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#30DaysOfHonestyWithMyself-Day 4
As you may know MUCH of why I started One Parent Wonder was to help young and/or single parents find spiritual wholeness and emotional health so they can live WONDERful lives with their children. Well, today's confession: I haven't arrived in that area as much as I would've hoped. But I've decided that's ok because I never promised to have "arrived" I promised to take you all on a journey and this is mine. (Never say I didn't keep it real with y'all!)
I have come to realize that I need professional counseling. After MUCH self evaluation, VERY hard lessons, MANY MANY tears I am FINALLY ready to come to terms with the fact that I suffer from SOMETHING (I think it's Depression) and in hind's sight I probably have been suffering from it almost my whole life. To make a long story short I got fed up with myself and decided I have too much potential to be great to let this thing keep holding me back from my destiny and purpose. AND I AM DETERMINED to get healthy. DE-TER-MINED. The final straw, though, is that I REFUSE to dump my emotional baggage off on my son.
PSA: Parents if you don't deal with your emotional issues you WILL dump them off on your children. YOU WILL!
Anyway, ever since I decided that I was going to seek counseling I've been pretty mad at God. Like BOILING mad. I will tell you why in a minute. First allow me an aside:
Aside: That has actually been a liberating revelation—that I can say that I am mad at God. I used to believe it was blasphemous to be angry at God, but deep down inside the truth is that I've BEEN mad at God about a LOT of things that He allowed to happen in my life. After about 25 years of living a lie my pastor gave me a thought that has freed me from my prison of denial: God can handle you being mad Him. He's not immature. He's not sensitive. As a loving Father He can handle you and your disapproval and even disgust with His choices. Doesn't change anything.
But here's why I got mad, probably madder than I've ever been before at anyone EVER: because I called myself (as the old folks used to say) "trying Him for myself" or at least I trying all the things that church culture told me should work:
I prayed through it.
I said affirmations on deliverance and healing.
I fasted.
I sang praise and worship songs.
I didn't feel sorry for myself.
I put in the work.
I turned to my neighbor.
I called friends and elders to pray on my behalf.
I read my Bible.
I gave my tithes and offering.
I held on just a lil' while longer.
I called Jesus on the main line and I told him what I want.
So when I found myself wallowing in a pit of depression again this year, it made me livid to think that I still hadn't made as much emotional progress as I thought I should. It's not that God's not real—seen too much to even question that. It's not that He's not powerful enough to just heal me—seen too much to question that either.
At the same time, this overwhelming heaviness I feel is real too.
So this morning I got up to talk to Him (or "go off") about it and I asked Him: Why won't You help me? Why do I have to go to a shrink to get the help I need because YOU won't give it to me?
I was met with a prompt response:
The question is an emotional and inaccurate assumption.
A better question is, "Why won't I help you the way you want to be helped?"
That's perspective for you. If I were keeping score on arguments I've had with God it would look a lot like this:
I gained so much clarity from that one little statement. I will tell you what I learned in my meditation this morning:
- The only reason I don't want to go talk to a "Shrink" is because not going would have guarded my pride and proved all the people who ever called me "crazy " wrong.
- I have gotten myself into enough trouble in my life to know that I absolutely don't know what I need.
- I'm currently writing a book (title is TOP secret 🙂 ) and almost immediately I realized that I NEED to go to counseling to be able to share that insight and healing in the book.
- Sometimes being super-spiritual isn't super-practical. If I find healing in professional counseling that doesn't negate the healing power of Jesus. My pastor told me that God helps us and heals us through people and relationships too.
- I was really asking God to help me skip the process of doing the emotional work it REALLY takes instead of walking down that painful path to real actual true freedom. (OUCH–Lord help me. I'm SO not sure that I'm ready for this!)
So if you too are a Christian frustrated because you're "waiting on God" to do the emotional work it takes to set you free, I hate to be the bearer of HARD (not bad) news, you might need buckle down and get some practical help. (I really sympathize because I DON'T WANT TO either!) Do the work. I imagine that it's going to be very hard and I admit that I have been VERY afraid to do it. AND I don't know why God won't snap His fingers and just make us emotionally whole but I do know that even in counseling God is Sovereign.
My pastor shared a quote on Sunday that I've been thinking about all week. I really think it's relevant so I will leave you with this:
"The path of least resistance makes some rivers and all men crooked."
Stay Wonderful! 🙂


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Thursday, October 24, 2013
Sidewalk Dining in Paris
4 comments:
- Celestina Marie said...
Hi Kerri,
I would just love to dine here on a sunny day in the late afternoon.
So quaint and cozy.
Lovely pic.
Thank you for stopping by and your sweet comment. Hope you enjoyed a creative day.
- October 29, 2013 at 3:24 PM
- Red Rose Alley said...
When the girls went to Paris, they said that one of their favorite things was the sidewalk cafes and the delicious food. This charming picture made me think of that. That would be something nice to paint, indeed.
- October 29, 2013 at 3:54 PM
- Castles Crowns and Cottages said...
Hello there sweet sister! Now that is an inspiring thought: to paint the sidewalk cafés of Paris! And to paint a lovely lady walking past with a darling poodle or other small dog! teehee...when I was there, I was pleasantly surprised that the French/Parisians actually DO have poodles! (Caniches).
Thank you my dear sweet friend for leaving such a kind word! To think you and your mum were talking about me? Oh thank you; that is a great compliment about what you think of my writing, but even more so, what you said about our friendship. Bless you my dear. Have a super inspiring week! Anita
- November 3, 2013 at 1:20 PM
- romance-of-roses said...
Hi Dear Kerri,
Lovely thought to paint a Paris Cafe. Have never been to Paris but I can see it in my mind, wish I was dining in this quaint cafe with a good friend like you. Hugs, Lu
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May 11, 2014 – The City of Roses
__Somethin' filled up
my heart with nothin',
someone told me not to cry.
But now that I'm older,
my heart's colder,
and I can see that it's a lie.
Children wake up,
hold your mistake up,
before they turn the summer into dust.__
— "Wake Up", Arcade Fire
Voicemail for Shelley Pollack
Current Cell Tower: Royal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana
/Secure node
Node secure.
/Voicemail inquiry
1. Play Message?
"Hey Shell, Sry about being so AFK lately. (Did I put that right? I've been practicing.) I know I said I'd call Saturday night to rehash the party but there was this horrible…thing, Shelley. This thing, like us but not like us. That is..well, one of the Keepers. Well, probably not a Keeper. I don't think he has a mind to keep anything. Too…hungry. So empty.
You know that urban legend about the couple making out in Lover's Lane? The girl hears a noise and begs him to investigate. He laughs at her, knows somehow she wants him away. And just as the girl feels safe, when he's headed towards the bushes, a hook handed man kills him, sometimes silently, sometimes after a single scream. The girl cries, her unease growing as the silence eats her up. And just as she's sure she can't handle it any more, the sound of breaking glass…
Anyway, that, THAT decided to visit Portland in the middle of one our most important parties. We rode out to the woods like warriors and so many ran screaming. I saw my drill instructor take a hook through the chest. And Molly. I've never seen Molly like that. Sweetness gone, just an animal below the knife. Feral and strong and so…not what I'm used to. I'm going to listen to her more.
And Jack…I've never seen Jack scared before, slight tension in his voice, not from tiredness but from staring into the darkness. The worse part was recognizing that voice. It's how he talks to me sometimes.
So we're running through the woods, sprinting. And it's like he's everywhere. He wounds Jack and I can't stop running. I run off a cliff, land below, in that weird "Buster Keaton way" like you say. And I look up and the thing's gone, then behind me, then gone again. We barely manage to get Jack down the cliff, get saved by Celine (yes THAT Celine. She can be useful at times.) "RUN." she says, an order. "Just RUN!" We pile into Molly's car. (The Doom Buggy. A yellow AMC Pacer with a kind of broken smile thanks to its headlights. I love that car. I want you to remember that bit because if you do not remember I love that car nothing that follows will seem wondrous or epic or whatever you like to say.)
