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Watervliet MI Real Estate & Homes for Sale
45 Properties Found
The median home value in Watervliet, MI is $122,000.
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the county median home value of $130,000.
The national median home value is $185,800.
The average price of homes sold in Watervliet, MI is $122,000.
Approximately 60.96% of Watervliet homes are owned,
compared to 24.9% rented, while
14.14% are vacant.
Watervliet real estate listings include condos, townhomes, and single family homes for sale.
Commercial properties are also available.
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339 Sutherland Watervliet, MI 49098
Courtesy: Gale Realty, LLC Mark Gale
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Darling home on 3 gorgeous and shaded lots in the City of Watervliet. Don't miss this doll house.
Courtesy: @properties Harbor Country Mark Wortman
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Nice home with deeded Paw Paw Lake Access! Cozy ranch style home with an open floor plan provides comfortable living. Feature 2 bedrooms, 1 bath with 1184 SF living space. Large living room opens to kitchen with eat in dining area. Wonderful year around home or second home with newer furnace, AC and water heater. Located in Pokagon Heights on the shores of Paw Paw Lake, homeowners association with lake access and potential to purchase a permanent pier. Amenities include private beach, swim area, picnic area with option to purchase a permanent boat slip. Located 2 hours from Chicago, 20 minutes to Lake Michigan near area golf courses, wineries and brew pubs. Enjoy Paw Paw Lake, 950 Acre All Sports Lake and all that it has to offer.
Courtesy: Sunset Coast Realty Group Doug Johan
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Deeded Paw Paw Lake access comes with the sharp three bedroom / 2 full bath home. New staircase to a private beach and marina with a space reserved for you! Two all new gutted bathrooms, great master suite with new bath and walk-in closet. Huge kitchen with loads of cabinets. Beautiful refinished hardwood floors. Replacement windows throughout and a new furnace in 2016. Sliders and oversized deck lookout over the backyard and the park behind. This is a great home in absolute move-in condition. You bring the fun!
Courtesy: Coldwell Banker Anchor R.E. Joe Flood
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Nice starter home or investment property. But needs work.
Courtesy: American Homes R.E. of Coloma Mikki Swisher
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You'll want to see this one right away! 3 bdrm, 3 bath, 1,800 sf ranch with fabulous master suite, charming front porch, back deck, gas heat, central air, and newer roof. 2 car attached garage easily houses a 16' fishing boat. The 20' x 24' master suite includes private bath & it's own living area with sliders to the backyard deck. Fully updated open concept kitchen adjoins the family room with vaulted ceiling, gas log stove & also sliders to the backyard. Conveniently located in an area of all newer homes & within 1 mile of Paw Paw Lake boat launch & swimming areas, golf course, breweries, antiques & quaint downtown shopping. All appliances, even washer & dryer will be included as well as a one year home warranty for the new owner. Watervliet Schools. At $159,900 this one won't last long!
Courtesy: Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Michigan Real Estate Karin Buda
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This is a wonderful property in the heart of wine country, near Lake Michigan. 7.2 acres that is mostly wooded. You will find oak and maple trees that could be harvested. There are trails on the property, deer, turkey and other wildlife. Great for hunting. This property has a pad for another trailer or it could be the start of a pole barn. It has additional electrical, well and septic. This home also features a detached 2 car garage. There is a small fenced in area for pets or children. Inside you will find 3 bedrooms and 2 full baths. Move in condition with nice features in this home.
Courtesy: American Homes R.E. of Coloma Sal Rendo
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Looking for a five bedroom home with room to expand if you want to, come see this beautiful home built in 2003 in the country on 1.5 acres in Watervliet.This home features a full basement with 9 foot ceilings and two egress windows ready to be finished. Also has 200amp service, generator, wired for hot tub and a sump pump.Beautifully landscaped with a four foot deep pond with waterfall that runs year around. Covered front porch and a rear deck that is 33 by 12 over looking the pond.
Courtesy: Siriano Realty Christopher Siriano
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What a great find...this BEAUTIFUL 5 bedroom ranch style home is situated on a gorgeous 10 acre parcel with rolling hills, some heavy woods & HUGE yard! It includes a nice 40' x 30' pole building for all of your outdoor pleasures, including a workshop area. The home features stone fireplace, 3 car attached garage, 5 bedrooms, 2 full baths, very nice kitchen with all appliances, a great lower level finished area with its own bar & 3 doors that walk out to the beautiful yard awaiting all of your family fun!! This is a gorgeous country setting & offers a long driveway that feels very private yet its easy to access the local towns only minutes away! The home was built in 1992 & offers central air, new carpets, and tons of room inside & out!! HURRY, very motivated sellers listening to offers
Courtesy: Tala Real Estate James Cottier
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What a fabulous location on Paw Paw Lake! No steps here, just a few feet from the deck to the water. The 24' deck has a built in kidney shaped hot tub, so you can gaze at the night sky while relaxing in your hot tub. The permanent pier is 8' wide & 55' long and can handle 2 shore stations for your boats. The deck wraps around 3 sides of this property. Inside the home you will find an open floor plan featuring a brick to ceiling fireplace. The kitchen, dining area, and living room all overlook the large deck, hot tub, pier, boats & Lake! 1 bedroom on the main floor and 3 bedrooms on the upper level. Large master bedroom with a private deck overlooking Paw Paw Lake!The one car detached garage has guest quarters above the garage complete with an additional full bath
Courtesy: Tala Real Estate James Cottier
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Cute, clean, dollhouse built in 1987. One owner ranch with over-sized attached garage and walk out basement. Natural gas, heat, central air, fully applianced and large attic fan for when its not quite warm enough to use the A/C. Best of all this home sits on top of a hill that overlooks Paw Paw Lake offering beautiful views of the lake and bay. Just a couple of minutes to Gazebo on Paw Paw Lake. Call today to see this home!
Courtesy: Michigan Lake & Land LLC Daniel O'Leary
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Beautifully remodeled ranch on a corner lot with a large 3 car garage. This lovely home has a kitchen with 2 dishwashers, 2 ovens, and a Master Suite with French doors and ensuite Jacuzzi. The basement has a rec room, half bath, and 2 extra rooms for storage, bedrooms, or anything you can think of! The lot behind the house is included, making for the perfect wooded backyard. All this and only a few blocks from public access to Paw Paw Lake. Buyer or Buyers agent to verify all information.
Courtesy: King Realty Group, LLC Trish King
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3 bedroom 2 bath home on just over 1 acre in Watervliet. Cathedral ceilings in living room. Attached 2 car garage. 24x24 pole barn that is set up for horses. Located within 2 miles to Paw Paw Lake access and Four Winds Casino.
Courtesy: Realty Executives Pro Brokers Victoria Eberhard
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Peace and Tranquility abound at this Bainbridge Township property:almost 10 acres (9.98ac),a pond,woods,wildlife and so much more.A rambling ranch with tons of major updates within in the past 9 yrs:ROOF,KITCHEN and 1 FULL BATH totally redone,other 2 bathes have had some updating,Windows also updated.A spacious deck stretches across the entire back of the home offering seasonal views of the property.In addition to the oversized attached 2 car garage there is a detached 2+ CAR GARAGE(27x30)and attached to that is a POLE BARN(27x30)with a 12 ft overhead door offering room for all those toys.Both buildings have power supplied to them.The combination of the propane for heat and the heat pump for heating and cooling shows to be very economical for utility costs (Gas Avg $32/mo.Elec $122/mo)
Courtesy: Coldwell Banker Anchor R.E. Roger Cayo
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Discover this cozy 2 bdrm, 2 bath home with beautiful park-like views & setting yet located within the City of Watervliet. This home offers comfortable living with an open floor plan between the kitchen and living room, a large family room, hardwood & ceramic floors, replacement windows, carefree vinyl siding, front & rear garage door, and so much more!
