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Honor Announces ‘The Great Honor Sale’ exclusively on Flipkart

Honor, Huawei's sub brand for digital natives, today announced great discounts and offers on Honor’s best-selling smartphones as a part of ‘The Great Honor Sale’ exclusively on Flipkart starting midnight of 27th Aug till midnight of 29th August. The three-day sale will offer 1-hour flash sale on the recently launched exquisitely beautiful Honor 9N which comes with stellar aesthetics and a Notch along with discounts on Honor 9 Lite and Honor 10.

Honor’s bestselling smartphone Honor 9 Lite (4+64GB variant) will be available at Rs. 14,999 with a bump up exchange offer of up to Rs. 3000. Customers planning to buy the flagship killer Honor 10 can purchase the device at an attractive price of Rs.27999 exclusively on Flipkart. Honor 9i- the first smartphone with four camera set up and FullView Display will be available at a discounted price of Rs. 12999 for the first time ever. Honor 9N (4+64GB & 4+128GB variant) to be available through open sale from mid-night,25th August onwards. Flipkart will hold flash sale for Honor 9N (3+32GB variant) from 12PM noon, 28thAugust, 2018 onwards every Tuesday. Customers can also avail an additional 10% discount on HDFC debit and credit cards across selected range of Honor smartphones.

Speaking on the occasion, P Sanjeev, Vice President Sales, Huawei India-Consumer Business Group, said, “We have received an overwhelming response for all our Honor smartphones and with ‘The Great Honor Sale’ we wish to give consumers and fans an opportunity to be a part of the incredible Honor experience. It is our utmost endeavor to provide best in class technology at the most attractive price which in turn is aimed to give our customers the seamless experience in terms of hand held devices. We hope our efforts are appreciated by our consumers and we will to continue excite the market”

Honor 10 has emerged as the best flagship globally owing to its best in class hardware and software configuration.

Most preferred Honor smartphone amongst the millennials, Honor 9 Lite is hailed as a number one selling smartphone on Flipkart. As a pioneer of dual-camera technology, Honor has pushed creative boundaries even further with dual front and rear cameras of the Honor 9 Lite, equipped with a FullView FHD+ display. Designed with both aesthetics and function in mind, the Honor 9 Lite is ultra-thin, sleek, and stylish smartphone with a mirror back.

About Honor:
Honor is a leading smartphone e-brand under the Huawei Group. In line with its slogan, “For the Brave”, the brand was created to meet the needs of digital natives through internet-optimized products that offer superior user experiences, inspire action, foster creativity and empower the young to achieve their dreams. In doing this, Honor has set itself apart by showcasing its own bravery to do things differently and to take the steps needed to usher in the latest technologies and innovations for its customers. Honor led the online smartphone market with a global shipment value of 2.5 billion USD to become the number 1 online smartphone brand, as per International Data Corporation (IDC) in Q1 2017. Huawei's Consumer Business Group, comprising of its dual brands Huawei and Honor, shipped 139 million smartphones globally in 2016 and reported an increase of 44% in its annual revenue.

Shrey Kapoor is a Tech-Enthusiast, Harvard certified Cyber Security and Cyber Forensics Expert. He Founder, which is one of the India's Top Tech News Website. Even Forbes and many other renowned publishers took his articles reference. Shrey is a Technology analyst, strategic thinker and creative writer who is passionate to deliver the best, latest possible Tech-News to his followers and subscribers. He completed his masters in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, certified in IPR, T.Q.M. & ISO 9001:2008 In Quality Management Systems.

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The Hindujas were allowed to invite about 20 guests to the party, which was to mark the 50th anniversary of the scheme, after they had formed a charitable "partnership" with the Royal family earlier in the year. They had promised that their charity, the Hinduja Foundation, would contribute £3.5 million to a new fund for the award scheme.

Auchi, who has an estimated fortune of almost £2 billion, is understood to have donated about £10,000 to the scheme before receiving his invitation. The Hindujas' guests are believed to have given a total of about £100,000.

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An Affidavit is a written statement of facts that is sworn on oath. The individual who swears that the information written in the Affidavit is true is called an affiant or deponent and must sign this document before a notary public. The notary public is the person authorized by the state to verify that the person who claims to have signed the document is the same who signed it.

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When signing an affidavit, you need to have your passport, driver’s license, or any document that may serve as proof of identity, so that the affidavit can be notarized.

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Although public notaries are allowed to act in any state where they are commissioned, laws governing notarial acts, as well as regulations on Affidavits, vary by state. In order to ensure that your Affidavit complies with the rules of the appropriate jurisdiction, you can select the state where the document will be signed from the list below or scroll down to download a situation-specific Affidavit form.

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  1. Affidavit of Name ChangeThese are used when a person or entity needs proof that you have legally changed your name. Usually, the document will include your old name, your new one, and the state where the change originated.
  2. Affidavit of Small EstateThese are most commonly used when a close relative dies and leaves behind a small estate. This document allows the property to be transferred to the heirs without the need for a probate process.
  3. Affidavit of SupportThis document is regularly used in the immigration process and it is signed by a sponsor, who will be financially responsible for the immigrant coming into the United States.
  4. Affidavit of DeathUsually handled by an estate administrator, its purpose is to notify a court, business, or creditors that someone has died.
  5. Affidavit of ServiceThese are used to attest to the delivery of specified papers to a person, organization, or business as requested by a party to a lawsuit.
  6. Affidavit of Heirship. This form is used to define the presenсe of the inheritors of a deceased person who has not left an enforceable will.
  7. Identity Theft Affidavit. These are filed if an individual's personal data was used to create an illegitimate account or perform any other actions in their name.
  8. Divorce Affidavit. Acts as evidence of your divorce in cases when you cannot locate your official paperwork.
  9. Affidavit of Residence. This Affidavit is used to verify the address of a person, and it is generally used to prove you live or lived at a certain residence for tax or business reasons.
  10. Financial Affidavit. Generally used in divorce proceedings to verify the financial status of the signers, who must state facts such as their yearly income and savings.

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Certain legal requirements must be met for the Affidavit to be valid. When lawyers use Affidavits in motions and court filings, they may design this document to meet their specific needs at the time. In other circumstances, you may draft your own document by using Affidavit forms that contain specific information to fulfill the intended purpose. The Affidavit, which may be written in the first or third person, must state only relevant facts in a concise and organized way. Furthermore, the document must assert that everything in it is true.

The deponent who signs the sworn statement must be a competent person (which in most cases means they must be of legal age and of sound mind). In addition, they must sign the Affidavit voluntarily and without coercion and must have firsthand knowledge of the information they are attesting to. An authorized person, who could be a notary public, a lawyer, or Justice of the Peace, must be present when the document is signed.

The foot of the last page of the document, known as the "jurat", must include the following details:

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Form CDL-7 "Texas Commercial Driver License Self-certification Affidavit" - Texas

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This is a form to be filled by all Texas Commercial Driving License (CDL) holders to comply with regulations that took place on January 30, 2012, with full compliance due by January 30, 2014.