I reach the car first so I'm driving and we're trying to heal Jack in the backseat. (He was excessively juicy.) And we head down the mountain and I just…well, I can't. But it's not my car. I turn to Molly. "I have an idea."
"What?" she says, checking on Jack.
"How much do you like this car?"
"Do it." She says. I love it when I don't have to explain.
We turn around on the mountain road, dust kicking up and head back towards the parking lot where Celine is doing her best to hold off the Hook. He has her on her back when the headlights hit him. Despite the glow, he's a walking black abyss of coat and hat, with a glinting metal hook where his hand should be. "HEY!" I yell as I floor it, begging, hoping, trusting Celine to get out of the way.
The car hits him like a freight train and he's pinned against the cliff face. Or I suppose I should say I was told he was pinned against the cliff face. My head was on the steering wheel and things were getting fuzzy.
I threw open the driver's side door, knife in hand. I don't like being scared. It makes me really angry. I marched forward, but as I steadied myself on the hood, he opened up a door to the Hedge and disappeared. "Sorry about the car, Molly." I said, hitting the hood as I felt an overpowering urge to sit down.
Duchess Aurora and Celine took us home…well, to the field hospital. This creepy looking alien thing that was NOT AT ALL HELPFUL when we asked about Fetch gynecology. I guess it doesn't come up much. Anyway, before that though we're sitting in the backseat with bloody Jack while Summer Court royalty sits up front. And I'm sure Celine is going to throttle me for dishonoring her or disobeying her or nearly running her over with a car. But she just lets us go, and she grabs my arm as I leave. "I'm not interested in people who take orders without question. I know you don't like me. I don't care. Keep thinking and you'll figure it out."
So that was…ummm Saturday? Yes. So around 4 AM on Sunday I get to do what I actually wanted to do. I woke up the Master of Whispers to find out why the FUCK his obnoxious little spooks are stalking my…uh…Simon. Why they're stalking Simon.
Miguel is not awake which is bullshit because we all just saved his ass and he was sleeping? BULLSHIT. So I bang on the door and he opens it and looks at me and closes it. And I bang on it again and he asks me what I want and I say a drink and he closes it again. And we do the whole dance again and I say I have a very important question that I need answered or I'm telling everyone what Web told us to do. He opens the door, as if he's just finished a Hundred Years War. "Come downstairs."
Long story short (I'm kind of bad at intimidating Winter Court people okay?) he says that Simon can "see" us. The Changelings. It's got to be bullshit, right? It's got to be bullshit. He's schizophrenic. He probably used some details from what I told him and got lucky faking it. That's gotta be it. Right?
He's going to the University of Portland now. I got money from Jeremy to enroll and check on him. Jeremy's been a real asshole lately. I know you don't like him, Shell. I get it. I don't like him, really. Not when he won't smile at me or relax or he says he doesn't want to talk to me or that I'm wasting his time. We just keep…doing stuff. We're fighting and then…whoops. You know? You probably don't. You're smarter than me after all.
ANYWAY, Jack meets up with his daughter…Storm's daughter. She's a DA, I think, some really impressive shit but the relationship is kind of strained because of Jack's divorce and also she likes girls. I wonder if she's pretty. I bet she is. Got sidetracked. Okay. Umm so Molly and Jack tried to get her to help them fight the Bratva and we got the location of a chopshop they use so it was time to find those stripper heels and that dress that got me kicked out of Utah. It was in a shady part of town is what I'm saying. Though I did just want to wear the dress too.
So Molly gets ready to do her sneaky thing and Jack puts on this Russian mob guy's face and I'm standing out on the street with my ass hanging out (like I do), but for a reason this time Shell. For a reason. So Jack knocks on the door to the shop and this guy comes out and Jack says he wants a job. And this Bratva guy is immediately not happy. He's like "where did you hear you could get a job?" and Jack says his brother told him he could find a job here, and all the while Molly's breaking into the actual garage and looking around for clues. Also I am getting cold because it's Portland and it's totally going to rain. The guy takes him into the garage.
And of course Molly's in the garage. She manages to hide in time as I yell in her ear. And just as I'm getting comfortable listening in, this guy shows up in his white Lincoln, cruising slowly.
He rolls down the window, waves a pile of twenties. "Get in," he says, in this Boris and Natasha accent.
"You can't afford me." I say, trying my best Eastern European accent, somewhere between Bulgaria and Australia.
Jack starts telling this guy about his brother, her terrifying brother, "the Wolf", Volk in Russian I guess. A little bit of Autumn magic and the guy is beginning to speak Jack's language. He tells Jack to wait there while he makes a call and he goes back to the office. Jack and Molly look for something askew, any clue as to the Bratva's ties to the Night Court.
The douchebag pushes the bills at me. "I can afford any whore on this street, c*nt. Now get in the car."
"I have an appointment," I say. And then before I can stop myself "with a better man than you." The guy gets out of his car.
Molly finds these strange marks on the floor, tells me they're definitely non-Mortal, and I see the light turn off in the garage's office. My new friend is still coming at me but that's not important.
"My boyfriend's coming back!" I yell.
"You think I'm scared?" Douchebag replies. I save the effort of explaining to him that I don't need a boyfriend to tell him to leave me the fuck alone because mob guy is telling Jack his boss is on his way to meet him, and the asshole tries to put his hands on me.
I grab him, yank his arm behind his back in a lock, slam him on the hood of his car. I lean in to him, enjoying the accent more than I should. "Here's a tip, honey. Never touch a girl without asking. And never say the word "cunt" again and you won't need prostitutes anymore."
I can hear Jack being interrogated. They needed more time. No one knows more than me that the longer you talk, the more holes appear. I run across the street and bang on the door to the office, hoping I'll think of a good story before Jack's mob guy appears.
He opens the door and he's much bigger than I expect. His eyes are like these two black beetles. "Vat do you vant?" He says and I realize nothing has come.
"Are you Vladimir?" I ask. (He had told Jack his name, albeit reluctantly.)
"Why?" He says, murder in his eyes.
"Because…" I've still got nothing. He closes the door. Then…"MY SISTER IS PREGNANT YOU ASSHOLE."
The door springs open. "Who is your sister?"
I take a stab in the dark. "Nadia."
His face falls. "Nadia is pregnant?"
"Yes you bastard. And you're going to do the right thing."
Meanwhile, inside the garage, Molly follows the marks to a trapdoor, opens it. It's earthy smelling and dark. Old. Children's toys and human remains sit in the vines that line the walls. Our commas go put as they move underground.
Up top I'm still dancing as fast as I can when a huge man appears behind me. He's scarred like a fighter and built like a bear. And while a bear in a striped suit might be funny to you, this guy is decidedly not. It's the Butcher.
"What is the problem here Didi?"
"He knocked up my sister!" I attempt, my accent slipping. I know as can't let him go to the garage but I don't know what to do.
"Vladimir will take care of your sister, girl. Go home."
"Go home." And he's already walking into the garage.
"Wait!" I cry, following, but there's Jack, halfway out of the trapdoor. Grekov's gun is out in an instant. I reach for Grekov but he throws me aside. Jack drops and the door shuts on him.
Grekov's shots hit the wall where he used to be. I breathe for the first time in minutes.
Now you know me, Shell. I don't run. But I also survived on the road for two years by knowing when I needed to go get a bigger weapon. I ran, and Molly and Jack ran, escaping their strange pursues just as I escaped my terrifying mortal ones. So at some point we're going to have to go into the Shanghai Tunnels. Yay.
So I'm going to head over to the restaurant/apartment, help with close, and crash, because this is ridiculous.The dress is okay, if you wondered. Did you like the pic I sent of the vest? The briarwolf pelt drives him nuts I know but it attacked after all. I'm not a fur trapper. This isn't Canada.
