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The hardest part of cancer has been the tremendous internal contradiction between what and how I feel emotionally and what others expect me to feel. It's taboo and no one really wants to know about what spins through my head, nevertheless hear me vocalize it. They'll send in the social worker and even a shrink or two, but they will just sit and listen and take notes and offer a support group full of people I can't understand. People who talk about "milestones" and "being changed forever, for the better." If that doesn't help, some small pills here and there. They'll shrug it off, sweep it under the rug, and tell me it's normal "considering." So I have learned "cancer patient etiquette." Ya know, the fake smile and the "oh I am feeling better today than yesterday" and how to appear "grateful." It's a very lonely process. Probably the most lonely I have ever felt… and I'm a KAD so I know lonely. Physically I have a lot of supporters and more so that are not physically around… no one wants to hear what I want to talk about and I don't blame them one bit.
There is this voice. It's mine. It wants to scream out in retched despair. "What's this for??" she screams. "And what's so bad about giving up, anyway?"
Who are you to say "be brave" and "hang in there" and "it will get better." Who are you, but another clueless one? And no offense really. I mean no offense. But when can I decide, for me?
"That's okay," you may say, "I understand. This is natural." Shrug, shrug… under the rug.
Give me back my body. With all her parts too. I'd like to unsubscribe, please. Unsubscribe me, because I am moving. And I'd like to plan that move, so that it goes just so, if anyone wants to hear. I have a few boxes to pack up and I'm worried about my cat. Let me snap a few pictures first, shake a few hands, and send off a few apologies too. Tie up some loose ends and go over my check list. Is there still time for a short vacation?
It's only normal…. considering. Shrug, shrug… under the rug.
So this is Christmas…
Last night, around 11:45pm, standing outside a place people flock to. The devout would (and have) kill for an opportunity like this. Midnight mass in the church that was built around a small hole and a dark cave. The place where this huge divide started – Jew and Gentile starts here. And somehow, this place, it's impact skipped right over my adopted identity and reached all the way to Asia – to Korea. It changed my homeland and set the founding stones for this awkward divide within me. I can feel the events of thousands of years rush through me. Its a chilly night – this has become what I call "chilly" anyway. The candles trick my mind into feeling warmth, but my nose grows pink as I stand outside the gate with my cell phone cold against my cheek. Something feels so familiar about this voicemail I am leaving and it strikes a series of reflections that I am trying to suppress. It's not strange to any of the passerbys that I am standing here, but it is strange to me.
"I love you. Bye.", my fingers tighten to close the phone (Samsung – made in Korea) and tuck it into the pocket of my black wool jacket – the one Ajumma said not to wear anymore. I should rush back in an find her. The growing crowd will make it nearly impossible, but I am not afraid anymore. I am not afraid of not being able to find her. I've grown up and I wont allow my insecurities to worry me anymore. So I stay standing, outside the gate, and I allow the reflections to pour into me and wash over me until I have forgotten that I am standing at the gate of a powerful place and the birthplace of a nation of peoples.
As a child, Christmas meant two things. 1. A box of chocolate and a plane ticket to Georgia for Gladys that I would wrap up myself. 2.Chinese dinner at Peter's restaurant "The Pagoda" in Eastchester. The first was such a warm feeling. Gladys, our live-in maid, was not hired to be my nanny (June was hired for that purpose), but who spent most of her time telling me stories about her life and the life of others she knew. She didn't like chocolate (I did!), but she did enjoy going to Georgia every winter for a week to visit her mother who was raising Gladys' daughter there. She had to be back before New Years Eve – when we would go up to "The Club" in the mountains for our annual New Years celebration. The second memory was a lukewarm feeling. "What are we going to do today?" I'd ask my father, hopeful that this year would bring something new and exciting. "We're going out to have chinks," he'd reply. Yiddish was his native tongue and it wasn't until college that I really came to learn that the word "chink" was derogatory. Peter was a good friend of my grandparents – their only Asian friend. So two things were certain about Christmas in my childhood: I would pick a dress to wear that I thought made me look very white and Peter would be sure to bring an extra bowl of Chinese mustard for my father who loved to dip the crunchy noodles in it. "Its like eating a knish with Brown's mustard," my father would say as he inched the fried noodle towards my lips trying to convince me to eat one and like it. My head would turn, lips pursed together, and I would glance around Peter's restaurant ….. every table filled with another Jewish family.
Somewhere during the reflection of mid-adolescent-hood jeans and a sweatshirt for dinner at Peter's a stranger asked me for the time and I was jolted back to reality. Peter's Pagoda restaurant faded into the black of the night around me and the candles' glow pulled me into the gate to find Ajumma. I was right not to worry, I found her almost immediately and I kneeled next to her around that small hole that would change the world way before I was to attempt to find my way through it. I glanced over at Ajumma – her flat profile barely noticeable behind her thick self-made curls. I couldn't help but to think how odd it is that Peter's Pagoda would feel more comforting right now than this place right here.
Let's be honest and such.
I am often misunderstood on the subject of adoption. I expect it really, because I myself am not all that clear or consistent on the issue. Dealing with my own almost certain, cancer-aftermath infertility and the unfairness of it all, I have found myself feeling somewhat desperately selfish and longing for a spot of elitist beneficiary. I prematurely long for my continuation, bloodline, and other such huff and puff that I used to 'poo poo' in prospective adoptive parents who already know genetic connections that I have never known. In my opinion, they were always not yet ready… whatever ready might one day entail. It's all silliness really, as I am in no position to be even entertaining such ideas, none-the-less wasting my time day-dreaming about what follows such feelings.
Despite the prematurity of my infertile panic, I picked up a book at a local English bookstore today written by a father of a daughter adopted from China, contrary to my own internal promise that I would not start reading such material (only adoptive parent written happy solutions to infertility issues stories) until these feelings "pass." I didn't buy the book, but I sat on the floor for 4 hours with my mind glued to each page, my soul enveloped into his story, my body frozen still. After reaching the third half of the book I realized that much time had passed and my lower half was now fast asleep. The writer, a father, his words dancing in my head, I closed the book and began my slow baby-steps towards the shelf in which it was found and then out the door. I walked out and reached home in a dream-like daze. And even now, almost a day later, I am longing to understand him. Longing to feel like him even.
More often than the issue of adoption, I am often misunderstood on the issue of my (adoptive) parents. This is more confusing for me, as I am quite clear and consistent on this issue. Despite what some may think and what some might think I should feel, I love my parents. After my last post, some readers might think "what? is she crazy?" but the fact is that most sons/daughters love their parents despite whatever may be involved. This is different than unconditional love, although I might be accused of and found guilty by a jury of my-selves of such a crime as well. I do appreciate my father's honesty and openness in how he feels and I respect (although fail to understand) the space he has created between us. It is not that I am unrelentingly forgiving as much as I am understanding. It makes sense to me, what he says about me feeling like an outsider to him… I myself feel this. And many adoptees that I have met and/or read also feel this way. Let me make it clear that my father has never said that he does not love me. I know he does and I do him as well.
