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Built in 2007, the almost 20,000-square-foot estate in Southlake's Cliffs at Clariden Ranch resembles a medieval European castle with almost a dozen turrets and a garage built to hold 15 collector cars.
Concierge Auctions, which is selling the grand house, says the property has a "storybook façade" and handcrafted finishes.
"Designed for entertaining, the expansive formal dining room is the perfect setting for four-course dinners or holiday feasts."
Previously offered for sale at $3.5 million, the 1.5-acre spread will be auctioned with minimum price of $2.5 million.
The estate has a garage that can house more than a dozen collector cars.
The swimming pool at the Southlake estate.
The Southlake estate was last offered for sale at $3.5 million.
Diane Gallichio of RE/MAX Pinnacle Group Realtors is coordinating the sale with Concierge Auctions, which starts the bidding on April 23.
The house has eight bedrooms, eight baths and four half baths. There's a movie theater and a game room, and the swimming pool has a rock waterfall.
The one-of-a-kind house is owned by Arvel Hathcock, founder of Alt-N Technologies.
The Southlake estate is almost 20,000 square feet.
The Southlake estate has eight bedrooms.
The kitchen of the Southlake estate.
The bathroom of the Southlake estate.
On the night before Christmas, the Federal Communications Commission proposed rules that would let some full-power TV stations continue streaming a bare-bones analog signal for 30 days after the DTV transition. The "Analog Nightlight" program will allow those stations to keep their analog broadcast going "for the limited purpose of providing public safety and digital transition information," the FCC says. Meanwhile a key member of the House of Representatives is warning Congress that it may need to rush more money to the government's analog converter set top box program.
The analog nightlight rule means that couch potatoes who, as of February 17, still haven't figured out that their old analog sets can't receive digital broadcasts won't be left completely in the dark. After that day, all full-power stations must go digital. The nightlight system will permit eligible full-power license holders to continue to broadcast emergency news and information in analog using both English and Spanish. They can also transmit information about the transition and where to get help—at for roughly a month after DTV Day.
"At 12 noon on September 8, 2008, commercial television stations in Wilmington, North Carolina began to broadcast programming exclusively in a digital format. If you are viewing this message, this television set has not yet been upgraded to digital. To receive your television signals, upgrade to digital now with a converter box, a new TV set with a digital (ATSC) tuner or by subscribing to a pay service like cable or satellite. For more information call: 1-877-DTV-0908 or TTY: 1-866-644-0908 or visit www.DTVWilmington.com."
The FCC is now authorizing full-power broadcasters nationwide to take similar action. The move comes in response to an order from Congress, which voted in December to require the FCC to implement the nightlight program. But, due to interference concerns, the Commission has given the go-ahead to a limited number of license holders that operate in 136 of the nation's 210 Nielsen-defined Designated Market Areas.
The roster of eligible stations represents "a conservative list that the Commission was able to assemble in the limited timeframe contemplated by the legislation based on readily accessible information and valid engineering assumptions," the agency's Notice and Proposed Rulemaking says. Given the lateness of the hour, the NOPR offers the public a very brief time to comment on the rules before they are implemented: eight days after they're published in the Federal Register.
Meanwhile, the FCC and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) have responded to a list of questions about the DTV transition presented to them by Representative Edward Markey (D-MA). The chair of the House Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee says he's pleased that FCC Chair Martin and the NTIA's Meredith Baker have replied to his "status update" request, but still thinks that Congress may need to send the converter box program more money in a hurry.
"The expected surge in consumer demand for converter box coupons is occurring and the fact that NTIA now projects it will have to delay or possibly deny the issuance of converter box coupons to consumers without additional funding is of great concern," Markey warned in a press statement issued on Friday.
Congress gave the NTIA $1.34 billion to fund coupons worth $40 each for set top boxes that make analog TV sets digital ready. Markey asked Baker if she feared that the program may soon hit a funding ceiling that will prohibit the agency from responding to further consumer requests for coupons. Baker responded that the NTIA expects to "obligate" (one presumes this means "spend") that $1.34 bill by early January, then deal with outstanding requests as coupons are unredeemed. "NTIA realizes that this would likely result in consumer confusion and dissatisfaction with the Program," Baker confided in the response.
