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Walkable Living Makes Strides
What's the impact of high gas prices on residential real estate? Real estate practitioners and industry analysts debate the fate of suburbia and the prospect of a future where people leave their cars in the garage.
by Robert Freedman
Pain at the pump is accelerating demand for higher density homes close to jobs, but predictions of suburbia's demise may be premature.
With gas prices hovering around $4 a gallon for the foreseeable future, will suburbs see subdued demand even after other housing areas regain strength?
REALTOR® magazine brought together industry analysts and practitioners to debate that question. Their conclusion: The high cost of gasoline is simply accelerating a changing demographic picture. After reigning supreme for decades, they say, the suburban lifestyle model will share the limelight with what panelist Christopher Leinberger calls a "walkable urban" alternative. Suburbs that thrive in this new age will go through their own renaissance to become less car-dependent.
REALTOR® magazine: In the last two years, the dynamics of the housing market have changed considerably, with higher gas prices coming on top of the market slowdown. Where do you expect to see home sales growth in the next five years?
David Wluka: The inner suburbs—the ones that are close to jobs. Those that are further out are having serious problems in terms of pricing and sales. There's a definite push toward being closer to work.
Nick Bastian: I agree. We're definitely seeing a focus on properties that are closer to town and closer to public transportation. Arizona's notorious for being spread out. In years past, if you saw a bus on a street, it was empty. But now we're seeing buses and park-and-ride lots full. It's been a huge mind shift.
Jeffrey Otteau: We've been seeing a shift from the outer- to the inner-ring suburbs and urban areas at least since 2005, so higher gas prices are just a layering on top of a shift that was already developing because of demographics. When you look at the entire cohort of potential home buyers, what you'll see is that over the next 15 years, 75 percent of them want nothing to do with a house in the suburbs with a good school system. The housing demand is heavily concentrated among aging empty-nest baby boomers and emerging Generation Y households, all of which are childless. These households are looking for lifestyle, transportation efficiencies, and access to major metropolitan areas. We have 11 months of inventory in New Jersey. When we look at the top 10 markets in the state, all of them have a rail station that connects to Manhattan. These markets are running inventories of two to four months, and their declines in home prices have been on a magnitude of about 5 percent, while the market at large has lost about 20 percent. So from every angle, housing demand is reversing the pattern of the last 30 years and is coming back to where it all began: the cities and the inner-ring suburbs.
Christopher Leinberger: This move back to the cities and inner-ring suburbs is a structural, not a cyclical, shift, and it's as important as the shift in the 1950s to the suburbs. But this shift leaves us with overbuilt product on the fringe of the suburbs that may not find a market, certainly not at replacement cost. So there will be downward pressure on prices for this product, some of which is pretty new.
Wluka: I'm seeing things a little differently. Generation Y people do go into the cities, but once they have kids, they come back out to the suburbs. I'm seeing significant demand for the old-fashioned, single-family house on a half-acre or larger lot. In fact, some of them want an acre or more.
Leinberger: This isn't to say the "drivable suburban" model isn't a realistic model. There's obviously market demand for it. The question is, over the next 20 years, with 88 percent of net new households formed in this country singles and couples, is the drivable suburban product overbuilt? In the meantime, we don't have enough walkable urban product, which is why the walkable urban price premiums are 40 percent to 200 percent on a price-per-square-foot basis, according to my research.
Pat Kaplan: With Portland's urban growth boundary, we have always driven people to the center of the city, but it was about four years ago that I saw the properties that were close to public transportation and in walkable communities begin to appreciate much more rapidly than other properties. To this day that's still the pricing structure.
Leinberger: It's interesting that 20 years ago, the cheap place to live in this country was in the walkable urban locations; now those areas have this price premium. That's the structural shift.
Otteau: When the housing market begins to recover, the outer suburb housing market will actually worsen because it will accelerate this structural shift. Over the long term, suburban housing will underperform against the entire marketplace, and in some markets, we'll see significant declines when the broader market is actually getting better.
RM: Assuming the accuracy of your forecast, are there things real estate practitioners in those markets can do to make the outer suburban areas more attractive to consumers? We can't let a whole segment of the housing market devalue like that, can we?
Otteau: One action is fighting "down-zoning" by suburban municipalities attempting to control growth. Down-zoning lowers density and has the effect of pushing new-home prices in the suburbs beyond what home buyers can afford to pay. That affordability problem also drives demand back to cities where there's higher density.
Wluka: I agree. If you could convince communities to adopt a transfer-of-development-rights concept, where you took the land you wanted for a ring road and created enough density to support a transit system and new urban-type communities, you could attract buyers. Once people see new urban-type communities, they like them because they're quite lovely. The trouble is that we in real estate aren't making the density decisions. It's the people at the zoning and planning boards. I'm on a governor's task force in Massachusetts to rewrite our zoning enabling laws. The goal is to encourage walkable suburbs with higher density by rewarding localities that adopt this model with state money. The resistance from local communities is tremendous.
Leinberger: This isn't about where the suburbs are but how they're designed. Much of the demand for walkable urban product is in fact in the suburbs. In the Washington, D.C., metro area, which has more walkable urban places per capita than any other metro region in the country, 70 percent of the walkable urban places are in the suburbs. Only 30 percent are in the center city. And both are doing well. What the market's telling us is that people want lifestyle centers that are mixed-use with retail on the ground floor and office, housing, or hotel space above.
RM: Why are municipalities fighting zoning changes? Does it have to do with the increasing cost of infrastructure for higher density?
Wluka: That's one of the excuses. But the underlying reason, at least in a home-rule state, is loss of power. In Massachusetts, we have 51 towns that have their own zoning bylaws and density regulations, and it's very difficult to get any of them to give up that power.
Otteau: From our market perspective, the arguments against higher density and more transportation-efficient zoning are twofold: Less development means fewer cars on the road (although in reality the opposite is true), and higher density equates to higher taxes to fund services for the greater number of families in an area.
Leinberger: It's interesting that drivable suburban areas promise open space, ease of getting around by car, and clear air, but as you build more of these communities, the quality of life goes down and those promises are dashed. What people don't know yet is that as you build walkable urban places, preferably around rail transit, more density is better from a quality-of-life standpoint. And the other thing is, the density provides a great fiscal foundation under the jurisdiction. Arlington County, in the D.C. area, for example, which has fostered high density around transit, is one of the most financially healthy counties in the region.
