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Today's guest post was written by Alan Farragher
There are a number of architectural marvels scattered across the globe. From modern skyscrapers to ancient structures, from homes to workplaces and from the ancient to the ultra-modern, there are so many buildings that have become landmarks for cities and countries. Architects all over the world seek inspiration from nature, from life, from animals and from much more and that is often reflected in the amazing structures which they bring to life. Here, we take a look at six of the world's most beautiful but most unusual buildings.
The Great Mosque in the city of Djenne is the largest mud brick building in the world. The first Mosque was built on the site in the thirteenth century but the current structure standing here today dates from 1907. It is one of the most famous landmarks on the entire African continent.
Dominating the Dubai skyline is the impressive Burj Al Arab, the world's tallest hotel. Rumor has it that the hotel is the worlds' only seven star hotel but this is a myth as the official hotel rating doesn't go beyond five. It stands on an artificial island, connected to the mainland by a bridge that launches fireworks to announce the arrival of VIPs.
Completed in 2006 at a price tag of forty million euro, this quirky building is like a giant billboard, with famous television images plastered all over the building's exterior. Sunlight shines through the colored glass to fill the wonderful cathedral hall within.
This UNESCO World Heritage Site is technically not even complete yet. The church has been under construction since 1882 when the Sagrada Familia began working on the project. Gaudi became involved a year later, transforming the building by combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms. When Gaudi died in 1926, less than a quarter of the building was finished. Through private donations, building slowly continued halted only by the Spanish Civil War, the current estimated completion date is 2026.
Most temples in the Land of Smiles are centuries old but this modern-day temple was only built in 1997. An unusual building, it appears from a distance to be glistening, as if made from porcelain but on closer inspection one can see that this is in fact due to a coat of whitewash and clear-mirrored chips. It really is quite a sight to behold.
Located in Bilbao in northern Spain, the Guggenheim is a museum housing contemporary and modern art. It was designed by a Canadian-American architect, Frank Gehry, and is considered one of the most admired exhibits of contemporary architecture in the world. It bends and twists in ways that seem almost impossible for a building of its size and holds true to the original design concept of 'daring and innovative'.
Alan Farragher is a freelance blogger and travel enthusiast. This article was written on behalf of GNet 3D a 3D architectural visualisation company with offices in London, Manchester, Cork and Dublin.
Posted by Lynn Smythe on 06/10/2014 at 01:25 PM in Architecture and Building Design | Permalink
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Above: Rainbow Bandz Organization Box
I like to do many different arts and crafts: fused glass, jewelry making, sewing, beading, scrapbooking, macramé and more. I used to have a bead store so I have tons and tons of beads laying all over my craft room. I'm always looking for storage solutions to better organize all the different sizes of beads I have.
Rainbow Bandz was kind enough to send me one of their Rainbow Bandz organization boxes. The box is meant to store the different colors of Rainbow Bandz rubber bands, but I thought it would make a great bead storage box. The box has 20 adjustable dividers so you can customize the size and number of storage compartments.
Above: Craft Diva used the Rainbow Bandz Organization Box to store African trade beads
I decided to use the box to store some of my vintage, glass African trade beads. I had them in some old, thin plastic containers that were starting to fall apart so the Rainbow Bandz storage box arrived just in time. I'm including a picture of part of the box so you can see how it looks - it's a nice way to store some colorful beads!
The Rainbow Bandz Organiziation Box is a clear plastic organizer case for rainbow loom and rubber bands with adjustable compartments. It has plenty of room to fit the rainbow loom kit and other connectors. Each compartment is 2 inches wide x 1.9 inches deep and is 13 1/2 inches long max. You can buy the storage box and rubber bands from Rainbow Bandz on Amazon.
Above: use the Rainbow Bandz box to store your rubber bands and loom.
I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.
Posted by Lynn Smythe on 06/08/2014 at 07:47 AM in Beads, Craft Supplies, Storage & Organization | Permalink
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Above: my former craft space when I was living in a house.
Do you have a separate area in your home or apartment where you like to work on arts and craft projects? I've gone from a 10' x 20' space in a home to a dinning room table in my apartment. Not the idea set up, but it's what I have to work with for now.