Courtesy: Cressy & Everett Real Estate Tim Mitchell
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All brick ranch home with a barn on 2 1/2 acres. Beautiful country views surrounded by orchards. Huge yard with a deck and two landscaping ponds. Gardens and terrific dog kennel/run fenced area. The interior has wonderful windows throughout for awesome natural lighting and views. Living and family room, both with fireplaces. Hardwood flooring in the kitchen and a lovely built-in breakfast nook with upholstered corner seating. Formal dining area also in the spacious living room. Nice entertaining space. Updated baths and unique built in cabinets. Deck access from one bedroom. Upper loft bedroom and sitting area. Large laundry room. Full unfinished basement. Two car attached garage. This is an interesting home with some unique features.
Courtesy: Coldwell Banker Anchor R.E. Jessica Pompey
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LOOK NO FURTHER for the right home. This is what you have been waiting to find. This 2 bedroom 2 bath well maintained home is move in ready. With all the updates the current owner has completed, the only work that is needed will be based on personal preference. The new windows throughout the home allows the fresh air to flow. Wooden and laminate flooring is well maintained. The kitchen has easy access to the back yard and deck for cooking out or just relaxing. The basement offers a lot more living space with 3/4 of it being finished. There is a bedroom downstairs, but due to it not having an egress window we cannot advertise it as a 3 bedroom. The laundry room is roomy and has plenty of light. And rest assured, there is no normal basement smell in this home.
Courtesy: Keller Williams Realty Swm Angela Nutto
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Completely remodeled 3 bedroom home with in beautiful Watervliet can now be yours. Open concept kitchen, living, & dining area flow seamlessly together with a mix of old and new. The refinished hardwood and newly tiled kitchen floors lend a stunning backdrop to the modern kitchen. White maple cabinets with soft close doors & drawers, pantry with pull out shelves, black/stainless appliances, & center island finish off the space. The full basement has moisture-proof flooring & drywall along with a separate laundry area. This basement is perfect for using as an additional family or entertaining space. Outside the home you have a two car over-sized garage with extra tall doors, deck with separate area for your grill, & a large driveway. Too many updates in this house to list. Come see!
Courtesy: Coldwell Banker Anchor R.E. Patricia Hutchinson
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Beautiful home in Natures Cove on Paw Paw Lake, it's delightful, charming, and meticulously maintained. 4 bedrooms and 3 baths, with the main floor master suite having a walk in closet and bath. The open concept kitchen and living room with a gas fireplace make family time fun. Adjacent to the kitchen through the sliding glass door is a wonderful screened porch and is plenty large enough for another dining table and great spot for after dinner board games. The gated community has an in-ground resort style pool and cabana complete with seating areas, TV, bar, bathrooms and play areas for the kids. A great family home.LOw HOA dues includes grass cutting,snow plowing. Easy access to shopping, wineries,restaurants. Boat dock included.Call your Paw Paw Lake specialist today.
8179 Pokagon Watervliet, MI 49098
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Courtesy: McLauchlin Realty, Inc. Howard McLauchlin
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This home enjoys a panoramic view of Paw Paw Lake!! Which is enjoyed from the formal dining room, living room, and large deck.The kitchen-dining area is a bright area to enjoy with plenty of room for family helping at mealtime. The second floor has a bath and 4 bedrooms to accommodate a good sized group. There is a GREAT beach and mooring dock to accommodate your boat of choice.Lot 43 with Pole Barn (28 X 32) across the street is available for $49,500 reserved for the buyer of the home at $330,000. An additional $300 Association fee applies and an additional $50 if a boat slip is added. BIG PAW PAW LAKW - 857 acres - deepest spot ~ 90 feet mid lake - average depth 35 feet - Shoreline ~ 9.2 miles. Boat launch on Coloma and Watervliet sides. Abundance of Blue Gill, Perch, Walleye, etc.
7673 Forest Beach Road Watervliet, MI 49098
Courtesy: Coldwell Banker Anchor R.E. Patricia Hutchinson
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Beautiful Mid-Century Modern Frank Lloyd Wright design inspired home on Paw Paw Lake. This beautiful estate with steel privacy fence has 235 feet of lake front with a permanent 100ft dock and breakwall.The views are spectacular from the circular living room wall of glass. The fireplace is made of stone on the main and lower level. Professional landscaping and manicured grounds surrounds the entire parcel. Property splits are available and the sky's the limit. The lower level walkout is the place to be for games and movies. The lakeside patio, gazebo, boat house and play area can be the venue for resort style living. The parcel is one of the largest on Paw Paw Lake and the location is superb. Call today for your private tour, we have so many details to share.
Courtesy: American Homes R.E. of Coloma Charlene Willmeng
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COUNTRY LIVING yet so close to it all!This gorgeous refurbished 100+ year old barn is pretty sophisticated in regards to all you will need...complete with elevator. You will be within a stone's throw to the public access of Paw Paw Lake & a short drive to wineries, golf, Lake Michigan & Farmer's Markets. When you come home to your private get away you can close the electronic gates on your secluded 11 acres...with your own stocked pond!
Courtesy: Coldwell Banker Anchor R.E. Patricia Hutchinson
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Start your families memories from this charming lakeside home. Enjoy the fabulous views of Paw Paw Lake from your two tiered deck. Swimming and kayaking is just a few steps away from the access across the street. This home has 5 bedrooms and 2 baths. Play 18 holes of golf at the Paw Paw Lake Golf Club or take a ride around the lake. The public access is close by and there is plenty of room to store your boat in the driveway. This charming home can start the fun of a lifetime for your family. Call for your showing today.
Courtesy: Keller Williams Realty Swm Dan Morissette
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Walking distance to Paw Paw Lake! Just Across the Street! Three bedroom 1.5 bathroom home with detached garage. Newer roof, electrical, insulation, windows, cabinets, carpet, and lighting. Two bedrooms on main floor with full bathroom. Large master bedroom and 1/2 bath were moved to the upper floor to add privacy and additional space. Main floor is open concept which allows for the most natural light. Views of the 15th hole and fairway of the Paw Paw Lake Golf Course. The kitchen includes all the appliances and features as well as eating area with access to the backyard deck. This home is move in ready! Walking distance to the Paw Paw Lake Public Beach and boat launch!
Courtesy: @properties Harbor Country Mark Wortman
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Cute Paw Paw Lake Cottage. Wonderful lake house with comfortable floor plan PLUS POLE BARN ready for summer fun. Recently remodeled and updated. Upper level offers some of the best views on the lake. Designed for maximum lake use with an open great room with vaulted ceilings, lots of windows, living area with dining that flows into a galley kitchen. Upper level deck 8x34, is great for entertaining. Beautifully remodeled with plenty of places to sleep. Home boasts 4 bedrooms (sleep 12 easily), main level family room with sliders to the lake. No steps to the lake. Waterfront offers a nice permanent pier, great swimming area plus plenty of room for your boats & toys. Watch the sunrise and sun set from your dock. Pole barn offers extra storage space. Call for your private showing.