RM: But if I'm a real estate professional in one of these outlying areas, I have to earn a living today. What can I do?
Wluka: Well, the increase in gas prices, while obviously very significant, isn't necessarily enough to change many households' homebuying decision once they really look at the costs. And you can help people see that. When you calculate fuel costs over a year for commuting—say it's 60 miles, round trip, a day—you're looking at 300 miles a week. If you get 20 miles per gallon, you're using 15 gallons a week. That's about $60 a week. If someone is buying a $600,000 house, is $60 that big of a deal, especially for a family with children for whom schools are so important? When young couples have kids, they tend to move out of the city. That hasn't changed.
Leinberger: I think we're going to be seeing households shift their spending from transportation to housing, and you can encourage that by talking about the need for people to shift their spending from a depreciable asset to an appreciable one. If you drop one car out of your household, the American Automobile Association tells us you're saving $7,800 a year in after-tax dollars. If you translate that savings into a mortgage, you can increase your mortgage capacity by $150,000. We in real estate want people to make the decision to shift their spending from cars to what we're building.
Bastian: One of the beautiful things about real estate is it's so individual. With new social media tools, such as blogs, you can expound on what you know about the benefits of your neighborhood and reach a wide audience. There's always going to be those who like the rural lifestyle of the outlying areas, so if you have a great community center or equestrian park or motorcycle facility, you need to make sure people are aware of that. In the Phoenix area, a lot of the developers have gone to advertising "live, work, and play"—you know, to do everything in your own community. And they've had pretty good success with it.
Kaplan: I agree. We're going to see a trend back to real estate professionals specializing in specific areas, staying closer to their base and developing specialties. You'll also see associates becoming smarter in qualifying their buyers. They don't have extra time or gas dollars to drive around looking at houses, so when they get an e-mail saying, 'I saw your listing on the Internet. I'd love to take a look at it,' they're not running out to show it if it's a 20-minute drive away. Instead, you're seeing them e-mailing or calling to make sure a buyer is qualified before they spend their time and dollars showing it.
RM: We've been talking about a shift to center cities to be closer to jobs and reduce commutes, but isn't much of today's job growth in the suburbs? What can localities do to make suburbs more walkable and transit-oriented?
Robert Dunphy: The topic of suburban growth and suburban jobs is a tough one because, from a smart growth perspective, a lot of people would rather not have the jobs in the suburbs. They'd rather have all the jobs back in the city. Well, you know that's not going to happen, so you need to plan suburban jobs in such a way that you do offer transit options that require relatively short drives.
Otteau: One of the things that New Jersey has done right is to enact legislation in which it pays for the construction of an employment facility if the employer locates in a city within a half mile of a train station. The law's been in effect for about a year, and no announcements of projects getting funded have been made yet. But we're expecting that to occur.
Bastian: In Tempe, they're talking about giving developers incentives to get density and affordability because you need density to make transit viable. That's just really never been done in Arizona before, and they're really being conscious of making communities friendly for walkers and bike riders. They want to make sure it's pedestrian-friendly and the shops are going to be situated facing the streets, making it easily accessible to people and having the parking in the back.
Dunphy: This challenge is, you need to convince people to make it easy to develop in the locations that we all agree are the good ones and harder to develop in the bad ones. But public policy tends to go in the opposite direction. Infill development in established areas is complicated. You have more people living by the development so you have more potential opposition, and the development is more expensive. And if you're really aggressive and try to make the development affordable, the project becomes even more difficult to do. By contrast, if you just go out and do kind of a conventional project in the suburbs—the kind of project that everybody agrees we should be doing less of—localities will usually just give you straightforward approval.
Kaplan: In Portland, we have our high-tech area outside the city center because the cost for businesses trying to locate within the city boundaries is too high. Buyers would love to be closer to the city center, but they'd rather be closer to their jobs, so they live in the middle areas.
Dunphy: What you have in Portland is really the best of both worlds. People who can't live all the way downtown can settle on a place in between a suburban and a downtown location, and some of their travel can be served by public transit.
Kaplan: Yes, but one problem we're experiencing is parking capacity. Portland has a fabulous light rail system, but all the parking structures are full by 7 o'clock in the morning.
RM: If gas prices should go back down to, say, something under $3 a gallon, does everything we're talking about become moot?
Otteau: At most, a fall in gasoline prices will only slow the speed of the shift to more dense housing in urban areas. The kind of houses we have today and where they're located have, for the most part, been defined by baby boomers. When baby boomers start retiring and slide down the job ladder instead of climbing up it, we're going to see a significant movement of empty-nest baby boomers looking for lifestyle with smaller space. That shift is coming regardless of what happens with gas prices.
Wluka: Well, at the end of the day, there remains a market for suburban single-family housing. While there's migration to the center city, it's not families with children making that move. Housing demand is still linked to the school system. My son is 35 years old and has three kids. Like others in Generation X, he's a young professional moving from the urban area to the suburbs.
Meet the Panelists:
Nick Bastian is a sales associate with Realty Executives in Tempe, Ariz., where a light rail system is under development.
Robert Dunphy is a senior resident fellow with the Urban Land Institute in Washington, D.C., specializing in transportation and infrastructure issues.
Pat Kaplan, CRS®, GRI, is broker-owner of Kaplan Real Estate Group in Portland, Ore., where growth circles have long dictated development patterns. Kaplan, a former treasurer of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®, has been a leader in NAR's smart growth initiatives.
Christopher Leinberger is a visiting fellow with The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and author of the book The Option of Urbanism (Island Press, 2007). He's a founding partner of Arcadia Land Development, which develops walkable communities.
Jeffrey Otteau is president of Otteau Valuation Group in East Brunswick, N.J., a real estate con-sulting group that conducts real estate market analyses and property valuations, and general manager of www.otteau.com, a site that tracks real estate trends.
David Wluka, president of Wluka Real Estate Corp. in Sharon, Mass., specializes in both residential and commercial real estate and chairs NAR's Transportation Working Group.
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local function termClear()
	term.clear()
	term.setCursorPos(1,1)
    print( " LPA v1.1 BETA (#h8ZjhpU7)" )
	print( "---------------" )
    print("")
end

