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Is Islam a religion or a political ideology? How much does the average American know about Islam?
Frankly, I always considered it a religion, but now have doubts. If it is a religion, our First Amendment protects all its right of separation of Church and State. Does Islam promote an idealist violent overthrow of our government or does it seek to peacefully change our Constitution in a similar way that Judaeo/Christianity religious beliefs influenced the founders of our Constitution?
Are terrorist killing Americans in retaliation to our bombing the Mid East. Did our invasion in Iraq cause a belief that we are changing their rights to political beliefs in Theocracy to Democracy an infringement of their religious beliefs?
Religion or Political Ideology?.
Donald Trump, again has brought up an issue that needs debate according to this article. HERE
Pat Robertson, believes Islam is not a religion.
Hillary Clinton believes banning all Muslims entry into the US is playing into the hands of terrorists. It will stir up more Islamic believers to consider Americans as infidels and join in a jihad to kill them as in written in the Quran.
President Obama's strategy is to stay the course he has in place to keep US military boots off the ground as much as possible. At least, that is what I interpret. However, I wonder if he believes risking US lives in our Homeland as collateral damage.
Bill O' Rielly is beating the war drums for all NATO nations to unite and send a military force to wipe out ISIS. Will this be interpreted by Muslims as another Crusade?
What is the Cost and Risk of Terrorism in the Homeland?
The USA is presently are spending eighty billion dollars a year to police and try to prevent homeland terror acts.
There are four million Muslims in the USA. Last week Bill O'Reilly made an offhand comment that every religion has ten percent of zealots. If you consider that, it means there are 400,000 potential Muslim zealots now in the USA.
In my opinion
We indeed need a conversation what to do about US involvement in the Mid East. We also need to review our present laws on how to prosecute terrorists. Are they criminals, traitors, or brainwashed fools of a political ideology intertwined in a religion?.
The mass media is secularized and people know they no longer are fulfilling the main duty of the press which is this. The first purpose of Journalism, to provide people with the information they need to be free and self-governing, Based on this and what I am hearing and reading in the news, the average American , including Congress, have no in depth understanding or knowledge about Islam or any trust in our political leaders wisdom.
King Solomon
A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences. (Proverb 22:3)
Get good advice and you will succeed; don't go charging into battle without a plan. (Proverbs 20:18 (GNT)
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Sunday, March 17, 2013
This beauty is from Stef at Glitterbabe, AKA Floppy Latte, (badge top left) "This One's Mine" He is so cute!!! Colored with Prisma pencils, Gamasol for shading. Grass is cut from my quickuts, Ribbon and doily are from StampinUP. Distressing folder and Ink is Tim Holtz, Bling from stash. Sentiment is cut from Cameo.
Simon Says: Sketch, (I reversed #1)
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My Sky Castles books have recently received some great reviews from Long and Short Romance Reviews and Enchanting Reviews. I'd like to thank Snapdragon and Aubrie respectively for taking the time to read the books and write the reviews. The reviews can be found here.
Long and Short Romance Reviews - Blue and Silver Review
*...The story does rely on the earlier book to some degree to establish place. The wonderful and rich descriptions are somewhat abbreviated. However, the characters are as well developed, events as surprising, and motivation and actions clearly presented.Fantasy fans will enjoy Perkin's 'Sky Castle' books, without doubt. ...*
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Blue and Silver Review
*...BLUE AND SILVER is a thoroughly enjoyable read. If you like fantastical ideas combined with romance, intrigue, and suspense, then you will revel in Ms. Perkin's world...*
Russet and Gold Review
*...For fans of BLUE AND SILVER, the sequel, RUSSET AND GOLD does not disappoint. Not only does it take the reader through a whirlwind of emotions, but it begins where the first book leaves off, shining light on a particular secondary character in the first book that the readers grew to love...*
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
Double Trouble Chunky Cable Scarf Pattern
About the scarf:
I made this scarf while kind of just messing around with different yarns and practicing how to cable (this was my first cabled project). What I did was used 2 yarns at once (to make it look bulkier). If you look closely, you can see the 2 different yarns.
The teal color yarn is actually yarn from an unwanted sweater that my mom took apart. And the white yarn is worsted weight yarn.
This pattern can be worked using bulky yarn or you can try using 2 different yarns at once. Mix and match and see what works for you.
Materials I used:
- US size 13 straight needles
- teal & white yarn
- cable needle
Double Trouble Chunky Cable Scarf Pattern:
Using size 13 needles, cast on 12 stitches.
row 1: *knit*
row 2: *K3, P6, K3*
row 3: *knit*
row 4: *K3, P6, K3*
row 5: *knit*
row 6: *K3, P6, K3*
row 7: K3, slip 3 stitches on cable needle and hold to back of work, K3, then K3 from the cable needle, then K3 to end the row
row 8: K3, P6, K3
**repeat rows 1-8 until desired length**
You can do a few rows of garter stitch at the ends of the scarf (right after casting on and right before binding off) to give the scarf a different look:
Abbreviations in this pattern:
** = repeat everything between the ** for the entire row
K = knit
P = purl
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Japan said it wanted "genuine reconciliation" in Sri Lanka after troops crushed Tamil Tiger rebels in May 2009 and declared an end to nearly four-decades of ethnic strife that claimed up to 100,000 lives.
Tokyo's special envoy to Sri Lanka, Yasushi Akashi, said there was a "perception of insecurity" despite the end of conflict.
"I emphasised the vital need to improve the human rights situation in this country," Akashi told reporters at the end of a four-day visit to the island for talks with President Mahinda Rajapakse and other leaders.
Akashi said many Sri Lankans still spoke of "disappearances" in Tamil areas, military occupation of private property and heavy presence of soldiers in the island's northeast.
"We have no means to verify if these statements are true but I must say that there is a certain degree of common thread running through these comments," Akashi said.
He said Sri Lanka must do more to address accountability issues, which have also been raised by international rights organisations.
However, Akashi stopped short of calling for an international probe and said Sri Lanka could have its own investigative mechanism.
"I reiterated the importance of national reconciliation in order to achieve a lasting peace," said Akashi, who had been a key figure in raising $US4.5 billion ($A4.50 billion) for peace-building in Sri Lanka in 2003.
He said Japan will await Sri Lanka's publication of its own findings into the final stages of the war.
The report of the government-appointed Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission was handed over to Rajapakse last week and he is expected to present it to parliament next month.
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Interim Occupational Therapist - Children's
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A Children's Occupational Therapist is required on an interim basis paying £16-20 per hour in Birmingham.
