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We asked three legal experts --John S. Foster, a principal in Foster, Jensen & Gulley, Atlanta; Jonathan T. Howe, senior partner/president of Howe & Hutton, Chicago; and Jed R. Mandel, a partner in Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, Chicago--to name the trends they believe are shaping the meeting industry, from a legal standpoint, in 2000 and beyond. Here are their top 21.
The Big Picture 1 meeting planners and hoteliers will become more sophisticated in negotiating contracts. "Both sides will become familiar with legal nuances and more sensitive to them," says Jed Mandel. And those who don't? "The planner or supplier who does not have a total understanding of all the dynamics of a hotel or a meeting will be left by the wayside," according to Jonathan Howe.
2 contracts will be longer and more detailed. "Both sides are now realizing that the full intent and expectations of the parties need to be put into contracts," says John Foster. "Even now it's not unusual for a major meeting contract to be 25 pages long." Some attrition clauses, for example, now run a page and a half, spelling out exactly what performance is expected, how it is measured, and how any damages will be calculated.
3 more clauses will be covered in contracts. Planners and suppliers are increasingly putting their precise expectations in writing. One clause popping up in contracts, for example, states that payment of the hotel master account is contingent on the planner's receipt from the hotel of a post-convention report, detailing the room pickup and the food and beverage pickup.
Mission Impossible 4 there will be more work toward standardizing contracts--but no success. Efforts like those by the Convention Liaison Council (CLC) to establish "standards" or "accepted practices" in several areas, including contracts, will continue as contracts become more critical than ever. But the move won't work. There will be a realization that one size does not fit all; each contract must be created and negotiated on its own.
The Nitty-Gritty 5 look for strict hotel performance requirements. "Planners will start to push for contractual, performance-based requirements," says Mandel, including "an examination of quality of service,"--for example, quality of food service, the number staff at check-in, the time of day rooms are made up, and other issues.
Fair--or Far Out? 6 reverse attrition is here. Organizations have begun to write "reverse attrition" clauses that come into play if a hotel sells some of the group's rooms to another meeting. "If hotels expect associations to pick up and pay for a certain number of room nights, the contract should state that if the hotel doesn't deliver a certain number of room nights to the association, the hotel should pay damages," Foster says.
Wired World 7 cyber-correspondence creates potential pitfalls.
The issues are: electronic communication may be construed as forming a contract with another party; what you e-mail may be used against you, such as defamatory statements (defamatory statements contain untrue or malicious information or information that injures another's reputation); and potential antitrust violations could be documented through electronic communication (messages encouraging others to boycott a vendor, for example).
8 authenticating e-mail may be a challenge. The sender of e-mail can later deny sending the message. Another issue: Where does the e-mail "exist" in terms of the business being conducted: New York, if that's where the sender is based? Or somewhere in the legally undefined realm of "cyberspace"?
9 sign your name online. Technology that provides for "digital signatures" that can be tracked and verified is being used, enabling individuals or companies to encrypt an e-mail message with a private code in lieu of a "real" signature.
10 e-rfps are here to stay. More meeting planners will use electronic requests for proposals (e-RFPs). E-RFPs could raise issues regarding the integrity and accessibility of information. The "integrity" of information (in legalese) means the "protection" of information: In other words, e-RFPs raise the question of who could possibly access confiden- tial and/or proprietary information in that RFP (such as hotel pricing or meeting requirements).
11 e-commerce sparks new legal issues. The growth of e-commerce carries legal implications for every industry. For the meeting industry these include issues related to online registration and security of credit-card numbers. Also: how might attendees' personal registration information be used without their consent?
12 the law has to catch up with the internet. "We are still trying to find our way through the age of paper. The law is always about 100 years behind a technological advance," says Howe. "The challenge will be to take current legal approaches and apply them to new technology and new demands on the marketplace." The alternative may be new legislation to address pressing issues.
I Know What You Did Last Summer 13 technology enables hotels to collect more detailed data on meetings. Hotels will take advantage of that capability, creating a database on a group and, perhaps, sharing it with a sister property booked by the same group for another meeting or event, Mandel suggests. The legal corollary could be concerns about privacy, and about hotels passing that detailed information on to marketers.
