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GREENVILLE — If you see enough bad over the course of a few years, you really begin to appreciate the good things in life: a loving family, healthy children, emotional stability.
This Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Transitions Counseling Services in Greenville, outpatient therapist Sue Ellen Pabst — who has heard more than her share of domestic violence horror stories — plans to celebrate all the good things in her own life with a public birthday party … a really big birthday party, to which the entire community is invited.
For the past 10 years, Pabst has counseled battered and abused women for RAVE (Relief After Violent Encounters) of Ionia/Montcalm, an organization dedicated to helping women that have experienced domestic, or other violence.
Pabst's birthday party is intended as a fundraiser for the RAVE program.
"I work with victims of domestic violence," Pabst said. "There are different types of victims, but when you're dealing with physical control, that's the ultimate. I have a passion for helping women and children get out of very difficult circumstances."
Each year, Pabst hosts some sort of fundraiser for RAVE, but this is the first time that effort has taken the form of a birthday party. She admits the effort is, in her words, "a bit arrogant," but it's really not to be taken too seriously, even though the fundraising aspect of it — and the purposes to which those funds will be allocated — is about as serious as it gets.
Also, Pabst says she is serious about the fact that her life, particularly when compared with the battered women she often counsels, is very fine indeed.
"I just want to celebrate my life," she said. "I have a wonderful relationship with both my family and my friends. I know it sounds so corny, but I'm grateful to be alive at this point in time."
Hosting the annual fundraisers, Pabst admits, garners a lot of "atta girls" and positive attention. Though appreciated, that's not why she puts forth the effort each year. She does it because of the aforementioned horror stories, and the occasional happy endings RAVE helps facilitate.
Suzy Raven, co-owner of The Meat Shack in Greenville and one of the many area business owners contributing merchandise or cash to the fundraiser, is taking part because of the good work RAVE does locally.
"They provide an important and worthwhile service to our community," Raven said. "I know there are a lot of women out there who really need help. We have all been hit so hard (financially) in so many ways."
As to the party itself, Pabst has several activities planned. A DJ music and dancing tent, several different games for adults and kids alike, and plenty of food are all on the agenda. Admission to the family friendly event is free, however, tickets (priced at just 25 cents) will be sold for games and food purchases. Prizes will be awarded in the games.
A character sketch artist also will be on hand for impromptu portraits and a jewelry sale — stocked with donated jewelry — also will be held.
"What we're doing is trying to promote healthy relationships," Pabst said. "This will be just good, simple fun, rain or shine. I can dance just as badly in the rain as I can in the sunshine."
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What kind of system are we working with here?
I'm going nuts here. Make a terrible mistake and took wires off old therostat without writing down which terminals they were connected to or taking a picture.
Is this a heat pump or standard furnace and AC?
Its a Payne central air/central heat inside unit.
I don't know if there is a heat pump. Its all electric, no furnace.
So just a standard system, correct?
Yes, i suppose. I don't know shit about HVAC
I need to know if it's a heat pump because they get wired differently
do you want me to send you some pics?
How would i find out if there's a heat pump?
How about some make and model numbers of inside and outside units?
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Model is PH10JA048-G
Outdoor unit is typical central AC unit I suppose.
This is a heat pump and fan coil unit
So typically red would go to Rc and Rh, green to G, yellow to Y1, orange to O/B, and white to E and Aux tied together
Don't need the black
ok hold on. Let me send you of pic of my thing and how I have the wires now.
ok there it is. What a pain it was to do that. Sorry.
No problem, do you have back up electric heat?
ummmmm i don't know
i have electric heat period. I don't know if I have back up
Well, heat pump supplies some heat, but usually in colder climates, you also need backup electric heat
would it say on the unit somewhere if there was back up? is the red wire supposed to be attached to the jumper like that?
I live in Florida, so I am going to guess that there is no back up.
No the red should go down and be put into the terminal either RC or RH
The rest of the wires look OK. Did you turn power off before starting to wire?
oh, ok. which terminal should i put the red one in? should i try each one?
and there is only R or RC, no RH
Take and turn power off, doublecheck all wires to make sure they are firmly seated. Bring the red down and put it in the R terminal next to the jumper wire and tighten down securely
ok. oh, leave the jumper in? put the wire in with the jumper still in there too?
Yes, you need the jumper
ok cool. Let me give that a try and I'll get right back to you.
I'll standby
thermostat is going through its reset process.
as soon as its done i'll let you know if it worked.
OK, did you go into the setup menu and set up the system type as "heat pump"?
it doesn't have that function. this is a very basic thermostat. there is a switch inside to go between electric and gas, but that's all. its switched to electric of course.
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i'm so angry with myself for not taking a picture of the original thermostat wiring before i disconnected it. its till flashing right now, some sort of protection thing for the condenser. it takes a while before it actually kicks on. sorry.
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ok its done flashing. nothing happened. the airhandler did not kick on. damn.
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OK, I'm thinking you may have blown a fuse on the board or worse yet, the transformer
this is maddening. i played with the wires quite a bit today, trying different configurations. got the air handler to kick on several times but not the outside unit.
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Having the wires in the wrong place, for one thing
could the thermostat be faulty?
i called an hvac guy and he said to try several different combinations. he said nothing bad could happen because its low voltage.
i guess he lied?
Most air handlers have a fuse or circuit breaker on the board.
i didn't use the blue or the black wire at all.
Do you have a voltmeter?
no. i don't. i should get one though.
i guess i need to call someone to come out.
what a mess.