Courtesy: Khoury Real Estate LLC Angel Calnin
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Beautiful nearly 10 acre property with a creek across the back, a stocked fish pond fed by an artisian spring well in front, and woods for nature walks. Wrap around porch is inviting and restful. Main floor includes a master suite with full bath, formal living room, family room, dining room, kitchen, guest bath and laundry/panty room . Upstairs you will find 4 secondary bedrooms, additional laundry room, full family bath and mechanical closet. Home has beautiful hard wood floors, tile, and custom built cabinets with Amish made doors/drawers. This home is built with quality and has much to offer. Detached garage with studio apt above. Paved drive with huge workshop type garage that includes an office, bathroom, heated/air conditioning. A mechanic's dream. RV hook up as well. Must see!
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This article was published 6/5/2014 (1170 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
NEW YORK -- During the last week or so, multiple stories in the news have been asking why the media are ignoring the kidnapping of roughly 300 girls by Boko Haram, an extremist anti-western group in Nigeria. Yet there have been literally hundreds of Facebook posts, thousands of tweets and dozens of stories in the media about what is going on. It took a week or two -- longer than it should have, yes, considering the horror of what has been perpetrated -- but in the end, this case has got more attention than any single case of girls abducted in armed conflict in recent memory, possibly ever. People are paying attention.
As that becomes evident, all the outcry over "why aren't we paying attention" starts to look like it's part of a deeper public distress: Why have we not paid attention in the past when thousands of girls -- and boys -- have been abducted in armed conflict? Why aren't we paying attention, right now, to the girls caught in human trafficking webs or sold into early marriages or held in captivity as "wives" by armed groups? Why are we only now outraged? And will this outrage sustain itself as situations such as this one unendingly arise? Will any amount of anger lead to any concrete solution?
What happened to these girls isn't new, sadly. Instances of the trafficking of children in places of conflict are myriad and worldwide. But as I delved into what I thought would be a story about the larger issue of the abduction and selling of girls, I realized that first I had to clarify what this story is actually about.
On April 14, an extremist group whose name roughly translates as "Western education is forbidden" abducted the Nigerian girls from a high school in the northeastern town of Chibok. The convoy disappeared quickly into the forest, and ever since rumours have trickled out of the country about their fate. There are reports the girls have been sold into marriage or sexual slavery for "as little as" $12 (as if their being sold for a higher price would somehow improve the situation).
Boko Haram is trying to wrest control of northern Nigeria back from what it sees as "false Muslims." The International Crisis Group estimates the al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist group has killed more than 4,000 people in Nigeria since it began its insurgency four years ago; it perpetrated seven attacks on schools in 2013, Amnesty International says. Human Rights Watch says the militants have previously used children as weapons.
The kidnapping of so many schoolgirls at once, however, has upped the ante. Boko Haram has chosen a group -- girls -- that is historically vulnerable, yet whose members carry precious undertones about the purity of most societies. And with that designation as the bearers of purity, girls become a group that is little more than a symbol. In reality, these girls are human beings who are marginalized, exploited and ignored globally. Girls are the low-hanging fruit of the biblically proportioned anger at Eve.
To view this as a simple case of trafficking (or modern-day slavery, as it is often called) is to overlook a larger point: Crimes against women and girls are not only commonplace, but they go ignored, unprosecuted and unreported by the international media every single day, especially when they occur in the global south.
Beyond the difficulty of figuring out how to categorize this case, there is a cultural limit to how far we are willing to go in discussing something this harrowing, says media activist and writer Soraya Chemaly.
"Things like sexualized violence against women and girls seems to be always just the wallpaper," says Chemaly. "It's just there, and people expect it to be there, and we manage that through a whole series of euphemisms in conversations and the media." News stories have been referring to what happened to the kidnapped Nigerian girls as "child marriage," Chemaly says, an expression that "waters down what's happening and makes it palatable to people when it's really unpalatable."
But understanding what is going on is crucial to putting an end to it, says Akila Radhakrishnan, legal director at the Global Justice Center: "The failure to comprehend the specific experiences of girls impedes accountability, reparations and rehabilitation efforts." The case of Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga, at the International Criminal Court, for instance, which focused on accountability for the use of child soldiers, failed to include any form of sexualized violence in the charges or the sentencing.
"Of the 129 victims who participated in the trial, 30 reported being subject to or witnessing sexualized violence. For those girls, sexualized violence was a part of how they experienced the conflict," Radhakrishnan says.
But the decision not to include consideration of this crime in the final verdict, notes Radhakrishnan, "renders justice meaningless for these survivors."
In trying to classify what has happened to the Nigerian girls, I spoke to Cristina Finch, head of Amnesty International USA's women's human rights program.
"Is this sort of what people are normally discussing when they're discussing the problem of worldwide trafficking? Not exactly," says Finch. What has happened here, she explains, is more about how women are used repeatedly and historically as a tool of war.
Boko Haram is sneering at a world that has shown time and again that girls are expendable and easily weaponized. It is targeting society's most defenceless and fetishized. This act in essence is not dissimilar to how the Syrian government has used women as targets of punishment in that war, allegedly perpetrating rape on women and girls in front of their husbands or sending videotapes of rape to families as a means of humiliating them. Both are showing they can take what "belongs" to other men and use them as they please.
Tobore Ovuorie, a Nigerian journalist who has investigated human trafficking in the country, told me she sees the kidnapping as a Rubik's cube of child marriage, spoils of war, trafficking and sexual exploitation. The girls kidnapped from the school in Nigeria "would be sold to sex slavery, working on plantations or other forms of labour, and they will be resold over and over again when their masters feel they have outlived their value," she says. But, she adds, the girls were abducted under the guise of "war."
Undoubtedly this is a bold move by Boko Haram in Nigeria's ongoing conflict, meant to cement its power in a country that tries to ignore the terrorist group or wish it away, says Adotei Akwei, Amnesty's managing director of government relations, who is closely following the case.
Some of the girls are "being sold as rewards," Akwei says, while others will be given to fighters as prizes. Such rewards are given in conflicts all over the world, including in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where I have met girls who had been kidnapped by various militias and held as sexual slaves for months. The rest of the Nigerian schoolgirls, Akwei says, are likely being sold for cash to raise funds for the cause. The kidnappings make Boko Haram more apparently vicious and formidable, he notes. "Armed groups tend to compete with each other about how badly they can intimidate a population."
In that estimation, it would seem, Boko Haram is winning.
Lauren Wolfe is a journalist and director of Women Under Siege, a journalism project on sexualized violence based at the Women's Media Center in New York.
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Cymbalta is anti-anxiety and anti-depression drug. While by no means an obvious choice, Cymbalta for anxiety is gaining ground for being an effective medication for dealing with anxiety problems. Recent studies have shown that using Cymbalta for anxiety disorders is on the increase, though it is not quite as obvious a choice as cymbalta use for depression. This is likely due to the availability of more prominent medications that are on the forefront, whereas cymbalta for anxiety treatment is relatively new.
Lately many psychiatrist are using Celexa anxiety medication. So Celexa is also gaining ground in terms of commercial use and doctor-preference. Celexa anxiety treatment also works by targeting the central nervous system but the set of neurotransmitters and receptors in the brain are different. Celexa anxiety drugs have not been found to have any noticeable or significant effects on other psychological disorders, though research is still being conducted in this regard. Celexa anxiety prescriptions are really no more frequent than other potential anxiety treatments, though there are many patient testimonials that attest to the efficacy of celexa anxiety pills.
Talk to your psychiatrist about your own treatment. He will have to reduce the Cymbolta and start the Celexa slowly so you will avoid withdrawls.
