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We guarantee that a regular yoga practice will change your life physically, mentally and spiritually. Be prepared to sweat, work hard and feel great! You've embarked on a most incredible journey in our wonderfully supportive and nurturing environment. We will support you in every way possible to reach your personal goals.
Remember that yoga is NOT just for the incredibly flexible. There is NO requirement to chant or to be able to maneuver yourself into pretzel like positions. In fact, if you are not flexible, if you cannot touch your toes, or perhaps cannot even see your toes, you are a perfect candidate for the benefits of yoga. Most of our classes are heated, to varying degrees in order to aid in flexibility, promote release of toxins through sweat and deter, even alleviate injury.
As a beginner, it is normal to feel a little intimidated. With a consistent practice and some patience you will improve. Always take care of yourself in class. You will always feel challenged by the yoga, we all do. Our teachers will guide and instruct you and help you to discover your perfect position in that particular moment. Your body, your mind, your energy will be different every day. Stay positive, and keep trying, remember that everyone in the room was once a beginner like you!
"The postures are always the same but it's different each day." YogaSpa Bikram Student
We recommend that you start your practice with our Bikram classes. Bikram yoga consist of 26 postures and two breathing exercises practiced the same way each time at a temperature of about 100 degrees. (Remember the benefits of the heat!!) For your first class, you simply need to listen to the instructions from your teacher, try your best to do the postures and try to stay in the room. As Bikram says "try the right way" to achieve 100 percent of the benefits from every posture.
Take your second class within 24 hours of your first class. Your first class awakens and stimulates every system in your body. By your second class, your practice will already begin to create internal benefits which deliver 2-3 times more nourishment and healing to your organs, respiratory, circulatory, digestive, and nervous systems than they received in your first class. While the heat helps to reduce soreness, your body may experience some achy reminders that it appreciates getting flexible and supple again. Taking your second class within 24 hours will help to alleviate these aches and quiet the mind.
As such, make up your mind to take ten classes as close together as possible. You will feel some of the benefits of your yoga practice with your first two classes but the cumulative effect of at least ten classes WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
After your introduction we encourage you to try the other styles of yoga that we offer and try to practice a minimum of 3 times a week.
As a new student, you may be intimidated by the public classroom environment. First of all remember that EVERYONE was a beginner! However, private yoga instruction can help you integrate into our public classes and can rapidly improve your practice. Private classes allow teachers the opportunity to focus on you and make sure you are getting off to an appropriate start. We can also provide one on one sessions with your teacher on an ongoing basis. Inquire about one on one sessions or small group classes at the front desk.


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First five home-based mommy businesses are free!
Welcome to the launch of Michigan Home Mommy Works! If you are a mom, live in Michigan, and have a home-based business, you have come to the right place.
Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Lindsey Clair and as a freelance writer/blogger (my Michigan home-based business), I thought it would be fun to host a website where moms can come and showcase their businesses with other moms in Michigan. Whether it's to bring someone on board your business or to sell your services, Michigan Home Mommy Works is here for you. Upon trying to work out my kinks in this endeavor, first with Bloggy-Go-Round Business Showcase, I found something that will work better. It always pays to be persistent in all of your endeavors! Michigan Home Mommy Works is here to stay, pheww!
To celebrate the launch of Michigan Home Mommy Works, the first 5 Michigan home-based mommy businesses to submit their info to place on the website such as: Banners, links, buttons, contact info, etc., anything to showcase your business, will receive my services for free! As moms, we all like that word don't we?
If you would like your business listed, again here is the info you will need to submit:
*Contact info
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*Information highlighting your business (to be included in "Featured Michigan Mom Home-Based Business Blog). i.e if you are a photographer please include a sample of your work etc.
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Young practices across the globe are challenging conventional ways of practicing architecture. In this process of redefining the architectural scope, the practice in conversation with us this week – Studio 8FOLD – strikes right on what the field can really deliver beyond the known conceptions and how.
The talk covers their recent projects and issues that are also close to the hearts of many proactive sustainability lovers, like yourself, and concerned social reformers. If you were also impressed by their well researched competition entries and 'Wasteline' exhibition, we have got it all covered. Read on to get inspired by what Aleks, Alex and Lloyd have got to say!
Aleksandar Stojakovic
Alexander Frehse
Studio 8FOLD
Studio 8FOLD is an innovative design, strategy and research led studio based in London & Berlin.
The founders of the studio, Aleksandar Stojakovic & Alexander Frehse, see architecture as a powerful nexus to fuse social & environmentally conscious projects with capital-driven projects, spatialising an outcome that leverages the best attributes of each.
In their words, "We seek out organisations that aim to bring about a cultural shift for a more sustainable world, starting at a neighbourhood scale, and with this innovative initiative create a powerful USP for the capital-driven party involved. Through our unique set of skills in synthesising research, spatial intelligence, and bringing together the right people we help both parties to find a win-win outcome."
At Studio 8FOLD, the team values collaboration, initiative, and offer synthesis through spatial intelligence.
Lloyd Martin
Competition Head
Lloyd Martin heads the competition team at Studio 8FOLD. He was born in Zimbabwe, raised in Botswana, trained in South Africa and spent over six years travelling. He is driven by new experiences in creative and social realms; feeding off the unknown, with hunger for knowledge and adventure.
His two years at Netherlands were spent in finding opportunities for the urban metabolism framework to contribute to the sustainable development of the city. For the past two years he helped set up and has been lecturing at the Architecture Department of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. During which, he has been conducting research/working with the Great Demas Nwoko. (artist, architect, renaissance man).
DesignTerrains (DT): Welcome Aleksandar and Alex! Thank you for letting us cover your practice. Foremost, we would like to hear about the germination of Studio 8 Fold.
Alexander Frehse (Alex): The idea of studio 8FOLD was taking shape when we were both still studying at the University of Cape Town, first having met on registration day for our Bachelor's degree. Our undergraduate years were hands-on, walking the earth, having to tackle problems in extremely complex environments, and we shared the same values when it came to talking about architecture's role in shaping a better future. I guess we knew already then that we wanted to start something that would do exactly this.
Aleksandar Stojakovic (Aleks): After completing undergrad, I came to London and worked a few years at Paul Davis + Partners in London and then Grimshaw. Alex went down a different route at first and initially we parted ways. He worked at Alejandro Aravena's office ELEMENTAL, which had a remarkable impact on him. A few years later after further studying in Cape Town, he came over to London and joined me at PDP.
In the office there were a bunch of us looking to do our Part 2 qualifications, and the London School of Architecture (LSA) caused hot debate. At that stage it was a risky option to apply because it didn't yet have accreditation, no previous students, and we would be the guinea pigs, but it was promising to break ground in an architectural education that merged academia and practice and fixated on tackling the real world problems. You can guess what we did!
DT: We are grateful that you ended up setting a practice that is potentially inspiring many. Could you also share what went by to come up with the name 'Studio 8 Fold' for your practice?
Alex & Aleks: The practice's name comes from when we were discussing what we wanted to do as a practice. We were interested in the idea of taking a brief, breaking it down and seeing it in a completely different way. There's a myth that you can only fold a piece of paper in half seven times – until recently it was thought that physics simply doesn't allow it. But we heard about a group in Japan which was the first to figure out that if you have a different shape of paper you can go beyond even eight folds.
The name – Studio 8FOLD, encapsulates our idea that if you reassess the framework within which you're working, you can achieve things that no one thinks are possible: debunking myths is what we want to do in our practice. In brief, 8FOLD means to reshape and resize the problem until you discover the solution.
DT: Thanks for sharing this. Your practice also seeks to explore cultural shifts that respond to sustainability. How do you think this value is reflected in your projects?
Alex: We start with a very open conversation about sustainability. What are the client's or user's aspirations in terms of sustainability – environmentally, economically and socially? What do they fear about sustainability and how do they define it? Through a conversation we begin to discuss value, and encourage long term thinking and early planning for a project. We believe that 'Sustainability' is a mindset.
