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TBT #5.  Interior Design:  The Elegant Abode.

Ariana & Ali are a dynamic duo who have a knack for neutral tones.    Their homes are truly sophisticated homes  tasteful accommodations  lovely huts elegant abodes.

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TBT #4.  Interior Design:  2Michaels.  Published in NY Home Observer.

Jayne & Joan Michaels of 2Michaels designed a serene home in an Upper East Side apartment. Serenity in NYC is difficult but clearly doable.

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TBT #3. The Bold and the Beautiful.

TBT #3.  Architect:  Anik Pearson.

Dramatic.  Dynamic.  Dreamy.

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2012, 2013, 2014

Almost every night the words “how the hell did it get to be 11:45!?!” come out of my mouth.  My husband, usually brushing his teeth, flashes me a smirk not unlike the previous night & he’ll probably do so again the following night in response to the same (rhetorical!) question.  …So now I ask “How, oh how, did it get to be 2014?”  For the past 32 months* I’ve moved the calendar task ‘new blog post!’ to the following week.  Today I check that box & set it to repeat instead of moving it to next Thursday.  So in the nature of Social Media happenings & hoopla and given my long extended blogging absence, I’m going to attempt to play in the game of TBT!  Every Thursday, I’ll be posting oldies but goodies from the last few years.  Here goes.

*Full disclosure:  In that time I had a baby & we moved to a new home so there were a few months years where blogging, unfortunately, was not up high on my priority list.  Don’t know how I’m going to do it with a toddler running around, but it’s worth a shot.

TBT #1.  Interior Designer:  Jenny Wolf

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Designer Fluff

What’s better than shooting Interiors at the home of an Interior Designer with her own line of pillows?  When the home is in Brooklyn, of course!  Those who know me know I’m quite the homebody.  I love being in my home, and when I do leave, I stay within a 10 (ok, sometimes 5) block radius.  Shooting for Interior Designer Audra Canfield, the creative mind behind Designer Fluff, was a treat (did I mention she pulled out a chilled bottle of rose during lunch?).  Not only was the shoot a blast, but I am now the owner of an amazing designer fluff chevron pillow.  And now, not only do I not want to leave the 5 block radius surrounding my home… I don’t want to get off my couch!

See more pics on the recent post about Designer Fluff on decor8!

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Itchin’ for a kitchen?

This modern kitchen made me want to paint the walls of my kitchen bright yellow.  (It’s a good thing I didn’t do it because our kitchen has a long exposed brick wall & redish wood cabinets that would look horrible with bright yellow!)  How could you have a grumpy morning in such a bright happy looking kitchen?  I don’t think it’s possible.  It was designed by Elizabeth Aurandt of Mercer Interior.  Elizabeth is not only a talented Interior Designer, but she is also quite an intuitive stylist.  Throughout our shoot, I tried to convince her to venture into the world of prop styling.  She’s a busy lady…we’ll see if she can fit it on her plate!

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You call this work?

Some shoot days feel like work but some truly feel like play.  When I arrived at the Hudson Valley home of Interior Designer Sisse Jonassen, it was obvious that I was in for some serious play time.  I couldn’t get out of the car fast enough to see the inside & when I went inside, I didn’t ever want to leave!  I love every bit of the house from the exposed ceiling beams to the wide plank floors, from the found art to the fine art.  My photos and Sisse’s story were just featured on Design*Sponge – according to the comments on the post, she now has a big fan club!  Who’s the leader of that club?  Me.

Photo by Emily Gilbert - Design by Sisse Jonassen

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New York Set to Rein In Force-Placed Insurance Market

Consumers in one state might finally get some relief from the force-placed insurance market that has ruined the credit of so many property owners, and forced untold numbers into foreclosure and bankruptcy. On September 19th, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the state was proposing new rules that, among other things, would forbid the kinds of kickbacks between insurers and mortgage lenders that allowed premiums for force-placed insurance to skyrocket.

“Two years ago, my administration launched an investigation of the force-placed insurance industry that revealed widespread abuses of consumers by banks and mortgage companies,” Governor Cuomo said in a statement issued by the New York Department of Financial Services. “Today we are taking a major step in righting this injustice and reforming the industry by proposing tough new regulations to protect homeowners. Insurers should be on notice that New York State is going to continue rooting out abuse in the industry and protecting taxpayers.”

If adopted, the rules will only apply to force-placed insurance that is imposed on properties in New York State. But the development could bode well for consumers around the country who have filed force-placed insurance lawsuits against some of the nation’s biggest banks and mortgage servicers. Now that they know that regulators are paying attention, banks, mortgage servicers and insurers will be facing increasing pressure to resolve these claims.

