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Multi-millionaire Ezra Ounce wants to start a campaign against 'filthy' forms of entertainment, like Broadway-Shows. He comes to his relatives families and makes them members of his ... See full summary »
Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (... See full summary »
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Chorus girls Polly, Carol and Trixie are ecstatic when they learn that Broadway producer Barney Hopkins is putting on a new show. He promises all of the girls parts in the new show and even hires their neighbor Brad Roberts, an unknown composer, to write some of the music. There's only one problem: he doesn't have the money to bankroll it all. That problem is solved when Brad turns out to be quite rich but he insists that he not perform. When opening night comes, the juvenile lead can't go on forcing Brad to take the stage. He's recognized of course and his upper crust family wants him to quit. When he refuses, they tell him to end his relationship with Polly or face having his income cut off. When Brad's snobbish brother Lawrence mistakes Carol for Polly, the girls decide to have a bit of fun and teach him a lesson. Written by
REVEL IN THESE MIGHT SPECTACLES -- "The Parade of the Gold Diggers" "The Stairway to the Stars" "The Flower Garden of Girls" "The Ballet of the Snows" "The Dance of the Singing Violins" "The Pageant of the Forgotten Man" See more »
Was originally planned to end with the production number "Petting in the Park", but after seeing the complete numbers, the studio added the politically charged "My Forgotten Man" at the end, pointing out that while the cast is "in the money", many others in Depression-era America were not. Remains of the old order are visible; in the final backstage scene, Ruby Keeler and the chorus girls are all wearing costumes for the number "Petting in the Park". See more »
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Marvyn Leroy and Busby Berkeley, what a combination!
"Golddiggers of 1933" is a fun movie to watch because all the right elements that went into the making of this motion picture. Mervyn Leroy was truly inspired, and his direction clearly shows he was in total command. The contribution made by the incomparable Busby Berkeley is one of the best things in the film. His choreography for the big production numbers is one of the most impressive thing he did for the movies.
The film is a sweet story about young hopefuls in New York trying to make it in the musical theater. Thus, we find the impoverished room mates, Carol, Trixie and Polly, who are so poor they have to steal their neighbor's milk! These young women are at the end of their rope when Barney, the Broadway impresario comes by to tell them about the new show he is working on. The only trouble, he has no money for it.
How naive and wonderful those movies that came during the great depression were! Everything was possible, in spite of what was happening in the country at the time. In fact, this film, as well as others of that era, served as an excuse for people that were facing a hard time making ends meet for escaping it all when watching a movie like this one.
The cast is excellent. Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline McMahon, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Ned Sparks, Ginger Rogers, and Guy Kibbee giving performances that endeared them to the American public of the time.
The production number of "Shadow Waltz" has to be one of the best ones in this musical genre ever produced. The number is an amazing one and a tribute to the man who staged it, Busby Berkley. It also help the chorus girls were dressed by Orry-Kelly and the music was by Harry Warren and Al Dubin.
"Golddiggers of 1933" is one of the best movies to come out of the Hollywood of those years.
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Guest bloggers Cari & Adam Miller just returned from a two week trip to Italy, and are blogging about their experiences. We will share their posts here over the next week or two.
We were thrilled to discover that our first villa had a wood fired pizza oven on the property. The villa’s management offered up a chef to come in and prepare pizzas for our group to celebrate a few family birthdays.
Needless to say we ate a lot of pizza on this trip, and it was never disappointing. This pizza, however, was the best. pizza. ever. Starting with a simple focaccia and moving on to at least a dozen types of pizza, we ate well that night.
Read more about their pizza night here.

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Big Brokers Say These 3 Multifamily Trends are Must-Watch
It is no secret that multifamily housing demand has been on the rise over the past few years and will continue to rise throughout this year. But, according to a Marcus & Millichap report, the demand is not the only thing that has been trending in multifamily. The industry is also seeing different trends in the way multifamily is constructed, and in creating more buildings that utilize technology and the internet of things —or as some say, “smart buildings.”
Whether you’re a real estate professional trying to stay current with trends or have a different role in the industry, here are some trends that commercial real estate brokers are calling out as must-watch.
1. The Internet of Things
Coldwell Banker Commercial Atlantic is pointing to the trend of the internet of things as “changing the landscape” of multifamily. The internet of things is allowing for many devices and appliances within the home to be connected and communicate with each other.
Not only does this interconnectivity allow for more convenience for the resident, but it can also allow for more streamlined and efficient buildings, which will help to reduce costs not only for the tenant but can also help to reduce costs for the building owner as well. For more on this topic read 3 Things Smart Homes Can Teach Us About CRE.
2. Suburban Growth
Urban downtown living has risen in popularity especially with millennials, but as CBRE points out in their 2017 Multifamily Outlook, suburban living (or as they refer to it the “quiet giants”) is having a larger influx of population than urban markets are.
According to the 2014 American Community Survey of the U.S. Census, 2.8 million people moved from the suburbs to urban areas — but in contrast, 4.6 million moved from urban centers to suburbs. This was seen across all demographics, not just certain age groups or professions.
One of the major driving factors of this is the rising costs of urban downtown living, but people are still looking to have the same amenities in the suburbs. This is creating more downtown-like suburban areas that offer great public transportation, as well as shopping and retail nearby.
3. Supply Challenge
CBRE also points out in their 2017 Multifamily Outlook, that supply has been outpacing demand, which they believe will continue to be the case for this year as well as 2018. As completions are at an all-time high and supply is higher than demand, it is seeing markets being effected by reducing rent growth as well as increasing vacancy numbers.
CBRE is predicting rent growth to reduce to 1.2% and vacancy to increase to 5.5%. The biggest impact of this is being seen in urban infill markets where developers are delivering the most units currently. However, in contrast and to tie into the number 2 trend, suburban markets do not see as large of an effect when it comes to these supply challenges. Since suburban units will not typically be competing with high end and newer development, CBRE is expecting these markets to perform well in 2017.


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Policy makers need to do more than just listen to the homeless community. They need to turn their ideas into action.
Editor’s note: This story was produced in partnership with Street Sense Media, a street media paper in Washington, D.C., and is part of “The Right to a Home,” a Community Based News Room (CBNR) series that examines homelessness issues across the United States. CBNR is a project of Law@the Margins, and the eight-part series is supported by a Solutions Journalism Network grant.
The word vulnerability gets thrown around a lot in the homeless community. Nonprofits, advocates and politicians in the District of Columbia use it to make the case that they are helping those who are the most in need. And based on the way people experiencing homelessness are connected to housing in the District, it has become what is said to get someone into housing quicker. In 2008, the District of Columbia began to institute vulnerability surveys in order to enact “housing first,” the policy of providing a housing subsidy without first requiring sobriety, mental health treatment or other similar stipulations. Then those services would be provided.
This system assumed that those living outside were more vulnerable. At least that’s who appeared to be receiving more vouchers, to the point that some people would move out of shelters to try and achieve housing quicker.
The survey collected demographic information and details such as where a person was staying, and how long they were homeless. It did not ask them to identify what challenges they were facing or how to overcome them. Nor did it speak to the vulnerability of shelter residents, or recommend changes to make shelter a viable option to those experiencing homelessness.
More than a decade later, the more complex survey tool used today still does not solicit client recommendations to improve the system.
The first step to get in line for various housing programs is to complete an assessment that provides a score on the “vulnerability index.” The higher the number, the more vulnerable you are assumed to be.
It’s a triage system. Like an emergency room, the people presumed to have the greatest need come first. It takes into account a person’s history of homelesness, physical and mental health, daily living, and/or substance use.
When a resource becomes available, the people with the highest vulnerability are considered for it. To make the final selection, other factors are considered on a case-by-case basis, such as records of past usage of shelters or other services. This system pits people in need against each other, arguing over who is more vulnerable.
“People are vulnerable in different ways. You really can’t measure vulnerability,” said Kristy Greenwalt, the director of the District of Columbia Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH). “The singles population is an older cohort of people with a lot of medical and complex health needs, but then children are vulnerable in a different way.”