We strongly advocate for an early integration because this often can assist in tackling a classic fear – cost. But is it a cost or an investment? We also explain that there is a spectrum of sustainability which the client can access, it's not an all or nothing. We take a stance on this, that if design is to be relevant and of this day and age, it is inherently sustainable. If it is not, it is irrelevant and a harmful contribution to this planet.
DT: It's impressive that you are scoping out sustainability and its meaning for your clients. On a different note, in what different manner would you say a project evolves when the focus is on engaging stakeholders and community in its development?
Alex: We are working on a project in Germany together with a local office, where the entire inception of the project came from the stakeholders themselves. "Dorf im Dorf" or "Village in a Village" is a project where the stakeholders themselves walked into the architecture office, Architekturbüro Lindstedt, with whom we collaborate, and requested an alternative, a middleground, between a care home and single family house that should exist in their village.
The proposal has evolved to a 60 unit- intergenerational housing project that is being developed by a house builder, and has even secured some government funding for the communal spaces. Through a series of workshops with those interested, and balanced with the housebuilders requirements for it to be a feasible project, a design (still taking shape) emerged that is driven by the key values of community living, yet also has the density and logic that allows for an affordable structure, with extremely high energy standards.
Aleks: On another scale, we were approached by a philanthropist a few years ago and have since been involved in a school library project in Sri-Lanka. We started off designing it from afar and came up with the initial concept, however remembering our architectural education in Cape Town, we knew that when being on site, the project would morph, pushed and pulled by on-the-ground realities.
The key here was to have a resilient concept- ours was to make the library a place both to read and to play, which is what stuck, but we certainly had to make huge adaptations when we got there. Our drawings, which we prepared in advance, became guidelines but the reality was walking around on site with the foreman and the team, and marking in the sand or on the side of the container what we were trying to achieve. These ideas were often met with alternative suggestions, supported by their acute knowledge of the seasons, animals, and culture. These suggestions were essential for the design to be a success, the design was hence a collective effort. This hands-on design approach was extremely rewarding, and allowed for quick adaptations.
DT: These projects certainly bring forward the journey of a design from an architect's perception to the tangible forces of the site and community. We were also struck by your research-led work on understanding the waste industry and the resulting design of exhibitions for public outreach. Where and how far do you plan to take this initiative?
Alex: Waste is a huge subject that no longer can be hidden in a 20L plastic bag. We like to think of waste as a live-archaeology of mankind. What we create, use and then choose to discard is extremely revealing of who we are – as you can imagine it paints a rather dismal picture.
Aleks: I did my thesis "Wasteminster" on the topic of food waste in Soho, finding ways to bring people together to experience and understand this process and life cycle of food in our cities. With food being the catalyser that brings people together to even begin to acknowledge that this massive problem exists, our ultimate aim is making people aware.
This notion formed the basis for our exhibition "WASTELINE" (yes we have a thing for puns!). We were given an empty space on Brompton Road, opposite Harrods, and tasked to create an installation that responded to the topic "Material Consequences".
To understand the magnitude of our waste problem, a simple illusion of mirror-clad walls extrapolated a floor curated in waste that represented 1 month of office waste, scaling the issue both in time and people. Through vastness of the mirrored, the measurable amount of waste begins to convey the severity of how our consumer society occupies the planet. This experience of a partly beautiful but scary space evoked people to shift and change their habits.
Alex: Following on from this we were asked to contribute to the Seoul Biennale last year, where we exhibited our latest on-going R&D project, BLUE (Better Living Urban Environments) with the exhibited idea WasteData. The UK produces around 27 million tonnes of household waste per year, equal to around 400kg of waste per person each year. But we are also wasting 400kg of data.
If we track, analyse and understand the waste of citizens, we gain a far more honest insight of what they are consuming, wasting or replacing. It can also help us to understand how people change their behaviour in response to different conditions (social, economic or physical) such as food shortages, price changes and marketing campaigns – future archaeology.
We plan to take this further so that future city developments can be far more intelligent when it comes to planning waste management, and making society aware of its behaviour.
DT: We are completely with you on raising 'waste' awareness and inspiring conscious shifts in consumption. Another achievement of yours is the Jorejick Competition, through which we found your practice. We would like to know more about the background thoughts on this one. Like, why did you choose to work on it? And, what were your presumptions?
Aleks & Alex: We constantly look out for competitions, so much so we have Google alerts set up with the competitions that may interest us (environmental impact, innovation, Africa, Europe and UK!). We actually as of a few days ago won a competition in Lagos, Nigeria- looking at developing innovative construction and off grid systems for its housing along the waterways.
Coming back to Jorejick, it was a special competition for us because it incorporated in the brief all the aspects we know and love about architecture. It was about solving real world issues, in Tanzania, looking at the future of housing in rural and urban landscapes, and using limited resources that stemmed from a very personal story. Part of our vision and plan is to open an office in Johannesburg, South Africa and use it to develop research and delivery methods for projects such as these.
The brief for the competition allowed us to seek further understanding in fields we know little about, but are hugely interested in, such as decentralised power, urban farming, metabolic systems and impact investment. So like our many other projects we seeked the help of professionals who were experts in these fields and share the same values and ambitions. Quite often we go into a project thinking we don't know how to unlock this so how do you create a team that does.
Lloyd Martin (Competition Head): As an architectural collective, that grew up and was trained in Southern Africa, we are currently working on projects in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Tanzania and I was lecturing in Nigeria at the time.
So in order to subvert this common trend we chose to challenge the way in which we designed the buildings in a landscape and also how we represented our entry, drawing heavily from the local cultural and ecological context. Promoting a bottom up approach, instead of imposing a collective idea of what an African building should be.
The process of collaboration and several years of knowledge about building in environments like this lead us to design repeatable structures that could expand and contract as the family needed it too. This was shaped by the size and fluctuation that the family experienced in the form of migration to cities, new family members and the context of being rural, an agrarian society. Ultimately, we realised that this combined with new technology, such as solar water pumps, would mean families could double or triple their crop yield in a single year, have a place to store it, and be able to not only feed their family more easily but could sell more for additional income.
DT: Yes, a sensitive and local approach must be taken to address competition briefs, specially when these are conducted at international level. Meanwhile, congratulations on winning the Lagos: City of Water Architecture Competition hosted by Voen Associates! How did this new style of working play out and what was different about your entry, trying to tackle African Architectural stereotypes?
Lloyd: The competition was an incredible opportunity for us to explore the invaluable lessons learnt from my time in Nigeria and lessons learnt from my mentor Demas Nwoko, who had set up the New Culture Studio and Mbari club, both pivotal elements of the post colonial Nigerian creative movement, giving rise to the likes of Wole Soyinka and Fela Kuti. Using the latter as inspiration, the project was named "Water No Get Enemy" after Fela's classic 1975 hit, which explains the salience of water. It mentions the obvious needs – washing, cooking, bathing, the raising of a child, etc.
In this highly politically charged song, Fela also suggests that, if the Nigerian political opposition work with nature, their ultimate victory is assured. The proposal does not criticize the current political and urban planning that lead to the severe flooding in Lagos or the dire situation of the Makoko floating village, it instead accepts this reality and embraces the opportunities of this inevitable water based future.
So our proposal embraced this inevitable future, more so because of the climate change. It envisions a new form of urbanism that enhances a symbiotic relationship between man and water. Adopting the monopile construction system, that is utilised in offshore wind farms, we made a deliberate choice in stark opposition to the typically used floating technique. Spatially, each community cluster is supported by Service Platforms, Biorefineries and Market/Sports fields. The Clusters grow organically over time, adapting to the ever increasing demand for housing in Lagos. Each home is envisioned as an enclosed loop, in which the circular economy and metabolism of the home is of primary importance. All of this is supported by the sturdy nature of the pile, that provides a secure and solid base for communities to flourish, free from flooding.
