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These Pecan Sandies Cookies are loaded with crunch pecans and the flavor of brown butter! They are a twist on my Grandma's best ever sugar cookies recipe and I think they will soon become your favorite!
We have many discussions on the perfect cookie at our house. I prefer them slightly under cooked and chewy and my husband says the crunchier the better. These Pecan Sandies are the perfect balance of the two.
You can bake these a little longer and they do get really crunchy, I baked them for about 15 minutes and they are really crisp around the edges and slightly soft in the middles. You get a ton of flavor from the brown butter and it goes so well with the pecans.
One of my all- time favorite cookies are my Grandma's Best Ever Sugar Cookies and I made the Citrus Butter Cookies version at Christmas. It's a great recipe to experiment with and was the base for these Pecan Sandies.
I had to make about 3 batches of these Pecan Sandies to snap a photo to share with you. They disappear so fast! I'm not admitting how many of these I ate while enjoying my morning coffee.
They are addicting! It's been another hectic week around here. I've not had nearly enough time in the kitchen lately.
Just when I think things are going to slow down, life throws another round of things to deal with. I'm still struggling to finish the accounting and Emmet broke his collar bone while at school last week.
The emergency room sent us home saying it wasn't broken. After returning home we decided to go to a different clinic in the bigger town down the road. It was broken and the poor kid was miserable.
I have a few new gray hairs and I should be sharing cocktails but honestly, I'm too tired to drink.
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May 29: Self Defense for Women, Part 1 | May 23: You will get hurt | May 16: The Dump | May 9: The Freeze | May 3: Mind Setting
REAL WORLD VIOLENCE: SELF DEFENSE FOR WOMEN, PART 1 (May 29, 2010)
There is so much crap out there for women's self defense that I am making WSD it's own subject….and there's enough to say that it will encompass two weeks of blogs!! First and foremost, why do most systems insist on teaching women different techniques than men? We believe that if it isn't something that we would teach men it isn't worth knowing. The "wet your pants to be too gross" or the "walk with your keys between your fingers" or the ever popular "say you have AIDS" and the "carry a whistle" isn't ever told to men…..it should be ignored by women!! "But women are weaker and smaller than men" is the usual comeback. My thought is that a female grizzly, tiger or shark may indeed be weaker and smaller than the male but I don't want to mess with any of them….especially if there are cubs involved!! Here is one place where size truly doesn't matter…..attitude and fearing the crime more than you fear injury is what matters. A cat weighs 6 or 7 pounds but I've seen muscle heads let go of one in a hurry when it gets terrified and starts clawing! In Krav Maga we teach the same techniques, the same combatives, the same philosophy and the same tactics to women and men. Can a 100 pound woman punch as hard as a 200 pound man? She can if he is punching with only his arm and she is turning her whole 100 pounds into the punch. If they both have the technique down and punch with all their weight using proper leverage the man will hit harder but the woman is still hitting hard enough to do damage!
Martial arts for women's self defense? Choose wisely. Most martial arts are a piece of the puzzle. They were developed by their originators to overcome specific problems. There is a martial art that was developed for warriors on a battlefield who find themselves without a weapon, there is one that was developed for unarmed peasants to be able to use farm implements against mounted and armored soldiers, etc. True story: I was a fourth degree black belt in Taekwondo. During my martial arts career I spent hundreds of hours practicing techniques in a horse stance (a mild squat). When I found out that the history of taekwondo's horse stance was so that peasants who couldn't afford horses could still pretend that they were on a horse and practice the techniques in hope of joining the military someday…..i was torqued at all that wasted time!! There are few martial arts that were designed for a woman to fight off an assault as their main emphasis. Furthermore, the most common way for a rapist to move a female from public to a secondary crime scene is to show a weapon and demand she obey. Would one of the militaristic martial arts which demand "yes, sir" and obedience every time the "Master" gives a command be good training for women in the real world?
There are so many "experts" in the field of self defense for women that it is easy to be confused. Do not ever go against your own common sense or experience on the word of an "expert" or with the majority's opinion. Back in the 60's an "expert" was telling women to carry around large hat pins to defend themselves. One poor older lady had her purse snatched and as the criminal was turning to run with the purse she remembered that expert advice and took out her pin and stabbed him with it. He promptly turned around and punched her in the face, breaking her jaw. Some advice!!