Now is the Time to File a Forced-Place Insurance Lawsuit

If your credit was ruined, or you were driven to foreclosure after your mortgage lender force-placed expensive hazard, flood or wind insurance on your home, now is the time to act! Gilman Law LLP, a leading consumer protection law firm for over 40 years that is already representing numerous property owners in force-placed insurance actions, believes that some claimants could be entitled to compensation equaling as much as 200% of the premiums they were assessed for expensive force-placed insurance policies. That’s because it’s become apparent that banks and insurers engaged in predatory practices and colluded in ways that resulted in consumers being charged exorbitant premiums for force-placed wind, hazard and flood insurance policies that, in most cases, afforded them much less protection than standard insurance and ultimately resulted in ruining the credit of many property owners and causing undue hardship.

Gilman Law LLP is continuing to offer free, no-obligation legal evaluations to consumers who may have been victimized by the force-placed insurance market anywhere in the United States. Some of the banks and mortgage servicers subject to the firm’s investigation include:

  • Bank of America
  •  HSBC
  • Green Tree
  • Nationstar
  • Chase
  • Citizens Bank
  • US Bank
  • Ally Financial, Inc., formerly GMAC
  • Others force-placed through insurance companies such as Assurant, American Security, QBE, and others.

If any of these lenders held or serviced a mortgage on your home and force-placed wind, flood or hazard insurance on your property, it is vitally important that you contact Gilman Law LLP today, at 1-888-252-0048. Force-placed insurance lawsuits are subject to strict statutes-of-limitations that set a firm deadline by which a claim must be filed. Time could be running out on your potential lawsuit, which could result in it being barred.

What is Force-Placed Insurance?

Many mortgage contracts allow lenders to impose wind, hazard, flood or other coverage on a property if the owner has allowed required policies to lapse, unfortunately, our investigations and recent regulatory investigations have found that banks and insurers took advantage of this system during the housing crisis, and used it as an opportunity to line their own pockets while they fleeced consumers.

The New York State investigation found that premiums charged to homeowners for force-placed insurance can be two to ten times higher than premiums for voluntary insurance. According to regulators, these ridiculously high premiums were driven by a “troubling web of kick-backs and payoffs at certain force-placed insurers,” that gave lenders and mortgage servicers an incentive to purchase needlessly expensive policies.

If you would like more information about the force-placed insurance actions that Gilman Law LLP is currently involved in, or to have your own claim evaluated, please fill out the online form on this page, or call 1-888-252-0048 to contact our attorneys today.

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When using swiftlint and cocoapods, beginners will have difficulty. So I created the JercyProjectMaster, which is easier to use with the UI.

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The enthusiastic high-fives of future iPhone instant messaging users yesterday might be quite a bit less enthusiastic today when they find out that Apple is not going to allow user-made SDK applications to run in the background. This means every application, from IM to VoIP to GPS mapping, will have to terminate entirely when the user switches out to take a call or change a song. How does this affect you? It means you won't be a be able to receive IMs unless you're currently inside the IM app, forcing you to disconnect when you take a call. There's an upside and a downside to this decision.

First, we already know that apps running in the background as a process is possible on the iPhone. The iPod app, SMS app, and various other apps all run in the background now and continue running no matter where you go in the phone. Also, user-made apps like Apollo (an IM client) already run in the background just fine. So why did Apple make this limitation that all apps have to quit whenever the user switches out? Memory management. From Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for the iPhone:

Apple has no idea what combination of applications you could possibly install on your phone, and they can't control it. If you were to install two apps that took up loads of the iPhone's memory (we're talking RAM), and they both ran in the background, it would slow down the phone's other, more important tasks such as calling or iPodding. If this were the case, Apple would be blamed for making a slow or non-responsive phone even when it's not actually Apple's fault. This is exactly the thing that goes on in Windows Mobile devices. It's fine when you're just running normal, natively-installed apps, but when you get to multi-tasking with your own installed programs, the phone becomes sluggish and everyone curses Microsoft. Apple wants none of this.

So the implication to you, the end-user, is that you can't have apps running in the background, constantly checking the internet. This means no RSS reader that's always up-to-date and no IM apps that always sit in the background, listening for messages. If you're wondering Exchange's push email and calendars are going to work in this scheme, it'll be integrated into Apple's first-party Mail system, which can be allowed to run in the background.

