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BOCA GRANDE — BCB Homes has completed construction of its first model home, The Silver King at Hill Tide Estates, and is hosting a grand opening on Wednesday, April 17th, from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at 882 Hill Tide Lane on Boca Grande. Hill Tide Estates is a nearly 10-acre, exclusive 19-homesite community with luxurious views of Charlotte Harbor, Boca Grande Pass and the Gulf of Mexico.
Designed by Stofft Cooney Architects, the two-story model encompasses over 4,500-square-feet of living space and features contemporary coastal styling. The custom estate features exquisite architectural detailing and includes first and second floor master suites with private master bathrooms, his and her walk-in closets, and two guest bedrooms each with private bathrooms. A spacious great room showcases beautiful beamed ceilings and a picturesque view overlooking the lanai. A large island style kitchen opens to an expansive outdoor living area with breathtaking views of Boca Grande Pass and includes a summer kitchen with dining area, a pool and spa, and a pool bathroom. The estate also features a 2-car garage with a golf cart garage.
Ficarra Design Associates completed the interior details of the residence. Inspired by Old Florida style, the firm stayed true to the Boca Grande aesthetic, while incorporating reimagined classic coastal elements to give the estate an updated feel. The color palette used throughout the home features tones of cream, ivory and soft blues accented by natural driftwood tones of grey.
Hill Tide Estates features include a gated entrance in the northwest corner of the property, a mini parking area for golf carts and a landscaped nature walk to an observation pier.
BCB Homes has completed multiple renovation jobs throughout Boca Grande, and is on schedule to begin building new construction homes later this year.
BCB Homes’ Boca Grande office is located at 411 Park Ave., Suite 2.
For additional information call (941) 964-1704 or visit bcbhomes.com.
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Cloud video conferencing company Zoom announced a series of new products and features, as well as key partnerships and integrations with Dropbox and Atlassian. It's also been revealed that both Dropbox and Atlassian have made strategic financial investments in Zoom as part of the integrations.
Key releases include the launch of Zoom Voice, a new cloud-based phone system that Zoom hopes will increase its competitive edge among enterprises in the cloud communications industry.
The platform integrates both inbound and outbound calling through the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and supports a range of traditional telephony features like desk phones, voicemail, fax machines, and overhead paging systems. For enterprises, the pitch is that Zoom Voice can replace existing PBX systems and consolidate business communication and collaboration requirements into one service.
Zoom also released the Zoom App Marketplace and new features within Zoom Rooms, its software-based conference room product.
The Dropbox and Atlassian partnerships are part of a move to bolster the range of applications that are supported by and integrated into the Zoom platform.
In the Dropbox partnership, the companies are aiming to make it easier for users and teams to collaborate remotely, and both companies are said to be building differentiated product experiences on each others' surfaces. More specifically, within Dropbox, users have the option to initiate or join a Zoom Meeting while viewing and working on shared content. Meanwhile, during a Zoom Meeting, users will be able to share content such as documents, slides, and images from Dropbox and display them on-screen.
As for Atlassian, the first phase of a new partnership involves the development of integrated workflows between the two services, primarily with Jira Software and Jira Service Desk. These integrated workflows will be available by the end of 2018. Going forward, Zoom and Atlassian will also be building integrations in the broader Atlassian suite, including Trello and Confluence.
Currently, Zoom has more than a million businesses on its platform and claims to host more than 42 billion annualized meeting minutes. Its video conferencing competitors include tech titans like Microsoft, Cisco, and Google, while plenty of other hungry competitors are vying for attention in the collaboration space.
Zoom says it saw 100 percent year-over-year revenue growth from Spring 2017 to Spring 2018, with its user base growing 135 percent during that same time.
Investors have gotten two hints recently that the industry, which has enjoyed strong growth in occupancy and average daily rates the past two years, may be cooling.
Ratings agency Fitch released a rather damning report on the industry this week, citing weak U.S. economic conditions and rising capacity, which could depress average daily rates for hotel operators such as Marriott (MAR - Get Report) and Hyatt (H - Get Report) starting in 2017.