Form DS-10 "Birth Affidavit"

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Use this form if you do not possess your original birth certificate or documentation that confirms naturalization, have no access to your birth records for any reason, or the birth records are insufficient, but you have to apply for a U.S. passport.

Form DS-71 "Affidavit of Identifying Witness"

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This is a document issued by the U.S. Department of State for individuals who are applying for a U.S. passport and who are unable to establish their identity to the satisfaction of a person authorized to accept passport applications.

Form MVU-26 "Affidavit in Support of a Claim for Exemption From Sales or Use Tax for a Motor Vehicle Transferred Within a Family" - Massachusetts

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This is a specific Motor Vehicle Sales and Use (MVU) Tax Form, upon which a new owner of a vehicle may get a tax exemption from a sales or use tax, if they received an automobile from a prior owner who is a family member.

Form MVU-24 "Affidavit in Support of a Claim for Exemption From Sales or Use Tax for a Motor Vehicle Transferred as a Gift" - Massachusetts

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This is a Motor Vehicle Sales and Use (MVU) Tax Form, which is used in Massachusetts when a donee needs to verify they are exempt from paying tax on a received vehicle as a gift from a non-family member.

Form MVU-29 "Affidavit in Support of a Claim for Exemption From Sales or Use Tax for a Motor Vehicle Purchased Outside of Massachusetts" - Massachusetts

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This is a one-page form to request exemption of the Massachusetts state sales and use tax for motor vehicles that are purchased outside of Massachusetts.

USCIS Form I-134 "Affidavit of Support"

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Fill in this form to show your intent to support a non-U.S. citizen financially during their visit to the U.S.

USCIS Form I-864 "Affidavit of Support Under Section 213a of the Ina"

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Fill in this legal document which serves as an agreement between the U.S. government and the sponsor of an immigrant. It confirms the latter's income status that allows them to financially support the immigrant indicated in the form.

Form LIC282 "Affidavit Regarding Liability Insurance for Family Child Care Home" - California

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The purpose of the form is to provide Family Child Care providers with signed confirmation from the parents or guardians of a child on the subject of liability insurance in the facility.

Form DR-312 "Affidavit of No Florida Estate Tax Due" - Florida

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This form is a Florida legal document completed for the estates of decedents who died on or after January 1, 2005, if the estate does not require the filing of a federal estate tax return.

Form VTR-207 "Inventory of Component Parts Purchased/ Affidavit Bill of Sale" - Texas

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This form is used as a supplementary document filled out by a seller and a salvage dealer to fully describe the bought component parts of the vehicle in the state of Texas.

"Affidavit of Name Change Form"

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This is a document filed by individuals who need to prove the fact that they have legally changed their name in the past to a requesting party.

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"Affidavit of Small Estate Form"

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This form is used to manage the property of a deceased person when their assets are small enough to not require the traditional and long probate process.

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"Affidavit of Support Form"

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This form is completed by an individual who wants to sponsor their dependant or relative that is looking to immigrate to or visit another country.

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"Affidavit of Death Form"

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This form is filed by an heir or successor of a deceased person in order to certify under oath that the individual indicated in the affidavit has passed away.

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"Affidavit of Service Form"

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This form can be used for confirming either the successful delivery of documentation or for proving an individual's active duty (for a court case).

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"Affidavit of Heirship Form"

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An Affidavit of Heirship defines the presenсe of the inheritors of a deceased person who has not left a will.

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"Affidavit of Residence Form"

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This statement is useful as a legal document to confirm an individual's residence under oath.

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"Financial Affidavit Form"

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Individuals may use this legal document that contains a description of their financial situation and shows their income, expenses, assets, and debts in this individual's name.

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"Divorce Affidavit Form"

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A Divorce Affidavit is a document on which an oath is taken by one of the spouses about their wish to legally cancel their marriage.

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Form ADV-MVA1 "Motor Vehicle Dealer Affidavit Ad Valorem Tax Exemption" - Alabama

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Form ADV: LD-3 "Affidavit of Loss of Original Tax Sale Certificate/Tax Deed" - Alabama

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Form NR-AF2 "Affidavit of Seller's Gain" - Alabama

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Form NR-AF1 "Affidavit of Seller's Residence" - Alabama

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Form PT-PA-1 "Physician's Affidavit of Permanent and Total Disability" - Alabama

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Form SC-8 "Default Affidavit and Request for Judgment" - Alaska

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Form 1 "Contractor's Organization Questionnaire/Affidavit" - Los Angeles County, California

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Form E-7 "Affidavit of Heirs" - Florida

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HRAP Form 4 "Affidavit in Support of Motion for Leave to Proceed on Appeal in Forma Pauperis" - Hawaii

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Form IC-5 "Affidavit for Export From Guam to the State of Hawaii" - Hawaii

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Form CAO TR2 "Affidavit of Service (Three-Day Notice for Repairs)" - Idaho

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Form CAO UD2 "Affidavit of Service (Three-Day Eviction Notice)" - Idaho

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Form EX-3 "Affidavit of Compliance for Service of Process on Non-resident" - Illinois

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Form AFF-2 (State Form 51417) "Cigarette Distributors Affidavit" - Indiana

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Form UIC-5 "Class Ii Well Integrity Test Affidavit" - Louisiana

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Form UIC-6 "Class I Well Integrity Test Affidavit" - Louisiana

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Form REW-3 "Residency Affidavit of Entity Transferor" - Maine

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Form REW-2 "Residency Affidavit, Individual Transferor, Maine Exception 3(A)" - Maine

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Form MVT-5 "Affidavit of Repossession" - Maine

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Williamson-area churches plan for vehicle worship service

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Nashville Tennessean

Grace Chapel Church senior pastor Steve Berger said he hoped this coming Sunday would prove an incremental step back to normal.

The pastor — along with 15 other churches — will lead a worship service at the Williamson County Ag Expo Center dubbed Beyond Our Walls. Those who want to join can drive to a parking space, stay in their vehicles and tune in via an FM station to hear the service.

Grace Chapel Pastor Steve Berger delivers the invocation during the inauguration of Bill Lee as the 50th governor of Tennessee at War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019.

"It’s going to be a fantastic event, and we think it will be the beginning of getting back to normal," said Berger, who is the pastor of Gov. Bill Lee's home church. "It’s a good baby step in the right direction emotionally. Spiritually, it will be something that gives people hope, and we are excited. Our executive pastor came up with the idea. It resonated with us and the whole staff. I presented it to a large group of pastors I get with. A significant amount of them wanted to participate. "

Worship leaders will stand on a large stage leading the service, with LED screens mounted so participants can see from their vehicles.

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Berger said he anticipated that worshipers would follow the rules of the service and stay inside their vehicles. The event will happen days before Lee's stay-at-home order will expire. Williamson County has endured 357 total coronavirus cases as of Monday and was the first place in the state to have a COVID-19 case.

"I am not afraid of anything. I would hope that people will follow what we are doing," Berger said. "I don’t think it will be long before we can meet back in church buildings. We are also prepared to do this style of worship on our campus."

