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I worked on commissions and in the meanwhile I've got this strong urge to make something new.
By Wednesday I finished my commissions and well, as everyone knows who works with wool my house was a big mess!
Wool all over the place, I could needle felt a complete horse with the dust and wool I vacuum-cleaned.
So by the time I could finally rest my bones on the couch with Pinky ; DOORBELL
Mailman with package!
All the way from Colorado!
And look at this. . . . . . .
Aaaaaaaw Barby send me a belated Birthday Present!!
It's Pinky for sure, and the details are stunning!
My Energy level was shooting to the sky, this is the most beautiful little Bull Terrier critter I"ve ever seen!
I had to search for words to thank her, I cannot thank her enough, Barby is the sweetest !


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Without a doubt, one of the most effective marketing tools to invest in is a business card. When you make those networking connections, your business cards become road maps for people to track you down. It's amazing what impact a 3 1/2 x 2 inch card can have. It's a tiny billboard, and an amazingly small space for promoting your business. It's important that your business card does three things: Tells who you are, what you are willing to do, and how to find you.
Tell them who you are
Who you are is your business identity. It is the "name" that symbolizes what you do and who you are. Many people will use their own name while others will pick a company name. The best place to start figuring out what you do is through our 10 words or less form. Make sure your business card puts you in the best and most memorable light and matches what you do.
- Be clear and specific.
- "Frog Photos Unlimited" says you specialize in frogs and are THE source for frog pictures. The catch-all name of "Nature Pics R Us" could be John and Jane Smith nature photographers or a stock agency representing nature images. Become "JJ Smith and Company" and we don't know what you do. "Total Scenics" tells people you are a scenic photographer. Make your business name reflect who you are and what you do.
- Be original
- Make sure the business name you choose is unique. Names like "Nature Photography", "Natural Images", and "Wildlife Images" are vague and overused. Many photographers use these company names. If you hope to expand your market outside of your region, having a name that will not conflict with others is critical.
- Name Recognition
- Name recognition is important. You want clients to remember you. Using your name as part of your business identity is popular now. Alexithia Androndokronoski, at least in North America, is memorable for its length and complexity, but few will be able to repeat it. Initials were used in the past to hide a woman's name or to sound more masculine. Does this work for you? Using a middle initial today is considered too formal or "lawyer-like", which can have some drawbacks. Consider Alex G. Anderson as an example. Pronounce it. The "G" stops the pronunciation, making it harder to "roll" off the tongue, like Alex Anderson, thus harder to remember. Unless your name is common, like John Smith, then a middle initial is unnecessary and could be omitted. The same theories apply for your business name. Make it memorable while still representing you and you will stay at the forefront of a client's memory. Be yourself and keep your identity, just consider how it works for your business identity.
- What are you willing to do?
- Tell people what you are willing to do, not what you would "like to do." If you are a scenic photographer, don't tell them you do wildlife. You might get requests for wildlife images. A writer friend wrote science fiction books for years. After 60 books, he wanted to try his hand at historical romance. Publishers didn't want it. They wanted what he was known for, what they knew would sell. He finally got his romance novel published and the book stores filed it under science fiction, defeating sales. Pick carefully and tell people what you are willing to do. You may be doing it a long time.
- If you do it all, then tell them.
- If you specialize, be specific. If people are looking for images of two-headed llamas and your card just says nature photographer and not 2 headed llama photographer, you might be overlooked. Help them understand and remember what you have to offer in the fewest words possible.
For more specific tips and information on designing a business card, check out our Business Card Design Tips article. We've also posted a few examples of different business cards on our in the side bar. Hopefully these may give you some design ideas.

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The University of Kentucky Board of Trustees on Tuesday approved a plan to give retiring president Lee T. Todd Jr. a $157,046 annual raise and make it retroactive to the 2009-10 academic year.
The proposal, which also included a potential performance bonus of up to $50,000 for Todd, passed with two dissenting votes — faculty trustee Joe Peek and staff trustee Sheila Brothers.
Todd later said he would turn down the $50,000 bonus but said the restructuring of his university salary was a fair way to stop politicizing the process of paying the UK president.
Todd said he is turning down the bonus because of "a perception that in a time when no one else is getting money the president is getting more."
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Todd's salary will now be $511,046. His base pay is increasing nearly 52 percent, to $461,046, plus he gets $50,000 for chairing the UK research foundation and athletics associations boards.
The new amount was calculated based on the idea that Todd's salary should equal 82.5 percent of the average of presidential salaries at the Top 20 public research universities, since UK faculty make 82.5 percent of faculty salaries at the same institutions.
Trustee Frank Shoop insisted that Todd's pay increase had been wrongly characterized as a raise. "That is not a salary increase, that is a reclassification," Shoop said.
Todd also will receive his base salary as a retention bonus on June 30, after which he says he plans to take what he calls a "sabbatical year."
The raise given to Todd on Tuesday means that an additional 15 percent of his new base salary — or more than $69,000 — will be added to Todd's retirement account with the university. The $50,000 he gets for chairing the two committees is not a part of Todd's retirement benefits calculation.
Whether Todd — or, indeed, anyone at UK — is adequately compensated sparked some pitched debate among the trustees.
Brothers, the trustee representing UK staff, said that many of her fellow workers also were serving UK well and nonetheless living paycheck to paycheck: "I don't think this is the right time to do it," she said of Todd's raise.
She cited Todd's numerous services to UK but added that "he would not have accomplished one of them without the faculty and staff behind him."
Trustee Pamela May said that such disparities exist in many workplaces: "We do not pay the cleaning lady what we pay the heart surgeon."
Vice chair James Stuckert said the trustees simply have not paid Todd enough.
"I'm just appalled we're talking about this and not paying the gentleman what he's due," Stuckert said.
Trustee Carol Martin Gatton said those who targeted Todd for taking an increased salary were misdirecting their ire.