Martin's statement agrees that the "total funding required to meet consumer demand for coupon redemptions may prove to be insufficient."
The FCC's document also outlines the call center system that the government and private sector are setting up to help consumers who need help troubleshooting their TV reception after February 17. Martin says that the FCC will spend $10 million for its call center and various outsourced operations. The in-house center will be able to handle 12,000 calls a day using a staff of 2,300 call handlers. The outside operations should be able to field about 350,000 calls a day from February 15 through February 21, Martin estimates.
The National Association of Broadcasters also plans to establish a toll-free national hotline. And the National Cable Television Association promises to run a center staffed by as many as 5,000 operators. The NAB estimates that these centers could get hit by about two million calls from consumers in the first five days after February 17.
Titus channels Queen Bey when he thinks Mikey is cheating on him.
In Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 3 episode 2, Titus Andromedon (Tituss Burgess) dons a familiar yellow dress and swings a bat joyfully at his side. Instead of Beyoncé's "Hold Up," we hear the opening notes of "Summer Nights" from Grease, and Titus swings his bat ("Mayonnaise"), launching into a glorious Lemonade tribute.
The episode and lyrics were written by Tina Fey, with music from Jeff Richmond (Fey's longtime musical collaborator, SNL colleague, and husband), who spoke to Mashable about how a famously quirky Netflix show pulled off the most successful Lemonade spoof to date.
Around a year ago, Richmond experienced something that was simultaneously happening in most workplaces around the country.
"I remember walking by Tina’s office, and five or six writers were around her desk and they were just watching Lemonade...and they were enthralled," Richmond recalls in a phone interview with Mashable.
What's worst, being heartbroke or roach bit, heartbroke or roach bit?
I'd rather be roach bit!
The idea took root with Fey, who wrote Titus-ified lyrics for "Hold Up," "Sorry," and "All Night Long" to match the cadence of Beyoncé's original tracks. Richmond and his team imagined that the spurned Titus would draw from his own library of musical samples for a cathartic musical journey. That's where Grease came in, which Richmond built around to create a track that's evocative of Lemonade without copying it.
"I can't tell you how many times we've had to step into this thing of — is it parody, or is it homage, is it trying to do something completely different and it just sounds like the original thing?" Richmond explained. "There's such a gray area legally."
How we normals look while Lemonading.
"I live for Beyoncé," Burgess told Mashable via email. "She is my queen and Lemonade is a royal decree. I was watching it for inspiration before I ever knew I was going to be doing this homage."
"We did it with such love toward her and what she achieved with that album," Richmond added when asked what an ideal reaction from Beyoncé would be. "I hope that they see the sense of humor in it as much as we see the musical genius in what she achieved with the original, that she sees it as fun and funny and gets it on that level, because thats truly how we meant it. It’s just such a wonderful, fun thing to be able to kind of get close to. And you can only get close to it, cause it’s like fire. It’s so hot — you don’t want to get burned, but you want to get close to the fire."
What will you say at my funeral now that you've killed me?
And like Beyoncé, Burgess made "Lemonading" look like a whole lot of fun.
'Lemonading' brings about a special kind of joy," Burgess explained. "I especially loved smashing a window with the bat. I'm considering building a shed in my backyard just to smash things.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 3 is now streaming on Netflix.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted that its military was behind a missile attack near Damascus late on Friday.
Israel has struck Iranian, Hezbollah and Syrian targets in the neighbouring state on dozens of occasions, although Tel Aviv rarely admits openly to carryout out specific attacks.
"Only in the last 36 hours did the air force strike targets in Syria and we have proven that we will not stop the settlement of Iran in Syria," Mr Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting on Sunday.
Syrian state media said the military's air defences shot down Israeli missiles.
A Syrian war monitor based in Britain said that two areas were targeted that were hosting forces attributed to Iran and Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah.
