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What does "social capital" mean?
Why the name "Saguaro Seminar"?
What are some examples of social capital?
What has been happening to social capital in America in the last 2-3 decades?
What is the role of the Internet in all this?
Aren't some forms of social capital increasing? (Things like youth soccer, evangelical religion, etc.)
How can we build social capital?
Isn't social capital too diverse to be encapsulated in one term?
Are all forms of social capital good for all purposes?
What are the different types of social capital?
What is the relationship between social capital and happiness?
Why is social capital important?
How can one measure social capital?
How can social capital be decreasing when the non-profit sector is booming?
I've heard a lot of controversy over whether Putnam and the "Bowling Alone" thesis are right. Is our civic disengagement a point of agreement?
How does social capital compare with asset-based development?
How does social capital measurement compare with sustainable development?
Is social capital building an end in itself or a means to an end?
What is the role of government in all this? Is government our curse or our salvation?
Do the trends of social disengagement differ by race?
Does the social capital decline impact economic classes differently?
What does "social capital" mean?
Social networks have value—that is the central premise of social capital. Social capital refers to the collective value of all "social networks" [who people know] and the inclinations that arise from these networks to do things for each other ["norms of reciprocity"]. For more information, please see About Social Capital.
Why the name "Saguaro Seminar "?
The saguaro [pronounced sah-WAH-ro] is a cactus that grows in the Sonoran desert in the Southwestern United States. There are rich parallels between the saguaro and social capital (or civic engagement). Saguaros were for some time undervalued by modern American society and often razed. Saguaros are bellwether indicators of the health of the ecosystem. The saguaro also plays the role of welcoming host for an environmentally-rich community: vines grow on its trunk; birds make nests in the saguaro; Native Americans have lived off its fruit and celebrate its blossoms in festivals; and animals use saguaro for precious shade. Saguaros have an invisible root system that is multiples of the visible height of the cacti. And like most social capital, saguaros grow slowly (husbanding what nourishment the ecosystem provides) and are tough, long-term survivors. Seminar, meaning a set of meetings for the exchange of ideas in an area, comes from the Latin seminarium which means a seed plot or a nursery.
How does social capital work?
The term social capital emphasizes not just warm and cuddly feelings, but a wide variety of quite specific benefits that flow from the trust, reciprocity, information, and cooperation associated with social networks. Social capital creates value for the people who are connected and—at least sometimes—for bystanders as well. Social capital works through multiple channels:
What are some examples of social capital?
When a group of neighbors informally keep an eye on one another's homes, that's social capital in action. When a tightly knit community of Hassidic Jews trade diamonds without having to test each gem for purity, that's social capital in action. Barn-raising on the frontier was social capital in action, and so too are e-mail exchanges among members of a cancer support group. Social capital can be found in friendship networks, neighborhoods, churches, schools, bridge clubs, civic associations, and even bars. The motto in Cheers "where everybody knows your name" captures one important aspect of social capital. See also 150 things you can do to build social capital.
What has been happening to social capital in America in the last 2-3 decades?
We have found a disconcerting, precipitous decline in social interactions over the last three decades across all forms of social capital: formal and informal, high-minded and leisure, public and private. (A much more thorough exploration of this subject appears in Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community.) We start at the civic epicenter: We are bowling alone. While a record number of Americans bowl today, bowling in organized leagues plunged 40 percent from 1980 to 1993. Lest you think this a trivial factoid, over 25% more Americans (91 million) bowled once or more in 1996 than voted in the 1998 congressional elections.
Our point is not that bowling is critical to America's future, but that in bowling leagues, fraternal organizations, choral societies and thousands of other places where Americans regularly meet, fellow citizens talk periodically about issues of civic importance and learn to trust others and work together. And alas, these civic watering holes are drying up. Civic do-gooding organizations also have met hard times. The League of Women Voters has lost 42 percent of its members since 1969. In the domain of schools, PTAs nationwide plummeted from a membership high in the early 1960s of almost 50 members per 100 families with school-age children to less than 20 members per 100 in 1997. (This decline can only partly be explained by the movement of parents from the PTA into Parent Teacher Organizations.)
A composite graph of the market share of 30 mainstream civic organizations (i.e., the percentage of Jewish women in Hadassah, the percentage of blacks in the NAACP, the percentage of Catholic men in the Knights of Columbus, the percentage of youth in 4-H, etc.) shows that composite membership market share has dropped from its peak in the early 1960s to levels not seen since just after the Great Depression. And alas, it's not just these particular organizations. In 1975-76 the average American attended some club meeting once a month. By last year, that figure had dropped 58 percent to only five meetings annually. Almost two-thirds of Americans attended at least one club meeting in 1975-76, but only 38 percent did in 1997-98.
Informal associating also has declined. In 1975, the average American invited friends over more than 14 times yearly. By 1998 that had dropped 60 percent to only eight times a year. Perhaps most alarmingly, the family meal—a ritual practiced for millennia—may within our lifetimes enter the nation's endangered practices list. The fraction of married Americans who definitely say "our whole family usually eats dinner together" has declined a third, from about 50 percent to 34 percent in just the last two decades, and this decline ignores the rapidly dwindling fraction of intact married couples over this period.
One often hears that we are giving more than ever, even in real dollars, but this is not the relevant statistic. Although philanthropy has doubled since 1960 in real dollars, real spending on cut-flowers has tripled and real spending on all forms of entertainment has nearly quadrupled. We are simply far better off now than then. What is more relevant is how big a share of our income we give to philanthropy; that is, after all, what tithing is all about. And while the share of our national income we gave to philanthropy roughly doubled from 1929 through 1964 (rising almost continuously year to year), it has since dropped by over a third to approximately our 1940 level.
Generalized trust also has evaporated. While 55 percent of American adults in 1960 believed others could be trusted most or all of the time, only 30 percent did in 1998, and the future looks bleaker because the decline was sharpest among our nation's youth. Roughly three-quarters of Americans trusted government to do the right thing most or all the time in 1960, a figure that sounds quaint today when less than 25 percent trust the government. This disappearance of trust has huge ramifications for our ability to cooperate and work with strangers: a citizen at a town meeting or a new neighbor, businessperson, classmate or teacher.
A striking piece of evidence about America's civic disengagement came from two former critics of Bowling Alone. They found in a gold-plated study that from 1984 to 2004 the percentage of Americans with no close confidants had been multipled by 2.5 and stood at a quarter of all Americans. They also found that over 40 percent of all Americans were only one friend away from lacking social support, and that our close ties are far more dependent on spouses and other family members than they used to be.
What caused it?
This is far too complicated a question to consider briefly. The interested reader is referred to Professor Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone. After considering a whole host of reasons, it is most likely that the cause is probably: 10 percent sprawl and the increased geographic complexity of our lives; 10 percent two-career families and the fact that men haven't picked up the civic slack created when more women entered the paid work force; some 30 percent television (which seems to cause viewers to increasingly be less civic and which has absorbed more than 100 percent of the increase in leisure time from the 1960s); and roughly 30 percent generational trends (as those born after 1930 have increasingly been far less civic than those born before 1930). The final roughly 20 percent is probably a combination of many other factors.
What is the role of the Internet in all this?