The service will start at 5 p.m.

Because the event is taking place on a Sunday, it won't disrupt COVID-19 testing, said Hannah Bleam, spokeswoman for the Williamson County Emergency Management Agency. The Williamson County Ag Expo Center had become the primary destination for COVID-19 testing throughout the area.

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"We won’t have to tear down anything, and it won’t affect our testing sites," Bleam said.

Emily West is a reporter for The Tennessean, covering Franklin, Brentwood and Williamson County. Email her at or follow her on Twitter at @emwest22.


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It was Saturday morning and I had snuck away briefly from a conference I was attending to check on a barbecue lead in Caldwell. My web searches brought up none of the details of the joint. From searching on Google’s street viewer I found the building and a couple of signs that read “Bar-B-Q Every Saturday and Sunday.” When I arrived at 11:30 the “Sold Out” sign was already taped to the door. I went in and begged in vain for any scraps. In fact, co-owner Robin Matus said I’d need to get there before 9:30 or 10:00 to get the full menu. The doors here open at 5:00 in the morning for sausage, and like Snow’s BBQ just thirty minutes away, the full menu is ready at 8:00 am. There wasn’t much to do but get back in the car for the defeated drive back to College Station.

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Matus’s Interior. Photo by Pat Sharpe

It stung getting so close to a potential gold strike of a small town barbecue joint that certainly looked and smelled the part, and sadly a visit the next day wasn’t an option for me. Luckily, Texas Monthly’s Food Editor Pat Sharpe was attending the conference with me, and she agreed to scout it out like she’s done so many  times in the past. Here is her full report:

I have seldom seen Daniel quite so glum. He had sneaked away from the excellent Saturday luncheon of the Foodways Texas conference in College Station and driven thirty miles to a promising barbecue joint he had heard about in the central Texas town of Caldwell. But when he got there, it was closed. Sold out at 11:30! What the hell?

Shameless when it comes to barbecue, Daniel had begged the friendly owners for scraps, but sold out meant sold out. So he moped back to the conference, where he shared his tale of woe with me. “I have to go back home to Dallas tonight,” he said, looking dejected. Then a light went on. “But you’ll be here tomorrow, won’t you?” Which is how I ended up standing in line at Matus Bar-B-Q at 9:15 on Sunday morning, ordering a little of everything from their short, to-the-point menu.

I was with two new friends from the meeting, Cecelia and Jeanne, who had said “What a lark!” when I saw them in the conference hotel lobby and shouted, “Who wants to have brisket for breakfast?” At the counter, pitmaster Tommy Matus wrapped the meat and his wife Robin dished up some homemade pinto beans. We carried the bundle of white butcher paper over to a picnic table in the tiny room and spread it out.

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Matus’s Brisket. Photo by Pat Sharpe

All I can conclude is that Matus’s customers must prefer the tasty crust and fat removed from their brisket, because there was barely a speck of either left on the slices. The meat had been pre-trimmed (but sliced to order), and it was hard to tell that it had even been near a puff of smoke. It tasted exactly like Sunday pot roast and was chewy to boot. We abandoned it and turned to the pork butt, which was about as different from the brisket as it could possibly be. A dark red seasoning rub coated the pieces, which were small and sort of gnarly looking but proved to be surprisingly moist and satisfyingly smoky. Next came the chicken, which had a medium-brown smoky exterior and juicy meat on the inside, but seemed a little deflated, like it had off the heat for a while. (The place opens up at 5:00 a.m. to serve the farming community where it is located, and it’s pretty casual. While we were there, one customer arrived in pink pajamas and a hoodie and, no, she wasn’t three years old.)

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Matus’s Pork Steak. Photo by Pat Sharpe
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Matus’s Chicken. Photo by Pat Sharpe

I looked up at my buddies, wondering if they were getting full, but they were totally into it. We each grabbed a pork rib, and that’s when the game changed. They were big, a little shaggy (from the electric knife used to cut them from the rack), quite meaty, and well-rubbed with salt, pepper, and (I would guess) a little paprika. Next came the highlight of the morning: homemade sausage, all pork, fairly coarse textured, quite firm, and simply seasoned; the flavor reminded me of breakfast sausage links. The pinto beans, with a fairly thick pot liquor, were equally plain and satisfying. Matus told us he buys ready-made potato salad (“but it’s good”), so we skipped it. The sauce, which was as mild as tomato soup, did not invite more than one exploratory sip.

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Matus’s Pork Spare Ribs. Photo by Pat Sharpe
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Matus’s Homemade Sausage. Photo by Pat Sharpe

I said goodbye to Cecelia and Jeanne–who were in line buying a couple of the two-foot-long (!) sausage links to go–and stopped to snap a few pictures. There are a lot of tchotchkes sitting around the shiny little metal building, including an array of signed dollar bills on the wall labeled “401K Plan.” To the left of the front door was another metal building with a big pile of oak logs and several direct-heat smokers inside, where Matus barbecues eight or nine briskets a day, plus the other meats. He’s been doing this for eighteen years and doesn’t show signs of quitting any time soon.

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Questions for Charles Porter

Porter discusses the past, present and future of water rights in Texas.

Porter discusses the past, present and future of water rights in Texas.

This is Part Nine in an occasional series of Q&As with Texans involved in issues of the environment and energy. (Read Part One with Bee Moorhead here, Part Two with Andy Sansom here, Part Three with Katherine Hayhoe here, Part Four with Patrick Kennedy here, Part Five with Michael Banks here, Part Six with Gabriel Eckstein here, Part Seven with John Nielsen-Gammon here and Part Eight with Tad Patzek here.)

Charles Porter is a professor, author, and an expert on water rights and real estate. He is an assistant professor at St. Edward’s University in Austin, where he teaches history courses as well as a class on water use as a global challenge.

Porter’s award-winning book Spanish Water, Anglo Water, traces the fascinating history of water in San Antonio, from its origins in the equitable and free Spanish approach to the emergence of the Rule of Capture and the view of water as a commodity.

An expert in everything from construction management to brokerage ethics and water rights, Porter has testified in more than 300 court cases since 1987. He’s also won Realtor of the Year and teaches continuing education courses for the Texas Real Estate Commission.

His latest water book, with the tentative title Sharing the Common Pool: A Layperson’s Guide to Texas Water Rights, will be published early next year.

Observer intern Priscila Mosqueda asked Porter a few questions about water rights and policy in Texas. Our Q&A, edited for clarity and brevity, follows:

In your book, Spanish Water, Anglo Water you talk about water being free under the Spanish and becoming a privatized commodity as San Antonio grew. How did San Antonians take the change, what did the change mean for Texas water policy then and how does it affect our policy now?

San Antonians took it in several different ways. Some embraced the convenience of having a water tap at their property instead of having a well they had to worry about if they weren’t close to a river, or having to haul water to their home. They definitely liked the fact that they had access to a water tap. Some of the earliest folks that signed up to have a water tap had their water lines taken to their gravesites so they could water the gravesites of their families, which was interesting. However they didn’t all take to it right off, even though the fee was as little as $9 to $12 per year with unlimited amounts of water you could take.

