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If we had only one blog post to describe the foundations of the Superset, what would it say? If we were hit by a truck, you could derive most Superset principles from two basic, but extremely important insights.
Insight #1: It’s not about the money, it’s about the value.
Insight #2: You own a lot more and a lot less than you think.
In our post modern society we often think that something is only valuable if we can put a price on it. To calculate our net worth we add up the monetary value of our assets. Simple. The Superset points out that there are many things of value that are not considered as assets.
For example, as biological creatures we have many needs in common: air, food, water, shelter, and rest. But beyond that we, and our ancestors, also need the ability to secure all of those things. Food doesn’t just land in our laps. Sources of clean water can still be difficult to come by for impoverished countries in Africa. How did our hunter-gatherer forebearers meet these needs? They labored, they traveled, they coordinated their activities by speaking to each other. Each day they needed to be at liberty to choose their vocation. Depending on the season they could be gathering nuts, preparing leather clothing, fishing, or searching for salt. They needed to control their own tools and weapons – their possessions. They needed to learn new ideas and decide what they should do with them.
Air, food, water, shelter, possessions, labor, speech, thoughts, conscience, and the liberty to travel and choose our vocations.
All else being equal, which would you rather have, $10 or $100?
Why do we all answer that question the same way? Are people greedy? No. Plants are not greedy when they spread out their leafs to capture more sunlight. They are doing what they are programmed to do. What are people programmed to do?
This says nothing about the desires or intentions of the person wanting the value. The more value you control, the more good you can do, so it’s implication is very limited in saying simply that humans appreciate value.
We often think that the things we own are the ones with our names on them: bank accounts, the title to a car or house, or a virtual stock certificate.
We’ll first explain that we own a lot less than we think. For example, I think I own my home, but what does that mean?
Ownership: Having the exclusive and strongly protected right to control, transfer, use and capture any gain or loss of value of that which is owned.
Do I control my home if is threatened by fire? No. The fire department can forcefully evacuate me and take control of my property. What if I fail to pay the mortgage or taxes? Then the bank or government can take control of the home and sell it to recuperate the money they are due. So we often don’t own things as completely as we might assume.
What do we own more of? A great many things. We often don’t think of ourselves as owning clean air, but if we breath it, it’s ours. Do you own your own conscience? Can you decide for yourself what is right and wrong and join a non-profit, club, or church as a consequence of your belief? Can you read and write whatever you want? Those things are of tremendous value, and not everyone is so lucky to have them. If you are extremely fortunate, you control the whole enchilada. You decide what you want to study, how you contract your labor, what city you live in, where you want to visit on vacation, etc. etc. You capture the fruits of your labor and have full and unthreatened control over your possessions and money. Such a protected existence is really a marvel given how many people also have an interest in controlling our value. It’s something only the tiniest fraction of humans has ever enjoyed.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2013 by Brett Alder.
Will Congress exempt itself from Obamacare? Shouldn’t we be outraged at the thought of them giving themselves preferential treatment? Sure we should, and we would all probably be more outraged if discrimination weren’t woven into the very fabric of our society.
We (the authors of this blog) have this old fashioned belief that if the government has a right to discriminate against your peers, it has a right to discriminate against you. So if your fellow citizen has lost a right or a fundamental protection, so have you. If one company or industry is discriminated against, then it might be your company or industry next. In the U.S., discrimination has been happening for so long that we often fail to recognize it as such. We think that with the civil rights movement we righted a great wrong, and that is true, but the plague of discrimination is still as rampant as ever.
Do you think it’s okay to give favors to the medical profession and deny that same preferential treatment to the legal profession? Is it fair to give a company a tax break for a certain activity, but deny individuals the same treatment for the same exact activity?
Is it okay for the highly productive to have a strong right to their labor, but to take that right away from the lowly productive?
Should a health insurance company be protected as equally as a car insurance company?
Do you think it’s okay for the government to target an industry, and tax them at a higher rate than anyone else just because they can?
Under current law, if your employer pays your personal medical bills they can write that expense off (i.e. deduct it as a cost and not have to pay taxes on the money spent). But if an employer pays for your personal legal expenses then the costs are not tax deductible. Are doctors more holy than lawyers and all other professionals? Likewise, if you spend money on your own health care, the money you spent is not tax deductible for you like it is for your employer. Are employers more holy than individuals?
The Federal Government and most State Governments currently discriminate against people with low productivity, and yes, you should be outraged about this shameful treatment of the poor and underprivileged. How so? Let’s say you have very high productivity. You can program apps very quickly and you contract yourself out at $200 per hour. If you like a job, can you choose to take less, like $150? Certainly. If you are desperate for work, can you lower your price to $100? Of course. But now imagine that you have very few skills. Let’s say your productivity is worth $10 an hours, but you’re having a hard time finding a job. You need work desperately, can you lower your price to $5 an hour? No. Because of the minimum wage, you don’t have a right to sign a labor contract at $5 an hour. Sorry, you are not equally protected. For those people that think the minimum wage helps the poor, you need to explain how taking something of value (i.e. the right to choose how much you will charge for your labor) away from the poor helps them? If you want to help the poor, you should transfer value to them not away from them. See the earned income tax credit as an example of a much better way.
Under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), health insurance companies do not have the same right to decide what to do with their money as auto insurance companies. If you’re an auto insurance company (think about a Gecko here), and you want to spend millions on advertising, that is your good right. But if you’re a health insurance company, you are mandated by law to spend a 80% to 85% of your revenue on reimbursements. You can kiss your ad campaign goodbye, and come to grips with the fact that you cannot pay the same in sales commissions as other insurance companies. How fair is that?
One mode of paying for the ACA, was to levy a special tax on the Medical Device Industry. I worked with a medical device entrepreneur by the name Ray Hartman, who started a company called Theralight. He was one of the most brilliant and energetic entrepreneurs I’ve ever met and he dedicated his fortune and last remaining years on Earth trying to eradicate staph infections in hospitals. I once joked about how nice it was of him to pick up the tab for health care reform. He became uncharacteristically dark and said, “It makes me want to go outside and just scream!” Sorry Ray, you were unprotected. That sucked. He passed away a year later.
I have a dream, Ray. That someday the phrase “liberty and justice for all” will be more than empty words describing a bygone Republic.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2013 by Brett Alder.
The interplay between business interests and government in the U.S. is causing concern across the political spectrum. Regardless of which party is in office, major industry players wielding multi-billion dollar lobbies are finding a seat at the negotiating table. Tea Party patriots and Occupy Wall protesters seem to be manifestations of different sides of the same coin. They worry that things have gotten out of control, that Wall Street should not have been bailed out, and that somehow financial interests are too well represented in government.
As it turns out, a lot. We can learn a little bit more about this great country we live in, which has solved this problem before — and brilliantly.
In 18th Century America one of the many perplexities that the American Founders had to cope with was the interplay between religion and government.
In Europe, the relationship between Church and State began during the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine I, who converted to Christianity and granted property to the Catholic Bishop of Rome. Christianity later became the dominant/official religion of the Roman Empire. Subsequently the Church as political power perpetrated many atrocities such as the Crusades and Inquisitions. Isn’t this right?
For some reason in the U.S. we (myself included!) often equate “religion” with “Christianity”. The reality is that religion has at almost all times and all places been related to political power, and for good reason. Being able to control people’s moral convictions — their views on right and wrong, and who they obey — has tremendous value. For example, before Constantine the Roman Empire was surprisingly tolerant of the different religions practiced by its conquered nations, but not completely so. The Romans believed in many gods and viewed their Emperor as one of them. There was no inherent conflict between the gods of subservient peoples and the Roman gods per se because the Roman gods were more like immortal men and women, not absolute and exclusive beings. As tolerant as they were, the Romans did insist that one religious dogma be observed throughout the empire. Would you like to guess what that was? That the Emperor was a deity to be worshiped by all Roman subjects.
This is partly what led to the early persecution of Christians. Christians didn’t recognize the Emperor as a god and were charged and persecuted as “atheists”. Their real crime was not threatening Roman religion, but rather undermining Roman authority.
And it has always been thus. Even today, leaders will portray themselves as moral authorities and mythic figures to gain more power over their people. In the People’s Republic of China, the State continues to use religion to achieve its political goals (in 2013!!!). Instead of allowing a privately operated Roman Catholic congregation loyal to the Pope, they cleverly set up a Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association that reports to the State Administration for Religious Affairs, and predictably rejects the authority of the Vatican. Nothing like receiving Mass and nationalistic indoctrination at the same time! It’s a twofer!
Several of them, including George Washington and Patrick Henry, were not opposed to state sponsorship of religion. They viewed the Protestant teachings of their times as salutary and beneficial, and thought that religion needed encouragement (e.g. tax paying support). In the largest of the 13 Colonies, Virginia, the official religion was the Church of England (Anglican Church). Virginians were forced by law to pay tithes, and membership in the Church was a prerequisite to holding public office. The preaching of other religions was illegal and occasionally Baptist and other ministers would be locked up. It’s not difficult to understand why Anglican ministers in various government positions encouraged this state of affairs — it made them better off.
How do we protect people from religious coercion, and religion from political coercion?
Their solution was extremely novel, perhaps not in its rationale, but in its implementation. The first stroke was in 1786 when the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom was passed with support from Madison and based on an original draft written by Jefferson. The second and most famous stroke was the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Most people have described these solutions as “Separation of Church and State”, “establishing a Secular Government”, or as “Religious Freedom”, but none of these is thoroughly descriptive. For example, do churches operate in the U.S. similar to Indian Reservations, with their own laws, judges, police etc.? Are they truly separate from the State? No. If a clergyman breaks the law, he is still punished. Copyright laws apply to religious texts just as they do to secular texts. They are not separate, then. And for this same reason we do not have infinite religious freedom. Except for rare exceptions like Native Americans smoking peyote, our religious convictions do not give us license to do things (like committing fraud or murder) that would otherwise be considered criminal, regardless of how sincere our belief in those things might be.
The term “Secular Government” is correct if secular means “not overtly or specifically religious”, but most often we would think of the term as meaning, “non-religious”. Does it give the right impression to say that a government that strongly protects religious liberty, has no connection with the practice of religion? We need a better description.
All religions must be treated equally by Congress.
All citizens must be treated equally irrespective of their religious convictions.
And this beautifully solved the problem of religious coercion. The State cannot coerce religion because it does not have the power to favor or injure a specific church or creed. By protecting religion from coercion in this way, we also protect ourselves from religious power. Since the government cannot offer favors to religion, religion is not tempted to use the government as a means for increasing its influence. For example, what interest would the Catholic Church have in lobbying Congress if Congress does not have the power to provide a benefit specifically to the Catholic Church? Mormons (Latter-day Saints) cannot use the government to promote the cause of Mormonism because the government has little power to do such a thing. It cannot outlaw the preaching of competing faiths, or conscript citizens to serve Mormon missions.
How do we protect people from commercial coercion, and commerce from political coercion?
All industries must be treated equally by Congress.
All businesses and citizens must be treated equally irrespective of their commercial pursuits.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2013 by Brett Alder.