But in the end, it's only a small portion of apps that are really affected by this rule. Games or utilities can save their app status to disk often so that you can resume where you left off when you start it back up. But until the iPhone allows SDK-applications to run in the background, you're probably better off using a web-based chat application in Safari (which already has permission to). [Tech Crunch]


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Long Weekend Links

longn weekendIf you’re anything like me, the Friday work hours before a long weekend are excruciatingly well, long. Here are some links to help you get through the day and into the glorious three day end of summer celebration.

Finally all of those years of not being able to cut construction paper and learning how to play sports the “right” way are paying off.

I am glad I finally won’t have to explain what a blondie dessert is to everyone, and that twerking has been defined so Miley knows she is doing it wrong, but really? Does food baby need to be in the dictionary?
These photos are stunningly gorgeous, and I love the back story that goes along with their captions.
You’ve probably already seen Olivia Wilde’s Advice on Turning 30 everywhere, but it’s just too good not to share again.
Every year during fashion month, I get a serious case of the gimmes. Want.Want.Want.Want.Want.
If you like drinking, and you like vacation and want to put those two together, this is for you.
I can’t wait to tell all those annoying people who love to puff e-cigarettes inside like they’re cool this news that they are just as dangerous for certain toxins as the real things.
If you need some lady-power inspiration, read this advice from Smith’s President.
Every airline should do this: child-free sections for childless travelers.
I want this Comme Des Garcons clutch to put everything in.
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MASON CITY | Nearly a decade ago, Jodi and Kevin Hardy of Mason City fell in love with the Bahamas.

Its beauty, its food and its people.

“It’s hard to come home from there,” Jodi said. “I love it. It’s a dream come true.”

The couple purchased their own sliver of paradise on the Bahamian island of Eleuthera for their family to enjoy, and on Monday, their experience was featured in an episode of HGTV’s new beach lifestyle series “Bahamas Life.”

According to the HGTV website, “Bahamas Life” provides an “insider’s look at what it really takes for prospective homebuyers to make their Bahamian dream a reality.” The series premiered on Monday with two episodes, including “From Iowa to Eleuthera” featuring the Mason City couple and their six children. The show airs at 8 and 8:30 p.m. Sundays.

“It was so fun to be able to share a little bit of our heaven with people we love who may not be able to go,” Jodi said about the show airing New Year's Day. “That was the exciting part.”

Jodi said when she and Kevin first visited the island in 2008, airfare and lodging to the Bahamas was expensive, but within the past few years, it became “very affordable” and “attainable,” so they started looking to buy a property.

The couple purchased Serendipity, a 1,200-square-foot oceanfront property in Eleuthera, for $327,000.

Serendipity is a two-bedroom, two-bathroom house on the Caribbean Sea that’s less than one mile from Rainbow Bay Beach. It features a hide-a-bed in the living area with a deck, a central-air system and a view of the sea from three sides of the property.

Kevin and Jodi said the house provides access to “amazing” snorkeling, spear-fishing and sunset views as well as the opportunity to make “really cool” décor from things they find along the shore.

“I would’ve taken a shack, a one-room shack as long as it was a piece of that rock, a piece of Eleuthera,” Jodi said. “I would’ve taken anything ... We couldn’t be happier with the house.”

The couple and their six children between the ages of 5 and 14 take a trip to the Bahamas every summer and a few times throughout the year as their work and school schedules allow. Kevin is the owner of Cutting Edge Tree Services in Mason City, and Jodi is the owner-operator of Hardy Homes in Mason City.

When the episode aired on Monday, Jodi and Kevin saw it for the first time.

“When all our friends and family saw it, we saw it,” she said.

Jodi said something that wasn’t conveyed in the episode featuring her family was how hard it worked to make its dream of owning a Bahamian house a reality as a young family in North Iowa that isn’t wealthy.

“I want people to know we worked really, really hard for this over the past 10 years, and they can have this, too,” she said. “Anybody can have this.”

Since the couple purchased the house, it’s rented it to four guests, and they’ve booked one more since the show aired.

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Mom’s Potato Soup

A creamy soup with tender potatoes, onions, celery and bacon bits. One of my favorites growing up!  ♥

2 strips of bacon, fried and crumbled
1/2 cup diced sweet onion
1/3 cup sliced celery (about 1 stalk)
3 cups cubed potatoes
4 cups gluten free chicken broth
Salt and pepper to taste
1/2 cup half and half
2 T. cornstarch
3 T. cold water

In a medium pot, fry bacon strips over medium heat until crispy. Remove from pot and cool on paper towels. Add onions and celery to bacon drippings and sauté until tender. Salt and pepper to taste. Add chicken broth and potatoes to pot. Increase heat and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and simmer for 30 minutes. In a small bowl, add water to cornstarch and stir to combine. While stirring contents of pot, add cornstarch mixture. Continue to stir until soup thickens. Turn off heat. Stir in milk. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately. Serve with gluten free croutons. Makes 6 Cups. 4 servings.