My Way 14 more planners will try to use their own contracts."Hotels prefer to send out their own contracts; they want contracts on their letterhead," Foster notes. "But companies are looking for ways to make their jobs more cookie-cutter. Everyone is trying to simplify their side of things and hotels too are coming up with model contracts. The final product will be a combination of what the hotel wants and what the planner wants."
Who's in Charge? 15 more companies will use third-party planners. When companies outsource to independent planners, it is more critical to spell out, in legal terms, the relationship between client and third party. How outside planners are compensated and what happens if clients want to terminate their services are among the issues.
Choices, Charges 16 planners will have more service levels to negotiate. A past emphasis on price will be replaced by a focus on what groups receive for that price, says Mandel. Therefore, hotels will let groups choose a rate that includes a specific level of service, not unlike an individual's choice to stay on a hotel's concierge level. This creates yet another area for negotiation.
17 hotels will unbundle more charges. Many hotels are already separating out specific charges like fitness center access or business center use. This trend will result in a kind of menu for hotel services--another negotiable area.
Numbers Game 18 hotels remain focused on yield management. The result? Planners will need to be "better bargainers," says Howe. "Planners will need their own computer program to value out what their meeting is worth." From a legal standpoint, the greater knowledge on the part of both parties could mean fewer contract disputes, he adds.
19 the new calculation that matters: return on earnings (roe). "We've seen a move from some of the traditional hotel companies, which prided themselves on service, to companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, whose obligation is to investors more than customers," says Howe. These companies are gaining greater skill in pricing and delivering their product. That means tougher negotiation for you.
See You in Court 20 there will be a greater threat of litigation. Hotel time-frames for seeking amicable solutions to disputes are shorter, Foster notes. While there is still relatively little litigation compared to other industries, the nature of the lodging industry has led to a change in attitude. Today most chain-affiliated hotels are not company-owned but have different owners who are more concerned with their individual financial results than with the larger issues of all chain-branded hotels.
Just Wait Until 2001 20 the next market shift will favor the buyer. "Probably in the next 18 months we will start seeing a shift in the market with occupancies declining as new hotels come on line," says Foster. Newer hotel salespeople, who have known only the boom times of the past five years, will have to change their short-term approach to the meeting industry to a long-term view. This will put planners back in the driver's seat--until the next market shift.


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MONTROSE – Facing a room full of anti-tax opposition on Tuesday, the Montrose County Commissioners wholeheartedly rejected the idea of asking voters in November for a quarter-percent sales tax increase.
After hearing from angry residents, many who proudly held "No New Taxes" signs, the commissioners were unanimous in their decision to forgo sending a letter to Montrose County Clerk and Recorder Francine Tipton Long that would have notified her of a possible ballot question asking voters for increase in the Public Safety Sales Tax. Per state statute, the clerk and recorder must be notified of a possible ballot question by July 26. Had that been done, the actual language of a ballot question would then have had to be approved and certified by early September.
But on Tuesday afternoon, the commissioners ended any possible tax increase ballot question for 2013 and at the beginning of the meeting they quickly separated themselves from the notion that the proposed tax increase was their idea. In a somewhat convoluted conversation with the public, the commissioners said that they initially believed that the sales tax idea was brought to them by members of Montrose Citizens for Funding Our Future, the organization that supported a Public Safety Sales Tax ballot question in 2007.
With several members of MC4FF attending Tuesday's meeting, the commissioners came to the conclusion that the sales tax idea wasn't floated to the commissioners from the group as a whole, but rather by one individual of that group the commissioners later said was Richard Harding.
"A citizen from MC4FF did some work, apparently on his own, and came forward with this proposal," Commissioner David White said. "An additional quarter percent was floated as an idea and it was requested from us that we write a letter to the clerk and recorder's office."
The notion that one individual was able to get the idea as far as it did, angered many of those who attended Tuesday's meeting.
"I am here to say, why does one human being come to you and get to this point?" Elaine Pigford said. "I am really concerned."