My (adoptive) mother has taken a different approach, one similar to the writer, the father, of the book I picked up at the bookstore. She wanted something, felt so deserving of something, that she created it in a place where it might have been unlikely to exist otherwise. She decided that she can and will become a mother to a child from another. She would make this a story of meaningful unification and destiny. She would erase the outsided-ness and she would parent this child with no difference than she does her daughter she birthed several years earlier. What the social workers and articles and books had said — she would make this her reality. She would love me as her own. It would become her motto and it would rule her actions. She would do it because it is what she needed and what I needed. She was so well intended and this came so simple to her. I truly believe that she was born to be a mother and so this process was second nature to her. This love, I more uneasily understand, but quite clearly felt and most likely will never doubt. It was essential to me as a child and would be a welcomed return if it were to return even now. I long for it now and it angers me that it has been blocked, removed, iced over. I know that for my mother, what we have become is unnatural to her and uncomfortable and what she has become is forced in an effort to push her guilt into non-existence and correct wrongs that she feels responsible for, but most of all, to hide what she considers shortcomings. It's within her that my hope lay and to which I feel that someday we might return to each other – this life or our next.
This post will probably be followed by reader comments of expressive sadness and disbelief, maybe outrage. I could be told that an injustice has been bestowed upon me. I could not disagree more, but I felt a need to explain a bit and without becoming too revealing of what is a very internal family situation. It was not my intention to project the image of victim or product of a "messed up family." That is certainly not the case. Its fine if you do not understand as I am not expecting understanding, I simply blog in an effort to express things that I care not to talk of or cannot find the strength to talk of or just things that talking of does not help in weeding through of such.
Adoption Serious
Recently, a women named Rebecca commented on my blog. I was pretty touched by her comment, because something so rare seems to be happening with her. She is thinking seriously about adoption BEFORE she adopts. That's kind of amazing these days. Not many people do that. It seems to me that many, many adoptive parents go into adoption to fulfill a need. I don't think, by any means, that this is a "wrong" reason to adopt, but so many seem to dive in head-first without even taking a deep inhale. I wish more people would inhale first — they could really use that oxygen after their are over their heads in water – once the "baby" is "home."
There is a potentially good example of above mentioned adoption strategy in the news recently ( http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2883720 ) with a diplomat from the Netherlands who has recently "disrupted" his adoption of a Korean "baby" he adopted at age 3 months (she is now 7 or 8 years old). I don't pretend to know what the circumstances are involving this "disruption." The articles (and diplomat himself) are only stating that the "adoption went wrong." The articles also mention that this couple was infertile at time of the adoption and have since birthed two children that they are not placing for adoption. Readers of such articles are lead to make some assumptions of this couple and it has thus enraged the Korean adoptee community. I can't blame them. These kinds of stories burn adoptees who often struggle with issues relating to "blood connections" and how essential this is to a true and pure parent/child connection. The feeling of original rejection sits somewhere within our being. In some it sits at the front row and for some, it's somewhere in the nose-bleed section. For me, it's jumped around … from middle center to jumping right up on the stage. Some nerve! A secondary rejection seems unbearable to most adoptees. To me, I know that it is bearable, survivable, and in some cases, essential.
Although the article hurts me and I feel for that little girl, there is a different, very unreasonable response that I had. I feel also for the adoptive parents – the rejectees, if you will. I don't think it is so hard to guess that they probably got special treatment when they adopted. My parents did. My parents had the funds (and then some) and they have the social connections (and then some) and they were able to move through the process in a matter of just a couple of months at the most. They got a young baby girl (exactly what they ordered) faster than what most mail orders took during that period (this was before you could "shop" for babies online!). They were beneficiaries of a wronged system. They were ignorant. Not to parenting or what a baby would involve (they had a biological daughter already and knew that parenting is no cake walk), but to how adoption would feel…. for me and for them. They were sucked into the agency infomercials and convinced that this would be the solution to their secondary infertility. Like the newest Benzoyl Peroxide cream shows promise to the 13 year old with acne, adding me to their mostly happy family seemed like a logical and reasonable solution – heck, at the very least, it was worth a try.
My parents were good at the motions of parenthood. They provided for me in a generous fashion. They showered me with gifts, hugs, and kisses. They educated me and always made sure that my belly was full. I never missed an essential doctor or dentist appointment. I was enrolled in enriching activities and summer camps. Yet, when my father told me last year, "It's not that you are a bad daughter, Julia. You are a very good daughter. You just never were my daughter." I was not surprised. I always knew he felt this way, although he tried to never show it. And although I am and always will be my mother's solution to her painful infertility ordeal, I know that she also feels this way. I am what they needed – child number two – but I am not what they wanted. After years of denial and societal pressure to remain committed to me, the truth comes out. Only, the truth doesn't hurt nearly as one would expect, because, well… I always knew where I stood in their lives.
I don't know what the solution is for this 7 year old girl. I don't know how important it was for me to remain in a stable home – moving through the motions that every nice and good family models. Or if it would have been a good idea to endure a second rejection in the hope to find a true and honest familia connection. I just know that her story is not rare. She's not alone. And that is the truly sad part of this ordeal. That is the true heartbreak and the real tragedy of the adoption system.


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My mom and dad were always, always extremely supportive of my athletic endeavors. They supported Meg's athletics with just as much enthusiasm. And then we graduated and they were over it.
When I finished playing high school soccer, they were through with watching me on the soccer pitch. When Meg dropped out of soccer after a year of playing in college, they were officially no longer soccer parents. When she finished college hockey, they were done with sitting in cold rinks.
We both still play soccer – on the same team – but we can rarely cajole them to our games. We're both playing hockey and just believe me when I say that they aren't champing at the bit to get to those games, either.
They're pretty much over it. And I don't blame them.
We both still ask, though. We invite them to watch us – together! United as sisters! – play soccer. And we invite them to our hockey games, too, but it's much more likely that I'll go to Meg's game or she'll go to mine than for either of our parents to show up at either of our games. And it's perfectly fine. They put in their time as sports parents. And we don't need an audience.
But we might still like one.
Now, I would never expect my parents to come and watch our half marathon this weekend. It starts at 7:00 am. And what are they going to do? Stand on the side of the road for hours waiting to see us for 15 seconds? It sounds fun, right?
Wait. Maybe it does sound fun.
What if, the day before the race, you have lunch at your favorite restaurant? And then you check in to a posh downtown hotel. Maybe head down to the bar to watch the UM/MSU game (Go Blue!). Dinner reservations at one of the city's best restaurants at 7:45 pm.
And then, the next morning, all you have to do is roll out of bed and out on to the streets to watch your girls run.
Maybe meet them at the finish line. Maybe head back to your hotel and get another hour of sleep. Meet your girls back at your room, where they'll shower (and bitch about how sore/tired they are) before you all head off to a fancy-schmancy brunch.
Combine it with the hotel and the dinner and the getaway aspect and watching a half marathon doesn't sound half bad, does it?
That's how I sold it to my mom, anyway, before booking the room and making the reservations. She gave the weekend to my dad as a birthday present.
And that's how I tricked those suckers into watching me and Meg run the half marathon.
My birthday gift to my father will be a poster board and a marker. If he's going to watch, he might as well make us a sign, too.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
A family affair
5 comments:
- Teagan B. Sawyer said...
hahaha love it...very sneaky ;) can't wait to hear all about it.