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To be successful for this position you will need to have previously worked as an Occupational Therapist for Children, have a strong understanding of the assessment process and required outcomes. For this position you must have a state registration with HCPC as an Occupational Therapist.
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Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has said that there was an all round apprehensions that when 24 hour power supply is given to the agriculture, use of auto starters would result in depleting the ground water which would do more harm than the benefit. If such a situation arises, it would be like jumping from frying pan to the fire.
The Chief Minister is worried that even if the 24 hour power is given to the farmers, if they do not remove the auto starters, the ground water will be depleted and despite availability of power, they will be left with no water for the standing crops which would result in their withering away.
However, he said he is confident that since 24-hour power is being supplied for the benefit, the farmers will not indulge in anything that harms their interests.
KCR is hopeful that once the harm of having auto starters is explained to the farmers they would understand and voluntarily remove the auto starters. He gave call to the agriculture officers, power officials, public representatives, Ministers; MLAs should tour the villages and conduct meetings in this regard.
The Chief Minister had already instructed the electricity department to start supplying 24-hour power supply to the farm sector beginning from 12.01 hrs from the December 31st midnight. The electricity organisations have also spent Rs 12,000 crore and strengthened their distribution and supply system for the 24-power supply.
The CM held a high level review meeting here at Pragati Bhavan on Tuesday on the situation emerging out of 24-hour power supply. Ministers G Jagdeesh Reddy, T Harish Rao, Government's Chief Advisor Rajiv Sharma, Genco Transco CMD D Prabhakar Rao, Chief Secretary SP Singh, Transco JMD Srinivas Rao, NPDCL CMD Gopal Rao, SPDCL CMD Raghuma Reddy, Directors Narsing Rao, Srinivas Reddy, MP Balka Suman, Special Chief Secretary Ajay Mishra, Principal Secretaries S Narsing Rao, Ramakrishna Rao, Shanta Kumari and others participated.
There was an in-depth discussion on what are the issues and problems that arise after giving the 24-hour power supply to the farm sector. The officials said that farmers started using the auto starters under the united AP rule, as they do not know when the power supply takes place.
When the power is supplied they would automatically start the bore. If auto starters are used when the power is supplied for 24-hours, borewells will pump in water 24-hours and this would lead to fast depletion of the ground water. Even if the power is available, farmers suffer and crops fail due to lack of water underground.
There is also loss for the bore wells, which are not deeper from the bore wells, which are deeper. The officials said from the farmers they are getting complaints on these two problems. If the auto starters were not removed totally, the entire objective of 24-hour supply would be defeated and would have counter results.
Responding to this, the CM said a comprehensive plan should be in place to ensure 24-hour power scheme gives more benefits to the farmers. Besides removing the auto starters, the CM said the farmers should be educated to utilise the water resources judiciously. "Our farmers have the habit of utilising the tank water according to the need and I am confident that they would also utilise the ground water in the same manner.
Farmers will never harm their own interests. In the past they installed auto starters due to non-availability of power, now with 24-hour power supply they have no such need. Moreover if crops are fed with more water than required it would harm the crops and farmers know this fact.
The farmers will cooperate if they are made to understand that they would be at loss if the auto starters were used. The entire official network of Agriculture, Power departments till the village level should create awareness among the farmers. Ministers, MLAs and other public representatives should hold meetings at
the village level with the farmers and explain the situation.
The farmers will cooperate if they are made to understand that without water 24-hour power has no meaning. Remove 100 percent the auto starters after convincing the farmers and work unitedly for getting better benefits of the 24-hour power supply scheme," the CM explained.
Burden is on the State, CM assures electricity organisations
The Chief Minister has reiterated and gave an assurance to the electricity organisations that the entire expenditure for the supply of 24-hour power to the farm sector will be borne by the government.
He said expenditure for supplying 24-hour power from Jan 1 will be met with this year's budget and from next year onwards, additional allocations would be made in the Budget under Power Subsidy category.
KCR has announced that the electricity organisations who are only spending 9% towards the employees' salaries and having fiscal discipline would be protected.
The CM also said that the expenditure on supplying power to the Lift Irrigation Schemes would also be borne by the government. He wanted the electricity organisations to be ready as Medigadda, Annaram, and Sundilla Lifts as part of the Kaleswaram project will start functioning from the next monsoon. (INN)


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Zinc deposits occur in three main geological settings in Finland: Paleoproterozoic magmatic arcs, Paleoproterozoic rifts in the Archaean craton, and Archaean greenstone belts.
The main Zn province is in island arc setting within the Savo Belt in central Finland. It includes two major deposits, the Pyhäsalmi mine which has been in production since 1962 and the now exhausted Vihanti mine (1951–1992).
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Sudden Cardiac Death And You
Today, there are 3,397 patients on various heart transplant wait lists in the United States. 401 patients are status 1A. 1,105 patients are status 1B. 982 patients are status 2 and 909 are designated status 7.
If you are related to a young person who died suddenly from a heart-related illness, you have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease than you may realize. In early November, The European Heart Journal published the results of a study led by Dr. Mattis Flyvholm Ranthe MD of the Statens Serum Institut and co-authors from The Heart Centre, Unit for Inherited Cardiac Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital.
The study focused on the families connected to 470 victims of sudden cardiac death (SCD). All victims were between 1 and 35 years of age and lived in Denmark. The study monitored first and second degree relatives of the deceased. The study was performed from 2000 through 2006 and relatives of the deceased were monitored for up to 11 years.
The authors say the study has two clear implications:
- The study supports the belief that autopsies should always be performed in cases where the cause of the young person's death is unexplained.
- Because the cause of death is treatable, relatives should be advised of the cause of death and referred for preventive care with a cardiologist if the cause of death is related to heart disease.
The findings were specific. First and second degree relatives under the age of 35 were at greater risk of several categories of heart disease than the general public.
- 3 times as likely to suffer ischemic heart disease (reduced blood pressure).
- 10 times more likely to suffer cardiomyopathies (damaged or weakened heart).
- 10 times more susceptible to ventricular arrhythmias that could cause death.
For the very young, first-degree relatives of young SCD victims, the study had even more compelling data. For these relatives, the risk of ischemic heart disease is 6 times the risk for the general public. The risk for cardiomyopathy and ventricular arrhythmia is 20 times that of the general public.
