WARC-Truncated: length

text:
The Streets of Levenshulme: Daniel Pitts mini-exhibition at Thairish Cafe

Manchester Irish Festival 2017

Levenshulme based artist Daniel Pitts will be holding a mini-exhibition of his works at Thairish Cafe in Levenshulme. Danny's portrait of Manchester Irish legend George Best was a sensation leading to commissions by a number of celebrities.

One of Danny's favourite subjects is the suburb of Levenshulme where he lives. Levenshulme is still home to a huge Irish Community and The Horseshoe Pub, Fiddler's Green and the old Palace Nightclub count among his popular works.

'The Streets of Levenshulme' feature areas of Levenshulme populated by the Irish over decades. Daniel said, "I am pleased to exhibit some of my favourite works during the festival. Levenshulme is an artists' dream - I'm heavily influenced by the area in which I live. The streets of Levenshulme, home to so many Irish people and now Irish decscent residents makes a fascinating study. I have previously done works like George Best and of course the Gallagher brothers. People say that in Levenshulme, the streets are paved with green. Like a stick of Blackpool Rock, the influence of the Irish runs right through our area. That is why I am pleased to have the opportunity to display some of my works during the festival."

Bernadette Fallon, from the cafe which fuses Irish and Thai food said, "Levenshulme is home to some outstanding talent - Daniel Pitts is at the forefront of that. We are so pleased to be able to showcase some of his works during the Irish Festival. They are available to buy at a extremely affordable price. His works 'The streets of Levenshulme' show a growing maturity and someone who is just getting better. Why not pop in to see his works and those from other local artists throughout our March season."

Fidelma Clerkin is been a huge fan of Daniel's work. She said, "Daniel's paintings are a snapshot of our area that are loved by a growing number of people. We are proud to see another local talent being recognised and the interest has been phenomenal."

If you are interested in having your own bespoke artwork commissioned feel free to get in touch with Daniel Pitts.

Mobile 07989 708 085


Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response

WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: text/html

WARC-Type: response

text:
Skills Classes

For players 6  yrs through high school, our Skills Classes are the perfect opportunity for younger players to develop their ball mastery skills and also focus specifically on the technical aspects of soccer. Training once per week at the Sports Plex in Bedford, NH, players will be grouped by age and ability level.

Click here for more information.

warcinfo:
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-164-221-253.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-43
operator: Common Crawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for October 2017
publisher: Common Crawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf


text:
Saturday, December 25, 2010

A Final Thought On Merry Of Horror

hi chaps,

Merry Christmas everybody! It's after midnight on Christmas day, and I am watching the Top Of The Pops episode of the day, including the Christmas number one, which is Matt Cardle, X Factor Winner with 'Many Of Horror'.

Previously, on my blog, I have shared various opinions on this topic, I would like to add one final point which has only just occurred to me. The video tells the story of Matt Cardle auditioning for the X Factor, going to the Judges' houses, etc.

That's what inspires me to think, in this context., the song can be seen to be a metaphor for the singers' relationship with the contest itself.  A Dystfunctional relationship which will only end in pain for Matt Cardle? You decide.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

VIDEO: Breton 'December'

Hotly tipped for 2011, this lot rocked In The City this year, and promise great things with their indie-dance hybrid sound.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

VIDEO: The XX 'Night Time'

This version of Night Time is incredible, with a video performance partially caught on surveillance cameras adding to the dark, moody atmosphere.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Noah and The Whale : Wild Thing

So, the wonderful Noah And The Whale return with this wistful tune. A wonderful mix of 80s influences including Dire Straits and Depeche Mode, it continues the introspective mood of their previous album The First Days Of Spring, augmenting it with electro elements.

  Noah And The Whale - Wild Thing
- Watch more Videos at Vodpod.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Some Thoughts on 'When We Collide ' / Many Of Horror

Last night saw the culmination of the UK's The X Factor TV music show competition, in which 27 painter decorator Matt Cardle beat off competition from Liverpudlian Rebecca Ferguson and teen boyband One Direction to win a £1 million recording contract, with Simon Cowell's Syco record label.