local function printUsage()
  term.clear()
  term.setCursorPos(1,1)
    print( " LPA v1.1 BETA (#h8ZjhpU7)" )
	print( "---------------" )
	print( "by: Pof Magicfingers" )
	print( " " )
	print( "Utilisation:" )
	print( " == Recuperation ==" )
	print( "  lpa (episode) (program)" )
	print( " == Liste des programmes ==" )
	print( "  lpa (episode)" )
	print( " == Mise a jour LPA ==" )
	print( "  lpa update" )
	print( " " )
end

function decode(resp)
  resp = resp or ""
  local table = {}
  local index = 1

  i, j = string.find(resp, "/PofMagicfingers/lpa_computercraft/blob/[^/]+/")
  while i ~= nil do
  	content = string.sub(resp, j+1, string.find(resp, "\"", j)-1)
  	if not string.match(content, ".spec$") and not string.match(content, ".md$") then
  		if string.match(content, ".lua$") then
  			content = string.gsub(content, ".lua$","")
  		end
	    table[index] = content
	    index = index + 1
	end
    i, j = string.find(resp, "/PofMagicfingers/lpa_computercraft/blob/[^/]+/", j)
  end

  return table
end

function printlist(resp, ep)
  resp = resp or ""

  local table = decode(resp)
  local printed = 0
  local per_page = 4

  termClear()
  term.setCursorPos(1,3)

  print("Episode "..ep..": Programmes (1/"..math.ceil(#table/per_page)..")")
  print("============================")
  print("")

  for i=1,#table do
    if printed == per_page then
      print("")
      print("Suite: Appuyez sur une touche...")
      os.pullEvent ("key")
      printed = 0
	  termClear()
	  term.setCursorPos(1,3)
      print("Episode "..ep..": Programmes ("..math.ceil(i/per_page).."/"..math.ceil(#table/per_page)..")")
      print("============================")
      print("")
    end
    print("   - "..table[i] )
    printed = printed + 1
  end
  print("")
end

local function getFile(episode, program)
	termClear()

	if episode == "update" and program == "" then
		episode = "master" ; program = "lpa"
	end

    if episode == "" then
		print( "Vous devez fournir un numero d'episode !" ) ; return
	else
		if type(tonumber(episode)) == "number" then
			episode = "ep"..tostring(tonumber(episode))
		end
	end

	if program == "" then
		termClear()
		write( "Connexion... " )
		local response = http.get("https://github.com/PofMagicfingers/lpa_computercraft/file-list/"..episode)
		if response then
			local sResponse = response.readAll()
			response.close()
			printlist(sResponse, episode)
		else
			print( "Echec." )
			print( " " )
			print( "Verifiez le point suivant :" )
			print( "  - (episode) : est un nombre")
			print("")
			print( "	  exemple : lpa 3 " )
			print("")
		end
		return
	end
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	write( "Connexion... " )
	local response = http.get("https://raw2.github.com/PofMagicfingers/lpa_computercraft/"..episode.."/"..program..".lua")
	if not response then
		response = http.get("https://raw2.github.com/PofMagicfingers/lpa_computercraft/"..episode.."/"..program)
	end
	if response then
		print( "OK !" )
		local sResponse = response.readAll()
		response.close()

	    local sPath = shell.resolve( program )

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		if spec_response then
			local tResponse = textutils.unserialize(spec_response.readAll())
			spec_response.close()
			if tResponse and tResponse["installPath"] then
				sPath = tResponse["installPath"] ; program = sPath
			end
		end

		sDirPath = string.match(sPath, "(.-)([^/]-)$")

		pcall(function() fs.makeDir(sDirPath) end)

		if (not fs.isDir( sDirPath ) and fs.exists( sDirPath )) then
			print("Impossible de creer le dossier d'installation "..sDirPath)
			print("Creez le dossier manuellement et reessayez.")
			return
		end

		if fs.exists( sPath ) then
			if fs.isDir( sPath ) then
				print("Un dossier "..sPath.." existe deja, renommez le ou supprimez le pour pouvoir installer ce programme")
				return
			else
				local override = ""
				printed = 0
				while override ~= "n" and override ~= "o" do
					if printed == 3 then
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						printed = 0
					end
					print( "Le programme "..program.." existe !" )
					print( "Remplacer ? (o pour oui, n pour non)" )
					print( " " )
					event, override = os.pullEvent ("char")
					printed = printed + 1
				end
				if override == "n" then return end
			end
		end