Whatever system or techniques are learned it all comes down to attitude. SGT Sanford Strong in his book Strong on Defense (a must read for women's self defense) flatly states "Surviving violence is all about mental toughness." He goes on to talk about mind setting and accepting that you will be injured (past blog topics) "Break fear and fight back by 1) deciding what you fear most, injury or being controlled by the criminal. Accept injury as the price you pay to escape. 2) mind set and visualize ahead of time. Focus on escape, not on what he is saying or doing."
Why Krav? Krav Maga doesn't blow smoke about it's practitioners not being hurt or having "never fail" techniques. We mind set in our class drills preparing for violence. We make you exhausted and mentally tired during our drills to duplicate fear and pain. We teach techniques that will give you a fighting chance but mainly we teach attitude!! Swing for the fences, the bad guy is going down, I don't stop til you're unconscious ATTITUDE!!
REAL WORLD VIOLENCE: YOU WILL GET HURT (May 23, 2010)
Another subject most martial arts and self defense systems fail miserably at is letting their practitioners know that they can and probably will sustain damage. This can be a game changer! If you rely on both hands to do a joint lock and break one….what do you do then? If we've never trained thinking about an injury and then it happens our brains want to freeze because this wasn't in the plan. If your instructor tells you "do our techniques right and you won't get hurt, the bad guy will" you probably need to look for another instructor!
SGT Sanford Strong, in his great book "Strong on Defense" interviewed many crime (especially rape) victims. The ones who consistently fought back and got out of the horrible situation were those who feared the crime (the rape) more than they feared injury. Injury will happen….tell yourself that right now! The scumbag knows that you fear injury. This is why he will say "Do what I tell you to and you won't be hurt." Those who allowed themselves to be moved, tied up, etc. on the "promise" of no injury from the bad guy almost always paid dearly for it. Those who were so afraid of injury that they did nothing but hope and pray the attacker was telling the truth needed to know that the bad guys always lie and they are good at it! Please, please, please put in your brain right now that the scumbag is there to hurt, torture and probably kill you. Injury is coming. It's up to you to decide if it's on his terms or if you are in control. It's up to you to decide if that injury will come to only you or if it will come with you injuring him back tenfold!!
A greate quote from Meditations on Violence by SGT Rory Miller; "This fear of escalation is based on unknowns. The attacker has already decided to hurt the victim and largely how much. The feared "greater level of damage" is only in relation to the level of damage, unknown to you, that the threat has already planned. If he is already planning to torture and kill, the feared escalation is meaningless…the fear of provoking a beating or torture or death will not help you if the attacker has already decided on the beating, the torture or the murder."
Why Krav? Any class that would include being injured on purpose would be a short lived one! We don't purposely injure anyone but we do go hard. Our drills don't cause injury but they do wear us out, make us feel like we can't go on and cause general discomfort. This is for a reason. We want to know that we can continue no matter what! Krav Maga's techniques are such that losing the use of a limb, in general, doesn't affect us. Let me explain; no joint locks or fine motor skill movements in our techniques but whole body, gross motor skills that we do in an extremely pissed off stage of mind…..that keep going til the bad guy is done mentality!
REAL WORLD VIOLENCE: THE "DUMP" (May 16, 2010)
We've all felt the effects of the adrenalin dump. Something scares us (like a close call in our car) that leaves us tingling, breathing faster, heart rate up, etc. If this happens in an almost accident imagine how much more pronounced it will be with life threatening violence. This will happen…and, sadly, this is something that is totally ignored in most self defense systems.
Effects of fear (the "dump") include;
-your mind will change! The mind you have will not be the one fighting for you when attacked. Too many martial arts take a logical and mental approach to visceral and chaotic problems. Memories can be wildly distorted. Perception and auditory input can become very messed up. This is seen when those being attacked remember, for example, a knife that was four inches long being a machete, a handgun going off by their ear repeatedly that they didn't hear, etc. Irrelevant thoughts can intrude in our heads. Off the wall thoughts can seem like brilliant ideas. We can get tunnel vision and not see the other attacker or the weapon. Behavioral looping can easily occur even with trained fighters. They will use a technique that isn't working but get stuck on that technique and try it over and over. Sadly, if we haven't used mind setting and had a plan for this attack already formed we won't come up with one now because our mid-brain is now in charge and it will be stuck in freeze mode…trying to scan for any training we've had for this scenario.
-You don't feel pain and don't bleed as badly due to vasoconstriction. This is one of the few good effects of the dump. Remember, however, that the attacker is in the same state and doesn't feel pain either. That awesome joint lock that you never fail with in class doesn't faze the bad guy….and we freeze because our brain said that it should end the fight.
