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Collaboration is Key to Improving Schools and Decreasing Dropout Rates
WASHINGTON - March 01, 2010 -
Today, President Barack Obama announced new steps aimed at improving the nation's schools and graduation rates. The President detailed plans that would permit school districts to choose from four reform models to improve their lowest-performing schools. The methods include firing staff, closing schools, restarting schools with a takeover by a charter or school-management organization and transforming schools.
Last week, the Central Falls School District (Rhode Island) chose to fire the entire teaching faculty in the district's only high school. "The tone used to describe the teachers in Central Falls has been disparaging and unforgiving," said Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association. "It's time for federal officials to get out of the blame game and into the classroom. One thing is certain: Firing the entire faculty of a school that is on the path to improvement is no recipe for turning around a struggling high school. And relying on a magical pool of 'excellent teachers' to spring forth and replace them is naïve at best and desperately misguided."
"Approaches that point the finger at educators do nothing to bring about substantive improvements for students," Van Roekel added. "To the contrary, it provides a momentary perception of correcting a problem. But in reality, we all know that the solution is not blame, it is collaboration…collaboration among school employees, management, parents and communities. No one benefits when school staffs are summarily dismissed—not communities and certainly not students. In the end all that approach gets anyone is a good sound bite."
NEA supports the transformation reform model, which requires comprehensive instructional reforms and other collaborative improvement strategies. This method has shown to be effective in schools like Broad Acres in Montgomery County, Maryland. Broad Acres was the district's lowest performing school. The superintendent, teachers and other stakeholders worked together to transform the school. In just two years second grade reading scores increased by 18%, language by 28%, language mechanics by 29%, math by 30% and math computation by 25%. Other improvements and details on the collaborative process are explained in a case study by the Tom Mooney Institute for Teacher and Union Leadership.
Many of the President's suggestions to increase graduation rates are similar to NEA's 12-Point Action Plan for Reducing the School Dropout Rate. Some of the tactics NEA supports to combat the dropout crisis include: increasing individual attention, creating smaller learning communities, expanding graduation options and increasing workforce readiness programs.
NEA has partnered with America's Promise Alliance to host and support dropout prevention summits across the country. NEA also offers a publication for educators to use as a resource to increase graduation rates.
"NEA and President Obama share the common goal of wanting to improve student learning and reduce the number of students who drop out of school," Van Roekel said. "We must examine the factors that contribute to low performing schools like dated or ineffective curriculum, school safety or socioeconomic challenges. We must provide the kind of resources and programs needed for students to succeed. We look forward to sharing strategies that will benefit America's students."
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The National Education Association is the nation's largest professional organization, representing 3.2 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators and students preparing to become teachers.
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Today, Mogwai announce the release of KIN: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack; released on CD, vinyl and digitally on 31 August via Rock Action (Temporary Residence in North America). The album is composed of tracks recorded by the band for the score of the forthcoming sci-fi/crime drama. KIN is directed by Jonathan and Josh Baker, starring Jack Reynor, Zoë Kravitz, Carrie Coon, James Franco & Dennis Quaid.
Mogwai have already released their sprawling track 'Donuts' and today release 'We're Not Done (End Title)', the final track from their soundtrack. Listen now here
Of the soundtrack, Stuart Braithwaite says: "We were really excited to be asked to record the original score for Jonathan and Josh Baker's debut movie KIN. It was amazing to do a project that was so different to anything we've done before and see how our music fits in a totally different environment to how it's been used before. The music in the film is some of my favourite Mogwai has ever made and we can't wait for people to hear it."
KIN is Mogwai's first feature film soundtrack, having previously composed scores for documentaries including Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, Before the Flood (co-written and performed with Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Gustavo Santaolalla) and Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise. We also provided the soundtrack for the acclaimed Canal+ French TV series Les Revenants.
KIN, a pulse pounding crime thriller with a sci-fi twist, is the story of an unexpected hero destined for greatness. Chased by a vengeful criminal (James Franco) and a gang of otherworldly soldiers, a recently released ex-con (Jack Reynor) and his adopted teenage brother (Myles Truitt) are forced to go on the run with a weapon of mysterious origin as their only protection.
Mogwai's KIN: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be available August 31st via Rock Action and is available to pre-order now at mogwai.co.uk

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Palm and Vodafone have, as expected, just announced the Treo 500v, a 3G smartphone aimed at the YouTube and MySpace generation and which sports Palm's curvy new handset design in iPod-like white and black versions.
Palm's Treo 500v: iPod-inspired?
The handset - codenamed 'Otto' - is based on Windows Mobile 6 Standard and, as per the recent leaks, incorporates a two-megapixel camera - with a 2.5x digital zoom - on the back. But despite being a 3G UMTS handset, there's no front-mounted cam for video calls. Alas, it's not an HSDPA device, so no fast downloads.
The rumours had pointed to 150MB of built in Flash memory, and they were proved correct, though that's the user space - the handset has 256MB of Flash in total. The 500v also has a Micro SD memory card slot. It has Bluetooth too - version 2.0 with EDR for faster data transfers, and with "mono and stereo headset" support.
Palm's Treo 500v: the details
The 500v's screen has a full 320 x 240 resolution - other Windows Mobile Palms have 240 x 240 displays - but is capable of showing only 65,536 colours, putting it behind the smartphone curve.
Palm's Treo 500v: the menu screen
The handset comes with all the usual Windows Mobile apps for viewing Office documents, checking email, surfing the web, watching video and listening to music. However, Palm has built on the standard WM Today screen with a new front end of its own that provides a slide-along top-of-the-screen menu bar for easy access to applications and phone functions.
The new design measures 11 x 6.2 x 1.7cm and weighs 120g with the 1200mAh removable battery on board. Palm claimed the device rates up to four-and-a-half hours' talk time and will run on standby for ten days.
Vodafone said the 500v will be given away for free with certain airtime packages. It didn't say how much the phone will be otherwise.


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'Homeland' Season 3 Spoilers: Where Do Carrie and Brody Pick Up?
While 'Dexter's early final season premiere has given way to all manner of new spoilers and teasers, 'Homeland' season 3 has kept relatively quiet in the last few months, set to premiere its newest run on September 29. Showtime will likely guard spoilers like state secrets, but how would you like to learn how 'Homeland' season 3 picks up after season 2 finale "The Choice?" Get the latest 'Homeland' intel inside!
We'll have to wait a bit longer for 'Homeland' season 3 than new episodes of 'Dexter' this year, but Showtime has nonetheless given us our first taste of the upcoming season via a new press release. Picking up after the explosive climax of 'Homeland' season 2, season 3 will very much pick up with the surrounding firestorm created by the devastating explosion that killed several beloved characters.
Homeland Season 3 opens during the aftermath of the horrific terror attack that decimated the U.S. intelligence apparatus, and prompted a global manhunt for the world's most wanted terrorist – Nick Brody (Damian Lewis). As Carrie (Claire Danes) and Saul (Mandy Patinkin) begin to pick up the pieces of their shattered professional and personal lives, they are swept up in the political and media firestorm surrounding the terror attack and the subsequent search for Brody's whereabouts.
Thus far, we know that in season 3 of 'Homeland' David Marciano (Virgil) and Diego Klattenhoff (Mike) are stepping down as series regulars to take reduced roles, while Morena Baccarin will reprise her series regular role as Jessica Brody, in spite of her husband's wrongly accused absence. Series regulars David Harewood, Jamie Sheridan and Navid Negahban are exiting the series as well, given their characters' fates.
In addition, 'Homeland' producer Howard Gordon earlier confirmed that Damian Lewis (Brody) would return despite his character's predicament, stating at the TCA press tour, "He's alive so of course he'll be back. One of the great challenges of next [season] is how he'll be back. But there's no doubt that he will be back." According to Deadline, credible rumors suggest that Brody may appear in Venezuela at the outset of 'Homeland' season 3.