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It's the news all savvy fashion fans have been waiting for - you can now shop in H&M from the comfort of your own home.
As Hennes & Mauritz AB is one of the world’s largest retailers, the new site will make shopping from the brand so much easier for those who love the high street but can't get there as often as they would like.
The new site will feature all your favourite collections, same as what's on the rails in-store - giving those who don't live close to a branch the chance to snap up some great bargains.
As well as clothing and accessories for ladies, men, teens and children, there will also be exclusive “online-only” items available all year round.
You will also be able to dress up your environment as the site has H&M Home too, giving you the option of adding fashion and fun to your house at affordable prices.
Carlos Duarte, H&M’s Country Manager for UK and Ireland said: "We now have 17 stores in Ireland and this significant milestone extends H&M’s multichannel offering, and gives our Irish customers the opportunity to shop with us twenty four seven via their computers, smartphones and tablets anywhere in the country."
The great news for shoppers is that in celebration of the website opening for business, H&M Ireland is offering some fantastic deals during April.
You can snap up some fashion bargains from as little as €4.99, with up to 50% off fashion and homeware and free shipping until April 24.
And if you sign up for the new fashion newsletter, you'll get get a 25% discount on one item of your choice.
Now there's no excuse not to be on-trend whether you're in Dublin or Drumshanbo.

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Coughlin Porter Lundeen has been in business for over 20 years and continues successful partnerships throughout the Puget Sound. We pride ourselves on providing a level of service and quality that is unmatched in the region. We work in many market sectors on both public and private building projects. Our clients include Microsoft, Amazon.com, Vulcan, Boeing, Children’s Hospital, Virginia Mason, Starbucks, Washington State University, and the University of Washington.
Coughlin Porter Lundeen is seeking an entry-level structural engineer. The position offers an excellent opportunity to work on diverse project types using a variety of building materials. This position requires sound technical skills and the ability to learn quickly. The right candidate will work side-by-side with project engineers throughout all phases of design and construction, with ample opportunity to learn and advance. Responsibilities include assisting with construction documents, technical calculations and construction administration. Candidate must be proactive, exhibit excellent communication skills, and work well in a team environment.
This is a full-time, hourly position; compensation will be determined by the candidate’s qualifications. Position benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance. Our firm also offers a transit subsidy (Orca pass), as well as paid holidays and paid time off. We offer a generous retirement savings plan which includes company matching and profit sharing contributions, and all employees are eligible for merit bonuses.
We are committed to rewarding the hard work and initiative shown by our team members. As our business is founded on excellence in client service, creating careers for our employees – rather than just jobs – is key to maintaining the loyalty of our clients.
Additional information regarding our workplace and benefits can be found here.
Please send resume and letter of interest or requests for information to: humanresources@cplinc.com.
We are not just structural, civil, and seismic engineering experts. We are runners, painters, bakers, dancers, hikers, singers, quilters, and more. Let us introduce ourselves.
Beyond the projects we design, our focus is to improve the quality of life in the areas that we serve. Our firm actively contributes to programs that strengthen the fabric of our local communities. It’s all about lending a helping hand and being a better neighbor.
Follow us on Facebook! It’s the best way to learn about our latest projects, recent events, community involvement… and a little bit of office silliness from time to time.
Some quick stats on our firm – warning, there may be a pop quiz later.
Coughlin Porter Lundeen provides a competitive benefits package, along with a variety of other perks to working here. Check out what we have to offer.

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A unique, stylishly designed chalet set high up on the hills above Saas Fee and surrounded by panoramic and picturesque views of the resort, mountains and glaciers. Chalet Anke is just a short walk from the centre and, once you have learned the route, it is possible to ski out of and back to your front door.
Spread over three floors there are five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a very spacious living/kitchen/dining area and additional space in the form of a mezzanine. Anke also has plenty of balcony space as well as a technical/laundry room and even its own private sauna.

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President Bidya Devi Bhandari has today issued four different ordinances quoting RSS. The ordinances issued by President Bhandari are the Ordinance on the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons, the Ordinance on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (first amendment), the Ordinance on Election of National Assembly Member-2075 BS, the National Medical Education Ordinance-2075 BS and the Ordinance Related to Remuneration, Facilities and Condition of Service of the Secretary General of the Federal Parliament, Secretary of House of Representatives and Secretary of National Assembly-2075 BS.
President Bhandari issued the ordinances as per Article 114 (1) of the Constitution at the recommendation of Council of Ministers.

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The Regional Transit Authority has approved a management transition after Transdev vice president Justin Augustine’s recent promotion.
A veteran energy and finance executive in the oil and gas industry has been named director.
In 2018, Ochsner saw 813,000 patients at 100 health and urgent care centers across the system. That total is up 5 percent from the 773,000 patients seen in 2017.
Even though the project’s completion is still two years away, Children’s Hospital visitors are already experiencing the effects of a $300 million, master facility plan transformation and expansion.
The Fillmore, the newest entrant to New Orleans’ music scene, takes up 34,000 square feet and has a capacity for 2,500 concert-goers.
The events-based community aims to connect local innovators, investors and educators with each other and to more than 1.5 million others across the world.
Jennifer Weishaupt, co-founder and co-owner of The Ruby Slipper Restaurant Group, is a “retired” chemical engineer who opened the first location with her husband in 2008.
A New Orleans hotel owner has recently scooped up a Baton Rouge-area plantation to add to his burgeoning portfolio.
New Orleans CityBusiness has chosen its 2019 Leadership in Law class, recognizing area professionals in the field of law for their career and community accomplishments.
As Avondale Marine continues to ramp up efforts to bring commerce back to the site of the former shipyard, the company’s leadership is using a local reentry program to help fill its workforce.

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Littel chalet at 2km from the ski resort, at the feet of the ski runs.
Bath room and toilet separated + 1 toilet at first floor, equipped kitchenette.
Tv, micro wave, coffee maker, mixor, vaccum cleaner, oven, pressure cooker, 2 long chairs.
9 blankets, 2 feather bed, 3 bed-spread, 4 pillows, 5 bolster.

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According to information provided by the Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) of Riviera Nayarit, members of the Hotel and Motel Association of Bahía de Banderas reported that occupancy levels rose to 3,216,056 room nights sold in 2011.
An additional survey performed by an independent agency reported that visitors stayed an average of 5.7 nights in Bahía de Banderas, and up to 13 nights in San Blas and 20 nights in the touristic strip of Compostela.
The visitors’ study, which was generated through exit polls, also revealed that 51% of visitors to Riviera Nayarit were Mexicans, while 49% were foreigners.
“We can see that the effects in the US markets has created a reduced demand, but we’re also experiencing a positive tendency from the Canadian market – which already represents 21% of our visitors. Within Mexico, most tourists are from the state of Jalisco, which means that almost half of all national tourists come from our neighboring state”, said Fernando González Ortega, president of the Hotel and Motel Association of Bahía de Banderas.
According to González Ortega, who is also president of the CVB of Riviera Nayarit, a public non-profit association dedicated exclusively to the promotion our destination, hospitality in Riviera Nayarit was rated with 9.3 out of 10 possible points, and 98% of all visitors said they would recommend the destination to family and friends.
“The promotion efforts made by the CVB and the integration of the entire industry, including hoteliers, restaurateurs, service providers, transportation companies and mainly the State Government led by Roberto Sandoval, are allowing us to obtain such positive results”, concluded González Ortega.