What was fascinating was the choice of debut release, something which has become a source of great contention in recent years, given the X Factors' domination of the prestigious Christmas number one single chart spot. Last year Rage Against The Machine successfully beat of competition from X Factor winner Joe McElderry to take their 1993 hit 'Killing In The Name' to the Xmas number one slot. It was a protest vote from the country against X Factor, Syco and pop blandless hegemony, and sent an important message, which the makers appear, to have a lesser extent, to have heeded.

This year the three finalists had individual songs to be released in the event of winning. Rebecca Ferguson got Duffy's 'Different Dreamer', boys One Direction got Alphaville's 'Forever Young', and winner Cardle got Biffy Clyro's 'Many Of Horror'. It's the last which is most fascinating to me, especially as there's a strong chance it will be at number one for Christmas next week.

Firstly, the producers have renamed the song 'When We Collide', as opposed to 'Many Of Horror'. It's a shame to see the artistic integrity of the original song compromised by tampering with it in this way, but the original's title has a strange, archaic quality which sounds vaguely Shakespearean, rather than contemporary English. Also, 'Horror' isn't exactly Christmassy. Personally, I'm always on the side of the artist, though, so I'd go with the original every time. That's probably why I'm not in a mansion sipping champagne, though.

Secondly, the choice of a Biffy Clyro song is for me a response to accusations of a lack of credibility and cool which have chipped away at the show. Biffy Clyro are a respected indie rock band, who have paid their dues, and the song has been written out of that context, that reality. They have earned to right to sing it, and in appropriating such a song, the X Factor will inevitably appropriate some of the indie glamour that goes with it, even if Biffy lose some credibility by association. I'm sure they'll not too much sleep over it, particularly when the massive royalty cheques start rolling in (anecdotally, I remember a mate getting £40 for a single play on a radio station of his song via PRS. Imagine that x £100,000 for all the poxy little radio stations in the country playlisting the song over Xmas, and into the new year!). They may even gain a new fanbase from it.

Then there are the visceral, gutsy lyrics. 'Many Of Horror' is the take of a violent, turbulent love / hate relationship. From the first person perspective, the teller of the story knows that he belongs with his opposite number, but that they are doomed to mistreat and torment one another. It's incredibly dark, particularly a Christmas song, to have the lyrics "I'll take a bruise I know you're worth it / When you hit me, hit me hard". One wonders what would have happened if a woman such as Rebecca Ferguson were singing it - the implication of domestic violence against a polite, even timid woman would be distasteful.

I'm sure the anthemic quality of the song,  power of the tune, and the credibility of Biffy were a great combination, which is what made the final decision for the producers though. The general public, and by extension, decision makers, often don't care about lyrics, which often leads to history being littered with examples of songs inappropriately being appropriated. Look at the way 'Born In The USA' was used by Republicans in the 80s, even though it's a critique of the Vietnam war and blind patriotism. Or the way David Cameron likes 'Eton Rifles' and The Smiths.

In the end, though, all this debate is a testimony to the fact that, When We Collide / Many Of Horror, or whatever it's called, is first and foremost, a great song.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Top Ten albums of 2010

Dear chaps and ladies, boys and gals, I think it's about time for us to look back over the best albums of the year!

Here's my top 10 of 2010 *queues The Wizzard circa Top Of The Pops 1985*

1. Caitlin Rose - Own Side Now.
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3. Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
4. Foals  - Total Life Forever
5. The National -High Violet
6. The Like - Release Me
7. Janelle Monae - Archandroid, pts 2 and 3
8. Warpaint - The Fool
9. Plan B - Defamation of Strickland Banks
10. Mark Ronson - Record Collection.