White countered Pigford by saying the cities of Nucla, Olathe and Montrose are experiencing financial shortfalls and that the idea, while may be a bad idea, is creating a conversation that may "help the municipalities consider alternative ways" to get out of their financial predicaments.
"If it generates a conversation, that's great," White said. "I am not an advocate of taxation or new taxation but this could start a dialogue with the municipalities. If what we hear today is 'Forget about it.' We'll forget about it."
"Forget about it," Pigford said, leaving the podium.
"I think we should be saying, 'drop dead,'" resident Jim Anderson said. "I'm going to be blunt. This is totally unreasonable. It was brought to you under false pretenses and now we find out it's one individual. I am flabbergasted that we are now having a public meeting on the possibility of considering it as a placeholder."
While the discussion was focused on the proposed tax increase, the underlying issue may be the county's use of the Public Safety Sales Tax. Tax revenue garnered from the three-quarter percent sales tax approved has been a point of contention since it was approved in 2007.
No less than 70 percent of the Public Safety Sales Tax dollars collected are dedicated to the Montrose County Sheriff's Office. The other 30 percent is divided, at the discretion of the county commissioners, to other public safety entities including two rural clinics, emergency dispatch, the county coroner's office, and the district attorney's office.
Montrose City Councilor Bob Nicholson told the commissioners on Tuesday that the city does not support any proposed sales tax increases for 2013 but that city officials would like to have a face-to-face conversation on the use of the Public Safety Sales Tax, particularly the 30 percent that could be used for some municipal safety requirements. For instance, Nicholson said, the city is currently operating approximately 30 percent less revenues than it had in 2007. At the same time, he said, the county's annual bill to the city for the 911 dispatch center has increased by nearly 75 percent.
"That is a real problem for the city," Nicholson said. "It's affecting the city very negatively."
Nicholson went on to say that the city has tried to set up discussions with the commissioners over the use of the Public Safety Sale tax but they haven't come to fruition.
The city council, the commissioners and the sheriff were set to discuss the use of the sales tax dollars at a meeting last February but the meeting's agenda veered off track when the commissioners and councilors embarked on a lengthy discussion about perceived threats of the so-called Agenda 21. A continuation of that meeting was scheduled but was abruptly cancelled the day it was scheduled to take place.
It is unclear after Tuesday's meeting if and when a face-to-face meeting will be scheduled between council and the commissioners regarding the use Public Safety Sales Tax. But Commissioner Gary Ellis seemed open to the possibility.
"I don't know what happened but that conversation never occurred," Ellis said. "I felt like we should have had that conversation."
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On September 8, 2011, I parted ways with 42 bags of frozen breast milk at the Milk Depot at The Women's Hospital to be donated to the Indiana Mothers' Milk Bank. In addition to those mere 62 ounces, three small bottles of my breast milk were housed in Indianapolis in my sister's freezer, waiting to be dropped off at the milk bank as the last few ounces of my donation. The reason I had a small amount of breast milk stored in my sister's freezer, three hours away from my home in Evansville, is because I pumped those bottles just a month prior to donating them while at Riley Hospital for Children.
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That person, Tracy Lambert, a former board member who is currently serving as interim director of the service, was the only applicant for the job, said William Cleino, chairman of the board.
In January, the board had been considering hiring a private company to manage EMS, but Lambert, then on the board, took on the task of reorganizing the service in an effort to keep it locally managed. He promised to work on the project for six months, Lambert said. On Feb. 21, the former director, Keith Roberts, resigned and Lambert took over as interim director.
In July, Lambert resigned from the board and told them he couldn't continue to volunteer as interim director because it was wearing him out. But, Lambert said he would continue until the members hired a new director. He suggested the board members hire a part-time director and asked if he could apply for the job.
The board advertised for a part-time director for a week, said Cleino at the special meeting scheduled to interview applicants.
Although Lambert was the only applicant, the board members asked some tough questions.
Board member Clarence Duckworth asked if Lambert's full-time employer, the City of Buchanan (Ga.) Police Department, where he serves as chief of police, is amenable to him working in Heflin part-time.
