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Animated Weather application for Android phones. The exquisitely realistic video effects of cloudiness, rain and snow provide the vivid sensation of current or future weather conditions for more than 50000 locations over the world.
· Animated daily weather forecast
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text: Gosaukamm Ridge, Salzburg province/Upper Austria, northwestern extension of the Dachstein massif (limestone); steep, rugged mountains, ideal for rock climbing; Gosau lakes at the western foothills. Border between the southern Salzkammergut and the Upper Tennengau region. Sloping towards the Zwieselalm in the north separated by the Steigl (alt. 2,018 m) from the Gosaustein (part of the Dachstein massif in the southeast). Peaks: Mandelkogel 2,279 m, Bischofsmuetze twin peak (Grosse Bischofsmuetze, 2,458 m, Kleine Bischofsmuetze, 2,430 m (province of Salzburg)).

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The Swift™ UltraSlide™ System is a fitted bottom sheet modified with a low-friction panel down the center and is used together with a Swift™ Patient Positioner. UltraSlide™ should be used when patients/residents have little or no mobility and require extensive or total assistance for repositioning in bed.
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In partnership with The Stirling Center for Excellence, CBN recognizes these companies for providing an outstanding customer experience and honors them with the Spectrum Award. Winners are based on CBN’s independent, proprietary research and evaluation system, which identifies businesses with a track record of top-flight customer service and customer satisfaction. The rating system combines data collected from nominations, online and other customer reviews, surveys, blogs, social networks, business-rating services, and other honors and accolades — all of which express the voice of the customer.
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Another first-time winner is Addison Taylor Fine Jewelry of Scottsdale, Ariz. (www.addisontaylorfinejewelry.com). Owner and jewelry designer Scott Berger opened the store in 2004, combining the distinction of a luxury jeweler with the warmth of a family business. The store has an unlimited selection of diamonds and precious stones for clients to choose from, and every client receives a personal consultation with Berger. For more information, visit the store’s Star Page at https://awards.citybeatnews.com/ADDISON-TAYLOR-FINE-JEWELRY.
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Spectrum winners are announced on www.citybeatnews.com and elsewhere for the benefit of consumers and businesses, both of which want unbiased research regarding customer service. Consumers can verify a company’s status as a Spectrum winner and know they can anticipate the great service others have had, while businesses want to know how they stack up in the eyes of their customers.
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“Each and every year there is one rating posted just for you, the consumer, to help you find who has rated among the best,” says CBN Editor Jamie Rawcliffe. “The Spectrum Award winners have earned our highest ratings and are posted on our website with their own Star Page highlighting further information.” Check www.CityBeatNews.com to verify if a company has earned CBN’s independently researched Spectrum Award.
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UPDATED with more details: The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that director of photography Halyna Hutchins was the crewmember killed on the New Mexico set of Rust, where star Alec Baldwin was holding a prop gun that misfired, striking Hutchins and director Joel Souza. Production has been halted “for an undetermined period of time.”
PREVIOUSLY, 4:58 PM: The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that a female crewmember, 42, has died from injuries resulting from a prop gun misfire on the Bonanza Creek Ranch set of the Alec Baldwin Western, Rust. She died after being transported via helicopter to University of New Mexico Hospital.
Another male crewmember, 48, remains in emergency care after being transported by ambulance to Christus St. Vincent’s hospital.
The names of the victims have not been disclosed.
“Detectives are investigating how [the prop firearm was used] and what type of projectile was discharged,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Thursday. “This incident remains an active investigation. As more information becomes available, updates will be provided.”
Officials said sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the Rust set at around 1:50 p.m. MST, following a 911 call that indicated an individual had been shot.
Deadline previously heard from sources that a principal castmember cocked a gun during a rehearsal, unaware that there were live rounds in it, hitting two people, a man and a woman. The man was hit in the shoulder, while the woman was airlifted to the hospital for stomach surgery.
A production spokesperson from Rust Movie Productions LLC told Deadline, “There was an accident today on the New Mexico set of Rust involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks. Two crew members have been taken to the hospital and are receiving care. Production has been halted for the time being. The safety of our cast and crew remains our top priority.”
The set was put on lockdown and an old church on the set was blocked off, according to local press reports. Bonanza Creek Ranch is known for Western-set productions.
Rust stars Baldwin and was written and directed by Joel Souza. Travis Fimmel, Brady Noon, Frances Fisher and Jensen Ackles also star in the movie, which is based on a story by Souza and Baldwin. The plot centers on Harland Rust (Baldwin), an infamous Western outlaw who has had a bounty on his head for as long as he can remember. When his estranged 13-year-old grandson Lucas (Noon) is convicted of an accidental murder and sentenced to hang, Rust travels to Kansas to break him out of prison. Together, the two fugitives must outrun the legendary U.S. Marshal Wood Helm (Ackles) and bounty-hunter Fenton “Preacher” Lang (Fimmel) who are hot on their tail. Deeply buried secrets rise from the ashes and an unexpected familial bond begins to form as the mismatched duo tries to survive the merciless American Frontier.
CAA Media Finance is handling domestic sales for the pic, with Highland Film Group repping international. Baldwin is producing under his El Dorado Pictures banner along with Matt DelPiano through his Cavalry Media, Ryan Donnell Smith through Thomasville Pictures, Anjul Nigam of Brittany House Pictures and Ryan Winterstern and Nathan Klingher of Short Porch Pictures. Allen Cheney, Emily Hunter Salveson, Christopher M.B. Sharp, and Jennifer E. Lamb are EPs. BondIt Media Capital and Hunter Salveson and Donnell Smith’s Streamline Global are financing.
According to local affiliate KOB4, Rust is one of nine productions currently shooting in New Mexico.
This isn’t the first time an on-set death has been caused by a gun firing blanks. Actor Jon-Erik Hexum was killed on Oct. 18, 1984, on the set of the TV series Cover Up when he accidentally shot himself in the head with a gun loaded with blanks. And in 1993, Brandon Lee, the son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee, died after a piece of a slug was lodged in his spine from a prop gun fired on the set of The Crow by another actor. Both incidents were determined to have been accidents.
#BREAKING: @santafesheriff investigating incident at #Rust movie set on Bonanza Creek Ranch near Santa Fe. Pic from @KOB4 #Chopper4 shows an old church set blocked off, and set security confirms its lockdown. Other pic of Rust cast/crew. pic.twitter.com/8Cw9eg8kec
— Tessa Mentus (@TessaMentus) October 21, 2021
Security guard at the entrance to the set of “Rust”, a western movie in production in #SantaFe, told us the set is on lockdown right now. Couldn’t share anything else. Waiting for more details from Santa Fe Sheriff on today’s incident near Bonanza Creek. @KOB4 pic.twitter.com/AXuBxGUO8X
— Giuli Frendak (@gfrendakKOB) October 21, 2021
Baldwin posted to Instagram from set earlier today, writing, “Back to in person at the office. Blimey…it’s exhausting.”
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text: Hey, everyone! In my novel, one of the broader conflicts is my character's insecurity about his being transgender. He tries to present himself as "masculine" as possible and feels, based on his experience with his parents and peers, that being trans is somehow a shameful thing that people must not know. So with that in mind, I don't want his defining feature as a character--or even a person--to be that he's trans or that he's insure about being trans. I don't want to end up stigmatizing transgenderism overall by the end of the novel, or give off a feeling that being trans is a "bad thing." In the end I'm hoping that my character learns to appreciate himself better or something slightly more optimistic to that effect. I want him to think of himself as being more than just his "weakness"--but at the same time, I'm afraid of coming across as a writer that is claiming that simply being transgender is a weakness. I don't want to cast a negative light on transgenderism, but at the same time, I want to be realistic about the social anxiety that may be heightened by such circumstances in our world today. How would you write a transgender character? What are some dos and don't about writing a transgender character so that although my character's anxiety is a big part of the internal conflict, he can be seen as more than a label? Is simply having his anxiety being highlighted a damning feature of his narrative/the plot in general?

