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Artist Mel Chin revisits home in Houston.
That said, as Chin’s traveling rematch enters its third round (the second was St. Louis), “Don’t look back” is easier said than done. Houston is his hometown, the land of his birth, youth and emergence as an artist. Here, Chin faces off against not just his past self and work, but the city that made him who he is.
Trying to succinctly summarize Chin’s lifetime body of work is like trying to fit a grid to Houston’s famously unzoned sprawl. And yet here it is, on display for city dwellers to examine and make of what they will.
Chin’s retrospective will dominate the Houston museum world for the next two months, with major exhibits at Blaffer Art Museum, Asia Society, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Station Museum of Contemporary Art. There’s no comparison for it in terms of number of institutions involved since the Robert Rauschenberg retrospective in 1998. Trying to succinctly summarize Chin’s lifetime body of work is like trying to fit a grid to Houston’s famously unzoned sprawl. And yet here it is, on display for city dwellers to examine and make of what they will.
Prominent examples of such incidents include Chin’s “Revival Field” (1990-97), a scientifically significant land-art project that has helped identify plants that can remove certain toxic metals from contaminated soil; “The Name of the Place” (1995-97), a collaboration with fellow artists and the producers of Melrose Place to embed socially progressive product placements and images in the props and sets of the TV soap opera; and “Operation Paydirt” (ongoing since 2006), a multistage “social sculpture” aimed at curtailing childhood lead poisoning in New Orleans’ most impoverished and crime-ridden neighborhoods.
“Operation Paydirt” dominates Chin’s last 10 years of artistic practice. It includes several ongoing subprojects. “The Fundred Dollar Bill Project” invites schoolchildren and museumgoers alike to illustrate their own paper hundred-dollar bills. This artistic currency will eventually be hauled to Washington, D.C., where Chin will demand an equivalent dollar amount of government funding to remediate New Orleans’ soil. “Now You See It,” an educational animation on the dangers of lead poisoning, has shown on the Los Angeles public bus system, among other venues. “Sous Terre,” an armored truck for transporting fundred-dollar bills, has taken Chin’s show on the road across the country. “Safehouse” was a temporary art space and project headquarters in New Orleans designed as a bank vault, complete with a giant steel door mounted on a formerly derelict house.
Long before he became the sort of artist from whom one could attempt to piece together a “healing program for the future,” Chin was a mischievous preadolescent knocking around his parents’ store, Wholesome Foods Market, in Houston’s historically black Kashmere Gardens neighborhood. Young Chin preferred to work the meat counter because butcher paper could be repurposed for drawing. He also showed an early knack for sculpture, carving a memorial bust of John F. Kennedy out of meat soon after the president’s death in 1963. Customers were disturbed, and Chin’s father instructed him to stop making meat sculptures.
At age 14, just months after his parents moved the family to the suburbs, Chin experienced an unexplained psychological episode, entering an ambulatory catatonic state that would last for 13 months. His parents explored hospitalization but decided against it. Chin woke from his stupor to find he had lost three years of memory. He had to reteach himself to draw. (Before and after this episode, Chin attended after-school art classes at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.) Years later, as a 20-something just beginning to share his art with the public, Chin would exhibit a series of paintings titled “I Live in a Suburban Cell,” in which he re-imagined his parents’ living room as a padded cell in a psychiatric institution.
Chin left Houston for college, studying art at George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee. Almost immediately upon his return, he submitted his “Western Dynasty Urns” (1974) to James Harithas, then curator of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Chin had crafted the urns in college according to ancient Sung dynasty-era Chinese pottery techniques, adding the kitsch flourish of Texas longhorns. Chin proposed that the urns be buried underneath the museum for 100 years, where they might eventually revise the archeological record and situate the Chinese as aboriginal founders of Texas. Harithas didn’t bite on the urn proposal, but he did become Chin’s friend and one of his earliest collectors and champions. An urn from the series is finally on display at the museum as part of the current retrospective.
Chin took on odd jobs in the Houston art world. “I handled everything from Matisses to pieces by Goya, Titian and Warhol,” he has said. “I saw firsthand all the great art that came through Houston.” He also saw most of the homegrown art of the era after moving out of his parents’ garage and into the heart of Houston’s young creative culture. His reputation as an artist grew, too, and he began to earn commissions. In 1978, he installed (and by some accounts briefly lived inside of) “Manila Palm: An Oasis Secret,” a 50-foot-tall steel-and-fiberglass palm tree emerging from a pyramid that has stood sentry outside the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston ever since. It is the forward-looking museum’s only permanent installation.
Chin had left Houston for New York in 1983, never to return as a full-time resident. Before he left, he was commissioned to create the canvas “Untitled (Terra Infirma).” That work, which Chin calls a “departure painting,” speaks to a reckoning with his hometown that would inform his later environmental activism. The enormous encaustic painting, currently hanging at Blaffer beside the “Safehouse” vault door, depicts a sickly bayou landscape populated by a pair of palm trees, a dark pool suggesting oil, and a building located on Allen Parkway that Chin found interesting. He tells me that an early version of the canvas featured a human figure: the “Sulking Lady” from a short story by Houston experimental writer Donald Barthelme. The “apprehensive creature,” as Chin calls her, was eventually removed and the landscape left to speak for itself. “I was observing the petrochemical history we’re all part of, watching it come crashing down in that period,” he tells me.
As for his current relationship with Houston, Chin says it’s defined both by roots and by entrenched systems he still wants to confront. “It’s not the heat. It’s the humanity,” he says, attributing the quote to songwriter Townes Van Zandt, another sometime Houstonian who had a complicated relationship to the city.
In Houston, I talked to several experts on Chin’s work and on the local art world, including retrospective curator Miranda Lash and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston curator of contemporary arts Alison de Lima Greene. Neither would go so far as to define Chin as a Houston artist, but both spoke of the importance of the city to his work and, conversely, of Chin’s importance to Houston, especially now that he is an artist of international stature.
Greene suggested that Chin’s sensibility has been shaped by Houston’s troubled racial history, including the violent police invasion of Texas Southern University campus in 1967 and the police murder of Joe Campos Torres in 1977. But Chin has rarely chosen Houston-specific incidents to protest or call attention to, especially after he left for New York. “When he did do images that were about outrage and torture and suppression, he did it on a world stage,” Greene said.
Many such images can be viewed at the Asia Society Texas Center and Contemporary Arts Museum portions of the retrospective. For instance, the monumental “Our Strange Flower of Democracy” (2005) replicates a 15,000-pound “Daisy Cutter” bomb in bamboo and coconut twine. The work references World War II Pacific Islander cargo cults that tried to lure U.S. military planes through sympathetic magic, not knowing what terrible gifts the planes could bestow. The video game “KNOWMAD” (1999) presciently contrasts the textile-based mnemonic traditions of central Asian tribes with the ultra-high-tech vehicles that increasingly police the region on behalf of world powers. Players sit at a driving simulator and race through various desert tents festooned with dazzling rug patterns, trying to find a MacGuffin. The sleek, phallic “Night Rap” (1994) responds to Rodney King’s beating by police and celebrates the hard-edged Los Angeles rap music that followed in its wake. The sculpture is a real policeman’s baton retrofitted as a directional microphone with an onyx hard-on for a handle.
Chin has maintained a steady interest in African-American sociopolitical struggles throughout his career. In 1994, two of his works, including “Night Rap,” were included in a major traveling exhibition about black masculinity that opened at the Whitney and Hammer Museums in New York and Los Angeles, respectively. Other subjects of Chin’s art include faulty Firestone tires, domestic terrorism in Corsica, racial real estate barriers in Austin and the political imprisonment of Pakistani poet and Communist leader Jam Saqi.
Such homework can take many forms. Sometimes it leads Chin down strange and obscure cul-de-sacs, like the time he measured the trajectory of shrapnel from cluster bombs to create jewelry mimicking those geometries on the human body (“Cluster,” 2005-6). Such works are intellectually demanding, and to view so many side by side in a retrospective can overwhelm. Just as often, however, Chin’s works do the opposite, offering stunning clarity. Many of his simplest-looking works contain whole histories of inequity, not to mention hours or years of sincere striving for solutions and new ways of thinking.
It’s hard to conceive today just how outside the art world mainstream “Revival Field” was in the early 1990s. Even the famous earthworks of the 1970s, such as Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty,” had been focused on making an aesthetic imprint on the surface of the Earth, not a holistic remediation of the Earth’s invisible contents. John Frohnmayer, the chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) at the time, personally withdrew a grant the NEA had made to Chin to support the work. The NEA informed Chin that Frohnmayer was “not persuaded … that the artistic aims as outlined in the application were sufficient to merit arts endowment funding.” In other words, Chin’s proposal was either too political or not sufficiently aesthetic to merit funding under the George H.W. Bush administration.
“[Frohnmayer] was trying to define art as a beautifully crafted object,” Greene tells me. “But art ended up developing in a very different direction. Mel was not the first, but he became the lightning rod for that necessary moment of change.” Thanks in part to vociferous support from artist organizations and museum directors nationwide, including Suzanne Delehanty of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Chin was able to convince Frohnmayer to undo his veto. The only stipulation was that Chin better define the “aesthetics of the earthwork.” These attempts to reconcile his “social sculpture” vision with the museum- and gallery-based tradition, including drawings, diagrams and dioramas, can be seen on the walls of Blaffer in the current exhibition.
It remains to be seen if “Operation Paydirt”—the website of which defines its mission as nothing less than “to imagine, express and actualize a future free of childhood lead poisoning”—will be as successful as the more modest “Revival Field.” But through “Safehouse,” “The Fundred Dollar Bill Project,” “Now You See It,” “Sous Terre” and other subprojects, Chin has mobilized entire communities around his catalytic vision. That, to Chin, is a worthy end in itself.
It’s fitting that this exhibition began in New Orleans. More perhaps than any other city in America, New Orleans has had to confront man-made and racially biased environmental catastrophes head-on. Houston has been spared the worst, so far.
Chin’s work is poised to grow more resonant as we move deeper into this troubled century. The issues that drive him, from racial crimes to environmental inequities, have often been as invisible to the art world as metal contaminants in ghetto soils. Through Chin’s work, as through the growing spate of 21st-century environmental disasters, we begin to see it.