(all links are to Spotify)

Honourable mentions, well, there are so many. Cee-Lo Green's 'The Lady Killer', Beach House's 'Teen Dream' (which I didn't take to initially at all, but I'm now re-appraising, now that it seems to be in a lot of year-end lists), Frighten Rabbits' 'Winter Of Mixed Drinks', and far too many others to mention. Erm, ok, Darwin Deez.

I was left feeling I could / should have listened to loads more, but I've only got two ears, and I have my fingers in several other pies, including TV journalism, tech, and film. I was fascinated that The Drums debut seemed to drop out of peoples' awareness, which confirmed what I believed previously - that they're a band who were built on hype. I am left doubting if there'll be much interest when they return, given that the interest in them was largely manufactured by a small portion of the media.

Kanyes' record was fascinating. Hugely overblown, full of celebrity cameos, but, crucially, it DID deliver. It was the antithesis of stripped-back '808s and Heartbreaks' in production, and perhaps a response to the doubters in the fallout from his public humiliation following the Taylor Swift debacle.

Caitlin Rose's debut was authentic, with beatiful songwriting, and tasteful 70s country-pop production, a true delight. Janelle Monae's record became one of the most talked about records of the year in media circles, and I guess people were impressed by the ideas and inventiveness of the whole archandroid concept, the variety of the songs, and the quality. r'n'b is often very conservative, and this was the opposite, harking back to the work of Stevie Wonder, or Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' in being a concept album in the soul genre.

Speaking of soul concept albums, the Defamation of Strickland Banks was another from Forrest Gate rapper Plan B, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It is one of the most commercial albums in my list, and certainly inspired by the likes of Amy Winehouse and other contemporary takes on Motown, but I couldn't care less, the sheer quality of the songs overrides all other considerations.

Anyway, enjoy Xmas, and have a listen, if you haven't already!

Rayland Baxter : I Do Bad Things VIDEO

hi chaps,

So, it's coming up to Xmas, so Seasons Greetings. I recently stumbled across this unsigned artist from Tennessee courtesy of Caitlin Rose, who I interviewed earlier in the year, on her Facebook.

Rayland Baxter is a solo singer songwriter, and this blues tale of badness and wrong love is truly astonishing.


text:
Itty-Bitty Windows on Old Houses with Pitched Roofs and Chimneys

I know what you’re thinking after reading the title of this post: I should just quit everything and write clickbait pieces for BuzzFeed. Clearly I have a knack for it? Because who wouldn’t want to read about the super-specific topic of how to address the upper portion of the back of my house by pooling an excessive number of examples and generally obsessing a stupid amount over the handling of this one architectural detail?

A few weeks ago I posted this disastrous photo of the back of my house after the walls and roof of the mudroom were demolished and the vinyl siding was removed to expose the original clapboard. Like…damn. I won’t even pretend that I’m not a little intimidated by this picture. Winter is around the corner and I gotta get this put back together—stat!

A big debate ensued in the comments about how to deal with the second story of this bad boy. Originally I was planning to build a covered porch on the first floor with a balcony above it on the second floor, so you could walk out that funny door to nowhere (where there used to be a fire escape when the house was divided into two units) and lounge around high in the air, feeling fancy. That door and window arrangement always felt kind of…off…but once the vinyl siding was removed it all started to look especially bad. The door and window were both almost certainly later additions to this structure, and seeing how they both cut into the raking frieze (the flat board at the base of the cornice that the clapboard terminates into) makes that very apparent. Unlike the front part of the house, where there are two full levels and an attic, the second floor on this section I think qualifies as a half-story—not an attic but not a full story with an attic above either.

So anyway. I’ve nixed the balcony. Officially, that idea is dead. Everybody forget about it. I’m not mourning it for the following reasons:

  1. It requires a door. That door up there is already a small door and it looks enormous and stupid.
  2. Because it’s a half-story, there’s no height to allow for any kind of roofing structure above the proposed balcony, so it would be open-air. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen any houses of this style with a set-up like that…I think it would just look all wrong.
  3. It would be expensive. And harder to build. I still like the idea of doing a covered porch off the back of the house with replica columns and all that jazz, but just a regular roof on top of it. Hopefully next spring/summer.
  4. I’m not sure I’d actually use it? It’s not like I have some spectacular view of the Catskill mountains or something, and really, how much of the year would I actually choose to sit outside 20 feet in the air just…because? It gets really hot and really cold here and I’m not much of a lounger even in perfect weather.

