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These last few weeks I have been gearing up for a yard sale. I have already been decluttering on a regular basis for the last year and a half, so I was afraid I would find little to sell. At the same time I wanted this to be our best yard sale to date since I want to do all that I can to help our family prepare financially for the big family trip we are planning to take in the new year.
In the end we hauled four truckloads worth of stuff to the location of the community wide rummage we were taking part in.
As I was hauling items to sell out of various locations throughout the house I noticed a trend.
A lot of the items were what I like to call "someday" stockpile items.
Someday I will have time to scrapbook again so I should save these supplies.
(never mind that I switched over to using free shutterfly codes to make photo books years ago)
Someday I will get around to locker hooking again and I will need this yard sale bought material.
Someday we might go back to tent camping and these lanterns will be needed then.
Someday perhaps our town will get another squash court and then my husband will put his squash racquet to use again.
The Financial Cost Of "Someday" Stockpiling
Perhaps it was because I recently listened to The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up, or that I am currently listening to 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess, or it might be the Cozy Minimalist Mom's course I took the time to sit down and watch recently, but suddenly my eyes were opened that holding onto someday items–even if I did have space for them in my house–was costing me money.
Each year you hold onto someday items they are losing value.
New and improved models for just about everything come out every year and rarely do older items go up in value, at least not the type of items I was holding onto.
Each year you hold onto someday items there is a risk that they will become damaged and therefore lose more value.
I had stuck several someday items in the basement and when I brought them upstairs into better light, I realized some items had a mildew growing on them that would not wipe off and I had to toss them. Had I simply sold them right away after realizing I wasn't going to get to the project they were intended for any time soon I would have been able to recoup some of my initial investment.
Each year you hold onto someday items you have less room and this can lead to storage expenses.
This has not happened to our family–yet. I hope it never does but I know better than to say never, that word always has me eating humble pie. It is so easy to think our homes have become much too small and either spend money getting a bigger home or money on a storage unit for our stuff.
It is much cheaper to buy back things should your someday ever arrive than to pay either storage fees, more rent, or higher mortgage costs. Plus, a larger living area comes with larger heating and cooling bills and often higher property taxes.
Each year you add to your someday item piles your homes become more cluttered, which comes with a hidden price.
I have been decluttering with intention for the past year and a half now and I no longer want to escape my home. Instead, I want stay home and enjoy the haven it is becoming.
Going out is rarely free. Either we spend money on food, entertainment, or more someday stuff.
How to Cure the Someday Stockpile Problem
Thankfully the solution to the financial cost of someday stockpiling is pretty simple.
When you are about to buy something new
If you are about to buy something new (or new to you) no matter how low in cost the item is ask yourself, "Can I fit the project this item creates into my calendar within the next 6 months?" Be brutally honest and if the answer is NO, don't buy it.
Also ask yourself, "How many projects have I already added to my calendar for the next 6 months?" and, "Will adding this item to my list be too much?"
These questions can apply to supplies for a new or existing hobby, buying supplies for a home renovation project, and more.
When you are decluttering
If you are decluttering ask yourself the same question, "Realistically, will I be able to use up these items in the next 6 months?" If the answer is NO, sell the items and get back more now for them than when you finally give up on the idea 3 years from now.
The key is to be BRUTALLY honest about your life and what fits into it and what doesn't. You also have to be confident in who you are and what you enjoy. Perhaps you bought those sewing supplies because you thought you could become one of those cool moms that sew up cute outfits for their babies, but truth be told sewing just doesn't interest you.
Asking these questions day in and day out both as you purchase items and as you declutter your home will save you a significant amount of money over time, as well as put money back into your wallet through resale.
Stop stockpiling for someday and start living today clutter free! Your home and wallet will thank you!
Use This Guide To Help Rid Your Home Of Your Someday Stock Pile
This list will help you toss 30 different types of items from different areas of your home. Once completed, you should have perhaps hundreds of items that you can resell at a yard sale. Not into yard sales? Donate the items you find with the aid of this list and enjoy the reward of a clutter free home. Grab your copy here!
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Twelve days after Easter Sunday, Paul McCartney broke up with the Beatles, later in the year, Elvis Presley the all-American rock and roll star met with President Richard M. Nixon, not only for a social call but to help the president with his war on drugs.
The first celebration of the earth day was in 1970.
Launching of Apollo 13 to the moon was on April 11. This was the third lunar landing mission to the moon. Three astronauts were on the mission to the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon were Fred Wallace Haise, John Leonard Swigert, and James Arthur Lovell. The mission was to explore and conduct geological experiments of the Imbrium Basin. Two days later on April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 exploded. Landing on the moon was out of the questions and getting the astronauts home safe became the new mission. On April 17, 1970, the Apollo 13 returned to Earth.
At the start of the 70s decade, the consumption of oil in the United States of America was at an all-time high. The American public was undeterred by the imminent energy crisis characterized by fuel shortage and a spike in the price of gasoline. The lawmakers in Washington encouraged the American public saying the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) could not afford to lose the American market. OAPEC retaliated by imposing an oil embargo for the better part of 1970 and subsequent years.
Friday 13 is a day of bad luck. This was evident to residents of East Pakistan when a tidal wave caused by a cyclone killed over 200,000 people on November 13. This was the third storm to kill over 200,000 people in the region.
These and many more events that took place in 1970 set the stage for changing times in the new decade. It also paved the way for the fashion centered 1980s.
Old Newspapers
Have a look at the old newspapers from 1970 and get them!
Which were the most popular movies released this year ?
Music Charts
Which were the top hits of 1970 ?
Top #10 songs in the USA
- The Beatles - Let It Be
- Jackson 5 - I'll Be There
- Carpenters - (They Long To Be) Close To You
- B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
- Bread - Make It With You
- Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come)
- The Partridge Family - I Think I Love You
- Diana Ross - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
- The Jackson 5 - The Love You Save
Top #10 songs in the UK
- Elvis Presley - The Wonder Of You
- Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime
- England World Cup Squad - Back Home
- Lee Marvin - Wand'rin' Star
- Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo Chile
- Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown
- Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
- The Jackson Five - I Want You Back
- Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky
- Freda Payne - Band Of Gold
Which were the most popular books released in 1970 ?
Popular names
Which were the top popular names given to babies born in 1970 in the USA ?
Top #10 male names
- Michael
- James
- David
- John
- Robert
- Christopher
- William
- Brian
- Mark
- Richard
Top #10 female names
- Jennifer
- Lisa
- Kimberly
- Michelle
- Amy
- Angela
- Melissa
- Tammy
- Mary
- Tracy
What happened in each day of 1970
Click on the dates below to find out what the world looked like in each day of 1970

