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Study Skills That Will Help You Get Straight A's By following these twelve tips, you will be guaranteed to get straight AAAAA's. Read each tip carefully. 1. Find a quiet area in your house in which you are comfortable and can isolate yourself from distractions. Be sure that this space includes a chair, table or desk, and sufficient lighting. Ask others not to disturb you while you are in this special location and turn off all phones, beepers, televisions, videos, music, or anything else that your mind will wander to instead of focusing on the schoolwork. 2. Find the best time to study. Some students tend to do their best work as soon as they get home from school while they are still in the school mode. Others need a break and don't settle down to study until after practice, playtime, a nap, dinner and/or family time. Just be sure to allow yourself enough time to get everything done and still get enough sleep each night. 3. Organize your day, week, month, etc. Set aside a specific time each day to do your homework and study. Decide on a reasonable minimum amount of time that you will spend in this quiet place each day. For instance, lets say you decide on 45 minutes as a reasonable amount of time to dedicate to schoolwork each day. This means that even if homework is completed in the first 35 minutes that you will still stay in this area and study or review notes for the next 10 minutes until the 45 is up. 4. Reward yourself for sticking to your schedule and being productive. Decide on an activity to do once your study time is completed. Plan on watching a television show later in the evening. Tell yourself that you will play five minutes of a video game for every fifteen minutes that you study. Create goals and their rewards before you start studying and work hard to reach them each and every day. 5. Variety is important. Vary the topics that you are spending time studying. Get the mandatory homework out of the way first and then go back and spend the additional time reviewing material from different courses each day. If you spent extra time reviewing history yesterday, spend the additional time on science tonight. Some subject areas may require more time than others. You should get a feel for this a month or so into the school year. 6. Study the difficult subjects first and get them out of the way. You will be able to absorb material quicker and make more connections when you are mentally fresh. 7. Take regular study breaks. This can also serve as a mini-reward. For instance, tell yourself that you are going to get a drink or snack or listen to a specific song after you finish re-copying your notes for science. Make the breaks short, 3-6 minutes or so, so you won't get side-tracked or lose focus for the day. 8. Don't just re-read notes or the text. Ask questions. Create flash-cards. Redo assignments. Create time-lines. Play games. Re-write your notes. Get someone to quiz you. Find websites online that review the same material. Make up questions that you think will be on the test. Create new outlines of the material by writing some specific topics and filling in the details from memory. Studying should be an active process, not just time spent re-reading something. 9. When you need to remember a group of terms use the first letter of each to create a word (acronym) or a sentence (acrostic). For instance, an easy way to remember the five Great Lakes is the word "HOMES". By just remembering the word "homes" you can easily remember the names of the five Great Lakes . H stands for Huron, O for Ontario , M for Michigan , and so on. You can also create silly sentences to help you remember long lists of terms. For instance, remembering the sentence "Martha Visits Every Monday, Just Stays Until Noon, Period", will help you remember the planets in the order they are found. M for Mercury, V for visits, E for Earth, etc.
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Tuesday, 31 December 2013
2013 Round Up
22 comments:
- Sandies' Patch said...
Congrats on the weight loss!
Lurve your OScar cat!
Love the cross-stitched and crocheted mittens!
Well, here's to you and yours having a fantabioza 2014! xxx
- 31 December 2013 at 21:08
Loved catching up on everything,wow what a brilliant year you've had. Very well done on the weight loss,You look fab :) Oscar is so beautiful.Hope 2014 is fabulous for You and your loved ones.xxx
- 31 December 2013 at 23:09
- Mad about Craft said...
Well done on your weight loss!
Happy New Year!
- 31 December 2013 at 23:48
- Cat said...
Your weight loss WOWSERS amazing go you - what an inspiration !!!
Your hand makes both given and received again amazing
And re social media I hear you xxx
- 1 January 2014 at 00:06
- Jille said...
Well done lovely but you always look gorgeous! I do hope you come back to blogging as I have missed you. Happy New Year to you and yours xx
- 1 January 2014 at 00:23
- simplyvintage said...
Congratulations on the weight loss, you look amazing!! Good to catch up with what has been going on in your life. My blog has also been sadly neglected but I have a post almost finished for tomorrow and hope to get back into blogging from there. Looking forward to keeping up with your future blog posts. Happy New Year. xxx
- 1 January 2014 at 00:23
- Jacquie said...
Happy New Year Kandi, your makes are gorgeous and I'm looking forward to seeing what you make in 2014.
Congratulations on the weight loss....you look fab.
Jacquie x
- 1 January 2014 at 09:01
- thriftwood said...
Happy New Year! What a beautiful lady you are ... You looked lovely before, but what an achievement! Love all your beautiful makes too ...
Love Claire xxx
- 1 January 2014 at 12:40
- Tracy said...
Lovely to see you back in blog land I'm looking forward to reading more of your posts. Congratulations on your weight loss what an amazing achievement you must be very proud of yourself xx happy new year to you xx
- 1 January 2014 at 19:35
- lemonade kitty said...
Hello lovely Lisa, let's start at the beginning. Happy anniversary to you and your lovely man, also happy 40th birthday, sounds like you had an fab time in Edinburgh, lovely memories. WOW, you must be so very proud of yourself for loosing weight, you must have lots of will power and determination and all that hard work has paid off you look amazing. Awwww your puddy cat is gorgeous and I love the "robin and nest" gloves do you have the pattern for these please? And finally Lisa Merry Christmas and a happy new year, I look forward to hearing all your ramblings once more xxx
- 1 January 2014 at 19:37
- lemonade kitty said...
Haha I think I've had "one too many" the robin and nest gloves were on another blog!! Adore the santa socks I shall have to find the pattern for these they're gorgeous....apologies..xx
- 1 January 2014 at 19:43
- Josie-Mary said...
Congratulations on your weight loss, fantastic! Sounds like 2013 was a good year for you, hoping 2014 will be even better :) xx
- 2 January 2014 at 07:47
- Silvia said...
Lovely to see your weightloss all on one Page. It's rather encouraging and motivating. Happy New Year to you and Yours
- 4 January 2014 at 07:09
- Rosa Lily said...
Lovely to read your blog again and a very happy new year to you to. Your beautiful cat! Adorable and stunning. Well done for a massive weight loss, mine is yet to come! x
- 4 January 2014 at 09:48
- hart44 said...
So glad to be catching up with you again Lisa :)
Well done on your weight loss, you look amazing :)
More blogging for us both in 2014 haha
Best wishes for the year xx
- 4 January 2014 at 12:34
- thesnailgarden said...
Great post! Some lovely makes and congratulations on your weight loss - I need to start dieting again, but there are still too many goodies around! At least I managed to send most of the cake and sweeties back to uni with the kids! :) Happy New Year to you and yours, best wishes, Pj x
- 5 January 2014 at 13:23
- Dinki Dots said...
You look so slim!! So impressive, you look amazing! You should definitely be proud of yourself.
Some gorgeous makes too, as always!
Good to have you back :)
Maria x
- 6 January 2014 at 17:57
- Charlie and Wendy said...
Such a lovely post, looks like you had a fantastic wedding anniversary and birthday, congratulations. Well done with your weight loss, something I am constantly working on too, trying to maintain after losing weight in 2012. You look gorgeous. Your crafting looks fab too. Wendy
- 8 January 2014 at 17:25
- Michelle Fallon said...
well done on your weight loss that's fantasitc! Love all your pretty images. I too have neglected my blog and followers and got sucked into instagram and facebook so I'm back now with a plan and lots of ideas and inspiration. Wishing you lots of love and luck for 2014 !
- 9 January 2014 at 18:34
- Pink Milk said...
Oh I'm so glad you've resolved to come back to blogging. I shall keep popping back to check/hassle you so be warned!
A very happy belated birthday. 40? Meh, you're just a spring chick! ;-)
I do so love all your makes (esp. your Cherry Heart mitts) and Lynda's pressies too - she's such a clever sausage.
I am totally blown away with how much weight you've lost. You look absolutely fabulous and must feel amazing.
Heather xx
- 9 January 2014 at 20:00
- cupcakejojo said...
Hi Lisa x
I just wanted to say hello and hope that everything is ok. I was so sad to see you're not on IG anymore :( I shall miss you and Oskar lots!!!! Oh and your gorgeous makes of course!!!
You're weight loss is incredible! Anyway take care lovely lady and I hope all is ok x
Jo x x x
- 9 January 2014 at 21:53
- Lisa Williams said...
Happy New Year! Amazing News with the weight loss... and lovely to put a (gorgeous) face to your name! Kisses noodleBubble
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Brown Rice has long been known as the healthy alternative to white rice. Ironically,brown and white rice are the same grain. The former with its bran and germ (outer layers) left intact, the latter having it removed . A 100g of cooked medium grain brown rice provides about 112 calories while the same amount of cooked white rice provides 130 calories. There is 1.8g of dietary fiber in cooked brown rice but only 0.30g in white rice.
One of the benefits of brown rice is it has a low glycemic index. The glycemic index of short grain white rice is 83, which is high, while the GI for brown rice is 50. Low GI foods allow your body to digest them slowly and make you feel full longer and thus eat less. This is one of the reasons why some people go for the brown rice diet. It helps them lose weight.
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- 100 grams of cooked brown rice contain 1.8 grams of dietary fiber.
Calories - 112
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- Potassium - 79 mg
- Phosphorus - 77 mg
- Calcium - 10 mg
- Magnesium - 44 mg
- Iron - 0.53 mg
- Sodium - 1 mg
- Manganese - 1.097 mg
- Zinc - 0.62 mg
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- Vitamin B1 (thiamine) - 0.102 mg
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- Niacin - 1.33 mg
- Pantothenic Acid - 0.392 mg
- Vitamin B6 - 0.149 mg
- Folate - 4 mcg
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The charity run will be in aid of the Donegal Branch of MS Ireland.
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Flow and Heat Transfer Profiles in a Square Channel with 45? V-Downstream Orifices
Withada Jedsadaratanachai and Amnart Boonloi
DOI : 10.3844/jmssp.2016.277.289
Journal of Mathematics and Statistics
Volume 12, Issue 4
Pages 277-289
Flow and heat transfer profiles in a square channel heat exchanger inserted with 45° V-orifices are presented. The influences of Reynolds number (Re = 3000-10,000) and blockage ratio (BR = 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20 and 0.25) on periodic concepts are investigated numerically. The computational domain is solved with the finite volume method and SIMPLE algorithm. As the numerical results, the periodic profiles on flow and heat transfer are found when inserted the 45° V-orifices in the square duct. The configurations on flow and heat transfer in the heating section can separated into two sections; periodic profile and fully developed periodic profile. The patterns on flow and heat transfer are similar, but the values are not equal, called "periodic profiles", while the identical on both profiles and values, called "fully developed periodic profiles". In addition, the periodic structures depends on the parameters of the vortex generator, position in the channel and Reynolds number.
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I arrived to Taiwan on July, I came here because i got the oppotunity to an intership as spanish teacher at Providence Univeristy. I have been studying chinese for a while and i like Asia so much, so i couldn't reject this opportunity.
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My experience as Spanish teacher was so great, at the beginning it was really tiring but at the end I liked it, I have to say I'm a really shy person, so at first talk to so much people was a big challange to me haha, but I may say that now i think i feel less shy and i can keep a conversation with a bunch of people without freeking out ;).
When my intership came to the end, I decided to stay here longer time studying chinese at the same university chinese center, i really like learning chinese in here, but ¿What are the reasons i decided to stay here?:
1. PEOPLE, as others foreigners living here say, PEOPLE IS TAIWAN IS THE NICER IN THE WORLD.
2. FOOD, if you are planning to come here you will get some weight!
3. A LOT OF CUTE STUFFS, I love japanese cute characters and things in general, this country is filled with them.
4. PRICES. Everything is extreamly cheap comparing to Spain.
5. CITY LIFE. Even if Taichung is not big as Taipei it still has a lot of things to do and i like to walk around big buldings and endeless (pricy) shopping malls.