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A famous painter is about to be recognised in a new street art mural in Wellington.
A photo of Rita Angus taken around 1947 by Theo Schoon will be recreated on a building wall on Bond St.
Organiser Bruce Mahalski says it has been three years in the making.
"The first idea we had was something to do with her 1938 self-portrait, which is… the 'Mona Lisa' of New Zealand," he told Newshub.
Angus spent much of her life in the capital.
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The preparation work gets underway Saturday, and the painting will take three weeks to complete.
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It will be third time lucky for organisers.
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I first met Israel Blume, CEO of Coincident Technology, through our mutual friend Dan Meinwald, of E.A.R.-USA, during the Consumer Electronics Show of 2002. Over the years, Israel and I have spent a good chunk of time talking about speaker technology, and crossover and cabinet design. Being a past tinkerer with speaker enclosures, it was nice to get the inside scoop from one of the most respected speaker designers of our industry. I place Israel right up there with Michael Kelly of Aerial Acoustics, Dave Wilson of Wilson Audio, and Jim Thiel (RIP) of Thiel Loudspeaker Design as one of the very best loudspeaker designers this hobby has to offer. While each speaker designer from this distinguished list has their unique take on how a speaker should be designed, it is Israel's highly efficient, easy to drive, and tube friendly designs that captured this reviewer's interest.
The challenge of hi-end audio shows.
I caught up with Israel at last year's 2010 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF) in Denver, Colorado. Let's face the facts; often at hi-fi shows demonstration rooms aren't all that great sounding as compared to a dealer designed sound room, or our beloved listening rooms at home. Often demonstration rooms are too small, don't have the right proportions, and are not well built. All of this translates to a poorly designed room for high end audio listening. I mean come on people; they are hotel rooms you know! Just to be clear and in order to avoid a multitude of e-mails, I am speaking in general terms regarding room size and room design.
Over the course of the three day event RMAF I visited about 75 different rooms. Though there were many rooms that did make beautiful music, there were others that didn't impress me at all. As always, there are a few rooms where everything seems to click into place and sounds fantastic. One room that clearly stood out amongst the crowd was the room put on by none other than Israel Blume of Coincident Technology. At RMAF, Israel was demonstrating his top-of-the-line Coincident Technology Pure Reference Extreme (CPRE) loudspeakers along with the Coincident Statement Linestage, Phonostage, and M300 SET Frankenstein mono-blocks, all hooked up with Coincident Extreme cabling, and the main source being an Esoteric D-05 DAC, and Esoteric P-05 SACD/CD transport. This room sounded fantastic!
What I was hearing from the Coincident Technology room wasn't music emerging from a pair of speakers, but rather the performers emerging from an acoustic space that completely involved and enveloped the listener. That room had the punch of live music, clearly replicating macro and micro dynamic energy with equal skill. Looking at the floor, I realized these speakers were achieving that kind of sound from a pair of flea sized, 8 watt per channel, mono-block amplifiers. Now I was even more impressed. I wanted to know more about these remarkable loudspeakers. During the show I made a point of visiting Coincident's room multiple times. Fact is, the Coincident room sounded so good, I used this room as my main reference point for all other rooms. If I'd had my way, I'd have ordered a pizza, brought in some beer, and done an all nighter.
It's the motion of the ocean that really matters.
Proper speaker matching when using a first order network at 6dB per octave design is essential in order to avoid lobbing effects at the crossover point. Israel solved this issue by choosing the best parts sourced from Accuton and Peerless, all of the drivers are matched within 1% each, and designed to Israel's proprietary specifications. Even the cabinets are designed to perfection using a multiple braced MDF structure, the walls of the cabinet are 1.2" thick, and the baffle for the subwoofers is an industry rarity 2" thick. These basically inert cabinets result in a non-invasive resonant frequency within the cabinet of around 350 Hz. To top things off, all cabinets are finished using the best furniture grade veneer available. The CPREs do not offer bi-wiring.
Regarding bi-wiring, Israel doesn't believe in it. For more information regarding bi-wiring here is an excerpt from Israel's website on the topic.
Bi-wiring is when a loudspeaker has separate connections to the bass and the treble/midrange. The idea is to use individual speaker cables to each section. Besides being profitable to cable manufacturers since the user is required to purchase double the amount of speaker wire, are there any sonic benefits to this arrangement? The answer is yes and no. Yes it is a benefit for loudspeakers that are not properly designed. In speakers where the crossover sections are interdependent and not adequately isolated from one another, bi-wiring will likely offer a sonic benefit. However, in speakers, (like all Coincident models), that have all the crossover sections, (high pass, low pass etc), completely separated and isolated from one another and are run to the binding posts, (as opposed to being interconnected between sections and wiring all the hot and grounds to the speaker's binding posts), bi-wiring affords NO sonic advantage and may actually involve a sonic degradation depending upon the speaker cable used.
Coincident recommends bi-wiring only in those cases where a consumer has the intention of bi-amping his speakers. A bi-wiring option will be necessary if one is bi-amping a system, meaning separate amplifiers will be powering different drivers. Otherwise, bi-wiring is not only totally unnecessary and a waste of money, but a pain in the derriere.
For those who have the some flexibility regarding speaker placement, Israel offers a matching stand (Retail $999) for the CPRE monitors. This gives the end-user the ability to place the monitors in one location for best imaging and sound staging, and place the subwoofer cabinets somewhere else in the room for best bass loading and impact. Pretty cool stuff in my opinion!
Regarding the drivers and parts that populate the CPREs, I feel this needs to be addressed in greater detail. For the CPRE, Israel chose Accuton 1.2" ceramic tweeters that use an under-hung Neodymium magnet system featuring an aluminum voice coil filled with Ferrofluid. This combination promotes excellent heat transfer, higher power handling, wider bandwidth, along with lightning quick transient response time. Couple that with the tweeter being almost razor thin, at 8 0hms across its frequency band, and you have a designer's dream tweeter. Israel states it is next to impossible to blow the tweeters up, I believe him.
3000 Hz because he believes this is a critical point in the midrange. By crossing mid/woofers to the tweeter at 4000Hz this allows the midrange to emerge from the speakers with improved clarity. Most of the midrange is reproduced by the mid/woofer long before any music is sent to the tweeter. Another advantage of crossing over the tweeter at such a high frequency point is that it improves upper-end clarity and power handling. When it comes to handing over the low bass to the subs, Israel tuned and ported the monitor cabinet to naturally roll off the bass at 110dB, thus preventing the use of a large signal choking capacitor. Couple that with Israel using a minimalist crossover with only one capacitor (Mundorf Supreme Silver/Gold/ Oil) in the monitor, and one coil for the subwoofer, it is no wonder these speakers are one of the most transparent loudspeakers I have ever heard to date.
Knowing how impressed I was with the CPREs at RMAF, I tried getting a pair for review. After discussing my current sound room, it was decided that the Coincident Pure Reference (CPR) would be the best speaker for this project. I was giddy with happiness that the CPRs were chosen—they truly seemed like the speaker for me.
Comparing the CPREs to the CPRs, both units use the same drivers, wire, crossover points, and parts. Like the CPREs the CPRs utilize a well braced computer designed MDF cabinet with 1.2" side walls 2" walls for the baffles.
With the kids in day care my wife and I spent the better part of the day un-boxing and setting up the speakers. What a sight to behold! These speakers are drop-dead gorgeous—even my aesthetics conscious wife liked the look of them. My review samples were veneered in a blond ash with the front baffle in flat black. Located at the top of the loudspeaker are the Accuton Ceramic tweeter and mid/bass driver. There are no speaker grills or covers for the front of the loudspeakers. You have to love the look of the white diaphragms of the Accuton tweeters and mid/bass drivers against the black backdrop of the front panel. Normally I like my speakers completely veneered on all sides. In this case it made sense to use the flat black finish on the front speaker baffle as it highlights the drivers.
On the side of the CPRs are two Platinum Line Peerless 12' subwoofers with Nomex cones. Nomex is a synthetic material known to help prevent cone break up. The subwoofers are built to Israel's specifications just like the Accuton tweeters and mid/bass drivers. Finally the subwoofers are stacked on each other in a CAD staggered pattern that helps with the bass loading of the speaker. On the back is a single pair of gold-plated high quality binding posts.
"We don't need no stinking bi-wiring here."
Normally I bi-wire all of my loudspeakers faithfully, but with the CPRs sounding so good in a non bi-wire arrangement, maybe Israel is right by not offering it.
For the purpose of this review the speakers were installed in my main living/dining combo room measuring 13' x 27' with a 22' cathedral ceiling that opens up to a large loft upstairs. By California standards, this is a very large room. I placed the speakers in the back part of the room where one wall is open to the family room, meaning the right speaker did not have the same bass reinforcement as the left speaker. Though one would think this arrangement would be a less than ideal with all of the uneven walls that open up into an upstairs loft, this room works really well as compared to my last sound room. Sound emanating from this room has weight, and it fills the home with music throughout. It is very lifelike due to the large soundstage presented in front of the listener.
Inward or outward—that is the question?
Regarding the placement of the CPRs, subwoofers firing inward or outward, I chose the outward position. Speakers were placed 37" from the side walls, and 44" from the rear wall. The speakers were 88" apart from center of left speaker's tweeter to center of right speaker's tweeter. The listening position was located at 92". Speakers were toed in with the center of each tweeter pointing toward the sweet spot position aimed at just outside the left and right shoulder of the listener.