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Paddle, Flounder, Swim
I'm two years into this PhD thing and I feel dumber than when I started.
A few weeks ago I had a spate of book reviews to turn in. I've written dozens of these things in the past, so why was I frozen in front of my computer screen? I was so intimidated by the assignments that I couldn't get started. I crossed out the first 6 attempts to write a single paragraph on a fascinating book that I thoroughly enjoyed.
White page. Blinking cursor. Hands paralyzed at the keyboard.
I felt too ignorant, too incompetent to write these book reviews. And not just the book reviews: every assignment that's come my way I have received with greater trepidation and reluctance. The longer I spend in this PhD program, the dumber I feel. At the same time that I am gaining expertise I am feeling less expert.
How could that be? —I have learned so much and have been stretched in ways I can't describe even to myself.
Part of the reason is that I'm being exposed to so much good thinking that I realize how shallow, how facile my opinions have been up to this point. This academic experience has shown me how little I know of the world and its operations.
Additionally, since every single thing is controverted by some scholar somewhere, the long hours I've spent in the icy waters of uncertainty have worked to immobilize my ability to be sure of myself.
And, of course, everyone I'm interacting with here seems to be an expert on something. We sit in class or around the cafe and talk deeply about specialized subjects and I see that it has become harder than ever to be conversant and so I find it harder than ever to converse.
Remember that post from a few years ago when I talked about my insecurities about starting a PhD? Yeah, well, I was totally on point. I'm not diligent enough or smart enough or spiritual enough for this undertaking. (Yet, by the grace of God, here go I.) The lesson still stands: The difficulty of this PhD is a Fatherly invitation to allow Him to pry my fearful fingers out of the grip I have on my own self-sufficiency. –Yes, pry my fingers, Holy Spirit Crowbar-style.
But one more lesson has been surfacing:
- The learning is in the struggle. I'm sure 418 really deep and inspiriational books have been written on this; I would read them, but I have too many other books to read. The point is that it is when we are in the margins of our competency that we grow in expertise. You've got to paddle and sink a little bit. Taste the lake. Search for the bottom with your feet and miss it. And then you'll stretch out your arms and swim.
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OFFAL / BOWEL FETUS - Split MCD
Prepare yourself for the ultimate blood curdling experience! OFFAL is back with another release of gut disgorging gurgles, eye bleeding riffs, skeleton smashing beats and the band's unique 70's and 80's slashing terror mood to make Autopsy and Impetigo worshipers defecate in ecstasy!! Spliting this piece of plastic with Brazilian Gore/Death zombies; BOWEL FETUS vomits upon us the most disgusting and heaviest Doom and Gore hybrid ever gurgled. The band's first recording with a real drummer; this Aussie duo is unique as Autopsy and Disembowelment down-tuned to the limits to twist your viscera and mangle your cranium!! Amazing barrage of sewer doomy Gore!! To keep the 'old-school' vibe, this one comes in a beautiful blood red vinyl-CD.


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ANYWAYS... enough thinking about those stupid fears and back to the actual review! So a little while back I bought the "Hi Shine Lip Treatment" from the Body Shop. The shades that were available were quite nice, and I picked the lightest one they had and a slightly darker pinkish purple one.
Unfortunately the lip glosses disappointed me, they were too sticky... all lip glosses are sticky but with these ones I could barely even touch anything, and whenever my hair got stuck to it, getting it off was horrible. Another thing that I didn't like was that they were too heavy, and that surprised me because what I tend to like about their other products is their lightness. I really like most of the Body Shop's products but I'm sorry to say that this lip gloss is one I wouldn't recommend.


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Was this the first minimalist interior? Quite possibly.
This striking house, known as "La Maison de La Celle-Saint-Cloud," was the work of French artist Jean-Pierre Raynaud. After tiring of his boring conventional home, he spent five years, working alone, painstakingly covering the entire inside of his house with 15cm X 15cm white ceramic tiles. (This is exactly the kind of thing I do when I take my younger sister's ADHD pills.) He opened it to the public as an art installation in 1974, and it was an immediate sensation.
The walls, floors, ceilings, and even the furniture were all tiled, creating the impression of being in a Tron-era computer simulation. More importantly, though it was intended as an art installation, it prefigured the minimalist interiors of the Eighties, as seen in the clean lines and all white interiors of Miami coke dealers and Patrick Bateman-style Wall Street yuppies. From there, you can draw a straight line to the present vogue for minimalism, as seen in the photos my parents sent me last week of their new monochrome kitchen with flat-panel concealed cupboards. (And these are people who still have dial-up internet; that's how popular minimalism is now.)
Minimalism has usually come into vogue in the wake of especially turbulent periods; the first iteration came post-WW2, the second after the heady Seventies, and the third and present flowering comes in the wake of the Aughties' irritating (I say that now but I was wearing Cosby sweaters along with everyone else) and thankfully waning spell of Eighties nostalgia. (You could also argue that today's minimalism is a recycled version of the Y2K aesthetic of iMacs and boy band futurism.) But where did minimalism come from originally? Well, minimalism as an aesthetic philosophy originated, depending on who you ask, either in the confrontationally color-blocky paintings of 1960s artists like Barnett Newman (fond memories of ripping him off when I had paintings due in college; I could bang out a semester's worth of work in half an hour), or in the "less is more" designs of modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. As a classically school European artist, Raynaud, the creator of the grid house, was surely familiar with both. He just took the aesthetic and applied it to something new: the interior of a home. In doing so, he created something that's surely more functional, and possibly more lasting, than any color block abstract painting or Mies van der Rohe urban monolith.
So let's say this house was the first minimalist interior, making it a cultural landmark, not to mention one of the coolest houses in the world. How much would you pay for it? A million? Five million? A hundred million? Trick question! For unknown "I'm an eccentric French artist" reasons, Raynaud tore the house down in 1993. (By then, it had been transformed into a camouflage-painted, barbed wire-encircled bunker, also for unknown "I'm an eccentric French artist" reasons.) Some of the rubble was saved and is now exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, but as to the house – it's gone forever. I will say, though, that if you supply the coffee and Adderall, I'll help meticulously tile the interior of your house. My only condition is that in true Jean-Pierre Raynaud style, we have to do every square foot, including furniture.