Cool? Cool.

So now that that’s off the table, what do I do back here? A lot of people suggested one larger window in the center, but the issue with that is that there’s a chimney that runs up the center of this wall! Currently, the chimney doesn’t do anything. I suppose someday somebody might decide to have it lined and made functional again, but in all honesty that will probably never be me. Without an existing function, a lot of people also suggested demolishing the chimney, patching the roof, and then putting a window in the middle of the wall.

I see the logic of that—really, I do—but I feel strongly that the chimney stay put. I’ve mentioned this here and there before, but my house actually had a third chimney when I bought it that I decided fairly early on to demolish. It was also functionally obsolete, but mainly I removed it because it was structurally unstable and causing roof damage, and its position essentially eliminated the option of ever finishing the attic, and so the pay-off of removing it just outweighed whatever superficial charm it added to the house. This chimney, though? It ain’t bothering anyone! I think the exposed part of it above the roofline is really pretty, sure, but it also feels like an interesting part of the history of the house and of Kingston. The base of this chimney is actually a wood-burning fireplace in the basement—presumably because that was the original kitchen of the house—and then it’s set up for a wood stove in the kitchen (not sure if the upstairs room would have also had a wood stove…) and I guess a wood stove outside the kitchen for cooking in the summer. Cool, right? The bricks that this chimney is constructed out of were manufactured by the Hutton Brick Company, which was founded around 1865 and became one of the biggest brick manufacturers in the Hudson Valley, and a big part of the economic and social history of Kingston.

ANYWAY. I think losing the chimney would be sad. I see people tear down defunct chimneys every now and then and I often feel like it doesn’t do the house any favors aesthetically. Obviously I’ve been on both sides of the fence on this one and not all old chimneys are created equal, but in general I much prefer to see them remain intact!

So the option, I think, is either no windows or little windows! Once this conundrum got on my radar, it quickly became something I was laser-focused on when walking or driving around town. Does that happen to you? I never gave any thought to this topic for like 25 reasonably functional years of life but now it takes up a lot of my precious attention.

Finding one and a half story structures with this particular set-up is a lot harder than just finding two story structures with attics, but I think we’re allowed to say close enough. Right?

Look at those cuties! This is actually the same house that has the nice hosta hedge. The house itself appears to have replacement windows but I’m assuming the originals were six-over-six double-hungs, like mine. Those little attic windows are casement windows that open into the attic on hinges, pretty sure. You can also kind of see the original shutter hinges still up there, too! I love tiny shutters. So cute.

This is a Sears house in Norfolk, Virginia that I found on the google machine, not in Kingston, and it’s from the 1920s not the 1860s, but…quarter-round windows! Ugh, so damn charming. My house has a half-round attic window on the front, so I keep wondering whether quarter-rounds would be the way to go on the back. I don’t know what was here originally and I kind of doubt I ever will, but for a couple weeks I was really fixated on the quarter-round idea.

As to whether they’re appropriate to the age/style of my house…I’m not totally sure! What I can say is that I’ve definitely seen examples spanning many decades. This one is the Senate House in Uptown Kingston—where the first New York senate met for a period during the Revolutionary War. The history of these old Dutch stone houses is complicated because they were mostly burned by the British in the war—in general just leaving behind an exterior shell—so it’s possible that the quarter-round windows weren’t installed until the shell was renovated circa 1800-ish…but anyway.

The idea of quarter-round windows is/was also really appealing because everybody immediately associates them with the Amityville Horror house, I’ve learned from now boring way too many people with this debate. I’m so fun to hang out with.