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Happy gluten free Easter!   I love Easter as I love chocolate, it is a four day long weekend and the weather is generally good, not too hot but not winter.   But the best thing is the chocolate.   I love Lindt chocolate particularly the Lindt balls but alas I cannot have these as the contain barley malt extract.   In fact cannot have any of the milk chocolate generally.   However I love dark chocolate so my Easter treat is always a dark chocolate Lindt bunny.   I also love the Lindt hazelnut milk chocolate carrots which only come out in the stores at Easter.   So if you are gluten free you can still have some Lindt but just check the ingredient labels particularly to make sure don’t contain barley malt extract!

I am not a huge fan of hot cross buns but at this time of the year will crave one anyway when everyone else is eating them.   So I bought some hot cross buns from the Pure Bred range and was surprised they tasted pretty good when heated up in the oven and spread with butter while still warm.

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Considering how many managers complain about fixture congestion and the demands placed on players today, how would Arsène Wenger react if he was told his side had to play on consecutive days?

And imagine the furore there would be if the mighty Gunners were beaten not once, but twice, by unfashionable opponents. That’s what happened when, in the space of 30 hours, Watford beat Arsenal 5-0 on aggregate to pile the misery on the managerless club.

‘When I tell young players today that we once beat Arsenal two days in a row, they don’t believe me,’ says Nigel Gibbs.

Watford had been due to face Arsenal at Vicarage Road on Boxing Day but the game was postponed because the pitch was frozen. The match was re-arranged for April 1, to kick off just 27 hours after the two sides were due to meet at Highbury.

Until about a decade ago, it wasn’t that unusual for teams to occasionally be required to play two days in a row, particularly at Christmas.
Arsenal were in disarray and two meetings with Watford were the last thing they needed. Their manager, Don Howe, had recently quit the job because of rumours the board were about to make an approach for Terry Venables.

Watford showed no mercy, despite being without half a dozen first team players. At Highbury, as the home fans protested against the board, Watford won 2-0.

The Hornets’ teenage Welsh striker, Malcolm Allen, scored his first goal for the club and John Barnes got the other.

If Arsenal’s fans thought it was a fluke they were in for more of the same the next day. Rumour has it the Arsenal’s players drowned their sorrows that evening and some of them were still a little worse for wear when they faced Watford again the following night.

The first goal came when Barnes crossed and Neil Smillie’s header was blocked by John Lukic only for Smillie to react smartly to stab the ball home.

Five minutes later, Martin Keown pulled down Barnes right on the edge of the box. The referee gave Watford the benefit of the doubt and pointed to the spot. Kenny Jackett scored the penalty. In the second half Allen scored his second goal in as many days when he finished off a fine passing move involving Barnes and Brian Talbot with a flourish.

The press focused on Arsenal’s humiliation, of course, but there was no doubt that Watford had been far the better side.

Watford Coton, Gibbs, Rostron, Talbot, Terry, McClelland, Smillie, Bardsley, Allen, Jackett, Barnes
Manager Graham Taylor
Scorers Smillie, Jackett pen, Allen
Attendance 18,635

Why was this match chosen? Watford had a very good record over the Gunners in the 1980s but beating them twice in two days was  remarkable.

How do I feel about this game's inclusion now? By this stage of Watford's stay in the First Division results like this were perhaps beginning to get taken for granted by some but with the benefit of hindsight this was a period when it felt like the club had established itself in the top flight for the long term.


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This has caused euphoria in Santa Fe among lobbyists who prepare for a new Governor from the Democratic Party.

She will have to decide that the rhetoric of renewable energy is no match for her budget bounty made up of revenue flows from Lea and Eddy Counties. Token demonstrations for higher taxes from oil and gas producers no doubt will occur, but in Santa Fe only the price of oil is the threat that can take the punch off the table.

And here the connected experts publicly answer reporters that the Permian is an exceptionalism in oil and gas: it will never become a basin in a downturn.

However, all the charts and slides converge on upward supply without much on demand to offset the upward slope. It is almost impolite to ask where is the market for the massive supply of oil now and in the near-term future?  What about demand for oil?

China? Not quite as electric cars – yes, Tesla or Chinese versions appear as I-Phone-like technology against the combustion engine.

California, with 40 million people and seven states following its waiver, can set miles per gallon requirements on engines towards zero emissions.

This is the meaning of President Trump’s policy to force California back into the Union where Washington decides on what the combustion engine can and will do.”