Oh and I wanted to tell you about this letter Lance wrote me. Your nagging must have gotten to him. I swear he's so —"
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{ Something Old, Something New } is a meant to help us focus on the new releases in our TBR piles and also hand-pick some older books that we've been meaning to read. (I'm hoping down the road when I have more time to read I can add in the "something borrowed" and "something blue"... but for now, when I'm lucky to read 2 books a month, it's just "old" and "new".)
Unnatural Creatures
by various authors; stories selected by Neil Gaiman
Release date: April 23, 2013
4 stars - Read my review here!
{ Something New }
Tear You Apart
by Sarah Cross
Release date: January 27, 2015
I haven't yet posted my review... but it will be up soon!
Amber Stokes (Seasons of Humility)
{ Something Old } { Something New }
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{ Something Old }
Teacher's Pest
by Charles Gilman
Release date: May 7, 2013
Available as: hardcover, paperback, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 170
Publisher: Quirk Books
Suggested tags: middle grade, paranormal, horror
Third in the Tales from Lovecraft Middle School series. From Goodreads:
"Don't be fooled by his friendly smile, his perfect manners, or his shiny red apple. Student council president Howard Mergler is actually a sinister bug-monster in disguise—and he's summoning swarms of roaches, wasps, fleas, and head lice into the corridors of Lovecraft Middle School! Twelve-year-old Robert Arthur is the only student who can stop him--but he'll need help from his best friends: the school bully, the school ghost, and an extremely courageous two-headed rat.
This third novel in the Lovecraft Middle School series begins right where Professor Gargoyle and The Slither Sisters ended—with more action, more adventure, and more outrageous monsters!"
{ Something New }
by Cat Hellisen
Release date: February 3, 2015
Available as: hardcover, Kindle edition, ebook
Pages: 208
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Suggested tags: middle grade, fairy tales, retellings
From Goodreads:
"Sarah has always been on the move. Her mother hates the cold, so every few months her parents pack their bags and drag her off after the sun. She's grown up lonely and longing for magic. She doesn't know that it's magic her parents are running from.
When Sarah's mother walks out on their family, all the strange old magic they have tried to hide from comes rising into their mundane world. Her father begins to change into something wild and beastly, but before his transformation is complete, he takes Sarah to her grandparents—people she has never met, didn't even know were still alive.
Deep in the forest, in a crumbling ruin of a castle, Sarah begins to untangle the layers of curses affecting her family bloodlines, until she discovers that the curse has carried over to her, too. The day she falls in love for the first time, Sarah will transform into a beast . . . unless she can figure out a way to break the curse forever."
Look for my reviews for these books coming soon to the Book Nook!
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Few people understand what it's like to be pleasantly blindsided with the news that you've just won AOPA's sweepstakes airplane. But two of the small but growing group of AOPA sweepstakes airplane recipients met at AOPA Aviation Summit Sept. 23.
AOPA's 2011 sweepstakes Cessna 182 winner, Eric Short, who had recently taken the stage during the keynote session for the official announcement, met 2008 Get Your Glass Piper Archer winner Karoline (Amodeo) Gorman outside the Connecticut Convention Center exhibit hall. Short said he and Amodeo have plenty in common other than the sweepstakes. Both spend their work days in the National Airspace System: He's a professional pilot, and Gorman an air traffic controller. And both love general aviation.
"You don't know what freedom is until you've flown general aviation," he said.
He remembered the elaborate ruse that brought Gorman to the Women in Aviation International conference in early 2009 to volunteer and sent her home with an airplane—he said he had followed the sweepstakes every year.
"For 22 years, I've been watching and wishing I would win, and I didn't," he said. But this year, convinced he wouldn't win, he didn't follow the extensive refurbishment of the 1974 Cessna 182P.
"He's the guy who always says, 'I never win anything,'" Short's wife, Pam, said. He can't say that anymore.
The Cessna 182 is roomy enough for cruising with family, and Pam said she was happy that her husband won "a family type of plane"—particularly nice when there's another pilot in the family. Their son Allen, a pilot in the Air Force, joined them at Summit; their other son couldn't make it because he's expecting a baby.


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Les Freres Corbusier Want to Go Viral All Over You
I'm not going to go on and on about how much I love Les Freres Corbusier anymore, or talk about how Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is about to open on the Public Theatre's mainstage, or even about how excited I am that I got tickets to see it, since I was shut out when it appeared during the Public's LAB series a few months ago.
I don't have to say any of those things because Les Freres Corbusier found someone who's even more excited than me about the show's return.
And p.s., I'm not saying this has anything to do with BBAJ composer Michael Friedman's involvement in The Civilians' new porn musical, but I dunno, it's maybe influenced by all that research.
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Kian Egan had a blast from the past on The Voice of Ireland tonight when his childhood pal Kelesa Mulcahy auditioned.
Kelesa, 34, grew up in Co Sligo with Kian and she would also have mingled with him during his Westlife days, when she was in girlband Minx.
The band toured with Liberty X and Blue and even played Wembley Arena.
Kelesa took another shot at the big time on Sunday night and wowed the judges with a cover of ACDC's anthem Highway To Hell – managing to get Kian, Bressie, Rachel Stevens and Una Foden to turn around.
Kian, 35, recognised Kelesa straight away, saying: "She grew up with me, pretty much.
"Kelesa did loads of musicals with me, Shane and Mark from Westlife, we've known each other our whole lives and we see each other out and about every now and again in Sligo.
"Brilliant to see you here, well done."
She also won glowing reviews from the rest of the panel, with Tipperary native Una branding her "the one to watch in the competition."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Kelesa decided to stick to her roots and chose team Kian.
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Another familiar face who tried out was Maria Cuche, who represented Ireland in the Eurovision in 1985.
Co Louth native Maria has been legally blind since she was just nine but is determined that it won't hold her back.
The 50-year-old said: "I was at school and then all of a sudden I couldn't see the board. In a couple of weeks I couldn't see anything, it's a very rare disease that wipes the retina.
"It's a fight to do everything like normal people.
"Like I was told I would never have children, it would be too difficult, I said I'd prove them wrong and have seven.
"Well at my age perhaps you shouldn't go for The Voice but it's my personality, I want to prove that you can do so much, you just have to go for it and make your dream come true."
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Maria gave a rousing rendition of Beyonce's hit If I Was A Boy, securing her a place on team Una.
There were also emotional scenes when Patrick Kelly from Tallaght, west Dublin said he hoped his audition could reignite his daughter's passion for singing.
Patrick, 34, explained: "I always loved singing from an early age but I gave it up and I've regretted that.
"I've a daughter and she's taken the same turns – she loves writing music, she stopped recently though after her mam passed away a couple of years back, it's been a tough time for her.
"So I'm hoping by me getting back into music it might make her try again, hopefully it can make her proud again."
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Unfortunately Patrick's version of Choose the Moody Blues classic, Nights in White Satin failed to win him a place in the Battle stages – but the panel urged him not to give up on singing.
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This was a disturbing book. It was well written and gripping. The "good" characters were sympathetic and engaging. I cared about them. The "bad" characters were despicable. I like that in a thriller.
The disturbing part was the story-line about a teen-aged Bible study group in an ultra-conservative Christian church engaging in exceedingly risky sexual behavior that leads to murder. The tension ratchets way up when the detective/dad investigating the bombing of a birth control clinic realizes that his own daughter could be a target of the bomber.
The novel explores the rigidity of the fundamentalist Christian culture and its disconnectedness from traditional morality and ethics -- and even traditional Christianity. That is disturbing enough. Add clinic bombings and murder, and the tension gets almost unbearable.
Plan on reading this one more or less in one sitting.
