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The East Hants Senior Men's Mastodons are eager to host the upcoming Canadian Sr. Men's Softball Fast Pitch Championships in St. Croix.
"Our group this year is thrilled to not only be the host team for the national tournament but the defending champions as well," said Darcy Campbell, the Mastodons' manager.
"This is only the third time the tournament has been played in Nova Scotia at the senior level and to be part of it as the current champions is truly a rare and exciting opportunity," he said in a press release.
In 2015, the Mastodons went to nationals in St-Claire, Quebec and lost 4-3 in the gold medal game to Newfoundland. In 2016, they captured bronze after losing to Newfoundland for a second time. But in 2017, their luck changed and they defeated Newfoundland 6-5 to capture to gold while playing in Saskatoon.
They're hopeful for another positive showing this year.
"Ultimately our goal is to be playing in the championship game on Sept. 2, but there are nine other extremely talented teams coming here with that the same goal in mind," said Campbell.
"For us to get to the gold medal game on Sunday we need look at the first game and come ready to play. One game at a time, one day at a time is about as far as anyone can look ahead at this level."
The Mastodons rejoined the Senior Men's baseball circuit in 2013 after being on hiatus for more than 13 years.
The driving force behind the team since 2013 has been head coach Chris Hopewell.
Hopewell, an accomplished ball player himself at the senior level, turned his focus to coaching, with the goal of developing world class ball players and ultimately bringing a national championship to East Hants and Nova Scotia.
Hopewell has recently received coaching awards from Softball Canada, Softball Nova Scotia and the East Hants Sports Heritage Society.
In 2014, Hopewell recruited Campbell, of Elmsdale, to take on the role of manager.
Mike Wood (of Stewiacke) joined the Mastodons in 2016 as an assistant coach. Wood is also currently the head coach of the U23 East Hants Mastodons team, who are fresh off a fourth place finish at the Jr. Nationals in Quebec.
The core of the team has largely been made up of the same group that came on board in 2013:
Team Canada pitcher Justin Schofield (Wolfville), third baseman Aaron Harvey (Hardwood Lands), second baseman Jay Duffy (Stewiacke), outfielder Joel Isenor (Lantz), Team Canada catcher Jason Sanford (Pictou County), catcher Darcy Gillis (Lantz).
Added to the team over the last six years has been outfielder Jonah Wright (Sackville), first baseman Patrick Stewart (Brookfield), pitcher and first baseman Donnelly Archibald (Antigonish), pitcher Travis Nevin (Indian Brook), infielder Jacob Hopewell (Lantz), pitcher Alex Anthony (Shubenacadie), outfielder Coby Crowell (Brookfield), catcher and infielder Tyler Williams (Lantz) and outfielder Myles Coldwell (Gays River).
The Mastodons will also have two import players on their roster this year. Back for a third year will be Australian Nick Shailes, who is currently living in Ontario. Shailes is a national team member for Australia. Also joining them for the first time will be Team Canada centerfielder Mark Johnson, who hails from Ontario.
"The organization committee has done a wonderful job getting the facility in St. Croix ready," said Campbell. "The work that has been done to the fields and buildings is outstanding. Its going to be a fun week and I know that there will be lots of exciting ball games."
If you go
Are you interested in watching some top quality baseball? The following is the schedule for the Canadian Sr. Men's Softball Fast Pitch Championships. The tournament, which is being held at the St. Croix Recreation Centre, starts Aug. 29 and wraps up on Sept. 2.
Wednesday, Aug. 29
9 a.m. — Alberta vs Saskatchewan 1
10 a.m. — Newfoundland vs PEI
11 a.m. — East Hants vs British Columbia
12 p.m. — Nova Scotia (Guysborough) vs Ontario 1
1 p.m. — Ontario 2 vs Saskatchewan 2
2 p.m. — Alberta vs PEI
3:30 p.m. — Newfoundland vs Saskatchewan 1
6:30 p.m. — Ontario 2 vs East Hants
8:30 p.m. — Nova Scotia (Guysborough) vs BC
8:30 p.m. — Ontario 1 vs Saskatchewan 2
Thursday, Aug. 30
8:30 a.m. — Ontario 2 and PEI
9:30 a.m. — Alberta and Newfoundland
10:30 a.m. —Nova Scotia (Guysborough) vs Saskatchewan
11 a.m. — Ontario 1 and British Columbia
12:30 p.m. — East Hants vs Saskatchewan 2
1 p.m. — Ontario 2 vs Newfoundland
5 p.m. — Nova Scotia (Guysborough) vs Saskatchewan 2
7 p.m. — Ontario 1 vs PEI
9 p.m. — East Hants vs Saskatchewan 1
Friday, Aug, 31
10 a.m. — Ontario 2 vs BC
10:30 a.m. — Nova Scotia (Guysborough) vs Alberta
12 p.m. —Newfoundland vs Saskatchewan 2
12:30 p.m. —Ontario 1 vs East Hants
2 p.m. —Nova Scotia (Guysborough) vs PEI
5 p.m. — Ontario 1 vs Nova Scotia (Guysborough)
6:30 p.m. — Alberta vs Saskatchewan 2
7 p.m. — Newfoundland vs B.C.
8:30 p.m. — Ontario and Saskatchewan 1
9:00 p.m. — East Hants vs PEI
Note: Two diamonds are in play at all times. Playoffs start on Sept. 1.


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Source: Oralandar Brand-Willams / The Detroit News
Detroit — A Dearborn Heights man was charged Friday with second-degree murder, manslaughter and possession of a firearm in a felony in the shooting death of 19-year-old Detroiter Renisha McBride.
Homeowner Theodore Wafer, 54, faces arraignment Friday afternoon in the charges, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced.
McBride was fatally shot in the face early Nov. 2 by Wafer,whose lawyer said was "justified" in firing at McBride. About two and a half hours earlier before the shooting at the home in the 16800 block of Outer Drive, McBride crashed into a parked car a mile away on Brammell and Warren in Detroit.
Worthy said Friday that the evidence shows Wafer did not act in self defense.
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The band emerged at 1975, finding instinctively its path to play instinctive primeval music eliberating the elementary powers of nature creating ourselves and revolting to its high completion in a free spontaneity and overwhelming energy. The VHK discovered a new method of playing music, which is not a simple improvisation but a completely free creation of music born on stage, liberating the deepest musical creative power, as well as playing more or less prewritten materials. This music is called as shamanistic/psychedelic hardcore but is in reality an unrestricted outburst of life energy. This is not only a music, but an attitude to grasp the essence of life with our deepest nature and grow it by its own law. The group says it is a magical natural music, a cosmic vision about the origin of presence. It develops in a sovereign way as a selfrevelation with its elementary power. The VHK is a distinguished cultic band in Hungary as well as in Germany. The first eight concerts were interrupted by the authorities in an afraid from the consequences. The band were banished for eleven years, nevertheless even at that time it continuously found spontaneous occasions to act by chance pushed by the audience of an other group, or simply playing by pseudonyms, as guest musicians of friend bands and without declaring themselves as a band at their the concert. Meantime they won the festival of the experimental film studio in 1981. The video of this event was presented many times in the West German TV. Gábor Bódy, the internationally famous and youngly died film-director made his film "Dog's Night Song" with them, including the lead howler Attila Grandpierre in one of the featuring roles. VHK plays from 1984 regularly in the West. In 1986, when Amsterdam was the "cultural capital of Europe", the Dutch Queen, Beatrix personally intervened at the Hungarian authorities in order to allow the guest performance of the band. A similar event happened in 1987 when Fred Sinowatz, the Austrian chancellor had to interact with the Hungarian Ministry of Culture. They played in the "Mythen, Monstren and Mutationen" festival in Berlin, Tempodrom, 1988, together with La Fura dels Baus, where VHK was the best surprise (Zitty Berlin, 1988). Einstürzende Neubauten, Henry Rollins, Jello Biafra and Iggy Pop regarded VHK as one of the most important bands. VHK hosted Rollins Band in Hungary where they were shocked on the overwhelming effect of VHK on the audience. Rollins Band invited VHK for a tour in England which occured in 1989. In 1992, our CD "Hammering on the Gates of Nothingness" reached the 2nd position on the Top-100 list of the year of a Belgian Radio. Dietmar Lupfer, the first manager of the band, and later on the famous American cult label Alternative Tentacles released our records "Teach Death a Lesson" (1988), "Jump Out the World-Instinct"(1990), "Hammering on the Gates of Nothingness" (1992). The London chief of Alternative Tentacles Bill Gilliam described the music of VHK as "primal God-feeling". Many American managers suggested VHK to play in USA, telling that "every American band wants to play such a music what you, do but they cannot." The VHK released the live-album "Giant Space!"(1994). Dietmar took the band to the New Music Seminar in 1990, New York. The New York Times wrote "the Coroner's music is basic and elemental and filled with obsessive, galvanizing passion." Melody Maker wrote on their show at the Pop Komm!, the large international festival of Germany, where they get the greatest power on the audience. VHK played in the Steirischer Herbst '95, completed with the fellows of Les Tambours du Bronx, 27 people on the same stage. VHK attracted 40000 people in 1996 in the Diáksziget (Student's Island) festival, one of the biggest festivals of Europe, and reached an extraordinary effect on the crowd. Iggy Pop declared them as the most interesting band today (1996). Our recent CD's "The Re-conquest of the Eden - 1st attack, and 2nd attack" (1997, 1998) is of a band radically improved, with a new guitarist and bassist, and invited musicians playing on contrabass, violin, flute, hurdy-gurdy and cymbal. We used basically two sounds: one with the greatest energy for the electric songs and one which they developed themselves which is an unusually natural and vital dreamspace for the acoustic songs. We second part of the album is recorded in a large hall to record in a live atmosphere in May, 1998. THE "Reconquering Eden - 2nd attack" is released at August 5, 1998. Both of these CDs reached the Top-40 of the Hungarian best-selling records and stayed there for 3 months. People are usually very much intensified and surprised when seeing as alive on stage nowadays, too.
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I love the bright, vibrant flavor of fresh citrus; a true spirit lifter when the doldrums of winter creep in. Wanting to maximize the season, I put up several recipes this year including a double batch of this favorite from last year's citrus season. But the end is coming near and this is so bitter-sweet, just like taste of this delicious multifruit marmalade.
Super Citrus Marmalade – yields 5 half-pint jars
4 lbs assorted citrus fruit: I selected 2 lemons, 1 pink grapefruit, 2 tangelos, and 3 blood oranges.
6 cups granulated sugar
Wash the fruit in warm, soapy water and pat dry. Remove the zest from the fruit with a serrated-edge peeler. Be careful to not remove too much pith or your marm will end up bitter.
Stack the zest peels and chop into small pieces; in a large pot combine zest and 2 qts of water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-high, and simmer for 25-30 minutes.
Supreme fruit by cutting away the pith, and then segment to remove from membranes. Be sure to do this over a large bowl so you can collect the juice. Remove seeds and set aside.
Bundle seeds in cheesecloth and securely tie the ends so they cannot escape. Drain zest in a fine-mesh sieve and reserve the cooking liquid. Combine zest, segmented citrus and juice, 4 cups of the cooking liquid, sugar, and bundled seeds. Bring to a hard boil and cook until the mixture reaches 220°F, approximately 35-40 minutes. Be sure to stir regularly to prevent contents from scorching.
Once the marmalade has reached your desired set, turn off the heat and remove the cheesecloth bundle. Ladle into hot, sterilized pint jars, wipe rims, and adjust two-piece lids. Process in a boiling-water bath for 10 minutes.
Remove jars from canner and allow to cool on a wire rack, undisturbed, for 12-24 hours so seals may properly set.
Images and content copyright © 2013 Danielle R Limoge. Recipe adapted from Food in Jars by Marisa McClellan.