DT: It's incredible that your proposal chose to work with the flood water as a comrade and respected nature's working. This brings us to the ultimate part of this inquest. What kind of projects do you look forward to working on in the near future? Is there a new domain in the field that you are planning to experiment with?
Aleks: Many of our friends say we are "YES" humans, that we can't help ourselves but get excited by people's stories and ideas. So naturally, there are a few projects we are working on for the future. We would love to be doing more public buildings and public spaces, further engage with stakeholders and deal with complex scenarios, where there is an opportunity to create a positive impact for a wider audience. As we are a recently set up company, we are getting access to these types of projects by collaborating with larger firms.
Alex: Ultimately we want to work on design that primarily responds to issues surrounding our natural habitats, climate change, and to make architectural services available to those who need it the most. This year, prompted by the COVID outbreak, we hosted a competition calling for briefs from around the world with the winning brief receiving a free concept design. It has been hugely positive and we are aiming to continue it as an annual competition. You could say we like working in the fringes. In our collaboration with Architekturbüro Lindstedt, we are looking forward to intensely study and look at the edge of cities, the space between urban and rural. We see a great future there.
Alex & Aleks: Finally, our longer term play is to use architectural thinking to move our practice, and even the profession forward, in becoming more resilient to the ebbs and flows of economies and help deal with the Climate Emergency. Currently, architects come across many issues, both in urban and rural working. Often these are outside the realm of architecture, even though it has led them to the problem and possibly the potential solution, sometimes the solution is not an architectural one, but rather a manufacturing one, a tech based solution or policy based change. By using the strength of architectural thinking in problem solving and combining it with the business of architecture, architectural practices can broaden their portfolios and become more resilient in uncertain times. Diversity of business means resilience. So we are excited to take some of these problems and turn them into new forms of business like BLUE, that is looking to be a tech-company that develops urban solutions.
We are thankful to Alex, Aleks & Lolyd for giving us a chance to brew this immersive conversation. We hope that our readers would have found it encouraging to propel towards responsive and responsible architecture.
Let us know what were the most inspiring sections of the conversation by adding a comment below!


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Side event// SOLAW21: Sustainable, Scalable and Dynamic Solutions in land and water management towards Food System Transformation
In the lead-up to Science Days and the UN Foods Systems Summit 2021, the side events offer an opportunity for partners to present their insights on science, technologies, and innovations that can drive food systems transformation. This side event on "Sustainable, Scalable and Dynamic Solutions in land and water management towards Food System Transformation" will feature a panel discussion on regional and country perspectives on the state of land water and soil and key challenge areas to address land, water, and soil problems in an integrated manner.
July 7 | 10:00 AM CEST
In the preparation of the upcoming FAO flagship report on the State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW21), a well-known assessment framework using the DPSIR (driver, pressure, state, impact and responses) shows how to address the challenges of scarcity of water and degradation of land and soil resources, that threaten our food security.
A focus on prioritized actions through carefully designed responses must be effective and that fully considers potential trade-offs and synergies between agriculture and other ecosystem services, as well as appropriate investments in sustainable land, soil and water management to mitigate and adapt to climate change and natural resource degradation.
About the event
Over 300 individuals and partners contributed to the preparation and realization of SOLAW21. In this side event of the United Nations Food System Summit 2021, Contributors will speak on land, soil and water linkages. You will also hear from FAO Regional and Decentralized Officers who facilitated inputs from the field through the DPSIR Framework key questions and findings, along with partners from the Philippines on how the SOLAW 2021 data and information can bring new knowledge and focus on priority response actions, and whether they need to be scaled up for further investments. This side event also hopes to spark discussions on the need for simple and friendly tools at the local, regional and global levels that can bring us together in finding common solutions.
The event will be in English with French interpretation available.
The side event is convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Griffith University (Australia); Future Earth; Philippine Council for Agriculture; Aquatic, and Natural Resources Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PCAARRD); University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) and Visayas State University (VSU), ACIAR.
Tentative agenda
Opening Remarks
Sasha Koo-Oshima, Deputy Director, FAO Land and Water Division
Keynote presentation
Sonia M. Salguero, Director, Bureau of Soil and Water Management, Department of Agriculture, Philippines (TBC)
The Role of SOLAW
Feras Ziadat, SOLAW21 Coordinator, FAO Land and Water Division
Identifying Scalable and Sustainable Responses,
Anik Bhaduri, Director, Sustainable Water Future Programme, Future Earth & Associate Professor, Griffith University, Expert Consultant, FAO Land and Water Division
Panel Discussion - Regional and Country Perspectives on the State of land water and soil and key challenge areas to address land, water and soil problems in an integrated manner
Topics for discussion
- How SOLAW-21 reflects regional and country challenges in land and water degradation
- What is the added value of the SOLAW?
- What is the crucial Role of Data, information on land, water and soil to support Sustainable Food Systems?
- How can we address "Value": a missing element in our Systems Thinking?
Panel members
- Sonia M. Salguero
- Patricia Ann Sanchez, Professor at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB)
- James Quilty Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) (TBC)
- Representatives from Land and Water Technical Officers from FAO Regional and Decentralized Offices
You can register here for the event on Zoom.
- Announcement of the side event
- The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW) - First Edition (2011) Full Report
- The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW) - First Edition (2011) Summary Report


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- Chanting Workshops
Chanting Workshops
Opening the heart
Kirtan, or chanting, is singing with love, devotion and faith. Kirtan elevates the mind, opens the heart and soothes the nerves. Kirtan gives you strength to face difficulties in life. It is a powerful mental tonic.
Workshop topics include:
- Introduction to kirtan and its benefits
- Mantra chanting to calm the mind and open the heart
- Experience the joy of chanting and express your feelings in a positive way
- Practice the traditional Sivananda daily chants
- Using cymbals and clapping hands to accompany kirtan
Monday 24 July 6.30 – 8pm
Thursday 17 August 7 – 8.30pm
Saturday 11 November 2 – 3.30pm
Member : £12,50 Non-member : £17 Concessions : £12
"Kirtan melts the heart,fills the mind with purityand generates harmony and divine love."– Swami Sivananda


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The Second Sunday in Lent at St. Peter and St. William Parishes in Naples, FL
The Second Sunday in Lent
25 February 2018 At Saint Peter and Saint William Churches in Naples, FL
Genesis 22, 1-2,9, 10-13, 15-19 + Psalm 116 + Romans 8, 31034 + Mark 9, 2-10
In the first reading today, we must not be distracted by Isaac and his traumatic experience. That story is about Abraham. It is somewhat the same with the Gospel today. That story is about those apostles, it is not about Jesus. That voice speaks to the Apostles. Jesus already heard that voice at his Baptism.
Everything Abraham had was given to him by God. Everything, including that son who came late and marvelously into the life of Abraham and Sarah. What God asks is that Abraham return to God absolutely everything God has given him. … more »


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EUclaim wins Easyjet Court case in the UK
Together with our partners, Bott & Co, EUclaim started a legal procedure in the UK for flight U2 5073 of 22 July 2012. The flight was due to depart from London Gatwick to Nice. However, the flight was delayed for more than 3 hours.
Easyjet stated that extraordinary circumstances were involved, thus they were not obliged to pay compensation to the passenger. There supposedly were bad weather conditions, causing the flight to delay. However, our investigation showed that the bad weather was present at the departure airport of the incoming flight. No bad weather whatsoever was causing delays on the route London – Nice.
Fortunately the Court agreed with us and ruled in favor of the passenger. Bad weather conditions on an incoming flight, causing the next flight to delay is not an extraordinary circumstance.
If you want to read a more detailed version of the client's story, please click here.
