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Managing Your Home: The Standards You Keep
With the beginning of a new year, we often question our routines and habits and attempt to change in order to reach our resolutions. So today, when we went to our Neighborhood Professional Organizing Meeting (led by John Trosko) the talk turned to standards of service for your home. We wanted to further our curiosity and start a discussion of what the standards are for your home (and we've included some of our own) after the jump.
What is fascinating to us is that a woman named, Mary Louise Starkey founded and still reigns as president of a Household Management School in Denver, Colorado. While the graduates of The Starkey International Institute for Household Management go on to service the rich and famous, every home needs some guidelines (no matter how small). While we don't have a printed manual that we follow to keep up our home, we do have standards that we live by. Your standards can include anything from household chores, to how mail is processed to how you like your bed made.
You can read more about Mary Louise Starkey in The Experts' Guide to Doing Things Faster where she has a chapter on Cleaning Your Home.
What are your standards for your home?
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Some of the people that thought "Michael Stipe & Thomas Dozol's New York Apartment " is cool with their untideness should really, really read this.
- No dishes in the sink longer than overnight.
- Laundry, vacuum once a week (usually Sunday or Monday)
- Clean the bathroom twice a month
- Clean floors and dusting once a month
-Sweep the kitchen after cooking and doing the dishes
-Wash the (simple cotton) curtains once a month. The kitties like to sit in the (damp cabin) windows and there is curtain of fur after about a month.
-other things, too, but I think I have a little OCD when it comes to cleaning. :)
Wow, KidMoe, do you really only do the bathroom, floors, and dusting once a month?
I think a big thing that a lot of people over look - and it drives me INSANE when people overlook this in my home. You need to put the crap you use back where it belongs and bus your mess before you go to sleep. I fell asleep early on New Years Eve and woke up to wine glasses and blankets all over the living room. Half drunk soda cans on my desk... toothpaste uncapped on the bathroom sink - not in the shower where I usually keep it. The wrapper of a toilet paper roll on top of the toilet tank instead of the trash bin. Everyone at my house was lucky as hell I was in a good mood on 1/1/09. I'm not asking you to wash dishes, fold my blankets, clean my john, but seriously, you can't move your sodas/glasses to the kitchen? If you're not going to clean before you go to bed, at least corral everything NEAR it's proper place.
I do laundry and change the sheets and towels on Sunday night. I'm almost always home that night, so everything gets washed and dried while I'm watching The Simpsons.
All unsolicited materials are permanently banned from my home. If I receive junk mail, I make the sender take me off their mailing list. Also, I have a "no unsolicited materials" sign on my front door. So far no one's dared to disregard it.
One of my cats is a messy eater, so any bits of kibble he leaves on the floor get cleaned up right away to deter pests.
And I always have at least 10 gallons of bottled water on hand in case there's an earthquake.
I always go to sleep with a clean kitchen so I can wake up happy. It really makes a difference when it is the first place I go in the a.m. to have things nice and clean.
Dust/sweep hardwood floors once/wk
Bathrooms (clean, scrub, mop) at least every other. More if I cut my hair and more when my BF acts like a slob..ok once/wk
Vacuum upstairs every other wk. (not so much traffic up there)
Mop kitchen every other
sweep kitchen MANY times per/wk
Put my BF crap away (every damn day!)
however, I wreak havoc with my clothes on any given weekday morning.
In regards to Rick Roberts, I like to think that some of us live alone and do not have heavy traffic in the bathroom/keep it fairly clean on a daily basis. This doesn't constitute cleaning it every single week, but every other week is plenty good (at least for me).
To each his/her own, I say. :)
I love waking up to a clean kitchen. It's worth it to take 10 minutes to do the dishes.
I'm not sure I completely understand the question. I mean, those who are neat freaks will have a spotless house, those who are comfortable with more untidyness will have a less than spotless house.
Are you looking for the intersection between the two? like, what is the lowest common denominator in terms of cleanliness standards?
* vacuum twice a week
* laundry every other day (unless it rains and I can't hang things out to dry)
* no dishes in the sink when I go to bed
* dust everything once a week, and the living room 3x
* bed made every morning
* milk always on hand
the idea of sweeping instead of enjoying the pre-coffee morning is unthinkable to me. I generally use this time to lie in bed and/or snuggle with small child.
we do the dishes every night & have 1/2 & 1/2 for coffee. the rest is divided labor, whenever the laborer sees fit to do their tasks.
whoa chusmabilly, i do not want to party at your house! i would be too afraid of touching anything!
Rick Roberts, I said I do my bathrooms twice a month. Tiles, tub, toilet, sink, everything. I live alone (no pets) in a small apartment with little furniture, with carpet only in the bedroom. A vacuum once a week is usually alright by my standards--my tiled floors are white, so I can see every speck of dirt that's on it.
Everyday is cleaning the kitchen- dishes washed, counters and stove cleaned..making the bed and putting things away.
Laundry is twice a week.
Once a week the entire house gets vacuumed, mopped and dusted, the bathroom gets cleaned and the patio gets a sweep, my office gets dusted and things get put away. Sheets are changed. Trash, recycling and compost are taken outside.
Once a month the molding, base boards and ceiling get cleaned and dusted..the fridge and oven get cleaned, the bath tub gets a real real cleaning, the shower curtain gets washed and basic attention to details like wiping down all cabinets and cleaning inside cabinets and closets. Trash cans get washed. Laundry room gets cleaned and oragnized.. My bed gets flipped and walls are cleaned.
Windows get cleaned every two months.
I have a system and it is nice when my house cleaner does come for the big cleaning otherwise I feel like it is endless.
I keep water, coffee, wine, power bars, dog food, soy milk and canned food on hand incase there is a big one. I keep my camping gear- stove, batteries, flash light and other items up to date as well.
My boyfriend and I are just awful. I think it's because of our dog. We get little dust balls everywhere (also our Ikea carpet sheds, I think that contributes) and really we don't clean them up except once every few months. I never thought I was a messy person, but I guess I am and boy do I hate it!
lol danasays, I know I sound like a control freak there. But you need to understand: Most people - drunk or not, will help at least tidy.I always try to corral my shit into it's area when I'm a guest. The people I had over attempted nothing of the sort. I just find it rude when people, drunk and sober, don't pick up after themselves. The toilet paper wrapper on top of the toilet instead of the trashcan right next to the toilet. Stuff like that irks the crap outta me. I'm all for having a good time, but when the good times are over, be a sport and tidy what you mussed. I didn't say anything because I didn't want to ruin the day and honestly it didn't bother me on the 1st... but when I had to clean by myself on the 2nd, i started getting fussy. Am I overreacting?
