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The Chardonnay 2512
4 Bedroom, 3 Bathroom, 2 Car Garage
Henson 2080- NW Estates
4 Bedroom, 3 Bathroom 3 Car Garage
4 Bedroom, 4 Bathroom, 3 Car garage
Craftsman 3585
4 Bedroom, 5 Bathroom, 3 Car Garage
4 Bedroom, 2.5 Bathroom, 2 Car Garage
4 Bedroom, 3.5 Bathroom, 2 Car Garage
4 Bedrooms, 3.5 Bathrooms, 2 Car Garage
3 Bedroom, 2.5 Bathroom, 2 Car Garage
3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Bath, 2 Car Garage
5 Bedrooms, 3.5 Bathrooms
5 Bedroom, 3.5 Bathroom
5 Bedroom, 4.5 Bathroom, 3 Car Garage
5 Bedroom, 4.5 Bathroom
The Huntington Beach 1,148sf
Clovis Cottage Home #3
5 Bedroom, 3 Bathroom, 3 Car Garage
Chardonnay 2512
5 Bedroom, 2.5 Bathroom, 2 Car Garage
Chelsea Glen 2400- 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom
4 Bedroom, 3 Bathroom, 3 Car Garage
Fallbrook 2702 - Front Load
Fallbrook 2702 (Side Load)
Chelsea Glen 2122- 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms
Malsbary 2122 – NW Estates
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Express 3001
4 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom, 2 Car Garage
Chelsea Glen 2255- 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom
Chelsea Glen 2095
Riesling 2000
Express 1820
Valentine 1820- NW Estates
Merlot 1816
Huntington 1816
Cabernet 1700
Malbec 1700
Sunnyside 1700
Marks 1698- NW Estates
4 Bedroom, 2 Bedroom, 2 Car Garage
Alva 1548 - NW Estates
Zinfandel 2300
Shiraz 2160
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4 Bedroom, 3.5 Bathroom, 3 Car Garage
4 Bedroom, 4.5 Bathroom
Courtyard 3885
3 Bedroom, 3 Bathroom, 2 Car Garage
3 Bedroom, 3 Bathroom
Craftsman 1891
Chelsea Glen 1870 - 3 bed, 2 bath
3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom, 2 Car Garage
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Woodward 1600
3 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, 2 Car Garage
The Santa Barbara 1065sf
Country 2595
Big Bear Lodge #2
The Sacramento 820sf
The Fresno 748sf
The San Diego 748sf
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd Returns To The Road
Rock/blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd is returning to the road for the second leg of a U.S. concert tour.
The dates, featuring the critically acclaimed guitarist singing lead vocals for the first time in his career, kicked off with a performance Jimmy Kimmel Live and an appearance on the syndicated program Rockline.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd's new Warner/Reprise album, The Place You're In, released October 5, featured the top ten single "Alive." The Place You're In is the highly anticipated follow-up to the Grammy nominated Live On, the platinum selling and Grammy nominated Trouble is…, which featured rock chart toppers "Slow Ride" and "Blue On Black," and the platinum selling Ledbetter Heights.
Tour dates available at www.kennywayneshepherd.net.


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Panoramic drive to Rjukan
High mountain nature and exciting museums
The history about the Heavy water
The drive goes from Vrådal via Brunkeberg to Morgedal, called "The cradle of modern skiiing". Here you can visit Norwegian Ski Museum, which shows modern ski history through pictures, exhibitions and film. There is also a gift shop and café at the museum.
The drive continues west towards Åmot in Vinje and on to Rauland and over the high mountain area (highest point 1050 meters) to Skinnarbu with marvellous views over the south-eastern part of Hardangervidda.
On the road down the steep Vestfjorddalen we recommend a stop by the first tunnel to take a look down Maristijuvet.
Shortly after you'll arrive at Vemork museum. The museum is in the old power station, known from the sabotage operation in 1943. There are guided tours in the machine room and you can see exhibitions and battles during the second world war, and a film with and about the heavy water saboteurs. There is a café in the museum. We recommend Vemorkpakke where a guided tour and lunsj are included.
From Vemork you'll continue on towards Rjukan and if you have the time, we recommend a trip with the cable car "Krossobanen".
Drive through Rjukan, which Sam Eyde build up from the ground when he established Norsk Hydroelektriske Kvælstoffcompagnie (Norsk Hydro).
Continue on the reoad under Gaustatoppen - Telemark's highest moutain (1883 meters), through Tuddal (known for Knut Buen, Buens Amfi and an outdoor museum), to Sauland.
The drive continues west to Seljord, which is the commercial centre of the region, and then on via Brunkeberg to Vrådal.


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So even if not quite here yet and not constantly present outside – spring has finally arrived (plus: spring is what´s in your head, right 😉 ). So it is finally time for light colours, flowing fabric and sunglasses. On that note: good bye and see ya heavy coats!
There is however one trend going viral these days: ruffles. I went a little closet shopping and found this button up shirt. It is my mom´s – can you believe it? This proves one more time that fashion trends do have come backs every once in a while.
Now there are a lot of ways to combine and wear this. I opted for a girl boss/office look. Since there are ruffles and stripes and buttons on the top, there is a lot going on. Especially for work it might be a good idea to tone it down a little by keeping it simple on the lower body. As of me I love (<3) straight trousers – they are elegant and chic; even more if they are high waist (btw: these belong to my mum as well).
Btw: with the stripes being so thin, you don't have to worry that they make you look large, if this might be a concern of yours.
And hence the button up shirt is making a statement for itself, I also wanted to keep it simple with the accessories. Black sunglasses and a purse and I am ready to kick off this work day!
Now for those of you who do not wear the same size as your mum/grandma/aunt – there is always a simple DIY trick to make it fit. And if not: your dad´s closet might be an option (I will do a post on a shirt I stole from that closet)
Since my outfit is out of my mum´s closet: one of the bloggers I am following, Nina (love her blog!) has a great collection of blouses – go check it out, if you are looking for one.
Also different collections from different price ranges
- flowers
- white|boe
- blue|cardigan (SALE)
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- Asymetric (by Mango)
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U.S. consumer spending fell sharply in September after the government's cash-for-clunkers program expired, while after-tax incomes dropped for the fourth month in a row, the Commerce Department estimated Friday.
On a real (inflation-adjusted) basis, consumer spending sank a seasonally adjusted 0.6% in September, a reversal from the 1% gain seen during in August, the government's data showed. It was the largest decline in spending since December.
Real disposable incomes after taxes also fell, off a seasonally adjusted 0.1% to mark the fourth consecutive decline.
Despite overall growth in the economy in the third quarter, incomes aren't growing and jobs are still being lost at a rapid pace.
"The labor market remains challenging and until we see real improvement, sustained wage gains will be elusive," wrote Adam York, economist with Wells Fargo Securities....
Sluggish income growth is a major challenge for consumers in the fourth quarter, said Lori Helwing, economist for Bank of America's Merrill Lynch. She expects consumer spending to grow at an annualized pace of just 0.5% in the quarter, a big downshift after a 3.4% pop in the third quarter.