So the answer to you question is that I see both medications used for anxiety and depresssion.
Thanks for letting me know my answer was not clear. Celexa is approved for depression and anxiety. I have many clients with depression and Anxiety who are taking this medication with great success. Everyone's body is chemically different so there is no guaranties that this would work as well for you. Here is how celexa works. It is part of a class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. The medication acts on a specific chemical within the brain known as serotonin, one of several chemicals used to send messages from one nerve cell to another. As a message travels down a nerve, it causes the end of the cell to release serotonin. The serotonin enters the gap between the first nerve cell and the one next to it. When enough serotonin reaches the second nerve cell, it activates receptors on the cell and the message continues on its way. The first cell then quickly absorbs any serotonin that remains in the gap between cells. This is called "reuptake." Normally, this process works without any problems. When the levels of serotonin become unbalanced, however, it can cause a variety of conditions, including depression. Celexa works by blocking the re uptake of serotonin so more remains in the space between the brain's nerve cells. This gives the serotonin a better chance of activating the receptors on the next nerve cell.
Cymbalta capsules contain the active ingredient duloxetine hydrochloride, which is a type of antidepressant known as a serotonin and noradrenaline inhibitor. This type of medicine acts on nerve cells in the brain.
In the brain there are numerous different chemical compounds called neurotransmitters. These act as chemical messengers between the nerve cells. Serotonin and noradrenaline are two such neurotransmitters and have various functions that we know of.
When serotonin and noradrenaline are released from nerve cells in the brain they act to lighten mood. When they are reabsorbed into the nerve cells, they no longer have an effect on mood. It is thought that when depression occurs, there may be a decreased amount of serotonin and noradrenaline released from nerve cells in the brain.
Duloxetine works by preventing serotonin and noradrenaline from being reabsorbed back into the nerve cells in the brain. This helps prolong the mood lightening effect of any released serotonin and noradrenaline. In this way, duloxetine helps relieve depression.
Duloxetine may also be used in the treatment of generalised anxiety disorder.
It may take between two to four weeks for the benefits of this medicine to appear, so it is very important that you keep taking it, even if it doesn't seem to make much difference at first. If you feel your depression or anxiety has got worse, or if you have any distressing thoughts or feelings in these first few weeks, then you should talk to your doctor.
This medicine is also used to treat nerve pain in the feet, legs or hands that is due to nerve damage caused by poorly controlled diabetes. Duloxetine is thought to enhance the nerve signals within the central nervous system that naturally inhibit pain.
So us you see the medications are a bit different from one another because Cymbalto works in the noradrenaline inhibitor that increases noraphrenaline in addition to serotonin.
yes they are the same. Norepinephrine, also known as noradrenaline, is a neurotransmitter found in the sympathetic nervous system.
The sympathetic nervous system stimulates the heart, blood vessels, sweat glands, the large internal organs, and the adrenal medulla in the brain.
Like dopamine, norepinephrine has a stimulating effect, fosters alertness, and plays an important regulatory role in long-term memory and learning. It also protects endorphins from being broken down prematurely.
Optimal levels of this transmitter can stimulate a sense of wellbeing or even create a euphoric effect in stressful situations . . .
Yet excess norepinephrine can fuel the physiological expressions of fear and anxiety, as may be the case for people who suffer from anxiety disorders.
The amino acid tyrosine, found in high concentrations in cheese, is converted by specific reactions into at least two neurotransmitters . . . norepinephrine and dopamine.
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A CLUB-record partnership of 195 between Brad Schmulian and Ben Bridgen paved the way for Bournemouth to register a convincing 158-run win over Division One strugglers Hursley Park.
Schmulian (119) and Bridgen (89) put on the fifth highest third-wicket stand in the history of the competition as Bournemouth posted an imposing 289 for four.
Lions' overseas star Schmulian hit 12 fours during his 123-ball stay and was undefeated at the close, while Dorset hopeful Bridgen cracked seven fours before George Russell (36) added late runs.
Hursley Park were never allowed to threaten as Dave Kidner (3-36), Anschuman Singh (3-17) and Matt Jones (2-23) all returned tidy spells.
And with wicketkeeper Luke Matthews pouching no fewer than five catches, the visitors to Chapel Gate were finally dismissed for 131.
- Bashley and Lymington were both condemned to defeats in the Premier Division as their respective seasons continued to nose-dive.
Although Damien Mortimer (39) and Simon Beetham (32) both made starts, Lymington were routed for just 135 by Ventnor at the Sports Ground (Ian Hilsum 6-28).
The Islanders made light work of their reply at 136 for three (Matt Metcalfe 2-23) with defeat widening the gap at the foot of the table for Lymington.
Nick Baker (49), Richard Morris (45) and Sam Thomson (39) all chipped in as Bashley recovered from a disastrous start to post a modest 167 against South Wilts at BCG.
And although Thomson (3-82) claimed the scalps of Eddie Abel, Tom Morton and Charlie Esson, James Hayward (46) remained undefeated as South Wilts reached 173 for five, with defeat extending Bashley's winless run to seven matches.


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Law enforcement officers have long used Tasers, generally known as electronic control devices, to safely subdue humans. But what about using them on wildlife?
Some wildlife managers might have wondered about the concept, but until recently no one had seriously investigated using the electronic immobilization guns as a wildlife management tool.
That attitude now could be changing due to groundbreaking work by Larry Lewis, a wildlife technician with the Alaska Department of Fish ... Tasers for Moose ArticleContinued
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Peter Jackson's New Video Blog Confirms No 'Hobbit' at Comic-Con
by Alex Billington
July 1, 2013
Source: Facebook
"Gandalf… if what you say is true, the world is in grave danger." He's back! Peter Jackson has released the 11th production video blog for The Hobbit, this one focusing almost entirely on The Desolation of Smaug (the second movie) as well as the reshoots and current work happening down in New Zealand. In addition to yet another fantastic behind-the-scenes look, it starts with Peter unfortunately confirming that there will be nothing to show of The Hobbit at Comic-Con this year. The big reason? Everyone is working, even Jackson himself can't make it, and he couldn't get any actors either. He's apparently "so busy shooting" he can't even cut a sizzle reel. So no footage or anything, but we do get another exciting video to tide us over.
Here's the eleventh video blog for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit (The Desolation of Smaug) via Facebook:
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit… J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, being directed by Peter Jackson as three separate movies, is set in Middle-Earth 60 years before Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in a trilogy ten years ago. The films, with screenplays by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson, were shot consecutively in digital 3D using the latest cameras. The Hobbit follows the journey of Bilbo Baggins, played by Martin Freeman, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, which was long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug lands in theaters in 3D & 48FPS on December 13th.
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Chapter 9: The
Harlem Renaissance
Chapter 9: The
Harlem Renaissance
A Brief Introduction
A Brief Introduction
Page Links: | Important Features | Personalities | An Assessment | A Chronology of Important Events | Novels of the Harlem Renaissance | Research and Study Topics | MLA Style Citation of this Web Page |
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Harlem is
vicious - Amiri
Baraka (LeRoi Jones) Harlem
... Harlem - Frank
Horne, "Harlem"
Modernism. BangClash.
Vicious the way it's made,
Can you stand such beauty.
So violent and transforming.
Black, black Harlem
Souls of Black Folk
Ask Du Bois
Little grey restless feet
Ask Claude McKay
City of Refuge
Ask Rudolph Fisher
Don't damn your body's itch
Ask Countee Cullen
Does the jazz band sob?