A much more thorough answer to this question can be found in Professor Putnam's book Bowling Alone, so this answer will merely scratch the surface. The Internet definitely did not cause our civic disengagement, which began in roughly 1965 and was well underway when Bill Gates was even in grade school. However, is the Internet now a part of the problem, or the answer to our lack of civic engagement? Probably both. (We note that predictions of how new technology will come to be used have almost always been way off—the radio was envisioned only for ship-to-ship communication, and the telephone was seen as only a business-to-business communication tool—so any forecast should be taken with many grains of salt.) It is hard to believe that if America is civicly re-engaged by the year 2020 (and we are hopeful that Americans can do this), that technology won't have been a significant part of the solution.
That said, there are major hurdles to overcome. First, the digital divide means that until access to computers and the Internet is universal, it can't truly be a tool for building diverse ties in American communities. Second, we communicate huge amounts of information non-verbally, and it may be a long long time until our virtual communication is as information-rich as our face-to-face communication. (Note: even high definition videoconferencing conveys far less information than face to face communication and hence is less efficient at building trust.) Third, the technology encourages cyberbalkanization: ever more specialized groups talking about a very specific problem. In such groups individuals are flamed for off-point comments. One of the great virtues of more traditional group get-togethers (like bowling leagues) is that no conversation was considered off-point. This makes it much harder for our conversations to have peripheral community vision. It makes us communicate more with those like us who are geographically distant, and thus causes us to know our neighbors less. This is a real concern if we need to rally our neighbors to deal collectively with place-based problems: schools that aren't working, zoning issues, crime, or even local environmental issues. Finally, the issue is whether the Internet becomes more like a nifty phone or a nifty television: i.e., whether it is used more for enhanced person-to-person communication or more for enhanced entertainment. There are many incentives for industry to steer the Internet towards being a nifty TV, which could have a far more negative impact on civic engagement than even the TV. Most experts agree that if technology is to succeed, it will have to be used to reinforce face-to-face ties.
We think that this issue of technology and civic engagement is a critical one and we hope that lots of citizens and experts spend a great deal of time thinking about how we can use the technology to do this. While the technological solutions have not yet emerged, there have already been examples of people trying to use the technology to facilitate social capital building. Examples of this can be found at sites like evite.com (which makes it easier to send invitations for social events) and neighborhoodlink.com (which helps neighborhoods communicate electronically). Some groups like volunteermatch.org have tried to use the technology to make it much easier to find out about volunteering opportunities. Still other examples that are in development are the creation of neighborhood directories using the latest technology, experiments to allow residents of poor neighborhoods to get free computers if they share them with neighbors, and software that makes it easy to form latent groups (mothers of kids in a specific third grade class, state park users, etc.) that one can activate when needed.
Aren't some forms of social capital increasing? (Things like youth soccer, evangelical religion, etc.)
Yes, some things definitely are increasing and youth soccer, evangelical religion, and youth community service are among them. But it has always been true at any given period that some forms of social capital and social connectedness are increasing while others are waning. The question is what the net impact on social capital is when you add up what's increasing and what's decreasing. And all the examples proffered are small compared to other declines in those same subject areas. For example, evangelical religion is increasing dramatically, but mainline Protestant and Catholic churchgoing is declining even more rapidly. Similarly, while youth soccer is growing, most other forms of youth athletic participation are on the decline. And counter to popular myth, youth soccer has not made up the decline in bowling: bowlers' ranks are roughly triple the number of soccer parents. Even if every soccer mom and dad religiously attended all their children's games, it couldn't make up for the drop in league bowling. In short, some forms of social capital are growing, but simply not enough to stem the decline. (A much more thorough treatment of all the possible counter-examples can be found in Professor Putnam's book Bowling Alone, which finds no evidence of increases in some things commonly asserted to be countertrends—for example, book groups, connections at the office, local civic associations, crime watch groups, and eating out other than at fast food restaurants.) Increases in groups like youth soccer or evangelical religion or youth community service haven't yet reached the magnitude to stem our civic declines, but they may be harbingers of an important civic resurgence that lies below the surface. In addition, they may well yield insights into what kinds of civic or social capital opportunities are attractive. Robert Putnam and Lewis Feldstein's book, Better Together: Restoring the American Community (2003), discusses 12 promising examples of social capital building across the United States and what can be learned from those examples, in the hopes of catalyzing an increase in our nation's social capital. Additionally, in an Op-Ed in the Washington Post, "Sept. 11 as Civics Lesson," Putnam and Thomas Sander detailed evidence that there is a new 9-11 Generation forming among youth who were in college or near college age on September 11, 2001.
How can we build social capital?
We build social capital by creating new ties and strengthening old ones. These connections may increase individual well-being and opportunity by linking people more strongly to their local community and to larger societal resources. Or they may build community by strengthening bonds that link community members or by bridging divisions between them. The new ties may be formal, like a club, association, or civic institution, or informal, like a group of friends talking or colleagues collaborating. There is no limit to the number of specific pathways to social capital creation. How to build social capital in each community, family, block, or neighborhood is best left to community-based groups. See 150 things you can do to build social capital.
Is all social capital good?
No. Just as some forms of human capital (like knowledge of chemistry) can be used for destructive purposes (like building a bomb), so too some forms of social capital (like the Michigan militia) can have bad social consequences. Fortunately, malevolent uses of human and social capital are relatively rare, which is why we continue to teach chemistry in public schools and why we should continue to try to build social capital.
Isn't social capital too diverse to be captured in one term?
Capital is an abstract concept that encapsulates huge diversity. Economists wondered whether you could talk about physical capital (which covers everything from a hammer to a computer to an automobile assembly plant). Similarly, human capital covers everything from piano lessons to a vocational course in cooking or automotive repair, to a graduate degree in Philosophy, and covers education of widely differing quality. So, too, does social capital cover a wide diversity of relationships: a team at the workplace, conversations with one's neighbors, relationships with the teachers of one's children, an alumni network, people you volunteered with a couple of times. The point in all these cases (physical, human, and social capital) is that these underlying attributes can have real value to society and that someone embedded in social networks that foster reciprocity can be more effective than someone who is not in such networks, the same way as someone possessing physical or human capital can be more effective in a hour than that same person without this physical or human capital.
Are all forms of social capital good for all purposes?
Not all social capital is for everything or everyone. Just as two different forms of physical capital (a screwdriver vs. a hydroelectric dam) are useful for different purposes, so two different forms of social capital (a group of friends at the local bar vs. a group of colleagues at the local bar association) serve different social purposes.
What are the different types of social capital?
We won't try to summarize all the different types of social capital, but as an indication of some of the ways in which social capital varies, there are social ties stemming from informal networks (ordinary socializing, work-place ties, relationships with neighbors, personal support networks) and those from formal networks, such as being a member of an organization. Group membership in such formal organizations consists of both private-minded organizations (primarily designed to produce fun or fellowship, like a choral society or a baseball league) and public-minded organizations (designed to tackle an issue of public concern, like a crime watch group or a community service organization). The social ties produced can be analyzed both according to the strength of those ties (with strong ties being ones that are regularly used, where the individuals consider each other to be very close friends, and which often provide personal support to each other) and weak ties (where the ties are used only occasionally and tend to be used more for the flow of information). Similarly, the ties can be analyzed as to whether they are bridging social capital (bringing individuals together with others who are unlike them, by race, class, ethnicity, education, religion, age, or gender, for example) or whether ties are primarily bonding (that bring individuals together with others like them). Most groups are bridging in some ways and bonding in others: the Knights of Columbus is bonding in terms of religion (since all the participants are Catholic men) but bridges across dimensions of class and income.