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The question, whether Great-Britain and Ireland, can be otherwise than miserable under a Popish King? Considered: in a short address to the people of Great-Britain and Ireland.
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My friend Tony LaPorta is hot. Was reading his weekly commentary and he is still bearish. Then, I skimmed down and saw this.
$DJI -346 (-2.98%) (Dow Jones)
$ES_F $SPY -97.97 (-7.79%) (S&P 500)
$NQ_F $QQQ -66.98 (-3.02%) (NASDAQ 100)
$TF_F $IWM -117.49 (-14.99%) (Russell 1000 Index)
$ZB_F $USU +695 ticks (Thirty Year US Treasury Bond)
$ZT_F $ +327 ticks (Ten Year US Treas. Note)
$GE_F Dec 12 +93 ticks (December 2012 Eurodollar Short Term Interest Rate Future)
$GE_F Mar 16 +217.5 ticks (March 2016 Eurodollar STIR)
Hey, at least you still have hope. What a difference a month makes.
On October 30th, most market watchers were gleeful. We had one of the strongest rallies ever.
The interesting thing is the huge downtick in interest rates. Massive flight to quality, even given the very loose fiscal and federal reserve environment we have. You can see evidence of the twist in the numbers. The 30 year has outperformed the 10, and the market looks like it’s getting ready for QE3, which will work about as good as QE1 and 2.
The violent moves in all markets prove a thesis that I have been watching since mid-2010. The advance of markets from face to face human interaction to computerized trading has caused them to become thinner, even with more volume being traded. It doesn’t compute logically, but to people that have been in the business for a generation, that makes perfect sense.
The big volume is being concentrated into fewer and fewer hands. Instead of having 1000 traders doing a million contracts, 5 huge traders are doing most of them and the other 995 are trading extremely small. This changes trading strategies.

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Originally developed as the accounting method for the virtual currency Bitcoin, blockchains – which use what's known as distributed ledger technology (DLT) – are appearing in a variety of commercial applications today. Currently, the technology is primarily used to verify transactions, within digital currencies though it is possible to digitize, code and insert practically any document into the blockchain. Doing so creates an indelible record that cannot be changed; furthermore, the record’s authenticity can be verified by the entire community using the blockchain instead of a single centralized authority.


text: The Cecilia bag tells the story of a collaboration, that of Zadig&Voltaire with its Artistic Director of almost fifteen years, Cecilia Bönström. The innovative design of the Cecilia bag sets it apart from the fashion house’s other ranges without denying any of its heritage. It is made in Italy, in leather or vegetable tanned leather, in smooth, studded or patchwork versions. Its “cool-chic” look reveals its bold, urban character. It can be carried by hand, worn over the shoulder or across the body, allowing its use to be matched to its look and activity, both day and night. Its numerous details inspired by Cecilia Bönström’s Scandinavian roots make it an extremely feminine bag. The fashion house’s iconic wings are delicately concealed beneath the leather, the C-shaped buckle recalls the link to Cecilia, the zip chain makes it easy to use and enhances its luxurious appearance.

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One standout feature is the Elemental Spell bonus, activated by landing spell book symbols on reels one and two along with an elemental symbol on the third reel. The spell becomes stronger if additional spell books appear on the fourth and fifth reels. Each spell brings unique effects:
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Beyond Elemental Spells, the game also offers free spins. These are triggered by landing spell book symbols on the first and second reels along with either the book-vine or bound book symbols on the third reel. The free spins take place on a different set of reels with special symbols. Depending on the triggering symbol, you get either the Nature Floor or the Celestial Floor, each with its unique attributes, like the vine or black hole symbols that consume neighbouring symbols for cash prizes.
After a win, you have the opportunity to double your payout through the ‘Double Up’ feature, which involves a simple head/tails game. This adds an extra layer of excitement, albeit with a risk, as an incorrect guess loses all your winnings.
As for the top payout, Alkemor’s Tower offers a jackpot of 1,000 coins when five Alkemor symbols align. Other symbols can yield substantial wins as well, ranging from 750 coins down to 125 coins, depending on the combination.
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Enter the Magical World of Enchanting Spells Slot
Developed by 2By2 Gaming, Enchanting Spells plunges players into a magical realm, complete with a rich atmosphere set against a wooden table illuminated by candlelight. This 8-reel slot has an unconventional layout, with the middle three reels divided into two sections, and offers 60 fixed paylines. With a betting range from £0.40 to £80 per spin, the game caters to a wide spectrum of players. You can also set up to 100 spins in motion with its autoplay feature.
The game provides a variety of symbols. The high-value symbols include a smiling girl, a book, a staff, a potion, a magic mirror, and a purple wizard’s hat. Meanwhile, the lower-value symbols are the familiar royals—10, J, Q, K, and A. The wizard serves as the wild symbol and appears on reels one and eight, substituting for all other symbols except the scatter, which is represented by a crystal ball.
The bonus features are where Enchanting Spells truly shines. The Wizard Feature is activated when the wizard wild symbol lands fully stacked on both the first and eighth reels. This transforms all book symbols into wilds, followed by a re-evaluation of the reels for additional payouts. The game also offers a generous free spins feature, triggered by landing three to eight crystal ball scatter symbols. Players can win up to 30 free spins and choose an extra bonus feature, such as a Random Multiplier, a Guaranteed Wizard, or the appearance of the Wizard On All Reels—each with its own set of advantages and gameplay twists.
In terms of payout, the top prize is a whopping 750x your stake for landing five wild symbols on a payline. Other high-value symbols offer significant returns, ranging from 500x to 80x your stake, depending on the combination.
With its captivating theme, intricate bonus features, and lucrative payout possibilities, Enchanting Spells is a compelling choice for those seeking a magical slot experience this Halloween season.
Study the Magic of Witchcraft Academy Slot
NetEnt’s Witchcraft Academy invites players into a magical school, teeming with ancient scrolls, enigmatic potions, and students engrossed in the art of spellcasting. The game’s visuals are a spectacle in themselves, showcasing detailed symbols set against an enchanting background, all accompanied by a fittingly magical soundtrack.
Witchcraft Academy distinguishes itself with its ‘Elements Bonus’ feature. Triggered by landing three or more scatter symbols, this interactive feature allows players to select from a range of objects, each hiding different rewards. Whether it’s free spins, multipliers, or extra wilds, the Elements Bonus presents a golden opportunity to augment your winnings. The game doesn’t stop there. During the free spins round, an Armour Guard feature comes into play, activating additional bonuses and transforming symbols into wilds, thereby adding a dash of thrill to each spin.
The slot accommodates a broad spectrum of players with its flexible betting range, starting as low as £0.20 and going up to £200 per spin. The game is not only visually compelling but also potentially lucrative, offering 20 fixed paylines and high-value symbols like a dragon and an owl, which can yield payouts of up to 400x and 200x your stake, respectively.
Overall, Witchcraft Academy provides an engaging gaming experience, combining immersive visuals, intricate bonus features, and generous payouts. It’s an ideal choice for those looking to add a magical touch to their Halloween gaming session.