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		file.write( sResponse )
		file.close()
		print( " " )
		print( "Nouvelle commande : "..program )
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		print( " " )
		print( "Telechargement accompli." )
	else
		print( "Echec." )
		print( " " )
		print( "Verifiez les points suivant :" )
		print( "  - (program) : majuscules importantes" )
		print( "  - (episode) : est un nombre")
		print( " ")
		print( "exemple : lpa 3 programmeCool " )
		print(" ")
	end
end

local gui_mode = false
if #tArgs < 1 then
	printUsage()
	return
end
local episode = tArgs[1] or ""
local program = tArgs[2] or ""
getFile(episode, program)

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SCHOOLS EXPLAINED
What's the difference between grammar, state and private schools and what is Theresa May's free school expansion?
If you're thinking ahead to your child's secondary school place, these are the options which might be available to you
By Becky Pemberton and Sara Kamouni
DECIDING where to send your children to school can be agonising decision.
Here we give you the low-down on the state, grammar and private school systems to give you a better idea of what you are signing up for.
Theresa May had planned to reintroduce grammar schools - but the proposal was unpopularCredit: Rex Features
What's the difference between state, grammar and private schools?
State schools
State schools can be divided into two categories: academies and maintained schools.
Academies are publicly funded, but independent - meaning they have more control over the curriculum and other aspects of the school.
They're held accountable for their performance through a funding agreement.
Meanwhile, maintained state schools are overseen by the local authority, and have to follow the national curriculum and stick to national pay and conditions for teachers.
Grammar schools are also state-funded but they select their pupils using an entrance exam called the 11-plus.
The 11-plus usually involves sections on Maths, English, Verbal Reasoning and Non-Verbal Reasoning.
But critics of grammar schools say they don't meet their aim of giving opportunities to brighter pupils, regardless of their background - as poorer kids' 11-plus results are undermined by other children whose parents pay for expensive tutoring.
Private school fees can be reduced with bursaries and scholarshipsCredit: Rex Features
Private schools charge fees to attend - which, according to research reported by the BBC, range from £13,194 to £30,369 on average per year.
The more expensive private schools tend to be boarding schools, with the fees covering living costs during term time.
Private school fees can be reduced through scholarships, based on academic talent or other abilities in sport or music - while some offer discounts for multiple siblings attending the school.
Similarly to grammar schools, private schools can be selective, and often have an admissions test to choose their pupils.
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Free schools were first approved in the Academies Act 2010 and championed by former Education Secretary Michael Gove.
They are not council-run, but are funded by the government, and often set up by parents, charities, businesses, and religious groups.
Therefore, they do not need to follow a national curriculum and can set their own pay and conditions for teachers, but are not permitted to make a profit.
In the October 2017 Tory Party Conference, the PM reaffirmed her pledge and promised to build 100 free schools every year that she is in parliament.
In May 2018, Education Secretary Damian Hinds announced schools in England would receive £50m to create new places.
But the announcement was met with a furious reaction by the National Education Union which said: "The grammar school corpse has climbed out of its coffin once again despite evidence of the damage that selective education causes."
The programme is now being redirected towards the worst-performing areas of England, particularly the North East.
Ministers said they will be targeting the next wave of about 35 new schools in the bottom third of lowest-performing areas - following criticism that the programme had focused on the wealthier South East.
Shami Chakrabarti insists she isn't a hypocrite for sending son to private school
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Home Entertainment Total War Warhammer 3 Delayed Release Until Early 2022
Total War Warhammer 3 Delayed Release Until Early 2022
Total War Warhammer 3: Creative Assembly decides to delay the release of Total War: Warhammer 3 due to the need for "more time" for development.Total War: Warhammer 3 moves its release until the start of 2022. Creative Assembly takes advantage of the asocial networks to announce the delay, encouraged by the need to have "extra time" with which "to be able to fulfill more" than they could if they ran to get to this year.
"After almost a decade in the development of the Total War: Warhammer trilogy, it feels unreal to see that we are close to the release of the final chapter," the company begins in the statement. "While it's tempting to race to the finish line, we've made the decision to move the 2021 release of Total War: Warhammer 3 to early 2022 to have a little more time."
From Creative Assembly they assure that the wait "will not be much longer", and that during these months they have "a lot of new information" to share. "The new date will make the launch stronger and the best first step in this era for Total War: Warhammer," they emphasize. "We don't view the release as the end of our trilogy, but rather the beginning of years of content and support as we continue to scale the fantasy universe from Games Workshop to Total War," concludes Rob Bartholomew, chief product officer at the studio.
On May 13 we were able to offer you our first impressions with the game. In the preview, which you can read at this link, we said that that time with the game was enough to verify that the studio "continues to take care of one of its most representative works with care. ". "The active incorporation of the forces of chaos is a key piece in what is the architecture of the trilogy and the final design of Mortal Empires, so we are left wanting to have a more intimate knowledge of these four factions, their units own and how their traits and characteristics will be transferred to the world of Total War, in addition to all the mystery that surrounds Cathay ".
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> Noxum excels as Partner
Noxum excels as Partner
Noxum GmbH recognized as finalist for 2015 Microsoft Data Platform Partner of the Year Awards
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the past year.
Wuerzburg, June 11, 2015 —Noxum GmbH today announced it has been named a finalist in the 2015 Microsoft Data Platform Partner of the Year Awards. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.
"This achievement honors our whole team and our hard work updating our product portfolio to become Cloud-ready. After initiating Cloud Computing in 2009 Noxum focused very early on the Microsoft Cloud. As Gold Application Development and Gold Cloud Platform Partner we seek to continue to grow our business following this path. The finalist award proves to potential customers that our technological and business choices are future-safe and up-to-snuff with the latest advances," said Norbert Klinnert, CEO, Noxum GmbH.
Awards were presented in several categories, with winners chosen from a set of more than 2,300 entrants from 108 different countries worldwide. Noxum GmbH was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in Data Platform Partner of the Year Award.
The Data Platform Partner of the Year Award recognizes a partner that delivers an outstanding solution based on the Microsoft Data Platform. The finalist has empowered a customer with a solution that takes advantage of the leading capabilities of the data platform for mission critical applications with a focus on high availability, performance or high scale or hybrid applications using Microsoft's cloud data services. The solution must use premium editions of Microsoft SQL Server in a mission-critical environment or in conjunction with Microsoft Azure SQL Database.
"We are honored to recognize Noxum GmbH as this year's FINALIST of the 2015 Microsoft Data Platform Partner of the Year awards for its nomination Publishing system integrated in Microsoft Azure," said Phil Sorgen, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group, Microsoft Corp. "Noxum GmbH's dedication to providing outstanding value for our mutual customers is a prime example of the excellence we see in our talented community of Microsoft partners."
Read the Microsoft press release which provides information about the Microsoft Partner Awards.