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A life that says welcome: simple ways to open your heart & home to others / Karen Ehman.
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The thought of hosting a dinner party or even having a friend over for coffee is enough to give some women flashbacks of lopsided cakes or doomed casseroles from home economics class. But opening up your home to others doesn't have to be fancy or frightening or cost a fortune, says Karen Ehman. In A Life That Says Welcome, she offers a practical, painless (no crafting or cooking aptitude required) course on hospitality. It helps busy women open up their hearts in order to open up their homes. Full of tips, ideas, recipes, to-dos, and how-tos, A Life That Says Welcome shows readers that opening up their homes is less scary and less work than they might think.
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We have a very different and very brilliant post today by the wonderful Amy from Amy Bookworm, who is join by Rita from Weaving Pages... Enjoy!
Did you know?
One of the RSS ways of following, Feedburner (mainly used for email followers), is very handy with Twitter! You can schedule tweets for it, under the 'Publicize' tab in your feed if you click 'Socialize' you'll spot it. Type in what you want to appear besides the URL & title of the post. For example, you could include someone's @, it's not a bad idea to include co-bloggers or friends who like being updated on your posts & don't mind constant reminders- maybe ask, some bloggers bug me with this but others, like Rita, could probably get away with it (This makes me feel special!)
This is a totally handy tip in my opinion, but remember: you can also link with Goodreads & tweets can be auto-posted that way. Sound good? Go try it!
If you didn't know the above, that's why you need this post! If not, I hope you'll enjoy it anyway… Amy Bookworm is also accompained by… Rita @ Weaving Pages (who agreed to do a joint-discussion as a one-off!) (And I was feeling nice….haha! No, It's lots of fun doing joint-discussions with Amy).
Before we go in depth, Megan has asked us to say hello, and introduce ourselves:
According to Rita (also regarding the other's Twitter): Amy is the awesome person who plagues twitter when possible. She frequently joins me in various conversations ranging from me making her read various books (don't worry, soon she will have read The Mortal Instruments and Divergent) to participating in court cases over who gets custody of the REAL Peeta Mellark. Don't worry, Peeta's with me whilst Amy, Zoe and Hawwa have clones (Doesn't Rita Mellark sound awesome though?). In short, she is a very awesome, crazy, nice blogger!
According to Amy (also regarding the other's Twitter): Rita may be a fairly new blogger but who cares? Her blog is really getting out there & I know it has lots of fans already as it truly does stand out and frankly she's an awesome book-lover. Rita has been known to push books, shares my love for GIFs & is so thoughtful.
She's sort of crazy and is owner of one of my favourite blogs, Weaving Pages, but does steal book boyfriends :P If you like, and can handle, creative crazy people Rita will never fail to put a smile on your face (: I'm so happy she's stopped by and is answering some of my questions.
I believe we're after one of our very amusing friends and of course, by now, you'll know one of the uses of Twitter: to talk about book boyfriends. Who doesn't?? This is something I enjoy, and so does Rita (yeah, part of the "book boyfriend talk" involves court cases)...
@Amy_Bookworm Amy, tell @snackingonbooks To give Peeta back, after all,my you stole him in the first place ;) SHARE LADIES
— Rita (@WeavingPages) June 25, 2013
See? What a screenshot. That's just an everyday experience for those us of us who: a) are teens b) are obsessed with twitter but really… the only thing that matters is c) book bloggers! Seriously, a necessity for book bloggers is to have book bloggers. b) is pretty important, but as long as you have a Twitter you'll be fine & probably not notice it happening until you start realizing you have hundreds of internet friends & about 1 real life friend, if you're lucky. You see.. This is why the "About" bit on my blog says that my blog is the reason I still have friends in real life...
Oh dear, Rita! I wouldn't blame my blog. Twitter, credit where its due! Besides book boyfriends, what else have we discussed? Unicorns. They are VERY important...Oh, and don't forget Caleb...
Haha...as long as he isn't offended by not being included! I've had an amazing idea… I should make specially designed Unicorns!!
Everyone: DO NOT tell Caleb that we missed him out… OK, ssshhh!
We need to show you this T-Shirt. Just one of Rita's many designs, and a reason you should be on Twitter so get on there this instance! It's worth losing friends for… I mean, you make so many book blogger friends & guess what? This year I've had 1028 hits which have been referred directly from Twitter but more have followed me, commented or such because of Twitter… Because of the Feedburner automated I've had an additional 118 views. Plus, in less than 6 months over at my other blog, where I have a co-blogger, there's been 737 twitter referrals. Isn't that good stats when I don't even have that many followers? I have basically got 750 (rounded) followers in just over 6 months. I think you should now try tweeting & advertising your posts by Twitter too.
Yep. I agree! I get so many pageviews from Twitter, and it's a great way to spread the word about your blog! I've talked to lots of authors as well as met lots of different bloggers. Twitter benefits your blog so much. It's definitely essential when you blog.
Authors… Ah, I only got 1 review request before Twitter & I'd had my blog a few months previous. Then, since February, I've lost track of how many.
I agree with this. Most of the authors who ask me to review their book follow me on Twitter.
It's obviously not that crazy as Amy Bookworm is less than a year old but it's a few dozen, I get about 3 review books per month (I don't have NG & am all about the Twitter connection method or emailing directly, I'm under 18 anyway so no NetGalley for me!) which is totally good numbers & mainly comes from authors asking on Twitter but some publicists I've met I actually found out about on Twitter but emailed first- the confidence comes from Twitter. Every time. Publicists or publishing houses may follow you & ask you to join their team. Massive shout outs to Indigo, and… for example, me and Amy are both part of Team Fox, which is a group of reviewers for the publishers Curious Fox. We got to be part of this through Twitter, and I think if we hadn't had Twitter, we wouldn't have gotten this opportunity… However, even if you're not part of a review group, you can learn so much about which books are coming out on Twitter. Just by following Publishing houses, you can find out so many things about events that are happening and books that are being released!!
You can! Forget WoW, well not necessarily it's different to a tweet after all, I've found out about way more new books on Twitter. And also, another thing I find, is not just authors & publishing houses RT reviews & your posts (often related to them but shout out to some fab indie's who I adore for their RT love!) but other book bloggers do. What do they gain? Nothing, apart from the fact you may RT them & then you're like even & have got the word out some more! RTing is easy, and favoriting too, so if you like a post, or just a tweet, please let a tweep now by pressing one of those buttons. It makes all the difference. Who knows? You may find out you have similar taste in books, or like me & Rita, end up helping each other to join a reviewing group! Discussing a book even is just as easy as discussing a book boyfriend, really!
Exactly. I mean, if you follow me on Twitter, you would know that after watching the City of Bones Movie, I had a HUGE movie hangover so I basically ranted about the movie. Also, since the last book is coming out in May, I had this breakdown where I basically cried on Twitter about how no one should be allowed to die because I love the character so much…
I knew you liked CoB before the movie because it's one of your things you tweet about it a lot… A lot. If I go on your profile I have a 50/50 chance of spotting something related to that (not much of an exaggeration actually!) The next book is coming out in May, and Rita, using Twitter to book push, has demanded that everyone read it soon, like… in 2013 or 2014. (Me and Amy have a deal that means I have to read a book, and she has to read one! I have to read Fire soon… so she can read CoB.)
Hehehe...but trust me City of Bones is one of the best books you will ever read. Otherwise you're missing out, I trust. Which means, how can I spend a whole DAY without tweeting something about it?
It's quite annoying, I jest, how you can easily book push and/or stalk even a saavy twitter user's reading updates & such. But don't worry, Rita will know when I've read CoB & if you follow me, you would too :P If you're a book pusher, get Twitter.
Book pushing is one of the best things ever. I'm a book pusher and proud.. Yes..I am lying in wait for Amy to read City of Bones so she can fangirl with me...It'll be funny seeing her collapse with all the feels….*evil laugh*
You underestimate me! That aside, allow your Amazon to update your Twitter when you buy someone- I may assume you have something to hide and/or never buy books otherwise. That's a good trick, if you want to coax someone into reading your books. I sense buddy reads may be happening when a) someone checks out your reviews (auto-tweeted or not) b) you just say you've bought it c) when you threaten them, otherwise known as proposing a deal… :P
They need to know how to use Twitter so I'm telling them how to book push on Twitter. I refuse to delve into the specifics elsewhere but I do update Twitter when I review, purchase books, get to exciting bits in books…
Pfff...I never blackmail or threaten anyone… Ha, but someone could! Also, you can connect your Kindle to your Twitter account which allows you tell people when you've finished a book and how many stars you gave it.
Kindle, Amazon… It's pretty much the same kettle of fish (I've never put fish in a kettle), but Goodreads is more necessary, I know I update Goodreads more than Amazon but in fairness- it's what works for you. I mentioned earlier, discussing books- smetimes, when I get the same books as other bloggers, I quickly arrange a buddy read for the book. On Twitter, it's amazing. Quickly mention someone else & BAM… it's going to turn into a read-a-long :P As for updating each other, the Goodreads thing comes in handy! But also remember to update the author & them… Use a hashtag preferably too which all parties can check. It's so flattering for an author to witness an occasion like that & you bet you'll get RT's! You think something about a book? Share it. Give teasers, not spoilers. Encourage your blogger friends to read more & discuss the book with them. It's like 1, 2, 3… Oh, and, sometimes just adding a book to wishlist via Twitter could be classed as book pushing (if you think these things are book pushing, I confess. I'M SORRY FOR BOOK PUSHING! :D) Go ahead though.
I'M NOT SORRY FOR BOOK PUSHING….I HAVE NO REGRETS AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE BOOK I MADE YOU READ… :D (I'm so evil, aren't I?)
Hehe… All I know, regarding my proper use of Twitter (well, it's debateable but shhhh!), according to tweetstats.com, my top five words on Twitter have been: rt, book, read, know, books. Let's see what Rita's are, shall we? *goes to check mine!*
In the meantime, I don't know where know came from. Maybe I know you should get Twitter, if you haven't, eh? ;) While I'm talking about that, I've tweeted Rita the most. This brings up the fact that me and Amy have been asked if there is a day where we don't talk..In reality, we can only go so long without having a proper conversation. Okay, I've replied to Amy 475 times, and Amy, your name is huge on my tweet cloud..!
The friends you make on Twitter ;) In July alone, I tweeted you 217 times, Rita. My tweetcloud has returned the love & guess who's twitter handle is really big on my tweetcloud? Or rather, the biggest name is… Meeeeeee! No, it's not 'meeeeee', it's @WeavingPages :P Also, readers, you'll be pleased to know that Rita has mainly used the words: rt, read, #bookishparty, book, books.(I'm disappointed that The Mortal Instruments isn't in there somewhere...hmmm...I have to tweet more about that..)
Caption: We actually have '#bookishparty' in common= comparing how big it is on Amy's & Rita's...
With that mentioned- we've said it all… All that we know, or think we know, has completely been documented here. I'm glad I had Rita to comment on Twitter with me. Hopefully Megan will like it and hopefully all you readers will like it too! You may one day find out your tweetstats, will they surprise you or be pretty normal like ours turned out to be? You'll see!
Now, go tweet but don't forget to read as well (FYI, that has never happened- it may get addictive but nothing should stop you from reading)!
Whoa, guys!! That was one awesome post! Thank you so much!! I know I'm totally addicted to Twitter and literally Tweet all the time. I was Tweeting my Twitter friends from a zoo - and I was there with friends!! ;)
I hope you all enjoyed Amy's post! And don't forget to follow Amy's Blog: Amy Bookworm - and follow her on Twitter and Goodreads too! :D
Oh, and follow the wonderful Rita too at Weaving Pages - and on her Twitter and Goodreads!
And keep up to date with MonthOfGuests on Twitter using #MonthOfGuests2013! And stop by tomorrow for a brilliant post by the amazing Lucy from Queen of Contemporary!!


