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Big happenings this weekend around these parts. Or, big to us: Coco finally went down the stairs by herself.

It’s only five steps, off the back screen door, and Monkey zooms down them, of course, often launching himself off on the third one, skipping the bottom two altogether. But because Coco is still a puppy (she’s about three and a half months old now) she’s still kind of short, and only weighs about twelve pounds, if that. Lately, though, you could tell she WANTED to go down the stairs alone, that the fact that we had to scoop her up and carry her while Monkey shot ahead was cramping her style. So we started putting her on the last step, then the next one up, which she handled fine. But if you just opened the door, she froze. She’d creep to the edge, look down the steps, then up and me, and bark before scooting backwards, as if she’d changed her mind, she wasn’t interested in going outside anymore.

I did my best. I’d go down the stairs and shout up encouragement, the kind of thing that I’d want to hear if I was facing something I was scared of, but knew I’d have to do eventually. “You can do it!” I’d yell. “Be brave! Be strong!” She did not look either, and after awhile, I’d start worrying what the neighbors were thinking and just go up and get her. “It’s okay,” I’d reassure her, as I plopped her down on a lower step. “You’ll get it when you’re ready. These things take time.” Because it’s really true: you can psych yourself up, but you can also psych yourself out. It’s not easy to just move forward when whatever you’re facing scares you to pieces, and sometimes a lot of lead up is not helpful. It’s like with writing. I’m always terrified when I start a book—and while I’m writing one, and after it’s finished, you get the point—but the bigger deal I make of it, the harder it is. “Today, I will begin my book,” I think, and and then I just sit there, staring at the cursor. I am learning, lately, that sometimes you have to just sneak up on stuff, surprise the world unaware. And in doing so, you also surprise yourself, often in the best way, and one you never would have imagined possible.

I think Coco agrees with this, because on Friday, after we got home from dinner, my husband took the dogs outside. He opened the door, Monkey ran down, and Coco…followed. Right down the steps, out into the yard, as if she’d been doing it all her life. It was huge. Now, she’s had a couple of setbacks since, moments I can tell she is nervous, when she pauses, and starts to back up. But more often than not, she just does it. Just like that. Nice.

Meanwhile, to wrap things up, a confession and a question. First, because I am so ashamed I have to get it off my chest: this weekend, I got sucked into the televised trainwreck that is Being Bobby Brown. I can’t even expound, I’m so embarrassed. If you watch this show, you know what I mean. And here I was all proud of myself for giving up The Surreal Life. This is worse, people. MUCH worse.

Now onto the question (whew!): because I am slack, I did not check the comments yesterday, and so of course missed the one someone posted about how there was supposed to be a story on Dateline that had something to do with YA Fiction. Apparently, they flashed the Keeping the Moon cover? Did anyone see this? Or any part of it? If you did, I’m dying to know details. Because I was probably…watching Being Bobby Brown. No! No, I was immersed in my dog triumphing over her fears. That sounds better, anyway. Right?

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Busy day, running late, blah blah blah. I won’t bore you with specifics. Instead, I will share two thoughts. First, I know it’s not cool to be on AOL, and I know I get mocked whenever I give out my address there. I’ve accepted this, and moved on. But lately, I’ve also had to look at this picture whenever I go to log in:

He looks like a total frat boy, like he’s kicking back chillin’ before tonight’s kegger. I just don’t know WHAT he has to do with my email. Who is this person? Shouldn’t there be a picture of someone looking productive, and not high? Maybe this is just me. Maybe I have entirely too many bones to pick with AOL. It’s entirely possible. But it bugs me.

Another thing that bugs me—and I hate to say it—the O.C. lately. Last night, me and my friend Courtney sat and watched together, and we both GROANED when Ryan punched out that guy on the beach. Enough with the fisticuffs! Can’t Ryan do anything other than rescue Marissa and thwart his own future in the process? I’m tired of it. Give him, and us, something new. PLEASE. We know you have it in you: the new Sandy-Newport group storyline looks interesting, and Julie Cooper was dead on last night. Get Ryan out of the rut, and surprise us. I’m begging you.

Okay, enough complaining. It’s a beautiful day, we’re having a big party for my dad’s retirement this weekend, and when it’s all said and done I’m going to sit back and watch the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movie, which I bought for myself yesterday at Target. Quality viewing, no fights—I don’t think?—and no smirking AOL frat boys. Nice.

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I’ve spent the last week or so trying to get a good picture for our Christmas Card. Sounds easy, right? Grab the camera, position the dogs–for it’s always the dogs on the card, not us—snap the shot. Yeah, right.

The only way to get my dogs to pose, ever, is to bribe them with food. Sometimes even then, they’re twitchy and distracted. Even worse, because of the food they’re often also drooling, which is just not very festive. If I’m lucky, I occasionally get one shot when they don’t have their eyes closed, are yawning, or lunging at each other just as the flash pops. But it usually takes me WEEKS for this to happen, and this year I am determined to be organized and non-stressed for the holidays. Of course, if I really wanted to relax, I’d skip doing the cards altogether. I mean, would anyone REALLY care? What’s one more card? People’s mantles and fridges are crowded enough already, and it’s not like I have a huge family and tons of news to report. (Some people I know hate those holiday letters, detailing what every person in the household has been up to, but they kind of fascinate me. Why, I have no idea.) I actually started sending Christmas cards in college (nerd alert!) but back then I just bought a box at the store. I remember one year, having just barely survived exams, I had to to jump into the car with my then boyfriend/now husband to drive up to visit his mom in Maryland. I brought my cards with me and addressed and stamped them all the way up I-95. So lame, right? Not as bad as drooling, but still, not festive.

Every year I consider skipping cards, though, I just can’t do it. It’s like decorating a tree, or having our annual party: sure, a little stressful, extra work and all, but it’s part of the holiday, our traditions. Like some part of me thinks if I don’t do the cards, or pull out the ornaments, the holiday just won’t happen. So maybe it isn’t about whether someone else will miss my cards: I would. So I’ll send them anyway, even I do curse myself while I wait in line at the post office, even if they get chucked to the bottom of the pile, buried under the weight of all those long, detailed What We Did This Year letters, even if I can’t get a good picture, and have to go with, say something like this:

…where Monkey looks depressed and Coco, well, a bit drunk. Better get out the biscuits and the camera again. Let the drooling begin!

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Breaking news: Steve Sanders is going to be on Dancing with the Stars. (That’s 90210’s Ian Ziering, for those of you not obsessed like myself.) Also: Joey Fatone and Heather Mills. Take that, Paul McCartney! Or, maybe don’t.

Truth be told, I’ve never been able to get into this show, even though I have watched it a couple of times. And this year, I’m having a hard enough time keeping up with Idol—I didn’t even watch last night, have to catch up tonight—without taking on any more shows that are a two-day commitment. I mean, I do have a life. Even if it doesn’t always seem like it.

Okay, so maybe I DON’T have a life, as I am currently facing a serious dilemma about tomorrow night. At nine pm, do I watch the final episode of the Grey’s Anatomy three parter, the previous ep of which left us totally hanging last week, wondering if a major character is going to die? Or, do I flip over to Fox, and watch the final FINAL episode of The O.C. as it goes off the air? Tough decision, people. The practical thing to do would be to watch Grey’s, then the O.C., but I have to be up super early on Friday am so I’m not sure this is doable. If I wait to watch it, though, I will have to be on a total internet blackout so as to avoid spoilers about how it all ends, which will be near impossible. Likewise, if i wait to watch Grey’s, I’ll certainly hear what happened, probably even from my husband, who hates the O.C. and therefore will be watching it even if I don’t. People who have those KILL YOUR TELEVISION bumper stickers don’t have these problems, do they? Hmmm. Food for thought, at any rate.

Finally, Britney has checked herself back into rehab. Do you care about this? Probably not. Should I? Probably not either. But I will say that I was happy to hear it, and that I really, really hope she just disappears for awhile. No club hopping, no US Weekly covers, no scandals. Just take a break, get better, heal. I know some people were bothered by the fact that I described her shaving her head as a radical act. As someone pointed out, rightly, “It’s just hair,” and this is true. But it’s one thing to just decide to shave your head because you’re ready for a change, to signify a new start, but another when you do it as part of a sequence of questionable behavoir (drinking too much in public, not wearing underwear, hanging out with a bad crowd, etc). Everything is affected by context, right? Of course, it doesn’t help a person going through a hard time to have everyone weighing in, which is why here, today, I am making you this pledge: this is the last I will write about Brit in this space. (A pause while the “Hallelujahs!” finish echoing, please.) I think the girl just needs to be left alone, and so I am going to do my part, starting right now. Does this mean I do have a life? Maybe not. But it’s a start, right?

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The Friday Five!

1. Okay, so it IS Friday, right? I’ve been so thrown off of the days, not to mention the date lately…I swear, we’ve been so busy scrambling with everything it’s like it all just runs together. But okay, yes, Friday. Good to know!

2. My daughter has suddenly decided that she does not like her breakfast anymore. Like, at all. Used to be, she’d happily wolf down her multigrain rice cereal and bananas, but now she’s on a hunger strike and won’t tolerate either. Is this normal for nine months? She does like Cheerios, but you can’t just eat Cheerios. Can you? I have no idea how all this works, I swear. I can’t believe they let me come home with an actual human to raise. It’s kind of mind boggling, honestly. And I LOVE bananas, so this clearly isn’t my genes talking.