"The U.S. lodging industry is in the twilight of the current epicycle -- lodging fundamentals are softening and revenue per available room (RevPAR) growth is decelerating, with 2016 likely to come in at (or possibly below) the low end of our 4% to 5% estimate," said Fitch, adding, "Supply is growing, but is restrained by available capital."
Unsurprisingly, one hotel executive tossed cold water on the assessment of the market.
"There is no question that the cycle has peaked for us in the hotel industry, but the reality is that peak doesn't mean things are going to decline rapidly -- we think we are going to have solid years through 2018," said Choice Hotels International (CHH - Get Report) President and CEO Stephen Joyce in an interview with TheStreet.
Joyce added, "We haven't had the rapid supply growth that has dictated the end of other cycles."
Meantime, the other hint of an industry slowdown has come in the form of a mixed first quarter earnings season for the hotel space headlined by moderating RevPar growth vs. 2015.
At Starwood (HOT , which is in the process of being acquired by Marriott after a contentious courtship, RevPar in North America in the first quarter increased 2% after rising 5.4% in 2015. Hyatt saw its first quarter RevPar in the U.S. increase 1.7%, slowing than a 6.5% gain for all of 2015.
For its part, Choice Hotels reported that domestic RevPar in the first quarter rose 1.2%, below its guidance for a 2% increase. In 2015, Choice Hotel's domestic RevPar increase an impressive 6.5%.
Occupancy fell 0.7% in the first quarter. Earnings came in at 35 cents a share, falling short of Wall Street expectations for 38 cents a share.
Joyce said he is bullish on the company's prospects for the balance of the year, citing solid levels of employment, consumer confidence and housing starts.
TheStreet's Brian Sozzi reports from New York City.
If both sides embrace the fragile cease-fire with leaps of imagination and faith, Israelis and Palestinians could chart an escape route from the inferno.
Now that there is a cease-fire in Gaza, questions are emerging about what Israel has achieved. Of course, the lopsided casualty figures and Israel’s military dominance certainly make it the battlefield winner. But such a “mission accomplished” assessment is as misleading in occupied Palestine as it was in Iraq. Although Hamas could not come close to matching Israel’s armed might, it may have won a major battle for Palestinian hearts and minds. Reports from the West Bank, Gaza and the Palestinian diaspora suggest widespread anger at the Palestinian Authority for its passivity and a rise in support for Hamas, even among secular Palestinians, in appreciation of its determined resistance to the brutality of the Israeli occupation and military operations. If Hamas becomes the dominant political force in all of occupied Palestine when the next elections are held, Israel will be the loser.
The scorecard is also complicated on the diplomatic front. Perhaps Israel’s military display will have some inhibiting effects on its opponents, but the extreme one-sidedness of the struggle evoked widespread protests and some negative diplomatic repercussions. Qatar and Mauritania, among the few states in the region that had accepted Israel, broke relations, and the European Union has suspended moves to improve Israel’s status as a trading partner. The Turkish prime minister even suggested expelling Israel from the United Nations.
In this inflamed atmosphere, it is no wonder that respected international voices, ranging from the UN’s high commissioner for human rights to the president of the General Assembly, are for the first time calling for a war crimes investigation. The Malaysian Parliament has unanimously called on the UN to establish a special war crimes tribunal. Even before Israel’s December 27 attack, its prolonged blockade of Gaza had brought about a grave humanitarian crisis. The blockade is a form of collective punishment, and as such it is a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. On top of that, Israel’s military assault inflicted massive loss of civilian life and severe damage to civilian infrastructure, including many public buildings not connected to Hamas’s military. Even if Israel’s claims of defensive response are accepted at face value, this is excessive use of force. There are also widespread reports that Israel has used legally dubious weapons like white phosphorus, dense inert metal explosives and depleted uranium. And finally, through its rigid control of exits, Israel has denied the people even the right to flee the fighting, a violation of humanitarian law that lends credibility to the claim that Israeli occupation policy essentially imprisons Gazans.