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Passengers travelling on Nakuru-Nairobi highway were stranded on Thursday evening when police impounded 13 passenger vehicles that had contravened the travel ban.
"Our officers arrested the drivers of the 13 vehicles who had contravened the night travel ban law for passenger service vehicles plying along the highway past 7 pm. The vehicles were also taken to Mwariki Police post pending clearance with police," said Nakuru OCPD Samuel Obara.
The passengers had to spend their night in the vehicles after they were detained at Mwariki Police Post in Nakuru County.
Mr Obara said the vehicles, including buses and shuttles, were travelling past the 7pm deadline along the route.
The passengers expressed their frustration at having to spend the cold night inside the bus at the police station.
Mr Justine Mwangi, a businessman who was travelling to Eldoret using the Greenline bus, said they left Nairobi at around 4pm and were hopping to spend the night at a stopover in Nakuru but the vehicle was impounded a few kilometres to Nakuru Town.
He claims the bus was impounded at 8pm and held at the roadside before being taken to the police station more than three hours later.
"We are wondering why the bus had to be stopped at this point when were almost approaching the stopover. Did they want us to stop at the forest?" questioned Mr Mwangi.
Another passenger, Mr Elijah Ngige, accused the police of punishing them for mistakes they had not committed.
He said the police should have dealt with the bus company and allowed them to continue with their journey.
"We boarded the bus knowing that by 7pm we would have arrived in Nakuru Town. Unfortunately we experienced a jam while leaving Nairobi, so the police should be understanding enough to give the allowance of time," said Mr Ngige.
The passengers urged the government to extend the deadline for travel to 11pm to allow drivers time to get to the next stopover.