3. Weeds is back on Showtime, and I love it, as always. But ever since my friend Courtney pointed out to me that Mary Louise Parker almost ALWAYS is chewing a straw, or eating something, or jingling ice in a cup, I cannot focus on anything else. Is this supposed to be a character trait? Or is it just a M-L P. thing? It’s like when someone smacks their gum: once you hear it, you can hear NOTHING ELSE, ever. That said, loved the premiere, totally psyched for the new season. Straw chewing and all.

4. Speaking of TV, I keep seeing ads for this hospital reality show called Hopkins which is apparently like a real-life Grey’s Anatomy (or at least that’s how they’re plugging it) and is starting soon. Now, I know it’s summer and there’s not much on, but I just don’t know about this. I feel like I’ve spent enough time lately thinking about all things medical, and don’t know if I have it in me for more health-related drama. Those shows are always more fun when they have nothing to do with your actual life. Following that logic, though, what I SHOULD be watching is So You Think You Can Dance, as I am doing no dancing whatsoever lately. Also, my friend Courtney and awesome writer Sara Zarr are both totally addicted to it, and we tend to like the same things. So, yes. Dancing over Doctors. Now there’s an idea for a show!

5. Finally, someone recently sent me the link to this video a reader put together for This Lullaby, and I liked it so much I have to share. I don’t know who or where you are, but thank you:

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Two full days left of 2009, and everywhere I look people are doing recaps of the year. The big events, who died, who made the news, the heartbreaking and heartwarming moments. I’ll spare you doing that here, as I honestly don’t remember much of the year, as I spend it either running around like a crazy person OR trying desperately to get rested up from running around like said crazy person. But I did have a really good year, that I know. My book did really well, my daughter is healthy and happy (aside from the occasional tantrum) I have an awesome new writing space (pics to come in new year, once it’s totally done!) and basketball season is really only just beginning. Plus, I converted yet another person to Friday Night Lights, my friend Courtney, and now she is hooked. Hooray!

There are a few things I’ve decided I really want to try to leave in 2009, though. Like guilt. I have a lot of it, for various reasons and various things, and it’s really exhausting, like carrying around a backpack full of heavy rocks. I am ready to put it down and move on, lighter. So I think I will write down all the things I’ve felt guilty about this year, put the paper in the fire on New Years Eve, and send it up the chimney to the sky. Hopefully my guilt will not settle back down over me in ash form. Blow away, blow away!

There are some pressing questions, though, that have not yet been answered in these last twelve months. Things I just, you know, wonder about, and hope to have answers for in the coming year, or at least sometime. Such as:

1. Why are all towels ENORMOUS these days? Twice I have gone to buy new towels, because we really need them, and they are all literally twice as big as my old ones. Are we bigger, or something? Do we need towels the size of tablecloths, really? Really?

2. In the Max and Ruby books, and TV show—which my daughter is now addicted to—where are their parents? There’s no mention of them, only Grandma. Someone is paying the mortgage on that nice house and paying for Bunny Scouts. It’s such a cute show, but I worry they’ve been abandoned, or something.

3. Does anyone other than me still have a landline phone? And by having one, am I officially old? None of my friends under 30 have one anymore. It’s like regular bath towels, just out of fashion, or something.

4. Do celebrity moms really find motherhood “perfectly overwhelming” and “just amazing” all the time, or do they have moments when they, too, want to tear their hair out? Also, does Jennifer Lopez REALLY have no help at all with her twins? And if so, how did she train for that triathalon? With a double stroller?

5. How many lip glosses and lipsticks should an average person have? Is there an actual number? I have a feeling that it is not fourteen, which is where I am at currently. I’m thinking it is in single digits, whatever it is. Uh-oh.

6. Will this blog ever become more high minded, covering politics and history and providing insightful commentary on world events?

7. Will my daughter ever learn to say “please,” without having to be prompted to do so? Because I am beginning to sound like a serious broken record. Also, like my mother. Thanks for the patience, Mom. This one’s for you: Please!

8. Will I ever finish another novel?

I don’t have the answers for these questions. Maybe I will next year. We’ll see, I guess. Until then, I hope you all have a VERY safe and happy New Year’s Eve, guilt-free, small-toweled, talking on your landline. Or, not. You know, whatever works for you.

Have a great day, everyone!

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Letter to the Editor – News Corp

To the Editor – Courier Mail/News.com.au/Perth Now/News Corp

Re: “New age medicine of Serge Benhayon leaves a trail of broken families”

As General Manager of a film and television company in Melbourne, I expect a level of commitment of my team to research and investigate new technology to ensure we have all our facts straight before proceeding with any commitment that could impact on the success of the business.

As the Editor/s, and manager/s of a team of journalists, and a member of a national news network, I am surprised that neither your, Josh Robertson or Liam Walsh, did any investigation or research into Universal Medicine, Serge Benhayon, or the true intelligence of women such as myself, in fact, all women.

Why are you not putting on the front page the skyrocketing increases in diabetes, cancer of all types, heart disease, lung conditions, mental illness, alcohol abuse – and the most affected by this ‘story’ – domestic violence towards women??

Isn’t it time we started to arrest these alarming statistics?

According to Diabetes Australia:

“Up to 60% of cases of type 2 diabetes can be prevented. The total number of Australians with diabetes and pre-diabetes is estimated at 3.2 million”

According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare:

“The risk of being diagnosed with cancer before the age of 75 years is 1 in 3 for males and 1 in 4 for females.
“The risk before age 85 years is higher, at 1 in 2 for males and 1 in 3 for females.”

According to the Parliament of Australia:

“Alcohol is a significant risk factor for domestic violence, particularly in Indigenous communities. A longitudinal analysis of alcohol outlet density found a relationship between alcohol availability and domestic violence. Packaged liquor outlets that sell alcohol for off-premise consumption were particularly implicated.”

And, from the Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse

“Children are exposed to domestic violence by witnessing violence and abuse, intervening to protect their mother, being present in a household filled with violence and terrorising behaviours as well as being directly abused themselves.”

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics:

In 2007, 47 963 divorces were granted in Australia, which is one in three, and most divorce applications are submitted by women.

The costs on our public funds are immense:

According to the Department of FaHCSIA, the cost of domestic violence on the Australian Economy is $13bn a year.

According to Diabetes Australia, the cost to the Economy is $10.3bn

According to the Australian Institute of health and Welfare, the cost of cancer diagnosis and treatment is $2bn a year.

Very revealing that domestic violence costs the Economy more than cancer and diabetes put together.

Divorce is costing $18bn a year – $11bn of that goes to legal costs.

Your ‘expert’, Cult Counselling Australia director Raphael Aron said of the alleged 42 marriage breakdowns “That’s an absolutely devastating figure, catastrophic”

The facts I found readily online easily show that this is a very small percentage to the national average – and as I’m sure you well know, marriage/relationship breakdowns are complicated and never attributed to one situation, but a build up of issues over time.

Most concerning for me, was your last comment  – for women “to not allow their partners to touch [their breasts] without permission”

Editor/s, may I remind you it is 2012 – and women have the right to choose when and how their breasts are touched. Isn’t that what you want for your daughter, sister, niece, granddaughter, mother – wife?  Since when did women give up the right to choose who they want to spend time with, what courses they attend, who they marry or divorce and by whom and when they allow their breasts to be touched?

I’m 44 years old and have worked all over the world in my profession and have been listening to Serge Benhayon and attending Universal Medicine courses since 2001. He is a man of the highest integrity and has never once told me what to do – ever. I consider everything he presents and make up my own mind – yes, I have one of my own. It reveals your lack of intelligence that you, without any investigation, slander women who chose to live a life of gentleness and care for themselves as ‘followers’ – I have not given up my career, education, intelligence, hopes or ambitions. I have had more true success in my work and private life since choosing to live with more tenderness towards myself.

I live an amazing life, full of wonderful friendships with women without jealousy or comparison. My commitment to care and nurture myself now is greater than I ever imagined, changes that my mother (in Toowoomba) calls miraculous. The miracle is that, through the Universal Medicine courses, I have connected to a deeper sense of love for myself and cherish myself deeply. I have wonderful friendships with men too; they are tender, truthful and loving – and I will only be intimate with a man when I feel that there is harmony, openness and true care.

A responsible life of getting to bed early, eating well, exercising and not drinking alcohol is pretty simple and can support a healthy life – and a healthy society. My choices have a positive impact on my team at work and my family, as they are seeing that there’s another way – to live a vital life with energy, clarity and consistency.

Educate yourselves, please – you are abusing your journalistic power when we very clearly need more truth in this world.