"They already know," Lambert said. "I advised them back in January when I got put on the board and I cleared it with them before I got put on the board."
Board member Sandy Weston asked how he would continue to serve as part-time director when doing it for the last six months had been so difficult for him.
Lambert said he would continue the way he's been working. He may not work the same hours every week, but he will get the job done. He wouldn't consider himself a part-time director, Lambert said.
"If y'all hire me, you hire me as the director," he said.
Weston also asked what would happen in an emergency since Lambert and some other employees work at EMS part-time and work at other emergency agencies full-time.
"I just want to make sure that we're covered in our county if we have a disaster," Weston said.
Lambert said he would like to put into place policies and mutual aid agreements that would guarantee that the county was protected in an emergency. It's something he hasn't had a chance to do yet during his time as interim director, Lambert said.
"I want to give the employees out there ownership," Lambert said. "I want to let them know that this board supports them. However, I want them to know that this board expects them to give 100 percent when they come to work for us."
Lambert focused on his accomplishments at EMS so far. Under his leadership the service increased its bank balance from $13,095 to $132,811. Before he took over the service was requiring an average of $30,000 a month in tax dollars to survive. Since he took over, Lambert has cut the required tax subsidy to $17,625.
Lambert has worked as a police officer since 1989, first in Heflin, then in Carrollton, Ga., and now in Buchanan, Ga.
In his current job as chief of police, he is responsible for creating the department budget, recruiting, training and supervising officers, he said.
The board will vote on Lambert's application at its next meeting on Aug. 15.
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Originally created by Kodaichi, further development by SanAndreasP and SilverChiren. You can find the original (discontinued) version of this mod here
If you look for additional stuff for this mod, like arenas, look at this thread, here
We decided to use Minecraft Forge for this mod just because of several hooks, more compatibility (infinite item sprites) and SMP compatibility without having hundreds of pre-requirements. Read the instructions linked below, all of it!
And deal with it.
IMPORTANT : Install the Manager pack listed in the pre-requirements and make sure it'll loaded before my mods! It's now needed for ALL of my mods (including this one)!
Also be sure you get the latest one! It is version 1.4.2!
Since the thread gets a revamp when it's fully finished, here are some links.
For having the old stuff from the thread, open the spoiler below!
The mod is in Alpha stage currently, due to a rewrite of core elements, and thus not all upgrades / items work! Please keep that in mind!
To download the Manager Pack (which is now a coremod), go here:
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To download the mod itself (MC 1.6.2, ver 1.9.9alpha), click this link:
http://adf.ly/135716...rs-mod-v2-alpha *
To see the new install instructions, read this PDF:
To have a list of currently working stuff, read this:
- Soldiers
- Upgrades
- Stick
- Blaze Rod
- Shear Blades
- Eggs
- Glowstone
- Leather
- Bowl
- Stick
- Mounts
- Recipes (probably)
- a new creative-only item (arena placer)
If you want to know something about this mod, you can post your request here or ask us in the #risucraft or #clayman IRC channel on Esper.net.
Why you aren't implement [insert suggestion here]?
We don't implement suggestions we think they're stupid or they're really hard to make! Here is a list of no-future-implements stuff:
- Make them controllable. Will never happen due to the insane amount of editing, coding and compatibility issues it would take.
- Add a block to make their homebase. Not adding new blocks. Nor changing behavior about any existing block.
- Add dragons. Give a soldier a pegasus and a fire charge. There's your dragon.
- Add obsidian armor/weapons/anything. Obsidian is too overpowered to be included on anything
- Add tanks/guns/planes. No modern stuff. Goes against the main theme of the mod.
- Make giant clay soldiers. The mod is about little toy-like soldiers. Not human-like soldiers.
- Make them get resources. Why would they want to get resources? Their objective is to fight, not mine stuff.
- Things that already exist or featuring stuff that is already used. Pretty self explanatory... things cannot be used twice. Don't ask for stuff that is already implemented and don't suggest new uses for items that already in use. Also look at the further posts to see what items are already being used in the next update.