Well, what say you? Will 'Homeland' season 3 prove every bit as riveting as the first two, now that it's moved on to a new focus? Where would you like to see the September 29 premiere pick up?


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'Boo' or 'Raul?' Ibanez knows the difference
NEW YORK -- Raul Ibanez was a hero for the Yankees in the 2012 postseason, when his two late home runs beat the Orioles in Game 3 of the American League Division Series. So yes, he was cheered when he first came to the plate as a visiting Mariner this week at Yankee Stadium.
But by the time Ibanez belted his third home run in the first two games of the series with his former team, the "Raaauuull" was turning to "booo," though perhaps those were directed more at Yankees pitchers than the 40-year-old outfielder.
Either way, Ibanez wasn't fazed.
"You can't expect them to cheer when you're on the other team," he said. "I'm very appreciative of that. I had a great time when I played here, now my job is to try to beat them."
As for the confusion between his name and "boo?"
"I didn't want to say anything because I don't want it to get louder," Ibanez said with a grin. "I can't tell that much of a difference. But when you hear it, depending on how you're doing, yeah, you know."
Ibanez has hit nine home runs in his last 11 games at Yankee Stadium, which didn't make it hard for manager Eric Wedge to pencil him into the lineup again Thursday. Ibanez was at designated hitter, with Kendrys Morales playing first base instead of Justin Smoak.
"That's just keeping Ibanez playing in this ballpark," Wedge said. "I wanted to play them all, but you can't do that. It's just to keep Raul in there. He's always thrived here, so you roll with it."
Ibanez has talked of the short right-field porch and various things at Yankee Stadium, but says he doesn't spend too much time figuring out why he's hit so well here.
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Woman learns to stop her own epileptic seizures with EFT
Anyone involved with epileptic seizures, whether they be client or physician, should find this account by Gayle Waxon of extraordinary interest. She spends time time developing her story and sets the stage for her first positive EFT experiences with EFT'er Dale Teplitz. She then discovers a way to stop her seizures in their tracks. No drugs or medical interventions involved. Just EFT.
Please note that 5 years ago Paul Swingle, PhD from Canada, who specializes in epilepsy, reported to me exceptional results using EFT for seizures. He cautioned epileptic patients, however, to listen to a tape he created that addressed Theta waves before doing EFT. That caution is given in our Frequently Asked Questions section. However, as of this writing, I have no reports of anyone actually having the problems that Dr. Swingle suggests. Please consult physicians on all medical issues.
By Gayle Waxon
I have had epilepsy for the past 20 years. When the seizures came on at the age of 18, I was devastated and did not know what I was going to do with my life. After learning about EFT and getting a grip on it really well, I started searching within myself to see if I had core issues that were triggering such an issue like seizures.
I think back to what was happening to me at that age and what were my feelings associated with it. At age 18, I felt like I had some major decision making to do, I had the question going through my brain "what do I want to be, do or become when I grow up?" And I did not have a clue! This was a major problem for me. What if I made the wrong decision and I had to start over? I had a lot of fear come up for me. Making decisions were not fun for me, it would become a total stress. And trying to decide what I wanted to do with my life was a MAJOR decision. I kept thinking that I was going to make the wrong decision.
I have been searching down many paths to find answers to these seizures. Well, I have finally come to a conclusion and that is EFT can help people with clearing their seizure activity. This is my EFT story.
I was all excited because I was finally able to see Gary Craig in person at a seminar. It was a 3 day seminar and my mother-in law was also with me. Devi Ishaya, my mother-in-law has known me for a long time and also lived with me for a couple of years so she is very aware of the signs and symptoms of when my seizures are coming on.
That morning when I woke up and we were getting ready to go get a place to sit at the room for the seminar, I had what I call the "seizure feelings" in my stomach. Devi could tell something was wrong because she knew that I was very excited to be at the seminar and I was acting a little different that morning. So without hesitation she asked me "Gayle, are you feeling alright?" I told her that I was having seizure feelings that morning and feeling a little depressed about it, because I did not want this to take over and totally ruin my time at this seminar that I have been really looking forward to for a very long time.
Since Devi was aware of my "seizure feeling" situation, I got the question, from my mother-in-law, "how are you feeling Gayle?" about every 30 minutes. And I really do not mind that because I would rather let people know about the situation than hide it from them. I learned that after the first 5 years of trying to hide having seizures.
By the time we got down to the room for the seminar, on a scale from 1-10, 10 being the seizure, and 0 being NO seizure feelings at all, I was at the level of a 3 or 4 with my seizure feelings in my stomach. The seizure feelings were climbing by the minute. I started to feel my level of anxiety grow and I was starting to get very nervous. The seizure feeling in my stomach was moving its way up to the brain ready to explode.
It was then time for the first break at the seminar and I was relieved that I made it through the first hour! But Devi looked at me and could tell that something was not right. My level of the seizure feelings were now at about a 6 or 7 and I was getting very nervous and not knowing which way to walk, talk, turn, hide or even sit down. Luckily, Gary announced, within that first hour, that there were some EFT experts there at the seminar and if we needed any help on issues during this seminar, to please feel free ask one of them.
Devi could see the color in my face changing by that time and that is when she immediately decided to take Gary's advice and ask for help from an EFT expert. She very quickly ran to Dale Teplitz and asked her to come and tap on me to see if we could clear this.
As soon as Dale arrived in front of me, I was at the level of 9 and I was just about ready to have the seizure. Dale sat me down immediately and started that wonderful EFT tapping. As soon as Dale started the tapping on me, I felt an explosion of emotions just come flooding out of me. Tears galore were coming out of me, and I had no idea where we were going with all this. I can vaguely remember self confidence and fear feelings came up and I still was not able to talk. I just cried and cried.
Dale had just done a couple of rounds and the seizure feeling seemed to release a little, like to a level 7. Then with a couple more rounds and another explosion of feelings and tears started to release again, and then it happened, for the FIRST time in 20 years, that seizure feeling TOTALLY DISSOLVED and RELEASED!!!!!
I could not believe it! I was trying really hard to find the seizure feeling again in my stomach and no matter what I did, it just was not there! I felt all clear in the brain and I thought 'how could this be'? I have done tapping with myself during other seizure feelings and this has never happened. I never cried when I did that tapping, but I just could not believe what had just happened to me.
During the rest of the seminar, when I remembered, I tried to find that seizure feeling in my stomach and all the nervousness that went with it, but it just was not there. I still was in the state of trying to believe that this really happened.
By going through this fantastic realization, it has brought all my questions and thoughts about my seizures and EFT to the conclusion that I have been looking for. And that conclusion is, yes, doing EFT can help me significantly and yes, my seizures are probably emotionally based. Most of all, I see myself standing at the "Y" in the road and that is telling me I now have a choice. I can choose to go down the path that is labeled seizures or I can choose that path that has no label or sign and I can create anything I want on that new pathway of life. I am totally excited to take my new path!
UPDATE 1 year later:
Well, after that fantastic experience at the Gary Craig, EFT seminar a year ago, I had hoped that I could be free of seizures for the rest of my life! But, for some reason they started coming back again on the regular schedule of a monthly basis. I was having about 2-10 partial complex seizures a month. Every time I have a seizure, it makes me feel like I have to start my life all over again.
These past couple of months I have been working REALLY hard to get to the core issues of my emotions that I thought could be triggering the seizures. I had made it my goal to not give up until I had another clue or breakthrough, like I did at the seminar, that I could control or totally clear the seizures activity in my life! I have become determined to do it.
Well, last Friday I started getting my clues that seizures could be coming on. I have what is called "seizure thoughts" "seizure feelings" then the "seizure action" ALWAYS comes next. The clues were the "seizure thoughts and small feelings" that were happening in my stomach. They usually come the day before the full seizure comes on.
Saturday morning I remember briefly waking up to a seizure feeling in my stomach and then blacking out. When I woke up again, I felt out of place and groggy and I asked my husband what happened and he said that I had a seizure.