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  1. Great letter Sarah. You have so eloquently laid down all the ‘blooming obvious’ – thank you. How journalists like these chose to refuse to see the facts is mind boggling!
    I have raised four boys – almost every third or fourth of their friends comes from broken relationships (married or unmarried) and not one of those people have even heard of Serge Benhayon – so who are they to assign the responsibility to for their separations?
    We have mutated into a blame culture because as a race we blatantly refuse to take responsibility for all that happens to us. It is much easier to point fingers at someone/something else than it is to look inwardly and deal with whatever has been created.
    The divorce/separation statistics are sky high and are getting higher in most (if not all) what is known as the western world. And if not in all then in most cases, there is always somebody or something to blame.
    Some relationships just not meant to be, and until we re learn to chose partners from the deepest place in our hearts, there will be separations.
    Yesterday I saw some of the US programme called: ‘Cheaters’ – where a partner hires a detective agency to follow the other party because they suspect a deceit. This man was followed for 8 days and found out (filmed) that he was having an affair. He was unemployed – telling his wife that he was ‘frantically’ looking for work daily, whilst instead he was spending time with another women in a local motel and various eating parlours. At the end, the camera crew went with the wife to confront him at the motel. This is where it gets laughable – shocking really – even though he is caught in bed with another woman, both naked, on cameras (4-6) he is refusing that he is doing anything wrong and literary he starts pointing his fingers and the blame on his wife because: she has not had sex with him in a while -she works too hard to support him and the children and is too tired when she gets back from work. So his explanation is – it is her fault and that he goes to the motel so he can relax. The journalist on the programme told him: I am sorry Sir, but I don’t think anyone with the sound mind would buy that!

    It has just occurred to me – perhaps some journalists, and editor of the Courier Mail would??

    • A wise man once said – “Revealing truth is the Spirit’s greatest fear. Being exposed in its own Glamour and Illusion is the Spirit’s most unsettling time” (SB)
      So are these journalists being exposed to truth, but don’t have the will-power to see the patterns of behaviour they accept as ‘life’? Journo’s are known for their hard drinking/drugging ways and I’m sure that everything they’ve heard about unimed would be freaking them out. I have one word for them – cowards!

      • You are right – my dad worked for a large newspaper company and we socialised with lots of journo’s and ‘top’ tv presenters etc. Any time I went out with them, I’d come back home legless (I didn’t drink normally then!) Good 95% (and I am being modest here) were hard drinkers, including women – alcohol was bigger than recreational drugs in my hay days and where I come from, though that might be different now – probably both alcohol and drugs.

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Finding My Inner Nemo in the Sea of Commuters

I laughed as I came out of the London Tube this morning. A few people looked at me like I was from another planet – not many people laugh on the tube! Oxford Circus is a very busy station and I really saw the humour in how we interact with one another.

Remember the film “Finding Nemo” and the scene where all the fish are in the current? Little critters simply holding themselves in their aquatic constellation. They never bump into each other or impose. They have accepted the flow and swirl they are in and are masters of just letting go and being in harmony with each other.

Resistance is futile!

There is a graceful power in letting go and simply allowing the current to take us as we weave and curve around the subterranean world below London. When I resist, or try to force my way through the crowd, it just doesn’t work. I bump into people, bags and feet. The impact of others fighting against it is also felt as a harshness, a force. The resistance to the natural flow around us all equally.

Today I felt the joy of being with everyone, letting them in, feeling everything and being me. It’s like being a fish in the sea and not getting wet!


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Standing on One Side

I begin to wonder, expecting this to happen, how people I might cross in an avenue would be laid waste because of an idea that is perpetuated by an impression of some inequitable situation. Nature seeks equilibrium even if it is only in the mind of someone, who sees injustice, and has been given cause. And that idea is never brought to light in the face of the “enemy,” which face-to-face is actually just another person.

I would not kill another person, on my own, certainly in connection to, in full awareness of them, but perhaps I would, knowing their very deepest thoughts and potential.

I pause.

Seeing the complexity in a moment and depending on where I stood, I might understand the assassination of Bin Laden, for example, or his various and sundry generals, loath them in their preparation in propaganda videos, but I am guilty.

I am guilty of taking a side in the morass of the gray smoke. Three people have died and 130 were injured by last count. How can I not side with those I might have known, more likely than those who have wounded and killed?

But I was expecting this. I was expecting death and someday it will be someone I have known and probably even myself black-eyed and broken never to be returned to that place, where I am writing this. But, it isn’t going to be, I think, the wounds that a terrorist might inflict, rather it will be conducted by a stray victim of the wounds of the real war. Everything is economic. It isn’t about age, pregnancy, national origin, race, ethnic background, religious belief, or sexual orientation. It is about money, the root of all evil.

Who has created this avarice but those who have benefited from these so-called “wars?” And I have benefited, and so have you.

Death is a lie; God has said so, but we all die, and we kill each other, taking full advantage of the dumb sucker, who doesn’t heed “buyer beware.” Beware that you are a party to the inexpensive cost of a garment purchased for only $19. The person who made it in Bangladesh or Indonesia was paid only a nickel. Buyers beware of the oil in your car that was siphoned off the land of someone you have never met.

Is there an enemy? What would bring this person to kill? Is it insanity? Is it illogical deduction? Is it being so distanced that there is no feeling?

No, there is a place, where you stand at the corner of empathy and knowledge, and sure we are going to find and punish these traitors to better judgment and nary we forget that this could just as easily be staged; at least in our minds, it is possible. We too can be victims of an idea and be caused to act on it. This is the greatest sadness, which is that we cannot know the truth unless we have ourselves to forget. We are forever standing on one side or the other. And at a point in time, we may be driven to compensate for the loss.


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Reference of Lebanese cuisine of excellence, the Noura brand has been delighting the taste buds of the most gourmand for over twenty years in Paris and the Paris region. Today, the establishment created by Jean-Paul Bou Antoun (and continued by his three sons Walid, Ziad and Paul) celebrates a new stage with the opening of Maison Noura, its first gastronomic restaurant very well located on Avenue Marceau. Assigned to Sandra Sisley, founder of Sandra & Co, the organization of the evening could only be a success. And for good reason, as a specialist in the most popular events, she had invited all her friends, from Axelle Laffont to Sylvie Hoarau and Audrey Marnay to come and raise the temperature and discover the house’s culinary jewels. An evening that began with crossing the red carpet, before everyone settled comfortably in the felted interior imagined by Pierre-Yves Rochon. For the occasion, Sandra Sisley even had fun serving to pamper her guests. Maison Noura can also boast of having counted among its first hosts the former President of the Republic Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy seen at the table alongside Paul Bou Antoun. On the menu for all this Tuesday evening, Lebanese bites and dance steps until late in the evening…

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Danish happiness presentation in Malaysia

What makes a nation happy? To foster debate about the relationship between society and human wellbeing, the CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, Mr Meik Wiking visited Kuala Lumpur on 2-3 June as part his Southeast Asia tour.

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In collaboration with the National Institute of Public Administration (INTAN), the Embassy of Denmark Kuala Lumpur proudly hosted a public event on 2 June, where Mr Wiking gave a presentation on what makes Danes among the happiest people in the world, and engaged in a debate about the relationship between society and wellbeing, and how to measure happiness.

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Achieving and measuring happiness is of growing interest in Malaysia where the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) in the Prime Minister’s Department has introduced a Malaysian Well-being Index. To give the Malaysian perspective on the topic of measuring happiness, the Director of Macroeconomics at EPU, Ms. Zakiah Jaafar presented the results of EPU’s work with this index.

Mr. Wiking’s visit to Malaysia is part of a joint effort among the Danish embassies in Bangkok, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

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Salted Pistachio & Dark Chocolate Biscotti

Salt and sweet, for me it’s a life long love affair. Despite the fact that I’m as British as bangers and mash, my childhood lunch of choice was most definitely the all-American peanut butter and jam sandwich, PB and J if you will / must. (I’m sorry, I just can’t call it jelly, you have to draw the line somewhere!)

As I’ve matured (umm…) and developed a mildly crazy peanut phobia, so my tastes have evolved, but my salty/sweet love has not abated. I could eat chocolate covered pretzels until they’re coming out of my ears, but my most recent obsession is the salted chocolate chip cookie.

Having previously whipped up a very tasty batch of salted pistachio and dark chocolate cookies, I was keen to find out whether a salted biscotti would work equally well. And let me tell you, salted chocolate seems to work in just about anything! (continue reading…)

Ciambelline al vino

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As you may have guessed from the name of this blog, I’m a somewhat timid cook. Rarely one to experiment or stray from a recipe. Sticking to the rules like the accountant/dork that I am. But the whole point of this blog was to force me to go against my instincts, fight my cautious nature and ultimately become a better cook.

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So when I read a recent post from the beautifully written blog rachel eats, I knew I’d found the perfect place to start, my first challenge!

Ciambelline al vino

Rachel’s blog focuses on simple, delicious, predominately italian food. The type of food that bursts with bold flavours and showcases quality ingredients. In the post that inspired me, she discussed ‘quantobasta’ or ‘how much is enough’. In a lot of italian recipes, rather than giving precise measurements, the quantity is simply given as ‘q.b.’ and then it’s up to you to get the balance right. (Rachel describes this so much better than me, you really must read her post)

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For a scaredy cat like me this concept is fairly terrifying. I couldn’t bear the thought of a kitchen disaster (especially not after the chocolate macaroon debacle, which I can’t bring myself to discuss right now) and I didn’t know if my baking experience would be enough to get me through.

Thankfully this recipe was a fairly gentle introduction, with little scope for an appalling result!

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Ciambelline al vino, otherwise known as wine biscuits, are an absolute revelation to me. They feature one of my favourite flavours, the aniseed like punch of fennel seeds. They have a crunchy, sugary top and their texture is reminiscent of shortbread which is ideal as they are designed for dunking. But rather than dunking them in a lovely cuppa, the idea is to dip them in wine.

