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You Know There's More For You. You Haven't Reached Your Version Of An Off The Charts Life Or Business Yet, But It's About To Get Closer…
You deserve a business model that fits your fabulously unique self, with sustainable strategies to help you keep growing.
But right now, you're not making the sales you should be.
Or you're booked out, but working yourself to death.
Or maybe online marketing zaps your mojo, and you feel like a tiny fish.
What you need is a plan.
A clear, step-by-step roadmap for working smarter, making more money, and living the life you've been putting off PLUS, access to the brightest minds in the industry, to give you the firsthand training you need.
In ONE power-packed program we can make it all happen.
It's time to get focused, and get the traffic and cash flow you deserve.
If you had access to some of the smartest and most grounded mentors leading you through experiences and exercises designed to get you unstuck… What would you be able to do?
Maybe you'd sit down and rework your business model? Or research tips for revving up the number of buyers on your site?
You've earned this time to concentrate completely on YOU and your work, and build a step-by-step plan to take your business Off the Charts.
Focused time for you and your business
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Here's a Sneak Peek At What Business Building Strategies You'll Be Learning At Off The Charts
(Ditch self-sabotage, and get ready to rumble.)
You walk in, feeling fab and fired up to make the most of your weekend.
Here's what happens next:
- We'll reveal the negative mindset that may be holding you back from greatness, and figure out a way to get you back in your zone
- Once you've gotten out of your own way, I'll help you rediscover why you're in business in the first place, and why what you want to create IS possible for you
- From there, you'll visualize a detailed 'big picture' of your business, and everything you want to achieve.
(Craft the business model that suits your work patterns & lifestyle)
Once you're free from the 'think small' state of mind, it's time to cement your grand vision for your biz.
You'll learn:
- Which business models will work to your advantage in the short term and long term, and which strategies you can use to get going immediately
- All about pricing – how much to charge, how to use cashflow to further your goals, and how to ask for what you're worth, fearlessly
- Strategies for making everything you do (services and products) fit in a way that makes great profit, and lets you keep your sanity
- How to spot any untapped opportunities that may be waiting for you, and visualize the ideal future of your business.
(Devise a butt-kicking plan for content strategy, higher traffic, & list building)
Now you know where you want to be, let's figure out how to make it.
We'll dive into:
- The best ways to get more traffic to your website, whether you have a budget or not
- Gamechanging social media strategies to take your following to the next level (these are ones you haven't heard before – promise.)
- The grassroots way to grow your list, by having other people do the work for you, and attracting your ideal prospects and customers
- Tried and true automation strategies, tools, and recommendations to save you time – because you've got work to do!
(Learn my best Lussier Launch secrets)
You're ready to sell your stuff. Let's make sure the world knows it.
I'll reveal:
- How to set a realistic marketing or launch goal, and work backwards to make it happen stress-free
- Top ways to generate buzz and build your list while making money, so you don't waste time even if it's your first "launch"
- A step-by-step, behind-the-scenes walk through of what goes on during a campaign, so you can do it your way
- The best campaign and launch tactics out there, and tips for picking the one that fits into your big picture.
(Craft words that inspire the immediate 'YES!')
Let's get your offerings off the shelves, and into the hands of the people who need them.
You'll discover…
- The psychology of selling, what's going on in buyer's heads, and how to make the sale with integrity and authenticity
- The top 3 ways products and services are being sold in today's economy, and which one is right for you
- How to turn fans and prospects into happy customers, whether you have an information product to sell, a retail store, or a service business
- Strategies to capture a stream of ready-to-buy visitors, who are looking for your solutions
(How to grow your business… without working yourself into the ground.)
It's time to build a sustainable plan to help you hit your long-term biz goals.
You'll explore:
- How to create a rock-solid game plan to scale your team and time, using just a simple calendar tool
- What to do if you don't have time to grow your business, because you're barely keeping your head above water
- How to shift to a leverage business model if you're booked to the gills, but still have clients coming to you
- The automated systems that will streamline your business, so you can spend more time doing what you love
- What sustainable success means for you – and how to make it happen.
PLUS, awesome networking opportunities + dance breaks galore.
No more somedays
Too many entrepreneurs have a case of the "somedays"
- "Someday" they'll rake in real money, so they can stop doing work that doesn't inspire them…
- "Someday" they'll make their passion business work, so their spouse can quit their job…
- "Someday" they'll create that profitable product that frees up their time, and gives them more space to create and innovate…
But in the back of their minds, they're terrified "someday" might never happen.
The only way to turn "someday" into today, is to step up and make it happen for yourself.
That's why I created Off the Charts.
Get The Tools to Create The Business and Network of Your Dreams… Straight From the Genius Minds Who've Already Made It Happen
Here's a little perspective on how much your Off the Charts weekend can be worth for your business:
- Pinpointing where you might be leaving serious money on the table, and how to fill the gap.
(Estimated value: $10k – $100k+ in potential extra income)
- Instant access to the previous two Off The Charts Live event recordings (2013 and 2014), with presentations from top marketers and business owners who charge top dollar for their advice.