Greenwalt has a broad view of the vulnerability of those who are experiencing homelessness in D.C. Her role is to serve as an adviser to the mayor and the D.C. Council, as well as to coordinate the efforts of the many agencies that are working on housing stability for residents. “We need all the partners around the table,” Greenwalt said. “While the agencies are focused on managing their agency, I’m looking broadly across the system.”
Although the vulnerability index assessment has led to many vulnerable people receiving housing, many others are screened out for not being vulnerable enough.
Greenwalt may not see a better alternative to the Vulnerability Index-Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool (VI-SPDAT), but her system-wide view has called for a fundamental redesign of city-run shelters. The redesign is unique, and promising, because members of the homeless community articulated the needs.
As part of this effort, appointed “consumer representatives” — members of the homeless community — were tasked with conducting listening sessions with shelter residents and those who also are living outside to gain a better foothold on how the city can improve its emergency system.
As a result, the first shelter to be redesigned by the District of Columbia, the 801 East Men’s Shelter, which sleeps 317 men in six rooms, will be getting rid of bunk beds and reducing the number of beds per room to increase privacy, reduce the sense of being crowded into a place, and reduce the likelihood of theft and fights. It will be divided up into three wings, one for “low-barrier” emergency shelter, one for “work beds” for people who are employed and can’t abide normal shelter hours due to their jobs, and one for seniors and medical-respite beds.
As a new building, it will, of course, be cleaner. But the materials and design have been chosen to make it easier to be kept clean, especially when it comes to bed bugs.
Community Activism Creates Effective Housing Solutions
“Nobody feels safe out here,” said Christopher Hines, a 39-year-old D.C. native. “You cannot feel safe sleeping unprotected under a bridge at night — nobody, I don’t care what kind of person you are.”
Hines doesn’t feel safe outside or in shelters. He has been on various waitlists for housing since 2011. D.C. started piloting its vulnerability assessment tool for single adults in 2014. The company that designed the tool, Orgcode, did not conduct any homeless testing. It only used the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to identify information gaps the agency wanted to fill. The system didn’t account for stories like Hines’s.
“My parents died when I was 21. I went to the streets, drugs, crime, been out here ever since,” Hines said. “I stay on K Street by the old Domino’s give or take about 32 months.”
Hines is one of at least 607 unsheltered adults in the District, according to an annual count conducted in January 2019. He has chosen to take his chances sleeping outside after what he experienced in city shelters.
“The shelters are not safe due to budget restrictions as far as the security,” Hines said. “The administrators, the level of professional education from the staff, the level of professional [education] from the security guards there is very low. People come in there with drugs, people come in there with all types of illicit stuff. Those environments wasn’t safe for me.”
Michael Harris, 59, also has been living around Union Station and K Street for the past six months. A lifelong resident of the District, he has been homeless for 15 years and last stayed in the New York Avenue Men’s Emergency Shelter. He also cited violence as a reason not to return to shelters and described a man who was beat up in the 801 East Men’s Shelter and died several days later.
“That lets me know the intensity of the assault,” Harris said. “They didn’t kill him right then and there. He died three days later. There have been shootings, there have been stabbings. I think my chances of survival is better right here.”
According to Greenwalt, the ICH director, every city is unique, and a lot of cities on the West Coast do not have hardly any shelters at all and have tremendous amounts of unsheltered homelessness.
“In D.C., we have a different sort of challenge,” she said. “We have a right to shelter, but we’ve ended up in these large shelters — 300, 800 people. They’re not always very favorable environments for a lot of people. When they say they don’t want to go into shelter because the shelters aren’t clean or they don’t feel safe, those are very valid concerns.”
During the Reagan administration’s overhaul of the mental health system in the 1980s, homelessness increased in the nation’s inner cities. The epidemic caught the attention of advocates like the late, great Mitch Snyder, who conducted a 51-day fast to bring attention to the issue. Synder and his organization, Creative Community for Non-Violence (CCNV), were among the first to get into the shelter business by taking over the unused Federal City College building to provide a safe place for people experiencing homelessness to go.
CCNV then pioneered a voter-led ballot initiative to give homeless people a right to shelter in the District of Columbia. D.C. was the first city in the United States to give citizens this right and was the first to repeal it. In 2005, the District of Columbia rewrote the ordinance to give further clarity to what it means to provide emergency housing services. The new law named the Homeless Services Reform Act, which was amended in 2017, mandates the types of programs that are for people experiencing homelessness with its most accessible component being low-barrier shelter.
These programs do not require identification or sobriety requirements to enter. They were intended to stabilize a person experiencing homelessness for 12 hours and no more. The District of Columbia is the only jurisdiction in the region to do so.
Recent data produced by D.C. reports that a significant portion of its homeless population migrate between D.C., Maryland and Virginia when seeking emergency housing services, with a bulk of them only eligible for the low-barrier shelter in the District of Columbia. Yet D.C. still has the highest homeless rate in the region and the country.
Districts with a right to shelter other than Washington, D.C., include New York City, and the state of Massachusetts, which only applies the right to children and families. California also considered a right-to-shelter measure in 2019.
Vulnerability Is a Symptom of Poverty
Harris described half of the places he’s lived while homeless — shelters, residential areas and on the street — as “red-light districts,” which he defined as areas where drugs are being sold or used. He said holdups, assaults and shootings are going to happen in those kinds of areas.
Not all of Harris’s time without stable housing has been spent in shelters or in a tent. He is a carpenter by trade and said he was often allowed to stay in the buildings he was hired to work on. He considered those areas to be safe, but his experience shows otherwise.
Harris said shootings have occurred in the apartments or houses he was staying in, to the point that he was included in a crime scene investigation. “I think about the time my cat and me hid in a bathtub to use that steel tub as a barrier from bullets coming through the window, the wall of apartments and/or the house,” Harris recalled.
A special report by the U.S. Department of Justice analyzing 2008-2012 data found that people in poor households were twice as likely to be the victims of nonfatal violent crimes than people in high-income households. People in poor households consistently had the highest rates of violent victimization.
“Exposure to violent crime damages the health and development of victims, family members, and entire communities,” according to a 2016 HUD report. “Low-income people and racial and ethnic minorities are disproportionately affected.”
Hines is faced with an issue that most impoverished citizens in the area have to consider, the idea of moving. “I’m at the point where I’m thinking of relocating out of state because I don’t think it’s actually feasible to stay here in the city with so much money, so much power, so much politics, so much freedom, but yet the simplest thing like a place to stay [is unavailable],” he said. “The smallest things are stepped on.”
There are too many hurdles when seeking services, particularly needing to visit various providers just to get the documentation to qualify for the service you need. These long processes result in only helping a few people at a time, which creates a bottleneck where there are more people needing the service.
“What prolongs the crisis itself [is] only a few people can get in at a time,” Hines explained. “I feel as though nobody is getting the services that they need because it’s not sufficient. There are services out here, no doubt. They’re not sufficient.”
The District of Columbia only spends 3 percent of its overall budget on housing, according to the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute. While there is a lot more room for investment to help people, those living outside and those residing in shelter do differ in their definition of safety.
Bert, a native Washingtonian in his 40s who only gave his first name, said he felt safe in city shelters, though certain things bothered him. “People are always arguing, fighting about something,” he said. “When I got here, my phone got stolen five times. That’s really the only thing I got a problem with.”
Bert said he went to a different shelter first, and liked it better, but had a problem with needing to adhere to an early-afternoon curfew to get a bed.
“I would definitely recommend shelters because I wouldn’t want to see anyone sleeping outside in the cold, or something might happen to them.”
Every community has to remember that people are not only experiencing housing instability. They also face the many problems that are associated with poverty.
Poverty can show up in different ways. For the most part, it impacts transportation to and from places in a region. The lack of resources causes people to take a desperate mindset. These nuances and input are not traditionally asked when producing programs to solve a problem. Usually, think tanks and employees are asked to think of how things can be done better. This leads to gaps in how those who are impacted by the problem are included in solutions.
Homeless-Led Solutions Lead to Better Opportunities
The ICH has proposed a drastic transformation of its shelter system. Its current emergency housing stock is in buildings not meant for the purpose of residences.