Sounds wonderful! Sneaky girl!
- k said...
aww so cute! i remember when i ran my first half, i got all teary-eyed when i saw a girl in front of me get all excited to see her parents on the course (it was mile 12, i was a bit emotional).
good luck!!
- Kari said...
your dad is going to love this! Have fun running!
- doahleigh said...
Can you ask him to add GO SHANNON! to the sign? I need a little encouragement for my measly 4.4 miles. Maybe it should be something more like "Shannon you can do this. I know you're miserable, but when it's done you'll be glad you ran. Now pick up those feet, stopping bitching and RUN!"
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Please excuse my dog! I couldn't get him to get out of the shot!
Instructions were pretty clear on how to install and came with multiple CPU brackets, etc.
NZXT, Asus, Corsair, and other RGB manufacturers need to come to a single control software for lighting. Understand that if you use these in conjunction, their independent lighting software will cause conflicts and system instability. You essentially have to install one program, setup the preferred lighting, then hope you can uninstall it without messing up the setting. Install the next, setup, then again uninstall and hope the settings stay. Rinse and repeat. I can run Aura(Asus lighting control), and CAM(NZXT RGB lighting control) on the system without stability issues, as long as they are not open at the same time. I can run Corsairs Link software and CAM, but again not open at the same time. I cant have Link and Aura installed at all, or any other combination of them. Its a mess.
This is half the reason for buying a cooler like this, is for the RGB. And forget about trying to synch all of them to the same effects. The only synching you can do is in a single color that stays at a single intensity. No flashing or breathing or any other effect. Its not just NZXT, its all of them wanting to use proprietary software.


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When someone dies, why is it that some people focus immediately on what the person has when he/she dies? Instead of being concerned about the people left behind, the "death vultures" shift into a market mentality and begin to imagine what they might get out of the occasion. Or worse, begin to imagine what "should" be theirs.
My wife gets credit for getting the "death vulture" phrase stuck into my head.
There's 2 ways to look at "death vultures." The first obligates us to realize that the dead aren't needing their stuff anymore and that discussion about their stuff isn't harming the deceased in any way whatsoever. It's just a practical concern. The second way we might look at, and judge, I might add, the death vultures is to note how impersonal and selfish the attitude is.
I'm assuming that a normal person (whoever that might be) would look at death vultures with disdain and contempt.
Once the funeral dust settles, the focus shifts to cars, houses, pictures, jewelry, money – anything that is left.
If a person has a legitimate claim on what should be his or hers after someone they know or love dies, then he or she must decide how crassly they must insist on getting it. Personally, I'd be more likely to just shake my head and walk away if arguing or refusals surfaced about my the stuff I was laying claim to. Even if it were something very personal or worth significant money. On the other hand, if a family member was simply being evil about it, I would at least consider being evil in response – and not waste my time with guilt about it, either.
The reality is that very few things are worth worrying about once the person you love has died. My main wish is to have access to pictures to scan – and give back so that everyone can enjoy. Everything else is just stuff. People need to stop fooling themselves into thinking we are here forever. Our stuff piles up, we die, it goes to people we love and once those people die it becomes junk or forgotten.
I did decide, however that the death vultures should wait until the close family members of the deceased bring the subject up and especially not to mention their wishes for stuff until after all the funeral-related activities are done.


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Articles in 2010s Press & Interviews
2012.10.06 – Away interviewed by Neuweltmusic in Dublin, Ireland
On October 6th 2012, prior to their concert at The Village in Dublin, Ireland, Neuweltmusic.com conducted an interview with VOIVOD drummer Michel "Away" Langevin.
2012.01.12 Voivod featured in the UK's The Guardian website
I never thought i would see the day when I would see Voivod featured in the UK's The Guardian newspaper's website, and as the second …
2011.05.08 Voivod Video Interviewed in Croacia
Voivod were interviewed by the "Metal Eye" show on Z1 TV when the band performed in Zagreb, Croatia on May 8, 2011. You can now …
2011 January MyTelus Interview
All aboard Voivod's heavy metal cruise
January 7, 2011
(bum) – Veteran Canadian rockers, Voivod, have enjoyed a long and loud career. Formed in Jonquière, Quebec, they …
2010.11.30 – Remembering the WWW III Festival
The founder/Publisher of hellbound.ca, Sean Palmerston, did this nice piece about the 25th anniversary of the WWW III Festival in Montreal.
Voivod featured in the History Of Progressive Metal book
Bazillion Points Books is proud to announce the late 2010 release of 'MEAN DEVIATION: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal', by Jeff Wagner-a former editor …
2010.03.27 metalunderground Interview with Away
Metalunderground.com have posted this interview with Away
i just wish they could spell Voivod correctly, LOL
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2010.03.16 DisposableUnderground.com Interview
Michel "Away" Langeviny talk to www.disposableunderground.com #41 on this interview. The Pics came from the magazine.
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2010.03 Video Interview with Away & Dan
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"OH WATERS, TEEM WITH MEDICINE TO KEEP MY BODY SAFE FROM HARM, SO THAT I MAY LONG SEE THE SUN." - Rig Veda
"Europa, the second Galilean moon of Jupiter, has been my favorite planetary body for a long time. The reason I like Europa so much is that it's a world whose orbital dynamics with Jupiter, its orbital resonances with the other Galilean moons, and its own rigid-body dynamics have a strong hand in creating its surface features – and giving it the potential to harbor life. It's one of perhaps two or three extraterrestrial places in the Solar System where we might hope to find life.
Thanks to magnetometer measurements and images from the Galileo mission, it's pretty much established at this point that Europa has an icy outer shell over a global liquid ocean, with a rocky core on the inside.* The only question is how thick that ice shell is – I've read estimates ranging from 10 meters to 100 kilometers, with a pretty high confidence of ones to tens of kilometers.
Planetary scientists have a number of models for how these double ridges form, and they generally seem to agree that the ridges mark the locations of cracks in the ice crust.
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We do at least know, from the Galileo mission, that these cracks often have accompanying veneers of organic (e.g. carbon-based) molecules and salts splashed onto the ice surface. This is why the cracks appear as brown stripes in large-scale context images. The crack/veneer combination suggests that there are organic molecules and salts in the Europan ocean, and that those compounds get pumped to the surface through these cracks.
So, let's take stock: Europa is the only extraterrestrial world with a global liquid water ocean, there is a definite possibility for life in that ocean, and these double-ridged cracks are a possible gateway into the alien biosphere.
Well, then, let's go diving! Read on for my concept of an ambitious Europan ocean-exploring mission, which I call the Ice Fracture Explorer.
The Ice Fracture Explorer, or IFE, would be a combination lander/penetrator vehicle that I imagine to be a little smaller than the size of one of the MER rovers. Ideally, several IFEs would accompany an orbiter to Europa. The orbiter component of the mission would contain instruments designed to give the planetary scientists on the mission enough information to select a few double-ridged cracks that are actively being worked open and shut by tides. The flight controllers would then dispatch an IFE to each of those cracks.


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Laurie from Rotorua
Kathryn and I spent about an hour or so on the phone with her in Hamilton and myself in Rotorua with my blog open in each place.
( luckily she has free calls to Rotorua home number)
Both watching what was happening on my blog.