- Things that have already been rejected several times. Seriously. Read the previous posts. Take a look at what has already been rejected. For example: Siege stuff, new buildings, fancy new mounts like dragons and elephants, etc.
- Fixing Minecraft related bugs. Would require editing the original game files, and it would make the mod less or non compatible with several other mods. (like the "snow-issue")
I've talked with Kodaichi about the OpenSource plan and he won't make it open source anymore! Sorry guys, but he says, that he don't want to flood the forum with endless Clay Soldiers clones.
We've experienced a lot of PMs in the last time so we want to say one thing: Please do not PM us if it has something to do with the Clay Soldiers Mod! Exceptions, where you can PM us, are following things:
- You made a video
- You have at least 5 suggestions to the mod
We really hope you enjoy this mod!
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Top CIOs Predict the Five-Year Future of the CIO
Entrepreneur, futurist, global talent scout and master of business metrics. Those are some of the roles that CIOs will need to play in 2017 to be successful, according to today's award-winning CIOs.
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CIO — Five years from now, the CIO will be a better, faster, stronger version of today's top IT leader, practically running the company single-handedly. Or maybe other business executives will become more educated about IT and decide to hire cloud companies to do it all, leaving the poor CIO to wither, enforcing service-level agreements for a living. For almost as long as there have been CIOs, we've heard breathless speculation about whether the position will last, and if so, in what form.
Such nonsense ends now. Technology touches some part of nearly every product or service pulsing through the economy, weaving the industrialized and developing worlds together as never before. Without IT, business dies. CIOs are not going away. But what will the job become?
To sort through the many technological, economic, societal and political factors shaping the CIO role, we called on this year's CIO Hall of Fame inductees, IT leaders who were judged by their peers to have profoundly influenced the business landscape. We also canvassed the honorees of our annual Ones to Watch program, which selects rising stars who are likely to become the next generation of CIOs and business leaders.
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There's little support for the facile idea that the CIO job will split into a CTO and CIO pair working as peers on the org chart. CIOs often have CTOs reporting to them, but the positions aren't likely to become equal, says Dave Weick, the CIO of McDonald's and a CIO Hall of Fame honoree. The break would create unnecessary disconnect between technology and information strategies, probably slowing decision making and possibly generating discord, Weick says.
And today's big technologies--cloud and mobile computing, social media, consumerization, and big data--won't themselves alter the CIO's fundamental role. At least not for top CIOs who already know that their job is to manage change, not technology; to set strategy, not server thresholds. But certainly these "big five" technologies will continue to let companies create new products and interact with customers in important new ways, just as prior technologies did.
It is the ability to handle, and spark, major business shifts that determines a CIO's effectiveness, says Steve Rubinow, former CIO of NYSE Euronext and current CIO of FX Alliance, a foreign exchange technology provider. "CIOs have always and should always understand the pace of technology change, decide what's ready for prime time and use what's right for business," says Rubinow, who also enters the CIO Hall of Fame this year. "Now, it's just smaller and smaller time frames."


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Making the Right Call
It isn't easy being a sports official, but modest salaries, lots of travel and constant criticism take a backseat to the camaraderie and challenges of the game
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Sharon Stone, July/Aug 2004
Two men walk into a restaurant in Austin, Texas, and notice a football game on the television above the bar. Well, notice may be too strong. What they do is glance up, look at it for a moment as a reflex action and, without any of the details registering, look away.
Football is Randy Christal's profession, and Jon Bible's, too. But it isn't the way they earn their living, and the score of a game is of no more interest to them than week-old lottery numbers. "I watched an entire NFL game yesterday afternoon," Christal says, a measure of pride in his voice, "and I couldn't even tell you which teams were playing. But I do know that Ed Hochuli was the referee."