For example, DC General Family Shelter was originally a hospital and converted into a shelter after the hospital was closed. According to Greenwalt, at its peak, DC General sheltered about 288 families.
During 2014, then-candidate for mayor Muriel Bowser made a campaign promise to close the decrepit DC General Family Shelter. At the time, she was one of several councilmembers calling for the closure after many complaints from shelter residents. During that same year, an 8-year-old girl was kidnapped from the shelter by a staff member. Public outrage further called for the facility to be closed.
In her first month as mayor, Bowser created a community pledge to end homelessness and expressed interest in overhauling the District’s response to homelessness. Her subsequent strategic plan to end homelessness over five years laid out action steps to redesigning emergency shelter for families and singles. By now, the city has opened five of what it calls “short-term family housing facilities.” With the opening of these new program-oriented family housing sites, the mayor was able to close and begin demolishing DC General.
This is a bold step for the District of Columbia, a place that has laws about sheltering its residents but has never built the facilities to support these programs from the ground up. D.C. has only been able to repurporse buildings not meant for shelter use, including two halfway houses and an office building.
While designing shelters for people that include services such as case management on site is a huge step forward from repurposing old buildings, D.C.’s short-term family facilities still lacked input from homeless families.
That’s changing as the city works through the early stages of redesigning a singles shelter in Southeast. The facility will replace the shelter where Bert now stays and will be enriched to include the services that the current facility lacks.
“We are looking at how we can rebuild our emergency housing stock,” Greenwalt said. “We have some great lessons learned in the family system. We are seeing how the right environment can help stabilize people more quickly.”
When the District was relying on DC General and motels, the average length of stay was over a year. Now families are averaging a shelter stay of 90 days or less, according to Greenwalt.
“Even under the best circumstances, if someone loses their housing and needs to find new housing, we need to make sure there is a safety net in place,” Greenwalt said.
We need a culture shift and a new way of thinking about those who are in need of housing. People who are experiencing homelessness or have experienced it need to be part of policy making.
When Orgcode developed the VI-SPDAT assessment, it was based on missing data gaps that appear in every system. Still today, there is no real way to measure how vulnerable a person really is from that person’s standpoint. In D.C., it took a lot of effort just for the homeless community to be a part of the ICH. Now, there are four homeless representatives.
Their presence has started to change how we are helping people by asking them what they need directly. Listening to the people that are directly impacted by a problem helps inform D.C.’s homeless services every day because the impact of the problem varies from person to person. These conversations are ongoing. In 2019 , the ICH convened an entire monthly workgroup for homeless community engagement.
That group led the process of creating surveys and holding focus groups to bring people experiencing homelessness to the table to inform the 801 East redesign. It also provides an official forum for homeless residents to raise their concerns, which the homeless community representatives can then try to solve.
It’s time to change how we measure all of the things that make a person vulnerable. Fifty-four people were known to have died without a home in the District of Columbia in 2018. Washington, D.C., is leading the way on building client leadership into its homeless services system, but there is still a long way to go. The homeless need more influence on oversight.
Impoverished or underserved communities must be given avenues to lead this paradigm shift. Lives depend on it.
Reginald Black is a native Washingtonian who experienced homelessness on and off from 2008 to mid-2019. He is a reporter and vendor for Street Sense Media and serves as a consumer representative appointed to the D.C. Interagency Council on Homelessness. He’s also involved with several organizations founded by people experiencing homelessness.

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Michael Ondaatje Wins Golden Booker Prize
July 10, 2018
To celebrate a half century of the Man Booker Prize, the Booker Prize Foundation has awarded its Golden Booker to Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, based on a public survey of finalists. The finalists—V.S. Naipaul’s In a Free State, Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, and George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo, along with The English Patient—were selected by a panel of judges, each assigned a century from the Booker’s history.
Speaking on Sunday at the Man Booker 50 festival in London, Michael Ondaatje said, “Not for a second do I believe this is the best book on the list, especially when it is placed beside a work by V.S. Naipaul, one of the masters of our time, or a major work like Wolf Hall.” Ondaatje added: “I suspect and know more than anyone that perhaps The English Patient is still cloudy, with errors in pacing.” Ondaatje also noted other prominent authors who never won a Booker, including William Trevor, Barbara Pym, and Alice Munro.
“Few novels really deserve the praise: transformative. This one does,” said novelist Kamila Shamsie, the judge who selected The English Patient. “It moves seamlessly between the epic and the intimate—one moment you’re in looking at the vast sweep of the desert, and the next moment watching a nurse place a piece of plum in a patient’s mouth... It’s intricately and rewardingly structured, beautifully written, with great humanity written into every page.”
The English Patient received nearly 9,000 votes from the public, more than any other shortlisted novel. Previous best-of surveys, carried out for the Book Prize’s 25th and 40th anniversaries, were both won by Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.
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The fundamental imbalance of the Eurozone has always been the relatively low nominal wages of Germany compared to the periphery (low that is in terms of unit labour costs). Until that imbalance was addressed the Eurozone crisis was always just going to be a matter of kicking the can down the road. Germany leaving the Eurozone cuts the Gordian knot because its currency will immediately shoot through the ceiling while the rump Euro will fall. But that will only exacerbate the problems of its banks, since they will now be sitting on devalued Euro-denominated peripheral sovereign debt (in terms of its new currency, call it the post-Euro DM). So the German government would still not avoid a massive bailout, but at least this will be a one-time affair confined to its own banks and not the bottomless pit of the current rescue fond. But it will be a boon for the remaining countries of the Eurozone, since they will now be free to export their way out of recession and debt and rid of senseless, neo-Brüningesque austerity masochism. So Germany would actually be doing everyone a giant favour by unilaterally leaving the Euro.
Since the only alternative, an internal rebalancing that could have saved the Euro through an expansionary domestic German policy (see my http://sites.google.com/site/savingtheeuro), was never considered and is now moot in face of the current run on peripheral Euro debt (see Paul Krugman in today's NY Times), Germany will exit the zone either voluntarily or soon enough by force of catastrophic circumstances. The present Berlin government may think it can continue fiddling while Rome (and Athens and Madrid and Dublin and even Paris) are burning, or deceive itself that ejecting Greece will save its skin, but the writing is already on the wall.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Germany would be doing everyone a favor
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Rookie West Indies seamer Kesrick Williams has come in for praise from skipper Carlos Brathwaite, for his steady performances during the just concluded Twenty20 series against Pakistan.
The 27-year-old grabbed only four wickets in his four outings but proved the most economical of the Windies front-line bowlers, with a rate of just six runs per over.
Brathwaite said Williams’ input was one of the positives which had emerged despite the disappointing 3-1 series defeat.
“I think his performance was excellent. I told him ‘congrats, very well done, very, very good series’,” Brathwaite told reporters here.
“And for a young man, he played his first game in Abu Dhabi and showed the world what he could have done.
“The challenge is always to come back and do it again and he did again, again and again. His was one of the stand-out performances for the series and that’s definitely a positive going forward.”
Williams made his debut in the 3-0 series whitewash to Pakistan last September in the United Arab Emirates, bowling excellently in his only match of the tour to claim two for 15 from his four overs.
He built on that performance over the last week and was at his best with two for 16 in Sunday’s final game here which West Indies lost by seven wickets.
Brathwaite said with the squad now disbanding for differing engagements, players needed to reflect in order to improve their performances for the next T20 assignment against touring Afghanistan in June.
“We split up again. Persons go their separate ways, whether it’s to the ODI series or to IPL and then we meet again for Afghanistan,” the all-rounder noted.
“We need to know what we did well and do that well against Afghanistan and admit where we went wrong in this series and put it (right) against Afghanistan when we meet back up.”


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- External optical drive, relatively slow
Samsung has come up with a fantastic, lightweight ultraportable in the Q30. It's got enough power to drive productivity applications and manages to run for 5.5 hours with a long-life 6-cell battery.
Price$ 3,499.00 (AUD)
The diminutive Samsung Q30 is a road warrior's dream. The 1.2KG chassis packs enough features for the mobile worker, but eschews bells and whistles to save weight.