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It's hard to believe it's already December.
This time of year is one I look forward to, but sometimes it feels a bit tainted by something very unChristmasy.
Christmas Expectations
Have you noticed it, too? The pressure that's built up in families and among friends or some coworkers—the unspoken or very spoken expectation that you'll purchase gifts for each other? Instead of a joyful celebration, it can feel like added stress that only escalates the closer we inch toward December 25th.
Sales, spending, price cuts, checking off the Christmas list…Is there more to Christmas than the almighty dollar? Depends on whom you ask or where you look. And many of us who want to be conscious of not spending too much or not getting too focused on the trappings of the holiday, honestly, sometimes we just fall right into the very frantic consumeristic mindset we hoped to avoid.
Sometimes I just wish that part of Christmas would die.
There's more to Christmas than exchanging gifts. We can let consumerism crack our perception of what the holidays should be, or we can appreciate it for the original intent.
Are you more concerned about the gifts under the tree rather than the people around the room? Don't feel compelled to buy a lot from the tradition or the family pressure.
Just because the Christmas season is here doesn't mean we need to exchange consumerism for conscientious faith.
Both the possessions we want to have and the acceptance we get through gift giving can become cravings that push us further away from God's best for us.
Giving and Spending
Giving is a really, really good thing—especially when we put our hearts into the gift because we sincerely care about the other person. I just don't want to forget that my frenzied giving can get in the way of the peace that Christmas is all about.
Spending to satisfy our felt need to contribute is just as misguided as trying to buy to fulfill us. Giving and receiving are good, but complete fulfillment is only found in knowing Jesus. No amount of spending or receiving can do that.
Jesus sets us free from consumerism as well as stinginess.
Giving gifts is good, but receiving from God is where it all begins. If we really believe Jesus is the greatest gift we've ever received, we can step back and regain the perspective that things only mean so much outside of the context of a relationship.
Conquering consumerism is found in contentment.
In turn, contentment helps us slow down and focus more on people than possessions. We can give presents as tokens of our relationships, or we can give our presence and grow deeper in our relationships.
Let's simply sit around for a few minutes, enjoying the peace that comes from God with us, during the cold evenings and cozy indoors together, under the glow of dazzling strings of lights.
Life has always been about far more than things.


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More and more senior citizens in the United States encounter problems with their reversed mortgages due to the huge economic downturn. Among the major criticisms of reverse mortgages is that these senior citizens do not fully understand the terms and conditions associated with such loans and as consequence, end up with a larger sum of debt they didn't anticipate.
The United States financial sector have been trying to produce remedies and solutions to various problems with reverse mortgages, but the need for immediate cash seems to outnumber the efforts made to make the mortgagees understand the complexity of having reverse mortgages which results to influx of reverse mortgage applicants.
Before entering this lifetime mortgage, people first need to have a clear-cut understanding of what having reverse mortgage is all about starting from its definition, requirements and the major problems that come along with it.
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Before pinning down the problems with reverse mortgages, it is important to understand the basic definition which is a reverse mortgage is a form of equity release or lifetime mortgage. An equity release is a means of retaining use of one's house or other material possession which has capital value, while receiving a steady stream of income, based on the value of the house.
With normal mortgages, the homeowner pays a monthly amortized payment to the mortgagor. After each payment is done, the homeowner's equity on his/her property increases. Once the mortgage has been paid in full, the property is released from the mortgagor back to the homeowner's sole possession. However with reverse mortgages, the homeowner does not have to pay monthly amortized payments to the mortgagor and instead receives a sum of money each month, which then increases the debt on the property.Credit: http://activerain.com/blogsview/1449715/new-fha-loans-mortgagee-letter-explanations-about-credit-scores-make-your-voice-heard
In reverse mortgages, the amount to be borrowed is computed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) using a formula which considers age of borrower (the older, the better), current interest rate, and appraised value of the house. Therefore the more valuable the appraised value of the house is, the higher the loan amount will be, depending on lending limits. The homeowner will just receive the sum of money computed by the FHA monthly and does not have to pay any monthly dues except for taxes, insurance and maintenance.
The homeowner's obligation to pay back the loan will only be due if the homeowner dies or leaves, or if the house is sold. At such time, the homeowner's estate can choose to pay back the reverse mortgage or put the house up for sale to be able to repay. If the homeowner's estate was able to sell the house for an amount higher than the balance of the loan that needs to be paid back, the excess automatically will belong to the estate.Credit: http://privateloanmortgage.com/fha-mortgage-rates
However, if the house sold for an amount which is still not enough to pay off the balance of the reverse mortgage, the mortgagor/lender must take a loss and request reimbursement from the FHA. Unlike in conventional mortgages where other possessions can be affected due to inability to pay back the loan, there are no other assets that will be affected in unpaid reverse mortgages.
Eligibility for Reverse Mortgages
Now that there is a better understanding of how reverse mortgages work, it is important to pin down who and what are eligible to acquire such loans and from there, point out various problems that may arise with reverse mortgages.Credit: http://www.zazzle.com/62nd_birthday_gag_gift_magnet-147540235293852836
Most important factor in considering eligibility by the FHA is that the homeowner must at least be 62 years. But before the applicant is approved of a reverse mortgage, the FHA must make them undergo counseling sessions to provide guidance and deeper understanding of what they are about to enter. These homeowners must also freely own the property. Ongoing mortgage balance can be paid off completely with the income from the reverse mortgage loan.
In addition, unlike conventional mortgages, there are no income or credit score requirements for a reverse mortgage. It is important to note that since reverse mortgages are usually due at death of the homeowner, this setup is particularly favorable for elderly persons who do not intend or are not able to leave a large estate to their heirs when they die.
Almost all types of houses are eligible for reverse mortgage application however, due to the influx of mobile houses, the FHA has set the rule that the house must be on a permanent foundation/land that is owned as well by the homeowner. In recent times, certain condominium and townhouse structures have been eligible as well.
Knowing the process behind and eligibility can then help pinpoint arising problems with reverse mortgages to help people understand and weigh their choices much better.
Problems with Reverse Mortgages
One of the major problems with reverse mortgages is the up-front costs. In conventional mortgages, lenders make money through interests in time. However with reverse mortgages, the applicant is required to pay the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Mortgage Insurance that is usually amounts to 2% of the appraised value of the house on top of standard closing expenses such as points, prepaid interest, and legal fees. In addition to these, the homeowner needs to comply with FHA's requirements which are to pay for real estate taxes, conventional homeowners insurance and home repairs.
Being the only eligible applicants, senior citizens often blindly proceed with reverse mortgages without fully understanding its complexity and possible consequences. Senior citizens who are often too trusting tend to be taken advantage of by some lenders whose only goal is to separate the elderly from their money. And in some cases, such consequences of these actions leave the remaining family of the homeowner with a greater amount of debt.
Reverse Mortgages also clash with the matter of Medicaid. Senior citizens who have already applied for reverse mortgages may find it difficult to apply for Medicaid since loans are considered as personal assets. In addition, low-income senior citizens who depend on Medicaid are not allowed to receive more from their monthly reverse mortgage income than they're going to spend. Having excess amounts sitting in bank accounts makes them ineligible to qualify for need-based programs so it is very important to consult early on with a specialist regarding where the applicant stands.
All actions have corresponding consequences whether it's good or bad. At such delicate age, these elderly people should focus on investigating all their options beforehand, properly consulting with a specialist, and weigh all pros and cons with the entire family to avoid these various problems with reverse mortgages.
With the economy on a dangerously bad place right now, the United States housing and financial sector can only expect an influx of problems with reverse mortgages alongside the rise in number of loan applicants. The government must completely ensure proper guidance and help to the senior citizens providing them with the best possible deal with their best interests at heart.
Proper guidance and counseling, presentation of all possible options and weighing down possible consequences are among the necessary major steps in avoiding having unnecessary problems with reverse mortgages which are the last things these senior citizens need to deal with.