Christal, who gives management seminars, and Bible, an economics professor and an attorney, are officials. Their sport is college football, though they also umpire college baseball and even worked the foul lines of the American League Championship Series during a 1985 labor dispute. Mostly, they referee football in the Big 12 Conference, spending their autumn weekends shuttling between their Austin homes and places like Stillwater, Oklahoma; Boulder, Colorado; and Lawrence, Kansas, sleeping in motel rooms and eating road food. At the end of the season, they probably couldn't tell you which team had won the conference. But they'll know who had a heck of a year calling pass interference. Officials across the four major American sports, whether they're referees, umpires, linesmen or anything else, live in a parallel universe to ours. They see the same games we see, but with different eyes. They can't root for a team, even in their hearts. They can't fraternize with players, famous or otherwise, and they can't let their emotions show, even when a stadium full of fans is thirsty for their blood.
"There's no doubt we're a different breed," says Bruce Dreckman, a major league umpire. He's sitting in a bar in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after working a spring training game, unwinding with three other umpires, a few fans he knows, and a whole lot of local regulars who probably would give him abuse if they knew who he was. "You go around this room," he says, "I bet you wouldn't find one other guy who would say, 'Yeah, I'd go out and do that.'"
Even if they thought they might like it, the boos might swiftly convince them otherwise. Lawyers and used-car salesmen hear the jokes about their careers, politicians know they'll never appeal to much more than half their constituency, but officials have chosen a profession in which getting publicly insulted is part of the job. More than that, it's an American ritual. Minorities are protected by civil rights legislation, while women, homosexuals, religious zealots, the elderly, the handicapped and even the overweight are defended from discrimination by the law. But hating the guy who enforces the rules at our sporting events transcends race, religion and economic status.
Last winter, Dreckman and some friends were listening to a basketball game back home in Iowa, and they heard Iowa State lose by a few points in the final seconds. "The guys started blasting the referees," Dreckman says, incredulous all over again in the retelling. "And I'm saying, 'You can't even see what happened! You're listening on the radio.' It didn't matter. We're the scapegoat. They're always trying to shoot the messenger."
If that isn't bad enough, nearly all the abuse is heaped on officials far from family and loved ones. That's because referees and umpires are nearly always on the road during the season. They're like traveling salesmen who don't get home for nine months at a time. Think of it like a professional athlete who plays half his games on the road, and the other half...on the road. Except for the rare occasion of working in your hometown, an official, a referee or umpire has no home games.
That's what the life has always been for officials, since professional and college sports began. And here's news: it's getting worse. Once upon a time, an ump could blow a call at home plate at Briggs Stadium in Detroit on a summer afternoon, and the 8,000 fans who saw it would be outraged, and that would be it. There was no instant replay on the scoreboard, and usually no television audience. Fans in the stands and even the reporters in the press box might have thought they saw a play a certain way, but they couldn't be sure. So they learned to live with human imperfection as part of the game.
No more. Now every game, in every sport, is seen live across the continent. If you have satellite television and a VCR, you can watch them all, night after night. If an ump blows a call, you can seethe at his incompetence again and again on "SportsCenter." Or you can see it on videotape and study the sequence as if it were the Zapruder film. "These days, the whole world is watching," says Ronnie Nunn, the National Basketball Association's director of officials.
Why does anyone choose such scrutiny for themselves? Most officials earn between $100,000 and $200,000 a year, so they're not getting rich. And it isn't as if officiating is an easy route to the field, the court or the ice. By dint of mathematics alone, getting to the top as an official is more difficult than getting there as an athlete. Major League Baseball has 30 teams of 25 players each, or 750 total. It employs 68 umpires. If players are more common than U.S. representatives, umpires are scarcer than senators.
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A Centaur's Life, Vol. 1 (Seven Seas): Easily the weirdest comic I read this month, Kei Murayama's manga is about an alternate world where everything is the exact same as it is in ours, save for the fact that there are multiple races like centaurs, angel folk, goat folk, cat folk, dragon people and so on. Oh, and while human beings apparently still exist, the only one glimpsed is a medieval knight seen in flashback, having enslaved a centaur is some bizarre armor/restraining device in order to ride him.
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Himeno is a sweet, shy, pretty and popular Japanese schoolgirl (who is also a centaur). She's afraid of boys, likes hanging out with her friends, and love sweets, although she worries about getting fat. The stories are mostly of the frivolous high-school comedy sort that could easily have been told with human characters.