What is the relationship between social capital and happiness?
There has been a growing interest in the study of subjective wellbeing (happiness). We held a conference on social capital and wellbeing. While money can buy you happiness, studies have shown that your happiness is only raised when your income is raised relative to others' income; if everyone's income rises there is no increase in happiness. In contrast, if one raises the social capital of a community resident, studies show that it raises both the happiness of that individual and everyone else in the community. Some studies (at least in decisions of what job to take or where to live) reveal that individuals overestimate the increase in happiness they would get from a higher paycheck or a larger house and underestimate the decrease in happiness they would suffer if their job or new house provides less time or opportunity to socially connect with others. [The BBC has had a report on the Happiness Formula, available here; a worldwide map of happiness is available here.]
Why is social capital important?
A growing body of hard-nosed literature over the last several years shows that social capital enables many important individual and social goods. Communities with higher levels of social capital are likely to have higher educational achievement, better performing governmental institutions, faster economic growth, and less crime and violence. And the people living in these communities are likely to be happier, healthier, and to have a longer life expectancy. In places with greater social connectedness, it is easier to mobilize people to tackle problems of public concern (a hazardous waste facility, a crime problem, or building a community park, to name only a few examples), and easier to arrange things that benefit the group as a whole (a child-care cooperative among welfare mothers, a micro-lending group that enables poor people to start businesses, or farmers banding together to share expensive tools and machinery).
Why measure social capital?
Quite simply, we believe we should measure social capital for 3 reasons:
How can one measure social capital?
We developed a longer questionnaire on social capital (the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey) and a shorter social capital survey (the Social Capital Short Form). Other countries are doing things to measure social capital. For more details on measurement see Saguaro's Measurement Page.
How can social capital be decreasing when the non-profit sector is booming?
There is simply said no one-to-one relationship between the non-profit sector and social capital. While on the margin, non-profit organizations may be more interested in fostering social capital than for-profit organizations, one can't conclude that because an organization is non-profit, there is thus a lot of social capital being created. Imagine a non-profit hospital that becomes privatized: it is hard to imagine that suddenly the social capital associated with the organization disappears. Similarly many non-profit membership organizations with regard to social capital among its members are mere check-writing organizations (like the AARP) that are surprisingly devoid of social capital, since its members don't meet or know each other. Moreover, many forms of social capital (neighborhood block parties, pickup basketball, etc.) don't rely on non-profit organizations at all. In short, while there are many terrific non-profit organizations that are actively building and strengthening community connectedness, it is a big mistake to conflate non-profit organizations with social capital.
I've heard a lot of controversy over whether Putnam and the "Bowling Alone" thesis are right. Is our civic disengagement a point of agreement?
Much of the controversy surrounding the article "Bowling Alone" concerned the fact that it focused significantly on group memberships and also focused on memberships in specific organizations (the Elks, bowling leagues, the PTAs). Three key criticisms were that it 1) didn't include informal schmoozing; 2) didn't include new, more innovative organizations; and 3) didn't look at the full range of political forms of participation. Professor Putnam knew at that time that these other forms of social capital were equally important, but couldn't find reliable data source(s) that would tell us about these civic trends over the last 2-3 decades. Since then, he accessed data from the Roper Organization and learned about and got access to the DDB Needham Lifestyle database. Both of these massive data sets, collected from tens or hundreds of thousands of Americans over the last 25 years, directly answer these earlier criticisms and show that these trends of civic disengagement extend both to organizations in general, to informal schmoozing, and to 12 forms of political participation. No academic has called into question the reliability of these data. Since the publication of Bowling Alone (the book), there has been far greater acceptance of the fact that we are less civically engaged than a generation ago, and most of the stalwart critics of this hypothesis have come over to the view that we have civically disengaged over the last generation. And one of the most recent gold-plated studies showed how dramatically our number of close confidants has shriveled in just the past 20 years.
Is volunteering increasing?
Yes volunteering has been increasing over the last quarter century. Nevertheless, it is important to look at this increase by age group. More than all the increase is captured by those over age 60, whose volunteering has exploded over the last 25 years (from slightly over 6 times a year on average to well over 10). The vast middle of the population (those 30-59 years of age) are actually slightly less likely to be volunteering now than back in 1975. Finally there is evidence that young Americans are slightly more likely to be volunteering than a quarter century ago, even though roughly one-third of volunteering is required as a condition of graduation, and other young people volunteer to burnish their records for college admission. Nevertheless, this volunteering could have lifelong payoff, since civic habits begin in youth. With the exception of the volunteering uptick for Americans in college or younger, these patterns suggest that most of our volunteering spirit is being held up by the senior population (part of a long civic generation that has been especially civic all their lives, from when they were born in the 1920s and early 1930s all the way through a Great Depression, two World Wars, and up to the current day). Thus, we may be facing less of a Springtime of volunteering and more of an Indian Summer of volunteering. Despite advances in modern science, it is only a matter of time until the Grim Reaper removes this population from the stage. And it will take very impressive gains among the remaining parts of the population to make up for their loss, since the 30-59 year olds are only volunteering at 60 percent of the rate of the seniors, and the under-30 crowd is only volunteering at 40 percent of the rate of these seniors.
How does social capital compare with asset-based development?
Much of what Kretzman and McKnight term "community assets" are lodestones of social capital. There is obviously significant benefit to their approach, in observing that all communities have social capital assets on which they can build, and in helping communities identify their community assets. It is also the case that many successful grassroots organizing strategies, like the Industrial Areas Foundation, have built upon already existing stores of social capital. Having said this, we also think that it is important to examine whether the amount of social capital in communities is increasing or decreasing, and not to assume that simply because there are community assets, that the stock of social capital is adequate, plentiful, or growing.
How does social capital measurement compare with sustainable development?
Sustainable development and sustainable communities typically measure indicators that show the overall health of the community: i.e., looking at measures of the economy, health, and crime, in addition to human and social capital levels. We completely agree that a community's stock of social capital is not the sole measure of a community's health. Nevertheless, we believe that social capital is important in that it is a key driver for these other indicators (economy, health, crime, etc.) rather than merely a goal in and of itself.
Is social capital building an end in itself or a means to an end?
Often social capital building is not the central activity of a program: a bowling league is about bowling, not socializing; choral singing is about music, not forming social ties. The social capital built is critical, but it is often considered incidental to those running such programs. However, if something like a mentoring program is not building social capital, it can't be succeeding since building these trusting ties is at the heart of what mentoring is all about. Social capital measurement could be used either to see whether a mentoring program is actually working, or to measure how much social capital was being created by a program focused on something other than social capital, such as a tutoring program. The measurement in the latter case could be used to determine how to optimize the program so that it achieves its goal of choral singing, tutoring, or soccer, at the same time as it builds as much social capital as possible.
What is the role of government in all this? Is government our curse or our salvation?
The field of social capital has attracted strange bedfellows: folks on the political right who believe that if we just got government off the backs of the average Joe, we could usher in a civic rebirth, and folks on the political left who believe that social capital building is a clarion call for a new activist role of government. We think there is no simple one-to-one relationship between government and social capital. There are clear historical examples where government directly caused a decline in social capital: for example, the slum clearance programs in the late 1950s (for which we are still paying the price), or even the rise of government funding of kindergartens, which caused an entire movement of supportive and involved mothers to disappear. Conversely, there are examples that showcase how government has built more social capital or capitalized on what existed: for example, the development of the county extension service, the key role of postmasters-general in curing polio through the March of Dimes, etc. In fact, Professor Theda Skocpol has written that the postal service in general played a signal role in the nation's early social capital building. Moreover, if you compare across states or countries of the world, places with a larger government per capita actually have higher levels of social capital. It is hard to determine which way the causation runs; it probably runs in both directions, but if nothing else, it is inconvenient for those who like to demonize the role of government. Perhaps what is clearer is that government could be aided by a more thoughtful screen on whether government programs are likely to augment or decrease the role of citizens.