"Don't get mad at this man," Gatton said. "Get mad at the state of Kentucky."
A budget adopted by UK trustees in June included a 1.4 percent reduction in state support during the 2010-11 fiscal year and increased costs for utilities, employee benefits and student financial aid. Overall, UK is coping with a $7 million shortfall for fiscal 2010-11.
Nonetheless, new chair E. Britt Brockman said, Todd's salary increase is a long-delayed adjustment meant to lessen the UK president's dependence on a bonus system as a substantial part of a president's compensation.
Brockman said the bonus system — under which Todd was paid a base salary and offered a bonus that he could accept or turn down — had been the wrong payment choice for the duration of Todd's time in office, and the trustees needed to change it before the next president took office.
Under his prior compensation package, Todd would have been eligible for a performance bonus of up to $200,000 this year. Todd turned down a $100,000 bonus in 2002 and a $168,000 bonus in 2009.
The UK board's executive committee passed a proposal to increase Todd's base salary last week amid a discussion of whether increasing his pay contradicts a state law that grants the highest state academic salary to Robert King, head of the Council on Postsecondary Education. King makes $400,000 a year.
The law requires King to be paid more than the base salary of any president of a Kentucky public university, but it does not set limits for the base salaries that universities may pay their presidents.
The University of Louisville pays its president, James Ramsey, a base salary of $456,132, UK trustees were told, while Northern Kentucky University pays president James Votruba $425,239.


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Drexel Hamilton was honored to present at the Veteran Jobs Mission coalition summit on April 6, 2017 at Nationals Park in Washington D.C. alongside JPMorgan Chase, Starbucks, Amazon, AT&T, Deloitte, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, among many others.
The Veteran Jobs Mission, created in 2011 with the initial goal of hiring 100,000 veterans, has expanded to include 235 companies committed to hiring one million veterans with 385,000 already hired. The coalition convened to share best practices and strategize the year ahead. Topics addressed included not only how to increase the number of veteran hires, but how to improve the acclimation and retention rates of veteran employees to ensure job longevity and fulfillment, as well as topics like service disabled veteran recruiting and employee resource groups.
Members of Drexel Hamilton spoke on a panel about the best practices for hiring veterans. The panel members included:
- Lawrence Doll, Disabled U.S Marine Corps Veteran, Founder and Chairman
- Scott Smiley, Disabled U.S. Army Veteran, Associate, Capital Markets
- Tim Fisher, Disabled U.S. Army Veteran, Director, Capital Markets
- John Martinko, Disabled U.S. Army Veteran, Managing Director, Capital Markets
"We are proud to pay it forward to our Veteran community and share our Veteran hiring efforts with other coalition members, explained John Martinko, Disabled U.S. Army Veteran and Managing Director of Capital Markets at Drexel Hamilton.
About the Veteran Jobs Mission
Launched in 2011 as the 100,000 Jobs Mission, the Veteran Jobs Mission brings together companies committed to hiring U.S. military veterans. More than 235 Fortune 500 companies have joined and collectively hired nearly 385,000 U.S. military veterans, with the ultimate goal of one million. The private sector organizations are continuing to increase their focus on retention and career development. This includes supporting veterans as they adapt to the workplace by establishing sponsorship and on-boarding training programs, as well as industry-based coalition subgroups to increase collaboration among members. Visit jobsmission.com.
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The latest in the series of interviews is with Ed Teixeira of Two Hour Wargames. If you have not yet played one of his fine products, then you are truly missing out. THW happens to offer an excellent series of games which also cater to the solo wargamer, allowing hobbyists in remote locales to still "push lead." However, the same game mechanisms also cover the more traditional two-player, and even multi-player combats, making the games well-rounded in approach. If you have not yet had a chance to communicate with Ed, I can assure you that he has gained a clear following of friends, supporters, and customers who think very highly of him, myself included.
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JP: How did you get your start as a wargame hobbyist? We all have some point in our lives or a certain age that our imaginations take off, so what did it for you and when?
ET: It happened in '74 when I walked into a shop called the Soldier Factory while on vacation. It was owned by Jack Scruby and it opened up a whole new world for me.
JP: Why did you take the great leap from being a wargamer to becoming an author of wargame rules? How would you describe this journey?
ET: All gamers tend to tweak or make house rules for the rules they play so it was natural. I wrote a couple sets for fun and they were well received by fellow gamers so started THW as a sideline. Just for the heck of it.
JP: THW has a wide range of genres covered in the published rules, how much of this body of product is solely your personal efforts and how much (or little) do you rely on others to contribute to the products you release?
ET: We have about 50+ published sets with 18 or so from 14 different authors. We encourage people to write what they know and are passionate about. Then we make sure that they stay true to the basic mechanics.
JP: All of your rules have the same basic "engine" which drives play, especially for solo gaming, but which appears to handle the different genres with great ease. Can you please explain how you came up with the core rules, as found in Chain Reaction, and have them work so well in multiple genres?
ET: Back in 2001 I wrote a set of gang warfare rules and sent it to a large miniatures company for their specific figure range. They said thanks but it wouldn't work. I kept getting play test reports from my four play testers for everything except gang warfare. They convinced me that it would work for more than one period. So "Guns and Girls" was published but there was so much whining about the cover that I did a second cover called "Chain Reaction".
Over the years I've received lots of feedback from gamers on what they liked and didn't so the rules slowly evolved into the current, Final Version mechanics. One of the best things about the mechanics is that you can play multiple periods and not have to learn a whole new set of mechanics. Mechanics are tweaked to give flavor to the period but the basics remain the same.
JP: What motivates you to write? Do you have a list of products you want to get done, in your head or does each product kind of write itself as you are struck or otherwise influence by something else in the industry?
ET: I enjoy writing and gaming and that's the motivation. I'm blessed that I can actually do it as an occupation.
The products drive themselves. It's kind of odd but something triggers inside my head when it's time to write a certain set. For example, I had an idea for years on a pirate game but never put it to paper until last year when the right mechanics were developed.