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Laura has a degree in Biology and a MSc in Neuropsychology from the University of Toulouse, France. She completed her PhD in Psychology, Education and Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge in 2014, where she investigated the relationship between emotion regulation and inhibitory control in children and adults, using EEG. She then worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Cambridge Prosociality and Well-Being Lab at the University of Cambridge where she looked at the relationship between emotions, happiness and mental health, such as the effect of yoga on well-being, or how to better cope with stress.
Laura started her lectureship at Bournemouth University in October 2016, where she is working on understanding the role of emotions in mental health and well-being.
One of her project funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme uses EEG to investigate the neural basis of emotion processing and regulation in eating disorders. In another project, she looks at developing early interventions/preventions using mobile phones to help individuals with a gambling problem to better regulate their emotions and gamble more responsibly... She is also working on a project looking at the link between autism and eating disorders, as well as a project looking at emotions in digital addiction.
She is currently looking for PhD students to supervise in these areas.
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Still, you did well by sharing with me in my hardship.
Nevertheless, it was kind of you to share my troubles.
Nevertheless ye did well having shared with my affliction.
Howbeit ye did well that ye had fellowship with my affliction.
But it was right and commendable and noble of you to contribute for my needs and to share my difficulties with me.
Nevertheless, it was really good of you people to share [with me] during my troubles [i.e., imprisonment].
Yet you have done well in contributing to the relief of my affliction.
But you did well to have care for me in my need.
Yet it was good of you to share in my troubles.
But ye have done well in taking part in my affliction.
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But it was very kind of you to share my difficulties.
Nevertheless ye have done well, that ye did communicate to me in my affliction.
Notwithstanding ye have done well, that ye did communicate with my tribulation.
But ye did well, participating together in my pressure.
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Notwithstanding, you have acted nobly in making yourselves comrades in my trouble.
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Nevertheless, nobly, have ye done, in taking fellowship with me in my tribulation.
Nevertheless ye have done nobly in your communications to me during my affliction.
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well, good, full well, .
I should have this opinion of you, being sensible you make the dispensation I am under a common concern, with respect to my confinement, and the defence and confirmation of the gospel.
his lord said to him, well done, thou art an honest faithful servant; thou hast been faithful in a small trust, I will give thee a much larger trust; go in and partake of thy master's diversions.
they have thought fit, I say, and they owed them as much. for if the Gentiles have participated of their spirituals, they are bound on their side to minister to them in their temporals.
or is it said, no doubt, for our sakes? for our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he who plows should plow in hope; and that he who thresheth should expect the advantage.
Let him that is instructed in the word freely communicate his good things to him that teaches him.
I have now receiv'd the whole, and have more than sufficient: I am loaded with the presents you sent by Epaphroditus, which I have receiv'd as grateful incense, as a sacrifice which God accepts and approves.
for you were passionately affected for those who were in bonds, and were pleas'd at the seizing of your goods, knowing that you have what is more excellent and lasting.
but don't forget to be beneficent to the community; for such sacrifice is acceptable to God.
My dear child, whatever you do in behalf of the brethren, and of those who are strangers, is commendable.
I JOHN, who am your brother, and partake in the tribulation, in the reign, and in the patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony I gave of Jesus Christ.