To place the subwoofer inward facing or outward facing, that is the question--isn't it? Using the inward facing configuration with my current room, bass was not as well defined. It sounded homogenized and sort of weak, translating to one-note type bass that killed the life of the performance. I am sure having my rather large room, and my rig placed in between the speakers didn't help much when the woofers were facing inward as opposed to outward. Perhaps in a smaller room where the rig is on the side wall as opposed to being in between the speakers, inward facing may work. Another factor worth mentioning, in my current room I am using minimal room treatments—no RPG Skyline Diffusers, Sonex panels, or Bass Busters. The room treatments are very simple, the cement foundation is carpeted wall to wall, and a single set of curtains cover the large double paned windows behind the speakers.
My reference gear is as follows: An Audio Horizons 2.2RcvB line stage, a Cary Audio 303t SACD/CD player, a Marantz SA-7s1 SACD/CD player, an E.A.R.-Yoshino 890 KT-90 based tube amplifier, an Anthem Amp-1 SE+ EL-34 based tube amplifier as modified by Parts Connexion, and a Cary Audio Xciter—a 6L6 based 5-watt per channel integrated headphone amplifier. Cables are all Audience Au-24e including the power cords. The line conditioner is an Audience aR6-t (Teflon). The equipment rack is a Townshend Seismic Sink that supports the entire system on a bladder of air—very cool stuff. All in all a pretty sweet rig, it focuses on sound-staging, instrument layering, and PraT. In short, when all things come together my reference system truly boogies with the best of them.
Like any other audiophile, I had to listen to the CPRs prior to full break-in, so I grabbed a couple of my favorite CDs and took a quick listen. I knew right away that my tried and true Aerial 7Bs were not in the same league as the CPRs, even with zero to no break in time. The Aerial 7Bs have been my reference speakers for over seven years, and the CPRs just smoked them—it wasn't even a contest. Everything I liked about the Aerials was clearly improved upon while listening to the CPRs, sound staging was deeper and wider, instrument imaging become sharper and more in focus with the speed, and impact of the CPRs being so fast and realistic it made the 7bs seem like a slug in comparison. Other areas of improvement as compared to my 7Bs are: upper end detail and extension didn't sound bright or overdone, bass production was deeper and snappier, with true low frequency visceral impact and weight.
The dethroning of my longtime steed.
Over the last seven years the Aerial 7Bs have served me well as my main reference loudspeakers. With the CPRs in my rig it was like I dove off of a diving board with a big cannonball splash, landing in the deep end of that preverbal reference loudspeaker swimming pool. Don't get me wrong the Aerial 7Bs are great speakers, but they are clearly NOT a reference speaker of the caliber the CPRs exemplify.
Over the years I have owned a lot of different loudspeakers from varying manufacturers (in order of ownership) starting with Advent, Genesis, A/D/S, Kef, Tannoy, Vandersteen, Meadowlark, JM Labs, and finally Aerial, yet none of these bowled me over like the CPRs. Up until the CPRs landed in my rig it was the Aerials that seemed to be the speakers for me.
At 400 hours of break in time the CPRs gelled together from top to bottom so well that I clearly could not tell when the music at crossover point was being handed off from subwoofer to woofer/midrange to tweeter. Driver integration at that point in time was so spectacular, you could almost swear you were listening to a stand mounted two-way speaker, if it were not for the visceral bass and large sense of scale and weight of music being presented to the listener that only a large speaker can truly communicate.
Another thing I noticed while listening to the CPRs was the clear difference in voicing between the amplifiers I was using. Though this attribute was noticeable prior to the CPRs in my rig, now with them in line, I could hear the voicing of each amplifier with stunning clarity showcasing their individual differences between the trio of amplifiers I had on hand. All three of the amplifiers had a clear and distinct sonic signature, thus making it even easier to decide which sounded the best driving the CPRs. As with its reputation, the E.A.R.-Yoshino 890 was most clean sounding, being detailed, extended from top to bottom, and taking full advantage of its Class A KT-90 output tubes. The Anthem Amp-1SE+ was warm and inviting, with a romantic and succulent midrange due to its EL-34 based sonic signature. Finally, the Cary Audio Xciter sounded good, but was too far to the left of the romantic end of the spectrum for my personal enjoyment. For most of my listening, well below 90dB peaks, the Anthem Amp-1SE+ is inviting and truly easy on the ears. I especially like listening to the Amp-1SE+ with the CPRs for small group jazz and acoustic type music. For music that was more dynamically challenging, like rock and classical music, the 890 was the better choice as compared to the other two amplifiers, due to its added headroom when driving the 94dB CPRs. For music that is clearly well recorded the 890 was the way to go. The 890 was always closer to the musical truth than the other two amplifiers I had on hand, thus it was the amplifier I used for most of this review. Couple the 890 with the CPRs and the system had a purity of timbre that in my opinion has no peer. It was that good!
Regarding proper power to drive the CPRs, all three amplifiers had enough power to drive them to well over 80-95dB peaks in my room, with the 890 being able to drive the CPRS to clearly concert level decibels at 100dB+. Even at low listening levels around 65-75dB, the CPRs still did not disappoint, the soundstage was deep and wide, with enough detail and inner harmonic clarity to please any audiophile. However, it was when you stepped on the gas at 90-100dB+ peaks that CPRs really come alive. When most speakers at 100dB+ peaks are beginning to break up, the CPRs are just beginning to purr like a well tuned Jag.
It is that ability to play loud without audible cone break up that is one of the CPRs greatest virtues as a true reference loudspeaker. The CPRs will work fine with as little as 5-watts and up.
After all of the listening I have done for this project, I had come to the conclusion the CPRs were my hands down favorite for any speaker priced under $35,000, and beating many others above that price point. Overall, what I gained from this 16 week adventure was the final realization that the CPRs are really good speakers. Almost any loudspeaker, after taking a closer look at them, you can usually find a fault. Having the CPRs in my listening room for the last four months and logging well over 150 hours of personal time with them, try as I might, I could not fault them at all! If I were to split hairs the only issue would be driving the CPRs in a small room, there I could see with the 94dB efficiency coupled with two large 12" woofers per side being a bit too much. But, without actually trying it, and bearing in mind the flexibility of setting the woofers inside or outside to custom load them to match your room, perhaps in a small room the CPRs would work. One thing that is for sure, in my current room, the CPRs were among the most neutral, revealing, and clearly enjoyable loudspeakers I have ever heard. The CPRs clearly bring out the best of each performance, no matter what genre of music is thrown at them, be it classical, opera, heart pounding new wave, distorted punk, old school classic rock, or intimate and closely mic'd bebop jazz. Each and every time the CPRs came out on top.
Twenty two thousand dollars is not chump change when considering a reference loudspeaker. For many audiophiles the CPRs may be beyond their financial reach. Still the CPRs represent an excellent value for those who can afford them. The CPRs are easy to drive and sound great with almost any amplifier from a low of 5-watts to well over 100 watts. Could you run the CPRS with more wattage? Yes, sure you could. But why would you want to? In my opinion, find the best amplifier you can afford (preferably tubes—sorry tube amplifiers are my sonic preference) and "forget about it." Never have I heard a speaker before play music with such skill and dexterity, demonstrating the best of PRaT, clarity, precision, and musical aplomb as I did with the CPRs. The CPRs are of true heirloom quality, and for those who can afford them, more than likely be one of the last if not the last speakers you will ever own! The CPRs are not only groundbreaking in their performance regarding dollar per dollar ratio, they may reset your thinking as to what a true reference speaker should be all about. I know it did mine, thus, I give the CPRs my highest recommendation.
After not having a pair of the Coincident Pure Reference loudspeakers in my rig for the last 2 months, I couldn't take it any more. I am now moving forward to buy a pair. More on that later.... There is no doubt these will be my last pair loudspeakers I will ever own, or so my wife hopes. One thing that is for sure--there has never been a loudspeaker that has moved me emotionally like the CPRs. They are truly THAT good. My suggestion rush out and buy a pair before Israel realizes he is giving them away at their current retail price—also don't forget that Canadian Dollar is getting stronger and stronger against the U.S. Dollar.
I would like to extend my appreciation to Jeff for a remarkable review. He expertly captured and articulated what makes the Pure Reference so special and a singular achievement in loudspeakers. To create a state of the art loudspeaker that is constructed to the highest standards, utilizing the world's finest components, that is aesthetically beautiful to behold AND can be driven by any amplifier from the lowest powered SETs to behemoth tube and solid state units, AND sounds superb in small (as little as 13' x 10') or large environments AND retails for $22,000 is the result of years of R&D and thousands of hours of intensive labor.
When I designed the CPR and its newer CPRE, they were meant to be an all out assault on the state of the art without cost restraints. No expense or detail was spared in the quest to create the world's finest speakers. The fact that both the Pure Reference and the Pure Reference Extreme, while not inexpensive, are offered at real world and breakthrough prices is mainly due to military like efficiency in production, very low overhead costs and very tight profit margins. Indeed, the lowest mark ups in the industry.
It is especially gratifying when all the effort and expertise that went into developing the CPR and CPRE is recognized and appreciated by knowledgeable audiophiles, music lovers and professional reviewers. We are thrilled at Coincident that our components have been responsible for enhancing the enjoyment of the musical experience.