(Estimated value: $5,000)
- Lifetime access to the full library of recorded calls.
(Estimated value: $1,000)
- Access to the high-level strategy I normally reserve for my 1-1 clients… at my $1,000/hr rate.
(Estimated value: $12,000)
- Breaking through your business "glass ceiling", and figuring out what's keeping you from the money and reach you deserve.
(Estimated value: Priceless)
What people are saying
"Wow! Just wow! This weekend was transformational for me."
"It went so much beyond my expectations. Thank you so much to Nathalie and team for all your hard work in putting it together! I can't wait to get home and start implementing everything I learned." -Julie Waterhouse
"Off The Charts went beyond our expectations!"
"I came with my husband and we made new friends, business partners, and got clients in just 4 days! We are much clearer on where we want our business to be. I wanted to thank you and your awesome team too, they were absolutely fantastic and Robin is such a nice guy! I just loved how you both put yourself out there, and showed us that you always have to get out of your comfort zone if you want to move ahead." -Nathalie Doremieux
"Powerful and life-changing."
"This weekend was my first entree into the business world and connecting with strong women with entrepreneurial visions and the get-go to make it happen." -Linda Gallagher
"Bravo, Bravo… Great event and speakers were absolutely spot on!!"
-Cheryl Salters
"Left fueled with wisdom and inspiration."
"Big Gratitude to you Nathalie Lussier, incredible OFF THE CHARTS presenters and everyone on your team AND – wow! – all the fantastic "digipreneurs" in the room – what knowledge, what energy! So fueled with wisdom and inspiration. Thank you!!!" –
Niika Quistgard
"Just GO! Hell YEAH!!"
"I would attend if it were held in a cardboard box on the side of the road in Birmingham, Alabama… When a rare and amazing opportunity to learn & grow presents itself, you don't ask, "well, where's this taking place…I don't know if I really want to go THERE." You just GO! Hell YEAH!!" -Tanya McGill Freeman
"What an AMAZING experience!"
"Thank you for all the inspiration, conversations, ideas, memories, and new FRIENDS! We are such a gorgeous crowd inside and out, I feel this weekend was a blessing. Nathalie, you've got to do it again!!! THANK YOU!" -Julia Pappas
"I can honestly say I made some wonderful friends for life…"
"I had SUCH an amazing time this weekend. Thank you Nathalie Lussier and everyone else who made this event possible. I was nervous coming into it (also because women intimidate me sometimes, haha) but everyone was SO warm and welcoming and genuinely interested in speaking with me. I can honestly say I made some wonderful friends for life, and some amazing business connections. Thank you everyone!! Wishing you the best in you life and in your business! Woohoo!" -Lauren Garcia
"I'm still feeling the energy!"
"Thank you Nathalie Lussier, team and speakers for putting out such a great program! Your event ROCKED! I'm grateful for the opportunity to be in a room with such amazing people and for the new friendships I made, and learning new things to apply to my business. It's been such a treat, and I'm still feeling the energy! Thank you." -Lori Rochino
"This event blew my mind. This was a life changer."
"The generosity and kindness that flowed from the hearts in the room was not only inspirational and uplifting, but omg I learned so much. Thank you thank you thank you for every person I met, connected with and let me in to their space and energy. This was a life changer." -Lali Mayster
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Liz DiAlto
If Danielle LaPorte and Shakira had a love-child with Mae West, it'd be Liz DiAlto. Liz is a speaker, writer and the creator of Wild Soul Movement, a sensual practice in self-discovery that combines movement, mantra, and meditation.
Her mission is to revolutionize the way women move and nourish their bodies and abolish current body image culture to create new standards for her peers, elders, young women and little girls.
As an entrepreneur for over 12 years, Liz is particularly excited for Off The Charts to help women connect with their bodies and intuition as a source for guidance, creativity and decision making in their businesses.
Sarah Jenks
As a full figured woman who struggled with her weight for years, Sarah Jenks finally found the key that all diets were missing. After bouncing between fad diets and struggling with her body image, Sarah realized she had been "waiting on the weight" – waiting to be thin before she: got the great job, the great wardrobe or the great relationship.
When Sarah stopped waiting on the weight, she finally did all the things that she had put on hold for years.
Sarah's success in creating a happy lifestyle, which also resulted in a dramatic weight loss, is what led her to create Live More Weigh Less™, now the most popular non-diet weight loss program on the internet. It's not about cutting out crème brulee, it's about embracing the life you want, right now. Living a full, meaningful life is a great adventure; when you have adventure in your life, diving into a pint of ice cream seems less exciting.
Licia Morelli
Licia Morelli is an internationally recognized clairvoyant psychic, intuitive coach, speaker, media personality, and writer.
Starting from an early age, Licia has had a deep understanding of the emotional context and energetic disposition of others. After studying Contemplative Psychology at Naropa University and investigating a vast array of healing modalities, Licia began to define and sculpt her psychic gifts. For more than ten years, she has seen clients all over the world for clairvoyant readings and coaching.