One of the major reasons the water system was put in was to put in a system of fire hydrants downtown to deal with fires. As cities grew, they began to see major fires. One mistake in one stove burns down blocks – there’s a safety risk and a value risk. As city real estate begins to be more valuable than rural real estate, the bank’s going to require you to have some sort of insurance on buildings – one of the risks you have is not having any kind of fire protection. The fire protection that was available then were basic bucket brigades or horse-pulled water containers, so fire hydrants made a big difference. From the fire hydrant industry, then came the first Sanborn insurance maps, which were drawn like aerial photographs of the city showing where fire hydrants were, and a line drawing of size and shape of the buildings so insurers could see how far away from each fire hydrant they were. So you begin to see this total interrelationship between water and insurance and buildings. The more you could insure buildings from fire, the more the central part of the city had a chance to grow.

The city had no concern nor did the people have any concern about whether [George W. Brackenridge, a prominent banker and businessman in San Antonio and member of the UT Board of Regents] or his partners would ever make any money from [the privatized water system] … one of the main sources of revenue was that the city of San Antonio agreed to pay them $150 a year for each fire hydrant in rent. Guess what? The city didn’t pay the very first time, so you’ll see in my book a picture of a lawsuit Brackenridge got against the city, the water company got against the city, because from the very beginning they never intended – you had to force them – to pay their bills.

They made him look like the bad guy but there were several things involved: He owned San Antonio National Bank; he was considered a Yankee Civil War profiteer (even though the bank also underwrote and gave credence to all the San Antonio city bonds); they still all hated him because his homestead was on the river (where Incarnate Word is now); he owned the water company and he owned the bank. So each successive mayor used Brackenridge as the evil monopolizer, which of course was wonderful except for the fact that the cost it took Brackenridge 14 years to recover the investment of running one tap to a house, if you paid your bill on time.

When did they [the city of San Antonio] start charging for water?

The contract went into effect in 1879.

Until about 1924 there was a fixed price for unlimited water. There was a big debate then once the Belgians—a guy from St. Louis bought it from the water company and sold it to the Belgians—tried to operate it but of course they were devastated by World War I. They sold it again to the city of San Antonio in 1927, but in that interim period, people all over the country decided, ‘I can’t operate these water companies for fixed fees with unlimited use, we ought to have meters’. But the people resisted the meters. They didn’t trust the meters so there was a lot of publicity and a lot of education to try to prove to the people that the meters were fair. People thought meters weren’t reliable or rigged, and in reality they said, we don’t want to pay any more for water and so we want to figure out any way we can to have unlimited use for unlimited amount of water and keep the prices as low as possible, which the effect today is, we still across the board don’t pay an adequate amount for water to support our systems.

Do you think that in Texas, that people would ever not resist an increase in water rates? Do you think it would be possible to convince the public that that’s what we need?

I think the people will always initially resist any increase in any fee in any way, not just water. But eventually I think with education what people realize is that if you want to have some kind of reasonable water availability at your tap, you’re going to have to pay to advertise the system, to maintain the system, for additional resources for the system. If you want Texas to grow, that growth in large degree depends on our water resources. If you don’t conserve it, enhance it, find new sources, protect the system you’ve got, growth won’t be here, therefore you won’t have a job, therefore you won’t live here anymore. I think it will be an uphill battle continuously to be able to a charge a fair rate for what it really costs to maintain a quality system.

What kind of [rate] change are we looking at? Compared to what we’re paying now, what kind of percentage increase would actually be beneficial?

The problem with answering that question is that it’s different in all areas of the state. The worst drought in Beaumont’s history is double the rain that El Paso gets [in a year]. There has to be a formula for the rate that will be fair and enough money for maintenance costs for the system, but also to develop new resources, to advertise fairly the cost of those new systems, include reserve for replacements, anticipating problems in the future, and then have an agreeable return on investment not only for city but also for any private folks. Why would you invest your money in something if you’re not going to get it back for 14 years and not going to get any return on [it] for the 14 years?

There are three major uses [of water]. There’s domestic/lifestyle or residential use, industrial use for power plants, etc., and there’s municipal uses. The fourth is irrigation, and generally speaking irrigation uses 70 percent of all our water resources around the world. Without irrigation for agriculture there wouldn’t be any cotton growing in Littlefield, Texas. I think you’ve got to look at a holistic approach to all the water and understand all surface water and groundwater relate to each other conjunctively – in other words, what happens on the surface as far as diffuse surface water runs underground into an aquifer and pops up again as a spring and makes a creek or a river – all those waters relate conjunctively and change all the time.

So along those lines … do you think that there needs to be some sort of reform in the law in Texas that takes that into account, or do you think the Rule of Capture is viable still?

I think the Rule of Capture is here to stay and it’s fine. The consequence of that is that the areas of the state that do not have a groundwater conservation district, like Bulverde, are very vulnerable to the fact that the Rule of Capture can have the biggest pump take the water away from them. Groundwater conservation districts aren’t too concerned about the Rule of Capture because in reality they get to issue permits for the most important part of the use, which is industrial and irrigation use – so they can manage the groundwater that way. Now there are areas in the state that have no districts. There’s a chance that they’re vulnerable to the Rule of Capture. As far as abolishing the Rule of Capture, that was a ruling in a court and it’s been upheld so many times I don’t think that’s going to happen, I don’t think we’ll legislate that.

The other approach is the conjunctive approach. We’re starting to do that. We recognized many years ago that water ignores political boundaries. That’s why instead of individual districts based on political boundaries we have water management areas. I had trouble answering, “Should all water be owned by the state of Texas?” Those horses are out of the barn already. But by the same token my worry is that even if all the groundwater is owned by the state, with the way politics goes these days, whoever has the most money then will get all the water. So right now I think it’s great to have groundwater owned privately because we’re such a diverse state geographically and geologically that it’s best to have groundwater managed by people locally who understand the local aquifer and groundwater.

Districts do regulate and manage, but a lot of times it’s hard to tell – landowners are never going to admit they’re [pumping water] maliciously to harm their neighbors, being wasteful or negligent (all restrictions under the Rule of Capture); so as far as that goes, do you think there’s a more quantifiable way to measure and limit how much they’re pumping?

I think the way to do it is, and this is very controversial, on irrigation waste you have to have a meter which proves your historic use and the districts and super districts like Edwards Aquifer Authority manages that historic use to make sure you’re allowed a certain amount of water based on your permit. The big hole I see is the domestic livestock use, where you’re exempted up to 25,000 gallons a day from any kind of permit for a domestic livestock well. Even though it says you’re supposed to make your well incapable of taking 25,000 gallons a day, we don’t know when we come up with our model of available groundwater, we make a good guess about what the exemptions are out there. But I can tell you about the way Texans feels because I teach the class to adults all the time around the state. I tell somebody you can drill a domestic lifestyle use well as long as you don’t make it capable of anything more than 25,000 gallons a day, then you don’t need a permit. But if I go up and tell you to change your well and make it incapable of taking more than 10,000 a day instead, that landowner is going to say, “Well, wait just a second, what about my other 15,000 gallons I had a right to?”