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Top Ten Tips Before Buying a Floor Rug
Scattermats Top 10 Tips Before Buying Floor Rugs!
Buying a floor rug? Before venturing out to purchase a new floor rug or carpet runner rug, consider the following basic facts and figures to make your shopping an easy and enjoyable experience.
Buying Area Floor Rugs or Hall Runners Online or From a Store?
Buying area floor rugs can be an overwhelming task with such a large selection and locations to choose from. I have suggested the following points to be the most helpful based on more than 30 years of experience in helping our customers. We also have helpful articles such as, Buying Tips for Rugs Online or In-store or How to Plan Before Buying Floor Rugs.
Determining the Size, Colour and Type Before You Buy Area Rugs
Once you have determined where you are going to place your floor rug (under pool table or dining table, next to couch or maybe an outdoor rug in the patio) consider the following:
1. What Size Area Rug to Buy? Will a Large Floor Rug Fit?
- To determine what size area rugs to buy, place a bed sheet in the chosen rug location and fold up to the desired size. This gives you a visual of how the floor rug will fit. Move the sheet around to find the best position, such as away from your lounge or against your lounge. (Tip: Leave your floor rug at least 40cm away from your couch to help minimise wear). Once you are happy with position, measure the smallest up to the largest size area rug you can accommodate, this gives you a size range to work with. Trying to use a sheet may not work for all situations, like for a hallway runner for example. In that case, use a measuring tape or bathroom mats or towels to find the best size and length needed.
2. Oriental Rugs or Modern Rugs?? Maybe Shaggy Rugs
- To determine if you need Oriental Rugs, modern rugs or shaggy rugs, decide what design or style rug would suit the area, such as wool rugs or sisal rugs. If your home and furniture are new and modern, then a modern or contemporary floor rug should be considered, but don't rule out a Persian area rug as these can also add great style and contrast to a modern home. Something else to consider is choosing a rug with no design. Something simple can often fit a room better than something with a nice design. Tip: as a general rule if your lounge and curtains have quite a busy pattern, go with a fairly simple design floor rug. Many shag area rugs are plain but not always practical so put some thought into it.
3. Red Carpet Rug or Brown Shag Rug! What Should I Buy? Hmm??
- Determining the colours of your area rug would be the next step. If your room has mainly neutral tones, then you really can choose almost anything. If the area has feature coloured walls, then I would suggest a floor rug with at least one similar tone to match. With a room not yet decorated, I would recommend finding a rug of your liking first, then select at least one of the hues in this floor rug as your feature colour to bring the room together. Remember, light coloured area rugs make a room feel larger, while dark deep colours like a Burgundy shag rug creates the impression of cosiness.
4. Modern Floor Rugs and Classical Design Rugs in the Same Area, What Suits?
- If your room is an open plan living space or you can see other carpet area rugs from that position, I would recommend that all the rugs be matching with the same design and colour. On the other hand, often having two different Persian design rugs but having a similar colour tone would also be fine. Having different pile types is another thing to be aware of. For example, placing a shag rug and a Persian rug in the same room can still work providing they have similar tones but may change the effect.
5. Area Rug Quality; What Suits and will it Perform Well?
- Do you have a cheap shag rug in a high walk through room and are worried if it will cope? To find the answer, first ask yourself the following; is the floor rug going to be situated in a high traffic position or quiet location? This question is quite important in determining the required pile type, density and fibre of any floor rugs being put into an area. Rug Pile density is what is used to determine the quality of any rug, be it modern, traditional or anything inbetween. For example; for high traffic areas, floor rugs with a short to medium pile height in a plush or twist with a medium to thick density of more than 500,000 points per square meter and above would be sufficient. TIP: Remember to rotate your carpet rugs regularly to help distribute the wear more evenly.
6. Cheap Rugs, or Quality Rugs for on Top of My Carpet? What Type of Rug for My Floor?
- The floor type on which the area rug is to be placed upon is another piece of the puzzle to consider. If it's a carpeted or hard floor surface then slippage may be a problem, however, if you use heavier/thicker and large area rugs then movement will be minimised. Remember cheap floor rugs are usually thin and light and will most likely move around on carpets and hard floors. An easy solution is to buy a rubber anti slip rug underlay and place it under the area floor rug when on hard floors. To stop rugs moving on carpet, you can buy a rug underlay non-slip rug pad and put it under your rug. If noise is a factor in your household, then the thicker and taller the pile of the floor rug the better the sound absorption. E.g. Shag pile rugs will absorb more noise than most other types of rugs like cotton rugs.
7. Is it an Easy to Clean Floor Rug or Hard to Clean Floor Rug?
- Another factor in choosing your carpet area rugs is how easy it will be for cleaning and maintenance. The type of fibres used in the construction of an area rug plays an important role in the cleaning methods applied. If the floor rug you are looking at buying is synthetic, then the one thing to look out for is whether it is heat-set. These are by far the easiest fibres for cleaning and vacuuming. The heat-set polyester followed by the heat-set polypropylene rugs are the best for cleaning spills, with others like the acrylic rugs being much less so. Wool or natural fibre rugs can vary depending on the quality of materials used.
Buy Rugs Online or Buy Rugs from a Rug Store?
8. Pre- Shopping Before Buying Area Rugs
- With the above factors taken into consideration, you now have a few choices. Firstly we recommend pre-shopping on an online rug store before buying area rugs, as this will save you time and money not having to drive around to different rug shops just to see if they have area rugs for sale that you like. On this note, I would suggest bearing in mind that some pictures of rugs and mats online are not always true to life, usually due to different colour settings on personal computers. You will also need to check if the online rug store is in Australia and located within driving distance (if you are going to buy your floor rug in-store), plus if the rug shop has a large range of floor rugs online. This gives you a good indication of what range is actually available from that rug store, all this can be very helpful before heading out to the Rug shop.
9. What to Check Before You Buy Rugs Online?
- Things to look out for before you buy rugs online are; is it an Australian owned and operated business (should be in the "about us" section) with a physical rug store location (not a fly by night business). The rug website should have a SSL security certificate or something similar (this is for insurance cover for online theft). Also check to make sure if you buy a rug online your credit card details are not stored in their rug website! If they mention free shipping Australia wide, check with them first about this as many only deliver to the major CBD areas and charge more for all other areas. Check that they have a valid email and phone contact details, and check their terms and conditions for warranties and other such information. Last but not least, make sure they provide a good detailed description about the rugs for sale on their online rug store (if there is only minimal information, they likely don't know much about what they are selling).
10. Where to Buy Area Rugs and What to Bring Along
- Once you have decided where to buy area rugs from, remember to bring along your measurements and any of the following items (of course it depends on where the area rug is to be placed); a cushion from your lounge, a tile or sample of the carpet or piece of vinyl or just a sample of colour you are trying to match (even a picture of said colour will help). Be sure to check prices in more than one rug store and check their returns policy, as well as be sure to ask the sales person about the qualities and whether the rug would perform well in the area chosen. Remember we are there to help you make a good informed decision.
I hope this was helpful in your quest to find the perfect living room rugs or children's rugs for that matter!
Author: "Neville Barnes"