JP: How would you describe yourself as a hobbyist? Collector, gamer, painter, or just a guy who likes to write and write often?
ET: Before it was hobby; a distraction from my normal job. Now it's become my real job so I don't get to game as often as I'd like. Not really a collector and I gave up painting early on as I really wasn't any good at it.
JP: Do you play games from other publishers? If so, would you share which one(s) and how recently did you play it (them)? If not, which of your products do you play (not playtest) most often?
ET: I stopped playing games from competitors about ten years ago. Just want to concentrate on THW. As for playing most often, that would be 5150: Urban Renewal (Sci Fi RPG), By Savvy & Steel (Swashbuckling), and All Things Zombie. They allow me to create characters that can be used in a campaign setting.
JP: Machinas is a departure from your usual method of product development and release. Can you explain what caused you to go the crowd-funding route? You already have another product in the same track, so is this something we're going to see a lot more of or is this due to product specific considerations?
ET: Crowd-funding is a great way to see if there's interest in a game. Being a small company I don't want to put effort and money into a game that there's no interest in. But it's also a good way to get smaller, odd games, into the hands of the people that want them, in limited numbers.
JP: Although many of us who have read your postings in the THW forums, the Yahoo group, or private communication have a decent grasp of the answer, can you please share your design philosophy and why you feel it is important enough to take the financial risks that owning a gaming company generates?
ET: I want to design entertaining games playable in two hours or less. People tend to have less time to devote to their hobby, that's why we shoot for the two hours. I want them to use their own figures if they want and to be able to tie their games into an easy to use campaign system if they like.
The last two things I shoot for are; be designed for exceptional solo play where the game mechanics control the enemy in a way that is realistic and can provide surprises during play. The last thing is using similar, not identical, game mechanics so you can play multiple periods without having to learn a whole new set of rules.
JP: You've mentioned, by various means, that THW has other products currently in the works. Would you mind sharing what those are and could you give us some bits and bobs of details that you haven't shared elsewhere? (Egads, I went for the exclusive!)
ET: The next one is NUTS – Final Version. Almost all the rules are now using the last evolution of the Reaction System – the Final Version. Then an update for Larger Than Life (Pulps) and Montjoie, our medieval set. Once they are finished all of the rules will use the Final Version mechanics.
JP: Thank you, again, Ed for joining in the celebration of the milestone for my own small contribution to the wargaming hobby. I have gained a greater appreciation of the hobby, as a whole, over the past few years, as have my sons, in no small part due to you and Two Hour Wargames. May you and your efforts achieve ever greater success.
ET: Thank you for the opportunity Justin.


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Someone must've complained because the image was flagged as having unsuitable content for google and removed. I appealed and they reviewed the decision. Google came back to me with the following...
Saturday, 28 January 2012
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Someone must've complained because the image was flagged as having unsuitable content for google and removed. I appealed and they reviewed the decision. Google came back to me with the following...
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It's censorship gone mad!ReplyDelete
Having read the user content and conduct policies, the only description that this could come under is, 'sexually explicit material' and it's neither of those things.
Wow, art really is subjective.
I love it anyway. You truly are talented!Replies
Thanks Lilly.Delete
Yes, so they are saying that all nudity is sexually explicit...-sounds a bit like one religions argument against 'uncovered meat' to me.
Your original image is beautiful.
WTF. That's bullsh*t. F*ck that. G*ddammit. And other bad words. I love your stuff!ReplyDelete
Yes Marianne. Never in my life (and I was raised a Catholic) has nudity been equated with 'sexually explicit material'.ReplyDelete
wow, I guess Michelangelo would have been in big trouble then. Keep drawing what you do, it is beautiful.ReplyDelete
The removal of your nude painting was very sad. :(ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh Nina, thanks for leaving a comment here. It's great to have someone from g+ visit!Delete
This post was the last drop that made me consider moving my pictures from google's blogspot to my own web host. Now it is only the matter of time because I will need to do it manually... Thank you for posting.ReplyDeleteReplies
I haven't had any problems here at blogspot - that was on google plus (facebook didn't pull censor the same nude by the way. My husband has taken his blog over to wordpress.Delete
What is going ON? I'm glad you but the burkah on her because we always act like other cultures are so weirdly repressive and restrictive and puritanical and backwards/sexist. But if you really pay attention to how much politics is trying to get into sex, sexuality, biology, reproduction and so forth it is scary.ReplyDelete
Anyway, very clever post!Replies
Thanks Pish Posh and welcome. Yes - it's the same with freedom, We have some restrictions (I'm thinking extreme OH&S guidelines and legal barricades for young entrepreneurs) in our free society that other fascist regimes don't have.Delete


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They would benefit from spending more time developing the business instead of ploughing through financial data and becoming bogged down in too much detail, it is argued.
The suggestion is among a series made by a team from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants after a study of management accounting practices in a group of small and medium-sized enterprises.
The study found that the emphasis on management accounting in SMEs tended to be on control information rather than aiding decision-making.
"There is a tendency to make decisions without adequate or indeed any financial information or analysis," says the study team.
In-depth discussions with the heads of 11 SMEs showed there was significant scope for improvement through better promotion of the accountant-as-business-partner concept and better understanding of support tools. The team found owner managers tended to have a "bean counter" image of accountants and were unaware of the potential contribution they could make as business partners.
Entrepreneurs were reluctant to employ a management accountant as they wanted to "maintain control and have exclusive access to information they considered sensitive".
They believed that crunching the numbers themselves provided them with superior insight into what was going on in the business.
They also felt they had greater control than would be the case if they were simply provided with what they believed would be generic, highly aggregated summary information by an accountant.
The study report suggests that a better understanding about the business partner concept would help change the perception among owner managers about accountants.
Management accounting education had an important role for SME executives, particularly when the business was expanding. There was also scope for small accounting practices serving SMEs to be more pro-active in selling management accounting services.