I like to leave my projects on display until I'm finished working with them. It's kind of inconvenient to have to pick everything up at the end of the day. Luckily I have 2 bar stools by the breakfast bar in front of my kitchen so that's where I eat most of my meals. In fact, I think I've only eaten in my dinning room 1 time since moving in back in July. That was my birthday dinner meal with my son, daughter and best friend.
So I'm lucky that I can dedicate my dinning room to my latest creations. My current projects have been altered art and artist journals where I use a bit of paint, ink and glue which are a bit messy. Before starting a new project, I make sure to first remove the tablecloth (another craft project I made) and cover the table with a layer of cardboard from a couple of old boxes. That way anything I spill stays on the cardboard and doesn't make a mess of my wood table.
Where do you spend most of your time working on your craft projects? Do you have a special room, studio space or a table in your living room dedicated to arts and crafts?
Take care,
Lynn Smythe AKA the Craft Diva
Posted by Lynn Smythe on 04/17/2014 at 10:11 AM in Altered Art, Artist Studios, General Arts & Crafts | Permalink
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Above: turn an unused file drawer into a unique way to store fabric.
Many years ago I was a manager for a So-Fro Fabric store in Connecticut. I grew up seeing my grandmother and mother sew a variety of clothing and craft projects. In Middle School I took Home Economics and made a skirt - I think it was an A-line style with a zipper made of a light pink canvas-type material. Too bad I don't have a picture to share, it would be a pretty interesting blast-from-the-past.
I still sew craft and clothing projects every so often. Since moving to my new apartment in July, I've made a couple of throw pillows for my couch and made a table-cloth to cover my ANCIENT dinning room table. Both my couch and dinning room furniture are FREE donations from friends, so they needed a bit of fabric bling to make them slightly less frumpy.
Above: find great fabric deals on sale at local fabric and craft stores such as Jo-Ann Fabrics.
I like to shop the bargain bin at local fabric stores - you can find fabric remnants at fantastic prices. I've bought quite a few scraps of home decor fabric, perfect for turning into Ren Festival costumes, for 50% to 70% off the regular price.
I've also bought some fabric bundles from various sellers on Etsy. It's so pretty I didn't want to keep it jumbled together in a storage box. I saw a photo on PInterest on storing fabric on hanging file folders. It's a pretty nifty idea, if you have an extra file drawer like I did.
Do you have lots of fabric and patterns waiting to be made into your next work of art? I would love to hear how you store and/or display your fabric, patterns and notions.
Take care,
Lynn Smythe AKA the Craft Diva
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I've been off the grid for awhile. Just moved back to Boynton Beach, Florida less then 2 months ago and getting everything set up at my new place. Now that I'm only 6 miles from my job (used to have 60 mile daily commute) I finally have some time to get back to posting to my Diva blogs.
1. Wall of mirrors. This is a really inexpensive decorating idea. You can find little mirrors at garage sales, dollar stores, thrift stores, etc... Start collecting them whevever you find them on sale for a good price. You can keep adding to your collection. This is one of the first things I hung up when I moved into my new apartment. The mirrors are very lightweight so I was able to use a small nail to hang up each one, no need to drill a hole for a molly bolt.
2. I have this fabric covered cork board hanging above my desk in my home office. I wrote up the instructions on how to make this item in a previous Craft Diva post: Make a Fabric Covered Memo Board. This is one of the first things I hang up when I move into a new place. I hang mostly inspirational items on the board and a few business cards. Makes me happy everytime I look at it and it's easy to rearrange items as you add new stuff.
Although the items I display on the board are lightweight, the board weighs a few pounds so I use picture hanger hooks rated for 20 pounds each to hang it up. The back of the board has two hooks so the weight is evenly distributed across the board and not just a single hanging area.
3. This is the small section of wall in my kitchen which is directly over my oven, underneath the vent fan. It's normally a pretty boring area. The cutting board on the left was painted years ago by my Great Aunt Dottie. The item in the middle is a nutmeg grater, freshly grated nutmeg tastes great in a variety of culinary creations including baked squash and sweet potatoes. The copper mold was a $1 find at Faith Farm in Boynton Beach - one of my favorite thrift stores!
4. The black and white photos are very old - that's my mom and I when I was one year old. I'll be turning 50 the week before Thanksgiving so the pictures are practically antique!
