplification such as active pickups.  Cell phones also use the same trick to distinguish whether a headset or headphones are plugged in. Headsets have a TRRS plug for supporting the microphone, whereas headphones have a TRS plug. When you plug in headphones, they ground the jack's outer ring (second R) contact to the sleeve contact, which the phone detects, and thus keeps using the built-in microphone for audio input, sending only audio output to the phones.

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Communication is a basic human right. However, there are many people that have complex communication needs and who cannot communicate with speech alone. Kipinä Center's mission is to help these people to participate fully and we are here to help you do the same!
Kipinä Center offers training and workshops on how to support people with complex communication needs with the help of AAC (augmentative and alternative communication). Our workshops will inspire and broaden your knowledge through practical information and theory. The most powerful workshops are the ones where you get both information and material, so that you can utilize your newly acquired knowledge immediately. We always tailor our workshops to fit the needs of our clients! Workshops can be held in Finnish, English and Swedish.
Children explore the world and learn new things through play. Therefore, using play is one of the most valuable tools we have in early education. How do we then utilize the power of play in order to support language development? That is one of the most important question that professionals will get the answer to in this workshop. Professionals will get in depth knowledge on children's language development and play, making it easier for them to support children's language skills.
Many countries have gotten more and more multicultural in the 21st century and it is not uncommon that there are many children who are learning a second language when they start attending daycare. E.g. in Finland the amount of multicultural children has doubled during the last 10 years, which means that the role of early education is even more important. Children need to get a good language foundation in daycare to enable future learning later on in school. How can daycare personnel best support children who are learning their second language in daycare? In this workshop professionals will get information on how to support second language learners and what to do with a child who has difficulty learning their second language. Professionals will get information on what the can do as an early education specialist to enable participation, support language development and help the children learn in a fun and inspiring way.
In almost every daycare group there are children who need extra support in their communication and language development. Supporting these children can be a difficult task for the daycare personnel due to lack of time and limited resources. Finding time to make new material for language learning sessions can be difficult and coming up with new ideas even more difficult. If a professional is experiencing any of these challenges, this workshop is the right fit for them! Through this workshop professionals will get both ready-made material and a lot of fresh ideas for them to take into use in early education sessions.
Get a material that is ready to be used with almost no preparation and provides you with ideas and activities to last a whole year!


Help me choose the next soap!
Return to Eden. I've not seen it since it was first broadcast in the 1980s but I really enjoyed it at the time. I think it's on YouTube now.
This is sad news and it's a pity that it wasn't given more media coverage when she died as Peyton place was such a much massive show in the 1960s.
I don't think this series was screened in the UK, or at least it was never on terrestrial TV as far as I know, so I never watched it.
I started watching Peyton Place today, not sure how long I'll stick with it but if I do, I'll share some of my thoughts on the series.