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RFRA originally protected all religious viewpoints and insured a high level of protection for peoples' free exercise of religion. The 'fix,' however, stripped that protection based on a person's particular religious view, such as, opposition to same-sex marriage. This pits some religions that the government protects against other religions that will suffer government punishment if they don't fall in line. We believe this discrimination between religious views is unconstitutional...Indianapolis Star reports on the lawsuit.
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I can finally do an acceptable chain ply (aka navajo ply) without tying myself in knots as I become a human crochet hook.
This Kauni pencil roving, gifted to me by a friend,
became this chain ply:
I got about 216 yards. It's probably worsted weight, but I never really know until I start knitting it up.
This yarn is a bit on the, um, strong side of the yarn-softness spectrum. I have no idea what I'm going to make. Maybe it will go into a colorwork yoke or become a slouchy hat or fabulous legwarmers.
What have you knit with gradient yarns? Or what do you want to make with gradient yarns?


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Mohave County could save more than $272,417 a year, if the Board of Supervisors decides to eliminate the four deputy county manager positions Monday.
The supervisors will also talk about the search for a new county manager and a change in the county manager's duties.
If the Board approves the elimination of the deputy manager positions:
The $137,280 annual salary for deputy county manager for Development Services position would be eliminated and the current Development Services manager, Mike Hendrix, would take over as acting county manager.
As acting county manager, Hendrix would make $144,144 per year. That's an increase from his deputy county manager position but a $26,644 cut in pay from former County Manager Ron Walker's annual salary of $170,788.
The current Deputy County Manager for Justice Services Dana Hlavac would return to his former position as the county's public defender and have his annual salary drop to $134,992.
The current public defender would be moved back to his position as a regular defense attorney and the salary for the position would drop by $27,248.
Deputy County Manager for Health and Community Services Susie Parel-Duranceau would move back to her position as community development manager but her salary would stay the same - $137,280 per year.
Deputy County Manager for Management Services John Timko's salary would also stay the same because he is under a contract with the county.
The county created the deputy county manager positions during a reorganization of the county's departments in 2009. The reorganization consolidated 17 different county departments into four management teams - Criminal Justice Services, Development Services, Management Services and Health and Community Services - each headed by a deputy county manager who reported directly to the county manager. Each of the four department heads who were chosen to step into the deputy county manager positions received a raise.
Walker touted the reorganization as a way to save the county around $560,000 by eliminating seven unfilled positions and streamlining county offices.
At the time, the Board voted 2 to 1 to approve the reorganization. District 3 Supervisor Buster Johnson was the lone dissenting vote.
New manager
The Board will also discuss starting the search for a new county manager. The search will be funded with money from a "county manger position salary savings fund." If the fund is approved by the Board, it will hold the savings from having Hendrix serve as acting county manager at his current salary of more than $137,000 instead of serving at Walker's former salary of more than $170,000, said County Finance Director John Timko. At the end of Hendrix's six-month contract, the fund should hold more than $13,300.
"I doubt we'll use all that money," Timko said. Any remaining money after the search is finished would go to paying the new county manager's salary.
The Board will also approve a contract with Hendrix to serve as acting county manager until a new manager can be found.
According to information provide to the Board, Hendrix's contract will last six months or until a permanent county manager is hired, which ever comes first. The contract can be extended by the Board if necessary.
The contract also states that Hendrix is free to apply for the county manager's position and if he is not chosen he will be offered a position as assistant county manager to help the new county manager.
If Hendrix doesn't take the assistant county manager position, he will be offered his old position and salary as county engineer.
New duties
The Board will also consider revising some of the duties of the county manager. Some of the changes include noting that the county manager "shall" serve at the pleasure of the Board, removing a requirement that the Board call a special meeting in order to take disciplinary acting against the county manager, and removing a section that would penalize the county supervisors or their staff for talking to county employees who work for the county manager.
The Board meets at 9:30 a.m. today at the County Administration Building, 700 W. Beale St.
More like this story
- Supervisors give thumbs up to reorganization
- New Mohave supervisors keep campaign promise - technically, anyway
- Board of Supervisors combine departments, hope to save money in salaries
- Walker proposes restructuring county departments
- Public comment not allowed: Supervisors quickly, quietly renew Hendrix's contract