Do the trends of social disengagement differ by race?
Yes and no. The declines in social connectedness are an equal opportunity employer. While levels of various forms of social capital differ by race (e.g., religious observance is higher among blacks, and some forms of civic engagement are higher among whites), the trends are down among all races and social classes. More blacks are in the middle class now than a generation ago, but the decline in civic involvement is actually greater among college-educated blacks than in any other group.
Does the social capital decline impact economic classes differently?
Yes. Social capital is more important for poor people than for middle and upper class Americans (who have more financial and human capital). One legacy of slavery is a social capital deficit, especially in bridging social capital. Thus the same objective collapse of social capital has greater impact on the inner city than the suburbs, since the inner city, as Professor Xavier de Souza Briggs has noted, lacks bridging social capital to the suburbs to enable it to "import clout" that would connect the inner city with job opportunities, political influence, access to capital, etc.


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Pigmentation around areola can occur after an incision for breast implant placement
Thank you for your question. You need to be examined by your plastic surgeon for a correct diagnosis. However the areola looks like hyperpigmentation from your photograph. Hyperpigmentation is common following periareolar mastopexy.
Web reference: http://drseckel.com/surgical-procedures/result-oriented-breast-augmentation-breast-enlargement/
Brown line near nipple.
This looks like a line of pigmentation. Seems rather straight and uniform for a vein. Push on it and if it temporarily goes away it is more likely to be a vein. If it is pigmentation bleaching agents like Hydroquinone may be helpful.
Black line
It's difficult to tell from the photo but this looks like a dilated vein. But the pictures are hard to see. Your best bet it to let your surgeon examine you in proper lighting. If it is a vein it is of no consequence.
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DESERT HOT SPRINGS, Calif. - A new group of leaders took over the Desert Hot Springs city council, but continued to deal with old problems. Adam Sanchez was sworn in as mayor then joined by councilman elect Joe McKee, mayor pro tem Russell Betts, Jan Pye and councilman Scott Matas. The new council met for the first time in front of a full house to talk about the city's financial crisis. "We need $2.6 million in cuts," said Matas. "Bring back recommendations on where they need to be, I am tired of sitting up here and hearing we need direction, we need direction, we need direction."
New numbers from the city's finance director show DHS is on track to spend $4.8 million more than it brings in this fiscal year. Last month, the council declared a fiscal emergency, buying it some time to make cuts. The city's finance director said the city needs to cut approximately $2.6 million in the next 6 months to get back to get out of a deficit for the fiscal year. Otherwise, the city would run out of money by the spring of 2014. City staff proposed 16 possible cuts to the council in a report. Some of them include:
-Minimizing watering grass/ lawns in city parks to save approximately $179,812 per year
-Close the Wardman Park Pool, estimated savings of $89,000 per year
-City council stipends and benefits, estimated savings of $53,500 per year
Also on the list, eliminating the city's crossing guard program and asking PSUSD to pay for crossing guards for their schools. "If we don't have the crossing guards, then it'll just be more of a mess, and all the kids just rushing out to get hit by cars," said Rebecca Roberson as she was picking her 11-year-old daughter from school.
Just like she's worried about her child's safety, many people in the city continue to worry about their public safety. The police and fire department remain on the chopping block. "Show me how we can get away with saving the police department, not just getting up and saying we love the police," said McKee.
Councilman Betts thinks the bigger cuts should come from the city itself. "You can't ignore the biggest single budget item which is salaries, that's where we're going to get the lions share of the savings and there's going to have to be salary cuts made," said Betts.
For Roberson, she says that's where they should always start. "Maybe take something out of their own pockets, instead of our children's," said Roberson. "Then things in this town would be better."
The council also voted to put a moratorium on travel expenses for its members for now. They will discuss more of the recommendations and bigger line items at their next meeting on December 17.
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The Reluctant Wife by Caroline Garfield and a Giveaway!
Caroline Warfield is over the moon to finally be able to release The Reluctant Wife into the wild.
This sweeping story carries readers from the edge of Bengal to Calcutta to the Suez and across the desert, to rural England while two people stumble into love in spite of themselves. The hero, a clueless male with more honor than sense, never stops trying to do the right thing. Imagine his shock when he realizes people actually depend on him! The heroine is a courageous wounded duck with more love bottled up than she finds comfortable. Along the way it features a meteor shower, a tragic asassination, colonial officials, steamboats, narrow minded officers' wives, herbal remedies, a desert bivouac, a court martial, interfering relatives, a horrific fire, and camels. The self important villain, rotten to the core, makes the hero miserable in both India and England, until the hero brings him down—with a little help from family—in the end. And last but not least, it features two charming children, one a precocius little girl who pushes the hero to do what is right even when he is confused about what that is.
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Three cousins, torn apart by lies and deceit and driven to the far reaches of the empire, struggle to find their way home.
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The dark world beneath the moon where werewolves reign is no place for a human or a lone wolf.
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In a realm where magic is banned, an extraordinary woman braves her secrets being revealed to defeat a sorcerer bent on destroying her world.
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The queen of the deep sea falls in love with a human spy. But for him to be with her, she has to kill him.
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As a dragon sorceress, Anne Moody couldn't care less that the magickal community fears her. She's unprepared, though, for the creativity of their attacks.
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Imagine falling in love for the first time. Now imagine being told you had to have a baby with somebody else…
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A powerful seer. A Guardian with a death sentence. A fight to stay alive.
A dragon shifter MMA fighter meets his match in a witchy cop. Could she unlock his lost memories and why he awoke covered in blood?
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When a shapeshifter and a human dreamer finally meet, their worlds clash. But would they find love in the middle of chaos.
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If you are going to the high-voltage Dubai Airshow, the most sensible way to reach the venue would be to take the metro till Ibn Batuta, from where you could board one of the free feeder buses and be at the venue 40 minutes later. On the way, you will pass through the site of the new airport Dubai World Central-Al Maktoum International Airport.
This, however, is not a commute you want to undertake if your interest in aviation is half-baked. For one, the traffic, especially on the way back, will delay any plans you might have for the rest of the day.
The striking part about the Dubai Airshow is how well laid out it all is, though some visitors Khaleej Times spoke to complained about the limited number of eating joints and coffee outlets.
Thomas Tanury, the chairman of Tanury Industries in Rhode Island, is visiting Dubai for the fifth time. He is at the part of the show where sketches and watercolour paintings of planes are on display on separate easels. On being asked about the most impressive part about the airshow, he says, The diversity of people is unbelievable. I havent met one person for whom language is a barrier.
He, however, points out to a problem at the venue: the part where you have to wait in line to get food because the options are limited.
The large hall where Tanury stands is carpeted in blue. The whole area smells subtly of wood varnish and surface polish. The majority of people who whizz past are males, mostly in business suits, and they seems to be equipped with stroller carry bags, as if they arrived here directly from the airport. Many are from the military, their uniforms indicate.
