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A surprising degree of uncertainty surrounds one seemingly simple point of fact about the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS): When did the ACS begin? Some statements cast the ACS as a very new survey—largely through comparison with the 2010 decennial census, in which the ACS replaced the "long-form" questionnaire administered in previous decades to a sample of respondents. Others claim a longer lifetime for the concepts and questions of the ACS, alternately describing the ACS as dating back to the first decennial census in 1790, which started the precedent of asking for more detail than a simple headcount; to 1940 and the first major use of statistical sampling for some content in a decennial census; or to 1960, the first census in which a full-fledged long-form questionnaire was administered.
In fact, a case can be made for all of the years listed above—and others—because some of the ideas behind the ACS are indeed as old as American census-taking itself. In its content, the 1790 census stuck to the basic information suggested in the Constitution's enumeration clause, but its execution established a basic, subtle precedent that underlies today's ACS and census: data on aggregates such as communities, states, or the nation as a whole are acquired by asking questions of individuals (in the 1790 case, asking heads of household for a name-by-name accounting of family members). The range of those questions began to widen over the course of the 19th century—more detailed age categories in 1800, rough indicators of occupation in 1810, queries on disability (deaf or blind) in 1830, and later expansion into topics ranging from educational status to amounts of wages earned and taxes paid. The 1940 census began the practice of covering some of the now-sprawling content of the census on a sample basis, asking certain supplemental questions only of those individuals appear-
ing on certain lines of the census schedule. The 1960 census formalized the process, creating a separate long-form questionnaire; most households received the short-form questionnaire containing only basic data items while a roughly one-sixth sample received the more detailed long form.
As the 2000 census approached, a notion originally advanced in the early 1940s as a possible replacement for the census began to gain traction, albeit as a replacement for the long-form sample rather than the entire census. Sociologist and demographer Philip Hauser, working at the Census Bureau in 1941, is generally credited with first advancing the idea of an "annual sample census" to generate small-area estimates. Increasing calls for more timely estimates led, in part, to Congress amending Title 13 of the U.S. Code in 1976 to authorize a mid-decade census in years ending in 5, but no action was taken under the new law. In 1981, statistician Leslie Kish proposed mounting a continuous sample survey, creating "rolling" samples by accumulating one or more years of collected data and using those samples to create estimates; the Decade Census Program suggested by Roger Herriot and others in the late 1980s advanced similar notions of using rolling samples for state-level estimates (Herriot et al., 1989). Drawing from these ideas, the Census Bureau's Charles Alexander took the lead in assessing options to replace the long-form sample, which had become a greater drain on census resources (and whose quality had arguably slipped, conducted as an adjunct to the main census). Alexander's proposed Continuous Measurement Survey would pick up a new moniker—the American Community Survey—as it entered very early pilot testing in four counties in 1996. The number of test sites (counties or groups of counties) was slowly ramped up until 2000. In that year, one of the formal experiments associated with the 2000 census was to dramatically scale up ACS coverage to roughly one-third of all counties—mainly as a test of feasibility of conducting both the ACS and a decennial census simultaneously. Bolstered by favorable results, the ACS continued collection at these so-called Census 2000 Supplementary Survey levels (after the name of the 2000 census experiment) until 2005, when the ACS began operations in all counties nationwide.
To secure approval for the full-scale ACS, the ACS was made an integral part of plans for the 2010 decennial census—the basic bargain being that shifting the historical long-form content to the ACS would free the main 2010 census to be conducted as a "short-form only" count. In this spirit, the content and questions of the ACS were closely patterned after the long-form sample questionnaire used in the 2000 census. As years have passed, new questions have gradually been added to the survey. For instance, questions on health insurance coverage (discussed more fully in Chapter 2) and marital history were added after testing in 2006, and the Census Bureau plans to add a question on Inter-
net access beginning in 2013.1 As implemented in 2012, the ACS questionnaire contains 75 numbered questions:
- A lead respondent for the household is guided through the process of answering six roster questions about each member of the household; these questions include each person's name, relationship to the lead respondent, age, and race and Hispanic origin.2
- The lead respondent is then asked 21 "housing" questions; these include attributes of the housing stock (e.g., age of construction of the building, presence or absence of plumbing and cooking facilities, and the amount spent in the previous month for electricity) and general characteristics of the household (e.g., monthly rent, whether anyone in the household holds the mortgage on the property, and whether anyone in the household received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program/Food Stamp benefits in the previous year).
- Finally, up to 48 numbered "person" questions are asked of each person in the household (some questions may be skipped depending on earlier responses); these questions include U.S. citizenship, language other than English spoken at home, place of residence 1 year ago, fertility (whether the person gave birth in the past year), employment status, and various types of income in the past year.
In brief, the basic parameters of the ACS are that on the order of 295,000 housing units—spanning all counties in the United States—are selected for the ACS sample every month (or roughly 3.5 million housing units per year).3 Those sample units are contacted by mail during their first month in the sample; in the second month, those who failed to respond by mail are selected for contact/interview by telephone, if a phone number can be determined; in the third month, a subsample of nonrespondents by either mail or phone are then selected for personal interview by Census Bureau field staff. In this way, the Census Bureau is continuously collecting data across all three modes: the data actually collected in month M include mail returns from the new housing units added to the sample in month M, phone interviews with some people from the
1The Census Bureau archives the questionnaires used in various years of ACS implementation on its website at http://www.census.gov/acs/www/methodology/questionnaire_archive/. Throughout this summary, when appropriate, question text is excerpted from the 2012 version of the questionnaire, the direct link to which is http://www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/questionnaires/2012/Quest12.pdf.
2This full detail is only asked about five people in the household; only name, sex, and age are asked about Persons 7–12, and the additional detail may be collected about these people in a followup phone interview.
3The full-scale ACS operated on a monthly sample of about 250,000 households until the increase to 295,000 with the June 2011 mailing. A separate sample of roughly 200,000 residents of group quarters—places like college dormitories, nursing homes, military barracks—is also covered in the ACS each year. The unique challenges presented by group quarters are largely beyond the scope of this workshop, but are addressed in detail by National Research Council (2012).
month M – 1 sample (plus late mail returns from that group), and personal visit interviews with some people from the month M -2 sample (also including late mail returns from that group). The Census Bureau intends to implement an Internet response option to the ACS beginning in January 2013, rather than relying solely on return of the mailed paper questionnaire.