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Renwick and Mitchell v Markerstudy Insurance Co. Ltd.
The court struck out two late notified claims as an abuse of process, where the court found that the claimants were not injured. The claimants had attempted to avoid paying defence costs by discontinuing their claims as soon as the strength of the defendant’s case had been revealed to them and after they had failed to disclose witness evidence of their own. The claims had both been brought under the Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting regime.
Acting for Markerstudy, DWF Solicitor Kirsten Reay successfully applied to set aside the notices of discontinuance and obtained an order that both claims were an abuse of process, rendering the claimants liable to meet the defendant’s costs. DWF Director Jewels Chamberlain looks at the case, which will be especially of interest to those dealing with late notified claims.
Lewis Renwick and Luke Mitchell were both passengers in a vehicle driven by Markerstudy’s insured, Lloyd Griffiths, when it was involved in a road traffic accident in April 2013, when Griffiths reversed his car into a parked vehicle. Renwick and Mitchell both presented claims, seeking damages for personal injury and losses of around £1,600 and £1,250, respectively, together with their costs. Two other claims were also waiting in the background.
When the insured reported the incident to Markerstudy two days after the accident, there was no report of anyone suffering any injury. Renwick and Mitchell both brought their claims over a year after the accident itself, with both claiming that the injuries they suffered had resolved before they attended upon their medical expert. Neither claimant had attended upon their GP after the accident and neither had had time away from work.
After proceedings were issued, DWF filed a defence denying causation and applied to consolidate the two actions. Although the defendant disclosed their witness evidence in accordance with the court’s directions, neither claimant served a witness statement in support of their claims and both claimants subsequently went on to file notices of discontinuance. DWF then applied to set aside the notices and sought an order under CPR r.44.15, which would then lead to QOCS being suspended and enable the defendant to enforce their costs against the claimants.
it could not be right to bring two claims and then drop them once the defendant’s evidence had been disclosed.
Striking out the claims as an abuse of process, District Judge Veysey concluded that, whilst the defendant was required to clear a ‘high bar’ in order to convince him that QOCS protection should be lost, he was satisfied that the defendant had established that the claimants’ conduct amounted to an abuse of process for the purpose of CPR r.44.15 and that the claims should never have been brought. The claimants were ordered to pay the defendant’s costs of around £5,400.
As is usual with cases of this nature, the injuries were said to have resolved by the time the medical expert examined the claimants. There were no objective findings of injury on examination and neither claimant had attended upon their GP after the accident.
The claimants’ strategy here was to only withdraw once the strength of the defendant’s case was known and the claimants were criticised for litigating in that way.
Had the defendant been unable to assemble the evidence against the claims that they did, the claims would have been just as unmeritorious, yet the outcome might have been very different.
For insurers facing late notified claims in the MoJ Portal, the claims appear to be straightforward at first blush, and handlers may be tempted to simply admit liability and then make offers, but through the use of intel and by developing a strategy to deal with them, there are large savings to be made by defending late notified claims.
Most of the analysis there has been around the loss of QOCS protection, tends to focus on fundamental dishonesty but it is worth remembering that QOCS protection can also be lost if the claim is found to be an abuse of process.
For further information, please contact Jewels Chamberlain, Director on 01772 556677, or jewels.chamberlain@dwf.co.uk or Kirsten Reay, Solicitor on 01772 554162, or kirsten.reay@dwf.co.uk.

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In addition to tempo travellers, Gozo provides various services in Nandimandalam including one way taxi drops or short roundtrips to nearby cities. You can also book cabs for your vacation or business trips for single or multiple days within or around Nandimandalam or to nearby cities and towns.
With Gozo you can book a one way cab from Nandimandalam to Pendlimarri, Vemula, Chinthakommadinne, Chakrayapet, Cuddapah . Gozo provides well maintained air-conditioned (AC) cars, courteous drivers and our services are available 24x7x365. Gozo uses local taxi operators in Nandimandalam who maintain highest level of service quality and have a very good knowledge of the local roads and highway driving. We also provide local sightseeing trips and tours in or around the city. Our cars and drivers serve tourists, large event groups and business people for outstation trips and also for local taxi requirements in Nandimandalam.


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It’s been a while since I actually sat down to chat with you and considering this is an actual chat and not a Currently post this is rather different for me. I’m so grateful if you have been reading the blog since I started. Heck, if you have been reading since the last year I’m still super grateful.
If you are new to these parts, welcome! I’m Jamie, the voice behind GreySkySaturday. There’s a rather short introduction on my about me page, so I’ll keep it short and sweet here. I mainly do book reviews as of lately, occasionally I’ll do movie reviews, posts about my life in Hawaii and on a rare occasions the sponsored posts. Today’s post is a rather new one for me because I’m doing a mid-year check in for the my 2018 resolutions post.
The last year has been full of changes which probably explains why I have tried to keep posts on here as regular as possible. Last Summer, I finally got around to buying my own domain name and doing a little bit of an overhaul on what was here before. I started getting back to posting content fairly regularly bringing back my Scaretober feature in October. I also started making time to read more, so I’ve definitely stepped up those posts. In a half unexpected way, I changed real life jobs in mid-February. While, I enjoyed my old job and it gave me many freedoms such as running this blog and helping them create a social media presence, I thought it was time for more stability and new challenges. My new job gives me a regular 8-5pm hours, technically more work/life balance all the for costs of union dues and regular paychecks. All that aside, I’ve finally feel like I’m really getting my feet under me and feel less like I’m drowning in my life.
For my 2018 resolutions, I can definitely tell you and you have probably noticed that I’ve been reading like crazy. I’ve finally set my goal for reading on Goodreads at 52, I was worried that I wasn’t going to be able to achieve that goal, but since we are halfway through the year I definitely think that goal is doable. I can also tell you that I while I’ve only finished 3 shadows so far, I’ve also seen some incredible progress including hitting pan on eye shadows that I hadn’t planned on. I’ve also been on a rather large no spend/budgeting this year and trying to knock out my debt as much as possible. It’s been weighing on me lately and sometimes when I look at home much I have that weighs on me also. I can only say that I’m trying and working slowly through it and I’m not perfect by any mean. As for the trips, you may have seen that Matt & I did end up taking a trip to Maui for his friends wedding , I’m not sure if we are going to do anymore. We are hoping to get another trip in the fall, but money and moving in together has been a big draw this year also.
I hope that this post hasn’t been too long or too boring. I know that I would usually leave this for a Sunday Confessions posts, but I wanted to take a minute and let you know what has happened in the past year. I’m definitely looking forward to the rest of the year and what I can bring for you. I hope that you’ll continue to stay with me and look forward to the new content that is coming in the coming months. I’ll see you soon!
Let’s get back to the topic at hand. This book review in case you haven’t noticed is about the book The Monkeypod Tree by Mamoru Funai. This book isn’t on goodreads, but you can find it on Amazon or the Buddhist Churches of America website. The book weighs in at 76 pages and is more of a collection of short stories based on the memories of the author.
The book starts with a story from 1898 when the Japanese were hired as workers for the McBryde Sugar Plantation. The stories then flash forward to the 1930s just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor in late 1941 and through World War II. We then go through a story studying both a soldier of WW II, that was raised in Kauai and the friend of the soldier still living in Kauai during WW II.
I’ll have to keep my review of this book short because the book is short. I loved the illustrations provided by Mamoru Funai the sketchy water color details led to a general feel of the book. I have to admit to a slight bias when reading this book since two of my grand aunts contributed to the stories in the book. I would still recommend this book for you to read if you would like a lighter and more general idea about WW II from the eyes of a person from Hawaii.
Let me know if you have read this book or if you are planning on picking it up . I also added a Currently Reading section in my sidebar instead of the usual books I’ve read. If you have any recommendations for books I should read this year, let me know 🙂 Also if you see any books that I’m reading and don’t see a review, you can always hop to my Goodreads to see a short review there. I’ll see you soon with another post.
I’ve been heads down working on several projects for work and I think I might be actually coming up for air soon, which is probably the best thing ever!
I picked up a new camera from Target on Black Friday. I will have a post/video on that story soon. I’m back to doing video for youtube, so please stop by.
I’m slightly glad that it is December since I can now watch Vlogmas vlogs from my favorite youtubers.
I’m in the midst of working on another project for here, which I’m hoping to unveil in the coming year.
See you in another post soon!
I recently finished this tv show from the early-2000s. I did not watch this show when it was on the air, but recently when I heard that the show was headed back for a 4 episode revival on Netflix around Thanksgiving I thought that I would give the show a shot.
This show stars Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore raising her daughter Lorelai, Rory Gilmore in the town of Stars Hallow, Connecticut. The pilot episode shows Rory getting into Chilton Academy, a neighboring prep school and Lorelai trying to figure out how she is going to pay for the tuition there. Lorelai ends up going to see her parents who live in a Hartford and are fairly rich. Lorelai’s parents, Richard and Emily Gilmore agree to pay for Rory’s tuition with the terms that Lorelai and Rory come to the house weekly for family dinner.
As the show progresses we get to see Rory develop as a student at Chilton Academy and Yal University, but never forgetting her roots in the town of Stars Hallow. We are also able to see Rory fall in love with mainly 3 suitors Dean Forester, Jess Mariano, and Logan Huntzberger. In the show we are also see Lorelai grow as manager of Independence Inn to eventual part owner of the Dragonfly Inn. We also see Lorelai’s romance with diner owner Luke Danes grow through the series.
I would say that if you haven’t watched this series yet, I highly recommend that you give it a chance. You will find the mother/daughter relationship between Lorelai and Rory, loveable and what you might have always wanted with your parents. You will be rooting for Lorelai and Luke to finally get their acts together and have a wedding from Season 1. You will probably most definitely be picking Team Dean, Team Logan, or Team Jess. Mostly though you will love the fast paced witty dialogue. If you don’t love any of these things I’m truly sorry. I can guarantee you that come midnight on Thanksgiving I will be binge watching Gilmore Girls: Year in the life along with rest of the Gilmore troops. I will probably have a review on that later too.
I hope to see you in another post very soon!
According to this article Essie’s Angora Cardi is the most perfect nail polish for fall. Guess I should put that back on my nails soon.
I’m really missing filming videos for youtube since my camera broke 🙁 I’ll be back to youtube eventually on low quality.
Maybe there is a perfect blogpost formula….

