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Articles, advice and instructions on mind power, the imagination, and the power of thoughts.
"Our life is the creation of our mind."
– Buddha –
"A man is what he thinks about all day long."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson –
Mind Power and Success
The mind plays an important role in achieving every kind of success and goal, minor, everyday goals or major goals.
With minor or day-to-day goals, one usually knows what he or she wants to do or get, but when it comes to major goals, most people don't know what they really desire. They desire to do something big, but they don't know what. They might have a vague idea, but this is not enough.
To accomplish anything, and to use your mind power, you have to know exactly what it is you want to do. To focus your mind power on a goal, you need to have a clear and well defined goal. How do you go about that?
You have first to think or meditate, to find out what is it that you want to accomplish or gain. This might not be a simple step, and requires deep thinking, investigation and time.
After discovering what you really want to accomplish, you need to come up with a plan for action. You need to know what you have to do first and how to proceed. All of this requires planning, which means using the power of the mind.
After deciding on a goal and coming up with a plan, you need to hold in your mind a clear mental image of your goal. You need to see it accomplished. This step requires that you use your imagination, which is another power of the mind. Not everyone can visualize clear mental images, but regular training of the imagination can do wonders. You may, for example, look at photos of what you want to achieve, and then close your eyes, and try to see it in your imagination. This will enhance your ability to visualize.
At this point you have to display patience, self-discipline and the power to persist in your efforts. This requires a one pointed mind.
Affirmations are another useful mental tool for achieving success. What you affirm sinks into the subconscious mind, becomes part of the subconscious mind, and consequently affects your behavior and actions. If your affirmations are positive, they lead you to success.
Another important power of the mind is thought transference. You need to be able to transmit your thoughts to other people, who would aid you with your plans. Often, you have to persuade others to invest in your plans or to help you in other ways. It is not enough just to talk with them, you need to believe in what you are saying; you need to be enthusiastic and persuasive, otherwise they won't listen and won't care. You need to be able to reject your and their doubts. To be able to do so, you need concentration, control over your thoughts, willpower, self-discipline and patience. All these are mental tools and skills.
Motivation is another mental and emotional power that you require for achieving success. How can you achieve anything if you are not motivated enough? To increase your motivation and enthusiasm, think often of your goal, about its advantages and benefits, and how it will change your life. Doing so, will strengthen your motivation.
Your thoughts, which are part of your mind, possess power. The thoughts that you most often think tend to come true. If you pour your mental energy into the same thoughts or mental images day after day, they will become stronger and stronger, and would consequently affect your attitude, expectations, behavior and actions. These thoughts and mental images can even be subconsciously perceived by other people, who would then offer you help or opportunities. Your thoughts can also create what is usually termed as coincidence. They can attract into your life corresponding events, situations and opportunities.
Not every thought turns into reality. A thought has to be repeated often, and be tinged with desire, in order to come true. Doubts fears and worries tend to destroy what you build with the power of your mind. This means that you need to clear your mind of negative thoughts and doubts. You might say that this is not possible, but it is, through proper training, which you can find at this website, in the articles, ebooks and books.
The Power of Imagination
Imagination is the ability to form a mental image of something that is not perceived through the senses. It is the ability of the mind to build mental scenes, objects or events that do not exist, are not present or have happened in the past. Memory is actually a manifestation of imagination. Everyone possesses some imagination ability. In some it may be highly developed and in others it may manifest in a weaker form. It manifests in various degrees in various people.
Imagination makes it possible to experience a whole world inside the mind. It gives the ability to look at any situation from a different point of view, and enables one to mentally explore the past and the future.
It manifests in various forms, one of which is daydreaming. Though too much idle daydreaming may make one impractical, some daydreaming, when not being engaged in something that requires attention provides some temporary happiness, calmness and relief from stress.
In your imagination you can travel anywhere in the speed of light without any obstacles. It can make you feel free, though temporarily, and only in the mind, from tasks, difficulties and unpleasant circumstances.
Imagination is not limited only to seeing pictures in the mind. It includes all the five senses and the feelings. One can imagine a sound, taste, smell, a physical sensation or a feeling or emotion. For some people it is easier to see mental pictures, others find it easier to imagine a feeling, and some are more comfortable imagining the sensation of one of the five senses. Training of the imagination gives the ability to combine all the senses.
A developed and strong imagination does not make you a daydreamer and impractical. On the contrary, it strengthens your creative abilities, and is a great tool for recreating and remodeling your world and life.
This is a great power that can change your whole life. It is used extensively in magick, creative visualization and affirmations. It is the creator of circumstances and events. When you know how to work with it, you can make your hearts' desires come true.
Imagination has a great role and value in each one's life. It is much more than just idle daydreaming. We all use it, whether consciously or unconsciously, in most of our daily affairs. We use our imagination whenever we plan a party, a trip, our work or a meeting. We use it when we describe an event, explain how to arrive to a certain street, write, tell a story or cook a cake.
Imagination is a creative power that is necessary for inventing an instrument, designing a dress or a building, painting a picture or writing a book. The creative power of imagination has an important role in the achievement of success in any field. What we imagine with faith and feelings comes into being. It is the power beyond creative visualization, positive thinking and affirmations.
Visualizing an object or a situation, and repeating often this mental image, attracts the object or situation into our lives. This opens for us new, vast and fascinating opportunities.
This means that we should think only in a positive manner about our desires, otherwise we may create and attract into our lives events, situations and people that we don't really want. This is actually what most of us do, because we don't use the power of imagination correctly.
If you do not recognize the importance of the power of the imagination, and let it run riot, your life may not be as happy and successful as you would have wanted it to be.
Lack of understanding of the power of the imagination is responsible for the suffering, incompetence, difficulties, failures and unhappiness people experience. For some reason, most people are inclined to think in a negative way. They do not expect success. They expect the worst, and when they fail, they believe that fate is against them. This attitude can be changed, and then life will improve accordingly.
Understanding how to use your imagination correctly, and putting this knowledge into practice, for your own and others' benefit, will put you on the golden path to success, satisfaction and happiness.
Imagination: The Power of Your Inner Vision
Imagination, which can also be called inner vision, is a gift that has many positive applications, but more than often it is not well-developed or correctly used. Few people possess the ability to control what enters their minds. They let their minds and imagination do as they please, and let any stray thought or mental image appear on the screen of their inner vision. This lack of control leads to lack of control over their lives.
Let your imagination run riot, and your life will be a mess. Control it and visualize only what you intentionally decide to visualize, and you change your life in accordance with your will.
What is the imagination, the inner vision? It is the ability to see in one's mind mental images of something that exists, and also the ability to imagine objects, situations or circumstances that do not exist now. Imagination is not only visualizing mental images. It is possible to visualize using all the five senses. You can visualize a sound, taste, smell or a sensation.
If you watch your mind, you will find out that you are constantly using your imagination in various ways. You use it while thinking about the past or future, planning, painting, writing, and describing something. You use it when you describe how to get to a certain street, when you read and when you daydream.
Do you write, paint or engage in any creative activity? Do you cook, decorate or love to do new things? If you do, then you are using your imagination.
When you worry or feel fear you use it too. At such times you automatically visualize unhappy or unfortunate situations. If you keep visualizing these negative mental images you may eventually attract them into your life.
If you see in your inner vision how you want your life to be, and continue watching this mental scene every day with faith, concentration and love, one day your life will look exactly as you imagine.
There are some people who say they have no imagination. There is no such thing. It may be weak, but they certainly possess it. It might also happen that their visual imagination is not strong, but they can visualize using their other five senses, as mentioned earlier.
The ability to visualize clearly can be developed, and this can be fun. Exercises for developing this ability will at the same time also improve your ability to concentrate, and as a bonus, you might find that you gain a power which you can use to shape and improve your life.
Developing the imagination, the power of your inner vision:
# Find some fifteen minutes every day for the exercises.
# Visualize something simple that you can believe you can get, such as going to a movie with your girl/boy friend or with your husband/wife, eating at a certain restaurant or doing something else you would like to do.
# Visualize your desire clearly, and include in the visualization all the five senses. If it is watching a movie together with another person, imagine the two of you entering the cinema and sitting down. Listen to the people around you, use your sense of smell and feel the coldness or warmth in the cinema hall. Visualize eating popcorn or drinking some soft drink, and enjoy the taste and smell.
# You might find out it is easier to imagine with some of the senses, and a little difficult to imagine with the others. Go on with the exercises and you will strengthen your ability to imagine with all the senses.
# Do the same exercise everyday, and you will find that it gradually becomes easier.
# Sometimes you may find that your mind starts to verbalize about what you are imagining. Be careful not to replace the imagination with words. The aim is to use the imagination, not words.
If you follow these suggestions you will develop your imagination, the power of the inner vision, which will be useful to you in many situations. You might also be surprised to discover that what you see in your mind, in your inner vision, comes true in real life.
Who Controls Your Mind?
Few people are aware of the thoughts that pass through their minds. Most thinking is done in an automatic manner. If the thoughts are positive, then it is all right, but if they are negative, they might cause trouble.
The mind is like small child, who accepts and takes for granted whatever it sees or hears, without judgment and without considering the consequences. If you let your mind behave as it likes and give it complete freedom, you lose your freedom.
We are constantly flooded with thoughts, ideas and information coming through the five senses, other people, the newspapers and TV. These thoughts, ideas and information penetrate the mind whether we are aware of this process or not.
This outside flow influences our behavior and reactions. It influences the way we think, our preferences, likes and dislikes. This means that we let outside powers shape our lives. So where is freedom?
Most people think and believe that their thoughts originate from them, but have they ever stopped and considered whether their thoughts, desires, likes and dislikes are really theirs? Maybe they have come from the outside, and they have unconsciously accepted them as their own?
If there is no filter to process the thoughts that enter the mind, there is no freedom. Then all actions are like the actions of a puppet on a string, though no one will admit it.
You may object and say that the thoughts that pass through your mind are yours, but are they? Have you deliberately and attentively created every thought that entered your mind?
Why let outside influences control your mind and life? Why let other people's thoughts control your life and mind? Do you want to make your mind free or do you prefer to enslave it to other people's opinions and thoughts? If you leave your mind open to every thought that passes by, you put our life in other people's hands, and without realizing it, you accept their thoughts and act in accordance with them.
Each person is more susceptible to certain kind of thoughts than others. Certain thoughts and ideas we ignore, and others spur us to immediate action. Thoughts concerning subjects we love have more power on us than other thoughts, but even thoughts and ideas that we don't care about, if we are frequently exposed to them, eventually sink into the subconscious mind and influence us.
Everyone has desires, ambitions and dreams that he or she may foster from childhood. They may be the thoughts of parents, teachers and friends, and which have lodged into our minds, and are carried around throughout our lives. Are they necessary? Do we need all this excessive baggage?
In order to reduce the power of outside influences and thoughts on your life, you need to be aware of the thoughts and desires that enter your mind, and ask yourself whether you really like them, and are willing to accept them into your life. Analyze your motives and actions, and you will be surprised to find out that many of them were triggered by outside influences.
You do not have to accept each and every thought, idea or information. Think and find out whether you entertain certain thoughts because you decided to do so, or because they just popped into your head due to outside influences.
Learn not to accept every thought that you encounter. Find first whether it is for your own good to follow it. It may not be so easy at the start, because the mind will revolt against this control. If you want to be the master of your mind and life, you should not let other people's thoughts, desires and motives rule your life, unless you consciously choose so.
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When you connect and celebrate all of the creative elements of your life, you shape your life differently, regardless of your age.
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It's about the preservation of your unique memories that allows your personality to be known & shown in your everyday attire.
CONNECTING PERSONAL PURPOSE to EMOTIONAL WELLBEING FROM THE INSIDE OUT!
As an artist and designer,
I create visual and emotional dialogues that connect what's inside you to your home, business, life & community.
By sharing my own journey,
my goal is to initiate conversations, create new friendships, and forge new opportunities to collaborate.
WHEN WE CONNECT and CELEBRATE ALL THE ELEMENTS of OUR LIFES, WE THRIVE.
Let's thrive together.
It's not about the accumulation of objects but the preservation of our memories, experiences and items, that we allow into our homes that sets the stage for how we live.
It's what's inside a life experience – that builds character.
Making sense of life's paradoxes. Short stories and poems about my surroundings, my family and aging.
It's what's inside a community – that creates change.
Focusing on how we can affect change in small and large ways in our communities and the world.
It's what's inside a business – that allows it to endure.
In this ever-shifting business environment, you must find new and flexible connection points with your audience.