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Niki DeSantis, the women's basketball media contact at the CAA, joins Broyles to chat about Old Dominion's home victory over Drexel on Thursday and the upcoming televised contest on Sunday when the Lady Monarchs welcome UNCW to Norfolk, Va.
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When I was a new Christian, I discovered a portrait of Jesus called the "Laughing Christ" at a Christian book store.
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Consequently, because the serious people at that serious church were so serious about their Christian faith, they presented Jesus as serious too. Serious equals somber and sober, which equals humorless and kinda mean.
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Our chair, Nicole Porter, has written a new book on policy for community psychology. She wrote "Interconnectedness and the Individual" with Nancy Bothne, & Leonard Jason and in it they address manifestations and consequences of not taking a community perspective to public policy. Taking an historical perspective, an attempt is made to offer a dynamic systems perspective, and to describe an alternative utilizing examples from: Social Darwinism, genetics, fetal development, brain plasticity, and the education system, to the international human rights movement. Doing this the authors call into question the goal of respecting all values and behaviors in a given society. Arguing against moral relativism the authors propose the necessity for foundational values and principles - that arguably already govern Community Psychology.
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- Seattle, WA
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- What I Love About My Small Home:
- It's definitely been refreshing for us to move into a smaller home, as our last apartment was nearly 1200 square feet. We're both pretty quiet people, and our dogs are total couch potatoes, making a large apartment pretty unnecessary. It's been very freeing to downsize, as we now have less to clean and we're really able to focus on making each area of the apartment something that we really love. The William Morris quote "Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful" really rings true for us. Also, we love all of the natural light that we get being in a corner unit. In a city like Seattle, big windows in a home can make a huge difference!
- Biggest Challenge of Living in a Small Space
- Surprisingly, the biggest challenge hasn't been storage! We're very lucky to have a lot of built in storage in our apartment, so combined with a bit of creativity, we've been able to store everything that two people and two large dogs could ever need. The size of our kitchen, however, leaves much to be desired. It's definitely a "one butt" kitchen, which makes cooking together (something that we really enjoy doing) a challenge. Our smaller kitchen also means that we have to be very organized with all of our kitchen gear to be able to fit everything! We still have to store some of it elsewhere, though... we even have a couple of small kitchen appliances in our bedroom closet!
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- Our winnings would definitely go to upgrading some of the furnishing and lighting in our home. We would probably upgrade our dining chairs, the desk chair, and our nightstands in the bedroom. We would also see if our landlord would let us use that money to rip out the carpet in the middle of the living room and replace it with more tile (who puts carpet in the middle of tile?!).
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This is lovely! I'm impressed by how casual it feels but how, I'm sure, you were thoughtful about each and every piece you brought in. And of course, ADORABLE DOGS. Win :)
Any apartment with a greyhound (or two!) is a damn good apartment.
Also, I really like your apartment :) That sofa and bathroom vanity especially.
love the space!! may i ask where the coffee table is from? it looks like it would be perfect for my place :)
Great space! I agree with the casual compliment too. I am sure your greyhounds would miss the carpet in the middle of the room, mine won't ever lie down unless there is something soft under him!
I especially love how you have hung your posters. I have so many concert posters that have languished in storage and I'm finally getting them out and putting them up. I can't afford to frame them, and the clip idea has worked for me. You have a beautiful home!
You left out "large dog 1" and "large dog 2" on your floor plan. Great place!
Thank you! The coffee table is actually a midcentury modern bench, which has been really nice when we have extra people over. There are usually plenty of them on Craigslist and Ebay:)
Thank you! I would warn you, though, that it does leave a tiny little indentation on the corners of the posters. If its a poster that's really sentimental to you, I would frame it... but we've been pretty happy with the clips! These are the clips I use: http://www.amazon.com/Elmers-Bulldog-Clips-Capacity-Nickel-Plated/dp/B001TQHHTQ/ref=sr_1_5?s=office-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1368199860&sr=1-5&keywords=bulldog+clips
I love the desk! Did you build it?