An important nuance of the ACS, as currently implemented, is that response to the survey is mandatory under law—inheriting this attribute from the ACS's role as replacement for the former (mandatory) long-form sample and as a supplement or complement to the decennial count.4 Nonrespondents are subject to a fine,5 and messages emphasizing the mandatory nature of the survey are prominently displayed on ACS mailing materials and noted on the questionnaires. More will be said of this requirement—and proposed changes to it—below in Section 1–B.
The data from the ACS's monthly samples are cumulated and averaged over 1 or more years—with a single year's collection of data able to provide information for large population subgroups and several years of data needed to yield reliable estimates for small groups. Specifically, the estimates currently produced by the ACS use three time windows:
- 1-year period estimates, for geographic and demographic groups of population 65,000 or greater;
- 3-year period estimates, for groups with populations between 20,000 and 65,000; and
- 5-year period estimates, for groups with populations less than 20,000—a category including the vast majority of cities and counties in the United States, as well as smaller geographies such as census tracts.
Being period estimates, and pooling several months of data, ACS estimates differ from the estimates produced by the former long-form sample, which could be interpreted as point estimates for the decennial census reference date (April 1). In addition to the conduct of the decennial census itself, the year 2010 was
413USC § 193 states that: "In advance of, in conjunction with, or after the taking of each census provided for by this chapter, the Secretary [of Commerce—and by extension the Census Bureau—] may make surveys and collect such preliminary and supplementary statistics related to the main topic of the census as are necessary to the initiation, taking, or completion thereof."
5Like the decennial census, the defined penalty for "refus[ing] or willfully neglect[ing] … to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for" elsewhere in the law (including § 193, discussed in the previous footnote) is a fine of not more than $100 (13USC § 221(a)). The penalty for "willfully giv[ing] any answer that is false" is a fine of not more than $500 (13 USC § 221(b)). However, under the terms of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, a person guilty of either of these infractions could be subject to a fine of "not more than $5,000" (18 USC § 3571). Prior to enactment of P.L. 94-521 in 1976, violators were also subject to imprisonment: up to 60 days for nonresponse and up to 1 year for false answers. That said, the Census Bureau's longstanding position is to emphasize the reasons for responding to the ACS rather than the possible legal penalties, and has refrained from charging ACS nonrespondents.
pivotal for the Census Bureau in that it was the first year in which the full suite of ACS products was available for the entire nation—including many localities' first real glimpse at ACS data, through the 5-year 2005–2009 estimates. The Census Bureau releases ACS estimates primarily through its American FactFinder website at http://factfinder.census.gov.
The unique challenges and opportunities presented by the ACS data were explored by a previous National Research Council (2007b) panel. However, given its dates of operation, that panel's work was necessarily abstract and hypothetical. So too was the Census Bureau's own work to prepare data users, including the production of a series of "Compass" handbooks for different types of data users.6 Only with the release of actual data, and following the reaction to the data and to their accompanying and prominently featured margins of error, did the ACS become real and concrete to its potential users. Now in its second decade of large-scale implementation, the release of the first sets of full data also marks an opportune time to assess the ACS, its uses, and its demands.
The U.S. Census Bureau requested that the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) convene a:
workshop on the benefits to a broad array of non-federal users of the data products from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS). The workshop will also address the burden on the American public of responding to the ACS questions. A workshop on the benefits of the ACS is timely because the survey has just completed its first full cycle of releasing 1-, 3-, and 5-year period estimates (for 2009, 2007–2009, and 2005–2009, respectively), and there is need to take stock of user experience with the data and to identify priority uses for the future. The workshop is part of a larger review the Census Bureau is conducting to assess the overall mission, vision, goals, and objectives of the ACS. The Bureau's review also includes examining the data products along with the methods for conducting and managing the survey.
Pursuant to this charge, CNSTAT convened a steering committee for the workshop, which met in March 2012 to discuss the task and craft the structure of the workshop.
The steering committee made two major decisions that governed the final shape of the workshop. The first was to make the notion of ACS "burden" an integral part of the proceedings and to extend it beyond the single issue of time
6These "Compass" guides included, for instance, volumes targeted at state and local government users (U.S. Census Bureau, 2009), high school teachers (U.S. Census Bureau, 2008b), members of Congress and congressional staff (U.S. Census Bureau, 2008a), and business users (U.S. Census Bureau, 2008c).
spent by respondents in completing the survey. The charge of the workshop emphasizes the benefits of the ACS and its title retained the wording used at the project's inception—literally expressing "burdens" as a parenthetical. But the steering committee sought to ensure that the challenges presented by the ACS were given an open and prominent airing, and decided to seek presentations and discussions concerning more general types of "burden" in the ACS. For instance, from the perspective of respondents, the ACS and its detailed questions raise privacy and confidentiality concerns that might serve as an impediment to response altogether. For data users, the ACS presents a significant communication burden: explaining "new" concepts (the interpretation of estimates based on multiple years of data) and old ones (margins of error) to potentially skeptical audiences. A final example of a broader burden created by the ACS follows directly from its design: Large, populous geographic units have access to a wealth of ACS estimates of 1-, 3-, and 5-year vintages while rural areas and smaller population groups face a relative scarcity of ACS estimates, necessarily waiting for 5-year accumulations that may still have very high standard errors. These types of "burden" considerations shaped the steering committee's selection of presenters within sessions; to give the issues a dedicated airing, the committee also sought to carve out a specific section of the program for a structured discussion of various types of "burden," recognizing that a single presentation or paper was unlikely to be sufficient.
The second was to cast a net as wide as possible to collect perspectives on ACS uses, and to make the workshop's agenda book (background briefing materials) a virtual poster session in order to spotlight more voices than the limited number of speaking slots could accommodate. The steering committee drafted a short "feeler" notice, asking ACS users to write back with a short description of how (and how often) they use ACS data products, and for what purposes. This feeler notice was distributed through a variety of channels, email lists, and contact networks, and yielded dozens of expressions of interest. The steering committee filled most of the slots in its working agenda using these submissions. Later, this group of feeler-notice respondents was contacted again and asked to contribute short written thoughts for the meeting agenda book—whether a particularly interesting "case study" of ACS data usage or an expanded "user profile" describing how individual users work with the ACS (and work around any of its shortcomings). In all, this background briefing book included about 30 submissions.
The background book (called "case study book" for short) and the presentations from the workshop are both available on the CNSTAT website (http://www.nas.edu/cnstat).7
7 The specific page link to the workshop materials is http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/CNSTAT/ACS_Benefits_Burdens.
The workshop itself was held on the afternoon of June 14 and the full day of June 15, 2012, at the National Academies' Keck Center in Washington, DC. The workshop drew roughly 80 attendees across both days, with the first afternoon's proceedings drawing a particularly strong crowd. The final agenda for the workshop and a list of the contributors to the accompanying case study agenda book are reprinted in Appendix A.