For this study, "Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a sudden, unexpected death due to natural unknown or cardiac causes with an acute change in cardiovascular status within one hour of death or, in unwitnessed cases, in a person last seen functioning normally within 24 hours of being found dead." In young people, SCD is most often caused by previously undiagnosed heart problems that can be hereditary. Dr. Ranthe's team surmised that there may be genetic mutations involved when this sudden death occurs.
"If sudden cardiac death has genetic causes then this would suggest that relatives of young SCD victims are at greater risk of heart disease than the general population and would benefit from screening to identify those at risk so they they could be give appropriate preventive treatment. This could save a significant number of lives," wrote Ranthe.
In my own travels to and from cardiology departments, I have been surprised by the number of very young people either waiting for transplant or who are recovering after transplantation. The relatives of these young persons would do well to follow Dr. Ranthe's suggestion of submitting to a cardiology screening.
The study indicates that SCD has a significant propensity to be a hereditary component with first degree relatives at great risk of loving with heart disease or developing heart disease. Systematic cardiology screening is recommended.
In this study, 67 percent of the SCD were submitted for an autopsy. Of the 314 submissions, 178 were heart related. 136 fatalities were unexplained. The remainder was identified as SCDs without autopsy. Ranthe says the data is compelling enough to warrant automatic autopsies for the benefit of the related survivors.
Dr. Ranthe states that this study also underscores the risks of ventricular arrhythmia as a genetic characteristic. The study revealed several cases where ventricular arrhythmia was rampant in families of the prematurely deceased.
Dr. Ranthe's team will next tackle the inherited effects of SCDs over age 35. The concentration will be on the survival and disease courses of relatives of these SCD cases.


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Danielle Jezienicki (nee Ginach) is an Impact Manager at Sonen Capital, and is responsible for analyzing the social and environmental impact of the firm's investments across asset classes, as well as developing impact reporting for the firm's clients and prospects. Danielle founded and leads the firm's shareholder engagement and advocacy activities.
Danielle's career focus has been integrating financial and impact reporting. Prior to joining Sonen in 2013, Danielle was an Investor Relations Associate at the technology focused IR firm, the Blueshirt Group, where she supported several clean tech company management teams in managing financial communications. Her previous experience focused on corporate reputation management at leading strategic and crisis communications firms, Brunswick Group and RLM Finsbury.
Danielle earned a B.A. in political science (honors) from Brown University, with a certificate in War Studies from Kings College, London. She is a graduate of Presidio Graduate School, with an M.B.A. in Sustainable Management and focus in Social Finance. Her work in impact investing and sustainability includes projects with BlackRock's Corporate Governance & Responsible Investment team, Acumen Fund, IDEO.org and News Corporations Global Energy Initiative through EDF Climate Corps.
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Prior to joining Sonen, Jeff served as a Director of Investment Opportunities at Venovate Marketplace, where he worked with institutional & high net worth investors on private placement investments. In addition, Jeff reviewed and conducted initial investment due diligence on real assets strategies such as Timber and Real Estate investment strategies.
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Jeff currently serves as the Director of Development for Service Year, the first corporate sponsored national service program, and is an active volunteer for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Jeff holds an MBA from The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, and, BA from The Ross School of Business at The University of Michigan. Jeff has also received the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation.
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Out in the Sticks #1 - Zine
Interviews with drummers from the UK DIY music scene
Issue #1 - Becoming a drummer
In the first of a planned series of zines, Jaca Freer explores the idea of people 'identifying as a drummer' through a series of interviews with people with varying levels of experience- those who have been playing a couple of months to those who have been playing since childhood.
Flo from Jesus and his Judgemental Father, Phoebe from Happy Accidents, Gem from Crumbs, Beverly from The Tuts and loads more drummers from your favourite DIY bands talk about how they got into playing, if they identify as a drummer and share their words of wisdom.
A 40 page zine by Jaca Freer of Freer Ideas- a Brighton-based drummer, percussionist, tutor and promoter with an aim to diversify and demystify music through education and events.


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Glandular epithelium
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Organ: lung, respiratory tract, pseudostratified ciliated epithelium with intraepithelial unicellular glands.
Species: pig (Sus scrofa domesticus; mammal)
Technique: 8 μm paraffin section stained with PAS-haematoxylin.
Caliciform cells are intraepithelial cells scattered in the covering epithelium of the intestine (small and large intestine), and larger respiratory ducts (trachea and bronchi). Caliciform cells resemble a calyx, with the apical part wider than the basal one. The nucleus is located in the basal part and the secretory vesicles are located toward the apical part (stained in red in this image). The release of the secretory products is by merocrine secretion, after a cholinergic stimulus from the autonomous system. After every secretion event, caliciform cell becomes thinner and starts to synthesize new molecules to be released in the next secretion event. The time between two releases is around 1 or 2 hours.
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Caliciform cells in the small intestine epithelium. These cells secrete mucus that covers the surface of the epithelium (note de red line lining the free epithelial surface).
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Kaye-Loni - posted on 08/16/2015 ( 9 moms have responded )
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I am white. And I thought there was only 2 possible fathers to my 3 weeks old son. One guy is part Puerto Rican and white and has pretty fair skin. The other is white Mexican and native American. My son is kinda brown like a native or Hispanic baby. I slept with o e black guy but according to my Dr I was already pregnant when I had slept with him. So according to the calendar I wasn't ovulating when I slept with the black man. But could the Dr and calendar be wrong? What physical appearances can I look for to be able to tell. I never spoke with the black guy again so I dint even know how to contact him for a DNA test. Please help!


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Saturday, 25 May 2013
Sepia Saturday - My great grandmother's face
Constance Edith TERRY was born Jun 1871 in Melbourne to Alfred TERRY and Emma Augusta FARMILO nee HODGES.
She married Frederic Arthur FITTS (1864-1902) in South Yarra on 23 Nov 1892 - the approximate timing of the first photograph - and one that I am lucky enough to have the beautiful large framed version of.
After Frederic's death by drowning, she married my great grandfather Lewis Raikes GARRETT in Surrey Hills (Vic) on 30 Apr 1905. Possibly the timing of the second photograph.
She died in St Kilda in Feb 1925 at the age of 53 years, and leaving 8 children between the ages of 12 and 31. The third photo is taken much later in her life.
I'll write more about her another time but I haven't been well and just wanted to get something up to get back in the habit of blogging.