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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F-Secure is the global leader in providing security as a service through operators. F-Secure is now also expanding into Content Cloud space and offering tremendous opportunities for operators and their customers in providing a compelling range of solutions that are tailored to the needs of the Operator Community that goes beyond Internet security.
F-Secure’s content cloud and Internet security services are available through over 200 operators in more than 40 countries around the world and trusted in millions of homes and businesses.

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The high frequency macroeconomic data due out in the days ahead simply do not have the heft to alter investors’ perceptions of the macro-economic and financial condition of the investment climate.
That climate can be summed up as such: Growth in the US has picked up markedly after the major disappointment in Q1. The Japanese economy is weakened considerably, which does not mean unexpectedly, is Q2. The UK economy continues its robust performance. The euro zone is limping along. Targeted measures from Chinese officials are helping the world’ second largest economy stabilize, still growing above 7%.
The ECB just embarked on a course that will unfold in the coming months (targeted LTRO), including the consequences of a negative deposit rate. It is not yet, for example, fully appreciated that the ECB accounts beyond for the regional banks. Governments have funds at the ECB. The negative rate will apply to them too.
For its part, the Bank of England’s Carney is signaling the opposite direction. In part due to signals from him, the market has been reluctant to price in much chance of a hike before next May’s national election. He now says that a rate hike make come sooner than the market thinks.
The Bank of Japan continues buy securities at a prodigious rate. Officials are prepared for a contraction in Q2. It is the economic performance in Q3 that is the key to a potential policy response.
We have characterized Federal Reserve policy as essentially on automatic pilot, with $10 bln a month tapering of asset purchases. A contraction that may ultimately be closer to 2% in Q1 is not sufficient to prompt the Fed to reconsider its course. A sustained monthly increase of more than 200k non-farm payroll employment is not enough for the Fed to accelerate its tapering.
When the Federal Reserve meets this week, there is little doubt of the outcome. This deflects investors’ attention from a change in policy to a change in the forward guidance, subtle and otherwise. The Fed will indicate that its highly accommodative stance is still needed. It seems to want that to be the main take-away.
However, what will likely be evident from the forecasts is that there is an increasing sense that the Fed’s goals of full employment and stable prices is being approached. This must be the case as officials begin to prepare investors for the next phase monetary policy.
Unemployment forecasts will likely be lowered as May’s 6.3% rate was already into the Fed’s year end forecast made in March (6.1%-6.3%). If there is a change in the core PCE forecasts, it will more likely be higher than lower. Quantitative easing has caused, helped facilitate, or has been irrelevant, to the recovery of employment and arresting the disinflationary forces (depending on one’s point of view). It will end in a few months.
This does not alter the fact that the Federal Reserve will have to recognize the growth was a significant disappointment in Q1. As a pure accounting function, it will have to cut this year’s growth forecast (central tendency) and dramatically from the 2.8%-3.0% indicated in March. The outer years may also be cut signaling a step toward greater realism from the persistent optimism that just as consistently is revised lower.
There is a committee meeting at the Bank of England June 17, but it is not the Monetary Policy Committee. It is the Financial Policy Committee, and it is through this forum that macro-prudential policies arise. Officials see the housing market as the biggest risk to financial stability.
Despite, or what some cynics may say, because of the IMF’s recent call for to cool the UK housing market, after recently retracted its publicly expressed doubts over the government’s economic strategy, new steps are unlikely to be taken yet. The issue is whether the rise in house prices reflects a growth of risky mortgage debt. It is at least a debatable point as household leveraging appears to have fallen.
There are at least two other forces that seem to be operating. First, the London property market has become an asset in international portfolios. This may loosen the link between the local economy and house prices. This the the real challenge to the likely macro-prudential strategy.
Second, unlike in the US, and many other countries that had housing booms, the UK has a shortage of houses. The fact that house price increases are concentrated in the south may also reflect where the effective demand is located, which in turn may be an issue of the wealth and income disparities.
Minutes from the MPC meeting earlier this month will be released. Carney’s comments last week may have stolen some of what may kindly be thought of as thunder from the minutes. The tone of the debate is likely to shift in terms of economic slack and timing of the first hike. However, the market reaction to the minutes will likely be most dramatic if there is a dissent. Sterling would likely rally, and short-term interest rate futures would sell off (higher interest rates).
A dissent would likely fan speculation that the first rate hike could take place before the end of the year. We continue to favor the first move in Q1 15. Earnings growth remain pitiful despite the increased employment. It is difficult to be too concerned about inflation when wage growth is so meager. Given the difficulty in measuring economic capacity, especially when such a large part of the economy is services, the benefit of the doubt should be given to slack in lieu of price pressures.
In addition, there are other countervailing economic factors. The strength of sterling is one such factor that may serve to dampen imported inflation, and itself is tantamount to some degree of tightening. Interest rates have risen, which reflects the market doing some BOE’s work, which extends the time that it can stand pat.
Switzerland and Norway central banks hold policy making meetings, but neither is expected change policy. The Swiss first line of defense in case safe haven inflows spurred by by the ECB’s actions, is the euro floor/fran cap at CHF1.20. Only if this is threatened will the SNB be forced to consider a monetary policy response.
However, the euro is trading well within the CHF1.2150-CHF1.2250 range that with a few exceptions has marked that has confined the price action. Norway’s economy has disappointed, but price pressures are sufficiently firm (underlying rate of 2.3% in May) and base effects point to a further increase in June that the Norges Bank will stand pat. The euro is absorbing buying near NOK8.10. Yet support has been frayed and this has removed the sting of a convincing break. The next band of support will likely be seen in the NOK8.05-NOK8.07 area.
Geopolitical events loom large. At the beginning of the year, observers were most concerned about the territorial dispute between China and Japan. Japan’s Prime Minister Abe made facile analogy between 1914, the start of WWI and 2014. However, events in Ukraine and Russia’s annexation of Crimea brought attention to central Europe, where for several years Russia has used the carrot and the stick to cajole when possible, and intimidate when not, several of its neighbors, including Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
The immediate fear is over a disruption of oil supplies. At this juncture, the market is appears to be pricing in a risk not the real thing. The broader geopolitical implications, though are very fluid. Almost regardless of the particular outcome, Iran will likely see its influence enhanced.
Russia benefits not only from energy insecurity and higher prices, but also by what seems like another setback to US strategic interests. Moreover, there is some risk that the territorial integrity of Iraq is not preserved and this too serves Russian (and possibly Chinese) interests insofar weakens what both nations seem to think of as the US-led world orders, which does do justice to China’s accomplishments and Putin’s ambitions.
Higher oil prices can have secondary impacts that lead upward pressure on prices (inflation). Yet, few countries that are experiencing disinflation (lowflation) will likely welcome the rise in oil prices. Rising oil prices act as a headwind to growth. Higher oil prices may weigh on equities and support bonds.


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industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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Avoid Haiku Honda (2-Wheeler), Bangalore!
This is not a new experience for me. It was few years ago but thought of sharing it as I am newly active on this platform.
First day, when I went, a very rude and arrogant SA met me and said they have only 2 colors Silver and Black both of which were on display. I was really a fan of the looks, fairing and cheap price of Stunner so thought of going ahead with it. I mentioned him clearly I want a new piece, he said they have in their stockyard. I asked him to show but he denied saying that we don't show bikes in our stockyard. I said ok I would wait and order for new piece from company and he warned me it would take minimum 3 months or more because of some production problem. I checked with another dealer nearby and they said no stock of stunner so finally agreed to pay money to Haiku. I gave him 1000rs booking but he said since vehicle is readily available pay atleast 30K and I paid him and got it invoiced.
Next day paid the remaining amount. After 2days he said vehicle is available and registered. I went to check the new bike but it didn't look like brand new to me. Someone was polishing the bike. No plastics nothing. And it looked the same one which was on display . When checked with that illiterate SA, he said the display bike is given to some guy in dealership yesterday.
Bike odometer wasn't much but we all know how easy it is for them to disconnect the cable. From then after experiencing the bike, it has given me lot of issues. Very very undergeared and runs on too high rpm, engine feels stressed above 60 like it would blast and gives very low FE 35-36 kmpl even on a 125cc bike. It looks like manufacturing defect from Honda. I tried calling Honda Bangalore office but no one ever picked up or responded.
One more ugly thing happened was during bike puja, Pandit applied lot of Haldi on bike headlight and it became yellow. It wasn't going and I tried using Tarpin/Turpentine oil and glass cracked slightly even though yellowish tone fainted considerably. I thought of taking revenge from the showroom. I went there and shouted that you have given me a cracked glass bike. They thought its because of display piece and changed the glass from another display Stunner. I was happy for this atleast.
I went to their service center and complained about this issue but all bike service centers are the same. They would do just regular washing and tune the race adjustment for FE thats it so didn't had any good experience with their service centers as well.
Next time if buying a Honda 2 wheeler in Bangalore please avoid Haiku Honda Showrooms.
- PDI is very important for any vehicle (Main).
- Don't blindly trust any brand, any model.
- Test drive vehicles are tuned for a fine ride.
Re: Avoid Haiku Honda (2 wheeler), Bangalore!
I am actually surprised Stunner is still being sold. I did not see Stunner in Silicon Honda nor in Anand Honda for some time now. I have been there a few times when buying Activa and CBR for a friend and relative recently. So, my guess is that in all probability he has given you the showroom piece.
When we are taking delivery in a day, we too have paid 1/3 amount. I did this in Hero Showroom a few years back. Nothing out of the ordinary here. My brother too paid a relatively large sum when booking his bike. He got the bike in matter of days. So, I dont see anything out of the ordinary in paying a large amount as booking.
All bikes in the stockyard will be gathering dust. They will be no where near new condition. Many times, mirrors would be broken when transporting and they fix that before delivering. Many manufacturers dont even fix the mirrors and other appendages. They are fixed at the dealer level. Polishing is always done before delivering to customer. So, nothing of the ordinary here again.
I have driven Stunner extensively 6 years back. Bike trips and all. Stunner revs high, the engine feels stressed beyond 70kph and the fuel economy was never more than 35km/L. Its a torquey engine with a good low end torque.
No comments on the Haldi issue. If its my bike, I will tell the pandit what to do and not to do.
I am not expert but if one complains about mileage, tuning the carburetor is only thing that can be done. Please correct me if I am wrong.
First point, I already mentioned its an old story few years ago. Its not being sold now. In my case it could hardly be called booking as I paid whole amount next day out of my ignorance. I never went to stockyard so I am definitely not complaining against that. Recently I purchased Tiago and before that i10 but cars were in pristine condition even in the stockyards!
The problem is of cheating and getting a bike not asked for! I explicitly mentioned I don't want the display pieces kept. And in most probability, they would have used it by disconnecting odo cable but I can't confirm.
Leave alone Haldi part since its not a complaint agaist the dealer, it was something that flows with the story.
I have been to multiple service stations/shops no tuning helped. I changed front sprocket from unicorn which helped marginally but last servicing they told sprocket has to be changed and again my FE came around 35.
I never bought from Hyundai or Tata. So, I cant say anything there. In my little experience, I always found the vehicle covered in dust. Mind you, I personally chose the car (Ford) and bike (Hero Honda) from the yard. Maybe, it was just me.
I never got beyond 35km/L in the Stunner (2010). Heck! I didnt get more than 42km/L in my Unicorn (2009). Again, it could be my style of driving.
I am not sure if this is a coincidence but, our FNG too asked my cousin brother to change the sprocket for his FZ as it had worn out. I think it is not related fuel economy. Yamaha service person said its not required. Somehow, I feel these FNG guys are running a scam with changing the sprocket.
with tansi whitefield. please suggest if this will be right choice , i dont want my new baby to get screwed up.
Haiku Honda is a no no from my side.
terrible attitude and hopeless job.
Yes Tansi is better than Haiku which is worst. After all free services are done better goto road side good shop.