Once you get past the striking red lid and silver trim, the most noteworthy feature of the Q30 is the 12" widescreen display running at a native resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels. The screen features a gloss coating that boosts brightness and clarity, and the image looks fantastic. The wide screen also allows Samsung to fit a large keyboard to the machine while still keeping the size and weight down. Typing is comfortable, and the keys don't feel cramped.
The heart of the system includes a 1.2GHz Pentium M processor, mated to 512MB of RAM and a 40GB hard disk, which provide sufficient power to drive modern applications -- though not beefy databases or games.
At 29 x 20 x 2.4cm, the chassis is too small to house an optical drive, but there's a full-size Firewire port on the left panel to power an optional external unit beside VGA, USB and audio connectors. The right-hand face offers a second USB interface, along with Ethernet, modem, and Compact Flash sockets, while a combined MemoryStick/SD card reader sits on the front. Extras include a long life battery (supplied for testing) and an external FireWire optical drive.
The compact size of the Q30 means that Samsung has opted to rely on on-board hardware to drive most of the machine's functions. There's no extra graphics adaptor, and the unit instead relies on the Intel 855 Extreme Graphics chipset to achieve sub-par gaming results. The machine was able to score 2017 in PCMark04 and 103 under MobileMark 2002; hardly setting any lab records, but still acceptable for driving current applications. Battery life stretched out to 5:30 hours using the long life cell.
The system also includes Intel's PRO Wireless 2200 802.11b/g Wi-Fi adaptor, along with a 10/100 Broadcom Ethernet adaptor. Many current-generation notebooks are built around newer Intel architecture (Sonoma) that includes an 802.11a/b/g adaptor and gigabit Ethernet, but the Q30 is still a capable, lightweight ultraportable for productivity.
One handy addition to the box contents is a foldout installation guide that takes the user through installing the battery, connecting the power adapter, powering up the machine and registering Windows. It's simple, well laid-out, and a handy inclusion for any new notebook buyers.
Though the Samsung Q30 isn't blisteringly fast, it more than keeps up with surfing the net and handling productivity applications like Microsoft Office. Better yet, at 1.2KG, it's light enough to carry around all day, and the long life battery will come close to matching it.
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What is custom CRM?
A custom CRM system is a specific software product built according to the business goals of a company. This solution ensures effective management relationships with actual customers and increases the attractiveness of your venture to potential ones. Using all the tools of a customer relationship management system (customer lifecycle and workflow management, easy statistics generation, user roles and permissions settings), you can track and improve all the stages (“contact”, “lead”, and “customer”) of its relationships.
CRM Development Options by Belitsoft
Custom CRM Development Services
Custom CRM Solutions Development
Skilled CRM development team from our offshore software development company creates custom software based on your custom CRM structure and designed layout. With automating regular business processes, our CRM developers help optimize sales, marketing, and customer service processes.
We create personalized CRM systems that include all the essential features found in enterprise-level CRM software. These platforms assist companies in reaching their customer retention objectives and enhancing sales performance. Our team of CRM developers uses the latest technologies to build bespoke custom CRM software solutions that can effectively reduce turnaround time.
CRM Mobile App Development
Our CRM app developers build bespoke mobile CRM apps to enable users to access features such as calendar, email creation and checking, account updates, video conferencing, dashboard & report viewing, and more. These features help businesses close deals more efficiently and provide faster support.
CRM Applications Development
Our technical experts leverage the latest industry technologies and programming languages to develop feature-rich custom CRM applications tailored to your business needs. We specialize in building top-notch CRM applications for all platforms, including web, desktop, and mobile.
CRM Business Analysis and Consulting
We provide comprehensive CRM development services that involve analyzing your industry and business requirements. Our team examines your business objectives and workflow to determine the most appropriate custom CRM development features to achieve excellent results. The aim is to maximize the benefits of your CRM development. To create the best CRM structure for your company, we conduct a thorough analysis of various factors, including your business operations, customers, their demand, industry type, and other relevant information.
Our custom CRM development company helps migrate your data safely and quickly if you've switched to a new CRM software. Our CRM system development services ensure they transmit your data from your current CRM to the new one with no loss or negative impact on your business efficiency. We transport your data safely, regardless of the system you are using to collect it, such as Excel or other tools.
Cloud-Based CRM Development
We develop cloud-based CRM solutions and offer easy installation of cloud-based CRM systems. This enables 24/7 access to critical client information from both the office and remote locations, ensuring that you keep in touch with your customers.
We understand the importance of creating a visually appealing and user-friendly customer relationship management system. Our design team prioritizes these aspects throughout the entire design process.
Our team of custom CRM developers offers a secure integration of internal and external systems with your CRM, ensuring seamless and protected information flow. Your team turns out to be more efficient in managing data with automated processes while integrating all your systems, from data collection to analysis and forecasting.
Support and Maintenance
If you choose to create a CRM with us, we strive to achieve the best results and maintain constant communication with you. If you already have a CRM, we can assist you in its development.
Advantages of custom CRM development
Functionality choice option to correspond with your business workflow. Although CRM systems share the common feature of collecting and using customer data, companies' specific goals and desired functionalities may vary. Get a customer relationship management system to support unique business objectives.
A simple-to-use custom solution right for your specific needs and requirements vs. an expensive and complicated out-of-the-box enterprise CRM system, created to meet the requirements of most businesses. We build the functionality and user interface to minimize the learning curve for CRM users and encourage system adoption.
Significant cost-savings in the long run from the custom CRM development of those features you really need. With a CRM that ideally resolves your business tasks, you can achieve a higher lead conversion rate, faster customer service case resolution, and other positive outcomes.
Higher customer retention rates achieved with CRM, since it helps businesses ensure customer satisfaction: the customers feel valued and their needs are being met. This encourages building long-term relationships with them.
Increased sales results carried out as you track and analyze every step of the customer journey. Businesses can pinpoint areas to improve and optimize their sales tactics accordingly.
Higher activity effectiveness through custom CRM solutions. They enable businesses to streamline their processes and improve efficiency, resulting in significant savings of time, money, and resources.
Easy system scalability when new functionality is needed. Receive new features as required, rather than relying on a vendor to upgrade the platform on their schedule.
Ownership and total control over your custom CRM. You can grow your team without thinking of skyrocketing subscription fees.
Increased marketing results thanks to enabling businesses to target specific customer groups more accurately. This results in better marketing results, leading to increased business growth. This was proved by Belitsoft's case of building a Custom CRM Database for effective clinical trial recruitments.
Less time spent on training the end users because a customer relationship management system is created based on your workflow.
Better integration across different departments of your company. CRM applications for different departments, which are based on the same database and fulfill specific requirements of different company levels.
Features of a Custom CRM You Can Get
A custom CRM boosts sales by enabling customer segmentation for personalized marketing, automating routine sales tasks for efficiency, and facilitating effective lead management to prioritize sales efforts. It provides comprehensive analytics and reporting, offering insights into sales performance and market trends, and aids in forecasting future sales. Importantly, a CRM enhances customer retention by offering superior service and personalized experiences, driving repeat sales which are more cost-effective than acquiring new customers.
Pricing and billing
A custom CRM improves pricing and billing management by automating the invoicing process, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing the possibility of errors. It also maintains a comprehensive history of each customer's transactions, enabling swift identification of late or missing payments and a better understanding of customers' purchasing patterns. By integrating with existing accounting systems, the CRM facilitates real-time updates, ensuring all transactions are recorded accurately and promptly.
Customer data management
Gather, store, and manage all customer-related data in a single, centralized location. By having a complete view of customer interactions and activities, organizations can improve customer engagement and enhance the customer experience.
Save time and avoid manual lead registration by connecting CRM to all of your lead generation sources. Accurately collecting customer data can provide valuable insights for businesses to determine the actions of each customer segment and the stage in the customer lifecycle.
Collect data to perform customer segmentation. It encourages them to create more targeted marketing campaigns and better understand and fulfill the needs of their customers. Effortlessly handle personalized campaigns triggered by events across a variety of marketing and advertising channels.