While the workshop agenda was under development—and independent of the workshop and its charge—the ACS drew sudden legislative attention in spring 2012. Ultimately, this attention would set a most unusual context for the workshop: This workshop on the uses of the ACS took place slightly more than one month after one chamber of Congress voted to effectively terminate the survey.
Multiple bills filed in the 111th Congress sought to eliminate or weaken the requirement that response to the ACS be mandatory under law. H.R. 3131 (introduced by Rep. Ted Poe of Texas) would remove any penalty "for refusing or willfully neglecting to answer questions" on the ACS other than respondent name, contact information, "the number of people living or staying at the same address," and the response date. H.R. 5046 (introduced by Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri) would take a stronger line, making the only mandatory question on the ACS (and the decennial census) to be "the number of individuals living in such individual's residence."8 Though the bills acquired some cosponsors (35 for the Poe bill, 8 for the Akin bill), neither advanced beyond referral to subcommittee during the 111th Congress.
In the 112th Congress, Rep. Poe reintroduced his legislation in March 2011 (now numbered H.R. 931), and it was referred to two subcommittees of the House Judiciary Committee as well as to the Oversight and Government Reform Committee (which has primary jurisdiction over the Census Bureau). After no action for 1 year, the House Oversight subcommittee with census jurisdiction9 held a hearing on the topic of a voluntary (rather than mandatory) ACS on March 6, 2012. In addition to Rep. Poe, Census Bureau Director Robert Groves and three ACS data users from the business and economic development
8Filed on April 15, 2010, the Akin bill—even under the speediest of circumstances—could not have applied to the 2010 census, which was then well under way. It would have required placing "on the front of each [questionnaire or survey] in a conspicuous manner" an advisory statement of the form: "Constitutionally, in responding to this survey, you are only required to provide the number of individuals living in your residence. Answers to all other questions contained within this survey are optional."
9Formally, the Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives.
sectors were invited to testify. Because the hearing was merely on the subject matter, and not a hearing or meeting on the bill itself, no further action was taken on the bill in the immediate wake of the hearing.
Several weeks later, on May 9, two amendments were offered during House floor consideration of H.R. 5326, the fiscal year (FY) 2013 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies appropriations bill including funding for the Census Bureau. Both amendments took the form of policy "riders"—not explicitly striking or replacing a specific funding number, but simply prohibiting the use of any funds in the bill for certain purposes. The first amendment (introduced by Rep. Poe) would bar the use of funds in the bill to enforce penalties for nonresponse to the ACS, effectively making the survey voluntary rather than mandatory.10 The second, offered by Rep. Daniel Webster of Florida, would prohibit use of the funds to "conduct the survey" altogether. Under the rules governing debate on the bill, consideration of each amendment was limited to five minutes on each side; the central arguments made in favor of the amendments were concern for the intrusive nature of some of the ACS questions and the argument that the detail of the ACS queries exceeds the constitutional mandate for the decennial census. After those short debates, the Poe amendment was judged to have passed by voice vote and the Webster amendment was ultimately passed by a 232–190 vote.11 The next day, the House wrapped up consideration of the whole bill and passed it, as amended.
In the wake of the House vote, a version of the standalone Poe bill (to make the ACS voluntary) was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. Neither the Paul bill nor the Senate's Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations bill for FY 2013 have progressed to further consideration at this writing in summer 2012; the prospects for completing work on the FY 2013 bills could reasonably be described as uncertain heading into a presidential election and the closing sessions of the 112th Congress.12
Introducing the workshop on behalf of the steering committee, CNSTAT Director Constance Citro noted that these recent legislative developments were an "elephant in the room" for the workshop. She noted that the workshop was
10Both the Poe amendment and the full bill, H.R. 931, speak only to the penalty defined in 13 USC § 221(a)—for "willfully refus[ing] or neglect[ing]" to provide a response. They let stand the penalty applying under 13 USC § 221(b), which penalizes giving willfully false answers.
11There was no request to hold a recorded vote after the chair ruled that the yeas had prevailed on the voice vote on the Poe amendment and—initially—the Webster amendment appeared to carry by voice vote as well. Rather than immediately call for a recorded vote on the Webster amendment, floor managers instead asked special dispensation to let a late-arriving speaker comment on the amendment—after which the chair moved on to other amendments. Shortly thereafter, opponents of the Webster amendment prevailed on the bill managers to vacate the voice vote and instead hold a recorded vote, which produced the 232–190 result.
12The Senate appropriations subcommittee's mark for the Census Bureau gave the Bureau its full request for FY 2013, including some funds for both the 2010 and 2020 decennial censuses and the 2012 economic census that were trimmed in the House version. As of early December 2012, no further congressional action had been taken on the relevant FY 2013 appropriations bills.
not developed, and should not be interpreted, as a response to the legislation or an advocacy, one way or the other, for the ACS. Rather, the workshop is intended to document the way the ACS estimates are being used and to construct a portrait of the nonfederal ACS user base. She noted that the steering committee put no limits on what the workshop presenters (or case study contributors) say, and she encouraged the workshop participants to approach the session with the same candor.
The legislative developments that would either kill or impair the ACS—rolling out so closely before a workshop on the ACS—did not materially affect the content or the structure of the workshop, but they undeniably shaped its context and climate. The continued existence of the survey became a high-level "benefit" of the ACS that presenters wanted to address in their presentations. Likewise, the discussion sessions following topic blocks at the workshop that might—in different times—have involved more probing of the challenges or burdens of ACS data in specific applications instead reflected the underlying concerns: What would you do if the ACS had a lower sample size? What, if any, other data sources could you use if the ACS were to go away? And, could individual state agencies or private businesses generate similar data to meet basic needs? Hopefully, a full accounting of the workshop confirms that it did not become an advocacy platform in any direction—both benefits and deficiencies with the data were given ample time—but it also reflected the underlying tension over the basic prospects for the ACS in 2013 and beyond.
This report has been prepared as a factual summary of what occurred at the Workshop on the Benefits (and Burdens) of the American Community Survey. The workshop steering committee's role was limited to planning and convening the workshop. Accordingly, the views contained in this report are those of individual workshop participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all workshop participants, the steering committee, or the National Research Council.