I power wash the front of my house once a month. The water runs off into my planters, giving my foliage a nice drink of water.
I'm happily type A so Mondays are:
Grocery shopping
Change sheets and towels
Clean bathrooms and kitchen top to bottom
Entire house (all hardwoods) gets swept as needed each week with a full on jam on Mondays. They get "mopped" once a month with hardwood cleaner.
The bed is made every day - whoever gets up last which is usually me. No dishes left in the sink overnight, no junk mail, recycle whatever I can, and keep unwanted crap off the counters as much as possible. And no shoes in the house if at all possible. I have a basket of slippers for guests.
I keep a pretty big food stockpile since I cook about 5 times a week. But juice, cookies of some kind, fruit, granola bars, wine, lemons and limes, and a stocked bar are all musts. All keep me from going crazy at various times of the day.
I dream of a full staff...
My 2 big things:
-Wipe inside of microwave every time I do dishes. Wipe stove top and burners as well.
-Remove any leftovers or older food from fridge when returning from the grocery store. Wipe inside of fridge.
I have a huge pet peeve of dirty microwaves and messy stove tops!
As eight rescued dogs (yes, that's right) share their home wth me, I depend on two iRobot Roombas -- one for each floor -- and run them daily. Long ago all carpeting and rugs left my home, and the hard floors are pretty easy to keep clean. I mop them every Saturday, which is cleaning day here.
I patrol my backyard and remove The Inevitable morning, noon and night.
The dogs get a bath once a month. That helps a lot in containing loose fur and smells.
I was afraid to click on this topic, but I couldn't help it. Although I don't have great guilt over my poor housekeeping, I admit it isn't where I would like it to be (even with my low standards). I live alone with two, elderly (indoor) dogs and a muddy yard, so a lot of cleaning is impromptu as needed. I work from home a lot and my work schedule is highly variable, so I don't have a rigid schedule that I stick by and if I am working against a tight deadline, I let almost everything go.
That being said, I mostly eat at home, but I don't stockpile food because I don't want it to grow old before I can eat it. I don't hoard food. I do laundry on an ongoing basis - when the basket starts to get full or I need something that is dirty then I wash a load of clothes (I don't try to wash all laundry at any one time - there is always something that is dirty). I clean up kitchen mess every night and run the dishwasher when it is full. I dust as I notice the need - I dust something once or twice every week (seldom a whole room at once). I mop or vacuum as I notice - I mop or vacumm something every week. I clean up spills when they happen and clean parts of the bathrooms when I am in them and have time (I may wash out the sink one day when it looks dirty or scrub the toilet on another - either task only takes a few minutes). I fluff the duvet, pillows and featherbed when they need it - my bed is never quite "made" yet it never looks particularly messy (to me) and I love clean sheets so they get changed at least once a week. I try to put things away as soon as I can, though I am not obsessive. Things tend to not get lost or broken when put away, so this motivates me. I straighten up after my dogs everyday - it is an ongoing battle with them since they have a different idea about housekeeping. I guess my strategy is to do a little bit of something every day so that things are never completely out of control - but probably never completely immaculate either. I don't see housework as anything that can ever be 'finished' so I don't even try. I guess "good enough" is my standard.
Alas, my home office is always a disaster.....
I'm a student so I'm home a lot during the day. As such, I do my dished throughout the day. Generally when I eat a meal or grab a snack form the kitchen, I clean whatever is in the sink right then.
The rest of my cleaning generally happens on Saturday mornings. I go the the Farmer's Market and get my produce for the week, come home and scrub & sweep the whole apartment.
The thing that I don't do nearly often enough is mop. I live by myself and don't wear shoes inside so I tell myself that the frequent sweeping totally makes it ok.
The only things I do habitually are:
- laundry twice a week
- wash dishes before going to bed
For the rest, I just clean it when it gets dirty enough, be it once a week or once a month. Or not... unless someone is coming over. And I never seem to have enough food around, because I hate grocery shopping.
After reading all these comments, I feel like a lazy slob now. Heh.
Daily: open, sort and recycle mail. Scan for clutter and pick up. Visible dirt on kitchen or other floors gets swept. Wipe down top of stove, counters, cutting board and sink. run and empty dishwasher as needed. Laundry as needed.
Weekly: Scan and clean out food from fridge, recycling sorted and put out, dog bowls washed, dust, wipe fingerprints off woodwork, light switches and cabinets vacuum, change and wash sheets, towels, dishtowels, clean bathroom (tub/shower, toilet, sink, faucets, mirrors, floor), wash kitchen floor, scrub sink, sweep front and back porches and steps, sweep basement stairs. Pay bills. Laundry as needed. Shopping and cooking list for week. Ironing as needed.
Monthly: Change duvet cover, deep clean (move and dust/vacuum behind furniture), windows, mirrors, dust and vacuum basement
Every 4-6 months: clean light fixtures, clean out pantry and all closets - edit clothing, books, linens and other crap, deep clean fridge, clean oven. Steam clean carpet, sofa and upholstery as needed. Wash shower curtains, wipe down walls and ceilings of bathroom and kitchen, deep clean basement (dust, mop). Wash porches, steps, sidewalk. Swap out winter linens/clothing and edit wardrobe/linens.
Yearly: Wash walls and ceilings, go through all files and organize paperwork (long term file, update important paperwork, shred, etc). Have major appliances and chimney/fireplace serviced
I learned a lot of the above from a summer job in high school working with Service Master who provides clients with a checklist of sorts. I have also been known to fail frequently and often with the above.
I only work partime at the moment, and so I'm home a bit during the day. Which means that after I check my email, read AT and Fark, and have my tea, I automagically switch into cleaning mode. There's not a whole lot to do, but when you share a space that is 30m^2, little things out of place can quickly make it look untidy or dirty.
And so I treat my neighbours to my horrid singing as I waltz around and tidy up. Doesn't take long, and it makes the place much friendlier to be in.