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However, their name isn’t just due to their wine dunking abilities, these babies are also made with wine. Yes, dipping wine in wine, what an fabulous idea, the italians are absolute geniuses! Genii?

The wine imparts a beautiful flavour to the biscuits, but the main selling point is definitely the fennel seeds. In estimating my quantities, I went with 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of fennel seeds, but personally I could have taken a little more, I wanted to be punched in the face by aniseed. However, if you’re not such a big fan you can rein it in.

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I really recommend that those of you clinging to recipes and exact measurements like me, give these biscuits a go. And even if you’re not, these bad boys are bloomin’ gorgeous so try them anyway! Who could resist a lazy evening with friends, chatting round the table and dunking biscuits in a nice glass of red? I rest my case.

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Ciambelline al vino
Taken from rachel eats
The amount of biscuits made from this recipe will vary wildly based on the size of glass you use, I went with a glass that holds 250ml and I made 25 biscuits.

1 glass of sugar
1 glass of wine (I chose white wine, but red will do just as well)
1 glass of extra virgin olive oil
Salt q.b. (I went with a pinch)
Fennel seeds q.b. (I went with a 1 1/2 tsps, but I would up it next time)
Plain flour q.b.
Sugar for topping q.b.

Start by mixing together the sugar, oil and wine in a large bowl. Add the salt and fennel seeds and then start adding the flour. Stir in a little flour at a time, getting your hands involved in the mixing as it starts to become less liquid. Continue to add flour until the dough comes together into a soft ball that cleans the sides on the bowl.

Cover the bowl with a tea towel and leave it for about an hour.

Meanwhile preheat the oven to 180 C / 160 C Fan / 350 F and line a couple of baking sheets with baking parchment.

Flour a clean work surface or chopping board and also coat your hands with flour. Take a walnut size piece of dough, roll it into a log and join the ends together to make a little donut.

Dip one side in sugar and pop it, sugar side up, onto the baking tray. When you’ve used up all the dough, put the baking trays into the oven for 25 – 30 minutes, until the biscuits are lightly browned and crispy.

Turn off the oven and open it a crack (use a wooden spoon handle to stop it closing fully if needs be) . Allow the biscuits to cool fully in the oven.

Pour yourself a glass of wine, dunk and enjoy!

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The Astronomy DSO list specifies which Deep Sky Objects may be covered in the Astronomy event that year.

2012 DSOs

2012 DSO's
Name Images Constellation Magnitude Distance Coordinates External Links
Mira Chandra NASA Science News
SNR 0509-67.5 NASA APOD Chandra
CH Cyg Chandra AAVSO
Kepler's SNR Chandra NASA APOD
Tycho's SNR Chandra NASA APOD
Messier 15 Messier Catalogue U of Alabama
Carina Nebula Chandra Universe Today
T Tauri NASA APOD Universe Today
Sirius B Chandra NASA APOD
RR Lyrae AAVSO Encyclopedia of Science
U Scorpii Universe Today Sky and Telescope
Rosette Nebula Atlas of the Universe Chandra
BP Psc Chandra NASA
NGC 2440 NASA APOD Hubble
RX J0806.3+1527 Chandra
DEM L238 & L249 Chandra Space Daily

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2011 DSO's
Name Images Constellation Magnitude Distance Coordinates External Links
Epsilon Aurigae Epsilon aurigae.jpg Epsilon Auriga.jpg Auriga Apparent: 2.9 normally, 3.8 during eclipse; Absolute: -6.0 ~2000 light years (ly) Right Ascension: 05h 01m 58.1s; Declination: +43° 49’ 24” AAVSO: Epsilon Aurigae Citizen Sky: Epsilon Aurigae
Epsilon Aurigae is an eclipsing binary. One part is a white giant, and the other appears to be a star shrouded by a dark cloud of dust. In the middle of this cloud, there is a clearing where the star probably is, so during an eclipse, the system appears momentarily brighter as this clearing passes over the giant. An observation project of Epsilon Aurigae took place from 2009-2011.
NGC 6240 (IC 4625, UGC 10592, PGC 59186, VV 617) Ngc 6240.jpg Ngc 6240 xray inset.jpg Ophiuchus Apparent: 12.8 ~330 million ly Right Ascension: 16h 52m 58.9s; Declination: +02° 24' 03" Chandra: NGC 6240 NASA APOD: NGC 6240
NGC 6240 is an extremely luminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG). It is the result of two smaller galaxies colliding to form one large galaxy with two nuclei and an irregular shape. Possible hypotheses for the high infrared emission are intense star formation or the presence of one or two AGNs.
3C 321 3C321 wavelengths.jpg 3c321 artist.jpg Serpens ~1.4 billion ly Right Ascension: 15h 31m 42.7s; Declination:: +24° 04’ 25.00" Chandra: 3C 321 3C 321
3C 321 is a binary system of galaxies. One of the galaxies is directing a large jet of energy at its companion. It is nicknamed the “Death Star Galaxy” and it is theorized that the galaxy with the jet contains a supermassive black hole. It was discovered in 2007.
Centaurus A (NGC 5128, Arp 153, PGC 46957, Caldwell 77, 4U 1322-42) Centaurus Apparent: 6.84 ~15 million ly Right Ascension: 13h 25m 27.6s; Declination: -43° 01’ 09” SEDS: Centaurus A Centaurus A
Cen A is one of the closest radio galaxies containing an AGN to Earth. It is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky, although it is mostly only observable from the Southern Hemisphere. It is slowly consuming another spiral galaxy, causing rapid star formation, helping the radiation coming from the nucleus. The supermassive black hole at the center sends out jets of X-rays and radio waves in which the inner parts are moving at one half of the speed of light.
Stephan's Quintet (HGC 92, Arp 319, VV 288) Pegasus Apparent: 13.9 300-370 million ly Right Ascension: 22h 35m 57.5s; Declination: +33° 57’ 36” Chandra: Stephan's Quintet NASA APOD: Stephen's Quintet
Stephan's Quintet is a visual grouping of five galaxies. Four of the galaxies are in a compact group, and collisions have altered the form of the galaxies. Eventually, the four will likely merge into one large galaxy. The collisions have caused emissions of both x-rays and molecular hydrogen. The four than are physically interlocked are NGC 7317, NGC 7318a, NGC 7318b, and NGC 7319. NGC 7320 is not actually part of the interacting cluster but is a foreground object in the same area as the other galaxies. The galaxies NGC 7335, NGC 7336, and NGC 7337 in the NGC 7331 group, or Deer Lick Group, was used to determine this. Occasionally, the tidal forces cause NGC 7318b to emit huge shock waves of X-rays. It is also the brightest member of the group with an apparent magnitude of 13.9. NGC 7319 is classified as a Type 2 Seyfert galaxy.
MACSJ0717.5+3745 Auriga Right Ascension: 07h 17m 31.00s; Declination: +37° 45’ 39.60” Chandra: MACSJ0717.5+3745
MACSJ0717.5+3745 (MACSJ0717 for short) a galaxy cluster where four separate galaxies have been involved in a collision. The collisions are caused by a stream of hot gas known as a filament that pours into the cluster. It is one of the most complex clusters ever studied and was discovered in 2003.
Bullet Cluster (1E 0657-56) Carina Right Ascension: 06h 58m 37.9s; Declination: - 55° 57’ 0” Chandra: Bullet Cluster NASA APOD: Bullet Cluster
The Bullet Cluster is a system of two colliding clusters of galaxies. It is one of the best examples of evidence for the existence of dark matter. In the collision, the stars mostly did not interact, but the gases and other matter were significantly altered. This other matter is hypothesized to be dark matter, and is supported by the supposed Modified Newtonian Dynamics that explains the lensing phenomenon in the cluster. It is one of the hottest known clusters of galaxies.
Perseus A (NGC 1275, PGC 12429, UGC 2669, Caldwell 24, 3C 84, QSO B0316+413) Ngc1275 web.jpg Perseus Apparent: 12.6. Right Ascension: 03h 19m 48.1s; Declination: +41° 30’ 42” NASA APOD: Perseus A Hubble Heritage: Perseus A
Perseus A is a Type 1.5 Seyfert galaxy, which signifies that both broad and narrow lines on the emission spectrum are present, but there are less pronounced broad lines than a Type 1 Seyfert galaxy. It consists of two galaxies, one in the center and another that lies in front of it. Long filaments of gas stretch out from the system.
SN 2006gy Perseus Peak Apparent: 14.2 Right Ascension: 03h 17m 27.10s; Declination: +41° 24’ 19.50” Chandra: SN 2006gy NASA APOD: SN 2006gy
SN 2006gy was an extremely energetic supernova that reached an extremely high luminosity level. The large size of the star caused it to gain energy in its core, eventually causing it to be blown apart violently. This type of supernova is sometimes referred to a hypernova, and it compared to the star Eta Carinae in the Milky Way.
SN 1996cr Circinus Right Ascension: 14h 13m 10.05 s; Declination: -65° 20’ 44.8” Chandra: SN 1996cr
SN 1996cr is a powerful supernova that was noticed in a Chandra image after it was taken, and was widely studied afterward. The star exploded between 1995 and 1996, but was not discovered until 2001. It is of interest because it is located in an active galaxy with a growing supermassive black hole and rapid star formation.
NGC 4603 (PGC 42510) Centaurus Apparent: 12.3 Right Ascension: 12h 40m 55.2s; Declination: -40° 58’ 35” NASA APOD: NGC 4603 HyperPhysics: NGC 4603
NGC 4603 is a large spiral galaxy. It is the most distant galaxy in which Cepheids have been used to determine the distance to the galaxy. Using this distance and determining recession velocity, it has served as a benchmark for determining the Hubble constant (70 km/sec/Mpc ±10%).
NGC 7771 (VV 2002) Pegasus Apparent: 12.9 Right Ascension: 23h 51m 25.0s; Declination: +20° 06’ 49” NASA APOD: NGC 7771
a large spiral galaxy in close proximity to two other galaxies. This trio of galaxies is named the NGC 7771 group after its largest member, a spiral, the three galaxies, NGC 7769-7771, have passed by each other closely and will eventually form one huge galaxy. It is considered an accurate representation of the formation of the Milky Way. Dusty nebulae in front of the group obstruct clear viewing.
NGC 2623 (Arp 243) Cancer Apparent: 13.9 Right Ascension: 08h 38m 24.1s; Declination: +25° 45’ 01” NASA APOD: NGC 2623 Hubble: NGC 2623
a system of two or more interacting galaxies. The galaxies have formed one common nucleus, but there are two strands of stars branching out from the galaxy, indicating a merger has taken place.
JKCS041 Chandra: JKCS041
Messier 77 (NGC 1068, UGC 2188, PGC 10266, Arp 37, 3C 71) Chandra: Messier 77 Universe Today: Messier 77
H2356-309 Chandra: H2356-309