Ask Langston Hughes
Nigger Heaven
Ask Carl Van Vechten
Hey! ... Hey!
" ... Say it brother
Say it ..."
Harlem is
- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
... Harlem
- Frank Horne, "Harlem"
1. Harlem Renaissance (HR) is the name given to the period from the end of World War I and through the middle of the 1930s Depression, during which a group of talented African-American writers produced a sizable body of literature in the four prominent genres of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay.
2. The notion of "twoness" , a divided awareness of one's identity, was introduced by W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).and the author of the influential book The Souls of Black Folks (1903): "One ever feels his two-ness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled stirrings: two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
3. Common themes: alienation, marginality, the use of folk material, the use of the blues tradition, the problems of writing for an elite audience.
4. HR was more than just a literary movement: it included racial consciousness, "the back to Africa" movement led by Marcus Garvey, racial integration, the explosion of music particularly jazz, spirituals and blues, painting, dramatic revues, and others.
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1937 Publications of McKay, Long Way From Home; Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God.
1939 Publication of Hurston, Moses: Man of the Mountain.
1940 Publications of Hughes The Big Sea; McKay, Harlem: Negro Metropolis.
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1. Harlem Renaissance brought the Black experience clearly within the general American cultural history.
a. Remarkable coincidences and luck, provided a sizable chunk of real estate in the heart of Manhattan.
b. The Black migration, from south to north, changed their image from rural to urban, from peasant to sophisticate.
c. Harlem became a crossroads where Blacks interacted with and expanded their contacts internationally.
d. Harlem Renaissance profited from a spirit of self-determination which was widespread after W.W.I.
2. Harlem Renaissance could not escape its history and culture in its attempt to create a new one.
a. The "renaissance" echoed American progressivism in its faith in democratic reform, in its belief in art and literature as agents of change, and in its almost uncritical belief in itself and its future.
b. The creation of the "New Negro" failed, but it was an American failure, similar to other frustrated promotions.
c. The future of the "New Negro" was accepted without question.
d. Just as the Whites, Black intellectuals were unprepared for the rude shock of the Great Depression; the HR was shattered by it because of naive assumptions about the centrality of culture, unrelated to economic and social realities.
3. Still the Harlem Renaissance had its significance.
a. It became a symbol and a point of reference for everyone to recall.
b. The name, more than the place, became synonymous with new vitality, Black urbanity, and Black militancy.
c. It became a racial focal point for Blacks the world over; it remained for a time a race capital.
d. It stood for urban pluralism; Alain Locke wrote: "The peasant, the student, the businessman, the professional man, artist, poet, musician, adventurer and worker, preacher and criminal, exploiter and social outcast, each group has come with its own special motives ... but their greatest experience has been the finding of one another."
e. The complexity of the urban setting was important for Blacks to truly appreciate the variety of Black life. The race consciousness required that shared experience.
4. Harlem Renaissance's legacy is limited by the character of the Renaissance.
a. It encouraged the new appreciation of folk roots and culture.
b. Peasant folk materials and spirituals provided a rich source for racial imagination and it freed the Blacks from the establishment of past condition.
c. Harlem Renaissance was imprisoned by its innocence. The Harlem intellectuals, while proclaiming a new race consciousness, became mimics of Whites, wearing clothes and using manners of sophisticated Whites, earning the epithet "dicty niggers" from the very people they were supposed to be championing.
d. Harlem Renaissance could not overcome the overwhelming White presence in commerce which defined art and culture. What was needed was a rejection of White values; they had to see Whites, without awe of love or awe of hate, and themselves truly, without myth or fantasy, in order that they could be themselves in life and art.
e. Harlem Renaissance created an ethnic provincialism and its biggest gift could be a lesson from its failures. The biggest is in the strange separation of the Blacks from American culture. Except for a few Blacks, the most striking thing about them is that they are native American. The negative implications have been clear; Blacks, unlike other immigrants, had no immediate past and history and culture to celebrate. But the positive implications of American nativity have never been fully appreciated by them. It seems too simple: the Afro-American's history and culture is American, more completely so than most others in the country.
f. At least the decade of the 1920s seems to have been too early for Blacks to have felt the certainty about native culture that would have freed them from crippling self-doubt. ... that is why the art of the Renaissance was so problematic, feckless, not fresh, not real. The lesson it leaves us is that the true Black Renaissance awaits Afro-Americans' claiming their patria, their nativity.
Fauset, Jessie Redmon: There is Confusion, 1924; Plum Bun, 1928; The Chinaberry Tree; 1931; Comedy, American Style, 1933
Fisher, Rudolph: The Walls of Jericho, 1928; The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem, 1932.
Hughes, Langston: Not Without Laughter, 1930
Hurston, Zora Neale: Jonah's Gourd Wine , 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937
Larsen, Nella: Quicksand, 1928; Passing, 1929
McKay, Claude: Home to Harlem,1927; Banjo,1929; Gingertown, 1931; Banana Bottom,1933
Schuyler, George: Black No More, 1930; Slaves Today, 1931
Thurman, Wallace: The Blacker the Berry; a Novel of Negro Life, 1929; Infants of the Spring, 1932; Interne, with Abraham l. Furman, 1932
Toomer, Jean: Cane, 1923
Van Vechten, Carl: Nigger Heaven, 1926
Walrond, Eric: Tropic Death,1926
White, Walter: The Fire in the Flint,1924; Flight,1926
MLA Style Citation of this Web Page:
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Her daughter Lourdes Leon is slated to graduate from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts on Wednesday, and Madonna held a pre-prom party that may have included underage consumption of alcohol.
They both love to push the creative envelope, and Madonna and Katy Perry are teaming up for a saucy spread in V Magazine's Memorial Day issue.
Last night (May 19) the Material Girl posted one of the bondage-themed photos to her Instagram account with the caption, "V magazine got me like…..,……… Kneel down for what??????? @vmagazine This week. #artforfreedom #unapologeticb*tch."
The apple never falls far from the tree, and Lourdes Leon is replete with talent just like her superstar mother Madonna.
On Sunday (April 6), Madge posted a photo of her 17-year-old daughter in full costume before she performed in the LaGuardia Performing Arts School production of "A Flea in Her Ear."
She thoroughly enjoyed sitting at the helm for "W.E." in 2011, and now Madonna will give directing another shot.
This time, the Material Girl will work from an adaptation of the novel "Adé: A Love Story" by Rebecca Walker, and the story sounds remarkable.
Given her mastery of marketing, it's no wonder Madonna used her greatest asset to drum up interest in her new MDNA skincare collection- her raw sexual magnetism.
The 55-year-old "Like a Virgin" songstress stars in the new clip, explaining her personal philosophy of caring for her epidermis.
Always throwing fans for a loop, Madonna shared a little too much about herself on Thursday (March 21).
The 55-year-old year old singer took to her Instagram account and posted a photo featuring her in only a bra while revealing her long armpit hair.
Getting into the holiday spirit, Madonna dressed up for the Jewish holiday Purim on Saturday (March 15).
Sharing a photo of her outfit on Instagram, the " Vogue" singer dresses as Daenerys Targaryen from " Game of Thrones."
She may not have been at the big event herself, but Madonna went all out for her 86th Academy Awards after-party on Sunday night (March 2).
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Red Sox All Timers
Among the many reasons to be thankful that the wretched 2012 season of your Boston Red Sox now passes into their checkered history is that we won't have the 100th anniversary of their faded relic of a ball yard to kick around anymore.