-Skilled techniques degrade under stress….a bunch! Our heart rate goes way up. Blood is pooled into our internal organs. This makes our limbs feel heavy and we feel weak. Our skin gets cold and clammy. Fine motor skills go to pot.
The dump is the bane of Self Defense Instructors as it makes the untrained more dangerous and the trained less! A great example of this is police officers. When they are shooting at a target at the range within ten feet most have over 90% accuracy. Under fire on the street? One major city studied police hit statistics under live fire over a six year period and found that their officers from contact range to six feet out hit the bad guy only 38% of the time. There is a big difference in how our body reacts on a range and with someone actually trying to kill us!!
Truth is, the dump makes those who are trained fight worse….and the untrained actually fight better. Why is this? God put this response into man at the beginning. It wasn't for self defense but for self preservation against wild animals! No amount of technique will drive off a tiger, but a flailing, focused (tunnel vision), repetitive (behavioral looping) defense might. Not feeling pain and not bleeding like we usually would comes in handy when limbs are being bitten. At the worst stage we freeze, drop and even have bladder and bowel evacuation…..this is good as a last resort with a wild animal who may think you are dead and save you for later! If you ever hear someone say "if it were for real, I would have done a lot better" try not to laugh at them!
Why Krav? Have you noticed that in our classes we don't teach a lot of joint locks or techniques that need fine motor skills? This is the reason! Under attack we want to think only of hitting the scumbag, grabbing hold of him any way we can and then kneeing and kicking him into oblivion. We don't teach that one devastating attack will end the fight…because when that technique doesn't end the fight we won't know what to do. We teach attacking with whole body, gross motor skills and we teach to go with all we have until they are on the ground, balled up and knocked out!!
REAL WORLD VIOLENCE: THE "FREEZE" (May 9, 2010)
The freeze is a very common phenomena reported by those who have faced real violence….and is totally ignored by most self defense systems. It will happen! There are a couple of things that cause this "freeze".
1) When a horrible situation happens that puts us in extreme fear for our lives our brain will work for us. If we had not trained for the attack, or had never even thought about the situation possibly happening, our brain will look at the violent attack and literally scan our entire life to see if this situation had ever happened before and how we got out of it. It does this faster than any computer but it takes a few seconds. Last week we learned about mind setting. For facing real world violence mind setting is priceless. If we had planned for this encounter the plan will surface quickly. An interesting quote from Meditations of Violence by SGT Rory Miller…"The closer the events reflect previous experience, the less time it takes to orient. If the event is completely new there is nothing in the past to orient to, which explains the effectiveness of Judo in 1888, Jujutsu in America in the 1920's, Karate in the 1950's and BJJ in the 1990's."
2) Almost as bad as no training, as far as the freeze is concerned, is the wrong training. There is something called "Hick's Law" which states that the more options you have, the longer it takes to choose one. I remember reading an advertisement for a martial art that bragged that they had 7,000 different techniques! What kind of selling point is that? If you have more than one choice in an attack your brain has to choose one! Another example of the wrong training is techniques that are too regimented. If we train a defense that has six steps and it derails at step number two we have a hard time orienting because the plan isn't being followed as we practiced.
3) The attacker's words. We expect people to be reasonable like we are. We expect people to be truthful like we are. When the predator is telling us to obey him and he won't hurt us it causes us to not spring into action because we reason that if we do what he says he will keep his word. Most people in other bad and very dangerous situations such as a natural disaster or an accident jump into action to save family, friends or themselves much quicker than we do in a violent attack. The predator knows this, he knows what works. Always remember, if he had any humanity, would have any remorse, had any good in him at all, he wouldn't be attacking you in the first place.
Why Krav? What makes Krav Maga such a great real world self defense system is that it isn't technique based, it is philosophy based. One of my instructors years ago loved saying "if I learn 1,000 techniques, with my luck, I will go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001." We want our first reaction, our "flinch" reaction, to be GO FORWARD AND GO OFF. When the surprise violence starts, when most people are freezing, we want our reaction to be to go forward with great violence….we don't want to even think about it. Our drills, everything we work on in class and our whole philosophy is to keep it simple, to go right now and to make it as violent as possible. This isn't brutal, it is effective! Our only chance in a real life violent encounter, according to experts who have survived deadly violence, is to go right away and to go hard. When the punches are landing and we can't figure out why or from whom we want to be able to automatically switch from confusion to absolute rage with the only thought running through our head to be "hit the Scumbag"!!