The many faces behind EUclaim: Rosella Next blog
Delays at airports in the UK and the Netherlands due to fog


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I love having time to do the things I enjoy. I've been trying to make time for creativity, but there's nothing like a vacation. The last couple of days have been especially fun, editing wise. I missed spending quality time with my girls…my female characters, that is. It's strange. I created them, but they've taken on a life of their own. I'm not exactly a girlie sort of person. I look like I would be, but I'm not. I like getting my hands dirty. I like building things. I live in house full of guys, and I'm quite comfortable around them. But there's a side of me that needs to come out, from time to time. She likes antique china, and ribbons, and frills. She secretly likes the color pink, in small quantities of course. 🙂 She like to watch old, sappy movies that make you want to cry. I don't spend NEARLY enough time with this part of myself. However, I've noticed that the more time I spend with "my girls" on a regular basis, the more I want to do girl stuff. My characters aren't me, but we share some common interests. I'd hang out with them.
So…after a serious round of edits, I decided to give my brain a break. I watched some chick-flicks and drug out my embroidery floss. I don't know why. My two main characters don't sew, but I do. I haven't embroidered ANYTHING in years, but I found some of floss while I was going through some of my old stuff. Wow! It felt good to be able to be creative with a needle and thread again. No rhyme or reason. No pattern. Just…playing.
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At this event, Princeton University and the Brookings Institution will release the latest issue of The Future of Children—a journal that promotes effective, evidence-based policies and programs for children, alongside a policy brief, Helping Children with Parents in Prison and Children in Foster Care. The current issue of The Future of Children, titled "Reducing Justice System Inequality," proposes solutions to mitigating the effects of the justice system on children and youth. Following an overview of the latest journal volume and the accompanying policy brief, Harvard Professor Robert J. Sampson will give keynote remarks about the impacts of neighborhood inequality on children, especially those with incarcerated parents and those exposed to violence. The event will conclude with an expert panel discussion of ways to help the prospects of children with an incarcerated parent or who are or have been in foster care. All participants will take questions from the audience.
Date: Wednesday, May 9
Time: 1–3 p.m. ET
Location: Washington, DC
Learn more and register. This event will be live webcast. You can follow on Twitter with #FutureOfChildren.
Source: JusticeCenter


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The Lord is Good and worthy of our Praise!
Be Glad in the Lord, and Rejoice!
Shout for Joy, and Dance!
Ooh, Praise Him!!
Watch this youtube video to get you in the mood to praise God:
David Crowder – Oh Praise Him
He is Holy!
Praise Him, Right Now!
We have been going over some Hebrew words for praise. Do you remember some of them? Let's Review:
Yadah (ya-dah) means to willfully throw your hands up to praise with power.
Todah (to-da'), we lift our hands, as a sacrificial offering for future things that are unseen.
Halal (ha-lal) means to celebrate, or act clamorously foolish in your praise.
Tehillah (teh-hil-la'), we sing a new song unto the Lord – in the gift of tongues as well.
Ruwa (ru-ah) means to give your best shout, like an alarming trumpet – Glory!
Shabach (sha-bakh'), shouting, means to address in a L O U D tone and glorifying the Lord
Taqa' (tä—kah'), we clap our hands in applaud; rejoicing
Alaz (al-az) means "to rejoice, to exult, to jump for joy".
Karar (Ka –rar') means "to dance and whirl about".
Machowl (ma'khole') means "a round dance, like whirling particles, as sand)".
Mechowlah (mek-o-la') means "a dance:-company dances" with more than one person.
Pazaz (pa-zaz) means "to leap, to spring, to bound, be agile – made strong, be supple as if separating the limbs, or flee as a gazelle.
These words will help you express your praise. Do you know that praise is a powerful weapon, and can shape your destiny?
"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." – Proverbs 18:21
What have you been saying about yourself and your current situation? Have you been blessing or cursing? God has set before you this day the power of praise – the blessing, or the power of fear – the cursing. Choose today!
You spend too much time worrying, complaining, and living in fear; where satan would love for you to stay in that state, but God made available for all to choose life (Deuteronomy 30:19)! It's your decision, and no one can make that decision for you. So what are you choosing today? Life of praise, I hope!
I have a great story that you can find in the book called "Praise Avenue" by Don Gossett. If you are here for the first time. I have available for you the first chapter in this book if you would like to read it, click here. Mr. Gossett tells of a couple named Mr. & Mrs. Perry Cowger, and how they found that praise is the key to everything.
"Mr.& Mrs. Perry Cowger of Burnaby, British Columbia, were on a holiday north of Fort St. John, B.C.
While traveling many miles from where anyone lived, they stopped beside a river for a picnic. When they were ready to continue their journey, they could not find their car keys. In desperation, they searched all over the car and around the area where they had had their picnic. But their search was fruitless.
Brother Cowger shares their dilemma: "We had looked everywhere possible. No keys were to be found! We prayed fervently, but it seemed there was no answer to our prayers."
Suddenly Mrs. Cowger thought of a possible solution for their problem. "Brother Gossett tells us to 'praise the Lord anyhow!'" she stated. "Let's praise the Lord right here in these desperate circumstances and see what happens."
Brother and Sister Cowger lifted their hands and voices and praised the Lord right out there in their place of isolation, many miles from anyone and anywhere.
Brother Cowger testifies, "When we began to praise the Lord, we glanced at a certain spot on the ground, and there were the keys!"
Beloved, when you begin to praise the Lord, you have the keys. You have the keys to every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. You have the keys to divine healing and health. You have the keys to God's deliverance."
And that's Praise. Praise is in your mouth – your tongue!
The tongue is to speak forth a prophecy on a daily basis. It will speak life or death. The blessing and the cursing!
If you do not know what to say, don't say anything until you start speaking the Word of God into your life (Proverbs 15:4). The tongue is to express the glory and the power of God. He has given this weapon to you for self-defense. That's why I said to you before that "Praise is a Weapon, Use it"!
God said to you, "speak… and say… in faith… according to the Word." You are to speak out in faith what you want to come to pass, just like Him. "Light be!" and light was (Genesis 1:3). Amen.
Let's read some scriptures about the tongue:
James 1:26
If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Peter 3:10
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Psalm 34:13
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Psalm 35:28
And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
Psalm 37:30
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
Psalm 39:1
I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Psalm 39:3
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
Psalm 45:1
My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalm 119:172
My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
These are only a few of the scriptures available for study. As you can see, the tongue plays an important part in your destiny. Yesterday I asked you to check your motive before praising and worshipping the Lord. Now, I'm asking you to keep your tongue, and praise!
Here is something that I have posted up in my house:
G Clan (my last name initial "G")
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You mouth determines your success or failure in life. What are you going to choose? You are the only one that can be the pilot of your life; which direction will you take?
Praise is the key to the presence of God. It is essential to the knowledge and purpose of His will, but you must speak life! Open up your mouth and say God's will for your life.
Praise is in your mouth – invite Him in!
Please listen and do what God is calling for you to do – PRAISE HIM!
Ooh Glory to His Name!
He is worthy.
Until next time, continue to be blessed and Praise the Lord!
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There has been a bit of publicity of late about the difficulties that some law firms are having in adapting to the continuing disruptive change that characterises the Digital Paradigm. The introduction and use of information technologies provides one example.
A lawyer's stock in trade is not time, as has been suggested in the past. It is, in fact, information. The law office is an information hub with information flows coming in and out in the form of instructions, advice, the provision of information necessary to complete transactions, the preparation of materials to inform the Court of the nature of a dispute and the like. Information technologies must be a part of everyday legal practice. Technology enables law firms to do better in the provision of their services, and can assist in providing clients with cheaper, high-quality and nimble services.