We did! We bought an unfinished desk top from IKEA, then sanded/stained it, and then added some hairpin legs. For people who don't DIY a lot, it felt like a lot of work... but it was definitely worth it!
IKEA Tabletop: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40136558/
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Ha - the dogs are tidily arranged on the floor!
Ditto to all previous comments PLUS that bedspread/comforter/quilt (?) is beautiful, is it a hand-made original? Or can I find it in a store? Thanks!
We actually got the quilt from Urban Outfitters- you wouldn't believe how hard it can be to find an inexpensive, modern, lightweight blanket! It's out of stock now, but they have some other cool options for sale now:)
Hi Kristen, I love your place. Nicely arranged posters on the living room wall. Your bathroom is so cozy and sharp, I have that same shower curtain.
Very nice relaxed home! Love the hounds. I am surprised they aren't snoozing on your bed or couch!
your high energy type dogs must go insane in that small space as I am sure they are stuck in there all day - poor things
I also love the quilt on the bed- thanks for the source!
Actually, greyhounds are extremely low energy, and tend to be better apartment dogs than a lot of small breeds! My greys tend to sleep about 20 hours a day, and are pretty lazy the 4 hours or so that they are awake. It's a common misconception that they're really active, but they really are couch potatoes!
Have you ever met a greyhound? High Energy they are not! Greyhounds do need to burn off their energy but do so in small bursts - they are sprinters rather than long distance runners and prefer to expend their energy in short bursts, then relax for the rest of the day. They are actually highly suited to apartment life and would be my top recommendation for anyone looking to have a large dog in an apartment.
Besides, how do you know they're stuck in the apartment all day? Plenty of us apartment dwellers employ dog walkers to take our dogs out for a wander in the middle of the day. Congratulations on your snap judgement.
where are the dog beds? Lovely to see you happily adapting to your new, smaller space, dogs in tow!
I looove your tiles!
I, too, am curious about where the dog beds are. My grey has 4 in our little apartment, and he won't sleep overnight if he's not in a bed!
I love your place but I think you could use more light!!
As a fellow sighthound owner - I have a lazy lovely whippet, aren't they the best! - I am impressed by how un-dogged it looks. Our place has toys and beds and blankets all over the place, what's your secret?!
Loving the poster over your bed as well as the same pop of colour under your dining room table with the Flor rugs. Nice job overall!
bathroom is beautiful
Awesome job capturing each room.
Sorry it took me so long to answer about the dog beds! We do have dog beds, which were in the corner of the bedroom (just about where the bedroom picture was taken from, unfortunately) when the pictures were taken. We've since moved them out to the living room, just behind where the dogs were laying in the picture. The dog beds are pretty ugly, though, so we're planning on doing some kind of overhall with them this summer (either buying new ones, like this: http://www.greyhoundsonly.com/greyhounds-only-store/beds/crypton-mollyb-bed (the white and green one), or DIYing new covers for them.
Surprisingly, though, our greys enjoy laying on just the carpet, though. And one of them likes laying on the tile when it's warm out (or if it means she can get a little more sun!)
And as far as their toys go, we usually only keep 3 or 4 out at a time, with the rest in the cabinets in the living room. I think that's a good idea for any dogs, regardless of home size, since they don't get bored of their toys as easily. Plus, it stops us from buying toys all the time!
High energy dogs? LOL that is hilarious! My greyhound would laugh, too, but he's too busy sleeping - which is what he does 20 hours a day. I take it you are new to greyhounds, but let me assure you, they are not high energy dogs. They are totally lazy and require little exercise. Actually, my 3 year old greyhound gets tired after walking half a mile and starts to drag behind. Greyhounds are excellent apartment dogs. Mine lives in a 600 square foot apartment and a few trips to the dog park during the week and a short daily walk is all he needs. Don't worry, you're in pretty good company in assuming that greyhounds are high energy. Most people I run into with him assume the same thing. No need to worry about these greyhounds going insane, they are retired and are enjoying their retirement 100% - I guarantee you.


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