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Larger Vessels Delayed Longer at US West Coast Duo
Vessel arrival delays at the two largest US West Coast ports, Los Angeles and Long Beach, reached a six-month high from mid-September to mid-October, according to an analysis conducted by CargoSmart's Global Vessel Voyage Monitoring Center (GVVMC).
The figures recorded delays increase approximately 40% comparing mid-June to mid-July with mid-July to mid-August.
What is more, vessel berth time also reached a six-month high from mid-September to mid-October, clocking up 82.6 hours and 90.3
hours for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach respectively.
"In addition, larger vessels are experiencing longer vessel arrival delays and longer berth times than smaller vessels," GVVMC noted, adding that numerous factors were contributing to the increase in delays.
The analysis shows that over 60% of the vessel arrival delays exceeded 24 hours for vessels with a capacity of ≥8,000 TEUs at both ports.
At the Port of Long Beach, the percentage of arrival delays of more than 24 hours increased as vessel capacity increased.
At the Port of Los Angeles, the percentage of vessel arrival delays over 24 hours increased as vessel capacity increased up to vessels with under
a 10,000 TEU capacity.
As recorded by GVVMC, the performance of the 10,000 and above TEU capacity vessels at Los Angeles had a smaller proportion of vessel arrival delays over 24 hours than vessels with an 8,000 to 9,999 TEU capacity.
The average berth time for a 6,000 to 8,000 TEU vessel was three to four days. Mega vessels with a 10,000 TEU or above capacity had more than a 100 hour berth time on average, which required 14 to 19 more hours of berth time than the 8,000 – 9,999 TEU vessels.
Bunkering appears unaffected so far by the congestion, according to Platts.
"Congestion is only affecting container berthing, not the wet terminals to my knowledge," Platts quoted a trader source as saying.
The 10-day moving average of Los Angeles ex-wharf RMG 380 3.5%S was $476.85/mt Monday, down more than 13% over the past month, according to Platts data.
Chassis imbalance has been a big part of the congestion issue in addition to the failure to reach a new labour agreement between ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA).
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) estimates that the industry has a shortage of approximately 30,000 drivers nationwide.
According to Hapag Lloyd, the success of the import delivery appointment system at some terminals has been limited in part by a lack of sufficient container handling equipment to pre-mount those containers prior to the scheduled pick-up appointment.
In the most recent turn of events PMA has accused the ILWU of orchestrating slowdowns at the Pacific Northwest ports of Seattle and Tacoma.
The two ports handle an estimated 16% of containerized cargo on the West Coast.
World Maritime News Staff
Posted on November 5, 2014 with tags delayed, port, US, West Coast.
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We were delighted to have one of our projects featured in a slide show and article put together by Houzz called "Good Dog! Cute Pooches at Home". We've embedded the whole slide show at the end of this post, but here's a screen capture of our project (and its pooch) from the very lengthy article.
Prevent an Accidental Escape: Workers need to be able to come in and out of your home without fear that your dog will make a run for it through an open door. Keep your dog contained, ideally in a room far from the renovations. Your dog will appreciate having a calmer environment and your construction crew will be able to work freely.
Establish a Safe Place: Construction equipment, debris, tools, paint, glass, wire ... renovation is filled with items that could harm your dog if they are swallowed, stepped on, etc. It is important to set up a safe zone for your pet where he or she can stay out of harm's way and feel safe. Acclimate your dog to the safe place before construction begins and provide all of his or her familiar toys and bedding. If all parts of your home will be under construction, you may want to consider boarding your dog or using doggie daycare during the construction process.
Stick to a Routine: Home renovation is unsettling. Provide some stability for your dog by adhering to his or her regular routine for feeding, walking and sleeping, if at all possible. Be sure to spend lots of quality time with your pet to make him feel loved and protected!
With lots of TLC, your dog will probably do just fine during a renovation. For proof, just take a look at all these happy pets in the Houzz photo flip of dogs at home. Most of these spaces have been recently built or renovated!
In 2012, Paul wrote a guest post for Boston.com's Boston Real Estate Now blog. The post was on renovating homes for multi-generational living as a tough job market encouraged many adult children to move back home. You can read the post here: Catch the Multi-Generational Housing Wave.
Fast forward three years later, and multi-generational housing is still generating a lot of buzz.
"Thirteen percent of all buyers purchased a multi-generational home, one in which the home consists of adult children over the age of 18, and/or grandparents residing in the home. This is most prevalent among Younger Boomers aged 50 to 59 at 21 percent. The most common reason for this living arrangement among Younger Boomers was children over 18 moving back into the house (37percent), followed by health/caretaking of aging parents (21percent)."
The report went on to say that cost savings were behind 24 percent of the decisions to make a multi-generational home purchase. In a high-priced real estate market such as Boston, multi-generational living has particular appeal as a cost-savings measure.
Successful multi-generational living requires a fine balance between private and communal spaces. Separate entrances, morning bars or kitchenettes in bedroom suites, and sitting rooms provide much-needed privacy. A large, open kitchen/eating/living area is ideal when the family comes together.
Flexible spaces can be easily transformed to function for different purposes and ages. For example, an underused living room and sunroom may transition into a home office, then an in-law suite, then a space for an adult child who moves home, then an entertainment area.
Universal design works hand-in-hand with flexible spaces to create environments that are usable by all people. Hallways that are wide enough to accommodate a wheel chair and zero entry thresholds are classic examples of universal design features.
Of course, the big question once you have crafted (or bought) the perfect home, is how multi-generational living will work. We were delighted that Houzz recently devoted an article on the topic. We've shared the article as a slide show below. Just click any of the images to read the full article on Houzz.
If you are considering remodeling a Boston area home for multi-generational living, please give us a call at 617-666-4460 or contact us by using our online form. We'd love to share our insights to help you create a home that works well for various lifestyles!
Pocket doors are not just for small spaces! While they are often used to provide privacy when a traditional swinging door occupies too much floor or wall space, a pocket door is also an ideal solution if you want the ultimate in flexibility.A pocket door slides into the wall when not in use. Without the visual obstruction of a door, spaces flow together. When you want privacy or a more intimate space, simply pull the door closed.