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Jewish Family Services of Orange County has announced the launching of it's new program to provide supports to persons with disabilities and their families. The new program titled Special Needs Support Services (SNSS) will help families and persons with disabilities, to facilitate services that are provided in inclusive and community based contexts. As a Jewish Family Service program, SNSS is non-sectarian and therefore services are available to the entire community.
Dr. Jan Weiner the new SNSS program coordinator is also a staff member of the special education department at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Weiner has over 25 years of experience in the field of disabilities with a special emphasis on best practice programs for persons with autism spectrum disorder. She was also the project director of the Full Inclusion Pre-school Project that resulted in over 100 students with significant disabilities integrating into regular pre-school programs throughout Orange County.
Dr. Weiner noted, that "The SNSS program will include information regarding laws/legislation on families'/consumers' rights, authentic assessment, strategy development for positive behavior support, advisement on evidence based best practice, universal design, accommodations consultation, collaboration with schools and other community facilities to design inclusive opportunities, assistance with developing IEP/ITP/IFS goals and objectives and referrals to additional resources".
Dr. Weiner also explained that "this program was initiated and designed based on an extensive needs assessment completed by the Jewish Family Service Special Needs Commission, that is representative of the Orange County community of persons with disabilities and their families".
SNSS has received funding support to date from two individual family donations and the Irvine Spectrum Rotary Club.


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50.32. Imbros to Asfendos Walk and Cycle in Crete
32. Imbros to Asfendos Walk and Cycle in Crete
Six kilometres. A good concrete track leaves the main road north of Imbros heading east to a group of radar dishes on a hill top. Just before these dishes are reached a right fork onto a rough track leads to Asfendos.
The distance is much shorter if the old but obscure path is followed from the top of the Imbros gorge. This is particularly useful if you are walking both gorges in one day as we do. Cyclists should follow the track all the way.
Starting from where the path at the top of the Imbros Gorge reaches the first walled fields, head north-east round the walled area to a small group of derelict buildings and a huge water cistern with a collapsed roof. 50 metres to the north of these buildings there is an ancient bridge and a small round structure with thick walls.
20 min. The path now follows the line of the telegraph poles up the hillside.
50 min. The path becomes more distinct as it climbs into a rocky little valley. Leave the line of telegraph poles here to climb up to the concrete track above.
1 hr 20 min. Take a right fork off the concrete road to continue east.
1 hr 30 min. The track crosses a ridge with an old stone building on the slopes above.
The main track continues east over the ridge but fork right and south to look at a group of stone domed huts on the ridge before following the telephone lines down to the track east.
1 hr 40 min. The old path, obscure to start with, runs down the valley due east towards Asfendos but the track is much easier walking.
1 hr 55 min. The track drops gently until it is south of Asfendos, when it turns sharply back to drop down to the village.
2 hr 15 min. Asfendos is a village of scattered farm houses, mostly deserted or used at weekends.
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Resources for Professionals
Numerous resources are available today that provide information and advice about gifted education and gifted kids; it can be daunting to select only one or two. We have listed those resources which we have personally found to be useful in living and working with gifted individuals.
Associations for the gifted are valuable resources for gifted individuals, their families, and educators. They provide support, education, research, and networking opportunities globally. By joining these associations, you benefit from the efforts of a large and organized community, and contribute your own voice to raising the level of awareness about the needs of the gifted. The gifted population has long been silent and underserved in areas such as education, medicine, and psychology, but this is gradually changing.


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After two random posts about my job and a brief description in the about me section of this blog, I suppose I could explain a little more about what exactly it is I'm doing. In case you're curious about what a girl like me is doing at a place like this and whatnot.
I'm currently working at a call center, which you may have already gathered. It's the typically glamorous life pictured in numerous commercials ("Representatives are standing by to take your call now!") where the gleaming white-toothed, perpetually-smiling rep takes calls non-stop with the patience of a saint and the ability to solve world hunger all in the space of 9-hour workday. Not to mention this rep never suffers a single complaint or becomes fazed by the anger of a customer.
There are multiple variations on this theme. I'm a perpetual target of SiriusXM's call center lackeys. (And, yes, I feel I can call them lackeys since they essentially perform similar functions in a call center in the same way that I do.) They call about that ridiculous trial offer I naively took out when I got my new car, and "Ma'am, don't you want to enjoy your favorite SiriusXM stations again? With this offer, you get all your favorite channels plus a dog, a cat, a white picket fence, and free wireless for the price of just one month's subscription!" Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating that last bit.
Needless to say, they are just doing their jobs as sales reps. I get that. I respect that. And I generally am kind in declining my renewal subscription. It's always the same, too. They somehow ask why I don't want it, and I inevitably respond: "I can get it elsewhere for free, so why would I want to pay for the same service?" Cold, callous, and totally true.
But SiriusXM is the sales model call center. You've also got another model in terms of fundraising and/or surveying. These people don't call with your name, or maybe they do and it's on a list they harvested from a paid list of names. Either way, they call with similar themes: "Ma'am, can we speak with the oldest male present who listens to the radio?" (That's the most recent one.) Or sometimes they change it up to: "Ma'am, may we speak with someone in the household who listens to the radio?"
These people are irritating on a whole different level. I never gave them my name or number. I didn't ask to be surveyed or otherwise begged for money. Nor do I honestly care if you're doing a survey about ongoing radio trends in the greater metropolitan area. If you're going to call back fifteen times a day, you're going to get used to people like me who eventually answer the phone, wait for it to connect to the person on the line and simply say: "Please stop calling." Click.
And then we've got my model of call center: the collections center. Note that these call centers are not to be confused with inbound call centers that deal primarily with customers calling in to make purchases, ask questions, resolve issues on accounts, or otherwise harass reps. We'll deal with inbound call centers later.