A couple of hours later, the same seizure feeling in my stomach, that I had earlier that morning and at the seminar a year before, was coming on again, at an intensity level of an 8 (10 being a seizure), and an amazing thing happened. My hands started tapping on my collar bone points and then my sore spot points and then started doing the normal round of tapping on the EFT meridian points and all I could say out load was "relax", "relax," "relax" and within one or two rounds the WHOLE seizure feeling totally dissolved out of my stomach!!! For the first time in 21 years, I was able to control and stop the seizure activity before it totally took over my brain!!!!!!
I was so amazed I could not believe what I had just done! Was it really true? Did I control that seizure? Well, I guess I needed some more practice or proof, because later that day, I had another strong seizure feeling in my stomach come through, and I started tapping again in the same manner, right on my collar bones, sore spots and then the full EFT meridian points just saying the word "relax, relax, relax". And once again the WHOLE seizure feeling in my stomach, that was at an intensity level of an 8, (10 being a seizure), TOTALLY dissolved!!!
Again, it happened for me! I felt like I just had a MAJOR breakthrough in my life. I have more hope now than ever before – I can see the end of the tunnel – it is right at my fingertips!
After having such an experience, new doors are opening for me to share this experience with others and give people "hope" to keep moving forward and "GO FOR IT!" because they can do it also!"
Gayle Waxon
I could not hold back, it is really happening and I need to share this with you! Last Thursday, I just had ANOTHER breakthrough with the pattern of seizures!! The pattern is wonderfully dissolving! I can still remember that day CRYSTAL clear! Here is my story:
I woke up in the morning to go to work and the first thing that I noticed was that it could be a "seizure day" due to the feelings in my stomach. I could remember a lot of tossing and turning and that is also a sign that it could be a "seizure day". When I have these thoughts and feelings, I get frustrated and my level of anxiety goes up wondering if I will be able to make it all the way to work today.
So I started thinking what I could do to change this around and my thought was, "Gayle just go into the bathroom and start your tapping and set the pattern for the day". So I did and I thought to myself, "I had a breakthrough before, WHAT IF I have another breakthrough today???
I went to the bathroom and looked into the mirror and started my tapping:
Rubbed on Sore Spot location:
"Even though I am having these seizure feelings in my stomach, I deeply and completely love and accept myself"
"Even though I am having these seizure feelings in my stomach, I choose to be calm and relaxed all day today"
"Even though I am having these seizure feelings in my stomach, I deeply and completely love and accept myself"
Top of head: seizure feelings
Eyebrow: seizure feelings
Side of eye: seizure feelings
Under eye: seizure feelings in my stomach
Under nose: seizure feelings in my stomach
Chin: seizure feelings in my stomach
Collarbone: seizure feelings in my stomach
Under arm: seizure feelings
Top of head: seizure feelings in my stomach
Top of head: I love being calm and relaxed
Eyebrow: I give permission for my central nervous system to be calm and relaxed all day
Side of eye: calm and relaxed
Under eye: I am very easily calm and relaxed
Under nose: my stomach is calm and relaxed
Chin: I choose to be 100% calm and relaxed today
Collarbone: I choose to be 100% calm and relaxed today
Under arm: I love being calm and relaxed
Top of head: being calm and relaxed is very easy for me
Ok, I felt like that was a good foundational start for the day. I even did some of the same statements and tapping while I was in the shower and when I got out of the shower. When all was completed in the bathroom I gave my update to my husband, to let him know that I was going to go to work.
After the 1 ½ hours of commuter time, I was successful at making it to work without a seizure, so my set goal was to make it through every hour, free and clear of all seizure activity and being calm and relaxed. As the next two hours passed by, I was grateful for not having any seizures but I was still having the seizure feelings in my stomach. So every time I went to the bathroom, I also did the rounds of tapping with some of the same statements from the beginning of the morning.
Here is another example of what I did in the bathroom at work:
Rubbed on Sore Spot location:
"Even though I am still having these seizure feelings in my stomach and I do not know where they are coming from, I choose to be calm and relaxed anyway"
"Even though I am still having these seizure feelings in my stomach and I do not know where they are coming from, I choose to release the pattern of seizures in a way that is easy and safe for me and everyone that is around me"
"Even though I am still having these seizure feelings in my stomach and I do not know where they are coming from, I choose to be calm and relaxed anyway, I am a good person"
Top of head: still having seizure feelings
Eyebrow: still having these seizure feelings in my stomach
Side of eye: still having these seizure feelings
Under eye: still having these seizure feelings in my stomach
Under nose: still having these seizure feelings
Chin: still having these seizure feelings in my stomach
Collarbone: still having these seizure feelings in my stomach
Under arm still having these seizure feelings in my stomach
Top of head: still having these seizure feelings
Top of head: calm and relaxed
Eyebrow: I give permission for my central nervous system to be calm and relaxed all day
Side of eye: calm and relaxed
Under eye: I am very easily calm and relaxed
Under nose: my stomach is calm and relaxed
Chin: I choose to be 100% calm and relaxed today
Collarbone: calm and relaxed today
Under arm being calm and relaxed
Top of head: being calm and relaxed is very easy for me today
Well, around 10:00 am, I was talking to my husband on the phone and here comes the wave of seizure feelings from my stomach that started to build and move its way up my chest and then to my head, where I usually start to blackout and start walking around looking spacey. I was holding the phone with one hand, trying to listen to what he was saying, but I knew that I needed to tap!
So, I started very quickly to tap, with my right hand, on my collarbone location and my sore spot location (my stomach really likes when I use this spot, it even tells me "thank-you" at times) saying:
"calm and relaxed"
"calm and relaxed"
"calm and relaxed" and I automatically tapped on all the EFT bodypoints, still saying 'calm and relaxed' etc… and within 10 seconds or even less, the whole seizure wave/feeling, that was at a SUDS level of an 8, (10 being a seizure), dropped to a level 1 and the seizure feelings dissolved! I was so excited! I had to do a reality check to see if I was still talking to my husband and I was, and I even remember the whole conversation, meaning that I did NOT have any blackouts or become unconscious. He was not even aware that I had it.
As the day progressed, I started feeling the need for taking a nap, I could feel that my energy system was running in extra gears and burning out. It was two hours later that I had the exact same experience again! The wave of the big seizure feeling started to move from my stomach and up to my throat, so I started tapping once again very quickly because they come on so fast, the SUDS level again was an 8, (the level at 10 is a seizure) right on my collarbones with both hands, stating:
"Calm and relaxed"
"Calm and relaxed,
"I love being calm and relaxed"
"I choose to be calm and relaxed"
"It is ok to be calm and relaxed"
"I will always be calm and relaxed"
"I love being calm and relaxed today"
I just wanted to be calm and relaxed! And again, the whole seizure feeling was released, it just dissolved!! I was aware of everything that just happened.
At the very end of the day, I had finally made it home safely, and we were out celebrating with my son's soccer team. Well, guess what came up again! Yes, the big wave of the seizure feelings in my stomach and it was spreading and spiraling upward again, and I am sitting next to all these other people and since I had already tapped in front of other people before, I was confident enough to do it again in front of others that I did not know very well, so I went for it doing the same thing. Tapping on my collarbones and sore spots with both hands saying to myself:
"Calm and relaxed"
"Calm and relaxed"
"I love being calm and relaxed"
"I love the new pattern of being calm and relaxed"
"Calm and relaxed"
Within 10 seconds the whole enlarged seizure feeling that was growing inside my body, taking over my whole chest and even the muscles of my arms, totally released. People around me were not really aware of what I just did! So, I got up and headed to the front of the restaurant to find my husband, that had just stepped out, and while I was walking to the door I did tapping on all of my EFT body points.