Inside the hall, small models of planes tend to draw a crowd. Men always mostly men stop and pose for pictures beside a KA-32A11BC firefighting aircraft at Oboronprom, a Russian airspace company. Some pose next to the Dassault stand that has on display models of Falcon2000 LX, while others stop by the Lockeed Martin stand for similar photo-op sessions.
The hands-down biggest crowd-puller, though, is the aerobatic display the primary reason that most actually venture this far into Jebel Ali free zone for. The vibe changes the moment you step outside the exhibition area to where the planes in synchrony are circling overhead, releasing jet-clouds of orange, pink and blue in their trail. Theres music in the background from advertisements shown on giant LCD screens. There is a breeze in the air and flying technique of acrobatic pilots to marvel at. If for anything you should make the trek to the venue, it should be to witness the adrenaline-pumping stunts of these daredevils.
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"People should not panic," the heartbroken father said. "It's not what people think."
So reports the Daily News, quoting Zeferino Zamora, father of a 16-month-old toddler, who died Monday night.
Jonathan Zamora Castillo, by all indications, did not die of swine flu. It took the city almost 24 hours to produce test results for the H1N1 virus – much longer than necessary -- suggesting added care was taken before publicizing the results. Following protocol, the Health Department is sending tissue samples to the CDC for confirmation.
That Daily News quote above comes about three-fourths of the way into today's story about the boy's negative test results. Arguably, it should have been much higher.
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The Genesee County Risk Manager is looking for examples of a 'typical' Rock Crawl course that we envision for the Mounds.
So, what I need are pictures of courses, preferabally with a vehicle on the rocks and it goes without saying that the vehicle has to be on ALL 4 WHEELS! So, no pictures of HJ turtled or playing dead @ Unlimited Offroad Grand Opening!
In all seriousness though, this is the make or break point for the Rock Course The County will be evaluating the risk they would be undertaking and making an assessment of their exposure to lawsuits and injuries for an obstacle course like this.
No whining about 'it's an off road couse' and 'stuff' is gonna happen. I just want to send her pictures of what we would envision for a course. i.e. rock sizes, layout, as in around trees and up hills, etc. I already have a few from my presentation last year and will forward them along with what I get here.
Video's would be great as long as we host them and send them the link. I don't want to give them an 'avenue in' to You-Tube videos that would be damaging to the environment, i.e. oil spills, or showing vehicles rolling over.
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SWIMMING AND DIVING: Brainerd ends dual-meet season unbeaten
In their final home dual meet of the season, the Brainerd Warriors put on a show for a complimentary parents night crowd.
The Warriors won nine events on their way to a 109-71 submerging of the Sauk Rapids-Rice Storm and finished a dual-meet season unbeaten (8-0) for the first time since 2008-09.
"We're really happy about that, going undefeated in the conference this year," senior co-captain Luke Jacobsen said. "Sartell was a really hard meet, Tech and Alexandria were also. That wasn't something we were for sure expecting going into the season."
The Warriors dealt Class 1A's second-ranked Sartell Sabres their only defeat of the season, 109-79 Jan. 3 at Brainerd.
"We just had fortunate timing," Warriors coach john Zemke said. "Sartell was our closest meet. When they came up here, we were having a good night. Fortunately for us, unfortunately for them, they had a kid out that would have made the meet a lot closer.
"To be 8-0 is fantastic. It seems like there's always somebody in the conference that's just a little bit better, but this year we were able to come out on top. We've just got to get better before this weekend and the conference meet."
Jacobsen was one of four seniors making their final appearance in the Brainerd High School pool. Josh McKeag, Trever Vukelich and Jed Smith were the other seniors.
"It's a little bit sad," Jacobsen said, "but the season's not over yet. We still have conference, sections and hopefully state.
"It's been great. I've swam with Josh since I was 7 years old, Trevor since eighth grade. Jed was new this year. He kind of surprised me on the first day, but he was fun."
Zemke paid his seniors compliments for their behavior and their contributions to the program.
"Jed wanted to get better for triathlon class," Zemke said. "He was a great kid to have around the team. Trever has been here since seventh grade. He really represented our team well, swimming the 200 and the 500.
"Luke and Josh came thru the Y system. They really have been great leaders. I'm just so proud of what they've done for our program, and how they represented our team, around the high school and the community. They're some great kids."
Peder Smith was a double winner for the Warriors, pacing the 200 individual medley and 500 free. Other individual wins were by Nick Goll in the 200 free, Justin Kuglin in the 50 free, McKeag in the 100 butterfly, David Supinski in the 100 free, and Preston Owen in the 100 backstroke.
The 200 medley relay of Supinski, Joe Wells, McKeag and Jacobsen was victorious, along with the 200 free relay of Jacobsen, McKeag, Goll and Kuglin.
Brainerd 109, Sauk Rapids 71
200 medley relay: 1-Brainerd (David Supinski, Joe Wells, Josh McKeag, Luke Jacobsen) 1:45.66; 3-Brainerd (Peder Smith, Matt Majerle, Joey Stromberg, Gus Askegaard) 1:52.11
200 freestyle: 1-Nick Goll (B) 1:57.60, 2-Matt Wright (B) 2:02.75, 3-Trever Vukelich (B) 2:03.73
200 individual medley: 1-Smith 2:14.98, 2-Stromberg 2:24.84, 3-Wells 2:26.40
50 freestyle: 1-Justin Kuglin (B) 23.26, 2-Supinski 24.05, 3-Jacobsen 24.27
Diving: 1-Matt Bethke (SR) 190.05, 4-Robert Young (B) 110.30
100 butterfly: 1-McKeag 55.36, 2-Kuglin 57.31, 3-Jacobsen 1:02.85
100 freestyle: 1-Supinski 51.77, 4-Wright 56.19, 5-Stromberg 56.97
500 freestyle: 1-Smith 5:16.19, 2-Goll 5:20.81, 3-Vukelich 5:41.95
200 free relay: 1-Brainerd (Jacobsen, McKeag, Goll, Kuglin) 1:36.25; 3-Brainerd (Majerle, Askegaard, Dan Larson, Vukelich) 1:43.83
100 backstroke: 1-Preston Owen (B) 1:05.32, 2-Troy Bialka (B) 1:10.24, 3-Mitch Quaal (B) 1:10.67
100 breaststroke: 1-Charlie O'Brien (SR) 1:12.21, Ex-Wells 1:07.78, Ex-Majerle 1:12.31, Ex-Jared Sachs (B) 1:14.96
400 free relay: 1-Sauk Rapids 3:55.43, Ex-Brainerd (Smith, Supinski, McKeag, Askegaard) 3:30.88; Ex-Brainerd (Goll, Vukelich, Kuglin, Wright) 3:40.14.
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Learn something new everyday and I like different ways of doing things.
-I have my backing about 3 inches bigger on each side of my quilt then once I am all done quilting it, I trim up my batting and I place/fold the edge of my backing next to the edge of my top then fold over and sew very close to the edge on the top so you have about a 1/2 inch looking binding...I make lots of baby quilts for friends n family so this is a fast way for me bind my quilts...
-I've also done this with some bigger quilts and it still looks nice and holds up very well...I have hand stitched binding before and agree it looks better but I prefer to machine stitch if I can...on a show quilt I would definitely hand stitch but for all my other quilts I machine stitch it :)
-I think your tip is great!! Nicely done.