OK, without that I can't have you check for 24 volts. It looks to me that from the picture, the wires are in the right place now. I just think you may have blown a fuse on the board or the transformer.
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like, is it expensive?
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Posted by Harley Manning on the Customer Experience Professionals Blog on September 12, 2014
I love Europe. I especially love the fact that in a very real sense there is no "Europe" as such: The UK experience is not the German experience, which is not the French experience, which is not the Italian experience, and so on.
Yet all of these countries are so close together that once I'm over there, I can visit a variety of very different cultures and architectures more easily than I can travel from Boston to Denver. And in any given city, just walking between buildings from one business meeting to another can make me feel like I'm on vacation. Then there's the food . . .
Although European variety is amazing, it can also create challenges. On a recent trip, I was in London, Rome, Milan, and Budapest within a two-week period. That often brought me into contact with people in service industries — like taxis, restaurants, and hotels — who had very different ideas of what "service" means than I do.
I began to wonder: Do the locals also find some of this service subpar, or am I just being a parochial American? As it turns out, our recent research shows that European customer experience as judged by local customers does vary wildly depending on country and industry, ranging from truly great to truly awful.
Which is one reason why I'm so excited by Forrester's upcoming Forum For Customer Experience Professionals EMEA on November 17th and 18th in London. We recruited speakers from companies with customers who say that they're already doing a standout job as well as speakers from companies that are in the midst of tackling tough CX challenges.
Posted by Ryan Skinner on the B2C Marketing Professionals Blog on August 6, 2014
An agency head told me how he was on a call between the European head of marketing for a US brand and that brand's board of directors. The chairman asked the marketing honcho, "How is the European market?" The marketer answered, "There isn't one." Awkward silence. "That is, there is no European market. There is a French market. A German market. A British one. And so on. I can tell you about those."
In no other sphere of marketing are these national differences magnified more than in social media. Social media is, by its nature, participatory and thus takes on the form, tone, and color of its users. Social media in Germany is German social media. In France, French social media.
Then brands enter the picture. That social media strategy hatched in Dallas or Dublin, with a sum earmarked for translations, will not cut it.
Three reasons cookie-cutter strategies will fail in Europe:
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Last month, we had one of our best Forrester Forums For Marketing Leaders that I've been to, and I've been to all of them. With an on-site audience of nearly 1,000 marketing professionals, I really enjoyed hearing from many of you -- our valued clients -- about your thoughts on the need for new approaches to marketing. Next week, I hope our European clients will find our latest thinking on customer context and utility marketing as valuable as your peers in North America did. Forrester's Forum For Marketing Leaders in Europe is finally here, and I look forward to seeing you in London this Tuesday, May 13. Make sure you check out our latest research reports that go in-depth on the event theme, "Beyond The Campaign":
You'll see much more research on these topics out of our Marketing Leadership and Customer Insights practices this year, so be sure to set your research alerts now.
Posted by Harley Manning on the Customer Experience Professionals Blog on January 10, 2014
In a previous post, I wrote about speakers at Forrester's Forum For Customer Experience Professionals EMEA who represented companies in the repair phase of customer experience (CX) maturity. Their mission: find broken experiences, fix them, and measure the results.
Roughly half of companies on the path to customer experience maturity say that they're in the repair phase today — and that's probably a conservative estimate. But there are companies at more advanced stages of CX maturity, including a few in the most advanced phase, differentiate. That's where firms reframe business challenges in the context of unmet customer needs, connect innovation ideas to their customer experience ecosystem, and infuse innovations with the brand.
We had two speakers at our event who represented companies in the differentiate phase: Dean Marshall, director of Lego brand retail store operations Europe, and Declan Collier, CEO, London City Airport. What is it that their organizations do that's so different?
Lego stores goes beyond even the typical design best practices used by companies in less advanced (but still pretty advanced!) phases of CX maturity, practices like ethnographic research and co-creation. How? By combining the two.
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Human rights groups have said Liberian mercenaries may have played a role in recent street clashes in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, a charge Gbagbo's government has denied.
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I recently came across an article that I had to share. Yes, this is another post that I didn't write, but it's something that every family member, friend, or fan should read. It will help clarify a very important subject among Olympic athletes.
Lending A Hand To Hoist Gold
Olympic athletes need help meeting financial demands
By Kevin MontfordWho watched the men's 400-meter freestyle swimming relay during the Olympics? I was jumping out of my seat with my hand raised like a young first grader!
These same events and incredible stories of our athletes are what made me, as a skinny 12-year old, tell my parents and all of my friends, "I want to be an Olympian when I grow up."
I chased this dream until just a few years ago and heck, with all of this Olympic spirit going on, I still have not given up at the age of 35. Can you say Dara Torres? Our athletes provide us with daily motivation to get up and be active, to go that extra mile and be the best we can be. They provide role models for our youth and good ol' American pride.
I believe most Americans have a misconceived notion that our Olympic athletes make large sums of money by doing what they do. This is just not the case. I would guess that 85 percent of the athletes make less than $15,000 a year and spend close to this to compete in their sport. Travel, equipment, coaching and nutritional needs are expenisve! While the US Olympic Committee and the National Governing Bodies provide support in the form of training facilities, room and board, coaching, and small stipends, compensation only for the very few athletes that can survive the extremely tough selection criteria year in and year out. Even with all of this they often come up short and must rely on parents and friends for support or work part-time jobs to help with financial demands needed to train and compete at this high level. I'm not saying that all athletes should be supported. The world of sports is cutthroat and the Olympic world is no exception. But there are a number of very talented athletes out there that don't have the support structure that others do. Should they be forced to drop out because the economic playing field isn't as level as the competitive field? We love to watch every two years and hear the stories of athletes overcoming adversity to triumph. There's enough of a challenge in getting up every day, year after year, and going to practice. Qualified athletes shouldn't also have to worry about how they're going to eat at the end of the day.