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My Mother Goose : a collection of favorite rhymes, songs, and concepts / David McPhail.

McPhail, David, 1940- (editor,, illustrator.).

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  • Physical Description: 96 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2013.

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As I went to Bonner -- As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks -- Baa, baa, black sheep -- Boys and girls come out to play -- Chook, chook, chook, chok -- Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat -- Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe -- Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John -- Donkey, donkey, old and gray -- Great A, little a -- Here I am, Little Jumping Joan -- Hey diddle diddle -- Hickory, dickory, dare -- Hickory, dickory, dock -- Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall -- Hush little baby, don't say a word -- I have a little dreidel -- I love you well -- It's raining; its pouring -- Jack and Jill went up the hill -- Jack be nimble -- Jack Sprat could eat no fat -- January brings the snow -- Jerry Hall -- Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep -- Little Boy Blue -- Little girl, little girl where have you been? -- Little Jack Horner -- Little Miss Muffet -- Little ships must keep the shore -- Little Tommy Tittlemouse -- London Bridge is falling down -- Mary, Mary, quite contrary -- Monday's child is fair of face -- "Mother, may I go out to swim?" -- Old King Cole -- Old Mother Hubbard -- One, two, Buckle my shoe -- One, two, three, four, five, I caught a giant hare alive -- Over the river and through the wood -- Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man -- Pease porridge hot -- Peter, Peter, pumpking eater -- Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been? -- Rain, rain, go away -- Ride away, ride away -- Rock-a-bye, baby, on the treetop -- Simple Simon met a pieman -- Sing a song of sixpence -- Star light, star bright -- The giant Jim, great giant grim -- The Queen of Hearts -- There was a little girl, and she had a little curl -- There was an old woman who lived in a shoe -- This is the night of Halloween -- This little piggy went to market -- Three little kittens they lost their mittens -- Three wise men of Gotham -- To market, to market, to buy a fat pig -- Tom, Tom, the piper's son -- Up in the green orchard -- Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town -- Yankee Doddle came to town.
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An illustrated collection of nursery rhymes and songs, interspersed with concept pages on such themes as "going places" and "colors and shapes".
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Shedding light on how binge eating affects men

Do men who binge eat experience less distress or impairment than women who do? According to a new study published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, the answer is "no."

In a workplace survey of more than 46,00o adults, Ruth Striegel, PhD, of Wesleyan University found that 7.5 percent of men (compared to 11.2 percent of women) experienced one or more binge-eating episodes during the previous month and that the negative effects associated with binge eating - including depression, distress and obesity - were experienced by males as well as females.  They also showed that binge eating hurt work productivity. "Our data suggest that binge eating in men is associated with significant functional impairment," the researchers wrote.

Striegel and her colleagues also noted that few binge-eating studies have included men - and that men are especially underrepresented in treatment studies. They concluded that:

The underrepresentation of men in treatment-seeking samples does not appear to reflect lower levels of impairment in men versus women. Efforts are needed to raise awareness of the clinical significance of binge eating in men so that this group can receive appropriate screening and treatment services.

Researchers at Stanford are currently studying two types of therapies for binge eating disorder (.pdf) and are looking for both men and women to participate. More on the trial can be found here.

Previously: What a teenager wishers her parents knew about eating disordersStanford’s eating disorder program owes its success to holistic treatment and KQED health program examines causes and effects of disordered eating
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Laphroaig Quarter-Cask

Laphroaig is unabashedly Islay. Its intense peatiness, maritime character, and (to some) off-putting medicinal bite are hallmarks that are present in every bottle. It was my “first love” in single malt, really in whisky period. That first dram of the 10-year was eye-opening. Smokey, woody, sweet, powerful. I woke up the next day tasting it on my lips and smelling it on my breath. To me, any peated malt must necessarily be compared to Laphroaig.

Today I’m trying the Quarter Cask expression, a younger peated malt (5 years of ex-bourbon maturation, plus an additional 7 months, approximately, in tiny “quarter casks” custom-made for this expression). The “finishing” in quarter casks gives the whisky far more exposure to wood than normally happens in larger standard casks. In addition, this expression is bottled at a higher 48% ABV and without chill-filtering (yay!).

Nose: Classic Laphroaig. Up-front is smoldering seaweed with briny notes of coastal thunderstorms and tidepools. A woody sweetness, like boiling maple syrup, pervades the nose and elevates the peat smoke. Hints of barbecued short-ribs, glazed ham, and applewood-smoked fish. The 48% ABV can be felt in the nose-prickle. Deeper exploration reveals white chocolate chips, freshly-baked sugar cookies, and even deeper in some extinguished campfire (wood char). A few drops of water bring out some faint dark chocolate and toffee.

Palate: Medium bodied – not watery, but also not chewy or oily. Right away there is big peat, in that briny, smoked-fish style. Smokehouse fumes, sugarcane, vanilla extract, and a pervading young woodiness – freshly-hewn green wood, dripping sap. A few drops of water brings an elevated sweetness to the mix, with more maple syrup, vanilla, and raw cane sugar.

Finish: Long. Initially there is lingering peat, salt water, which yields to vanilla and a very drying oak tannin, which fades into bitter spent wood and green sap. The peat doesn’t stay around as long as it does with the 10-year old.

Water brings out the sweet notes and marries them perfectly with the peat. I recommend a few sparse drops. This dram is much more complex than the standard 10-year Laphroaig, and, interestingly, less intensely peaty despite its younger age. There are several layers of oak flavors, ranging from the early sweet vanilla, through the earthy woody midsection, to the bitter sappy finish, which interplay very well with the usual Islay peat – complementing it and taming it slightly. I generally dislike drams that attempt to blend big fruity sweetness with peat, or bone-dry asceticism with peat, and this falls nicely in the middle. It gives you something to ponder, whereas the 10-year just gives you something to drink. It is, however, pricier, and that extra $14 isn’t always going to be worth it, especially if Laphroaig 10 is already part of your daily dram rotation.

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  • Someday, Louis, I’ll hand you a dram after sneaking in a few drops of water, and you’ll say something to the tune of “wow this is better than the last time I had it”, and I will laugh – heartily. Someday. Maybe on your yacht.

  • hi! just wanted to share a newbie experience from nagaoka, japan–and to invite some input on matters of relative price/value.

    it’s only this year that i found myself developing the desire/ability to drink scotch whisky. as it is, i am well-placed in japan, given my love of sake (and belgian beers, when i can find them). still, i recently heard the call of the loch, and i tried a few inexpensive blended malts (japanese expressions–technically not scotch whisky, i know–as well as johnny walker red and white horse. 2 weeks ago, i tried my first single malt scotch whiskies at a bar. what was the first one i tried? none other than laphroaig quarter cask. if memory serves, i also sampled bowmore 12, lagavulin 16, and macallan 12, but the only one that really left a strong impression was the laphroaig–and a very positive impression it was!

    it may well be that my timing was quite poor–i had just come from a 2-hour all-you-can-drink affair, and leading off with a relative peat monster may have ruined me/my taste buds for what followed–but it was perhaps also fortuitous. long story short, the dram somehow managed to be just what i had imagined it would be (after reading copious tasting notes and reviews) and just what i was looking for.

    fast forward 2 weeks, to 2 days before my birthday. i had scouted out local shops to see what i could see, and i had found laphroaig 10, bowmore 12, and macallan 12 (i know, a speyside, not an islay–but one of the few bottles i found with decent reputation from what i had read so far), but little else among SMSW. moreover, all were available in both 700 (or 750) ml as well as 350 ml bottles, so a tasting of several expressions sounded like a distinct possibility.

    yesterday, i finally hit up a local liquor store that i thought might have more on offer. bottom line: it did, and at better prices. i was, in fact, faced with a dilemma: laphroaig 10 or quarter cask? in the end, i opted for quarter cask, as: a) it was less expensive; b) it was less available; and c) i could always try the 10 yo for less money via a 350 ml bottle.