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It's been a bit slow going with blogging lately but that doesn't mean to say I haven't been getting some hobby hours in here and there.
With the release of the new Wolf models I've headed back to some of my old favourites and decided to paint what I have Wolf wise before spending some hard earned cash on some more of the little plastic buggers.
|Melts in your mouth not in your hand!
This is the latest Grey Hunter I have finished off. Pretty standard paint out, putting a bit of emphasis on the muzzle of his Multi Melta. I'm a fan of keeping the weaponry quite subdued, its a weapon after all it doesn't need loads of bright colours drawing the attention away from the main body of the model.
|Highlighted selection of a Hunter
Ive used my now trusty 'composure' picture to show off some of the detail in the model, one of the worst bits about painting this guy was 'losing' my squig orange paint. As i use this in the scheme for highlighting the reds I had to make do with fire dragon bright. When I was painting I noted down the scheme I used. As it had been a while since I had painted any Wolves I wanted to make sure I didn't want to make that mistake again.
Ive also spent some time getting into Instagram and seeing what people are up to using that platform of social media. Ive lost hours just looking at pretty pictures, and some not so pretty ones too.
If you're interested you can follow me at Themaninahat10
Here is the kind of thing I'm posting.....
I must also congratulate one of my fellow bloggers Henry at Four go to War! for being included in this months Warhammer Visions Blanchitsu section. Well done Fella!
I've also been trying to take some better photographs of my existing Wolves and thought I'd showcase a couple of the better ones!
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I also tried really hard not to use 'Ready for the Hunt' as a post title!
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Frank and Toofer's simmering feud blows up when Frank starts dressing "Harvard" and professes to have graduated from Toofer's alma mater. Liz finds Jack in her office, who comes clean to her about his romantic involvement with C.C. Liz is shocked that Jack would date a liberal congresswoman who is suing the corporation, but Jack insists that it's serious and invites her to dinner to meet C.C. for real.
After Jenna supposedly wins an award for "Best Actress in a Movie Based on a Musical Based on a Movie", Tracy freaks out because he never won an award and walks off the set. In order to get him working again, Liz tells him that he won an award for the Pacific Rim Emmys! After an ecstatic Tracy leaves, Liz runs into Jenna who ribs her about everything Liz does to appease Tracy.
Frank deliberately infuriates Toofer by dressing more and more like a "Harvard man", and wearing Toofer's exclusive Harvard signet pin on his crotch. Meanwhile, Tracy asks Liz when the Pacific Rim Emmy Awards are so he can fly there to accept in person. Liz tells him that it's happening that night, and that it won't air until 4 a.m. Tracy insists on accepting it by live telecast, and Liz promises she'll set it up.
Liz goes to Jack's for the exclusive dinner, only to find that besides Jack and C.C. the only other guest is Kenneth the page. Jack apologizes, but explains that after thinking about it, he still didn't want anyone to find out, so he could only invite someone with "no influence, or connections, or stature" which pretty much left only Liz. He invited Kenneth so she could have someone to talk to.
Liz goes through with the staged "award ceremony" for Tracy. Tracy snubs Jenna by not thanking her in his acceptance speech, after which he "sharks" Jenna - pulling down her top on what he thinks is broadcast television. Jenna freaks out - because of the snubbing not the sharking - and tells Liz she's sick of it, and that if Tracy can get away with acting like a child, so can she.
C.C. approaches Liz, saying she wants to go public with her love for Jack and is sick of sneaking around to get together with him. Liz insists that she's not the person to ask for advice, but that Jack is crazy about C.C.
Toofer turns the table on Frank, dressing up in Frank's slob chic. They trade mutual insults but neither of them back down and take off the costumes. Meanwhile, C.C. approaches Jack in his office, saying that she settled the lawsuit between the litigants and Jack's corporation so that they can go public with their love. Jack accuses her of doing that just so she can get exposure for her career. C. C. says she should never have taken advice "from a woman who tapes her bra together", which makes Jack think that Liz put the idea in C.C.'s head.
Jenna refuses to work, holing up in her dressing room with her newly assembled gay entourage. As Liz leaves Jenna, Jack berates her for putting the idea of going public in C.C.'s head. In his office, Jack consults with James Carville about being in a relationship with someone in the enemy political camp. Carville tells him he just needs to get ahead of the news "Cajun-style".
Having been dismissed as silly by Liz, Toofer and Frank freak out because they suddenly realize that they don't even really care about their feud - not to mention not wanting to dress like each other anymore - but that if they back down they'll look like fools to the rest of the writing staff. James Carville overhears them in the hall and gives them advice, telling them to do like Karl Rove and change the dialogue, Swift Boat-style. He recommends going after Josh's haircut to take the heat off them.
Liz decides enough is enough and tells Jenna that she's as much work as Tracy, and that she is constantly doing things like pretending to be Jenna's entire fan base and doing things like making fake awards, which she demonstrates by biting a chunk out of Jenna's current award to prove that it's just a cookie. Mollified, Jenna agrees to stop her semi-strike and get back to work. And just as the writers are about to turn on Toofer and Frank for abandoning their "fake feud", they point out Josh's new "frohawk" and suddenly all attention is off of them.
Jack asks C.C. to join him in the executive dining room for lunch, so that he can profess his love for his "liberal hippy dippy mama" to all of his fellow GE execs. His confession spurs a spate of confessions from the conservative execs in the room, including supporting NPR, having children in public schools, and being black. In the spirit of camaraderie, C.C. admits to having voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984, which sends the room into a frenzy of warm applause. Jack's plan to go public has worked.


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The Faith of a Canaanite Woman
21 gAnd Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon. 22 And behold, ha Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, i"Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon." 23 But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and begged him, saying, j"Send her away, for she is crying out after us." 24 He answered, k"I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." 25 But she came and lknelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me." 26 And he answered, "It is not right to take the children's bread and mthrow it to the dogs." 27 She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat nthe crumbs that fall from their masters' table." 28 Then Jesus answered her, "O woman, ogreat is your faith! pBe it done for you as you desire." qAnd her daughter was phealed instantly.5