Smaller law firms face a real challenge. There is not the division of labour in a smaller form, tuned to fulfilling client needs, to step back and take a deep perspective view of the future. Big law firms are able to attend to this aspect of practice management and often have internal teams working on little else. The smaller firms and the sole practitioners need to focus on things like websites, digital marketing, social media, e-discovery and cloud-based tools for practice and case management—hopefully giving them a competitive advantage in job market and spurring the use of new technology in every day legal practice. Cloud technology, for example, "is removing many obstacles by reducing hardware and in-house IT investments, quelling cybersecurity concerns, easing the complexity of scaling and updating software, and providing better overall access to general computing power. Additionally, as vendors continue to place more of a premium on providing online training modules for their products, the last great barrier to remain will simply be motivation" according to Mike Susong of Legaltech News.
At a recent forum titled "The Future of Legal Services in the United States: The ABA Issues a Clarion Call for Change" discussions centred on the problems citizens faced getting access to legal services. William Hubbard, immediate past-president of the American Bar Association suggested lawyers think more creatively about how they deliver legal services meaning that lawyers should "embrace technology and the benefits technology can bring to provide new avenues to provide legal services to those in need."
There is a significant recognition, especially by the ABA, of the importance of technological knowledge and understanding as part of professional competence requirements. Four years ago, in 2012 the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct required, as part of the commentary to Rule 1.1, that lawyers have a duty to keep abreast of the benefits and risks associated with technology.
In September 2016 the Florida Supreme Court took the matter one step further, issuing an opinion adopting the Florida Bar Association's proposal for mandatory technology Continuing Legal Education (CLE).
"In addition to adding the three-hour requirement, the court also amended a comment to its rule on lawyer competence to say that lawyers could retain non-lawyer advisers with "established technological competence in the relevant field."
The court added that competent representation may also involve cybersecurity and safeguarding confidential information. "In order to maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a lawyer should engage in continuing study and education, including an understanding of the risks and benefits associated with the use of technology," the court held."
It will be interesting to see if this move catches on. There can be no doubt that CLE programmes contain technology oriented modules, but the Florida move now makes it mandatory. This must be viewed as a necessary step as we move further and further into the Digital Paradigm and more and more aspects of technology permeate the legal landscape.
I have argued in the past that lawyers who argue technology related cases need to understand the technology and how it works. There is no point arguing a case about publication of material on social media without knowing how the platform operates, what its parameters and settings are, what the settings were at the relevant time and, importantly, how those settings can be located and examined. There is not really a "one size fits all" approach that can be adopted to social media and it would be unwise to make generalised assumptions about the qualities and operation of a platform.
There is little point in attending a case management conference about e-discovery unless the lawyers are aware of the various technologies that are available and, as importantly, how they work so that a reasonable and proportionate discovery proposal can be reached.
The nature of digital information, in and of itself, is paradigmatically different from that which is recorded on paper. Lawyers must understand this and recognise that although content is king most of the time, what lies beneath the content can be as informative, if not more so, than the content on the face of the document.
There are many more examples but the message is clear. Lawyers cannot be resistant to the Digital winds of change that are blowing. Bend, adapt, adopt must be the message for lawyers in the Digital Paradigm.


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2018 California Code
Food and Agricultural Code - FAC
Section 81001.
(a) There is in the department an Industrial Hemp Advisory Board. The board shall consist of 11 members, appointed by the secretary as follows:
(1) Three of the board members shall be growers of industrial hemp that are registered pursuant to the provisions of this division. In the case of forming the initial board, and if the registration program established pursuant to this division has not yet been implemented, these board members shall be those who intend to register as growers of industrial hemp. A member of the board who is a grower of industrial hemp, or who intends to register as a grower of industrial hemp, shall be a representative of at least one of the following functions:
(A) Seed production.
(B) Seed condition.
(C) Marketing.
(D) Seed utilization.
(2) Two of the board members shall be members of an established agricultural research institution.
(3) One member of the board shall be a representative as provided by the California State Sheriffs' Association and approved by the secretary.
(4) One member of the board shall be a county agricultural commissioner.
(5) One member of the board shall be a representative of the Hemp Industries Association or its successor industry association.
(6) One member of the board shall be a representative of industrial hemp product processors or manufacturers.
(7) One member of the board shall be a representative of businesses that sell industrial hemp products.
(8) One member of the board shall be a member of the public.
(b) It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that growers and representatives of industrial hemp product manufacturers and businesses appointed to the board pursuant to this division are intended to represent and further the interest of a particular agricultural industry, and that the representation and furtherance is intended to serve the public interest. Accordingly, the Legislature finds that persons who are appointed to the board shall be subject to the conflict-of-interest provisions described in Section 87103 of the Government Code.
(c) The term of office for a member of the board is three years. If a vacancy exists, the secretary shall, consistent with the membership requirements described in subdivision (a), appoint a replacement member to the board for the duration of the term.
(d) A member of the board shall not receive a salary but may be reimbursed by the department for attendance at meetings and other board activities authorized by the board and approved by the secretary.
(e) The board shall advise the secretary and may make recommendations on all matters pertaining to this division, including, but not limited to, industrial hemp seed law and regulations, enforcement, annual budgets required to accomplish the purposes of this division, and the setting of an appropriate assessment rate necessary for the administration of this division.
(f) The board shall annually elect a chair from its membership and, from time to time, other officers as it deems necessary.
(g) The board shall meet at the call of its chair or the secretary, or at the request of any four members of the board. The board shall meet at least once a year to review budget proposals and fiscal matters related to the proposals.
(Added by Stats. 2013, Ch. 398, Sec. 4. (SB 566) Effective January 1, 2014. Section operative January 1, 2017, pursuant to Section 81010.)


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As I write this, Caleb is singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on that little Fisher-Price radio with the microphone that Haley had when she was little. You probably played with it too. This coming Friday night, I'm going to an observatory with some friends to look up at the night sky. I spent many evenings in the middle of my lawn looking upward when you first went home to Heaven. It made me feel close to you. You are always close to my heart.
Happy Bday KK-Doobeedoo!


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BC Offshore School in Qatar, Middle East, Immediate and 2018-19 Licensed Grade 5 Homeroom Teachers P
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Hayat Universal School (HUBS) Qatar
This ESL English teaching position has been posted by Hayat Universal School (HUBS) Qatar, apply now for this great job to teach English in Qatar. More job details below.
About the Job
BC Offshore School in Qatar, Middle East, Immediate and 2018-19 Licensed Grade 5 Homeroom Teachers Positions
Licensed Teacher Positions: Canada, United States, UK, New Zealand, Australia or South Africa Licensed Teachers are needed for a BC Certified School in Qatar, Middle East
- Grade 5 Homeroom Teachers
How to Apply:
email your resume and cover letter to:
email@example.com. In the Subject field, please insert "Dave's ESL Cafe 1718" and the position applied for.
School Website:
Doha, Qatar.
Contract Terms:
Two-year contracts are provided with a higher starting salary.
Compensation and Benefits:
- Starting salary can range from CAD 43,000 - 56,000 annually for bachelor degree holders, with two years experience and are willing to commit for two year contracts.
- Salary is tax free. There are no income taxes in Qatar
- End of service benefit at the rate of 70 % of one-month gross salary for every full year of service
- Furnished, air-conditioned housing.
- Transportation allowance of Qatari Riyal 1,000 (If accommodation is not within walking distance from the school, the school will arrange for transportation to and from the school).
- All utilities paid except telephone and Internet bills
- Economy airfare at the beginning and end of the contract
- Annual economy round-trip air fare to point of origin at the time of summer vacation
- Local private medical insurance
- Reimbursement of excess baggage expenses
- School will arrange and bear the Qatar government fee of your visa, work permit and national identification.
- Teachers with families receive additional benefits for their family members including larger housing, higher excess baggage allowance, children schooling, tickets, medical insurance and help with visa expenses. There is a range of these benefits based on years of experience.
- Participation in extracurricular activities organized by the school is optional. Teachers who choose to participate receive 50% of fee collected for the activity.