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From the portfolio of Realistic Games, Pentagram takes a mystical approach to slot gaming, offering players the chance to cast spells over its 3-reel, 3-row, and 5-payline setup. Set against a stone wall flanked by ornate pillars, this slot may have a simple design, but it packs a punch with its free spins bonus round and the potential for significant payouts.
The game accommodates a variety of betting preferences, allowing you to wager from as low as £0.05 up to £50 per spin. If you prefer a hands-off approach, the auto-play feature lets you set up to 100 spins with win and loss limits. The slot embraces traditional symbols like 7s, watermelons, bells, grapes, oranges, lemons, and cherries. Though devoid of wilds or scatters, the game spices things up with parts of the word ‘Pentagram’ and the pentagram symbol appearing on some symbols, crucial to activating the bonus feature.
The bonus round is unique and straightforward. To activate it, you need to spell the word ‘Pentagram’ across the reels on a winning payline. This grants you ten free spins, with the chance to double your payout if the pentagram symbol lands as part of a winning combination. The bonus round offers winnings of up to 250 times your bet, making it a thrilling feature to look out for.
When it comes to payouts, Pentagram doesn’t disappoint. Landing three 7s on a payline grants a top payout of 1250x your stake. Other symbols offer substantial returns, ranging from 250x to 10x your stake, depending on the combination. Moreover, these payouts have the potential to be doubled during the free spins round.
All in all, Pentagram offers a bewitching gameplay experience, combining a classic slot feel with a dash of mysticism. Its bonus features and rewarding payouts make it a fitting choice for those looking to add a magical element to their Halloween festivities.
Experience the Magic at Plaza Royal
Above is just a small selection of the many Halloween-themed slots available at Plaza Royal, each offering its own blend of magical features and enticing rewards. As the season of spooks and spells approaches, why not try your hand at these enchanting games? While there can never be any guarantees with online slots, each of these offers the chance of significant winnings and there is no reason why Halloween shouldn’t bring you good luck.
If you enjoyed learning about these spooky slots, then be sure to check the Plaza Royal News, as we will soon be publishing part two of this guide to our favourite Halloween-themed games.

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Thursday, 25 October 2012
Shiny New Christmas Cards
Despite spending so much time on buses, trams and trains lately, traveling to various parts of the country to deliver framed prints for different exhibitions, I've managed to get a new card design finished and screen printed just in time for Christmas. Hopefully the cards will make it to a few of my favorite shops, galleries and craft fairs. I'm not sure if the colours are particularly festive but I wanted to try something different and also use the metallic purple acrylic which has been at the bottom of my box of screen printing supplies for a long long time. The metallic ink shows up well on the eco natural cards but I really like it on the brown kraft cards. This time I used A6 recycled card blanks and envelopes from 'Docrafts' which are about £5 for 50 so seem like good value for money. The brown kraft card blanks are from Fred Aldous in Manchester, it's a great art shop and definitely worth a visit.

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This is not broken down in the report into amounts remaining to be spent in specific towns or villages.
This is not broken down in the report into amounts remaining to be spent in specific towns or villages.
“Affordable housing output needs to be increased as the Help to Buy scheme is wound down, according to property consultancy Savills. The Help to Buy scheme has been a major factor in helping young people to afford their own home in recent years. However, its eligibility criteria are set to be tightened in 2021 with the future of the scheme up in the air.
[Take this with a pinch of salt – those “affordable” homes are, on average £33,000 more expensive than they ought to be]:
A report by Savills said that housebuilding in England may need to increase by up to a third between 2021 and 2025 to make up for the end of the current Help to Buy scheme. Emily Williams, associate director for residential research at Savills, said: “Private sector housebuilding for market sale has underpinned the rapid expansion in housing supply since 2013, including affordable housing delivery through Section 106. But that growth is slowing against market headwinds.”
Could it, has it happened here? Only a Freedom of Information request will tell …
“More than £225,000 of Section 106 money has been handed back by councils – mainly because they did not spend it in time.
The money, paid to councils by developers, is meant to go on road improvements, public transport and community facilities at new housing estates.
S106 contributions are often included as a way to overcome objections and as a condition of planning approval.
But on a number of occasions in the last five years the money was returned because Suffolk councils had not spent it within a five-year limit, Freedom of Information requests from this newspaper show.
While the sums are a fraction of total S106 contributions made, councillors said they showed deep failings within local government.
Andrew Stringer, leader of the Liberal Democrat, Green and Independent group at Suffolk County Council (SCC), said it was “perverse” that developer contributions were going unspent during a time of austerity.
Much of the returned funding was down to SCC’s failure to carry out highways projects. …”
Owl says: What the councillor neglects to say is that the mess he describes is entirely down to HIS own party!
“Cllr Stephanos Ioannou is a councillor in Enfield. He is studying Public Policy at King’s College London:
“Local councillors across the country will know the struggle is real in the planning system. Not only does it seem to be irresponsive to the real needs of our local communities that are in need of mixed residential, commercial, office, public buildings and green space. But we see planning applications that pose more negatives than positives being allowed to pass through for ‘the greater good, and the bigger picture’.
One surprising reason for this can be derived from the fact that awarding planning permission in the UK comes down to a Faustian pact. If the devil is in the detail, then the detail is Section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990. Specifically, a clause which formalised “planning gain”, making it in the local authorities’ interests to allow schemes to balloon beyond all reason, in the hope of raking some of the developers’ profits for the public good.
Introduced as a negotiable levy on new development, Section 106 agreements entail a financial contribution to the local authority, intended to be spent on offsetting the effects of the scheme on the local area. The impact of a hundred new homes might be mitigated by money for extra school places, or traffic calming measures. In practice, since council budgets have been reduced, Section 106 has become a primary means of funding essential public services, from social housing to public parks, health centres to highways, schools to play areas. The bigger the scheme, the fatter the bounty for both developers and authorities. Vastly inflated density and a few extra storeys on a tower can be politically justified as being in the public interest, if it means a handful of trees will be planted on the street.
My borough, Enfield, is seeing a surge in young families moving to our borough to escape the surge in housing costs elsewhere in the capital. Predominantly the reasons for the rising demand in our borough are those highlighted by an article in the Evening Standard which mention the ease of accessibility with good motorway connections, good transport links into central London, as well as a the fact that average house prices are modestly rising only 0.4% in our borough, which is something to be reckoned with compared to other parts of London.
But things start to go wrong when planning departments do not take into account, aspects of the local area that make our borough unique. Whether looking at local heritage, the mix of commercial, residential, offices, and the style of new builds, often Enfield Council is quick to bow to the demands by developers and architects for the simple reason of referring to ‘the housing shortage and the need for new homes’. This is a poor state of affairs, and I am worried that the council is moving towards the path of jeopardising local beauty and conservation for the sake of housebuilding. Particularly for a borough such as Enfield which is lucky to have the green-belt it does, this is a real problem for councillors who have to defend their communities.
The issue of planning is also one that concerns the issue of bureaucracy within the council, that sometimes leads to poor decisions and outcomes on certain issues. I remember a local constituent having issues with an application for the property behind her. The Council had, instead of looking at the issue and reopening the planning decision, moved on ‘under delegated powers’ despite major resident objections, to see this build through. This point is echoed by a piece in the Enfield Independent which mentioned that the construction caused ‘considerable cracks in the neighbouring properties of other residents’, and that despite objections being raised within the given time-frame of the regulated pre-planning decision consultation, the planning committee on the council did not even bother to respond to residents’ concerns, and even after ringing, residents could not get in touch with the department.