In working on this post I found out that the Amityville house used in the exterior shots of the original 1979 movie is actually not the real house, but a similar Dutch colonial-style also with the distinct quarter-round attic windows. I’m guessing these were installed specifically for the movie just because they seem so over-scaled for the house itself and in relation to the other windows, but what do I know.

This is the real Amityville Horror house again as it looked a few years ago, and just adding to this complicated quarter-round vs. rectangular debate that maybe isn’t really even a debate? The quarter-round windows were nixed during a renovation and replaced with little rectangular ones! I think this probably had to do with the occupants getting tired of the house being so recognizable, so they changed one of the most distinctive features. Crazy! I gotta say I think those little teeny double-hungs look perfectly good though. I ain’t whining about it.

Oh yeah, and the Senate House with the quarter-rounds on one side? Also has double-hungs on one of the other sides. Thanks for nothing stupid Senate House.

Are we so bored yet? Check out the crazy situation on this nearby Victorian! This entire house is bananas, but MOST IMPORTANTLY (to me) is that they have the pitched roof, the chimney, quarter-round windows, and a little teeny rectangular window in the middle! You see this every now and then around here—chimneys where the flue splits to allow for a window right in the middle of where the chimney would be. It’s so funny! Victorians were crazy.

This picture is clearly terrible but the house is a little closer to mine style-wise, and those windows are rectangular casements, just like the first example. It’s also a distinct attic space, not a half-story, but you get the idea.

I love the little six-over-six double hungs. Like dollhouse windows.

casements casements2

Andddd, back to casements. These two houses are a few blocks from mine and about a block from each other, and I’m guessing they were built around the same time. I’m told that the house in the bottom picture is actually a wood framed house with a brick veneer, which is neither here nor there but kind of cool so I feel compelled to repeat it here.

The common thread I’m noticing with the casement windows is that they appear to be at the upper limit of size—the outer top corners of the surrounding trim just barely miss the raking frieze. I also find it interesting that the window style and divided light patterns aren’t necessarily mimicked by the rest of the windows on the house—like the dark blue house is almost like if you shrunk one of the six-pane sashes and turned it sideways, but the brick veneer house has nine-pane casements and six-over-six double-hungs everywhere else.

If anybody on earth is still reading…what did we learn? I don’t even know, but I feel like this is all sort of good news because maybe there isn’t just one single correct answer but a few acceptable responses that will all look OK. This comforts me. So I guess here’s what I’m thinking…

  1. As much as I love the quarter-rounds and think they’re totally adorable, mine would have to be really small and I’d have to find something salvage (unlikely for two matching ones at the right size…) or put up the big bucks for somebody to fabricate some reproduction ones. That level of carpentry is way beyond my skill set. Everything about them seems kind of overwhelming…like how do I get them made and how do I pay for it and where do I find tiny quarter-round shutters and will they be a pain in the butt to install and if they ever need replacement or repair that will be a total nightmare and…you get the picture.
  2. I like the idea of doing six-over-six double hung windows like what’s on the rest of the house, but these would have to be so tiny—they’d definitely have to be custom and I think they’d just be so small that they’d seem weird. If it were a bigger house then I’d be considering it but I just don’t think mine could handle it size-wise, even if I could get them made.
  3. That leaves us with casements! I think this is the answer, you guys. And actually, I have to spend some time measuring and re-measuring, but I think the existing casement window on the left side could actually work if I break up the sashes and hang them as two separate windows, like the many examples above. Not having to cough up cash for windows would be excellent.

In case you’re concerned about the small size of the windows, that room has two large dormer windows on the street-facing side, so I think it’ll all be fine in terms of natural light, and I feel like the little windows will make the room feel sort of sweet and quaint and charming when you’re inside it. I’m looping in my contractor/BFF/sexual harassment target, Edwin, for this one because I’m guessing we’re going to end up re-siding the top half of the entire wall, which will undoubtably be intense and terrifying as it’s happening. At least it should make for an interesting blog post? I’m scared.