Email and apps integrations
Integrate your custom CRM solutions with email seamlessly by syncing your existing email channels, such as MS Outlook or Gmail with the CRM. This enables you to have full visibility of emails, contacts, calendars, and more across both desktop and mobile, supercharging your CRM platform. The integration with your ERP, financial software like Bookkeep, and others.
Efficiently manage your contact center by implementing multi-channel case capture, rule-based case routing, and providing quick access to a comprehensive knowledge base for your agents.
Customer self-service and feedback
Establish a platform for customers to find custom CRM software solutions to frequently encountered challenges easily. It proceeds on the workload reduction of your customer service team. Create surveys to collect feedback and analyze customer sentiment in real-time.
Collect and manage information about your partners. Improve customer experiences by keeping track of important details such as when, why, where, and how issues occurred. CRM enables you to monitor whether and how the issue has been resolved, providing valuable insights to improve your business productivity.
Identify areas for optimization and facilitate data-driven business planning through the use of user-friendly records.
Why Choose Belitsoft Custom CRM Development Company
Hire a dedicated CRM software developer to get a customer relationship management system. Increase the number of customers and drive sales with it. While we are building a complex CRM system for your sales reps and managers and taking full responsibility for your customer relationship management optimization, you focus on the strategic goals of your future business development.
High-quality results. We develop quality software according to ISO 9001:2008 standards that meet all business goals. Belitsoft develops and delivers complete custom extensions with warranty terms.
Using the latest technologies. CRM experts apply innovative technologies, such as VoIP, RFID, and POS, to create tailored solutions that fulfill all of your business needs.
Industry-savvy CRM programmers with hands-on experience. Belitsoft has a well-versed team of professional software developers, QA engineers, business analysts, and project managers that build effective customized CRM systems on time and within budget. Our business analysts study all peculiarities of your business and provide an effective roadmap for custom CRM applications development, CRM integration, and upgrade. The CRM developers know the specifics of customer data processing and regulation in the industries like Healthcare, FinTech, eLearning, Logistics, Manufacturing, and many more.
Flexible forms of cooperation. Choose Belitsoft as your CRM development company and use flexible forms of cooperation and different dedicated team management models. Cut the costs of custom CRM development and its maintenance reasonably.
Ongoing maintenance. Besides deployment and customization, we offer ongoing maintenance service for the businesses running on CRM to provide timely system upgrades to address ever-changing market challenges.
Belitsoft’s Custom CRM Development Process
- Our team examines your current processes that will the CRM will address, pinpointing manual workloads, challenges, and time-intensive tasks
- We discover areas for process optimization to enhance efficiency
- Our specialists conduct interviews and analyze business processes to understand your requirements for the CRM
- We determine both internal and external data sources for integration with the CRM
- Future CRM users are mapped out, including their role hierarchy and specific needs
- We develop usage scenarios for different user roles in the CRM
- Our team arranges the functional specifications of the CRM
- We create an integration plan for connecting the CRM to relevant systems and data sources
- Our team documents the architecture of the CRM, including the programming tools and technologies for each component
- We provide an estimation of the project timeline and cost
- Our developers create all the CRM features, either by tailoring an existing platform or starting from scratch
- We establish APIs to connect the CRM with other systems you use
- Our team conducts comprehensive testing to evaluate CRM's functionality, integration, compatibility, security, and usability
- Once your CRM passes all tests, we proceed to launch it live
CRM testing and QA
- We enhance the security of your customer relationship management system and ensure maximum confidentiality by applying best practices of CRM development security
CRM support and maintenance
- We offer user training to facilitate smooth adoption of the CRM and address questions your team may have
- We provide L1-L3 support services upon demand
What Is The Cost of a Custom CRM?
If you're considering implementing a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for your company, you can either choose an off-the-shelf solution or opt for a custom-built one.
Although custom CRM solutions can be expensive initially, it can spread out their benefits over a longer period. Most out-of-the-box CRM solutions have a per-user pricing model, and as your team grows, the costs will increase. You may require additional features and custom modules that come with higher monthly payments.
We realize the importance of selecting the right CRM solution for your business. Contact us to discuss your requirements and receive an approximate quote for the cost of developing custom CRM solutions.
SUGARCRM development services
When your business management has SugarCRM as a part of the software environment, we encourage you to use our SugarCRM development and maintenance services.
Customers are the key value of any business. That is why effective and wise customer relationship management is the right way to success. To achieve the greatest results in this area, companies and businesses adopt different software products, including the customer relationship management system SugarCRM. Here at Belitsoft, we offer professional integration services, custom SugarCRM applications development, maintenance and more.
A fine-tuned software solution uniting all access points like PCs, mobile devices, other hardware, and middleware can grant productive end-to-end collaboration between executives, managers, customer service experts and other staff of a company. SugarCRM is an example of such solutions, therefore we choose it for customer management software development.
MICROSOFT DYNAMICS CRM developers
We use Microsoft Dynamics development and integration for automation of business processes. You can make a dedicated team of professional developers in Belitsoft to implement, integrate, and support an effective business solution based on Microsoft Dynamics.
Business applications developed using Microsoft technologies simplify tracking of your inner business processes, help you make more accurate decisions, and speed up workflow. If you are ready to change your business productivity and want to save working time, consider our offer and develop a custom Microsoft Dynamics application.
Integration of any system requires serious deliberation. We are ready to delve deeply into your business details and offer you the most effective solution. To make your CRM or ERP efficient, we involve professional designers to configure special UI settings and experienced .NET programmers to create custom functions - search, tracking, modules. Integration of Microsoft Dynamics software to support your business processes management involves the progress of productivity, employees' and customers' loyalty, that turns to a result of profit volume and establishes a strong competitive advantage.
The Microsoft Dynamics products family includes Dynamics CRM (Customer relations management system) and Dynamics ERP (Enterprise resource planning system) which comprises four primary products: Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and Microsoft Dynamics SL.
Microsoft Dynamics apply to: Project management; Human resources management; Business intelligence and reporting; Supply chain & distribution; Sales & marketing; Retail point of sale and other areas; Customer relations management and Manufacturing.
Here at Belitsoft, we offer integration of any Microsoft Dynamics product into your software environment and its customization, whether you need any feature that CRM or ERP doesn’t have. We make Dynamics products fully compatible with your business goals and management processes by creating a custom extension or the platform customization.
Belitsoft Works with Enterprises, Tech Companies, and Startups
At Belitsoft, we offer custom CRM development and customization of out-of-the-box solutions. Our team of developers builds a modern approach for managing your customer base, tailored to your business processes and goals. We provide a range of custom CRM development services from analysis to support and are experienced in various industries, including eLearning, Healthcare, Financial, Retail, Telecom, Logistics, and more.
- CRM development outsourcing
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- Digital transformation
- Enterprise mobility
- CRM integration into other enterprise software
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- CRM maintenance and support
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Top real estate investors including Yair Levy and Joseph Chetrit are close to defaulting on a $235 million loan on the Bed Bath & Beyond building in Chelsea, a recent lawsuit by an SL Green affiliate says.
But to preserve some value in their holdings, the owners transferred a vacant slice of the building’s lot to another entity they own without SL Green’s consent, the court filing says.
“With a payment default looming and foreclosure proceedings inevitable, [the owners] sought to convey away a necessary and valuable piece of lenders’ collateral to obtain an unfair advantage in future negotiations, in blatant and egregious violations of the bargains struck by the parties to the loans,” the lawsuit by Green Loan Services, an affiliate of SL Green, says.
Developers Levy, Chetrit and Charles Dayan are investors in an entity called CF 620 Owner One LLC, which bought the property at 620 Sixth Avenue between 18th and 19th streets in December 2005 for $289.8 million, city property records show.
They then took out a loan for $235 million from Wachovia Bank in January 2006, the records show.
The seven-story office and retail building is home to retailers such as Bed Bath & Beyond, T.J. Maxx and Filene’s Basement. The building is 11.2 percent vacant but that could rise because currently 44 percent of the building, mostly in the office portion, is listed as available, according to CoStar Group.