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We are proud to have a diverse range of businesses enjoying Clevedon Chamber membership. See below the full list of members:
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Triangle Networks Ltd is a telecommunications and internet service provider. The company was founded in 2004, and has since developed brands including Noodlebox, Telecom and Hive WiFi.
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Kubiak are a brand and design led agency with a team of talented designers and thinkers producing intelligent and creative brand solutions. A full service agency with all of our services under one roof, we specialise in creative, digital and strategy with 25 years experience. We ensure competitive pricing with a fixed price promise. We are a friendly professional bunch whose door is always open, so drop me a line if you need a design solution.
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Cherry Fusion are a marketing company who specialise in helping businesses flourish. They provide a fresh perspective on current marketing strategies and advise on how to achieve business goals using marketing tactics. They also help execute marketing plans, including website creation, email & CRM, social media, content creation and printed material - everything you need to get your marketing working effectively.
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JES Private Wealth
We have been providing investment advice and stockbroking services to clients since 1975. We offer a range of services, each one tailored to suit your needs. We do not charge for an initial chat, so feel free to get in touch if you have any investment or financial queries.
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Affordable Lettings
Affordable Lettings is a husband and wife run business established in 2012. Our goal is simply to offer an excellent level of service for Landlords, Tenants and Vendors alike, whilst striving to maintain some of the most competitive fees in the market place. At present we are offering the following:
Fees from just £200 For Let Only Instructions Fees from just 8% For Fully Managed Instructions Fee of 1% - Minimum of £1000 For Estate Agency Instructions £295 Tenant Administration Fee Per Property
For those Landlords Considering Changing Their Agent - Simply Give Notice - Then Leave The Rest To US! CALL US NOW TO SEE HOW MUCH MONEY YOU COULD BE SAVING.
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Aquarian Cladding Systems Ltd
Aquarian Cladding Systems Ltd has a wealth of experience distributing brick, stone and terracotta cladding systems throughout the UK.
We provide design, commercial and installation assistance to architects, contractors, volumetric modular suppliers, housing developers & installers to ensure our cost-effective, tested and certified cladding systems such as Gebrik, Belstone and Terreal can be appropriately designed, specified and used on new-build or refurbishment buildings.
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Clevedon Hall
Clevedon Hall is a stunning Victorian Mansion set in the heart of Clevedon. We are able to offer amazing event space on the ground floor and 25 luxury bedrooms on the 1st and 2nd floor. Although it is a Victorian building we also have state of the art facilities with high speed internet for video conferencing,etc along with huge projector screens to make sure everyone can see your message.
Our focus is to bring your events to life with our great facilities, wonderful staff and delicious food from our Michelin Star trained Chef Alan Jones. We can help with your intimate client meeting up to your Christmas Party or Summer BBQ.
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Wards Solicitors
For over 100 years Wards Solicitors have been providing local businesses and individuals with expert legal advice. Our 11 offices are located across the Bristol, South Gloucestershire, Bath & North East Somerset and North Somerset region and each provide the same level of specialist legal service.
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Mark A Humphries
Based in Clevedon we manage local, national and international design, print and installation projects. We have grown steadily over the past 4 years building a loyal local and national client base and an enviable reputation for managing and delivering outstanding print projects.
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Newsham Hanson
Newsham Hanson is a long established firm of Chartered Certified Accountants offering cost-effective business and tax advice to a wide range of businesses and individuals. We provide support and advice to start-ups and established businesses of all sizes, many of which have succeeded and grown with our help.
Our clients are important to us and we strongly believe that by forming a close relationship with them, and gaining an understanding of their business and objectives, we can make a significant contribution in helping them achieve their goals.
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Guiding directors, business owners, stakeholders and individuals facing financial or operational uncertainty to make correct decisions leading to desired outcomes. I am a FCCA, FABRP and Licenced Insolvency Practitioner (ICAEW) specialising in providing restructuring, recovery and insolvency advice and programmes to individuals and owner-managed businesses: corporates and unincorporated bodies.
For me It is about doing the right thing.I am fortunate to be working with a team of likeminded professionals at PCR.
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- Advice and involvement from commencement to conclusion of Administration / Liquidations.
- Provision of Exit Strategies including use of Solvent Liquidation.
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Assignments have included dealing with businesses within - Retail, Entertainment: pubs and clubs, Fashion, Construction, Marine, Care Homes & Holiday Parks, Hotels & Facility Providers, Charities
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Who has control of your IT budget? You or your supplier?
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Selling Service
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Sales process is key to being on top of your enquiries. With experience of many types of CRM, and order processing systems I can advise you on the best way to make the most of your sales pipeline.
I can set up and manage Linkedin profiles and company pages and put you in a position to get your message out to your contacts. I can also work on your Social Media presence and media coverage with extensive contacts in the specialist press in many sectors.
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Walton Castle
Perched on a wooded hilltop and nestled inside Clevedon Golf Club, Walton Castle offers a unique blend of historic elegance and modern comfort, with stylish yet homely accommodation and spacious grounds big enough for a marquee.
Whether you're organising a fairytale wedding, corporate event or special family getaway, this luxury venue is available year round for bespoke private hire, and our highly experienced events team will ensure you and your guests feel like royalty from the moment you arrive.
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Clevedon Salesroom
Clevedon Salerooms is the leading Fine Art Auctioneer operating in the Bristol region holding fortnightly Antiques & Interiors auctions and Quarterly Specialist Sale of Antiques, Fine Art, Collectors' Items, Jewellery, Silver and Watches. All sales are listed online with the Quarterly Sale offering live on-line bidding to ensure the highest possible prices. The Salerooms hold free no-obligation verbal valuation days each fortnight at their purpose built premises with ample free onsite parking.
Professional services includes formal valuations for inheritance tax purposes and valuations for insurance purposes. Clevedon Salerooms valuers have a broad range of expertise, further enhanced by specialist consultants in a variety of fields, making them the automatic choice for Vendors and Executors in the area. We take great pride in offering a highly professional service with a warm and friendly approach.
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Hudson Accountants
At Hudsons we are Business Advisers as well as Chartered Accountants so we like to work with growing businesses to help you to achieve your dreams. We can do this through our monthly Hudsons Business Club, which focuses on one topic at a time for business success, or with an individually tailored virtual Finance Director service. Our accountancy servicesprovide you with end to end support so that you have essential numbers at your finger tips to track your progress and make important business decisions. At the other end of the scale ourMoney Matters events are free to all so even the smallest businesses can benefit from advice and networking opportunities or they can subscribe to our Youtube channel www.youtube.com/hudsonaccountants for lots of free business growth tips.
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John Hodge Solicitors with J. R. Brown & Co.
John Hodge Solicitors have been providing client focused legal services to local individuals and small businesses since 1777. A merger with J.R. Brown & Co. in 2012 combined two offices and sets of lawyers to provide a full service in the heart of Clevedon. Specialist solicitors in each practice area provide clients with expertise and quality of service across the firm's offices in Bristol, Clevedon, Weston-super-Mare, Wedmore and Yatton. The partners and staff live in the community in which they serve which helps them to understand the issues that individuals or businesses face and to provide practical real legal solutions.
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Albert Goodman LLP
Regional firm of chartered accountants with 8 offices across Somerset and Dorset, 16 partners and over 250 staff. We are a full-service accountancy, tax, financial planning and business services firm based in the South West.
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Aspirations Financial Advice Ltd is a wholly independent Wealth Management and Financial Advisory firm that specialises in providing straight forward financial solutions to both individual and business clients throughout the South West and UK.
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Courtesy of Ron Dickson of Sotheby's International Realty Canada
Charm and classic style unite with the gorgeous design of the Stratford by Augusta Fine Homes in West Pointe! The stone-accented exterior is dotted with ample windows, elegantly trimmed ensuring a bright, fresh interior. The Stratford features a highly functional interior, with carefully planned and executed details that are sure to impress. Welcomed by the oversized triple car+tandem garage, a covered porch, interior features a lovely stairway, open to below on both the main and upper floors. Across the entryway, a convenient home management centre features this home's signature spectacular windows. Sunlight further abounds throughout the spacious open concept living and entertaining space, complete with gas fireplace and a dining nook overlooking an impressive deck. Upstairs, the homeowner's private quarters include a spa inspired en suite complete with a freestanding tub and a stately private dressing room. One of the many quality upgrades included in this luxurious home is a lifetime rubber roof.