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I know I couldn't even come close to replicating the recipe from the infamous Wolf Gang Puck, so I don't even try. Instead, I come up with different variations, some utilizing the oven and some that are simple no-bake recipes. I remain successful doing this!
While a classic cheesecake is truly hard to beat, trying to execute them during the summer months isn't something I do unless it's a special request. You're talking about at least an hour or more of baking time, water baths and such. Among other things, heating up your house in the dead of summer. Ummm...no thank you!
During the summer, if I can choose, I opt for the no-bake option. Minimal heat, no water baths and it's ready in a fraction of the time.
However, there is one thing I will fire up my oven for. No second thoughts. Streusel. And, this graham cracker streusel is life changing. Almost as much as that cheesecake I had in Vegas. I could eat this stuff alone, by the handfuls. It's delish! Soooo, you may want to make a little extra just to have some to snack on while you're assembling the cheesecakes! No one else will know ;)!
Once all the cooked ingredients have cooled assembly is a cinch. Sprinkle some crumbled graham cracker streusel on the bottom of a jar, followed by cheesecake filling, blueberry sauce and some fresh blueberries, repeat the process and you're done. Folks, you have a delicious, cool, summery cheesecake in less time than it takes to make a traditional cheesecake!
This is a fun and delicious spin on the traditional cheesecake. I love the two kinds of blueberries, the whole fresh berries and the berry sauce. It helps to add various layers of flavor and texture. But I have to say my favorite part of the whole thing is the streusel. It's crunchy, crispy, salty, caramel-y and buttery.
Say hello to your new favorite dessert for the summer!
No-Bake Blueberry Cheesecake in a Jar
Graham Cracker Streusel-
1/2 Sleeve graham crackers, about 5 whole crackers
3 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp brown sugar
3 Tbsp old fashioned oats
Pinch salt
6 Tbsp butter, melted
For the blueberry sauce-
3/4 Cup fresh or frozen (thawed) blueberries
1 1/2 Tbsp water
2 Tbsp sugar
For the cheesecake-
1 (8oz) Stick cream cheese (Greek yogurt, reduced fat or regular fat are all fine)
1/4 Cup powdered sugar
1 Cup whipping cream
To assemble-
1 - 1 1/2 Cups blueberries
Preheat oven to 350. Line a baking sheet with foil. Set aside.
Using hands, crumble graham crackers over a bowl. Add both sugars, oats and salt and toss to combine. Add melted butter and stir to ensure everything is completely coated. Spread evenly on the prepared baking sheet. Place in the preheated oven and bake for about 12-15 minutes.
The mixture will form a solid sheet and be golden brown. Remove from oven and allow to sit for about 5 minutes. Gently lift the edges up to ensure the streusel doesn't stick. Allow to cool completely and then break into pieces.
For the blueberry sauce-
Place blueberries, water, and sugar in a small saucepan. Toss to coat. Place over medium low heat and allow to cook until berries start to burst, about 3-5 minutes. You want there to be some sauce (blueberry juices) but not super thick. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
For the cheesecake filling-
Pour the cream in a medium bowl and beat on high until stiff peaks begin to form. Set aside.
Place room temperature cream cheese in a bowl and beat on high until smooth. Add the powdered sugar and beat until combined. Pour the whipped cream in the cream cheese mixture and gently fold in until incorporated.
To assemble-
Place a few of the crubles in the bottom of 3 to 4 small mason jars. Add a heaping tablespoon of the cheesecake mixture in each, top with about 3 teaspoons of blueberry sauce, followed by a few blueberries, continue layering once more. Garnish with a few pieces of crumble and serve.
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Over these same years we've witnessed erosion in the confidence of marketing by senior executives throughout the business world (perhaps, with exception, in emerging economies who are discovering the power of marketing). This erosion traces to the feeling among these senior managers that they are unable to determine the value they receive from marketing.
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Former Pakistan players have questioned the manner in which Umar Akmal was omitted from the second ODI against New Zealand, which Pakistan lost to leave the series tied at 1-1. Akmal's name was a surprising omission from the team sheet at the toss - Shoaib Malik took his place - and Younis Khan's explanation for the change was not entirely clear.
Akmal, 19, has had an excellent start to his international career, scoring his maiden ODI century in just his third game and averages 49.83 in the format.
"It can be very discouraging for a young man like Umar since he has been very impressive in recent games for Pakistan and is raring to go against the Kiwis," said Waqar Younis, commentating on the series in the UAE. "It is bound to shake his confidence in the coming games."
Rameez Raja questioned whether the decision was down to Pakistan's rotation policy or something else entirely. "I would like to know the logic behind this and whose decision was it to omit Umar from this game," he said. "This will only hurt Pakistan."
Abqul Qadir, the former Pakistan legspinner and selector, also expressed his surprise. "How can you drop a batsman when he has impressed all around the world with his brilliant temperament? It will only shatter his confidence and we might lose such a talented player if he continuously gets such treatment in the team."
Qadir, who was chief selector for eight months till June this year, said that he had advised the Pakistan board to focus on younger players during his stint, advice which the board ignored. "I had told the PCB that senior players should only play Test matches and we should find fresh legs from our own domestic ODI and Twenty20 tournament, but the cricket board did not listen to my advice."
Salahuddin Ahmed, another former national selector, was also critical of the decision to drop an in-form player like Akmal. "I think the ouster will hurt the confidence of Umar to a large extent. This should have not been done with him at this moment," he told the Karachi-based Dawn. "I will also not support the decision of dropping Shoaib Malik from the first ODI, since he is one of the best allrounders for this version of the game. Pakistan should have gone with Kamran Akmal with any of the regular openers to make room for both Shoaib and Umar for all these matches."


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Summer youth sports draw huge numbers
Youth sports provide a great service and a great opportunity each summer.
Hundreds of kids in our area flock to opportunities to compete, whether it's at the most basic levels in sports like T-ball, or in camps and other options that are available for high school athletes. Below are numbers showing how many New Richmond kids took part in some of the sports that were offered in the community over the summer.
There were 502 kids rostered this summer within the New Richmond Baseball Club. This is for kids in kindergarten through eighth grade, all the way from T-ball to travelling ball at the older levels.
Youth softball numbers continue to be strong in New Richmond. There are 44 girls competing in ages 10-14. There are another 24 girls who are in an in-house travel program, with another 16 girls as part of an in-house development program.
There were approximately 150 kids who took part in youth tennis opportunities over the summer in New Richmond.
The youth program at the New Richmond Golf Club is considered one of the model programs in western Wisconsin and it continues to draw excellent numbers. There are 120 kids who are taking part in the program that teaches the basics of the game, along with golf etiquette.
There were more than 200 kids in the New Richmond youth soccer club, plus another 77 in ages 3-7 who took part this summer. Here is an age breakdown:
6-8 year old boys - 12
6-8 year old girls - 10
9 year old boys - 9 9 year old girls - 14
10 year old boys - 11
10 year old girls - 18
11 year old boys - 18
11 year old girls - 11
12 year old boys - 20
12 year old girls - 8
13 year old boys - 10
13 year old girls - 9
14 year old boys - 8
14 year old girls - 17
15-18 year old boys - 32
The start of school doesn't mean the end of youth sports offerings. Youth football is starting soon. Roughly 180 kids are expected to take part in grades 3-6 in the youth football program. There were approximately 150 kids who took part in the Tiger youth football camp held last week.
High School
It wasn't just the younger kids who were busy with sports over the summer. Nearly every morning of the summer, the high schools were buzzing with activity, which was centered on the weight room. There were more than 300 athletes who took part in the Tiger Strength Program at New Richmond High School.
Approximately 175 athletes took part in Somerset's summer strength program and nearly 200 athletes were part of St. Croix Central's program. The morning activities usually fed into other activities, with gyms being filled with activity for much of the day, along with running, soccer, baseball and other outdoor sports getting in plenty of action over the summer.


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Which Croatian Island Should You Visit? Hint, It Rhymes With Gwar (I Think)
Home to vineyards, all-night discos and perfect swimming conditions, the Croatian island of Hvar (the capital, appropriately enough, is also named Hvar) is the longest and (supposedly) sunniest of the over 1,000 islands in the country.
A long-time visitor explained to the Telegraph that first-time visitors should make sure to head to "the little beaches you can only reach by boat and to the famous Blue Grotto where the brave even snorkel."
A look at the official website lists the main economies on the island to be: tourism, wine-growing, aromatic plants, and olives and figs. Something tells me that if your main economies involve making wine, selling olives and figs, and hosting people wanting to visit your land, you're living somewhere I want to see.


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The night before Christmas the boys
were getting soooo excited for SANTA.
Here they are sprinkling their reindeer food.
{ Look at their poor little eyes ---
we had Christmas "crud" this year:( }
Keegan was so much more aware of Santa this year and said he must have 3 cookies, because they gave him 3 on Max and Ruby:))
And chocolate milk of course!
He Came!!!
And Purple Jazzy got to stay for one more day.
We love our elf!
Santa brought us a TRAMPOLINE!!!
On Christmas morning a thunderstorm came in around 530am...
so we were up EARLY!!
Joshua reading Purple Jazzy's letter:))
Christmas Day was COLD and WET and it even SNOWED!!
No outside play for these little sickies though:(((
It was an awesome day of Rest and Relaxation...
and some PLAY:)
It was a Beautiful WHITE Christmas!


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Harlan Kredit (born 1939) is a multiple award-winning Dutch-American high school teacher from Lynden, Washington. He was the first Washingtonian teacher ever to be inducted into the National Teachers Hall of Fame. He has spent the majority of his career at Lynden Christian High School. Kredit is also a ranger at Yellowstone Park in Wyoming during the summer and a prolific photographer for the National Park Service.
Kredit has gained renown for his "investigative" approach to teaching secondary biology and emphasis on leadership, and for his efforts in fish and wildlife conservation, particularly along Whatcom County's Fishtrap Creek (which eventually dispenses into Puget Sound). His students know him for his familiar exclamation of "It's a great day to be alive!"
Harlan Kredit was born and raised in Lynden, Washington, alongside Fishtrap Creek, which contained "huge numbers of salmon each fall."
Kredit graduated from Calvin College in 1961 and taught high school science education in Hudsonville, Michigan from 1962 to 1972. In 1967 he gained a master's degree in Science Teaching from the College of William and Mary.
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The Financial District, also commonly referred to as FiDi, is a neighborhood located at the southern tip of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, which comprises the offices and headquarters of many of the city's major financial institutions, including the New York Stock Exchange and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Anchored by Wall Street in the Financial District, New York City has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world, and the New York Stock Exchange is the world's largest stock exchange by total market capitalization. Several other major exchanges have or had headquarters in the Financial District, including the New York Mercantile Exchange, NASDAQ, the New York Board of Trade, and the former American Stock Exchange.
The neighborhood roughly overlaps with the boundaries of the New Amsterdam settlement in the late 17th century. The Financial District has witnessed growth in its population to approximately 43,000 as of 2014, nearly double the 23,000 recorded at the 2000 Census.