But SL Green, which has $60 million invested in loans on the property, is not suing to foreclose on that senior loan, which was originated by Wachovia.
Instead, the real estate investment trust claims the borrowers improperly removed a vacant slice of the property that was part of the security for the loan, in order to sell it at some future time, a lawsuit filed Sept. 14 in New York State Supreme Court says.
SL Green holds a $30 million junior piece of the $235 million first mortgage. And it holds a $30 million mezzanine note from the owners, the suit claims.
The suit proposes a series of potential fixes for the dispute, including forcing the return of the property, putting a lien on it, or demanding the entire $30 million mezzanine note is due.
SL Green, through a spokesperson, declined to comment, citing a policy not to comment on suits involving debt holdings. Levy, Chetrit and Dayan either declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment.
The property owners are also battling a suit filed in February by Winick Realty that they did not pay $806,000 in commissions.
The approximately 5,000-square-foot parcel on West 19th Street is east of the building and shares its address, but has a unique lot number, 58, used by the city to identify parcels within city blocks.
The property was transferred Sept. 3 to an entity called East 19 Out-Parcel, city records show. That entity has the same ownership as the building owners, the suit says.
A source familiar with the dispute said the owners had the right to transfer the parcel, which they intend to develop. However, he would not say what they would build or when. The source added that the owners were in negotiation with SL Green to resolve the issue.
The lawsuit says any development on the site would impair access to the building’s loading docks, and because of that would reduce the value of the building and the loans.


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In the following video, Motley Fool analyst Austin Smith takes a question about Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) from a Fool reader, who asks, “I gambled … my portfolio was 70% in Apple the last 2.5 years. I sold at $682. Is it worth ever buying it again and at what price?”
There’s no doubt that Apple is at the center of technology’s largest revolution ever, and that longtime shareholders have been handsomely rewarded with over 1,000% gains. However, there is a debate raging as to whether Apple remains a buy.
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It’s rare to catch the glimpse of Mass Maharaj Raviteja in a bulky posture where he rips off his shirt to show his muscular body. Now, one of his photos where the actor is seen lifting dumbbells is going viral on social media. The ‘Disco Raja’ looks all different now as his upcoming movie on the same title is doing rounds on social media. The teaser 2.0 has been released by the makers on Monday. The songs have caught the attention of movie buffs. It is common that Telugu fans get to see stars and directors who can’t just stop praising Ravi Teja’s energy on and off the screen.
Ravi Teja will don a different role as he tries a science fiction film for the first time, in his filmy career. Music composer SS Thaman is rendering music for Disco Raja. It features Nabha Natesh, Payal Rajput, and Tanya Hope as the leading ladies. Disco Raja is being produced by Ram Talluri under the banner of SRT Entertainments. Karthik Gattamneni is the cinematographer while Navin Nooli is editing the film.

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Challenge to Colombia’s Restrictive Abortion Laws Promotes Human Rights and Social Justice
Statement of Frances Kissling, President, Catholics for a Free Choice
SANTA FE DE BOGOTÁ—Today a Colombian citizen will challenge the country’s abortion laws, which are among the world’s most restrictive, in the Constitutional Court. Catholics for a Free Choice applauds Colombian attorney Mónica Roa for this courageous act in support of the life, liberty and human dignity of every woman in Colombia.
Currently, Colombia outlaws abortion under all circumstances. This challenge would loosen those restrictions and legalize abortion in the most extreme cases: when the woman’s life or health is in danger, the pregnancy is the result of rape, and/or when the fetus has malformation incompatible with life outside the womb.
Colombia’s Catholics, who comprise 90 percent of the population, support the liberalization of its abortion laws. In September 2003, CFFC, Cátolicas por el Derecho a Decidir-Colombia and Napoléon Franco y Cia S.A. conducted a poll of 1,523 adults to learn the attitudes of Catholics on reproductive rights in Colombia. The poll demonstrated that Colombians support access to legal abortion when:
- The woman’s life is in danger (73%),
- The woman’s health is at risk (65%),
- The fetus has severe abnormalities (61%), and
- The pregnancy is the result of rape (52%).
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The Catholic tradition is based on respect for the conscience of each individual person. Church law recognizes the right of Catholics to follow their conscience, even when their decision disagrees with a teaching of the church. The record of respect for human rights demonstrated by the Constitutional Court of Colombia is legendary in the region and in the international human rights community. We are certain that it will respond to Attorney Roa’s recommendations with the judicial independence and interests of Colombia’s women that have marked so many of its historic decisions.

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The L118A is unlocked as soon as Create-a-Class is unlocked. The L118A has high damage multipliers, killing in one shot reliably from the stomach up. It has high recoil, but since it resets while the bolt is cycled, it isn't much of an issue. Its rate of fire is quite slow and can make the user vulnerable if he/she is faced with multiple opponents at once. Its reload is manageable but slow, and can only be partially mitigated with Sleight of Hand.
The MSR is often preferred to the L118A due to its faster bolt cycling, but the L118A is unlocked much earlier, and has the same base damage as the MSR.
In the game mode Money in the Denk, the L118A appears in the "Denk" class, where it has the Impact proficiency.
- ACOG Scope - Unlocked at weapon level 2.
- Silencer - Unlocked at weapon level 5.
- Heartbeat Sensor - Unlocked at weapon level 13.
- Extended Mags - Unlocked at weapon level 15.
- Thermal Scope - Unlocked at weapon level 19.
- Variable Zoom - Unlocked at weapon level 22.
- Kick - Unlocked at weapon level 4.
- Impact - Unlocked at weapon level 10.
- Attachments - Unlocked at weapon level 14.
- Focus - Unlocked at weapon level 18.
- Speed - Unlocked at weapon level 24.
- Stability - Unlocked at weapon level 28.
The L118A is available in Survival Mode at level 35 and costs $2000. It is not very effective to use, since it rarely kills in one shot at later rounds and has poor handling in close quarters. Despite the poor handling, combining it with an assault rifle, LMG or SMG will make it very effective for a player's team, as they could potentially have the L118A user take a sniping role like in multiplayer, and still have something for medium to close ranges on hand. However, aiming for the head will be required later on, and even then, multiple shots and the Sleight of Hand or Quickdraw perks will be required to negate the reload or be able to shoot an aimed shot at a target faster without flinching and taking damage.
- The 1000 kill emblem is listed as "L118A3".
- When the L118A has an ACOG and Silencer attached, the Silencer might intrude on the target dot sightly.
- The name for the HUD icon in the files for the L118A is labeled "L96A1".
- The Create-a-Class image shows the L118A's stock as a very light olive green with a black scope and an iron-coated barrel, but in-game the weapon has a tan stock and scope and a black barrel.


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Rich and I spend a lot of time walking the beach at Sandy Neck near our Cape Cod bed and breakfast. Walking on the beach always reveals something new, especially after a storm. Waves pounding against the sand can wash up all sorts of things: beach glass, driftwood, dislodged lobster buoys, you name it. No matter what the season a long walk on the beach can sooth the soul, clear the mind, or be the source of inspiration. We have had some of our best talks while walking the beach. There is something about being so close to the ocean, sand in your toes and wind in your hair, that sheds some new perspective on problems that need to be resolved or ideas that need impetus.
Often our walks lead us to treasures too good to be left behind. On one a few years back we found an old oar head that resembled the silhouette of a whale. It was so unique that Rich had it made into a sculpture for me for Christmas that year. But mostly we find sea glass, and my new passion: heart rocks.
A friend of mine first introduced me to the phenomenon of finding heart-shaped stones on the beach. Heart rocks, as they are called, come in all manner of sizes and colors. The first heart rock I found had a small crack in its upper lobe. I nicknamed it “Heartbroken”. I have found so many heart rocks on the beach that I display them on the window sills of the dining room where we serve breakfast. Our guests are fascinated by them and eagerly hunt for them on their own walks on the beach. Some even bring one back to add to my collection.