The Author's website is here. Buy it at Amazon.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
E-Book Review: "The Sex Club: A Detective Jackson Mystery" by L. J. Sellers
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Understanding IAS 29 per PricewaterhouseCoopers: Correction 7: PricewaterhouseCoopers does not understand IAS 29
Because IAS 29 incorrectly and misleadingly states in Par 2 that
'Money loses purchasing power at such a rate that comparison of amounts from transactions and other events that have occurred at different times, even within the same accounting period, is misleading.'
PricewaterhouseCoopers misleadingly and incorrectly states
'Significant changes in the purchasing power of money mean that financial statements unadjusted for inflation are likely to be misleading. Amounts are not comparable between periods, and the gain or loss in general purchasing power that arises in the reporting period is not recorded. Financial statements unadjusted for inflation do not properly reflect the company's position at the balance sheet date, the results of its operations or cash flows.'
PricewaterhouseCoopers Understanding IAS 29 2006 p3
Neither the IASB nor PricewaterhouseCoopers understands IAS 29.
Implementing Historical Cost Accounting during hyperinflation is suicidal for a company and a country (see Zimbabwe in 2008 and Yugoslavia before that), not because financial statements are misleading, but because
1. The real value of only monetary items are hyper-destroyed by hyperinflation (hyper-inflate your economy long enough and you can wipe out the real value of your entire money supply: see Zimbabwe on 20 November 2008 and Yugoslavia three times during four months before that) and
2. The constant real non-monetary value of only constant real value non-monetary items never maintained constant in terms of units of constant purchasing power in terms of the Daily CPI or daily USD (or other relatively stable foreign currency) parallel rate are hyper-destroyed by, not inflation as the IASB, PricewaterhouseCoopers, other Big Four audit firms, the Argentinian Accounting Federation, the Brazilian accounting authorities, the Chilean Accounting Authorities and most Historical Cost accountants believe, but, by the implementation of the stable measuring unit assumption, i.e., by the implementation of HCA during hyperinflation.
What is stated in the 1 and 2 above is what happens during hyperinflation and what IAS 29 is unsuccessfully trying to stop with the incomplete IASB guidelines to the implementation of Capital Maintenance in Units of Constant Purchasing Power.
Yes, PricewaterhouseCoopers is correct when the firm states
'Amounts are not comparable between periods, and the gain or loss in general purchasing power that arises in the reporting period is not recorded.'
But, that is not what it is about during hyperinflation: What is stated in 1 and 2 above is what it is about during hyperinflation.
IAS 29 is not implemented simply to (i) make amounts comparable between periods and (ii) to record the gain or loss in general purchasing power that arises in the reporting period.
IAS 29 is supposed to implement Capital Maintenance in Units of Constant Purchasing Power during hyperinflation - a form of which was very successfully done during 30 years in Brazil from 1964 to 1994 (IAS 29 was authorized in 1989) when that country inflation-adjusted, not all, but some monetary items daily and measured most non-monetary items – variable real value non-monetary items and constant real value non-monetary items – in units of constant purchasing power in terms of a government supplied daily index.
Unfortunately IAS 29 does not result in Capital Maintenance in Units of Constant Purchasing Power because the monthly and not the Daily CPI is used in the implementation of IAS 29.
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Model S Right-Hand Drive Trailer - YouTube
Bit of an average video, seen better from some of the owners. Also (being pedantic) no plate on the front, which is a tad illegal in the UK.
Awesome seeing things on the right side (pun intended)! :biggrin:
When I saw the title, I was wondering how a trailer could be right hand drive.


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STI appoints Julio Estrada to training center manager for its Houston facility
STI Electronics, Inc., a full service organization providing training resources, analytical/failure analysis, prototyping, and small-to-medium volume PCB assembly, announces the appointment of Julio Estrada as Training Center Manager for its Houston training center.
"Julio's skills will allow STI to have a local presence in the Gulf Coast area," commented Pat Scott, Director of Training Services. "Being bilingual, Julio will allow STI to better serve its Hispanic customer base."
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text: Market Outlook: Commodities Forecast Suffers February 25, 2014 07:29 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Julie (Douglas) Deering Top Producer Managing Editor Email As rising supplies and slowing demand compound dips that led to last year's bear market in gold, copper and corn, Bloomberg reports that banks expect commodities to head that way again in 2014. The super cycle that led commodities to almost quadruple since 2001 is reversing, with prices set to drop 3% in 12 months, reports Goldman Sachs Group Inc. "The hot money is no longer in our space," says Dan Basse, president of AgResource Co. Bloomberg reports: "Raw materials from copper and corn to sugar and coffee will be in surplus this year after a decade-long bull market spurred producers to build new mines, drill more wells and expand planting of crops. Investors pulled a record $43.3 billion last year from commodity funds tracked by EPFR Global, and hedge funds cut bullish bets across 18 U.S. futures by 53% from an all-time high in September 2010." Despite all the negative news, Joseph Quinlan, managing director and chief market strategist at U.S. Trust—Bank of America Private Wealth Management, says ag commodities are still a good investment. Back to news


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Today at Library Story Time Cameron crawled to the middle of the room in front of everyone and stood up on his own with no help all by himself, with nothing to hold on to. And he did it TWICE! He got a round of applause from all the moms in the room. I'm so proud of him!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Explosion in our House
For months, since February, we've been working with the boys on putting things in their mouths to desensitize them and convince them to eat by mouth. And it has been more than an up hill battle most days.
Today during feeding clinic Evan put a special oral stimulation / sensory tool that looks like a lollipop made out of a sponge soaked with water in his mouth and sucked the hell out of it over and over and over. Not only that but he learned to dip the sponge into the water for more to suck. He refused to eat any real food off the spoon but he chewed and sucked the hell out of this stupid little lollipop stick with a pink sponge on the end. It was all I could do to keep my composure and not scream and jump up and down in tears right in front of Evan and his therapist.
Cameron has a slightly higher degree of oral sensory over-stimulation issues and so he's refused to put the lollipop in his mouth, but he will occasionally let me do it. Baby steps.
I hope this works, the image link was tricky to find. Here's what the sponge brush looks like.
This last week Cameron has been rolling on to his belly, pushing into a sit or into a crawl and either crawling backwards making him very angry and frustrated, or pulling into a stand so he can cruise the furniture in the playroom. But the greatest thing for him is that this afternoon while making our daily cruising-the-furniture trek through the play room Cameron actually crawled forward without hesitation and with great speed for about six feet and over the small step up from the playroom into the kitchen and then plopped his butt backwards into a sitting position. At that point I burst into tears.
Hey Cam! Look what I found!
Not to be out done by his brother Evan also has been doing his best to face his fear of falling and is lurching himself forward or twisting to the side placing both hands on the floor in valiant attempt to get into the crawl position. He's repeatedly done several face plants but no crying or fussing. But because he hates to be on his belly he hasn't realized yet that he could roll on to his belly and get into the crawl position. But that's the next big step for him to learn. Evan is also doing the same "use mommy as the jungle gym" moves that Cameron started to do two months ago. This is an enormous relief off my shoulders because every gross motor skill after he figures out how to stand up and crawl will come wickedly fast.
Waiting for Daddy come home from work:
Chewie sitting on the steps and also waiting for Daddy to come home from work:
The boys watching Chewie on the stairs:
Bridget, with her typical caught-in-the-headlights look, wishing the hairless puppies would get away from the door so she can jump on Daddy as he comes home from work:
This week the boys have also learned to wave hi and bye bye and practiced waving at people walking past us while sitting in a restaurant window at the mall. Super cute and Cameron has almost figured out to say buh-buh. He also loves to point at his own nose which is a skill that he's right on track for his adjusted age. Another really adorable thing about their finally getting more mobile is that are FINALLY sleeping better. Not through the night, but much better, and I'll take whatever they give me. And Cameron has started to do new things in his sleep that are just too adorable. Now he sits up in his sleep, he talks in his sleep, and every morning he's pulling up and jumping up and down in his crib when my husband comes in to get them up at 5:30am. Pretty soon, maybe in the next month or so Evan will be doing this too. We're lowering their mattresses to the lowest setting this week.