Once a week (usually on Saturday morning or Friday afternoon) we tear down and scrub the place. With the amount of snow we have, the sand dragged in (they sand here, not salt) gets a bit unruly.
can I just say to Holland....WOOF! That is a lot of dog loving, right there.
In our house with 2 children under 2, I can't afford to let my guard down too much or it would all get on top of me. My standards are similar to what others have said but I second the pet peeve of people leaving a mess behind. This mostly refers to my poor husband - whom I thank for dealing with todder breakfast time, but not so much the weetabix mush left on the hardwood floor to solidify with what appears to be the density and resistance of industrial concrete.
As I read through AT each day, I am amazed that there is sooooo much info on here about cleaning and organizing. I don't get why people need so much help in this area.
Why is it hard to tidy and clean a home? Why don't people want to? Why do so many seem to live in chaos?
It is beyond my understanding. We're all busy. We almost all work (and if you don't, then there's really no excuse). We have children, dogs, cats, birds, visitors, parties, school, whatever. Why do any of these things prevent clean and organized homes? I think people are just lazy. And slobs.
Wow, I guess I fall into the lazy slob category. I usually clean every 2-weeks to a month, whenever I get around to it. I just don't want to waste my precious free time with chores, and a little dust doesn't bother me. I live alone, so my place doesn't get that dirty anyway.
Ms. Pea, it's not hard, I just don't care that much.
I thought you shouldn't make your bed in the morning because of all the moisture in the sheets and blankets. I let mine air out during the day with the bedroom window open.
The only time I try to really ease my standard for cleanliness is a party. If you have a party, you need to plan to clean up yourself. That's just what you sign up for. And truthfully, I kind of like the ritual of the after party cleanup. The house is quiet and I can go about cleaning and thinking about what a fun time we had!
I grew up in a house where every monday was intense, all-day cleaning day. god forbid you didn't have school and mom needed to vacuum your room! and then if you got out of bed and left foot indentations in the freshly vacuumed carpet...watch out!!
I kind of went the complete opposite way for a while, but have settled into a once-a-month full cleaning of the apt. What makes a huge difference is cleaning up the little messes as they happen and putting things away after you use them. It's just common sense!
Jeez, Ms. Pea, judgmental much? Perhaps not everyone has the same priorities as you.
I had a grandmother who insisted on scrubbing every dish, sweeping, and vacuuming the kitchen and dining room after every meal. She lived far away, I rarely saw her, and you know what her priority was? Cleaning the kitchen floor, not spending time with her grandchildren. I was never as close to her as I was to the grandmother who put family first.
So, here's my question: do you want your family to think of you as warm and loving and present, or the lunatic cleaning the kitchen while everyone else is hanging out enjoying each other's company?
Bah! Humbug! to cleaning
jooly = ftw!
I make sure to have someone visit at least once a month so I can convince myself to clean, otherwise I just tend to the necessities when visual disorder bothers me. I think the modern 'need' to (over)clean is one I choose not to partake in. A few spiders and germs are welcome to stay for short visits.
My rule is "clean as you go" including "put things away as soon as you are done with them."
I eat out a lot, but when I cook, I clean the mess I'm making between the other steps, and all dirty dishes go straight into the dishwasher out of sight. (Nothing ever sits in or next to the sink.)
When we track slush or whatever into the house, I run my Swiffer mop immediately, before the mess settles and dries. Other than emergancy cleanups like that, I sweep the kitchen when I notice dirt (or bits of cat food that get dropped outside the dish). I vacuum about every 2 weeks, but if things look clean I might skip a week... no worries!
My weekend day off (either Friday or Saturday) I do laundry, and whatever general cleaning that needs doing. Run the dishwasher and put the clean dishes away immediately. Etc.
If you clean as you go and put things away, it's easy to keep up with the rest.
Always thought of myself as clean but not tidy. No dirt & crumbs but lots of messy clothes, piles, shoes laying around. Working on the latter in 2009.
Mostly clean up when I get irked or if folks are coming over. Some things I do habitually tho:
Empty old food from fridge whenever garbage is taken out, don't want stinky food warming up and festering in the garbage can.
Empty dishwasher or organize kitchen drawers/cabinets while dinner is stewing/browning/baking or coffee is brewing. As long as the rest of the food prep work is done. I love to have an empty dishwasher to reload as I mess up new dishes.
I don't spend all my time cleaning. And, I don't neglect my family (who do, by the way, do think of me as warm, loving and present). I enjoy the company of my friends and family, and my kids make messes, just like everyone else's. I also have pets, including a bird, which is the messiest creature ever.
Having explained all that, I will add that I also take quite a bit of pride in the home I have created. I've worked hard for what I have, and I take care of it. I don't like my children to sit on dirty, dust-bunny covered floors. I like my bathrooms clean. I don't enjoy junk and mess.
So, I spend A FEW MINUTES each day making things clean and organized. That's all it takes. I'm teaching my kids to put their toys and books away after they use them and to help clear the table after dinner.
I don't see this as a burden or an extremely time-consuming process. And, I'm not a cleaning nazi. I am organized, my family lives in clean comfort and I think we're all better off for it.
People make all kinds of excuses about why they can't/don't have clean homes. But, they are only excuses. We pretend it's because it's so time consuming and we'd rather spend time with family or whatever, but the truth is - people are lazy and don't care how they live.
I wonder why so many read a blog like AT, which is all about having nice homes, entertaining, etc., and then they admit they couldn't care less about their homes.
No dishes in sink. No unecessary clutter. No hair in sink. Maids every other week.
If I could be a butler I would be one. Cleaning for me is an enjoyable task. It's a good thing to see and feel the results of a thorough cleaning.
Sweep every two days-All rooms, including porch & patio.
Mop once a month.
Hand wash dirty dishes, clean counters every night.
Trash round-up and out every night.
Laundry-Including bed sheets every Sunday.
Scrub sink, tub & toilet once a month.
This is just the daily chores, there's also the cleaning of the fridge, closet, cars, pantry.
No clutter. The house has to smell good (sometimes I will simmer cinnamon, cloves, apple slices, and nutmeg in water for an apple-pie smell, or bake bread.) General cleanliness is a must!