By but far the most unusual heart rock in my collection I found right after the blizzard in early February this year. Strolling along the coastline marveling at what Mother Nature had done to the beach landscape and the dunes of Sandy Neck, I spotted a dark grey rock with a bright white heart in the center. No bigger than 2 inches long and an inch and a half wide, this rock lay among dozens of others tossed up by the sea. Small rings of white encircle its perimeter, but a very distinct white heart shape adorns its front. I call it my “Ghost Heart”. It was right before Valentine’s Day and I wondered what force of nature sculpted such a perfect symbol of love in stone.
It adorns a special corner in my collection now and everytime I look at I smile. I love the beach and I love that we live so close to it.


Porter Robinson: Sea Of Voices (RAC Mix)
When Porter Robinson revealed "Sea Of Voices" - the first track from his forthcoming debut album Worlds - during the Oscars via Twitter earlier this month, fans took note: "Sea Of Voices" trended #1 on Facebook as the awards show aired live that evening. The song - a gauzy and atmospheric offering that represents a major sonic departure for Robinson's previous work - saw more than half-a-million Soundcloud streams in a single day, later shooting to #2 on iTunes electronic chart, #5 on HypeM and #5 on Spotify's viral chart, eliciting comparisons to Sigur Rós, M83, and Orbital from fans and media alike.
Today Porter releases "Sea Of Voices" (RAC Mix), a poppier, synth-inflected take on the track from the highly-respected international Remix Artist Collective. The remix, which premiered via Jason Bentley's Morning Becomes Eclectic this past Friday, features playful synthesizers, precise electronics and the vocal hook placed front-and-center, with RAC's signature brand of intelligent synth-pop adding new dimension to the stunning setup single.


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You can only order cold drinks in this gargantuan size. ), A Starbucks tall is 12 ounces; grande is 16; venti is 20. Why does Starbucks hide the small? Forget small, medium, and large—it's tall, grande, and venti when you're ordering your drink at Starbucks. A Starbucks tall is 12 ounces; grande is 16; venti is 20. a proper cappuccino has a thick head of foamed milk. This is why (if you have time for multiple coffee runs) you should order the short even if you drink a lot of coffee. If there's one thing to know about Starbucks, it's the menu board lingo. But the chain used to have smalls on the menu! You begin with a steaming, uplifting sip, and by gradual stages you end up sucking down cold, aroma-less dregs. Credit: Starbucks typically puts three pumps of syrup in a tall latte, four in a grande, and five in a venti (six if it's an iced venti, because the drink is four ounces larger). Both hot and cold drinks contain different quantities of espresso, as do drinks with milk versus without. Here’s another layer of complexity. Grande coffees hold 16 ounces, both for cold and hot beverages. Tall drinks made with milk also have one shot of espresso. As Gawker’s Tom Scocca said five years ago, the correct coffee size is small: When you drink a coffee larger than a small coffee, the coffee gets cold before you can finish it. ), though not all of the sizes are available for all of the drinks they sell. The slightly larger capacity of the venti cold drink includes an extra shot: three shots for milky drinks. As a noun grand You should order none of these. FYI: This is the reason why Starbucks sizes aren’t small, medium and large. Starbucks’ coffee sizes can be confusing. The ratio of milk to espresso is best in the grande, IMO, which is 16 ounces, 2 shots. Everyone knows this. The cold venti is slightly larger, at 24 ounces. Staff Writer, Lifehacker | Nick has written for Gawker, Valleywag, the Daily Dot, and Urlesque. And they don’t call it a small. In Spanish, “grande” means large, but since more’s better when it comes to coffee, it’s actually a medium option at Starbucks. Whether you're traveling solo or planning a family vacation, here are the 50 best places to visit in 2020. They do offer a small; there’s just so little demand for it that they don’t put it on the menu. And one extra bit of trivia: Once venti was added to the menu board, there wasn't enough room to include short. A short is a full-fledged member of the Starbucks product offering. We just want you to make informed choices, and not let a coffee chain’s menu make them for you. It's important to remember that Starbucks has its own system of drink sizes that are totally different from other coffee houses and drink vendors. This li’l cup is available for hot drinks only, including brewed coffee and espresso drinks. (The trenta—good lord—is 31 ounces.) (The trenta—good lord—is 31 ounces.) And does ordering a larger size mean getting more caffeine? According to news weblog Slate, Starbucks can serve you a better, stronger cappuccino that costs…. It’s the same drink, made better, for a little less money. 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But American customers kept demanding bigger sizes, and Starbucks added the venti (Italian for twenty), and knocked the short off the menu. Travel + Leisure is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation Travel + Leisure Group All Rights Reserved, registered in the United States and other countries. Same here. He currently runs the scripted comedy podcast "Roommate From Hell.". A short Americano, made with water, also has a single shot. Is a tall really the smallest size you can get? The greatest islands, cities, hotels, cruise lines, airports, and more — as voted by you. Grande espresso drinks have two shots. Forget small, medium, and large—it's tall, grande, and venti when you're ordering your drink at Starbucks. A hot venti beverage contains 20 ounces of coffee—in fact, the word venti means 20 in Italian. The sizes were short, tall, and grande. I think the 20 ounce venti needs 3 shots. Grande coffees hold 16 ounces, both for cold and hot beverages. You can still order a “small” eight-ounce drink, but you won't find it on the menu. ), Grande (16 oz. As anyone with a basic command of romance languages knows, Starbucks’ proprietary name for “large” implies there’s 20 ounces of coffee in a venti. Even drip coffee is better at 8 ounces. Are cold Starbucks drinks bigger than hot drinks? So short was cut and tall become the new small. (The classic “WE ARE HAPPY TO SERVE YOU” blue-and-white paper cup holds 10 ounces, halfway between a short and a tall—a medium, if you will.). Find more secrets from Starbucks employees. It’s just not on the menu. Both cups are noticeably tall and a bit more ungainly to carry around, something to bear in mind if you’re on the go. According to Starbucks’ own product information, a grande Nitro cold brew contains 280 milligrams of caffeine in a 16-ounce cup. Next up: Learn how to order off of the Starbucks secret menu. Surprisingly, a venti hot drink has the same amount of espresso as a grande: two shots. ), Mini (10 oz. However, a venti Americano has a whopping four shots of espresso. For more history behind the naming convention of Starbucks drinks, head on over to Thrillist. STARBUCKS SIZES: 8oz = Short 10oz = Mini Small(12oz) = Tall Medium(16oz) = Grande Large(20-24oz) = Venti Extra Large(31oz) = Trenta Here’s a quick explainer: Short drinks made with milk, like lattes and cappuccinos, contain one shot of espresso. We won’t re-argue the case for small coffee. The extra volume is mostly milk and syrup. A Starbucks tall is 12 ounces; grande is 16; venti is 20. The sizes, as everyone who’s listened to a bad stand-up comedy show knows, are tall, grande, and venti. You should order none of these. Taste of Home is America's #1 cooking magazine. HOWEVER, the iced venti drinks are 24 ounces and they come with 3 shots automatically. Like and subscribe if you enjoyed this video! Of course, you could always shell out for an extra espresso shot (annoyingly, a Grande with an extra shot costs $4.45 instead of the $4.15 for a Venti), but the ex-barista has another insider tip. Offers may be subject to change without notice. and tall (12oz.) ), Venti (20 oz. It was at this first venture that the sizing names were introduced, starting with short, tall, and grande.
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Good Things From Maine: Crafting a Farewell
Brief interview with Sadie Bliss, departing executive director of the Maine Crafts Association. Bliss reflects on the division of her organization into the nonprofit MCA and the sales-related Shop Maine Craft; fond memories of the Craft Apprenticeship Program; and the need for more diversity in MCA leadership.
P., A., "Good Things From Maine: Crafting a Farewell" (2022). Maine News Index - Down East Magazine. 5800.

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Week 13 saw The Model go 4-4 ATS (against the spread). For the season, The Model is 335-316 (51.5 percent) ATS in all games and 47-38 (55 percent) ATS in SEC games. Most importantly, The Model has successfully predicted whether or not Auburn would cover 75 percent of the time (6-2).