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text: The memoirs of Gluckel of Hamelm are famous for their portrayal of the Jewish experience in17th-century Germany. Those memoirs now come to life in At Mama's Knee, a novelization of the episodes depicted by Gluckel. At Mama's Knee tells Gluckel's stories through the eyes of her daughter Tzipporah. Gluckel's family experienced triumph and tragedy,joy and heartbreak, hope and despair. Through it all Gluckel and her family were guided by an unswerving faith in G-d.We are catapulted back in time to life in aEuropean ghetto. It was a life whose dangers for Jews were many: the plague, social and economic anti-Semitism, and physical danger at every turn.The taste of the old world permeates At Mama's Knee. It is a world where a comet is cause forconcern; where marriage is contracted by parents; where a trip to another town can be deadly; where the essence of Jewish tradition is passed from mother to daughter. We acquaint ourselves with our heritage as we learn about our glorious ancestors. At Mama's Knee is thrilling, poignant reading for teenagers and adults alike.

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The draft amended VAT will be presented today in parliament again by Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake.
The Supreme Court had said that the draft Act recently presented in parliament for increasing the VAT from the then existing 11 per cent to 15 per cent was not in accordance with the constitution.
On this occasion the Court had asked that the draft Act be prepared in accordance with the proceedings mentioned by the Supreme Court.
On September 13th the cabinet approved the draft Amendment VAT Act that was prepared accordingly.
Co-cabinet spokesman Minister Rajitha Senaratne said that according to the new draft amendment VAT Act, approved by the cabinet, the tax of 15 percentage will not change.
Similarly the Minister also said that these proposals were valid for a short period of nine months.
The Minister also stated that SLFP proposals had been included in the relevant draft Act.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