This goes fundamentally to the heart of what us Councillors try to do, and sometimes can’t do, that is to help our residents most when they need it. Why? Because the failures of planning departments, in this case, mean bureaucracy causes delays, which then causes miss-representation, which then lead to poorly made planning decisions that affect not only the aesthetics of the area, but the general confidence residents have in the council dealing with their concerns in future.
It also raises a bigger question, as to how many similar cases are there, where other developments have gone through without the necessary vigorous scrutiny they need? I agree that we must build for new families and promote a home-owning democracy, but if departments simply rubber stamp applications without giving the power to residents and councillors to scrutinise for the greater good, then what’s the point in even having these departments anyway. We might as well pack up and go home as Councillors, because they are making a major part of our job redundant.
Overall, we have a conundrum of problems. Firstly, local councils are disregarding the necessary mix of residential, commercial and office space for the sake of building homes to fix the housing crisis. This is further worsened by the fact developers can ‘help’ plug the funding pressure of new homes, and contribute towards the funding of some local services, and this makes it increasingly tempting for councils to bow to these demands so that they can increase provision because budgets are tight. And then there is the nitty-gritty issue of local residents who struggle to even express their concerns to local planning departments, and this does not help residents build trust in councils who clearly disregard their concerns.
Local council planning departments such as those in Enfield need a major rethink as to how they approach future planning applications. Otherwise we can expect poor decisions on planning to continue into the future, to the detriment of existing residents.”
“major downturn in the housing market could reduce the number of affordable homes built by a quarter, the property firm Savills has warned.
Savills estimates that about 100,000 new homes a year – a third of the government’s 300,000 target – need to be priced at levels below the going market rate, whether for rent or for sale.
However, only 43,498 such homes were built in England in the financial year 2017-18, albeit 10% higher than the previous year, according to government figures.
Many were built for so-called “affordable rent”, where rental costs are capped at 80% of local private sector rents.
Negative gearing report finds housing less affordable now than at height of the boom.
About half of affordable new homes, 22,000, were built through section 106 of the housing act, for social rent, affordable rent, intermediate rent and shared ownership.
Section 106 is a planning clause requiring developers to include a proportion of affordable housing in their developments, which is often sold to housing associations.
It accounts for 53% of all affordable homes built, passing the 50% mark for the first time in six years.
However, if there was a major housing downturn akin to the late 1980s, early 90s or 2008, when prices and the volume of transactions crashed, the number of section 106 affordable homes would be halved to about 11,000, Savills predicts.
A housing slowdown is also likely to lead to fewer of those homes being constructed. House prices have been falling in London and parts of the south-east for more than a year but values are still rising elsewhere in the UK.
Chris Buckle, Savills’ research director, said: “From the end of the last cycle in 2007-8, we saw a roughly 50% fall in section 106 affordable housing completions to fewer than 4,000 homes.
“Although we are not predicting a market downturn, the housing market is slowing and this could result in fewer section 106 affordable housing completions.”
The Savills analysis comes after official figures showed the number of new homes built for social rent has fallen by almost four-fifths in a decade – while more than 1 million families are stuck on waiting lists for council housing in England.
Only 6,463 homes were built in England for social rent in 2017-18, down from almost 30,000 a decade ago.
In London and southern England the affordable housing shortage is particularly acute. An estimated 42,500 households need homes priced below market rates every year but over the last three years only an average of 5,600 were built a year, leaving an annual shortfall of 36,900, Savills says.”
Developers need to build another 500 houses to trigger skateboard park – but even then, it isn’t certain – nor is a new town centre.
“The district council said it is a ‘difficult and uncertain time’ to be planning a new town centre amid the collapse of several big high street stores.
The authority reiterated the importance of getting the ‘right balance’ between community facilities, retail and leisure space, and homes, adding: “We are developing an understanding of what a 21st century town centre should be and how we can deliver a viable town centre for now and the future in partnership with the town council and the developers.
“The location of the skate park is a key element of the town centre and a decision on its location cannot be made in isolation of other key decisions.
“We are working hard to avoid conflict with other uses that are also proposed within the town centre such as a care home, library and town hall and to ensure that it is well related to other youth facilities.
“This work is complex but vital to ensure that the town centre at Cranbrook meets the needs of all groups in the community and pulls in people from the surrounding area.
“It is not the council’s intention to delay delivery of the skateboard park – indeed there has been no delay to date, but it is important that the right location for this and other key activities are found, so we can ensure that Cranbrook’s town centre is a big success.”
A Freedom of Information request revealed East Devon has received nearly £8.4 million from developers of Section 106 money, of which it has spent only about £4.4 million.
The exact amount not spent is £5,139,000.
Section 106 contributions are paid to local authorities by developers when planning permission is agreed. The contributions are discussed and agreed before developments are given the go ahead. The money is ringfenced for certain projects and has to be spent within a time period – usually five years [after that the money is lost and can never be reclaimed, any interest on the money is presumably retained by EDDC].
It is by far the highest amount of all the local councils which responded.
Exeter has £872,183 unspent; Teignbridge nearly £4 million; Plymouth nearly £2.5 million.
“A bid has been launched by Cranbrook Town Council (CTC) to halt the building of the new country park resource centre.
The move comes a month after permission was granted by district planning chiefs for the 135sqm centre on land west of Stone Barton.
However, a report by CTC clerk Sarah Jenkins said East Devon District Council (EDDC) went back on an ‘understanding’ to adopt the country park resource centre, which its country park ranger would use it as a base.
However, EDDC cite the ‘economic climate’ and ‘availability of local authority funding’ as the reason it prefers to merge a number of facilities into a single building.
In her report, Mrs Jenkins said: “Under the section 106 agreement (private agreements made between local authorities and developers), the Consortium are required to provide a country park resource centre, hence the recent planning application.
“At the time, there was an understanding that EDDC would adopt the centre and their country park ranger would use it as a base. Since then, EDDC has decided that it does not want to adopt the centre.”
In January this year, councillors at CTC resolved to agree in principle that it would take ownership of the centre direct from the Consortium, once it is delivered.
They also resolved to enter negotiations with EDDC to determine the future role of the country park ranger and their future employment arrangements.
But in her report, Mrs Jenkins said: “The country park ranger has since left and EDDC has made the decision not to recruit a replacement ranger.
“Having been faced with the EDDC withdrawal, the town council has indicated to the Consortium and EDDC that it may not wish to have resource centre.”
At a meeting last month, CTC resolved to request the centre is not built and that the function of the facility and country park ranger be accommodated instead in Cranbrook’s future town hall.
Councillors also resolved to request that the section 106 funding for the country park centre be transferred to the town to provide other ‘much-needed’ facilities.
A spokesperson for EDDC said: “The section 106 agreement that secures developer contributions and obligations in relation to the country park resource centre and other infrastructure at Cranbrook was originally signed in 2010.
“At the time, it was envisaged that the town would be served by a number of individual buildings to accommodate civic and community uses.
“When the original legal agreement was approved, EDDC had been indicated as taking ownership of the country park resource centre.
“In the absence of having responsibility over any part of the country park, that now sits with Cranbrook Town Council, it was decided to offer the asset to the town council for adoption.
“From April 2018, Cranbrook Town Council adopted the country park in the town and is now responsible for its management and maintenance.
“A building housing the permanent offices of Cranbrook Town Council (as well as the library) is envisaged to be built on land immediately south of the country park in the town centre, a location where many of the functions of a country park resource centre could be accommodated.
“The community space element of the previously proposed country park resource centre could be accommodated in another community building and this could be part-funded by some of the monies that would have otherwise been spent on the centre.
“The Cranbrook country park ranger had been employed by East Devon District Council but the ranger left post earlier in 2018 and before the end of the developer funding for the position.