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Enormous cost of violence against children revealed
It's a problem involving 154,302 children and costs a staggering $34.2 billion each year. But the true price is incalculable.
Shannon Molloy
This awareness campaign was developed with the assistance of child victims of sexual, emotional and physical violence.
The cost of violence against children to NSW alone is more than $11 billion a year.Source:Supplied
For the first time, economic modelling has put a dollar figure on the cost of violence against children and young people — and it's staggering.
Research to be released today has mapped the immediate and long-term economic consequences of the crisis in a bid to educate people about how serious it is.
The New South Wales Advocate for Children and Young People commissioned Deloitte Access Economics for the study, which found the total cost in NSW alone is $11.2 billion annually.
That's based on the latest data from 2016-17, showing there were 154,302 children and young people subjected to physical, sexual and emotional violence across the state, or an average of 18 every single hour.
Nationally, the economic toll is a staggering $34.2 billion a year, comprising immediate and direct cost, as well as long-term and indirect costs.
"No one wants harm done to anyone, but particularly, I think, nobody wants harm done to children," Andrew Johnson, the NSW Advocate, told news.com.au.
"We can all agree on that. But now, on top of that consensus, we know that there's an economic imperative to act."
The calculated annual direct economic and non-direct cost of violence against children and young people.Source:Supplied
The reason for putting a dollar figure on such a heartbreaking issue, and one that understandably makes some people uncomfortable to talk about, was to prompt people to say "enough is enough", Mr Johnson said.
The organisation conducted polling of adults to measure attitudes towards the problem and willingness to be part of the solution. It found while most had a grasp on the types of violence that children were subjected to, they underestimated how many victims there were.
"They think it's a couple of hundred a year," Mr Johnson said.
"When adults are first asked about violence against children, they grossly underestimate the number of cases. They get the issue, but they don't think it's prevalent."
RELATED: Overcoming an abusive childhood — a personal story
Violence is one of the biggest causes of youth homelessness.Source:istock
But on the huge number itself — 154,302 child victims a year in NSW — Mr Johnson fears it's also much higher than that.
"Not everyone discloses the violence that happens to them," he said.
Of the total economic cost annually in NSW, the bulk is borne by individuals and the broader community to the tune of $8.2 billion. The rest is borne by governments.
"Every act of violence against children and young people causes enormous physical, sexual or
psychological damage, however this report outlines the magnitude of violence against children and young people from a financial perspective," Mr Johnson said.
Violence against children can be physical, sexual and emotional. There were at least 154,000 victims in NSW alone in a single year.Source:Supplied
The report delves into the long-term impact violence has on young victims, including the cost to them as well as the health, education, family, community services and housing sectors.
"Our diagnosis of the issue is that we need a public health approach to this issue. And we need to bring the general public along with us," Mr Johnson said.
As well as educating people about the magnitude of the problem, he said the community had a number of misconceptions about victims and the consequences of violence.
"People might think it's disadvantaged communities where this is happening, but it's not the case — not at all. All children, regardless of social and economic status, can be victims of violence," Mr Johnson said.
In addition, violence against children and young people is likely to lead to a number of adverse societal outcomes.
"Particularly for young people experiencing homelessness, they tell us that one of the major reasons was violence they had suffered in the home. It wasn't the only reason but it was a big one," Mr Johnson said.
RELATED: The horrific mental health aftermath of child sexual abuse
Where the cost of child violence is distributed across government, services and community.Source:Supplied
Long-term consultation with tens of thousands of young people delivered startling insights into violence and its impact, he said.
"We asked them where this kind of violence occurs and they told us a whole host of areas that can really be described as 'anywhere and everywhere'," Mr Johnson said.
Following the release of the report, Mr Johnson said a "Solutions Summit" would be held next month to develop actions to respond to and prevent violence in NSW.
The Advocate for Children and Young People is also running a powerful campaign — End Violence against Children Now and Forever. It encourages people to sign a pledge to do their bit to take action.
If you or someone you know needs help, contact Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 or visit kidshelpline.com.au
In an emergency, please call triple-0
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Study co-authored by UCI's Elizabeth Loftus finds lawyers overly optimistic about case outcomes.
Lawyers often overestimate their chances of success when predicting the outcomes of civil and criminal cases, reports a new study co-authored by UC Irvine psychologist and law professor Elizabeth Loftus.
It also found that attorneys' ability to accurately foresee case results does not increase with years of legal experience and that women are better predictors of case outcomes than men. The research supports previous findings that overconfidence is common in human decision-making generally.
This has serious implications since lawyers advise clients and make strategic decisions on their behalf based on perceived odds of success. If attorney expectations are unrealistic, clients can suffer, Loftus says.
The study is the first to explore predicted outcomes of real legal cases in a large national sample and appears online in the May issue of Psychology, Public Policy & Law, a journal of the American Psychological Association.
Loftus and her colleagues surveyed 481 U.S. lawyers who represented plaintiffs and defendants in criminal and civil cases expected to go to trial in six to 12 months.
The attorneys were asked: What would be a win situation in terms of your minimum goal for the outcome of this case? They then rated their confidence of achieving that goal on a scale from 0 to 100 percent.
In follow-up interviews, researchers found that 44 percent of outcomes were less successful than the goals set by lawyers. Thirty-two percent matched the goals, and 24 percent exceeded them.
Attorneys with confidence levels above 65 percent were less likely to meet their stated goals than colleagues with less confidence. Those with confidence levels of 86 to 100 percent actually achieved their aims only 70 percent of the time.
Judgmental errors can be costly for lawyers and their clients, she says, and place an unnecessary burden on an already overloaded justice system. "A client will be more satisfied with an attorney who's realistic than one who pushes litigation without delivering results," she notes.
Loftus worked on the study with Jane Goodman-Delahunty of Australia's Charles Sturt University; Pär Anders Granhag of the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden; and Maria Hartwig of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in New York.