text: For obvious reasons, this is my favorite aria. This is Susan Graham singing New York Has Changed Me from Picker's An American Tragedy at the Met. This was the first contemporary opera I saw and I went back three times, although I wish I had gone more. It also starred Patricia Racette, Dolora Zajick and Nathan Gunn. It was supposed to be revived last season, albeit without Susan due to her schedule. Alas, the Met chose to revive The First Emperor instead, probably only to get some mileage out of those exhorbitantly expensive costumes. Sigh.


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Let’s celebrate the Tulip Festival on our guided bus tour from New York and visit Washington Park, New York State Capitol and New York State Museum. The tour fees include roundtrip bus transportation and entrance tickets to attractions.
Today we will leave New York City and head to Albany, New York where Tulip festival is celebrated every year in Washington Park. Tulip was declared the official flower of Albany on 1st July, 1948. Since then every year Tulip festival is celebrated. We will visit Empire State Plaza. Then we will go to visit the New York State Capitol which is the capitol building of the New York State. It was constructed in 1899 and was the most expensive building of its time. Our final stop of the day will be at New York State Museum. It is a popular tourist attraction. After spending some time here we will leave for New York City.
It is famous spring event held at in the heart of Albany every year. Albany Tulip Festival features a display of numerous tulip plant species, local handmade crafts, art exhibition, food stalls, family fun attractions, as well as the two stages of live performances, and much more.
Located right in the heart of New York City, Albany is a seat of Albany County and is recognized as the capital of New York as well. Geographically Albany is located at the northern side of New York approximately 150 miles.
It is located in Albany, and it is open to tourists from Monday to Friday. Different guides’ help people get around and have a very pleasant tour and these tours have different themes like on Halloween.
The New York State Museum is in Albany, New York, United States. It is a research-backed institution located on Madison Avenue. The New York State Museum is in Downtown Albany exploring the New York State cultural and natural history. The Museum features an exceptional history, science and art exhibitions that is worth visiting.
The Washington Park Historic District comprises of ninety-acre Park in central Albany. These properties to the south include the park on Madison Avenue, Willett Street to the east, to the north State Street and South Lake Avenue to the west. The buildings on Englewood place and Thurlow Terrace are also included.
A minimum tip of $10 per passenger per day for Tour Guide and Driver is not included in the price of the tour package. Pay it in cash to Tour guide and bus driver. This service fees collected from passengers complement the incomes of the driver and the tour guide.
Though the meals are excluded, but the guides will arrange them for you.
Room fees of personal nature, such as, laundry fees, telephone, service fees of valets, expenses on alcoholic drinks and what you buy from the mini bar. However, specified fees may be included.
I booked this tour as a gift for my mother and believe me she really liked it. She is into gardening and all. So, she really enjoyed the Tulip Festival and then the visit to State Museum made it a perfect tour for her. She was happy when she returned from the tour.
It was an amazing tour. I have always liked the Tulips and I really enjoyed the Tulip Festival on this tour. Our tour guide Mathew was a very good person. He helped me in finding the Vegetarian food. A friendly guide always make your trip memorable and I will remember this one for years to come.

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In this column, I'd like to talk about the ramifications of releasing a product like LINQ to SQL. In some ways, this situation reminds me of the law of unintended consequences. Remember how Chesapeake Bay oystermen saw their haul of oysters drop in the 1980s and 1990s? Because starfish are the oysters' main predators, the oystermen thought chopping them up would eliminate them. Years later, however, everyone learned that starfish regenerate and, by cutting them up, the oystermen were actually creating multitudes more starfish. It feels like a similar sort of unintended consequence is happening each time Microsoft introduces some new, but not fully baked, technology for Transact-SQL and general SQL.
One of my big problems with Microsoft's approach with LINQ is that it is too tactical. Every 2 to 3 years, Microsoft seems to roll out TNBT ("the next big thing"). The promise is always the same. TNBT will make your code better, your developers faster, your applications more efficient, make your coffee, walk your dog, tie your shoelaces and otherwise make life better for everyone. The only problem is that TNBT usually is put together by a single sub-team of a major organization. These small teams, while brilliant, often don't get the top-down support to institute a major paradigm shift, nor do they thoroughly understand both the backend platform and the frontend application. Consequently, we get a feature set that, while useful, doesn't give us everything we need to sweep out the old and introduce the new. This sort of half-way there solution sometimes makes aspects of the development process better, but, often unintentionally makes other aspects worse. For example, what most improves database applications is proper planning and design, not "quick and easy." But tools like LINQ help developers speed up the development process, in effect encouraging even less planning and design than ever before. A recipe for disaster? Usually.
On the other hand, we have Transact-SQL obviously waning. Microsoft hasn't yet found a way to put the final nail into the coffin, but they're obviously, though subtly, planning for it to go. I hate to think the language that is the forte of most DBAs is doomed. However, if Microsoft can strategically develop a new programming language and toolkit that incorporates the good features of Transact-SQL and .NET languages without introducing problems, I'll be the first to jump on the TNBT bandwagon while it's still in its genesis.
My message to Microsoft is this-don't be afraid to build a better product than Transact-SQL, but don't release it as an alternative if it's not excellent. A half-baked alternative to Transact-SQL will not make SQL Server or the development process any better and, very likely, will make things worse.
As an administrator, I'm putting a lot of eggs into the PowerShell basket-the first new and really good scripting/programming language in a long time. However, we haven't seen TNBT in development languages and we won't until Microsoft makes it a true strategic priority and convenes a team from both the SQL Server and Visual Studio organizations who understand highly scalable and flexible database-centric applications. Without these elements, we'll only get more high-minded marketing hype without the product features to back it up.


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The overall program of SDW 2013 is an ambitious mix of innovative disciplines, ranging from product design, fashion, jewelry, photography, film, music, theater contemporary visual arts and business issues closely related to arts and culture. Eye-catching and affordable design, high aesthetics in various forms produced by young artists from all around the world is in focus on zero edition of SDW. SDW as open and continuous process stimulates every creative person to express his potential in front of the international audience. Continuation during the whole year is achieved by linking the activities with the regional and other international festivals and permanently upgrading the international brand and platform Ministry of Pleasure.
OPEN CALL FOR YOUNG BALKAN DESIGNERS 2014!
Due to the large number of incoming quality design solutions, Tikves winery decided instead an award of 500 euros to award a total of six awards: 1,500 euros for the best solution, two prizes of 1,000 euros for the second place and three prizes of 500 euros for third-placed designs.