Thanks for the info on the knife edge binding. I don't know whether I'll use it because I like tomiter my corners, but it's always nice to have different things in my "bag of tricks."
I have a question - On the video by Sharon S-- for doing the Elmer's around the edge with the binding - there's a tip of some kind on the bottle of glue. If she said what the tip WAS I missed it, and the video was far too blurry for me to see what the heck it was! Can anybody tell me what the tip thing was? I can't wait to try this the next time I bind a quilt.
I have to say - in the few weeks I've been a member of this board, I've seen MORE nifty tricks mentioned, and nifty tools, and really helpful tutorials than I've seen in the last 10 years. This is the BEST ever for my quilting loves and skills! :)
I took 2 classes from the author of this book. Lots of wonderful finishes. Its one of my go to books. Amazon doesnt seem to have the revised edition. Get it directly from designer.


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These are a few of my Finished quilts...
Black & White for Daughter's B/Day
Red & White..
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
These are a few of my Finished quilts...
Black & White for Daughter's B/Day
Red & White..
Nice! I like them all!
I love the black and white AND the red and white....they are awesome. :-)
They are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Your quilts are gorgeous!! :D You should be very proud of yourself with all of your lovely work!! Thank you for sharing with us today.
I love how the black andwhite looks different each time I look at it. I see a whole different pattern, then when I try to pick it out, something else pops out. Does it have a name?
These are all great quilts! I would really like to know what the pattern is for the black and white one, please?
Love the red and white quilt. Thinking about doing one. Hope it turns out as nice as yours.
Beautiful Quilts!
Lovely quilts. Especially like the first two. What is the name of the pattern for the black and white quilt?


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Located in Amsterdam City Centre, Swissôtel Amsterdam is next to popular attractions like Dam Square and New Church. This 111-room, 4-star hotel has a restaurant along with conveniences like a 24-hour fitness center and free in-room WiFi. Centrally located in Amsterdam, the hotel is also a short walk from Royal Palace and The Old Church.
Enjoy a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, or relax with a drink at the bar/lounge. Order from 24-hour room service to satisfy your hunger without leaving your room. Start weekdays with buffet breakfast, available for a fee from 7 AM to 10 AM.
All of Swissôtel Amsterdam's 111 rooms are soundproofed and have an array of amenities, including refrigerators, espresso makers, and laptop-compatible safes. Guests can expect 42-inch TVs with digital channels, along with free WiFi and wired Internet. Beds are dressed in Egyptian cotton sheets and pillow menus, and bathrooms offer hair dryers and designer toiletries. In-room massages are available, and other amenities include phones and desks.
Guests of Swissôtel Amsterdam enjoy a 24-hour fitness center, free WiFi in public areas, and 2 meeting rooms. Parking is available for EUR 12 per night (EUR 35 per night for valet parking), and there's also limo/town car service. The front desk has multilingual staff on hand 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this family-friendly hotel include a 24-hour business center, coffee/tea in a common area, and a computer station.
Property features
- Steps from Dam Square and New Church
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Onsite dining
- 24-hour fitness center
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Swissôtel Amsterdam
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
The hotel offers a 24-hour business center, a computer station, and 2 meeting/conference rooms. Bicycle rentals are available on site, and an airport shuttle runs at scheduled times.
Amenities also include concierge services, free WiFi in public areas, spa services onsite, parking (surcharge), and valet parking (surcharge).
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 111
- 24-hour front desk
- Number of floors - 6
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Bar/lounge
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Express check-out
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Computer station
- Free WiFi
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Express check-in
- Shopping on site
- Luggage storage
- Laundry facilities
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Meeting rooms 2
- Multilingual staff
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Garden
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Offsite parking reservations required
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- 24-hour business center
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Spa services on site
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge), Valet parking (surcharge), Offsite parking reservations required
Room Amenities
Swissôtel Amsterdam offers 111 air-conditioned accommodations with laptop-compatible safes and espresso makers. Beds feature Egyptian cotton sheets. A pillow menu is available. Digital television is provided. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, designer toiletries, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers.
Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wired and wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones. In-room massages, hypo-allergenic bedding, and irons/ironing boards can be requested. Housekeeping is provided daily.
- Hair dryer
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Private bathroom
- Designer toiletries
- Shower/tub combination
- Free toiletries
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
- Television
- Digital TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- In-room massage available
- Soundproofed rooms
- Room service (24 hours)
- Egyptian-cotton sheets
- Pillow menu
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Espresso maker
Nearby Things to Do
Guests can explore Amsterdam by foot, tram, bus, taxi, or canal boat. Bicycle rentals are available throughout the city for riding the bike-path (fietpads) network that crisscrosses the country. Vondelpark, about 1.5 miles from the hotel, is popular for jogging, walking, cycling, and roller-skating.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
Spa Services
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-in time ends at 4 AM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 5 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for EUR 90 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- No onsite parking is available. Special cancellation policies or charges may apply for group reservations (more than 8 rooms for the same property / stay dates).
Guests must contact this hotel in advance to reserve a rollaway bed. Contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Additional fees may apply to children over 5 years when use is made of the bedding. For more details, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 17.50 for adults and EUR 8.75 for children (approximately)
- Self parking fee: EUR 12 per night
- Valet parking fee: EUR 35 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 90 per night
Hotel Name
- Amsterdam Swissotel Hotel
- Swiss Hotel Amsterdam
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Children 5 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
National Rating
This property does not have a Netherlands Tourist Board rating. For the benefit of our customers, we have provided a rating based on our rating system.


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My bees (2 hives) will arrive this Monday, the 31st! I am so excited I can hardly stand myself!
I have everything ready to go, except food.
I was going to by gallons of distilled water and I wanted to be SURE I have this correct, so please give advice!
It's a 1:1 ratio, correct? So, if I were to make a gallon of syrup, I would use 8 cups of water and 8 cups of sugar, right???
I am using the styrofoam feeder, that will be sitting on top of my 1st brood box, is a gallon enough to start off with? I had read somewhere that I should start off with 1 quart?
Any pointers on this feeding info? I know my inner cover will go right over top of this styrofoam box, correct? Then my metal top.
I just want to make sure I have the feeding, and syrup making down. My books have told me to get the water to a boil, and then right before it starts to boil, to turn off the stove, and add the sugar and stir it, then let it cool. I wanted to make this all a couple of days before. Please advise if I am wrong!!
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onsdag den 12. december 2012
50 kommentarer:
- Sarina sagde ...
Hello Dear Dorthe,
What a lovely hearts. Your friends are so lucky to receive such beauties.
Have a lovely day,
- 12. december 2012 kl. 01.33
- Sophie sagde ...
Was für schöne Herzen, so kunstvoll gearbeitet und mit viel Fantasie.
Deine Werke sind mal wieder alle traumhaft, liebe Dorthe.
Ich wünsche dir noch einen schönen Advent...
- 12. december 2012 kl. 01.46
- Marie-Louise Hallgren sagde ...
Go morgen
Varje gång jag går in på din blogg så blir jag glatt överraskad över din kreativitet och dina arbeten och hur vackra, söta och hur fint de är arbetade! Go Jul till dig!
- 12. december 2012 kl. 02.02
- Corrine at sparkledaysstudio.com sagde ...
Beautiful gifts Dorthe, you always put your whole heart into everything you do! I am picturing your snowy garden, how pretty it must be. xox
- 12. december 2012 kl. 03.05
- sissie sagde ...