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Lehmann’s Frog (Oophaga lehmanni)

Common Name: Lehmann’s Frog or Red-banded Poison Frog,
Scientific Name: Oophaga lehmanni
Family: Dendrobatidae
Location: Colombia
Maximum Size: 1.2 to 1.4 inches (31-36 mm)

These color poison dart frogs are named after Colombian biologist Frederico Lehmann. There are 3 different colors of the frogs shown above. The males of the species protect the tadpoles which involves separating the tadpoles by carrying them on their backs to new areas.

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Carl Sargeant, Minister for Housing and Regeneration

Today, I am pleased to announce the launch date of 3 June for the NewBuy Cymru Scheme.

NewBuy Cymru, a mortgage guarantee scheme will assist up to 3,000 welsh households to meet the mortgage criteria specified by lenders. It will enable high loan to value mortgages of up to 95% using a shared model of guarantees from both house builders and Welsh Government. It will assist potential home buyers, first time and those hoping to move up the property ladder to purchase a new build home up to the value of £250,000 with a deposit of just 5%.


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Monday 12 December 2016

With the group stage safely navigated and the first knock out stage draw complete, 16 teams now remain in the hunt for a place in the UEFA Champions League Final in Cardiff on 3 June, which will follow the Women’s Champions League Final on the 1 June.

As the road to Cardiff becomes clearer, the preparations to host the world’s biggest single sporting event in Wales are gathering momentum as  more than 200million people in over 200 countries are expected to watch the Cardiff final live.

Cabinet Secretary for the Economy and Infrastructure, Ken Skates, said:

“Next year has been designated the ‘Year of Legends’ in Wales – and what a legendary event this will be for Cardiff and Wales.

“We are gearing up to deliver the best Champions League Finals yet.  The World’s perception of Wales’ role in football changed following this year’s Euros and has given us an excellent platform from which to work on delivering this phenomenal event next year – which will be on a scale yet to be seen in Wales - and Cardiff.

“The last decade has seen Wales attract many of the world’s premier sporting events - the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Ashes, World Cups, the UEFA Champions League Final, Rally GB, the Heineken Cup final, Ironman, the Volvo Ocean race and the Ryder Cup, amongst others.

“For a country of just three million people, that is an outstanding achievement and I’m delighted the Welsh Government has been able to directly support so many of these bids.  We now look forward to welcoming our biggest event yet.”

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Blending our lives with grace and love through the power of Jesus

This is our family. We are a blend of “his” and “hers” kids. We are blessed with opportunities to love each other more like Jesus every day.

In order for our relationships to thrive, we must learn to give grace. Grace is freely given, unmerited favor and love. God does this perfectly. We (mankind) do not. We forgive and give grace to others but so often there are strings attached. These strings may not be visible or known to the receiver of our grace but they are in our hearts and minds. These invisible “strings” can hinder the intimacy and transparency in all of our relationships. They are often tied on to proverbial baggage from our pasts that we carry with us into new relationships.

But! There is good news! God’s word is sharper than any double edged sword. It cuts straight to our hearts and minds. His Word convicts us when we give grace with strings (which isn’t really grace at all). While His word convicts us, it also shows us how to live a life that reflects Jesus. The truth is, on this side of heaven, we will not get this right every time. But God will not leave us where we are. He loves us and the people we do life with too much for that.

Think about it…He doesn’t want us hurting any of His other children either so…He will, through His word, others, and prayer, teach us how He loves us and teach us how to gracefully love others like He does.

As a family, a blended family, a ministry family, a cancer fighting family, a BLESSED family, we share how He changes us, grows us, teaches us, walks with us, convicts us, comforts us, and loves us through our failures and our wins.

Giving grace to each other is a conscious decision to surrender our will to His. His way is sometimes difficult and scary. It doesn’t make sense. But it is ALWAYS better than ours. And He is faithful to show us that truth every time we step out and give unmerited favor and love to each other.

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We are passionate about marriage; whether a blended family or not, marriage is still a blending of lives and we all need encouragement and Godly counsel to have a thriving marriage.

We blend daily life with cancer and all the emotional, physical, and financial struggles that come with a major health diagnosis whether in remission or not.

The struggles and blessings in our lives are not ours alone. The moments when we pause, seek Him, and give grace, are the blessed moments we see so clearly how perfect the love of Jesus is. When we choose His way, His love and His grace, the people in our lives are encouraged and empowered to be who God made them to be.

GracefullyBlending.com is simply a blog about walking the path God sets before us with grace and mercy for others and ourselves. We can not give what we do not have.  I pray you are reminded how much He loves you and every human soul He created. I pray that you are equipped and encouraged to live gracefully each day.