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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is considered by many the greatest poet in literary history and the grand master of dramatic narrative. While he left a large body of work that came down to us intact, Dante is remembered most for his masterpiece, Divine Comedy. His biographer, R. W. B. Lewis, describes the work as “…all things considered, the greatest single poem ever written; and in one perspective, it is autobiographical: the journey of a man to find himself and make himself after having been cruelly mistreated in his homeland. It is also a rhythmic exploration of the entire cultural world Dante had inherited: classical, pre-Christian, Christian, medieval, Tuscan and Florentine.” He titled the piece Comedy as it means a work that begins in misery and ends in happiness. In the tale Dante finds himself “…in the middle of the journey of our life” and “…in a dark wood, where the straightway was lost.” In this confused state a figure appears before him who declares himself to be “…not a man, but a man I once was.” It is the great Roman poet, Virgil, who will guide Dante through two thirds of this three part journey.
In the Inferno, Virgil will lead Dante down through nine concentric circles of Hell. Each level contains souls of sinners who are being eternally punished for their acts. As the travelers descend into this pit the sins are more egregious and the punishments more horrific. Punishment is being meted out for carnal sin, gluttony, avarice, heresy and others until the ninth circle. Here is the level of the most damned. These wretched souls have committed the worst sin – treason.
It is here Dante and Virgil come face to face with Satan, a three-headed monster buried chest high in ice (quite a different image of the current belief of Hell as a place of fire and brimstone.) In each mouth he is eating a soul whom Dante considers the most despicable traitors. Brutus and Cassius, betrayers of Julius Caesar whom Dante considered a divinely appointed ruler and potential savior of a unified Italy, are in the left and right mouths, respectively. In the center and most vicious mouth is Judas Iscariot, betrayer of Jesus.
So where does the dwarf planet Pluto fit in. Strangely enough, it appears that Dante is not only the greatest of poets but he is also prescient. Dante died in 1321, exactly 609 years before the discovery of Pluto by Clyde Tombaugh of the Lowell Observatory in March of 1930. Yet his description of Inferno is almost exactly the same as the climatic conditions on the planet.
Pluto, named for the classical mythological god of the Underworld, and its five moons are 3.7 billion miles from the Sun. The ambient temperature is minus 375 degrees. The orb is basically a giant ball of ice, not unlike Dante’s Hades. Its five moons are geologically the same as the planet. Interestingly enough they bear names from the Underworld. Charon is the ferryman of Hades who carries the souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin was placed over the eyes or in the mouth of the cadaver to pay for passage. Some believe that those who could not pay the fee or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years.
Hydra is the nine-headed serpent that Hercules battled in ancient mythology.
Kerberos is the three-headed hellhound that guarded the entrance to the Underworld in ancient mythology in order to prevent souls from ever escaping. Nix is the Greek goddess of darkness and night and the mother of Charon.
Styx is the river across which souls are ferried to the underworld in Greek mythology. It is the river of hate and it is derived from the Greek Stux.


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Recomendation for more powerfull kit.
As I spend a lot of time lake sailing in the summer, I've been thinking of getting some bigger kit. My current biggest sail is a Bic TechnoLogic 7.8M, which came as part of a package with a 460 mast, with ext about 50cm (not measured) and I have a boom up to 245.
This was good when I first started with my own kit, but I now realise it is not a very powerfull sail for its size, although to be fair, its quite robust as its meet the trees on quite a few occassions.
So I'm looking for recommendations, but with a couple of considerations.
1. The 460 mast is as big as I can fit inside the car or in the quiverack, so ideally would like to get something to rig on that.
2. Big kit would only be used on the lake, which can be very gusty. Don't plan to take it to the sea.
3. Looking secondhand/cheap so ideally would like to fit on current boom/mast. Is it worth trying to extend a 460 mast to carry a sail that is claimed to be over 520?
4. Should I look at Cammed options?
5. Would only be using it on the old "Cyrano Techno".
Any input/discussions would be welcome. The idea while I'm still trying to improve its to give me an excuse to get out in lighter winds in the summer, as I still feel I'm at a level where the more I'm on the water the more chance I have to improve and build up confidence. Or is this a pipe dream.
- I can't see much alternative to a 490 mast. I have never seen a mast extender longer than 50cm. Not sure I'd want to use one if I did. Second hand 490's do exist.
- current front runner for me is a Tush lightning which has 2 cams. The Tush T2 might be an alternative for easier handling.
At least you have a large boom.
hers a cheaper alternative !
change sailing venue , laKes are crap in summer !
my current BIG sail is a 6m and I dont miss many sessions .
So that the medical professions solution covered then? :?
Actually doing one better Huw, going on a Neilson trip, to Vassiliki in June, better kit than Warners and cheaper beer. My better halfs already Level 5 qualified on the sunbed, so hopefully there will be a good selection of those for her to choose from.
As for Kelvin's suggestion, well I guess if I could convert the car to warp drive that runs on water then it could be a runner, don't see how else I get to save money or even get to the cost for the odd after work session from where I live. The coast trips are saved for big adventure days (outside the rugby season). Trouble is it looks like there will be no wind this weekend.
In "the good old days" I used to have an early monofilm 3 split cammed Tush 7.5m race sail that I could rig on my one and only mast - a 460 that covered all my sails from 3.7m up to 7.5m. (Not sure what where the "good" comes in good all days though, the sail weighed a tonne, the monofilm was anything but transparent, and I was usually absolutely knackered by the time I can persuaded the cams to get onto the mast let alone tried to uphaul it ).
Any sail designer would have had a heart attack if they had seen the amount of (very stiff) mast sticking out of the top of the 3.7 when rigged on the mast. The 7.5m had a 520cm luff tube. I got away with it on a 460 mast by using a 50cm mast extension, plus I also had a mast tip extentsion that slid over the top of the mast to provide an extra 20cm at the other end.
Not sure I would recommend this approach because I think sails these days are far fussier about curve characteristics of their mast than they used to be.
One option you could consider would be a different type of sail in a similiar size. Some sails (I am thinking particularly of the Sailword's Retros but they are by no means the only ones) will set properly with a large variation in downhaul and outhaul, allowing you to tune the sail with a lot of belly for either low end power or very flat for top end speed at the expense of early planning.
My experience of recent Tushingham sails (in the no cam variety) is that they only set very flat and it is hard to encourage any belly into them - although they have excellent top end stability and are very light in your hands (my 6.0, 7.1 & 8.6 are all Tushinghams). I don't know what the cammed variety are like but would imagine they are flatter than other cammed sails although that is only a guess. If you can find an option which allows you to avoid cams, I would suggest you take it. They are fiddly to rig, prone to breaking (either themselves or the battens that go into them at £20+ a time), make the sail awkward to rotate and power up very suddenly when it does actually rotate. Don't forget there is the Windy World demo at Axbridge this Sat & Weston on Sunday - you may be able to try some there.
I remember seeing a chap on a 10m ish up at the lake a couple of years back, he was flying in a breeze while others were just tootling along. Can't remember what sail it was though - :?
I just bought a second hand tush max 9.6 for this reason, it was £130 on ebay and rigs on a 540 mast, boom 2.44. I've not had a chance to try it out yet so can't comment. You are more than welcome to try it out and see if it fits the bill for you.