That day at work started a new "thought" and a new "visual" for me that now goes through my brain everyday. The new thought is "I do have control over my seizures!" and the new visual is, I can look back and see myself tapping during those 3 moments of the seizure coming on and I can REMEMBER EVERY SINGLE MINUTE of that day!!!! I did not have blackouts, I did not go unconscious, the "BE"ing in me, the capability to BE Gayle Waxon and accept Gayle Waxon, became the stronger one that day and I now have a LARGER feeling of hope and peace in my heart, than I did a month ago and I want to share it with everyone!
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The Roxy charcoal fabric reclining sofa is the perfect combination of comfort and style. Finished in a premium grey charcoal fabric, designed to be a hard-wearing and durable material. The chunky modern design with thick padded cushions provides ultimate comfort and relaxation, the perfect sofa in your home. Featuring a two-stage recliner mechanism, aimed to reach the highest level of comfort. The Roxy sofa is designed as a standout piece of furniture because of Its chunky and thick design, a great focal point in your living room. A simple design guaranteed to make a statement in your home. This collection is available in an armchair, 2 seaters and 3 seaters..
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Why do we review? It is simple we want people to know if the experience we had was a good or bad experience. We allow people to review us and our overall service and our products individually to show everyone we supply the best furniture and the best service at the best price available. We have partnered with Trustpilot to show how people have got along with our products and our service when deciding to buy from us
Why do we review? It is simple we want people to know if the experience we had was a good or bad experience. We allow people to review us and our overall service and our products individually to show everyone we supply the best furniture and the best service at the best price available. We have partnered with Trustpilot to show how people have got along with our products and our service when deciding to buy from us
We stock all our own items in our warehouses, we have a huge range of beds, mattresses, and of course our sofa designs. Because we stock all of our own branded items we can deliver these within 7 working days in most situations. You will always receive a call from our delivery team to organize the delivery date and time slot, we make contact 2 days before delivery to let you know the details, please make sure we have an accurate phone number and email so we can contact you.
We start our deliveries from approx 6 am to make sure we can accurately hit our delivery estimates, deliveries normally finish around 2-4 pm.
Two delivery staff can call you beforehand on the day of delivery to give you notice of when they are arriving if needed, please notify the delivery team if you wish to have this added on.
When arriving at your property they will ensure they have adequate access into your property interior to make the delivery as smooth as possible, you might need to remove paintings, lamps or fixtures to ensure the two delivery staff can proceed. As standard two delivery staff members will bring your furniture into the ground floor and the room of your choice unless requested otherwise.
The couriers deliver to the ground floor only, this is a standard service included in your purchase with us. If you require an upper floor delivery they are charges applicable which need to be paid directly to the courier(s)
As standard, the two delivery staff members will leave the sofas in the protective packaging on the ground floor, they can offer an installation delivery service option which includes;
We do recommend adding this additional service to your order if you are not comfortable with the assembly of your furniture, the amount of fitting varies per sofa, so the time can vary from 5 minutes to 30 minutes. ( Please note this service is only available on the sofas )
We do not offer to recycle the old furniture you might have, you should contact your local council or a charity of your choosing. The reason we choose not to offer this service is the costs incurred, manoeuvring the old furniture out, and the hygiene aspect for our staff members.
Sometimes we will offer pre-order specials on our website or other platforms online, These products will go on sale with a number of weeks until they arrive with us. We do this to offer you the best prices on the latest sofa designs. We do offer estimates of arrival but due to external factors, these times may run over. If you are short on time and are working to a deadline we suggest viewing our sofas ready to deliver immediately. Please notee pre-order items are not available with any discounts or promotional offers.
We are proud to hand pick other furniture suppliers in the UK to work with, we work with companies such as Vida Living, Flair Rugs and many more to name, you can see the range of brands we work with using the navigation bar above this.
The items which these companies stock does vary from lighting, bedroom furniture, rugs, sofas, decor pieces, and much more. Because of the variety, the lead times can vary for different suppliers. We make every effort possible to provide accurate lead times at checkout and on our product pages.
Some of these companies do provide a direct delivery for us to ensure you receive your furniture as fast as possible, when this is the case we will provide them your details to let you know the estimated delivery date.
If we have any tracking links generated on our side we will send this over to you so you can track your items progress for peace of mind.
We are proud to offer free delivery on all our products across our website, this includes our own branded products, to the dining tables, rugs, decor pieces, and many more. We do this by using our own delivery fleet and our own drivers for the majority of the items. Because we maintain our own fleet of transport vehicles we have reduced the costs incurred previously by the couriers we have used in the past.
The only exception to this when we action a Scotland route, because of the additional mileage, time which is needed, maintenance for the vehicles and accommodation costs for the drivers we have to charge £75 or more depending on location, etc. We would love to offer free delivery to Scotland as well but to keep our furniture prices low for everyone we have to charge for Scotland deliveries for the meanwhile.
Locations further towards the cost may experience longer delivery times, such as ME, PL, TR as routes in these areas take longer to populate.
In the rare occasion that you miss your delivery after accepting and confirming your delivery date and time slot, you will be liable to pay up to £150 for the re-delivery of your items, the cost can vary up and down depending on the size and quantity.
We hope you love your products but on the rare occasion you don't really love your furniture, our return guide will make it clear what happens next, this policy covers everything you buy from FurnitureInstore.
That is no problem, we accept everyone makes changes. We are happy to offer a full refund minus any courier costs incurred to us, this varies on the item size and weight. This applies to all our products as long as they are in the same condition as sold to you, this includes the packaging and items which have been assembled need to unassembled for collection.
We can process any return request by simply contacting us via a phone call, email, or letter. You must be within your return window to process a successful return.
If you have not had a delivery yet and have changed your mind about your furniture purchase, it is very simple give us a call (02476 705 600) or email and we can cancel your order without a problem. We might ask why you want to cancel your order this is done to ensure we always improving.
If you have found an identical item we retail cheaper somewhere else please let us know and we will endeavor to price match, all you need is a quote from a competitor or a website link for the same product.
We would love to offer a free return service on the items we sell but unfortunately, this is not the situation. The return costs vary depending on the item you are returning, for example, a sofa the cost is going to be a minimum of £60 but will increase for heavier products and combination sets such as a 3+2. We will never charge more than £100 for a return request.
Smaller items will be significantly less, once again this is dependant on weight and size.
We will refund your monies back into the same payment method you used for your order.
If you used a credit or debit card using our SagePay terminal you should receive your monies back within 3-5 working days of the refund being issued not return being performed.
if you used Paypal and had funds in the account, the refund normally is performed and back into your account the same day of the refund being issued and not the return being performed.
The furniture items need to be an inspection by our technicians prior to a refund being issued. This is to ensure the items are in the same condition as sold in.
Refunds can take up to 14 days of the item being received.
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All of our orders have a VAT Invoice emailed to you and a physical paper copy given to you on the day of delivery, please retain the proof of purchase.
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Generally speaking, people compare games by listing bullet points. Which game has better graphics, which game has better gameplay? Which one has the better story, or better multiplayer?
Little did they know, there is a better way to determine which game is best. Just leave your game cases in a room together and see which one comes out alive.
I have to admit, I have a soft spot for the idea of game cases having their own secret lives. Michael Shanks takes the idea to a whole new level in this video. Ha!
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Located on the shores of majestic Lake Superior, Bayfield, Wisconsin is the perfect getaway for those who are run down and need the peace and serenity of the outdoors to recharge their batteries. Small town shopping, sailing, hiking, or just a relaxing night on the porch may be just what the doctor ordered!
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We have accommodations for up to 8 people in our rustic, spacious cottage, and have thoughtfully outfitted it with modern conveniences to make everyone feel right at home.
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Shareology is headed towards her second viewing tonight of The Social Network. (Thank you, Social Media Breakfast Minneapolis St. Paul for the invitations to the previews!)
My first observation after the first viewing was about the comments of the PR flack before the movie. "If you like this movie, call all your friends!" Really? Call your friends? About a movie based on Facebook??? Really?? No status updates? No tweets? Call? Really? Apparently no one told her no one is using their smart phones for telephoning these days.