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For the past eight years, Omni Hotels & Resorts experimented with their Flavors of the World program, sharing a variety of tastes and traditions from different culinary cultures with groups at Omni properties. To change things up a bit, Omni added a new Simply Street Foods menu by partnering with multiple chefs from the Global Hotel Alliances.
There's nothing quite like local street food sampled from sidewalk vendors and food trucks across the globe. The curb-side phenomenon features international flavors that are quickly available, ready-to-eat and full of tasty flavors. Most dishes include local recipes, fresh seasonings and sometimes a secret ingredient.
Over 2.5 billion people eat street food everyday across the world. For the Simply Street Food menu, over 160 dishes were submitted by chefs from over 56 countries. After careful consideration, six chefs were featured on the international menu of approachable world cuisine with authentic edibility. The Simply Street Food menu will be available at Omni restaurants, bars and lounges until the end of March 2013.
The crunchy duck empanada with smoked tomato mayonnaise was submitted by Chef Gene Moss from Omni La Mansion del Rio Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
"It is a mix of my passion for traveling married to my passion for food," says Moss. The inspiration was the local street cuisine in the Dominican Republic and Moss' American roots.
The Famous Peddler's char kway teow was named and created by Chef Andy Oh from Pan Pacific Orchard in Singapore. The stir-fried flat noodles are mixed with chili, prawns, chives and bean sprouts.
"This is a dish you can have for breakfast, lunch and dinner when you are in Singapore," says Oh. "It's very popular and everyone is looking for this kind of quality when trying street food."
Chef Gerard Tice from Omni Parker House in Boston, Massachusetts prepared a short rib and Vermont cheddar sandwich for the Simply Street Food menu contest. Braised short ribs, carrots, union, celery, onions and garlic sit on thick slices of warm Brioche and topped with slices of gooey Vermont cheddar cheese. This sandwich is a smart and savory treat that comes from New England family farms.
Chef Alaa Allaham from Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi served a chicken musakhan sandwich.
"I prepared this because my father and grandmother cooked it when I was younger," says Allaham. "I like this dish because it's very easy to make." The ingredients include a wrap of onions, chicken and sumac. The mixture is tightly wrapped on a pita and baked.
The citrus ancho braised lamb tostada on a yellow corn tortilla was added to the menu by Chef Scott Mole, the executive sous chef of the Omni Bedford Springs in Bedford Pennsylvania. A leg of lamb was seasoned and braised with chili power for four hours with vegetables and citrus. The tender meat was added with pico de gallo, lettuce and beans on a corn tortilla.
"All the flavors taste great and they blend really well together," says Mole. "It's a really special meal and I think mines the best."
The Acarajé de Orixá was prepared by Chef Josemar Passos from the Tivoli Ecoresort Praia do Forte in Bahia, Brazil. This is one of Brazil's most famous street snacks, commonly known as Bahia's hamburger. The dish is comprised of fritters stuffed with black eyed peas and smoked shrimp.
"I picked this dish because it's a typical meal in the streets," says Passos. "I have been cooking this since I was a child in my grandparents kitchen." The bite sized snacks originated in Africa, but are commonly served in South America.


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Beamers Sunglasses
When you purchase a pair of Beamers Sunglasses you are helping to raise money for glaucoma awareness, education, support and research.
Shop Beamers Sunglasses and our wonderful friends at Beamers will kindly donate all profits from the sale to Glaucoma Australia when you enter the code BeamersGA during checkout.
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*"...Powerful incitements to utopian desire."
The unruly artwork of Jesse Bercowetz has a dark rural sensibility and is entrenched in the contemporary American psyche. His work is often fashioned through trial and error into material metaphor and holds no allegiance to any one process or genre. Bercowetz is committed to a non-market driven collaborative process that fosters interdependence through radical art making.
Image above: Swami Bondage, Weekend Query and the Night Time Soak. Commissioned by Religare Arts New Delhi, India
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Realistic Rain Resource Pack
Author: FireController1847 ❘ August 23, 2016 ❘ 17,236 views
About Realistic Rain Resource Pack
Do you hate the default rain sounds? Or do you love it? Then check out this Realistic Rain sound pack, as it will change rain forever! What this pack does is it changes the rain sounds in minecraft to be more realistic than they were before. Not only does it change the rain sounds, but it also changes thunder, which is my favorite part! Please don't be afraid to comment, as I always want to know what you guys think.
This resource pack took hours of work to make which is odd for me, but it was worth the effort to be able to do it. I only do this stuff for the people who want it. When I first made it, I thought of just using it for myself, but now I have released it to everyone. -FireController1847-
Amazing images of the rain using shaders!
How to install Realistic Rain:
- Download the resource pack.
- Open Minecraft, and go to Options->Resource Packs->Open Resource Packs Folder.
- Drag the zip file you downloaded into that folder.
- Select the pack, and you're done!
Download links for Realistic Rain Resource Pack:
http://www.files.9minecraft.net/index.php?act=dl&id=1454221474 (2.6MB)


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The smart Indian street vendor, Mr Madeshwaran from Bangalore
Mr. Madeshwaran is a street vendor by profession. He sells roasted corn at one of the busiest street in Bangalore, India. Continuous fanning the coal while roasting was very tiresome for him, since he is an old man. He kept searching the solution and finally one day he invented a battery operated fan.
The machine he invented consists of a light and a tiny tool box to keep the repairing machineries. First he gathered some spare electronic items and prepared this device. The blades of the fan are made of steel food plates, shaped by him. Now he is happily using his frugal innovation and his smart invention even pulls more curious customers.
Sometimes a small experience can be the reason for an immense pleasure. Knowing about Mr Madeshwaran is one such. Watch this amazing video and witness the pleasure of inventing something which is so frugal.
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Linux has found another powerful champion in the form of Allied Irish Banks (AIB) which has just signed a deal with Sun to switch its 7,500 branches' desktops from Windows to the Linux-based Java Desktop System (JDS). Sun Microsystems also announced that the government of New South Wales, Australia, will shift 1,500 users from Windows to its software.
The bank deal will be JDS' largest financial services deployment since the software was introduced in December, according to Sun vice president of desktop solutions Curtis Sasaki.
JDS is based on the open-source Linux operating system but future versions will also run with Sun's own Solaris OS and on thin clients. "This deal signifies that the momentum of Java Desktop is moving it into the mainstream market as an alternative to Microsoft on the desktop, which until this point hasn't really been around," said Arlene Adams, Sun's director of software for the U.K.
Sun's Irish partner, Horizon Open Systems, a division of Horizon Technology Group will bring the systems online during 2005 as part of AIB's New Branch Banking Platform. The bank is shifting branch staff across the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the U.K. to the new desktops; the software will be staff members' interface with all of the branch's applications, Sun said. "This is not just the back-office operations, it's the customer-facing part of the organization in a type of business that's paranoid about security and service levels," said Adams. Sun will provide AIB with direct support and training during the move.
Sun claimed growing demand for JDS in the financial, education and government markets. Industry analysts also argue that Linux, with fewer available applications than Windows, is best suited to organizations such as banks and call centers which only need a limited range of software.
JDS' main advantages are freedom from Windows' security concerns and an adherence to open standards, which gives IT managers more flexibility in what they choose to deploy across back-end systems, Sun said. "In previous years, ironically, you had a desktop that cost a couple of hundred dollars per seat dictating the IT strategy of a large bank or telco," Adams said. "Proprietary software on the desktop limited what you could buy in the data center." Standards adherence also allows organizations to roll out new applications across websites, branches and other customer access points more quickly, claimed Sun.
AIB will be using JDS Release 2, introduced last month to compete directly with Windows and Office. It includes simpler desktop management tools, is based on Novell's Suse Linux and includes Sun's StarOffice with the Mozilla Web browser.
Also on Tuesday, the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) of New South Wales announced it would move 1,500 users from Windows to JDS. The RTA will shift 120 offices from Microsoft Exchange to Java System Messaging running on Java Desktop; later the offices will also switch to StarOffice. The RTA said it expects to reduce its desktop and server costs by 20 percent.
Earlier this month Bergen, Norway's second-largest city, announced it will consolidate older Windows and Unix servers on Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server 8. That deal came shortly after the German city of Munich finished a year-long decision-making process that will see 14,000 desktops switched from Windows to Linux, a move that some have called the "poster child" for desktop Linux.
Sun has scored other big deals with JDS. In December, the U.K. government signed a five-year agreement with Sun to potentially offer JDS and Java Enterprise System (JES) software to public sector agencies as part of an overall open source push. And last November, Sun announced the China Standard Software Company will install JDS on hundreds of millions of computers in the People's Republic of China, starting with some 500,000 to one million desktops this year, as part of a Chinese government program.
IDC predicts that Linux will be the fastest growing operating environment over the next five years, while Windows has hit a plateau with some 98 percent of the desktop operating system market. Backed with support from major vendors and popularity on college campuses, Linux will thrive, IDC said in a research report late last year.
However, the analyst firm also noted that Microsoft will not sit passively. Instead, it "can be expected to compete vigorously, even using its huge installed base as a competitive tool to deflect Linux's ability to penetrate the industry."
Join the CIO New Zealand group on LinkedIn. The group is open to CIOs, IT Directors, COOs, CTOs and senior IT managers.