Ms. Pea,
You may be right about some people, but not all. There are plenty of people who haven't learned the skills of keeping house yet, so they struggle with it.
I'm glad you're teaching your children how to clean up after themselves and how to do chores, but not everyone is lucky enough to have that kind of upbringing. Either their parents were slobs and so they (the children, once they've grown up) don't know how to keep house, or the parents take care of everything so they (again, the kids) don't know how to do it.
Then there are those who have different priorities than you do. They can't understand you any more than you can understand them. Just because they think differently than you doesn't mean they're wrong or a bad person. They're just different.
You seem to think the situation is very black and white. Unfortunately, it's not.
As Mrs. Mack notes, there's a large gray area between obsessively clean and "lazy slob". There are many reasons a person's home might be less than acceptable to Ms. Pea, including advanced age, infirmity, disability, massively busy schedules involving school and/or multiple jobs, children with special needs, incredibly messy housemates or spouse, ADD, or, you know, just really not giving a shit if there are dust bunnies under the bed.
It's the judgmental tone that cheeses me off - if we're not just like Ms Pea, we're "lazy slobs". That's just effing rude and really lacking in any kind of compassion or understanding for other human beings who are not the paragons of virtuous housekeeping and cleanliness that Ms. Pea is.
there's no doubt someone out there that is even more "clean" than the cleanest folks commenting, just like there is always some woman or man that is secretly (or not so secretly) more attractive to your partner than you! everybody's standards are different, so what repulses me (coffee grinds left on tile counters) will no doubt be of little worry to others. live and let live i say! :-)
p.s.: i hate washing dishes, but don't mind cleaning the bathroom at all. a bit weird. i use gloves either way, though. i clean whenever i feel like my place needs cleaning, or when i get mad about something.
I try my best to clean as I go in the kitchen (cook almost every day), but the rest is really impromptu. We have 4 animals around, so sweeping happens about every other day.
If I were to articulate a standard, it's approximately: if I can describe the house and it starts to sound even a bit like a CPS investigation, it's time to do something.
No kids, though, so no worries about that, before anyone starts to wonder.
I really wish it were tidier, but I have almost no help and am messy myself. And between studying for the bar, working, and tending to the pets, it just doesn't get done.
Well this exchange has definitely made me sit back and reflect upon my own level of housekeeping. Often I feel like I'm barely keeping up with all of the little day to day things that accumulate around the house - laundry, dusting, etc. instead of taking a more proactive approach like the folks above who have a structured schedule. I will definitely strive to take control of my housekeeping in a more organized way! Thanks for the inspiration!
Mrs Pea -- I don't really need any instruction in cleaning or tidying, but I do take pleasure in reading how others manage their routines. Occasionally I'm inspired by a post to change my methods (for example, I've cut back to a minimum of green cleaning products because of tips on AT.)
It's pretty clear many of us like the organizing/cleaning category, for a variety of personal reasons. How can that be a bad thing?
I tend to think of myself as on the messy side but (in my late 20s now) gradually getting better all the time. I didn't learn much at all about housekeeping before I left home, so I've spent the last ten or so years bumbling through and picking up tips from housemates and from places like AT. I think it's fascinating how variable we all are - so many different pet peeves and tolerance levels etc.
Even as a naturally messy person, some of the routines mentioned here I couldn't live with - eg cleaning floors or bathrooms twice a month - I live alone too, and I don't think I'm especially grubby, but I still like to clean floors and the bathroom much more often than this.
But then again, I NEVER make my bed or clean my light fixtures, so some people would probably find me icky! And -again as a single person, and also as someone living in drought-stricken Australia - doing laundry more than once a week (especially if you're using a dryer - don't even get me started on the environmental impact!!) seems excessive and indulgent. Which doesn't mean it IS excessive, in all circumstances - I just find it intersting that we're all so quick to judge others' standards by our own.
Also - I've lived by myself for the first time for the last six months, and I'm interested to find that I'm much better at keeping my space tidy now than when I was living with my ex-boyfriend. When we lived together, we'd both blame each other for the filth/mess, we'd both refuse to clean up after the other person, so our house was always pretty messy. Now that we're both living separately, we both clean up after our individual selves uncomplainingly, and both my new house and his new house are MUCH tidier and nicer than any of the places we shared together.
When it comes down to it, it doesn't take that much physical effort to keep a small apartment clean. But so many other factors - emotional, political, psychological.
Fascinating :)
you guys would tear me apart lol so I wont dare list what i do or dont do here. although i will say in my (lack of) defense I have a almost 2 year old who likes to throw things, and a 6'6" tall husband who throws his enormous clothes on the floor when he takes them off.
Oh and when I party at anyones house, I def clean up after myself, and probably others too. :)
I think a lot of this has to do with our living situations (obviously). I live alone, and before I got a puppy I was very disorganized and took a lax attitude towards cleaning and clutter. Now that I've got a dog and a steady beau, I find that I straighten up daily, and clean much more often.
My *ideal* schedule would be:
dishes in the dishwasher (run when full)
bed made
clutter away
counters wiped
floors mopped/swept
general dusting
bathroom cleaned
trash out
clean sheets/towels
fridge de-grossed
stove & microwave scoured
Sometimes this happens, and sometimes it doesn't, but at least I have a general idea of where I'd like things to be. That said, I can put up with a lot of dirt and clutter, especially if it's for a good cause (e.g. apartment renovations)!


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BARK, I notice that lately you've been using a lot of "cutsie" pics of dogs doing very un-dog-like things, like holding cleaning equipment (or a flower) in their mouths. I know this is meant to be funny, but it their artificiality makes me wince. Beside the fact that the dogs don't look happy in these poses and get-ups, I think you can find better ways to create images that support (rather than negate) the message of the rest of the magazine, which is attuned to the real needs and natural behaviors of canines.
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My dog doesn't have accidents inside; however, my landlord sprays the edges of our lawn with weed killer (according to the label, it's "not harmful to pets" but "may cause vomiting" - Excuse me?!), and my grrl eats the grass, then later vomits on the carpet, and that's what I need help with. How can I get it *all* up, so there's not a stain? Thank you in advance for any help!