Licia is currently awaiting the release of her first children's book on mindfulness and meditation from Tilbury House Publishers in the Spring of 2015. She is the featured resident psychic on morning drive radio at the 92 Moose (92.3 FM or 92moose.fm) morning show and has been a featured blogger in elephant journal, Tiny Buddha, and the Bangor Daily News.
When she's not invading the psychic sphere you can often find Licia eating frozen yogurt and searching for witty banter.
Racheal Cook
Racheal Cook {RYT MBA} is a green smoothie enthusiast, restorative yoga advocate, and business strategist who works with yogi-hearted entrepreneurs to create more ease and less stress in their business.
As the Founder of The Yogipreneur, she's been behind the scenes at lululemon athletica, Yoga Alliance, International Association of Wellness Professionals, and hundreds of healing + helping businesses around the world. Her work has inspired over 10,000 yogis to create profitable businesses they are proud of. Racheal has been featured on Smart Passive Income, The Rise to the Top, Juicy Geniuses, Abundant Yogi LIVE, and Lady Business Radio.
When she's not helping yogis design sustainable businesses, you can find her practicing yoga with her three kidlets, reading everything she can get her hands on, and experimenting with new green smoothie recipes {spinach, avacado, and pineapple is her fav!}.
Nikki Elledge Brown
Nikki Elledge Brown spent seven years as a part-time college professor (and three years serving as a park ranger at Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial) before launching her own business as The Communication Stylist™ in April 2013.
She launched her flagship program A Course About Copy™ in 2014 to help entrepreneurs communicate with clarity, purpose, and good ol' authenticity. (Works like a charm.)
In under two years, Nikki's built a purpose-driven, multi-six-figure business by helping an international community of thousands of entrepreneurs attract their dream clients, one brilliant message at a time…and she couldn't be more thankful.
She's normally based waaay out in Honolulu with her handsome submariner and their alarmingly adorable three-year-old, which is why she's beyond excited to kick off the summer in her home state of Texas talking (copy) shop with YOU.
Kimra Luna
Kimra Luna is the kick ass freedom hacker who disrupts the 9-5 corporate jadedness by becoming the spark plug that ignites entrepreneurial passion for thousands who have always dreamed of, but never had the guts to create their own authentic brand.
From bootstrapping to absolute abundance, Kimra's unconventional way of business building has already proven to be extraordinary, so there's just one question… Are you willing to miss out on the mind-blowing results that she can build for you?
And more…
Plus, we'll also have a handful of Nathalie's powerhouse private clients who will be speaking on topics ranging from building a strong community before you launch, to branding like a pro, having incredible energy all day as an entrepreneur, and much more. And they are…
- Amy Groome – Founder of Mother of Reinvention at ProjectWingmom.com
- Genevieve Gauvin – Founder of TheGreatAnomaly.com
- Jodi Cohen – Nutrition Expert & Founder of VibrantBlueOils.com
- Kelly Edmonds – Instructional Designer & Founder of WiredLearningDesigns.com
- Nathalie Doremieux – Tech Maven & Freelancer Mentor at NathalieDoremieux.com
- Natalia Gabrea – Leader of Movement Before Meds at MovementBeforeMeds.com & NataliaGabrea.com
- Sara Bradford – Rebel Nutritionist & Mentor at NourishRealFood.com
- Suzi Istvan – Brand Strategist & Founder at SocialSuziDesigns.com
- Varelie Croes – Startup Funding Expert at FundingLoft.com
You'll also meet our incredible sponsors!
You started your business for a reason. Maybe it was to get out of the fast lane and do something you love…
The good news? You don't need to do it alone.
The benefits of attending
When you raise your hand for an Off The Charts business, you're in for three high-octane days of genius speaker presentations, hot strategy, and the action steps that will fit into your already-hectic life.
Here's a taste of what you can get done:
- Learn the real world selling tactics your favorite pros use – straight from the horse's mouth.
- Become trained in the art of the Lussier Launch, so you can make real cash the next time you roll out a new offering (instead of hearing crickets)
- Soak in the secrets of copywriting that converts, so you can turn more fans into buyers
- Discover the keys to selling authentically… without the 'ick factor', so you can stay in your integrity, and feel great about making good money
- Design new ways to up your profit with your current offerings
- Create passive income streams to make money while you sleep, using content you already have
- Explore the ground-breaking systems used by business owners around the world, and how to make them work for you
- Craft an actionable success roadmap to completely optimize your business, so you feel re-fueled, and have a guide in place help you stay on track
- Learn best practices and proven frameworks, so you can uncover new ways to increase your traffic, subscribers, and sales
- Revamp your mindset around your business, so you'll be rejuvenated, full of new ideas, and ready to kick some serious booty.
The best part?
It's going to be fun, easy, and totally exhilarating. Because I created Off the Charts with brilliant women like you in mind.
Now, the question is: are you ready to take this time for YOU, so you can step out of confusion, and get the savvy you need to take huge leaps and bounds in your business?