But nobody actually uses that much [25,000 gallons per day], right?

Even though nobody uses it, so my suggestion is – and this is going to be tremendously controversial and everybody will scream – if I own my well, my farm, my ranch, I’m gonna put a meter on my well so I can prove my historic use. That way if they ever tell me to cut me back I can prove that I’ve used it for this, for that, and I’ve used x number of gallons over time, that way it’s only fair. The way we traditionally do things in Texas, which is the fair way to do it, if we make a policy change on water, and you have some kind of period of time where you can prove what your historic use was, then we tend to protect historic uses that are beneficial … If you’re out there investing in a ranch and you’re gonna grow hay to sell you’re going to want to make sure you’ve got enough water; if you base your whole livelihood on that and the government takes away that livelihood and you’ve met all the rules, then under our Constitution, thank goodness, you’re justly compensated. If not then there’s no reason for you to take that kind of risk, right?

I know it’s hard to simplify all of this because it’s obviously very complicated, but what do you think if there was one comprehensive solution, even if it’s a series of changes, that we have to make in Texas?

I think we’ve got to educate and give incentives to conserve water at every level – all uses of water. We’ve got to go and look for new sources like desalination of water and we’ve gotta be prepared to pay the fee for that, and we’ve got to do it now because to get the right-of-way to run the lines from a desal plant to run to San Antonio [from the Gulf] would take 10 to 20 years. … The other part of the equation is to educate the public to understand the long-term approach to water policy and that is if we want Texas to grow or maintain a stable economy for us to live and raise our children, we’ve got to have a long-term water policy and understand that it’s going to cost more and more each year to maintain our systems. We’ve gotta have systems that don’t leak; we’ve got infrastructure that’s now over 100 years old – it’s got to be repaired. And we’ve got to find ways also that big cities that have great bond ratings to come out and help little cities that don’t, develop. And that’s what this last proposition did that was passed, thank goodness last fall, allowed the state to go out and use their credit to issue bonds that they can then help smaller cities because you know, I don’t want to invest my money in Robert Lee, Texas because it’s a little bit riskier than investing in Houston.

So that brings up the whole rural vs. urban…

And the third thing is rural vs. urban – we’ve got to make the hardest choice of all. How do we choose between rural and urban lifestyles? How do we protect rural lifestyles when the water is out there in the rural areas and we’ve got people growing in the cities? We want to do both. How do we come up with a policy like that? I do think there’s enough water resources in Texas, just underground – groundwater that’s brackish water – but we’ve got to figure out a way to make those desal plants work and also do something with the by-product of the desal. We can’t control the rain but can sure enhance it, and I think we ought to charge in all directions at once and make water – here we go – our number one policy of everything we do in Texas and that’s going to make people frustrated with me. But everything stems from water – if you don’t have water, you don’t have an adequate tax base that can pay for public services in cities, if you don’t have water you won’t have people in cities that can pay for the other social services we get – you’ve got to look at the most basic thing that we’ve got to have – you’ve got to have water. If you don’t have water, the land’s worthless, you can’t build a city there. So water is our base, it’s our spiritual base, it’s our base to everything and we’ve got to recognize it as that. Now you’ve got me preaching.

What happens if we don’t do this – what happens if we don’t make any changes – we don’t limit, we don’t conserve, we don’t give incentives…?

What’s going to happen eventually is that the state’s growth is going to have to be stymied. As the State Water Plan says there’s simply not enough water in Texas to cover the growth that we anticipate. Therefore if there’s not enough water to cover the growth we won’t have the growth. Once that spiral starts, we don’t want to see people abandon our cities … When population leaves the people that are left have problems and it’s hard to generate interest to come back – the whole Rust Belt is going though that. But we’re smart enough and we’re courageous enough and we’re far-seeing enough that we realize we’re not going to let that happen to us. And you’ve got to look at it from the perspective of an overall policy and remember the most basic thing about water – all water relates conjunctively in one hydrological cycle. And we’ve gotta look at it that way. Make me benevolent dictator and I’ll straighten it all out.

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Democratic Presidential candidate, Michael Bloomberg during remarks to the media at the Hilton Hotel on his first campaign stop in Norfolk, Va. Monday, Nov. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Bill Tiernan)

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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — New presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg traveled to the city that hosts the world’s largest Navy base on Monday and blasted President Donald Trump over the recent ouster of the nation’s Navy secretary.

For the first stop of his Democratic campaign, Bloomberg went to Norfolk, where he criticized Trump over the firing of Richard Spencer. The civilian leader of the Navy said he could not in good conscience follow an order by the president to allow a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes to retire without losing his SEAL status.

“The fact remains: We have a president, a commander in chief, who has no respect for the rule of law, and no concern whatsoever for ethics or honor, or for the values that truly make America great,” Bloomberg told a group of reporters at a downtown hotel.

Virginia is a critical Super Tuesday state that is key to Bloomberg’s campaign strategy of bypassing early states to focus on the crush of states that vote later in the cycle. And the locale offered the billionaire and former mayor of New York City more than just the latest controversy in Washington to promote his platform.

The neighboring city of Virginia Beach suffered a mass shooting on May 31 that killed 12 people at a municipal complex. Bloomberg, 77, said that such shootings have become “almost routine” and that “we have to put an end to this madness.”

Gun control is a hallmark of Bloomberg’s political identity. His group, Everytown for Gun Safety, has pumped more than $6 million into Virginia campaigns alone in recent years to support like-minded Democrats, according to the Virginia Public Access Project.

Democrats retook both chambers in Virginia’s Legislature earlier this month. Bloomberg said it was proof that “with the right candidate, we can turn areas from red to blue.”

Bloomberg, a centrist who became a Democrat last year, joined the presidential race Sunday, just 10 weeks before primary voting begins. His Democratic rivals have already pounced on his plans to rely on his personal fortunes to fund his campaign, accusing him of trying to buy an election.

Bloomberg said Trump was a “threat to our country, to our values and our national security.” But he also cast doubt on the crowded field of Democrats whose performance, he insinuated, forced him into the race.

“I think that there is a greater risk of having Donald Trump reelected than there was before,” Bloomberg told reporters. “And in the end, I looked in the mirror and said that I just cannot let this happen.”

The former Republican touted a platform that also focused on combating sea-level rise, economic inequality and health care.

He said he’s already beaten Trump in other arenas, at least symbolically, devoting tens of millions of dollars to pursue policy priorities that are in sharp contrast to the president’s.

For instance, Bloomberg has helped shutter 282 coal plants in the United States and organized a coalition of American cities on track to cut 75 million metric tons of carbon emissions by 2025.

“I know what it takes to beat Trump because we already have, and I will do it again,” Bloomberg said.

Bloomberg also chatted with people at a diner in downtown Norfolk that was mobbed with reporters and at least some people who were eager to support him.