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Do you know how to forage for food? If your answer is no then you could ask the 4-Her’s for some advice! 4-H Alaska Way of Life recently explored the many edible foods found in the wild of Southeast Alaska with their Wild Edible Series. Although 4-H is often famous for its focus on agriculture in the Lower 48, these Alaskan’s know that the best food comes from the wild. The Wild Edible Series enabled 4-Her’s to hone their foraging, harvesting and processing skills to utilize the bounty that surrounds them everyday.
The 4-Her’s began their experience by learning the importance of sustainable harvest and hard work while picking huckleberries and blueberries. The bear, birds and bushes all need berries too! Using their harvest, the 4-Her’s discovered the basics of jam-making, experimented with recipes and taste-tested the results.
Mycologists Kitty LaBounty, Noah Siegel and Alissa Allen joined the series to reveal the significance of fungi as a food source and service to the Tongass. Fungi are an essential part of the nutrient cycle to break down trees and keep our forest alive. The mycologists stressed the importance of proper identification, teaching that even edible mushrooms must be cooked first in order to be safe to consume.
To follow up with the summer fishing clinic, 4-Her’s encountered ways to process Salmon, one of the most popular wild edible foods produced by the Tongass. 4-Her’s brined pink salmon, identified a pellicle and set up an electric smoker. In true cooking-show style, the participants worked together to make smoked salmon dip and enjoyed the delicious results.
Encountering ways to live with the land in Southeast Alaska, provides 4-Hers knowledgeable skills and encourages healthy lifestyles. As we become familiar with wild edibles, we also grow in appreciation of our important local food systems while strengthening our desire to conserve the land and sea that surrounds us.


text: In this paper, a new spatial filter bank design method for speech enhancement beamforming applications is presented. The aim of this design is to construct a set of different filter banks that would include the constraint of signal passage at one position (and closing in other positions corresponding to known disturbing sources). By performing the directional opening towards the desired location in the fixed filter bank structure, the beamformer is left with the task of tracking and suppressing the continuously emerging noise sources. This algorithm has been implemented in MATLAB and tested on real speech recordings conducted in a car hands-free communication situation. Results show that a reduction of the total complexity can be achieved while maintaining the noise suppression performance and reducing the speech distortion.


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Terms of the home buying process are crucial to ensure you are prepared. Here are 15 terms to learn about before you start the process!
Choosing a licensed real estate professional can sometimes be tricky. Most agents work for a real estate broker or realtor. When you are in the buyer's shoes, choosing the right agent is so important in the end.
Proof of Income: W-2 statements, recent pay stubs that prove income, year-to-date income and any additional income proof you may have including bonuses and lastly, your two most recent tax returns.
Proof of Assets: You will be required to present bank statements as well as investment statements that prove you have the funds for a down payment and for closing costs. For example, an FHA loan requires a down payment of at least 3.5% of the cost of the home and Conventional loans require 10-20% down depending on the loan program.
Credit: Credit is HUGE in the home buying process! Lenders today are offering the lowest interest rates if you have a credit score of 740 or above. Anything below 740 may require more interest.
Employment Verification: Aside from your pay stubs, a lender will also verify income with your employer and confirm you are still employed there.
Documentation: Also required is a copy of your driver's license and social security number to verify your identity. Your lender may also require additional documentation throughout the process depending on the circumstances.START SHOPPING: Once you are finished with the above steps, it’s time to start shopping for the best mortgage rates in your area!
2. FHA Loan: An FHA (Federal Housing Administration) loan is insured and typically requires 3.5% down and low closing costs. This type of loan is typically easier to be approved but will require MIP (Mortgage Insurance Premium) which stays attached to the loan until it is paid off.
Adjustable Rate Mortgage: This type of mortgage offers a lower interest rate but over time increases.
Fixed Rate Mortgage: Fixed Rate means the interest rate remains the same throughout the span of the mortgage regardless of the market conditions.
15 Year Versus 30 Year - Most lenders issue loans in 15 or 30 year terms. The one advantage if feasible, is a loan less than 15 years to keep your interest rates lower.
Co-Signer - A co-signer is obligated legally to cover the debt if it gets to that point in which you are taking responsibility for the loan should anything happen.
When you buy a home you will put in an “Offer To Purchase.” The seller may accept your offer or come back with a “Counter Offer” proposing different contingencies.
A home inspection is an entire house examination to determine the condition of the home. The inspection is paid for by the buyer of the property.
An appraisal is an entire home examination to determine the value of the home. An appraiser is required to be provided to your lender to get financing.
Title Insurance is what protects you and the lender from any issues with a clear title when you sell the property. This is a standard step to the home buying process.
If a home warranty was included in the accepted offer, a home warranty includes basic coverage that could go wrong such as plumbing, electric, heating and appliances. The warranty will be for a certain dollar amount as well as a certain length of time you are covered for.
Closing costs are fees paid at the time of closing. These can either be paid by the buyer depending if it was part of the accepted offer. Closing costs can be thousands of dollars.
An “Escrow” account may be required by your lender to be added to your mortgage payment. This money goes towards the property taxes and insurance and will sit in “Escrow” until the lender pays it when it is due.
Almost all lenders will require homeowners insurance to carry the mortgage however is not a requirement by law so it will vary depending on your lender.
Property taxes are an amount of money based on your home’s assessed value to be paid annually.
NEVER purchase a home by weighing the pros and cons of renting or owning. There are so many hidden costs to buying OR selling on a financial level as well as thousands of dollars in maintenance to maintain a home.
OVER PREPARE! I mean SAVE more than enough money as you think you will need for the entire process. The last thing you want is to run out of money and have to dig yourself out of a problem. Not to mention, there are going to be issues that come up that no one is ever expecting.
RESEARCH the process before diving in not being fully prepared!
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20 Eye Opening Facts To Real Estate Home Selling1. KNOW THE MARKET CONDITIONS - Your agent should be familiar with the local and current market conditions with how the market is moving.


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Below is a list of Ghanaian Baby Boy First Names which are popular in Ghana and 100s of other Countries and Continents.
If you can't see a Ghanaian baby Boy first name from the list why don't you try a different list of first names with another beginning letter.
Choose a letter for more Ghanaian Boy first names.
Popular Ghanaian Baby First Names.


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Don’t Forget to Vote for BuddyPress in the 2010 Open Source Awards!
BuddyPress was announced as a finalist for the Most Promising Open Source Project. Voting began yesterday and will be open through Friday, November 5th.
Make sure to get your vote in before the deadline!


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Poorly Cleaned Endoscopes cause Bacterial Infections for 38 Patients of Chicago-Area Hospital.
A patient of a Chicago area hospital is filing a lawsuit claiming that she, along with 43 other patients, contracted a bacterial infection from an improperly cleaned endoscope. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has confirmed 38 cases of exposure to CRE bacteria from this particular hospital. CRE bacteria is naturally found as part of human gut bacteria however, according to the CDC, this type of bacterial infection can be difficult to treat and can contribute to death in up to 50% of patients who become infected. Cases like these emphasize the importance for robust endoscope reprocessing practices in Hospitals and Clinics as a way to preserve patient safety.

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The conference is part of the media duties related to the TVET UK Ravensbourne design college project.
The conference was part of Partners week organised to bring together those companies developing the World Class Colleges in Astana and Almaty.
Also speaking along with TAFE directors Australia and GIZ was Luke Wales of TVET UK member Pearson.