As Americans, we need to step up and stand by our athletes because when they win, we all win.
By coming together as a country through both public and corporate support, we can continue our great Olympic traditions.
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If you live in Sonoma or Marin county I am sure you recently received a nice little "constituent update" from Lynn Woolsey.
How convenient this close to an election she gets to blanket everyone house and home in her entire district with a propaganda mailing proclaiming just how much money she has been responsible for bringing into the area.
One of the items on the list was development money for SMART. Um, no ma-am but the bulk of SMARTs funding is paid for by the sales tax increase thanks to Marin and Sonoma counties measure Q passage back in 2008. Of course SMART is turning into a major boondoggle leaving taxpayers on the hook, but that is another topic altogether.
Naturally it doesn't tell you where any of the money came from or what the true cost, in terms of increased taxes and inflation, to procure this money is.
So there are two thoughts on what this update is about: Lynn cares a lot about the folks in Sonoma and Marin counties to let them know what is going on and how hard she is working for us or she actually feels threatened by Jim Judd in the upcoming election.
Now obviously since Lynn recently voted herself a pay raise (that was thankfully struck down by people who don't have there heads in the clouds) in spite of all the economic calamity going on, she doesn't really care about her constituents.
Now campaigning is one thing. Who wouldn't understand that, but since when do you get to do it with taxpayer funds?
Time for some quick back of the envelope math.
A saturation mailing list for Marin and Sonoma counties comes out with 315,505 addresses. The last time I checked the saturation postal rate was 23 cents for a letter. That comes out to $72,566 just for postage for the update you just received, not including the cost of printing the flyer.
To add further insult there must be a dozen ways she could have disseminated that information to the public that would have cost a fraction of the amount or could have been free.
Perhaps the folks who actually care to hear you profer would read a blog or attend a town hall meeting?
The real rub is that this is paid with our tax dollars. So even if you don't support Woolsey you just involuntarily paid for her congressional campaign.
Lynn Woolsey, you are a sly dog.
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The pawpaw looks ripe. Ready to eat. So do the bananas. And this supermarket, promising "We buy big - you save big", has a special on biscuits. The perfect provisions.
Thus, my partner and I depart Nadi on our 480km drive around Fiji's main island of Viti Levu in an air-conditioned rental.
Within 25km, we slice up a pawpaw while watching the action at the Lautoka wharf. The fastest thing here is the tide. One bloke is busy repairing an outboard motor between interminable chats and helpful suggestions.
Over at the shed, men shoulder bags of ice on to utes, which ferry them to the rudimentary boats, all mango-red and parrotfish-green.
One of the many young men lounging under a boat's canopy tells me they go to sea for up to 10 days at a time or "until this is full," tapping the chest freezer he's sitting on.
We continue north, past the "rooster rearing farm" and a sign that "welcomes you to the soccer crazy town of Baa". We take their word for it.
But by Tavua, only 90km from Nadi, we're out of fruit. In the market we buy more pawpaw but decline the sugarcane juice.
Originally, sugarcane grew wild in Fiji and locals used it as thatch. But since the 1870s, its been farmed and milled and we drive through it all day. This extraordinary grass forms lawns up to 6m high.
We see groups of men bending, cutting, trimming, all dressed in long trousers, long-sleeved shirts, hats, gloves, and sweat. What they cut yesterday, they load on trucks or trains today. Fiji's 600km of narrow-gauge railway is there only to haul sugarcane and the highway is frequently dissected by railway crossings.
But, being signposted, they are not the road's greatest danger. Nor are the free-range children or the potholes or the exhausted old trucks crawling under 15 tonnes of sugar-cane, or the sections of dirt road where buses pass with such bluster and dust that they appear little more than a racing ghost.
No, the greatest danger are the cleverly concealed speed bumps. Every village has them. Some are just a ship's mooring rope dragged across the road. But it was the common mountain-of-earth variety that caught us by surprise, catapulting everything off the backseat and smashing a camera lens.
So, with one eye on the road and one eye on everything else, we don't see Ratu Udre Udre's tomb.
This 19th century chief was a cannibal whose legacy may be greater than his appetite because, depending on your source, he ate somewhere between 87 and 9000 people - that's one human every day for over 24 years.
But more disappointing was our ability to miss Naiserelagi Village and not see Jean Charlot's 1962 painting of a black Christ.
But turning south from the northernmost point of Rakiraki, it's impossible not to notice the dramatic change in country. Viti Levu's north-south mountain axis splits the island's climate in two and we suddenly leave the sun-burnt west and north with its sugarcane and enter the wet western side with its lush vegetation.
Every few kilometres, a roadside stall sells banana, pawpaw, eggplant, cucumber, beans, etc. In villages, children run beside the car shouting, "Bula! Cucumber!" thrusting their produce at you. It's retail at 20km/h.
The bulk of tourists don't pass this way and the famous Fijian friendliness, which frequently sits in the red of the greet-o-metre, is now peaking beyond the orange.