Meanwhile, the Commerce Department said current-dollar (not inflation-adjusted), spending dropped 0.5% in September after a 1.4% gain in August. Current-dollar incomes were flat, coming down from a 0.1% gain in August.
Economists surveyed by MarketWatch had been looking for nominal spending to fall 0.4% and for incomes to ease 0.1%....
The decline in September spending was largely due to the end of the government's subsidy program for autos.Totally and utterly unsurprising. I just hope that the White House won't now attack the Commerce Department for this unapproved bad news. (Edmunds fired back today at the White House, btw.)
Real spending on durable goods, including autos, fell 7.2% in September, pivoting off a 6.7% increase seen in August. Still, the level of spending on durable goods in September was higher than in July.
Real spending on nondurable goods rose 0.5%, on the heels of a 0.9% gain in August. Spending on goods excluding autos was "solid," according to Morgan Stanley economist David Greenlaw, who projects spending will rise about 2% on an annualized basis in the fourth quarter.


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Restoration Donation
Donate & Support
The Illinois Labor History Society holds the deed for the Haymarket Memorial and is responsible for its protection and upkeep. We also work with the cemetery to preserve, protect and restore the other significant labor history graves and monuments near the memorial. Your donation can help us maintain this important labor history site for future generations.
You can make your donation online here, or send a check to Illinois Labor History Society at 430 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605. Be sure to note Haymarket Memorial Donation with your gift.
Memorial Restoration Progress
In the early 1980s, the floral decoration from the from the Haymarket Martyrs Monument was stolen. The Illinois Labor History Society commissioned the conservator, Andrzej Dajinowski of the firm Conservation of Sculpture and Objects Studio, to restore this beautiful feature of the memorial. He recreated and installed the bronze floral piece based on historic photographs. The ILHS also engaged him to create a rubber mold of the floral piece and the monument's Altgeld plaque. These molds ensure that if damage is done to the monument in the future, we will be able to restore these elements.
What's Next for restoring the Monument?
Instillation of Missing Plaque on back side of Martyrs monument
In the 1980's a small bronze plaque was stolen from the back side of the Haymarket Martyrs monument. The plaque, (21 1/2" by 9") was placed below the larger plaque with the words of Governor P. Altgeld, granting absolute pardon to Martyrs Fielden, Neebe and Schwab. The plaque was installed after the death of Samuel Fielden. The plaque honors Michael Schwab (died June 29, 1898), Oscar Neebe (died April 22, 1916) and Samuel Fielden (died February 7, 1922). We plan to recreate and restore the missing plaque.
A Gravestone to be Placed for Nina Van Zandt Spies
Nina Van Zandt Spies was the widow of Haymarket Martyr, August Spies. She was educated at Vassar College and fell in love with August Spies during the Haymarket trial. She helped August Spies write his autobiography and was disinherited by her wealthy aunt because of Nina Spies' politics. Since her death in 1936, her burial site was never marked. In the midst of updating the booklet, The Day Will Come, author Mark Rogovin discovered the precise location of her grave. The ILHS is working with the cemetery to place a marker for her.
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I was so happy that my fancy new camera remote came in. But let's just go ahead and admit it - taking your own pictures is not easy. I think today's outfit pics are a total bust. The pants turned out to look terrible and the wind was SO RIDICULOUS. I couldn't get anything to work for me!
Top, The Limited. Pants, XXI. Shoes, ShoeDazzle.
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Name: Muslibegovic House & Hotel
Location: Osmana Džikića 41, Mostar 88000, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Price: Around $70 | Book It
Stay here if…you want to stay in a working museum that shows you a traditional Ottoman Empire style house.
The Room at Muslibegovic House & Hotel
My room at Muslibegovic House & Hotel was on the smaller side if I hadn't been traveling alone, but for one person it worked perfectly. There are larger rooms available for bigger families, so just be careful when booking. The room was decorated with a nice blend of past and present with all the furnishings in traditional Ottoman style. The bathroom was tiled with beautiful mosaics throughout and the heated floor was a great added touch. I was expecting a hard bed in the room since everything was so old but the mattress was extremely soft and I got phenomenal sleep!
Although I was staying in such an old property (and working museum) I was so happy to see tons of modern amenities. The rooms heating and air conditioning worked well, and like I said before the bathroom had heated floors. A hairdryer was in the bathroom and a cable TV was mounted on the wall. But, because it is a working museum I did hear tours being given through my room door starting at around 9 am.
Wi-Fi at Muslibegovic House & Hotel
Unfortunately, the Wi-Fi at Muslibegovic House & Hotel was not great. It worked fine in the breakfast room but only worked in the bathroom and near the door of my room. It did time out occasionally and asked me to reconnect multiple times. I heard other guests complaining about their Wi-Fi, it seems to be a common problem at their hotel.
Breakfast at Muslibegovic House & Hotel
Breakfast is included in the price of the room at Muslibegovic House & Hotel. The dining area is a nicely decorated and spacious room a short walk away from the main house. Breakfast was small but sufficient with traditional food and spreads.
Area around Muslibegovic House & Hotel
The Muslibegovic House & Hotel is about a 10-minute walk to the main part of old town including the main attraction; Stari Grad or Old Bridge. The hotel is close to bakeries and other dining and in a generally safe area.
Onsite extras at Muslibegovic House & Hotel
The Muslibegovic House & Hotel is a museum as well and you have access to walk around the house unguided.
Final Thoughts for Muslibegovic House & Hotel
A very cool location for a hotel within walking distance to the main sites of Mostar makes this a great choice for accommodation. As mentioned above, the museum does start tours around 9 am and if you are a late sleeper this isn't a good choice for you as you can hear the tours through your door in specific rooms.


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Samsung 108cm (43 inch) Full HD LED TV (UA43K5002AKXXL / UA43K5002AKLXL)
If there's nothing interesting on the TV, use ConnectShare and watch a variety of content in one simple step. All you have to do is plug in your USB or HDD into the TV's port and enjoy watching movies on its huge 108 cm screen.
Those beautiful family vacation pictures that are safely stored on your PC or an interesting game from your gaming console - with the Samsung TVs HDMI inputs, you can connect HDMI straight into the TV to view photos or play a game.
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The International Monetary Fund has granted Morocco a two-year $3.5 billion credit line to boost inclusive economic growth. The fund expects the North African nation to reform its subsidies, pension and taxation systems. It's urged authorities to implement an inflation-targeting regime and greater exchange flexibility.
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Friends of a Toronto doctor who grew up in Windsor-Essex and was found dead near Vaughan, Ont. this weekend shared their shock and sadness Saturday.
Friends of slain doctor shocked, saddened by her death
After an Ontario Medical Association council meeting last weekend, Windsor doctor Darren Cargill bumped into a female doctor he hadn't seen since medical school. The two showed off pictures of their kids and talked about family life before going their separate ways.
Less than a week later Cargill was scrolling through social media when he saw news that the woman he had sat down with just days earlier was dead, her body found in a suitcase near Vaughan, Ont.
"It was nice to catch up and talk about family. She was so full of positivity and optimism," he said Sunday. "But just a few days later I'm reading that she had died. It was so strange and sad."