    i’m a novice, and i can offer little or nothing in the way of tasting notes, except to say that, after a bit of experimentation, i found that a couple of drops (literally) of water did, indeed, seem to “open up” new vistas of nose and palate (or open the door to such possibilities) on the second “dropping”: i finally sensed something like sweetness or a floral quality somewhere in the murky background (or was it the loch ness monster?). also, i followed some advice i had read somewhere about small sips and taking one’s time, and that did seem to heighten the experience. (my wife as shocked when i went upstairs to a quiet nook of the house, came down 30+ minutes later, and announced that i had enjoyed all of ONE dram of the good stuff).

    now, a couple of quick questions about relative pricing. I was surprised to find that the quarter cask was actually less expensive than the 10 yo expression. while i can understand how that might be so (with the QC spending only 5 years in the american oak casks before transfer to quarter casks), i had gotten the impression that the 10 yo is generally more expensive than the QC. has that changed? also, i was able to get the QC for ¥2980, around $36-37 at the current exchange rate (and the 10 yo for ¥3480–or around $43): how does that stack up with where you are? i wonder if we could hear about relative prices (and availability) by geography… (the bowmore 12, incidentally, was going for ¥3280, less than the laphroaig 10 yo, but more than the QC…)

    • Brian, Thanks very much for your comment! Glad to hear from another ‘newbie’ in the Scotch world. I, too, awoke to the wonders of Scotch via the charms of a Laphroaig (the 10 year). Even months later, after sampling almost 50 different whiskies (not that much compared to true connoisseurs), I still marvel at the complexity, intensity, and subtlety of that particular Islay malt.

      As far as price goes, you are correct that the QC ought to be cheaper, as it’s only a little more than five and a half years ‘old’. Here in Northern California (and a few other places I’ve checked in the U.S.), the QC is $5 to $10 more than the 10-year. I have to wonder if the reason is partially marketing. The 10-year is the brand’s flagship expression, and tends to garner a lot of attention. By lowering the price ($33 is the lowest I’ve seen, and is quite a good deal) they may be trying to drum up new devotees. Even though the QC is younger, it might be seen by the marketers as an embellishment on the main theme, and thus worth a bit more. In the U.K., the prices are a little closer, with charging only 2 GBP more for the QC, and charging 1 GBP less!

      Scotch prices in general are pretty varied, and not always in predictable ways. Just recently I was talking to a friend on the east coast (New England), who can’t find The Balvenie DoubleWood for less than $49. Here, I can get it for $35! He also pays upwards of $43 for Laphroaig 10 ($47 for QC). However, he pays only $60 for Lagavulin 16, and I’m lucky to find it here for less than $70! I guess task #1 for a budding Scotch enthusiast is to find the good deals local to him/her and take advantage of them! Enjoy your Quarter-Cask. 🙂

    • In/re pricing. My all time favorite dram is Lagavulin 16. In Michigan, where pricing is regulated by the State, State minimum is $89 & change. I’ve seen it in Florida (several years ago) for a bit over $100 and have paid only $57 in Hawaii (where every other scotch was the same or more than Michigan prices). It pays to shop. I suspedt taxes as the culprit but would really like to know what Lagavulin charges as the bottles go out the door.

      As for the drams mentioned, I much prefer the Laphroaig Quarter Cask over the 10. In fact, the 10 is my least favorite of all Laphroaigs I’ve tasted. That said, I would never turn down a dram but, we do all have our preferences.

      • @TK, Indeed, I have seen wildly differing prices across the U.S., and without much pattern. Laphroaig in general seems to be much more expensive on the East Coast, whereas I’ve found very good deals on bottles of other malts in the $70-$90 range in New England. Some of it might be taxes, but I suspect that more of the difference is caused by the multitude of middle-men involved in the importing of spirits. From duty exports from the U.K. to various shippers, importing firms, distribution companies, resellers, and of course retail shops, prices seem to be capable of 40-50% variance across even the single U.S. market. If only direct importing of personal-use spirits from the U.K. were simpler and more direct, we might get some relief.

        As far as Laphroaig 10, I agree that it’s a “love it or hate it” type of dram. I used it to introduce my friend Mike to Scotch, and he hated it. Luckily, he found some Macallan 12 and realized that Scotch didn’t all taste like burning tires. 🙂 For that matter, I’ve had people tell me that they enjoyed drinking Loch Dhu, so I guess there really is no accounting for taste!

  • thanks for the reply! interesting that the price you quote for the laphroaig 10 yo in new england is virtually identical to what it is (or at least what it is at the lowest price i found in my town) here in japan. a quick note: in july, i’ll be blowing through yokohama (i have a gig, singing jazz, every now and again when i’m not teaching university english). i found a place called craft beer bar that is really worth mentioning. although their stated specialty is domestic (japanese) craft beers–with 10 on tap, i think–they also have over 200 (!!!) bottles of single malt whisky on offer. more amazing, ALL of them are priced identically for a dram: 700 yen neat, 1000 yen on the rocks or with soda. this goes from the lowliest exemplars to 18 yo and beyond–and MANY expressions from all the heavy hitters, including signatory offerings and such. i honestly wish i knew scotch better, so i could scoop up the biggest bargains. however, the ardbeg uisgedail (?) was one that caught my attention. hven’t ried any ardbeg expressions yet–or any other islays beyond laphroaig 10 yo & QC, lagavulin 16, and bowmore 12–so LOTS to look forward to. any thoughts on recommended islays or good examples of various styles for a comparative tasting session?

  • incidentally, i’ve found that the laphroaig 10 yo that is available in 350 ml bottles is 40%, while the 750 ml (!) bottles offer 43%. is that the case elsewhere? are the 350 ml bottles readily available? and how common are 350 ml or smaller bottles–or tasting sets–in the states? i’ve seen a nice offering of small bottles of japanese scotch here (hibiki, yamazaki, etc.) of excellent age and quality, but i haven’t yet discovered many small bottles of scotch whisky–which would allow me to try a wider variety of expressions in the comfort of my home!

    • Brian,

      We don’t get very many 350ml bottles in the States, that I’ve seen. They crop up once in awhile, but none of my “regular” stores carries any regularly. We do see a lot of minis (50 ml sample bottles), but generally only for the bigger names like Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, Macallan, and so forth. This is a pity, because locating a bar with a good selection (or a friend with a lot of open bottles) is really the only reliable way to “try before you buy”.

      As for Islay, be careful with that Ardbeg Uigeadail – it’s one of the peatiest expressions anywhere. Save it for last. (The Ardbeg Supernova is even more so – but getting harder to find). If you can find Ardbeg Corryvreckan at the bar – that’s an excellent dram, and the peat doesn’t knock your head off ($80-$100 US for a bottle). I think Caol Ila 12 is worth a try, although it’s not vastly different than regular Ardbeg. I like Bunnahabhain, although it’s unpeated – it tastes more like a Speysider. I’ve never had Bowmore, Bruichladdich, or the brand-new Kilchoman.

      Other recommendations: Make sure to try the Macallan 18 if you haven’t yet – it’s practically a rite of passage for Scotch newbies. 🙂 Also make sure to seek out any 10-year-old Springbank, a mildly peated craft distiller from the once-great Campbeltown region. (They also make Longrow, which is the same thing but more heavily peated). Try Redbreast 12 year old Irish Whiskey – personally I think it’s the best Irish whiskey for under $50, and definitely competitive with good Scotch.

      One last tip: If you’ve got a smartphone, you can do what I do: I always keep a “want” list for quick reference when I find myself in a restaurant or bar with a decent selection. You can also do a quick search on and do the exchange rate calculation in your head, to determine good deals. Enjoy 🙂

  • thanks for the recommendations and solid, concrete advice! the bar that i plan on hitting up has a great many ardbeg expressions: in fact, it has a great deal of expressions from virtually EVERY distiller. looking forward to it quite a bit, although… so many drams, so little time!!! wish i could find 50 ml minis around here for other than japanese whiskies–although i expect that i’ll give them a try before long: when in rome… or japan…

  • My only regret is that after 12 years of drinking Scotch, I tasted Laphroaig for the first time just this year…I guess it’s never too late. That said, I immediately purchased a bottle of 10 year and Quarter Cask and enjoy them both immensely!

    • Tom, glad you’re enjoying Laphroaig! The 10-year has a special place in my heart as my first-ever single malt. One of the joys of single malts is learning about the attributes of one and then tasting others for comparison. Try Ardbeg 10, for example, for a different take on peat, and then Lagavulin 16, which will knock your socks off. 🙂

  • After a seemingly endless drought, there is now a trickle of Laphraoig into Québec. I would like to buy some in quantity, both 10 year and quarter cask. What is the life span of an (unopened) bottle stored in the dark at a stable (12C) temperature? (I fully realise that once opened its life expectancy will depend on how many we are around the table!)

    Thank you in advance for any help.

    • Hi Hugh!
      Theoretically, a sealed bottle of whisky (or any spirit above 40% ABV, really) stored in the absence of light and without temperature fluctuations can be expected to remain unchanged forever. Unlike wine, whisky’s high alcohol content makes it extremely stable, and 100 year-old bottles (or more, see the recent press about the recovered Shackleton whisky from the south pole) have been shown to be flawless when opened. Also unlike wine, whisky does not continue to age in the bottle, which means it cannot decline in quality.