Notice Cameron's top two teeth showing:
It's been such a great day and a beautiful tremendous relief to see improvement that is like a great explosion of development instead of tiny little improvements that we have to grasp on to.
Our new jungle gym that isn't actually Mommy, and this one has a slide:
Ew! Not liking the grass too much Dad.
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
On the Go!
We've been so busy these last couple of weeks, and I've been somewhat unmotivated to much of my usual blogging. Just feels like I'm running out of steam for most things lately.
Yesterday I had to take the boys in to have their G Tube stoma sites cauterized because of too much skin granulation (where the skin is growing out in raw flaps and folds just where the tube enters the belly and they get bloody sometimes and really irritated). They do this with a long matchstick looking thing tipped with silver nitrate which burns the skin without odor. It is poisonous and lightly burns any kind of skin layers instantly when in contact leaving a black or gray film of dead skin. Evan's stoma was so bad that they sent me home with a handful of these silver nitrate things and I have to cauterize him three times a day for up to three days to fully get rid of the skin granulation. It's very painful when it's done and I hate hate HATE beyond words that I have to do this to him. I may have to do it to Cameron as well if his gets any worse. Makes me sick to my stomach.
Anyway, we have had some amazing progress lately. It is official, Cameron can go from being on his back, to his belly, into a sit, then pull himself up and cruise around on the furniture, or on to all fours and rock back and forth. He is able to crawl but hasn't realized it just yet. Probably by the end of the week or next he will have it figured and crawl for a month or two, and then he will move on to taking independent steps to walk. Evan is still content to stay put on his back and refuses to voluntarily roll on to his belly though he can do it quite well when made to. But when you place him in to a sitting position he's all about trying to copy Cameron. He's attempting to pull to a stand and definitely loves to try and cruise around the furniture. Once he realizes how to use his balance and enjoy making big movements and trust himself he will want to get out of laying down on his back and start rolling on his belly. I think this weekend we are starting to baby proof and it is looking more difficult than we realized. There's just so many things they can get into, and god help us when they can start working together to achieve something!
As for eating by mouth there has been no change other than to say that this week Cam is the good eater while Ev has decided to stop cooperating. The last two weeks it was the other way around. But we keep trying. The help/hindrance is that both boys are cutting new teeth. Cameron has the bottom middle two and top middle two and is now getting the top two eye teeth and a bottom tooth on the right all at the same time. Evan is cutting his top two middle teeth and I think I see several other teeth all over the place getting ready to surface but they are still deep and painful. Both boys have had bad cold symptoms in the last couple of weeks because of the increased saliva but they're great little troopers, with major drool.
Cameron is also starting to sleep through the night while Evan is still struggling with horrible reflux and waking up every 20min to an hour in screaming fits. But there have been a couple of decent nights recently so maybe we'll turn the final corner soon. We have found that if we give the boys some Zantac between 11pm and 1am that they sleep just a tiny bit better.
The boys have really started to interract with each other a lot more too. They copy each other, they sing (make monotone humming noises when I sing to them), they like to hug each other, and the love to kiss each other, which is really when they push their foreheads together with their mouths open for a wet slobber. They often miss by a long shot on the kisses but they do grab and pull at one another and you can tell they really enjoy being together. It's really freaking adorable. They also let me pat my hand over their open mouths while they make sounds so that it's a funny sound and then try to replicate it by doing the same with the back of their own hands against their own mouths. When they both get going at the same time you can't help but laugh.
As for me personally I've had a bit of a low moment.
I have always wanted to have at least two kids, possibly three and I'm two thirds of the way to that little girl dream. But after the last two years I've really changed my stance on this dream, understandably so I think. But it's still there in the back of my head, my heart, nagging at me. With all the new babies my friends have all been having lately, and now that the boys are finally progressing pretty well, I'm getting some pretty heavy baby fever. I know, shut up right? Watch what you wish for, you might just get it, more than you bargain for. Didn't I learn my lesson with the first try?? You bet I did!
Last week I had my yearly OB appointment and I asked my new OB what her opinion would be of my being able to have more children giving that I've had twins, they were preemies because of severe IUGR, and my advanced maternal age (I just turned 36 the week before the boys' 1st birthday). I asked because, while I think we're officially done, I really wanted to know that the plumbing is still working so to speak for my own piece of mind. I also feel like I want a chance to have a normal healthy pregnancy if I go completely nuts and decide later on that I really do want another baby. Or at least know that I could if I really wanted to anyway. Just the normal healthy same old me through and through. In a way it's almost like proving to myself that I am okay, that I can do it, that I'm past all the horribleness that has been this last 16mos. Because I haven't enjoyed much of the last two years though I've really really tried. It's been more difficult than anyone can imagine, so many more things that I have not talked about or written about. So to get another opportunity to have a healthy baby could be almost refreshing, cathartic, normalizing and regrouping for me if it had a chance of going well and healthy. Does that make sense? I don't know, but it also seems selfish too. Anyway...
My old OB who delivered the boys has moved out of town and before he left at my last appointment said that under no circumstances should I try to get pregnant until we discussed it after the boys first birthday, and that it would have to be another c-section, and that I would be on bedrest immediately and for the duration of the pregnancy because he didn't have confidence in my uterus withstanding the damage done by the inverted T incision he had to make to get to Evan. So naturally I wanted another opinion from my new doctor.
The new doctor's response was that they as a practice probably wouldn't advise my trying again at all, but at least not until three years after the boys birth to give my body as much time as possible to completely heal. That it seemed probably that I would have an incompetent uterus wall which is far more dangerous than an incompetent cervix which can be delayed with medications and a cerclage, and that my advanced maternal age means that I'm likely to have more multiples and all the risks that goes with them, and that they can not guarantee that future babies would not have severe IUGR as it's possible my body just doesn't make good placentas. She said "For your sake, I hope you really don't want more."
So there we have it. The nail in the coffin. I knew it, but just needed to hear it. It's sad. I'm sad. I would love to have another baby, even two more, even twins or more again. But not at the age of 38 and not with all those risks for me and my already existing family. But it does take away that thought of "maybe" off my shoulders pretty easily I guess.
Most of my friends, those I know in real life and those that I've made through my support groups, all think I should get a third opinion from my Peri, but after discussing it with my husband I'm not sure that it's worth it because we don't think we're up for having more kids now after all of this. Ugh, oh well. And I was bothered by the way my new doctor delivered the information at first. Not the nicest way to put it right? But I agree with her too, and I always appreciate the direct approach even when it's hard to take.
The boys also had their one year Infants & Toddlers Early Intervention evaluation to decide what therapy services they need after their first year with the state Occupational and Physical Therapists, whom I absolutely love. It's been agreed that we will have the OT as our primary service provider with PT becoming the secondary (it was the other way around before) and now we are adding a teacher once a month for a half hour for each baby to work on speech therapy. This really isn't changing how many therapy sessions we get a week at home for free, but it changes the focus and makes it more about the feeding than the motor skills. I was disappointed to see that while the boys are doing better overall, they are still struggling waaaaaay behind their adjusted age, in some categories as delayed as much as if they were 6mos old. But in others they are right on target for their adjusted age, mostly for their fine motor skills. So there is relief and still the usual panic and depression. It is what it is, and I could go into more detail, but really we just plug away at trying to help them catch up hopefully by the time they are three, though realistically I think it will be by the time they are four or older because of the feeding issues we have which the majority of people do not realize the huge impact this is to every aspect of daily life and the challenges we take for granted.
That's pretty much all the news I have here... I've been busy and desperately trying to catch up on much needed uninterrupted sleep wherever possible, so I've fallen behind updating the blog and hope to have more updates later on this week. Looking forward to celebrating all the birthdays and retirement for Poppop Bob this month. Here's more pictures from the last couple of weeks.
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Sunday, July 05, 2009
So Big!