The body of the well-respected physician Elana Fric-Shamji who grew up in Windsor-Essex was discovered Thursday after a region-wide search. According to police sources, she was strangled and hit with a blunt object before her body was dumped near Kleinberg, a village about an hour outside of Toronto.
"We received a call from the mother of the victim expressing concern that she hadn't heard from her daughter in quite some time … a body was discovered in a suitcase not far away," Toronto police Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook said late Saturday.
Mohammed Shamji, a 40-year-old Toronto neurosurgeon, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder. He appeared in court Saturday.
Douglas-Cook said an investigation into the homicide is ongoing.
Cargill described Fric-Shamji as "a bright, fun-loving young woman." After the council meeting he said she revealed she was getting a divorce, but was staying positive.
"She came across as very confident and upbeat," he said. "Even when she talked about her divorce she was viewing it as a new beginning for her and her children."
Now, he said, the Fric-Shamji's three children have been "essentially orphaned."
Cargill, a palliative care specialist at the Hospice of Windsor, is no stranger to death, but he called what happened to the doctor a "tremendous shock" and tragedy that's left the Ontario medical community in mourning.
"She was such a bright light, it's horrible," he said. "You think about how wonderful of a person she was … to know her life was ended so soon in such a sad way is terrible."
Throughout the weekend friends and family of Fric-Shamji took to social media to express their grief. Many changed their profile pictures to a simple sketch of a female doctor holding a baby next to a purple ribbon in her honour.
Alan Saad said he attended St. Peter Elementary School in Tecumseh and St. Anne Catholic High School with Fric-Shamji long before she became a doctor. He said back in Grade 7 their teacher would grant her a time slot every week where she could stand up and share a story she had written.
"She had a great sense of humour and was a great writer, so she was allowed that special time," Saad explained. "She had us rolling in the aisles. She was so entertaining and funny."
During high school the two drifted apart, but Saad said he recently reconnected with her through Facebook where she would often post about long distance running, her husband and how much she loved her kids.
"She was an awesome mother," he said. "It hurts to see something so terrible happen to such a good person."
On Friday, Saad said he was scrolling through Facebook when he first learned how she died.
"The first thing I thought about were her kids. I have a 16-month-old girl and I can't imagine her losing a parent in that way."
Saad said many friends from the school community are reaching out to each other this weekend to share memories of the doctor and to try and comfort each other.
Among them is Brendan Byrne, who also knew the doctor when she was a student at St. Anne's. He posted online that he was "heartbroken" by the news.
"She stopped by here a couple years back at our home with her beautiful girls and we had such a great visit," he wrote on Facebook. "This week has been heart-wrenching and heartbreaking."
Byrne described Fric-Shamji as "brilliant, witty and lovely" and said he and his family are still reeling in a state of disbelief.
Saad said many graduates from the high school are struggling to come to grips with the doctor's death.
"Everybody is shocked and saddened. We keep talking about how gifted and full of life she was."


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Press Release: Custom ADA Signage at the US Bank Stadium
ENCOMPASS SIGNS SYSTEMS CUSTOM ADA SIGNAGE at the US BANK STADIUM – Minneapolis, MN
Golden Valley, MN – Encompass Sign Systems, Inc. manufactured 3,426 ADA-compliant and interior signs for the modernistic U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, home of the Minnesota Vikings. Encompass was chosen to produce the contemporary sign package largely because they employ a new-age technology for sign-making that allows for unprecedented branding. The technology is referred to by early-adopters in the design community as thermoforming or compression-molded signage.
Thermoforming technology yields a highly-durable, single-piece sign capable of incorporating brand-rich features. For the U.S. Bank Stadium project, Encompass produced a multi-layered, myriad pattern within the acrylic signage, in both purple and gold versions, to accentuate the brand of the Minnesota Vikings.
"Our Encompass Team has produced a number of brand-rich, interior sign packages featuring a wide variety of dimensional items such as perforated aluminum and natural grasses, however, the layered, myriad pattern we produced for the Vikings and U.S.Bank Stadium was unprecedented and ultra-cool. We were honored to have been selected to produce such a stunning sign package using our new-age thermoforming technology". – Phil Quattrocchi, President
Encompass Sign developed their thermoforming, compression molding process after two years of trial and error to develop nine distinct products. The US Bank Stadium project documented for the sign industry that highly-branded, thermoformed signs could be mass-produced, in a short time-frame, for a mega-sized Project like U.S. Bank Stadium.
As a wholesale company, Encompass Sign Systems partnered with national sign companies and experiential designers in 2016 to produce over 15,000 ADA signs for Healthcare, Educational, Stadium and Community environments. Encompass is slated to release two new Products in early 2017. Encompass Sign is a member of ISA, SEGD, FASTSIGNS, ARTS Community and is WBE-certified company.
To learn more about Encompass
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Encompass Sign Systems enables the integration of thermoformed ADA-compliant signage with European-based extruded Directional Systems. This combination of rare components yields a cohesive wayfinding system for facility projects of scope while streamlining the architectural and design challenges around integrating such a holistic solution. The ease with which architects and designers can specify an integrated wayfinding solution has led to rapid adoption of Encompass products. Encompass is one of only 23 thermoform sign-makers worldwide and is a wholesale provider to sign shops and designers throughout North America.
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Another awesome hope to dream! Thank you to Bob and Rachel for attending, Also Josh for driving half way, Sorry we will get it together for next time. The drive team was organized and extremely helpful. This young lady Anin was so excited and grateful to have a bed! Such an amazing morning!
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consultant bios
Kris Berger
Kris has worked in New York City's nonprofit sector for more than ten years and has extensive experience designing, implementing, and directing innovative programs that meet critical community needs. Most recently, Kris was the Director of Program Development at New York Cares, where she served as a member of the organizations senior management team and was responsible for directing efforts to mobilize more than 2500 volunteers each month on meaningful and impactful community service projects. Prior to joining New York Cares, Kris was the Assistant Director of Education at the New York Academy of Sciences, where her projects included a successful summer science research internship and academic enrichment program for New York City high school students.
She has developed and written many successful grant proposals; worked with public schools and community based organizations to identify and assess resource needs and to create programs that meet these needs; built sustainable public-private partnerships; designed and managed large-scale (500+ individuals) corporate volunteer events; and managed strategic planning processes.
In addition, Kris has considerable expertise in the area of volunteer program design, development, and implementation, and has worked with schools and nonprofit organizations to identify appropriate volunteer needs and develop strategies to meet these needs as well as with corporations who wish to mobilize employees to "give back" on short- or long-term projects.
In 1998, while the Director of Program Development at New York Cares, Kris created and launched the Partners in Technology Program (PITP), one of the first initiatives in New York City to address Digital Divide issues in the nonprofit and education community. During the programs first two years of operation, volunteers with technology expertise shared their knowledge and skills with more than 50 nonprofit organizations and schools to build computer labs; install computer networks; train staff and clients; and create state-of-the-art websites and databases. In 2001, the PITP was nationally replicated to six additional cities.
Kris holds a Masters Degree in Sociology of Education and Education Policy (1995) from Columbia Universitys Teachers College, and BA degrees in History and Political Science (1990) from Northwestern University.