Hi Dorthe,
Your creations are so lovely and unique. There are no others like them in the Blog World. You always use your own stamp and style and I love it.
- 12. december 2012 kl. 04.27
- Karina Beck sagde ...
Super super fine kort og hjerter!
God vinter dag.
- 12. december 2012 kl. 06.38
- Anni - Fabric and Mixed Media Art sagde ...
Hi sweetie, your hearts and cards are all so wonderfully made, the images you have used are all so sweet and beautiful,Vi snakkes ved.
Hugs Anni
- 12. december 2012 kl. 06.49
- Suztats sagde ...
Beautiful hearts, Dorthe! Lucky friends.
Have a wonderful week!
- 12. december 2012 kl. 06.53
- sharon sagde ...
I am in love with your cards, they are so beautiful, with little pieces of you included, the special things you do!
If I close my eyes I am there in your snowy garden!
- 12. december 2012 kl. 07.39
- June sagde ...
As always my dearest Dorthe, you have created magic!!!! I always am so inspired by your art!
sending hugs...
- 12. december 2012 kl. 08.35
- lynne sagde ...
Dear Dorthe
I am glad to read there is sunshine as you had lots of snow.
Oh what beautiful creations, the hearts are breathtaking with your details and those images and the collage cards.
It is remarkable how you managed to create such treasures when you have been incredibly busy with life.
A beautiful post.
- 12. december 2012 kl. 09.08
- Monica sagde ...
Fabulous gifts for friends- they will be thrilled!
- 12. december 2012 kl. 10.48
- Astrid Maclean sagde ...
Dorthe all of these pieces are so, so pretty! I totally love those hearts, so beautifully put together, but the fabric cards with all of these wonderful additions are so very pretty too!!
Your island sounds magical at the moment, but I hope you manage to stay warm!!
- 12. december 2012 kl. 11.00
- A Vintage Chic sagde ...
These hearts are so beautiful, Dorthe--and so filled with love, as is everything you do, dear friend.
Wishing you the most wonderfully festive week!
- 12. december 2012 kl. 11.19
- Createology sagde ...
Dorthe Dear everything you create is so beautiful and magical. Your hearts are such a comfort being handcrafted by you. Lovely collages you have sewn. All the delicious elements you use are dreamy. Enjoy the sunshine. Holiday Bliss Dear...
- 12. december 2012 kl. 16.20
- 1CardCreator sagde ...
Hello Dorthe, thank you for stopping by my blog and leaving kind words for me. Your hearts are beautiful, amazing bleached leaf too. The cards and hangings are most beautiful also. I see we share many friends Celestina, Lynne and June too. (June lost her old blog and had to start a new one, she is having problems finding all of her followers too, there is a link to her new blog in my sidebar). I hope to see you again. ~Diane
- 12. december 2012 kl. 16.25
- JoAnne sagde ...
Dorthe, your hearts and cards are so beautiful! Wishing you a joyous holiday season. xoxo
- 12. december 2012 kl. 17.41
- Petite Michelle Louise sagde ...
soooooo beautiful dear dorthe. and to answer your question about what was in my sweet bags for my holiday guests...a candle and some homemade soap!
- 12. december 2012 kl. 18.14
- Sandy sagde ...
Oh Sweetie your work is a dream.
So so beautiful hearts and hangers.
Wow wow wow wow wow !!!
I love them all.
- 12. december 2012 kl. 21.54
- Lynn Stevens sagde ...
Dorthe, Your fabric hearts adorned with lace and beautiful vintage finds are truly a feast for the eyes!
Your friends are very lucky indeed!
Have a wonderful Holiday season.
Hugs Lynn
- 12. december 2012 kl. 23.32
- mette laumann sagde ...
Hej Dorthe
Fine fine hjerter vi har jo også godt gang i en lille hjertefest fortiden ;)
Knus Mette
- 13. december 2012 kl. 01.27
- nelly sagde ...
Скъпа Дороти, сърцата са великолепни! Обичам ги, идеята със сухите листа е страхотна. Всико, което правиш е вълшебно!
Поздрави и прегръдки от мен.
- 13. december 2012 kl. 04.04
- Celestina Marie sagde ...
Hi Dorthe, Your heart creations are wonderful. Love how the leaf turned out too. With the sepia tones and key it is the perfect detail.
Also love your collage cards. What wonderful keepsakes you have designed from your talented hands.
Just a treasure indeed.
Have a special day filled with Christmas cheer.
Hugs, Celestina Marie
- 13. december 2012 kl. 05.40
- vicki sagde ...
Hi Dorthe-- your hearts a adorable-- a lovely craft to make on your snowy winter days. Love seeing the photos you've been sharing on Facebook!!
Stay snug and warm!
- 13. december 2012 kl. 10.24
- Draffin Bears sagde ...
Dear Dorthe,
I adore the pretty hearts and cards you have made, all created with so much love.
Also how beautiful the gorgeous white snow is looking out your window.
Stay warm and enjoy the special time of the year. Many thanks for visiting me and your kind words.
Sending warmest hugs
- 13. december 2012 kl. 12.32
- Erika sagde ...
Einfach traumhaft, liebe Dorthe! Es gibt nicht viel, dass ich noch schreiben könnte, was die anderen lieben Damen nicht schon geschrieben haben. Du schaffst es immer wieder, neue zarte Farben und Farbspiele zu erschaffen. Man weiß ja vorher nicht,dass einem was fehlte, erst, wenn man Deine Art sieht. Liebste Grüße zu Dir und einen s chönen 3. Advent ...
- 13. december 2012 kl. 13.22
- Jayne sagde ...
You do create such beautiful things Dorthe, I must try the leaf bleaching it looks great. Jayne x
- 13. december 2012 kl. 15.01
- Linda @ Itsy Bits And Pieces sagde ...
Such lovely creations, Dorthe! I know they will be loved! Thanks so much for stopping by my ideas house posts!
- 13. december 2012 kl. 22.03
- Marie Lost Bird Studio sagde ...
Dear Dorthe,
your hearts and cards are just adorable.One can see they where created with much love.Have a wonderful weekend and stay warm,dear friend.
- 13. december 2012 kl. 23.17
- My Vintage Studio sagde ...
Hi Dorthe,
Your cards are beautiful!
Wishing you a wonderful weekend!
- 14. december 2012 kl. 00.03
- Alexandra Eitel sagde ...
Dorthe meine Liebe, deine Herzen sind wunderwunderschön geworden.
Hugs Alexandra
- 14. december 2012 kl. 02.04
- Sugar Lump Studios sagde ...
your hearts are AMAZING! what gorgeous details and lovely images. I also love your wee banners. I hope you are enjoying your holiday season. Please send snow here! ;)
- 14. december 2012 kl. 06.00
- Alisa Noble sagde ...
Oh Dorthe, your hearts are absolutely stunning!!
- 14. december 2012 kl. 07.35
- Paula sagde ...
Dearest Dorthe, Your hearts are gorgeous my sweet friend! Your friends will love them! Your creations are always so sweet and pretty! I love all of the special details you add and the lovely images. You are very creative and talented dear heart! I hope you are enjoying the sun and snow and that you are keeping warm and cozy! Have a wonderful weekend sweetie! Love you so much! Paula xoxo
- 14. december 2012 kl. 09.25
- BECKY sagde ...
I love your hearts, Dorthe...each one so lovely and unique! I know your friends will be thrilled to receive them!
Hugs and joy to you!