My job is a simple matter of logging into multiple different systems on a computer each day, putting on a headset (which does get uncomfortable after hours of use), and clicking onto a desktop system connected to my phone that allows calls to come through. Our system dialer is active throughout the day, and it runs campaigns on delinquency.
Delinquency, you may ask? Yes. Delinquent accounts. I work in a company I will not name for privacy with accounts that are mainly individual debt. Think of it like working with mortgages, car loans, student loans, credit card debt and other similar forms of debt. The debt can be anywhere from a few dollars when it's close to being paid off to over $300,000 in some cases.
To simplify it further, I am working with simple interest debt. The principal balance on any given account accrues interest daily, and in turn, payments go towards accrued interest first and then principal. Easy? Yes. The people I speak with would sometimes disagree, but that's not my problem.
My job is just to call and try to convince people to pay their bills. They're always bills that are past due by at least 17 or more days. They're typically people who tell me they can't make their payments for this or that reason, and I have to come up with a solution to their situation. Thankfully my job allows me to do this; we have assistance options available. But woe to the person who doesn't qualify for a program or payment plan to fix their issues!
As you can imagine, it's an easy enough job. I figure if monkeys could talk and type, it would be simple work to train them to do it. And it's surprising the work hasn't been outsourced to India or some equally incomprehensible country where the hours are unreal and the people are willing to work for much less pay than what I'm getting now.
But that's what it boils down to, isn't it? It's a job, and someone has to do it. Unfortunately, until I can find another job, this is what I do.
So if I call you about your payment, don't get mad. I'm just doing my job.
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Each year YNPN National puts out a call for proposals to host the annual National Conference & Leaders Institute. The RFP is typically issued in the spring. Please stay tuned on this page and in the Chapter Leaders Newsletter for an announcement when the RFP has opened.
In the meantime, if your chapter is interested in hosting the conference, we recommend you read last year's Conference Hosting Information Sheet. It includes information on what the role of Host Chapter entails and provides information on the qualities that help a chapter be successful in hosting.


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Watch as Rich invites volunteers from the audience to get hypnotized on stage right before your eyes then be amazed at what happens next when he gives them suggestions to do the most outrageously funny things you can possibly imagine.
This show is perfect for groups. Imagine seeing somebody you know on stage being the star of the night! Laugh till it hurts with this non stop roller coaster ride that will have you and your friends coming back over and over again to try it for yourself.
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If you are ready for something totally over the top, then you are coming on the right night! This show will get wilder and wilder as the night goes on. In fact we can't even write what happens during this event. Lets just say that once the subjects on stage get hypnotized it is going to get very out of control and leave it at that.
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The last time we blogged about this room we wrote about our plan for the space, and in the post before that we removed carpet from the room. We decided on using that laminate wood flooring we found when we went to Home Depot since it was budget friendly.
So here is where Alex started. First he had to pull all the baseboards off of the walls so there was room to install the flooring. The flooring needs to be 1/4" from the wall so it has room to "float" as well as expand/ contract with humidity.
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Thursday, September 11, 2014
Stitcher's Dilemma
In order to try and stop myself from adding another project to the WIP pile, I decided to lay out all my current WIP's, whether in or out of rotation. I thought that maybe if I worked on something I had not stitched in a while that it would feel different enough to stop me wanting a new start.
So there I was in our craft/study room with all my projects spread out on the floor. Still nothing was really calling to me but I did find that once I had all those partially competed pieces laid out before me that the thought of a new start quite lost its appeal.
I didn't want to work on Somebunny because the finish pressure was getting to me, nor on Elegance as I would have had to use a larger scroll frame. Both Autumn and Bridge were too big. So I went through my projects starting with the ones closest to the finish and working my way along until I landed on QS Clara. I knew I wanted to stitch on a HAED design and this one has a good amount of progress on it. It is also small enough to fit in my smaller set of Q Snaps.
So I packed up all my projects again and settled down with Clara. In order to combat the need for a something new I moved to an area of the chart I had not started filling in. I felt so much more content that I was working on a project already in progress but I still got to get away from my obligation pieces. Now I feel much more inclined to work on my other pieces.
Does this sort of thing happen to you? Leave a comment and let me know. Maybe this trick will work for me in the future and I will stop just making lots of new starts and never finishing anything.
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Oh dear it always happens and me start thinking about so many projects and them sometime started a new one too...oops..ReplyDelete
Enjoy stitching on Clara ..
Stitchy hugs xx
Hmm, that was a dilemma for you but I'm glad you sorted it out without the feeling of guilt!ReplyDelete
Before I set my own rotation/WIP list I looked into how other stitchers manage their stash and WIPs. I came to the conclusion that most go with the flow and however good their original intentions are, in reality they very rarely stick to their plans!
I have a maximum of 10 WIPs on the go which include larger and smaller pieces. Big designs can get monotonous but smaller designs can give you that sense of progress and completion that stitchers often crave.
I work on a project basically depending on my mood and what colour I fancy stitching.
But NEVER feel guilty about starting on a new project - if that's what makes you happy at the time just do it. You only live once and, let's face it, blogland LOVES new starts!!!
Apologies for the essay... my comments are never succinct!!
Yes, I believe that you should work on what makes you happy. But if you are feeling overwhelmed with all the WIP, choose one that is closest to being finished. Getting something off the list can be a relief.ReplyDelete
I sometimes have this problem too :) I usually start something small and colourful, so that it doesn't become a UFO...ReplyDelete
I must be odd in stitchy land as I have more of a desire to finish my current project before starting a new one. Probably makes my blog a bit boring but that's okay it saves me money :)ReplyDelete
I do this all the time! Mainly when I am completely frustrated or upset about something, a new start usually helps. But next time I will try out what you did, sounds like a good idea.ReplyDelete
I think it happens to all of us. I know I've been feeling it lately lol.ReplyDelete
I am horrible about starting new projects and letting my WIP pile grow. One of my fellow stitchers at the shop is always joking around about how I'm working on something new (not always new but something different) I get the new start bug quite often. Maybe I'll try your suggestion and spred everything out.ReplyDelete
I also understand the not wanting to stitch because of deadline pressure. I got like that with my last finish the bibs. I haven't even wanted to touch a needle since I've finished.