Jeff Birdsall, M.A.
Jeff is a consultant, educator and trainer in the areas of leadership development, non-profit management, youth programs, service-learning and residential environmental and outdoor education programs. He has led trainings, workshops and provided keynote presentations for national service programs, state commissions and non-profits throughout the country. Jeff strives to facilitate volunteers, staff and students' personal, intellectual and spiritual development in their journeys to become effective, caring and responsible citizens and leaders in their communities. Jeff resides in Seattle, Washington and in addition to his on-going training and consulting work, currently serves as an adjunct instructor in Brown University's Leadership Institute.
Over the past seventeen years Jeff has worked as an experiential educator and program director in a variety of learning communities including environmental education centers, outdoor leadership programs, community-based urban service-learning programs, rural residential programs, higher education institutions, and AmeriCorps projects. Recently, he directed two AmeriCorps programs, The Northwest Service Academy and The Youth Volunteer Corps, as well as co-founded a youth service program, The Wilderness Volunteer Corps.
Jeff holds a Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies: Service-Learning from Naropa University (2003), where he helped to create a new service-learning center, and a B.S. in Environmental Education from Lesley University/Audubon Expedition Institute (1989).
Frances Caulfield, M.S.
For over 20 years, Fran has provided professional development to the New York City public school community through curriculum design and instruction, leadership training, and comprehensive educational plan development and implementation.
Fran has served in numerous capacities within the New York City Department of Education as a teacher, Assistant high school Director, and Project Coordinator for the Manhattan High School Superintendent's office. As an educational consultant, Fran has worked to build and sustain effective school partnerships and programs supporting administrators, teachers, and students.
Her expertise and experience includes:
- Assessing professional development needs, both department-specific and school-wide; for teachers, support staff and principals/assistant principals
- Designing programs and writing curricula that support integration, and interdisciplinary instruction
- Working with New York City high schools on the development and implementation of Comprehensive Educational Plans
- Partnership building between schools and external partners
- Facilitating cabinet initiatives such as school-wide professional development plans, school tone and culture initiatives, redesigning faculty conference formats
- Personal coaching for principals, assistant principals and district personnel
- Program design
- Project management
Fran holds a Masters Degree in Elementary Education from Hunter College.
Helena Duch, Psy.D.
Helena is a child psychologist with over 10 years of experience nationally and internationally in the areas of childhood education and mental health. Her areas of expertise include early childhood policy, mental health and educational consultation, curriculum development, teacher training and program evaluation.
Helena has extensive experience working with Head Start and Early Head Start programs, in center-based and home-based settings as part of her appointment with the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. She has coordinated and supervised mental health services for pregnant women, infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families at Columbia University Head Start and Early Head Start for almost 8 years. She also trains Columbia University public health students and family medicine residents as part of their child development training. In 2000, Helena received a grant from the Federal Administration on Children, Youth and Families to conduct a two-year research study on the mental health of Hispanic Head Start Children and their families.
Internationally, Helena has worked for UNICEF in South Asia and for their Child Friendly Schools Project around the world, the World Bank in Russia, Childhope in Brazil and in Sri Lanka as a part of a task force from Mount Sinai Hospital training first responders in trauma interventions for young children affected by the Tsunami
Helena is currently involved in the evaluation of Getting Ready for School, a parent-child literacy and numeracy curriculum designed for parents of children 4-7 years old. Developed by Open Society Institute and the Step by Step Association, Getting Ready for School has been implemented in over 20 countries in central Europe, the former Soviet Union and Latin America. In the US, it is being pioneered at Columbia University Head Start.
Nationally, Helena has worked in New York City Public schools, foster care agencies, early intervention settings , Bellevue Hospital and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, providing direct services to children and families. She has expertise in the areas of psychological, neuropsychological and educational assessment, consultation and direct intervention with children in group, individual and family therapy.
Helena has extensive background in program evaluation and research and works as senior evaluation consultant for Owen Consulting Inc., leading multi-site evaluations of 21st CCLC funded after-school programs in New York City Public schools amongst other projects.
Helena holds a Master's degree in Developmental Psychology from Teacher's College – Columbia University (1998), a Master's degree in Educational Psychology from New York University (2000) and completed her doctoral degree in Child/School Psychology at New York University in June 2005. She is a native Spanish speaker, and is fluent in English, French, and Italian.
Julie Geisler
Julie brings over fourteen years of professional development and non-profit management experience to Owen Consulting. Her expertise includes program and fiscal oversight, training and technical assistance, youth job training and workforce development programs, community service management, and team building and leadership development for corporate and non-profit professionals.
Julie's clients have included AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve America, the National Senior Service Corps, the Central Park Conservancy, Studio in a School, Chelsea Piers, Youth Service Opportunities Project, the Catholic Network of Volunteer Service, and ETR Associates. She has conducted training sessions in topic areas such as program planning and management, staff training, time management, recruitment and retention, leadership, teambuilding, and communication. Julie has developed training manuals and evaluation resources for numerous organizations and coordinated conferences, workshops, and events nationwide.
Sonia Gugga, Ph.D.
Sonia Gugga is a psychometrician and statistician with over ten years' experience in the fields of cognitive and clinical psychology and education. She has consulted with organizations and academic researchers by designing studies and analyzing data in both experimental and non-experimental contexts, and has taught courses in statistics and cognitive psychology. Her current work as a measurement scientist involves designing methodology for evaluating institutional effectiveness with respect to teaching and learning in higher education, which involves working closely with faculty and senior administration across all academic disciplines.
Sonia has extensive experience designing measures and survey instruments, evaluating them for validity both psychometrically and conceptually, and has contributed to a number of publications by expressing sophisticated statistical concepts in practical language. With respect to statistical analyses, she has evaluated outcomes on several national multi-site studies in clinical psychology and psychiatry while serving in a Research Unit on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP), and has presented the resulting models to on-site meetings of principle investigators at the National Institute of Mental Health.
Sonia holds a PhD in Evaluation and Measurement and an MS in Applied Statistics from Columbia University, and a BA in English and Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the 2000 Sindlinger Prize for the best student paper at Columbia University Teachers College.
John Harris, Ed.M.
John brings more than 15 years of evaluation and research experience to his work with Owen Consulting, primarily in the areas of mentoring and violence prevention. His experience as a teacher and counselor serving urban and rural at-risk youth strongly influences his approach to research. John specializes in action research, instrument development, and the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods to provide the most robust insight on the programs he studies.
John has consulted to a variety of school- and community-based programs but maintains a primary research focus on mentoring. His mentoring research centers on relationship quality, how it varies across mentoring models, and how it influences psychosocial and academic outcomes. He is enthusiastically pursuing an initiative to extend rigorous evaluation to programs that are currently underrepresented in existing research. His vision for mentoring research, already realized in part through development of nationally respected measures of relationship quality, is to develop measurable standards of mentoring relationship quality that may be applied across mentoring programs and approaches.
John holds s a master's in education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Louis Hernandez, Ed.D.