Well ! we thought we had it cracked,
We worked through various things
and added another user to the blog
then took admin rights from the one address
and gave it to the other,
great we said it seemed to work okay.
We rang off and I thought better try all the admin stuff and post,
all okay, until I tried to post a picture......ugh.
This it where it all fell over.
It would not allow this to be done on a Gmail address.....
After some thought we have come up with the conclusion
the prime address has to be a provider address,
Gmail is a non provider, where as Yahoo is via Telecoms yahoo/xtra.
This all began to make sense as I worked through all the settings etc.
So we are back to square one with Blog on one email address
and messages on Gmail.....
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At the FiFi Chews kitchen we only use human-graded ingredients.
Whenever we can, we avoid processed food, for example: we make our own apple sauce and peanut butter instead of store bought one.
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The flour we use for biscuits is mainly whole wheat and oats flour, instead of plain white.
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We also use a few super ingredients in our Gourmet Dog Treats; these include but are not limited to: organic coconut oil, chia seeds, kale and blueberries.


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Blogging can be a great way to draw new customers to your business website. But if your blog hasn't been updated in months or all your posts are thinly disguised sales pitches, your blog marketing plan could backfire.A great business blog doesn't sell. Instead, it shows customers why they should do business with you and not your competitors.
Here are 50 types of blog posts that can draw new visitors and help build customer relationships.
- Customer success story. When you receive a great testimonial from a customer, ask for permission to turn it into a post. Use the post to solicit more customer stories.
- Mention a popular post. If you notice a post by a popular blogger in your niche getting a lot of attention, add your viewpoint and link to the original post. Be sure to let that A-list blogger know about your comment and link.
- Disagree with a popular opinion. Get traffic by stirring up controversy and taking a contrary position.
- Riff on the news. How are current events affecting your customers? Run a Google Alert on certain keywords related to your business or industry to find relevant news items to discuss.
- Compile a link roundup. If you notice several interesting opinions on a topic, you can pull them together into a single post of the best ideas.
- Play off the familiar. Mention a celebrity or a pop culture touchstone and your readers will instantly relate.
- Answer the questions everyone is asking. An FAQ post shows you're responsive and saves customers time.
- Pose your own question. What would you like to know about your customers? Just ask, and let your readers create the content.
- Talk about trends. You convey authority when you tell how things are evolving in your industry.
- Discuss future plans. Give readers a sneak peek at what you'll do in the coming year to start generating interest.
The key to a successful business blog is variety — so mix it up with different types of posts. If every post is "Seven Ways to Use Our Product," it's going to get old fast.


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Congratulations, and welcome.
Catalysts has an incredibly unique way of doing things that will make this the greatest professional experience of your life, but it can take some time getting used to. This book was written by people who've been where you are now, and who want to make your first few months here as easy as possible.
Catalysts Values, Principles and Practices
We believe in values. We stick to them in good times and in bad:
- Mastery: we are highly talented and gifted – and we invest a lot to become even better; we love to learn every day
- Relatedness: we work in multidisciplinary teams – using all our skills and competencies, sharing what we know and learning from each other
- Autonomy: you decide about how you do your work – integrated into your team and well-coordinated with your colleagues
- Freedom, Power and Choice: we choose our clients, our projects, our future; you choose how fast you grow
- Self-Organization and Responsibility: the basis of many elegant solutions, evolutionary change and lifelong growth
- Lean: we hate bureaucracy and delays, well basically everything that keeps us from delivering value
- Agility: we love feedback – from the user, our clients, our colleagues – the earlier the better; we expect change – we even love to create revolutionary change
- Mindfulness: we put in a lot of thought about the future; and we strive to understand root causes of failures
- Quality: we build quality into our processes and results
- Pragmatism: we know that we can't predict the future; but we can build models and validate the hypothesis with experiments
Do those values ring a bell with you? Do they resonate with you?
Those values are extremely important to us. Without them, we would be individualists – unable to work productively in teams. With them, we are able to deliver exceptional value to our clients – everyone playing his or her instrument in a large orchestra, performing pieces of excellence.
From those values, we derive our principles and practices:
- Be responsive: if you can't work on a task, tell it immediately; otherwise accept the task and start working as soon as possible
- Focus on the goal: always know what the "Marshmallow on top" is
- Consider the client's goals: never put your personal goals above the client's goals
- Learn all the time: as an individual, as a team, as a company
- Share your knowledge: let others stand on your shoulders
- Finish a task once it is started: don't start another task unless the first task is finished, don't switch back and forth between multiple tasks
- Defend against interruptions: once you've started a task, make any interruptions visible – e.g. during the daily status meeting – and do everything possible that interruptions won't disturb you again and again
- Finish a task as soon as possible
- Go for reasonable solutions: always ask yourself if the task is worth the amount of effort that you're putting in
- Inform about impediments as early as possible: don't keep working on a task trying to solve some tricky problem in isolation; if something is estimated to take 8 hours, check progress at least after 4 hours – midway – and inform about impediments
- Suggest alternative solutions if appropriate: e.g. if a proposed solution seems to be too much effort
- Accept responsibility: keep your eyes open, if there's something that needs fixing, go and fix it – or at least discuss it with others
- Ask for help: don't wait for information to be presented to you
- Speak up: especially if you are not the boss
- Watch out for improvements: no day should pass without at least one idea for improvement
- Suggest ideas for improvement: don't keep the ideas to yourself
- Be honest in your estimates: when asked for an estimate, give an estimate with 50% probability – this means that half of the time you should finish ahead of time, half of the time we expect you to take longer; there won't be any kind of "punishment" for statistical variance in task duration; don't give 90% estimates with a lot of local safety
- Commit delivery: when you commit delivery, really strive to deliver; if it's foreseeable that you won't be able to deliver, inform about impediments as early as possible, see above
- Collaborate as a team: rather than working alone; learn from each other
- Strive to develop a team spirit: go for lunch together, have some fun during your spare time, suggest team activities
- Align your personal goals with the company goals: get a clear picture of your personal goals, talk about them with the management team, get creative on how your personal goals can be aligned with the company goals


text: The Cure are known for their many bizarre and oftentimes-disturbing videos, but the promo that arguably takes the prize as the Goth-rock icons' most inventive production is Tim Pope's brilliant short film for the slow-motion late-night horror tale "Lullaby". Featuring a frighteningly nervy Robert Smith (who has more make-up on than usual) and his madcap alter-ego, the insistently ravenous spiderman, the whole clip has a distinctive aura highly reminiscent of ancient Victorian boardinghouses and their dank, dark corners. Check it out here.


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"Romeo is disguised by a mask. Romeo sees beautiful Juliet - it is love at first sight."
"They learn they belong to the opposing families of Montague and Capulet. Despite the conflicting loyalties to their families they swear their love for each other and decide to marry."
"Benvolio and Mercutio (Montague faction) meet Tybalt (Capulet faction). Mercutio is killed by Tybalt."
"Romeo revenges the death of Mercutio and kills Tybalt."
"Prince of Verona banishes Romeo from Verona."