My second reaction was gratefulness: so glad to be in the land of Minnesota Nice! Because those Harvard boys play nasty!!
Upon reflection, this is a movie about so much more than the founding of Facebook. I walked out of the first preview wondering what is truth and what is fiction. Luckily the October Vanity Fair landed in my mailbox the next day and gave me an update on Sean Parker, played by Justin Timberlake in the movie. Recently, my W landed with an article on the screenwriter Aaron Sorkin. (Sorkin, late of the West Wing and Studio 60, goes a long way towards how explaining how quickly the movie gets off to a blistering start.)
Ultimately it is a movie about trust, friendship, betrayal and loneliness. Which explains why Shareology will be at preview two tonight at Mall of America.
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In most cases, having Zac Efron move next door would be a good thing. Ladies, you'd be blessed with instant eye candy. And guys, having Efron in your neighborhood would attract similarly gorgeous people, giving you attractive people to spy on as you sit home on a Friday night, wishing you could be more like Efron and his friends. But occasionally, things go too far, as is suggested by the latest trailer for Neighbors, starring Efron, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne.
Yahoo Movies hosts the new clip, from a comedy directed by Nick Stoller. He helmed both Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek, to give you an idea of his sense of humor. And this new trailer has a number of noteworthy jokes. Initially, that Breaking Bad joke with the baby eating "blue meth" struck me as dated, as it's really going to tie Neighbors to a specific year moving forward. The air bags gag, on the other hand, is hysterical no matter what year you are watching it in. And it's impressive! I've watched it a number of times and can't peg how they do it so seamlessly. CGI. Ain't it amazing.
Neighbors is an odd-couple suburban comedy, but the part that strikes me as funny (and interesting) is that the usual party animal Rogen is transitioning into the stage where he can play a suburban dad who needs to tell the young kids to keep it down. That's a long way off from the guy who threw the summer's biggest end-of-the-world bash with This Is the End:
Like any polar-opposite comedy structure, though, you either are going to enjoy Neighbors because it lets Efron have a blast and torture Rogen, or you are going to pay good money to watch Byrne and the Knocked Up kid put High School Musical in his place. The wild card here might be Dave Franco. That dude's hilarious, and his Robert De Niro impersonation in the trailer, circa Meet the Parents, cracks me up.
This new poster arrived with the Neighbors trailer. Universal will have the movie in theaters on May 9. What do you think of this extended look? Does it have you checking under your seat for an air bag?


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IF If the organisers get at least 20 people to show up on the event.
THEN The business will spend the profits of the night to switch to energy efficient lightbulbs.
15 Sep 2012
Drunken Tailor
1081 Budapest
Népszínház utca 26, Magyarország
A night of movies and discussion about sustainable gastronomy at the Drunken Tailor pub, which is also part of the official program of the NGO night of Budapest.
Come in orange and you get a special food and a special badge for free.
18:00 – 19:00 Movie: Bag it! (English with Hungarian subtitles, 45') and +1°C (Dénes Ruzsa 's short film)
19:00 – 20:00 Discussion about sustainable dining
20:00 – 21:00 Movie: Bag it! (English with Hungarian subtitles, 45') and +1°C (Dénes Ruzsa 's short film)
21:00 - Party in the basement
Bag It trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRjPkl_4lmM
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The place spent all the money on energy saving lightbulbs and also put them in place.
Article about the event in Hungarian can be read here:
Thanks to all participants.
The organisers of the Gasztrohős (Gastro heroes)
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'Reading Jackie': When Literary Choices Become Biography
Despite her love of books, Jackie Kennedy Onassis spent a lifetime trying to prevent people from writing about her, sometimes with the accompanying threat of legal action. Her entire life was led with one arm thrust outward, eyes cast downward, keeping the world at bay.
"Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life," British poet laureate Robert Southey declaimed in a letter to schoolteacher and aspiring poet and novelist Charlotte Bronte in 1836.
Eleven years later, in October 1847, Bronte refuted Southey's proclamation when the British publishing firm of Smith, Elder, and Co. brought her Gothic romance Jane Eyre to the Victorian reading public; the novel, produced under the pseudonym Currer Bell, was an immediate critical and commercial success (1847 was a banner year for the Bronte sisters of Haworth, UK: Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey found a publisher, as did Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights).
Today, more than 150 years after Charlotte's death at a mere three weeks shy of her 39th birthday, her dark and masterfully plotted novel about the ardor between the title character, a strong-willed governess, and her employer, the enigmatic and brooding Edward Fairfax Rochester, not only continues to be widely-read in several languages, but has been translated into feature films and television movies more than 25 times, and is universally regarded as one of the most influential literary works ever composed, spawning a popular 1966 prequel by Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea.
Author: William Kuhn
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Publication date: 2010-12
Length: 350 pages
Format: Hardcover
Price: $27.95
Image: http://images.popmatters.com/news_art/j/jacobs-readingjackie-cvr.jpgWide Sargasso Sea, providing back story for Bertha Mason, Rochester's insane wife confined to the attic of his estate, was a favorite read of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, as noted in a quaint anecdote by historian William Kuhn in Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books, a unique and original account that explores the woman behind the icon.
Regarding the library of Jackie Kennedy Onassis (dubbed Jackie O by the press and public), writes Kuhn, "her personal selection of books she decided to keep, to read, to commission [in her role as editor at Viking and Doubleday], was not just a row of books standing on the shelf. It was her self-portrait." As novelist Nancy Mitford wrote: "The books of somebody who reads are an infallible guide to the author's mentality."
Reading Jackie is a conspicuous labor of love and deep respect, "a revealing biography of the former First Lady and her career in publishing", edited by her former colleague Nan Talese (whose past editorial relationships include Ian McEwan and Margret Atwood) and published by Doubleday, Jackie's longtime editorial home. Kuhn writes early in the work that Jackie "went from being a figure caught in the blare of flashbulbs every time she walked on the street to being a woman who helped put enduring statements of why art matters into print."
Why Art Matters: this is where the task assigned to the cultural essayist becomes an onerous one. The near-existential question I have been grappling with since reading Kuhn's meticulously researched book is how to address the relevance of a work like Reading Jackie – a biography culled from the detritus of a well-bred woman's affection for art and literature – to a culture wherein literary reading has declined significantly in direct proportion to rising Internet use (PopMatters readers notwithstanding, Alexa demographics report that you're a well-read crowd).
A November 2007 report by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) finds that negative trends in American reading habits "have demonstrable social, cultural, and civic implications." The current generation is simply too hardwired into the world of mass media (television, computers, video games, cell phones, social media) and the more facile fragments of pop culture – think Justin Bieber or the exploits of Charlie Sheen – to cultivate a taste for reading and cultural activities, the NEA frets in a separate report.
In other words, personalities like Jackie Kennedy Onassis, celebrities with an intellectual bent, are few and far between in modern times.
"What of the current generation?" I asked the author of Reading Jackie in a recent email dialogue. "How will we 'read' them in the future? By their Netflix choices? Their Twitter and Facebook histories?" "When I taught history at Carthage," Kuhn replied, "(young students) were certainly better at picking up visual details from movie clips I showed in class – often things I missed – than at reading texts, which they invariably regarded as very hard work."
Kuhn went on to say that when he sits down to read a newspaper (the real thing manufactured of pulp and ink) he pays "much more attention to it than when I glance at the news headlines online. I guess I conclude from that that long forms of fiction and non-fiction may die out, although short stories and short essays may revive."
That's bad news for Moby Dick and Don Quixote. In point of fact, the two literary works that most closely parallel Jackie Kennedy Onassis' personal biography are Melville's metaphor-laden whaling adventure and Miguel De Cervantes' immortal satire of chivalric code featuring the deluded errant knight Don Quixote de La Mancha, a broken-down former soldier who, in the opening chapters of the epic novel, is literally driven mad by his preoccupation with adventure novels, "the solace of my soul and the entertainment of my life." Cervantes also illustrates through Don Quixote that nobility (or a personal sense of nobility) can be a form of madness.