Not only are we greeted with "Bula!" by old men under the verandah, or children by the river, but by people 50m away as they wave frantically with both arms. It felt as though these hundreds of well-wishers had been planted there for our benefit. On one occasion, I waved back to a man ploughing with oxen only to realise that he wasn't waving to me, but whipping his oxen.
And if it wasn't for the New Methodists whipping up a storm in Suva in a Souls to Jesus parade, we would have got through this city a lot quicker.
The 200km from Suva to Nadi is chocker with resorts on beaches and commercial enterprise and when we stop for yet more pawpaw and a drink at the lemon-yellow Korovisilou village store, we meet Ponty. He's sauntering down the road, obligatory machete in hand. He decides to show us his village instead. Maybe he'll garden later. He explains 2m-high flood waters destroyed the village in the 1990s but a good thing came out of it - this new church.
We drive to the Nadi Airport more reluctantly than Ponty walks to his garden. And cursing New Zealand's tight food-import restrictions, there's nothing for it but to eat the last of our pineapple and pawpaw.
Getting there: Air Pacific offers daily flights between Auckland and Nadi. Visit airpacific.com.
Getting around: Carpenter Rentals can meet your flight at Nadi Airport. Visit carprentals.com.fj.
Further information: For more information on Fiji, visit bulafiji.com.
Steve Sole travelled courtesy of Air Pacific, Carpenter Rentals, and Tourism Fiji.


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CLINTON - St. Mary was up at halftime of its boys high school basketball game Thursday night at Hickman County. However, it was just a three-point lead and the Vikings clearly needed a spark to get going.
Once the third quarter started, Wes Averill lit the fuse and Patrick Hubert kept it burning on the way to a 72-61 victory.
Both teams had taken different paths during the holiday tournament circuit. St. Mary split four games during the Carbondale Holiday Tournament, while the Falcons dropped three in a row at the Paducah Holiday Tournament. Viking coach Greg Overstreet knew his team had a tough task at hand where control would be key on several levels.
"We got off to a little bit of a slow start, and Hickman always plays well down here," Overstreet said after the game. "I thought we did a good job of controlling our emotions, got ourselves together, and taking care of business in the second half."
Averill got St. Mary going on that task almost as soon as the third quarter started. He scored two baskets in the first minute of the second half for a 31-24 lead. Ray Shields cut into that lead for Hickman by completing a traditional three-point play. Averill got right back to work with a pair of jumpers for the first double-digit lead of the game. He finished the game with 20 points, impressive for one getting back into the basketball groove.
"He's getting better every game," Overstreet said of Averill. "He didn't play a lot of basketball in the summer and played a lot of golf in the fall. He's catching up and he's going to make the difference for us later in the year."
After Averill made his mark, it was Hubert's turn. He may not have started because of Overstreet's experimenting with different lineups, but he led all scorers with 29 points. Midway through the third, he was fouled and Hickman coach Eric Blalock protested. That drew a technical and Hubert made the four free throws from both fouls for a 41-31 lead.
Late in the period, he made two of his three three-pointers for a 53-40 lead. After scoring 27 points in the first half, the Vikings equaled that output in the third for a 54-44 lead. The Falcons would get to within seven with about two minutes to go, but Viking free throws and the occasional field gold would put it away.
Hickman had several strong performers on offense. With some strong foul shooting, Shields led the way with 15 points. Ryan Harpole and Billy Speed each added 14 points and Harley Hinshaw rounded out the double-digit scorers with 11.
St. Mary 10 27 54 72
Hickman County 13 24 44 61
ST. MARY - P. Hubert 29, Dickens 4, Vaughan 2, Hopper, Averill 20, Smith 3, A. Hubert, Overstreet 8, Eggemeyer 2, Dome' 4.
Field goals 24. 3-pointers 3 (P. Hubert 3). Free throws 21/27. Record 8-4.
HICKMAN - Shields 15, Speed 14, Hinshaw 11, Harpole 14, Newton 7, Bolen.
Field goals 19. 3-pointers 4 (Harpole 3, Speed). Free throws 19/31. Record 3-5.
Contact Jon Futrell, a Paducah Sun sports writer, at 270-575-8664.
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Even the most dominant U.S. ports can't afford to become complacent in the face of several competitive factors converging at mid-year, say industry analysts.
According to Neil Davidson, Senior Analyst - Ports & Terminals for Drewry Research, the newly created/expanded alliances will certainly review and revise port calls, so there will be changes.
"However, it is in their interest to serve as many ports directly as possible in order to offer the best service to cargo owners," he says.
"Furthermore, adds Davidson, carriers will still call at key cargo generating ports.
"So in this sense there may not be much change to the list of ports called. But bigger ships do mean reduced service frequency, or at least less port calls per year, leading to more peaking of port volumes."
Davidson says a anticipation of a breakdown in dockside labor contracting on the U.S. West Coast should also be considered when talking about ports.
"I imagine that most shippers, through past experience of similar issues, have contingency plans in place for diversions if necessary. They will adopt a wait and see approach though," he says.
Finally, Davidson says the impact of the expanded Canal still remains to be seen.
"East Coast U.S. ports are hoping to gain share from the West Coast ports but they won't give it up easily," he notes. "Plus, it's not just about port capacity, but also about inland/intermodal capacity."
In addition there are two key unknowns about the future, says Davidson.
First, the level of the new Canal vessel tolls is yet to be determined, and we have yet to see how the US and Canadian railroads will react to the expanded Canal.