The wood display on the right has 3 of my fused glass creations. Now that I live in an apartment my glass fusing days are probably over. Don't see how I can turn on the kiln in my garage with the smoke detector without getting caught. The kiln heats up to around 1500 degrees and takes about 8 hours to cycle a compete load of glass. So, I would love to be able to move into my own condo or townhome or small house within the next few years so who knows, I might be able to get back into glass art in the future. I have TONS of glass just sitting around.
Future Decorating Projects
I have been working on a few more projects for the apartment and will take photos and add them in another blog post. Money is a bit tight right now so I'm always looking for ways to decorate on the cheap including a lot of projects I make myself.
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Consider Home Staging For the Next Home You Sell
By Megan Gates
Staging a home for sale is a significant investment, but worth every penny. In fact, sellers stand to lose a lot more on a home if it is not staged. The staging investment is an exclusive service that can help sellers earn as much as 17 percent more on a sale than an un-staged home. Hiring a home stager to improve the value of the home and reduce the number of days on the market is a beneficial and highly recommended choice.
1. Stage a Home to Reduce the Time on the Market
Staged homes spend less time on the market than empty homes. In a study published in the New York Village Voice, a staged home will spend an average of 13.9 days on the market compared to the 30.9 days a non-staged home will spend on the market. Since home sellers lose money as long as the home is on the market in real estate, home stagers are hired to increase the chances of reducing the time on the market.
For most home sellers, home staging is effective. Sellers save money on mortgage payments, advertising, marketing and any additional expenses. Staging a home can cost nothing if the home sells quickly. Most sellers can recoup 200 percent of their home staging investment.
2. Buyers Will Think the Home is Well-Maintained
When the home is staged, the home looks its best. Staged homes make the buyers think the sellers were conscientious about the appearance of the home, the appliances and the maintenance. This will encourage homebuyers to purchase homes faster because they assume that every appliance and structure is as well kept as the furniture and design. The illusion alone will sell a home faster.
3. Provide Home Sellers With a Competitive Advantage
If it is a buyer's market, home sellers need a competitive advantage. A staged home is memorable and can give sellers a competitive advantage. A lived-in home does not quite have the same effect or "wow-factor" as a staged home. A staged-home will sell faster because buyers place a premium on feeling like they are the owners of the house. If the house is lived-in, homeowners visualize the current owners in the home and not themselves. This will ruin a sale.
4. Staging Makes the Home Appear Larger
Staging can help even the smallest home. When the rooms are small, most homebuyers cannot visualize how to arrange the furniture to maximize the space in the room. For example, when looking at small spaces in high demand, like Brooklyn real estate, home stagers can accentuate the positive points of the smaller spaces and show prospective homebuyers how to utilize the space most constructively. When the room appears larger, prospective buyers, most especially in areas like New York, are more likely to buy.
About the Author
Megan Gates is a Web Relations manager and creative writer for Prudential Douglas Elliman New York. Constantly developing pieces for the betterment of the common homebuyer, designer or agent, focusing her efforts most especially on Hamptons Homes. For more information feel free to visit http://www.elliman.com.
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The different responses between Occupy and the "Tea Party" lie in their messages.
On the surface, it seems a mystery. Occupy Wall Street protestors organized peaceful protests, concentrated their critiques on the financial institutions responsible for the worst economic downturn in eight decades and consciously used inclusive language to unite people. Yet Occupy was subjected to brutal police assaults as part of a coordinated government campaign against it, and has increasingly faced volleys of disapproval in the mass media.
By contrast, "Tea Party" protestors routinely used threatening language, brought weapons not only to their own demonstrations but to public talks of government office holders, attacked government institutions in denunciatory language and sought to divide people through scapegoating. Yet the Tea Party was lovingly embraced by the mass media and allowed to operate unimpeded by law enforcement and other institutions.
These contrasting responses were not monolithic, and we can all cite exceptions. Nonetheless, there is no mistaking the general tenor of the responses. On the surface this may appear to be a mystery, but it is not at all mysterious once we examine a little closer.
Occupy was and is a genuine grassroots movement, and the hundreds of Occupies that spontaneously followed the example of Occupy Wall Street demonstrated that a large pool of discontent and anger about the corporate domination of the United States exists. That discontent may sometimes be unfocused — leading to a sometimes confusing plethora of messages at Occupy encampments and demonstrations — but it is very real, based on the reality of the lives of working people (including students). And it is precisely this bottom-up self-organization that engendered the wrath of the establishment.