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International Services
CaixaPro is a boutique production company offering services all around the globe. With wide knowledge in Mexico and Latin American countries and more than 10 years of experience, based in Mexico City and Guadalajara, the company provides national and international services for a smooth and successful production from beginning to the end.
We would like to hear from you, tell us about your project.
We love working with creative and passionate people.
We love what we have in Mexico.
We love to produce…
Nike, Airbnb, Facebook, C&A, Pepsi, Gatorade, Vogue, VISA, Tequila Jose Cuervo, Mercedes Benz, Change Lingerie (DK), Under Armour (USA), Aether (USA), VILA (DK), Jack Jones (DK), Netflix, Campari, Puma, Westies, Seventeen, etc.
Ogilvy & Mather, BBDO, Chiat, Terán TBWA, Concious Minds, etc.
Jakob Kirk, James Michelfelder, Raul Ruz, Ricardo Ramos, Markus Ziegler, Enrique Vega, David Black, Kamil Bialous, Jonas Dahlton, Owen Behan, Marcos Ferro, Paco Pérez, Andres Solis, Daniel Almazán, Dan Crosby.


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Prospective Student Weekend at Pacific School of Religion
Come & See! Prospective Student Event is a great opportunity for folks to get to know Pacific School of Religion, a seminary affiliated with the UCC, and our programs. March 2-3.
PSR Accepting Applications for 2018 Cohort of Young Leaders Development
The Emerging Leaders Fellowship provides training, mentorship, and the opportunity for paid internships for eight future spiritually-rooted, social change leader like you.
Come and See! Pacific School of Religion on Display
If you're considering seminary or theological education, this conference is for you! October 13-14 in Berkeley, CA
Spring Come & See Prospective Student Weekend at PSR
Registration is free! Register now! April 7–8 on the PSR campus in Berkeley, CA
Pacific School of Religion's Come & See! Prospective Student Event
If you're considering seminary or theological education, this conference is for you!
PSR 2016-17 Changemaker Fellowship Applications Now Available
Pacific School of Religion (PSR) is now accepting applications for our 2016-17 Changemaker Fellows Program!
Summer Session at Pacific School of Religion
Justice. Spirituality. Transformation. @PSR this summer
Be|Art|Now – 112th Earl Lectures and Leadership Conference
Co-create and experience performances, exhibits, worship space, & public arts.
Sacred Snapshots
Sacred Snapshots, held April 20, 2013, at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, is day-long celebration of the spiritual practices of many traditions.
PSR goes to Israel in 2013
Join us for an Alumni/ae and friends trip to the Holy Land January 6-15, 2013.
2012 Summer Session at Pacific School of Religion
Between July 2 and August 10, PSR is offering more than twenty courses in religion, spirituality, theology, and leadership, among other subjects, as well as special writing courses, and free weekly lectures.
2011 Annual Gathering Report from Pacific School of Religion
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A-list authors surely don't need my help to promote their work. Laura Hillenbrand, for example. She delivered two towering home runs with her nonfiction books (Seabisquit and Unbroken). In so doing, Hillenbrand entered that rarified realm of conversational awareness where she gets name-dropped from all sorts of tangents. Case in point, out at dinner with friends on Saturday, a story being re-told by my wife about the HBO Documentary on sportscaster Marty Glickman led the table to discuss Hillenbrand's Unbroken - the linkage is made through the amazing life of Louis Zamperini.
Without wanting to get too lost in those sub-references, I mean to instead logroll and commend Hillenbrand for her ability to sketch recognizable times in new ways. Mainly because she also nailed it with her piece about the 1930s in this month's 100th anniversary issue of "Vanity Fair" . If you haven't checked it out, I must insist that you do so. Out of all the decade-by-decade summary pieces, Hillenbrand's stands apart in my opinion. She brings something new to ground that's been covered often. Small, evocative details make all the difference.
As someone who hopes to write thought-provoking, scene-setting prose about both the Depression and World War I, I'm hyper-curious about those who've done it well. This should also serve as a quick post to say how much I'm digging the early stages of A. Scott Berg's Wilson . Although I can't pick up that book without hearing Tom Hanks in "Castaway" yelling for his island companion. Shtick aside, the company I'm finding in Berg's longform storytelling shelters me for all the other small ball stories bouncing around currently. Here again, I strongly endorse someone who certainly isn't in need of my approval.


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At the very beginning, there were 19 startups. After three days of incredibly fierce competition, we now have a winner.
Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. They all presented in front of multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders serving as judges for a chance to win $50,000 and the coveted Disrupt Cup.
After hours of deliberations, TechCrunch editors pored over the judges' notes and narrowed the list down to five finalists: Collider, Domuso, NuCypher, RecordGram and Sunrise Health.
These startups made their way to the finale to demo in front of our final panel of judges, which included: Stuart Ellman (RRE Ventures), Ann Lamont (Oak Investment Partners), Susan…


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Current business valuation needs to be a high priority. It is vital to establish a stock price for business transaction for business transactions like buying and selling agreements, dissolutions this includes liquidation or estate planning. You can use it to defending minority stockholder claim. If you are going to be selling or raising equity capital you require a high valuation. There are various popular approaches when it comes to valuation. Market approach helps in measuring worth of your company against various comparable public companies. Financial buyers use income approach that is based on future financial returns. Cost of approach that is used will measure replacement cost of asset. Businesses which are privately held are difficult to evaluate because they are no public companies available that you can use as comparables. Matters which are related to minority shareholders or depending on a single key manager will offer various price calculations.
During the tax agent Parramatta process the manager will provide details about the company history, experience of the managers and owners. The company operations are going to be analyzed thoroughly this includes customers, market niche, their profitability, skills, values and development strategies of the new business. Financial analysis is going to be based on five years of balance sheets as well as income statements. There are some recasting that are going to be done in order to address assets and liabilities that are hidden. The trend of the company is going to be compared to those in this industry.
There are a few methods that can be used in arriving at final price for every share of stock. An agreed price is established for buying and selling contracts like stock repurchases. There are other methods which are based on the asset value. For instance tangible book values use net worth of the business from the balance sheet. Adjustments are performed for intangible items like good will and deferred costs. Share price is based on the number divided by total number of shares. Valuation of the business is based on how much somebody is going to pay for it. But a calculated valuation is vital to prevent any money leaving the table. Business owners who want to sell their business at any point, professional business valuation should be the first step. If the business is going to be overvalued it is not going to sell. If the business is going to be undervalued the seller is not going to notice return on investment. A business that is priced properly is going to sell and both parties are going to walk away filling satisfied. You have spent a lot of years developing the business and it should be sold in a good price. In today's world professional business valuation is a must because sellers are going to be protected by getting a fair price for the business.
Valuing a business is not a simple task and there are pitfalls especially if you do not have any experience in business valuation. If you know the basics this will help you to understand how you will value your business or how your business is going to be valued by an expert. But if you have no idea about this look for a tally partner.