“A new legal agreement to pass the remaining funding to Cranbrook Town Council to enable them to employ a ranger to manage the land they have adopted is under way.
“In the interim there is currently no Cranbrook country park ranger in post.”
Owl says: Since when did “addressing issues” and “looking into measures” ever count for ANYTHING? More meaningless claptrap.
“In his first major speech as housing, communities and local government secretary today, Brokenshire said communities felt let down when developers reneged on pledges to build essential local infrastructure or affordable housing.
“We’re addressing these issues head on through our consultation into reforming developer contributions,” he said in his speech to think-tank Policy Exchange.
“These will ensure that developers are left in no doubt about what’s expected of them. Local authorities will hold them to account.” …
… Brokenshire added that, in future, government would require much more transparency from developers on the pace and timing of delivery. “We’re currently looking at measures to make this reporting a compulsory requirement.”
Turning offices into flats does not require planning permission so no Section 106 payments towards affordable housing:
“Lack of investment and deregulation of planning were the main reasons given for hampering councils’ ability to help provide the number of homes needed in the UK, the report published by the not-for-profit Association for Public Service Excellence found.
Of 141 UK councils surveyed, 63% described the need for affordable housing as ‘severe’ while 35% describe their need as ‘moderate’.
Seventy per cent of 124 councils in England noted an increase in statutory homelessness in the last year, the survey revealed. It was researched and written by the campaigning organisation the Town and Country Planning Association on behalf of APSE and released last week.
Paul O’Brien, chief executive of APSE, said: “Investment in high quality social housing can also save public funds, such as through reducing poor physical and mental health outcomes that are currently experienced by those living in an unstable private rented sector or those in temporary accommodation.”
Kate Henderson, TCPA chief executive added: “We are not providing anywhere near enough genuinely affordable homes and homelessness is rising.
“Our latest research highlights that councils want to provide more affordable housing for their local communities, but their ability to do so is being undermined by planning deregulation.”
The report noted that while relaxing planning regulations allowing developers to convert offices into homes without the need for full planning permission had created more accommodation it had made it more difficult for councils to secure ‘affordable properties’. If development plans go through the full planning process local authorities can secure ‘affordable homes’ through section 106.
“Relaxing permitted development has led to tens of thousands of new homes being created without having to get full planning permission and this means that councils are unable to secure a contribution to affordable housing from the developer”, Henderson said.
The research by the TCPA showed that one in three councils in England believed these changes to permitted development had a negative impact on the delivery of affordable homes.
The report called on the change to be reversed and for planning powers to be given back to local authorities allowing them to make decisions to “reflect local circumstances”.
O’Brien said the report showed that insecure private rented sector tenancies had contributed to the rise in homelessness.
He said local authorities needed to bring “stability and capacity to the social rented sector, which in turn will help to stem these almost unprecedented rises in both statutory homelessness and rough sleeping”.
The government must be “bold and ambitious in challenging the shortfall of housing for hose in the most need in society,” O’Brien added.
It must also help councils return to their historic role as a provider of homes, he urged.
APSE is a non-profit membership organisation for local government officers.”

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An airship was being called in to drop fire retardant on a wildfire near Mount Vernon.
The Washington State Department of Transportation and a witness said the fire was burning along State Route 538 near State Route 9, about four miles east of Interstate 5. It's on the north face of a formation known as Big Rock, a popular area for hikers.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday that NATO member Ankara would formally ask the alliance for Patriot missiles to protect its border with conflict-wracked Syria.
“(Patriots) are a precautionary measure, for defence in particular,” Davutoglu told reporters before he left Ankara for Gaza. “We will submit the formal request as soon as possible.”
Davutoglu’s comments came a day after NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance had received no formal request from Turkey for the surface-to-air missiles, but they would consider it as “a matter of urgency” if one was made.
Davutoglu did not elaborate on the details of the Patriot deployment but he said Ankara was “in the last phase of talks” before the request went through.
Turkey’s border villages have been hit by artillery fire from Syria as forces loyal to Damascus battle rebels seeking to oust President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.


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Over the last couple of months I have been talking to more and more customers who are either bringing their Hadoop clusters into production or have already done so and are now getting serious about operations. This leads to some interesting discussions about how to monitor Hadoop properly and one thing pops up quite often: Do they need anything beyond Ganglia? If yes, what should they do beyond it?
As in every other system, monitoring in a Hadoop environment starts with the basics: System Metrics - CPU, Disk, Memory you know the drill. Of special importance in a Hadoop system is a well-balanced cluster; you don't want to have some nodes being much more (or less) utilized then others. Besides CPU and memory utilization, Disk utilization and of course I/O throughput is of high importance. After all the most likely bottleneck in a Big Data system is I/O - either with ingress (network and disk), moving data around (e.g., MapReduce shuffle on the network) and straightforward read/write to disk.
The problem in a Hadoop system is of course its size. Nothing new for us, some of our customers monitor well beyond 1000+ JVMs with CompuwareAPM. The "advantage" in a Hadoop system is its relative conformity - every node looks pretty much like the other. This is what Ganglia leverages.
Cluster Monitoring with Ganglia
What Ganglia is very good at is providing an overview over how a cluster is utilized. The load chart is particularly interesting:
This chart shows the CPU load on a 1000 Server cluster that has roughly 15.000 CPUs
It tells us the number of available cores in the system and the number of running processes (in theory a core can never handle more than one process at a time) and the 1-min load average. If the system is getting fully utilized the 1-min load average would approach the total number of CPUs. Another view on this is the well-known CPU utilization chart:
CPU Utilization over the last day. While the utilization stays well below 10% we see a lot of I/O wait spikes.
While the load chart gives a good overall impression of usage, the utilization tells us the story of how the CPUs are used. While typical CPU charts show a single server, Ganglia specializes in showing whole clusters (the picture shows CPU usage of a 1000 machine cluster). In the case of the depicted chart we see that the CPUs are experiencing a lot of I/O wait spikes, which points toward heavy disk I/O. Basically it seems the disk I/O is the reason that we cannot utilize our CPU better at these times. But in general our cluster is well underutilized in terms of CPU.
Trends are also easy to understand, as can be seen in this memory chart over a year.
Memory capacity and usage over a year
All this looks pretty good, so what is missing? The "so what" and "why" is what is missing. If my memory demand is growing, I have no way of knowing why it is growing. If the CPU chart tells me that I spend a lot of time waiting, it does not tell what to do, or why that is so? These questions are beyond the scope of Ganglia.
What about Hadoop specifics?
Ganglia also has a Hadoop plugin, which basically gives you access to all the usual Hadoop metrics (unfortunately a comprehensive list of Hadoop metrics is really hard to find, appreciate if somebody commented the link). There is a good explanation on what is interesting on Edward Caproli's page: JoinTheGrid. Basically you can use those metrics to monitor the capacity and usage trends of HDFS and the NameNodes and also how many jobs, mappers and reducers are running.
Capacity of the DataNodes over time
Capacity of the Name Nodes over time
The DataNode Operations give me an impression of I/O pressure on the Hadoop cluster
All these charts can of course be easily built in any modern monitoring or APM solution like CompuwareAPM, but Ganglia gives you a simple starting point; and it's Free as in Beer.
What's missing again is the so what? If my jobs are running a lot longer than yesterday, what should I do? Why do they run longer? A Hadoop expert might dig into 10 different charts around I/O and Network, spilling, look at log files among other things and try an educated guess as to what might be the problem. But we aren't all experts, neither do we have the time to dig into all of these metrics and log files all the time.