In the Back Bay renovation above, we used pocket doors to provide the best of both worlds -- smooth traffic flow throughout living areas when the doors are open, with an option to close off kitchen clutter from primary entertaining areas when the doors are closed.
The ideal time to install pocket doors is during construction or renovation when the walls are open. It can be significantly more difficult (and expensive) to retroactively install a pocket door into a finished room.
For more examples of pocket doors and good advice about hardware, we are pleased to share this recent Ideabook from Houzz.com.
To view the Ideabook full size on Houzz, simply click on any image or caption.
In early 2014, we published a quick guide called "How to Plan a Successful Renovation". In it, we shared the story of a gentleman who contacted us two weeks before Christmas to inquire about renovating a bathroom as a Christmas gift for his wife. It would have been a wonderful gift -- if he (and his wife) started planning the renovation months earlier.
What are the secrets for successful home renovations? Take a look at our guide on the topic and this recent Houzz Ideabook by Toronto architect Jeffrey Veffer. He makes some great points! To read the full article on a single page on the Houzz website (as opposed to the excerpted slide show mode shown here), just click any photo.
Plesae give us a call at 617-666-4460 or email Paul if you have any questions or would like to discuss your project.
Boston is known for its highly educated population -- which means that even in this era of e-readers, homeowners tend to have a lot of books. It is not unusual for book storage and display to play a role in our home renovations for clients. In one recent project, we actually had to create a basement library before we could proceed with renovation plans for first and second floor spaces. The books were occupying as much room as the furniture!
Our most popular photo on Houzz.com is this simple bookcase tucked into a hallway.
We've designed and built some very creative solutions to the book storage dilemma, but we're always open to new ideas. We found some in an inspirational Ideabook on Houzz.com called "Bye, Bye Bookcase: Inventive Ways to Store Your Reads". Take a look!
Tired of a dark, cramped kitchen? Bring in light and open it up to the rest of the home by removing walls. If a wall is load-bearing and can't be replaced by using a header beam, you may be able to get the open feel that you desire by using columns or a half wall.
If removing a wall is not an option, installing an interior window on the wall between the kitchen and an adjoining room makes the kitchen feel larger and gives it better sightlines. Doubling the width of the entryway or using archways instead of solid doors both achieve a similar effect.
Finishing a basement or attic is a cost-effective way to gain additional living space without adding to your home's footprint. Basements with a fieldstone foundation, significant moisture issues, or low ceiling height are clearly not good candidates for finished rooms. Otherwise, basements are fairly easy to remodel from a structural standpoint. Most are sturdily built, offer easy access to utilities, and walls can always be added to simplify electrical wiring. Radiant heating can be installed below the floor to counteract cold, while well-designed lighting systems can replace natural light if windows are limited.
Renovating an attic can be a bit trickier. Angled dormers can often be accommodated in the design of the space, but low ceilings pose a far more significant challenge. Most attics also do not have an adequate point of exit and entry, so a new or remodeled staircase will have to be added as part of the remodeling process. Most attics are also not built with floors that can withstand day-to-day living, so you will probably need to strengthen the joists and lay down sub-floor if you are converting it to a useable room.
An underused attic was transformed into a light-filled playroom.
If you can't be o utside, the next best thing is seeing it. Windows, skylights and glass doors instantly make a room feel more spacious by drawing the eye to the outdoors and letting in light and air. Transoms above doorways may not frame a view, but they can be a wonderful way to share a room's natural light with an adjacent space.
A skylight over a partial wall and porthole window flood this bathroom with natural light while establishing a connection with the outdoors.
Privacy with Proximity – Successful multi-generational living requires a fine balance between private and communal spaces. Separate entrances, morning bars or kitchenettes in bedroom suites, and sitting rooms provide much-needed privacy. A large, open kitchen/eating/living area is ideal when the family comes together.
Flexibility – Flexible spaces can be easily transformed to function for different purposes and ages. For example, an underused living room and sunroom may transition into a home office, then an in-law suite, then a space for an adult child who moves home, then an entertainment area.
Universal Design -- Universal design works hand-in-hand with flexible spaces to create environments that are usable by all people. Hallways that are wide enough to accommodate a wheel chair and zero entry thresholds are classic examples of universal design features.
The zero entry threshold to and from this sunny hallway makes the space easy to navigate for people of all ages and mobility.
Need more ideas? Contact us about your project!
Small is big right now. The media has been filled with stories about microapartments in cities from Boston to San Francisco. Recently, the Boston Globe even reported on a student who lived in a 130 square foot cottage in the middle of the Hampshire College green as part of a class project.
While most of us will probably not live in a space as small as 130 square feet, there is widespread interest in living more efficiently. At Morse Constructions, we're definitely finding that more homeowners want to maximize their existing space rather than add on square footage.
Use an open floor plan: Hallways eat up valuable floor space, so your best bet may be to simply do away with them. Remove non-weight bearing walls to allow one room to flow into the next. An open floor plan will make your space feel bigger.
Reduce door swing: Replace traditional interior doors with sliding panels or pocket doors that tuck out of the way when not in use. You can make better use of the space on either side of the door if you don't have to worry about accommodating door swing.
Choose built-in storage: Overhead storage or built-in cabinetry use space far more efficiently than stand-alone units that clog up walking and living areas. For maximum space efficiency, consider notching out a non-load bearing wall and creating a storage nook or small reading alcove.
Think vertical: Are you making the best use of your walls? Floor-to-ceiling shelving or storage is wonderfully practical, yet can be visually stunning, as seen in this photo.
Expand outside: Just look outside if you want more living space without increasing your home's interior footprint. A patio, deck or porch will expand your living and entertaining areas during the warm weather for a fraction of the cost of building a full-fledged addition. When temperatures drop, you'll be glad not to be heating extra square footage!


Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley – Dragon Authors, Erin Michelle Sky & Steven Brown, writing sci fi and fantasy books for teens and adults.
Solomon is a teenager who has not stepped one foot outside his house in three years. Lisa is a high school junior who decides to "fix" him so she can write the best college application essay in the history of ever. Needless to say, all does not go as planned.
Extreme agoraphobia is not so easy to fix, Lisa's boyfriend isn't loving this project idea, and Lisa's college essays are on a deadline. Heartwarming hilarity ensues, with just enough poignancy to tear at your heartstrings without changing the overall humor of the book. Well done, sir. Well done.
THE BOTTOM LINE: The slump buster to end all slump busters. We couldn't put it down. For fans of The Inexplicable Logic of My Life and anyone who needs to remember the sheer joy of reading.
Note: The featured cover image is for the hardcover. The cover with the pool, below, is for the paperback and ebook.


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The Division of Malaybalay City won 1st runner up during the Regional Read-A-Thon held at Villanueva, Misamis Oriental last January 30.
The English team winners who represented the city division Luke Andrei Del Mundo, John Carlo Gamao, and Trisha Oyangpin are grade 3 pupils of Bethel Baptist Christian Academy coached by Mr. Lyndon Maglipong.
They were chaperoned by Mrs. Leticia Palle, Division Kindergarten Coordinator & Mrs. Concepcion Reyes, Filipino Coordinators
BMR: A Solution to Reading Difficulty
Bright Minds Read (BMR) is a partnership program of Ronald MC Donald House of Charity Adopt-A-School Program with UCPB in partnership with the Department of Education that aims to develop beginning reading curricula and tools for public school children. It is a beginning reading program which aims to develop the pupils' genuine love for reading, comprehension and critical thinking, oral language and correct usage of grammatical structures.
Mabuhay Elementary School is blessed to be one of the recipients of the BMR learning kit from Donald House of Charity Adopt-A-School Program with
UCPB in partnership with the Department of Education. These learning tools help the children enhance their reading eagerness and a better acquisition of reading skills of the children are expected.
Moreover, it arouses the children's attention and hopefully they will learn from it.
We are so honored and privileged that Mabuhay Elementary School benefited from the support and endeavor of this project. Surely, we will gain from the learning kit with proper management of the teacher facilitator. Administration, teachers, pupils, and parents are thankful for the opportunity given to them in order to make skill acquisition prolific and worthwhile.
"We are heartily grateful for the trust and confidence given to us. We deeply hope for better results and higher achievement level of knowledge acquisition of our school children particularly of among the Grade I pupils," the School Reading Coordinator stressed.
Furthermore, through this intervention, the curious minds of the young would be motivated. It is then considered that this is a stepping stone in looking for a solution to the reading difficulties of our school children.
Finally, this program will not succeed without the support from the benefactors and all concerned individuals. Everyone, then is encouraged to work hand in hand to achieve the quality education that every child deserves to have.
Manny B. Pimentel-
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DOMC goes I.S.T.I.V., 5S
The Division of Malaybalay City launched the I.S.T.I.V. and 5S good housekeeping program during the 2012 1st MANCOM meeting at Casisang Central School, Malaybalay City on January 30.
This course of action is based on Republic Act No. 9485 and other laws which reinforce effective and efficient public service.
This office will be institutionalizing I.S.T.I.V. and 5S for an improved provision of service to its clientele.
The Division Office will incorporate the I.S.T.I.V. ( Industrious, Systematic, Time-Conscious, Innovative, and Strong Value of Work) and 5S Japanese good housekeeping techniques(seiri or sort, seiton or systematize, seiso or sweep, seikitsu or standardize , and shitsuke or self-discipline).
Its objective is to institute and sustain improvement in the workplace.
In as much as productivity is above all an attitude, the program seeks to develop among all employees the belief that one can do better today than yesterday, and that tomorrow shall be better than today.
It pursues to improve what exists in the present circumstance.
It is a process of overhauling the entire office system to create more productive people who are willing to undergo changes through self-motivation, peer education, and actual meticulous practice that would hopefully generate a strong organization.
The Division 5S Committee is chaired and co-chaired by Dr. Florante M. Corpuz and Dr. Cora T. Asa, respectively.-JDZ
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Thank you to the dozens and dozens of readers who emailed the Muqata, notifying us that blogger was broken and that the Muqata Blog was offline for 12 hours.
For the future, if blogger is offline/the blog appears offline, try going to www.muqata.com which will redirect you to our backup, emergency site.
As you know, Israel is currently in the midst of a diplomatic flurry to try and stop the Palestinians from a unilateral declaration of a State. The problem is that there will never be a peaceful resolution to the Palestinian issue. There is no way that Arab refugees who fled Israel in 1948 and are currently living in "Refugee camps" in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and other places will ever abandon their hopes and dreams of returning to Yaffo (Jaffa), Tel-Aviv) Haifa, Tzfat (Safed), Lod, or to the locations they used to live before running away in 1948. No Palestinian leader will ever abandon the "Right of Return," and no leader will ever abandon their dreams of ruling the Old City of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.
Its reality.
While all this has been going on, there are some personal stories I wanted to share from the past few days:
1. Motzei Shabbat (Saturday Night) I drove my son to his pre-IDF yeshiva (Mechina Kdam Tzvait) which used to be located in Atzmona, in Gush Katif before its forced evacuation in the "Disengagement". The yeshiva's name was shortened to "Otzem" (strength) after the forced relocation...and the yeshiva has been rebuilt in the community of Naveh.
Naveh is located a few kilometers south of Gaza, and a few kilometers east of Egypt -- its not in the friendliest of places. Naveh is under construction -- as homes are being built for the refugees of Gush Katif (6 years later). Sand is everywhere, and my son says its at the end of the universe. At night, there were no nearby lights of neighboring cities....everything was dark, the sky over-head was brilliantly lit by stars and the moon. The yeshiva is mostly temporary buildings while the permanent ones are still under construction. From the parking lot, we trekked through lots of sand as I accompanied my son to his dorm room. Large signs from elite IDF units were hung over different dorm buildings...either as motivation or as appreciation from the yeshiva's graduates who have gone to become Israel's best soldiers and officers.
I couldn't help but think of Gush Katif...the same sand was everywhere, the same atmosphere, the same pioneering spirit. Despite having relocated to the sand covered town of "Naveh" in "Israel's pre-67 borders" which are considered holy by the Zionist left, I felt on edge that G-d forbid this community would be forced to move yet again.
2. Yesterday morning as the Palestinians made their preparations to request statehood from the UN, I was called as an MDA-medic first responder to a traffic accident. A Palestinian car had flipped over, and we took care of the wounded till a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance came to take them away. Meanwhile the local Palestinian fire truck arrived, to see if there was anyone to extricate from the upside-down car (there wasn't). The Palestinian firemen, all wearing their standard grey camouflage "firemen's" uniforms peaked through the windows of the car. The fire-chief sauntered over to the car, holding a cigarette in his hand, as he examined the underside of the car...and the gas tank. It was at that moment, I grabbed a fellow volunteer medic, and quickly left.
Why firemen need grey camouflage uniforms is a challenging question -- who are they hiding from? Why do they need to be camouflaged? Is the fire fighter crew simply missing automatic weapons?
3. Rules of Engagement has been handed out to all IDF First Response Units in the Jewish communities of Judea/Samaria, for how to deal with potential Palestinian riots, infiltrations and unrest. I think we need a lawyer for each unit, since the blame for any response to a complex situation will automatically bring the IDF, Police and world media clamoring for the arrest of any settler defending himself or his community.
4. Palestinian flags try to compete with Israeli ones throughout the West Bank...with the Palestinians losing. My car has Israeli flag mirror covers on it...much to the annoyance of the Palestinians...and there were many reported cases of Arab rock and molotov firebombs thrown last night at Israeli civilian vehicles. The mosques of the Arab villages are all decked out in flags with extra green lighting, giving a very eerie glow to them.
5. The religion of peace has teamed up with a radio station in Somalia, and Somali kids can win exciting prizes such as weapons, rifles, bombs and religious books...in a Koran contest. The Andulus radio station is run by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militia.
The station announced Monday that the first prize winner in the contest received a rifle and $700, the second prize winner got a rifle and $500, and the third prize winner received two bombs.
All three children also received religious books.
Al-Shabab is battling Somalia's weak, UN-backed government. The militants have recently been weakened by famine in territory they control. (YNET)
6. Last but not least, the Muqata hereby offers its recombination in the Israeli Labor party primaries today: Vote for Shelly Yechimotich. The alternative, Amir Peretz is a party hack, who was the arrogant defense minister of Israel during the Second Lebanon War, which Israel didn't win. Shelly is a left-wing socialist, but has an ideological backbone not based on hatred. Many Labor voters were incensed when she announced 2 weeks ago that the settlements weren't evil and were in fact, started by Israel's Labor party. If you are a member of the Labor party, vote for Shelly!
World Famous Photo of ex-Defense Minister Amir Peretz.
Amir Peretz attempting to read English:
That's all for now folks!