The perfect love of Jesus Christ gives us the ultimate example to follow as we choose grace instead of anger, judgement, condemnation, retaliation, unforgiveness and bitterness.

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Romans 12:18

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Curriculum Corner – A La Carte

Often, choosing curriculum can feel a bit like ordering from a "prix fixe" menu at a restaurant; not exactly what you want, no substitutions, and really expensive. While many new homeschoolers appreciate the security and comprehensiveness of a pre-packaged curriculum, many veteran homeschoolers relish the ability to take what they need and leave the rest.

We already know that one size does not fit all in education. Even children within the same families do not learn the same way, and the math books that worked well for the eldest will not necessarily make sense to siblings. Something as well-defined as math can be learned in so many different and interesting ways. From Life of Fred books that teach math using stories, illustrations, and a few practice problems, to Saxon Math which uses an incremental and repetitive approach to mastery, to playing Parcheesi, there is no wrong way to play with and absorb the wonder that is the world of numbers.

So how do you design a homeschool that is best for you kiddo? Your first step is simply just to get to know your learner. What kind of learner do you have? Teacher Stacy Zeiger talks about the three main learning styles: visual, auditory and kinesthetic/tactile in her article Learning Style Test for Children.

"Visual learners learn by seeing and reading. They learn best through textbooks, pictures, diagrams or demonstrations they can observe.
Auditory learners excel through listening and speaking. Auditory learners will do well in a lecture hall atmosphere, by listening to tapes or music. Kinesthetic or tactile learners learn best through touching and doing. Hands-on activities work well for this type of learner, and a tactile learner tends to do well with manual dexterity tasks."

Chances are you already know which style of learners you have in your home. Each of us can learn in all styles, but we certainly favor one over the others. I myself like to toss a ball while thinking aloud because I favor auditory and kinesthetic. Once you know your style of learner, the rest is community. Checking curriculum reviews, asking seasoned homeschoolers what worked for their learners, and patience.

Sandra Dodd, an experienced Unschooler, came up with a phrase in 2010 that I find extraordinarily helpful on my own journey with my learners; "read a little, try a little, wait a while, watch." What it means essentially is this; when you discover something new, read a bit about it, try it out, wait to see how it works and observe your learner. Rinse and repeat as necessary with curriculum, homeschool styles, exercise routines, any facet of your life.

Unlike ordering at a restaurant, with homeschooling you are not under a time constraint, you do not have to fully commit before you're sure you like something, and you can change your mind. So go ahead and try something new. Pick what you like from different places and feel free to discard the rest. Each kiddo is going to order a la carte for their education, us parents get to have fun putting together a diverse menu!

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“I go into my competitors’ offices and there are editors who have offices larger than my entire editorial bullpens. It’s ridiculous! These people are ridiculous! It’s absolutely insane! What do they think they’re doing? Magazines are ephemera. They’re ephemera. They’re not important in people’s lives. They’re nice. They’re amusing. The way these magazine editors go on, you’d think they were important or something. It’s ridiculous! People read magazines for a bit of entertainment and a small amount of information. Who the bloody hell do they think they are, carrying on? The Magazine Publishers of America, sitting around giving each other prizes! What pathetic, pathetic little asses!”

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RIFF Going Ahead

Published February 24, 2014

Reykjavík Film Festival will be going ahead this year despite a lack of funding from the City of Reykjavík, reports RÚV.

“We will continue this important work,” said RIFF Festival Director, Hrönn Marinósdóttir.

Hrönn also confirmed that the festival will begin on September 25th and run until the 5th of October.

This will be the first RIFF festival held since the City of Reykjavík decided to withdraw its sponsorship. Hrönn said that instead roughly 50-60 companies and foundations have cooperated to make the festival happen.

It remains unclear exactly where the festival will be held but preparations are nonetheless in full swing and filmmakers are welcome to submit their work at the end of this month when applications open on the RIFF website.

The theme of this year’s festival will be Italy.

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Oh The Weather Outside is Frightful…

There was a time when snow was the best thing that could possibly happen to me. The schools would shut, it was open season to throw stuff at other people and you just didn’t care about getting cold. Now, the snow is a bloody hinderance. It stopped training altogether on Monday, we had to stop early on Tuesday so that people could leave a little earlier and get home safer and I had no session with Will this morning because my road has frozen over and it would have taken too long to get over and back and I have work to do dammit!