"Both of these will have a big influence on which way cargo is routed," says Davidson. "Most likely time sensitive cargoes will continue to move via the West Coast, but cost sensitive cargoes will be more tempted to use the Canal."
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Top Of The Lake is showing the quality of New Zealand television productions with its haul of Emmy award nominations.
Of the eight nominations it received, Top Of The Lake already has one Emmy to its name, after Australia's Alan Arkapaw won best cinematography in a miniseries-telemovie earlier this week.
It was one of three Top Of The Lake Creative Arts Emmy nominations that have been decided.
Top Of The Lake also has five Primetime Emmy nominations. Their fate will be known when the Primetime awards ceremony is held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday (Monday NZ time).
Veteran Sydney-based editor Alexandre de Franceschi, who with Scott Gray was up for Outstanding Editing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Dramatic Special, missed out.
De Franceschi has been editing films, music videos and commercials for nearly 30 years.
Among the more recent titles he has worked on is the film Stone, which starred Robert De Niro.
He said being nominated was an achievement and if the series was to win just one more Emmy it would be fitting if it went to Top Of The Lake director and co-creator Jane Campion.
"The most personal thing is for Jane Campion, who was the driving force behind this," De Franceschi said.
Created and written by Campion and Gerard Lee, Top Of The Lake is co-produced by BBC Two in the UK, UKTV in Australia and New Zealand and the US Sundance Channel.
Campion and Lee have been nominated for writing the mini-series, and Campion (with Garth Davis, who previously worked on the Australian TV series Love My Way), also has a directing nomination.
The timing of awards could not be better, as Top Of The Lake, with American actor Elisabeth Moss, was released on DVD this week.
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Just wondering if anyone else has purchased the new Singer sewing machine and what do you think of it.
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Just wondering if anyone else has purchased the new Singer sewing machine and what do you think of it.
Which one? What model?
In my opinion, none of the Singers are what they used to be.
It is the Singer simple 2263Originally Posted by Deborah12687
I have heard so many bad things about the new singers, I would look at something else.
I got this machine a few years ago and it's fine. I am not a heavy-duty user but it's always worked for what I need it to do and I've never had a bit of problems with it
I purchased the Quantum L-500 in January of 2010 when it was a brand-new model, and have had nothing but PROBLEMS with it since day one. I have owned mostly Singers my entire sewing life, but unfortunately, I would not buy another Singer again.
it depends on the machine. I have a friend that has the confidence quilter, so does her daughter. They love them. They are both used for quilting as well as general sewing. Neither has had a problem with them.
I couldn't afford much for a sewing machine as my old sewing machine went to sewing heaven and my hubby talked me into this one just to get by as he new that I wanted to get back to quilting. It is a okay sewing machine and he promised me that I can get what ever I want for xmas and not to worry about the price tag. I do not like the singers anymore.
The last Singer I had (new ones) was nothing but problems....they dont make them now like they used to, and I had a hard time finding a repair man who knew what to do. I think something bad has happened to that company.


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Rowan Cottage is a family-owned property where I and my family have spent many happy holidays, and we would like you to share that opportunity to enjoy a beautiful part of Devon. We let it out ourselves with the help of our neighbours, and try to provide thoughtful touches such as a welcome tray for your arrival after your journey, DVD's for adults and children,children's toys and books. For children there is a cot in the single room, bedguard,changing mat, stairgate,fireguard,highchair,potty and antislip bathmat,and children's plates and cups.
Several lovely walks can be taken from the cottage,Stoke Gabriel on the River Dart is a 20min walk away down a traffic-free lane, on the way you can visit the award-winning "fairy wood", and when you arrive you can go crab fishing or visit one of several pubs and tearooms for a meal.
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I was raised in a homegrown, fundamentalist Christian group-which is just a shorthand way of saying I'm classically trained in apocalyptic stockpiling, street preaching, and the King James Version of the Bible. I know hundreds of obscure nineteenth-century hymns by heart and have such razor sharp "modesty vision" that I can spot a miniskirt a mile away.
Verily, verily I say unto thee, none of these highly specialized skills ever got me a job, but at least I'm all set for the end of the world. Selah.
A story of mind control, the Apocalypse, and modest attire.
Elizabeth Esther grew up in love with Jesus but in fear of daily spankings (to "break her will"). Trained in her family-run church to confess sins real and imagined, she knew her parents loved her and God probably hated her. Not until she was grown and married did she find the courage to attempt the unthinkable. Leave.
In her story, readers will recognize critical questions facing every believer: When is spiritual zeal a gift, and when is it a trap? What happens when a pastor holds unchecked sway over his followers? And, How can we leave behind the harm inflicted in the name of God without losing God in the process?
Girl at the End of the World is a raw, hilarious memoir about the search for faith with a future after spiritual abuse. It is a story of lingering questions and the growing hope that God can still be good when his people fail.
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Sunday, January 5, 2014
I'm Back.
But now, after successful student teaching at the high school level, a year as a middle school English teacher, and--finally!--a gig as a high school English teacher, I've decided to resurrect the blog. Besides, I know what to post and what not to post if I want to keep my job. Some thoughts...well, some thoughts you just gotta keep private, which is something our society tends to forget in the age of social media.
For those who followed my blog prior to it being chloroformed, thank you. And please have patience, because I'm really rusty. Don't judge me even though I'm an English teacher. I'm also not bored at a dead-end desk job anymore either, so I cannot promise how regularly I will update this space. But I will update it. Writing is something I have to do. Like yoga. Like being outside. If I don't do it, I feel like I'll explode. So why not do it and share it again, right?