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I suspect the first portrait's a little later than you have suggested - the pompadour hairstyle and the shape and ornamentation of the blouse suggest to me that it was around or shoretly after the turn of the century.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Brett. The photo just has 1890s on it, so I guess it is maybe 1899 then?Delete
Wonderful photos Jackie. She has a lovely face.ReplyDelete
I like the idea of grouping a series of photos of one person throughout their lifetime. Your great-grandmother was lovely and aged very well, I'd say. She didn't change a great deal, but unfortunately she died before those big changes that accompany old age.ReplyDelete
A lovely collection of photos.ReplyDelete
That is alot of children, as was typical in those times. However, I cannot imagine having a child at age 41. I wouldn't have had the energy.
I really enjoyed this post.ReplyDelete
Hope you feel better.
Good to see you blogging. Look after yourself. BTW The pix are rather good too.ReplyDelete
Only 53 years old when she dies. Two husbands, eight children - what a lot in such a comparatively short life.ReplyDelete
Glad you are feeling better. It takes some effort to get back to blogging after an absence - at least I find it does. Nice to see these pictures of your great-grandmother over time.ReplyDelete
A beautiful woman. A shame to have died so young - young in terms of today's standards. She did seem to age very well, despite what must have been a challenging life.ReplyDelete
Sge obviously accomplished a lot and retained her looks throughout.ReplyDelete


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(Although the word stammering is used throughout this booklet, stammering and stuttering are two words with the same meaning.)
What is stammering?
Approximately one person in every hundred stammers and you may think that most of these people stammer in the same way that you do. In fact, people stammer in different ways so that the term 'stammering' covers a wide range of behaviours. One person may get blocked or stuck on a certain word or sound, another may repeat sounds, another may go back in speech and take a run at the difficult word, and yet another may do all of these things and many more.
There are some people who fear stammering openly, and as a result, have lots of 'tricks' to avoid stammering. For example, switching words they think they will stammer on and not participating in situations where they have stammered in the past.
- Consider your own speech: you will probably find that you are fluent at times, perhaps when by yourself or with a friend. At other times you stammer, and this may occur more frequently when you are tired, excited or under stress. Your stammer may be worse when speaking to someone in authority or when you are on the telephone. Why is it that you are fluent at times, and at other times, you stammer?
Stammering usually starts in early childhood around the age of three and a half years but when you were small your speech may not have bothered you as much. Probably in your early teens, you became more self-conscious and more aware that you were not speaking like your peers. Once aware and conscious of a difficulty perhaps you tried to do something about it. At the same time, you started to develop feelings and thoughts about stammering, relating to how it affected you as a person and what people thought about you. These feelings and thoughts have stayed with you into adult life. They may have grown and changed, but they have become part of your stammer.
Over the years, you probably used a number of strategies to cope with the situations. You may have come to the conclusion that your best course of action is to keep talking regardless of how you speak; or you may have decided to hide and avoid your stammer, even if it means not speaking when you want to do so.
Whichever way you have coped, your feelings and thoughts have become associated with the speech difficulties. Therefore, you instinctively get tense when you think you are in a situation where your stammer will be noticed, and this tension will make your stammer worse.
Other people, even close relatives, may think that your stammer is solely related to your speech, or they may not know that you stammer because you hide it so well. Regardless of what others think, you will know that the answer to the question 'What is stammering?' is that it is a speech problem, but also a problem of the negative feelings and thoughts associated with the act of speaking.
Why do you stammer?
There is no single answer to this question because there is no single type of stammer, nor any particular type of person who stammers.
You may believe that if you can find out why you stammer, then you will find a cure. However, it is rarely possible to find one particular reason. Recent research is pointing to genetic factors and differences in brain activity in adults who stammer.
Children who stammer may have some difficulty with learning the words or sounds of speech in early childhood; and emotional stress on a child can be an issue.
When studying these factors, you may realise that, whatever might have caused your stammer, this knowledge is of little help because you have gone through considerable changes since those early childhood days.
What can you do about your stammer?
You should get the help of a speech and language therapist - preferably one who specialises in the treatment of stammering. If you have already had therapy and feel that you were not helped, try again because therapy has changed and you may have changed. Details of how to get help from a speech and language therapist are given at the end of this pamphlet. However, you may feel you would like some ideas about how to help yourself - starting immediately. Here are some suggestions.
1. Defining the problem
When dealing with any problem in life, the first step has to be to define that problem accurately. You know that you have a stammer, but what does that mean? What do you do when you stammer?
- Do you repeat sounds (s..s..s..supper) or syllables (su..su..su..supper)?
- Do you prolong sounds (sssssssupper)?
- Do you get blocked in speech so that you are unable to make any sound (s..upper)?
- Do you close your eyes or rush through speech?
- Do you try to avoid the word by changing it for another that is easier to say?
- Do you give up speaking altogether?
These are the sorts of questions you need to ask yourself to begin to understand what it is that you do when you stammer. You also need to consider what you think and feel about your stammer:
- Do you think it is severe or quite mild?
- Do you think that it is holding you back in your social life or at work?
- Do you think it is better with some people and in some situations than at other times?
- How do you feel when you stammer: embarrassed? annoyed? frustrated?
- Do you get angry at other people, at yourself, or both?
2. One step at a time
Once you have begun to think about your stammer as being like a jigsaw puzzle, with small pieces that fit together and make up the whole, you can then tackle one piece at a time. Start with a piece which you feel might be possible to change. For example, you might take one sentence of your speech two or three times a day and make a special effort to say that sentence slowly and calmly; do not allow yourself to rush or panic.
There is considerable evidence that, when speaking more slowly, most people stammer less. Perhaps you might find it easier to try and concentrate on not looking away from people or closing your eyes when you stammer. Try and make changes very slowly, a little at a time and step by step.
3. Don't try to hide it
Another important issue is the use of avoidance behaviours, i.e. anything that you do to hide or avoid your stammer. The reason you need to hide the stammer is because you may have become convinced that people think all sorts of things about you once they hear you stammering. Are you certain this is so? Most people have their own problems and are often not particularly concerned with the way that you speak. If you use quite a lot of avoidance, you will find that the more you avoid, the more you need to go on avoiding.
Also, there are times when it is almost impossible to avoid. If you are avoiding very successfully, you may be thought to be fluent by your boss, workmates, partner and friends. In order to maintain this fluency, you have to be constantly vigilant. You know, of course, that your stammer does not go away or improve because you hide it. Therefore, it will help you gradually to reduce the number of times that you avoid either saying a word or talk more to a particular person or speak out in a certain situation. As well as experimenting with stammering more openly, you may find it useful to try and talk about your stammer to one or two people who are close to you. In this way you will become less sensitive to your stammer and less anxious as you start to learn that people are not as critical as you had thought. It may surprise you, how empowering this simple notion is.