This is the reason that we and our customers are moving beyond Ganglia - to solve the "Why" and "So What" within time constraints.
Beyond the Basics #1 - Understanding Cluster Utilization
A use case that we get from customers is that they want to know which users or which pools (in case of the fair scheduler) are responsible for how much of the cluster utilization. LinkedIn just released White Elephant, a tool that parses MapReduce logs and builds some nice dashboards and shows you which of your users occupy how much of your cluster. This is of course based on log file analysis and thus okay for analysis but not for monitoring. With proper tools in place we can do the same thing in near real time.
The CPU Usage in the Hadoop Cluster on per User basis
In this example I wanted to monitor which user consumed how much of my Amazon EMR cluster. If we see a user or pool that occupies a lot of the cluster we can course also see which jobs are running and how much of the cluster they occupy.
The CPU Usage in the Hadoop Cluster on per Job basis
And this will also tell us if that job has always been there, and just uses a lot more resources now. This would be our cue to start analyzing what has changed.
Beyond the Basics #2 - Understanding why my jobs are slow(er)
If we want to understand why a job is slow we need to look at a high-level break down first.
In which phase of the map reduce do we spend the most time, or did we spend more time than yesterday? Understanding these timings in context with the respective job counters, like Map Input or Spilled Records, helps us understand why the phase took longer.
Overview of the time spent in different phases and the respective input/output counters
At this point we will already have a pretty good idea as to what happened. We either simply have more data to crunch (more input data) or a portion of the MapReduce job consumes more CPU (code change?) or we spill more records to disk (code change or Hadoop config change?). We might also detect an unbalanced cluster in the performance breakdown.
This job is executing nearly exclusively on a single node instead of distributing
In this case we want to check whether all the involved nodes processed the same amount of data
Here we see that there is a wide range from minimum, average to maximum on mapped input and output records. The data is not balanced
or if the difference can again be found in the code (different kinds of computations). If we are running against HBase we might of course have an issue with HBase performance or distribution.
At the beginning of the job only a single HBase region Server consumes CPU while all others remain idle
On the other hand, if a lot of mapping time is spent in the garbage collector then you should maybe invest in larger JVMs.
The Performance Breakdown of this particular job shows considerable time in GC suspension
If spilling data to disk is where we spend our time, we should take a closer look at that phase. It might turn out that all of our time is spent on disk wait.
If the Disk were the bottleneck we would see it on disk I/O here
Now if disk write is our bottleneck, then really the only thing that we can do is reduce the map output records. Adding a combiner will not reduce the disk write (it will actually increase it, read here). In other words combining only optimizes the shuffle phase, thus the amount of data sent over the network, but not spill time!!
And at the very detailed level we can look at single task executions and understand in detail what is really going on.
The detailed data about each Map, Reduce Task Atttempt as well as the spills and shuffles
Ganglia is a great tool for high-level monitoring of your Hadoop cluster utilization, but it is not enough. The fact that everybody is working on additional means to understand the Hadoop cluster (Hortonworks with Ambari, Cloudera with their Manager, LinkedIn with White Elephant, the Star Fish project...) shows that there is a lot more needed beyond simple monitoring. Even those more advanced monitoring tools are not always answering the "why" though, which is what we really need to do. This is where the Performance Management discipline can add a lot of value and really help you get the best out of your Hadoop cluster. In other words don't just run Hadoop jobs at scale, run them efficiently and at scale!
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Electric power utilities face relentless pressure on their financial performance, and reducing distribution grid losses is one of the last untapped opportunities to meet their business goals. Combining IoT-enabled sensors and cloud-based data analytics, utilities now are able to find, quantify and reduce losses faster – and with a smaller IT footprint. Solutions exist using Internet-enabled sensors deployed temporarily at strategic locations within the distribution grid to measure actual line loads.
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The Internet of Everything is re-shaping technology trends–moving away from “request/response” architecture to an “always-on” Streaming Web where data is in constant motion and secure, reliable communication is an absolute necessity. As more and more THINGS go online, the challenges that developers will need to address will only increase exponentially. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Todd Greene, Founder & CEO of PubNub, will explore the current state of IoT connectivity and review key trends and technology requirements that will drive the Internet of Things from hype to reality.
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing rapidly by extending current technologies, products and networks. By 2020, Cisco estimates there will be 50 billion connected devices. Gartner has forecast revenues of over $300 billion, just to IoT suppliers. Now is the time to figure out how you’ll make money – not just create innovative products. With hundreds of new products and companies jumping into the IoT fray every month, there’s no shortage of innovation. Despite this, McKinsey/VisionMobile data shows "less than 10 percent of IoT developers are making enough to support a reasonably sized team....
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You have your devices and your data, but what about the rest of your Internet of Things story? Two popular classes of technologies that nicely handle the Big Data analytics for Internet of Things are Apache Hadoop and NoSQL. Hadoop is designed for parallelizing analytical work across many servers and is ideal for the massive data volumes you create with IoT devices. NoSQL databases such as Apache HBase are ideal for storing and retrieving IoT data as “time series data.”
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Today’s connected world is moving from devices towards things, what this means is that by using increasingly low cost sensors embedded in devices we can create many new use cases. These span across use cases in cities, vehicles, home, offices, factories, retail environments, worksites, health, logistics, and health. These use cases rely on ubiquitous connectivity and generate massive amounts of data at scale. These technologies enable new business opportunities, ways to optimize and automate, along with new ways to engage with users.
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The IoT is upon us, but today’s databases, built on 30-year-old math, require multiple platforms to create a single solution. Data demands of the IoT require Big Data systems that can handle ingest, transactions and analytics concurrently adapting to varied situations as they occur, with speed at scale. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chad Jones, chief strategy officer at Deep Information Sciences, will look differently at IoT data so enterprises can fully leverage their IoT potential. He’ll share tips on how to speed up business initiatives, harness Big Data and remain one step ahead by apply...
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There will be 20 billion IoT devices connected to the Internet soon. What if we could control these devices with our voice, mind, or gestures? What if we could teach these devices how to talk to each other? What if these devices could learn how to interact with us (and each other) to make our lives better? What if Jarvis was real? How can I gain these super powers? In his session at 17th Cloud Expo, Chris Matthieu, co-founder and CTO of Octoblu, will show you!
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As a company adopts a DevOps approach to software development, what are key things that both the Dev and Ops side of the business must keep in mind to ensure effective continuous delivery? In his session at DevOps Summit, Mark Hydar, Head of DevOps, Ericsson TV Platforms, will share best practices and provide helpful tips for Ops teams to adopt an open line of communication with the development side of the house to ensure success between the two sides.
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Gore Mutual will be participating again in this year’s GivingTuesday event, by donating to 10 different Canadian charities selected via a vote.
This is the insurer’s fourth year to participate in GivingTuesday – a global generosity movement that takes place each year after Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Since 2017, Gore Mutual has granted over $130,000 to date as part of the giving initiative.
For this year, Gore Mutual will be donating a total of $50,000, with 10 recipients each receiving $5,000. The insurer is asking its national network of insurance broker partners, customers, and the general public to help determine the recipients through nominations.
Nominations are being accepted on Gore Mutual’s social media channels, particularly those using the tags #GivingTuesdayCA and #GoreMutual.
The public has until December 01 to nominate their favourite charities. After that, all of Gore Mutual’s employees will have the opportunity to vote which from among the nominees will receive the donations. Winners will be announced also on December 01 through social media.
"Our organization is working to embed purpose and social good into our identity and everything we do," said Gore Mutual CEO Andy Taylor. “Giving is in our DNA and Gore Mutual has a long history of supporting Canadian communities during times of adversity.”