Louis has been working with at risk adolescents and their families for over twenty-five years. He has worked in a broad range of educational, counseling, and youth development settings, including the New York City public school system, Bellevue Hospital, and the New York City Outward Bound Center.
For the past thirteen years, Louis has served as a building-wide school guidance counselor in NYC public schools, where he works with at-risk adolescents and their families. He provides individual, group, and family counseling, networks with community resources, facilitates workshops for parents and teachers, conducts after school programs, and manages extensive crisis intervention services.
Louis has an extensive background in adventure-based and experiential youth programming. Over the years he has designed, coordinated and led numerous adventure education programs for inner-city at-risk adolescents, including ten-day bicycle tours in Massachusetts and the Delaware Water Gap. He incorporates his counseling/teaching skills in an after school rock-climbing program, as well as "Healthy Options," a martial-arts-based youth development program. Louis has also trained teachers in experiential education as part of an Outward Bound/UFT professional development program. In addition to experience-based learning, Hernandez's teaching and therapeutic methodology incorporates diagnostic, holistic, and behavioral approaches.
Hernandez's credentials include training in RET, behavior modification, 12 Step, conflict mediation, trauma counseling, family systems, and experiential education. He holds a Masters in Bilingual Special Education from Fordham University with a focus in teaching emotionally handicapped, socially maladjusted and learning disabled students. He attained a second Masters in Educational Guidance and a post degree in Marriage and Family Counseling with a concentration in alcoholism and chemical dependency. Louis is currently completing a doctoral dissertation in group counseling.
Jimmy Jung, Ph.D.
Jimmy is an educational psychologist with 20 years of experience in K-12 and higher education, with a passion for using predictive analytics to improve student and organizational outcomes. His areas of expertise include program evaluation, advanced statistical modelling, policy development, and strategic planning.
Over the course of his career, Jimmy has served as program evaluator for the New York City Department of Education, focusing on dual-language, literacy, and summer programs. He has also worked as a director of planning and assessment at Baruch College, conducting research on student transition from high school to college. More recently, he has served in executive-level positions at the The College of Brockport, the University of Maine, and New Jersey City University. Some of the programs that he has developed and implemented include, mentoring for first-generation students, assessing and addressing the social emotional factors related to college success, and increasing financial funding for low-income students.
His expertise has made him a highly sought-after consultant to non-profit organizations nationally and internationally on using data to improve policies and outcomes. In addition, Jimmy has held faculty appointments at New Jersey City University, the University Maine, Baruch College, and Hunter College, where he served on dissertation committees, developed research grant proposals, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in education, statistics, and psychology.
Rebecca Koldaycz, M.A.
Rebecca is an evaluation consultant with over ten years of experience conducting evaluations and carrying out social research. She has considerable experience training staff in designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation plans, as well as experience writing and editing evaluation reports and presenting findings to various stakeholders. Her expertise is in qualitative and quantitative research methods, including designing evaluations, developing surveys, conducting observations and individual and focus group interviews, and performing statistical analyses. She is a strong advocate of a participatory, utilization-focused approach to program evaluation.
Rebecca has extensive knowledge of international adolescent sexual and reproductive health programs, youth development issues, teen pregnancy prevention programs, and national education initiatives. She currently serves as Senior Evaluation Officer at International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region, where she provides evaluation technical assistance in sexual and reproductive health programs throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
As a Research Associate with Metis Associates, she was the project manager and principal evaluator of numerous grant-funded programs in public elementary and middle schools, including family literacy, conflict resolution and violence prevention, bilingual education, parent involvement, arts education, and after school youth development programs in New York City and nationally. Prior to that, she was the Evaluation Manager for the Monroe Council on Teen Pregnancy, where she developed and initiated procedures for evaluating local teen pregnancy prevention programs in Rochester, New York, and coordinated efforts of Council members, evaluation consultants, pregnancy prevention staff, Community Organizers, and others on research issues. She has also conducted research in Tamil Nadu, India, on marriage patterns, household composition and the changing nature of the caste system.
Rebecca holds a master of arts in social anthropology from the University of Rochester and is fluent in Spanish.
Clinton Lacey
Clinton has over 25 years of experience working with youth and families - 19 of which have been focused in the field of juvenile and criminal justice. From 1992 to 2004, Clinton served as the Associate Executive Director of Friends of Island Academy, developing and managing services for 16 to 24 year olds involved in the juvenile and criminal justice systems of New York City.
Following his tenure at Friends of Island Academy, Clinton served as the Director of the Youth Justice Program at Vera Institute of Justice. There, he oversaw a technical assistance project focused on the reform of New York State's juvenile justice policies. At Vera, he also led an initiative to develop and improve collaborative relationships between communiy based youth advocates and system based juvenile justice officials from various jurisdictions around the nation.
In June, 2006, Clinton joined the W. Haywood Burns Institute as a Project Manager working in several jurisdictions around the nation with stakeholders engaged in the Burns Institute process of addressing racial disparities in local juvenile justice systems. In this capacity Clinton had the opportunity to train and collaborate with a cross section of stakeholders, including judges, probation officials, prosecutors, public defenders, educators, advocates, community organizers and the court involved youth and families themselves.
Clinton recently joined the New York City Department of Probation as the Deputy Commissioner for adult operations. In this capacity he is responsible for oversight of a division that supervises some 27,000 clients on probation and is leading a series of innovative initiatives to design to reform the Probation Department's key policies and practices.
Clinton is an experienced trainer, facilitator and keynote speaker on such issues as DMC, racial & ethnic disparity, transitional discharge planning, comprehensive re-entry services, gang intervention strategies and overall youth & human development. He has conducted training workshops and delivered lectures around the nation, as well as in Brazil and Barbados. Clinton has a B.A. in Latin American and Caribbean History from Herbert H. Lehman College (City University of New York) and is a graduate of the Institute for Not-for- Profit Management at Columbia University. Clinton is married and the father of two sons and a daughter.
Candace Mayer LaRue, MA
Candace has been successfully supporting organizations to meet their programming and development needs for the past three decades. She is a published author, facilitator, consultant and administrator with nearly thirty years experience in the private, non-profit and governmental sectors. Candace has won millions of dollars for clients through successful grant writing at the local, State and federal levels, has served as a peer reviewer for federal grants and has successfully designed and implemented peer review processes at the State level. Her experience also includes contract oversight and reporting, program development, and development of resources and training for programs serving youth and communities. Candace has a Masters degree in Social Policy from the State University of New York and holds a variety of credentials including having completed training as a trainer in the Finance Project's Sustainability Planning Process.
Ed Leibman
For more than 15 years, Ed has raised millions of dollars for non-profit organizations including the Public Theater, New York Botanical Garden, National Institute For Reproductive Health, Bellevue Hospital Center, Playwrights Horizons, Theater Communications Group, and The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.
Throughout his career, Ed has excelled in unlocking hidden potential in the donor bases of the organizations he has served. A creative thinker, his entrepreneurial approach to fundraising often breaks the mold of convention. Ed specializes in major gifts, board development, corporate sponsorship, and campaign strategy.
Jeff Lischin, M.A.