The choice is yours. Make it count.
It's Time To Take Your Business Off The Charts… I Seriously Can't Wait For You To Get Your Hands On These Trainings
This is *your* year.
Attendees paid $1000 plus travel and lodging to get these strategies, so don't miss out on this great opportunity. Now it's your chance to get the entire Off The Charts Live 2015 recordings for just $197, and watch how your business takes off as a result of these ideas.
Together we'll tune in, team up, and take off.
We offer a full 30-day money back guarantee. If you're not loving the trainings that we've shared from Off The Charts Live, just email us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll happily refund your investment.
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Off The Charts is all about the game-changing strategies that will help you take your business online in a big way, OR bring in more customers and clients to your current online business.
We welcome entrepreneurs and small business owners at all stages of the game. Whether you're ready to switch business models, crank your web presence up about a hundred notches, or just start making better money without driving yourself nuts – we've got a seat with your name on it.
Getting your products online doesn't just give you the chance to make extra sales and free up some space in your warehouse. It's the opportunity to reach a global market, and take your work to a whole 'nother level.
You won't just be pumped up. You'll be stoked to open up your calendar, and start taking those steps we outlined in the sessions.
With solid direction, a plan of attack, and easy, actionable steps that will take you from A to oh-so-profitable B… what could be possible for your business?
It might mean tripling your sales within the year.
Or making your next launch a smashing success – even if it's your first.
Or finally having the freedom to focus on the people and work you love, because you're getting paid the way you should be.
These are all things Off The Charts is here to help you achieve.
So now, I ask you: can you afford not to get these event recordings?
- A business model that suits your unique, heart-centered work
- A plan of action broken down into small steps in the right order, so you can start making progress ASAP (as in, the next day!)
- No-bullshit, nothing-held back tips about the best approaches to business, and how to make them fit in with your dreams and lifestyle
- The very best info I share with my clients, and strategies that will actually work in your business
- An expanded view of what's possible for you
The whole point of Off The Charts is to help business owners, newbie or established, transform the way they do business by getting back to profitable basics.
See, when you take the time to master those foundational pieces, you distinguish yourself from the average business owner. Instead, you're an entrepreneur rockin' it out, your way.
Participants on both sides of the spectrum will get a ton out of this training, because it allows you to both build, and refine the most critical aspects of your business.
Also: it helps you get over that "Ooh, new shiny thing!" distraction that comes when you're not quite sure where you're headed next.


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Blossoms are out, but tarts are in trouble
We featured this on Michigan in Pictures this morning…
Beautiful Blossoms 5320-11 by StacyN – MichiganMoments
Cherry blossoms are out a full month early on the Leelanau Peninsula, and "Summer in March" appears to have claimed much of Northern Michigan's 2012 tart cherry crop. Interlochen Public Radio reports:
A spring freeze last week across Northwest Michigan killed more than half of the buds on tart cherry trees. Industry officials estimate the loss for the region in the 50 to 70 percent range. Trees can produce a decent crop if a third of the buds survive. But several factors, including another freeze this spring, could still damage more of the crop before harvest.
Leelanau County saw the heaviest loss, estimated at as high as 90 percent of sour cherries killed in many orchards. But other fruit trees, like apple and sweet cherries, are in decent shape.
Other county crops like apples and sweet cherries appear to be in better shape, but with a hard frost out there this morning, it's probably not over yet.
Check this out bigger and in Stacy's Spring slideshow.

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Finding a Good Home
Still, Erdmann and her mother agree the arrangement suits them. "I'm very lucky," says Greco. "I took care of my mother until she passed away, and I took care of my husband until he passed away, and I have very nice daughters and they're taking care of me."
Erdmann is one of 19 million Americans caring for someone over age 75, typically a parent or a grandparent, who may or may not live with them. Often called "informal caregivers," these adult children or relatives provide 75 to 80 percent of all long-term care in the United States. Many, like Erdmann, struggle to find a living situation that gives parents both the assistance they need and the independence they desire. Historically, older adults have lived on their own, with their children, or in nursing homes. Today's seniors, however, face a rapidly expanding array of housing choices. New programs, services, and technology are helping people to stay in their homes longer. Federal and state lawmakers are shifting funds from nursing homes to home- and community-based health services. Even nursing homes and retirement communities are offering in-home services ranging from housekeeping to telemedicine. The wide assortment is encouraging new models of independent living, such as elder cohousing. Meanwhile, the number of assisted-living facilities has grown substantially in the past decade, as have continuing-care retirement communities, which bring independent living, assisted living, and nursing homes together on one campus. The changes are putting pressure on nursing homes to create smaller, warmer environments.
Still, the search for the right fit for a parent can be frustrating and time-consuming. Not all options are available in every community, and cost structures can be baffling. Here's a look at trends in housing alternatives:
Aging in Place. Suzanne Stark, 80, has a pacemaker, a broken foot, and a 17-pound cat named Zenobia. When the cat had to be rushed to the vet recently, Stark called Beacon Hill Village, a nonprofit association that helps residents of the Boston neighborhood stay in their homes as they age. For a $35 fee, the association dispatched a helper who boxed the cat and drove Stark to the vet. "I have a daughter in Brookline who has two jobs and children who are 5 and 9," says Stark. "A big push for me was to not have her take total responsibility for me."