Give them credit. They milked the milestone of Fenway's uproarious first century for all it was worth. Was even the Republic's Bicentennial this big? In another hundred years we'll have the answer.
In the last of the celebratory contrivances which -- as brother Dan Shaughnessy has tartly noted -- management tenderly hopes have softened your displeasure with the franchise's descent into chaos, we were given with the requisite bells and whistles the all-time Fenway 40-man roster, as determined by an unwieldy electorate that included fans, front office officials, archival consultants, and even historians, according to management.
As is ever the case with such artifice, the results featured many silly quirks. Tris Speaker, arguably their greatest, all-round, everyday player didn't make the cut. Neither did his fellow Hall of Famer, Harry Hooper, with both being deemed inferior to Trot Nixon. Indeed! Another Cooperstown resident spurned was Rick Ferrell, edged out by the immortal Rich Gedman. Joe Cronin, a Hall of Fame shortstop but mediocre manager, makes the team as a manager not a shortstop. Jerry Remy has always been a great guy. But was he a better player than two-time batting champ Pete Runnels?


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Kristen Stewart Says You Don't Know the Real Her
You might think you know the real Kristen Stewart, but you don't.
In fact, not even the people who know her, don't know her.
Wait, what?
The 18-year-old Twilight actress tells USA Today that, even in her circle of acquaintances, she's largely misunderstood.
"You're so connected to people and they all know how to get to you, and everyone knows who you are, so explicitly," Stewart explains. "They think they know you. It's like, 'You really think you know me? I don't know me! How do you know I'm not different around someone else?'"
"It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself," Stewart adds.
There you have it, people. Kristen Stewart—an enigma wrapped in a riddle, tucked into a mystery.
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Okay that .gif made me laugh like an idiot.
Someone just told me she's going to be a squadmate, I'm going to kill that man if he's lying.
I always took Liara with me, even on insanity playthroughs. Was a nice complement to my vanguard.
It is my favorite class. I just like the close up ground-pound/shotgun combo, plus the ability to detonate biotic abilities gave the class an extra bit of impact.
What is the exact point of Sniper rifles in multiplier mode? They are my favorite way of playing but it seems like some assault rifles do the same thing at the same long range. While sniper rifles are much less effective a closer range. Also seems like im relying on Black Widow upgrades from purchaseses which will not drop for me.
It appears that Gamespot will be streaming some Omega gameplay later today. I probably won't be around much in this thread for the next 3 weeks.
warp field to weaken its armor, let it close, then tech armor! - Turian hipster
Please keep stuff like that in links!
Welcome back, Darth Revan.
Turian Havoc AND N7 Fury in the same pack?
Thank you N7 Day!
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On that note, Volgineer is awesome sauce in a coordinated group, PuGs can be very frustrating.
EDIT: Oh great, apparently I replied to an old old old post for some reason. Move along, nothing to see here.
What about that special N7 day? Any news on what content to expect in game?
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Perhaps it isn't active yet. Damn yanks! (though I actually believe most of them are in fact Canadian)


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A few months ago, this blog asked: do you have to be a guy to be a geek? The question has been raised again several times in the past week.
Maija Palmer, writing in the FT, explores possible reasons why fewer women are pursuing careers in technology than a decade ago. "Women accounted for just 18 per cent of UK technology professionals in 2010, down from 22 per cent in 2001," she notes.
Writing for Edge magazine recently, Clint Hocking, creative director at LucasArts, the gaming company founded by film director George Lucas, makes a plea for more women to enter the games development industry – in particular to provide "balance".
"Game development studios and their teams are largely staffed in the same way that Viking longships were crewed. Consequently, the culture is overflowing with beer and pent-up aggression, and a very significant portion of our overall cultural output is fart jokes. I think we can do better," he writes.
Audrey MacLean, serial technology entrepreneur and angel investor, agrees. In an interview with Adriana Gardella, a blogger for The New York Times, she says:
"Computing has an image crisis. A boy geek subculture has grown up around gaming that involves violence. It's not something little girls aspire to."
After a career in video-game marketing, Sharon Wood decided to found Stone Creek Entertainment in the US last year – a company devoted to developing games by and for women. "No one could give me a reason why not to do it, but no one had done it," she says.
Referring to recent research by Flurry, a company that tracks 26m unique users of social games (played as a form of social interaction), Wood points out that 53 per cent of social gamers using mobile devices are women. Her company this week launched Karizmac Luminous, a new iPhone and iPad app that is based on personality quizzes. "We can resonate with women and take the social gaming experience to a new level," she says.
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook and the subject of an extensive profile by Ken Auletta in The New Yorker magazine this week, has her own take on why even the small numbers of women who do embark on tech careers fall by the wayside. Talking of her experience at Google, where she was vice-president of online global sales and operations, she says that "the men were getting ahead. The men were banging down the door for new assignments, promotions, the next thing to do, the next thing that stretches them. And the women – not all, most – you talked them into it."
MacLean argues there is a big difference between the old-world economies and the new. "In China, India and to some degree Russia, bright women are seeking technological educations," she says. "In emerging economies, the whole country has identified technology as the way out, the train to get on … But in the US, we feel we've already made it. There are too many other options for women."
Ensuring we improve the numbers of women making it to the top of prominent companies such as Facebook, Google or Apple is important for a number of reasons. First, it ensures those enterprises reflect the diversity of their markets. Second, it helps prevent a ghettoisation of the workplace with jobs for boys and jobs for girls. Third, it brings the best brains from both genders into the fast-moving sciences where innovation is changing the world.


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I am barely an A in breast sizes and worry that this leotard might not "work" or look the way it's intended to even when the wearer is smaller in the chest. Obviously, I would get a smaller size to fit, but would it still look good?
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Meant to be useful for both public and private property owners along the Willamette River, the Design Notebook establishes common goals for development at the river's edge. It then builds on these goals by providing illustrative examples of ways to physically accomplish these goals on a site.
Community Context: Development along the Willamette River in Portland is in turmoil. Salmon and steelhead, mighty icons of the Pacific Northwest, are facing extinction. Some see these magnificent creatures as a formidable barrier to development. Others see urban development as one of the causes for the decline of the species. Private and public landowners alike are unsure about what will or will not be allowed by the various federal and state agencies charged with the recovery of threatened and endangered species. At the same time, Portland's riverfront is changing. Redevelopment along the Willamette River is providing an opportunity to enhance the environment at the water's edge.
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The elaborate Christmas light display outside Tim McGowan's home at 303 Second Ave. in Egg Harbor Township has, over the years, become a destination for holiday enthusiasts from the township and beyond - but this year, it almost didn't happen.
As the owner of McGowan Landscaping, McGowan typically enlists the aid of members of his crew in putting up the lights, but this year they were busy through early December dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Additionally, he lost 13 trees in the June derecho storm, which threw a curveball into his regular arrangement.
Despite the struggle, ultimately, McGowan couldn't resist.
"It's just one of those things where the closer it got, the more and more people would come ... and say, 'Are you doing the lights?' McGowan said. "That's what I do it for. Everybody comes out here, has a good time. They kind of motivated me to keep doing this each year."
McGowan spent a week and a half in early December - sometimes with crew members but often alone - working 18-hour days stringing tens of thousands of lights around his sizable property. On the evening of Dec. 14, he flipped the switch.