Winning militarily but losing politically should not surprise students of modern warfare. After all, the United States won every battle in Vietnam and yet eventually lost the war. The same was true for the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, and indeed it was the general pattern in decolonization struggles. In such wars the militarily dominant side not only loses the war but generates a deep crisis at home and experiences a tarnished international reputation. What these counterinsurgency or neocolonial wars have in common is that “the enemy” is merged with civilian society; the fighting abandons the restraints of international humanitarian law; and by killing helpless civilians, the occupying or colonial power is perceived as committing war crimes. This has been the case in Gaza, with worldwide outrage inflicting on Israel a major defeat in the battle for public legitimacy, which in the end is often decisive in shaping the outcome of major conflicts.
Neither the United States nor Israel has discovered the limits of military power in the contemporary world. The leaders of both countries seem unable to learn the lesson of recent history: that occupation in the postcolonial world rarely produces the desired results at an acceptable cost. It is from this perspective, despite a horrific price in lives and suffering, that the Palestinians may be slowly winning the “second war,” the legitimacy war, whose battlefield has become global. Perhaps the most impressive victory in a legitimacy war was won by South Africa’s antiapartheid movement. If the Gaza conflict brings the Palestinian struggle for self-determination to the top of the global justice agenda, it will be a major victory for Hamas. Of course, Hamas is not the African National Congress, and Israel is not South Africa. The Palestinians lack the sort of inspired leadership that Nelson Mandela and other ANC figures provided.
Military campaigns usually have a clear beginning and end, as well as a visible battlefield. In contrast, legitimacy wars have no clear boundaries and involve subtle shifts of public opinion that can alter the overall political climate in decisive ways. I believe the Gaza conflict, especially against the background of Israel’s prior siege and its 2006 Lebanon misadventure, is approaching that tipping point. Despite the frightful punishment inflicted on Gaza’s people, despite the bitterly divided Palestinian leadership, despite the cruelties of more than four decades of occupation, the Palestinians are poised to achieve victory.
The fragile cease-fire poses new challenges and opportunities. There are hopeful scenarios, but they depend on leaps of imagination that have been lacking on both sides. Hamas could confirm its willingness to behave as a political actor and stop firing rockets at civilians. Israel could recover in the legitimacy war by dealing directly with Hamas and taking its offer of a long-term cease-fire seriously. Israel could also show a willingness to engage in peace talks based on the 2002 Arab League Peace Initiative. Even at this late stage of the conflict, such alternatives offer both Israelis and Palestinians a promising, if perilous, escape route from the inferno.
Richard FalkRichard Falk, professor emeritus of international law and practice at Princeton University, is the former United Nations Human Rights Rapporteur in the Occupied Territories and a member of the Nation editorial board. He is the author of many books, including Chaos and Counterrevolution: After the Arab Spring.
It’s the prototype for Google’s next self-driving car. It’s also the fastest-growing segment of the record-setting U.S. auto market.
Last year, the American auto industry sold a record-setting 17.5 million vehicles. This year, the industry is on pace to break its own record.
The auto comeback of the last few years has been driven by what the industry calls “light-weight trucks,” or what normal people call “SUVs, minivans, and other vehicles that are neither midsize cars nor 18-wheeler trucks.” This is the story of the century, really. Since 2000, cars and “trucks” moved in perfectly opposite directions: Domestic and foreign car sales are down 14 percent, while light-weight truck sales are up 15 percent.
Yes. Minivans! The soccer-mom icon of the 1990s had a rough start to the 21st century. Sales fell by two-thirds in the first decade, from 1.2 million in 2000 to just over 400,000 in 2009. In the last five years, minivans recovered slightly, but mostly they bounced up and down around the half-million mark, like a Honda Odyssey rolling over a series of speed bumps.
But perhaps minivans are poised for a mini-comeback. They led all vehicles in sales growth in the month of March, as well for the first three months of 2016. More than 143,000 minivans have sold so far this year, almost three-times the number of luxury SUVs. Toyota sold more of its Sienna model in America in 2015 than in any year since the recession. Meanwhile Honda's minivan, the Odyssey, is outselling its Pilot SUV, the Wall Street Journal reported.