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Marshall, Mo. (August 13, 2014)- A former Missouri Valley College men's volleyball student-athlete represented the United States in an International tournament in Scotland this summer, helping the US team to a championship. Former Viking Will McCracken (Goleta, Calif... More
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Marshall, Mo. (August 11, 2014)- The Missouri Valley College football team will enter the 2014 season ranked No. 7 in the NAIA Football Coaches' Preseason Top 25 Poll, which was released Monday. The Vikings were ranked No. 7 to end the 2013 season and stayed in the same spot in the spring coaches' poll which came out in April... More
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Is American Yoga Racist?
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It was late summer, and the young white middle-class women that run the Power of Om Yoga Studio in idyllic Santa Barbara, CA were bored. Suddenly, they struck upon a novel idea. Let's invite our friends and neighbors to dress up like "Black people." And not just any Black people, but Black people from the "ghetto," a place, more imagined than real, perhaps, given the town's – and their own — demographics. So, up went a giant poster inviting local resident to attend the studio's first-ever "Ghetto-Fabulous" yoga session. They thought it would be good simple fun.
This was no mere flight of fancy. The women photographed themselves as a group, splaying their hands and fingers as if they were members of a street gang. The poster encouraged attendees to wear "corn rows," "snap back caps," or a "grill" (shiny metal worn over the teeth) and offered to provide "do-rags" and other appropriate ghetto wear free at the door. Did the American yoga community even notice? There was a brief blog post on Yoga Dork, with a handful of commentaries about what many deemed a bizarre and regrettable incident. But Yoga World, beset by scandal since the demise of John Friend and Anusara Yoga and the publication of a book by a New York Times reporter bemoaning widespread injuries and poorly trained yoga teachers and calling for stronger regulation of the industry, quickly moved on to happier news.
Arguably, this was a classic "teachable" moment – a time for reflection and dialogue by American yoga industry as a whole about its underlying assumptions about race, class and privilege. But all such moments, to be truly meaningful, require sustained reflection and dialogue, with active participation by those most stigmatized or offended by what's transpired. And there's the rub: while precise data on the racial composition of the estimated 20 million yoga practitioners nationwide are hard to come by, the industry's racial narrowness – if not outright exclusivity — is plain to see. Open the industry trade magazine Yoga Journal and you'll find dozen of glossy photos of trim and immaculately coiffed women attired in expensive stretch-wear demonstrating what yoga can do to keep you slim, calm and sexy – as the title of a book by yoga super-star Tara Stiles once put it. But you'll find few if any people of color in those pages. Subscribers to Yoga Journal are high-powered suburban women on the go, mostly upscale and decidedly white, and the magazine, as most expensive publications do, reflects its core readership. It's not up to us to lead on race, and possibly jeopardize our bottom line, their publishers typically say.
The fact is yoga is deeply embedded in America's economic and racial social structure, in ways that are becoming more apparent – and indeed, more embarrassing — with time. Take the growing number of neighborhood yoga studios, which in some cities are nearly as ubiquitous as a Starbucks. Back in the day, when yoga was still a niche practice, yoga teachers held classes in their apartments or at local recreation centers, and frequently charged what students could afford. Now, the industry is so much about the "Benjamins" that real estate developers look to high-rent yoga studios as harbingers of "urban redevelopment", the same way they once eagerly promoted shoe or grocery outlets as "anchor" stores. It's a form of capitalist symbiosis that's affecting every area of the yoga consumer market — from clothing and cosmetics to food and even beer – indeed, anywhere the purchasing power of affluent white women can help investors turn a hefty profit. It's also infusing yoga culture with a set of values that tends to marginalize the African-American experience, and keeps real Black people on the margin – "ghettoized," in fact — while leaving them prey to the kind of white cultural projections on display in Santa Barbara.
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Today's Zippy, on musical mashups:
The third panel veers into a Zippy favorite, Allen Ginsberg's HOWL, in a parody version.
Today's Zippy, on musical mashups:
The third panel veers into a Zippy favorite, Allen Ginsberg's HOWL, in a parody version.
Today's revisiting of Calvin and Hobbes:
The song sparrow segues into a bit of kidlore (beloved by campers and scout troops), and that gets Calvin thrown out of the house by his mother.
A lot of kidlore has no traceable history, but this one has an official story.