Among them was Craig Schranz, 43, an emergency medicine physician who said he’s fiscally conservative and socially liberal like Bloomberg is. He praised Bloomberg for not “vilifying” capitalism and for supporting a health care plan that doesn’t eliminate private-payer health insurance.

“I think he’s someone who knows how to govern,” said Schranz, who said he had supported former Vice President Joe Biden before Bloomberg joined the race. “I think he’s going to implement sound policy that we need.”

Bloomberg plans to go to Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday.

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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One father might not know what his 19-month-old son is saying, but he seems to know what he means.

The Leaf Chronicle reports a video showing Tennessee comedian DJ Pryor and his son Kingston has gone viral.

The Clarksville child’s words are mostly gibberish as the pair talk on the couch. Pryor’s wife recorded the moment about a month ago, after they watched the season finale of “Empire.” But, she posted the video on Facebook earlier this week and it racked up more than one million views.

The father says his son appeared to be inspired by the television show and he simply filled in the blanks with what he thought the boy might be saying.

He says he plans to use the conversation in his future stand-up comedy routines.

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Big Brother Naija star Mike Edwards has taken to social media to orientate millions of men across the globe on how to treat their women especially black women.

Mike Edwards who rose to stardom after featuring at the fourth edition of Big Brother Naija reality show shared an adorable picture of his wife, Perry Shakes-Draython, and captioned it with a message to men across the globe.

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13 Nov 2015

DHI attends inaugural Australian Groundwater Conference

The inaugural Australian Groundwater Conference 2015 was held 3-5 November in Canberra. DHI was a key sponsor at the event, which attracted a large turnout of close to 350 participants, far exceeding the organisers’ expectations.

Alexandra Renz, Senior Engineer for
FEFLOW, presenting at the conference. © DHI

The conference was jointly organised by the Australian National Groundwater Centre for Research and Training (NCGRT) and the International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH).

DHI offered two preconference workshops on 2 November 2015 titled ‘Modelling groundwater in porous media using FEFLOW’ and ‘Integrated groundwater/surface water modelling with MIKE SHE’.

At the conference, we were represented by Douglas Graham, Principal Engineer for MIKE SHE, Alexander Renz, Senior Engineer for FEFLOW, Bobak Willis-Jones, Head of Department, Mining and Craig Mackay, Head of Department, Water Resources. Our experts shared two presentations:

1. ‘Simulating flood behaviour in the Lower Murrumbidgee River, Australia using an integrated surface water groundwater Model’

The case study investigated the importance of both surface and subsurface processes on the flood plain inundation in wetlands and riparian areas. Craig Mackay presented a MIKE SHE model that captured the hydraulic processes in the river, the dynamic surface water-ground water interactions, and the infiltration and evaporation effects on flooding using satellite observations to confirm the model behaviour. Such an approach is especially critical when evaluating distributed recharge in floodplains.

2. ‘Accurate Modelling of Horizontal Wells and Tunnels through Upscaling of Screen-Scale Flow Processes’

Alexander Renz presented a modelling method for accurately implementing small-scale features in large-scale FEFLOW groundwater models, with consideration of their actual geometrical properties on the local scale. In particular, inverse modelling is used to determine an upscaling parameter for the small-scale inflow behaviour that can be used in the large-scale model. He presented several examples including vertical and horizontal wells, as well as access tunnels, in both water management and mining contexts.

The conference was a great opportunity for us to showcase the capabilities of FEFLOW and MIKE SHE, the two groundwater related products in our MIKE Powered by DHI software suite. Alexander Renz remarked, ‘Uncertainty analysis was an important theme at the modelling sessions, which shows that our FEPEST add-on for FEFLOW is definitely on the right track.’ Douglas Graham adds, ‘The inherent lack of knowledge around groundwater recharge was another strong theme in many presentations, which demonstrates the need for the fully integrated, distributed, dynamic groundwater recharge calculated by MIKE SHE.’

We look forward to seeing you at the next Australian Groundwater Conference!

At the DHI booth. © DHI


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From advances in air traffic management and remotely operated systems to the introduction of drones and other emerging technologies. ATC Forum and its co-located conference will focus on finding the most appropriate solutions while encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing across the industry.

Airport Show Digital+ taking place in December 2020 is a three day, ‘online only’ event, a great opportunity to bring the global airport community together to remotely participate, learn and engage through our new digital platform in 2020.

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Van der Valk Theaterhotel Almelo is (partly) open and applies stricter measures. We would like to ask you to take these measures into account to ensure your health and that of our employees. We hope to welcome you soon for a safe and comfortable stay at Theaterhotel Almelo.

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Open facilities

The facilities in our hotels are limited available to prevent too many people being in the same places at the same time.

Restaurant & hotel bar

Naturally, we follow the guidelines from RIVM and the measures taken by the Cabinet. As a result, the restaurant will remain closed to outside guests until at least 1 July.

Hotel guests can enjoy a drink in the lounge, in the bar and on our terrace. Restaurant de Society is open to our hotel guests. We provide breakfast via contactless room service or on our loft.

The above with due observance of the following measures:

  • The restaurant is open exclusively for overnight guests.
  • We have a separate entrance and exit from the restaurant.
  • We ask you to wait 1.5 meters apart until our host shows you a table.
  • We only receive guests from shared households up to a maximum of 8 people.
  • Keep 1.5 meters away. Both to our employees and to other guests.
  • To maintain sufficient distance, we serve at an appropriate distance via side tables, after which you can grab your order yourself.
  • Room service is available for both dishes and drinks.

Fitness & Wellness

The fitness room, Turkish bath and sauna are closed. The heated, indoor swimming pool is exclusively open to hotel guests with an overnight stay. The health of our hotel guests is always number one and that is why a number of conditions apply here as well.

  • Maximum 6 people allowed in the pool. You will receive an access pass at the reception.
  • Follow the indicated walking direction and hygiene measures.
  • After swimming, you should shower in your own hotel room.
  • The opening hours of the pool may differ from the standard opening hours.

Meetings & workplaces

When working from home is not the ideal solution during the Corona crisis and there are insufficient options at the office, Van der Valk Theaterhotel Almelo offers a space with privacy, tranquility and facilities. The hotel rooms have TV, coffee and tea facilities, free WiFi and free parking facilities adjacent to the hotel. Soft drinks and lunch are available through room service.

Safe and comfortable

At Van der Valk, the health, safety and well-being of our guests and employees has the highest priority. In order to guarantee your health and safety, we would like to ask you to observe the following policy during your visit to our hotel:

  • Follow indicated walking direction and hygiene measures
  • Keep 1.5 meters distance from other guests and employees
  • Do not shake hands with fellow guests or hotel staff
  • Wash your hands regularly and in accordance with RIVM guidelines
  • Use paper towels to dry your hands
  • Cough and sneeze in your elbow and turn away from fellow guests and hotel staff
  • Preferably pay with pin or contactless

Do you have symptons of a cold, such as a runny nose, sneezing, sore throat, mild cough or increase to 38 degrees Celsius? Then we ask you to stay at home and not to come to the hotel.