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Responding to the Nomination for US Secretary of State the CEO of Exxon, a Company Which Funded the Morally Reprehensible Climate Change Disinformation Campaign and Politicians Who Are Climate Change Deniers
Posted on December 31, 2016 by dabrown57
I. Introduction. Relative Lack of Media Focus on the Danger of Appointing the Exxon CEO to be US Secretary of State Given the Enormity of the Climate Change Threat.
How should those who are concerned about the enormous threat of climate change respond to the Trump nomination of Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson to be the US Secretary of State given the enormous damage that Exxon has already caused through the company's successful efforts in delaying the adoption of US climate change policies?
Trump's selection of Tillerson for Secretary of State has received considerable understandable attention from the US media largely because of concern about Exxon's ties to Russia, including, for instance, a contract with Russia negotiated by Tillerson in the amount of $500 billion that can't be executed until economic sanctions placed on Russia for its invasion of the Ukraine are lifted.
Given the potential meddling of Russia in the recent US presidential election and potential conflicts between Russia's and US interests, appointing someone to be the lead US foreign policy administrator who is the chief executive of a company with such close ties to Russia creates reason for obvious concerns about the ability of the Secretary of State to manage foreign policy so as to protect US interests while ignoring the interests of the world's largest publicly traded oil and gas company which are sometimes in conflict with American goals.
Conflicts between Exxon's interests and US foreign policy interests are likely to frequently arise in the Trump administration. For instance, it is in the US interest to keep the price of fossil fuel very low but not in the interest of a fossil fuel company, nor Russia for that matter, both of which could benefit from high fossil fuel prices.
Receiving considerable less attention from the US media is the propriety of appointing someone to be US Secretary of State who has been the chief executive of Exxon, a company with a well documented hostility to government policies on climate change. This hostility has not only manifested itself in Exxon's spending of many millions of dollars in lobbying efforts to oppose proposed US domestic policies on climate change and supporting politicians who have consistently opposed proposed US climate change policies but also, even more disconcerting, Exxon has funded organizations who have been actively fighting to stop the United States from adopting climate change policies by employing morally reprehensible tactics to undermine citizens' understanding of the scientific basis for the need to aggressively respond to climate change.
As we have explained, on this website in considerable detail (see articles under disinformation campaign in the index), although scientific skepticism is good because skepticism is the oxygen of science, Exxon has funded organizations engaged in disinformation who have used utterly indefensible tactics including: (1) lying or reckless disregard for the truth about climate change science, (2) manufacturing false scientific claims about climate change by holding bogus scientific conferences at which participants have made scientific claims that have never not been subjected to peer review, (3) supporting front groups and fake grass roots organizations to oppose climate change policies whose creation was designed to hide the real parties in interest, (4) cherry-picking mainstream climate science by emphasizing a few minor issues in climate science about which there is some scientific uncertainty while ignoring the huge body of climate change science which is undisputed and claiming the uncertainties undermine the entire body of mainstream climate science, and (5) funding public relations strategies to undermine US citizens confidence in mainstream climate science, and (6) cyber bullying mainstream climate scientists and journalist who report on growing climate change risk.
Fossil fuel company support of the climate change disinformation campaign has been responsible for at least a twenty-five year delay in the United States response to climate change, a delay which has also thwarted international efforts to achieve a global solution to climate change and has made the threat of climate change now extraordinarily dangerous and made the warming limit goals agreed to by the world in Paris in 2015 to as close as possible 1.5 degrees C but no more than 2 degrees C extraordinarily difficult to achieve.
And so, the chief executive of a company has been nominated to lead the development of US foreign policy including forging an international position on climate change which company is already responsible for enormous potential climate change caused harms to the world created by the delay which is attributable to their funding and that of several other fossil fuel companies, industry organizations, and free-market fundamentalist foundations.
Although entities other than Exxon have also contributed to the funding of the climate change disinformation campaign, a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (PNAS) in October concluded that the main organizations comprising the climate denial echo chamber were funded by ExxonMobil and Koch Family Foundation and produced misinformation that effectively polluted mainstream media coverage of climate science and polarized the climate policy debate. The study is: Corporate funding and ideological polarization about climate change, October 12, 2015.
This study's analysis of 20 years' worth of communication data between participants in the climate change counter-movement by Yale University researcher Dr. Justin Farrell shows beyond doubt that Exxon and the Koch Family Foundations have been key actors who funded the climate disinformation campaign and ensured the prolific spread of their doubt products throughout our mainstream media and public discourse about climate change.
"The contrarian efforts have been so effective for the fact that they have made it difficult for ordinary Americans to even know who to trust," Dr. Farrell told the Washington Post. Dr Farrell said: "This counter-movement produced messages aimed, at the very least, at creating ideological polarization through politicized tactics, and at the very most, at overtly refuting current scientific consensus with scientific findings of their own."
As we have explained on this website, the tactics deployed by the climate change disinformation campaign funded by some fossil fuel companies including Exxon and others should be understood as a new kind of crime against humanity because they are deeply morally reprehensible even if not classifiable as a crime under existing law because of the enormous climate change harms these tactics have caused to tens of millions of poor vulnerable people around the world, some of which are already occurring as others are already in the pipeline.
Some participants in the climate change disinformation campaign defend their behavior as exercises in free speech, yet as we have explained on this website, free speech is not an adequate defense for those who make claims based on lies or reckless disregard for the truth when misinformation can greatly harm others. (see; Three Videos on Why the Fossil Fuel Funded Climate Change Disinformation Campaign Is Neither an Exercise of Free Speech nor Responsible Scientific Skepticism and Should Be Understood as Some Kind of New Crime Against Humanity)
Thus an argument can be made that Exxon and the other entities who have funded the climate change disinformation campaign to protect their profits should be made to help pay for at least some of the climate change adaptation responses that are now needed to protect poor vulnerable people around the world from rising seas, floods, droughts, and diminished water supplies and the enormous damages from climate change that will be experienced because of the approximate three decade delay in responding to climate change that is attributable to the climate change disinformation campaign which began to get organized in the late 1980s. (Several law suits that have been filed against Exxon and other fossil fuel companies by plaintiffs seeking damages from climate change harms have been dismissed thus far, often on the grounds that allocating climate change damages is a political rather than a judicial function yet a growing number of cases continue to be filed seeking to establish legal liability of fossil fuel companies for their role in spreading misinformation about climate change.)
Yet, rather than making Exxon responsible for the enormous damage it has done through its successful efforts to prevent government policies to reduce GHG emissions., President-elect Trump has nominated Exxon's CEO to be the spokesperson for US foreign policy including climate change foreign policy. This is arguably like appointing the CEO of Philip Morris to be the Surgeon General of the United States.
II. Why Has the US Media Given Little Attention About the Danger from Climate Change of Making the Exxon CEO US Secretary of State?
Why has the US press mostly ignored the extreme danger of making the CEO of a huge powerful oil company Secretary of State which company has been responsible for dangerous delays in responding to climate change through the use of morally reprehensible tactics and which company's profits are greatly threatened by policies that rapidly reduce GHG emissions?
It would appear that the media's relative lack of concern about nominating an Exxon CEO to run the State Department is attributable to Exxon's and Tillerson's announcements which began in 2006 that they had changed their views on climate change, agreed that human-induced climate change was a threat worthy of policy responses which include potentially putting a price on carbon, and Exxon would no longer fund organizations participating in climate change denial. (For a discussion of Exxon's and Tillerson's gradual shift on climate change see John Schwartz, New York Times, Tillerson Led Exxon's Shift on Climate Change; Some Say 'It Was All P.R.')
In fact, some recent press coverage of Tillerson's nomination to be the US Secretary of State have uncritically portrayed the Exxon CEO as a climate change advocate.
For instance Media Matters has reported in a CBS Evening News Report on December 13, anchor Scott Pelley said of Tillerson: "The lifelong oil man has no government experience, but he did convince Exxon to acknowledge climate change." [CBS Evening News, 12/13/16]
Media Matters also reported that on December 10, an NBC news segment discussing Tillerson, correspondent Andrea Mitchell reported, "During his time at the world's largest public energy company, Tillerson acknowledged the science behind climate change, supporting a carbon tax, while also expressing support for the Paris Climate Agreement."