This workshop summary largely follows the topic blocks that were used in scheduling the workshop, though some rearrangement has been made when that seemed logical. The most prominent such rearrangement is the chapter describing the workshop's dedicated panel discussion on various aspects of burden associated with the ACS. The workshop steering committee deliberately scheduled that session for the rough midpoint of the workshop—the morning of the second day—so that it might draw from themes raised from some of the user presentations and infuse discussions of others. However, for purposes of this summary, it makes logical sense to defer the summary of this session to the end, in Chapter 8, so as not to disrupt the flow of the previous chapters. There, it
is also combined with the closing remarks by former Census Bureau Director Steve Murdock and the final threads of discussion at the workshop.
Chapter 2 summarizes presentations from the kickoff session of the workshop, focused on the applications of the ACS in planning for health care and transportation services. Based primarily on the experiences of nonprofit organizations and their use of the ACS, Chapter 3 describes the workshop block on ACS uses in planning for social services and preparing for (and responding to) natural and manmade disasters. To close the first afternoon of the workshop, the steering committee sought perspectives from three users in the print and online media; that discussion is in Chapter 4. The core of the second day of the workshop was oriented more around different "sectors" of ACS data users than specific topics; the experiences of state, local, and tribal government users and of business, economic development, and "data aggregator" users are discussed in Chapters 5 and 6, respectively. Chapter 7 turns to one important use of the ACS that is explicitly spelled out in federal law and regulation—to ensure compliance by state and local governments with the terms of the Voting Rights Act—as well as to related legal, political, and social equity uses of the ACS. The previously mentioned panel discussion on various aspects of burden associated with the ACS and the capstone discussion of the workshop are summarized in Chapter 8.


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The winter months come and go each year, but they always bring with them the unavoidable cold weather condition and short, dark days. For hotel owners, this can be bothersome. Weather condition can change the appearance of a room significantly, and the reduced outdoor temperature levels means the linen and bedspreads in your spaces could have to be changed to accommodate dropping temperature levels.
The location close to your head requirement to be distinct although you rest. Be cautious of something hanging about your head as you rest … most feng shui authorities encourage towards getting huge objects hanging in extra of a bed, and are specifically worried about something sharp. Even if it is just a whisp of a trouble, even a subconcious trouble, that's adequate to interrupt the top quality of your rest.
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Exists any much better, more effective method to utilize the area you have in your kids's space than using bunk beds? Today's bunk beds are modern, modular, sculptural productions that take an old hazardous concept (i.e., your dad's bunk beds) and transform the idea into something that is entirely aesthetic and safe for all however the extremely youngest of kids. Security is, of course, the primary issue when purchasing bunk beds; today, numerous bunk beds offer security attributes to avoid your kids from tumbling from the upper bunk. Particularly, improved security ladders and guard rails will offer even more assurance for moms and dads.
Western futons are only freely based upon Japanese ones and have numerous significant differences. They are frequently placed on a foldable frame that can be made use of as a bed or a couch. The futon bed mattress is typically filled with foam in addition to batting, frequently in numerous layers, and are usually much thicker and larger than the Japanese equivalent, appearing like a standard bed mattress in size. Japanese futons are flat, about 2 in thick and have a fabric exterior stuffed with cotton or artificial batting.
Leather fabric is unquestionably stylish and sleek, and it protects your recliner from stains like hot sauce and drink spills. However leather can dramatically raise the cost of a chair, and it really is much more prone to scratches. As an option to leather, it is possible to attempt a micro fiber product. It gives a suede-like luster surface. Have it scotch-guarded to safeguard the recliner from stains. There are cases when a recliner looks absolutely exceptional and beautiful in a store, but not a lot anymore when you bring it at property. It could possibly not be blending well with your floor and walls. It might well be producing your property appear to stuffy and crowded. In any case, you can frequently return it immediately and have it exchanged. Do not settle if you are not pleased with the buy due to the reality you'll be seeing that compact recliners piece daily.
Relying on your option, way of living, and requirements, you have to purchase the best sofa which is inexpensive and fits into your spending plan. Make certain a curved sofa is not left in an un-stylized manner. Thus, you have to make that sofa suit its surroundings. If you bring home a round leather curved sectional sofa, then you have to arrange the rest of the decor accessories appropriately. You will certainly require a couple of matching things like a round glass great tea table, circular rugs, curved, round or oval frames with comparable images, decent tosses, round formed furnishings knobs, etc. If possible, look for furnishings that goes close to the specific product and design on the sofa. For example, chairs with curved arms, curved backs, and circular tables, to go with your curved leather sectional sofa. Now, firstly, decide the place where you wish to place your sofa, and afterwards arrange the rest of the furnishings appropriately. The majority of the time, it is suggested to set it in a corner, however you can likewise place these sofas in front of a big LCD TELEVISION set or cozy fireplace. You have to place other furnishings articles in a round manner, so that they can match the sofa. Now, place the rugs under and in front of the sofa. Then, place smaller circular frames on the walls behind the sofa, and larger pieces on the rest of the walls. Embellish the sofa further with round- or oval-shaped pillows and tosses.
Planning is essential when purchasing Sofas. You have to ensure you measure the area where you really want the sofa to go, and remember to measure the entrances too! If you have slim doorframes or corridors with little room to steer furnishings, search for sofas with removable legs or arms. It is extremely essential to do a prior planning before purchasing sofas. First of all a measurement of the area where the sofa is to be established have to be established will certainly need to be measured. A previous planning have to be done where the sofa will certainly be finest suited so that the moving area of the room where the sofa is to be set does not get blocked. A specific attention ought to be offered to the corridors and if the sofa is to be set thee then it is better to take a precise measurement. Otherwise the unexpected plan may disrupt the plan of your house.
It cannot be said commonly enough, that measuring your area is one of the most vital steps before you buy furniture of any kind. After you know how big a futon you will certainly have the ability to accommodate, you can pick from different sizes. Futons are offered in twin, full, and queen sizes. King sized futons are not very common, however are likewise offered. Futons take up a lot of room similar to beds once they are totally opened out, see to it you have enough area to accommodate the one you are about to buy. For example, a futon chair can open to the size of a twin bed. It would likewise help to have other furniture around the futon be quickly movable to facilitate opening it, especially if you need to do it often.
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The bed is the most crucial bed room furniture. Make sure you choose a bed and thick, firm mattresses. A bed with upholstered headboards is ideal as these cushioned headboards provide adequate back and head support when you should sit up in bed to sit up and see TV, read or simply unwind drink your morning coffee. Upholstered headboards are readily available in a lot of materials like textile, leather, vinyl and synthetic fur. Material upholstered headboards are really comfy, while leather headboards can look extravagant and advanced.