It's clear from a quarter-mile down the road why McGowan's display is among the most popular in the area. Strands of red, gold, blue and green wrap around his home and trees, packed tightly enough to outline the figures but loosely enough to not be too sharp a contrast against the evening sky. Animated figures, like a toy train or the Virgin Mary holding the baby Jesus, dot the landscape.
James "Fuzzy" Frisa, who lives across the street from McGowan, said that after seven years, he still looks forward to McGowan's display come each holiday season.
"I think it's beautiful," Frisa said. "I think it's one of the best arrays around town. It's just very enjoyable, the old-fashioned colored lights and stuff, and I look forward to it every year. Every year, I look forward to it. It's amazing."
McGowan first got bitten with the Christmas light bug when, as a kid living on Windsor Avenue in Egg Harbor Township, his neighbor's annual display was among the best in the township.
While maintaining the display is a labor of love for the landscaper, it's still a lot of work. Keeping the light array up and running will be a full-time job for McGowan until he starts taking the array down in early January. While the lights are only on from about 5 to 10 p.m. each night, McGowan constantly prowls the property looking for burnt bulbs or broken circuits.
McGowan's electric bill triples or quadruples in December, he said, and he's only half-joking when he says he's got his electrician on speed dial. He blew a transformer the first year he moved in and had to upgrade to 200-amp electric service last year after blowing the 150-amp box.
Still, for all its challenges, there's no satisfaction for McGowan like giving visitors a holiday escape through his handiwork.
"It's not one of those things where I do this for perks," McGowan said. "I do it for everybody else. They'll come out here, even if it's for five or 10 minutes, and forget about everything else, kind of just enjoy the lights for Christmas."
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How long does your high school take to reply to emails(21 Posts)
Year 7 is a learning curve & as parents you need to let the school observe & make decisions based on a tad more than just primary Sch results. My Ds was a level 8 in year 7 but all topics were familiar so he was cruising. Year 8 with new topics that were new & unfamiliar meant he levelled out and is in a comfortable position to get A * when ready in a years time.
However school should respond to e mails ? Ours does within 2 days so keep trying
In the original email I asked that I was contacted to arrange a mutually convenient time to discuss the situation either in person or on the phone and left email and mobile contact details
I'm actually not hung up on the sub levels, I'm more bothered that she isn't enjoying a subject she previously loved and is learning the lesson that she doesn't need to try
Parents evening is next week but we only get to speak to the form teacher
Ah, I see 17leftfeet! I don't teach Maths but I do know that sometimes there can be a slight drop in the level of work at the start of Secondary (which you do seem prepared for in your opening post). I would, however not place so much regard on the levels. What I mean is that primary schools are under so much pressure to keep increasing levels every year that they don't often follow through. I have had plenty of so called 5a pupils who can barely write a full sentence and whos handwriting is worse than my 6 year olds'. It can take a while for a new year 7 to find their niche for a whole host of reasons.
Now I realise that your DD sounds like she is more than capable in Maths but I would concentrate on her experiences within the subject rather than be shocked at her sub level-especially as these are going to be abolished soon anyway. I realise I sound a bit waffley, but I have read your thread and your daughter's unhappiness stands out to me, rather than her sub level drop in itself. Therefore, I wouldn't see the lunchtime club as a punishment to give up her lunch but rather an opportunity to restore her love of Maths and shine outside of what is probably a class of 30 who have only been in school for about 6 weeks and not as well known to the teacher as you would be in a primary environment that was established for years, prior to Year 6.
I hope you get a response soon and that you can talk about what might be the best steps to help your daughter feel happier again.
Highly likely this question has been referred to Head of Maths for a reply.
Did you phone again with a reminder? (just in case original message vanished in an email crash, or note fell out of pigeonhole, etc)
Realistically, staff will deal with such messages in the evenings, and could assume that you wouldn't welcome a call after, say, 9.30 pm. Did you leave a daytime number, as well as one for evening?
When is the parents' evening - soon?
Is it somebody new running the Dept, perhaps? First year they haven't set for Maths until Year 9, suggests it could be. Either that, or timetable pressure has pushed them into this position unwillingly. In which case, they may be thinking carefully who should call you back.
She gets the hands up thing and tends to only put her hand up if a couple of others have had a go first, or if no one puts their hands up
She literally has not answered a question since the first week and I get why she gets frustrated with that
I think she's disappointed when she was really looking forward to high school maths and being challenged, she likes being made to think
I've had the same issue with English this week (new Yr 7)and I emailed school last night and the reply was from the Principals PA before 9am this morning followed by a phone call.... I can really understand how you feel because my DD was given a 3B for a short English assessment when she was working at higher than 3B when she was in year 4.... Very interesting response that they had purposely downgraded the work for all the children ...but her target this year was 6B ...- what a silly way to demotivate a child - how can my child now trust what grades she is given ?
Can I just raises a point about the 'hands up'? I'm afraid one of the things OFSTED frowns upon is teachers who just easily pick the children who already know the answers and we are required to pick pupils who don't put up their hand instead so that they 'think' about the answer and the same pupils don't keep answering. It is not a reflection on the teacher being mean. It is just that we are under pressure to provide 'outstanding' lessons and this is sometimes picked up on.
With regards to the email, I try and email back the same day. That said, I have sometimes had manically busy days and it might be after school the follow day.
leftfeet, if it helps I emailed with a very similar query middle of last week, and got a follow-up phone call today. HoY had been discussing the issue with head of maths + dd's teacher, and in fact they've moved on with the whole class (which makes sense - dd herself said she felt that she was one of the slower in the group, and the rest must be even more bored ). So I guess what I'm saying is that it takes time for them to consult etc, and don't panic.
(Having said that, I would always send a holding email in the same circs, but then I communicate by email all the time - I think maybe on the whole parents tend to phone at dd's school.)
Still no reply....
Black - value added is taken from the primary assessments not the re-assessments dine by the secondary
I usually get a reply the same day.
Anything from 1 hour to 3 or 4 days depending on the teacher.
I think it is poor practice not to set earlier than year 9 but if you downgrade students from level 6 to 4 you don't have to do much differentiation, do you? It is lazy teaching I'm afraid and don't believe what a school tells you about pushing the brightest if they don't really recognise them in the first place. Assessing low then miraculously getting good results later is all part of the value added game and children get caught up in it. Try again for an answer.
An e-mail to DD2s secondary yesterday got a response within the hour. it was an admin query though, not teaching.
To answer your question, I think it depends on the teacher. I had a query, phoned up and school suggested I email Head of KS3 - I did twice and never got a reply. Phoned them again and they suggested Head of Year who I had to email on three different occasions and each time she emailed me back the following break time.
You could always try writing a letter and asking your daughter to hand it to the teacher. If not, there will probably be a mentoring or parents evening in the next month or so and you can raise it there.
With regards to putting her hand up, obviously there are some that do this more willingly than the others, but I think teachers do want to hear from all in the class as they are all equally important, they need to get to know the children and what understanding they have.
Sorry, not sure why link didn't work here
I emailed school last week on just the same subject [http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/secondary/1870094-Year-7-maths-what-is-normal-Speak-to-tutor-HoY thread here]]. Haven't heard back yet - lots of flu & teachers off though so not surprising. We shall see.
My dd has also just started year 7. I queried her target too and the school got back to me within a couple of days to say her target was wrong and it was an admin error. They have yet to correct this in her planner or speak to her about it though. She finished primary at 5a, the highest her primary taught to, and her target now is 6b/c. They are not settled and she is currently sitting with a girl who struggles with Maths and won't let my dd turn the shared sheet to access the more difficult questions! The other girl is also copying all her work, so I really don't think this not setting is working very well. So, back to you, her target sounds wrong, and I would expect a response within a couple of days.