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Once the summer has passed and the leaves begin to turn brown, dressing gets difficult. It seems depressing at the time having to put away the cute camisoles and sandals, on the hunt for your thick wooly's and coats. Influenced by the excitement of an evening in the city, belted coats, fishnets, and vintage-inspired fur coats are all returning to our wardrobes this season.
Together with Trilogy Stores, we can provide you with the hottest trends to expect this autumn. Following this guide will make sure that you glide effortlessly into the winter months without any fashion faux pas.
A belted coat is an ideal statement piece of clothing which is perfect for the autumn season. Expressing effortless sophistication, the belt adds and extra layer of depth to your coat and helps to define your waistline in a way that is flattering.
Whether you decide to wear a statemented fur jacket, which can sometimes make you resemble a yeti, or opt for a for a leather trench coat – the belt is a refining piece within this ensemble, which can be knotted or fastened depending on the look you're going for.
Alongside the belted coat, wide waisted belts are also making an appearance this autumn; they can be worn over your coat, or, they can be added to an evening dress that will help to define your curves. Browns, blacks, and reds are colours that aren't only popular, but help you to channel the natural colours of the season. However, if you're worrying about keeping warm this autumn – Jumper 1234 are sure to keep you warm with fashionable designs that appeal to the comforting colours of the season.
The female suit is set to be the global trend by September. Not only does it keep you warm during the colder months, it also produces a look that is powerful. Now, with this one I feel you do have to be quite daring and successful to pull it off.
Elegantly designed slacks and pressed double-breasted jackets are all the rage this autumn; together with pronounced shoulders and shoulder-width trousers, the suit helps to reappropriate a masculine look for the female fashion-forward. Don't worry, this isn't a return of the eighties; it's power-dressing in 2017.
Summer is all about eye-catching pinks, and dashing scarlets – but once the leaves begin to change colour, dusky modest blues define autumn. Labelled as the new 'it' colour, the moody notes incorporated by dark blues within an outfit can really make a lasting impression.
Wear a pale blue shirt with slim-fitting grey trousers for an outfit that is subtle yet striking, or why not try a brighter coloured blue mac to create a contrast between your outfit and the autumnal environment around you?
Whether you're going to a festival, or walking through town, a nylon coat is the transitional outerwear that you've been looking for. The fear of pulling out a creased item won't exist with one of these and they are so easy to pack into your bag.
These futuristic, cutting edge jackets can be worn casually with flats, or can be worn on the evening with a pair of high boots or heels; blacks, browns, and greens are all this autumn – so wear subtle colours underneath to pull off a look that's striking without having to make the effort.
What will you be adding to your closet this Autumn?
I love belted coats in autumn!


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ESPN has made a conscious decision to devote all air time during these last few months (the deadest part of the sports calender) to Tim Tebow.
From his shirtless run through the rain to the ridiculous day-long "Happy birthday Tim Tebow" party, there's no tiny aspect of the New York Jets backup quarterback's life ESPN won't cover.
And one ESPN employee is fed up with it.
Michael Wilbon was a guest on the Scott Van Pelt radio show recently, an ESPN property, when co-host Ryen Russillo asked him a question about Tebow and the Jets.
Wilbon answered by referring to the "Bristol axis" as a place where "nothing's bigger" than Tebow and Jets camp is uber important even though it really isn't.
The money quote: "People west of the Hudson don't give a damn. The Jets are not a national team. They're not the Yankees or the Red Sox."
Listen to the great audio as Wilbon also goes after Bristol for its obsession with a few other topics (via Awful Announcing):