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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We are working closely with a successful blue chip construction company, looking to procure a Project Director for their fastest growing business stream.
With offices throughout the Midlands and South West supporting all business areas, namely Construction, Retail, Interiors, Affordable Housing and Developments, they are growing year on year and have some exciting plans going forward into 2019/2020. Long-term customer partnerships are the commonplace, with repeat business accounting for a high level of turnover.
The role of Project Director will be to sit within their fastest growing division, basing themselves as a No. 1 on a £30M new build accomodation project in the centre of Bristol.


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With the continued snow storm accumulation, and the need to ensure the City streets are cleared in a safe and effective manner, the City of Junction City is declaring a Traffic Snow Emergency for the next 48 hours, effective, 8;00 AM, February 21, 2013 (Thursday) until 8:00 AM February 23, 2013 (Saturday) or until further notice.
All vehicles parked on emergency snow routes, which are signed/ posted, must be removed within two (2) hours after notice of this traffic snow emergency. Any vehicle parked on an emergency snow route after such period of time may be removed or caused to be removed by a City, to a place of safety, and the vehicle may not be recovered until the towing and storage charge are paid by the person claiming the vehicle.
Additionally there will be winds of 15 -20 mph with gusts to 30mph, causing drifting and plowing of snow. In order to ensure efficient clearing of the snow accumulation this Traffic Snow Emergency is being issued.


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TranscendIT Health is a healthcare strategy and management consulting firm that focuses on helping healthcare payers, providers and consumers extract maximum value from digital health technologies.
Customers hire us to drive consensus for strategy that is based on harvesting healthcare industry best practices and lessons learned.
We help payers and providers vet and select the best solutions based on their unique needs.
TranscendIT Health helps healthcare technology innovators accelerate beyond early stage development where funding and establishing proof of concept are key to connecting them to their logical routes to market.
Digital Health 1.0: The rise of the healthcare apps exploding the popular myth that patients/members/consumer won’t engage.
We are on the cusp of this now and it is the biggest opportunity of our lives for the healthcare industry. This is where we take data we have collected through devices, EMRs and self input-analyze it and make it actionable for a broader set of stakeholders. This is where we move from “sick care” to “health care” and blur the lines of who keeps us healthy…nutritionists, fitness instructors, psychologists join primary care and clinicians. This is where we not only help people manage chronic conditions but influence a new generation towards behavioral choices that avoid them in the first place. This is where social, gaming and content are all tailored to make the journey engaging, seamless and enjoyable.
The growing cost of healthcare, operational inefficiencies, and lost opportunities have offered ample room for entrepreneurs to disrupt digital health industry. With the ongoing research activities and execution of cost-effective business models, digital health market is likely to witness an upward trajectory in the years to come.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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On Nov. 4, 2008, American voters faced the happy task of choosing between two popular presidential nominees, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, both of whom, according to the last pre-election Gallup Poll, about 3 in 5 Americans regarded positively. In stark contrast, the 2016 Election Day exit poll of voters revealed an electorate forced to pick between, as one Democratic wiseguy put it, “the evil of two lessers.” Voters in 2016 gave Democrat Hillary Clinton a 55 percent unfavorable rating and just a 43 percent favorable rating, but even more negatively regarded was Republican Donald Trump, who received just a 38 percent favorable rating and a 60 percent unfavorable rating.
It is fair to say that in the 2016 election, if Trump had been running unopposed on the presidential ballot, he would have lost. The only reason he won is that he was running against Clinton. Nearly 1 in 5 voters in 2016 admitted they held unfavorable feelings toward both Trump and Clinton. So Trump won the White House by carrying 60 percent of those voters who did not like him personally but who apparently liked Clinton even less.
But now it’s 2018, and because midterm elections are invariably a referendum on voters’ approval or disapproval — professionally and personally — of the current president, Republicans are increasingly unconfident about this November. Why? In the post-World War II era, whenever a president’s job rating is below 50 percent approval, that president’s party loses an average of 43 House seats in the midterm election. Trump’s most recent Gallup result is just 39 percent approval. Thanks to Republican pollster Lance Tarrance, we know that none of the past five presidents — from Ronald Reagan through Barack Obama — saw an improvement is his job approval rating in the year before his first midterm.
To put it less elegantly, since the upset win of Democrat Conor Lamb in a solidly Republican House district in southwestern Pennsylvania — even in spite of Republican and conservative groups outspending Democrats by a 5-1 ratio — there have been reports of an outbreak of bed-wetting in the increasingly anxious House GOP caucus.
But Clinton could be coming to the Republicans’ rescue. Clinton, whose most recent favorable rating in the Gallup Poll was 36 percent — her lowest ever — cannot stop discussing her 2016 defeat. In an appearance in India to promote her latest memoirs, Clinton explained: “I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward,” and white married women supported Trump because of “ongoing pressure to vote the way that (their) husband, (their) boss, (their) son, whoever, believes (they) should.” Clinton blames her defeat on the voters who fell for Trump’s “looking backwards” campaign.
Clinton effectively has thrown a life preserver to Republicans scared of the voters’ expected harsh November judgment on their party’s control of Washington by giving her political opponents the unearned option of making Hillary Clinton — and her apparent contempt for the voters — instead of Donald Trump’s flawed character and flawed record the main issue of 2018. In American politics, losers blame the voters.