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10 Oregon Farmstead Cheeses You Should Try
When it comes to Oregonian cheese, it doesn't get more iconic than Tillamook. The cheddar loaf is what defines cheese for many a west coaster who grow up eating it.
But if you visit Steve's Cheese Bar in Portland, you'll meet many new cheeses, none of them Tillamook. Inside his glass case Steve offers over 200 cheeses from all over the globe with a special focus on the smaller-scale farmstead cheeses from the Willamette Valley and around Oregon.
If you've spent any time in Oregon before, you know how mandatory an umbrella is, and it's this regular rainfall that makes the Oregonian grass grow so lush and green year-round. The goats, cows, and sheep grazing on it produce creamy, nutty, earthy milk that you can really taste it in the cheese.
Steve is all about supporting small local cheesemakers, but he admits, some of them are better than others. "You see cheesemakers who put a blindfold on and run off a cliff. Others study the science and art of cheesemaking."
Brian Humiston, for example, studied food science and fermentation at Oregon State University before starting Full Circle Creamery in Crabree, Oregon, 2010. Applying his degree in curd-nerdery, he now makes cheddar and mozzarella from organic milk. Steve introduced us to Full Circle Creamery's cheddar as well as the unique "Chubut" cheese from a man named Mariano Battro who comes from a lineage of Argentine cheesemakers. His family's dairy back in Patagonia was largely influenced by Welsh settlers who migrated to Argentina in the 1800s and started making Chubut. He now makes this historic cheese using cow's milk from Lochmead Dairy in Junction City, Oregon.
Hearing Steve talk about the cheesemakers and where they came from gives you a sense of where Oregon cheese is headed. Many Old World cheese traditions meeting the Oregon terroir. Like Rogue Creamery's Smokey Blue: a feisty blue cheese that's roasted over hazelnuts shells. (Hazelnuts are the state nut of Oregon, and Oregonians really love them.)
In addition to sampling through the cheese case, you can pop into Steve's Bar for his impressive selection of local beers and wines (really, this guy must love beer as much as his cheese), as well as cheese plates, sandwiches, salads, and warm dishes from the oven to enjoy at the seats inside.
Steve's Cheese Bar
6031 SE Belmont, Portland OR. 97215 503-222-6014
See the 10 Oregonian cheeses we tried and loved >>
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Greetings, DCF Members!
This year, our club will be participating in the 32nd Annual Ancient City Auto Show benefitting the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in beautiful and historic St. Augustine, FL! The event is Saturday, November 19th, 2016, which is the weekend before Thanksgiving.
This show is organized by the Ancient City Auto Club. Early registration is $20 until November 4th, and $25 the day of the show. The show is held on the campus of the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, where the legendary musician & performer Ray Charles once attended! The school is located at:
207 N. San Marco Avenue
St. Augustine, FL 32084
More information, including area hotels can be found on the flyer here:
Let's try and get as many DeLoreans to this event as possible! Who's in?


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Jack Vance dies
Jack Vance, an award-winning mystery, fantasy, and science fiction author who wrote more than 60 books, has died. He was 96.
Vance died Sunday evening at his home in Oakland, his son John Vance II told the Associated Press.
Jack Vance, whose legal name was John Holbrook, published most of his work as Jack Vance, but he also wrote 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and three as Ellery Queen, as well as books under the pen names of Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See and Jay Kavanse, according to the Jack Vance website, which is maintained by family and friends.
"This is a complex guy, and (there's) an awful lot to say about him," John Vance told the AP.
In 2009, a profile in the New York Times Magazine described Vance as "one of American literature's most distinctive and undervalued voices," according to the website.
Vance collected a number of awards over the years, including Hugo Awards for The Dragon Masters in 1963, The Last Castle in 1967, and for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance! in 2010.
"Author, friend, father and grandfather, there will never be another like Jack Vance," his son said.
Born in San Francisco, Vance graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1942. He worked for a while as an electrician in the naval shipyards at Pearl Harbor, leaving about a month before the Japanese attack there, according to the website.
Described as a "blue-collar guy" by his son, Vance worked over the years as a seaman, a surveyor, and carpenter. His first book was published in 1945, but Vance did not establish himself as a writer until the 1970s.
Although legally blind since the 1980s, Vance continued to write with the aid of software, including his most recent novel, Lurulu, his son said. Vance had said Lurulu would be his final book, but he completed his memoir, which was published in July 2009.
In his later years, Vance suffered from poor kidney health and diabetes, which he which he maintained by diet control, his son said.


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Disney Infinity 2.0 Marvel Superheroes Starter Pack (PS4)
Featuring an enhanced Toy Box mode, Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes will introduce new structured, franchise-themed adventures that players can customize and play using any in-game character from across the Disney Infinity universe. Fans will also have hundreds of Marvel-themed items, locations, props and characters at their disposal to create their own stories or even re-create their favorite comic book moments.
Disney Infinity 2.0: Marvel Super Heroes Features:
MARVEL FRANCHISES – Marvel franchises introduce deeper, immersive storylines and Marvel Super Heroes deliver new combat gameplay, more destruction in game worlds, authentic Marvel gadgets and vehicles in Play Sets and Toy Box.
EPIC STORYLINES - Original, character driven stories written by award-winning Marvel comic writer, Brian Michael Bendis. Authentic, intertwined stories where some Marvel Super Heroes can cross between Play Sets, all set in iconic Marvel locations.
ENHANCED TOY BOX - An all-new Toy Box mode that makes it easier for players to create and share their one-of-a-kind levels and mini-games with family and friends. Use the new Auto Creator tool to quickly build your worlds faster and easier than ever before.
TOY BOX GAME DISCS – New pyramid shaped discs deliver structured, franchise-themed games to the Toy Box. Build and customize your games by using Toy Box Toys of your choice and play through each game using any Disney Infinity character to complete missions.
FORWARD COMPATIBILITY – All of your Disney Infinity figures, toys and power discs are compatible with the Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes Toy Box - stats and upgrades intact. Disney Infinity characters can increase their level cap from level 15 to 20 and skills can be allocated across a variety of attributes using the Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes skill tree.
POWER DISCS – New set of circular and hexagonal Power Discs will be available for Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes. Circular discs will add costumes, Area of Effect attacks and team-ups. Hexagonal power discs will add new weapons, vehicles and sky and terrain customizations.
The Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (2.0 Edition) video game Starter Pack includes:
1 Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (2.0 Edition) Video Game
3 Marvel Super Heroes Figures: Iron Man, Thor and Black Widow
1 Disney Infinity Base (2.0 Edition)
2 Toy Box Game Discs
1 Marvel's The Avengers Play Set piece
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Will my Disney Infinity figures work in Disney Infinity (2.0 Edition)?
Yes, all of the characters from Disney Infinity are playable in the Toy Box in Disney Infinity (2.0 Edition) – all stats and upgrades intact.
Will my Disney Infinity Power Discs work in Disney Infinity (2.0 Edition)?
Yes, players can use all of the Disney Infinity Power Discs in Disney Infinity (2.0 Edition).
Will my Toy Box creations be playable in Disney Infinity (2.0 Edition)?
If a player has saved a Disney Infinity Toy Box to their Disney ID account, they can log into their account and download it to the Toy Box in Disney Infinity (2.0 Edition) and play through it using their Disney Infinity (2.0 Edition) characters.


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Life's challenges force us to harden up. Relationships, work, children, family and finances all combine to put us under a lot of pressure and the way we are expected to deal with these is to develop resilience and to some extent indifference. We are required to be tough.
To teach our kids to be tough and with each blow life delivers to knock us down, we need to get up, dust ourselves off and pick up where we left off. The more times we start again, the colder and more jaded we become.