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From the Las Pailas ranger station, you have several walking options, with trails leading west to the cataratas escondidas (hidden waterfalls) and east to the Santa María station, along an eight-kilometre path. The most popular and least demanding trail heads east on a very satisfying six-kilometre circuit past many of the highly unusual natural features with which the park abounds, including a mini-volcano and "Pilas de Barro" mud pots; listen out for strange bubbling sounds, like a large pot of water boiling over. Mud pots, which should be treated with respect, are formed when mud, thermally heated by subterranean rivers of magma, seeks vents in the ground, sometimes actually forcing itself out through the surface in great thick gloops. It's a surreal sight: grey-brown muck blurping out of the ground like slowly thickening gravy. Another feature is the geothermal hornillas (literally, "stoves"), mystical-looking holes in the ground exhaling elegant puffs of steam. You almost expect to stumble upon the witches of Macbeth, brewing spite over them. Make sure not to go nearer than a metre or so, or you'll be steamed in no time. The combined effect of all these boiling holes is to make the landscape a bit like brittle Swiss cheese – tread gingerly and look carefully where you're going to avoid the ground crumbling underneath you. Many hikers have been scalded by blithely strolling too close to the holes. The trail also takes you through forest with abundant fauna and flora and be prepared to ford a couple of streams.


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President Barack Obama, whose re-election platform included a pledge to raise taxes on the wealthy, proposed raising estate taxes to only 45% next year and excluding the first $3.5 million in estate assets. But a group of influential Democrats, including Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the powerful chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, aren't willing to go along.
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Speaking publicly might seem like an unsurmountable feat. Some people feel as if they were standing up in front of people without any clothes on. A common fear is that audiences will be judgemental — they may think of the speaker as a stupid, ugly fraud. Anything can happen when the speaker is "performing". S/he might get dazed and confused, get lost, make "mistakes," be boring, drool, get cotton mouth, or even worse, not know the answer to a question. However, the speaker also might deliver the presentation of the century.
When it comes to why our bodies react to public speaking in ways that make us uncomfortable — often very uncomfortable — reality has little to do with it. Notice all the "mights" and possibilities mentioned above; it's the fear of what we think may happen and of all the unknown "d-day" factors that send us into fight-or-flight mode. Our brains and bodies are literally preparing us to confront or run like an Olympic athlete from this impending "threat." Necessary for these actions are multiple stress responses, including increased heart rate, higher blood pressure, rapid, shallow breathing, elevated hormone production, and boosted nervous system activity. These physiological changes add up to anxiety, sweating, indigestion, stomachaches, difficulty sleeping, shaking, trouble thinking, dry mouth, headache, and constipation, just to name a few symptoms. Just reading about these bodily responses might make you want to run out of a room full of listeners.
The truth is that humans were built with these automatic reactions so that they could do their best to survive animal and human predators. As humans evolved, the "predators" have evolved from carnivorous beasts to things such as presentations and exams. These days, the potential "victims" are now our egos and self-esteem.
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I know I said I wasn't really reviewing anything this month, but would you mind if I take a moment to discuss "Prisoner's Dilemma"?
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"2πR" the first episode of Person of Interest in 2013 is Reese-lite with extra-Finch.
While I really did miss seeing Reese, it was great to focus on Finch's ability to solve the problem of the week and help the latest victim. Plus, for viewers who aren't keeping a close eye on the television schedule of returning shows, it might be best to keep the Reese centric storylines for another week, just in case viewers still recuperating from the holidays missed this week.
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Ken Leung returns as Leon, the first number John received when Finch was taken. I loved him then, and I love him now.
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When Reese moves into the suburbs with Ms Zoe Morgan, the suit comes off (literally).
New house. New car. New clothes. New John? Well maybe not a new John. He seemed to struggle with the sedentary life of living in the suburbs. His discomfort in his polo shirts is perfect. I'm glad to know our favorite vigilante will not be hanging up his suits anytime soon.
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Why did my first review back have to be this week's Person of Interest? I apologize for the lack of substance to this post, but tonight's episode can be reviewed in two simple words: Smart + Sassy.
Person of Interest has been that one show to defy my initial judgements. I liked the show early on, but I had concerns. It has gotten better each week since its debut. It's one of the few series that I believe truly continues to grow and get better with age. Each week is fresh and exciting. I'm hardly ever bored. I have so much love for this series, I hope it continues for seasons to come.
Tonight's episode was simply smart and sassy. I can't describe it any better than that.
I could go into details of what I liked and didn't like but again, two simple words will do.
Liked: Everything
Didn't Like: Nothing.
So in review, "Bury the Lede" is smart and sassy, full of drama and wit, where everything is enjoyable and nothing is awful. In a word, perfect.
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Someone please tell me how to beat Oregon Trail as fast as tween Root aka Sam did. I always die of dysentery, I feel you Hannah!
I grew up on Oregon Trail, as I'm sure most kids who grew up in the late 80s and 90s did. It was awesome. It's still awesome. I have Oregon Trail on my ipad, and still struggle to make it to Oregon on the hardest level. (Obviously the graphics and the game have evolved since its creation, but its still fun). It was a nice throwback and something that I'm sure many of POI's viewers could relate to, or at least recognize.
Oregon Trail aside, I suppose it's time to get down to discussing the episode… it was just as wonderful as last week's premiere, and the season finale before that. This show hit a stride somewhere in the middle of season one and has been unstoppable ever since. I'm very happy to see this series has become more than I thought it could have, during its first few episodes last fall.
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Crazy and highly capable
…that about sums up Person of Interest's John Reese, but only to an outside eye. He is highly intelligent and deeply motivated, which makes watching each episode all the more exciting.
The second season of CBS's sophomore drama started off really well. It had all the makings of a great hour of television:
Fast-paced, check.
Thrilling adventure, check.
Kick-ass action sequences, check.
A sense of humor, check.
Sass, excitement, unpredictability, charm, check, check, check, check.
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I'm not sure if I'm going to have time to blog about all the usual shows this fall + some new ones so this is just a tentative list of the shows I'm looking at covering:
Sundays: Revenge
Mondays: 2 Broke Girls, Hawaii Five 0, Revolution*
Tuesday: Pretty Little Liars (possibly, when it returns)
Wednesday: American Horror Story
Thursday: Person of Interest, Elementary**,
Friday: Fringe
*Revolution is going to be hard since it's on the same time as H50, but I will try, at least for the first couple episodes just to give the show a feel.