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The 2019 Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Pharmacology will highlight the latest advances in understanding G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and how they mediate regulation of physiological processes. GPCRs are well established effective therapeutic targets and presentations will focus on how we can further improve therapeutic development across diverse disease states, including cancer, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular disease, and pain.
This GRC will be held in conjunction with the "Molecular Pharmacology (GRS)" Gordon Research Seminar (GRS). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRS in addition to an application for the GRC. Refer to the associated GRS program page for more information.
From genetic models to ligands beyond opioids.
"Structural and Spatiotemporal Basis of GPCR Pluridimensional Functional Selectivity"
"Reducing Abuse and Aiding Analgesia: Targeting the Dopamine D3 Receptor to Address the Opioid Crisis"
"Viral GPCRs Rewire Signaling and Accelerate Glioblastoma Growth"
"Structure of a Membrane Adenylyl Cyclase Bound to a G Protein α-Subunit"
Whether in real estate or in drug targeting, subcellular location is still critical to targeting and signaling.
"Ubiquitin Drives GPCR Inflammatory Signaling"
"Disease-Associated Mutation in PTH Unveils Ca2+ Allostery and the Role of Gq in PTH-Receptor Signaling via cAMP"
"The Role of Spatial Signaling in GPCR Function"
"Structural Basis for Rapid Desensitization of GPCR Signaling"
"GPCR Signaling in Time and Space"
Biased receptors/biased agonism - going in vivo to address functional selectivity, context or just selectivity.
"Single Molecule Analysis of GPCR Coupling in Living Cells"
"Biased GPCR Signaling: Progress, Prospects and a Fresh Perspective"
"In Vivo Metabolic Roles of Distinct G Protein- and β-Arrestin-Dependent Signaling Pathways"
"GPCRs: Opening the Gateway to Pathways that Prevent Neurodegeneration"
"Screening Complex Mega and Giga Compound Libraries by Docking"
Identifying the issues with classical opiate and non-analgesics and discussing mechanisms and novel therapeutics.
"Neutral Antagonists at MOR and Opportunities for Treating Neonatal Abstinence Withdrawal Syndromes"
"Molecular Pharmacology of CGRP Receptors: Migraine and Beyond"
"Tone-Specific Pharmacology: GPCR Allosteric Modulators for Targeting Pain"
"Mechanisms of CB2 Receptor-Induced Analgesia"
"NOP/MOP Bifunctional Non-Addicting Analgesics for Opioid Crisis"
"Structural Bases of μ-Opioid Receptor (MOPr) Activation and Coupling"
Novel strategies and progress in drug development for neurological disorders.
"Optical Probing of Neuromodulatory GPCRs"
"Activation and Allosteric Modulation of Neuroreceptors"
"Photopharmacology of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Signaling"
"Insights into the Selectivity of Adenosine Receptors"
Recent developments in figuring out what some of the GPRx family members do.
"Chemogenetic Approaches to Validate Poorly Characterized GPCRs"
"New Players in Neurological Functions: GPR88"
"Finding Receptors for Bioactive Molecules"
"Force-Dependent Allostery in Cell-Cell Adhesion"
"Structural and Functional Studies of Adhesion GPCRs and Their Ligands"
"Adhesion GPCR-Mediated Cell-Matrix Interaction in Neural Development"
"Collagen Regulation of a New GPR56-Directed Signaling Process"
Recent development in data mining, the implications of drug development, and their influence on complex signaling pathways.
"An Approach for Spatiotemporally Resolving GPCR Protein Interaction Networks Regulating Receptor Signaling"
"Genome-Wide Discovery of New Microbial Molecular Probes from Chemical Genetic Interactions"
"Illuminating the Dark Corridors of the GPCR-ome"
"Regulation of Exocytosis by Inhibitory GPCRs and Gβγ Subunits"
"Alternative Splicing of GPCR Signalling Components as a Source of Tissue-Specific Receptor Pharmacology"
How structures continue to provide mechanistic insight; high resolution structure determination by x-ray diffraction and cryoEM; how structures finally help drug design; GPCRs as moving pictures: more than telling a thousand words.
"Multiple Conformations of Photoactivated Rhodopsin: Role in Signal Transduction"
"The Role of GPCR Dynamic in Signaling"
"The Molecular Basis for High-Affinity Agonist Binding at the β1-Adrenoceptor"
"Probing Conformational Dynamics by Solution NMR"
"Structural Basis for CXCR Signaling Illuminated by Experimental and Computational Approaches"
"Structural and Functional Diversity in Receptor-Arrestin Complexes"
"Structural Insights into Class B GPR Signalling and Allostery"
Computational and novel methodologies and good old fashioned medicinal chemistry - repurposing GPCR drugs for disease: new life as anti-cancer therapeutics.
"DNA-Encoded Libraries for Drug Discovery"
"Structure-Based Virtual Ligand Screening and Design for New GPCR Probes"
"Structure-Guided Strategies: How to Find Useful GPCR Ligands"
"From Binding to Biophysics: My 50 Years (and Counting) of GPCR Research"
"Molecular Mechanisms of Biased Agonism at the Angiotensin Receptor"
Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute On Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R13DA047877. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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Is anyone aware of an issue with Outlook.com site's interaction with the Apple OS? I'm receiving blank templates when viewing campaigns sent from my email platform within Outlook.com on iOS (across Firefox, Safari & Chrome). The same templates are visible on Windows.
Having trouble identifying the required updates to my reponsive email templates. Thank you.
I know this can happen in certain cases, like if there is an emoji in a <style> tag. But I don't know if there's any specific OS X issues. Could you post your code so we can help you further ?

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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I was excited to watch Displacement; I love time travel films, and judging by the trailer, it had the potential to be a great film: a few recognizable faces and the premise of a mind-bender. It would come down to the script and the director. The film did not disappoint.
The pace of the film was perfect: giving pieces of information a bit at a time. At first it was a bit confusing, as it was hard to decipher what time Cassandra was in, but that was the beauty of it. It's one of those smartly written pieces that unfolds at an unhurried pace that allows the time for the viewer to take in the information, as well as generate theories about what is truly going on.
The movie didn't have huge flashy effects, but they weren't needed. The story played out brilliantly and had me on the edge of my seat for the film's entirety, and it was directed beautifully as well.
As much as it's a science fiction thriller, at the center, the heart of the film is character-driven and about second chances and the consequences of risking everything, even time itself, to have more time with someone you love.
The cast was well chosen, and Hope was perfect for the role. Davison was also a standout.
The script was clever and complex, as after all, it is about time travel and quantum mechanics, but I felt the film did a pretty good job of making the science relatively understandable without dumbing it down. It definitely keeps you thinking, and I am excited for more people to see the film to be able to discuss it with others.
In the end, it was a moving and thought-provoking film that stays with you. The main thought, however, that was running through my head as the credits rolled? I need to watch that again.
Displacement is now available in select theaters and on demand.


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Puss is getting in the Christmas spirit!
Our Christmas tree this year. I'm not sure if you can see but there are not one, but three shoe/slipper ornaments hung up front and center. My wife and daughter torture me with these every year. Why are shoes on the tree??
On every Sunday before Christmas a candle is lighted.
It starts 4 sundays before Christmas as you see.
This cage came with a load of bath stuff in it and when it was empty I upcycled it and turned it into a mini Christmas cage with all sorts of festive stuff inside. It’s completed with snow and string lights.
Each year new and different decorations go into it so it’s always something different.
For me, what's interesting about my decoration is not the decoration itself (it's a pretty standard Christmas tree), but how we get it. In Montana, you can buy a pass ($5) to harvest your own Christmas tree from the national forest. In most places in the US, you have to buy from someone that owns a Christmas tree farm. Some of the let you come along to cut down trees off of their farm, but very few people live in places where you can actually go out into the woods and cut down a tree that has grown in the wild. I am lucky enough to live in one of those places!
And decorated it as a family! Voila!
It's neat to know that we can get our own tree from the wild forest and have it in our house for the season. Like so many things, what makes our decoration special isn't that it is all that different from others, but the experience of how we got it and where it came from.
I remember when I was young, this is pretty far away, me and my father were "organizing" the tree. This was in the early 1950, not much money here in Germany. We were really poor in those times.
We both went to the woods, sawing the tree. After this "work" my father took the saw, I the tree on a sledge. Of course we took different ways home.
If I would have been caught by a forest ranger, I would have told him I have found this tree.
But it never happened! So shhhhtt!
My boyfriend loves technology, so our Christmas decorations are all controlled by Alexa.
We are all ready for our first Christmas in our new apartment.
All credits to my amazing boyfriend!! You can also tell Alexa to change the colours to any colour you want.
Christmas Dino! He is about 3.5ft tall and gets a lot of stares and I get a lot of questions.
congrats to @RuhRoh for the headset!
Whow that looks really cool.
So different from our old styled living here in Munique.
And if it shuts down?
When I had mine up and running I never shut it down. It was in a 24 hour UPS system so if we lost power it would still be running. I use to get paid to run programs for Stanford so it was worth it. But now I just use one of my laptops if I need to do anything more than just browse, which is mainly what I use my phone for.
For browsing I never used WIN OS.
An old laptop with LINUX would do it.
Mine here is more than 10 years old.
I think you got this!
The PC it’s water cooled, using a AIO running a 5.0 Ghz overclocked processor with DDR4 3200MHz memory ram. The lights are set to change with the beat of the sounds that are played at the moment but I also have other settings, one of them being, changing the lights to the temperature of the CPU or the usage of the CPU but I’m using rainmeter that tells me all the status of the computer on the desktop.
But that idea to use the reservoir to change colours is really cool. My boyfriend will be looking to do a custom loop in the future.


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INEOS was using a production simulation tool called DISPO to inform production planners of possible constraint violations such as tank overflows, feedstock or product shortages, and the necessary turnarounds of production units. Driven by technology changes and changing business requirements, INEOS Köln started looking for a new toolset to meet their needs and support future developments. A pilot study was conducted in AIMMS to model INEOS’ production process. The study resulted in a new DISPO App that was ready to use within a few months. An additional App for steam cracking optimization was developed in AIMMS.
INEOS Köln is one of the largest petrochemical sites worldwide. Established as a joint venture in 1957 (as “EC Erdölchemie GmbH”), the company was acquired by BP in 2001. Today, it is part of the INEOS group. It employs 1,900 people and is a key raw materials supplier to the chemical industry.