And just yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Fiat-Chrysler, the largest manufacturer of minivans for the U.S., will partner with Google’s self-driving car division, the first such cooperation in the tech company's history. The product will be based on Chrysler’s Pacifica minivan. They will start building vehicles this year.
The Wall Street Journal predicts a steady but unremarkable future for minivans, but several trends suggest that a vehicle synonymous with suburban families has a lot of room to grow. Twentysomethings aren’t yet buying houses anywhere near the rate of older generations. But most of them probably will, eventually; the homeownership rate has been above 60 percent since the 1960s. American families aren’t having as many children as they were before the recession, but that will probably change, too. In 2014, the birth rate among women ages 15 to 44 grew for the first time in seven years. Meanwhile, Americans are living like it’s 2006 again, by enjoying cheap gas and moving out to the suburbs, where there is space to own a vehicle large enough to house several rows of seats and a television set.
The roominess of the modern minivan offers the perfect platform for the armada of tech features that designers want to smuggle inside the modern car. Today’s minivans don’t just offer the signature features of my elementary-school carpool, like sliding doors and single seats in the middle row. Today’s models come with built-in vacuum cleaners and entertainment systems to hypnotize children in the backseat. No wonder the modern minivan is the basis for Google’s first auto partnership: It’s not a car, so much as a roving living room with seat belts.
In the larger picture, minivans are still miles behind SUVs and crossovers, which now account for more than a third of all autos sold in the U.S. Instead, it’s best to think of them like the vinyl record of the auto industry: a category in long decline that's suddenly, and perhaps even inexplicably, enjoying rapid growth from a diminished base. But whereas vinyl’s comeback is rooted in nostalgia, the return of the minivan would be more utilitarian. If companies like Google are building autonomous vehicles in the bodies of minivans, the future of Millennial vehicular travel will look like it did in their childhoods: The doors will slide open, the middle chairs will swivel, and they won’t be the ones driving.
Gasoline and Compressed Air for Cleaning By J. E. N. IT is a common practice in automobile shops to lise gasoline and compressed air to clean the dirt from otherwise inaccessible parts of an automobile, the apparatus employed requires a specially made nozzle connected with a double line of hose. The apparatus illustrated in the accompanying engraving, which was made by a friend of the writer, accomplishes practically the same result in a simpler manner. It cansists of a galvanized tank E provided with a tube, soldered into it at the top, and another one at the bottom. These tubes are fitted with valves shown at C and H. The tubes are joined and are connected by means of a %·inch hose B of any suitable length, say twenty feet, to a nozzle A. The nozzle should be provided with a quarter·inch aperture and a flared outlet. A bicycle pump D is connected with the tank Gasoline and air tank for cleaning automobiles. at one side and a pressure gage G is secured to the top. In use, a gallon of gasoline is poured into the tank, as indicated at F, and then the pump is operated to produce a pressure of several pounds in the tank. The valves C and H may now be opened to such an extent as to permit a small quantity of gasoline and a comparatively large quantity of air to fow though the hose and the nozzle A may be dl· rected to spray the parts which need cleaning. A Single gallon of gasoline and a few strokes of the air pump have been found sufficient to clean thoroughly a single automobile. This type of apparatus cannot compete in efficiency with that used in automobile shops, but it is a practical device for a private garage.
Amazon Alexa is great. But what if she could do more?
A few decades ago, if someone would’ve told you devices like Amazon Echo and Google Home would become common household products, you probably wouldn’t have believed them. But, this is a different time, and these days, we expect a lot from our tech. As a virtual assistant, Alexa has come a long way in a relatively short period of time. In the few short years since she came on the market, she’s added new skills like calling and texting and a routines feature. However, Alexa is not yet a complete A.I. virtual assistant.
Although Alexa has a wide variety of skills, she can’t hold a real conversation.
The truth of the matter is, although Alexa has a wide variety of skills, she can’t hold a real conversation. She’s no good if you ask her questions that involve a slightly more advanced internet search. In the future, we’d like to see Alexa have a few key A.I. capabilities that will elevate her from a speaker to an independent assistant who relies less on basic human commands and more on her own intelligence and intuitive abilities.