4. Degrees of fluency
You may think that there are only two possibilities: either you stammer or you are fluent. Watch and listen closely when people are speaking on buses, on radio phone-ins, at home and in shops. Is everyone as fluent, concise and articulate as you had imagined? Perhaps you will discover that many fluent speakers are often hesitant when speaking, and that there is not such a clear division between being fluent and stammering. Because of this you could now begin to accept that you do not have to be fluent all the time.
5. Get expert advice
Try to get more information about stammering. Contact the British Stammering Association (see helpline numbers below) and find out what DVDs and books are available so you can understand the problem.
Where can I get help?
1. Speech and language therapy is provided through the NHS and in some areas through centres of further education.
Contact BSA to see if there is a specialist in your area and to get contact details. Depending on where you live, therapy may be available on an individual basis, and/or there may be groups working together on an intensive or evening class basis.
2. Contact your local speech and language service directly - in most areas you will not need a GP's referral.
3. Contact other people who stammer. There are several online discussion groups for people who stammer as well as self-help groups in some parts of the UK. Many people who stammer find it valuable to talk openly about their experiences with others who understand.
You are not alone.
There is help available.
Contact the British Stammering Association - today!
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On the cusp of 2012, I've invited 11 of the greater Houston area's top minds to contemplate the world's end. Lightheartedly I've asked them, before the Mayan apocalypse, for the one burning question that they'd like to see answered before the cataclysm. A new entry in the 11 for '12 series will be published each morning during the holidays.
Today's question comes from Doug Ming, manager of the Human Exploration Science Office at the NASA Johnson Space Center and Co-Investigator on the Mars Science Laboratory.
For centuries humans have looked to the skies and have asked the question,"Are we alone?" Does life exist elsewhere in the universe or is it unique here on Earth?
NASA has several missions that address this question. The recent discovery of a planet in habitable zones around a distant star by the Kepler mission is a step closer to finding Earth-like planets where life as we know it might exist.
Closer to home, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity is currently en route to Mars and will arrive on the surface in August. Although MSL is not a life-detection mission, we are going there to look for all of the things that are necessary for life such as water, organic compounds and nutrients.
Curiosity is much larger than the previous Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity that arrived at Mars in 2004. Opportunity is currently exploring the rim of a large crater on the plains of Meridiani Planum. Opportunity has lasted for years longer than planned and continues to advance our knowledge of the history of water on the red planet.
Mars science is driven by that age-old question: Are we alone? Could life once have developed there? Could life have persisted there? Could life still persist on Mars today?Perhaps Curiosity's cameras will image a "dinosaur bone" that indicates that life once persisted on Mars and may be there today.
So, if the world is going to end in 2012, I would want to know if there is life somewhere out there. If there is life elsewhere, then perhaps we can find comfort in the fact that life will persist in the universe as our world disappears.
To see other 11 for '12 entries, click here. And you can click here see entries from the 11 for '11 series that I published a year ago.


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I love summer nights with my little family. We had fun playing outside and going to get ice cream at this little ice cream shop in town. Love making memories!
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Five for Friday! {Back to School Style}
I love summer nights with my little family. We had fun playing outside and going to get ice cream at this little ice cream shop in town. Love making memories!
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I love buying and making things for my classroom! I love your green and blue. I use the same green and purple in my classroom and have a blue accent wall. All three colors make me smile!ReplyDelete
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Ahh love those colors! They have the purple at Dollar Tree!Delete
Okay, I would say more about your post, but I am on my way to Big Lots and the Dollar Store so I'll chat later! Thanks so much!ReplyDelete
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I love the colors you chose for your classroom! I'm so glad to see that blue back in stores this year because I have that color and purple as the basis of my classroom. I never think to go to Big Lots for B2S stuff, but I would love book boxes like the ones you found. I usually just use the cardboard ones from IKEA, but they rarely last the whole year and start looking trashy. I can't wait to see what your classroom looks like with all your new purchases.ReplyDelete
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I actually don't usually go to Big Lots because I honestly forget about it sometimes. Truth be told I was trying to find another Dollar Tree, got a little lost and saw Big Lots and thought I would go in. Pretty sure God was sending me there! :)Delete
We're color scheme twins!! I'm going to have to head to Dollar Tree!! I saw them starting the B2S display at my Big Lots, but they weren't finished yet! So glad I know they'll have some good stuff :o)ReplyDelete
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Yay for color twins! Let me know if you find any other good stuff that would fit our color scheme! :)Delete


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Do you watch Dancing With The Stars?
Do you consistently ask yourself while watching the aforementioned show why you're watching the show? Do you find yourself wondering how such a flimsy piece of entertainment has become a ratings powerhouse? Do you find yourself drawing the shades so your neighbors won't see you watching? Or do you pontificate aloud about how all the other contestants must be seriously contemplating lopping off an arm, a leg or another significant body part in an attempt to compete with the buck-toothed, ex-McCartney lover with one leg?
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IoT (a.k.a. Industrie 4.0) promises to revolutionise manufacturing across every conceivable application and industry, facilitating the control and monitoring of your entire operation via the cloud and any PC, laptop, tablet or smart phone.
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Was there an affiliation between Goode and Einstein? In the fourth and fifth image (page 1), is that Goode or Einstein dancing with Leah?
Bert Rovere, a robust man, operatic baritone and jazz singer, owned a trendy Los Angeles restaurant and night cub in the 1940s known as the Paris Inn – - waiters sang and customers danced to a full orchestra. The Paris Inn was a favorite hangout for Hollywood movie stars and starlets. (Goode was friends with Rovere – Rovere's image is on page 3).
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As a translator, Gander has been drawn to Latin American poets--recently, the Bolivian Jamie Saenz and the Mexican Coral Bracho--whose lyrics mint idiosyncratic languages. In Gander's renditions, the relentless talk of the poète maudit Saenz veers jaggedly and happily from reticence to flamboyance, from supplication to swagger, while the meditations of Bracho, with their languid, impetuous and sultry descriptions of the depths and textures of language and the physical world, surge and twist across the page.


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Whether their called relaxers, perms, straighteners, or even creamy crack, one thing is certain. Chemical straighteners in the black community are here to stay. Some of the most famous African American women in today's society use chemical relaxers. From Tyra Banks, to Halle Berry, to Oprah Winfrey, even Michelle Obama.