But I still managed to get an okay training week in. Some S&C on Tuesday morning looked like this:
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Y,T,W – 3×5,5,5
3×4minute row with 1 minute recovery
Work Block 1 – 10 mins
1A Box Jumps – 5 reps
1B Pull Ups – 3 reps
1C Elevated Push Ups – 10 reps
3×4minute row with 1 minute recovery
Work Block 2 – 10 mins
2A Split Jumps – 10 reps
2B Inverted Rows – 5 reps
2C KB Shoulder Press – 5 reps each side
3×4minute row with 1 minute recovery
3A III Way Bridging – 2 sets (30second each bridge variation)
3B Natural Reverse Hypers – 2 sets of 15 reps

I did all but the reverse hypers as I had to leggit with the snow. The rows were really hard as we had a distance target for each one. I got some help from Damian the lad I did it with regarding my rowing technique. His heart rate was something like 88bpm 3 minutes after the second sets of rowing whereas mine was 130 or so for the same rest. He had put in much more distance than me too so it was obvious that I was wasting a lot of energy. The back end of the first strength block got really hard. It looks easy- 5 jumps, 3 pulls, 10 pushes, but when you’re doing it, there’s not one of those exercises you could call a rest. The inverted rows on the second strength block were not too bad and I’d really like to test tomorrow just to see how my back is doing. There’s still some pain and immobility but (knock on wood) no training effect. Even when it spasmed the last time I was able to do the very next session pain free. Wednesday was some Muay Thai with Paddy in the morning, and last night was BJJ. So not much done all week but it can serve as a good unload week and I’ll get back on the bike Monday again for a double session.

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A moment from yesterday I am thankful for

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The closest I have ever come to seeing an actual opera. I went to support Rutgers Presbyterian Church and my friend, Robert Williams, who participated in the talk back after the performance. The performance and Robert were both awesome.

Traci Smith, author of Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home has provided a gift of the November 2018 Gratitude Every Day calendar. I am using it as an opportuity to revisit photos and post them as they speak to gratitude.

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Eighth Reveal: Environments of the Multiverse!

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On twitter, I asked my last trivia question of the day: "Which three cards from the Time Cataclysm environment deck are NOT related to any other environment?"

Right away, I got the answer I was looking for from Richard Gillingham. "Typhoon, Rift in time Fixed Point"

Well done, everyone. You've answered all of my questions, and each of them in no more than 2 minutes. Impressive. Most impressive.

So, it's time to talk about the environments from Villains of the Multiverse!

Originally, we said that there would be two environment decks in Villains of the Multiverse. However, this preorder campaign has been going so well and we still have so much story that we want to tell. Therefore, we are doubling the environments. There will be four environment decks. And here they are:

The Court of Blood

The home of the dreaded Blood Countess, the Court of Blood is a lair of creatures thought to be mythical: vampires. They thirst for blood and feed on the living. You may have heard of them.

Fanatic's pilgrimages have brought her to far-reaches of the world, and in one such location, she encountered the Court of Blood. It did not go terribly well for her. She has traveled there more than once, each time hoping to eradicate the evil beings within, and each time being rebuffed. No mortal nor angel nor hero could hope to stand against the might of the court. And yet, many still try. Fools.

Madame Mittermeier’s Fantastical Festival of Conundrums & Curiosities

You'd never heard of Madame Mittermeier’s Fantastical Festival of Conundrums & Curiosities before. You were driving into town in the morning, as usual, when you noticed that the abandoned lot just outside city limits wasn't abandoned anymore. In fact, there was a carnival set up there. There wasn't a carnival there yesterday, right? You don't remember seeing it on your drive home last night. And there's nothing in the papers about it. Odd. Well, seems like it might be worth visiting.

All day at work, you can't get the thought of that dilapidated wagon with its well-worn sign. Who is Madame Mittermeier? You haven't been to a carnival since you were just a kid. You struggle to focus on your work, but in the back of your mind, you know you're going to stop at the carnival on the way home from work.

You leave the office on time, pretending to not even be thinking of the carnival. Yet, as you drive by it, you feel yourself clicking on the turn signal to pull into the empty parking lot. What harm could an hour at the carnival do? You didn't have any real plans tonight, anyway. You make your way into the big red and yellow tent.

And then, you're never heard from again.

Deep underground near the core of the earth, Magmaria, the City of the Magmen, has never been seen by the eyes of surface-dwellers. The seemingly mindless magmen toil without ceasing there. They build their cities of molten rock and crystalline structures, only to have them destroyed by seismic activity. They build and rebuild endlessly, driven by the pressure of the earth to maintain as many of their structures as possible, lest they be crushed by their very homes.