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Martin Previsic (Assistant Professor of History, University of Zagreb) gave the REEEC New Directions Lecture entitled "The Yugoslav Gulag: The Goli otok (Barren Island) Labor Camp, 1949-1956" on April 17. His presentation, part of a larger study on prison camps and the Tito-Stalin split, centered on Goli otok, the largest and most notorious prison in Yugoslavia. Goli otok was a public secret and a huge taboo in Tito's Yugoslavia that is only recently being studied in detail. Previsic began his lecture by explaining why it was built. On November 11, 1945, when the Communist Party of Yugoslavia took power, Soviet methods were used in all spheres of economic life . However, on June 28, 1948, Tito was expelled from the Cominform, an organization of socialist countries led by the Soviet Union, because he had proposed a more independent approach to communism and a break from Soviet hegemony.
Previsic argued that the split was not unanimously supported within the Yugoslav Communist Party. While some party members were supporters of Stalin and opposed Tito's action, the question of who were Stalin's supporters was ambiguous. Anyone who did not completely agree with Tito's position could be labeled a Stalinist and imprisoned, likely in Goli otok. It was a purge of anybody who was not considered a genuine Tito supporter.
At its height, Goli otok held 30,000 people and incarcerated 75 percent of alleged Stalin supporters. The main purpose of the prison was reeducation. Stalin supporters would be persuaded by pro-Tito prisoners to abandon their views in a non-violent environment. In reality, violence and humiliation were everywhere. The "bandits," the lowest class of prisoners and those who were not sufficiently pro-Tito, could be tormented for months, and were assigned the hardest and most meaningless work.
To Previsic, Goli otok was a classic example of Yugoslav Stalinism, an "Anti-Stalinist Stalinism" that was designed to eliminate Tito's party opponents in order to consolidate his power. Though Tito proclaimed that Yugoslav communism was a purer, better form of communism, Goli otok represented how Tito's brand of communism also killed its own people for political reasons. By 1981, dozens of novels described Goli otok figuratively, signaling the crumbling of Tito's persona and system. Through his study of Goli otok, Previsic tried to give the prison's survivors a way to voice their experience in interviews and oral history. Even after Goli otok officially closed in 1987, released prisoners continued to be humiliated and subject to surveillance. They had to work for the secret police and pledge to not talk about their experience there.
Goli otok exemplifies the complexity of Yugoslavia's communist heritage. It remains a well-kept secret without much documentation. In Croatia, many still say that only "bad people" were sent there. Previsic argues that memories of Goli otok reemerged periodically in the 1990s and 2000s in different contexts. The prison camps of the Bosnian War resembled Goli otok. "Spanish swimming," a torture method the UDBA used to force prisoners to give up names, reemerged as waterboarding during the U.S. war on terror. Yet, there is no memorial or museum at Goli otok. Though tourists visit from time to time in the summer (and write articles for travel blogs about it), it remains a largely abandoned, crumbling place that still hovers over Croatian society.
Stephanie Chung is the Outreach and Programming Coordinator at REEEC and a Ph.D. Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in Soviet literature and culture, Russian women's writing, and Czech literature. She received her B.A. in Plan II Honors/Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in 2007; and her M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures in 2009 from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently writing a dissertation on Soviet women's memoirs as literary and media texts.


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Our Inspiration
Randy Ewen
He was a son, a brother, a friend, a husband,
a father, a godfather, an uncle, too.
A father-in-law, a grandfather, an entrepreneur
and was there a sport he didn't do?
He was great at all of these roles; we all know this to be true.
And if you ever needed some wheels, Boy, did he have a car for you!!
His mother, his father, his sister and brother – of them he was so proud.
At all the parties going on Ginny, Elly, Julie, Scott – they'd all be around.
His hearty laugh – I can still hear it – we've heard it for many years,
to think we won't hear it again – is enough to bring one to tears…
He loved his golf – his hole-in-one – what a special day.
He ordered the customary "round of drinks" and then was GLAD to pay!
Although he traveled quite a bit – You know his favorite place?
Wherever he was called "Papa" and saw Jack and Lexi's faces…
He was an avid Yankee/Giant fan, but he loved UCONN most.
"Go Huskies!" he would always say; about UCONN he would boast.
His annual trip to the Dolphin game was always number one.
Every year he made the trek with his best friend, Kelly, his son.
The daughter he never had showed up one day as Ali…
The love he had for this sweet girl was from his heart so totally.
He had a girl and Donna was her name. She was the love of his life.
They were a couple for about forty years, a wonderful husband and wife.
Randy had a lot of friends from every walk of life;
He always seemed to be there through their time of strife.
He was someone you could count on, he was always there for you.
His friendship was a blessing – I know this to be true.
He was the best friend a friend could have – he loved us with all his heart.
So when we're lonely and sick at heart, let's hear his laugh while we're apart.
Let's turn to each other as friends of his and help each other out,
and bury our sorrow in doing good deeds as that's what he was about.


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The week of November 5th Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp (Fairway Mortgage) is giving away 4 "mortgage-free" homes to wounded military veterans! Fairway Mortgage is proud of our commitment to serving those who serve. In cooperation with the Boot Campaign and Military Warrior Support Foundation, Fairway's financial contributions have resulted in 13 home giveaways to wounded veterans since 2012, including these 4 giveaways. These "true heroes", our military veterans and families endured tremendous physical and emotional hardships as a result of their service protecting our country and our freedom. We, as a Company, are honored to assist them in realizing the American Dream of homeownership.
Last week, I was honored to attend Todd Duncan's annual Sales Mastery 2013 for Mortgage and Real Estate Professionals. The Todd Duncan Group, in conjunction with our own Louise Thaxton of Fairway Mortgage and U.S. Army Ranger Captain Sean Parnell (Purple Heart and Author of NY Times best-selling novel Outlaw Platoon), helped give away 11 mortgage-free homes to wounded military veterans. The Heroes 2 Homeowners campaign is sponsored by a "who's who" of leading mortgage lenders. Fairway Mortgage, along with 9 other mortgage lenders, donated a total of $300,000 to help the heroes whose efforts help strengthen, secure and protect America.
So why is this so amazing and why do we need to let caring people like you know about it? What's important is that you all are a part of this! Our Realtors, referral sources and clients are all a part of this. Without your work, without the referrals we receive, without the families we help with their home mortgage financing each month – – we would not be able to take a portion of our profits each month and donate to the Boot Campaign. Some of you have the "boots!" All of our collective dedicated efforts go into each and every home and that is really cool! Thank you for your continued support.
Be proud… and Boots on the Ground!
Check out the "link" to the Press this is receiving around the U.S. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fairway-independent-mortgage-present-four-174000797.html
Fairway Mortgage has helped thousands of active military personnel and veterans nationwide to purchase and refinance homes with VA (Veterans Administration) loans. The VA guarantees home loans for individuals who have served or are presently serving in the U.S. Military. With the maximum entitlement of $36,000 available, a VA buyer is able to purchase a primary residence up to $417,000 with zero down and no mortgage insurance!
Want to know more about VA mortgage financing in Houston and throughout Texas? Call Fairway Mortgage in our Houston Texas office at 713.528.0333 or visit us on the web at www.fairway-homeloans.com.


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By Deb R. Brimer
Contributing Writer
If the walls of this timeless 1914 treasure could talk, what name-dropping stories they could tell! Some of the world's most notable structures are among the works of award-winning New York architect, William Adams Delano, including palatial mansions for the Rockefeller family and Otto Kahn. But Chestnut Court was his personal haven that he designed for himself.
Located at 2 Chestnut Court in Muttontown, New York, this 6,100-square-foot stucco Tudor contains two and three levels, eight bedrooms, five-and-a-half baths, and an immaculately-landscaped two-acre estate with a stone patio, wooden deck, and swimming pool. (more…)