I’m bad at photoshop, but here’s a rough approximation of how things could look. Except I may have already changed my mind already—this is actually approximating how the sashes from the kitchen window would work, which are about 6 inches longer and an inch wider than the ones upstairs. So NOW I’M THINKING (hear me out…):

  1. Remove upstairs window and door.
  2. Remove casement window from kitchen. Split sashes, hang as individual casements upstairs, as shown.
  3. Replace kitchen window with something mega cheap because, as cute as that window is, the plan all along has been to replace it with an enlarged six-over-six to match the rest of the house when I can really overhaul the kitchen, and as it stands, that window is SO SO SO drafty and maybe a stop-gap replacement window would allow me to do the dishes without also being able to see my breath in the winter? But I don’t want to hang an interior storm or cover it in plastic because it’s the only window in the kitchen and there’s no range hood and I have a crap stove that burns everything so I do have to open it pretty frequently year-round. So even though I don’t love the idea of throwing a vinyl window in there, this kind of kills two birds with one stone?

OK, carry on. Ignore me.

  1. “thanks for nothing stupid Senate House” !!
    Damn I love this blog.

  2. Yes!!!! I love this idea and think it’s gonna look awesome. And I wasn’t even bored by all your inspiration pics! I think it’s so cool that you went out and did research like that. I do kind of want to see a Photoshop mockup of what size windows you’re thinking and the vertical positioning of them (could you do that for us? kthx ;))… I feel like your house could handle bigger windows than some of those teeny tiny casement examples, just because it’s a half-story and not a teeny attic space. But maybe I’m just not visualizing it right. Anyway, super stoked and I love your hilarious blog!!

    • I’m not sure I feel confident enough in my photoshop skills, but lemme see what I can mock up! It won’t be pretty, haha. Check back in a bit!

      You might be right about going a little bigger…another option I’ve been tossing around is using the casement sashes from the kitchen window and then just throwing a cheap replacement window in there. The long-term plan is to replace that window anyway (and maybe even move the door to that side with a larger window on the other side), so I can deal with having a cheap stop-gap window in the kitchen in the meantime to get this right!

      • I LOVE THE KITCHEN WINDOW MOCK-UP. I’m in arch school and so I’ve been thinking about your windows. I share your obsession with staring odd building details. Ahaha, people think I’m strange. Anyways, I was thinking a series of rectangular windows that got shorter as they approached the roof line, kind of like phone signal bars. You could also do triangles in the same way for more light… or you could do rectangles that have half circles on top and/or bottom…..

        but all of that seemed, I don’t know over the top. This the back of your house, and honestly some of my ideas are more cathedral than Victorian home. I like the two birds/one stone approach. You save money, get an appropriately sized window, and the stress isn’t going to kill you before you finish it. I think it’s a win-win situation. Plus the mock up is super cute. I agree with you on the chimney, it’s got to stay, it’s a beautiful part of your home. Even if you don’t restore it to full use, it’s tactile representation in your home really adds a lot to its character. In California you’re hard pressed to find exposed masonry, and almost non of it is very old, so I might be biased in that respect.

        Also I was having a really bad day and checked in to see if you’d blogged. Your blog is the only one I follow, and I really enjoy something about the honest personality the comes through in your writing. I was pleasantly surprised to see a new post! Thanks for the pick-me-up. :)

      • Love the mockup, and the new plan!! Totally practical and IMHO using the kitchen window sashes upstairs looks like the perfect size.