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I've fallen in love with Zorro from day one. There were several reasons for that.
First, I used to work in R a lot and I liked the language. One of the things that convinced me to give Zorro a try was its R bridge which allowed to include R functions in trading and backtesting. I haven't used R much since but it's only because I didn't need to.
Second, Zorro offers really powerful syntax which allows for rapid prototyping. Quite often I was able to rewrite strategies spanning hundreds of lines into only a few lines of script. Large built-in library of indicators and functions for data analysis available in Zorro certainly helps in this regard.
Finally, thanks to MetaTrader 4 bridge it's possible to immediately deploy a prototype which saves even more time.
One of the things I struggled with when starting with Zorro had been precise simulation of high frequency strategies using custom data. The first two parts of "Zorro on Steroids" series will deal with this issue.
Zorro doesn't handle large price history files well even when there's plenty of free memory available. With tick data it's usually necessary to split backtests by asset and by year otherwise you get the annoying Error 060: Memory fragmented / limit exceeded. The consequence is that the testing with tick data has bigger overhead. A possible solution is to make use of Zorro command line abilities.
In this example I use Python although it's certainly possible to achieve the same thing using only Zorro and loops in the strategy code. The reason is that I'm trying to build a whole framework for data conversion, backtesting and report generation. Python is a suitable language for that thanks to its simplicity and wide range of useful libraries.
The main purpose of the effort is better automation of the whole strategy testing process and minimization of user input. This is the first step towards the goal.
I use Cygwin to run it. It is a collection of tools providing functionality similar to Linux on Windows systems. This particular script can be probably run from Windows command line as well but the scripts in the following parts of the series will require Cygwin. If you install Cygwin for the first time you'll probably want to install Python with it too. Anything can be also downloaded and installed later using the same setup file.
Before running the Python script it's important to modify Zorro strategy accordingly. I have a certain template which I use for all strategies which allows for example to easily switch between OHLC and tick-precise simulation (see TICKS flag in Zorro manual). Or to choose a date range and give it to Zorro through command line arguments.
To achieve that add the following code to the strategy's run function.
With this small modification it's possible to run the aforementioned Python script for automatic backtesting. Don't forget to edit the script and set the zorro_path variable to your Zorro installation folder.
Strategy is the name of Zorro strategy to be run and is case sensitive.
Assets is a string of comma separated asset names (as defined in AssetsFix.csv file in Zorro/History folder).
StartDate and EndDate are numbers in the format described in Zorro manual.
TCK is a name of #define directive and the argument is optional. If included it causes Zorro to switch to high-precision simulation with T1 data and TICKS flag set.
You can pass only one #define directive to Zorro using command line but up to four numbers using the -i command line argument. So it's possible to automate backtests over some range of strategy parameters in a similar way as described above (it probably means more nested loops).
It's also easy for example to automatically add the backtest results to a version control system (e.g. Git). This might be useful for collaboration or just backup and content management purposes.

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There are so many opportunities for writers in social media. These platforms are created for word play. And yet, so many of us writers are baffled as to how to incorporate our craft into this medium that now has more users and views than TV.
And it’s free for everybody!
I’ll never forget the day I had the opportunity to meet one of the most influential writers in my life, Nicole Krauss. I had the opportunity to tell her how much her book affected me. She responded that she rarely got to see the impact her work has on readers.
Well, all that is changing, and social media is the perfect place to develop those relationships.
In fact, you can grow your audience even before you finish your book, by giving your audience a taste of what you’ve been working on.
One of my favorite forms of writing is the vignette or flash fiction. You choose a number of words, from 10-1000 and create the full experience of a story. If you’re writing non-fiction or memoir, this is extremely important, because you can communicate anecdotes from your experience in the space of a caption.
Here’s a super short example by Linor Goralik from last year’s flash fiction series in the New Yorker.
3. A Change: He let’s go of his mom and screams. Surprise!
And you can see, how with just those three elements, the reader walks away with an experience and a message. No one needs to preach in order for the sentiment to be understood, the combination of character, feeling and change makes a tangible statement.
I’ll admit, I haven’t been doing much of this myself because I’ve been so focused on non-fiction lately, but it’s also a fun opportunity to share some of my own work.
I’ll actually be taking this down after this week, because the story is owned by the magazine Midwestern Gothic. But I thought it might be fun for the moment. No harm no foul.
To put this in context, I’m going to go into a lot more depth in the course: Turn Your Social Media Calendar into a Book, set to come out at the end of this month. But in the meantime, I want to close with a few tips.
The key to any form of social media is to have fun and form relationships. People can feel that forced energy of an agenda like, look at me, follow me, read me, vs. playful sharing, having fun and giving people a peak into your life.
The possibilities are endless, for finding friends, beta-readers, agents etc. Plus the more you practice putting your work out there, the easier it becomes. And that’s the real key to success.


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For Ben Harper's latest tour, he’s with his backing band, The Innocent Criminals. He plays July 28 at Grand Sierra Resort as part of the Artown festival.
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Ben Harper doesn’t sit still long in his career. Albums and tours have included collaborators and different styles on a frequent basis. For his latest tour, though, he’s back with his most notable backing band, The Innocent Criminals. Harper plays on July 28 at Grand Sierra Resort as part of the Artown festival.
Harper is joined in the Innocent Criminals by bassist Juan Nelson, drummer Oliver Charles, percussionist Leon Mobley, keyboardist Jason Yates and guitarist Jason Mozerksy. Harper’s latest album is a full-fledged album released in 2016 with the Innocent Criminals, named “Call It What It Is.” It reached No. 19 on the Billboard album chart.
Born in Pomona, California, Harper’s grandparents owned the The Folk Music Center and Museum. He subsequently played guitar at an early age and had his first public concert at age 12. Known for his slide guitar playing, Harper began playing in Southern California regularly in his teen years and toured with famous roots/blues artist Taj Mahal in 1990.
His breakthrough came in 2000 with the single, “Steal My Kisses.” The song became a big radio hit and helped set the stage for a breakthrough in 2003 with “Diamonds on the Inside,” his fifth album and a million-seller, and also Harper’s first to hit the Billboard top 20 album charts. The title track and another single, “With My Own Two Hands,” also did well on radio.
That was Harper’s commercial peak thus far. His follow-up to “Diamonds” was the first of his collaborative albums, a soul/gospel record with the legendary vocal group The Blind Boys of Alabama.” The album, “There Will Be A Light,” won the Grammy award for best traditional soul gospel album in 2005. He also won in 2014 for best blues album with “Get Up,” which was another album he shared with an artist, this time the late harmonica player Charlie Musselwhite.


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I’m noticing that my breastmilk supply is low because baby is still hungry after feeding however, he doesn’t want to take the bottle. He’s almost 8 months and eating solids but drinking from bottle or cup he just won’t do. I’ve been trying for over two weeks now and am losing my mind!
I bought many bottles and different formulas and I found the taste he likes with cereal for example, but how do I switch completely without giving the breast anymore?!?!
Do half breast milk and half formula at first and then reduce the breast milk by 1 ounce everyday until it’s all formula. That might work.
I’ve been EBF (extended breastfeeding, exclusively breastfeeding) since today. I was just finally able to get him to take a dr Browns bottle last week of pumped milk. Today I bought enfamil espire (the blue container) closest to breastmilk. I figured I’d have to mix it with pumped milk for awhile, but to my surprise he took to it immediately! I tasted it as well, very similar to breastmilk!
I recommend the Enfamil Enspire too!
Baby doesn't like my breastmilk?


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This popped up for my in Azsuna, just north of Felblaze Ingress, But when I try to run to the location, it arrow just spins around and the quest never engages.
I kept running around, finally got it to pop after circling a tree on the road. lol.
Kill and skin Sunrunners in the area.
Kill the pretty unicorns, yay.
Kill the pretty unicorns yay.
As the map above shows, the in-game marker of the world quest is slightly wrong. You just need to head North East slightly and you will get the quest.
This quest may be bugged. I killed a few dozen with no luck, then I got a group of 8 together and they all had the glowing ring under them, unlike the others. I got all 12 drops from one group after skinning.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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SHAMA'S EASY2COOK RECIPES: RE-ANNOUNCING FAST FOOD EVENT SERIES !!!
RE-ANNOUNCING FAST FOOD EVENT SERIES !!!
At this special moment , i am happy to re-announce Fast food event - Noodles for the month of August .I started this event last May ,but couldn't continue this series due to one or the other reason . Hence , wish to continue it now . So, starting from the intial theme , Noodles .
1) Cook any healthy recipe with Noodles both Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian . Post it in your blog and link it back to the event .
2) Multiple recipes and also archieved entries are allowed.
3) Rush your recipes to shamanagscrafts@gmail.com before August 31st,2012 .You can link your recipes here too with linky tool provided .
4) Waiting for your lovely recipes .
Will definitely participate dear!!! btw, Can I enter vermicelli recipes??
wow... Nice theme dear... will surely send my entry... Happy hosting !!
Hi dear I would like to participate but Im not sure how to link it....mind helping me?
Nice theme Shama, I would definately try to participate in the event.
Nice event. Will post my entries soon. Happy hosting!!
Nice theme Shama. I am in.
Great event. I definately participate your event. Happy hosting..
Lovely event..sure will send some entries..all the best !
Great event! I'll be submitting an entry soon!
Hey, I was not aware with this event. Thanks for leaving comment on my space. Glad to be your follower. Soon I will send my entries. Happy hosting dear.
Thanks for inviting.. Sure will some recipes to your event..
Lovely Event.Just linked my entry ..
thanks for warm response ..
surely next month will send this entry ... good to know upcoming event..Happy hosting Dear.
Thank you i will practice this,nice noodles next time i want to try chicken Fried Rice Recipe thanks for this post.
AWARD AND REPOSTS FOR EVENTS !!!
I have a passion for cooking and handicrafts . I started this blog to share my recipes with all my friends . The Recipes in this blog are my own tried recipes learnt from my mom , friends , magazines , cookery shows and my cousins . Measurements of masala powders used in the blog is according to our taste buds , you can change them according to your taste. Feel free to give your suggesstions .


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A consortium of Nottinghamshire public sector partner agencies are now using a new covalent software in order to improve organisational performance.
The organisations, known as TotalNotts, have jointly procured Covalent Corporate Performance Management (Covalent CPM), a system which actively manages goal-critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and avoids data overload and allows managers to take timely corrective action where necessary.
The new system was produced by Covalent Software and will be used collaboratively across Nottinghamshire. TotalNotts now provides a single platform across the county’s eight local authorities.
Funding for the project was secured from the Regional Improvement Efficiency Partnership (RIEP), which offered councils and their partners funding for joint projects looking to deliver better services to become more efficient and innovative.
TotalNotts comprises of Bassetlaw District Council, Broxtowe Borough Council, Gedling Borough Council, Newark & Sherwood District Council, Rushcliffe Borough Council, Ashfield District Council, Mansfield District Council and Nottinghamshire County Council.
This post was written by Ray on Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 16:28. This author has written 3187 posts on this blog.