      Even once opened, a bottle with at least 50% of its volume remaining will keep in more or less the same condition for as long as a year. That said, whisky’s enemies are oxygen, light, and temperature fluctuations. Leave a half glass of whisky out overnight and you’ll see the effect of oxygen. Light – especially direct sunlight – can have a similar effect on a sealed bottle. Many people stockpile whisky for this reason, although the economic results of “investing” in whisky are debatable. Rest assured that if you intend to eventually drink it, and you store it unopened with a little care, it will last longer than you. 🙂

  • As per my recent comment (and your reply) on your Bowmore 12 review, I went ahead and picked one randomly…grabbed the QC, and WOW! The Ardbeg 10 almost turned me off Islay, but the QC is fantastic: BBQ rib smoke (not overpowering), and a wonderful palate. This bear further exploration!

  • I’m not seasoned enough to even be considered a noob but I thought I’d share regardless. Instead of just water, I added a couple drops of mineral water. I found that the sodium in the water tamed the ‘medicinal bite’ but turned the ‘coastal thunderstorm’ into a beach walk during a gale. It was like putting salt on chocolate. It was interesting, but I still prefer it the way nature intended, naked.
    Thanks for the reviews.

  • I have just recently (really only 3 or so months) been bitten by the Scotch bug. And it seems I have been bitten pretty hard. So your site has been really useful. Lots of good info and real talk here.

    I can already tell that Islay is definitely my preference; so much so that Macallan 12 already seems a bit too sweet to me (not that I would turn down a drink). I’m still very early in the game, but Laphroaig 10 has been my favourite so far. I am sipping on some of the Quarter Cask as I type this, definitely a bit sweeter, less peaty, but also very nice. Looking forward to trying many others… This is an expensive hobby!

    Btw, the prices that people are quoting on here make me think I need to head to the States soon! I’m in Montreal. Laphroaig 10 runs $85. Laphroaig QC runs $65. Bowmore 12 – $55. Ardbeg 10 – $90. etc… You get the picture…

    • Thanks for the comment! Several of my Canadian readers have mentioned that provincial liquor stores have astronomic prices on scotch, so you’re not alone. 😉 I have noticed that prices at some online U.K. retailers ( for example) are pretty good, even with shipping, when you factor out the VAT tax. Of course, running the gauntlet of customs is different in every country, and I have no idea how vigilant Canadian customs is!

      • Canadian customs is not even the issue, it’s the SAQ (provincial liquor board in Quebec) that is the issue. Believe it or not, by law, they are the only ones that are allowed to import alcohol into Quebec. It’s quite the government racket! So all of those online sites with great prices on Scotch and wine are useless to us poor souls… None of them even bother offering delivery to Quebec (if they did, they’d need to go through the SAQ).

        Alas, I am doomed to over pay for my hobby. Oh well!

    • Funny. I’m sipping on a Macallan 12 right now and have some similar thoughts. A bit sweet, a subtle woodiness, silky texture and as i’m holding it in my mouth i’m wondering if warming this a bit would enhance the experience. However, as much as I am enjoying this my palate seems to enjoy something a little less sweet and a little peatier. Something like the Laphroaig QC.

  • I had a Macallan 12 this summer and I too found that I prefer the peatier Laphroaig. Personal preference is all. The Macallan was smooth, a little fruity but a little on the sweat side. I tried a little mineral water, as I did with the Laphroaig, and found it added nothing positive to the experience.
    I experimented with a few different mineral/carbonated waters and the Laphroaig. I didn’t find a soda or seltzer that I would repeat. I tried some different mineral waters, Perrier etc… This may sound bizzare but I found a few Russian mineral waters that have a pretty intense “mineralness” to them and in small doses, they really complimented the peaty Laphroaig.
    Happy times all.

  • At only $5-10 more than the 10 year old, I found this thing to be a bargain in a relative sense – it’s more than $10 better than the already decent 10 year old.

  • Having now tried the standard Laphroaig 10, the Cask Strength, and the Quarter Cask, I have found the Quarter Cask to be the one I keep coming back to. Powerful smoke, wood, and more smoke.

    It’s also interesting how the smoke and peat hit me the first time I tried Laphroiag 10 (my first Islay), but after months of sampling other Islays my taste buds must be so conditioned that Lap 10 tastes almost subdued by now!

  • I live in Georgia but visit Toronto several times a year. I officially pronounce Canada as the WORST place in the world to drink scotch. At a bar, the standard pour is 1oz but the prices are comparable to US shot prices, e.g., $15 for a Glendronach 12, Glenfarclas 12 (I was in a sherry mood that night). I hoped I would have better luck at the Duty Free store on the way out, but prices were just as offensive, even factoring in favorable US exchange rates. Sorry, Canada. Looks like you’ll have to stick with Molson and hockey.

  • Scotchnoob,
    Do you have a review for the standard Ardbeg 10 Year? I’m trying to decide what to purchase for my next peated malt between the Laphroaig QC and Ardbeg 10. Both are about $50 here in Iowa. I’ve already had Laphroaig 10 and loved it.

    • Actually no, I never got around to reviewing that one. I always felt the Ardbeg 10 was a little overpriced compared to competitive malts, but then Laphroaig is (for some reason) about 20% cheaper in California than elsewhere. If you’ve already had a Laphroaig, I’d say go for the Ardbeg. The Laphroaig 10 and QC are very similar. The QC just has a little “more”.

    • I’m in Australia at the moment and some of the beaches have lots of seaweed on the shoreline, shorn off reefs by coastal storms and rough seas. There is a slightly pungent reek from the seaweed as one walks along these shores at low tide on sun-baked days with salt spray in the air. I do think I might find these elements in a glass of peated, smokey, briny whiskies but will in refrain from alluding to them.

  • Just had my fist couple of drams of the QC last night. Great stuff. This bottle is following a bottle of Glenfiddich Solera. What a difference. Both very good, just in completely different ways. Relatively new to scotch, thanks for a great no nonsense site as a guide.

  • Interesting how prices vary. Here in the Great Plains the best prices I can find on Laphroaig 10-year and Laphroaig Quarter Cask are $42 and $48 respectively. I don’t know which I prefer. For my money, the 10-year is less of a peaty bonfire than the Quarter Cask. I like them both, but since the QC has more alcohol per volume, I don’t consider it a daily dram. Right now I’m nursing a QC pour; on Saturday I think I may pick up the 15-year or the Triple Wood.

    To me, all other Islays are lacking in comparison to Laproaig, including the favored expressions from the big brands, including Lagavulin, Bowmore and Ardbeg.

  • The Quarter Cask has always been less expensive than the 10 year-old here in Canada, but recently both have leaped up in price, dramatically so in the last few years, and now they are both are equivalently priced near the C$80 mark.

    Always a fan of the 10 year-old, my preference now leans towards the QC.

  • Bought a bottle today, it was just slightly more expensive than the 10-year. However I do not see the value added, more oak, less smoke, but I prefer the 10-year anyhow.

  • I made this comment six months ago:
    “Bought a bottle today, it was just slightly more expensive than the 10-year. However I do not see the value added, more oak, less smoke, but I prefer the 10-year anyhow.”
    I was wrong. This is really a fantastic whisky, I totally agree now with Scotchnoob. I love the 10 years L but this one is even better.

  • Off to get my first bottle of QC today. Can’t wait to try it over the weekend. Ardbeg 10, Bowmore Darkest 15, Highland Park 12, Talisker 10 and Lagavulin 16 are some of my favorites.
    Seems we pay a bit more down in Louisiana. I’ve shopped five stores and QC is averaging $61 and Laphroaig 10 averages $52.
    Great website. Really Appreciate your reviews.

    • I’ve enjoyed QC! Lots of flavor… smoke, oak, tar, and seaside. Grows sweeter the longer you sip it. I’d put this expression in my top 10.


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Beware what you wish for. . .

Someone really should get the medical professionals in Arizona in touch with modern technology.  Or at least a Farmer’s Almanac or midwife or something.  This child may very well enter the world with a new Guinness world record for number of medically assigned due dates.  Just for posterity’s sake, let’s recap:

1. Original due date after medical intake at the prison doctor:  Sept. 26
2. Second due date, after doctor’s visit in late July:  Oct. 11
3. Third due date, after doctor’s visit and ultrasound in late August:  Oct. 16
4. C-Section date #1, set after doctor’s visit in mid-September:  Nov. 5

That being said, we finally got a little information on Monday.  Basically, her current doctor stated that the Nov. 5th c-section date was out of bounds and didn’t know that she had an original intake while in prison.  He requested those records and said that it wouldn’t be outside of unreal expectations to do a c-section on Oct. 9th.

Sounds good, we’ll just . . . . .

. . . . wait a second – October 9th is THIS THURSDAY!!!!!!

So, after processing the fact that we could be headed to Arizona within 72 hours, we started scrambling a bit, waiting on final word from her doctor.  Between hearing the news (around 1:00 p.m. on Monday) and talking to Myriah again today (4:00-ish), we accomplished a few things.  Jaclyn got a lot of things at church ready for her to be away for a couple of weeks, we washed no less than 8 loads of laundry (not that we would let it get that far behind or anything. . . we must’ve washed some clean ones too), and we booked two one-way flights to Phoenix for Thursday morning.  All waiting to hear whether or not this little operation would shift into high gear.