In regards to showing working out, an example of a piece of work she's had to do is she had a painting by numbers sheet and every section had a maths question in. All the questions had one of 6 answers, each representing a colour and she had to colour the sections in
Questions included 5x6 or 2x2x6
In primary she was doing algebra and Pythagoras?
I was under the impression that the NC levels run all the way through education but primary don't always cover the breadth of subjects
She has had excellent provision in primary, maybe we have been spoiled?
In primary she took part in every maths thing going and in the space of 4 weeks she has become so disengaged it's actually quite frightening
With regards to the target 4a it sounds right to me. My experience is that you don't just keep climbing the same ladder it's a new set of levels for the new age group. Sorry but I can't explain it any better than that.
If she stops putting her hand up she will probably get asked the answer now and again they have to share and if they know someone knows the answer they need to give others the chance so they get an understanding of how the youngsters are thinking and working it out. Does your DD just give the answer in her books or does she show the workings? This is important for later when things get more complicated.
It's not giving up part of your lunchtime though, it's additional and if she is keen it's good and fun - that's my experience anyway.
With regards to emails - Our school responds fairly quicklymaybe a couple of days but maybe phone the heads assistant she may have a full diary this particular week. Our school also have a clinic once a week where you can speak to the head direct which is really helpful.
Dd is in yr7 and having issues around maths
She left primary on level 6, I expected this to drop to a 5 when she started high school but she's just been given her current assessment of 4a and her target for the end of yr 7 is a 5b
I've looked in her maths book and she hasn't got a single question wrong, she rattles her homework off in literally 5 minutes
She says she is on the verge of stopping putting her hand up in class as the teacher ignores her and will stand there asking everyone else to put their hands up to answer questions
I'm really disappointed as part of the reason we chose this school is that they state they drive even the most able to their full potential
My daughter spoke to the teacher and has been invited to the g&t club at lunch time -so the expectation is she sits bored rigid in class for 2.5 hrs each week then gives up her half hour lunch break one day?
To get back to my original heading, I emailed the teacher on Monday afternoon to arrange to have a conversation with her, as yet I've had no reply
How long do I leave it before chasing
I don't want to be a pushy mother but maths is important and the school doesn't set until yr9 which is a new policy for this year's yr 7 -I was assured they are able to differentiate within the class but it feels like they aren't even trying
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Predicting year-ahead price action for any asset class is tricky, and gold, with its sensitivity to political as well as economic currents, is trickier than most. But tricky does not mean it is impossible to give a short-term forecast for gold. The way a Wall Street analyst might look at stocks versus bonds and conclude that one or the other is undervalued; it's possible to use gold's supply/demand trends and value relative to other assets to forecast how it should behave in the short-term. Here are two such approaches, both of which (surprise) are flashing screaming buy signals:
No asset, including gold, exists in a vacuum. Stocks, bonds, real estate, and precious metals all compete for the same limited pool of capital, which means that for gold to be attractive, its prospects must be not just good, but better than those of, say, growth stocks.
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In 1971, gold was $40 per ounce ($1.28/gg) and the Dow was 890, meaning that it took about 22 ounces of gold to buy the Dow. Nine years later, less than one ounce would buy the Dow. By the end of 1999, the two had diverged once again, with gold at $279/oz. ($8.90/gg) and the Dow at about 11,497, for a Dow/gold ratio of 41, far higher than its early-1970s peak. But note that this time around, both numbers in the ratio have an extra zero. That's because of inflation. A dollar purchases today what 10 cents purchased in 1971, so we need 10 times as many dollars to buy an ounce of gold or the Dow Industrials.
A Dow/gold ratio at the high end of its range implies two things. First, if historical relationships hold, gold is more likely to rise versus stocks in coming years than to fall. Second, the distance between the 1971 high and 1980 low gives a hint of how far gold can run this time around, especially with the financial gale now at its back.
One of the shocking things about gold is how little there is of it. In our sometimes frantic 4,000 years of searching, we've found perhaps 135,000 tonnes. Today, the world's entire hoard of gold would occupy a single (admittedly very heavy) cube 60 feet on a side – equivalent to the volume of three good-sized houses or the bottom 10 percent of the Washington Monument. To put this in perspective, the U.S. produces about 240,000 tonnes of steel each day.
But unlike steel, where production can be expanded by simply building more factories, the supply of gold increases only when we find and mine new deposits. Since 1492, there has never been a year in which the world's above-ground gold stock increased by more than 5 percent. The nineteenth-century average was about 2 percent, which is one reason that inflation was nonexistent for gold-standard currencies: The world's money supply was constrained by nature to a low-single-digit growth path. Although gold no longer circulates as currency, it still has both monetary and commercial uses. The demand from these sources is estimated at around 4,000 tonnes each year. The output of the world's gold mines is currently about 2,500 tonnes, creating an annual supply shortfall of more than 1,500 tonnes, or approximately 50 million ounces.
For most commodities, a supply/demand imbalance of this size would cause either the price or the level of production, and probably both, to soar. But commodities are consumed after they're produced, and gold, remember, is not just a commodity. Gold is money, which, once discovered, tends to be hoarded. So the vast bulk of what has been mined is still around, and the current deficit is covered by owners of previously mined gold. Central banks, as you know, sell and/or lend millions of ounces per year, which, together with other forms of "dishoarding," like people selling their jewelry and gold coins, fills the gap. So while an annual supply shortfall of 50 million ounces is clearly a positive, absent a big jump in demand, aboveground stocks of gold are more than sufficient to make up the difference. In other words, current mine production is far less important for gold's exchange rate than are trends in demand.
Another positive in the short-term forecast for gold is on the demand front, things are looking up, thanks to the emergence of Asia's sleeping giants. The whole world is setting up factories in China, both to exploit its cheap, highly motivated workforce and to gain access to a billion new consumers. This is bad news for U.S. and European factory workers, but for China, the result is an embarrassment of riches, including a trade surplus that exceeds $100 billion a year with the U.S. alone. By the end of 2003, China's foreign exchange reserves – mostly in the form of dollars – exceeded $400 billion. And Chinese leaders, showing an historical savvy currently lacking in the West, were eyeing gold. Beijing is rumored to be buying much of the gold Western central banks are selling (and considerably more than the annual 100 tonnes it reported to the International Monetary Fund the past two years).
In 2002, Beijing removed the Communist-era ban on its citizens owning gold. In a survey quoted in the Hong Kong edition of China Daily, 20 percent of Chinese respondents said they were willing to move 10 to 30 percent of their savings into gold. An analyst quoted in the same story put the resulting increase in gold demand at about $36 billion, or about 300 tonnes annually.
India, meanwhile, is attracting almost as much foreign capital as is China, and in October 2003 ended a four-decade ban on bullion trading. Because India has traditionally been a huge market for precious metals (much of the gold mined in the West already ends up in Indian safes or adorning Indian women), the combination of rising incomes and more liberal ownership rules should have the same effect there as in China.
How will this suddenly much wider gap be filled? It's possible that central banks – which, as you'll see shortly, are more concerned with minimizing gold's exchange rate than maximizing the value of their gold reserves – will step up their sales. And they'll certainly try to talk the exchange rate down through anti-gold propaganda. But neither will do the trick, because government resources – of both gold and public credulity – are limited. Much more likely is that gold's exchange rate will rise until the rest of us start converting our jewelry and coins into dollars.
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