Here are a few things Alexa can’t do yet, but if implemented would take her to the level of true A.I. assistant.
It may sound far-fetched for Alexa to become like Jarvis from Iron Man, but this may be closer than you think. Yahoo Finance reports that Al Lindsay, Amazon vice president of Alexa, is already considering the possibility that one day, users could be able to hold five, 10, or 20-minute conversations with Alexa.
“To truly realize that vision, you’ll want a number of things: you’ll want to have it everywhere, be able to talk to it from anywhere, be able for it to do all of the things you would want an intelligent assistant do for you, and ultimately do it in a very conversational way,” Lindsay said.
Along those same lines, it would be nice if Alexa had more advanced calculator functionality. Alexa does have tools that can solve problems like basic arithmetic equations, quadratic equations, and logarithms. However, some of these skills require the user to know the math well enough to be able to input the equations in a very specific way, and other skills will quiz the user on a certain type of math but will not allow the user to ask specific questions.
For instance, to use one of the Alexa quadratic equations solvers, the user would say something like “Alexa, tell quadratic equations to use the number 3 for a, the number 2 for b, and the number 4 for c.” This requires the user to understand how to find a, b, and, c. It also requires that the user knows when to apply the quadratic equation.
If the virtual assistant had the ability to perform complex calculations more seamlessly, a person could simply read a formula and ask Alexa to “solve” or “simplify and explain steps.” This way, the person would not require any prior knowledge. Just think of all those students asking for an Echo Dot for Christmas!
Alexa can translate simple words and phrases from English to other languages. For example, you can say “Alexa, ask translator how to say ‘how are you’ in Italian,” or “Alexa, open translator, how do you say ‘where is the bathroom’ in Spanish?” She can then provide you with a simple translation.
However, Alexa cannot speak what a person is saying in a different language as they are saying it as a traditional human translator could. You also can’t ask Alexa to translate long conversations from another language, like Mandarin to English.
If Alexa were to develop advanced translation skills, this would open up a wide variety of options for students, business professionals, and other users who use Alexa as a virtual assistant. We could all be chatting with people from other countries in no time.
Some day soon, maybe Alexa will go beyond simply executing voice commands and locking your front door for you. Maybe Alexa will be able to learn on her own — about you, your life, and your personal routines. Picture yourself coming home from work and Alexa being able to tell what kind of day you had and what mood you’re in the tone of your voice, just as a human could.
On second thought, maybe that’s getting a bit too creepy. But we can always dream.
For now, we’re just glad Alexa can turn off our lights before we leave for the day.
But so far it has succeeded in highlighting art as an instrument of division, with protesters gathering outside shows, patrons entering under the protection of police and one festival performer this week cancelling his concert in protest.
SLĀV has run into trouble because it is a show based on slave songs from the American South, conceived by a white director and singer and performed by a predominantly white cast.
The American singer Moses Sumney, who is black, announced on Twitter Monday night that he was pulling out of his festival concert, which had been scheduled for Tuesday night. Instead he chose to play two discounted shows at an off-festival Montreal venue.
Thnx so much to all for the support around the MTL show! I'm very surprised. & no love lost towards the festival; I hope this can be a learning experience for us all. I'm getting LOTS of press requests but am not doing interviews right now as I didn't do this for media attention.
in a letter to festival organizers announcing his cancellation, posted to his website Tuesday.
“The point you are missing is that there is no context in which white people performing black slave songs is okay. Especially not while they are dressed like poor field workers or cotton pickers. Especially not while they are directed by a white director and in a theater charging loads of money,” he wrote.
There had been rumblings of concern since the collaboration between theatre director Robert Lepage and singer Betty Bonifassi — both white — was announced last fall.
But it broke into the open at last week’s premiere, with protesters gathering outside the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde on Ste. Catherine St.
Bonifassi is the show’s star, backed by a six-member chorus, two of whom are black. At one point the chorus, wearing scarves in their hair and holding baskets, mime picking cotton. At another, Bonifassi plays the role of Harriet Tubman, the American abolitionist who was born into slavery.