"GivingTuesday, gives us an important forum to discuss how charities, corporations and individuals can come together to address key social gaps," added Gore Mutual chair of the board Farouk Ahamed. "As a mutual insurance company with a charitable foundation, we believe that we have a social responsibility to support communities across Canada and help those in need.”


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Cape Cod House Plans Floor Plans Designs for Builders New Englands answer to harsh winters Cape Cod house plans blend rugged practicality with a comfortable interior layout. Originating in New England during the 17th century this traditional house plan was conceived in simple design form with little or no ornamentation as a symmetrical balanced house form usually one or one and a-half stories featuring a moderately steep pitched roof with a centrally.
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Cape cod house designs. The timber-frame construction is often clad in clapboard siding or unpainted wood shingles that weather to gray. Cape Cod Style House Plans Floor Plans Designs The Cape Cod house plan is designed for practicality and comfort in a harsh climate. Cape Cod House Plans.
Beginning in the 1940s and continuing to today modest Cape Cod homes have been built with simplicity and function in mind to evoke Colonial style. The Cape Cod Houses are designed around a large open living plan with a symmetrical patterned design. It is traditionally characterized by a low broad frame building generally a story and a half high with a steep pitched roof with end gables a large central chimney and very little ornamentation.
In this article well be sharing updated and renovated Cape Cod kitchen ideas. Some of them follow the original kinds back in the 17th century either for its effectiveness maintenance or budget wise. One of Americas most beloved and cherished house styles the Cape Cod is enveloped in history and nostalgia.
Cape Cod homes are simple and symmetrical usually one-and-a-half stories without a porch. Cape Cod Floor Plans Cape Cod homes are the epitome of post-war American housing and were built prolifically throughout suburban neighborhoods to accommodate growing families. Find small open layout Cape Cod style home designs wfirst floor master 4 bedrooms more.
Call 1-800-913-2350 for expert help. These Cape Cod homes showcase several of the key elements that distinguish this modest style. Look through cape cod style pictures in different colors and styles and when you find some.
There are many designs regarding cape cod houses. This style of plan usually include dormers that extend out of the roof indicating that there are one or more rooms on the upper area. Cape Cod Home Plans.
Most families with small numbers prefer this type of house. Cape Cod house plans tend to be modest in size rectangular and symmetrical. Originally developed in New England in response to harsh winters and the need for simple construction techniques Cape Cod houses can be found anywhere residents want clean symmetrical lines.
According to Peter 17th-century Cape Cod structures were modest one-room deep wood-framed houses with clapboard or shingle exteriors which when weathered over time turned that quintessential. Abundant timber resources in the New World encouraged the expansion of these traditional one-room cottages and marked them forever as the quintessential New England style. Browse 340 Cape Cod Style on Houzz Whether you want inspiration for planning cape cod style or are building designer cape cod style from scratch Houzz has 340 pictures from the best designers decorators and architects in the country including M D Roofing Renovations and Builder Tony Hirst LLC.
Cape Cod style homes originated along the Eastern Seaboard in the early 1700s as a larger version of the simple heavy timber-framed houses built by the first colonists. The best Cape Cod house plans. Cape Cod designs along with Saltbox style homes were most prevalent in the coastal areas of Massachusetts Connecticut and Rhode Island where their steep side-gabled roof lines performed well in the severe New England.
The Cape Cod originated in the early 18th century as early settlers used half-timbered English houses with a hall and parlor as a model and adapted it to New Englands stormy weather and natural resources. A Cape Cod house style and its coastal cues make it probably one of the most interesting and unique architectural designs to be born in America. Todays Cape Cod house plans typically follow the one-and-a-half floor design which means that additional living spaces exist on the upper floor built right under the roof itself.
The exterior steep roofs are symbolic of a typical cape cod house that is designed solely for the purpose of minimizing the weight of the snow. With roots in the 17th century this classic American style remains popular today. Cape Cod-style homes cropped up on the eastern seaboard between 1710 and 1850.
A close relative of the Colonial-style homes scattered across the East Coast and the South Cape Cod houses were an economical answer to Americans homeowning ambitions. Low and wide with pitched roofs Cape Cods were built with the most practical of concerns in mindsolid protection against high winds and wet snowy storms. Cape house plans are generally one to one-and-a-half story dormered homes featuring steep roofs with side gables and.
A Cape Cod Cottage is a style of house originating in New England in the 17th century. Cape Cod House Plans. Since the focus was more on the exterior of the house and how it would hold up the interiors were pretty simple in design.
Before a long history of modern design updates Cape Cod designed homes were left over by the British colonists as they traveled to the New World in pursuit of liberty and new opportunities. The Cape Cod house style was born in 17th century Massachusetts where a simple and sturdy design was necessary to withstand the regions inhospitable coastal weather. The main level of a Cape Cod floor plan usually features the primary living area equipped with a large central fireplaceperfect for family or friend gatherings especially on cold wintry nights.
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New Video: Snoop Dogg ft. Wiz Khalifa “Kush Ups”
Stoner Snoop Dogg releases a new song and video for his single “Kush Ups” featuring fellow stoner Wiz Khalifa, off of his upcoming album, COOLAID. Aside from Kush Ups and Snoop’s performance of “Fireworks” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last week, the only thing we know to expect from COOLAID is a classic Snoop Dogg hip-hop feel since this is his first rap album in five years. Kush Ups is the first single off COOLAID which is set to drop sometime in July, via Doggy Style Records.
The two stoners have collaborated in the past including on their exclusive cannabis lines called, Leafs By Snoop and Khalifa Kush.
Kush Ups is produced by KJ Conteh. The Kush Ups video is Directed by Dan Folger and Edited by Chris Cordova,
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This is the first full-scale anthropometric history of Imperial Russia (1700-1917). It mobilizes an immense volume of archival material to chart the growth, weight, and other anthropometric indicators of the male and female populations in order to chart how the standard of living in Russia changed over slightly more than two centuries. It draws on a wide range of data—statistics on agricultural production, taxation, prices and wages, nutrition, and demography—to draw conclusions on the dynamics in the standard of living over this long period of time. The economic, social, and political interpretation of these findings make it possible to reconsider the prevailing views in the historiography and to offer a new perspective on Imperial Russia.
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The world famous music festival ‘Sziget-2022’ in Budapest, Hungary is expected to have a line-up of famous artists such as Dua Lipa, Justin Bieber, Calvin Harris and many others over this weekend. Apart from those world famous celebrities, Sziget is expected to have at least 3 Ukrainian artists well known for Eurovision fans.
Despite being a politically neutral music festival, ‘Sziget’ decided to have a significant number of Ukrainian artists that potentially can raise awareness about the current situation in the world from the stage of the festival. Among them are Constantine, who participated in Vidbir 2018 and the band KAZKA who participated in 2018 and 2019. Further to that, Vidbir 2022 winner Alina Pash is also expected to appear on the stage on 15th of August.
There were fears that artists could cancel their appearance due to the need to share the stage with the Russian DJ Nina Kraviz and a few more Russian artists. It is worth mentioning that Eurovision 2022 winners Kalush Orchestra cancelled their appearance on the music festival “Sea Dance” in Montenegro due to the need to share the stage with the above mentioned DJ.
All in all, Sziget Festival is one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe and often invites Eurovision celebrities to appear on its stage and this year is expected not to be an exception.
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Singer Sinéad O'Connor, who became as well known for her remarkable music as her personal struggles, has died, according to RTE, Ireland's public broadcaster.