We both talked to a few friends and family after hearing the news on Monday.  Out of that, I have one really cool God story that I feel compelled to share (and no, it wasn’t Jeremy Baker telling me that I got what I asked for by asking for more updates and information out of my case worker).  My phone has some kind of disease that doesn’t alert me to new text messages while I am actually talking on the phone (yes, I have an iPhone now, not a flip phone – so no comments necessary out of people like Jill Betts or Bill Bradley).  So, when I hang up a conversation, it’s not uncommon for me to hear the ding of at least a text message or two coming in.  As I hung up from talking to Myriah on Monday, from the very conversation where she dropped the big news that baby Scott may be coming in a matter of days, I heard the ding announcing a new text message.  It was our baseball coach, and my friend, Todd Holden.  It simply said “How can I pray for you today?”

Now, Coach Holden and I aren’t strangers to spiritual conversations.  But, I cannot remember either of us texting or asking the other one that particular question.  I asked him later in the conversation how he was led to that and he told me that he was sitting and waiting on his wife, Dana, when I crossed his mind and was prompted by the Spirit to ask me.  I told him about just hanging up the phone with my case worker and that yes, I knew how he could pray for me.  I told him to pray for a definitive birth date to be revealed soon for my son and told him why.  So, walking into a meeting with a principal at another high school, I went in knowing that God was throwing me a “I still got this” reminder and it always feels good to be able to physically feel Him wrap His arms a little tighter around us.

To update further, Myriah called today to say that the original medical records indicated that her due date should likely be Oct. 20 (#5).  If that were true, then they would be willing to set a c-section for the 39th week.  So, we may hear tomorrow or Thursday that either Oct. 13, 14, or 15 will be THE day.  (#6, when it happens).

Continue to pray and I will update as often as we have news!  And, the 13th is MONDAY!

“Be alert, stand firm in the faith, act like a man, be strong.”  1 Corinthians 16:13

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Property Manager-Why A Property Manager Should Accept Online Rent Payments

Property Manager |Tenants have hundreds of excuses for why they can’t pay rent or can only make a partial payment. When you only accept cash, check, or money order for rent payments tenants find it easy to try to haggle their way into an extension on rent. When you accept online rent payments from tenants, they start to run out of excuses for why they can’t pay rent on time. There are certain excuses that online portals help to squash.

1. Money Related Excuses-Tenants will tell you dozens of different stories about why they didn’t have the money for rent. From other bills being too high to a child or family member falling ill, or the government being late on payments, a tenant that doesn’t have the money will want you to empathize. Online portals help tenants to manage their money better because they can make small payments throughout the month to try to get ahead after their rent is paid and they can track their rent through their online account.

2. Transportation-Related Excuses-The check got lost in the mail. The money order got wet in the mailbox. My car broke down, and I couldn’t’t make it into the office. It’s snowing outside, and the roads are bad. Tenants who rely on someone physically taking their rent payment to another location can always use transportation as an excuse. Online rent payments make it easy for tenants to pay from the comfort of their home or even from their phone while on the go.

3. Confusion on Due Dates-Some tenants will tell a property manager that the reason they are late on rent is that they were confused on the due dates, rent amount, or any other fees that they owe. This is a common excuse for new tenants especially. Online rental portals can send reminders to tenants about when rent is due and how much the tenant owes. Paying rent online and having a tenant account eliminates confusion on the details of rent.

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Property Manager-25 Most Commonly Asked Questions by Prospective Tenants

When a property manager is showing homes, they need to be prepared to answer common questions that prospective tenants will have regarding the property and the property manager business. When you can’t answer common questions, tenants have their trust in your property management company drops. Before you show another rental home make sure you can answer the following questions:

1. What is the rent, deposit, pet deposit, and application fees?

2. What lease terms do you offer? Can I get a discount for signing a longer lease?

3. What is your pet policy?

4. What do you look for on the application? How are tenants screened?

5. When is the soonest available move in date?

6. How many other applications do you have for this home?

7. What is your subleasing policy? What happens if I have to move for my job?

8. Can I list my home on Air BNB when I am not staying there?

9. What happens if we need to break our lease?

10. After my lease do I renew or go month to month?

11. Do you give notice before entering the home after I move in?

12. Is off-street parking available? What are the parking arrangements?

13. What is the crime rate in the area? Has a crime ever been committed in this home?

14. Can I paint, put up shelves or hang artwork inside the home?

15. Are any utilities included?

16. Who is responsible for lawn care and snow removal?

17. How much notice do we need to give if we do not want to renew our lease?

18. Can I plant a garden or do landscaping?

19. Can we put a pool in the backyard?

20. How do we pay rent?

21. Do we get our deposit back after we move out? How long does it take?

22. Are we required to purchase renter’s insurance?

23. What is the late fee and grace period for paying rent?

24. What school district does this home fall into?

25. What are the nearby churches/grocery stores/ department stores/ gas stations etc.

A great property manager will be able to answer all of these questions and be prepared for odd or unusual ones as well. If you are interested in learning more about Scott Properties, contact us Here.

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Charleston Property Management | Three Ways You Can Make Sure Tenants Take Care of Their Rental Home

Charleston Property Management |One of the most nerve-wracking days a property manager has is when they go into a rental home for the first time after a tenant moves out. We have no idea what to expect and hope that the tenant took care of their home. One way to ease this stress is to ensure that the tenants in your rental homes are responsible adults and will leave home is an excellent condition. While there’s not much you can do about normal wear and tear, use these three tips to help ensure your tenants will take care of their rentals.

1. Screen Tenants-As a property manager, the essential part of your job is screening tenants. You can’t let anyone with a deposit move into a home. You need to make every potential tenant fill out an application and perform a credit and background check, verify employment and income and call the references. Tenants should make a least three times the rent amount in income and show they are responsible through a steady employment history and good credit.

2. Have a Detailed Lease-The lease for the rental home needs to be detailed so that tenants know what is expected of them and what the consequences are for not taking care of the home. Make sure you include rules about trash/garbage accumulation, smoke detectors remaining in working order, upkeep of the home, and pets if applicable. You should also include the move out inspection form that you will use to determine if the tenant will get their deposit back so that they can make sure to have everything completed before handing over the keys.

3. Do Inspections-A property manager that performs inspections on rental homes generally see homes being better maintained because the tenant expects the landlord to check up on them. Schedule an inspection every six months and at lease renewal time. Do not allow tenants to renew their lease if they do not pass their inspection. You can also charge lease violation fines if needed. Just make sure that the rules about inspections and violations are spelled out in the lease.

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Charleston Property Management | Why Everyone is Moving to Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston Property Management |Anyone who has ever considered coastal living should be looking to Charleston, South Carolina first. The iconic city is significant to American history being founded in 1670 and holds onto those traditional roots while also embracing a thriving metropolitan vibe that people all over the United States have fallen in love with. Charleston may even have more awards than any other city in the country including accolades from Travel + Leisure Magazine, Forbes, Fodor’s, Conde Nast, Huffington Post, Business Insider, and the Wall Street Journal among many others.

All these awards aren’t the only reason you should consider moving to Charleston, however. Rental property management in Charleston is available to make your move comfortable and convenient if you are renting a home rather than purchasing. With 28 new people moving to Charleston each day, rental property management in Charleston is the best way to ensure you lease the perfect rental before someone else does.

Charleston is growing at three times the population of the rest of the United States on average and many of the 28 people moving here every day are well educated, young, new to the workforce adults who as created a growing labor force at four times the U.S. average. Charleston is in the top 50 of fastest-growing metros in the country and the place to be for young millennials and the next generation of college graduates.

Property Management in Charleston companies has a variety of homes for rent in Charleston ranging from new and modern, to rustic and historical. When you decide to move to a city like Charleston, partnering with a company that knows the region and can get you exactly what you are looking for is always the best option for a smooth transition. This way, you’ll be able to enjoy the fantastic beaches, eclectic art scene, vibrant history, sunny weather, and lower taxes without worrying if you made the right decision in where you live.

If you’ve fallen in love with Charleston, South Carolina, let our property managers help you find the perfect rental for you and your family. Contact Scott Properties today.

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Three Things Charleston Property Management Can Do To Attract New Property Owners

Charleston Property Management companies need to grow to stay in business and keep turning a profit and attracting new property owners is the most crucial part of the process. There are three essential things that Charleston property management needs to do if they want to gain new rental property owners as fast as possible.

1. Show How Unique Your Property Management Company Is

Rental property owners who are looking for Charleston property management need to show how they stand out from the competition. What do you offer that other companies in Charleston do not? Build yourself a solid reputation, especially online and through social media, but also focus on what makes your business unique.

2. Show A Commitment to Growth and Profit

A rental property manager is making a significant investment in Charleston property management, and they need to know your company is willing to capitalize on that investment. Stay on top of new market trends in property management and show that your company is adaptable and open to change and growth. Be prepared to answer questions about your business growth and where you see your Charleston property management company going in the next two to five years.

3. Show that you Care

A rental property owner is trusting your company to take care of large investment, and they want to know that you care about their business as much as they do. Create an online portal for owners to be able to track their account and see what their rental property is costing them vs. what their profit is. You should also keep owners updated with reports of maintenance, tenant issues, financial statements, and any other relevant information about the rental property.

Are you a property owner looking for the best Charleston property management company? Contact Scott Properties today and find out how they can help you make the most of your rental business.


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