I do think it happens to many of us from time to time. I usually just try and stick with what's in my rotation if I can!ReplyDelete
This happens to me often!! The new start guilt...heheeh. Glad you found something to work on! I have my WIP's near my stitching area so I pull on one or the other until I want to stitch on it!ReplyDelete
The more starts the merrier I say. Wait till you see what I'm doing.ReplyDelete
Good that you successfully overcame the urge for new start. Since I started stitching actively two years back, I don't have an intimidating pile of WIPs but I have caught that bug of new starts from fellow bloggers;) it is increasing every month.ReplyDelete
I face a similar situation in my crochet projects too. But so far I have managed not to give into new start urge. Perhaps, switching from crochet to cross stitch and vice versatile, helps me to control the dilemma .
I love the way you think! Thanks for sharing this post. I am constantly starting things and then feel bad when they get neglected. While I'm stitching one thing my mind is darting around and thinking about all the wips that I should be getting to. So this is a great way to combat that, however to pull out all my wips and set them out I may need to extend my house! :>ReplyDelete
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Cool Serbia formed in 2010 as three friends whose past musical projects include Austin, TX bands Ringo Deathstarr, International Waters, and Low Line Caller. A bunch of shows later, including a ton of performances during the 2011-2012 SXSW music festivals and a tour of the East Coast, and after a modest amount of internet buzz from blogs like NYLON daily and Impose Magazine, they've relocated to Brooklyn in anticipation of the release of their debut EP.
Cool Serbia draws their influence from a diverse list of bands and artists encompassing everything from The Zombies to The Jesus and Mary Chain, and the result is a completely unique sound that seems both contemporary and timeless.
Live, they've gained a reputation for delivering pop in the loudest way possible, blasting jangly guitars through 100 watt Fender amps at near-uncomfortable volumes with pounding rock and roll beats that are impossible not to at least think about dancing to.
The band has plans to release their first EP in the Fall of 2012, to be quickly followed with another United States tour.
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Musically, the production is spacious and physically it was recorded in separation. Despite this, it belongs together in its final form. It demonstrates successful creative process in a pair who composed apart, and in doing so it is a meditation on communication: how technology and art influence modern human relationships. It contains the vast space of two years passing, including watching their Montreal scene change as some launched into international success and others turned deeper inwards. Here, the album finds the conflict of separation/belonging to one's self and community.
The duo notice that throughout the changing social and personal landscape which is one's twenties, these divided notions and people somehow stay together. Even the name Blue Hawaii suggests a kind of melancholic, jaded paradise, but a paradise afterall. It is because – or perhaps in spite of – these disjointed intersections that the record is called Untogether (Arbutus 2013).
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I left out Norngirl getting stung by a wasp or the ref ruining the game at Elland Road but there was certainly a drink or two and a railway museum, a bit of York, Leeds and Lotherton Hall.
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I love the railway museum in York. I love all of York really :) It sounds like a good trip :)ReplyDelete
We were slightly disappointed by the amount of trains adults can technically climb all over (*cough* didn't actually prevent us* but yeah it was pretty cool :)ReplyDelete
I hadn't been there since I was very small and it was Norngirls first visit to the museum. We do love York though, very nice place to wander around. I always get the urge to go to the Jorvik Viking Centre and feel slightly disappointed when we aren't going there but this time was a flying visit and the weather stayed nice for us when we were outdoors.
It was a nice trip, they can take the randomer out of Yorkshire but can't take the Yorkshire out of the randomer :)
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BEST OF 2013 (x3!)
A big congrats to Lesley aka Lionsmane, the Featured Stamper on Splitcoast (FS321)! What a fab gallery she has! There were many I wanted to case, and I finally chose her Pink Cat Baby Card. I kept the general layout but moved things a bit, the soft colors and embossed background. I used different images, different embossing folder and added some punched and colored flowers.
The images are from DRS Designs. I stamped the lovely umbrella twice, added some soft shading w/ Copic markers and cut both out. I used a stylus to add some shape and dimension to the top umbrella and attached it on the base umbrella w/ a little foam tape underneath the center. The narrow little ribbon bow was also colored w/ Copics before attaching.
The background was embossed and I punched a bunch of different sized hydrangea petals out, added a little shading and tiny black dots in the centers, then used the stylus to curl the petals a bit. The sentiment was die cut along w/ the pale pink backing oval to finish my 4.25 x 5.50 card.
Congrats again, Lesley, enjoy your week!
Thanks so much for stopping by! Also check out the DRS Thursday Challenge…Paper Flowers! DRS images are not required to enter and you could win some fab images just by heading over and linking up your creation!
|Stamps: DRS Designs – Umbrella, Rain Down Greeting
|Paper: Neenah white, pale pink marbled
|Ink: Memento tuxedo black
|Accessories: Copic markers, Spellbinders classic oval dies, ribbon, Cherry Blossom embossing folder (mpress), hydrangea punch (Punch Bunch)
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A big congrats to Jennifer, the Featured Stamper on Splitcoast (FS320)! Her gallery is full of inspiration and I picked her Celebrate the 4th to case. I kept the layout and pinwheel (love making those!), but I used different images, slightly different colors and used another image in place of 2 of the buttons.
The images are all from DRS Designs. I white embossed the polka dot background on the kraft card stock and stamped the teacher tools on another piece. I colored them w/ a combination of Prismacolor pencils and Copic markers before cutting them out. The pinwheel (tutorial here) was made w/ a 2.25 square of the brilliant blue c/s and I added the piercing above and below just like Jennifer's card. I think piercing looks great and I don't know why I usually forget to do it. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.