And so it would appear that Exxon's and Tillerson's recent stated changes in their positions on the acceptance of climate change science is responsible to the US media's largely uncritical coverage of Tillerson's nomination despite Exxon's role in successfully undermining US responses to climate change and the basic conflict that exists between rapidly reducing GHG emissions and Exxon's profits and the value of its oil reserves.
In what is likely an attempt to rebrand Exxon from being a climate change policy obstructionist, recently Exxon has produced TV commercials in which the company announces that is supporting the development of carbon capture and storage technologies that would reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
III. Has Exxon actually stopped funding climate denial organizations?
In July 2016, DeSmog Blog reported that Exxon's most recent financial disclosures show that the company "continues to support organizations that claim greenhouse gases are not causing climate change, or that cuts to emissions are a waste of time and money":
Organisations including the American Enterprise Institute, the American Legislative Exchange Council and the National Black Chamber of Commerce — all organisations with a record of misinformation on climate science — all received grants in 2015 from ExxonMobil. The 2015 tally brings the total amount of known Exxon funding to denial groups north of $33 million since 1998. (DeSmog Blog, 7/8/16)
According to a recent article in the Guardian, Exxon gave more than $2.3 million to members of Congress and a corporate lobbying group that deny climate change and block efforts to fight climate change – eight years after pledging to stop its funding of climate denial.
IV Has Exxon and Tillerson Actually Become Advocates of Government Action On Climate Change.
Does Exxon and Tillerson fully accept the mainstream peer-reviewed science on climate change? It is not clear.
Although both Exxon and Tillerson have asserted that they agree with the mainstream scientific view that human-induced climate change is a significant threat that must be dealt with, it is not clear that either accepts the scientific implications of the mainstream view including, for instance, neither that some fossil fuels must be left in the ground unless carbon capture and storage technology can be made affordable and proven effective nor that there is an urgent need to immediately aggressively reduce GHG emissions if the the international community hopes to prevent dangerous climate change. .
Tillerson has stated that he believes that climate change is a problem with an engineering solution. This suggests he supports the development of technologies that can either store carbon in the ground or remove carbon from the atmosphere. Yet no such technologies have been yet identified that can be deployed at the scale currently needed and that are also affordable and technologically effective despite the fact that these technologies are needed to justify continued use of oil and gas at current rates.
In addition, and perhaps more importantly, to limit warming to the warming limit goals agreed to in Paris in 2015 of as close as possible to 1.5 degrees C, the world must reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050.
CO2 emissions from energy and industry must be zero globally around 2050 for a 1.5°C limit, which is around 10-25 years earlier than for a 2°C limit. Full decarbonization for 1.5°C limit is therefore needed by mid-century, and mid-way through the second half of the century for 2°C limit. (Climate Analytics)
Thus, the international community must achieve net zero GHG emissions from the energy and industrial sectors in 33 years to have hope of limiting warming to 1.5°C and 58 years to achieve zero GHG emissions to limit to 2°C. To achieve these civilization challenging goals, the world must act quickly and aggressively. In fact rapid reductions are particularly needed in the next few years as UNEP has concluded. In fact there is an urgency of enhancing pre-2020 mitigation efforts to have any realistic hope of achieving the warming limit goals agreed to in Paris in December 2015. (See UNEP, Emissions Gap Report 2016, pg 9)
If nations quickly respond to the obligation to begin reducing GHG emissions to achieve zero emissions by 2050, this will require rapid expansion of non-fossil energy, a possibility due to recent rapid reductions in the cost of solar energy, and require energy companies to hold fossil fuel reserves in the ground. This could leave energy companies with unprofitable reserves, or assets "stranded" underground unless carbon capture and storage or atmospheric carbon removal technologies are deployed at scale because they have become affordable and technically effective. Yet carbon storage has not yet proven affordable nor effective at the scale that would be required to prevent dangerous atmospheric GHG concentrations from continuing to rise.
Exxon has not accepted this idea. In 2014, shareholders seeking greater accountability from the company on the potential that some of its reserves would have to be left in the ground submitted a resolution to disclose how its reserves would be affected if climate action reduced demand. The company, in response, produced a report that said it would be "highly unlikely" that countries would enact action aggressive enough to affect demand. Two years later, the world's nations agreed to the Paris climate agreement to reduce emissions to zero by late in this century.
Has Tillerson questioned or denied mainstream climate science since 2006?
Yes. In settings with stock analysts or other executives Tillerson has at times reverted back to Exxon's old narrative that cast doubt on climate science. At the company's 2013 annual shareholder meeting, for instance,Tillerson said: "Notwithstanding all the advancements that have been made in gathering more data, instrumenting the planet so that we understand how climate conditions on the planet are changing, notwithstanding all that data, our ability to project with any degree of certainty the future is continuing to be very limited….If you examine the temperature record of the last decade, it really hadn't changed." Thus Tillerson adopted the frequently discredited claim of many climate change deniers that global rises in temperatures paused in the last decade.
At the 2015 annual meeting, Tillerson said it might be better to wait for better science before taking action on climate change. "What if everything we do, it turns out our models are lousy, and we don't get the effects we predict?" (Inside Climate News, Rex Tillerson's Record on Climate Change: Rhetoric vs. Reality)
Although Exxon and Tillerson have proclaimed that they might support a tax on carbon, they have done nothing to make this happen nor have they stated that they would support a significant carbon tax immediately. (John Schwartz, New York Times, Tillerson Led Exxon's Shift on Climate Change; Some Say 'It Was All P.R )
For these reasons, it is not clear that Exxon or Tillerson are willing to support US government responses on climate change that are now urgently required to deal with the climate emergency facing the world.
V. What Should Those Who Are Concerned Abouaret Climate Change Do In Response to the Tillerson Nomination.
Given the enormity of the threat to the world from climate change, the indefensible role that Exxon has played in delaying US action on climate change, and the lack of clarity about whether Rex Tillerson supports policies needed to rapidly reduce global GHG emissions to safe global emissions, concerned ciitzens should strongly oppose the Tillerson nomination while demanding that the nominee respond to the following questions under oath before a confirmation vote is taken in the US Senate:
Do you support development and deployment of non-fossil energy in the United States as rapidly as possible until technologies which can sequester carbon or remove carbon from the atmosphere have been demonstrated to be economically feasible and technically effective?
If you agree that the United States should respond to climate change by putting a price on carbon, will you immediately support legislation which creates a price on carbon at levels necessary to reduce US emissions to the US fair share of safe global emissions?
Do you agree that US policy on climate change should seek to achieve the Paris Agreement's warming limit goals of preventing warming from exceeding as close as possible to 1.5 degrees C but no greater than 2.0 degrees C above pre-industrial levels?
If you agree that US climate policy should seek to limit warming to between 1.5 degrees C and 2.0 degrees C, do you agree that the US should clearly explain how its policies will achieve these warming limit goals of the Paris agreement?
Since you agree that human-induced climate change is a threat to people and ecological systems around the world, do you agree that Exxon should no longer fund the campaigns of politicians that deny that human-induced climate change is a threat worthy of a strong national response?
Since GHG emissions from the United States not only threaten US citizens and ecological systems but people and ecological systems around the world, do you agree that US policy on climate change should respond to the US responsibility to prevent climate change from harming all people and ecological systems around the world?
Do you agree that people and nations who could be harmed by high levels of US GHG emissions from the United States have interests in US climate change policies and if so their interests should be considered in formulating US climate policy?
Do you agree that nations that emit GHGs at levels beyond their fair share of safe global emissions have a duty to help pay for reasonable adaptation needs and unavoidable damages of low-emitting countries and individuals that have done little to cause climate change?
If you disagree that high emitting nations have responsibility to help finance reasonable adaptation needs or unavoidable damages from climate change in countries which are largely not responsible for climate change, how do you interpret the "polluter pays" principle of international law?
Do you deny that when the US formulates a GHG emissions reduction target it has a duty both under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which it ratified in 1992 and the Paris Agreement to formulate its commitment after consideration of what "equity" requires of the United States and if so what does the term 'equity" under the UNFCCC mean to you?
Donald A. Brown
Scholar in Residence and Professor
Widener University Commonwealth Law School
dabrown57@gmail.com
Exxon changed its position at about the time that Rex Tillerson became the CEO of Exxon.
On January 8, 2009, Rex Tillerson gave a speech in Washingotn
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Q: customizing jquery datepicker=asp.net Thanks for forum member I was shown this:
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looked at the source code but could not find where they customize the code to show the nie widget. On my machine if i impleent the dateicker within a gridview, i get plane old datepicker with next and pre text as href rather then the what the widget shows.
how do i customize my .net app to show widget like the example?