Auburn made its 12th win of the season the most memorable, mounting a rally from 24 points down in the second quarter. Auburn quarterback Cam Newton single-handedly outscored the Tide, accounting for all four of Auburn’s scores despite being sacked four times and being limited to 1.8 yards per carry and 39 total rushing yards.
Tennessee became bowl-eligible after slowing down a free-falling Kentucky team that is happy their next opponent is not in the SEC. Vols freshman QB Tyler Bray passed for 354 yards and two touchdowns and outdueled departing Wildcat QB Mike Hartline as Tennessee extended its winning streak over Kentucky to 26 games.
South Carolina humbled Clemson 29-7 as the Gamecocks continue their late-season push to the Sugar Bowl. Gamecocks QB Stephen Garcia got a little dinged up in this game but managed to find Alshon Jeffery five times for 141 yards in the win. Don’t count on any minor injuries affecting Garcia in the SEC championship game.
Georgia Tech outgained the Georgia Bulldogs 512-425, earning a remarkable 32 first downs, 26 of them rushing. While Georgia Tech amassed 411 yards rushing on 77 plays and controlled the ball most of the game, they allowed a whopping 8.9 yards per play against them. Georgia QB Aaron Murray completed 15 passes for 271 yards and 3 touchdowns in the 42-34 win in which UGA failed to cover the spread.
LSU managed to sack Razorback QB Ryan Mallett four times and intercept him twice, but they also allowed him to pass for 320 yards and 3 touchdowns in a game where LSU was outgained 464-294. The LSU defense, which had carried the program to the brink of a Sugar Bowl bid, finally caved and Les Miles’ luck ran out.
Florida lost 31-7 in one of the Gators’ worst showings of the year. Florida QBs John Brantley and Jordan Reed completed a combined 8 of 16 passes for 64 yards, not exactly the type of stuff for rivalry games. The Gators also turned the ball over four times in the loss, falling to 7-5 for the year. In the Gators’ defense, each of the five teams they lost to is ranked in the Top 25.
Ole Miss needed a 14-point fourth quarter rally to keep this game’s final score respectable. Ole Miss QB Jeremiah Masoli managed to add another mediocre game to his resume, going 24 for 44, 261 yards and a touchdown and interception. The 31 points allowed in the loss was actually the Rebel Black Bears’ third best defensive effort all year in conference, having given up 28 points to Vanderbilt and 23 to Alabama.
Vanderbilt achieved something rare last weekend against Wake Forest — outgain your opponent 443-299 and lose by 3 touchdowns. Vandy managed to extend its losing streak to seven games after learning just 12 hours before that head coach Robbie Caldwell was “stepping down.” After losing by 21 points at home to a team that had won only two games all year, the Commodores need a new direction.
This Week’s Pick
Auburn vs. South Carolina (Auburn -5.5, 61) — 3 p.m. CST
For this week’s pick, I’m going to get a little more detailed in explaining why The Model likes Auburn to win. The Model likes Auburn’s rushing offense against South Carolina’s rushing defense and also predicts Auburn will be able to better exploit South Carolina’s passing defense than Cocky will ours. The Model suggests our 13-game winning streak and our relative rankings are each worth 1.5 to 2 points in the final score.
Each of the charts below compares Auburn and South Carolina’s season-to-date statistics. The national ranking is also provided. For example, Auburn’s scoring offense is putting up 41.6 points per game, which is ranked seventh nationally.
On offense, things break down pretty easily: Auburn averages about 100 yards and 8 points more per game than South Carolina. Both teams are relatively balanced, however, with Auburn accounting for 60 percent of its offense on the ground, and South Carolina accounting for 61 percent of its offense through the air. Both teams rely on efficient passing from their quarterback, but the edge here goes to Auburn QB Cam Newton.
On this side of the ball, the edge goes to South Carolina, but it is close. South Carolina allows 5 fewer points per game, but the Gamecocks had the luxury of playing an offensively inept Georgia team and Vanderbilt. Auburn had to deal with a red-hot UGA team and LSU.
Both teams have excellent rush defenses. South Carolina had a top-tier rush defense when the teams first got together, but they allowed 300 yards of rushing. Holding Auburn to less than 200 yards would be a good target for the Gamecocks, whose rush defense looks better than it is because of their porous pass defense. The same certainly holds true for Auburn, and both teams will be looking for big plays in the passing game. If Auburn can hold South Carolina to 200 yards through the air, they will have an excellent chance of winning the game.
South Carolina’s defensive gets excellent penetration in the passing game, good for 3.3 sacks per game (No. 3 nationally) and 7.3 tackles for loss (No. 13 nationally). Auburn is no slouch in either of these categories, however, and could be in good shape for a big game against Garcia if he takes too much time in the pocket.
Special teams play is relatively even between Auburn and South Carolina. The Gamecocks force more turnovers but lose more as well. Interestingly in SEC games, Auburn is first in the SEC with a +5 margin; South Carolina is 10th with a -3 margin. South Carolina has performed better than Auburn in the punting game, but I suspect Auburn coaches will be happy with netting 35 yards per punt, provided Quindarius Carr doesn’t muff any balls in the return game. Auburn’s kickoff return game could play a big factor in swinging momentum Auburn’s way.
This is where things get a little scary. Auburn has prided itself all year on converting well on 3rd and 4th down … but so has South Carolina. South Carolina nearly matches Auburn’s conversion efficiency on offense but surpasses the Tigers on defense. The rates are relatively close with the exception of red-zone defense, where Auburn allows opponents to score 87 percent of the time (No. 90 nationally) and South Carolina allows 69 percent of red-zone possessions to convert (No. 7 nationally).
‘Assistance from Lady Luck’?
The Model likes Auburn to cover the 5-point spread, and there are plenty of reasons to suspect the Tigers could be dominant. Gus Malzahn is an offensive genius who should be well prepared to counter anything South Carolina can ready to slow down the offense, and Ted Roof has managed several inspirational, albeit too-late-for-comfort, defensive stands when the game is on the line. Garcia has played poorly on the road and Auburn has had good success making South Carolina a one-dimensional offense in the last matchup.
That said, because of its well documented passing defense struggles, Auburn remains a team that needs to make the most of its offensive possessions and from time to time will need to call on assistance from Lady Luck. If Auburn wants to advance to the national championship game, the team cannot rely solely on Cam Newton to assert his will on the Gamecocks. To win Saturday afternoon, Auburn will need to play its most complete defensive game of the year, and the Tigers will need to maintain that characteristic second-half focus and determination from the opening kickoff. Prediction: Auburn 37 – South Carolina 27.
Mac Mirabile is a 2002 graduate of Auburn’s economics and journalism departments. During his time at Auburn, he was a copy and photo editor with The Auburn Plainsman. He has a masters degree in economics from UNC-Chapel Hill and has written numerous academic publications on college football, the NFL and gambling markets. His previous column can be found here. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Apartment Renting Reinvented
As a property owner looking to generate positive cash flow from multifamily buildings, there are a few crucial factors to consider in order to increase your NOI.
July 23, 2022
These include the time it takes to rent out your space and additional expenses involved in the renting process, such as realtor fees.
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In addition to saving money on leasing costs, astounding time-saving results were recently recorded on the app, reducing days on market by 50% compared to the average agent.
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Block.a has recorded that 28% of the tours happen outside of broker working hours (12 PM to 7 PM) and 75% of the users toured a unit within 48 hours, way faster than the time a broker might even take to respond.
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With the ambitious goal of zero days on market, block.a is very focused on safety and security. Before touring a property, every visitor must provide the proper documentation to verify their identity. The company also conducts anomaly scanning for potential risks, like someone staying in the apartment for too long, or a renter trying to tour units outside of their search parameters.
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A really beautiful example of a Frederick Sell rifle from the Golden Age of Kentucky rifle making. It exhibits his unique style of raised carving along with his very fine engraving on the brass. The barrel is 47" and of .44 cal. The rifle has had some professional restoration on the last 15" of forestock which blends perfectly. Also, the lock has been professionally reconverted to it's original Flint . Frederick Sell worked in Littlestown, Pa. from 1807 til his death in 1861 . His rifles are highly sought after by collectors today.