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Question: I have recently started my home-based business as a notary signing agent. I don't have a whole room, but rather a corner of our studio where I have my computer, printer, scanner, and cell phone set up and do all my business operations. Can I apply the home-office tax deduction? How?
Answer: Most likely you can take a tax deduction for your home office. The IRS rule says that your home must be your "principal place of business," which means you have no other primary workplace–such as a desk in a mortgage broker's office or a cubicle at a bank branch.
It is likely that you travel to client sites to oversee and notarize document signings for lenders and title companies, rather than have clients come to your home to sign loan documents. But if you are administering your business from your home office and use your home office "substantially and regularly," in IRS terminology, it should qualify for the deduction. (Of course, it does not hurt to check with a tax professional about your home-office deduction, just to be safe.)
The second part of the IRS test states that your home office must be used "exclusively for conducting business." It "doesn't matter if it's a table in the kitchen or a whole room, as long as it's only used for the business," says Wenli Wang, a tax partner at Moss Adams in San Francisco. "You can't sign your personal checks there or help your daughter with her homework there."
As a self-employed individual, you will likely file Schedule C, Profit or Loss From Business with your 2013 individual tax return, assuming you are operating as a sole proprietor. The Schedule C is where you'll report your business income and expenses and calculate how much tax you owe, if any. Along with Schedule C, you use Form 8829, Expenses for Business Use of Your Home (PDF) to calculate your home-office deduction.
Generally, deductions for a home office are based on the percentage of your home devoted to business use. So you'll need to measure the area of your studio that you're using to run your business and then figure out what percentage of the total square footage of your home that area constitutes, Wang says. (For instance, if your home office takes up 100 square feet of your 1,000-square-foot studio apartment, you're using 10 percent of your home for your business.)
Starting this tax year, you have two options for claiming the home-office deduction. A simplified reporting option allows you to write off $5 per square foot up to 300 square feet of home-office space, for a total tax deduction of $1,500. If you were to use more than 300 square feet for your home office, or you wanted to take a depreciation deduction for the portion of your home used for business, you'd want to use the standard reporting option.
A comparison of the two options is provided here at the IRS website.


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text: Cynthia (Janice Richardson) doesn't have the easiest life. Her father died when she was young, and her brother, Juan (Carlos Leon), is a drug dealer. Despite this, Cynthia takes inspiration from Anne Frank's famous diary and starts writing poems. Juan sells some of them to a rapper named Deuce (Eric Smith), but when Deuce lands a major record deal, Juan is forced to steal more and more. As Cynthia struggles with Juan, she must also deal with her concerned best friend, Kitty (Jackie Quinones).


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Tuesday, December 1, 2015
"Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer"
I grew up watching Rankin and Bass stop-motion animated holiday television shows and they hold a special place in my heart. "Frosty The Snowman" was narrated by Jimmy Durante, "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" was narrated by Fred Astaire, and the classic special you see here, "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" was narrated by Burl Ives! It airs tonight at 8PM...I'm glad it is still around (it first aired in 1964, the year I was born, so it is as old as me!).
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Targeting prize electoral territory, President Barack Obama called Thursday for America to become the world's top travel destination, making an economic pitch to Florida voters from the Magic Kingdom ahead of an upcoming Republican presidential primary.
"America is open for business," Obama declared in his talk in front of the sun-splashed Cinderella Castle in the heart of Disney World. "We want to welcome you," he said.
Obama issued an executive order seeking to boost tourist visa processing in China and Brazil and took additional steps including promoting national parks and adding business executives to a tourism advisory board.
The goal is to significantly increase travel and tourism in the United States. The White House said that more than 1 million U.S. jobs could be created over the next decade, according to industry projections, if the U.S. increases its share of the international travel market.
"The more folks who visit America, the more Americans we get back to work. It's that simple," Obama said.
Trumpeting America's attractions, Obama rattled off a list of can't-miss tourist sites from Yellowstone and Yosemite national parks to the Golden Gate Bridge and the skyline of his native Chicago.
"We've got the best product to sell. I mean, look at where we are. We've got the most entertaining destinations in the world. This is the land of extraordinary natural wonders," he said.
Beyond the economic case, Obama's trip to the tourist mecca was the latest bid by the White House and his campaign to steal a share of the spotlight from Republicans vying for the GOP presidential nomination. Obama held a live video conference with Iowa voters during the Republican caucus, Vice President Joe Biden held a similar event with voters in New Hampshire on the night of the state's first-in-the-nation primary, and next week Obama will travel to Nevada, which follows Florida on the primary calendar.
Obama's high-profile trip to Florida could help him counter attacks on his record lobbed by Republican presidential candidates during stops across the state, where tough television ads are already airing. And it allows Obama to lay the groundwork for the general election campaign in Florida, a key political battleground he carried in 2008.
The state holds 29 electoral votes, making it a top target for both Obama and his Republican rivals. Florida twice backed Republican George W. Bush, providing the decisive electoral votes in the cliffhanger 2000 election that was decided after a 36-day recount.
Republican front-runner Mitt Romney greeted Obama with an open letter to the president running as an ad in Thursday's editions of the Tampa Bay Times. "Welcome to Florida," Romney says in the ad. "I have a simple question for you: Where are the jobs?"
"Perhaps there's some poetic justice in the president speaking from Fantasyland," Romney added in a conference call with reporters. "Because, I'm afraid, he's been speaking from Fantasyland for some time now."
A recent Quinnipiac University poll showed the president in a near-statistical tie with Romney in Florida in a head-to-head matchup.
Tourism is a key component of the economy in Florida, which is burdened by 10 percent unemployment and rampant home foreclosures. Thursday's tourism and travel announcement was part of the president's "We Can't Wait" initiative aimed at promoting executive actions Obama can take without congressional approval.
The White House said the travel and tourism industry represent 2.7 percent of gross domestic product and 7.5 million jobs in 2010. But the U.S. share of spending by international travelers fell from 17 percent to 11 percent between 2000 and 2010, due to increased competition and changes in global development, as well as security measures imposed after Sept. 11, 2001, according to the White House.
Obama's executive order aims to: boost non-immigrant visa processing capacity in China and Brazil by 40 percent this year; expand a Visa Waiver Program that allows participating nationals to travel to the U.S. for stays of 90 days or less without a visa; appoint a new group of chief executives to the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, and direct an interagency task force to develop recommendations for a National Travel and Tourism Strategy, including promoting national parks and other sites.
That was good news to Brazilian visitors Lilian Lara and Lindbergh Souza, who welcomed the change in visa procedures as they shopped along the resort's streets hours before the president's speech.
"It will make things a whole lot better," said Lara, a 22-year-old student from Sao Paolo, who is working as a summer intern at the theme park resort.
Souza said the visa process was expensive, at $500, and also time consuming, especially for Brazilians who don't live close to consuls in Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo.
"The whole process took me six months," said Souza, who welcomed the president's efforts to speed up the visa process especially for visitors from Brazil and China.
The White House insisted the president's trip to Florida was not purely political, dismissing suggestions that his itinerary was connected to a slate of upcoming Republican primaries. Obama spokesman Jay Carney said there were few tourist destinations "as iconic as Disney World" and the tourist attractions surrounding Orlando represented a fitting place to talk about the president's initiatives.
From Florida, Obama was to fly to New York City for four glitzy campaign fundraisers, including an event at the famed Apollo Theater featuring performances by Al Green and India.Arie. Tickets to that fundraiser start at $100.
The president also was to attend a $35,800 per ticket fundraiser at the home of director Spike Lee, and two small fundraisers at Daniel, an exclusive Manhattan restaurant. Tickets start at $5,000 for the first restaurant fundraiser and $15,000 for the second.
Associated Press writer Mike Schneider contributed to this report.
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This year, students from Russia, United States, Norway, Germany, Italy, China and United Kingdom, have been spending part of July, researching and studying the effects of permafrost thaw on Russian cities.
The young researchers will conduct permafrost studies during next 2 weeks of Siberian summer school.
Next week, the new series of PAGE21 summer blogs will start in order to raise awareness of general public and inform about changing permafrost and its global effects in the 21st century.
This year, PAGE21 young researchers will blog from Herschel Island, Samoylov and Cherskii. They will be available through the PAGE21 website.
Approximately 24% of the exposed land surface in the Northern Hemisphere is permafrost, according to a United Nations Environment Program report. Permafrost, or perennially frozen ground, has been under intense recent study because of the rapid acceleration of permafrost thaw.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Arctic Report Card notes that in 2013 record high permafrost temperatures were recorded in Alaska and Canada, and in 2012 active permafrost layer thickness in west Siberia was the greatest observed since 1996.
To learn more about permafrost research, please access the PAGE21 website.