"We have operated with impressive success in thwarting Iran from establishing a military foothold in Syria, in the framework of which the military has struck hundreds of times against Iranian and Hezbollah targets," Mr Netanyahu said.
Israel has until now generally refrained from commenting about the strikes for fear of triggering a reaction and being drawn into the deadly fighting in neighbouring Syria's civil war.
Last September, Israeli Intelligence Minister Israel Katz used a speech to give a rare insight into the country’s Syria campaign. He said the military had carried out over 200 strikes in Syria over the preceding year and a half. It has been clear about preventing the build-up of Iranian proxy forces near the Israeli occupied Golan Heights and the transfer of sophisticated missiles and equipment to the Tehran-backed Hezbollah.
Many of them have been in the area south of Damascus. Israel rarely comments on its operations so Mr Netanyahu's admission is rare.
Only recently has it begun to speak publicly about thwarting the weapons shipments from Iran through Syria into Lebanon. Israel's outgoing military chief, Lt Gen Gadi Eisenkot, did so over the weekend in various interviews.
In a New York Times interview published Friday, Lt Gen Eisenkot – the man who is credited with marshalling Israel’s Syria campaign against Hezbollah and Iran – revealed the government approved his shift in strategy in January 2017 to step up airstrikes in Syria. In 2018 alone, he said Israel's air force dropped 2,000 bombs in Syria.
TOKYO, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Japan’s Mitsui Life Insurance plans to increase its foreign bond investments without currency hedging by about 140 billion yen ($1.2 billion) in the current financial half year to March 2019, a senior company official said on Thursday.
Hitoshi Maegawa, head of investment planning at Mitsui, added that the company planned to increase its investments in foreign and domestic corporate bonds, while trimming its holdings in Japanese government bonds (JGBs).
In the six months ended September, Mitsui Life increased its foreign bond holdings without currency hedging by around 140 billion yen, and expects to see a similar increase in the current half year, Maegawa said.
Such unhedged buying in foreign bond investment by a Japanese investor means net yen selling in the currency market, and thus, tends to help weaken the yen against other currencies.
Until last year, Mitsui mostly purchased the Australian dollar bonds, in order to have matching assets for Australian dollar-denominated products it sells in Japan.
However, in the recent months, buying in U.S. dollar bonds increased as U.S. dollar-denominated products gained more popularity among its customers after U.S. interest rates have risen, Maegawa said.
“In the last financial half year, about 80 percent of our buying was in the Aussie. But in recent months, the gap between our buying in the Aussie dollar and the U.S. dollar has narrowed considerably,” he said.
The company buys foreign bonds with currency hedging as alternative to low-yielding domestic bonds.
Mitsui plans to increase currency-hedged foreign bonds holdings by around 10 billion yen, mainly in credit products, by March, Maegawa added.
While the investor plans to keep its domestic bond holdings steady in the current half year, the company plans to trim holdings of JGBs and increase corporate bonds, he said.
Mitsui’s stance has not changed after the Bank of Japan decided in July to allow JGB yields to rise slightly more than before, partly in response to complaints from Japanese financial industries about low interest rates, Maegawa said.
“Although JGB yields rose slightly after the BOJ’s move, that has not had an impact big enough to change our stance,” Maegawa said, adding the insurer could buy JGBs if 20- and 30-year bonds yield reach around one percent.
The 30-year yield hit a 1-1/2-year high of 0.95 percent earlier this year, but has stepped back to 0.910 percent since then.
Hollyoaks actress Emma Rigby confirms that she is to bow out of the show in December.
Hollyoaks actress Emma Rigby has confirmed that she is to bow out of the show in December.
The 19-year-old, who plays Hannah Ashworth in the Channel 4 soap, originally announced her intention to quit in November last year, but new series producer Lucy Allan convinced her to stay on for an additional six months with the promise of big storylines and a juicy exit plot.
Speaking to DS at the British Soap Awards, she said: "I'm actually going to stay in the show until December, so I'm here until the end of the year."
Shocking: Wonder actor Owen Wilson refuses his own newborn daughter?
Few days back, a source told People that Varunie Vongsvirates, who welcomed daughter Lyla Aranya Wilson is Owen's.