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Florida is one of only a handful of states that has no state income tax! This is another reason many wealthy and retired people are so attracted to Florida. (Besides the weather)
On January 29, 2008 voters passed Proposition 1 property tax measure, once again making Florida one of the lower taxed states in the nation. Here is a condensed explanation of current property tax laws:
If the home is your primary residence, you are entitled to a $25,000 Homestead deduction, $50,000 per married couple.
Example: if you purchase a home that is assessed at $300,000 you will be taxed on $250,000 if married.
About a month after buying a home, the assessors office will send you a questionnaire and a Homestead Exemption form. Be sure to complete both forms and return to the assessors office. The homestead exemption will be applied beginning January 1st of the year following your purchase. The Lee County Assessors office is located in Fort Myers, the phone number is (239) 533-6100. If you have any questions or concerns about homestead exemption, just give us a call 239-357-3312 or view their website by clicking here.
If your primary residence (Homesteaded) appreciates during the year, property taxes can only increase by a maximum of 3% (or cost of living – whichever is less). Non-Homesteaded or investment property taxes cannot increase by more than 10%, regardless of how much the real estate market may rise during a strong market.
If real estate values decrease, your assessed value will decrease accordingly, whether you are Homesteaded or not. However, if the real estate market turns upward by 20% or 30% in a year, your tax assessment can only increase by 3% if Homesteaded, and 10% if non-Homesteaded. This property tax limitation greatly benefits second homeowners, foreigners, and investors.
When you sell your primary residence, you may transfer the difference from the original assessed value and the sale price (up to $500,000). This is called Portability. You then deduct the difference from the next property's assessed tax value if the new property is of the same or higher value.
Example: you buy a Homesteaded property with an assessed value of $250,000. You later sell that home for $400,000. You have $150,000 in "Portability" that can be deducted from the assessed value of your next residence. This is in addition to the $50,000 Homestead exemption. Assuming you purchased your next home for $500,000, you will still pay taxes on only 300,000!
If you buy a home that is less expensive than the one you sold, and the old property increased in value, you may still apply a percentage formula to save on property taxes.
We have done our best to provide a simplified explanation of the property tax structure, SOH, Portability, and Homesteading, but it can still be confusing. Feel free to call us with any questions or clarification, or to receive a more in-depth report on this subject. You can also visit the Lee County website at http://www.leepa.org/


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The Vatandoust Sirrs Team Blog
Read what's happening in the local real estate market, get tips for home owners, buyers, and sellers, find out community news, and more.
Real Estate Market Update for February 2018
Durham Region Association of REALTORS® (DRAR) President Dennis Roberts reported 604 residential transactions in February 2018, a 28.5 per cent increase over the previous month, and a 9 per cent decrease compared to February 2017. February also saw a 26 per cent increase in the number of new listings in Durham 1,202, compared to the 954 reported in January 2018.
The average selling price in Durham Region reached $591,404 in February 2018. In the previous month the average selling price was $578,645. Durham Region leads the GTA with the most affordable townhouses according to the February 2018 year-over-year per cent change in the MLS® Home Price Index. "Amid the new mortgage 'stress test', home buyers may be looking at different home options and positively, Durham Region's affordable townhomes and semi-detached homes are serving that demand."stated Roberts.
"When TREB released its Outlook for 2018, the forecast anticipated a slow start to the year compared to the historically high sales count reported in the winter and early spring of 2017. Prospective home buyers are still coming to terms with the psychological impact of the Fair Housing Plan, and some have also had to reevaluate their plans due to the new OFSI-mandated mortgage stress test guidelines and generally higher borrowing costs," said Mr. Syrianos.
The province's proposal to implement a mandatory Home Energy Rating and Disclosure (HER&D) program would have required the home seller to conduct an energy audit before listing their home. The program would have also made it mandatory for REALTORS® to post the energy score on the MLS® listing. "Because of the efforts by Ontario REALTORS® the province has decided not to proceed with this program," said Roberts. "This is a win for home sellers in Ontario."
"As we move further into the spring and summer months, growth in sales and selling prices is expected to pick up relative to last year. Expect stronger price growth to continue in the comparatively more affordable townhouse and condominium apartment segments. This being said, listings supply will likely remain below average in many neighbourhoods in the GTA, which, over the long-term, could further hamper affordability," said Jason Mercer, TREB's Director of Market Analysis.
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Hi guys!! I'm here to share something that I found in Google Extension quite helpful to me, especially when my work task mostly I will sit in front of the screen. Frankly speaking (or writing), I am tend to forgot to take a break from it. I will take short break when my eyes started to feel pain which is not good for my health. So, I search for tools to help me by remind me for just go away or do something else like take a walk or even stretch up a bit.
Like this one,
Cool right? I understand when we are so immerse with our work and sometimes we even forget to go to toilet. You will realize by the end of the day, "Goshhh, I don't even go to toilet today."
Let me share you how to have this. First thing, you need to have Google Chrome. This only applicable to Google Chrome.
Then, go on top right (below Close X), look for more tools -> extension.
Search for "Take A Break By Eye Care Plus" click it and you are ready to use it.
The setting part, you can customize how you want it. You also can follow as default setting, but for me I go for customize setting. I know myself better, should I right? Okay let's get to the setting.
|that's how I setting up. Every 1 hour, it will give reminder.
|notification type - this thing is the key why it keep pop out at my screen
And now, give it try and see the difference. For me, yes there is good change. So, if you work with me and see me suddenly get up from my chair and stretch up, this Take A Break just remind me to do so (well, technically there's no pop out for get up from chair, but I choose to do so)