WHRB (Harvard's student radio station) came along with a piece of pleasant Baroque music (for organ and strings) that was entirely unfamiliar to me, so I looked up at the identifying tag in iTunes. Which told me it was by Arne. Not my friend Arne Adolfsen (with his Norwegian-derived disyllabic personal name), but Thomas Arne (with his British, but presumably ultimately Scandinavian-derived, monosyllabic family name). I had just heard one of his six Concerti for Organ and Strings, probably #2 in G major.
A fascinating but little-known figure, who suffered musically by being overshadowed by Handel and personally by being Catholic (so he was barred from the usual sources of patronage) and also a renowned lecher.
On May 31st, Xopher Walker, listening to a live opera broadcast on WFMT, groused about the tedium of Wagner's Parsifal. Ned Deily noted a different radio broadcast (BR Klassik) of the more pleasing Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) by Mozart. Extensive discussion of Parsifal and performances of it followed.
And then Michael Palmer produced this marvelous pair of puns on the name of the Mozart opera, one in German (playing on Ente 'duck' instead of the prefix ent- 'separate, remove'), one in English (playing on duck instead of the Latinate root -duc- 'lead'):
Die Enteführung aus dem Serail, aka the Abducktion from the Seraglio
(It's all about the ducks.)
Applause for Palmer followed.
Palmer then wondered if there was an accepted term for this phenomenon – "puns in two languages that are translations of one another". Not that I know of.
(Not much about language.)
It starts with a postcard from Xopher Walker, a photograph by an artist I was unfamiliar with, Paul Blanca (for maximum confusion, there's also a photographer Paul Branca, and Google really truly wants to tell me about Branca rather than Blanca): the 1985 "Selfportrait decoration", a male torso shot, showing a line of chest hair and the model's (Blanca's) left nipple, and in between a safety pin piercing in his pectoral muscle and, below that, a white composite flower (like a small chrysanthemum flower) looking much like a boutonnière. I've added a caption of my own: "Piercing, man, piercing" (a little pun).
More from my back files: graphic designer Alan Fletcher, creator of images on postcards Max Vasilatos sent me in 2008 and 2009.
A cartoon from New Yorker artist Tom Cheney decomposing musical talent into an assortment of distinct abilities, much as style books decompose writing style:
The band has a lot of work to do.
Not the hotel or the yacht club or the hospital in San Francisco (or the high school in Mountain View or the winery in Sonoma), but the St. Francis Fountain, as celebrated in today's Zippy:
From its website:
San Francisco's Oldest Ice Cream Parlor: St. Francis Fountain, home of hearty breakfasts, top-rated hamburgers, and classic soda fountain desserts, 2801 24th St. [hence the title of the strip], San Francisco (since 1918)
Meanwhile, Zippy riffs on "I Left my Heart in San Francisco".
Background by P. L. Brayfield to accompany a YouTube video:
Sacred Harp singers are among the most enthusiastic and energetic vocalists anywhere! Here they express their joy in singing a favorite shape note song for the Eastern season: William Billings's 1787 composition [Easter Anthem] also known as 'The Lord is Risen Indeed.' Recorded at the Kalamazoo all-day singing, July 20, 2009. NOTE: on the video, the number for Eastern Anthem is mistakenly given as 238. If you start to sing from that page, you will still be singing Eastern Anthem, but you will be two pages ahead of everyone else ;) The correct page, of course, is 236, as several viewers have reminded me!
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Hello People of Wattpad! One of my books X Rated; In six star style the impossible dream, had 1,700 reads yesterday which i'm so pleased about! Thank so much! But today i checked back and it now has 1,927 reads!!!! I decided since it was my most successful book to give it a bit of an update. It's very short ATM so i'm editing the chapters i would love it so so so much if you could all read it again and tell me what you think once its done also please keep reading Roles Reversed. It's still in progress however it's getting there! Keep reading, writing, commenting and voting! THW xx
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Now that our soldiers are home, what will we have them do? There are a number of wars that continue to rage on, including those against drugs and the conflict that rages on our southern border, depending on to whom you speak. Our armed services readiness has been tested steadily for the past decade, and now it's drawn down, just like that. What's a soldier to do with all that extra time? Find a job when unemployment continues to hover at nearly ten percent?