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Our Commitment to Immigrant Rights: How We Compare Nationally and What We've Learned along the Way
The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy published a striking report recently on funding for pro-immigrant movements by U.S. foundations. Among their findings is the unfortunate reality immigrant communities face when seeking resources for their movements:
"According to Foundation Center data, between 2011 and 2015, barely 1% of all money granted by the 1,000 largest U.S. foundations was intended to benefit immigrants and refugees."
The report also highlights the increasing need for support in combatting anti-immigrant groups and the narratives they spread—and calls for more funding for activist-led organizing, and more equal distribution of resources across the national and grassroots levels. The report shows that 65% of grants went to "national organizations doing litigation and federal policy advocacy through the courts and Congress" while national and state groups shared remaining resources. This means only a small fraction of total grants went directly to grassroots organizations.
This leads us to ask: how do we compare? The question is critical because immigrants make up nearly 38% of Brooklyn's population. Last year, through both our Immigrant Rights Fund and Invest in Youth grant program, we deployed $929,800 to 44 pro-immigrant organizations—representing nearly 25% of our overall Community Fund discretionary grant funding.
For our Immigrant Rights Fund, we specifically designed an approach aimed at supporting small, grassroots organizations led by trusted members of their communities, which are unlikely to attract the kind of resources large national nonprofits do. The approach starts with a "Request for Conversation" through which nonprofits reach out to us to discuss their immediate and long-term needs by phone rather than through a traditional, potentially onerous, application process. Our IRF grantees are also focused on direct service, community organizing, and policy and advocacy work—all essential components of effective movement building.
In the more than two years since the launch of our Immigrant Rights Fund, we have learned a great deal about the critical importance of supporting grassroots pro-immigrant groups—chief among them is that investing in hyperlocal pro-immigrant strategies and movements has repercussions at the national level.
From Brooklyn Defender Services suing ICE for violating immigrants' right to due process, to Safe Passage and Legal Aid Society bringing a class action suit in federal court for their handling of child separation at the border, and the large number of our grantees that are leading the ICE Out of Courts campaign—local Brooklyn organizations are making significant contributions to the national fight, and our support for them has never been more important or had greater impact.
View NCRP's "The State of Foundation Grantmaking for Pro-Immigrant Movement" Brief
Immigrant Rights Fund, Immigrant Youth
This leads us to ask: how do we compare?


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In 2012, Yonkers resident Janet Roma, then 52, found out her kidneys were damaged due to complications from long-standing diabetes. It was only a matter of time before her kidneys would fail completely. Roma had two options: go on dialysis (an artificial blood-cleaning process) or receive a healthy kidney from a donor. Little did she know, her journey to a new kidney would traverse three states and involve six people, mostly strangers, all of whom were involved with the United Network for Organ Sharing.
More than 29 million people in the United States have diabetes, the most common cause of kidney failure. Our kidneys keep our bodies balanced; they remove waste products and extra water, help manufacture red blood cells, and help to control blood pressure. Kidney failure means that 85 to 90 percent of your kidney function is gone and your kidneys cannot work well enough to keep you alive. Each year, between 14,000 and 15,000 people have a kidney transplant, with more than 100,000 waiting.
While dialysis can effectively manage irreversible kidney failure, it's far from perfect. "For anyone on dialysis, the sooner the transplant the better," says Roma's physician, Thomas Diflo, Director of Renal Transplantation at Westchester Medical Center. "Long-term survival is much improved with a new kidney. For an insulin-dependent diabetic on dialysis, the five-year survival rate is 20 percent; with a kidney transplant it's 80 percent." Moreover, for many people, a kidney transplant affords them a better quality of life than dialysis, according to the National Kidney Foundation, since it may mean greater freedom, more energy and a less strict diet.
Steven Roma (right) as a child, with his older brother, Michael.
Roma's decision to undergo a kidney transplant was easy. "I'd had so many surgeries through the years, that another one was not a big deal," she says. Donated kidneys come from two sources—either from recently deceased donors, or from living donors, who might be immediate or extended family, or even unrelated individuals. But matches cannot always be found immediately, and the wait can oftentimes take several years.
Fortunately, Roma did not have to search too far to find her new kidney: Her son, Steven, then 24, offered his.
The decision to donate his kidney to his mom was a "no-brainer," says the banker. "My dad passed away right before I graduated high school, and I didn't want to lose my only living parent," he says. Even better, tests determined that his kidney was a compatible match. "Steven was healthy, and really wanted to help his mom," says his physician, Michael Grasso, MD, Director of the Living Donor Surgery Program at Westchester Medical Center.
That might be where the story ends, but it's not. The road to Roma's transplant proved to be much more difficult than anyone could anticipate. The procedure had to be postponed because of a series of health setbacks related to her diabetes, which required multiple hospital stays.
Finally, in 2014, all systems were go. Roma was deemed healthy enough for the transplant. But now her son's kidney was no longer a viable match. When another crossmatch was performed—compatibility tests continually need to be updated—it was found that she had developed antibodies and would end up rejecting the very kidney intended to save her. "If I got Steven's kidney, I was told I'd lose it within six months," she explains.
Roma was running out of time and was determined to find a solution. A meeting was promptly scheduled with the hospital's transplant team to review her options.
"That's when I learned about something called a paired exchange program," she says. When donor-recipient couples do not match each other, they can participate in a "swap" with other couples, so that each recipient can receive a kidney with a compatible blood type. The pairs are able to donate to each other's partners; this way, several transplants can take place at once, each with matching donors.
Days after all of Roma's medical information was entered into the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), an appropriate match was identified. "We never expected it to be so fast," she says.
At three different hospitals around the country, all the donors were fully evaluated; then their records and blood samples were sent to the other recipient centers to make sure all the pairs were compatible.
A Florida donor's kidney would be removed, preserved and packed in ice, then flown on a commercial jet to a waiting recipient in a Connecticut hospital. In turn, the Connecticut donor's kidney would undergo the same procedure and be driven to Roma at Westchester Medical Center. And finally, Steven's kidney would be removed and whisked off by air to a waiting recipient in Florida.
Contingency plans must be put in place, said Ginny Miele, the hospital's renal transplant coordinator, who worked closely with the team to orchestrate this delicate balancing act. "The logistics and coordination are complicated," she says.
All six people have to stay healthy. If someone has a fever the day of surgery, it's called off—for everyone. If one person changes their mind at the last minute, none of the transplants can be performed. There has to be a back-up recipient in case the waiting recipient can't get the kidney. "The last thing we want is for a good kidney to go to waste," Miele says.
On the morning of July 23, 2014, two years after Steven Roma elected to give his mother his kidney, all six donor-recipients arrived at their respective hospitals at 4:30 am, ready to share the gift of life with one another and prepare for their journey of giving and receiving. The donor's surgeries were performed first, with an open line of communication established in all the operating rooms in each hospital, so that the teams could stay apprised of the progress or any potential problems.
By late in the day, with all six surgeries successfully accomplished, all six patients were recuperating and beginning their healing process. Not only did visits from her family help to lift Roma's spirits, but so did her medical team.
After a five-day hospital stay, Roma and her son returned home, where they would recuperate together. A few weeks later, Steven went back to work in nearby Mamaroneck. Roma, now freed from dialysis, continues to build up her strength and monitor her health with regular visits to her doctor.
1. Keep blood pressure and cholesterol within normal ranges.
2.If you have diabetes, keep your blood glucose levels under control.
3. Limit alcohol intake, and don't smoke.
4. Lose weight if you're overweight.
5. Cut back on salt.
For more information about organ transplants, contact Westchester Medical Center at www.westchestermedicalcenter.com/transplant.