**I love BBC's Sherlock, and I hate the idea of a "Joan Watson" but I feel boycotting the show is silly and petty, so I will give it a chance. If I like it, perhaps I'll pick it up. Although, I must admit it is on the same time as Scandal and previously I would have said no contest, but now that Henry Ian Cusick has left the show, I'm a bit more open to other options, so we'll see.
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Dear writers of Person of Interest,
After these past few weeks of phenomenal episodes, I expect you to continue this trend in season two. I do not know what you were doing in the first half of season one, but it did not work as well as what you are doing now. Stick with this, because this, is better on every level. The writing, the plots, the characters, the overall arcs, everything is more better composed then at the start of the season.
This show has seen incredible growth over its freshman year on the air. At first, I didn't know how long it would last. I had my doubts that after sometime the names involved would wear off and the fans who only came for the names, would begin to fade away. I am glad I stuck through the rocky start, and waited for you to find your way. It was worth it. These last couple months of the season have been highly enjoyable.
Thank you for picking up the pace, and finding your way. My only hope is that season two can start and continue as strong as this season ended. If you can do that, the series will continue to grow and become a truly amazing staple in the television world.
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Like the sublimation of matter into gaseous vapors, an archaic political paradigm is up in smoke. Protests around the world have taken center-stage in the ongoing battle against economic injustice — where wealth has saturated the veins of a select few. The feeling is global. It echoes from Tahrir Square in Cairo. It's clinking in the champagne glasses of corporate CEO's toasting to irate individuals on Wall Street. It can be felt in the pounding hearts in front of Flagstaff's City Hall.
When in Rome…torch cars and smash windows. That was the sight this past weekend as 'the indignant ones' brought their message to Italian banks.
"I am here to show support for those don't have enough money to make it to the next pay check while the ECB (European Central Bank) keeps feeding the banks and killing workers and families," said Danila Cucunia, a 43-year-old teacher in a Reuters interview.
Closer to home, New York was recently the scene of 5,000 protesters occupying Time Square. Known for its dazzling New Year's celebration, Time Square became the scene of furious mobs. One protester felt citizens dropped the ball.
"People don't want to get involved. They'd rather watch on TV," said Troy Simmons, 47 during a Reuters interview. "The protesters could have done better today. … People from the whole region should be here and it didn't happen."
Dr. Carroll Thompson, a political economy instructor at NAU, believes that the benefits of demonstration outweigh the risk. "Yes some people will go to jail, and yes some people will be killed. But how many people are dying every day from the lack of health care. We are already dying. It's not like oh… you are being disruptive and breaking laws; it's dangerous. No, everyday life is dangerous because we don't have healthcare. We have debt. We don't have jobs. That's dangerous. "
Worldwide we are tearing down the dams that corporations and political leaders have placed on our streams of thought. The Occupy movement has taken flight from Wall Street in New York and emerged on sidewalks and street corners throughout the globe. Complacency has been exchanged for freedom. For the first time in a long time, people are standing up to the system of greed. They know their voices speak louder as a community; they ring far above the somber tone found lingering in our Nation's capital.
"It's on the internet. It's on Facebook, it's on Youtube, it's all over the place," says Adam Neville, a protestor at Occupy Flagstaff. A culture of protest has rippled through our global community. "Our society has gotten to a certain point where we can't keep going the same way."
And he may be right. Libyan protests spread virally through web communication. One Facebook group called "The Libyan Youth Movement" shares it goal with over 20,000 followers to "awaken our people from the unjust oppression and remove the ring of corruption and despotism." Photographs capture Libyan's in street clothes wielding grenade launchers and automatic weapons. This revolution turned violent is just one example of how citizens have united in opposition.
The days of radio waves and cardboard signs have been outnumbered but are not obsolete. Once seemed lost in the distant world of hyperlinks and story less photo albums, solidarity has resurrected through the ease of information. It is the method of communication that has changed, not the timeless essence of a community uniting. You will find the same picketers today as you did on the lawns of Capitol Buildings during the Vietnam War. How they came to unite is what may differ.
Dr. Thompson believes demonstration has always been an effective approach. "Direct action is a valid strategy. It has different expressions. It can be different in New York, Flagstaff, or San Diego. It's okay to shut down the streets because business as usual serves one percent of the population. It very much empowers the least powerful."
In fact, 400 Americans hold more wealth then 150 million combined.
Sarah Boelioez, an NAU student, feels she is part of that majority — the 99 percent of Americans who have yet to feel the trickle-down. "I think it's about time, I'm about to graduate, what am I going to do?" She said the movement hits close to home. Her mother recently lost her house after becoming over-burdened by debt. Occupy Flagstaff was one way for her to raise her voice.
A feeling of distrust toward big banks and corporations is a common theme in protests raging around the world. In Spain, where their jobless rate is 21 percent, many feel the money may be going into the wrong hands.
"It's not fair that they take your house away from you if you can't pay your mortgage, but give billions to the banks for unclear reasons," said a 44-year-old telecom company employee, who declined to give her name during a Reuters interview.
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January 12, 2012
Volume 3, Issue 2
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The Origin of CHARGE
by Gerald Butler
I started drinking at the age of 11 because it was the only way to quiet the voices I'd been hearing all my life. It was the 60s and little was known about chemical imbalances and mental illness. By age 14 I was an alcoholic and spent the next 33 years hopeless and homeless, dealing with two diseases, alcoholism, and mental illness. In early recovery I realized I lacked a basic sense of self-esteem, so I picked up the flute I used to play before getting really sick. I was amazed how the music not only elevated my self confidence, but also helped the healing process. I knew I had something that needed to be shared, so I called on other artists in recovery and started the Recovery Band to spread the message of hope.
Charlotta Gavin began attending our rehearsals at Michigan's Detroit East, as she always wanted to sing gospel. As artists in recovery we all knew the advantages of a positively charged environment, so we surrounded Charlotta with love and support. It was amazing watching her confidence grow right before our eyes, and soon she decided her recovery was more important than anything else. Today, Charlotta takes less medicine and has a great job as a peer specialist.