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Turning 70 is a monumental milestone, but what could be better than taking a walk on a scenic trail and lunching at a fantastic restaurant. Both softened the blow of reaching the seven-decade mark, and luckily were conveniently located near each other.
The walk, which totaled seven miles, was in the height of winter on my actual birthday Jan. 11, but my husband and I made it tolerable by bundling up and walking fast, averaging 17- minute miles. Then we were rewarded with a delicious meal in a warm, cozy environment,
We started out on the Washington and Old Dominion Trail (WOD), which begins in Purcellville and continues into Washington, D.C. It is relatively flat, paved, and runs through or beside several small towns and residential neighborhoods. The web site, bikewashington.org, describes it as a rail trail through Northern Virginia counties. The 45 miles is paved with nine-foot wide asphalt, and there is a parallel horse trail along much of the trail.
My husband enjoys biking the trail, but joined me on a walk to commemorate my seven decades – he reached the milestone two months later but considers me the older woman. Thinking about the lunch reward at the end of the walk was also a big incentive for him.
Walking 17-minute miles, we worked up a fierce appetite and headed to Magnolias at the Mill, which sits at the beginning or the end of the trail depending on the location where you start. We began at Purcellville and then trekked back to total seven miles.
Magnolias, an amazing restaurant, is in an old mill that has been restored to a full-service eatery. My husband discovered it years ago when he had gone on a bike ride on the trail. He kept smelling amazing aromas coming from the building and decided we had to check it out. We did, loved it, and have been going back ever since.
On that momentous day, cool and crisp, we arrived at the restaurant just in time for a late lunch that didn't disappoint.
The web site, magnoliasmill.com, states that "At Magnolias, we strive to provide wonderful food and incredible hospitality. Our menus contain a vast array of cuisines." It is also described as having American dining with a full bar in a country mill, housing barnlike wood decor, quilts, and farm items.
Even though it was a Monday, it was relatively full and offered a special lunch menu. The service was impeccable as usual, the bread fresh and warm, and the menu choices tantalizing. It is always hard to decide what to order. Nothing is ever a disappointment at this cozy venue.
I was even treated by the restaurant to a special birthday dessert. A tray full of sweet delicacies are presented for selection, and it is most difficult to decide on just one.
The whole experience softened the blow of turning the big 7 0. I highly recommend the WOD Trail walk, followed with a scrumptious meal at Magnolias, for any special event in your life or just for something to do on any normal day.


text: Inside Design Sasha and Russel, of furniture design house Koskela, have toiled through seven-day weeks and canned-tuna dinners to build a million-dollar business in Sydney. Now, they are working with the new Federal Government initiative, Enterprise Connect, to expand online and overseas. The early days were tough for Sasha Titchkosky and Russel Koskela. Both successful in their own right – Sasha was National Manager of Communications at the Australian Stock Exchange and Russel was an interior designer working for Bovis Lend Lease – they left their jobs to establish their own furniture design business in inner-city Sydney. "I had learnt all I wanted to learn [at the ASX] and I'd become somewhat disillusioned," says Sasha. "I didn't feel inspired anymore and I was ready to do something that was my own, our own." The pair – who now have two children: Anders (three) and Mika (one) – had met years earlier but reunited at a mutual friend's dinner party in 1999. "Not long after we went on a seven-week holiday together in Europe, staying at the Ice Hotel in Lapland, going dog-sledding... It was an eye-opening holiday and we knew that was it," says Russel. A matter of weeks later, Koskela was born. "We would be thinking about the business day and night. We'd head out to the north Bondi headland in the pitch dark and have crazy brainstorming sessions looking out over the ocean," says Sasha. Their original design concepts were "wrong in every way", says Russel. "The first thing we designed and made was a prototype of a home-wares platter and coasters made of building cladding material. It was so heavy and impractical." To invest more time in the business, Russel left his job at Bovis Lend Lease and Sasha took up a consultancy role three days a week so they still had an income stream. "We lost a lot of weight, lived on cans of tuna and pretty much worked seven days a week for the first two to three years," says Sasha. It was after they were featured in belle magazine that the business really took off. Retail queries started flowing in and they had to open the business on a Saturday. It was around then that they developed an "obsession" with a building at 91 Campbell Street, Surry Hills. At the time, they were working out of a small warehouse space near Central Station. "We drove past it every other night and kept sending inquiries to the real estate agent," says Russel. When it finally became available, the agent warned them to "be prepared" before they entered the property. As they opened the door, several turtle heads popped up from a pond in the centre of the room, illuminated by an overhead heating light. "The warehouse space was occupied by eight young designers – all students, I think – and it was subdivided into different rooms. You should have seen the state of the bathroom... We agreed to pay four times our previous rent to get the space. That was when we decided we both needed to be working full-time on the business and Sasha left her consultancy job," says Russel. Over the following months they cleaned out the warehouse, removing all the dividing walls to reveal a clear, open expanse of space. They gradually filled it with their creations, giving the whole room a rustic, cosy feel – the slate fireplace and exposed beams reminiscent of a Norwegian mountain cottage. "The showroom is as much a part of our branding as our products," says Sasha. In unity with their earthy creations, the pair never borrowed money to establish or expand Koskela. Both strong believers in allowing the business to grow organically, they let it expand only as much as they could afford to fund its growth. They approached strategic planning in much the same way: refusing to put pen to paper and instead just "getting on with it", says Sasha. "In my past life, so much lip service was paid to business planning. People I knew developed long, in-depth plans and never actually started the business. I believe you're better off just giving it a go." Sitting around one of their dark solid-timber tables, they are admirably candid about their creative relationship. "We talk about products together and come up with an idea, then I walk away and develop a whole lot more ideas," says Russel. "Sasha pares them back, I get upset and sulk for a while, and then we come to an agreement." They both laugh. The process works well for the business and a turning point came in 2005 when they secured a Lend Lease contract to develop furniture for The Bond building in Sydney. It was the first to achieve an environmental rating known as 'Green Star – Office As Built' for delivering on design. "It was so rewarding for us: looking at the office outfit and seeing our table in the boardroom. The rest of the furniture was made overseas – all beautiful, but imported. It was great to see Australian work in there," says Russel. Passionate about developing the business in Australia, they spent their early years battling to find local manufacturers. "This was one of the biggest challenges we faced," says Russel. "We started with the Yellow Pages and a lot of manufacturers we contacted said, 'Go overseas. Go to China!' But we wanted to make our own designs, to manufacture locally, work collaboratively with designers, and doing that all in Australia means it's easier. Plus, you have the added benefit of being able to tailor your products. "We finally found them and, now, they're a closely-guarded secret." Since The Bond project, contracts have flowed for the duo: they worked on the 6 star Green Star*-rated One Shelley Street building for Macquarie Group; for Brisbane International Airport, supplying in excess of 150 sofas and 200 tables; as well as designing and delivering furniture for several universities, including Monash, UNSW and the University of Technology, Sydney. They recently finished work on the Stockland's head office, the first Australian office interior to achieve a 6 star Green Star rating. It was opened by the Federal Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett, in April this year. Nearly a decade after launching Koskela, Sasha and Russel are the first to admit that a lot has changed. "Internet and email now means we're all so close. Online stores, website galleries, blogs... it's instant and there for everyone to access," says Russel. "People are now willing to pay online without touching or trying the products," says Sasha. "When we started, that was not realistic. Now people are happy to take the gamble." A few months ago the pair decided it was time to review the business. "With so much uncertainty in the marketplace, it was a good time to look at our operations," says Russel. "We have grown to this point but now it's time to assess – in a more strategic way – where we're going with the business." Just as they were deciding how best to grow their business sustainably, Russel tuned in to ABC radio one day to hear Senator Kim Carr discussing the newly launched Creative Industries Innovation Centre at UTS and the Federal Government's Enterprise Connect scheme. A key aspect of the Enterprise Connect initiative is a tailored advisory service that offers grants to businesses to implement opportunities identified in a business review. Earlier this year, Russel and Sasha participated in six meetings with a government-appointed business advisor to review their operations. At the end of this gruelling round of meetings, the business advisor prepared a set of recommendations for Koskela. One of the opportunities identified was developing the residential side of the business. "Most of our work comes from the commercial space, like office outfits," says Russel. "We have some residential projects too, but we are looking at expanding that area. "One way to do this is by redesigning the online store, but it's vital we still retain our identity. We're talking to web designers in New York who have created sites that manage to evoke an emotional response from the user. We want to introduce a buying facility on our site and give the online store more character." An added benefit of the scheme is enabling businesses, that successfully undergo a review, access to dollar-to- dollar matched funding for development projects. This process is under review although, at the moment, the financial grants are available only to businesses that have a turnover of at least $2 million per annum and have traded for a minimum of three years. "I think that's a wise clause because many people have these plans to start a business but are yet to spend the time and energy to make it grow," says Sasha. While the Enterprise Connect initiative is already helping many businesses like Koskela, the Creative Industries Innovation Centre at UTS, a core part of the Enterprise Connect promise, is still in its embryonic stages. "We know what we want to make but how is this going to shape the different sectors? That is still something we are working on," says Professor Kees Dorst, Associate Dean of Research for the UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building. In addition to working with financial institutions to develop new means of funding for the businesses, the Creative Industries Innovation Centre will be staffed by up to 12 government-appointed business advisors. The centre will also offer three layers of complementary services delivered under the leadership of UTS: public lectures, business workshops and in-depth business development. "When UTS talks about 'owning the future' through innovation, technology and creativity, the creative industries is one place where that comes together quite neatly. They are very technology-driven and they have to deal with innovation, new projects and new designs on a daily basis. And, to some extent, they are where the creativity in society sits," says Dorst. "It is a fantastic opportunity for UTS." Following their business review, Sasha and Russel are excited about the prospect of expanding Koskela overseas and creating strong ties with successful designers abroad. "At the moment, we are working on co-branded product lines with other designers in Australia. We've also started commissioning designers to create products for us," says Russel. "We're always looking to grow and work with new people." Words: Chrissa Favaloro