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Happy Friday! Welcome to another special edition of an occasional segment I'm putting together called The Friday Forty. Consider it a definitive list on all sorts of music-related topics. It's been a while since the last one, but I hope you enjoy my latest list.
Today, June 21, marks the Summer Solstice, and while the weather may feel like the summer's already come, this would officially be the start of it. So, get out your shades and your sunscreen because the beach party awaits. You may have your favorite song that reminds you of summer, but how about the songs that actually have "summer" in the titles? From the breeze to the girls to the nights, there's a lot to love about summer, and here are 40 of the biggest "summer" songs that have graced the charts over the past 50 years.
From Bel-Air to the charts.
Once upon a time, Will Smith actually paid the bills by rapping his way onto the charts. So, when he (as The Fresh Prince) and his main man DJ Jazzy Jeff hadn't scored a big hit in three years, they decided to tackle a song about babes, basketball and barbecues. It became the biggest hit of their career, launching into the top 5 while Smith was also starring on The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. After one more album together and a few more seasons of his television show, Smith had his own solo career for a few years, tellin' us how to get jiggy with it and party for the Willenium. He's still acting today and so is his son, Jaden.
"New Kids On The Block had a bunch of hits…" and so did this Boston trio. The Lyte Funkie Ones decided that after a few singles using that name, they should just shorten it to LFO. After a demo tape of this song made it into the hands of the program director at a Washington, D.C. radio station, he knew it was a hit, and he put it on the air in its unmixed form. This move led to airplay around the country and in the heat of the boy band invasion, a physical single sold well enough to lead it into the top 5 on the Hot 100. The group recorded one additional album released in 2001. Lead singer Rich Cronin passed away in 2010.
Released as the third single from Marx's self-titled debut album, this ballad recalls the protagonist's memories of a summer love and all the good times they had together. Marx didn't have to look far for the inspiration for it; the song was written after a trip to Hawaii that he took with his now-wife, former Animotion singer Cynthia Rhodes. However, the male in the song doesn't end up with the girl when the season ends; he just has those images in his mind of what once was. It was Marx's biggest hit at that time in his career, peaking at #2 in the spring of 1988, blocked behind Michael Jackson's "Man In The Mirror".
Out of New York, John Sebastian and his band The Lovin' Spoonful hit it big with a string of singles beginning in 1965 including "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?", "Do You Believe In Magic?" and "You Didn't Have To Be So Nice". However, it was in the summer of 1966 that they scored the biggest of the top-selling tracks, which spent three weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 in August. By 1967, group members began to exit the band, and Sebastian was gone the next year. However, he managed to score another #1 in 1976 as he was welcomed back to the charts with the theme from Welcome Back, Kotter.
Combining members of the Stone family with several other musicians, Sly & The Family Stone became one of the top R&B acts of the 1960's with a soulful, funkadelic sound that pleased several audiences. Originally released as a stand-alone single, "Fun" was eventually featured on the group's Greatest Hits album in 1970. Both the single and album peaked at #2 on their respective charts, with "Fun" also making the top ten on the year-end chart. After "Family Affair" and There's A Riot Goin' On rose to the top in 1971, drug abuse and the egos of various band members tore the group apart, eventually splitting by 1975.
Thanks for taking some time and checking out another of the Friday Forty posts and if you have any suggestions for themes or a favorite song on the list, let me know! Post away in the comments or find on Twitter: @AdamFSoybel. Until then, keep cool and enjoy the warm days while they're here.


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