I hope everyone has had a lovely Fourth of July weekend. While we didn't really do anything to celebrate the holiday, we did visit with friends and family so that was nice. And it has been an eventful week for us developmentally. Both Cameron and Evan are pulling up to a stand in their cribs. They can not go from laying on their backs to sitting up yet, but that is sure to happen very soon. But if they are sitting in their cribs, or in front of their exersaucer, they can pull up to a solid standing position and even side step several paces. Until now the cribs have been set up so they are still at the highest level, the newborn height, and we have not had to put the side railing up because they couldn't sit up. But that has all changed and so this weekend Daddy has lowered their cribs to the middle level and we now put their side rails up all the time. Yaaaay for big boy beds!
Also, we have retired our swings. The boys can barely fit into the lap buckles and both of them can do this....
Cameron now voluntarily rolls onto his belly, props himself up on hands and knees and rocks back and forth and scoots backwards. This is very frustrating for him as he really wants to go forward. He's almost figured out how to go from the crawl position to pulling up to a stand and can stand unassisted for almost a minute. He is also now found some new sounds "bebebe" and "wewewe".
Evan is hot on Cameron's heals and wants nothing to do with laying down and really just wants to practice his standing and pulling to a stand. Taking steps and getting into the crawl position is still extremely difficult for him and his neck strength is not what it should be yet and he tires easily from the poor muscle tone. But he's excited and happy to do tummy time now that it's more fun for him to do, thanks to the removal of the GJ tube. He hasn't picked up any new words but has started to realize that shaking his head from side to side means "no". Yikes!
Evan has been my good eater this week, while Cameron will not let anything pass his lips. It's immensely frustrating but we keep trying. At most they only tolerate eating about three tablespoons of pureed foods, and at worst every bit ends up on everything except in their mouths.
The vomiting is a raging pain in the neck to put it mildly, they still puke about two to five times a day, but it is still strictly reflux vomiting and not the bile that was caused by the GJ tubes they used to have. The worst hours are still from 2am to 6am, with the morning bolus feeding being worse than the afternoon bolus. We will keep trying to bolus the boys twice a day on the feeding pump and hope that they start to tolerate the increased compressed feeds and their stomachs stretch to accommodate the food but it has been somewhat unsuccessful overall. We have, on the advice of our pediatrician, started to give the boys one full 15mg solutab of Prevacid twice a day, the same dose that many adults take for severe reflux. Hopefully we'll see some improvement with the reflux in a about a week.
Chillin' with Dad
Cameron's new funny face.
Playing footsies in the stroller.
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Kucinich: 'We are not lapdogs for the president'• RawStory.com
In a recent House debate on the president's war powers, Congressman Dennis Kucinich delivered a fiery, impassioned speech in support of ending the Afghanistan war, now the longest in America's history.
"We are not lapdogs for the president," Kucinich said, reminding his colleagues that Congress is a co-equal branch of government. The Ohio Democrat has previously called the NATO intervention in Libya an impeachable offense, although the president's supporters on the left and right say he was fully authorized to take action by the United Nations Security Council, which voted unanimously in favor of imposing a no-fly zone over the embattled African nation.
This video is from C-Span, published to YouTube on March 28, 2011.


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Sitter FAQs
There are many different kinds of people who housesit - Retired couples, professionals who work from home, singles, young families, and those who love to travel and make new connections. There is no one stereotypical 'sitter' however, all sitters are caring, responsible and have plenty of life experience.
The reasons why people house sit are as varied as they are numerous. Many have been pet owners in the past and want that special connection with a pet again. Some do it as a lifestyle while traveling and enjoying the benefits of living rent-free. Most house sitters just enjoy the change of scenery and the chance to meet and befriend new pets and people.
A house sitter handles the day to day running of the home while ensuring the pets are happy in an environment they are familiar with and are loved just as the homeowner would.
A house sitter lives in the house while the homeowner is away and takes care of the home, pets and garden. When the home is occupied it is much safer than if it was left empty. Also, the pets are well cared for, the garden and lawn are maintained and the mail is collected, as well as any other jobs the homeowner and the sitter mutually agree on.
There are so many variables in applying for a house sit that we cannot guarantee anyone will be employed as a sitter using our service. If you demonstrate in your sitter profile that you are caring, reliable, and trustworthy, there is a strong chance a homeowner will choose you to take on their house sit.
The most successful sitters are the ones with a great sitter profile and who are proactive in contacting homeowners. If you regularly scroll through the list of homeowner ads and contact all those that appeal to you, this will give you the best chance of securing a sit.
With thousands of new homeowner ads listed each month you have an excellent chance of finding house sits in your preferred areas. All of the homeowner ads on our site are available for everyone to see, not just registered members. If you go to the website home page you can search for a particular location using the Refine Search options. If you find anything suitable you can join up and start contacting the homeowners.
Yes you can! We have many members who bring their pet house sitting. Understandably however, you will find there are always some homeowners who won't want sitters bringing pets into their home. Some homes may be too small or not set up for pets or have pets that don't tolerate other animals. This means you do restrict your chances somewhat. Having said that, there are homeowners who don't mind at all having a sitter bring their pet with them. Homeowners will generally say in their ad whether or not they are happy to accommodate other pets.
Sure! We have many families who enjoy the opportunities house and pet sitting provides. House sitting as a family can really enhance your time together while greatly reducing the costs associated with travel.
There are always some homeowners who won't want children in their home which means you do restrict your chances somewhat however, many homeowners, especially those with families of their own family, welcome having another family in their home. If you can show your family is respectful, reliable, and trustworthy, there is no reason why you can't apply to house sit.
Yes. The lengths of house sitting positions can vary from between 1 day to 3 years +. Most house sits tend to be from 1 week to 4 months however, it is not uncommon for house sitting positions to be longer e.g. 6 - 12 months. You can do a search for house sits via the sit length in the search filters.
If a homeowner is happy with the way a house sitter looked after their home and pets, many will ask them back again for repeat sits. Word of mouth is the best way way to be continually employed as a house and pet sitter. If you engage in one or two house sitting jobs that are well received, you will probably get called upon for their next trip away, plus be recommended to the homeowner's family and friends.
Every house sitter has to start somewhere. If you're a friendly and responsible pet lover who loves to travel, there is every chance you will be successful in securing house sits. Most homeowners are willing to consider first time house sitters. First time house sitters tend to emphasise other qualities such as growing up with pets or looking after their own homes. All house sitters have a sitter profile where they can demonstrate the relevant skills and experience that homeowners are looking for.
This is up to the homeowner and the house sitter to negotiate. A house sitting agreement is helpful in clarifying the owner's expectations and ensures both parties are clear on the terms of the arrangement. It is very important to discuss all aspects of the house sit before it is confirmed to avoid confusion and ensure everything run smoothly. Terms that may be noted in the agreement include, details of pet care, information on house and garden care, who is responsible for paying for utilities etc.
House Sitters UK offers a housesitting agreement template that you can adapt to suit your individual needs.
The most common form of house sitting is where the sitter looks after the house and pets in exchange for free accommodation and no money changes hands. There may be the odd occasion when a homeowner will offer some money for the house sitting job, e.g. if there are a lot of pets to care for and jobs to do.
There are some professional sitters who choose to advertise on House Sitters UK and they usually ask for payment in return for their professional service. The vast majority of house sitters are pet lovers who believe receiving free accommodation in exchange for basic house and pet keeping responsibilities is a fair and positive exchange of services.
House Sitters UK does not accept homeowners charging house sitters rent. In the majority of the cases the arrangement is a straight swap where the house sitter cares for the house and pets in exchange for free accommodation. There maybe times when a homeowner may ask for a weekly contribution from the house sitter, e.g. if there are no pets to care for and very little jobs to do, or if the house sit is for a longer length of time. Remember, all the details are negotiable between both parties and should be discussed prior to confirming your house sit.