Congrats again, Jennifer, enjoy your week! Thanks so much for stopping by!
|Stamps: DRS Designs – Teacher Tools, Polka Dot Background, Teacher Touch a Heart Greeting
|Paper: Neenah white, brilliant blue, kraft
|Ink: Memento rich cocoa, Colorbox frost white pigment
|Accessories: white embossing powder,Copic markers, Prismacolor pencils, thread, button, piercing tool & mat
I made this for friend who suffered a devastating loss. Sympathy cards are always hard, so I used this week's sketch on Splitcoast (SC428) to help me out.
The images are from DRS Designs. I stamped the Flower Cross, colored it w/ Copics and die cut w/ a Spellbinders long rectangle. It was a little too long, so I shortened it a bit using a variation of my Nestie Resizing Technique. The tan marbled piece was die cut and embossed. For the darker goldish/brown, I embossed it w/ a frame folder. The sentiment was white embossed on more of the same dp and die cut w/ a fishtail banner die. The next smaller size banner was cut out of the tan marbled paper and attached on top. I added a few Candi buttons to finish my 4.25 x 5.50 card.
Thanks so much for looking!
|Stamps: DRS Designs – Flower Cross, With Sympathy
|Paper: Neenah white, tan marbled, dp (Anna Griffin)
|Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Colorbox frost white pigment
|Accessories: white embossing powder, Spellbinders long rectangle & label 8 dies, SU tulip frame embossing folder, Cuttlebug Swiss dot ef, Candi buttons, MFT fishtail banner dies
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Simrin Mehra-Agarwal's compositions appeal not merely at the sensory level, but also strike a chord at the intersection of reality and mystery, to create a mystical surface pregnant with suggestion. Her paintings are largely built around curious human figures and intriguing images of ubiquitous people. These are characters that tend to leave a lasting impression, and she emphasizes that the aim is to transpose or dislocate these individuals from their routine life, to relocate in her imaginary realm. According to her, the collision of the imaginative and real gradually gives shape to a new image. She adds, "I make a conscious effort in my works to investigate the individual, the hidden personality and the dynamic development of the self."
At the heart of her artistic vision is a fragile tenderness. The realm is emphatically tragic, occasionally exuberantly joyful and relentlessly bizarre. It brings out the evocative power of her powerful figures and ideas. Her powerful idiom coupled with a bold vision look to challenge gender identities and existing hierarchies. The works are often metaphoric condemnation of today's society, taking the viewers on an erotic odyssey they perhaps might be inhibited to embrace. Elaborating on her art process and motivation, she has stated, "Exploring new places not only adds newer elements to my creations, but also allows me to make it more diverse. The process itself is as vital to her as the creation itself to her. She loves to experiment and has dabbled into digital and video art, photography, printmaking and mural painting.
On the other hand, the fluid rhythmic structure that Manisha Parekh seamlessly creates though her deft usage of closely linked harmonious forms, which unfold a larger vision, remains at the core of her art practice. The artist has always exhibited proficiency for form, texture and clear, scientific structure, clearly the main thrust of her style. She breathes life into inanimate objects, which may resemble the human body. According to the artist, the handling of figures in her creations is done in such a way as 'to relax both muscular and pictorial tension.'
Often made of small units, they attain power and build scale through repetition of specific elements. However, the multiples are not mechanically framed. Akin to time-lapse films, they depict developmental changes, sequentially from one evolving thought to the next. This curious approach reflects a desire to both exercise and abdicate control over the end product, allowing material and process to participate in the development of ensuing thought and the yield. Her deliberate choice of materials is non-hierarchical in context of traditional artistic terms. Canvas and paint gives way to paper and ink. Cord and rope are preferred over bronze or stone. Her keen relationship along with her ability to respond to the intrinsic quality of each individual material is the essence of her practice.
Dhruvi Acharya's paintings focus on the current world environment – on the pollution, the violence and the discord. She states: "Just like me, my work is not overtly or obviously political, but instead of anger, I tend to utilize a subtle, dark and wry humor, drawing viewers into a world where thoughts are as visible as 'reality', and where the protagonists live and metamorphose by the logic of that world." Her narratives in psychologically and visually layered paintings draw us into a realm where thoughts are as visible as the 'reality' they inhabit.
With an astute amalgamation of ancient, pop-culture and personal symbols and metaphors, she strikes a deft balance between contrasting details and patterns with uniform color fields. Her art practice involves applying layer upon layer of translucent and opaque paint, matt and gloss medium resulting in a uniform surface where the patterns and images 'visually recede' to various levels. Her richly patterned mixed media paintings are layered with graphic style and narrative imagery in which she explores the nuances of motherhood, complex cross cultural communication, and the ambivalence present in shifting locations.
Though Vibha Galhotra specializes in graphics, her work explores a wide range of mediums, which demonstrates her versatility. She delves in painting, animation videos, site-specific installations and sculpting. In graphic work, she often transfers her ideas into bronze sculptural forms. On the other hand, her paintings consist of condensed narratives, where she might be projected as the protagonist. An emblematic female figure constantly appears in her works. Her art is largely about 'recoding'. It involves recoding at several levels, between the artist and the work.
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Date: 05/05/2013
Opponent: Senators
Location: Ottawa
Loss: 1-6
Habs Goalie: Price (L)
Opposition Goalie: Anderson (W)
Habs goalscorers: Bourque
Opposition goalscorers:Alfredsson, Pageau (3), Silfverberg, Turris
Speaking from the perspective of a fan in the opposition's lair, this was not a good game for the Habs. Even their goal was less exciting than it should have been, the accident that it was with delayed whistle and celebration. The highlight really has then to be the only other moment the Canadiens could possibly have scored. It comes down to Bourque again who broke from the blueline to the middle of the ice and showed that Anderson does get troubled by shots when taken from danger areas. Plekanec follows up with a swipe that hits the crossbar in a moment that sealed the fate of the team.