Because the sleeper ottoman doubles as storage, it is a wonderful location to keep additional blankets, pillows and other products for your visitors. You will normally even have space for even more than those products inside. The ottoman is useful in even more rooms than simply the livingroom, too. You can use them in workplaces, dens or bedrooms. Ottoman sleepers are also wonderful for saving space due to the fact that you do not was required to worry about acquiring a huge sleeper couch that can use up method too much space. Most everyone understands that comfort is essential for sleep. No one wants to sleep on something that will make their back hurt or have them tossing and turning all night long. Ottoman sleepers are strong on comfort in addition to being good-looking and trendy. You can normally find one to match the design and fabric that is currently in the space.
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Bunk beds can be pricey. If you do your research, you can conserve cash on your acquisition, and still bring house a safe, quality sleeping location for your kids. It's important to keep in mind that regardless of how much cash you have to spend on your kids's bunk beds; cost ought to not be the deciding factor.
Beds made from futon can also come within the form of bunk beds with a twin bed on the top and a double, twin or perhaps single bed below! If you have 2 children within the exact very same room you can use a futon sofa which is a couch throughout the day but it turns into a comfortable bed during the night. When it is sleep time simply open the sofa into a comfortable bed. Since they used and around "the bed" all day it's less of a transition for the kids. For teenagers and college students futon couches or loungers will fit below loft beds saving area! When you have a small room or dormitory you have the ability to appreciate futon beds that convert into a couch throughout the day! All these futon sofas will fit in a space where little other compact recliners will prosper.
Selecting a comfortable couch for your living-room is essential when you're in the procedure of redesigning your house as it is where most household activities happen. Whether you want to take a quick nap, read a book or simply enjoy tv, the couch is the ideal place to sit and relax. Right here are particular tips to think about before choosing couches to enhance your living-room. The size of your living-room is a vital deciding factor. If you have a large living-room, you might choose a large sofa or combine 2 or more pieces of a sectional together. You might also use small, round couches which can match a longer couch design by functioning as added seating. If you entertain commonly, pick a sectional sofa and combine it with a couch to accommodate all your visitors. If you have a little living area, choose a little sofa that can still make it look roomy and inviting.
This form of bed matches perfectly in addition to your residence decor and offer your bed room a stylish and contemporary beauty and appear. They're supplied in large range of sizes varying from small to usual size to even huge king sized beds. The ottoman regular beds offer an additional traditional look with the wooden storage whilst the modern day beds offer a much more stylish appear. The beds are available with beautiful surfaces which might be coated with lacquer finish and are covered in appealing designer feather soft materials or in very sophisticated leather. You could efficiently improve your room's storage capability and make the most beneficial of the restricted residence space with the support of these storage beds. These beds are effectively equipped with storage facility that serves ideal to establishment items which you do not require on daily basis. These beds are incredibly a lot in need now days as they optimize comfort and makes room clutter-free and tidy.
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Choose a dark shade and guarantee that the surface is wrinkle complimentary and sweat resistant. Chair recliners in pure leather are much more costly as as compared to synthetic leather, though the pure leather is more resilient. Those who fix recliners recommend that spending more on a high quality chair is worth the rate, because it is the moving parts that tend to break too frequently. Just purchase recliners online from an establishment where you have the ability to see the underside of the chair, because these are the photos that will certainly expose if the underside has heavy-duty screws or simply some low-cost plastic fasteners that are not created to last long. To be on the safe side, only purchase chair recliners that feature a minimum of 3 years service warranty.
If you are in the marketplace for a brand new addition to your bedroom one excellent concept is to get a yearn dresser that is unfinished. This can be a much more economical way to furnish your home as opposed to purchasing new furniture. Natural products which are invested in unfinished are more economical to purchase and finish as you like than to purchase prefinished. You are also likely to get exactly what you would like this way. An incomplete want dresser can be found in lots of locations. You could potentially locate this on line at any range of furniture stores. You might find them frequently within the local classifieds. You could even buy them from lots of local furniture stores.
Colors that are being made use of are neutral that exhibits the spirit of modern house. Neutral colors that are being made use of objectives to be simple, smooth and very stylish. Now modern sofas that are being introduced are accompanied by toss cushions that are available in strong and bright colors. When preparing to purchase sofa you must not commit yourself to a certain color of sofa, unless you can pay for to replace the upholstery of your sofa every few years. If you want to continue to be being modern look you need to pick neutral colors in cream, coffee, and camel, white of black.
When clients see their regional or not so in many cases! Like numerous things readily available for purchase in retailers, the price is based upon the quality of the product used. Leather Sofas are no different, with the amount of different kinds of leather readily available, the price if these items were bound to vary substantially in price. You should constantly investigate the type of product used in general terms though, high quality leather can be treated and is resilient. There are numerous different methods in which a leather sofa can be cleaned. The most available approach of doing so if with typical soap and water, dried out off with a soft cloth. If your leather sofa has lost a little of it s shine in patches, then this can be resolved by rubbing the leather with oil. You might have to be done though with the color to match the sofa if the area is in a place which it will be seen, or if the scuff is deep.
When one moves into a new house, it gets extremely difficult to furnish it because they have to pay rent and buy other amenities. This is the reason one has to opt for the leather loveseat. It is extremely spacious and double up as a seat, a bed and relaxation seat. At times, one could move into a little house and they can not discover the space to put all the different furniture in our home. They will require a bed, a seat, and a place where they can work and the leather loveseat will save all the difficulty. You also have to ensure that you will wind up with the one that will fit you well and this means settling with the ideal color, design, and product option. Considering that it server numerous functions, you have to settle with the stringer variation of the leather loveseat made from real products to uphold the different functions effectively.
Other advantages of making use of a recliner riser chair include the relief of back pain caused by sitting in the same position for too long and it can help in the prevention of incorrect sitting posture. It likewise helps the relaxation of the leg and can avert fluid develop. Those who are recovering from leg surgery can use the leg support feature in their healing process. Numerous reclining positions are a substantial feature of a recliner riser chair. They allow for many activities to be taken pleasure in such as watching television, consuming a meal and reading whilst seated in a position that would relate to the pastime being performed therefore reducing any unnecessary stress on the body.
The long side is typically long enough for it people to sleep on. Other forms of this will certainly include an integrated bed that can be taken out for guests. Overall the cost is actually lower than your standard 2 and three seat combination. The configuration of seats is not as limited as the parts can come apart and placed together in various different methods. There are spaces that just become cluttered when you position these seats in them. Design that is formal or sophisticated will certainly clash rather badly with this type of sofa. The shape and appearance of these is typically not something that lots of families desire. If you go with a rounded sofa then you will certainly need to have a much larger room in order to fit it in. Sectional sofas are an option that you might want to consider if you have a big household or a living-room that does not require formal furnishings. You do have to weigh the benefits and drawbacks of getting this type of sofa specifically in relation to your scenarios. It is best to note that these sofas are not the best concept for everyone.