"Juliet refuses her father's wishes to marry Paris and decides she will commit suicide rather than betray Romeo"
"Friar Laurence advises Juliet to pretend to take poison and fake her death, allowing her to escape to Romeo. Knowing she will escape Juliet "agrees" to marry Paris. Her delighted father brings the wedding forward to Wednesday."
"The Capulet family learn that their daughter Juliet is dead. The wedding preparat ions are changed to those of a funeral."
"Devastated he plans to return to Verona to see the dead body of Juliet - he plans to commit suicide"
"Romeo looks at Juliet in her coffin. Paris sees him, they fight and Paris is killed. Romeo then takes the poison - just as Juliet awakes. Romeo dies and then Juliet stabs herself to death."


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In April 2015, a woman photographed a stray dog outside Athens, Greece, whose face had completely hardened. She posted the picture to Facebook, and soon rescuers were rallying to the dog's aid.
Petra, Greek for "stone," was terrified of humans. But her rescuers were persistent, and eventually that persistence paid off. After Petra was captured, she was brought to the Save a Greek Stray shelter in Oropos, Greece. Petra was in extremely poor condition, and was treated for mange, a skin infection causing painful scabs and leisons, and leishamiasis, an infection spread by bugs that's often fatal.
But it took even longer—and infinitely more patience—to heal Petra of her fear of people. "The problem is she still didn't trust anybody," Valia Orfanidou of Save a Greek Stray said. "She never wanted to leave her cage; she would hide every time she was approached and growl at the other dogs at the shelter."
Time and persistence paid, however, and today Petra is a happy, healthy, well-socialized girl who loves nothing more than spending time with humans!
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Supreme Court of Rhode Island
February 1, 2016
In re Estate of William B. Ross.
Kent County Superior Court (KP 01-9) Supreme Court
For Plaintiffs: William G. Savastano, Esq. Edward J. Mulligan, Esq.
For Defendants: Paul J. Votta, Jr., Esq. Jennifer A. Niedzinski, Esq.
Present: Suttell, C.J., Goldberg, Flaherty, Robinson, and Indeglia, JJ.
This case is before the Court on appeal by the children of William B. Ross: namely, William B. Ross, Jr., [1] Glen E. Ross, and James C. Ross (collectively, plaintiffs). In appealing the probate of their father's estate, they challenge the fifth and final accounting of the decedent's guardian and sister, Nancy D. Howard.[2] Lois E. Sanford, another sister of the decedent, was also named a defendant to the probate appeal because she was the co-executrix of William's estate along with Howard. Before this Court, the plaintiffs assert that the trial judge erred in her assessment of the law and the evidence, and they advance several arguments that Howard breached her fiduciary duty, failed to correct a conflict of interest, and violated G.L. 1956 § 33-17-1 and G.L. 1956 § 33-18-27 in failing to obtain approval for the fifth and final accounting of decedent's estate. This case came before the Supreme Court on November 3, 2015, pursuant to an order directing the parties to appear and show cause why the issues raised in this appeal should not summarily be decided. We conclude that cause has not been shown and that the appeal may be decided at this time. For the reasons set forth in this opinion, we affirm the judgment of the Superior Court in all respects.
1 Facts and Travel
In 1958 William B. Ross, decedent, was a member of the United States Army stationed in Greece, where he lived with his wife, Emily Ross, and their three young sons, James, William, Jr., and Glen.[3] At some time during that year, William suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage; he subsequently underwent two brain surgeries, including a frontal lobectomy, and he was eventually transferred to a facility in Brockton, Massachusetts. As a result of the brain trauma and surgeries, William experienced a substantial loss to his short-term memory. In 1959, his wife was appointed as the guardian of his person and estate. While he resided at the facility in Brockton, his doctors determined that William was incompetent and severely mentally impaired, with a prognosis that there was a reasonable likelihood that he would remain severely impaired and would not regain the ability to function in society in a reasonable manner.
William's sons testified that, during his stay at the facility, they visited their father in Brockton approximately once each month, but that William was unable to engage in any sort of conversation with them and that he did not even recognize them. Around 1965, however, William experienced a remarkable improvement in his functionality. James testified that he remembered visiting the Brockton facility one day when suddenly his father recognized them all, knew they were coming to visit, and was conversing with them. William was reevaluated by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which determined that William was functioning at a sufficient level to be released to live with his parents.
In 1964 Emily resigned as William's guardian, and, around that same time, the couple divorced. Soon after, Citizens Trust Company was appointed guardian of the decedent's estate and attorney Jeremiah Jeremiah[4] was appointed as the guardian of his person; the decedent was rated as 100 percent disabled by the VA. However, in 1971, William was again evaluated by the VA and determined by Dr. Robert Hyde to be competent. Both Citizens and Jeremiah were discharged as William's guardians.
Between 1971 and 1992, William maintained his competency designation and remained without a guardian. Between 1980 and 1991, William purchased several annuities and opened a number of investment accounts, designating various beneficiaries among his three sons, the plaintiffs, and his two sisters, defendants Nancy Howard and Lois Sanford. William also executed a Last Will and Testament. Until the mid-1980s, William's parents had been providing for his welfare and assisting him with financial investments, but, around 1985, Howard testified, her father suffered an abdominal aneurism and about a year or two later her mother was stricken with a heart attack. At that time, Howard, in an unofficial capacity, stepped in to care both for her parents and her brother.
In 1992 William was again determined to be incompetent by the VA, and his sister, Howard, was appointed by the VA to be his "legal custodian." As legal custodian, Howard had control of William's finances, investments, and estate. In 1994, at the suggestion of the VA, she petitioned the probate court to appoint her as William's guardian. The petition was granted, and, pursuant to that appointment, she was required to file yearly accountings of all William's investments. William died on May 31, 1999.[5]
Howard testified that she initially was appointed to be William's legal custodian at the request of the VA, due to the growing size of his estate. Howard prepared an accounting of her brother's assets at the time of her appointment. At that time, the estate was valued at approximately $416, 000. Each year after that, Howard prepared a yearly inventory of her brother's investments and accounts, providing a total accounting of his estate to both the VA and the East Greenwich Probate Court. The fifth and final accounting was submitted in 1999, shortly after William passed away, at which point the estate contained approximately $920, 000. William's three sons filed an objection to the final accounting in the probate court, but on December 21, 2000, the probate judge entered a consent order allowing the guardian's accounting without prejudice to the contestants' right to appeal to the Superior Court.
Plaintiffs filed a notice of probate appeal in Kent County Superior Court on January 5, 2001, listing as reasons for appeal that the guardian, Howard, had violated her fiduciary duty to the decedent, had committed fraud, and had a conflict of interest in making the determination of what assets to include in the decedent's estate.
A nonjury trial was held before a trial justice in the Kent County Superior Court. William's three sons and two sisters each testified at the trial. The parties also presented the testimony of Thomas F. Flynn, the Ross family's financial advisor, and Dr. Andrew Rosenzweig, a geriatric psychiatrist. The deposition of another psychiatrist, Dr. William B. Land, was admitted as a full exhibit by agreement of the parties.
William, Jr. testified that, from the time his father moved in with his grandparents, his father's condition was improved but he remained confused, experienced memory loss, and acted like a person with Alzheimer's disease and "as if he was the best disciplined eight-year-old boy." He testified that he got along very well with his aunts, but he explained that, prior to 1994, he had no knowledge of his father's assets or whether he had any interest in those assets, nor that his father had been under a guardianship at any point.