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End Ovation Inflation!
Is the standing O obligatory? Are you sick of it? John, Dave and Marcia discuss the issue of "ovation inflation," a condition in which even shows that don't deserve ANY praise bring the audience to its feet. Join the Geeks while they vent (and laugh) about this pet peeve. This episode was suggested by an article by Ben Brantlee in the New York Times.
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New Zealand
How to Sell to Customers at a Premium
How many sales efforts do you know of that don't claim to be about selling "value"? Finding individual sales people or whole companies that don't boast about offering things like "value added services," "value selling" or don't claim to be selling "solutions" is likely to be a fruitless effort. Yet, how many of these sellers actually know what their customers would define as value?
How many sales efforts do you know of that don't claim to be about selling "value"? Finding individual sales people or whole companies that don't boast about offering things like "value added services," "value selling" or don't claim to be selling "solutions" is likely to be a fruitless effort. Yet, how many of these sellers actually know what their customers would define as value?
Moreover, how many sellers can precisely identify what kind of "value" their customers are willing to pay a premium to receive? If value is defined as something that causes a customer to reduce their price concerns, then effective sellers should be able to answer with a list of specifics. The unfortunate reality is, most will answer with guesses and platitudes.
Huthwaite's recent research has revealed a precise and compelling definition of the overused, yet elusive, concept of value. It is the position of Huthwaite that when a seller employs the correct selling tactics, three enviable outcomes can be achieved:
Price will become less important to the customer.
In situations where the seller seeks an ongoing relationship with the buyer, the customer will erect barriers to the seller's competition and will redefine the nature of the buyer/seller relationship.
The seller will identify areas of the expanding depth and breadth of opportunity available to them from each customer.
This is a critical topic for any company that finds itself increasingly trapped in a commoditised marketplace. It is only through real and individualised value creation that an organisation can differentiate itself from the competition and break the barriers of commoditisation.
Where This New Definition of Value Came From
Huthwaite developed insight into this new definition of client value by assembling data on several thousand transactions that had a curious common characteristic. Specifically, Huthwaite looked at transactions across a wide variety of industries (including those that are productand service-driven) which met two criteria:
The customer reported that in an effort to purchase a particular product, service or bundle of capabilities, they were faced with a group of competitors seeking their business whose offerings all looked the same. In other words, despite the best intentions of the sellers and despite the seller's efforts to "sell value," the buyer could find clear a differentiator: price.
Despite this apparent similarity, the customer in these transactions did not select the low-cost offering.
It was concluded that if this seemingly odd behaviour by the customer could be understood, these transactions offered a perfect opportunity to discover what customers meant when they reported receiving "value." Why else would these customers do something so seemingly illogical? Why would they pay more to receive a product or service when an alternative competitor offered the same product or service for less? Most sellers will find the answer compelling, and one that challenges the current definition of sales excellence.
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Can You Sell Assets before Filing for Bankruptcy?
Certain assets are exempt from creditors to satisfy a judgment against you. In Michigan, this includes things such as public assistance, Supplemental Security Income, Social Security, veteran's benefits, child support, worker's compensation, and unemployment insurance, among other assets. You may sell an exempt property before filing for bankruptcy so long as you receive a fair price for it, but there is no real need to do so since the exempt property is just that, exempt under a Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
Selling other, non-exempt assets before filing is discouraged, especially when it is done to hinder, delay, or defraud creditors. Bankruptcy courts can look back in time and investigate a transfer or sale of property made before filing depending on the type of property involved, up to 10 years into the past in some cases.
Transfers can be investigated if you sold the non-exempt property to purchase new exempt property, increase the value of the existing exempt property, prefer a certain creditor over another, or purchase luxury services. In such cases, you may leave yourself open for a lawsuit by one of your creditors.
Bankruptcy courts will try to determine your intent in transferring non-exempt property. In doing so, they will look for factors such as whether:
- You received fair value for the property
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- The transfer was to a family member
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- You tried to hide the transfer
The court does not need to determine what your intent was if you use your state's exemptions to sell the non-exempt property within four years of filing for bankruptcy. If you use the proceeds to increase the value of your home in any way, the court can reduce your exemption by the same amount.
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Meredith and Matt got married at the Day Chapel at the State Botanical Gardens of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. The reception took place at Stan Mullins Art Studio. Guests enjoyed both a band and dj throughout the evening. Since it was April Fools Day, there may have been a few whoopee cushions under chair pillows. …
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Emily & Mike's Wedding ~ July 2016
Mike and Emily got married at the Day Chapel at the State Botanical Gardens of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. The reception took place in the Terrace Room. There may have been a little rain, but it didn't dampen the party! The booth was squeezed into a tiny space, but you'd never notice from these pictures. …
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Casey & Parker's Wedding ~ June 2016
Casey and Parker got married at 9 Oaks Farm in Monroe, Georgia. The ceremony took place outside while the reception was split between a tent and the inside of the main barn. The enclosed photo booth was set up in the main barn and was full all evening. I enjoyed working with Hallie Jane's, Cecilia …
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Kellett & Jacob's Wedding ~ April 2016
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Lindsay & Mitch ~ April 2016
Linsday and Mitch had their ceremony and reception at Graduate Athens. The evening was filled with food, fun, and photos. We worked with some of our favorite wedding vendors, including Georgia Grace Weddings, gardenia floral design., Classic City Confections, (Once Like a Spark) Photography, JennySue Makeup, and Jamie Lovett Hairstylist. Here are some of the …
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Blaire & Brendan's Wedding – May 2015
Blaire and Brendan got married at The Farm at High Shoals in Watkinsville, Georgia. The ceremony took place in the vineyard and the reception took place by the lake. The couple chose the enclosed booth with the gold backdrop. We enjoyed working with Gardenia Floral Design, Oconee Events, Annie's Video Memories, and Trumps Catering. Here …
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Katy & Zack's Wedding ~ May 2015
Katy and Zack got married at Graduate Athens in Athens, Georgia. The reception took place in the ballroom. The couple chose the enclosed booth and silver sequin backdrop for their festivities. The booth was set up in Galleria I, a perfect location for brides that have both rooms for their reception. We enjoyed working with …
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Shea & Justin's Wedding ~ May 2015
Shea and Justin got married at Graduate Athens in Athens, Georgia. The reception took place in the Foundry (formerly The Melting Point). The couple chose the enclosed booth for their festivities. The bride and groom created most of their props, and their friends used all of them! We enjoyed working with Natalie Bradley Events, Gardenia …
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Tourism Minister Arlene Foster has welcomed an expansion at City Hotel, Londonderry, which has created eight jobs.
The City Hotel's renovation project equated to an investment from its owners totalling £550k. Invest NI support for the project totalled £70,000.
Arlene Foster is pictured with Linda Neill, Sales and Marketing Manager, in the Phil Coulter suite, one of 12 additional suites and rooms which form 'The Collection' on the hotel's 7th floor.


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The Refuge is located within the Pacific Flyway, an important migration route for birds. The Refuge habitats and the Salton Sea are vital to these migrating birds as a resting place and wintering area. The Refuge was established as a sanctuary and breeding ground for birds and other wildlife when 32,766 acres were set aside in 1930.
The Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) is located in California's Imperial Valley, 40 miles north of the Mexican border at the southern end of the Salton Sea. Because of its southern latitude, elevation of 227 feet below sea level, and location in the Sonoran Desert, the Refuge sees some of the hottest temperatures in the nation. Daily temperatures from May to October exceed 100°F with temperatures of 116°-120°F recorded yearly.
The Refuge has two separate managed units, 18 miles apart. Each unit contains wetland habitats, farm fields, and tree rows. The land of the Salton Sea Refuge is flat, except for Rock Hill, a small, inactive volcano, located near Refuge Headquarters. The Refuge is bordered by the Salton Sea on the north and farmlands on the east, south, and west.
The courses of the New and Alamo Rivers run through the Refuge, providing fresher water to the Salton Sea. However, because the Sea has no outlet, the salt content of the water has increased steadily over time. Due to agricultural runoff and rise in the level of the Salton Sea, most of the original Refuge area has been covered completely by the salty lake. At present, only about 2,000 acres are farmed and managed for wetlands. Rye grass is grown on the Refuge as food for wintering geese in the area. However, as farming practices have changed, less water is being used on neighboring crops and therefore runoff into the Salton Sea has decreased over time, lowering the shoreline and further increasing salt content. In 1998, the Refuge was renamed after Congressman Sonny Bono, who helped inform the U.S. Congress of the environmental issues facing the Salton Sea as well as acquiring funding for this Refuge to help it respond to avian disease outbreaks and other habitat challenges at the Salton Sea.


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KNIPPERDOLINGS, a denomination in the sixteenth century, derived from Bertrand Knipperdoling, who taught a literal millenium; denied justification by faith, original sin, and infant baptism; maintained that every Christian has authority to preach and administer the sacraments; that all things ought to be in common, &c.[1]
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Police are looking for a man who residents say is scamming several residents of a Philadelphia neighborhood.
Investigators say the man, who calls himself "Brian," has been knocking on various doors, begging for money, and in some cases, getting away with it.
"A guy next door gave him $70," said Crystal Class of Northeast Philadelphia. "I gave him $50 and a few other people in the neighborhood did the same."
Breaking news and the stories that matter to your neighborhood.
Residents say "Brian," has told homeowners various stories about how he's down on his luck, all ending with him asking for money. They also say he drives a red car which he parks outside their homes before begging for cash.
"These stories vary from saying he needs medication for his child or he has to catch a train," said Milt Martelack of the Mayfair Town Watch. "There's always some story that he's down on his luck."
In late October, investigators say "Brian" was caught on surveillance video walking around the Lambie Funeral Home.
"When he first came to the door, I had no concerns until I watched the video and was surprised to see him looking around the building," said David Lambie. "Looking for whatever he was looking for."
On the Mayfair Town Watch Facebook page, members posted several stories about "Brian," with some claiming that he went to their door, asking for money for his daughter's asthma medication.
Residents say he struck dozens of times since late summer and most recently last Sunday. Now they say they want him caught.
"This individual's behavior could become unpredictable and it could escalate," said Martelack.
Police are warning residents to avoid opening the door to a stranger, not fall for sob stories and to report anything suspicious.