Owen Wilson at the world premiere of 'Cars 3'.
A few days back, a source told People that Varunie Vongsvirates, who welcomed daughter Lyla Aranya Wilson on Tuesday, Oct. 9, weighing 6 lbs., 13 oz., and measured 21 inches, is actor Owen Wilson’s.
Now if things are to be believed then Wilson is not too happy with the results his on-and-off affair has given.
Surprisingly a source had previously told People that Wilson was ‘excited’ about the baby.
We now want to know what Owen himself has to say on this matter which has become big news all around.
This is it! I’ve got my mail-in ballot (which I will hand-deliver) and my black ballpoint pen, and here goes.
Sixteen candidates for president, including Roseanne Barr. Tempting as that may be, I vote for Barack Obama. We have an intelligent, compassionate president, and I want to keep it that way. Above all, I don’t want Mitt Romney stacking the Supreme Court for my lifetime.
For state representative, Sal Pace, the good guy running against the uber-tea partier.
I hope all the tea partiers get eradicated from Congress so we can stop the gridlock.
The only candidate for University of Colorado regent I know is Jessica Garrow, who has worked hard and deserves to win.
For state representative, I voted for Kathleen Curry (see past columns).
The district attorney question was the hardest one for me, and I didn’t have much to go on except letters to the editor and Squirm Night. I heard from several people in Beeson’s office who said he ran a good ship, but my overall impression was that Beeson has been too zealous in filing criminal charges during his term of office.
Squirm Night didn’t exactly throw me into Sherry Caloia’s camp, but it did cast more doubts about Beeson. I especially was turned off by Beeson’s vehement stand against the marijuana-legalization question.
The district is so Republican that it is all probably moot, but I voted for Caloia.
For county commissioner, I voted for John Young. He will be strong on the board, and that’s what we need, with the oil companies, as he predicted, already knocking at the door of Thompson Divide.
I don’t, thank goodness, know any of the judges, so I left those blank.
If you have a mail-in ballot, now turn it over! There’s more on the other side.
I voted “yes” for all three amendments (see past columns). Amendment 64 is the marijuana-legalization question.
I voted “no” for the school tax for a very simple reason: It’s a sales tax imposed only on Aspen. The school district includes all of Pitkin County and the town of Snowmass, but the county said “no way,” and Snowmass said its sales taxes (which it had approved over the years) were already too high. So swing in the wind, Aspen – it’s up to you. Or not.
I voted “yes” for the hydroelectric plant (see previous column). The more we can do to become self-sustaining, the better, and if we lose water rights, we will really be up the creeks.
I voted “yes” for the renewal of the contract with Source Gas. This is not a stealth question.
Finally, alas, the library. I love the facility, and I love the staff, but I don’t love the new plaza design and think the board should have made a greater effort to come up with something more acceptable after it heard the public outcry. A sad “no-no” from me.
If Braun's ET66 calculator looks oddly familiar, like you've used it before, you probably have. Originally released in 1987, the ET66 shed the sliding switches of its predecessors, the ET22 released in 1976 and the ET44 released in 1978, and became an icon of product design. So much so that the iPhone's original calculator app was basically a rip-off of the ET66's design. As Steve Jobs liked to say: good artists copy, great artists steal.
The Ministry of Natural Resources (Fort Frances District) is reminding area residents that a flood warning remains in effect for the Atikokan, Fort Frances, and Rainy River areas.
Recent rainfall has resulted in very high inflow conditions throughout all watersheds within the district, including the Seine River, Atikokan River, Rainy Lake, and Lake of the Woods.
However, information from the International Joint Commission indicates that based on the current precipitation forecast, the level of Rainy Lake is expected to decline by 10-15 cm (four-six inches) over the next week.
The MNR is closely monitoring the weather and watershed as conditions develop.
To date, the MNR has committed personnel and resources (including more than 140,000 sandbags) to unincorporated areas, municipalities, and First Nations’ communities.
on all forest access roads due to the potential for water on roads, washouts, and heavy rutting.