REAL WORLD VIOLENCE: MIND SETTING (May 3, 2010)
Most self defense systems, martial arts, etc. fail to one extent or another in that they don't consider what effect real violence has on the one being attacked. As Winston Churchill said "No matter how enamored one is with their plans, from time to time one must consider the enemy." My first several blogs will be on "Real World Violence". This also happens to be the theme of our Spring Camp in a few weeks.
A real world attack will be at such speed (the attacker knew what was coming, you didn't) and so violent that it will overwhelm us. It is not uncommon for the person being attacked to just freeze (next week's topic). Mix in the fear of injury, the "this can't really be happening" thoughts and the fact that we may have taken damage and been dazed before we know what's going on all work very much against us.
Mind Setting is the best thing that we can do to prepare for this random, sudden violence. Mind setting is rehearsing and visualizing actions in your mind. Military and Law Enforcement do this all the time. Very interesting is the fact that as violence in the U.S. has skyrocketed in the past few decades murders of citizens have also skyrocketed but murders of police officers since the mid 1970′s have decreased by 43%. This is attributed to what law enforcement started preaching and training at that time……Mind Setting. Mind Setting is making a plan for whatever the attack is. For example, think about what you would do right now if someone kicks in your front door or if surrounded by three large men in the parking lot at the mall, etc., etc.
Decisions about what you are going to do in a violent attack must be made well before the attack happens. The people who survive violent attacks are those who go off with rage….and do it immediately. When you are watching the news, reading the paper, etc. and come across a violent crime don't think "poor guy" and move on or worse, "that couldn't happen to me". Think about exactly what you would do in that situation. I'm not talking about thinking how you will devastate four attackers with spinning high kicks (that is dreaming) but think about how you can escape (either right away I am running or I will smash this guys face and then run….if I am blocked I will kick and punch and hit with anything I can find on the ground until I can get out of there, etc.). Go over and over "what would I do" for every situation possible. If you think it can't happen to you, you won't plan for it. The U.S. government's own Justice department states "Every U.S. citizen now has a realistic chance of being a victim of random violence."
When attacked, Mind Setting gives us the "I've been here, done this" feeling and gets us moving into action. When mind setting 1) visualize you being in the crime. Not watching….in the crime. 2) visualize your actions to escape and 3) visualize being shot or stabbed or hurt in some way and still escaping (the subject of another blog…very important).
Why Krav? My entries will end with this "Why Krav" question. We do drills at the end of every class. We hate them because they wear us out but you have heard us say many times "this is the most important thing we do in class". What is a drill? Think about it. We are having you be the victim of an attack. There are usually two or more partners pushing you, you are fighting back, you are going all out, etc. This is Mind Setting…..but doing it physically. When attacked in real life by two or more we hope and pray that the "been there, done that" comes out as you have been there and done that!!
"You are not paranoid when you worry about people out there who might try to kill you when there are people out there who might try to kill you" S. Strong
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Here in Cornwall we're rather spoilt for a crashing sea view or two. And it was while on a late-night wander along the South West Coast Path, overlooking quite such a view, coming up the slope towards the Gribbin Tower, that the idea for The Lighthouse came to me. Could we create a light that looked exactly like a home lighthouse? Obviously, the light wouldn't flash on and off, or it would drive people mad, but it would provide that 360˚ fresnel lens experience, lofted above the ground/floor, mesermising to the eye.
We knew exactly the type of light we were after, and how we would mount it, and so began the quest. There were several lights featuring full fresnel lenses, but which had bulky mountings, or were the wrong size, shape or material. We wanted brass, we wanted extremely high quality, and we wanted a mounting that did not overpower the light, and which would fit perfectly with our custom-made aluminium surveyor's tripod. After many weeks of scouring, finally we found it: a stunning vintage Kokosha brass fresnel lens ship's lamp.
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Soul, essence, and consciousness. All terms that create quite a bit of confusion. Let's explore our hidden nature!
I avoid the term soul in teaching at first as the soul is a very overloaded term. Too many different definitions over time have been collected for the soul. Whenever I come across a term which is overloaded like this, my reaction is that various definitions are not the root but rather interesting leaves of corollary truths. So at this point, I get dirty to dig for roots.
For the case of the soul, a good root definition becomes: Soul represents what something is, the base quality that transcends the actual object in question. But even that is too complicated, so I simplify the core definition of the soul to be: The base quality of what you are.