Forget the old joke about being nice to your kids because they pick out your nursing home. The vast majority of Americans, like Stark, grow old in their own communities. "People want to be where their family and friends are," says Elinor Ginzler, director of livable communities for AARP. Founded in 2001, Beacon Hill Village helps them do that. Open to neighborhood residents over age 50, membership costs $550 a year for individuals or $780 for households. Low- or moderate-income members like Stark, however, pay just $100 a year. Services include things like a weekly ride to the grocery store, nearby exercise classes, and access to a geriatric-care manager. And ther's a concierge service of sorts: Need a plumber? A home-health nurse? Beacon Hill Village will set it up through screened providers at a 10 to 50 percent discount. "I would worry about living alone if I didn't have it," says Stark of her Village membership. Similar organizations are being developed in Denver; Washington, D.C.; Madison, Wis.; and elsewhere.
Other communities are creating a different version of the neighborhood-based retirement program. The state of New York is bringing social workers, health programs, and other aging services directly into some 50 "naturally occurring retirement communities," apartment complexes, housing projects, or neighborhoods where the population is growing older. These small programs have produced big results. For example, in Deepdale Garden Co-op, a Queens apartment complex where 60 percent of residents are over 60, city funds and philanthropic grants helped an onsite team-including a nurse and two social workers-reduce residents' risk of falling by addressing medical factors like low vision and hypertension, as well as installing grab bars and fixing cracked sidewalks. Communities in 20 states are launching similar programs.
In other areas, adult children are increasingly turning to an emerging class of professionals to help aging parents stay in their homes. Geriatric-care managers-typically for-profit social workers or nurses specializing in elder issues-can attend doctor's appointments with the patient, supervise medication, hire and oversee home health assistants, or find and evaluate assisted-living or nursing homes. Typical cost: $80 to $200 an hour (and rarely covered by insurance). The National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (www.caremanager.org) can provide local referrals.
Joel Kazis, 53, of New York arranged for a Boston geriatric-care manager to work with his parents, who live in Boston. For example, she helped them find a geriatric-care physician and evaluate assisted-living facilities. When they opted for an apartment instead, she found a move coordinator, someone to cook and clean, and made sure grab bars were installed in the bathroom. She even found a geriatric-care manager to assist the couple when they spent a few months in Florida. His folks, Kazis says, "needed additional resources, and I needed someone familiar with those resources."
Even nursing home and assisted living companies are jumping on board. For example, the Sears Methodist Retirement System in Abilene, Texas, a nonprofit that runs 12 senior living facilities, is currently testing a high-tech service called Seniors Safe@Home. It uses sensors to monitor whether clients have gotten out of bed, used the bathroom, or visited the fridge. Automated systems dispense medications and monitor conditions like blood pressure and blood sugar levels. Data are screened by a call center and uploaded to a website that clients' children can access.
Boomerang Parents. Forget kids who head straight from college to their old bedrooms. Out of 36 million people age 65 or older, about 13 percent live with their adult children or other family members. But the older generation requires a lot more hand-holding. When Greco moved in with her daughter, she was generally in good health, except for severe arthritis and high blood pressure. Over the years, however, Erdmann has found herself doing more and more for her mother. She manages her mother's three medications, watching to make sure she takes each one. Always fearful of falls, she's never far away when her mother bathes. She drives Greco to doctor's appointments, fills out all her medical forms, and spends hours on the phone every month sorting out billing or insurance problems. Meanwhile, she says, her mother has started to suffer from short-term memory loss, and Erdmann has become less comfortable leaving her alone during the day.
Such gradual increases in care are one reason hy many adult children don't think of themselves as caregivers. "They say, 'I'm just doing what any good daughter would do,'" says Gail Gibson Hunt, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving, a nonprofit coalition of caregiving organizations. As a result, she says, adult children don't think to look for help. That omission can have serious consequences for both the caregiver and the aging parents, since stress can harm caregiver health and lead to a lower quality of care.
One thing that can help ease the strain is proper training. The American Red Cross, hospitals, and nonprofit aging organizations offer courses for family caregivers that cover safety, nutrition, and legal and financial issues. Professional help can also be a godsend. Roughly 1.4 million people receive home-health services, sometimes paid for by Medicare, Medicaid, HMOs, or other insurance. Senior-living companies are also starting to offer home-based services. In Ohio, Kendal Corp., a Pennsylvania firm that owns 14 senior communities, has launched Kendal at Home, which, for an initial membership fee starting at $7,600, plus a monthly fee of $294, offers a lifetime guarantee to provide long-term care services.
States and federal lawmakers are recognizing the home trend. Vermont, for example, is already paying some family members $10 an hour to provide home care to Medicaid recipients who might otherwise be in nursing homes. Other states are following suit, and the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has designated $1.75 billion in grants to encourage them. Most of these programs, however, are in the early stages and apply only to very low-income seniors.