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Tips For Increasing Employee Motivation
Without injuring others or placing your own life in danger, it's healthy to let go sometimes. You don't have to be irresponsible to release responsibility and embrace freedom for a change. When life is becoming too burdensome and the weight of obligation and duty seems suffocating, do something that allows you to release yourself from what can feel like a prison.
It's easy to forget that your subscribers are people with likes and dislikes (not just leads). Firstly, always watch your open, CTR, unsubscribe and complaint rates. That's the fast way to gauge whether your email was engaging or not. When appropriate, use what personalisation you have at your disposal.
Perhaps what's needed is a shift in attitude. To become stronger and resistant to the tribulations of life, maybe the answer is that we need to become softer not tougher. Maybe what the world needs is more nurture.
If you don't know much about your subscribers, you could consider running a campaign asking them for more details through a simple preference centre. You may wish to consider offering an incentive or freebie in exchange for this information, which will help boost your response rates.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
If you want to take it to the next level and gauge subscriber sentiment, you could generate feedback by adding a simple "Did you find this email useful?" line in your footer that leads subscribers to a survey. Keep it short and concise though; you're not after War and Peace.
If a survey seems like too much commitment, check out this fun widget. You never know, this feedback may just generate the next idea that takes your email program to the next level.
Most email service providers have inbuilt mobile optimized templates, but if yours doesn't/you want something custom and have budget to spare, consider hiring an email marketing developer on Envato Studio or Upwork. Just ensure you do you research and ask for previous work examples before you hire.
How you can use this for language learning?
- Get a set of flashcards for memorizing vocabulary or grammar.
- Master the hard pinch (it should be quite hard) to activate your body's threat response.
- Review a category of flash cards (such as adjectives or group of words). Don't pinch yourself at this stage.
- Review the same category, now adding the pinch for each vocabulary word. Spend some time studying the card before moving to the next one.
Get In Touch With EmotionsDid you grow up believing that your parent was physically or emotionally abusive to you because you deserved it? If so, you may still be justifying the terrible behavior of others at your own expense.
Discover how you really feel about things. It's easier said than done. Instead of maintaining the status quo and keeping the peace.
Instead of following the herd and making the predictable and reliable decisions that you are expected to make, ask yourself.
What you truly desire. Imagine what you could accomplish, if failing wasn't an option.If there was no fear of being judged and no adverse consequences.
If there was no fear of being judged and no adverse consequences reliable decisions.
Learning to acknowledge and express our emotions freely may seem like weakness in a culture that requires us to be tough, but in actual fact it takes a strength far more valuable and honorable than living in denial.
- Use the "Spaced Repetition" technique
- Try the "Pinch Yourself" hack
- Schedule learning sessions before bedtime
- Study the content, not the language
This technique was introduced by Maneesh Sethi, a frequent traveler who mastered four foreign languages as an adult. His approach was based on the fact that negative stimuli massively boost self-improvement.
Soft is the new hard
When you think that a situation requires you to be tough, to stiffen your upper lip and puff out your chest in the face of something difficult or even traumatic, consider if you have another option. Maybe for a change it's time to wallow in the tragedy of your experience and really feel what it is to be human. Striving for mental toughness may close you off to a world of emotional development and progress that you may otherwise live through if you let yourself open up for a change.
Softening your perspective towards yourself and others; allowing yourself to experience tenderness and nurturing instead may seem counterproductive, but in the long run, may reap more abundant rewards.
Tough is just bravado. Softening up is a new normal you should try.
You may feel sadness more intensely, or anger. Disappointment, fear, grief. The flip side is you may discover joy like you've never allowed yourself to feel before. You may laugh harder, feel more inspired, encounter wonder and awe at things you previously took for granted.
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Twice destroyed by fire the current Aberlour distillery was designed by Charles Doig in 1898. The biggest selling single malt in France, Aberlour is owned by Pernod Ricard and uses unusually broad-based stills with high swan necks to produce a delicate berry flavoured spirit.
Usually only available at the distillery, this heavily sherried Aberlour is a blinder!
Bottled: 10.03.2016
Age: 16 Years Old
Cask Type: 1st Fill Sherry Cask
56.5% ABV / 70cl
Batch Number: A15
Bottle Number: 1156
Please examine all images of the lot, any packaging and labels carefully and satisfy yourself as to their condition before making a bid.


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Inspiring and Supporting Photographers of Australian Birds
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|After a day at the continental shelf we returned to the moorings at Port MacDonnell to find this Pomarine Jaeger in the harbour.
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|Port MacDonnell Pelagic, South Australia
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For anyone interested in climate action, the government's commitment to halve Ireland's emissions by 2030 and to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 was one of the highlights of the year. But we won't reach this objective focusing exclusively on energy efficiency — we must turn our attention to cutting embodied carbon too, and this wil be a major focus of the Irish Green Building Council's Better Homes conference next Friday, 27 November.
A rundown 1970s scheme of one-bedroom, single storey social housing units in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal, has been transformed into a pioneering development of cosy, A-rated, NZEB-busting homes. The pioneering project – the first completed under Ireland's deep retrofit pilot scheme – also breathed new life into an unloved green area and is expected to help fuel a regeneration project in the town.
The need for decisive movement on deep retrofit has never been more pronounced, given the twin needs for urgent, radical action to tackle the climate crisis and jobs-intensive stimulus at a time of great uncertainty caused by the pandemic. In the following statement, the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment sheds light on its progress in delivering on the government's deep retrofit pledges.
Simon Bell of the Passive House Association of Ireland outlines how the organisation can help clients, professionals and suppliers to deliver the passive house standard.
Diageo has chosen developer Ballymore as its partner to deliver the transformation of 12.6 acres of its iconic St James's Gate site into the first "zero carbon" district in Dublin.
The Cosgrave Group, ESB and SSE Airtricity Energy Services, are among the finalists in the SEAI Energy Awards 2020.
A landmark legal case may give tenants the chance to discover if their building poses a lung cancer risk, Passive House Plus can exclusively reveal.
The government is building cross-party retrofit commitments to ensure a long-term and continuous programme of retrofit work, Passive House Plus has learned.
ABK Architects has received planning permission for 597 homes at Shanganagh, Co Dublin, the overwhelming majority of which will be passive houses. The project has been developed in partnership with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and the Land Development Agency.
'Mannok' has been unveiled as the new identity for Quinn Industrial Holdings, a name which the company's familiar brands Quinn Building Products and Quinn Packaging will transition to in the coming weeks.
CO2 levels in rooms and other enclosed spaces should be used as a proxy for Covid transmission risk, a number of leading experts have said, as the evidence increasingly points towards airborne transmission being a major factor in the spread of the virus.
New regulations over the last decade have substantially cut operational energy use in buildings, and with more building product manufacturers now publishing environmental data on their products, now is the time to move towards in-depth life cycle assessment to reveal the full environmental footprint of our buildings, Pat Barry of the Irish Green Building Council tells Passive House Plus.
Over the past couple of months, the Irish Green Building Council (IGBC) has been focusing on helping those in the industry to upskill during the lockdown.
The Department of Housing is considering short-term changes to ventilation requirements under building regulations due to the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the construction sector, Passive House Plus has learned.
The Ecocem Group, Europe's premier producer of high performance, low carbon cement, have announced the appointment of John Reddy as Group Quality and Innovation Application Manager.
28-10-2020 Marketplace
Cork-based cellulose insulation manufacturer Ecocel continues to grow its business as the company aims to deliver on its mission of producing sustainable, low carbon, natural insulation for the Irish market and beyond.
26-10-2020 Marketplace
A well-designed, well-installed ventilation system is one that your ear will not tell you is running, but your nose will tell you when it's not. This is the belief of Stephen Walsh, managing director of AerHaus Ventilation, and he says that having access to a broad range of ventilation solutions is key to achieving this.
26-10-2020 Marketplace
Leading Swedish heat pump maker NIBE is celebrating its 20th anniversary in Ireland this year, with the news that two NIBE heat pumps that were installed in Cork at the turn of the millennium are still in excellent working condition.