When a black woman walks into a room with her hair chemically straightened she is considered well groomed, professional, and even docile to her peers. As one comedian, Paul Mooney, jokes, "If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed." "If your hair is nappy, they're not happy."
In my own life, I have observed that when a woman walks into a room with natural hair, one question is always asked by many people in the black community. This question asked of me repeatedly is, "What made you go natural?"
Well my problem with such questions is this: Why are relaxers the norm and why is natural hair the radical? I chemically straightened my hair for years and years and no one ever asked me once why I decided to put foreign, harmful, chemicals on my head. Chemicals that not only irritated and burned my scalp, but even made my hair fall out in clumps. What sense does that make?
Sodium Hydroxide (Lye) based and Calcium Hydroxide based are the two main types of relaxers sold in drugstores today. That's right-Sodium Hydroxide- the same stuff used to make liquid Drano Drain Cleaner.
Many African American get their first relaxer way before they are able to make the decision for themselves. On an episode of the Tyra Banks show entitled, "What is Good Hair,?" women proudly boasted about relaxing (and putting weave in) their little girl's hair because it is "easier to manage that way." It does not matter that the child is only eight years old (the youngest being three), and that the process could damage her hair permanently in the long term.
Another segment of the show where Tyra interviews young black girls about their hair, one child says that her hair in its natural hair is "low class and ugly." I think its really interesting to see how relaxing a child's hair can mentally affect them, as well as how much kids really pick up on negative attitudes towards themselves. It's easy to see how many African American women get caught in a non stop cycle of a self-hating mentality and a unhealthy dependence on chemical straighteners.
While I do not think Tyra Banks is necessarily the most reliable source of information when it comes to a lot of issues, she really hit the nail on the head in portraying the most common attitudes towards African American hair in its natural state.
Now I don't people reading this to think I am a Natural Hair Nazi (my take on this article coming soon...), I just think its important for people to realize that the decision to use these chemicals on one's hair, especially the hair of a child, is a bigger issue than people make it seem.
I am tired of people thinking that it is "no big deal" to relax African American hair. There are many risks, dangers, and disadvantages to relaxing ones hair to make it "easier to manage, more professional looking, and more convenient to one's lifestyle," like many women state.
I guess the cliche saying is true for many African American women, who truly believe that the only way to attain their definition of 'beauty' is through pain. Pain physically and most importantly, pain mentally.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Freaks of Natural
Posted by naturally.golden at 4:19 PM
Labels: relaxers, sodium hydroxide, tyra banks
2 comments:
- D Alexandra said...
I LOVE this post. Would you mind if I reblogged it on my own page? Of course, I'd definitely give your blog much needed shout out and credit. Let me know.
- October 7, 2009 at 3:02 PM
- naturally.golden said...
Aww Thank you! Of course. You have my ok to reblog it just do me a favor and send me the link of the reblogged post on your page when you repost it. (Hope that made sense, got a little tounge tied...) My instructor likes to keep track of such things lol. Anyways, glad you liked it and thanks in advance for the shoutout:)
- October 7, 2009 at 3:10 PM
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Liverpool Transfer News: Andy Carroll's Injury Seriously Hinders Any Summer DealMay 22, 2013
Liverpool's hopes of parting ways with star striker Andy Carroll over the summer transfer window have taken a huge hit with the news that the striker could miss up to four months of action due to a foot injury.
According to the BBC, Carroll's loan club West Ham United were thought to be interested in taking the striker on a permanent deal next season and had offered Liverpool a £15 million fee for the striker—which the Reds had reportedly accepted.
The move was not yet official, however, with Carroll reportedly refusing to accept his future away from Anfield and not agreeing to the move.
That may have been a good thing for West Ham, with the London club now reportedly not so keen on pursuing a deal for the striker, according to The Daily Mirror:
[Andy Carroll] was forced to pull out of the England squad for the upcoming games against the Republic of Ireland and Brazil with injury. Late last night he discovered he will be out of action for between three and four months with a heel problem he is understood to have picked up in West Ham's final game of the season against Reading.
West Ham are now considering all their options with the worst case scenario that Carroll—who cost the Reds £35 million in January last year—missing the first four to to five weeks of the new season.
The report goes on to state that while West Ham are still keen on picking up the 24-year-old on a permanent basis, the injury is serious cause for concern. And if it does rule Carroll out for several weeks of the 2013-14 Premier League season, it will no doubt affect his transfer value and Liverpool's asking price—which completely changes the nature of this deal.
I had previously noted that despite the fact Liverpool were selling Carroll well short of their original purchase price, this was actually still a good transfer.
It allowed them to get a fringe player on big wages off their books and get £15 million for a player that may never reach that amount again—something that is definitely a good thing for Liverpool. Especially when he doesn't really fit into their new style and formation anymore.
Carroll was clearly loved by West Ham fans and managerial staff, and thus a permanent move to Upton Park could also help rejuvenate the 24-year-old's career.
It may have even got him a permanent place in England's World Cup team.
However, thanks to the injury, this entire transfer changes, with the Hammers now having to assess whether it's still worth pursuing the star striker.
This injury marks the third time this season that Carroll has spent at least four weeks out due to injury. And since, according to Transfermarkt, his career before that date also featured notable spells of two and four months on the sidelines, respectively, West Ham must also evaluate how much the striker's health should be taken into consideration with their asking price.
By all accounts, £15 million is still a very good deal for a player with Carroll's proven quality and represents a great purchase for the future of the club.
But with injuries continuing to dominate his career, the East London club must be wary of the risks that having Carroll on any team brings.
Liverpool still have every right to ask for £15 million, and West Ham should still take that amount. The reported deal should be okay for both parties—despite the injury.
Having said that, it did just get seriously complicated, and it wouldn't be surprising to hear a whole lot more on this transfer before the summer is out.
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Fire Boys Golf offers students with varying levels of skill and knowledge of golf to develop their games further. Varsity and junior varsity teams compete in the Wright County Conference. Golfers not competing may join the developmental squad and practice with the junior varsity team at Dahlgren Golf Course in Chaska. Varsity practices at a variety of top golf courses in the area and plays home matches at Ridges of Sand Creek in Jordan, Minnesota. The season for high school golf programs in Minnesota takes place in the spring.
Fire Boys Golf program competes in Class AA against some of the best high school golf programs in Minnesota. The team earned second place at the 2016 Minnesota State High School League Class AA Golf Tournament and third place just one year prior.