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A Mini ROWBERRY Family Gathering
This event is to be held on the afternoon of Friday 17th June 2016
at The Black Country Living Museum
and Saturday 18th June 2016
at The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints, Penns Lane, Sutton Coldfield
Sadly due to the sale of The Hundred House Hotel at Great Witley, the venue for all of our previous ROWBERRY Family Gatherings, it is no longer possible to hold them in the same format. However people have still been asking me when the next one will be. A visit of some American Rs to meet some newly discovered English R cousins this June, seemed a suitable event to build some sort of Mini Family Gathering around and so this is what we have done, with help from various people.
We would like to invite you to join us for both or one of the two days if you have any interest in the name ROWBERRY or one of its many variants or aliases found today or in the past. Those still extant, besides ROWBERRY include GOMERY, GUMERY, GUMMERY, REWBURY, ROBERY, ROEBURY, ROVERY, ROWBERY, ROWBORY, ROWBREE, ROWBREY, ROWBURREY, ROWBURY,RUBBERY, RUBBRA, RUBERRY, RUBERY, RUBREY, RUBRA, and RUBURY plus many other variants found in the past. Or indeed if you would just like to come along and find out what a One-Name Study is, or get some help with your own Family History on the Saturday morning (see below for further details).
Naturally the theme of the weekend is "Reunions" and new information from the 1939 National Register will be available. So come along and learn more about your family group both past and present.
Some of us will be staying overnight on Friday at The Premier Inn, Birmingham Oldbury, where we will be having a meal at the Brewers Fayre on the same site. You will be most welcome to join us there, although you will be responsble for making your own reservations and settling your own bills.
Friday 17th June afternoon:
2pm Visit to The Black Country Living Museum Tipton Road, Dudley, DY1 4SQ. We have visited the Museum before during previous Family Gatherings, in 2000 (when it was the scene of another reunion of cousins - see photo, which includes two John RUBERYs!) and again in 2005. However it is well worth another visit as there are many new exhibits including a whole new 1930's street (which includes a larger fish and chip shop!) with other rebuilt buildings. On my last visit I donated some of the items from my parents' house (built in 1935) so this time I plan to play "Hunt the gas poker"!
Hopefully, if there is enough interest, we will be able to obtain a group discount for our entry tickets, so please be sure to let me know if you are planning on coming so that I can arrange this. Prices are given on the Booking Form together with directions. We shall be going in at 2pm, so please assemble outside Reception at 1.45pm to join us for your visit. Late-comers will only be able to get in to join us if they buy their own full price tickets!
We plan to be there from 1pm onwards, in order to have some lunch after our various journeys to get there, so you can come early and join us if you wish, but besides the fish and chip shop there are other places to eat and drink (including a licensed premises!) within the musuem, so you will not go hungry or thirsty during your visit.
For those with their own transport there is plenty of car parking available, but note that there is a Ł3 parking charge per car. For others, requiring public transport, frequent buses pass the Museum and it may be possible, by prior arrangement, to pick you up from the nearest railway station at Tipton (which is about a mile away).
Friday 17th June evening:
7pm Evening meal at The Lakeside Brewers Fayre, Wolverhampton Road, Oldbury, B69 2BH. Telephone: 0121 5523031. Some of us will be staying overnight at the neighbouring Premier Inn and will have our evening meal here. If you let us know that you would like to join us for the meal, then we will add you to the table booking. But you will be responsible for paying for your own meals.
Friday 17th June night:
Accommodation at The Premier Inn Birmingham Oldbury, Wolverhampton Road, Oldbury, B69 2BH. Telephone: 0871 527 8090. You will be welcome to join us here for accommodation, but you must make your own bookings and payments. However please let us know if you plan to join us.
Saturday 18th June:
Saturday sees us at The Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints, Penns Lane, Sutton Coldfield, B76 1JU. This venue has been made freely available to us by the Wylde Green Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, who worship here. We are very grateful for their kindness and help and would encourage you to make a donation towards their Youth who are fund raising so that 15 teenagers aged 14-17 can attend FSY (For the Strength of Youth). This is a world-wide LDS youth programme, that the young people of the Midlands area will be attending for a week in the summer holidays of 2016 at Nottingham University. Any surplus from the Buffet Lunch will also be donated to this.
Bookings now being taken!
For further details and costs you can download a Booking Form (PDF) here.
Or please contact:
Polly Rubery
Looking forward to seeing you there!
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Running your own wedding photography business can be difficult. One of the hardest parts is advertising your services to obtain clients. Because most wedding photography businesses are self-owned, your marketing budget and methods are in your hands. Spending a lot of money on a marketing method that won't produce results is a waste of time and will decrease your profits. There are hundreds of ways to advertise for wedding photography. Use these steps for tips on how to advertise your service effectively.
1Purchase a small newspaper advertisement in your local paper.
- Start out by placing a print ad in your town's Sunday paper. Newspaper advertisement returns have been on the decline for some time, but ad space can be relatively inexpensive depending on the paper.
- Increase your ad space if you get a number of calls after your first attempt. This larger ad should provide an exemplary photograph and a range of contact information.
2Hand out leaflets and post flyers.
- Design eye-catching loose-leaf advertisements for placing within newspapers and posting throughout your city. Include stunning photos from your portfolio.
- Post flyers in grocery stores, floral shops and cafes to promote your business.
3Use the Internet.
- Create a Facebook page dedicated to your photography business. Upload galleries of your wedding photos and tag the customers within them. This will post the photos onto the customers' Facebook profile, which will allow their friends and family to see your work.
- Establish a photography website. In addition to a Facebook page, you might consider designing a whole website for hosting your images and advertising your services. The link for your website could be placed on business cards, flyers and in your email signature for easy access.
- Advertise your services on your city's Craiglist forum. Explain your rates, upload example pictures and link to your wedding photography website. Sites such as Craigslist are free to use and can be highly effective.
4Ask your friends and clients to refer their friends.
- Do not underestimate the power of referrals. As soon as you obtain one client and provide them excellent service, the odds they will sing your praises to their friends is very high.
- Offer a 5 to 10 percent referral bonus to each client that refers another client. While this might cut down profits at first, the effect is a rippling one, and you might soon have many clients. You can always stop the referral offer once you have created a reputation in your community.
5Become friendly with local wedding suppliers.
- Network with florists, bridal shops, cake designers, hairdressers, hotels and videographers to share clients and advertising tips.
- Work with these various vendors to promote each other's business. For example, if a cake shop allows you to post a flyer in their window, perhaps you can suggest that shop to one of your clients in need of a wedding cake.
- Add links to fellow wedding vendors on your website and have them do the same.
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RPF member Jeff Jenkins built this replica of the doomsday device as seen in the Futurama episode Time Keeps On Slippin', which implodes all the chronitons.
Scroll down for more details and photos. You can see some of the WIP shots in his thread here.
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New Water Main Installation on Pinehill and Stevens Street
Effort continues to complete the new water main installation while school is out. Work began on Monday July 18thbeginning at Pinehill Street and continuing up to Stevens Street. Work will continue along Stevens Street to the area of O'Connell Way. Work Hours will be Monday through Friday 7 AM to 5 PM;Weather permitting this work is expected take about 6 weeks.
Work is currently tracking ahead of the previous notice schedule.
The installationof the bypass water lines along the construction route was completed on 7/22/16. These lines will feed the houses along the route so they will not be without water during construction. In places the lines will have to cross driveways sidewalks etc. near the street, temporary ramps over the lines were installed. Once these lines have passed water quality tests, the contractor will begin to connect the homes to the bypass system. This will remain in place until the project is complete. The city will assist the contractor as needed to connect residents.
Weather permitting the contractor will begin the new water main on Pinehill St. on July 28th and complete on August 3rd. Water main work will then move to Stevens St. on August 4th and continue until August 16th. While people will be on the bypass main during construction there may be some occasional water outages when people are tied to bypass or the new water main. We will do our best to notify people when outages will occur.
During the actual water main construction there will be some detours. The work on Pinehill St. will be restricted to local access during that week of construction. The local access restriction will also affect residents on Garden and Woodlawn St. At all times local access will be available to all the residents within the work area. Emergency services: Police, Fire, and Ambulances will be notified as work progresses for best access to areas where work is in progress. Every reasonable effort will be made to minimize the inconvenience to residents.