A quick update, too, for my previous readers: I had blogged a lot about my grandmother, her battle with cancer and my feelings about that. In April 2012 she lost her battle and gracefully slipped to the other side. She died at home, with excellent palliative care and her entire family by her side throughout her final days. In one of our last conversations, I asked her if she was scared to die. She shook her head no, and then--in typical Nancy fashion--she changed the subject to something more pleasant. "How are the dogs?" she asked. What the---? I couldn't believe what I was hearing. She was literally on her deathbed, and her words were very few and far between. Yet, there she was asking about our three mutts. "They're fine, Grandma. Just fine."
The day she died was beautiful. It was a glorious, warm and sunny April day. A few hours after her death, I sat in my backyard. I was emotionally and physically spent, having just lost one of the most important people in my life. My grandmother. My first teacher. My actual sixth grade English teacher. My biggest supporter in my decision to become a teacher. My biggest supporter, well, period. I sat in the yard, reclined in a chair, feeling the sun warm my tired skin, listening to the squeals and laughter of the schoolchildren at recess just a few yards away and the chirps of birds who seemed to be everywhere that morning. And then they appeared: butterflies. Monarchs. They flitted and fluttered and darted and hovered all through the yard. It was like something out of a Disney movie. I half expected rabbits and chipmunks to tiptoe out from the woods and start singing. It was surreal, healing and beautiful. The monarchs continued to keep me company that entire spring and summer. They were plentiful in 2012.
I saw one in 2013.
But that's not what I've come to write about today.
It was a beautiful tree. And thank God it was a beautiful tree, because a big chunk of this Christmas season was ugly. It hadn't been, originally. Although Advent began on the heels of a late Thanksgiving, and we felt thrust into the "holiday" season, I was excited about this Christmas. It was the first Christmas in a few years that I felt really and truly excited about: I had little anxiety about our family get-togethers over the course of the month. I also think that I was happy with my job for the first time in a long time--since my years writing for the magazine. And because I am happier with my work, I am much happier in general. I love teaching high school, I love the school at which I teach, and I adore my students and colleagues. So I was feeling pretty good. Until Monday the 16th.
It was late. Almost 11 PM. I was jarred awake by a dreaded late-night phone call, followed by police at my door. A word of advice: even if you're expecting that midnight knock on the door, it is still the worst sound you can imagine. I can't get the damn banging of our brass claddagh knocker out of my head. It's a sound I wish on no one. It's like the grim reaper stopping by to say hello. "And by the way, your father's dead."
My dad was 62. Young, as far as I'm concerned. A smoker, so not in the best of health. But he was a guy who left the corporate world behind 10 years ago so that he could do what he really loved: carpentry and restoration. Joseph the carpenter, dead in the middle of the Christmas season. He died on the job while laying trim work at a new house in Madison. Originally we had thought it was a heart attack, but an autopsy determined it was a brain aneurysm. Snap. Lights out for dad--and for the rest of us. What the hell kind of joke was this? I didn't believe it. My grief was one full of utter denial. And annoyance.
It was Christmas, for God's sake! People aren't supposed to DIE at Christmas! But there I was, in between tears, reviewing my to-do list of "wrap presents" and "bake cookies", and adding "iron clothes for funeral", "write obituary" and "write eulogy". I figured as long as I kept everything in check and organized, we could get through this grief thing and get on with the joy of the season. Dammit.
I focused on that to-do list more than anything else. I fretted everything for the funeral and Christmas wouldn't get done. There were moments in the long week between my father's death and the funeral in which all I wanted was for it to be over. I didn't want to grieve. I didn't want to deal with any of it. I felt as if I understood and accepted his sudden death, so why couldn't we all just move on? Eat cookies. Lots of cookies. I obsessed over the cookies and the wrapping. I obsessed over anything and everything that had nothing to do with what I did not want to think or feel. I was a taut wire stretched between the joy of the season and misery of grief.
The wake was the Sunday before Christmas. That morning I brought the ironing board up from the basement and propped it in the living room, in front of our pretty Christmas tree, to press the clothes my children would wear to their grandfather's funeral. As I stretched out the little size 10 shirt that my youngest would wear to bring up the gifts at the funeral mass the next day, I broke down. That taut wire snapped, and I threw up every ounce of Irish-Italian emotion all over our living room. I had officially entered the anger stage of grief. I swore and cried about how hard it was to balance this Christmas-and-funeral thing. That I was the only one trying to figure out when we were going to wrap presents in the middle of it all. That I was mad and sad that my dad died at Christmas. That I was mad and sad that my dad died. My dad died. My dad died. My dad died.
Now, for every yin there is a yang. My husband is all yin. Sometimes he is too much yin, but that messy Sunday morning he was right there deflecting, absorbing and consoling my emotions that rattled, bang and shook around our home like a pinball. He took nothing personally, even those things I made personal because I was mad at the world. Mad at my father. Mad at God. Mad at every man I had ever loved and who had failed me or, as if they could help it, died. My husband and all of his patience and love just hugged me tight and let me soak his shirt with my McTalian rage, because I had never needed a hug so badly.
Sudden death is very different from being able to say goodbye to someone. I couldn't say goodbye. It was not on my terms. And I was ready to burn down the world because of it.