Seeing the effects of our efforts with Charlotta and other consumers, I formed the
Center of Healing Arts, Recovery, Guidance, and Empowerment
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was quickly replaced with
as we realized our environment was one where people would take charge of their own lives. The most anyone can do is support people in their self-improvement journeys. Since CHARGE does not conduct treatment, it was imperative to establish an atmosphere where a person's talents and abilities would drive the program—not his or her illness. So we moved into an old car factory that had been converted to an artist's Mecca called "The Russell Street Bazaar." The Bazaar provided a creative, positive space for thousands of professional and amateur artists. Our band began doing gigs for the artists. In exchange, they worked with our folks.
Around this time, the Michigan Department of Community Health introduced Dr. Priscilla Ridgway's "Recovery Enhanced Environment." Finally, there was a name and description for what we were doing. The CHARGE recovery-centered environment is a setting where peers and people in recovery can connect. In my conversations with Dr. Ridgway, she stressed the importance of keeping the very thought of treatment out of our program. Treatment happens when we work with staff during early stages of the healing process. Recovery is a very personal journey where we begin to take charge of our own lives. No one can dispute the healing powers of a peer-run, recovery-centered environment.
Human Characteristics in Recovery
About 75 percent of adults who have a mental illness experienced its onset before their teenage years. Instead of learning life lessons during that crucial time of development, many of us were dealing with our disease. Valuable lessons such as making complex decisions, setting priorities, forming strategies, organizing plans, and building relationships are learned in adolescence. The lack of these traits can often be mistaken as illness-related in clinical settings. Thus, it is imperative that when a person has reached the fourth and fifth stages of recovery, he or she is exposed to growth-centered environments before considering an independent life in society. It is at this juncture that very basic human characteristics come into play.
How CHARGE Works
The human psyche enables people to adapt to almost any situation, regardless of how bleak things may seem. Prior to treatment, many of us built our lives around hopelessness. In some ways, hopelessness can become a comfort zone. We know how it feels when someone encourages us to leave that comfort zone only to discover that what was promised was only an attempt to make the program
as if it truly had our best interests at heart. CHARGE is
an arts program, but a very simple, honest collective of folks sharing their recovery experiences with people contemplating treatment and striving for independence. Thanks to the efforts of Michigan's Department of Community Health, the State is in an ideal position to be a national model of what a recovery-centered State should look like.
We work closely with the Michigan Recovery Council, Michigan Disabilities Rights Coalition, various centers for mental health, and many community-based organizations. There are clear differences between clinical and recovery-centered environments, and peers have a true understanding of the healing process, having walked in the shoes of those seeking recovery. Peer specialists and staff must have a mutual respect for each other's values, working as a team to ensure consumers get the best of both in their recovery journeys.
Gerald Butler, founder and director of CHARGE, is a Certified Peer Specialist and the 2007 Michigan Department of Community Health "Person of Interest" Award recipient. Contact him at
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RTP in the News
In the January 2012 issue of the American Psychological Association's (APA's)
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Peter was determined not to let severe depression keep him from earning a college degree and securing a job. But the clinical staff at the day facility where he received treatment in the 1980s had a different idea—a sheltered workshop for people with disabilities. "The workshop was putting caps on lipstick tubes for six hours a day," remembers Peter, who now directs consumer and family affairs at the insurance company OptumHealth.
For Peter, it was a perfect example of what happens when a mental health system hasn't embraced the idea that people can recover from mental illnesses. Now part of an APA team devoted to Recovery to Practice, he is working to ensure psychologists get the training they need to help people with mental health conditions live meaningful lives in the community.
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Recovery Beats the Demons
For years, people have linked the onset of major mental illness to an inevitable and irreversible downward spiral. But the Recovery Movement, a social shift towards empowerment and self-determination, challenges this notion at its core, asserting that even the most serious mental illnesses can be overcome.
To many this sounds impossible, particularly because recovery model tenets contradict typical approaches to treatment. Instead of concentrating solely on symptoms, recovery focuses on the person
the symptoms. Where clinical care often emphasizes medication, recovery incorporates a patient's hopes, dreams, and creative interests. At the heart of the recovery model is the process of social interaction—psychosocial rehabilitation—a major component of this school of thought.
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Annual Lesley event explores the role of the arts in the aftermath of atrocities
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
What is the role of the arts? These were the topics of discussion in the Future of the Past event, the first annual event of a community collaboration initiated by Lesley's Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences Dean Catherine Koverola.
"The Future of the Past: Meditations on the Role of Memory in the Aftermath of Atrocity," held on Feb. 19 in the University Hall Amphitheater, featured three speakers: Jeff Lowenstein, whose father survived the Holocaust; Karen Frostig, who lost sixteen family members during the Holocaust; and Mathew Nash, whose grandfather was an American soldier among those who liberated a Nazi camp. Each speaker offered deep insights through their personal journeys about remembering and bringing action to family memories of genocide. Each of them demonstrated how a curiosity, a question, or a desire to connect to the past, could become an intergenerational creative endeavor of possibilities of healing and transformation.
The event represents a collaboration between Peace and Conflict Studies in Lesley's Interdisciplinary Studies Program, and Mary Harvey, the founder Director of Violence Transformed, a Boston-based organization that celebrates the power of art, artists and art-making to confront, challenge and mediate violence.
The presentations were followed by a powerful spoken-word performance on the theme of "Change" by Steven Hosking, Stefanie Belnavis, and Catherina Clark, students from the Expressive Therapies/Dance Therapy Graduate Program, a fitting metaphor for the next generation working together to learn from the past and create community in the present.
An inspiring Art exhibit by Dr. Elliot Salloway and Manuel Schroeder from project eXodus at the Atrium Gallery in University Hall supported the event. The powerful images portray the layered complexity of power relationships and urge us to ask the question, "Can crimes against humanity be prevented?"
Each year, through this annual event, the Peace and Conflict Studies initiative and Violence Transformed will seek to engage in conversations on hope, vision and transformation through the arts, of memories of genocide, histories of violence and crimes against humanity.
About the presentersJeff Lowenstein is a Fulbright Scholar and a lecturer in Columbia College's Journalism Department. He started his presentation with a moving story of his father growing up amid fear and hate as a young Jewish boy in Germany in the 1930s. Ed Lowenstein, who was in the audience, was one of the 10,000 children transported on the Kindertransport from Germany in 1938. The younger Lowenstein's desire to know the past led him to take a family trip to their hometown in Essen, Germany, in May 2012. The warm welcome they received, the founding of the Lowenstein Family award for Tolerance that is awarded to a student from the local school each year, and the initiative of a teacher and the students from that school to commemorate the Jewish community and honor their family on the 75th anniversary of the Kristallnacht, were some of the affirming actions that resulted from the trip – and it is just the beginning.