James, William's oldest son, testified that he clearly remembered visiting his father in Brockton and the day that his father's condition drastically transformed. However, he said that his father never returned to be the man he had been before his brain injury; an intelligent, athletic, gifted man who spoke three languages, and had been an honor student. James said that his father retained some of his language abilities but otherwise was unable to remember daily events. James said that he had lived with his father and grandparents on at least two occasions, for at least a year following his high school graduation in 1969 and again around 1990 for a year or more.
James also testified that, at some point in the 1980s, he was approached by his aunts, his grandmother, and his father about his father's assets. He said that they showed him a document that listed his father's assets, such as stocks that he owned. The document also laid out who the stocks were "being appropriated to" among himself, his brothers, and his aunts. He said they explained that his father's worth had reached a point where they felt that investing his money would result in a better return. He testified that his family "meant for me to be proud, and I was, that my father had acquired this much monies and that it was being invested and that he was looking towards, well, not only his own future but that he was making preparations for my future and my brothers' futures." According to James' testimony, the accounts totaled approximately $180, 000, and he was told that they were set up so that he and his brothers would each receive 30 percent of his father's assets and each of his aunts would receive 5 percent. He recalled being asked if it bothered him that his aunts were receiving some money and he explained his feelings at the time as follows:
"I always felt that * * * they were there when we were children, especially on a much more permanent basis or on a basis where they saw him and met his needs if he had any, and I'm sure they too, like, they were saddened by how his condition had deteriorated * * * but, of course, they were always kind, they showed him much love, and it was evident to me as a child and later as an adult, I never saw their affection or their loyalty, let's say, to their brother decline, it never did, I mean, and I always felt that they had his best interest at heart, and I trusted them completely."
He additionally testified that, when he returned to live with his father and grandparents, his father's condition was the same; he could not converse about current events but he had a routine that he followed every day. For approximately ten years, his father had a job at E.A. Adams Jewelry Company, to which he would take the bus.
James said that, while he was living with his father and grandparents from 1990 to 1991, it came to his attention that his father was paying for a private life insurance policy. Because his father had served in the military, James believed that the VA should be paying for the policy as part of his father's disability benefits. During the course of getting the VA to take over the policy, James, with the permission of his father, grandmother, and Howard, also changed the beneficiary form to include Glen's two children, William's grandchildren. James also learned that his father had been seeing several private physicians and dentists and believed that he should have been obtaining that care for free through the VA. James also discovered at that time that his father had been found to be competent at some earlier time, much to ...
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Relationship with God
When we think of Christianity and going to church. Do we think of it as something that we want to do? Do we think of it as something we need to do? or Do we just do it out of routine?
When I was in church today listening to the preacher and the message that was preached, it was like God was putting something on my heart. Showing me that I needed to look at the reasons we do the things we do. He made me question my intent, my walk, my journey.
Do I pray enough? Do I read enough? Do I spend enough one on one time with the Lord and Savior of my soul? As I pondered, this just came to me. It wasn't as though I didn't know it before but really, I needed to reflect on it.
"If you want to know what your relationship is like with God, look at how much time you spend praying, reading the bible and spending one on one time with him."
Looking back, I noticed I have been slacking in these areas. I could spend less time on my phone, less time on Facebook, less time in many different areas and more time with God.
If you want to get technical any relationship you are in needs to have communication and attention. You need to spend time with the person you are having a relationship with and you need to communicate with that person.
The difference is with God that relationship should be the most important out of all the relationships. So, this was something I reflected on today.
Recognizing is only part of it though. Once we recognize something is wrong we must take action. We have to choose to continue in the wrong and know we are wrong or make changes.
I choose to change.
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The Bradys take on the powerful gun lobby
He haunts the dimly lit corridors of the Capitol, wheelchair-bound, with a lingering speech slur and a singular cause. Working with his wife, Sarah, James Brady has become a staunch crusader—and a kind of poster boy, as well—for gun-control legislation. "I consider myself a visual," said the 50-year-old Brady, a former White House press secretary. On March 30,1981, a disturbed drifter named John Hinckley, holding a .22-calibre revolver that he had bought for $33 at a pawnshop, shot Brady in the head while also wounding his real target, President Ronald Reagan. And last week, just over 10 years after he lay sprawled in a pool of blood outside a Washington hotel,
Brady gave the thumbs-up sign as the House judiciary committee voted 23 to 11 to support the so-called Brady bill, which would impose a compulsory seven-day waiting period on handgun purchases. As he wheeled out of the wood-panelled committee room, Brady, glancing wistfully at his chair, told Maclean's: "The less people that have to ride around in these things, the better off it'll be for America."
In a sense, the Bradys are playing David to the National Rifle Association's Goliath.
The NRA, the Washingtonbased gun lobby that boasts nearly three million members and the power to make or break legislators, has taken aim at the Brady bill, arguing that it infringes on the Second Amendment right "to keep and bear arms." But the bill has won the support of law enforcement associations and big-city mayors across the country and, in March, it received an unexpected endorsement from a longtime NRA member—Reagan himself. Even President George Bush has said that he would forgo his threatened veto of the measure if Congress, in return, agrees to pass his anti-crime package, which would expand the number of crimes punishable by the death penalty and limit appeals by death-row in-
mates. Still, the Brady bill's backers say that they expect a fierce battle when it reaches the full House of Representatives in early May, and later when it goes to the Senate. "It's going to be a big job," said Charles Schumer, chairman of the House crime and criminal justice subcommittee. "This is a close, close, close vote.
And I'll be happy if we win by one vote." There is no doubting that handguns are killing Americans in alarming numbers. In 1988, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, they were the weapon of choice in the murders of 1,641 teenagers aged 15 to 19, up from 1,022 in 1984. And gunwielding people are attacking twice as many blacks as whites, even though blacks represent only 12 per cent of the American population (page 25). In fact, more than 80 per cent of
black male teenagers who died between 1984 and 1987 were gunshot victims. Dr. Sandra Ezell, chief of the trauma unit at the District of Columbia General Hospital, expressed her revulsion at the carnage. "It is a feeling of anger, disgust and helplessness," she said. "You bring people back from the throes of death, and they go right back out there and kill again."
But the issue at the heart of the Brady bill debate is whether a seven-day waiting period would really be effective in curbing handgun deaths. Gun-control advocates say that it would. They argue that the bill, the first federal measure to restrict handgun sales since the 1960s, offers a one-week, so-called cooling-off period that would allow potential killers to reconsider their actions between the time that they apply to buy a handgun and their final purchase. The gun dealer would also inform
the police, who could check their records to see whether the applicant is a convicted felon or has been deemed mentally ill.
New York City Police Commissioner Lee Brown, one of the bill's supporters, acknowledged: "We've never said it will be a panacea—it won't stop crime." But, he added, "If it saves one life, then the Brady bill is worth it." The Brady campaign, meanwhile, has run large advertisements in U.S. newspapers claiming that the bill would in fact save thousands of
lives and prevent tens of thousands of crippling injuries. Brady, pictured pointedly in his wheelchair, also contends that "too many members of Congress are afraid of the gun lobby"—and too many accept the lobby's campaign money.