When you go couch shopping, whether in person or online, it is extremely simple to obtain wrapped up in the looks of a piece. 2 couches that look completely alike can actually be miles apart in quality and rate, and many people will certainly not have the foggiest concept why. Occasionally it is due to the fact that of fabric or name brand name, but most of the time it is due to the fact that of the frame. Frames are the skeleton of the couch, and go a very long methods towards identifying the last quality rating of a piece. Without a solid, durable base, the couch will certainly not last and is typically an inadequate value for your money. This is true in virtually every kind of couch, from sofa beds to RTA prepared to put together furnishings pieces. So, how do you understand when you have a solid, durable frame on a couch? One of the very first things to look at in a frame is the joints. Are they glued? Do they utilize dowells? Are they stapled in location? Are they screwed? The very best couch and sofa frames will certainly utilize some combination of each one of these, and not just one. Furthermore, a solid sofa frame should be strengthened with added blocks to ensure that they are durable and prepared for the long run.
Leather fabric is unquestionably elegant and streamlined, and it safeguards your recliner from spots like hot sauce and drink spills. But leather can drastically raise the cost of a chair, and it is more susceptible to scratches. As an option to leather, you can attempt a micro fiber product. It gives a suede-like luster surface. Have it scotch-guarded to safeguard the recliner from spots. There are cases when a recliner looks really excellent and stunning in a store, however not so much anymore when you bring it at home. It may not be blending well with your floor and walls. It may be making your house want to stuffy and crowded. In any case, you can constantly return it instantly and have it exchanged. Do not settle if you are not kindlied with the purchase since you will certainly be seeing that piece of furniture everyday.
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While buying a recliner you should always keep in mind some crucial features of armchairs. Always remember its convenience and the reclining capability. Apart from this colors and material coverings should likewise be checked. Armchairs made from leather are more practical than chairs made up of other material because their wear and tear rate is much low and you can quickly clean the leather. You can get cost effective recliner armchairs online to suit your convenience. You can discover a huge selection of material and leather options. Not only recliner armchairs but you can likewise buy dining space chairs, reception chairs and collapsible chairs in different styles and sizes online. In the modern trend a reclining armchair has ends up being a crucial piece of compact recliners together with other family products. So buy a reclining armchair to feel its convenience and go relax on it.
Recliner chairs are amongst those gadgets of furniture which provide fantastic convenience and rest and at the similar time, provide a stylish and trendy outlook. They boost the general decoration of the space and are likewise very functional. Each recliner which is on the marketplace out there is built with the function of offering the maximum aid to the back. Recliner chairs have been designed in such a technique that an individual might sit on it for several hours and do his work with no type of pains. Those struggling with the arthritis illness and pregnant girls particularly take advantage from such recliner chairs. The double recliner by Lazy boy described as the Rialto Sofa is now probably the most selling product of the company.


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James Bond Opts For An All-Electric Aston Martin In Next Film
On Wednesday UK-based newspaper The Sun reported that the "total tree-hugger" film director Cary Joji Fukunaga decided that 007 will be driving Aston Martin's very first BEV, the Rapide E, a 600 hp electric saloon (sedan) that's expected to have over 200 miles of range.
A 65-kWh battery replaces the 6-liter V12 engine that you'd find in the original fastback Rapide, which generates about 552 hp. Only 155 units of the electric model are expected to go into production near the end of this year and one is reserved for Bond, James Bond, and will feature a slew of 007-esque high-tech gadgets.
Fukunaga states that "[the car] is going to be the center of an incredible action sequence in the movie," though it may be difficult to imagine a high-speed chase scene with quiet, zero emissions-producing vehicles.
The Rapide E will cost £250,000 when it launches later this year.
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The second system is Matrix Dating as is used to record absolute or fixed events. It can be identified by the suffix MD.
An example of Matrix Dating would be: 6798.5MD
The third system is called Date Indexing. Date Indexing is shortened to only two digits and is identified by DI either before or after.
An example of Date Indexing would be: 92DI (DI92)
The fourth system is GRT which is basically a shorter version of Relative Dating and uses the suffix GRT.
An example of GRT would be: 1213GRT
The fifth system is Gallifreyan TL Dating System. It is used to "date" Time Lords, though the true intended purpose is a mystery. It comes with the suffix TL.
An example of Gallifreyan TL Dating System would be: 100447TL
1999 AD on Earth 417 BC on Earth 1,999 417 + 3,503,412,400.2 + 3,503,412,399.2 ----------------- ----------------- RE3,503,414,399.2 RE3,503,412,816.2 (4,399.2) (2,816.2)
"I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. I am 903 years old and I'm the man who is going to save your lives and all six billion people on the planet below."
So, strictly speaking, you could in fact find out what year it is (or would have been) on Gallifrey at the time he said this.
Doctor's Age: 903 Relative Dating Local Date Line 903 903 + 2,004,716.44 + 4,716.44 ------------ ----------------- RE2,005,619.44 RE 5,619.44Put them together and you get:
2007 AD on Earth 2,007 + 3,503,412,400.2 ----------------- RE3,503,414,007.2Oh, but what's this? There seems to be some, erm, major discrepancy. RE2005619.44 seems to be far cry from RE3,503,414,007.2. However, let us remember that Gallifrey is located inside Inner Time and is protected by any number of temporal locks and barriers. This may mean that Inner Time's time turns differently than the rest of the universe, or at least our part of it.
So, which system should we use? I submit we should stick with the official planetary dating (the adding 3.5 billion). Why? Because the Laws of Time state that Time Lords' personal timelines must always stay in sync with Gallifrey's time line. It is unlikely the Doctor does this.
Converting an Earth date to the Date Index is as easy as subtracting 1,695,300 from its RE or adding 304,700 to the 4-digit LD.
1999 AD on Earth 417 BC on Earth 1999 AD on Earth 417 BC on Earth 1,999 417 1,999 417 + 3,503,412,400.2 + 3,503,412,399.2 + 3,503,412,400.2 + 3,503,412,399.2 ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- RE3,503,414,399.2 RE3,503,412,816.2 RE 4,399.2 RE 2,816.2 - 1,695,300 - 1,695,300 + 304,700 + 304,700 ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- 3,501,719,099.2DI 3,501,717,516.2DI DI 309,099.2 DI 307,516.2 (99.2DI) (16.2DI) (DI99.2) (DI16.2)
Next is converting an Earth year to GRT, which is merely subtracting 2,003,543 from the full RE.