This definition takes a person pretty far. In Taoist thought (actually in many traditions) a person is composed of multiple aspects of life. This creates an interesting insight. We are comprised of several different souls working together in tandem. Our physical body has a soul (Po Soul), and our mind/spiritual form has a soul (Hun Soul). Depending on the Taoist tradition there can be multiple Hun and Po Souls. These souls merge up to create a person as a whole. This concept is important for later.
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The place where I like to start is Essence. Essence is our style, personal style that transcends all of our stories. In some respects, essence and soul are almost the same things. The terms can be used interchangeably for much of dialogue. I prefer to use essence more than soul because it doesn't come with as much baggage as the term soul does.
Like the soul, we have multiple essences. These essences roll up into an amalgam that ensures each living being is unique.
For instance, we have our essence as a Homo Sapiens: the collection of our instincts and we have our essence as a Human Being, how we act against each of our stories. So our essence of being a smart ape is rolled and mixed into the essence of being parent, child, spouse, worker, seeker and all the other stories we energize.
Under all of that, we have a base essence also. Our body and mind are each a lens. When you combine the mind and body together those multiple lens work together like a spiritual telescope. What are they focusing upon? Well at this point you can say they are viewing the universal light around us. As the larger spirit / universe gets focused thru our mind and body, it gets twisted around uniquely thru this telescope of mind and body. It's that twist of the light, which gives each person their unique essence. No two combinations quite add up the same way. Even twins, focus the light down with uniqueness to each person.
Essence vs. Soul
If there is a difference between soul and essence it's this:
Essence doesn't animate the body.
Rather Essence is the quality of how you animate yourself which transcends all the stories you live through.
Soul is often considered to be the spark that animates a person.
This is a pretty interesting distinction. I could argue that soul is the word we use for the special kernel essence which contains our spark. In other words, a base essence which we call in Taoism the Hun or cloud soul: the spiritual / story soul we hold within ourselves. The soul (spark) that returns to the light.
Consciousness is a mysterious process. What quality of our life is it that makes us self-aware?
Science used to think that consciousness was rooted in mind. This view point hasn't been working out very well. Now many Scientists are beginning to ponder maybe consciousness is something outside the mind. I suspect Science will look outward and get equally as confused. Sometimes focus leads to the wrong answer.
I suspect something different. Perhaps just perhaps consciousness is a bit of both.
Our consciousness could represent the point in between. The place where we are looking up through the telescope to the universe and where the universe looks back to us > merging in the middle to spark up that special self-awareness we call Consciousness.
This is the sparking point of self-awareness. Like a spark, this also merges back into the point where Hun our cloud soul resides.
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That to be alive means:
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Patterns of NPP, GPP, respiration, and NEP during boreal forest succession
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We combined year-round eddy covariance with biometry and biomass harvests along a chronosequence of boreal forest stands that were 1, 6, 15, 23, 40, 74, and 154 years old to understand how ecosystem production and carbon stocks change during recovery from stand-replacing crown fire. Live biomass (Clive) was low in the 1 and 6 year old stands, and increased following a logistic pattern to high levels in the 74 and 154year old stands. Carbon stocks in the forest floor (Cforest floor) and coarse woody debris (CCWD) were comparatively high in the 1year old stand, reduced in the 6 through 40year old stands, and highest in the 74 and 154year old stands. Total net primary production (TNPP) was reduced in the 1 and 6year old stands, highest in the 23 through 74year old stands and somewhat reduced in the 154year old stand. The NPP decline at the 154year old stand was related to increased autotrophic respiration rather than decreased gross primary production (GPP). Net ecosystem production (NEP), calculated by integrated eddy covariance, indicated the 1 and 6 year old stands were losing carbon, the 15year old stand was gaining a small amount of carbon, the 23 and 74year old stands were gaining considerable carbon, and the 40 and 154year old stands were gaining modest amounts of carbon. The recovery from fire was rapid; a linear fit through the NEP observations at the 6 and 15year old stands indicated the transition from carbon source to sink occurred within 11-12 years. The NEP decline at the 154year old stand appears related to increased losses from Clive by tree mortality and possibly from Cforest floor by decomposition. Our findings support the idea that NPP, carbon production efficiency (NPP/GPP), NEP, and carbon storage efficiency (NEP/TNPP) all decrease in old boreal stands. ?? 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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Politics is all about vision—how you want society to function, the values you bring to your efforts. Specific policies, on the other hand, are nothing more than a means to reach that vision. And yet, somehow, we're at a point today in American politics where policies have become dogma, and vision has disappeared behind their haze. I don't see a vision of how society should be from the current crop of politicians. I see policy torn from results, policy elevated to end-result.