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The book is organized so as to address in separate sections first the preparatory topics of medicine (clinical and epidemiological), science in general, and statistics (mathematical); then topics of epidemiological research proper; and, finally, topics of 'meta-epidemiological' clinical research. In those two main sections, a further grouping is based on the distraction between objects and methods of study. In this framework, the particular topics are addressed both descriptively and quasi-prescriptively, commonly with a number of explicatory annotations.
This book is intended to serve as a handbook for whomever is, in whatever way, concerned with epidemiological or 'meta-epidemiological' clinical research. But besides this, it is also intended to serve as a textbook for students in introductory courses on 'epidemiological' research – to which end there is a suggested hierarchy of the concepts that might reasonably be covered.Show Less
The author is uniquely qualified for scholarly delineation - both descriptive and quasi-prescriptive - of the terms and concepts of research to produce the scientific knowledge-base for clinical and community medicine.
The book is unique in its organization and wealth of explicatory annotations.
Related to the book's unique organization is its suggested hierarchy of the concepts' coverage in an introductory course on `epidemiological' research.
From the reviews:
"Miettinen's readers know that he cares deeply about words and their usage. … This new volume, too, is a type of dictionary--one divided into three broad categories: 'Medicine, Science, and Statistics'; 'Epidemiological Research Proper'; and 'Meta-Epidemiological Clinical Research.' … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners." (T. P. Gariepy, Choice, Vol. 49 (4), December, 2011)
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I concur with Noah's analysis. -----Original Message----- From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 12:18 PM To: Kasi, Jay Cc: email@example.com Subject: Re: FW: a question about mustunderstand. I'll just quickly second Doug's analysis. I think your conclusion #5 is not supported by the specification, and was not intended by my summary. I had written: >> Tagging elements in this manner >> assures that this change in >> semantics will not be silently >> (and, presumably, erroneously) >> ignored by those who may not >> fully understand it. I suppose it could be worded yet a bit more legalistically, but I referred to not silently ignoring "by those who my not fully understand it." I did not say "fail to be processed due to misrouting". Doug's summary is correct in my opinion, and SOAP only applies mustUnderstand rules at the point where an actor (explicit or anonymous) has been matched. In other words, MU is checked only at the points where software has reason to believe it should be responsible for handling a particular header block. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 Lotus Development Corp. Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Monday, 21 May 2001 16:31:54 UTC
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I should start off by saying the Oberstleutnant Dr Franz Bake could possibly be one of the WORST models battlefront has ever put out. This thing was an absolute nightmare to get it to sit straight. I had to use the side skirts to try and hide how crappy the tracks are. I actually think the resign model is totally crooked. I'm very disappointed considering this is a newer model. I've never had to modify a model like this before.
Any how. This is what i'm painting. I usually paint more then just a straight point army so that I can have options. Especially since I plan on making this army a Winterized army.
- HQ - Oberstleutnant Dr Franz Bake, Bergepanther (ya I get to do another one)
- Platoon - 3 Panthers
- Platoon - 2 Tigers
- Weapons - 3 Armoured Sd Kfz 10/5 (2cm)
- Support - Schwere Armoured Scout Platoon (winterized Grens and 7 half-tracks)
- Support - 4 Panzerwerfer 42
- Support - HS129b and JU87D Stuka
I'll probably add a recon platoon later as well. And I'm not going to paint the bergepanther yet. I like to take my time with that one adding chains and stuff as you saw with my first one.
If anyone has any tips on winterizing, I'm all ears. This will be my first crack at it.
But here is the start of it. Magnetized all the turrets. I even magnetized the anti-air guns and the panzerwerfers.
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Cunning and competitive but with no need to break a sweat, croquet is the slow summer game
"One of the most amusing things about croquet is how everyone plays to marginally different rules," says Joe Jaques, the eighth generation of the family who popularised the game in the 1860s (see page 64 of July's The Simple Things). At the highest level, there's Association Croquet; Golf Croquet is easier and widely played in many clubs, and then there's Garden Croquet, a simplified form of Association Croquet. This does have official rules, although in practice, it's likely to be as idiosyncratic as your family. "It's not uncommon to see a couple who have grown up playing different rules," continues Joe. "Depending on how competitive, argumentative or well-lubricated they are makes for an endlessly entertaining game."
So here, for the sake of argument, are the simplified rules of garden croquet, according to the World Croquet Federation (read the full rules at croquet.org.uk):
THE AIM: Two sides compete to get their balls (either red and yellow or blue and black) to the peg by hitting them through the hoops with their mallets in the order shown, right.
THE KIT: four mallets, four balls, six hoops and a peg.
THE LAWN: A croquet lawn should ideally be 17.5m x 14m with the peg in the centre and hoops laid out as shown. If your garden is smaller, simply scale this down. THE SCORING: Each hoop 'run' or passed through scores one point, as does hitting the final peg; so the winner will be the first side to score 14 (one point per hoop and peg per ball).
HOW TO PLAY: The first side strikes one of their balls towards the first hoop. If the ball clears the first hoop, you may take another shot. If not, play passes to the other side. All four balls must be played in the first four turns. After that, each side can decide which of their balls to play. If your ball hits another ball, you earn two extra shots. This is really the fun of croquet – as Joe says, "it's as much about disadvantaging your opponent as advancing your own game." The first of your extra shots must be taken from where the knocked ball has ended up. Place your ball so it is touching the other ball and play your shot. The second is played from where your ball ends up.
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My sweet sweet box of journals: the lined green leather one from Greece, the one composed of napkins stapled together, the uniform French Claire Fontaines. Of course the contents of these charming tomes is anything but sweet. Who writes about the good times? Yet there is this wonderful undercurrent of hope and delight in the beauty of monuments. When I open the present volume I am humbled by the fact that it is #87; my hunch is there's a bit of repetition in these pages! But the quotes! What great authors have accompanied me on this journey. My sweet, sweet journals. Begun my junior year in college in Greece where my real birth occurred, their presence has meant that I have never been alone. Every trip I take begins and ends in these pages. They hold my past like no photographic record ever could. They make the past present, the present past, the future a clean white page.
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Tuscan-Style Beef Stew
Why This Recipe Works
Tuscan beef stew (peposo), a stew made by the tilemakers of Florence's famous Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral Duomo, is a simple stew of beef braised in wine, with loads of peppercorns and a head of garlic cloves. To improve the texture and flavor of ours without veering too far from the original, we added tomato paste and anchovies for meatiness, powdered gelatin for body, and shallots, carrots, and herbs for complexity. To ensure a full-bodied wine flavor, we add some wine at the beginning of the long braise, more before reducing the sauce, and a small amount at the end. And we did the same with the peppercorns: cracked pepper at the start, ground pepper toward the end, and more cracked pepper on serving.