Jeff is a grant writer and education consultant with extensive charter school experience in many states. He is the former Vice President for Education and Youth Development at the Urban League of Hudson County (NJ). Jeff writes $1-$15 million in approved grants annually and has written or co-written over 15 approved charter school applications in five states. Jeff developed a Charter School Founders' Manual that has been published in two editions – a NJ specific edition published by the NJ Charter School Resource Center and a MD specific edition published by the MD Charter School Network. As a consultant, Jeffrey Lischin writes charter school applications; provides design, development and technical assistance for charter schools; prepares grant applications; provides evaluation services; does funding opportunity research, project planning, and program design/development services. Areas of concentration include education, employment training, at-risk youth, social services, daycare, after-school programs, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, services for the homeless, community-based non-profit organizations, charter schools, YouthBuild, AmeriCorps, school-to-work, and welfare-to-work.
Maeve Powlick, Ph.D.
Maeve has worked with public schools and districts, community-based organizations, and government agencies as a consultant for 10 years. For six of those years, she was also a full-time faculty member at Skidmore College, teaching interdisciplinary courses in research methodology (Participatory Action Research, Geographic Information Systems, and Statistics), Economics, Gender Studies, and Mathematics. As part of her dissertation research on the role of young people as actors and agents of change in economic development at the community level, she taught a year-long course on Participatory Action Research at Harvey Milk High School, a New York City Transfer School.
Upon completing her PhD in 2011, Dr. Powlick moved to consulting work full-time in order to work directly on youth and community development. Her consulting work has focused on building effective partnerships across sectors, incorporating data collection and analysis into program practice at all levels of program operation (including direct service as well as program administration and leadership), and continually improving program approaches through data and input from youth, parents, and other stakeholders. With many years of experience in direct work with youth, she has provided professional development workshops for numerous school- and CBO-run after school programs in collaboration with the Partnership for After School Programming. She has worked on evaluations of more than 40 school and center based program sites, using a collaborative, mixed-method approach to evaluation, and is currently co-principal investigator on the evaluation of both the New York City and Rest of State 21st Century Community Learning Center Technical Assistance Resource Centers.
Maeve worked with the DOE Office of Student Support Services and six Community School Districts to provide professional development, coaching, and needs assessment reports to 27 NYC public schools. She worked with transfer school partner Wediko Children's Services to facilitate discussions that included a diverse and multi-lingual group – including youth, parents, CBO staff, teachers, and administrators – to create a consensus-based logic model for Wediko's work with the New Directions transfer school. Working with NYCDOE Office of Students in Temporary Housing, she has brought together diverse groups of stakeholders to identify common outcomes for homeless youth and strategies for improving data collection and use of data in decision-making City-wide. In the past three years, she has worked with community-based organizations and school districts to write and lead teams to write more than $50,000,000 in funded grant applications at the local, state, and federal level.
Kirsten Richert M.Ed.
Kirsten is an innovation expert who consults with business and non-profit leaders on transforming results. She draws upon her experience in three core disciplines—business management, ideation methodology, and facilitation—to help clients make breakthroughs in strategic planning and communications. Formerly Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Pearson, the world's leading educational textbook publisher, Kirsten oversaw the creation of breakthrough "digital-first" K-12 curriculum. With 25 years of experience in developing curriculum for schools, Kirsten can help clients think through a holistic teaching and learning ecosystem—including providing academic content, addressing social-emotional skills, tracking standards, delivering on platforms, meeting diverse student needs, supporting teacher readiness, and achieving administrator requirements. She brings this depth of knowledge to help organizations in defining and delivering educational programs and services.
As an innovation consultant, Kirsten helps teams plan new efforts, generate ideas, and execute on strategies. For more than 10 years, Kirsten has taught SIT methodology—Systematic Inventive Thinking is a step-by-step innovation process developed in Israel in the mid-1990s derived from Genrich Altshuller's TRIZ engineering discipline. These methods have been successfully used in many corporate environments as a practical and effective approach to creativity, innovation, and problem solving. As an example, Kirsten used SIT methods to lead a 2-day innovation lab to create a new program concept for McGraw Hill Education that won high praise and fast-track funding approval from their senior management. Kirsten has also worked on change efforts with many nonprofit organizations, especially in the areas of education and human development. Kirsten recently lead Strategic Planning Processes for Alliance for Arts and Health New Jersey, The Community Chest, and The Barat Foundation. In this type of planning work, Kirsten provides structured facilitation that ensures effective participation and long term buy-in, including collaborative work sessions and implementation planning with team members, cross-functional experts, and stakeholders.
Kirsten brings 3 key strengths to the table: an intense drive to make progress toward an organization's mission, a demonstrated ability to foster collaboration that solves problems and creates new products, and a real-world focus on revenue growth, efficiency improvements, and communications excellence. Kirsten received her undergraduate degree in Social Sciences from Hampshire College and her master's degree in Education from Teacher's College at Columbia University. She is passionately interested in programs/projects that expand our abilities to differentiate instruction, support students with special needs, and develop social-emotional skills.
Nitika Tolani, Ph.D.
Nitika holds a B.A. in English and a B.S. in Psychology from Santa Clara University, as well as an M.A. in Applied Psychology from Columbia University, where her research and training focused on the critical role of public policy in shaping the lives of low-income families. She earned her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology (with a concentration in International Education Policy) from Columbia University in 2007. In addition to her doctoral work, Nitika was a Graduate Research Fellow at the National Center for Children and Families (NCCF), co-directed by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Ph.D. and Sharon Lynn Kagan, Ed.D.
Over the past 10 years, Nitika has participated in large-scale qualitative and quantitative studies at every level, including grantwriting and budget development, research design and implementation, management of data collection activities, and synthesis and publication of results. She has taken numerous classes in advanced research methods and statistics, including psychological assessment, applied econometrics (e.g. cost -benefit analyses), latent structure analysis and hierarchical linear modeling, in order to learn to investigate the complex processes of child development through empirical research. In addition, her professional experiences at The World Bank, UNICEF-India and Metis Associates, an independent educational consulting organization, have provided her with significant project management and supervisory experience.
Nitika's main interests lie in conducting policy-oriented research focusing on the influences of families and communities on the development of children and families across socioeconomic status and ethnicity. Specifically, she is interested in how families, peers, and communities affect the health and development of marginalized children and youth, and how researchers and educators can use empirical data to develop prevention and intervention programs and social policies that promote resiliency. Nitika has conducted research on youth mentoring programs, alternative educational interventions for adolescents, and early childhood education programs (i.e. Head Start) both in the United States and abroad. She presents regularly at national and international conferences on topics related to the sociology of education.
Anne Troy
Anne has worked extensively in non-profit fundraising and management including serving as Director of Development for the Mayor's Office of New York, creative supervisor on the Met Life Snoopy campaign, and Executive Director and Director of Development in both social services and classical music.
Her professional accomplishments include launching the first school in a homeless shelter in the US, launching the first housing in NYC and Harlem targeted to low-income people with AIDS, launching a computer training program for children living in 50 public housing developments across the 5 boroughs, raising corporate sponsorships for Yankee parades and for refurbishing City Hall, launching a public school for youth newly released from jail, launching a soup kitchen serving 12,000 meals per month, and assisting in raising over $100 million for the Twin Towers Fund.