An obvious example is tax policy. To take an especially common example: We must have lower taxes. Why? Because lower taxes are better. How are they better? Because then I pay less taxes. OK. So what public services do you want to fund with your taxes? Military? Education? Police? Transit? What do you want society to look like? Perhaps your vision of how society should look doesn't need a large tax base to work. In that case, fair enough. But let's say you want a strong military and you want low taxes. A strong military costs a lot of money—in America's case about 4% of GDP. So how strong do you want the military? If you figure out what you want the end result to be, then work backwards to the policies—in this case, tax rates—you will find a policy that supports your vision.
In other words, you have to figure out where you want to go, then find the roads that lead there, and you have look at where you actually ended up when you took the roads you thought would get you there. Did that road take me to the coast? No? Then find another. Rinse and repeat.
At this point it feels like we're in a situation where two people are trying to plan a road trip:
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"The car must be blue."
"We have to decide if the road trip is to Alaska or Arizona."
"The car must be blue."
"But where do you want to go? You want to go to Alaska or Arizona? They're very different."
"Only a blue car can take us there. White cars are socialist."
"OK. Sure. Blue car it is. Fine. But what kind of car? SUV? Roadster? And if we go to Alaska we're going to have to get snow tires."
"The car must be blue. I'm an excellent driver. Yeah, definitely an excellent driver."
And on and on like a play where Beckett lost his everloving mind.
What we need in America today for a healthy debate is for politicians to state their goals. What kind of society do they want to create? And platitudes like "a strong America" or "a just society" or "a land of freedom" simply do not count. Those are clichés, not visions. What do you want? What kind of society?
Do you want a strong army? Why? Strong education? Who's going to pay for it? Do you want dependence on oil? Why? Why not? More police? Who's going to pay for them?
What is the vision? What the hell do you want?
If I have to sit through a whole election cycle again with nothing but policies divorced from end-goals and a media that doesn't want to even ask the question I'm going to scream.
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A Shorten Labor Government will secure the sustainability of the Father Bob Maguire Foundation over the next four years with a $200,000 funding boost.
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26 June 2018
A lot of the hard work that agents do for tenants goes unnoticed. Make friends with your agent and your tenancy will be smooth sailing!
Tenants are often unaware of the work a good letting agent can do on their behalf. "From the outset, an experienced agent will be able to advise you on the rental you can afford based on your income and living expenses," says Paul Stevens, CEO of Just Property. "The agent will then not only help you find the right home, their excellent sense of the rental market in their area will ensure you are charged a fair rental."
The next advantage is that an agent working for a large property company will have access to a well-constructed rental agreement. "Tenants don't always realise that a good lease protects them against unfair terms and conditions," Stevens says. "Just Property contracts are CPA compliant, which means that tenants are well protected. For example, we disclose all terms and conditions, such as rate escalations, deposit processes and all management fees. This means there are no nasty surprises for a tenant who has read and understood the contract before signing it."
Stevens emphasises the importance of going through your lease carefully with your agent before adding your signature and initialling every page. "Be upfront with your agent. Take them into your confidence. If there's anything you want to adjust in your lease, an agent you trust can help you do so. The time for negotiation is before you've signed the contract. But don't be shy to ask about anything you're unsure of. That's what the agent is there for."
Another benefit to tenants in agent-managed properties is deposit protection. Stevens notes that Just Property uses PayProp across the majority of their franchise offices. "PayProp holds our tenants' deposits securely in interest-bearing trust accounts. These are strictly controlled and cannot be misappropriated. Landlords who manage their own properties have easier access to deposits and some have been known to dip into these funds when cash flow is tight," he warns.
When it comes to maintenance, a professional managing agent will have a network of trusted service providers who can be called on for maintenance work or emergency repairs (even after hours). The agent will negotiate with the landlord for the required improvements or repairs on behalf of the tenant.
"Agents are a great help in ensuring the relationship between landlord and tenant is a good one, but it is true that sometimes circumstances change. It is when there is a dispute that you'll be especially grateful for an experienced agent," says Stevens.