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Dakota James, Riley Reid – Blacked
We've seen Dakota at Blacked a few times before but this time she brought a hot friend with her! Riley Reid is well-known for the regular porn surfer so she needs no introduction :)
This scene was fucking great and had a lot of variation. First some posing in their underwear before they went down on each other. The hung guy lurking in the background couldn't stand just watching them anymore so he tread out of the shadow and joined in.
His rod was so large that they had to take turns sucking it. They alternated when fucking him as well and at the same time the girls pleasured each other with cunilingus and anilingus. At the end he left Dakota with a creampie that dripped into Riley's open mouth. I told you this scene was great!
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Sex, God, and the Conservative Church guides psychotherapy and sexology clinicians on how to treat clients who grew up in a conservative faith—mired in sexual shame and dysfunction—and who desire to both heal and hold on to their faith orientation. The author first walks clinicians and readers through a critique of Western culture and the conservative Christian Church, and their effects on intimate partnerships and sexual lives. The book provides clinicians a way to understand the faulty sexual ethic of the early church, while revealing the hidden mystical sex and body positive understanding of sexuality of the Hebrew people. The book also includes chapters on strategies for a new sexual ethic, on clinical steps to heal religious sexual shame, and on specific sex therapy interventions clinicians can use directly in their practice. Finally, it offers a four step model for healing religious sexual shame and actual touch and non-touch exercises to bring healing and intimacy into a person's life.
"Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers' provocative book addresses the sex-negative doctrine in the conservative Christian church that instills in many people deep shame about their body and discomfort with the opposite sex, making them ill-prepared for marriage. Showing how notions of Christianity and sexuality are complementary, Dr. Sellers offers both therapist and lay reader examples of working with clients to heal the soul-body split, reduce shame, and deepen a couple's loving connection."—Stella Resnick, PhD, author, The Heart of Desire: Keys to the Pleasures of Love; couples and sex therapist, private practice, Beverly Hills, CA
"This book is powerful medicine for anyone who has ever suffered religious shame about sex. You will find compassion for your dilemmas of conscience, wisdom regarding the teachings of the church, and best of all—explicit practices for opening your mind, nurturing your heart, touching your body, and celebrating the spirit of all that is truly erotic."—Gina Ogden, PhD, LMFT, author, Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy and other books
"Masterfully integrating psychology and theology, Sellers gives us a groundbreaking, razor-sharp view into conservative Christian culture and its shame-inducing sexual ethic. As a psychologist, I am impressed by the precision, validity and robustness of her research. As a theologian, I am grateful for the Christian sexual ethic—rooted in justice, mutuality, and an infinitely relational God—that she introduces. As a millennial who grew up in the conservative Christian purity culture that Sellers describes, the practices in this book lit my pathway to greater freedom from shame and more authentic connection to God, myself, and others. I hope therapists and Christian leaders— pastors, parents, and youth workers—will read this insightful book with an open mind."—Christena Cleveland, PhD, Duke Divinity School
"This is an enlightening, well-written, and clinically useful book on the problems and potential of conservative Christianity for clients dealing with sexual problems. Tina Sellers is uniquely positioned to make this unique contribution to therapy for a population often misunderstood by clinicians. Whether you're new to the field or highly experienced, I promise you'll learn a lot."—William J. Doherty, PhD, professor, director, Minnesota Couples on the Brink Project, University of Minnesota; author, Take Back Your Marriage.
"Most clinical programs—whether they are based in psychology or marriage and family therapy, social work or medicine, pastoral counseling, or any number of other fields in the "helping professions"—do not adequately prepare trainees to work with individuals or couples who have been indoctrinated with Church-driven messages of sexual guilt and shame. As a therapist and educator, I have struggled to find resources that help guide clients on a path in healing and growth—and to do this in a way that simultaneously embraces their sexuality(ies) and religious/spiritual faith. The wisdom and counsel that Dr. Tina Sellers offers in this book should be in every training curriculum, on every providers' bookshelf, and in every couple's home."--Tai J. Mendenhall, PhD, LMFT, Couple and Family Therapy Program, The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
"This book is a practical and yet deeply theological path towards healing for those wounded by a shame-based purity culture. Dr. Schermer Sellers researched and written a roadmap towards a sex-positive Gospel ethic of intimacy. I will be recommending it to pastors and counsellors and teachers everywhere."—Sarah Bessey, author; Jesus Feminist and Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Christianity and Sex: What's Going On? 2. How Did Christian Sexuality Get Derailed? 3. American Consumerism 4. Hope for Clients: The Lost Message of a Sex-Positive God 5. In Pursuit of a Sex Positive-Gospel: Strategies for a New Sexual Ethic 6. Clinical Applications: Four Steps to Healing Religious Sexual Shame 7. Sex Therapy Interventions: The Anatomy of Intimacy 8. Sex Therapy Interventions: The Practices of Intimacy Epilogue: Are You a Renegade Therapist?


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Why is it that businesses are operating like non-profits? I feel like I am living in a bizarro world. [youtube IcjSDZNbOs0]
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The more I read books, blogs, newspapers, and listen to podcasts on business leadership the more I see a change occurring. Many people praise Jim Collin's book Good to Great because it focused on what made some companies "great" instead of just "good". The research and data in the book are pretty convincing. But not everyone has read the addition to the book Collin's wrote titled Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great. Collin's notes that in the Social Sectors the only leverage is relational unlike the leverage a business has in firing and demotions. Threatening to fire a volunteer is not as effective as taking away someone's title and reducing their paycheck at a business.
However, in the business world the great incentive of pay is now being paralleled to the benefits of connectedness and being a part of something that matters. So businesses seeking greater profits are functioning like non-profits: freedom in schedule, informal dress, creating cultures of happiness, off site play, dismantling hierarchal permission, focusing on leadership development, and maybe the most significant creating a mission that helps other people.
On the other hand are the non-profits trying to act more like a business. Non-profits had "organization envy" for quite some time so they started acting like a business: dressing professional, creating hierarchy permission, focusing on mass production, and creating a model for global growth. But unlike the business using non profits methods successfully the non-profits trying to act like a business are not seeing the same results. The heavy focus on structure and organization have made them like massive ships that can't turn as quickly as our modern world requires.
In short I see businesses needing people with relational abilities found in non-profits and non-profits are seeking people with abilities found in businesses. What's going on here!?
Are you seeing this shift in both the business seeking profits and the non-profit?


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Our own Jill Howarth answers your questions about creating art for surface design. We asked the artist to select three questions pertaining to her art career. These are her fascinating answers.
Q. If you hadn't become a professional artist, what kind of career do you think you would have chosen?
A. That's a tough question but my best guess would be a teacher. I come from a family of them, with my mom, three brothers and all three wives in the same profession. My sister and I seem to be the only ones not in the family business!
Q. Where do you find inspiration? Do you go for walks in town, look at nature shows on TV, or just start scribbling and see where your muse takes you?
A. I'm somewhat of a mid-century picture book collector, having amassed a pretty thick stack of Little Golden books, amongst others. I don't stop at vintage though. I always had a soft spot for buying beautifully illustrated books for my kids when they were small and now I just buy them for myself!
Q. How old were you when you knew you wanted to be an artist? Did you strive to get your art on the refrigerator as a child? Describe your earliest artwork.
A. My earliest memory is drawing Peanuts characters on large, white paper that my mom brought home from her classroom. I had several Peanuts books that I could draw from with my trusty "El Marko" markers (penciled sketched first, of course). That evolved into redrawing cute Hallmark cards for my mom's bulletin boards in her classroom. Around age 10, I knew that I wanted to be a "commercial" artist. I saw this as hopefully a practical way to make money with art, vs. fine art. Eventually this evolved into getting a degree in graphic design.