In fact, some analysts in Washington now say that Reagan's endorsement of the Brady bill could provide political camouflage for congressmen who fear the NRA'S retaliation at reelection time. Hampered by internal disputes and falling membership, the gun lobby may not be quite as formidable an opponent as it was in 1988, when Congress defeated an earlier version of the Brady bill. Still, the organization has launched a concerted campaign to defeat it again. NRA lobbyists argue that the bill would not compel the police to make background checks and that, in any case, the vast majority of criminals buy their guns not from stores but on the black market. They cite such studies as one by Tulane University sociologist James Wright, who found that only 17 per cent of a sample of convicted felons bought their handguns from licensed gun dealers. Declared the NRA's legislative director, Wayne LaPierre: "I think their bill is a smoke screen."
Armed with a formidable war chest—an estimated $80 million in annual funding, compared with less than $7 million for the Bradys' group—the NRA has mailed out fund-
raising letters that attempt to tap into the patriotic fervor that pervaded the United States during the Persian Gulf War. They equate the liberation of Kuwait with the rights of America's 60 to 70 million pistol and revolv-
er owners—about one U.S. household in four has a handgun. And the NRA has launched a counteroffensive by backing the so-called Staggers bill. Named for Representative Harley Staggers, the West Virginia Democrat who
sponsors it, the bill would require gun dealers, at the point of purchase, to perform an instant check of computerized police records to screen out convicts. But many law enforcement officials dismiss the Staggers bill as a costly and untenable venture, noting that only three out of the 50 states have computerized police records that could be tapped nationally. And in November, 1989, Attorney General Richard Thornburgh reported that it would take up to 10 years to computerize all the records—at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. Said Police Commissioner Brown: "The Staggers bill is totally unworkable."
Despite the NRA'S counteroffensive, James and Sarah Brady express stoic determination to push their bill through Congress. It has been a tough fight. During a speech at George Washington University in March, hecklers hurled epithets at 49-year-old Sarah Brady, calling her a "Nazi" and a "skinhead," and prompting her 12-year-old son, James Jr., to jump up on stage to defend her.
Raised by a conservative, middle-class family in Alexandria, Va., Sarah Brady seems an unlikely warrior in the gun-control camp. But the bullet that pierced her husband's brain also transformed the genteel woman into an impassioned crusader. She insists that her quest is not an attempt to assuage the wounds that she suffered from her husband's brush with death. "No, it's not therapy," she told Maclean's. "I don't need therapy. I got over my frustration. I grieved like we all do when you're a victim and got over that and have no bitterness." But she added: "I do feel it's important. I think it's ridiculous that we as a society don't do something about the violence." The question, as congressmen prepared to act on the Brady bill, was whether they would take their advice from David—or Goliath.


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Is the American dream all about buying a home in Texas or California or New York or any of the other thousands of cities across the country? Or is it really about moving up and up and up to bigger and better homes in whatever city you've chosen? That's part of the premise of this new Realtor.com article that took a look at the "10 Places where trading up is toughest" for those looking to buy a home.
"It might be time to move to a bigger home. After all, that's the home-buying circle of life! Right? Not so fast," they said. "You may have thought that getting one foot on the ladder of homeownership was the hardest part, and that you'd easily be able to ascend to bigger, better, and more spacious digs as you moved up through life. But in fact, trading up has become an increasingly difficult prospect across the nation, leaving many homeowners stuck in their starter homes. Sometimes for good."
But that's not necessarily true when buying a home Texas. Here, home prices have been on the rise for several years but, thankfully, fall far short of the exorbitant prices in many other markets. This makes the idea of "moving up" a reality for those who choose to.
The new home and masterplanned development market in Texas serves numerous different subsets of buyers, from first-timers to those looking to move up to a larger home to individuals and families who want to buy Texas land to build their custom dream home. SouthStar communities is proud to provide beautiful and valuable solutions for each segment of the market, from the single-family homes of Mission del Lago in Southside San Antonio to the Hill Country homes of The Crossings in New Braunfels to the expansive Hill Country homesites at its flagship community, Vintage Oaks.
SouthStar also looks to offer a wide range of real estate offerings within their communities. Case in point: Vintage Oaks, which presents new custom and semi-custom homes, a wide range of land buying options, and just introduced its newest neighborhood, The Grove, with homes from three of Texas' top builders on smaller footprints that have been a draw for retirees and pre-retirees looking for the Vintage Oaks lifestyle without the maintenance that comes with a large lot in the Hill Country. It's not unusual for buyers to move into Vintage Oaks and later move up to another home, or move down to a lower-maintenance home that might be more appropriate for retirement.
Moving up in Texas
A recent report from Coldwell Banker Real Estate "found that Austin, Boerne and Georgetown have the highest average listing prices in Texas; the average listing price in Austin for a four-bedroom, two-bathroom home is $414,563. Boerne, northwest of San Antonio, trailed at $362,230 and Georgetown, north of Austin in Williamson County, was not far behind at $354,266," said the Austin Business Journal. The data came from "51,000-plus properties…in 2,168 markets nationwide."
What was perhaps most telling, but not necessarily surprising, was the disparity between Texas' top price points and other popular cities across the country. The most expensive city on their list was Saratoga, in California's Silicon Valley, at $2,453,718, followed by 10 more cities in California. Austin was No. 519 nationally, and, for reference, other Texas cities ranked as follows: "Houston comes in way down the list at No. 1,139 with a $274,061 list price, while Dallas is No. 1,383 at $240,689 and San Antonio ranked No. 1,500 at $227,024. The average listing price in Texas is $231,272."
Also interesting is looking at how some of those markets rate when on industry insiders' "best buy" lists. Forbes' "Where to invest in housing" list for 2017 ranked a Texas city (Dallas) at the top and also had "the second most spots overall, with Forth Worth at no. 9 and San Antonio at 20," they said. "The recession and housing crisis did not hit Texas quite as hard as the rest of the country, meaning it came back quicker and has been adding jobs longer and faster than the rest of the country. Opportunity and affordable housing led more people to move from other states to Texas in 2015 than any other state besides Florida."
Forbes noted that while Austin was on the previous year's list and "would easily make a top 30 list," they left it off this year due to the city's rising home prices. Those prices haven't deterred people from moving to the city; Austin remains one of the most popular relocation spots in the nation, but areas around the Texas capitol have also grown quickly, as buyers seek out options for enjoying the Hill Country's natural setting and remain convenient not only to Austin but also to San Antonio. New Braunfels, homes to SouthStar's Vintage Oaks and The Crossings communities, is the second-fastest growing city in nation for its size, and Vintage Oaks is the San Antonio-New Braunfels metropolitan area's fastest-growing community for the last four years.
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Alex Burrows has bounced around for the Vancouver Canucks this season, so maybe it was a only a matter of time before he found his way back alongside two familiar faces.
The gritty winger skated with Henrik and Daniel Sedin on the top line at practice Monday, a spot he has filled many times in his career – but not much recently.
"It was a while ago," Henrik Sedin said the last time he played with Burrows. "I don't think we've had more than a few shifts here and there the last two years. It should be fun."