There is no one correct way house sitting works. Each house sit is unique and everything is negotiable between the sitter and the owner. In most cases, the owner is usually happy to cover the utilities in exchange for the sitter taking care of their home and pets. On longer term sits, e.g. 4+ weeks, it is normal for the house sitter to contribute to, or even cover the utility costs e.g. heating, cooling, electricity and possibly internet.
As each sitting job is unique, it is up to the owner and the sitter to negotiate the payment (or non payment) of utilities before the sit commences. It is important that both the owner and the sitter are clear and open in what has been agreed to and that it is documented to avoid any confusion.
It costs only £20 for house sitters to be a member for 12 months and there are NO extra or hidden fees! We do NOT charge for metropolitan zoning like other house sitting websites, and we display your profile 24/7, 365 days a year!
Yes! We do not charge homeowners anything to find a house sitter. The reason we don't charge homeowners is so that more owners will use the site to advertise for a sitter. This means more jobs for sitters to apply for and therefore better value for your money.
The most common form of payment is our credit card option where you make a secure and easy one step payment online with eWAY. Alternatively, you can make an online payment via PayPal.
You should receive your login details via email within minutes after you register. If you have not received this email within an hour (and you have checked your junk mail) please email us and we will re-send you your details.
House Sitters UK offer FREE Homeowner ads on our website. Anyone can view these ads however, only registered house sitters have access to their contact details. The house sitters are able to contact any of these homeowners directly to make an enquiry. Keep in mind that many homeowners choose not to place an ad, preferring to scroll the list of sitters and contact them directly.
To contact a homeowner you need to login and click directly on their ad. If the homeowner has included their phone number it is made visible here however, most choose to be contacted by email only, in which case you click on the 'Contact this homeowner' link. A message box appears, you type in your enquiry and click the 'Send message' tab. Your message goes directly to the homeowner's personal email account. You will receive an email notification when the homeowner replies letting you know you have a new message in your account.
Registering as a house sitter with House Sitters UK is easy and fast, usually taking just 5 to 10 minutes. Once you have registered you are able to scroll the homeowner ads and contact homeowners immediately.
Unfortunately we do not offer this service. If we contact a homeowner to confirm their ad is still active and they reply 'yes', by the time the house sitter registers and sends a message, the position my have already been filled – hence a frustrated and annoyed new member.
Yes – we email a reminder notice 2 weeks before, then again 2 days before your membership expires.
House sitters register and list their profile on the House Sitters UK website where their profile can be viewed by thousands of homeowners in the UK. These homeowners then contact the house sitters directly to see if they are available to house sit. Some owners choose not to place an ad; they simply browse through the list of sitter profiles and click "Contact".
All registered house sitters are able to contact any of the homeowners that have advertised on the website.
It's very simple really.
As far as House Sitters UK is aware all the homeowner ads visible on our website are active and available however, we do rely on the homeowner to remove their own ad. We do stress to all homeowners the need to remove their ad as soon as they have filled the house sitting position to avoid house sitter disappointment. Each homeowner has the ability to activate, edit and deactivate their ad 24/7.
The house sitter list is ordered by the last person to login to their account - not alphabetically. This means whenever you login to your account your profile moves to the very top of the sitters list on page one. Also, once logged in clicking the 'Save Changes' button within your 'My Sitter Profile' page returns you to the top of the list. We recommend you do this regularly so homeowners can find you easily and are more likely to contact you directly. This system means active house sitters will stay near the top of the list and those who no longer require a house sit or who are currently on a house sit filter towards the bottom of the list.
You do need to have an email account when you first register to enable you to activate your profile however, once you have registered you can to choose to be contacted by phone if that's preferable.
The reply rating system is intended to make communication a faster and happier experience for all members. A reply rating appears on a member's homeowner ad or sitter profile as a series of 5 dots. This rates the member's responsiveness to first contact messages.
If a member has responded in a timely fashion, i.e. within 5 days to every first contact message, their reply rating will remain at the ideal 5 points.
For every first contact message that goes un-replied, a point is deducted. To redeem a lost point the member needs to answer promptly to the next two first contact messages that are received.
Our members occasionally suggest that a ratings system would help them choose a suitable house sitter.
While ratings can be useful for some sites, they can also be very damaging in others. We have carefully considered introducing a ratings system however; we feel it has the potential to have a negative impact on some of our members, which would be completely unwarranted.
Our reasons:
- Individuality: Choosing a house sitter is a unique responsibility involving a mix of personality, experience and "chemistry". All homeowners have different requirements and expectations and what one homeowner might see as '0 stars', another might feel '5 stars' about the same experience.
- Love: Our site and the community of people involved are characterised by generosity, responsibility and respect. We value this and work very hard to affirm and maintain it. We feel that a ratings system has too many potential negatives for some members that would undermine the wonderful spirit of the site for no real benefit.
- Unreasonable criticism: It only takes one negative comment to destroy a house sitter's chances of getting any further sits. A house sitter may be trying their best, but if they don't have detailed instructions they might disappoint an owner without meaning to. A ratings system would unfairly punish a sitter in this instance.Quality: It is genuinely difficult to find a 'bad' house sitter or homeowner. The overwhelming majority of the tens of thousands of house sits that happen every year are fantastic exchanges that are very satisfying for all parties.
- Confidence: There are many things that help build confidence in a house sitter, which we believe is actually more helpful than a rating. These include references, referees, endorsements, the number of completed sits and personal history. Don't underestimate the importance for homeowners to take time to talk with potential sitters. This is a great way to have confidence in what the sitter can provide.
- Incentive: One argument for ratings is that it provides incentive for a house sitter to perform well. We feel that good performance is already an outstanding feature of our AHS members. House sitters genuinely want to do a great job for the owner and homeowners genuinely want to make the sitter's stay comfortable and enjoyable. Positive communication and common courtesy drive our members to "perform" well. We have other more practical incentives for sitters to perform well including receiving positive endorsements, repeat sits, referrals and additional references and referees.
- Endorsements: To help in selecting a sitter, we have "Endorsements" from previous house sits undertaken via our site. This is a feature that is becoming popular in many sites. It means that members can be rewarded with positive recommendations from other members, and it adds an important layer of credibility to a sitter's profile.
- Complaints policy: For those rare occasions when a homeowner or house sitter has experienced a problem, we are always available to hear feedback and we do take appropriate action. We have a thorough complaints procedure we use when needed.
Endorsements from a previous house sit (from either the house sitter or homeowner) add a lot of credibility to a member's profile, and reward and promote positive experiences.
Both house sitters and homeowners are able to write an endorsement for the other if they feel like spreading the love and acknowledging them for a job well done.
Yes! We spend a lot of time and money doing this every day of the year across all mediums to encourage homeowners to list with us. We believe the more homeowners who use our site to advertise for a sitter, the more jobs to apply for and therefore better value for your money.
We pride ourselves on our customer service and endeavor to reply to all email enquiries the day we receive them. Please allow 48 hours depending on demand.
If a homeowner has security cameras in or around their home it's important to inform the house sitter of this while negotiating the house sitting job. Some house sitters may not feel comfortable if security cameras are installed. Many house sitters will be ok with this however, it is necessary that the homeowner inform them before the house sit has been confirmed.


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Swabhimaan 16th May 2017 Written Episode Update
Swabhimaan 16th May 2017 Written Episode Update on teleshowupdates.com
The Episode starts with Kunal, Meghna and Nand Kishore coming home. Naina asks are you fine? He says yes. Nirmala goes and hugs Kunal and meghna. Sandhya hugs Kunal, says you got us scared. Karan asks Kunal if he is fine and asks if he got hurt. Kunal says I have my brother and family with me, says he is fine. Dada ji tells that about unity and says I am happy that you and Nand Kishore tried to save each other. He praises Nand kishore for setting an example before Kunal. He says today I am proud of my grand son and son. Nand Kishore gets happy and says you praised me and says I waited for this day. He says I would have got locked in lock up if I had known this. Dada ji says but….Nand kishore this word but covers up my goodness. He says you can't tell two words in my appraisal. Dada ji says I wanted to tell that your intention was good, but you got that money to make that man quiet. He says you shall have trust on your son and shall not try to cover up their act. Nand Kishore asks him to stop it.