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[cancer] The mental fight
Physiologically speaking, I'm actually feeling pretty good these days (taking everything in context). It won't last because chemo restarts two weeks from tomorrow, but I'll take what I can get.
However, while this is a respite from the physical horrors and stress of chemotherapy and surgery, it's allowing me more time for my anxieties and emotional stresses to manifest. As my therapist has commented, I have an amazing degree of equilibrium and positivity, given all that I've been through in the past few years. Still, the fears of cancer gnaw at me and sometimes the gnawing grows too loud for me to ignore.
At the moment my worrying mind is back on the question of when, if ever, I'll have the social and emotional energy to build another strong central relationship in my life. This isn't me catastrophizing or running to the negative. There's essentially an even chance I'l never be healthy again, I'll just go from sick to sicker until I die of this fucking cancer.
At the same time, I'm doing everything in my power (and in the power of my oncologists) to direct my health toward a better outcome. It does me no good, in either a micro sense or a macro sense, to dwell on what I have already lost or might yet lose in this life.
So the mental fight isn't to banish inner demons or turn away from negative illusions. (I've had those fights at times in my past.) It's to stare the reality of my life in the face and carry on with strength, love and positivity regardless.
Cancer changes one. Profoundly. One of the biggest changes for me has been my sense of a lost future. I will probably spend the rest of my life living in the eternal now, whether that's two more years or forty-two more years.
There are worse fates, and I've learned a lot, but the tuition has been too damned high.
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On 13 February, female councillors from Armenia's women-led opposition party Yerkir Tsirani were attacked, physically and sexually, during a Yerevan City Council session. The women were later blamed for the attack, and for 'inappropriate behaviour' in the council. While the women politicians' actions were met with hostility from some, they have also sparked public resistance against gendered violence, and against the patriarchal political system that perpetuates it. [Read more…]
'Why can't I kiss my girlfriend in public?' The story of an Armenian queer woman
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WAHYONO, Budi and HARYADI, Gunawan Dwi and SETIAWAN, Joga Dharma (2010) PERANCANGAN DAN PEMBUATAN WEARABLE ACTUATOR ROBOT BERBASIS MICROCONTROLLER UNTUK TERAPI STROKE DENGAN INTERFACE VIRTUAL REALITY. Undergraduate thesis, Mechanical Engineering Departement of Diponegoro University.
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Stroke is an acute disorder neurologist dysfunction, caused by circulatory of blood disorders, and it can be happen suddenly, within a few seconds, or at least rapidly, within a few hours with symptoms and signs which consistent with focal areas of brain disrupted. Stroke therapies which is currently better known as ''Hands touching hands and the hands touch the feet''. One method for stroke therapy is using wearable actuators robotic. Wearable actuator robotic is one of the many technologies that developed to assist the process of stroke therapy. Wearable actuator robotic is attached to the human body. Wearable actuators robotic can be help moving the two joints and two-joint arms legs, because Wearable actuator robotic consists of 4 DOF. Wearable robot actuators are designed and created is one of genre Wearable robot actuator with system of semi-autonomous control. Wearable robot actuator will be move in accordance with the motion controller that used by the therapist or actuators Wearable robot will be move with his own in accordance with control programs that have been incorporated into the microcontroller. Strokes patients will move in accordance with the movement of the actuator Wearable robot when doing therapy process. Wearable robot actuators are designed and manufactured is also equipped with virtual reality features.
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Mary Pope Osborne, Sal Murdocca (Paperback)
Genre: Fiction - Historical Fiction; Book Themes: Pilgrims and Indians, Thanksgiving Stories
"Thanksgiving on Thursday" by Mary Pope Osborne is an easy-to-read chapter book that makes learning the history of thanksgiving fun and interesting. In their magic tree house, 8-year old Jack and 7-year-old Annie travel back to 1621, the year when pilgrims and Indians celebrated the first Thanksgiving in the New Plymouth Colony. They meet early settlers such as Governor Bradford and Captain Standish, and Squanto, a Wampanoag Indian. The Pilgrim girl Priscilla Mullins takes them home and shows them how to cook a turkey. Their lack of understanding of some of the vocabulary words used by the early settlers makes for a few lighted-hearted moments. When the Thanksgiving feast is over, Jack and Annie return home in their magic tree house. After witnessing the pilgrims' life, they realize they have much to be thankful for. This Thanksgiving story appeals to children in second grade and third grade.
Ann Mcgovern, Elroy Freem (Paperback)
Genre: Nonfiction - Children's Picture Books; Book Theme: Thanksgiving Stories
"Pilgrim's First Thanksgiving" by Ann Mcgovern recounts the events that lead to the first Thanksgiving celebration at the Plymouth Colony. In simple text, this nonfiction picture book explains the Pilgrims' historic voyage on the Mayflower, the difficult first winter after the Pilgrims arrived at the New World, the Pilgrims' befriending of Indians like Squanto, the harvest, and the first Thanksgiving feast. The book also talks about Pilgrim children's hard work and their contributions. Detailed illustrations show how the Pilgrims live and work. "Pilgrim's First Thanksgiving" appeals to children in early elementary school.
Linda Hayward (Paperback)
The First Thanksgiving by Linda Hayward tells the story of pilgrims in short sentences and simple words for beginning readers. It is a good book for young readers to learn the origin of the Thanksgiving holiday. The easy-to-read nonfiction picture book starts with the reasons why the Pilgrims and other passengers come to America, then goes on to talk about the Mayflower voyage, the difficult first winter, the pilgrims' meeting with Samoset and Squanto, the settlers' peace treaty with the Indian chief Massasoit and the first Thanksgiving feast. The history book ends with President Abraham Lincoln's proclamation of Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday in 1863. Linda Hayward's watercolor illustrations are soft and pleasing. The First Thanksgiving appeals to children in kindergarten, first grade and second grade.
Barbara Cohen, Daniel Mark Duffy (Paperback)
Genre: Fiction - Historical Fiction; Book Themes: Immigrant Story, Multicultural, School life, Thanksgiving Stories
"Molly's Pilgrim" by Barbara Cohen is a touching multicultural historical fiction story. The main character of the chapter book is Molly, a Russian immigrant girl. Molly doesn't feel thankful as the Thanksgiving holiday comes near. Her third grade classmates tease her for her accents and looks. Molly hates going to school. She wants her family to move back to Russia or New York City, where there are more Jewish families. Miss Stickley, Molly's teacher, asks her to make a pilgrim doll out of a clothespin for the Thanksgiving class display. Molly has never heard about Thanksgiving before. When Molly gets home, her mother offers to make the pilgrim doll for her. To Molly's embarrassment, the pilgrim doll doesn't look like a pilgrim; it looks like her mother, a Russian immigrant. Molly's mother explains that she immigrated to the US for freedom of religion, just like pilgrims. "Molly's Pilgrim" appeals to children in second grade and third grade.
Alice Dalgliesh, Helen Sewell (Paperback)
Genres: Fiction - Picture Story Books, Historical Fiction; Book Themes: Pilgrims and Indians, Thanksgiving Stories
The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh and Helen Sewell is a Caldecott Honor award-winning picture story book about the journey on the Mayflower, the settlement on the Plymouth Colony, and the Thanksgiving feast. This historical fiction book is written from the point of view of one pilgrim family. Giles, Constance and Damaris Hopkins board the ship Mayflower with their parents. The Mayflower becomes very crowded when the other ship Speedwell goes back to England. On the voyage, a baby is born to the Hopkins family and is named Oceanus. The pilgrims endure a harsh winter in Plymouth. When spring comes, the settlers plant crops. Two Indians, Samoset and Squanto, come to visit and help. The Indian chief, Massasoit, promises to be friendly. The story ends with the joyous Thanksgiving celebration. Alice Dalgliesh's texts are detailed and enjoyable. The Thanksgiving Story is a good book for children in kindergarten, first grade, second grade and third grade.


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2018 Holiday Bazaar Registration
Palomino Park Resort is a massive apartment and condo property with over 1700 units. It is a gated community with beautiful grounds, friendly neighbors and a fabulously decorated club room where we will host the Holiday Bazaar.
We are creating festive shopping events specifically for residents of Palomino Park Resort. Each event will be small - with between 12-14 vendors per date. Booth space is small so keep this in mind. We will have a meeting in the next couple of weeks to show the venue and space assignment so you can be prepared for an easy set up.
Vendors are approved based on what we foresee as the best and most sellable product lines. With such a large community, we anticipate this to be a successful selling event for our vendors. We do not accept every vendor that applies.
For the vendors, we will provide food, drink, free photos and a free listing in our upcoming promo magazine called FLAUNT Directory. We are promoting this event heavily within our community via the newsletter, online community groups and posters.
Because of the size restrictions, please limit your booth to 2 adults only.
All participating vendors will be given booth priority for 2019 events.
With each purchase, buyers will be given a ticket for a Giveaway Package. Let us know if you wish to contribute an item to the package.