An astute, well-informed letting agent with access to the best property-law knowledge can navigate conflict in accordance with contractual terms, and relevant legislation. "Together with a legal professional, such an agent will help tenants in dispute with their landlords discover who has what rights, and negotiate the best solution. This is one of the reasons we place such emphasis on lifelong learning for all our agents."
A good agent who knows you well, who has the same values as you do, will ensure there's a good relationship between you and your landlord even if you have never met. Afterall, a good tenant is every landlord's first prize, so form a strong relationship via your agent and you can benefit long-term. Stevens says that Just Property agents have, on occasion, even advised landlords to reduce rental escalations in order to retain good tenants who look after the property as if it were their own.
And when that good tenant is ready to move on, a trusted agent can help them avoid a host of problems, whether they're signing a new lease or taking the plunge and buying their first home.
Make friends with your letting agent - they are there for tenant and landlord alike
For more information on Just Property please visit www.just.property or call (087) 004 0149
Just Property LET'S OPEN DOORS


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The offer is however designed for individuals in the United States and the fortunate champs will be pleased to leave with a free HTC phone each Friday.
As indicated by HTC, the principal gadget to be given away is the HTC One M9 which is a year ago's lead cell phone.
Step By Step Instructions To PARTICIPATE
You have to join HTC Facebook page and also follow them on twitter via @HTCUSA, Then enter your details into a special website set up for this reason. The champs will be declared on the above web-based social media platforms.
Members who wish to take an interest in more than one draws are to re-enter their details over and over each Friday to be met all requirements for the campaign.


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Mission Statement:
It is the mission of the Savannah Grove Elementary wellness committee to create a social environment that promotes children's health, well-being, and ability to learn by supporting healthy eating and physical activity in school, in the community, and in life.
Chair: Samantha Broughton
CoChair: Layton Wicker - PE. Coach
Other Members:
David Copeland, Jr - Principal
Lora Ruggiero - Nurse
Nealie Smith - Counselor
Kath Scott - Food Service
Haley Taylor
Bruce Snipes
Shonda Williams


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7 Reasons Why Your Family Must See the City Museum in St. Louis
As parents, you owe it to yourself and to your children to take them to City Museum in St. Louis, MO. In fact, I'll go even further and say you'd be DEPRIVING them if you visited St. Louis and DIDN'T take your kids to the City Museum. That's how cool it is.
What is the City Museum? Housed in a former shoe factory, City Museum is more like an indoor-outdoor playground than a museum. That said, there are exhibits that display interesting artifacts from St. Louis' early years. In addition, there are rooms upon rooms of beautiful architectural pieces of demolished buildings from the city's different time periods. Much of the museum uses these old discarded objects and materials to create tunnels, caves and slides in which to crawl, hide and navigate. For example, used surgical pans line the walls of the bathroom which creates a beautiful, symmetrical effect. Seems hard to imagine? Another reason to visit!
Here are the top 7 reasons you should visit City Museum in St. Louis:
1. Reasonably priced for this all-day, indoor park
Unlike other attractions in the city that are free, City Museum costs $12 per person. But considering your family could spend the whole day here, that's a reasonable price. It's mostly indoors, so you can come and enjoy a full day regardless of the weather outside. We came here in the winter when the outdoor climbing areas were closed, and there was still plenty for us to see and do. When the roof area is open, there is an extra $5 admission price to access that area and plenty more fun things to do.
2. Fun for All Ages
The adults and the kids in our group were in awe of this place. The City Museum is a marvel of creative construction. I can imagine St. Louisians can come here regularly and still see new things at every visit.
3. Clean Play Areas
The City Museum is a very hands-on, feet-on, knees-on place, but yet it was very clean. There was always a custodian circulating the areas we visited.
4. Safe exploration for kids
Some of the nooks and crannies were truly just for kids, making it that much more thrilling for little ones to go exploring to places their parents physically can't fit. No need to worry though, there were "lifeguards" in the main area of each room to monitor activities and keep kids safe.
5. Plenty of Places for Parents to Perch
With all those nooks and crannies for the kids, there are also plenty of sitting areas for the parents to watch and wait (nap?). The artistry of the underwater room kept me captivated. The intricate mosaic floors and walls were beautiful, and ceiling drapery made it truly feel as if I was underwater. There's also a bar area and outdoor fire pit where s'mores were being toasted.
6. Good food and drinks available
All that climbing around makes kids hungry! Head upstairs to the pizza café where you can get St. Louis style, thin crust pizzas, salads or sandwiches. The pizzas were freshly made and delicious. If your group doesn't want a sit-down meal, there's a mini-mart of sorts that sells drinks and snacks.