26-10-2020 Marketplace
Leading cement products manufacturer Kilsaran has become the latest Irish building materials company to publish Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for some of its key products.
A new housing development in Leopardstown, County Dublin is just the latest scheme to hit NZEB with the help of Daikin Altherma air-to-water heat pumps.
Beam Vacuum & Ventilation have launched their new range of HERU heat recovery ventilation systems, combining a sleek new design with award-winning rotating heat exchanger technology.
New Cork school built and finished in 4 weeks
Over the coming years there will be growing demand for openable windows in our office buildings to help prevent virus transmission — which is why high-quality solar shading will be…
Ecological Building Systems have added FINSA superPan VapourStop passive house certified boards to their range of products.
Leading ICF building envelope specialist Passive Building Structures is currently on site completing a large new passive house in Didsbury, Manchester. The project offers a contemporary take on the surrounding traditional architecture.
KORE has announced that its insulated foundation system has received full certification from the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) under Irish Agrément Board certificate number 20/0424.
Leading ventilation manufacturer Aereco has become the latest company to join the Renovate Europe campaign, which seeks to reduce the energy demand of the EU's building stock by 80% by 2050…
Glavloc Building Technology has been awarded NSAI Agrément certification for their award-winning, high performance off site building system.
Roscommon-based modular offsite building manufacturer Lidan Designs has called on the next government to introduce effective financial incentives for companies to provide home office facilities to their employees.
Ecological Building Systems have announced the launch of a new website, aiming to support professionals and homeowners alike to achieve better results from their next project.
Leading insulation manufacturer Xtratherm has become the latest company to receive an environmental product declaration (EPD) under the Irish EPD programme. Xtratherm's EPD is for its Thin-R range of PIR…
Leading low energy building product supplier Partel is currently involved in the construction of two rapid build hospital extensions in Limerick. On both projects, the company has supplied an external breather membrane that meets…
Daylighting, overheating, glare and lack of natural, insect-free ventilation remain significant issues in UK hospitals and may be hampering the ability of patients to recover, and hospital staff to properly…
Daikin Ireland is running a new regular series of online CPD webinars to enable remote learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. The latest dates for June webinars have just been announced.
Taking a temporary detour from his series of columns on the history of sustainable building and renewable energy, Dr Marc Ó Riain takes a look at Covid-19 from the perspective of Gaia theory, and at the relationship between collapsing ecosystems and the emergence of new infectious diseases.
While the Covid-19 crisis has undoubtedly caused a huge amount of human suffering and economic damage, it has brought some upsides too. Mel Reynolds speculates on how much land prices may fall, and what the positive and negative impacts may be.
While the green wave visible at ballot boxes and street marches in 2019 reflects an apparent escalation in public consciousness on the need for urgent, decisive environmental action, the roots of today's environmental consciousness stretch back over half a century, explains Dr Marc Ó Riain.
We are in the grip of a global emergency. The science is clear, and thousands of lives have already been lost. The public are demanding firm and bold leadership, but a laissez-faire attitude on the part of western governments has delayed and watered down our response, with calamitous consequences.
What forms does sexism take in the construction industry, asks builder Em Appleton, and what can we do about it?
What are the consequences for the built environment, and the climate, of the lack of communication between research and industry, asks Dr Peter Rickaby – and what can be done about it?
In the latest instalment of his series on the development of energy efficiency and renewable energy in the 20th century, Dr Marc Ó Riain reports on the seismic impact caused by the 1973 oil crisis.
The outgoing Fine Gael government devised an off balance sheet scheme to deliver social housing, but will it deliver value for money? Mel Reynolds crunches the numbers and finds the scheme may almost double the cost compared to a direct build – with no asset left once the lease ends.
Despite the urgency with which radical action is required to transform our built environment, Dr Peter Rickaby says he has never been more optimistic about the possibility of change.
In his latest column on the evolution of solar energy, Dr Marc Ó Riain looks at how the design approaches of architects and engineers diverged in the middle of the century.
The redevelopment of O'Devaney Gardens in Dublin City has grabbed headlines. Commentary has focused on the low levels of social housing proposed, high prices for private homes, and developer profit. But what is the cost to the state, asks Mel Reynolds, and is this sustainable?
Moisture problems are the Achilles heel of many new builds and retrofits, explains Dr Peter Rickaby – problems that can be exacerbated with poorly-conceived energy efficiency efforts, and which may become more prevalent due to climate breakdown.
Building physics take no prisoners. Anyone designing, constructing or upgrading the thermal envelope of a building to modern energy performance levels is duty bound to understand and minimise thermal bridging, or suffer the consequences. One-man thermal bridging encyclopaedia Andrew Lundberg of Passivate, who teaches thermal bridging analysis at Dublin Institute of Technology, gives some practical advice on why and how to tackle thermal bridging head on, and describes some of the leading innovations in thermally broken components.
19-04-2018 Guides
Once poorly understood by the mainstream building industry, airtightness is now increasingly seen as one of the most crucial objectives on any building project. Not only is it vital for energy efficiency, it's also key for thermal comfort and for protecting a building's structure from dampness and mould. In this comprehensive guide to airtightness, we look at why it's so important, how exactly it's measured, and most importantly, how to achieve it on site.
04-02-2019 Guides
In the first in a new series of technical articles on some of the key technologies in sustainable building, John Hearne makes the case for wrapping buildings in an external insulation layer, and describes some of the main issues to watch out for.
07-02-2018 Guides
As electricity supply from renewable sources continues to grow, and electricity grids gradually decarbonise as dirtier fossil fuels are phased out, heating homes with electrical technologies like heat pumps starts to make more sense. And in the mild, temperate climate of Britain and Ireland, air source heat pumps are particularly suitable — especially as new build standards of energy efficiency continue to tighten, meaning new homes need less and less energy to achieve comfortable indoor temperatures. But how do air source heat pumps work, what types are there, and how much do they cost to run? Our in-depth guide attempts...
08-05-2018 Guides
If you're pricing, designing or constructing a building – whether it's an energy upgrade of a small house or a sustainable new build home, office or multi unit scheme – Passive House Plus can help.
Click here to get in contact with the companies you need, and receive a copy of Passive House Plus for free!


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|Winnebago County Sheriff's PoliceNews Media Release
|News Release Number2011-018a
|Information: POSSIBLE DROWNING
|Date: JUNE 4, 2011
|Time: 7:09p.m.
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On Saturday June 4, 2011 at approximately 7:09P.M. Winnebago County Sheriff's Deputies were sent to the 8900 block of South Main (River) in reference to a possible drowning. Fire Department Rescue Units were also sent. Upon arrival the Deputies were told that a pontoon boat had been on the river occupied by four subjects. A twenty year old male went over the side of the pontoon and was seen going under the water and was not found. An extensive search of the river was conducted by the Fire Departments and the victim was not located. The search was called because of darkness and will resume in the morning. Sheriff's Detectives are conducting an investigation as to the circumstances of the male going into the river. Further information will be released as it develops. Update 6-5-11 1200hrs: Area Fire Departments continue to search the Rock River for the victim: Investigation of the incident continues and information received indicates that a physical confrontation took place on the pontoon, which resulted in the victim in the water. The case has been reviewed with the Winnebago County State's Attorney's Office and a warrant was authorized for the following subject for Reckless Conduct. He is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in Court. - Kristopher Alan Zaugg (male DOB 1-14-84/27yrs old)/Rockford, Illinois Anyone with information on Zaugg is asked to call the Winnebago County Sheriff's Department (319-6100) or Crime Stoppers (9637867) A photo of Zaugg accompanies this release.


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DYK = Did You Know?
Internet Information Server (IIS) is not required to be installed for a TFS 2008 Team Build machine
The application server for TFS 2005 still used .NET Remoting to communicate with the Team Build machine, but as from TFS 2008 the communication is set up with Windows Communication Foundation. The WCF service runs in a managed Windows Service (TfsBuildService.exe).