She was 56 years old. No cause of death was immediately available.
O'Connor's first album, "The Lion and the Cobra," was released to critical acclaim in 1987, but it was her 1990 sophomore album, "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got," which broke her through as a well-known artist.
Her rendition of the Prince song "Nothing Compares 2 U" shot to No. 1 in 1990 and was nominated for multiple Grammys.
In the years following, O'Connor was embroiled in controversy, once ripping a photo of the pope on "Saturday Night Live." She later became a priest of a Catholic group and took to social media to air personal problems and outbursts.
In recent years, she was open about her struggle with addiction and mental health. Her 17-year-old son Shane died in 2022.

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The tech billionaire has criticized Trump’s ban as “just morally wrong and stupid”.
Former US President Donald Trump may hope to return to Twitter in time for the 2024 White House race. Tech billionaire Elon muskwho is about to acquire Twitter, will do so trump Return to the platform. The decision to ban Trump was “just morally wrong and stupid,” Musk criticized Tuesday in a video interview at an event.financial times“.
Trump was banned from Twitter after expressing sympathy for his supporters who stormed the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021. In previous weeks, Trump had fueled the mood with baseless claims that he had been defeated in the election. Joe Biden Stolen by fraud.
Trump’s own platform has problems growing
Trump recently said he doesn’t want to go back to Twitter, even if he could. A presence on the platform, where he had more than 80 million followers, may be important to a potential candidacy in the 2024 presidential election. Trump has used Twitter very actively to rally his supporters and create an atmosphere. He tries to create his own social media platform, which is struggling with startup issues.
Musk said Trump’s ban on Twitter was a mistake because a large segment of the American public did not approve of it. This does not mean that the former president can no longer make his voice heard.
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“I would say it’s a private company’s decision about who is allowed access to its platforms and who is not,” a White House spokeswoman said. Jin Psaki, to a question about the Mask ad. The Biden administration aims to ensure and protect freedom of expression across the country. Psaki said online platforms should not be used as forums for disinformation. “And we’ve seen it not only on Twitter in the past, but also on Facebook.”
It will be some time before it becomes clear if Musk actually gets Twitter. The head of electric car maker Tesla has agreed with Twitter’s board of directors on a deal worth about $44 billion, but it still depends on enough shareholders willing to give up their shares to him. Twitter and Musk aim to complete the acquisition by the end of the year.
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Individual (Saturday) - Hampsfell & Eggerslack Woods
Windermere Road public car park in Grange-over-Sands (Pay & Display). Grid Reference: SD 411783
750m walk, 75m climb. Allow 10-15 minutes. A map will be provided in the final details and the route will probably be taped. Other than download, there will be no facilities at assembly (public toilets should be available 250m from the parking in Grange-over-Sands).
Adjacent to assembly. Provisional start times: 10:30 – 11:15 (alumni), 11:45 – 12:45 (Varsity Start Block), 13:15 – 13:30 (alumni (limited)).
At assembly. Provisional course closing time 15:30.
Two distinct areas, each providing their own challenges. The eastern part is runnable but complex rocky woodland with steep slopes and sections intricate contour detail. The western part is fast open fell, with patches of woodland, some of which is low visibility. The whole area is limestone rock underfoot and in places this is exposed as limestone pavement. If it is wet, this will be very slippery – take care! The open fell is divided and bound by a number of drystone walls. These must not be climbed and the marked crossing points MUST be used to cross them.
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. Scale 1:10,000, 5m contour interval. Standard IOF symbols, with a plain grey screen depicting limestone pavement. The legend will not be on the map.


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Hi, I’m Mel and I love being part of the Adventure Babies team and bringing these award winning story and sensory baby classes to Somerset and Dorset.
With 20 years experience as a primary school teacher, I have seen time and time again the love and enjoyment that children get from sharing a book as well as developing their language and communication skills. I am passionate about books and strongly believe that even in the fast-paced, modern and technological world in which we live, reading still has such an important place in a child’s world.
I have two children of my own, my 12 year old son and 4 year old daughter, and books have always had an important place in our lives. Even though my son loves his technology, he is also an avid reader and can often be found with his nose in a book! Reading and books have always been part of our bedtime routine and even now at 12 he still enjoys the ‘special time’ we have together when sharing a book before bed. My daughter is following in his footsteps, and has an incredible thirst for books. She can listen to a story once and then read it back to me using the pictures almost word for word (she can’t actually read the words yet). She can also quite often be found reading a book to her dollies and teddies (so cute)!!!!
It is because of my passion for books and reading, that I became part of the Adventure Babies Team in October 2017. I also have a passion for art and love the creativity and visualness that comes with the messy play and sensory activities of the classes. I thoroughly enjoy being part of the Adventure Babies team and being able to provide these award winning baby and toddler classes Somerset and Dorset.
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Pirates and ships ahoy with this designer nursery mobile.
It features three acrylic pirate shapes each lit by it's own colour changing LED, suspended by micro wire from an acrylic ring and battery pod .
They are also perfect for parent's wanting to check in on children at night without disturbing them.
Using very safe LEDs (they never, ever heat up), parents can be assured that these night lights are safe to use for their children.
The mobile night light range has been fully tested to meet Australian Standards for Children's lighting to provide even more piece of mind.
This nightlight is run on 3 x AA batteries. The built-in timer can be selected to automatically turn this night light off after one hour as a power-saving option.


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Flake is an excellent everyday food for most fish - it is readily accepted and nutritionally balanced, easy to feed and store and inexpensive to buy (especially when purchased in bulk). There are several varieties aimed at different species dietary requirements:
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Telcos Sell Phone Location Data to Aggregators | Avast
An alarming investigative probe conducted by tech site Motherboard led to some shocking revelations. A Motherboard reporter stashed his phone somewhere in New York, then hired a bounty hunter to find it. The bounty hunter only needed the phone number and $300. Within minutes, he had the location pinpointed to a neighborhood in Queens, which was in fact where the reporter had hidden the phone. What was most surprising about this process is that the bounty hunter did not need to use any sort of hacking tool to find the phone. He simply used data purchased from telcos AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile.
Digging further, the reporter found himself in a complicated web of data companies, phone companies, grey areas, and questionably legal information sharing. He found that a line of information service companies called “location aggregators” purchase phone data from the big telecommunication companies, and then sell that info…to anyone, not just law enforcement. Employers can track their employees, suspicious spouses can track their partners, anyone can track anyone.
“This is a clear violation of people’s privacy,” comments Luis Corrons, security evangelist at Avast. “If this were to happen in the EU, for example, where legislation does a much better job protecting consumers, the companies involved would be facing millions of dollars in fines.”
And of course, this phone geolocation data has leaked onto the dark web, where morality surrounding the uses of the info can dip even lower. As to the phone companies themselves, all three avow that in order for a phone to be tracked, the user must first give consent (in the form of replying to a text, for example), but this investigation proves that policy is not necessarily followed.
It must be noted, the data in question is purely for location tracking. It consists of the unique mobile identity number of the phone and pinging. No text messages, photos, or wallet data are involved.
As the data in question is coming from the telcos themselves, cybersecurity software will not block this kind of tracking. If you’re a member of any of the three aforementioned phone companies, know that your IMSI (international mobile subscriber identity) may be on a data list being bought and sold around the web. No harm may come of it, but it’s important to know. As of the publishing of the Motherboard article, one of the location aggregators already began removing elements from their site. We will be monitoring this trend moving forward.
*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Blog | Avast EN authored by Avast Blog. Read the original post at: https://blog.avast.com/phone-location-data-to-aggregators