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OXNARD, Calif. — Charles Timothy O'Rourke, 58, passed away on Sept. 23, 2007, surrounded by family at home in Oxnard.
He was born in Dover, N.H., and moved to Oxnard in 1973. He graduated from Somersworth High School in Somersworth N.H. and held a GM15 "Department Manager Logistics Data Technology" with a master's degree from California, retiring from Port Hueneme Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center in 2005 with nearly 40 years service.
Charles was the youngest civilian to ever hold this GM15 position on Base. He traveled extensively, especially to the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
A beloved husband and father, he is survived by his wife and best friend, Micaela Rodriguez O'Rourke; son, James O'Rourke of San Diego, Calif.; daughter, Kellee O'Rourke of Los Angeles, Calif.
He is also survived by one brother, Perley Edward O'Rourke of Dover, N.H.; five sisters, June Couture of Somersworth, N.H., Sandra Mulholland of Raymond, N.H., Gail Penny of Rollinsford, N.H., twin, Charleen Brown of Rollinsford, N.H., and Doreen Chabot of North Scituate, R.I.; many loving nieces, nephews, grandniece/nephews, great-grandnieces/nephews from New Hampshire.
He was predeceased by his father, Father Timothy O'Rourke in 1951; his mother, Doris O'Rourke/McAlpine in 1995; oldest brother, Arthur O'Rourke in 1991; and brother-in-law, Albert Couture in 1984.
Charles courageously fought pancreatic cancer for one year.
"There is no other as good as our brother, Charles"!
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OXNARD, Calif. — Charles Timothy O'Rourke, 58, passed away on Sept. 23, 2007, surrounded by family at home in Oxnard.


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A stove backsplash usually prevents wall damage caused by heat, cooking oils and moisture. They can be made using a variety of products, but it is important that a stove backsplash be durable and easy to clean. Backsplashes are often made of stainless steel, tin, or tile. More expensive materials include granite and marble.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015
WOYWW - Edition Catch Up
Happy Wednesday my lovely Desk-Hoppers! (Don't know what a desk hopper is? Hop on over to Julia's and find out!)
I'm just going to jump right on in. I am playing catch up (still - and probably for the rest of the year) in my Documented Life Project Journal. I'm skipping around doing the prompts that speak the most to me and this week it seems to be August and faces. Remember last week's desk with the sketch of this crowned lady? I told y'all you wouldn't see her again. Well it seems the muses had other plans. I re-worked my sketch a little bit and now I love her! I will take pics of her later today and upload her to her very own post tomorrow but y'all get the first sneak peek!
Anyway. You're here for the desk. Cups of pretty purple paint water. Those were wonderfully clean and clear when I started today! My journal of course. Paints and brushes to the right. I'm actually done for the night and for some reason my station is really quite clean this go round. Two journal pages in two days and my desk is tidy(ish)? It's because I'm limiting myself on supplies used!! Really working on my skin tones and shading so I'm using mainly my Inktense pencils and Neocolor IIs. Means I have a tidy-ish desk with not a lot of clutter slung around!
Now we pan over to the other side...
Even this table isn't particularly messy! My Neocolor IIs are sitting on top of my Inktense pencils. My list of DLP pages I'm catching up is under the ruler. The gap between struck through and non-struck through pages is closing up! I'm really hoping to get at least two more of those prompts - one from August and this current one finished by Friday! Just for the record though - I have 15 prompts to do out of a list of 24. I'm determined!!! By the end of this year I will be all caught up. And I only have eleven weeks to do it in! Yikes! My goal is three make ups a week plus the current one. That should take me only five weeks. Wish me luck!!!
Anyway. Back to the desk. Stencils and my brayer and a paint brush are still out as well. Oh... and dead center.. that cellophane wrapped object? An oatmeal cream pie. One of my favs! Have to keep myself going somehow.
That's all I've got for y'all this week! Thank you all who commented last week. Y'all are too sweet!
See ya next time!
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Loving your pages. Such pretty purple water too! Take care Zo xx 32ReplyDelete
I'm doing the exact same thing with LifeBook, Brenda! I missed 6 months between March and September and now I'm skipping around doing whichever lesson takes my fancy, as well as trying to complete the current week's lesson. I'm hoping I'll be able to ctach up by the end of the year, to start again in 2016! I had to give up on DLP because it would have been too much, but I might try again next year. Love your page with the face - I'm working on shading of faces as well! I'm hoping one day, if I practise enough, it will just click and I can do them naturally. At the moment it's still very much a hit and miss afair! Happy WOYWW! zsuzsa @ InkyDinkyDoodle #36ReplyDeleteReplies
I wish you all the luck in the world Zsuzsa! I'm hoping to do LifeBook next year. My hubby asked me what I wanted for Christmas and the only two things I want are LifeBook and Wanderlust classes. Between those 2 I might not be able to manage DLP as well. But we'll see.Delete
Shading faces really does take practice. I do it very similar to how Tam does it with a little bit of Wyanne's technique thrown in. I'm still working on practicing too and it does get a little bit easier every time. Don't give up!
Ohh biccies, now you have to have those on your desk don't you, most important to keep the body fed whilst crafting!!!!ReplyDelete
I love the storage on your desk, you are soooo neat and tidy and your journal page is beautiful. Good Luck with it all.
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Tidiness is relative! Some days it's better than others!!! Thank you dear!Delete
Oh my, she turned out beautifully - I'm so glad you went back for a second look! You must be a bit chuffed! Also a bit chuffed about desk tidiness too - not only keeps your desk tidy, but I think limiting your supplies means that you keep your focus and time on the piece instead of hunting about through the stash!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Julia! I really am chuffed! :) I do seem to be getting quite a bit more done when I'm not constantly sorting through which supplies to use!Delete
Oooh look at all those paints and pieces and pretty colors--I've got some time set aside to play tomorrow, but you've got me wishing it were today!ReplyDelete
Happy WOYWW, Brenda Lee!
:)trisha, #52 this week
with paint, a shelf and a bench
I love your journal pages and the color combo of purple and blue! Purple is my favorite color!ReplyDelete
Greetings, Sofie #46
That's a lovely journal page! Love the face and her hair! I haven't done much art journaling, but would love to have a go. I like the diea of prompts throughout the year, I'll have to go and have a look. Maybe a project for next year Hmmm...! Popping in as part of my blog comment challenge, 300 in 30 days! I found you on Julia's WOYWWReplyDelete
Each comment, blog hug, or bit of love just makes my day so much brighter! I can't thank you enough for taking time out of your busy day to leave me a little message! :)


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Interstate 290 and 90 both run through the Near West Side. Their interchange is a major transportation hub for the region. The southern and western boundaries of the area are defined by busy rail-road tracks. The St. Charles Air Line, at the area's southern edge is also a major passenger train route.[12]
The area is served by the Blue, Green, Pink 'L' lines, as well as many CTA bus routes. Union and Ogilvie station, major terminuses for Metra and Amtrak trains, are on the eastern edge of the Near West Side.
The New Maxwell Street Market still runs from 7AM-3PM every Sunday regardless of season. The much smaller size and higher vendor fees ensure that the original flavor of the world's greatest outdoor market is now only a piece of history, but the New Market has a truly awe-inspiring number of cheap Mexican food along with discount jewelry, t-shirts, random vintage items, suspicious electronics, and other flea market classics, and is a lot of fun.
More traditional retail has been slow to develop for the rest of the Near West Side, with college students being the only relatively affluent consumer group in the area. Even after the spate of expensive residential developments in the West Loop and University Village, it's still under-served for shopping purposes. However, there are a few places worthy of note:
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At the RSA Conference, I chatted with Jordan Pollacco of the VMC Group, an experiential marketing firm, about the interactive screen they installed in the Tripwire booth. The screen detects people in front of it when someone the camera sees that someone has interrupted the infrared light. Once the interruption is detected, it causes activity on the screen. In the case of the Tripwire booth, QR codes pop up that the user has to capture with their camera. Once captured, attendees' are entered to win a prize in the Tripwire booth.


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