Many alumni continue to play golf at the college level at colleges across the country including the Palm Beach Atlantic University, Saginaw Valley State University, and Bethel University.
Rob Nelson
Rob Nelson has coached golf for over 20 years in golf programs around the metro as well as soccer, softball, basketball, and track and field. Rob is the proud member of the Minnesota State High School Association's 25 Year Club. Rob is also in his 44th year as a teacher.


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Officials have confirmed that South American country Costa Rica will have an ePassport by the end of the decade, with a tender to be launched soon.
According to Gisella Yockchen, director of the General Migration Direction, the system has an estimated cost of $25 million.
"The airports prepare for the implementation of modern systems of migratory control with biometric verification", expressed Yockchen.
The project consists of three stages of 4 months each from the moment the tender is finalized, the first stage involves the purchase of the Automated Fingerprint Identification Sytem (Afis) for biometric passports which will also help improve security; the second stage has to do with the installation of smart doors, these will make the transit of passengers more efficient in the airports; the last stage is the creation of the electronic passport, the new passport will have a chip with the traveler's information.
The Migration Direction expects the first steps of the project to be given in the first or second semester of 2018 for it to be completely ready by the year 2020.


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James Yorkston
Born 1971 in Kingsbarns, Fife, JAMES YORKSTON began his musical explorations at the tender age of eight when he made his own entertainment with a pal named Mike. Influenced by the songwriting talents of such eclectic artists as ANNE BRIGGS, DICK GAUGHAN and The BHUNDU BOYS, James flitted to Edinburgh with his girlfriend (when they were seventeen). He remained a vital part of the city's thriving folk music scene supporting such acts as BERT JANSCH and JOHN MARTYN (the latter eventually invited him on a 30-date support tour) as well as bassist for the city's noisekins HUCKLEBERRY.
YORKSTON eventually left the group ("I was going deaf…", he once commented) to pursue his own adventures in Hi-Fi; a demo tape was passed through industry hands until it finally landed on the desk of seminal Radio One DJ John Peel. The man played selected tracks from the tape live on air, which resulted in Bad Jazz issuing the single `Moving Up Country, Roaring The Gospel' (split with Scottish cult hero LONE PIGEON) to critical acclaim in 2001.
Folky and very hushed, YORKSTON had a lot in common with fellow Scots APPENDIX OUT (aka ALASDAIR ROBERTS); backing band members Faisal, Reuben, Doogie Paul, Sun-Li and Holly exemplifying the WILL OLDHAM/PALACE factor. A proper signing with Domino was on the cards, with himself and his/The Athletes issuing seminal `The Lang Toun' single in 2002, complete with a complementary remix by none other than Keiran Hebden (of FOUR TET).
`St. Patrick' was issued months later as a warm-up to his debut set MOVING UP COUNTRY (2002) {*7}, a placid and very emotive introduction. Contained within were the aforementioned singles as well as a few surprises that thwarted the notion that YORKSTON was just another "Scottish folk singer"; the record also featured Fence Collective alumni LONE PIGEON and co-producer KING CREOSOTE/Kenny Anderson.
Tours supporting LAMBCHOP, The DIVINE COMEDY and GEMMA HAYES were rounded off by album number two. Produced by the aforementioned Hebden, JUST BEYOND THE RIVER (2004) {*7} was another critical success for the group, the fragility and tenderness on the likes of `Heron', `Hermitage' and the excellent `Hotel' offset with two trad ballads `Edward' and `The Snow It Melts The Soonest'.
Credited to JAMES YORKSTON solo, THE YEAR OF THE LEOPARD (2006) {*7} was his warmest offering to date, `Steady As She Goes' and `Summer Song' probably the best on show; WHEN THE HAAR ROLLS IN (2008) {*7} now rooted in tradition, comprising the excellent LAL WATERSON dirge `Midnight Feast'. Teaming up with Sheffield collective The BIG EYES FAMILY PLAYERS, FOLK SONGS (2009) {*6} was an interesting addition to YORKSTON's musical CV, this time around he gets to grips with an entire set of sourced material from `Hills Of Greenmoor' to `Little Musgrave' and `Low Down In The Broom'.
On the back of a book, "It's Lovely To Be Here: The Touring Diaries Of A Scottish Gent" (published by Domino Press in 2011), and a union with The FRUIT TREE FOUNDATION, James's first album for three years, I WAS A CAT FROM A BOOK (2012) {*7}, was released. Boasting players, Jon Thorne on double bass and The CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA's Luke Flowers, plus chanteuses Kathryn Williams (for `Kath With Rhodes') and Jill O'Sullivan (for `Just As Scared'), the brooding YORKSTON sounds like a pensive GORKY'S ZYGOTIC MYNCI doing NICK DRAKE. Whether it was down to ambience of the familiar Bryn Derwen Studios in Wales or his daughter's recent illness, the man from Fife stirred up a thoughtful and graceful set of songs; stay to the end for `I Can Take All This'. Sadly, a couple of months later, the Athletes' double-bassist Doogie Paul died from cancer; he was only 40.
On the back of a set released a year earlier (`My Yoke Is Heavy: The Songs Of Daniel Johnson'), 2014's THE CELLARDYKE RECORDING AND WASSAILING SOCIETY {*8} brought together Fence Collective alumni The PICTISH TRAIL and other Fife worthies, including KT TUNSTALL on harmonies; HOT CHIP's Alexis Taylor was at the controls. At times narrative-like-COHEN (example `The Blues You Sang', `Guy Fawkes' Signature' and opener `Fellow Man'), others exercising a degree of contemplation (`Feathers Are Falling' and `Great Ghosts' standing out from the pack), YORKSTON deserved to be taken outside his Scottish comfort zone. America, are you listening?
A demos LP, THE DEMONSTRATIONS OF THE CRAWS (2015) {*6}, was probably not the catalyst, that would surely come within time.
An artist held in high esteem by his contemporaries such as ALASDAIR ROBERTS, ROBIN WILLIAMSON and the author Ian Rankin, James adopted a World Music/roots approach on the collaborative YORKSTON/THORNE/KHAN album, EVERYTHING SACRED (2016) {*8}. Jon Thorne, a long-time bassist with Manchester's LAMB and Suhail Yusuf Khan, a sarangi player and vocalist with New Delhi's ADVAITA, the heavenly triumvirate pulled off something akin to "a meeting-by-the-river" of The INCREDIBLE STRING BAND and V.M. BHATT (examples `Song For Thirza' and epic star track `Knochentanz'); another Scots twist arriving in the shape of IVOR CUTLER's semi-comical `Little Black Buzzer'.