  3. I agree with your final assessment, any one of the three options would work. The quarter-rounds are really cute! (And I LOVE that Victorial tiny window in the brick.) As your reader it would be fun for me to see you solve all the issues of the quarter-rounds. I’m sure we would all learn a lot. But in your shoes as the person having to not only pull it off but also make it happen and pay for it, the logic of casements and cost benefits outweigh the other options. So long as the two windows are balanced it will add symmetry to the back of the house. And symmetry is beauty. I hope you’ll add shutters. I will be following with interest! -Sally

    • I know! I’m enticed by the challenge of the quarter-rounds but it seems too complicated and expensive and factoring in the lead time to have them made even if I could afford it is just cutting it way too close to winter for my comfort! Maybe removing a window, a door, framing in two new windows, residing half the wall, and painting is enough of a challenge! :)

  4. I am still reading and I agree with all your decisions.
    A balcony off the bedroom is not necessary. Anyone who tells you they will sit out there and have their morning coffee is lying. If you go downstairs to make the coffee (or get the bottle of wine) you aren’t going to go back upstairs to drink it.
    Using the two itty-bitty windows that are already there on either side of the chimney is perfect.

    • And no shutters. The itty-bitty windows are too small for shutters. And I don’t think the rest of your house has shutters.
      But if you do add shutters make sure they are architecturally accurate – as in just one shutter on an itty-bitty window – and on bigger windows two each half the width of the window so it looks like they could actually be closed to cover the window. With hinges. And shutter dogs.
      But you already knew that.

      • The rest of my house doesn’t currently have shutters, but it did originally! I’ve started the process of looking into getting shutters back on this baby (it would be amazing), but you’re exactly right—if I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it RIGHT. Which means custom sizes, pricey repro hardware….this house is not getting incorrectly sized plastic shutters screwed right into the clapboard! Not on my watch! :)

  5. If existing windows can be retrofitted, I think that’s great. If that goes sideways, nothing wrong with an inoperable window sized for the space with mullions for a grid (those aren’t hard to do). You have operable windows in the space so it seems it would meet code or whatever.

  6. you are bonkers lol but this post is exactly why I love your blog so much.

  7. So cute! Like two little eyes smiling at you! Keep up the crazy, you’re the best!

  8. How high will the roof from the covered porch go? I love these examples and your idea, it just seems like those teeny tiny windows (if you are splitting your current window) will be REALLY teeny tiny. My favorite examples that you showed had the casement windows set into attics – since yours has the height of a story (even if it’s a half), could the proportions look off? I think the roof from the covered porch should create enough visual separation, but I’m just curious on your plan.

    • Good question! Honestly I haven’t gotten too far into the planning of the porch, but I think I’ll try to match the front porch pretty closely—which means a pretty low pitch. I guess I envision the highest point of the roof being somewhere around the bottom of the existing second floor door, but I haven’t really done all the calculations to know for sure yet…

      • My concerns are null now that you’ve chosen to go with the kitchen window. I love it and it’ll look great!

  9. Your window hunt cracks me up because my husband and I have been doing a similar activity lately…walking the neighborhood and inspecting everyone’s storm windows. We have beautiful old storms with original glass but many of them are falling apart, or the original windows aren’t working as well as they should be. We’re trying to get quotes to have them rebuilt/repaired but everyone is trying to get us to replace them with aluminum triple track and it makes me want to cry. I think we’re gong to end up tackling the entire project ourselves and spend the rest of our lives doing it.

    • Cheryl, buy the book Working Windows by Terry Meany (3rd edition). Then you’ll spend only half your life and be able to laugh about it, too, because that book is not only the best ever for old windows, it’s a joy to read.

      • Thank you for the rec, Kate! And best of luck, Cheryl!! Saving your original storms is a noble task. Aluminum triple-tracks would be a bummer if the alternative is original wooden storms!! If you absolutely have to go that route, I feel like the trick to new storms is to NOT get them in an aluminum finish—get them to match the exterior sash color. My big plan is to remove my storms and spray-paint the frames black to match the sashes…I’ve seen this done around town and they look INFINITELY better, though not as nice as original wooden ones.

    • Cheryl– Do not give in!! Stay strong!! I ended up getting all but two of my house’s wooden storms replaced with custom-milled kits from Adams Architectural in Des Moines (they ship). You measure, they mill the parts, you glue them together and do the rest. Or you can buy them assembled (they have many fine options) if you have the $$$. Oh, and I second the rec of the Meany book. It’s priceless, will tell you everything you need to know, and is an entertaining read to boot.