If you were to journey to Magmaria, you would surely perish. Between the heat, the pressure, and the magmen who are immediately hostile to anything unknown, it is not a safe place for a surface-dweller. And yet, there are many riches and resources to be had in such deep places. Such a visit might be worth your while... would you dare risk it?

Temple of Zhu Long

Hidden amongst the peaks of the Himalayas, the Temple of Zhu Long is a place of many eldritch secrets. The mystic Zhu Long keeps his magics hidden from the world there, protected by his scores of apprentices, wards, and assassins. Many find themselves in life-debt to Zhu Long, and it is a steep debt indeed. But what price could be a fair one for cheating death itself?

Surrounded by unfavorable conditions, Zhu Long has found a spot which harnesses the harshest of ley-lines in order to perform his rituals. You would be wise to never visit the Temple of Zhu Long. However, sometimes, there is no other way. The ancient purveyor of life and death holds the keys to certain doors which should remain closed.

And with that, we conclude this day. The day of many tweets and many stories. So many characters and environments. Villains of the Multiverse brings a lot to the table.

See you tomorrow, for more exciting news!

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Nice! I was just thinking today that I would like more than 2 environments in an expansion, and here you are fulfilling that request before I even got to voice it!

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These pretty much all look fantastic.

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"You feel yourself clicking on the turn signal"

Clear sign that someone is being mind controlled!  They actually USE their turn signal!!!

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Four enviroments!  That's really generous.  And they all look great.  I feel even more excited about this expansion now.  :D

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Vampires, Fanatic, multiple trips. I did a happy dance, I'm so rarely correct in speculation.

Now... have we seen the Blood Countess anywhere....

This is also great because these fill in some holes.

Zhu Long will have ninjas inside (we know he works with ninjas from Operative)

Magmaria gives us the lave people we've been talking about with explosive parts (maybe even the source of the slaughterhouse six guy if he somehow broke free and traveled to the surface)

The only one I can't immediately connect is Madame Mittermeier’s Fantastical Festival of Conundrums & Curiosities. Though, we do now have the setting where the Ape is on Tachyon's lightning reflexes, and if the ape is connected perhaps a few other nightmares from the Dreamer are represented somehow. Also I'm betting the red cat from Miss Information makes its home withi the Festival.

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The Temple of Zhu Long is stunning.  That's one of the best pieces of art I've ever seen.  Bravo!

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"We were just going to have two, but this is really successful, so have two more" Also, I though fixed point was based off of the realm of discord. The backround made me thing of it, the effects of the card made me think of it, and so on.

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Tendrils of Madness is the Realms of Discord card. Look at the shape and colour of the HP in the corner.

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Because the backgroundnfrom tendrils of madness always made me think it was from the final waasteland, woth all the evil glowy faces and whatnot

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Elizabeth Bathory is one of my favourite historial figures, and she's being casually mentioned in my favourite card game? Sure, it could be just another Blood Countess. but I'd like to believe that everything I love will suddenly converge like this.

All of thesse environments sound pretty swell, with Madame Mittermeir's and Bathory's Court being stand-outs among stand-outs.


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Hawke’s Bay people enjoy a relaxed pace of life. 84 percent of us have good to excellent health, and 85 percent are happy and content.

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Mary Katrantzou’s designs shine bright at Victoria’s Secret Fashion Parade (VIDEO)

The 2018 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show featured a very special collaboration with Greece’s leading fashion designer Mary Katrantzou.

Mary, who is known as the “Queen of Prints,” is famous for her striking, feminine and chic style.

“Everything that Victoria’s Secret creates is about a woman feeling strong and empowered — and also having fun with what she is wearing. This collaboration is going to be bold, fun and playful,” Mary said.

The Athens born designer says she had never dreamed of creating an intimates line, but was ever so glad she did, as her range was an absolute hit on the runway!

Adding bright colours and beautiful prints, including florals and geometrics, the drop dead gorgeous VS Angels modelled Mary’s incredible range, including all kinds of intimate pieces that are created to make women feel extra special.

*Watch the video here-

The Victoria’s Secret 2018 show will be televised worldwide over the next month, however, a date has not been confirmed as yet and very soon you’ll be able to shop the fab pieces in Victoria’s Secret stores and online!

*Images and video credit: Mary Katrantzou

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2012 Season Update

The 2012 Season begins soon. Opening Day ceremony and parade is scheduled for Sunday, May 6 @ 1 p.m.  Rosters and schedules are coming together. Major League, AAA and AA rosters have been created and distributed to the coaches. You should receive notification form the coaches soon (keep in mind with spring break some coaches are still returning from warmer climates).

Junior/Senior, Collegiate and TBall Leagues are still be formed. More news about these leagues soon.