Perhaps more immediately helpful for relieving the strain is respite care, someone to take over while caregivers take a deserved break. Some people arrange for a relative or paid caregiver to come. Others find assisted-living facilities that will take a family member for a short stay. In some communities, local Area Agencies on Aging pay for respite care.
Senior Cohousing. In 2002, a group of longtime friends in Davis, Calif., all in their 70s and 80s, sat down to talk about the future. Many had worked together at the University of California-Davis. Now, they faced a new challenge: "We wanted to spend our last years together and help each other as we aged,"says John Jungerman, 84, a retired physics professor from UC-Davis.
Jungerman and his friends are getting their wish. After four years of negotiating for property, lobbying the city council for residential zoning, and coordinating with architects and builders, he and his wife, Nancy, were the first of 13 residents to move into Glacier Circle, the country's first elder cohousing community. Residents own their apartment or townhome (there are eight attached residences, all wheelchair accessible) and a portion of a separate common house that includes a kitchen, dining and living rooms, and a housekeeper's apartment. They also share chores and maintenance expenses. "We've been talking about sharing the cost of a nurse if several of us needed one," he says. Each home has its own kitchen, but residents share three meals a week-two of them whipped up by a professional cook-together in the common house. On Thursdays, it's potluck. In addition to spontaneous after-dinner socializing and movies, the residents meet every week to discuss new furniture for the common house, hiring a gardener, or business at hand. At least 20 other groups around the country are starting their own cohousing communities.
Like any group endeavor, cohousing presents daunting challenges. First, it's costly. Each family spent $350,000 to $450,000. Estate planning is tricky. All want heirs to be able to sell the property without changing the spirit of the community. And making group decisions can be difficult. "We definitely have more work on our hands than people who move into big retirement faciliies," says Jungerman. "But it keeps our lives feeling meaningful."
Assisted Living, Continuing Care. In 2003, Nina Liebman, 65, of New York City gave her 93-year-old father, Jules Roskin, a choice: move to an assisted-living facility or agree to a home health aide. The Albuquerque, N.M., resident suffered from congestive heart failure and Liebman felt it was no longer safe for him to live alone. He opted for a health aide, who gave him his medications and helped him with dressing and grooming, as well as shopping, cooking, and cleaning. But he resented the lack of privacy. Next he agreed to try assisted living. The decision turned out to be the right one, allowing Roskin to keep his fiercely guarded privacy until his death in 2004. "People came when he needed them," says Liebman. "Someone could help him, but then he could be by himself. That was very important to him."
An assisted-living residence charges a monthly fee-the national average is $2,968, according to MetLife-for room, board, and services such as laundry, transportation, housekeeping, and medication management. The fee goes up for higher levels of service, such as meals delivered to your apartment or dementia care.
Some assisted-living homes are part of continuing-care retirement communities. These promise to care for residents for the remainder of their lives; they move to the various facilities as their needs demand. Unlike assisted-living facilities, most CCRCs don't simply charge rent and a service fee. Instead, seniors pay a hefty entrance fee, which can range from $70,000 to more than $1 million. In addition, there is a monthly fee that may or may not increase as the resident's level of care goes up. If this sounds like an insurance policy, there's a reason: Most CCRCs are actually considered a form of insurance and are overseen by state insurance regulators, as well as by state agencies that license assisted-living and nursing homes. Because of the complexity of fee structures, if you and your parent decide to go with assisted living or a CCRC, it's critical to understand what it will cost, what services are provided, and how those costs will change if your parent needs additional care.
The security of assisted living and CCRCs can bring adult children peace of mind, while older parents often like the idea of no home upkeep. "I'd maintained a home for 62 years, and I really didn't want the responsibility anymore," says Nellie Snook, 84, who moved into a CCRC in Chapel Hill, N.C., in 2004. But assisted living and CCRCs may not suit those who don't like crowds. And you must be in good health to join. Most CCRCs accept only new residents who can start off in independent living.
Nursing homes. After Kathleen Berthay's husband died four years ago, Berthay moved to a 140-bed nursing home in Tupelo, Miss. At the time, Berthay, who is blind, could reasonably have expected to live the rest of her days in a shared, hospital-style room eating meals delivered on a tray. Instead, as part of a "Green House" project launched by Mississippi Methodist Senior Services in Tupelo, Berthay, 81, moved out of the home in 2003 and into a house she shares with just nine other people. Berthay eats with her housemates at a common table in the dining room, sharing meals prepared by a certified nurses'aide who also cleans the house and helps Berthay and other residents with bathing, dressing, and other daily tasks. When doctors and physical therapists visit, they ring the doorbell.
"This is the best thing that ever happened to old people," Berthay says. The Green Houses-so named to connote growth and life-have yielded impressive results since they first opened in 2003. "The Green Houses are revolutionizing the model of care within nursing homes," says Rosalie Kane, a professor of public health at the University of Minnesota. Her research shows that compared with nursing home residents, people living in the reen Houses score better on measures of quality of life and show slower declines in their abilities to perform daily tasks.