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Chicago area listeners will now need to go online or download the app to listen to the Tom Joyner Morning because his syndicated morning show is being dropped by it's Chicago affiliate. This marks the end of an era in Chicagoland radio.
Media Reporter Robert Feder was first to report the move by "Chicago's R&B Station" 106.3 WSRB to replace the TJMS with a local morning show hosted by Mike Love on June 5, 2017. In the 1980s, "The Fly Jock" spent eight years commuting daily via commercial airlines to host two radio shows. He hosted mornings on K104 in Dallas and hopped an airplane to host the top-rated afternoon-drive show on 107.5 WGCI-FM in Chicago. A 1,600 mile round trip commute.
FROM ROBERT FEDER .com After more than four decades as a fixture on Chicago’s airwaves, the superstar who dubbed himself “The Hardest Working Man in Radio” won’t be working on the air here anymore.
Keep On Trucking TJ !!! Keep On Trucking !!!
Wow that's unbelievable, he's a legend like herb Kent...now what does that move/decision do for the listeners 40+; leave us with nothing.


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Naw-Rúz is an ancient Iranian New Years day festival which occurs near the Spring Equinox. It is now a world holiday of the Baha'i faith. If the equinox occurs before sunset, then New Year's Day is celebrated on that day in the Middle East; otherwise it is delayed until the following day. In the rest of the world, it is on Mar-21. It is celebrated with many symbols indicating regrowth and renewal - much like the Christian Easter. Some members follow the ancient Iranian "haft-sin" custom on this day involves arranging seven objects whose name begin with the letter S in Persian; e.g. hyacinths, apples, lilies, silver coins, garlic, vinegar and rue.
Ridvan (also known as the Most Great Festival and King of Festivals) is celebrated on April 21. It is a 12 day celebration which recalls the time when Baha'u'llah declared that he was the prophet predicted by the Bab. It is the most holy days of the Baha'i year.
Declaration of the Bab occurs on May-23 each year. It recalls the day in 1844 CE when the Bab declared that he was the individual to make way for Baha'u'llah.
Ascension of Baha'u'llah is celebrated on May 29, the anniversary of Baha'u'llah's death.
Martyrdom of the Bab is on July 9, the date when the Bab was executed.
Birth of the Bab is recognized on October 20, the birthday of the Bab.
Birth of Baha'u'llah is on November 12, the birthday of Baha'u'llah.
Day of the Covenant is on November 26; it recognizes the day that Baha'u'llah's son Abdul-Baha became the Center of the Covenant.
Ascension of Abdu'l-Baha is on November 28; it recalls the death of Abdul-Baha.
the two Equinoxes of March 21 and September 21st when the daytime and nighttime are each 12 hours long.
the two Solstices, added by the Saxons, of December 21, (the longest night/shortest day of the year) and June 21 (the shortest night/longest day of the year).
Samhain on OCT-31. This is the Wiccan New Year's Eve.
Dates of the major Sabbats are approximate. Their origins are believed to be related to hunting, farming, and animal fertility. They occur roughly midway between the minor Sabbats, typically near the start of a month.
Many Wiccans also hold special celebrations at or near the time of each full moon; some also celebrate the new moons.


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Enjoy the secluded rural setting of our cottage, nestled amongst the trees and surrounded by beautiful rolling farmland, overlooking a beautiful lake and old English stone bridge. A leisurely walk to the Restaurant, Winery and Gallery at Lamonts, and only 3 minutes to Smiths Beach, 5 minutes to Yallingup, 10 minutes to Dunsborough and 20 minutes to Margaret River. Snuggle up to the wood fire with a good book or relax on the verandah with your favourite bottle of wine and soak up the views, wildlife and atmosphere.
The cottage is a beautiful weatherboard, which has now been fully renovated and furnished to a high standard. Crisp white linen, towels and tea towels are included in the price. There is a lovely kitchen, high ceilings, polished jarrah floor boards and wood fire. French doors from both the lounge and main bedroom open up to the beautiful verandah which wraps around on three sides with wonderful views in every direction. Wake up in the morning and gaze out over the lake to the beautiful bridge.
Fully self contained with three bedrooms, kitchen, dining, lounge, bathroom and laundry. Bedroom 1 has a queen size bed, bedroom 2 has a double bed and the third bedroom has 2 single beds.
The verandah has been extended providing a large outdoor entertaining area with barbeque and outdoor furniture.
Children are well catered for with a safe verandah and plenty of space outside for their favourite ball game.
Wildwood Brook Cottage is one of 5 privately owned cottages spread out across 15 acres overlooking the valley.
Please Note, unfortunately due to strata regulations we are unable to accept school leavers.
The cottage is in the heart of the South Wests famed Wine Region close to Yallingup, Smiths Beach, Dunsborough and Margaret River. There are nine wineries within a 10 minute drive, including Amberley, Rivendell and Lamonts. All the Southwest has to offer is on your doorstep.
From Wildwood Road, turn north onto Millbrook Road then take the first right into Wildbrook Place. Wildwood Brook Cottage is the second cottage. Millbrook Road is 1km from Caves Road and 15kms from the Bussell Highway.
Wineries, restaurants, beaches,snorkeling, surfing, caves, art and furniture galleries, shearing shed, potteries, ice creameries, chocolate factory, golf, archery, mini golf, Yallingup, Dunsborough, Margaret River, the South West.
Bookings less than this are fine when filling gaps that may arise, however a 2 night minimum will always apply.
This deposit is fully refundable up to 6 weeks before the commencement of the booking.
Full payment is due 2 weeks prior to the commencement of the booking.
Our third stay - feels like home. Owners are great.
We always have a wonderful time when we visit Wildwood Brook Cottage. We had some rain this time and an issue with the lights going out after some water got in, but the owners were brilliant in getting the electrician straight out. Problem sorted in no time.
Thank you so much for your patience with the problem when the outside security light got wet due to the heavy rain. Always a delight to host you and your family and we hope to see you again soon.
We loved our stay at Wildwood Brook Cottage. Perfectly located a short drive away from Yallingup and Dunsborough, it was a great base from which to plan our daily adventures. The weather was too warm to justify lighting the fire but I'm sure it would be absolutely gorgeous on a cold winter evening! The cottage contains everything you might need for a comfortable stay and is very clean. We couldn't get the WiFi working but that was the least of our worries as we enjoyed gin and tonics on the back verandah while taking in the view. Our kids absolutely loved the friendly kangaroos who visited each night and were entertained daily by the pink and grey galahs on the bird feeder. We would highly recommend Wildwood Brook Cottage for a family get-away or as a grown-ups-only retreat from the rat race.
Thank you for a lovely stay at Wildwood brook cottages, great location.
Feels like home. Our second stay was just as wonderful as our first. Wildwood Brook Cottage brings much joy to our family of four. We will definitely be back...again!
This is a lovely cottage with everything you'll need for a comfortable stay.

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The attorneys at VLP provide clients with the legal advice they need to effectively advertise, market and promote products and services. Our Advertising, Marketing & Promotions practice counsels clients on the diverse spectrum of legal issues that arise in connection with their advertising and marketing practices and campaigns.
Structuring specific promotions such as sweepstakes and contests.
Advising on general advertising law issues such as claim substantiation and promotional offers.
Negotiating and drafting marketing-related business agreements and transactions.
Handling advertising challenges before self-regulatory bodies including the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council.
Implementing social media and digital marketing policies.
At VLP we combine an in-depth knowledge of the law with a vast understanding of advertising, marketing and promotions practices to meet the legal demands of companies operating throughout the industry. Our legal team works with clients to ensure that their advertising and marketing practices comply with the myriad of laws and regulations governing industry operations. Our aim is to help our clients develop advertising and promotional materials that accomplish their important business objectives while reducing potential legal risks and challenges.
Whether we are advising a company on a new customer loyalty program, representing a client in connection with a government investigation, or helping a business to maintain appropriate substantiation for a complex environmental claim, our attorneys take the time to develop a full awareness of our clients’ goals and expectations. This knowledge allows us to craft strategies and solutions specifically tailored to our client’s unique business operations. Our clients also benefit from the legal knowledge of practitioners working in practice groups across our firm. This cross-disciplinary approach ensures that our clients have direct access to experienced attorneys with the legal knowledge necessary to effectively address their most critical legal issues.


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Klaus and Marcel are in trouble. After learning the identity of the evil power coming for Hope and the other children in The Originals "Keepers of the House," the two kings of New Orleans might have become the prey of the Hollow, the dark spirit infiltrating the town. In their attempts to save the children from becoming human sacrifices, Marcel and Klaus put themselves at risk and now the Hollow might be in both Marcel and Klaus on The Originals.
Identified by Hope and explained by Vincent, the Hollow is a dark spirit that sometimes takes form in blue light, as seen earlier in the season when it took Adam and Hope. Waking from a dream, Hope tells Klaus that he must never look into a blue light, but even Klaus can't quite help it later in the episode, when he and Marcel stumble into the sacrificial ritual in the woods. Klaus, Marcel, Elijah, Vincent, and Hayley are able to save the kids, but it turns out the entire thing was a trap. The Hollow wanted Klaus and Marcel, trapping them in a ring of fire and transporting them into a kind of other realm, where the only thing visible was a blue light.
Klaus tried to look away, but Marcel couldn't. And now, according to Vincent, they both could have some of the Hollow inside of them. The episode ended with Marcel looking into a mirror, blue light reflecting back on to him, and Hope having a nightmare about Klaus, bright blue rings in his eyes.
The Hallow isn't coming, it's here. And it's in the two most powerful creatures in NOLA.