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How to Export Your Outlook Contact List into Twitter
You want to gather the people you initially know in order to build Twitter followers for your marketing campaign. The best and easiest way to find people to follow is to start with the people you already know. The best way to do this is to gather your contact lists, especially if you have them scattered around on different e-mail programs.
You can export most e-mail address books to a .csv file and then upload the file to other e-mail programs.) If most of your e-mail addresses are in an e-mail program that sits on your hard drive, you need to take a few easy steps to find out whether any of your contacts are already on Twitter.
Follow these steps to export e-mail contacts from Outlook:
Open Outlook and then choose File, Import and Export.
The Import and Export Wizard appears.
From the Choose an Action to Perform list, select Export to a File, and then click Next.
From the Create a File of Type list, select Comma Separated Values (Windows) and then click Next.
Scroll down the list of folders and select Contacts as the folder you want to export from. Then click Next.
By default, you are presented with a hidden folder when you can save your Contacts.
Click the Browse button, and in the Browse dialog box that appears, select where you want to save the file.
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These past couple days have been a lot of wins for people. Between gay marriages, Trump being Trumped, and Wonder Women taking down oppressive flags, it's been a rough couple of days for idiots. But trust us, there are still those walking around trying to win some war apparently.
While wearing the flag of the actual losers of a war. Yeah it doesn't make sense to use either.


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Sick cows lie down, and why it matters for the price of your burger
Cows lie down at random, studies have shown, but the healthiest cattle stand up again at fairly regular intervals. This strange bovine factoid resurfaced recently, after the researchers behind it accepted an Ig Nobel Prize for, "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." But the study is about more than lazy cows—and the findings could change how factory farms care for livestock and what you put on your dinner plate. Here's why it matters:
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Maybe it's best to post this on the weekend, when hopefully you aren't reading this at work. I don't know where you work (how could I?) but as an artist I work at home, which is where I like to be, as much as possible. I was once the art director of Us Weekly, which had offices on the second floor on 6th & 51st Street in midtown Manhattan, where I had my own (windowless) office. It was furnished and decorated by me, and was referred to as "Café Trey", I guess, due to the low lighting, lounge area, free candy and relaxing water feature. The rest of the offices were another matter. Only three offices – the Creative Director, the Executive Editor and Editor in Chief – even had windows. Everyone else worked in a grey, windowless TOTALLY non-creative environment. The job itself was creative (along with editors, Bonnie Fuller and Janice Min, it's no exaggeration to say we all REINVENTED the celebrity mag that you see everywhere today.) I liked the people and I was paid very well – but we spent 12-hour days there and we very often ate three meals a day in the office. After nearly three years, honestly, I couldn't stand being in that environment anymore, so I left to pursue my art career and be in my self-designed space.
That's a long intro to get to some pictures, but these shots got me to thinking about how important creative environments are. If you imagine that Amsterdam must be one of THE coolest places to live, besides being beautiful – and Google would be one of the coolest companies to work for, then Google in Amsterdam must totally ROCK! Yep, you're right. Look at these pics. The interiors are by Dutch architects, D/Dock. I like the idea of getting paid to hang out here.
My favorite New Yorker cartoon ever illustrates how far we've come – and need to go. Two males executives are walking by a row of desks and one says to the other, "Each employee can have a plant, or a poster – but not both." (Photos; Alan Jensen)