- 14. december 2012 kl. 18.29
- Robin sagde ...
Dear Dorthe, your hearts and cards are just beautiful. I love all the details you add to each piece. Wishing you and your family a wonderful holiday season.
- 14. december 2012 kl. 19.56
- Jan Hennings sagde ...
LOVE this :)
- 16. december 2012 kl. 05.57
- Terri sagde ...
Hello Dorthe,
Your fabric hearts are truly lovely! I clicked on the image so I could see it better. I love that leaf! It really does lend a beautiful natural touch! The other heart too, is really sweet. I do adore PW girls! Your fabric cards are also romantic and beautiful.
This year, due to the flu, I am way behind in mailing out my Christmas cards...they will be New Years cards by the time they arrive at their destinations! Lol!
I am wishing you a lovely holiday season, and not toooo cold. : )
- 16. december 2012 kl. 07.01
- suziqu's thread works sagde ...
Dear sweet friend, Dorthe
I can see your heart in the hearts created with so much feeling. They are truly adorable and just the sweetest images and words.
The collaged cards are so cleverly created with gorgeous images once again!
That is such a cool technique bleaching that leaf - how effective it looks with the rusted key.
I hope you are keeping snuggled up this evening and enjoying some little down time now my very dear friend.
My fond love goes all the way to you from here this morning!
Suzy xoxox
- 16. december 2012 kl. 12.59
- butterfly sagde ...
Absolutely beautiful hearts... and I love the use of the natural leaf! I've been having a browse through all the lovely things on your blog - and am about to sign up as your newest follower...
Alison x
- 16. december 2012 kl. 16.38
- Celestina Marie sagde ...
Hi Dorthe, so special to view your darling hearts once again and to wish you a wonderful week. Thank you for stopping by and your kind comment and visit to my home.
Hope you are enjoying the season and all it's wonder.
Sending big hugs your way.
Celestina Marie XO
- 16. december 2012 kl. 18.13
- JansArtyJunk sagde ...
Oh WOW, Amazing HEARTS and CARDS...the recipients are very lucky...Beautiful Creations Dorthe!! x
- 17. december 2012 kl. 02.39
- Kelly_Deal sagde ...
Gorgeous hearts Dorthe! Very lucky friends indeed!
- 17. december 2012 kl. 08.45
- ~*~Patty S sagde ...
I Love your beautiful hearts and handmade cards dear Dorthe...each one is a treasure just like you are my friend!
Hugs from Virginia
- 17. december 2012 kl. 12.40
- Anjas-Artefaktotum sagde ...
Wonderful pieces, every heart is really a masterpieces and an amazing present. Also the cards are gorgeous.
I wish you a wonderful christmas time.
Hugs Anja
- 18. december 2012 kl. 02.05
- Ephemera sagde ...
Wonderful creations Dorthe, such perfection, I adore hearts too and yours are so special. Have alovely day. xx
- 18. december 2012 kl. 07.48
- Celestina Marie sagde ...
Dearest Dorthe,
I can only imagine how busy you are now. I love viewing your gorgeous hearts once again and the details that you design so well.
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and many blessings in the new year.
Thank you for your gift of friendship.
Hugs, CM
- 19. december 2012 kl. 13.20
- Lisa sagde ...
Catching up on your blog posts this morning. I LOVE the idea of bleaching leaves! Now if I can only find a live one!
- 21. december 2012 kl. 04.34
- Viola sagde ...
Wunderwunderschon, meine liebe Dorthe!!!!
- 4. januar 2013 kl. 12.57
- The Rustic Victorian sagde ...
Your hearts and fabric collage is pure genius. I have done very little of it, I hope I will be able to do some this year. I am so inspired to pick up the needle when I visit you....which is not often enough. I am so glad to be able to catch up with your posts.
- 5. januar 2013 kl. 09.43


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Glendale Elementary School District Preschool Programs offer developmentally appropriate practices designed to enhance the social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development of the individual child. We believe that the parent is the child's most important teacher. We believe a culturally sensitive curriculum creates a nurturing learning environment. We believe that a child's self-esteem, self-worth and confidence needs to be nurtured and developed though respect and understanding; that hands-on activities encourage children to solve problems, be successful and develop healthy interactions. We believe that through quality education and the family, school, and community working together we can meet the educational needs of children and those of future generations.
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The juried exhibition of fashions, paintings, sculptures and photographs will depict how this disease has changed the lives of so many around the world.
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It's time for a fluffy fluff post! I'm stealing this survey from Julie at Peanut Butter Fingers.
Here it goes!
The Blogger Survey
- What was your go-to food or snack as a child?
I loved hot dogs. And even worse : I loved them cold. So I would eat 2 cold hotdogs for breakfast pretty much every morning before school. One day, I actually had a dream that I ate a bad, slimey one, and I never ate it again. (Cooked dogs I did eat, but never cold again)
And I know you're turning your noses up at cold dogs, but remember, it's really just bologna!
Runner ups would be – saltines, and microwave popcorn. (Salt addiction, what??)
- What got you interested in health/fitness?
Being overweight was a big factor in learning about nutrition and exercise. Also, being a "sickly" child, along with watching my Mom have major health issues, have heightened my focus on health.
- You're stuck on an island for a month and can only eat three foods. What would they be?
Bananas, oats, and clementines. I think if I could eat an unlimited amount of those foods, I would be full, regular, and fend off sickness. Plus, they all taste like heaven!
- Favorite and least favorite body part to train?
Favorite = Abs, Least favorite = Shoulders
- Favorite and least favorite health or fitness fads?
Favorite = Juices and Smoothies. Anything that gets people ingesting more fruits and veggies is A-OK with me!
Least favorite = Those magic pills they sell on TV, Lipozene, I think it's called? Scary.
- What is the hardest workout you have ever done?
Probably some of the Insanity videos – the first time. You get used to them after a few tries, but transitioning SO fast from move to move is killer cardio!
- What is the first movie that made you cry?
While watching The Wizard of Oz at a sleepover, my friends pointed out the man that "hung himself" behind the set. We watched it on loop like 20 times discussing it. I was so sleep deprived the next morning that I called my mom for a ride. She said – what did you guys do last night? I started to tell her about the movie and I just LOST it. I blubbery cried for like 5 minutes trying to tell her. Too funny. But come on, I was young, and it was creepy!
- Your #1 pet peeve?
Just rudeness in general. When speaking, when driving, when shopping. Just be courteous, it's easy!
- Your dream job?
Professional red panda cuddler.
But really, I'd love to be the person that names paint (or nail polish) colors!
- Hairy arms or hairy legs?
I'm not sure I understand this question. Are they asking which I'd prefer to have? Which I do have? Which I find most attractive? I dunno, I'll just say, everyone has both of those things naturally, so don't be acting like some people have hair on their arms and not legs, and vice versa. We all gots both, we just remove them like most modern ladies.
Well, that was a short one!
The most interesting one is the Dream Job question, so… tell me, what is YOUR dream job!?


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771-775 Hunt Club Trail
Countryside, Port Orange, 32127
Commute to Downtown Port Orange
Almost all errands require a car.
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771-775 Hunt Club Trail has a Walk Score of 3 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so almost all errands require a car.
This location is in the Countryside neighborhood in Port Orange.
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771-775 Hunt Club Trail is in the Countryside neighborhood. Countryside is the 10th most walkable neighborhood in Port Orange with a neighborhood Walk Score of 15.