But we made it through the wake, the funeral, the reception. My brother and sister, so much younger than me, needed me and I needed them. Together we stood at the wake, welcoming the hugs of so many friends, including the entire fire department in which my brother is a junior volunteer. We linked arms throughout the funeral and together delivered the eulogy, each taking turns to read a section about how much we loved and missed our father. We have each other. We have memories. We have love.
A few days later, our beautiful tree glowed early in the morning on Christmas Day while my dad's grandsons opened presents: flat brim hats, baseball gear, books, video games and Legos. We enjoyed a strange and beautiful Christmas with extended family and friends in and out of our house. We even ate lots of the cookies I ended up baking. In the days that followed, we enjoyed the peaceful quiet of our tree, which shone brightly as our fireplace crackled with light and the boys played games on the floor beside it. And some nights, when everyone else went to bed, I would sit in front of the tree--its glow the only light in the house--and just be. Be with my thoughts. Be with my feelings. Be with the waves that crashed and lapped inside me. In the surrealism of the season, sometimes the only touchstone of the holiday was our pretty little tree.
Yesterday, we took down the tree and tossed it into the woods behind our house. I am hoping birds will nest in it this spring.
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Tough Christmas @ our house as well. Different reasons but difficult as well. And I love sitting in the living room while everyone is asleep just enjoying the tree & lights....it helped to calm my soul this holiday season even if my emotions kept me on a continous roller coaster ride.
- January 5, 2014 at 11:44 AM
- Mike Wood said...
Nicely done! No signs of rust at all as you captured almost every emotion known to mankind
- January 5, 2014 at 12:09 PM
- serenity74 said...
OK, this is a doozy.
I have a friend in New York who was expecting her first child this month. In September, the baby was diagnosed with Downs Syndrome. In November, an ultrasound showed fluid in the baby's lungs. My friend had an emergency C section just before T-giving, a boy named Tyler. He had ups and downs for a month, before losing his battle in the NICU on the day after your dad passed. Then Javier (my student from Common Ground) was killed just after Xmas.
Life is sometimes impossibly unbelievably cruel. Especially to people like us who go through the ringer for everything we want and hope all will fall into place without too much of a struggle. No matter how hard it is to stay hopeful, we have high expectations. So stay hopeful. Even if you remain in cubicle hell. ;) But that is one for my blog when I finally get back to it. I have the time, wtf is my deal? Anyway.
I am rambling now and i apologize, but I wanted to find a way to say all of that to you. So here it is.
- January 5, 2014 at 3:26 PM
- Milk Money said...
Thank you, everyone. Serenity, my heart goes out to your friend. That is a cruel pain. I am ok. My father's death was the natural order of things. Not tragic. Just sudden. I have a lot to be grateful for, including the fact that he was my father--chose to be, in fact. He married my mom when I was 10 and legally adopted me as I was otherwise paternally unclaimed.
Javier. That is a heartbreak. A friend of mine taught him at Bishop Woods. Another taught him at CG when she was a student teacher there. I have a student who was good friends with him. He stood sentry at Javi's wake.
I am grateful that I am no longer in cubicle hell. The biggest light in last month's darkness came from my children and my students. I cannot imagine life as anything other than a teacher. :) Hugs from my side of the bridge to wherever you are.
- January 5, 2014 at 3:36 PM


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Japan's Foreign Minister Bows Out
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With political reverence alien to the U.S., Japan's foreign minister has resigned after accusations that he accepted political donations from a foreign national. The minister, Seiji Maehara, had been seen as a potential successor to the current prime minister. —JCL
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By YY, March 8, 2011 at 8:04 am Link to this comment
The context is not reported but known to everybody. Maehara had to quit as the party is going through a process of suspending Ozawa, the power broker faction leader with many loyal followers (a would have been PM in another universe), who is under indictment for irregularities with campaign funds. Ozawa in resisting his loss of power has proceeded to split and has almost sunk the party. Technically the mistake of not managing his campaign office is the same for Maehara as Ozawa. The amount and character of the mistake do differ, by more than thousand fold.
However given current situation probably the only good choice he had. He'll be back, as they just rotate out for a bit.
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If the Japanese government continues to have the staying power of cherry blossoms, then the country is doomed.
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What's being shamefully overlooked in this story is the institutionalized racism that allows a country to discriminate against these so called foreign nationals. They are Koreans, sometimes second or third generation who were born in Japan; speak only Japanese and are forced as adults to carry a foreign registration card that until recently contained finger print information. Most Japanese actively shun marrying people Korean nationals. It is common for parents to investigate the person a son or daughter introduces as a fiancé to confirm they are not Koreans. A lot of children, who only know this country, find out they are not really members of Japanese society when they go to get a passport and find they need to get a Korean one. There is a story here…and it's not that a woman contributed to a political party.
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The new thinking on Aboriginal policy is a challenge to the left and an opportunity for the right, says Tony Abbott.
For 200 years, nearly every speaker on Aboriginal policy has dwelt on problems: the difficulties of preventing conflict, building relationships, generating resources, and dealing with dispossession. Problems there are and they can't be ignored or glossed over. They are among the most serious and intractable problems our society faces. But fixating on problems, however natural the temptation, won't make them better.
How productive has all this doom-saying been? It's surely more useful to focus on the opportunities now presenting themselves to break free from the old destructive cycles of guilt, anger and victimhood.