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(CBS News) Millions of Americans still need to find jobs, and millions of consumers will need to keep shopping, if the economy is ever to regain its footing. One up-and-coming company we know of is doing its best to improve things for customers and workers alike, by thinking differently. Erin Moriarty reports our Cover Story:
What if once a year your company holds a Bald and Blue Day? If you want to show company spirit you can either shave your hair or dye it blue?
And imagine if one of the people shaving his head is your boss?
Welcome to the rather wacky world of Zappos.com. It's an online shoe and merchandise company where "business as usual" is anything but.
At a time when many retailers are struggling, Zappos (derived from the Spanish word for shoes, zapatos) is thriving, thanks in part to a unique company culture - and its 36-year-old CEO, Tony Hsieh.
"Our whole belief is that everyone's a little weird somehow," said Hsieh, "and so it's really more just a fun way of saying that we really want people's true personalities to shine in the workplace."
Tony Hsieh so believes he's learned how to create both passion and profits that he's outlined his philosophy in the book "Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose" (Business Plus).
"So the book is another way to help spread the message that it's actually possible to make employees happy, make customers happy, and still make investors happy … and you know, still have profits," Hsieh said.
He's not kidding. Zappos is now so successful that last fall Amazon paid $1.2 billion to acquire it.
Hsieh, who works out of a cubicle and earns as CEO less than $37,000 a year, never imagined he would one day run a shoe store.
"I'm not a shoe person at all," he said. "I used to wear one pair of shoes for two years until there were holes in it and it was falling apart and then buy another pair."
In fact, as the oldest of three boys growing up in California, Hsieh was supposed to be a doctor - or at least that's what his parents had in mind.
"I think their mindset was, you know, the goal of childhood is to get into college and then the goal of college is to eventually get into grad school so that could get a Ph.D. or a MD at the end of your signature," he said.
Hsieh was also expected to master music, and one instrument was not enough: "I ended up playing piano, violin, trumpet and French horn."
But even at that early age, he showed a flair for doing things his own way. To avoid practicing every day, Hsieh would lock himself in his bedroom and play recorded tapes of himself on the piano. His mother only learned about his deception when she recently read about it in his book.
"My mom has an interesting reaction: she was like, 'Oh, you know that part about you recording the piano? Like I know that didn't really happen. You just wrote it to make a better story!'"
After graduating from Harvard, naturally, Hsieh joined the dot.com craze.
In 1998, he sold an online venture Link/Exchange, to Microsoft, and walked away with over $30 million. He was just 24!
And then Hsieh decided to invest in a tiny internet start-up.
"I really missed being part of building something. So within a year, I ended up joining fulltime at Zappos and I've been with Zappos ever since," he said.
But selling shoes on the Internet presented a particular challenge: People were used to trying on shoes before buying them. Purchasing online meant customers had to take a risk.
"The challenge is, how do you get customers to try out Zappos for the first time?" said Hsieh (left).
So Zappos began offering something very few other companies do: free shipping and free returns for up to a year. It worked.
And while many companies cut costs by outsourcing their call center overseas, Zappos' center is in Las Vegas where the operators are all members of something called the customer loyalty team.
"We view our call center as branding opportunity," Hsieh said. "Every phone call is a branding opportunity."
Every operator is given discretion to do what it takes to make a customer happy, so there are no planned scripts . . . no time limit to phone calls . . . as we discovered when we called last month:
I went on . . . and on . . . and on . . . for more than twenty minutes, and never did buy a pair of shoes.
27-year-old Christy Martin was on the other end of Moriarty's call (she remembered it!) and worried she had disappointed her.
"Sometimes it's hard to direct people if they don't know what they want," martin said.
"So you'll let someone prattle on as long as they want?" Moriarty asked.
"Yes, pretty much."
Another operator patiently worked with a customer trying to find a pair of boots she saw on a Lifetime Television movie.
But Zappos isn't just about making customers happy. Hsieh was determined to have happy employees as well.
"We want all our employees to really think of their work here not as a job or not as a career or something to build their career, but, really as a calling - as something, a place where they want to be for life."
Along with full medical insurance, there are free meals. Feel like singing? Want a pinball break?
We found happy employees everywhere, even at the Kentucky warehouse where many have what would seem to be physically exhausting and mind-numbing jobs, like shoe picker Mandy Rager who came to Zappos three years ago.
"Friend of mine told me about it, and she suggested that I should check it out," Rager said. "And I was like you, I was skeptical. I'm like, 'Yeah, right. No place is that great, you know? Like, why do they call it work?' But then I got here and I realized, you know, you work hard, but you know, the reward you get is greater than that."
The company is so determined to get dedicated workers that it will test their loyalty by offering them money to quit!
Christy Martin, who started work right before Christmas, turned down $3,000!
"It seems like a lot of money," she reasoned, "but that's going to be gone really quick. And where else are you going to find a job that's as good as this? And especially in this economy, you know? A job that's going to take care of you?"
And that sense of security (as well as company benefits) seems to matter more than the amount of salary. which is on par with Zappos' competitors.
"I think a lot of it boils down to empowerment - employees at Zappos feel empowered," said Stephanie Mehta, executive editor of Fortune Magazine, which for two years running has put Zappos.com on its list of best companies to work for. (This year they're at #15.)
"They feel respected," Mehta said of Zappos' employees. "They feel as though they have the ability to make decisions on their own."
But to an outsider, all these really happy people in one place, all willing to shave their heads for the company, it can be a little off-putting.
"There is a risk with having so many optimistic, like-minded people all working on the same project," Mehta said.
And Mehta wonders if happy employees are always a good thing for a company as it continues to grow.
"I'm not saying that they should start bringing cynics into their organization or actively trying to find sour people for the Zappos team," she said. "But one does wonder if they are getting the full range of perspectives, including customer perspectives, if everybody is so . . . cheerful."
But Tony Hsieh is not only unconcerned by the criticism . . .
"When you have the little Zs on people's cheeks, you could understand why people would say, 'Ooh, it feels a little cult-like.'" Moriarty said.
"You mean, that's not normal?" Hsieh laughed.
. . . He's hoping it's only matter of time before other companies follow his example.
"Ultimately, we believe that it's making the world a better place," Hsieh said.
For more info:
- Zappos.com
- Zappos' Blogs
- "Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose" by Tony Hsieh (Business Plus)
- Fortune: 100 Best Companies to Work For


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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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Add Emotional Impact to Your Marketing Video with Music
The main purpose of your music selection is to enhance the emotional impact of your marketing video. Even the specific way in which you use music in your edit affects the video's emotional impact. Try these simple tricks to give your music more emotional impact:
Work with the volume level. Music in a video shouldn't always play at the same volume level. It should be softer and drop into the background whenever it supports dialogue or a voiceover narration, and it should be fairly loud when it stands on its own and drives home an emotional point.
Most editing programs let you change the volume of a particular track over time. Dramatically increasing the volume of the music track in a key video scene adds quite a powerful effect — Hollywood movies and TV shows do it all the time.
Determine the proper timing. A music track doesn't have to start at its beginning when you insert it in your video. Match the music to the video's visual content. Most musical selections have hooks — particularly remarkable and recognizable parts. For example, the hook of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the famous "Ta-ta-ta-daaa." Try to match musical hooks with important moments in the video.


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This workshop is full. Please call the gallery to sign up on the waiting list. We often fill last-minute cancellations from the waiting list. 425.697.2787 425.697.2787
LOCATION: Cole Art Studio, located on the lower level of Cole Gallery. 107 5th Ave S, Edmonds WA 98020
If you want just the right mix of theory, technique and experimentation for learning, this class is for you! This 2-day workshop is packed full with good design principles to make ANY painting successful (the theory part), along with tricks and tips on how to paint inspiring skies and landscapes in pastel (technique).
Amanda notes that "skies set the mood for any painting, and water makes up 70% of the earth's surface, so it's time to learn to paint them!" She will teach you her techniques to paint both essential elements for your landscape paintings.
This generous instructor will share all her knowledge of how to paint with pastels, including how to use different techniques on different surfaces to achieve different results. Amanda will demonstrate and teach 3 different techniques that she has developed with pastel, allowing you to try different papers and surfaces for different results.
Amanda will also have you do some loosening up exercises to open up your creative pathways to push you to make more spontaneous, painterly mark making. This workshop has been very popular with our pastel students. Sign up quickly to secure your spot!
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Sound Bites from "Speak Up"
Last night I attended IABC/BC's volunteer appreciation event, "Speak Up: Important Conversations", where eight speakers recalled the conversations that defined their careers. I love these types of events because when they're done well, like this one was, it can feel like a mini-mentoring session. So many great thoughts were shared that I have taken back to my personal and professional life. Below are three that I would like to share with you.
"Many managers don't have the skills to have crucial conversations – talking points aren't enough." – Tracey Wimperly
Tracey's talk focused on "human moments and necessary conversations" (or, how one-to-one conversations are by far the most effective communication tool). It resonated with me because I've encountered the same thing in my career. No matter how many memos you send, fancy websites you create, or "toolkits" you provide, there is no good substitute for an honest conversation between an employee and their direct manager. Organizations need to focus on developing interpersonal communication skills as a core management competency. Check out more of Tracey's thoughts on work and life on her blog.
"Help me understand." – Shannon Kidd
I love Shannon's "three magic words". If you're having a tough conversation, it's so easy to put up defences (on both sides). Keep this phrase in your back pocket to help move the conversation forward in both your professional and personal life. For more from Shannon, follow her on Twitter.
"Have a portfolio of passions" – Colin McRae
Colin spoke about "leading a life that matters", and how having a fulfilling life outside of work can make you a more engaging person and a better leader. The "portfolio of passions" concept speaks to the fact that you can be good at many things, and that you do not have to be the best at any one thing. I thought that this was a great piece of advice, especially for early career professionals who can feel pressured to narrowly define themselves early on and make their careers their entire lives. It made me think about what my portfolio of passions includes: hiking, literature, and travelling. (Speaking of which, I'm headed to Japan in July! Let me know if you have any travel tips.)
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How About A Secret Garden Wedding?
So wedding season is upon us, and we are seeing a wonderful array of colours, and happy faces celebrating their nuptials in lots of different locations on our social media sites. But have you thought about renting your own cottage or group of cottages and holding your own wedding?
Where it would be a blank canvas, original ideas that unlike hotels where it's regimented you can (get married beforehand) and have a blessing in private, with your nearest and dearest around you. No other guests onsite walking around trying to get a glimpse of the bride and groom.
A stunning country house, part of which dates from the 17th century, set in just under 2 acres of grounds, situated in the small village of Bronygarth above the beautiful Glyn Ceiriog Valley. Brookside Manor House (Ref.10378)
Hoath House is a medieval manor house set in magnificent grounds on the High Weald overlooking the border between Kent and Sussex in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Hoath House (Ref 10816)
So why not look at our bigger properties, or group properties. It's true, some of them even offer catering for you and will help make it that little bit more personal, I did and it was just perfect.