A former 35-goal man with the Canucks, Burrows had an injury plagued and inconsistent 2013-14 campaign in which he scored just five times in 49 games.
The 33-year-old has nine goals and eight assists so far this season playing anywhere from the second to fourth line, and admitted to some rust after taking up his old spot beside the talented twins ahead of Tuesday's home game against the New York Islanders.
"I wasn't very good in practice on those rushes," said Burrows. "But I'm sure (on Tuesday) if I give them the puck and go to the net hopefully it works out."
Burrows, who had four straight seasons of at least 26 goals playing mostly with the Sedins, said his mindset changes when he's on Vancouver's No. 1 line.
"I think with other guys I try to make more plays," said Burrows. "Whereas with them as soon as I get it, if I can find one of them I try to give them the puck and bring a check with me and go to the net and open some space for them to work their magic."
Burrows replaced Radim Vrbata on the top unit, a move head coach Willie Desjardins said was made with an eye on generating more offence at even strength for a team that sits second in the Pacific Division.
"(Burrows) has been good there in the past and I think it just gives us a different look more than anything," said the rookie coach. "That's why we'll give it a try."
If Desjardins does stay with the lines from Monday – and he usually practises the way he plans to play – Vrbata will slot in on the second line with Nick Bonino and Chris Higgins, who are each mired in dreadful goal droughts.
Bonino has just one goal over his last 23 games while Higgins has scored once in the last 14. Desjardins said he hopes adding Vrbata – who has scored in three straight games and has 16 on the season – will help get the pair back on track.
"He's a real good player," Desjardins said of the free-agent winger. "He's been great for us. He's both a passer and a shooter. He's a good offensive player so maybe he'll be able to help get that line going a bit. Time will tell."
Vrbata – who has played almost the entire season with the Sedins – said he had no problem with the move.
"I just try to play the same as I do with Daniel and Henrik. Hopefully something will work for us," he said. "If you can have more lines able to score I think the other team has to protect a little more."
While the Canucks have struggled to score 5 on 5 recently, the power play has been lights out over the last six games, going 7 for 16, including two against the Detroit Red Wings in Saturday's 4-1 victory.
One of the big changes has been the addition of Burrows standing in front of the net on the No. 1 unit with the Sedins, Vrbata and defenceman Alexander Edler.
"Power play has been unbelievable. It's just the job (Burrows) does in front of the net," said Henrik Sedin. "You can make a lot of plays on the outside to set up shots, but if you don't get the screen in front and the traffic you're not going to score in this league. He means a lot to us."
The power play is currently ranked ninth overall – it finished 26th when Vancouver missed the playoffs last season – and Vrbata also credited Burrows for the recent surge after a lull in early December.
"He makes a big difference because he's the body in front and he's creating screens," said Vrbata, who had a power-play goal against the Red Wings. "That always helps and I think early in the season we were scoring on lots of backdoor plays. Teams read that, they adjust.
"We were still moving the puck pretty well. We were getting shots, but it seemed most of the shots from (Edler) or me, the goalie could see them. Those were good looks, but with (Burrows screening) it makes a difference."
Burrows was quick to deflect any accolades sent his way for the power-play unit's success, but he was in the thick of it in front of the net on both goals against Detroit.
"In this league that's how you score ... there's not a lot of room out there," he said. "You've got to generate goals by shooting pucks and hopefully getting some tips and rebounds and getting goalies' faces to score."


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Portugal's Salvador Sobral Wins Eurovision Song Contest 2017
May 14 , 2017
27 year old Salvador Sobral of Portugal won Eurovision Song Contest 2017, thereby giving Portugal the coveted trophy for the very first time ever.
Salvador Sobral's love ballad Amar Pelos Dois (Love for the both of us) was written by his sister Luisa, who also joined him for a duet reprising the song at end of the show.
The song got a total 758 points, winning top marks from the countries' professional juries as well as the televoters.
The second and third spots were won by Bulgaria (615 points) and Moldova (374 points) respectively.
The 2017 contest was held at International Exhibition Centre in Kyiv, Ukraine. Next year's Eurovision Song Contest will be hosted by Portugal, following Portugal's victory this year.


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Changing Seasons, First Edition
Book of poetry by Ruth Hanna Sachs, with illustrations by D. E. Heap.
Example of book art at its finest. No two books alike, all custom bound. Ruth Sachs' poetry breathes life into the changing seasons of our days.
From baby's breath and springtime blossoms to winter chill, cycling into spring once again, the rhythm of growing up is captured in eloquent words. Enhanced by original black-and-white line drawings.
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- EIA forecasts renewables as fastest-growing source of energy generation in the United States
- SinglePoint subsidiary expected to see continued success alongside the growth of the solar market
- After companies exceed 2019 expectations, SING and Direct Solar management teams are optimistic about 2020
SinglePoint Inc. (OTCQB: SING), a technology investment company focusing on acquiring subsidiaries that would benefit from assistance with management, capital and technology integration, truly hitched its cart to the right horse with its investment in subsidiary Direct Solar. A residential and commercial solar broker, Direct Solar was acquired by SinglePoint in 2019. Since the acquisition, the company has exceeded revenue growth targets, helping SinglePoint achieve record-breaking financial milestones and proving the partnership to be mutually beneficial.
Renewable energy solutions have become increasingly mainstream in recent years. Recent United States Energy Information Association (EIA) forecasts predict that nonhydroelectric renewable energy resources will be the fastest-growing energy sources in the United States for at least the next couple of years…
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Artist Statement
The discovery of a very old family account book containing references to the farming of flax led to a nostalgic interest in the Irish linen industry. I was inspired to research the many processes involved in producing the cloth, from growing the flax to weaving and finishing the linen. The research also highlighted the darker side of the industry – the impact on the people who had to make a living, often meagre, from it. Outworkers could make a very fine shirt or a lace handkerchief. Standards were high but the reward was poor.
Along with reference to contemporary writings, this social history informs my current work, the starting point being the fabric itself. I use quite a restricted colour palette which, I feel is relevant to the subject matter and interpret it using a variety of techniques from traditional hand stitching to the incorporation of paint, paper or print.


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When we were in Florida, we had a professional photographer do a family photo session for us. I'm not sure how I originally thought of it, but it turned out to be a great idea to have our family photos done while on holiday. Plus...what a great way to capture the memories of that great time we had on our very first family holiday together.
Here's the link to the slideshow of our photo shoot. The password is cb050710 if you are interested in taking a look. The photos ended up being absolutely amazing...even though I thought the boys were a bit difficult and was actually a bit worried that we didn't get much of use.
The slideshow will only work for the next 7 days.
P.S. The other woman in the shots with the boys is our nanny. We like to include her when we get professional photos done since we consider her to be part of the family.
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And so, as the Manchester Evening News gets another crumby headline, the final lecture is taught and the staff begin to pack up the saucepans, scales and scissors, it seems the end really is nigh for Manchester Metropolitan University's occupation of the Toastrack.
A fitting time we feel to get back to the drawing board, before the concrete was poured and the familiar arches were craned into place, and a young architect called Derek Hill put pencil to paper and the rest – as the cliché goes – is history.
Architectural drawings by Derek Hill and the team at the Manchester City Architects Department, 1957.


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