Anne's proposals have received significant funding and highest scores at every level of public sector funding including the US Department of Labor, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Education Department, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene/Division of AIDS Services, NYS Council for the Arts, and NYC Department of Youth and Community Development. Since 2007 Anne has helped Owen Consulting's clients win more than $17,000,000 in City, State, and Federal funding for education, social service, and after school initiatives.
Dario Veraldi
Dario has been teaching adventure education to at-risk youth since 1992. With a background in environmental science, Dario worked in the Education Department of the Central Park Conservancy teaching urban park ecology before moving into experiential education. Dario was instrumental in developing the Park's adventure-based youth programs, including Ascent, a multi-day climbing and leadership program for at-risk adolescents.
Trained by Project Adventure, Dario's professional experience has included program and facility management, consulting, professional development, course design and instruction, and years of direct service work with youth from under-served communities. Dario is also a certified Wilderness First Responder and New York State Licensed Rock Climbing Guide. A native Argentine, Dario is bilingual, and has climbed extensively in Patagonia as well as the North Eastern United States.
Emily West, Ph.D.
Emily is a senior evaluation consultant with over 10 years of research and evaluation experience within the social service and educational sectors. Emily has extensive experience with survey design, conducting focus groups & administering surveys, performing advanced data analysis, writing reports & presenting findings, as well as providing needs assessments to clients regarding how best to organize, collect and present program and participant data.
Emily's professional and academic background covers a broad array of research areas including youth development (teen pregnancy prevention and juvenile delinquency), education (after-school programs, evaluation of summer school in the New York City public school system, use of technology in the classroom, etc.) and crime policy (prisoner re-entry, reducing recidivism, restorative justice, and crime prevention). Emily has worked for Owen Consulting on numerous evaluation projects for educational, mentoring, and social service youth programs operating at public schools and community-based organizations.
Emily holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in sociology and criminology, with a focus on sociology of the family and juvenile delinquency. Her dissertation examined how key family, peer, and school factors influence youths' involvement in the criminal justice system.
Shelly Wimpfheimer, DSW
With more than three decades of executive experience in both the public and private sectors, Dr. Shelly Wimpfheimer is intimately acquainted with all aspects of managing both large and small organizations.
Most recently Shelly served as the Executive Director of PASE, the Partnership for After School Education, a professional development and technical assistance agency based in NYC and serving the afterschool community. She joined PASE in September of 2007 after having served as the Vice President of Youth and Family Services of the YMCA of Greater New York, the largest YMCA in the country. In that position, which she held for 11 years, she designed, implemented and evaluated numerous programs throughout YMCAs in New York City. In addition, she served as a consultant to the YMCA of the USA, assisting in the conceptualization and development of youth and family programs nationally.
Prior to joining the YMCA Shelly served as the Executive Director of the Division of Family Guidance, in Bergen County, New Jersey, for 16 years. This public multi-service agency served young people and families with special needs through 20 different programs, ranging from secure detention, to substance abuse, to sex offender treatment. During this period Shelly served on numerous statewide committees and task forces dealing with youth and family issues throughout New Jersey.
Shelly has taught on the undergraduate and graduate levels and has conducted numerous staff development programs for personnel from many nonprofit agencies. In recent years she has served as an instructor and mentor to agency directors and program managers in various agency settings. Among her areas of interest are: leadership development, emotional intelligence in the workplace, addressing the social and emotional climate in nonprofit agencies, board development, senior executive consultation and other topics associated with the sensitive and efficient management of agencies. She is currently an adjunct professor at the Columbia School of Social Work where she is teaching in the Social Enterprise Administration sequence.
Shelly has served in many leadership positions in professional organizations. She was president of the National Network for Social Work Managers, a national board member of the National Association of Social Workers and the state president of the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
As a community volunteer she has served as a board member of Bergen Family Center, a local family service agency in New Jersey, the Association for Children of New Jersey, former president of the Hackensack Ridgewood Zonta Club and various other local organizations.
Shelly has a DSW from Hunter College School of Social Work in Program Design and Administration, an MSS from Bryn Mawr School of Social Work and Social Research in Social Work Administration and Planning and a BA from Penn State University in Liberal Arts. She also completed institute training in family therapy at the Center for Family Learning in New Rochelle, New York.


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I've Got You Pegged Necklace Pattern
I've Got You Pegged Necklace Pattern
Learn to weave this fun and flirty necklace using the new English Cut beads, Pellet beads and Thorn beads. Miyuki seed beads are recommended as the main color, as well as Miyuki drop beads.
This design can also be made without the Thorn beads, simply do the embellishment on either side in the middle as well.
The clasp is made to match using the Pellet beads with a peyote toggle (knowledge of peyote recommended). This piece would certainly entertain a purchased clasp like an 's' hook style.
All of the beads I used come from York Beads (except the seed beads)
If you don't have or can't get an account with them, I recommend Etsy, you can do searches for any of those beads and easily find them.
Search: 'english cut beads' 'thorn beads' 'pellet beads'
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Prints out on 7 pages.
You may sell the finished product, credit need be given!
This design MAY NOT be taught or reprinted in any way.
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This is the fifth and final painting in my series, The Story Behind the Story. To see the rest of the series click here.
My brother and I had the evening paper route in the next village. Sometimes the moon would light our way home.
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Delivering the newspaper was a familiar occupation for children up until recently. It used to be a safe way for a young person to make a little pocket money as well as get to know the people and intimately explore the geography in their community. Although I never had a paper route, my daughter had one, so in effect I did too. Simple traditions such as a paper route would provide a wealth of material for stories. So many came from experiences encountered on route. If you have any more paper route stories that spring to mind I would love you to send them to me.
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Some of the most useful functions of the Foundation classes in Cocoa that are not often well known are the functions that convert from non-objects to NSString. Vincent Gable extended code from Dave Dribin's blog post to create a function that prints an expression and its evaluation, no matter the type. This macro is a must-have for your Objective-C/C++ debugging toolkit, and replaces all print statements.
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Thank you for your interest in these books. They may be purchased through your local bookstore or through Amazon.