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She is coloured with copics. Blues B 91,93,95,
The flourish die is from Memory Box .The butterfly is a Joy crafts
Flowers fromWild Orchid and Iamroses. The leaves is a Tattered Lace die that you can get from here.
I hope you like this little girl. Thank you for taking the time to come over to see my cards.


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|Rifugio Selleries in Val Chisone Italy
As the mountain huts of the high country begin to close their doors for the winter I wanted to share with you a few thoughts and photos that have been lurking in my unpublished blog posts since this summer.
It is my humble opinion, that one of the greatest pleasures of mountain life in the Alps of Europe, is the very civilized tradition of hiking up to the mountain huts or rifugios, as they are known here in Italy for a meal, or drink or an overnight stay. The summer season has slipped away before I could extol the joys of hiking and staying up in the part of the world where chamois and Ibex make their home, where the marmots whistle and warn each other that people are on their way, and the occasional grazing contented cow or two will dot the mountainside.
|Cows on the way to Rifugio Selleries - Val Chisone
I want to pique your interest into making sure that you put this experience at the top of your "must do someday" to sooner, rather than later, so you don't miss out on, what I consider to be, a most special experience. There is still time to hike in the high country before the weather sets in and there are a few huts that stay open all winter, but the majority of huts are put to bed for the winter. The people that run them, just like the cows and sheep that have spent their summer grazing up high, come down from their alpine eyries and do something different for the winter.
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I have always had a passion for hiking since probably my teenage years of traipsing around in the woods with friends seeing the wonders of nature even in my backyard in the hollers of backwoods southern Illinois. We camped a bit as a family growing up, but we usually had a little camper and almost never used tents. Tent camping was a revelation. To be able to get to places whose beauty was so breathtaking and humbling, was intoxicating and definitely something I wanted to do as often as possible. Fast forward past the many backpacking trips in the Rockies when I made my home in the high country of Colorado to living in "the" Alps, the Italian alps. Now having lived in the Alps of Slovenia, Switzerland, Austria, and Italy for a number of years, I have been fortunate to be able to revel in the joys of skiing or walking up to a mountain hut just to have lunch.
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Who knew that there would be people living at these huts and serving up food and drink for weary hikers so they wouldn't have to drag all that equipment and food around and just be able to breath in the beauty of the wildflowers, animals and skies of blue and sometimes weather that that makes you wonder what were you thinking? But then you get to the hut and there is hearty sustaining food for the asking, reviving or numbing drinks, warm water (usually, but not always warm) and either bunks or small private rooms to rest those weary bones. I have also been fortunate enough to sometimes stay overnight and on a few occasions been able to link a few days of hut to hut travel. What a fantastic time it is to be able to stay up in the mountains and walk to your next destination knowing you aren't going to have to find a proper tent spot, fire wood or crack out the camp stove and boil something. I must admit that I do sometimes miss that freedom, but hey, you gotta try this style of camping some time. It will spoil you rotten and you are supporting a livelihood of people who are there to provide you this most excellent service. Staying in a mountain hut is not fancy, definitely rustic, and always interesting. That at least has been my experience.
|Rifugio Selleries - Val Chisone
When making your plans remember that most mountain huts are open from approximately June to mid June to the end of September, but that can vary depending on how high up they are and how fast or slowly the snow melts in the spring. We have a variety of huts in our valley and there is a wonderful circular itinerary close to us called the Monviso Tour / Val Pellice that circles Monviso mountain, which is the highest peak in our range of Cozie or Cottian alps. The circular takes a minimum of 5 nights in alpine huts and walks between them are gauged in manageable distances. It is good to factor in a couple of extra days just in case the weather is uncooperative or the snow hasn't gone or arrived unexpectedly. That doesn't always happen but weather does happen, so it is good to have some extra time too just in case you need to use it.
There are various huts listed on the itinerary with numbers to contact once they are back in business for the season. Most huts have quite a lot of room for travelers, so there usually isn't a problem to get a place to sleep, but usually helpful to make a reservation during the busiest period during August when most of Europe is on holiday. My understanding too is that huts can not turn you away even if all of their dedicated beds are full. They must offer floor space and shelter as is the tradition of the high country. I did see that happen once in Austria when we came down in the mooring there were people scattered all over the floor. Probably not the most comfortable night, but better than being outdoors without the proper gear.
Most stays are modestly priced at € 25 for sleeping with breakfast, add another €20 for dinner and if you would like a sack lunch for the trail that is around €10. They provide a blanket and sometimes a pillow, but you need to carry a sheet sack so that you are cocooned in our own person sheet. these are relatively in expensive at most camping stores and are availably here in Pinerolo also. So a nights stay in a dormitory room with three meals comes in around €55 ($70 / £43, prices will fluctuate depending on the exchange rate for non European visitors). These are 2014 prices.
Drinks are usually a separate charge. Some have private rooms for a slightly higher price, usually another €10 person, give or take. The prices reflect the effort it takes to get much of the food supplies up to the huts. Some huts are supplied by trucks, mules or helicopters, so there is some expense involved for the hut masters.
A phrase book is always handy if you are short on languages spoken other than English.
I have always found the food to be good and the drinks, especially the alcoholic ones very welcome.
That is some basic information that you can put into planning when you make your way to the Alps for some breathtaking vistas, chance meetings with others on the trail, flora and fauna, and awe inspiring days out.
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Can't commit to more than the day? Well, there are still a number of huts that make for a great day out with a hearty and delightful lunch up, sometimes, in the clouds and certainly closer to the heavens.
Start planning your hut trip now so you have something exciting to anticipate for the next nine months.
If you have any doubt that it's worth the effort, come and stay with us before your hut to hut adventure and we can help you plan it or visit us afterwards and enjoy a bit of pampering and reentry into putting up your feet and relaxing. We can even teach you to make some local specialties if you want to join in one of our Cooking Together classes whist you are here. Our Bella Baita is a great choice for starting or ending a trip or just making this base camp for your alpine adventures. We'll be in the garden or kitchen whipping something up for your arrival. Ci vediamo presto! (See you soon!)
|You can never have too much fun in the Alps!