1999 AD on Earth 417 BC on Earth 1,999 417 + 3,503,412,400.2 + 3,503,412,399.2 ----------------- ----------------- RE3,503,414,399.2 RE3,503,412,816.2 - 2,003,543 - 2,003,543 ----------------- ----------------- 3,501,410,856.2GRT 3,501,409,273.2GRT
Gallifreyan TL Dating System is merely used to "date" Time Lords relative to Gallifrey's date and can be found by adding 100,448 to a Time Lord's age. The purpose of this system is largely a mystery.
Day 1 (Oct 20th~) Creation of the Web of Time
Day 13 (Nov 1st~) The Thirteeth Night: Gallifreyan Cults practice Mimesis
Day 128 (Feb 24th~) Intuitive Revolution Day
Day 162 (Mar 30th~) Otherstide/Othermass/Festival of Freedom: No one leaves their houses on Otherstide eve, and gifts are given to time-tots.
Day 205 (May 12th~) Death of Omega
The Festival of the Timewright (Anmers-Tonastide, or TimeWorker), Feast of Omega, and Rassilon's Flag Day are other holidays.
Again, it is important to note that these are merely approximations. Variances in planetary orbit, calendar-keeping, dating systems, and even the passage of time itself in Inner Time vs. Normal Space could affect the dating conversions. Use with discretion.
|Convert Earth Years To:
|Relative Dating
|+ 3,503,412,400.2 if after 1 AD
+ 3,503,412,399.2 if before 1 BC
|Date Indexing
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I'm so sorry about Chloe. I've been there and it's hard. I'm sending you a big virtual hug right now!ReplyDelete
So sorry to read that you lost such a friend. Your description of her hugging you made me cry. I lost my dog (best friend) 12 years ago and cannot bring myself to adopt another. I have 4 grand dogs to nuzzle, but can't take on one myself.ReplyDelete
They do love us unconditionally. I lost a golden retriever (Libby) two months before getting Chloe. I am in no way trying to replace my sweet babies, but my home just doesn't feel balanced.... Doesn't feel whole without having 2 dogs. We have oscar, our schitz/poodle mix and a couple of weeks ago got a goldendoodle (Gracie ) they bring so much joy, yes they do have such short lives in comparison to ours, but the love they give while they are here.... Outweighs the inevitable pain. I know it will hurt but death always does. I do hope you find the strength in yourself to let another one in and once again have that kind of joy and love that only the four legged kind can give. ((Hugs ))ReplyDelete
- julie828November 17, 2013 at 2:58 AM
All Dogs go to Heaven . I hope to see my Max and Charlie when I get there .ReplyDelete
Hugs , Julie
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Published: 2018 Juni
Herausgeber: ACM
Buchtitel: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy '18)
Seiten: 396-398
Verlag: ACM
Erscheinungsort: New York, NY, USA
Organisation: Ninth International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy '18), ACM
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This poster proposes a new method to generate individual time-of-use electricity tariffs to exploit the flexibility of energy prosumers while preserving privacy and minimizing communication effort as well as computational cost. Since an employed tariff structure may be impossible to derive analytically from a particular behavior of a prosumer, artificial neural networks may be used to learn the underlying mechanisms implicitly based on simulated household data. Using the acquired knowledge, such a network could be able to generate suitable tariffs to achieve a desired behavior.
DOI Link: 10.1145/3208903.3212037


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2) Promoting goods and services to consumers. In the modern business world, marketing plays a prominent role in determining company policy, influencing product development, pricing, methods of distribution, advertising, and promotion techniques.
3) Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships. The twofold goal of marketing is to attract new customers by promising superior value to keep and grow current customers by delivering satisfaction.
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Marketing can be defined as the managed process of developing, pricing, promoting and distributing goods, services and ideas to satisfy the identified needs of customers and to meet organizational objectives. The top organizational objective in most cases is profitability.
Most often the objective of marketing is, therefore, to select, supply and satisfy clients in a way that will produce profits for the organization. This requires using a marketing strategy that will include methods with which a company achieves its profitability objectives. These methods include but are not limited to marketing research, SWOTT analysis, and devising the appropriate marketing mix of Promotion, Place, Product, Price, known as the 4 Ps.
After appropriate market research and SWOTT analysis to determine who the firm's customers are and what they need, marketing mangers use the 4 Ps to develop the right marketing mix. The right marketing mix will allow the firm to develop the right products (goods, services, ideas) and make them available at the right places (where customers can conveniently find them) with the ...
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We are surrounded by a sea of pink and sparkles, girly things covered in unicorns and mermaids (but not, much to my daughter's disgust, bears). She is nervous as all get out, but she refuses to let me comfort her or distract her. At home, I would grab her, pull her onto my lap, hug her close. But we are not at home. We are in public, and in public, I am a barely-to-be-tolerated, sort of embarrassing hanger-on, kind of like braces or an old pair of shoes you have to keep wearing because your mom said you don't need new ones yet and they won't let you go to the mall barefoot.
I know she's nervous because we just spent an hour and fifteen minutes in the car, during which she asked a thousand questions ("What if they fall out in the middle of the night?" "What if they get infected?" "What if they don't have any cute earrings?" "Do you think the piercing person will be nice?") and sharing the opinions of the real experts, the other girls in the fourth grade ("Sally Sue said it didn't hurt at all but Susie Sal said it hurt really badly and then Sally Sue said that Susie Sal must be a huge baby and so then Susie Sal started to cry, but I'm not going to cry, Mom, because Junie Jo said that it's not much faster than getting a shot and Joanie June said the piercing people are super nice and fast").
Personally, I'm still shaking from the terrible traffic and construction on the way here; seven years in Tiny Town having destroyed me for city driving. I'm wishing the piercing lady with her arm tattoos would hurry up and put the third hole in the ears of the girl sitting in the chair, wondering why she has to give all the long instructions since obviously this teenager knows how to handle a piercing. (I know, I know, there's regulations and stuff. But there's only so many sparkly unicorn headbands a forty-year-old woman can stare at before you just can't handle it anymore, and also my daughter is getting more nervous by the second.)
We watch the teenager get her holes punched, breathe deeply and then slowly let the air out just like I do every week when I give myself my arthritis shot. I'm thankful she doesn't cry, or our traipse through city traffic may have been in vain. "You're going to do great, sweetie," I say to my girl.
"Mo-ommmm, stop saying that," she says, eyes rolling. Almost ten, or almost fifteen? You decide.
Finally it is our turn, and G climbs up in the chair. Art shows her the teddy bear with its pierced furry ears that sits nearby. "You can hold her if you like," the piercing lady says. "Her name is Claire Bear."