We've all moved on from "identity politics". A society that has successfully adapted to the presence of millions of newcomers from every corner of the globe should be more than capable of giving its indigenous people a fair go, especially as the new generation of indigenous leaders want to be modern Australians as well as distinctively Aboriginal. As Noel Pearson puts it, Aboriginal people should be confident and comfortable whether they're in the bush or the boardroom.
The facts of history can't be changed. The challenge is to learn from them, not dwell on them. The task that matters most is enabling Aboriginal people to create for themselves what other Australians create - namely, safe communities, good schools, reasonable health and normal prospects of a better life for their children.
The big difference between the old policy paradigm and the new is that it's no longer as pre-occupied with race and guilt.
Racism used to be offered as the complete explanation for Aboriginal poverty, alienation and early death. Racism hasn't disappeared. Still, if racism caused poverty, why hasn't poverty declined as racism diminished?
The task that matters most is enabling Aboriginal people to create for themselves what other Australians create.
Pearson's great insight has been to understand that people living in welfare-dependent communities are poor and alienated regardless of their colour or their location. The Aboriginal communities of Cape York aren't poor because they're black but because there's no economic base and almost no one has a real job.
By all means, says Pearson, pursue apologies and treaties, but the right response to poverty in Aboriginal communities is to prevent substance abuse, promote good education (mainly in English rather than community languages), foster personal responsibility and encourage people to take whatever economic opportunities present themselves. However real the injustice and whatever the case for extra government help, to Pearson the big task is not to lament historical injustice or to demand more funding, but to restore purpose and self-respect to people's lives.
According to Pearson, idleness is the scourge of most Aboriginal communities. Drunkenness and drug addiction are the inevitable byproducts of having nothing much to do.
Reconstructing the social fabric means reducing alcohol availability and enforcing the rules that are supposed to mean "no show, no pay" for Aboriginal work-for-the-dole schemes. It means creating a local service economy where local people rather than outside contractors work to meet community needs (such as road maintenance, house building and municipal services). It also means finding ways to treat Aboriginal land as an economic as well as a cultural asset.
To Pearson, the most corrosive feature of long-term life on welfare is the dependency and defeatism it inevitably brings.
The Pearson critique is a serious challenge to the political left and a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the political right. The left has consistently let down indigenous people because of its faith that, despite failing everywhere else, somehow socialism might work in Aboriginal communities.
The right once alienated indigenous people by demanding that they lose their identity and become "just like everyone else". In a more multicultural era, conservatives regard Aboriginal people as fellow Australians who need a hand to break out of the welfare cycle.
By contrast, as Pearson has noted, there's something self-serving in the left's pre-occupation with Aboriginal disadvantage when it's used to "prove" the charge that Australia is essentially unfair. Poor and alienated Aborigines are "exhibit A" in the left's indictment of Australian society. Poor Aborigines vindicate the left's social critique but successful Aborigines undermine it - hence Pearson's doubts about whether the left is serious.
Because we can't change the past, we should be more determined to change the future. The objective indicators of Aboriginal disadvantage should not be regarded as a moral judgement on yesterday so much as a spur to action today. They highlight the vast challenge still facing us if Australia is to be the land of opportunity for all that is our nation's "best self".
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I like it! Definitely agree with ya KWC! I think this will be another Bowl blowout with Oklahoma on the losing side.
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Yes I would play the Under OU will not score more than 13-17 on Bama
Yes I would play the Under OU will not score more than 13-17 on Bama
I agree that OU won't score much but my fear is Bama putting up 40+
If Oklahoma does score 17 and Bama covers by a half point that is only one point from going over. I would pass on the under.
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wow KDUB.. alot of peeps on OU... i don't see it. i'm all over bama.. maybe a reaction to what UCF did to baylor last night at +17?
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The Black Caps' latest ODI series whitewash to Bangladesh adds another chapter to what has been a pretty dark year for the New Zealand cricket side that began when they were bowled out for just 45 against South Africa in Newlands.
They bounced back from that embarrassing innings with a historic ODI series win in South Africa but there was been little to celebrate since.
Over the past 18 months the Black Caps have won seven of 24 ODIs, just one of their last 15 test matches and five of 17 Twenty20 internationals.
The Black Caps were missing captain Brendon McCullum and one of their top batsmen in Kane Williamson overnight but they weren't facing the top Bangladesh XI either.
What's next for this side which is ranked 8th in the world in all forms of the game? Five limited-overs internationals await them against a significantly stronger nation in Sri Lanka before they return for the summer to host the West Indies and India.
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The quietest terrible free-agent signing in Theo Epstein's tenure in Boston has been designated for assignment and will likely seek employment somewhere else.
Mike Cameron, one of the most disappointing free-agent signings of Theo Epstein's reign as Red Sox general manager, was designated for assignment Thursday, ending a brief and unproductive 1 1/2-year Boston career.
Infielder Yamaico Navarro was recalled from Pawtucket to take his place on the roster. Navarro will wear No. 60.
The Red Sox owe Cameron approximately $4 milllion for the remainder of the season, the last of a two-year, $15.5 million deal.
I don't think many Red Sox fans knew how much cash was thrown at Mike Cameron prior to the 2010 season. $7.75 million a season to accumulate these numbers... a .219 BA, 7 HR, 24 RBI, .285 OBP over 81 games. Cameron came in to play center last season, which resulted in the loss of Ellsbury when Beltre's knee connected with Jacoby's ribs during a play on a fly ball. Then Cameron's abdominal tear kept him out of 114 games last season, which resulted in surgery and he hasn't been the same since.
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