A: The styling is via CSS files that you can customize and download with jQuery UI.  Here's a link to ThemeRoller which allows you to customize and then download whatever theme you like.  And here's a link that can help you understand how to work with jQuery UI and the files that are included with it.


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Rathbun Lake Trail
A trail connecting Honey Creek Destination Park to Prairie Ridge Park was constructed on the north side of Rathbun Lake. This trail was constructed after years of effort from Appanoose County Trails, Inc., a non-profit trails organization, to get a trail around the lake. The site is owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of Rathbun Lake.
French-Reneker-Associates completed the design of the trail in three months although there were many challenges along the way. The 8.3-mile-long, multi-use trail goes through solid brush. French-Reneker-Associates had to change the route of the trail several times to avoid artifacts, endangered species, and wetlands. Not all the wetlands could be avoided, so French-Reneker-Associates developed wetland mitigation areas in conjunction with the trail design.
The estimated $1.5 million project was funded by Department of Transportation American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds.


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Q: 100 times Faster HDD speeds. Is this real? Does Primocache application really work? I have a HDD which has read/write speeds around 100MB/S
Then I found an application called PrimoCache. This software(free to test) claims to increase HDD speed tens of times.
I did run this software and followed instructions. Interestingly CrystalDiskMark utility showed read/write speeds of Gigabytes per seconds. But in actual test of copy a file from windows explorer (from internal SDD) to this HDD(external read/write values remained same as around 100MB/s.
I want to see if anyone have tested this software successfully or this software somehow fools the disk benchmarking tools to show huge numbers.
If you have some time to download this software and make it work to increase the HDD speed, please share the procedure here.

A: The software does intentionally cheat on a benchmark. The benchmark tries to measure the actual speed of a hard drive or SSD drive, not the speed of any RAM cache, and the software manages to work around that, tricking the benchmark into thinking you have a really fast hard drive.
But it doesn't matter. What matters is how much it helps you with the things you are doing. It will be useless if you copy 10GB video files all the time. But as the benchmark shows, it might be very effective if you use small amounts of data only. Like a few hundred megabytes in small files on a spinning hard drive.
I'd say try it out for free and find out if it helps with your usage. Then see the cost and use it or don't. And you want your data to be backed up: The OS will think that data is written when this software tells it is written. If you shut down your computer, most likely it will actually shut down when it thinks all caches are written to your drives. That could go wrong with this drive.
PS. There are high-end SSD drives nowadays with a small amount of fast and expensive SSD storage, and a huge amount of cheap and slower SSD storage. Small meaning gigabytes. So writing to the SSD will write to the small, expensive part which is fast, and then the SSD drive continuously moves data from small, fast to large, slow, cheap storage. That may actually write a 10GB file fast, and stay fast if you take breaks between large operations.

A: TL; DR: Does Primocache application really work?
Yes it does.

Disclaimer: I'm a happy registered user of PrimoCache. 45 years old, I've had my share of both smartdrv and Host Memory Buffer NVMe SSDs.

I have a HDD which has read/write speeds around 100MB/S

I'm expecting a peak speed here, ie sequential, no multi-threaded.

But in actual test of copy a file from windows explorer (from internal SDD) to this HDD read/write values remained same as around 100MB/s.

Let me sum it up, to be sure not to miss the point. You did not set up a cache on your SSD, you set up a cache on your HDD, and you copied a file from your SSD to your cached HDD.
Two things to consider here:

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*what is the speed of your SSD? Have you tested copying a file from SSD to a RAM Disk?

*when you're writing the file, as long as the cache is not full, the data is copied to the cache. Once the cache is full, the file will be copied to the physical disk, getting you back to slow speeds.

I want to see if anyone have tested this software successfully or this software somehow fools the disk benchmarking tools to show huge numbers.

I have tested this software extensively before buying it. I quickly gave up on CrytalMark that only shows irrelevant values. What matters to me is actual file operations. And I can testify that, as long as you keep in the limits of your cache, this software does what it tells it does.

But to answer completely to your questions, let me write a bit more about how I use this software.
I have a SATA cacheless SSD, 16GB of RAM. Software engineering has been my main job for 20+ years.
I have set up a 1.25GB of L1 Write Cache, with defer mode, buffer strategy, flush on sleep.
I don't care that much on prefetching data. My main reads are loading the OS (un-cached), loading Eclipse (once a day, always-on then), launching and closing several Firefox/Chrome windows and tabs (could be cached, but Windows keeps the programs in memory, so irrelevant).
I care a LOT about writing data.

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*you mentionned speed, and speed IS relevant. Gone are the days where I could stand the hourglass.

*looking at the PrimoCache stats, it becomes astounding how much your system writes to your disk, without needing it. It writes data, that wouldn't need to be written, or that would be rewritten later.

*by writing less, I make my SSD last longer. I'm not sure the PrimoCache fee is cheaper than a new SSD, but I'll be the one wearing it off. Not an other process.

*I've also setup a 512MB RAM disk, for %TEMP% folder, for good measure.

Does Primocache application really work?

Yes Sir, yes it does.
I'm not the only one to say it. See Dave's video, retired Microsoft engineer, and author of an Amiga cache software Supercharging Windows Disk Speeds
Is it the product for you? Well, try the demo. 30 days is a good amount of time to make up your mind. Run your computer as usual (ie, no CrystalMark), and see.
Then you could add your answer here ^^

A: This application is a scam reminding me of the "RAMDoubler" application. It probably works by hooking the Windows IOControl for disk access, putting the content the data CrystalDiskMark into a cache and returning the call to this system function. The test does not verify if the test data is really located on the disk. As user253751 and Tetsujin already stated this is a kind of RAM test.
You cannot exceed the sustained transfer speed of a disk. Therefore the read speed does not originate from disk access but from previously buffered written test content in RAM.
In order to show that Primocache is scam I recommend you to try out two things:

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*Increase the test size beyond the amount of available RAM

and/or

*Use h2testw to write and read files with pseudorandom content. Look at the speed indication of h2testw.