If you can find a job in private security, that could use your most recent skill set. Blackwater can sell you the gear you might need, and if you can track down the corporation formerly known as Blackwater, formerly Xe, and currently called Academi, you might find some work tracking down people who are not corporations. "Security" is still a growth industry, as evidenced by the Obama administration awarding Academi a two hundred and fifty million dollar contract to work for the U.S. State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
Don't want to travel overseas? Well maybe you can do what Benjamin Colton Barnes did: Take your experience and apply it here in the good old U.S. of A. Benjamin went for a little hike in Mount Rainier National Park, heavily armed and suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He allegedly shot and killed Margaret Anderson, a park ranger. He's angry and heavily armed. If you're betting that this will end well, think again. Another body was found in the park a day later. The Washington State Patrol, U.S. Forest Service and FBI, were on the mountain Sunday and Monday, but none of them could put Benjamin back together again.
Welcome home Benjamin.
Thursday, January 05, 2012
It's All About The Benjamins
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- mundrome said...
hee whiz I keep fantasising that Oboma will get tough and really start doing things right- Like a sweeping withdrawl of out troops everywhere in the the world they dont' belong, butg spending lots of us bucks which we can save by nort building any new boomer subs and stop building piloted aircraft and etc, and pay the troops who want to stgay in regular army to learn how tifrastrucrture.. Like all solar powered electric railways everywhjerfeo and do the rebuilding of our national
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Some Flood Victims Paying Taxes On Property That Doesn't Exist
DENVER (CBS4) – Hundreds of Coloradans lost their homes to floods or fires this past year but they're still paying property taxes on property that in some cases doesn't exist.
There's now a push at the state Capitol to get help for people who've already suffered through an awful lot.
The September flood didn't just take John Casey's home.
"The cars are gone. We found one a crumpled mess and we haven't found the other one," Casey said.
It took everything in the home and the land around it.
"So now the house 100 percent an island," Casey said.
He can't get to his house, can't rebuild it, and yet is still paying for it.
"So you have full mortgage, full insurance on property, which is hysterical. And then you pay rent and property taxes," Casey said.
Casey owes $5,000 in property taxes on property that no longer exists. One state lawmaker, Rep. Jonathan Singer, D-Longmont, says that's not right. He's carrying a bill that would have the state pay the taxes.
"Originally I was going to write a bill called "if the tax assessor can't find your home, he can't tax you," Singer said.
Singer says counties would bill the state for taxes on any homes destroyed by flood or fire.
"Usually property taxes go to support those local counties, the same ones that were affected by the floods and need to rebuild the county roads," Singer said.
While hundreds will benefit, many, like Terry Mayes, won't. The county says her home is only 56 percent destroyed.
"We've got, it's like a $4,700 tax bill on property we can't live on, can't do anything with," Mayes said.
That's the hard part, according to Singer, who helped Lyons after the flood and still wears the same shoes.
"Every time I slip a little bit on these marble floors it reminds me there are people in dire straits right now," he said.
The property taxes could cost the state $2 million.
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The speaker pointed out, "If you would switch your hours from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. to 11 a.m.-6 p.m., you would have more business."
He added, "The next new economy, the one rising from the ashes of the 2008 meltdown, favors small businesses. Consumers are starting to spend money again."
However, "the not-so-good news is gas prices continue to rise, driven by turmoil in the Middle East .... (and) Americans are cautious due to the unstable economy in 2008 and 2009."
He had words of caution for those in attendance: "You can't be all things to all people. I'd rather you be the best at what you're chosen to be than be all over the board for everyone.
"There is no magic bullet. There's no secret formula .... (and) you're only as good as the part-timer who works the fewest hours for you."
Willson encouraged small business owners to know their customers and realize they can be grouped into four categories: Slam on the brakes are those who have lost their jobs and are not making any unnecessary purchases. Pained but patient "believe things will get better" in the economy. The comfortably well-off are the rich, "who are richer than they ever were and are the 'haves' as opposed to the 'have nots.' The young folks who are lucky to have jobs fit into the live for today group. They make a paycheck and spend it, which is good for the economy."
He also stressed the importance of understanding "where your products and services fall." Are they "essentials, necessary for survival and well-being; treats, justifiable indulgences; postponables, wanted or needed, but reasonable to put off; or expendables, where there is no reason to own them?"
The retail trends reveal "people shop in a store because they want human interaction .... My favorite sign in a retail shop is 'Please touch' because if you can touch it, you're twice as likely to buy it.