Nand Kishore says this is enough for me. I will live with this magar/but. Dada ji says family become one by unity and says I am happy today.
Naina makes Meghna sit in her room. Meghna cries. Naina asks what happened and asks why did this happen suddenly and asks if you…..Meghna looks at her and cries. Naina apologizes. Meghna says I didn't want this to happen, I did a big mistake, says she heard Sandhya talking to Nand Kishore and she thought accident happened by Nand Kishore and he wants to make the victim silent with the money. She tells that she called media and inform them. She says Kunal went to lock up because of me. Naina asks her to sit and says every action have an equal and opposite reaction. She says you did this to take revenge on Nand Kishore, but Kunal was arrested instead. Meghna apologizes. Nand Kishore tells that hatred is bad and asks her to decide if her hatred is big for Nand Kishore, or her love for Kunal. She asks her not to make Kunal hurt. Meghna says I love Kunal, but didn't know that I love him so much. She says I want to take his place to safe him in jail and realized that I don't want to lose him even for a moment. Naina asks her to promise and says no hatred or anger. Meghna promises her and cries.
Also Read : Agnifera 16th May 2017 Written Episode Update
Kalpana asks Gopal to check before going. She says she kept everything. Gopal says he will become big. Kalpana asks him to act as busy man and leave Bundi things here. He tells that he is feeling bad as they have not informed the family. Kalpana gives her own reasoning. Meghna comes to her room, and sees Kunal keeping white tissue roll on her path. He says he didn't get time to bring red color tissue roll. He feels bad as she cried a lot. Tu Pyaar Hai plays……He keeps her hand on his chest. Meghna hugs him. Kunal says I am stupid. Meghna says no. Kunal asks her to listen and says I am stupid as I thought I love you very much, but today I saw you crying badly and says you have won even in love and you did topped in love. He asks you loves me so much. Meghna says I love you so much and says even I didn't realize how much I love you. Kunal says I will make sure that these tears don't come again in your eyes. He hugs her. Karan is sleeping on the bed and is restless. He tries to see Naina's hand and puts torch. Naina shows her hand and asks him to see clearly and says nothing happened to her. She asks him to sleep. Just then he sees her scratching her hands and gets shocked.
Swabhimaan 17th May 2017 Written Episode Update Precap : Nand Kishore insults Sharda and asks why did you come? Later Gopal brings Nand Kishore shoes and says sir…your shoes. Sharda is shocked.


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Nice lesson Denes. We need more southern rock lessons
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Hi GMC'ers! This is a melodic lesson in style of southern rock legends, Lynyrd Skynyrd. I composed this lesson based on their song, "Simple Man".
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Savouring the legal scene in Paris, courtesy of Salans, at a delightful cocktail party in the Musée Carnavalet's garden
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It was a pleasant tonic to escape the rain and banker rant of London last week to savour the Paris legal scene. France too has its troubles but at least there was hot weather and the chance to enjoy a cool drink in the garden of the Musée Carnavalet courtesy of Salans, which had convened partners, clients and friends from its 20 offices for a cocktail party.
By the end of the evening I had been enlightened on Polish-Lithuanian relations (more complex than you might imagine) by Malgorzata Darowska of the Warsaw office; German attitudes towards Greece by Daniel Marschollek (Frankfurt); and developments in intellectual property by Peter Homberg (also Frankfurt). Plus plenty on the Paris scene — to be enriched by the new…


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Personally, I stay away from bonds because it is very difficult to time the buy point correctly. It is best to buy when interest rates are high, and about to go down. But if this is the case, it is also time to buy stocks, which generally rally when interest rates are lowered. Generally, the stock trade makes more money in my experience. True, but one way to look at bonds is that you're buying a yield for your portfolio. You have to decide that say a 5% yield is enough for a portion of your portfolio over a 10 year period. At that point, you stop worrying about the price of the bond as it will go up and down. Held to maturity will always get you that yield. Then there are various strategies you can follow in bonds. For instance, you can buy callables and get 4-6% yield for a short period as it likely will get called as rates go down or remain flat. If it doesn't get called, that yield is not bad for a portion of your portfolio.I agree that you can make more money in equities, but at some point you may want to protect your principle and have some certainty in income streams with a bond allocation.
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School's out, Memorial Day has come and gone, and the NBA playoffs are within a couple weeks of mercifully crowning a champion. All of which means baseball season has officially arrived. With the first-place(!) Memphis Redbirds hosting 17 games in June, AutoZone Park will heat up right along with our local weather forecasts.
But considering the ballpark's attendance has dropped six straight seasons, the time seems right for a few fan-friendly adjustments. Here are seven tweaks that might help.
A shower on the boardwalk. Don't get carried away; this remains G-rated entertainment. I'm merely suggesting one of those upright, chain-operated shower-heads that will dump a couple of gallons of cool heat relief on fans who need more than a mist blower. This was popular for a time in the leftfield bleachers at Tim McCarver Stadium. To keep things civil, the Redbirds could charge a dollar per dousing.
Autograph Sunday. There are more kids at AutoZone Park for Sunday matinees than for any other day of the week. So why not have two starting pitchers -- not scheduled for action or bullpen work that day -- sign autographs in the plaza for a couple of innings? Rockey's a champ, and he's there game-in and game-out. But if the Redbirds want to create summertime heroes, an autograph from a ballplayer goes a long way.
Free beer on your birthday. Better have a legitimate driver's license with you for this one. And be responsible, for Pete's sake. But if you're lucky enough to celebrate your birthday when the Redbirds are home, you surely deserve a draft or two on the house. And this is a winner for the AZP concessions, too, as no one celebrates a birthday alone.
Foul-ball lottery. Among the biggest cheers at AZP are when a foul ball lands on the roof then S-L-O-W-L-Y rolls back down and drops into a throng of fans desperate to land a free souvenir. So let's take this up a notch. Mark one baseball before each game with a unique logo or number. If a fan catches this ball (either foul or beyond the outfield fence), he or she gets a choice between season tickets for next season or the equivalent value in the team store. (Calculate the odds for this and you'll recognize there won't be many "winners" over the course of a season. But this is the magic of a lottery. Just a single winner can spawn euphoria . . . and LOTS of talk.)
Suite for a day. There are 44 luxury suites at AutoZone Park, and they each provide their own distinct atmosphere for taking in a baseball game. They tend to be occupied by the employees and friends of particular businesses that have ponied up a bundle of cash to essentially own a room at the ballpark. Why not use this lavish experience as a recruiting tool for future business titans? Each suite holder should pick a Sunday game during June or July and donate use of the suite to a summer camp of their choice (there are any number of these in the Memphis area). The hard part is then left to the camp counselors: who are the lucky youngsters who get a taste of the suite life?
Home Run Hero. The Redbirds pick one inning -- announced before the game starts -- and if a Redbird homers in that inning, all fans get a coupon for a free soft drink at a future game. The key to longevity for any sports operation is repeat customers. A few homers in the right frames might go a long way toward that end.
Player introductions that count. Thanks to AZP's p.a. system, we all know Josh Phelps enjoys "Sweet Home Alabama" when he steps to the plate. But how far can a theme song go in a relationship? Why not have the p.a. announcer share some background info -- approved by the player of course -- when a batter steps into the box? (And if the audio is too distracting, this can be done on the scoreboard.) What's Colby Rasmus' birthday? Where is Joe Mather from? What's Jarrett Hoffpauir's favorite movie? When fans become engaged with the players, they'll be a lot more interested in seeing them succeed.
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