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Chih Wu 吳芝文
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- 510.809.1111
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- 510.213.1346
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"My elder sister is also a realtor with Alain Pinel at the Burlingame office. Her name is Judy Meuschke & unfortunately she is not a commercial realtor at this time nor does she choose to do business in the east bay, so she referred me to Chih Wu. She said that she had never met Chih but did some research for me & highly recommended her as a result. I actually had two other local realtors on my list but I have trust in my sister & her professional experience in real estate. Our family has been involved in construction business & real estate for generations now. Upon my first meeting with Chih she impressed me as very professional, informative, clear, confident & aggressive. During the months of working with her was great. She valued my input as a businessman in construction & land owner as I valued her experience in real estate market & this worked well as a team to accomplish our goal. I would definitely be honored to work with her again if given the opportunity to do so & definitely would recommend her services to others in the east bay area."
"I worked with Chih on a recent purchase of a commercial property in Alameda. Chih worked tirelessly on all aspects of the purchase, she is extremely thorough in her research and her communication is timely and responsive. The transaction went smoothly and closed on time due to Chih's diligence and superior knowledge of real estate in the area."
"I am very grateful to Chih for helping my family on two occasions in selling houses, both of which I will elaborate on below. Foremost however, I want to really emphasize the outstanding characteristics about Chi that made us choose her again the second time around. 1. Chih really took the time to explain the whole process of selling to my family on both occasions. I can't emphasize how important this was especially because my family, being first generation immigrants to this country, felt very insecure about the whole process of selling a home. Fears can build very quickly when you don't clearly understand the process. Chi never made my family feel ridiculous for asking even the most basic of questions. She patiently and kindly explained every detail and this contributed immensely to our sense of security during the process. We felt safe. 2. Chih speaks Spanish!!! Fluently!!! Again, this was a godsend to my first generation immigrant family. I was not caught in the middle trying to explain a ton of real estate terms and housing market particulars to my family. She communicated directly and again, explained these so clearly in Spanish, it left me with nothing to do in the area of translating or soothing my family's fears. We felt understood. 3. Chih has very high standards and presents impeccably to local and international buyers. She pays close attention to every detail and sets it up so that only the strongest negotiations ensue. She is systematic in planning inspections and showings, as well as pacing each step of the transaction. We closed on our house in less than 6 weeks. We felt we were in good hands. 4. Chih took care of everything! She scheduled everything necessary in order to bring the property up to date to get the highest offer. All we had to do was move out. She handled all appointments for improvements, inspections, cleaning, and staging. We felt peace of mind. As I stated earlier, I wanted to briefly explain the two occasions Chih helped my family in selling homes. The first time, she helped my mother in closing on the sale of her house in Oakland in 2012. My mother's agent fell sick toward the end of closing, and Chih stepped right in to the rescue. I was very impressed with Chih's capacity to communicate so effectively with my mother and I. She was very kind and supportive and really took the time to explain clearly the process of closing, something our original agent had failed to do. This calmed my mother's fears about the selling process and really helped end the experience positively. The second time, when my aunt was looking to sell her home in Alameda in 2016, I immediately remembered Chih. She had left such a positive impression on me when she helped us before. Although my aunt had made appointments with two other real estate agents, we ended up choosing Chih. She was prompt, very professional, and took my aunt's concerns seriously from the very beginning. She was also warm and remembered my mother very well, even though she had had but a brief interaction with her. It was important for me to leave my aunt in good hands, since I had to leave out of state and knew Chih would have to communicate with my aunt directly. Everything went smoothly and we are so grateful to Chih. I would highly recommend her to anyone."
"Chih came to our rescue when we needed to sell our home due to a family emergency. We moved back home to tend to family and could not facilitate our home sell, Chih stepped in and stepped up to the challenge of us not being physically present to sell the home. She worked closely with my husband and with me only by phone and email. She gave us great instructions on the selling process and what we needed to do to accomplish the task. She worked the listing market to our favor, the open house was a success, and read all 19 offers for us. Chih then walked us through the maze of offers based on best of 3 and gave us supporting information to help us make out decision. I feel that Chih was the best real estate agent any seller would ever need. We are sad to move but happy with the results from Chih and her amazing team. Thank you Chih for the amazing job you did and all the help along the way!"
"This review on Chih is long overdue! An "Alamedan" herself, she possesses knowledge about the past and present, always makes herself available to her clients by text, email and keeps your file organized in a dropbox. Chih helped us find not only a house but a home this spring and tirelessly gave advice on how to put our best foot forward. She went even above and beyond months after the purchase and was able to seamlessly handle a post-purchase issue with one of the contractors employed by the seller of the house as well as gave us a home warranty as our housewarming gift."
"Chih is truly amazing to work with and I'm incredibly fortunate to have found her by chance! She has been my agent twice, once for buying and once for selling, and both times, her service has been excellent. I think what stands out most about Chih are the following: 1) Integrity. Chih is very honest and up-front about everything and is not out to make a quick buck at your expense. While selling my property, a buyer asked her to be their agent but she refused as that would have been a conflict of interest. 2) Hard-working and detail-oriented. Chih helped me a lot with the remodeling and staging of my place and getting it ready to sell. She never cut corners and always went the extra mile in helping me find people to get the work done, and even doing little things like watering the lawn and taking out the garbage when I was out of town. She was always on top of everything and always gave timely reminders when there was something I needed to do. This made selling MUCH less stressful as I knew she had my back. 3) Great results. Chih gave great advice on things like the best time of year to sell and how to fix up my place for maximum resale value. She also strongly urged me to move out so I could get the place fixed up, cleaned up, and staged. Ultimately, this helped me to get top dollar on my property, selling for well above asking price and far exceeding my expectations. I am absolutely certain I made a large net gain by listening to her advice. 4) Prompt and responsive. Even when she's not available to take a call or message, Chih always responds quickly, usually within a few hours. All in all, Chih is great to work with. If I buy or sell again, I would definitely seek her help again, and would highly recommend her to anyone."
"Chih helped us buy a house in a VERY tight Alameda market. We were first time home buyers and she was super supportive through the whole process, taking extra time to explain things, go over documents, and answer our questions. She went above and beyond by introducing us to different contractors, walking us through the process of doing a renovation (including taking a trip to the Alameda Planning Dept with me), and holding our hands through the entire process. We had a great experience and would be excited to work with her again!"