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After the atrociously long time I've been spending away from this blog, I needed to update with some new information about...radio!
New episodes of Culture Wars radio have been archived at http://www.culturewars.libsyn.com/, including last week's discussion with award-winning science fiction author Elizabeth Bear about the serious side of SF. She just came out with a new book as well, Chill , which is well worth a read.
Plus, give the show a listen and let us know what you think about a book by Jersey Shore stars Ronnie and J-Woww! Recently someone asked me if that was some sort of an early April Fools day practical joke. Unfortunately it's not.


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Don't approach women. Just have something to say when something should be said — and only then. You can consider this something carefully, but don't compose. A simple idea will do. With failure — honest failure — the lesson alters vision and vision becomes instinct, a means of navigating your way through any conversation.
Don Draper, o protagonista de Mad Men, ensinando a mexer com mulher.


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Get Out landed in theaters way back in February, but in a rare feat for any film, let alone a horror movie and a filmmaking debut from Key and Peele's Jordan Peele, Get Out has remained a part of the cultural conversation throughout the year, and is now emerging as an Oscar frontrunner as we head into the thick of awards season. With the awards push in mind, Peele has been back on the media circuit and in a great new video from Vanity Fair, the writer-director is confirming, debunking, and occasionally marveling at the biggest fan theories on Reddit.
Is the film a figment of Lil Rey Howery's TSA agent's imagination? Does the Catherine Keener/mind-swap movie connection mean Get Out shares a universe with Being John Malkovich? And what about that popular theory that Allison Williams' Rose eats her fruit loops and milk separate because she doesn't want color mixing with white? Peele answers all that and a whole lot more in this ten-minute theory break down. If you've been engaging in the online analysis of Get Out over the last few months, enjoy the satisfaction of getting some hard answers, and if you haven't, get ready to learn some impressive script details you probably didn't notice.
Be sure to check out the Best Horror Movies of 2017 so far, and for more on how Get Out's odds are shaping up in the awards circuit, check out the articles below:
- National Board of Review Names 'The Post' Best Film of the Year; 'Logan' Cracks Top 10
- 'Call Me By Your Name' Wins Best Feature at Gotham Awards; Franco Takes Best Actor
- 'Call Me By Your Name', 'Get Out' Lead Independent Spirit Awards Nominations
- Oscar Beat: Best Picture Predictions – The Field Starts to Take Shape
- Oscar Beat: Best Director Predictions – Will Greta Gerwig Make the Cut?


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Make the most of your overnight with this handy guide, curated by your fellow pilots. Restaurants, entertainment and other must-see attractions are shown on the map below to help you plan your stay. Save this map to your phone or other mobile device, and get walking or transit directions. Missing a must-see venue? Email email@example.com with suggestions.
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Restaurants & Cafés
Dinosaur Bar-B-Que
Upstate NY's famous BBQ chain. Southern style meats and a large selection of drafts.
Buffalo Proper
Cool, brick-lined space for farm to table American fare and craft cocktails.
Bada Bing
Sports bar with pub grub. A lot of tv's. Great place to watch a game. Patio. Cheap Beer specials.
Frankie Primo's
Relaxed, cozy Italian spot for pizza and pasta.
Bars, Pubs & Breweries
Tap House Pub & Grill
No Frills beer bar with pub grub. Open really late. 4 AM.
D'Arcy McGee's Irish Pub
Laid back Irish pub with typical pub grub and a few Irish favorites.
Mes Lounge
Upscale cocktail bar with live music most nights.
Sidelines Sports Bar & Grill
Real laid back sports bar with plenty of TVs and typical pub grub.
Breakfast & Coffee Shops
If you love Starbucks.
Spot Coffee
Espresso coffee drinks, small breakfast plates, desserts, salads, sandwiches and pizza.
Hipster coffee shop.
Trails & Fitness Centers
Buffalo and Erie County Naval Park
Military Museum where you can tour 3 Naval vessels, tanks, and jets and other historical exhibits.
La Salle Park
Waterfront park with sports fields, paved running paths, open meadows.
Theaters & Sports Venues
Shea's Buffalo Theatre
Baroque style theater for large concerts and performances.


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Touchstones for the Future: Advocacy, Future, Change, Diversity, Dream- Developing Skills, Resilience, Faith and Hope – St Columban's College, Caboolture Steps Into 2018!
These words established the tone of the St Columban's College whole staff retreat conference in January 2018. The Conference was designed to celebrate the 90th Year of the College and 21 years at the Caboolture site, celebrating the past and laying the foundations for the future. The list of guest speakers was impressive, each one chosen to reflect the direction the College wants to take to secure a strategic edge for the students, now and in the future.
St Columban's College is proud to be an Associate College of Edmund Rice Education Australia and as part of a 90th celebration we were extremely proud to have Br Peter Harney cfc address the staff on Human Rights and Advocacy. He was followed later in the evening by Patrick Okimaru, from Nairobi, a close affiliate with the Edmund Rice Charism since 2007. The insights provided from Patrick's growing up and work in Kibera, Nairobi, and his work in the Gone Fishing program and as an Immersion guide, reinforced to the staff the importance of supporting the relationship established between St Columban's College and the Rueben school in Nairobi. The relationship was established because of the Edmund Rice Beyond Borders conference in 2016 where Ann Rebgetz Principal of St Columban's, met Scholastica Opiyo, Principal of the Ruben school and formed a solid friendship. The staff generously raised $1700 towards the Ruben school over the course of the Conference.
The second day of the conference began with Ray Paxton, EREA Director of Identity and Liberating Education, enthusiastically launching the new and improved Charter and Touchstones. The 90th celebration allows all who are a part of the St Columban's College community recognise the wonderful legacy of the Christian Brothers and feel part of a larger network of those who are faithful to the Edmund Rice charism.
To ensure that St Columban's College continues to provide that strategic edge to the students; the other two guest speakers addressed the staff on 2 key issues, resilience and the future of the work place. Nick Wyman, CEO Skilling Australia, an international author, delivered 2 sessions exploring the future directions of the workplace and skills that will be sought by employers. St Columban's College has a very strong vocational component for all students who attend the College regardless of academic or vocational pathways. The College believes that every student needs to have the necessary skills to equip them for any workplace. Students who are studying to undertake a career in a profession such as medicine, can gain significant experience working with patients and a hospital through the partnership with Caboolture Hospital. Nick Wyman's key messages supported this approach and reinforced to the whole College, the importance of the educational mission of the College.
The last session of Day 1 explored the importance of change and resilience. Peppered with humorous anecdotes, interesting insights and authentic exchanges between staff, the session highlighted the importance of strength through adversity. Suffering is a part of the human condition, no one can escape it, but his stories and pearls of wisdom equipped everyone with a compassionate way of navigating the complexities of modern living.
The two days of the St Columban's College whole staff conference provided relevant, challenging professional development. More importantly was the chance for all staff to come together and celebrate what is unique and special about the College and each other.
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The week before a play's opening, most theaters work overtime to fine-tune performances and get the word out to potential audiences. But the week and a half before the premiere of Auxiliary Dog Theatre's production of Wonder of the World found the theater dealing with an additional imperative: keep the doors open.
Founder and Managing Director Eli Browning calls it the Save Aux Dog campaign. "It's very real," he notes. "We had a little bit of a scare this week that nearly shut us down. A lot of unexpected things hit all at the same time."
The three-year-old Nob Hill theater found itself having to replace its heating system at the end of 2009. More recently, the fire marshal required the organization to install vehicle impact protection posts in the alley. And the capper: The insurance on the building doubled "almost without warning," Browning says. "If our policy had lapsed, it would have been game over, man."
For a theater that's struggled financially since the beginning, the costs have proved overwhelming. "It's tough," Browning says of any effort to keep a creative nonprofit open during a recession. But he also points out that, at the very outset, Aux Dog had its challenges. "When we first opened our doors, there were five of us," he explains. By the opening of the theater's second show, only Browning was left. "That was not really the plan," he admits. "So, obviously, there was a lot of difficulty at the very beginning."
"I've been telling everybody the same thing: Come and buy a ticket and see the show and tell everyone you know the same thing. If we sell 1,000 tickets, we'll breathe a lot easier at the end of the month."
Eli Browning
But he and a growing group of actors, directors and other thespian folk did manage to keep the theater open. In the process, Browning has drained his personal savings account and his 401k is "a little smaller than it was, but what it allowed us to do is open the damn show."
The damn show is Wonder of the World (what Browning calls "one of the biggest, funniest shows we've ever put together"), and it's the center of Save Aux Dog. The mission of the campaign is to sell 1,000 tickets to the show in May. Browning says people have already bombarded him with questions, asking him how they can help. "I've been telling everybody the same thing," he says. "Come and buy a ticket and see the show and tell everyone you know the same thing. If we sell 1,000 tickets, we'll breathe a lot easier at the end of the month."
Browning says that Aux Dog's survival isn't just good for the immediate players involved, but for all theater in Albuquerque. "It's a really great and diverse theater community, and we're certainly happy to be a part of it," he says. "I think that the more success theater in general has at the different venues and different companies, the better it is for the community at large."
As Browning sees it, the group was on its way to being successful, making the timing of this crisis particularly onerous. He points out that the theater has been in the process of altering the way in which it is managed and organized. A nonprofit consultant has been working to help put together a board and look for sources of funding. "It feels like we're just on the cusp of everything," Browning says, and he feels that if he and his theater can "get over this last little hump," they'll find themselves in a better position than ever before.
"The fact that we're still here at all is kind of amazing," he laughs. "The thing that I love about this place, the thing that makes it so hard to walk away, is that we kind of expect to do the impossible on a regular basis. Some of the stuff we've accomplished in the past three years ... each milestone seems like a miracle. And if we're able to have a successful Save Aux Dog campaign, it will be another miracle, which is kind of what we're all expecting."