Candidate Profile and Qualifications:
- The school hires licensed teachers from BC and other Canadian provinces and Teachers who have Elementary Certification from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand or South Africa. Teachers who are licensed in jurisdictions other than Canada British Columbia would be expected to work on their BC certification after they accept an official offer from the school.
- A minimum of two years of experience is required.
- Experience in differentiated learning and thematic instruction is strongly preferred
- Experience in ESL education is strongly preferred.
- International experience and/or an attitude of respect to other cultures is needed.
School Overview:
Hayat Universal School (HUBS) Qatar is a British Columbia Certified Offshore School (fully accredited by the BC Ministry of Education). This is the link to the BC Certified Offshore Schools:
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/offshore_schools/offshrschls_list.pd f
The Ministry thoroughly inspects our school every year. For example, inspectors look into BC program year plans, instructional time, instructional methods, admission system, integrity of promotion and registration process, support services, school policies, safety and supervision plans, student and staff records, teacher and principal certification and hiring practices, learning resources, facilities and school licensing.
To graduate from our school, students will have to successfully complete the requirements of the British Columbia graduation program in English. Graduates receive the British Columbia Certificate of Graduation (Dogwood Diploma).
Although the school offers bilingual/bi-cultural education with an Arabic Program that implements the Qatar National Curriculum, the main program is the BC program with the majority of the instructional time dedicated for this program (80% in K and 74% starting Grade 1)
The school started in 2009-2010 with KG1 - Grade 3 and has been adding a grade every year with the movement of students to higher grades. It offers up to Grade 10 in 2016-2017 and will be adding Grade 11 in 2017-2018. The purpose of this approach is to make the lower grades the main point of entry to the school and to keep transfers in the higher primary and intermediate grades to the minimum.
From 190 students in its first year (2009-2010), the school has grown to 1237 students in 2016-2017, with 1045 enrolled in the BC Program, which starts at KG2. The remaining students are registered in our Early Childhood Program (PreKG and KG1). The school's reputation and its remarkable success are attributed to its bilingual program, the world-class BC program it implements and the quality and dedication of the school team of teachers and administrators who make these programs a success. The students are predominantly Qataris and ESL learners. The school Early Childhood Grades (PreKG and KG1) prepare students for the BC Program. English is the main language of instruction in these grades. Their curriculum dovetails with the BC curriculum.
HUBS Qatar is the culmination of the vision and experience of a renowned psychologist and educator in the Middle East. Parents, teachers and BC inspectors sense the community that prevails in the school. In the year (2016-2017), the school team of educators include 68 administrators; classroom, support and ESL teachers. 52 are licensed educators, 48 Canadians,3 Americans and 1 South African. The remaining 14 qualified teachers are from Canada, Lebanon, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Tunisia, Romania and South Africa. There are also 28 Arab teachers who deliver the Arabic Program. The school is supported by a team of teacher assistants. Each PreKG - Grade 2 class is assigned a teaching assistant. TA time is provided to the higher elementary grades on part time basis.
Get a feel of our school! Visit the photo gallery on our website to see pictures of staff, students and facilities!
http://www.hayatschool.com/MediaGallery/HayatGallery.asp?categ oryid=73
Qatar is a stable and wealthy small country. The government has a vision for this small country that makes citizens proud. Doha, the capital is the only city in the country. It is an upscale expatriate-friendly city that is close to many travel destinations. Qatar has taken major strides in developing education with many major international universities opening branches here. The country hosts a wealth of international and regional sports and cultural events. These are some links to introduce you to the Qatar:


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Pillsbury Grands biscuits are on sale at my local grocery store Smiths and with a coupon, they are less than a dollar a tube so I bought a bunch of them. This recipe comes from http://www.pillsbury.com. It was quick, easy and yummy, my 3 favorite things in a recipe!
1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
1 (15 oz) can spicy chili beans, undrained (I used a can of black beans and drained and rinsed them)
1 (1.25 oz) package taco seasoning mix
1/2 cup water
1 (16.3 oz) can Pillsbury Grands! refrigerated buttermilk biscuits
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1/2 cup lettuce
1/2 cup chopped tomato
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup salsa
1 Heat oven to 375. Brown ground beef in large skillet over medium high heat until thoroughly cooked, stirring frequently. Drain.
2 Add chili beans, taco seasoning and water and mix well. Reduce heat to medium, simmer 10 minutes or until ground beef mixture is slightly thickened, stirring occasionally.
3 Meanwhile, spray outside bottom and sides of 8 (6 oz) custard cups lightly with nonstick cooking spray. (You could also use your muffin pan and just turn it upside down.) Separate dough into 8 biscuits. Roll or pat each biscuit to form 4 1/2″ round. Place rounds over outside of sprayed cups; press to fit over bottom and part way down sides of cups. Place cups, upside down, in ungreased 15 x 10 x 1″ baking pan (or on a cookie sheet).
4 Bake at 375 for 14 – 16 minutes or until deep golden brown. Remove pan from oven. Carefully remove biscuit cups from custard cups. Place biscuit cups, right side up, in same baking pan or on sheet. Spoon beef mixture evenly into each cup.
5 Top with cheese, lettuce, tomato, sour cream and salsa.


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What Is Two-Way Communication?
'Can you hear me now? How about now?' Who can forget that iconic commercial for wireless phone service where the hapless signal tester is wandering the countryside looking for feedback? His quest for a response to his message is an attempt to engage in two-way communication with the person on the other end. Let's look at some simple model for two-way communication on www.hamtwowayradio.com.
About HamTwoWayRadio
HamTwoWayRadio was founded by Radio Enthusiasts who was proficient in radio, and understood that Two way radios are essential for key in any organization and institution ranging from police departments to construction companies.


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PRIVATE OASIS ON 7+ BEAUTIFUL ACRES LOCATED WITHIN 30 MINUTES TO HUNTSVILLE. Pretty treed property with newer bungalow all fenced with its own trails, barn and oversized gardens. Enjoy very own apple trees and ever-growing raspberries and vegetable gardens. If you are an animal lover, this could be the property for you with multiple outbuildings, paddocks and chicken coop for small livestock. There are many permitted uses here; commercial nursery, commercial self storage, convenience/retail store, farm produce sales outlet, kennel, recreational facility, veterinary clinic and much more. The 2021 custom built bungalow includes a bright and airy open concept main floor with laminate flooring throughout. Kitchen opens onto living and dining area with a cozy propane fireplace. Direct access to the large deck overlooking the front yard and gardens with a propane hook-up for your BBQ. The main floor includes two bedrooms with double closets as well as a 3pc bath with main floor laundry and a propane fireplace. The lower level has a partially finished family room. The home has ICF foundation from floor to the rafters so efficient to run. Detached double garage for your toys with plenty of room to park your RV on the property. Circular driveway with Commercial building closer to the road to hang your hat out, with its' own separate parking area. 840 sq.ft. insulated Quonset hut with man door and window with concrete poured floor, in-floor heat, hydro and water. Good cell service here and hi-speed internet which is hard to find in most rural areas. This is the ideal property to grow your own food, raise your own livestock and run a home based business, there are so many options here. Sequin trail system crosses bottom side of driveway for enjoyment year round, walking, sledding, ATV-ing etc. Close proximity to many lakes and to Hwy 11 and only 2.5 hours to the GTA. (id:43031)
2352 518 Highway, Sprucedale
- Listing ID: 40348176
- Property Type: Single Family
- Year Built: 2021
|Utility Room
|17'5'' x 4'3''
|Family Room
|17'5'' x 13'9''
|Main Level
|10'1'' x 9'10''
|Main Level
|3pc Bathroom
|10'1'' x 9'9''
|Main Level
|Primary Bedroom
|10'1'' x 11'7''
|Main Level
|16'3'' x 7'10''
|Main Level
|Living Room/Dining Room
|21'7'' x 11'11''
- Architectural Style: Bungalow
- Amenities Nearby: Airport, Beach, Golf Nearby, Park, Playground, Shopping
- Communication: High Speed Internet
- Community Features: Quiet Area, Community Centre, School Bus
- Equipment: Propane Tank
- Features: Southern exposure, Park/reserve, Golf course/parkland, Beach, Crushed stone driveway, Country residential
- Ownership: Freehold
- Parking Spaces: 12
- Rental Equipment: Propane Tank
- Structure: Shed, Barn
- Transaction: For sale
- Zoning Description: General Commercial
- Appliances: Dishwasher, Dryer, Microwave, Satellite Dish, Stove, Washer, Window Coverings
- Architectural Style: Bungalow
- BasementType: Partial (Partially finished)
- Basement Development: Partially finished
- Bedrooms Main Level: 2
- Constructed Date: 2021
- Construction Style Attachment: Detached
- Cooling: None
- Exterior Finish: Vinyl siding
- Fireplace Present: False
- Fixture: Ceiling fans
- Bathrooms (Total): 1
- Heating: Baseboard heaters, In Floor Heating
- Heating Fuel: Propane
- Size Interior: 992.5000
- Stories Total: 1
- Type: House
- Utility Water: Drilled Well
- Access Type: Road access, Highway access
- Acreage: true
- Amenities: Airport, Beach, Golf Nearby, Park, Playground, Shopping
- Fence: Fence
- Landscape Features: Landscaped
- Sewer: Septic System
- Size Frontage: 270 ft
- Size Irregular: 7.34
- Size Total: 7.34 ac|5 - 9.99 acres
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An efficient sewage ejector pump is a must for some properties to be hygienic and habitable. If your home or business place is connected to city sewers or a privately installed septic system that is located uphill from your drains, you will need a sewer pump to force the wastewater up the sewer pipe and into the septic tank or sewer main.