7. The Slide of Slides
While an old church organ plays, march up nine stories in a dimly lit corridor to slide down the old shoe factory's chute, all the way to the bottom! There's also a slightly less intimidating five-story slide as well. The spooky-cool ambiance distracted our kids (and me) from how many stories they were climbing to reach the top!
There are two Hilton hotels in downtown St. Louis, Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark and Hilton St. Louis Downtown at the Arch, both of which are within a mere two miles from City Museum. Make sure to include the City Museum into your family's visit. You won't be disappointed!
You may also enjoy:
- 6 Fun Family Attractions in St. Louis
- 5 Fun Things to do in St. Louis With Kids
- 5 Fun Things to do in Branson, Missouri With Kids
- Fun Things to do in Chicago With Kids
Hilton Mom Voyage writers receive free night certificates to use at Hilton Hotels & Resorts worldwide. To learn more, visit our About Us page.
Erin is a native Floridian who has resided in Atlanta since 1995. Her husband Mike and she have two funny, smart, active girls and two cats.


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En 1885, les grans potències europees es van reunir a Berlín per compartir Àfrica entre ells, marxa un fosc període d'explotació colonial.
Avui, Legisladors europeus es reuneixen a Brussel. les per intent de subjugar meu continent una vegada més, Aquesta vegada per pressionar ens forswear les innovacions científiques que han revolucionat l'agricultura al voltant del món.
This new offensive comes from the European Parliament's Committee on Development, which has prepared a draft resolution that "urges the G8 member states not to support GMO crops in Africa." It has received surprisingly little attention in the press and it may receive a vote as early as June 6.
As a Kenyan farmer who participates in the daily struggle to grow food in a land that doesn't produce enough of it, I have a short message for the well-fed politicians who would consider supporting this neo-colonialist measure: "Leave Africa alone."
Your hostility to GMOs already has set us back a generation. Please don't take a step that could impoverish us for another generation by discouraging African governments from accepting important crop technologies that farmers in so many other places take for granted.
Aquí a Kenya, untold numbers of people struggle with food security, unsure about how they'll afford their next meal. I see the evidence of it everyday. Amb 46 milions de persones, a high rate of population growth, and the rapid urbanization of our arable land, our challenges probably will grow worse before they get better.
GMOs can play a positive role, letting us grow more food on less land in an economically and environmentally sustainable way. Farmers like me need access to agricultural biotechnology.
Instead of ordering Africans to abandon science, Europeans should listen to what their own scientists say: The European Commission and the World Health Organization both have vouched for the safety of GMOs. So has the National Academy of Sciences, the leading scientific advisory group in the United States, which just published a comprehensive study that endorses GMOs.
If the European Parliament wants to help Africa, it should try to spread scientific knowledge among the lawmakers and citizens of less-developed economies, enabling us to become self sufficient in the production of basic commodities, notably those that improve the lot of African farmers to assure food security.
What we don't need are lectures from Europeans whose lifestyles look luxurious to ordinary Africans. They want us to remain agricultural primitives, stuck with technologies that were antiquated even before we entered the 21st century.
Only a handful of African countries have accepted GMOs, among them Burkina Faso, Sudan and South Africa. Yet we could see a boom in the next few years.
Kenya is GMO-ready. We have regulatory protocols in place, coordinated by the National Biosafety Authority. The first field trials of GM maize are underway and they may start soon for cotton. We still can't cultivate, mercat, or import GMOs, but we're on the verge of lifting these restrictions. Once they're gone, my country will enjoy a new weapon in the fight against hunger.
The last thing we need is a bunch of wealthy nations frowning upon our progress without having any understanding of our predicament.
If Africa fails to take up modern farming methods, my continent will face disaster. We'll never realize the potential of either the Green Revolution or the Gene Revolution. Farmers will use more and more herbicides and pesticides, cutting into our incomes and endangering biodiversity. The cost of crop production will rise, which means the cost of food will rise, massa. More people will go hungry.
This is the bad future that the resolution now before the European Parliament asks us to embrace.
Afortunadament, the resolution is non-binding. The European Parliament cannot force a policy upon any member of the G8 and at least two of its members, Canada and the United States, are sure to reject it out of hand.
But that is not the point. Africa is in the habit of looking to Europe for political leadership and economic opportunity—and whatever the European Parliament decides, its choice will send a powerful signal.
Let's hope it makes the right one.