Efforts are underway to launch Green House projects in every state. Traditional nursing homes are scrambling to keep up. Some are starting to offer private rooms, replacing dinner trays with dining room buffets, and training staff to be more autonomous. At a growing number of nursing homes run by Beverly Living and Golden Living, hospital-style care is giving way to "neighborhoods," where large institutions are subdivided into groups of 12 to 24 residents, who take part in choosing music or planning activities and share family-style meals in small dining rooms. And the companies are aiming to have the same staff take care of the same residents all the time.
When considering nursing homes, look for these types of efforts to make care more homey and personal. "You don't have to trade in your ticket to quality of life to get a certain level of personal care and monitoring of healthcare," says Kane. That's a lesson that adult children are learning in their search for the best old-age care. "All the time I was helping my father, I was thinking, 'What if this were me? Would I want to be in a place like this?'" says Liebman. The answers that baby boomers arrive at will no doubt shape the future of aging as they demand better care for their parents and, eventually, for themselves.
These websites offer tips and advice for adult children caring for aging parents:
www.eldercare.gov The federal Eldercare Locator can put caregivers in touch with local senior services.
www.familycaregiving101.org Two associations teamed up to help new caregivers learn the ins and outs of their roles.
www.longtermcare.gov This new federal website spells out senior living alternatives and the various payment options.
www.medicare.gov/nhcompare Compare nursing home quality data and find state inspection agencies at this federal website.
www.strengthforcaring.com Connect and chat with other caregivers at this site, sponsored by Johnson & Johnson.
By Christine Larson


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Morgan Moore MOULDER, Congress, MO
MOULDER, Morgan Moore, a Representative from Missouri; born in Linn Creek, Camden County, Mo., August 31, 1904; attended the public schools of Linn Creek and Lebanon, Mo., and the University of Missouri at Columbia; was graduated from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., LL.B., 1927; was admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced the practice of law in Linn Creek, Mo.; elected prosecuting attorney of Camden County, Mo., in 1928; reelected for three succeeding terms and served until 1938, when he returned to the private practice of law; special assistant to the United States attorney for the western district of Missouri 1943-1946; appointed by the Governor in April 1947 to serve as a judge of the circuit court in the eighteenth judicial circuit and served until December 31, 1948; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the six succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1963); was not a candidate for reelection in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; resumed the practice of law in Camdenton, Mo., where he died November 12, 1976; interment in Old Linn Creek Cemetery, near Camdenton.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present


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Confirmed: NO GLOBAL WARMING in 17 Years and 9 Months
Over five years ago Al Gore predicted the North Polar Ice Cap would be completely ice free in five years. Gore made the prediction to a German audience in 2008. He told them that "the entire North 'polarized' cap will disappear in 5 years."
"Five Years"
This wasn't the only time Gore made his ice-free prediction. Gore's been predicting this since 2007. That means that this year the North Pole should be completely melted by now.
Not only is the North Polar cap not melted away – global warming is not happening either.
There has been no global warming in 17 years and 9 months.
Climate Depot reported:
According to the RSS satellite data, whose value for April 2014 is just in, the global warming trend in the 17 years 9 months since August 1996 is zero. The 212 months without global warming represents more than half the 423-month satellite data record, which began in January 1979. No one now in high school has lived through global warming.
Key facts about global temperature:
** The RSS satellite dataset shows no global warming at all for 213 months from August 1996 to April 2014. That is more than half the entire 423-month satellite record.
** The fastest centennial warming rate was in Central England from 1663-1762, at 0.9 Cº per century – before the industrial revolution began. It cannot have been our fault.
** The global warming trend since 1900 is equivalent to 0.8 Cº per century. This is well within natural variability and may not have much to do with us.
** The fastest warming trend lasting ten years or more occurred over the 40 years from 1694-1733 in Central England. It was equivalent to 4.3 Cº per century.
** Since 1950, when a human influence on global temperature first became theoretically possible, the global warming trend is equivalent to 1.2 Cº per century.
** The fastest warming rate lasting ten years or more since 1950 occurred over the 33 years from 1974 to 2006. It was equivalent to 2.0 Cº per century.
** In 1990, the IPCC's mid-range prediction of the near-term warming trend was equivalent to 3.5 Cº per century.
** The global warming trend since 1990, when the IPCC wrote its first report, is equivalent to 1.4 Cº per century – two-fifths of what the IPCC had then predicted.
** In 2013 the IPCC's new mid-range prediction of the near-term warming trend was for warming at a rate equivalent to 1.7 Cº per century – just half its 1990 prediction.
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Thomas Beard
Thomas Beard (died 1632) was an English clergyman and theologian, of Puritan views. He is known as the author of The Theatre of Gods Judgements, and the schoolmaster of Oliver Cromwell at Huntingdon.