For this reason, breakdown of the sewage pump is, obviously, a big problem. When the pump doesn't work, sewage keeps backing into a building until suitable sewer pump repair is done. Waste no time in calling Lee's Sanitation Service for sewer pump repair services in Federal Way, WA if the waste from your property is hampered by a defective sewer pump.
We schedule your sewage pump repair job ASAP. We also make every effort to get the sewer pump repair on your Federal Way property done before sewage backup:
- Brings your household/business to a halt
- Creates health and environmental hazards
- Causes property damage
Call now to discuss your septic pump repair needs.
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Time is of the essence when it comes to sewage pump repair. Nobody appreciates this better than us. However, we also realize that speed should not come at the cost of quality.
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It came as no surprise when the Knicks officially removed the interim tag from head coach Mike Woodson's title. The players responded to Woodson, finishing the season with an 18-6 record after he replaced the departed Mike D'Antoni, and his stars, most notably Carmelo Anthony, publicly backed him after the Knicks first-round playoff exit.
Curiously, the Knicks, who are always looking to make a splash, decided to wait until after 5:00 PM on a Friday evening before a holiday weekend to announce Woodson's new contract. It was as if they were trying to slip something past the media and fan base, which of course, they were.
Phil Jackson, the most successful coach in N.B.A. history, is healthy, unemployed and interested in returning to coaching and Knicks general manager Glen Grunwald didn't even so much as make a phone call to gauge his interest in coaching his former team.
"I think Woody earned the right to be the first person we talked to and turned out to be the only person we talked to," Grunwald said.
"Obviously, there are some great coaches out there that, had we opened up the search, would have been called. Namely Phil Jackson, who was the most successful coach in the NBA history. We felt Woody was our guy and he showed it during the season and in our discussions after the season."
I don't mean to take anything away from Woodson. His Hawks team improved during each of his six seasons coaching in Atlanta and he salvaged what was quickly descending into a lost season for the Knicks. He holds players accountable, especially on the defensive end and he convinced the disjointed Knicks to buy into an offensive system geared towards the strengths of their best scorers.
There's something to be said for continuity within a franchise, especially after a disastrous decade and a particularly tumultuous season. Grunwald was also wise not to open a full scale search for a head coach, which based on the recent history of the franchise and owner James Dolan's reputation would have been more embarrassing than fruitful and would have undermined the team's confidence in Woodson, who would likely have landed the job eventually anyway.
Neither of the Van Gundy boys, both of whom are considered better coaches than Woodson would have taken the job. Jeff coached for Dolan once before and I doubt there's a number high enough to convince him to leave the ESPN booth and do it again. Stan wasn't about to walk into Dolan's den after his year of turmoil in Orlando.
Woody was a safer choice than sentimental favorite Patrick Ewing and flashy Kentucky coach John Calipari, neither of whom have had any success as a head coach in the NBA. And as great a coach as Jerry Sloan is, his inability to coral Deron Williams in Utah, had to raise questions for the Knicks brass as to whether he and his ball-movement offense could co-exist with Anthony in New York.
With 13 championship rings (11 as a coach and two as a player for the Knicks), Phil Jackson is in a class of his own. Grunwald could have reached out to him and still hired Woodson in the event that Jackson wasn't interested or the two sides failed to work out a deal, without Woodson losing face. Jackson also has experience coaching superstars and the cachet to bring Anthony on board.
Grunwald didn't explain his unwillingness to contact Jackson, other than to state that Woodson had the first shot at the job and he blew Grunwald and Dolan away during his interview. So, are we to believe that based on 24 games and an interview that Woodson is more qualified to lead this Knicks team to a championship than Jackson?
Grunwald's history with Woodson had to factor into his decision. The two were teammates at Indian University under Bobby Knight. From a more sinister perspective, it's natural to wonder if another former Indiana Hoosier and Dolan adviser, Isiah Thomas, was involved with the decision. Is it merely a coincidence that the two men who replaced him as the Knicks coach and general manager were ultimately forced out in favor of two IU grads?
It's also conceivable that Dolan was turned off by Jackson's personality and/or price tag. The Knicks owner is fanatical about controlling the flow of information out of the franchise and the Zen Master is known to speak his mind about various league, team and player issues. Jackson also would have likely demanded at least $10 million a year, $6 million per year more than the Knicks are paying Woodson. Though, money has never been an issue for Dolan before and he couldn't have known Jackson's price tag without reaching out to him.
It's not clear whether Jackson would have been interested in the job if the Knicks did call. Sources close to him, including his girlfriend Jeanie Buss, have stated that he's interested in coaching. Even if he does want to return to the sidelines, it's questionable whether he'd be intrigued by the Knicks job. Earlier in his coaching career he hinted that he was interested in following in the footsteps of his mentor Red Holzman, but the Knicks personnel doesn't fit his modus operandi, a young squad built around two superstars who have yet to hit their prime.
Bill Simmons of Grantland.com stated during a podcast last week that he "knows for a fact" that Jackson was interested in the Knicks job. Yet, Phil's former Knicks teammates, Bill Bradley, Earl Monroe and Walt Frazier, gave MSG Network's Alan Hahn the impression that the Jackson wasn't interested in the job.
Of course, the Knicks will never know. The 11-time championship coach may have been chomping at the bit for a shot to return his former team to glory, but without even inquiring as to his services the Knicks opted for Mike Woodson instead. Not even a ring.


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Promoting Local Autonomy in Japan
What you need to know
Transferring administrative power from the central to local governments may not be enough to realize true local autonomy.
This is the 70th year since the concept of local autonomy was introduced in Japan under the Constitution. Both the national and local governments should be reminded that local autonomy is an important and essential heritage of the postwar political and legal transformation. Serious efforts need to be made to bolster local governments financially and otherwise, and improve the well-being of their residents in the face of population flight and aging.