Grace for Shame: The Forgotten Gospel (2010)
The Christian Church in the western world is skilled in ministering grace for guilt. And so we should be. But what about those who are burdened with shame? Does the Christian Gospel offer anything for shame? Well it turns out that once we begin to ask the right questions we discover the Bible has a lot to say about shame. We discover that Jesus ministered (and still ministers) grace for shame as well as grace for guilt. (From amazon.ca, or amazon.com)
Martin Grove Baptist Church: Fifty Years and Counting (2012) co-authored with William H. Jones
Fifty years ago an adventurous band of Canadian Baptists envisioned a new church in central Etobicoke in the province of Ontario. It was an audacious project. But what was seen at first only with the eye of faith, by God's grace, gradually became a reality. This book traces the story from the beginning through to the present, from the first committee meetings, to the temporary facilities at Princess Margaret School, to the beautiful new building, and all that followed. (From amazon.com)
Extending the Invitation: Participating in God's Call to Muslims
(2nd ed. 2014)
This is a book about sharing our Christian faith. It is about inviting others to the banquet. How do we extend the invitation into a different culture, whether in a far off land, or in our own apartment building? In particular, how do we extend the invitation to Muslims? This book will encourage you to risk the kind of authentic friendship with strangers that makes the Good News attractive and the astonishing invitation to the King's banquet table more believable. (From amazon.ca, or amazon.com)
The New Pilgrims: Reflections on Christian Conversion at the Beginning of the Third Millennium (2015)
When we ask people these days to tell the story of how they actually came to faith, it often sounds more like a journey than an event, perhaps a journey of years rather days or hours. Who are these new pilgrims? And how can we, the church, welcome them home? What does it mean to obey the Great Commission in the uncharted waters of our post-Christendom, post-modern world of today. (From amazon.ca, or amazon.com)
Reading Colossians and Philemon Over a Glass of Turkish Tea (2015)
We know Turkey as the Other Holy Land, because so much of the Bible story took place there. And when we read Scripture on location, immersed not only in the geographical world, but also in the cultural world of the Bible, the Word of God comes to life in new ways for us. This book is simply a journal of one of our recent trips back to Turkey, divided into 25 easy-to-read chapters, with a devotional reading from Colossians and Philemon at the end of each chapter. It would work well for a month's worth of Monday to Saturday personal devotions, for you, or for someone you care about. (From amazon.ca, or amazon.com)
My wife and I have lived an ecclectic, God-blessed life. We are both immigrants to Canada, I from England at the age of 14, my wife from the Netherlands a few years later. We lived for many years on Prince Edward Island where we farmed and raised three children.
In 1991 we left that idilic setting behind us and moved across the country to the beautiful city of Vancouver where I began theological studies at Regent College. Since then we have served churches in Vancouver and Toronto and in the country of Turkey. We recently moved back to British Columbia to be closer to our three children and nine grandchildren.
I am an ordained pastor with the Canadian Baptists of Western Canada. My MDiv and ThM degress are from Regent College. My DMin degree is from Fuller Seminary.
Why do I write books? Partly because writing, for me, is a way of learning and growing as well as a source of deep satisfaction. But I trust also that these books will make a contribution to the life and work of the church, and, above all, will bring glory to God.
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Well, that was a bit of a longer break than I intended! Who knew having builders in your house could suck out the creative spirit in a girl to such an extent!
Anyhoo The Builders have almost gone, just the skirting boards to go on. We spent last week laying the floor downstairs and then it's just all the niggly finishing little jobs for us to do, carpet the bedrooms, plumb back in the sink, get an oven, hob, kitchen, you know the little things that make a house a home. Oh joy.
So rather than doing any of that, I'm back blogging! The computer is back downstairs in it's new home in the kitchen, which is slightly more comfy than the bedroom floor! As having the builders in has taken over most of this year, I'd thought I'd write a mini survival guide/ top tips that I've learnt to having your house taken apart and then thrown back together. Though this all probably quite academic to most people, we do seem to be the only people to have got to their 40's without the help of The Builders.
Tip no.1: When The Builders show up, if you hear the theme tune to 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly', and see tumble weed rolling down the street, take that as a bad omen.
No.2: Prepare mentally for the dust.
No.3: Prepare mentally for more dust.
No.4: Prepare mentally for EVEN MORE DUST, in every single crevice you can imagine. With a light sprinkling of dust on top for good measure. I was warned, but didn't fully believe in The Legend of the Dust. I believe now.
No.5: When they take away your kitchen sink and you find it necessary to wash up in the bath. Remember to rinse out UNDER the bath mat. There will be a bit of pasta lurking there and nobody really needs carbohydrates in their bath.
No.6: Developing very laissez-faire approach to household hygiene saves a lot of stress. A kinda had a head start on this one.....
No.7: Get a sense of humour. Essential bit of kit this. "What's that you say? That hulking bit of metal holding up the back of my house is the wrong sized joist? Hilarious! I laugh in the face of ineffective steel!" Funnily enough my local supermarket is currently sold right out of the 'Humour package', but I do believe they are available online at www. laughatyourbuilder.com. Or eat chocolate, worked just as well.
No.8: Get a proper builders calendar. You know, the ones that shows tomorrow (as in I'll be there tomorrow) actually is officially a week on Tuesday.
No.9: The vet will give your cat tranquilisers if he gets stressed by the build! Pussy Prozac!! I've been laughing about this for months, can't believe I didn't blog it before.
No.10: Installing big sliding glass doors is a really good idea. Where else can the cat smear muddy paw prints to such great effect?.....oh, quite a few places as it turns out. Mind, if you look at it at the right angle when Mr.Fishy is in full scratch at the door mode there is more than a passing resemblance to the 'Scream' by Munch.
No.10: Real advice this time, Make sure you like your builder, we did and it worked out fine, though he was here so long I had a dilemma as to whether I should register him on our electoral role.
I think I'd best go and do something now, the short people of the Shires have had a VERY long wait for trouser alterations.
Now Mr. Fishy, where did you leave that Prozac?
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
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For the recently opened Four Seasons Resort Oahu at Ko Olina, we produced a visually stunning 90-page brochure to highlight the resort's 2017 Festive offerings.
We also redesigned the resort's wedding brochure, and rebranded its luxury spa amenities. Our creative services included branding, copywriting, editing, and graphic design.
Our work on the resort's 2016 Festive brochure earned a Koa Hammer Award from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) - Hawaii Chapter for best brochures: 10 pages or more.
In summer 2016, we announced the debut of Maui's newest activity company, Hawaii Mermaid Adventures, where dreamers of all ages could transform into a real-life mermaid for a day and also learn about important eco-tourism and conservation issues.
We earned media coverage in Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, KRON4, Toronto Star, Travel Weekly, TravelAge West, Maui News, Maui Now, and many other outlets.
Tracing the origins of a favorite Hawaii dish to its roots around the world, Family Ingredients is a joyful ode to farmers, food producers and families. Season One of the culinary travel TV series, hosted by chef Ed Kenney, aired on PBS stations nationwide in fall 2016.
To help ensure a successful launch, we worked closely with the production team on publicity and messaging, including content development for the press kit, website and newsletters.
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We helped coordinate the judging and awards ceremony for the "Inspired in Hawaii" contest. The ceremony recognized the top student videos, essays, posters, and digital posters from 1,400 entries across the state that depicted how to dream big and make Hawaii a better place.
We were tasked with generating media coverage for Mauna Lani Bay Hotel & Bungalows, the storied resort on Hawaii's Kohala Coast. In addition to proactive media pitches, we initiated multiple press trips to the resort and secured partnerships with Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, and the Island of Hawaii Visitors Bureau.
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In January 2017, after less than nine months, the Surfrider Foundation and its coalition of partners certified more than 100 Ocean Friendly Restaurants in Hawaii. This statewide program recognizes restaurants leading the way in environmental protection by operating without foam and plastic.
We generated awareness of the program and its participating restaurants in print, broadcast, and online media including AFAR, Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Midweek, Frolic Hawaii, Hawaii News Now, KHON, Tasting Kauai, Maui News, Maui Now, and AAA Hawaii.
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