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When preparing your car for sale, think like a buyer; what do take into consideration in a used car? Almost 100% of people who buy used cars are in the necessity of an affordable, practical and dependable conveyance. Who buys a used car to show off? No one! So make smart decisions and spend money on the things that add value to your vehicle.
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UPDATE (Feb, 2013): The top ring is gold, but the bottom ring is actually gold-plated silver (vermeil). Thanks to an Etsy shopper for letting me know!
I haven’t done as much picking in the last few days, as I’ve been a bit under the weather. I did make it out briefly last night, mostly to check out a place that has been putting out good trash for a while now. An old Ukrainian woman passed away a year or so ago, and her daughter now has to sort through all her things, so I’ve been told. The old woman never threw anything out, and for about a month many bags have been left out each week as the sorting continues.
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I found a few bits and bobs, most of which I left on the curb near my place for others to take (and most of which have since disappeared). I also found these old rings, which I suspect could be gold. They were at the bottom of the bag, clearly swept up off the floor with other dust and dirt.
I’m not sure what to make of this symbol on the back. It looks like a leaf, and something else.
I see an 8 (left), something that looks like OCPC, and “875.” At first I was confused, as it looked a bit like gold and possibly had gold symbols on it, but it also looked like it had corroded somewhat. I thought that the dark stuff wouldn’t come off, but just now I tried to scrape it off and it actually came off.
There might be a couple spots I still need to wipe down, but overall that’s looking way better, and definitely more like gold.
If they are gold, I may just bring them to the jewelers and sell them by weight. I remember as a young lad finding a wedding band at my hometown fair. I picked it up, thinking it was just a toy. However, when I showed my mom later, she recognized that it was in fact a gold ring. We tried to find the owner, using “found” signs in local stores (these were pre-craigslist days), but the owner never showed up and the ring was mine. I held onto it for a while and ended up selling it a year or two ago when my finances were particularly bad (and fortunately the price of gold was particularly good). I made 45$ for what I think was an 18 karat ring.
So, what do you guys think? Are these gold? Oh, and what’s that crystal on the second ring made of?
Make sure that’s not an old-cut diamond. They’re becoming very popular again, apparently.
I’m doing some Googling and I don’t see any diamond cuts that look like this one. That’d be nice though! I’m thinking it’s topaz or zircon or colorless sapphire, something like that.
Here are some older diamond cuts http://www.pioneerpawn.com/diamonds/cut.htm (plus other useful info).
Gold rings alway have stamps indented in them to indicate the purity and to prove that it is soft enough to be real, so both of these appear to be gold. The 875 indicates 21 karats, so it is in remarkable shape for such a soft metal. (14k and 18k are more commonly used for jewellery, particularly rings, because even though they are less “pure”, they are less soft and prone to scratches and warping.) The leaf stamp on the first one is likely a jeweller’s insignia, however if there is no number and because it’s more “yellow” I would think it is a 14k piece of costume jewelery.
I think the second ring is crystal. That was very popular in older rings and other jewelry. I wore a crystal necklace at my wedding that was my great great grandmother’s.


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What are your most prominent symptoms after too much physical exercise?
Please let me ones that I've missed.
For me, I'd define fatigue as how you'd feel if someone hooked up an energy pump to you and sucked it all out - you'd end up feeling drained.
I used to actually feel like I had flu but without the muscle aches or chills. Now it's more malaise - just not feeling well. Don't know if that should be listed separately from the stuff that's more like sore throat, etc.
It will be interesting to see how the poll goes.
If I really overdo it, I also get sound sensitivity. Wonder if others are more sensitive to light or heat or cold? hehe ... my sensitivity to heat never goes away.
you missed Ramsay's "general awfulness;" I think this is much better than "malaise"
Oh, yes, like paclabman said, sensitivities, especially noise, light, and vibrations, but also temperature.
I was intolerant of heat even before I had ME. Also to light and sound, but those goes with migraines. Getting ME have made all these worse and given me a new sensitivity to cold, and brought my sensitivity to vibrations from slight to severe. Anti-inflammatory and migraine medicines help reduce the vibration sensitivity especially, but also the sound and light somewhat.
You missed my top one--such a favorite--chest pressure/pain.
I usually get a cough etc the day after exertion.
I am so GLAD! I don't get fluey feelings after exercise. It does happen at times and that is just the worst. Sorry to see that is such a common problem.
I was going to come back and add cough and I see that's been added. Chest pains and pressure is added as well; very good (I get that).
Shortness of breath and heavy chest could be added.
I'm not sure if I could pick a top 4.
I don't think I can give just four.
My symptoms upregulate, they start with throat/glands, quickly on to coordination/cognitive, pain and gut follows then right leg goes numb and my right arm drives me to distraction. Sleep is affected but I can offset it after small amounts of activity.
I rarely get to the pain stage as I keep activity levels low.
Just to clarify, ive responded as if you meant increased activity, not specifically what other might consider "exercise" ive included for example a few minutes of gardening or a short walk. Hope thats what was intended.
Like my good doc wrote my SS disability paperwork - "minimal exertion exacerbates all symptoms". So it would depend on what your particular symptoms are, then they would all get worse.
In other words, I don't think you're going to get much out of this poll, or it should at least end up being a list that's comparable to the list of symptoms that people experience not after exercise.
I'm looking for subsets and I think there are glimmers of them. I, for instance, do not typically get fluey feelings and it looks like about 30% of the people so far do not either. On the other hand if I really over do it I have really restless sleep - but it doesn't look like that happens that much either.
Combining this with illness duration, illness severity, onset, gender etc. ....could be quite interesting in the big survey.
I get those, but not as badly as others. I'm guessing using a computer filters out some of the people with the worse OI.
Just another observation, but the meds people are on will also influence which PEM symptoms they now think are the worst.
When I went down to Stockton for the Stevens tests, they had me stop my pain med and nuvigil. I was not a happy person.
Some time back, my Dr thought it was important to start some treatment for pain. It stopped my occasional fibro type flares. It also helped sleep - which is an indication that at some point during the night, pain was enough to wake me up early. And I was surprised that it really helped to shorten my PEM recovery time.
So, as an example, pain in my muscles and tendons next to my joints might have made the list instead of poor coordination problems - but my pain med prevents that.
Do you take meds for sleep Cort? FYI, I picked 5 and it seemed to work!
PS I don't really push myself hard anymore, perhaps that is why I have gained about 30 pounds in the last year! I hope to get back on my road bike this year, still need to get a HRM and keep my levels low, so should be an interesting year!!


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Digital Currency: Is 2014 the year of Litecoin?
Paul Krugman once said that, “Bitcoin might be a bubble.” However, the digital currency has done fairly well in 2013 considering its current value i.e. $839.99. For the most part of the year, Bitcoin maintained a steady value of $950 making it one of the hottest areas to invest. The valuation graph of Bitcoin is nothing less than an astonishing piece of work. It started at a modest price of $13 and went up to $1,250 to create huge ripples in the money world. Bitcoin has been facing a lot resistance from government authorities who have been trying to restrict its global usage.
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Is the Litecoin more deficient than the Bitcoin?!
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When compared with Bitcoin, Litecoin is referred as the “silver of digital currency” against the gold tag enjoyed by the Bitcoin. However, there are some specific features offered by Litecoin, which makes it potential option against all other crypto-currencies.
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The UK is host to approximately 64.5 million souls as of 2013.
17.4 million of them voted to leave the EU in a non-binding referendum this past Wednesday.
16.1 million voted to remain.
Which means there were approximately 46.5 voters eligible to vote.
In other words, 37.4% of eligible voters, or 26.9% of the total UK population made a decision to abrogate the defining treaty of post World War II Europe.
This is the treaty that brought peace and prosperity to hundreds of millions in dozens of countries for the first time in centuries.
And the UK government is meekly going along with it?
And I thought American politics are fucked.

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