He was, it is believed, a native of Huntingdon, but the date of his birth is unknown. He received his education at Jesus College, Cambridge,[1] where he was a sizar and matriculated in 1584. He graduated B.A. in 1588, M.A. in 1591, B.D. in 1602 and D.D. in 1614.[2] He became rector of Kimbolton in 1595. On 21 January 1598 he was collated to the rectory of Hengrave, Suffolk, which he held for a very short time, moving as rector to Aythorp Roothing, Essex, later in the year. In 1605, Beard became master of Huntingdon hospital and grammar school, where he remained for twenty years.[2] It was at this school that Cromwell was educated from around 1604, and was prepared for entrance to Cambridge; he acted in Beard's school plays, and Beard became a friend of the Cromwell family.[3] In March 1614, Beard asked Sir Robert Bruce Cotton for the rectory of Conington, being tired of teaching. He held various rectories with his teaching job, in the end at Wistow where he settled in 1618 for the rest of his life. In 1626, Beard also held a popular lectureship at Huntingdon.
In 1628, when Richard Neile went before the House of Commons of England accused of anti-puritan practices, Beard was summoned as a witness against him. Cromwell's speech in the debate on the subject covers his likely testimony (the parliament was dissolved before Beard could testify). Beard had been appointed in 1617 to preach a sermon on the Sunday after Easter in London, in which, according to custom, he was to recapitulate three sermons previously preached before the lord mayor from an open pulpit in Spital Square. William Alabaster was the preacher whom Beard had to follow, but he announced his intention of exposing Alabaster's support of certain tenets of popery. On Cromwell's account, Neile as Beard's diocesan bishop (diocese of Lincoln) told him not to preach against Alabaster; and reprimanded him later when on the advice of Nicholas Felton he did so.
In 1630 he was made a justice of the peace for the county. He was married, and had children by Mary Heriman; they were married 9 July 1628. Edward Wedlake Brayley in his Beauties of England and Wales recorded the inscription on a brass in the nave of All Saints' Church, Huntingdon, to Beard's memory. In 1633 Archbishop William Laud succeeded in putting the lectureship down.
Beard's earliest and most famous book first appeared in 1597;[4] a work in the tradition of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, it was popular, plagiarised and pirated.[5] It was itself translated, in part, from the Histoires memorables des grans et merveilleux jugemens et punitions de Dieu by Jean de Chassanion (1531–1598), a Huguenot pastor from Monistrol-sur-Loire,[6] from which it derives its account of the bullet catch trick.[7] [8]
Chassingnon's book provided hundreds of the examples, while Beard added in a scattering from other sources closer to home: Foxe, John Stowe, Raphael Holinshed, pamphlets and ballads.[9] Beard's exposition of the workings of Providence against sinners and persecutors has been called "theatrical moralism".[10] It was in the Theatre of Judgement that first appeared an account of Christopher Marlowe's death; Beard takes Marlowe to be the first modern atheist.[11] Other editions followed in 1612 and 1631, with additions, and a fourth edition in folio of 1648.
In 1625 he published a work on the Pope as Antichrist.[12] Beard left in manuscript an Evangelical Tragoedie: or, A Harmonie of the Passion of Christ, according to the four Evangelistes. A Latin comedy Pedantius[13] has been attributed to him, but also to Walter Hawkesworth, Anthony Wingfield and (by modern scholars) to Edward Forsett.[14]
- ^ Hill, p. 38.
- ^ a b "Beard, Thomas (BRT584T)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Hill, pp. 37-8.
- ^ The Theatre of Gods Iudgements; or, a Collection of Histories out of Sacred, Ecclesiastical, and Prophane Authors, concerning the admirable iudgements of God upon the transgressours of his commandements. Translated out of French, and avgmented by more than three hundred Examples, by Th. Beard. London, printed by Adam Islip.
- ^ Michael MacDonald, Terence R. Murphy, Sleepless Souls (1990), p. 33.
- ^ Pastors of the reformed church in France Huguenots de France, le site portail de la genealogie protestante en France
- ^ The Bullet Catch by Ricky Smith Conjuring Arts Research Center
- ^ Exact quote from Beards "The Theatre of Gods Judgements" on bullet catch by Coulen of Lorraine by Dorothy Dietrich and Dick Brookz, Houdini Museum Official Bullet Catch Site
- ^ Randall Martin, Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England (2007), p. 87.
- ^ David Mikics, The Limits of Moralizing (1994), p. 152.
- ^ David Riggs, The World of Christopher Marlowe, p. 2 and p. 4.
- ^ Antichrist the Pope of Rome; or the Pope of Rome is Antichrist. Proved in two treatises. In the first, by a full definition of Antichrist, by a plain application of his definition agreeing with the pope, by the weaknesse of the arguments of Bellarmine, Florimond, Raymond, and others, which are here fully answered.
- ^ Pedantius, Comoedia olim Cantab, acta in Coll. Trin. nunquam ante haec typis evulgata, 1631.
- ^ Edward Forsett's Pedantius (1581) The Latin Library
- Christopher Hill (1972), God's Englishman
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Beard, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.