If you are really paranoid and are operating on file system level you should only use software that uses pseudorandom data for speed tests.
Pseudorandom data is near garbage and has the nice property of having high entropy (disorder). That data can hardly be compressed.
Scamware like Primocache could detect regular patterns and use compression techniques to generate an increase in speed.
The best is pseudorandom sequences where you can set a starting value  and an algorithm. That is too much too handle for Scamware.
Good luck!

A: To add to @r2d3's answer, I've ran some tests on my own RAMDisk.
The software I've used is ImDisk, on a 512MB FAT drive (mounted as the R:/ drive).
My system has 2x8GB Kingston KHX3000C15D4/8GX (3000MT/s), on a MSI B450 Tomahawk Max motherboard and an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU.
The RAM usage was about 47-48% at the time of testing.
Doing a 256MiB test, with CrystalDiskMark 8.0.1, I got these results:

Without the use of that software, I (kinda) replicated the results you've shown.
In conclusion: that software is using a ramdisk as cache, or some RAM caching.
Your HDD won't magically start working at over 9000MB/s, specially a SATA3 HDD.
And since you've specified a read/write speed of 100MB/s, my guess is that you have a 5400RPM HDD or an half-full HDD.

In fact, quoting the website:

Load Apps and Data Faster
Effectively cache your frequently used applications, documents and other data into faster storage devices, accessing them at up to RAM-like or SSD-like speeds. Make your computer more responsive for creating, gaming and producing, with less boot and load times.
Accelerate Writing
Complete write requests very quickly by temporarily storing incoming data into RAM or SSD storage first and writing them back to target disks later. Enable your computer to handle heavy or stream write IOs, while reducing writes and wear on disks.

It describes exactly what it does, so, it isn't really a scam, as some users have been describing it as.
It has marketing fluff all over it, as many products do.
It is a pricey software, and you might be able to find cheaper/free alternatives.
Also, the website is completely absent of any indication of possible risks, like loss of data.

A: PrimoCache - formerly FancyCache - is not cheating software. It's caching software.
The main use of PrimoCache is multi-layered caching, using RAM and SSD as two tiers. Caching improves performance for frequently accessed files, at the expense of spending RAM or SSD space. It does not make your actual HDD faster.
It is highly useful software for knowledgeable power users, and for admins that run low-cost bare metal servers. It takes understanding of cache tiers and manual effort to set up, and is not important to most basic home users.


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I felt optimistic, given all these shops, that one would carry what I needed. Next thing I knew I came upon a small computer supply retailer. It had what I wanted. Half a block further along the way I found the Metro.
As he wrote to his editor, "This poverty really breaks one's heart: it is so sale, so utterly depressing, so hopeless. Pray do what you can." He corrected proofs of his earlier work, but refused to write anything new. "I can write, but have lost the joy of writing", he told his editor. He kept enough sense of humor to remark: "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go." He died on 30 November 1900, and was first buried in a small cemetery outside the city, before being reburied in 1909 at Pere Lachaise.
Interestingly, this picture of misery at life's end has recently been disputed in a book that I'll have to search for – can't remember it's name at the moment; anyhow, it suggests that Oscar enjoyed new freedom to live as he wished, and wasn't as hard-up as others depict him as having been.
So, all this to say Jean Guy Boin had chosen a most appropriate venue for our meeting. Jean Guy is an economist and was, for 17 years, Director General of BIEF, an organization charged with promoting French books abroad. The back room at the café Le Balto was supposed to be quiet. It wasn't, as you'll hear, if you choose to listen to our conversation.
It seemed that as soon as we sat down to quaff our espressos, every scooter and coke truck in Paris decided to drive past the large open window. This often happens – as soon as I turn on the microphones, background noise decides to become foreground.
We parted, and I made my way over to the Companie Bookstore that Jean Guy had recommended I visit. He was right. A ton of books neatly displayed, tightly packed into a very compact space.
As mentioned in our conversation, France is home to a lot of small independent bookstores thanks to its Fixed Book Price policy. As a visitor, I'm not of course obliged to buy any books and pay the higher prices, but I do get to enjoy all of the lovely shops. Despite the policy, and an aggressive anti-Amazon campaign, stores in France are closing – like everywhere else in the world – albeit at a slightly slower pace.
I was early for my next interview, with Daniel Medin, so I decided to relax and enjoy an early lunch at your typical Parisian cafe. I exchanged a few words with the waiter in what I considered to be passable French. He returned with an English menu.
We met in Daniel's American University of Paris office behind an old Lutheran church. A nice, quiet, shady oasis of calm it seemed.
…they are absolutely gorgeous. Beautifully designed and printed. You really need to get your hands on a copy.
Shakespeare and Company Paris: A History of the Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart. Stay tuned.


Bulgarian Association of Apparel and Textile Producers and Exporters > News > BAATPE has hosted 4th working meeting of the participants of "Design4Children"project.
The 6 – 7 March 2012 in Sofia, Bulgaria, BAATPE has hosted the 4th working meeting of the participants of "Design4Children"project. The meeting was hold in the premises of the Association, bases in WTC Interpred on the famous "Fashion floor" of the building.
The project "Design4Children" aimed at developing new innovative software and virtual platforms for 3D design and manufacturing of children clothing and products for children. The participants are branch organizations, research centers, experts and companies from the T&C industry in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Israel, England and Bulgaria.
At the meeting in Sofia were examined stages of the study summarized the requirements of various countries on children's clothing and priorities and requirements of parents in the selection of children's products. They were discussed the ideas and criteria for the development of online platforms, according to the specific requirements for the quality, comfort and safety of the children products.
BAATPE is representing officially the Bulgarian companies from T&C industry and is responsible for the dissemination of the novelties and the distribution of the finished products.
In September 2012, they will be discussed the first developed software prototype and the virtual platforms. The project participants will be able to give their assessments, recommendations and ideas before finalizing the last version of it.
On March 7, the project participants visited the manufacture facilities of "Kolev & Kolev", specialized in production of children shoes.
Some of the participants were for the first time in Bulgaria and at the end of the working meeting, they expressed their positive impression of BAATPE and Bulgarian companies as well as increased interest in future cooperation.


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