Rene Bourque
There is a player who Craig Anderson doesn't like to see coming down the ice and his name is Rene Bourque. He now has two goals and nearly set up that other one tonight. Get this guy into more scoring positions somehow. That's the plan.
Brendan Gallagher
He looked pretty poor on the first Pageau goal. But let's face it, he's the only player we look at and can really say he creates chances for his team on a consistent basis. He drew a slew of penalties in this one too and importantly the one that led to the only goal.
Michael Ryder
It's in games like these where I sometimes wonder what the rules of picking a dome are. Do I have to pick a third forward when I don't really want to. I think the standard set says that I do. After looking through all the players, I come up with Ryder as one that I don't have a significant beef with. He did not play particularly well at any point. But I did not that Ryder made perhaps the only hit in this game that made any difference to anything at all. He bowled someone over when the score was out of reach. I wondered where this was before of course, but thank goodness someone is capable of such a thing. Furthermore, Ryder always looms as a threat because of his shot. I like to think that if he could get passes sometime this month he'd score again.
Francis Bouillon
The guy is saddled with a rookie who looks like he just grew 6 inches yesterday, he's so awkward. He's asked to fight in the ridiculous 5-fight, 5-lost fights message-sending brawl. It's a thankless job for Bouillon. On a night when everyone else had moments to be perfectly ashamed of too, I give Bouillon credit for these sacrifices..
Andrei Markov
Another hard choice. With Subban getting phased out and checking out early on (from my view). With Gorges and Diaz making me constantly nervous, and with Tinordi looking criminally out of his depth, the mantle falls to Markov. This is a long way from the total game domination we saw in January. He makes a dome here for making a few good stick checks and making his usual collection of sensible passes.
Peter Budaj
You did not want to see this name. But how could I choose otherwise. 6 goals against, a back-breaker that should have been saved, followed by another where he buried his team with an overcommital. Wow, Carey was worse tonight than so many of those games where he plied his 0.8-somthing save percentage in April. Price was not the reason the team lost (that was a combination of Anderson and an unwillingness to really test Anderson), but he was the reason I had to sit through a third period in which the hop of a comeback was squashed a minute and a half in.
I can forcefully say Budaj would play next game if I were coach. I cannot bear to watch players shrug the way they have been after these goals. The way they can be at once deflated and fully expecting of this fate is an impossible state. The time to worry about rebuilding Carey Price into a goalie with a modicum of confidence will come. But the matter at hand is not the psyche or career of Carey Price but Game 4 of the playoffs. He's in a slump in which he thinks sprawling on his stomach without eyes on the puck is good practice. He's in a slump where his teammates are starting to believe any shot is a bad shot to allow (a very tiring place to inhabit for defenceman). Give me Budaj for a game or two.
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This game was difficult to watch for much of it. The Canadiens treated us through two periods to a display of utter lack of imagination. At least through that we had hope for a good bounce.
Then the pin dropped, or rather the puck, in the third period. And as soon as it had began the Habs were in a hole of bigger and bigger proportions. The 3rd goal was a back-breaker, the 4th was totally deflating. The fights that followed were an embarrassment on several fronts.
If this was a one game series, this would be all bad news. The Canadiens were outclassed at every step of the way tonight. The good news is this. it matters not one iota what happened in Kanata for the game that is upcoming on Tuesday night. Any and all players could bounce back, several will.
And looking ahead is the right thing to do. Therrien must look ahead to ways in which he can influence the flow of the game through his choices, because he has done nothing of the sort so far. I'd still suggest the first simple step is to split Markov and Subban. Give me two pairs with a defender who puts a bit of fear in those whose sticks he takes it from. As well as that, he should look at his team and be honest. Pacioretty his best scorer has been absent, possibly from being undernourished with decent passes. Ryder and Bourque have both shown a predatory ability. Let them hunt. Gallagher has been great, could he rub off on someone else? Maybe look ahead too to a lineup that emphasizes skating and skill, because anyone can get outhit and lose all the fights anyway.
A win in the next game will give the Canadiens home ice advantage back, the momentum in the series and the confidence that they can bounce back from any amount of seeming devastation. Game 2 after Game 1 shows us there's no reason to believe this can't be reversed.
All those keys to the series come to the fore now. Can Therrien adapt? Can Montreal defend without Emelin? Can Price (or perhaps more appropriately any Montreal goalie) outperform his counterpart?
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Valvular Heart Disease
There are four valves in the normal heart. These are the Aortic valve, Mitral valve, Tricuspid valve, and Pulmonary valve. These serve like a doorway, controlling the blood flowing from chamber to chamber within the heart. There are many malfunctions that can occur with any one of the heart valves. Commonly known is regurgitation, stenosis, Mitral Valve Prolapse. Some valve problems can be congenital (primary) meaning one is born with it, while others may be due to injury or trauma, or may result from a flare-up of an existing disease (secondary).
Regardless of the cause, the disruption of the normal valve function can ignite a sequence of new complications, Congestive Heart Failure for instance. Additionally, the natural course of blood flow is likely to be disrupted since one of the functions of the valves is to regulate blood flow.
Here is a brief example:
Experiencing Rheumatic fever in childhood may result in a highly calcified mitral valve. The mitral valve opens to release blood from the left atrium to the left ventricle. A highly calcified mitral valve however, may harden or lose mobility and thus may not open completely, resulting in the left atrium not emptying completely. This may mimic a 'backup' of blood in the left atrium and over time begin to dilate. One of the physical symptoms often noticed with this problem is shortness of breath. This is because the blood leading into the left atrium comes from the pulmonary veins which carry oxygenated blood from the lungs.
The above mentioned example is not all-inclusive and only one of the many forms a calcified mitral valve may become problematic. Your physician may order an Echocardiogram to assess the status of a suspected valve disorder.
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The 2016 Honda Vezel is coming soon. This subcompact crossover is the smallest one in company's offer. This particular nameplate is used only for domestic market, while export version is called HR-V.
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