We do everything we can to make your stay as safe and secure as possible. Thank you for your confidence in Van der Valk and we hope to welcome you in our hotel soon. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our reception on +31 (0) 546 803000.

Frequently asked questions

Can Van der Valk be open as a hotel and restaurant?
Yes, according to government guidelines it is allowed to be open as a hotel. Food and beverage outlets in the restaurant for our hotel guests may be open. The à la carte restaurant is therefore open to them. For outside guests, the restaurants remain closed to ensure your health.

Is visiting a Van der Valk hotel safe?
Van der Valk takes your health and that of the employees very seriously. We have tightened measures within the hotel so that this can be guaranteed. All Van der Valk hotels are furnished according to the guidelines of the RIVM. As a hotel, we do everything we can to keep risks to a minimum.

As a hotel guest, can I use the restaurant facilities?
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Is it possible to order room service?
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What facilities are open in the hotel?
The indoor pool is open to hotel guests. You can collect an access pass for the swimming pool at the reception.

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Album Review: LOSER’s Restless Noise (2018 EP) is a rock collab that’ll leave you wanting more

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If, after hearing their first singles, you were left thinking Melbourne’s newest alt-rock trio LOSER sound crazily professional and experienced for a new band, you my friend, would be correct. The trio is the love child of Australian rock icons, with Tim Maxwell (Apart From This/Grim Rhythm) Chris Cowburn (The Smith Street Band) and Craig Selak […]

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PondicherrySoutheast India, Pondicherry (Puducherry) has a population of just under 245,000 and is located on the shores of the Bay of Bengal. Former French counter, the city has a very special atmosphere and charm, which distinguish it from other cities in the country: street names written in French, residents playing petanque, colonial houses, many traces of French colonization enamel places. The traveler will also discover the market with its stalls of food and fabrics; the museum installed in a beautiful colonial house and which traces the history of the city; the "croisette" of Pondicherry where to take a very pleasant walk; the Muslim quarter; the former residence of the French government, Rai Nivas; Arulmigu temple Manakula Vinayagar; the statue of Gandhi on the seafront; the SITA Cultural Center, where you can take classes of all kinds, cooking, massage, languages, Ayurveda, etc. ; and of course Auroville, a few kilometers from Pondicherry, the famous "universal city" created in 1968, with its atmosphere of peace that still emerges today, and its center of meditation, to experiment absolutely. Puducherry is reached by landing in Chennai and then taking a three hour drive. In the city, you can walk or cycle in the center, then rent a scooter or motorbike, or take a rickshaw or a taxi to the outlying areas.

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Flintan IKEA office chair review: simply comfortable

As someone who works on a computer all day, my favourite office chair is the Flintan from IKEA.

Flintan IKEA office chair

I’ve tried many chairs over the years — IKEA and non IKEA — and have found them to be either too much in the “executive” style without proper lower back support, or too rigid for when I want to lean back.

The Flintan has the right back support and a nice tilt action. I prefer the Flintan to the more expensive IKEA Markus (which makes it on a lot of “best chair” lists).

With the “Nominell” arm rests, the Flintan is $99 CAD.

There aren’t many options to adjust the Flintan. The arm rests are fixed, but you can change the height of the chair and lock or unlock the tilt action. The tilt action is unique (compared to many other chairs I’ve tried) in that it is easy to lean back in it, but its resistance adjusts based on how much you lean back. Therefore, it does not take any additional effort to keep the recline position at the exact angle that you’d like. It is sturdy but forgiving. With the Markus, I don’t like the fixed recline positions and I find the resistance when leaning back to be a bit too much.

How to create a PayPal Payments Pro developer account

It’s been a while since I used a PayPal sandbox account. Years ago, the developer / sandbox account was completely separate from a live PayPal account. Now, the PayPal Developer website links directly to the normal PayPal account creation page.

PayPal developer signup link

If you are looking to get a PayPal developer account, you are likely doing so to test out a merchant account to receive money. The regular signup process lays out the 2 main options of PayPal Payments Standard and PayPal Payments Pro:

Payment Payments Pro account option

This is misleading for a developer account, because in order to test PayPal Payments Standard or PayPal Payments Pro, you technically only need a normal personal PayPal account. I don’t know why PayPal does not make this clearer, but then again they have a history of hiding other information such as their toll-free support number.

PayPal Payments Pro has a monthly fee and quite an involved application process, including a manual approval process where they call you. This is fine for when you and/or your clients are ready to start accepting real payments. However, there is a much faster way to get started in order to work in a sandbox environment!

Simply create a normal, personal PayPal account if you don’t already have one. Then, sign in to the PayPal Developer website. From there, visit the dashboard and then click on the “Sandbox > Accounts” link. There, you will see test buyer and seller accounts:

PayPal sandbox accounts

You can edit the seller account and click the “Upgrade to Pro” button:

PayPal sandbox account update to Pro

This is apparently a permanent step, but you can easily create additional accounts. The important part is that you don’t have to create a full, paid PayPal Payments Pro account in order to have a PayPal Payments Pro developer account!

New Westminster downtown train whistle cessation September 2015

According to a New Westminster City engineering report from May 2015, train whistle cessation downtown is expected to be completed in September 2015.

The noise from train horns at all times of the day has long been an issue for residents and businesses in and near New Westminster. A steady increase in residential developments near the water and thus next to the train crossings has coincided with an increase in complaints, and it was reported in 2013 that the train whistle noise had become the top complaint in the city.

An effort that began many years ago as part of a general Downtown Community Plan and that is estimated to cost at least $3 million (paid by some combination of the city and the railway companies) is seeing its first results. Train whistle cessation has already started at the Port Royal crossing; upcoming highlights include the completion of upgrades to the downtown crossings (Begbie and Front Street as well as Front Street at Fourth Street) in September 2015 and to the Quayside Drive crossing some time in 2016.

More information about the silencing of the train horns can be found on the New Westminster City website on the Train Whistling FAQs page. Quietly exciting times…

New Westminster downtown internet options

I recently moved my web development company‘s office to downtown New Westminster (at Columbia Street and 4th Street). I was very surprised to discover that Telus’s maximum download speed for my building was 6Mbps (which is not feasible for a web development company!), and that Shaw did not service the building at all. By contrast, 15Mbps is effectively the minimum speed at home. As it turns out there are a few blocks in downtown New Westminster where the internet speeds are awful.

After multiple calls to both Telus and Shaw, I was resigned to the fact that they weren’t going to add or improve service any time soon. There is old copper wiring more than 10 kilometres to the nearest substation and neither company said they had plans to install new wiring. The only thing I was offered was something called “managed internet” where you pay Telus to build the fibre for you (tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars) — not even close to a realistic option!

Some of the other service providers such as Teksavvy weren’t able to offer anything better, since they simply lease capacity from the “big 2″ of Telus and Shaw.