"I don't want to hold her," G replies.
"Are you sure?" I ask. "There's no shame. Or you can hold my hand."
"I'm not going to hold her, or your hand," she says, "but I guess she can sit next to me." Claire Bear is moved to a precarious perch on the seat next to my daughter, and we turn to the truly important task of choosing earrings. On the way here, she had speculated about what ones they might have and hoped they had flower earrings, so I am quick to point out a cute, daisy-shaped, bejeweled pair. But apparently I am too enthusiastic in my endorsement because she immediately rejects them. "I like these ones," she says, pointing to a pair of silver balls with tiny fake diamonds all over them.
We wait as the piercing lady heads to the back room to find a pair, and while we don't have an audience I reiterate the fact that there is no shame in holding someone's hand or squeezing a bear when one is getting holes punched in one's head. I remind her how I always used to hold my dad's hand when I was getting shots at the dentist.
She is unmoved. She is not a baby, and she is not going to hold anyone's hand, even if it hurts worse than when she broke her finger.
When the lady returns, she explains to G that she will mark the spots on her ears where her new bling will go. We watch her carefully do this, and then we look at her handiwork. "They look a little different, because one of her ears is bigger than the other." It is, and it's adorable, but I wonder how many paranoid body image conversations will arrive from that offhand comment.
I try to head it off with a smile. "Well, I think most of us are a little lopsided!"
Finally the time arrives. The lady loads her two earring-hole punchers with the mini disco-ball earrings. She aims one at G's ear, and counts backward. "Three . . . two . . . one . . . " and then one ear has a hole and an earring in it where no hole or earring had been before.
"Oooh, ouch, ow!" G winces.
"You okay?" I ask.
"Yeah, it just hurt a little."
Second ear . . . . three two one . . . punch.
"Oooch! ow, oof ouch!" this wince is slightly more intense than the last. She still won't hold my hand, although at some point one arm has slipped around Claire Bear.
We finish the process, and we haven't even made it out of the store before she's saying it barely hurt at all, how it really wasn't bad, how she wants more earring holes now. After a cookie break, during which she spews forth words in her relief even more loquaciously than she had in her nervousness, we head back to the van. I put my arm around her shoulders, tell her I'm proud of her. She smiles, allows the arm for a few moments until she sees other girls in the vicinity, and then we're done with that precious moment.
We are navigating these tricky waters of growing up, of fighting for independence while still being so very dependent. I am trying to meet her needs for love and affection in ways that are acceptable to her, both in private and in public. It's hard. We grate and bump against each other, and I try so hard to respect her need for independence without accepting bad attitudes or snottiness. I pray daily for grace, for the ability to love this child well, to accept her as nearly-ten and not hold too tightly to her. I try to remember to celebrate the funny, sweet, beautiful girl she is and not grieve too fiercely over the little girl she is slowly but inexorably leaving behind.
Motherhood is so hard. It breaks me, stretches me, leaves me desperate before my heavenly Father more than any other aspect of my life.
Later that night, I am getting ready for bed when G comes into my room. "Mommy?" she says.
"You didn't have to get my ears pierced today."
"Well, we told you we would do that when you turned ten, and it's close enough now. We wouldn't have time next weekend."
"But, I mean, you drove a really long way and it cost money and you didn't have to do those things."
"But we wanted to, baby."
"I know. You're such a nice Mommy." She comes in for a huge hug. I sit on the bed, with her on my lap, just for a minute.
"You're my girl. I like to do things for you."
She gets up, heading to her own room and her comfy bed and huge pile of teddy bears, not yet outgrown. At the door she turns around. "Mommy?"
"Yes, honey?"
"Thank you."
Maybe we'll survive this after all.


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THE EXMOUTH Pavilion welcomes back, by popular demand, Swing n Sinatra on Sunday, November 16, at 7.30pm, performing a broad selection of songs you ll know and love from the swing era
THE EXMOUTH Pavilion welcomes back, by popular demand, Swing 'n' Sinatra on Sunday, November 16, at 7.30pm, performing a broad selection of songs you'll know and love from the swing era - from Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller through to songs like Mr Bo Jangles and Bad Bad Leroy Brown, plus foot stomping rhythm and blues/jazz.
The show is performed by Five Star Swing - an eight-piece band containing three multi-instrumentalists/ vocalists and led by Chris and Simone Smith. Chris, whose varied career has taken him from jazz festivals to Top of the Pops, uses his experience gained in playing and writing for Glenn Miller's brother (Herb Miller) to bring the songs to life. Saxophonist and vocalist Simone has performed with the New Squadronnaires and played lead alto saxophone in the later days of the Ivy Benson Show Band. The show has a great appeal for all age groups and, so far, all have been sell-outs!
Be entertained with hits from the Rat Pack, Glenn Miller and Ella Fitzgerald plus the foot-stomping best of jazz and blues - Jools Holland style.
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Shipping container retail development sets opening date in downtown Phoenix
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The Churchill, a retail-restaurant project fashioned out of old seaport shipping containers, has set its opening date.
The project, along with its 10 local tenants, will open Sept. 1 at the corner of First and Garfield streets in the downtown Phoenix Roosevelt Row arts district.
The highly anticipated development seeks to be a new downtown hangout, featuring a courtyard that can seat up to 300. A second-story rooftop deck provides views of the surrounding area. Several pieces of local art and murals adorn the space.
"The Churchill has an intensely local focus, from our tenants to lending a helping hand to the surrounding neighborhoods," said Kell Duncan, who co-founded The Churchill alongside partner Hartley Rodie.
The Churchill was designed by Local Studio, which also designed shipping container residential projects on Grand Avenue and Second Street.
Tenants set to open at the Churchill:
▪Breadwinner – a new restaurant concept by Culinary Mafia Group, the team behind Scottsdale's EVO
▪Pedal Haus Brewery – the second installment of the Tempe-based brewpub
▪Pobrecito – a new cocktail concept from the team behind Counter Intuitive and Undertow
▪Provecho – a food concept that offers flavors from Central Mexico
▪Freak Brothers Pizza – a food truck turned brick-and-mortar restaurant that cooks up Neapolitan-style pizzas in 90 seconds using a 1,000-degree oven
▪Foxy Fruit – a health-conscious spot serving smoothies and acai bowls
▪Sauvage – a bottle shop offering wines at an approachable price
▪State Forty Eight – a homegrown lifestyle brand
▪Cosas – a container boutique that features the work of local artisans from various regions of Mexico
▪Gather – a retail spot offering home and lifestyle goods
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