Karen Frostig, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Lesley University, and a Resident Scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. Her story begins with letters from her Austrian grandmother and Dr. Frostig's desire to connect to her roots and to her sixteen family members who lost their lives during the Holocaust. As the president of The Vienna Project, Dr. Frostig has launched a unique memorial project that opened in Fall 2013, to mark the 75th anniversary of the Anschluss. She shared inspiring visuals of the opening. Her presentation brought to light the power of the interplay of technology, performance, youth, and public spaces, to remember the past and heal.
Matthew Nash is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the new Digital Filmmaking program at the Lesley University College of Art and Design. He presented on his recent feature-length Holocaust documentary "16 Photographs At Ohrdruf." Nash talked about his research process that started with his curiosity as a teenager about a small stack of his grandfather's photos that were taken in 1945, which he discovered later were from the first concentration camp found by the Allies. As Nash shared, the film was a starting point. The research process has continued beyond, giving voice to the untold stories from the soldiers who uncovered the Holocaust.
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This excursion will take us to the Beijing Zoo to see the endangered giant panda. We will continue to the Summer Palace in the outskirts of Beijing.
We'll begin the day with a visit to the Beijing Zoo to see giant pandas. The giant panda is an endangered species and its population is small and vulnerable. Despite being a protected species, habitat destruction and poaching continue to pose a threat to the species. After the visit to the zoo, we'll head to the Summer Palace, just outside of Beijing.
The Summer Palace was built several hundred years ago during the Jin Dynasty but has been renovated on numerous occasions since then. In 1860, it was plundered during the Second Opium War but in 1888, the notorious Empress Dowager Cixi rebuilt it using money intended for the Navy and turned it into an opulent summer retreat for the imperial family.
After the Summer Palace, we will visit a pearl exhibition hall just outside the palace. On the way back to the city, we'll make an outside photo stop at the Olympic Village where we'll be able to see the Bird's Nest National Stadium and Water Cube National Aquatics Centre. Lunch is included in this excursion.
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Situated midway between St. Austell and Plymouth, Looe is a charming coastal town surrounded by breathtaking scenery. Acting as a hub for this particular corner of Cornwall, Looe has more than its fair share of amenities while still retaining a small, coastal community feel. Holidaymakers staying in Looe cottages have access to an array of beautiful beaches, winding walking paths, family attractions, and championship golf courses. The wealth of activities and attractions in Looe beckons couples and families in search of a quintessential Cornish getaway.
HomeAway has a number of lovely holiday cottages in Looe where holidaymakers will feel right at home. Most Looe cottages range from one to three bedrooms in size and all are fully furnished to a high standard. Some apartments even come with luxurious amenities such as access to tennis courts and swimming pools. With weekly rates ranging from £300 - £600, the cost of accommodation in Looe is comparable to other towns in the area like holiday cottages in St. Austell.
-Outdoor activities: Walking, cycling, and horse riding are all possibilities when staying in a Looe holiday cottage. Visitors to the area enjoy taking a stroll along the beach or on the famous South West Coast Path. In the summer months it is even possible to take the ferry to St. Georges Island, which is run by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust. In the water visitors can swim at any number of beaches as well as surf and windsurf.
-Golf: Keen golfers won't have to venture far from Looe as there is a golf course located right in town. Looe Golf Club offers a challenging 18-hole 70 par that welcomes golfers of all skill levels. A little further afield is the stunning Whitsand Bay Golf Club. Perched atop a cliff looking over the sea, the 18-hole course here has been welcoming holiday golfers for well over 100 years. Both courses offer modest green fees to visiting guests in addition to a full set of onsite facilities.
-Beaches: East Looe Beach is a traditional family beach located within walking distance of many holiday homes in Looe. The broad sand beach is largely sheltered and is ideal for swimming. Visitors can explore numerous rockpools at Portwrinkle Beach, also located in Looe. A little further from town, Whitsand Bay Beach offers a beautiful crescent-shaped strip of golden sand where families can bring their dogs and surfers can find swells.
-Family attractions: Kids and animal lovers will appreciate a visit to The Monkey Sanctuary, which is located right in Looe. The sanctuary is home to 37 monkeys who have been rescued and given a second chance at life. Also located very near to Looe is the Porfell Wildlife Park. Children and adults alike will enjoy a trip to the Model Village in charming Polperro. The model village offers plenty of entertainment and keeps old Cornish folklore alive.
Thanks to its coastal location, the weather in Looe remains mild across all seasons. Summers are warm and dry, with high temperatures touching the high-teens and low-20s. Spring and autumn are a few degrees cooler, whilst highs in the winter are just below 10°C.
Most visitors choose to drive to holiday homes in Looe. The village is located around 20 miles west of Plymouth, not far off the A38. If travelling from Newquay Cornwall Airport, Looe can be reached from the A30 and A39. It is also possible to take a train into the centre of the village. Journeys from London take just over six hours.


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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has released new health and safety standards for transgender detainees in immigration detention. They ensure that individuals are placed in facilities by the gender with which they identify and that they have access to hormone therapy and other necessary medical care. The National Center for Transgender Equality points out that more can be done, and it's unclear when the new standards will take effect.
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Rayvonte Rice scored 22 points and had nine rebounds in his debut to lead Illinois to a season-opening 80-63 win over Alabama State on Friday.
Rice is a Champaign native but spent two seasons at Drake before transferring to Illinois (1-0).
The hometown kid made the most of his chance Friday.
He scored seven points over a three-minute span early in the second half to push Illinois' lead to a commanding 54-37.
Nnanna Egwu had a double-double for Illinois with 10 points and 10 rebounds. Joseph Bertrand scored 14.
Jamel Waters led Alabama State (0-1) with 27 points. He was 5-of-6 from 3-point range.
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Victor Kreuziger, a resident of Clamshell Lake on the Whitefish Chain, has been in contact with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE), which controls the flow of the dam in Crosslake.
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