After reaching out to the City of New Westminster and talking to some businesses in the area, I found that the bad internet speeds are well known in my area, although the speeds are much better a few blocks further west. I also found out about the Intelligent City initiative; a major component of this initiative is to build a fibre optic network through the city. The City of New Westminster does not intend on being an internet service provider, but they would build and own the network, leasing out the capacity to other service providers. This is an exciting development whose general plan has been approved, but will realistically take at least a couple of years before it is ready for commercial use.

Other options included:
* Wireless cell phone plans, where LTE networks now offer great speeds. However, the bandwidth offered with the Telus, Bell, and Rogers plans (as well as some of the smaller companies) topped out at 20GB per month, at which point the costs per GB skyrocket.
* Satellite internet from a company such as TeraGo, although it would cost at least $350 per month for a 5Mbps connection, and a 15Mbps connection would cost $950 per month.
* A “bonded” connection through Lightspeed Internet — this involves combining multiple connections into a single connection. They lease capacity through Telus’s lines, but Telus does not offer this bonded connection. The cost for my building for 3 bonded lines for an effective speed of 15Mbps is $340 per month.
* As suggested by my building neighbours Techno Monkey Media, get a company or building down the street (where they have decent internet speeds) to agree to let me get a normal Telus, Shaw, or other wired connection in their building, then send the signal to my building via rooftop satellites. This has some modest up-front costs, and the ongoing costs are no more than a standard connection.

I ended up moving forwarded with the bonded connection. However, the cost is not something I want to be paying in the long-term. While I wait for fibre internet to come to New Westminster, I hope to set up the “beam an internet connection via rooftop satellites” connection. In any case, this is a problem I would have never expected for downtown New Westminster!

Tangerine Bank 3% savings account interest promotion for 6 months

If you have a Tangerine Bank regular savings account (not a TFSA or RRSP savings account), it’s worth calling in to see whether you can get the latest promotional offer of a 3% interest rate for 6 months.

When ING Direct was launched in 1997, it was a clear leader regarding high interest savings account interest rates. Over the years, savings account interest rates everywhere in Canada have dropped significantly, making the term “high interest” a bit of a misnomer. However, even before Scotiabank bought ING Direct and rebranded it as Tangerine Bank, ING Direct’s savings account interest rates had been dropping faster than other comparable accounts, and it is currently tied for last on this chart.

Tangerine Bank has been putting out a lot of interest rate promotions with unattractive stipulations. For example, the rate might be only on net new deposits, or there might be a bonus for taking a one-time action such as switching your direct deposit payroll, or with terms that steer you towards locking in your money for lower rates in the future.

The latest promo is more straightforward, although if you haven’t received a call or an e-mail about it, you’ll have to call in to see if you can get it. In short, it offers a 3% interest rate (technically a 1.95% additional rate on top of the current 1.05% rate) for all money in your regular savings account(s) for the next 180 days / 6 months. The 6-month 3% rate makes Tangerine the temporary leader for a savings account interest rate in Canada. Once the rate is applied to your account, you don’t have to change how you save or set a reminder to pull the money out before it gets locked in — the additional interest rate will just get removed after 6 months. I first read about it in this thread, where you can read about other people’s experiences in getting the promotion.

Not only is this promotion not publicly advertised, but there is no official information about how someone is eligible to take part in the promotion (whether it’s based on your account history or balance) or when the offer will end. When I called in, I told the customer service representative that I read about the promotion on an online forum and that I’d like to take part in it. They said “Sure, we can see whether we can apply that right away” and then almost immediately after, “Yes, I have access to add it”. He couldn’t tell me why he had access to add it, though.

I was able to confirm that the promotion was applied by clicking on the “My contest entries and Bonuses” on the left menu:
My contest entries and Bonuses link

… and then it appeared in the “Your special rate offers” table:

Your special rate offers table

Here is the full list of terms and conditions that appeared on my account.


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Jake and Vienna Split: Raise Your Hand If You're Surprised

By: Jess Greenfeld

I hope everyone who placed bets cashed in on this one.  In a surprising, not at all expected announcement released this morning it seems that the sexy Bachelor Jake Pavelka and his girlfriend (fiancé?) Vienna Girardi have called it quits. Oh Jake, I can’t even imagine all the “I told ya sos” you’re getting for this one, and we’re not going to be any exception.

Upon releasing the news of their split the couple is also asking to be left alone during this time. Now, I know they’re still new to this reality television deal—but common sense tells us that when you go on a popular show looking for a future wife, choose someone, (and someone controversial at that) then break up, privacy does not exist. Yes, privacy left the building the moment you kicked Tenley to the curb and handed the final rose over to probably the most disliked woman of the season. All bitterness aside however, when you choose a life partner based solely on the fact that there’s a spark—you can’t expect the relationship to be everlasting. And after a little over three months of officially dating, I guess the pair realized the honeymoon phase could only take them so far.

So, considering Jake’s a pilot we can put this into terms he should understand. Jake and Vienna gave it a fair shot (lasted far longer than I thought they would) but in the end I guess, you could say, “they taxied down the runway but were never really able to achieve lift-off.”

As for Tenley—well now she’s having the last laugh as one of the stars in ABC’s new show Bachelor Pad, set to premiere Monday, August 9th.

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    • 184 East Bay Street #201: Pied a Terre in Charleston’s French Quarter

    184 East Bay Street #201: Pied a Terre in Charleston’s French Quarter

    184 East Bay, Charleston, SC 29401If you’re looking for a getaway in the heart of the city, this quaint and charming condo at 184 East Bay Street may be the perfect fit.  Perched above thriving East Bay Street, the unit makes the most of its location with large windows overlooking the bustling street.  Famed local restaurants, such as High Cotton, SNOB and Cypress, are located within the block along with a collection of local shops.  Popular parks including White Point Gardens and Waterfront Park are also within walking distance.  Just step out the front door and enjoy all this great city has to offer!

    The building was constructed in 1900 but this unit was thoroughly renovated in 2015 to appeal to today’s buyer.  No detail was left untouched and all the finishes are top-of-the-line.  Nods to the home’s history, including original wide plank hardwood floors and fireplaces, remain, making this home a true find.  The condo has an open floor plan which is flooded with natural light from large windows.  Beautiful exposed brick walls are found in the living room, kitchen and bedroom and add character to the space.  The living room and kitchen are combined into one cohesive space with the newly renovated kitchen serving as a true showpiece.  Custom cabinets with sleek hardware, stainless steel appliances, and a marble-topped center island make this a space in which you want to gather.  French glass doors open onto a small Shakespearean balcony providing you with some outdoor living space.  Looking out over East Bay Street is the spacious master bedroom.  Five large windows flood the space with natural light while exposed brick and an original fireplace add charm.  The home’s bathroom has also been updated with a marble-topped vanity, chrome fixtures and a large subway tiled shower with a stunning marble inlay floor.

    The location and level of finish makes this an ideal find in the heart of the city.  The unit can also be rented out by the week making it a great investment opportunity.  For more information, contact listing agent Anna Gruenloh.

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