Chapter VIII of the postwar Constitution deals with "local self-government." The Local Autonomy Law took effect on the same day the Constitution entered into force on May 3, 1947. Under the preceding Meiji Constitution, which had no provision for local self-government, the national government appointed prefectural governors. The postwar system abolished that practice and introduced the direct election of governors and mayors while expanding the electorate, especially to include women, to vote on local assembly members.
Despite the reforms, the national government continued to have an upper hand over local administrations. This tendency started to gradually weaken after the Diet in 1993 adopted a resolution to promote local autonomy. It was followed in 2000 by the enforcement of a law that abolished administrative duties that the national government was supposed to fulfill but instead imposed on local governments. In subsequent reforms from 2011 to 2014, more power was transferred from the national to local governments and restrictions placed on the latter were relaxed. In principle, the relationship between central and local governments has become one of cooperation among equal parties.
Still, local governments continue to face difficult conditions. Although the Abe administration pushes for regional revitalization, the population exodus to the greater Tokyo area continues unabated. According to an internal affairs ministry report last year, people moving into the Tokyo megalopolis outnumbered those who moved out of it for 20 years in a row. In 2015, only eight prefectures — Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa, Aichi, Osaka, Fukuoka and Okinawa — saw new residents outnumber those leaving. The national government has a goal of balancing the population flow to and from the greater Tokyo area by 2020, but there is no prospect that the target can be achieved.
To reverse the trend, the National Governors Association is calling on the central government to restrict the opening of new universities and the enlargement of existing schools in Tokyo. But given the difficulties confronting the management of private universities due to the declining youth population, drastic measures such as moving existing universities out of the Tokyo area cannot be expected. All the national government can possibly do is tighten its monitoring of universities in Tokyo to prevent them from accepting more students than the officially fixed numbers, or beef up support for universities outside of major urban areas.
In fiscal 2016, the Abe administration introduced new grants to local governments eager to push projects for such purposes as industrial innovation, promoting migration to their areas and improvement of the work-life balance. To flexibly meet the needs of local administration, the government should remove the red tape in the procedure for providing the grants while eliminating wasteful expenses.
Transferring central government functions out of Tokyo remains slow. It has only been decided so far that the Cultural Affairs Agency will be relocated to Kyoto within several years, while some of the functions of the Consumer Affairs Agency and the internal affairs ministry's Statistics Bureau will be moved out of Tokyo. Unless the Abe administration carries out a more large-scale relocation of government functions, its commitment to the endeavor — intended to encourage Tokyo-based businesses to relocate to other parts of the country — will be in doubt.
Past reforms for decentralization of administrative powers have empowered local governments, for example, to approve the diversion of farmland for other purposes on their own and to set up job placement offices using information on position offers held by the national government. These changes were meant to enable the local administrations to introduce measures suited to local needs, thereby improving the service for better satisfaction of local residents. But as the population exodus continues, it is not clear whether such steps are producing the intended effects.
Despite the principle that the national and local governments are equal parties, there still are cases in which the central government is pushing forward with its policies despite the wishes of local administrations and their residents. The standoff between the Abe administration and Okinawa Prefecture over the construction of a new military facility in Nago to take over the functions of U.S. Marine Air Station Futenma — in which Gov. Takeshi Onaga's revocation of his predecessor's permit for reclamation of the site of the new airfield led the prefecture into a court battle with the national government — is a case in point. What's happening in Okinawa should be considered in light of the principle defining the relationship between the central government and local administrations.
Transferring administrative power from the central to local governments may not be enough to realize true local autonomy. The national government needs to make more efforts to enhance the financial resources of local administrations. For their part, local governments should improve the ability of their workers and assembly members to work out effective policy measures to serve local needs. They also should enlighten and educate local residents to ensure their meaningful participation in various decisions and projects that concern their lives.
The News Lens has been authorized to republish this editorial. The original can be found here.
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"Sure wish we'd taken the train! " – Bernard
Number of Times Seen – a few times (video, cable and 15 Apr 2014)
Brief Synopsis – Two mice who are part of an organization that helps troubled kids around the world must save a young orphan girl who has been kidnapped by a ruthless woman in order to find a valuable diamond.
My Take on it – 1977 was 10+ years after Walt Disney passed away and Disney animated studio was struggling a bit, but still managed to have a few successful movies since Walt's passing.
This movie has a very good story using cute creatures that know how to go and save the day despite their size.
As a kid, I really enjoyed this movie and was surprised that I still enjoyed it now as an adult.
The characters are all nicely developed for an animated movie and having Ava Gabor and Bob Newhart voicing the heroes and Geraldine Page voicing the villain was definitely the correct choices.
Unfortunately, this was Disney's last successful film until The Little Mermaid (1989) came out 12 years later eventhough you can't say they didn't try. 😦
Bottom Line – The last Disney animated film to be good and successful until The Little Mermaid (1989) came out 12 years later. Good story, good characters, good voice cast. Recommended!
Rating – Globe Worthy
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Wake up & think positive
Surrender to the day
A thought that might come to mind when you think of surrender is defeat but to surrender is not necessarily defeat . It can be a victory because it is the end of a battle. Neither is surrender to be thought to be contrary to having courage. To surrender is simply a means to an end.To know when to surrender is wise. When it it is time to surrender, you also need some courage to do so.
Do you wake up with worry and worry about the day that has not already happened? Do you wake up and wonder what the day holds in store for you? The waking moment can be one of our most vulnerable times of the day and especially Monday morning. It is when you might question your purpose the most and when you might ask yourself more about the meaning of life or the meaning to your life. It is when fear of the future can take its greatest hold on you and it can take some time to jolt yourself out of the vulnerable state that you find yourself in. It can take some time to re-align yourself.
If it is any consolation, life does have some meaning. Your life has some meaning, especially if you touch other lives in a positive way. If you are husband or wife, you touch another life. If you are a good friend,you are available in times of need. If you are a parent, you are a guide and responsible for a life or several lives. If you are a worker and provide a service, you touch other lives. The day may require you to play multiple roles in each and every one of these capacities but each has some meaning and provides some meaning for you and to the day.
If you can learn to surrender to the day with positivity on your side, the day will not turn out to be as bad as you originally expected it to be. If you can surrender to the roles that you have to play today, rather than doing battle with yourself in each capacity, you will find more peace of mind and it could turn out to be a very fulfilling day.
You cannot always be in control, even if you want to be. There are some things that you can control and there are some things that you cannot control. You can control getting out of bed and re-aligning yourself to be your best for the day. You cannot control the traffic but you can control your mind and your reaction to it. You can surrender to the traffic rather than spend your early morning battling with the thought. Play some relaxing music along the way and try to enjoy the ride. You cannot control all the changes that are going on at work. You can question them but unless you work for yourself, you cannot control the corporate changes. You simply have to surrender to them. You cannot control a call from your child's school to inform you that they are sick but surrender to the needs of your child and go take care of the child.
If you prefer another word for surrender, you can supplement it with ` flow ' or think of the process as flowing with the day. You can flow with the tide or against the tide of the day. If you can flow with the tide, you find the day to be less of a battle and you find less of a battle in your mind. Surrender to the day and to the things that have to be done without too much conflict. Surrender to what needs to get done and what you know that you can get done today and you will find some fulfillment to the day.
Do not be afraid of the day or what lies ahead. Be your best and neither the day nor anyone else can ask more of you in any of your capacities.. Enjoy the ride through the day as driver and or passenger. Flow through the day like a beautiful breeze in whichever role you have to play today or the multiple roles that you play as a spiritual being having a human experience.
Surrender to positivity and have a great Monday morning.
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Our 2020-2021 Season
Because the safety of our singers, staff and audience is our top priority,
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Stay tuned for information on our upcoming virtual choral presentations.
We look forward to singing again in person when it is safe to do so.
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Our 'Batsman Hitting for Six' cricket wall sticker shows the silhouette of a professional cricketer in action. Great for any boy's sport themed bedroom, playroom or study.
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