In an open letter calling for the cancellation of the show, which had its run extended through July 14 after initial performances quickly sold out, local musicians, artists, academics and community organizers expressed “astonishment and disgust” at the use of slave songs.
The storm of protest appears to have caught the festival off guard. Media spokespeople did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday. In a statement last Wednesday, following the initial protests, the festival defended the production and said it felt lucky to have it as part of its program.
In a statement published on Facebook, Lepage and Bonifassi challenged the notion that their race disqualifies them from exploring the music of slaves.
Bonifassi has been performing slave songs for years, and in an interview with the Montreal Gazette, she said her work comes from “a big heart” and detailed research. “I don’t see colour; to me, it doesn’t exist, physically or in music,” she said.
This is not the first time a question of race has stirred controversy in the Quebec theatre world. In 2015, Montreal’s Théâtre du Rideau Vert was criticized for using a white actor in blackface to play the part of professional hockey player P.K. Subban in a year-end review.
The theatre’s artistic director, Denise Filiatrault, was unapologetic. “I did not know that people were so crazy and petty,” she said.
So far, there is no sign the jazz festival intends to bend either. But the show has been dark since June 29 after Bonifassi broke her ankle following a performance. According to the festival website, performances will resume Wednesday night.
A 93-year-old former guard at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz will go on trial in Germany in April on charges of being an accessory to the murder of at least 1,075 people, a German court announced on Friday.
The accused was a member of the Nazi SS guard team at Auschwitz in occupied Poland from November 1942 to June 1943, a court spokesman in the western city of Hanau near Frankfurt said, adding that the man had been deemed fit for trial.
Although the former guard is not accused of having been directly involved in any killings, the prosecution’s office holds that he was aware of the camp’s function as a facility for mass murder.
By joining its organizational structure, he consciously participated and even accelerated the deaths of hundreds of people, the prosecutors say.
Last year, 94-year-old Oskar Groening, known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz,” was sentenced to four years in prison after he was convicted of being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people in Auschwitz.
Three other cases involving death camp employees are pending trial in German courts.
In the northern city of Kiel, 92-year-old Helma M. is accused of being an accessory to the murder of 260,000 people in Auschwitz.
In her case, the defense maintains that the accused is unfit for trial. A final court ruling on this is expected in the coming weeks, a court spokesman said on Friday.
In the western town of Detmold, 94-year-old Reinhold H. is accused of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people in Auschwitz and has been deemed fit for trial. The former guard will go on trial on Feb. 11, a court spokeswoman said.
In the northeastern town of Neubrandenburg, a 95-year-old former paramedic at Auschwitz will go on trial on Feb. 29 after a court deemed him fit for trial in December. Hubert Z. is accused of being an accessory to the murder of 3,681 people.
This story "Auschwitz Guard Faces Trial in April for 1.075 Murders" was written by Reuters.
Fruit of the Loom is launching its new boxer briefs for men with the help of a guy who spends his days walking around New York's Times Square in his underwear strumming a guitar.
The Naked Cowboy — real name Robert Burck — will launch the new line with promotions on Tuesday. While he usually wears traditional white briefs, ten-gallon hat and cowboy boots (for tips), the marketing campaign will see him switch to Fruit of the Loom's new underwear, which have tapered legs to prevent them from riding up.
"His primary wardrobe is so important to his daily job, we thought why not showcase him in our new boxer briefs," said Melissa Burgess-Taylor, senior vice president for marketing and merchandising for Fruit of the Loom.
An accompanying billboard on the Nasdaq Tower in Times Square will read: "Even the Naked Cowboy has changed his underwear." The campaign makes sense as Burck is photographed by thousands of tourists daily in the square in the heart of midtown Manhattan.
The company wouldn't disclose what it is spending on the campaign. A separate TV campaign shows men and women performing jobs like orchestra conductor and baseball grounds crew performing in their underwear.
The NFL is full of large players, but these guys are exceptional even by that standard. Sometimes a team just needs a mountain of a person to help block or knock down the other team.
As of May 24, 2013, these were six of the NFL’s biggest players.