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According to Columbia University: Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Teaching Center
Transformational teaching: emphasizes inquiry, critical thinking, and the development of higher-order thinking and communication skills.
How many of you remember the teachers/counselors that have changed your life? I have there have been many of them. Even though I never took a class from her, I would like to focus on a professor from Lynn University. Her name is Carrie Simpson. Professor Simpson asked me to write a play not so long ago. I was scared, I never wrote a play in my life. Long story short I went on Google to look for the parts of a play, not realizing Carrie already saw that I had the ability in me. Professor Simpson question sparked something in me.
Some of the poems and short stories I've written were like plays several in fact. Professor Simpson, like other amazing educators, see potential in their students and plant that seed of success in them that grows, that gives you the guts to push the envelope. Despite being in a zone that I wasn't comfortable in, Professor Simpson's confidence in me resulted in me writing Savor the Moments: Inspired by True Stories11 short stories of hope written in a play format. For that I genuinely want to say thank you, Professor Simpson.
Robert Watson is another amazing Lynn University professor wrote the Foreword for the book as well. Dr. Watson's constant support in my writing continues to drive me.
Here is a sample of what he wrote:
"In Desouvre's Savor the Moments "Goodman's gift, which is also the author's, is his ability to be uplifting… his hopefulness is undeniably contagious; his empathy is admirable; his interest in the ordinary is extraordinary."
Carrie Simpson's ordinary interest in my writing resulted into something extraordinary.
Share your story on how an educator changed your life.
As a leader in your organization understand transformational teaching can apply to work environment as well.
Below are Six Steps to Success I've taken away from that experience and apply to my role as a supervisor. (Feel free to add some to list because I know there are a lot more.)
1. Pay attention to your team members, guide them in discovering their strengths.
2. Encourage your team to build on their strengths.
3. Direct your team to recognize the areas they are not strong as simply areas they can develop.
4. Empower your team members by verbally expressing to them face to face (if possible) that they are more than capable to do a phenomenal job in whatever task you assign them.
5. Recognize your team for the great work they've done.
6. Work along with your team (roll up your sleeves) in areas you feel they need to grow in a transform those areas into strengths.
Yanatha Desouvre is a # 1 Best selling author. His most recent book Savor the Moments: Inspired by True Stories is available on Amazon discover for yourself the results of how engaged educators can change things. The audiobook is also available on iTunes and Google Play
Happy Birthday to my baby sister Alive D. Sherman. May you have a wonderful birthday
Yanatha Desouvre is a # 1 Best selling author. His most recent book Savor the Moments: Inspired by True Stories is available on Amazon discover for yourself the results of how engaged educators can change things. The audiobook is also available on iTunes and Google Play


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DES PLAINES, IL – OSHA investigators have determined that the death of 47-year-old Vincente Santoyo, the worker who was killed by a steel beam at a Des Plaines construction site on I-90 over Touhy Avenue on April 5, could have been prevented.
OSHA officials have opened an investigation into the dead worker's employer, Omega Demolition Corp., of Elgin, Ill., and the general contractor, Judlau Contracting Inc., of New York.
The workers were on site at about 3:30 a.m. when the 187-foot-long beam fell. The workers were underneath, according to the fire department.
Authorities say the beam, part of the existing interstate bridge, was rigged for removal when the load shifted and the beam fell. The workers were all in small lift vehicles. Three other workers were hurt in the accident but treated and released from area hospitals.
OSHA investigators will be looking specifically into whether there were "enough support straps to support such a large beam."
An OSHA spokesman said accidents like Tuesday's are preventable, so long as OSHA standards and regulations are followed.


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Impmantation bleeding?? (Pics attatched!)
Soo anyone has implantation bleeding that looked like this or know or come across other posts that have had IB like this??
Me and other half been ttc for 9 months first bean with no luck. Started charting and using opk's about 4 months ago but not much happeneing so dont use opks anymore just charting. My cycle is usually 29-34 days. Im pretty surr i ovulated on 31st july. Lots of fertile mucous and bad pains on my left side for a couple of hours. This would have been cd15. We also dtd on this day and for the first time used preseed which ive heard loads of positive reviews about and i dont really produce much CM.
Anyway 5dpo i noticed a small amount of pink\brown discharge when wiping like twice a day. Very light. One occasion noticed a drop or two in the toilet. Today 8dpo i have what you see on the two pictures. I do have mild cramping and some shooting pains in tops of my legs but not sure if thats my mind playing tricks. AF not due for another 9 days.
Dont want to get my hopes up but this is totally new so if anyone can give advice i would be eternally gratefull!! Baby dustt!!!! Xxsorry if pics tmi!!!


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