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In our next two topics in this series, we will cover the capacity planning related features in the MAP toolkit 7.0. For those of you who have used the server consolidation features in MAP, a few of these steps will seem familiar. There a couple of new things that you will need to perform and we will spend most of the time covering those.
There are two key problems that the MAP toolkit is trying to solve when planning for VDI and Session Virtualization. The first is how to model the performance characteristics and usage profile of a type of worker (e.g. people in your call center, information workers, task workers, people in finance). The second is how many Remote Desktop Server Virtualization or Session Hosts will you need to support one or more of those 'desktop workloads'. Today, we will cover the first - A way to capture and model the hardware performance impact of a usage scenario.
The steps you will need to create a desktop workload model are:
- Perform an inventory of Windows machines
- Gather performance metrics
- Run the Desktop Workload Library Wizard
A couple of things to note about gathering performance metrics for this scenario:
- Desktop performance profiles differ from those found in servers. Downtime (meaning no performance metrics exist) is an expected behavior. We've implemented some new mechanisms to take this into account, so you data collected in the past will not be useful in this exercise. You will need to collect new data from a set of physical Windows client operating systems.
- We recommend that you collect at least a day or two of activity for each desktop that you want to consider in the model(s) that you are creating. Covering heavy use periods such as the end of the month will help in giving you an indication of a fully burdened workload for those user types.
Once you've gathered an appropriate amount of performance data for the desktops you have targeted. You can now create your first entry in the Desktop Workload Library.
There are four steps to creating an entry in the Desktop Workload Library.
- Name your workload
- Select the computers to be included
- Review your selections
- Create the model
You can start the Desktop Workload Library Wizard from the Desktop Virtualization Summary page within the toolkit console.
The first page of the wizard allows you to create, edit and delete entries from your workload library.
I'm going to create one for the Information Worker profile in my organization and click 'Next'.
On the next page of the wizard, I'm presented with a list of computers along with the name of their operating system, how many successful performance metric samples were collected and the 95th percentile calculations for CPU, Memory, Disk and Network utilization metrics.
I simply select the computers that I want to include in the model and click 'Next'.
I review my selections and then click 'Finish' and MAP will calculate the performance profile for this set of desktops.
MAP does a couple of things when calculating the performance profile.
- It creates a time series for each performance dimension based upon the average and peak observations for each machine included the set used to create the model. The dimensions are:
- CPU utilization
- Memory utilization
- Network utilization
- % User Time
- Pool Nonpaged Bytes
- Pool Paged Bytes
- The CPU models from each machine included in the workload are normalized to the highest rated processor according to SpecInt. This enables MAP to ensure that the utilization of each type is treated accurately.
In the Desktop Workload Library, you will see the average and peak profiles. For display purposes, the average values are provided.
Now that we have a workload, we can determine how many servers we will need to host this workload. We will cover that in part III – coming soon.
Until then, download the MAP toolkit 7.0 and tell us what you think about this feature!


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How Do Doctors Behave When Some (But Not All) of Their Patients are in Managed Care?
Sherry Glied, Joshua Zivin
NBER Working Paper No. 7907
Most physicians today treat a variety of patients within their practices and operate in markets where a variety of insurance arrangements co-exist. In this paper, we propose several theoretical explanations for physician treatment patterns when the patient population is heterogeneous at the practice and market level. Data from the 1993-1996 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) are used to test how practice-level and market-level HMO penetration affect treatment intensity. Practice composition has strong effects on treatment. HMO-dominated practices have shorter, but otherwise more treatment intensive visits than do other practices. Market characteristics are less important determinants of treatment. As HMO practice share rises, the differences between the treatment of non-HMO and HMO patients are attenuated. These results provide strong evidence for a model of physician behavior with fixed costs of effort in the form of visit duration. For tests ordered, medications prescribed, and return visits specified, the empirical evidence supports a model with marginal cost pricing for excess capacity. HMO and non-HMO treatment patterns are most distinct at the level of the practice, not the patient. HMO-dominated practices appear to use a practice style that is quite different from that used in other practices. These findings suggest that practices are likely to become more segregated over time.
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Published: Glied, Sherry and Joshua Graff Zivin. "How Do Doctors Behave When Some (But Not All) Of Their Patients Are In Managed Care?," Journal of Health Economics, 2002, v21(2,Mar), 337-353. citation courtesy of
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He stepped into his first foray as a career soldier and was posted to a specialist training school destined to be sergeant by rank. He can either accept this posting as an acknowledgement or determined his own path, he chose the latter. Graduating in the top 10% of the cohort, he was among the chosen few that crossed over to Officer Cadet School, a corridor not just to be commissioned officer but the personal development he deemed bigger than his shoulder rank. A specialist converted to Officer ORD as a Lieutenant Armour officer never rest on his laurel and was twice promoted to the rank of Major in his NS obligation years. He gesture his appreciation to the Armour formation by being the silver recipient for 2010 NDP sponsorship
A short term stint with the army prove a fertile training ground and a valuable platform for him to venture into commercial sector. He embarked into his next stage of life and was a financial practitioner until he met his true calling. During his years as a planner, he had once again proven himself and was the company top producer for many years running.
Arm with a background in financial
planning, he bring about a new dimension to real estate
selling. His abilities in advising his
clients rather than mere transacting and his unrelenting belief in servicing
standard earn him a place as a nominee of SAEA Real Estate Excellence Awards.
He is Chew Hock Ngee, newly crowned 2013 HSR Overall No.1 Achiever and No.1 Lister with an impressive 257 HSR and Division Hall Of Fame that comprises the highest accolade of Top Lister, Achiever, Recruiter, Transactor and Manager. An unprecedented record clocked within 83 months.
(September 2011 to July 2018 ).
His passion towards real estate
profession earn him an astonishing 7 times promotion in just 2 years. Currently, an Associate Partner
with HSR International Realtor Pte Ltd, he led a team of like-minded associates govern by his
high advisory standard. Constantly be reminded by his vision
and mission, Hock Ngee aim to be the most preferred choice real estate
practitioner and a leader his team can look up to. Balancing his work life, he find
enjoyment in his hobbies that keep him excited and rejuvenated.
On 28 Feb 2014, in another milestone, he was conferred the prestigious 2013/2014 Singapore Excellence Award Top 100 Winner, the 1st in HSR History and the ONLY among the 31,783 real estate salesperson. Never resting on his laurels, he clinched another national award - IEA Realtors' Gold award on 8 Oct 2014 joining the industry best.
An avid watch and toy collector, married to a supportive wife and blessed with three lovely children , he is also extremely involved in the go karting community. Hock Ngee was a sponsored driver in the national sanctioned event - 2011 Corporate Karting Challenge. His team won the overall Championship. In 2013, in another local sanctioned race, he was the runner up for the sprint race.
Hock Ngee belief in life is to excel in whatever endeavor you do, constantly finding challenges in life, innovating, adopt lifelong learning approach and he never settle for second best. If you share what Hock Ngee belief, do feel free to contact him, be it a career discussion, a business opportunities for him to serve you or a similar hobby you might had with him.
Last but not least, his heartiest appreciation to people who touched his life, widen his horizon and granted him a opportunity to perform his task. He paid tribute to his late mother whom till date serve as an inspirational figure and he count every achievement he had a blessing he don't take for granted.
Thank you and have a great life on and off work.
Catch me at my Facebook Page "Hock Ngee" to stay connected.