  10. I made it to the end! Good detective work, always fun to see houses from different styles. It is amazing the amount of styles that was develop in the us in the period 1850-1920. I like the idea of two little ones. If in doubt regarding specific styles, it can be tricky when there are no originals around that look the same, one can always go back to the classical architecture and use the golden ratio. It amazes me how many times people have taken down the paneling and found old holes just where they wanted to put in windows. Just take a tape roll and draw new windows where you want them. I think the important part is to keep the dimensions of the glass panes the same, then adjust the size with the casement, maybe half round top casements?

  11. Almost forgot, a common solution to this problem here is two square windows, only four small glass panes, that is rotated 45 degrees. It also solves some of your problem about having a square window meet very close to the roof pitch. Of course, if your roof is not exactly 45 degrees then that will look a bit off though…

  12. In the end, the right choice, and most appropriate as well. The quarter windows are beautiful, but I am not sure they would have ever used them on the rear of a home (where nobody would see them), and they were most often used with Dutch Gambrel roof lines. I would imagine they would be more susceptible to maintenance issues in the future as well.

    I have said this in previous comments, but it is the fact that you obsess on the details that the results turn out so well. So many people only want things done quick and cheap, without thought to appropriateness or longevity. I am an obsessor too, finding myself researching the most inane details of something just so that I can get it right. But I am always glad I did.

    Keep obsessing….. You will be happy you did too.

  13. well happy friday Daniel….gotta say that first picture of the back of your house looks like the “after” pictures of hurricane damage…yikes.

    I agree about the balcony..while it seems fancy are you really going to want to sit up there and look at your neighbours yards…? Just do the covered porch..that will be fancy enough.
    Honestly have no opinion on the windows…do your “re use” opinion….what have you got to lose? and it’s the back of the house…not critical.
    OH and I agree about the chimney…it has to stay….but a woodstove in the that would be fancy!!

    • Yes it would! Particularly because my kitchen is FREEZING in the winter! I also have fantasies of having the chimney part that goes through the kitchen re-built to be a real wood-burning fireplace (my friend says this is possible…I don’t even know…this is MANY years off regardless), basically mimicking what’s in the basement that will never get used because, well, it’s in the basement.

      • I have a woodstove in the kitchen of my (large and drafty) 1850 farmhouse in upstate NY. It’s a lifesaver in winter – so cozy it draws everyone in: cats, dog, humans. If you can swing it, I highly recommend it.
        BTW, you probably know this already, but open wood-burning fireplaces just suck all the heat out and up the chimney. We have two in our house and gave up using them because it was such a chore to keep them going and the rooms never got warm. A third fireplace has a buck stove insert that puts out nice heat but doesn’t look very attractive. Our wood stoves, on the other hand, are as lovely as can be, both for the warmth and the look (IMO). There’s nothing quite like the kind of soothing heat a wood stove gives off.

        As a fellow Detail Obsessor, I love your posts. And you never fail to crack me up.

      • You’re making me so jealous! It’s not even below 50 here today and I already don’t want to go make myself a sandwich. Maybe I’ll just play a youtube video of a crackling fire and make believe. :)

  14. I think that splitting and using the old window to make two smaller ones is a perfect solution. I bet it will look just right!

  15. I’m so relieved you made it to the same conclusion I did like 2 paragraphs in. I read the entire rest of the post shouting in my head, “just split the existing one into two! ARGH!” Although the tiny quarter circle windows are freakin adorable, I totally agree, not worth it.

    Love reading about your projects! You write about them so well and with so much personality. Love it.

  16. Ooh, ‘raking frieze’ fancy!
    Thanks for another great post, Daniel. I loved looking at all the old (and not so old) houses.
    I’m sure whatever you decide to do will be perfect!

    • Ha! It’s probably still the wrong term but I spent a LONG time reading about details of cornices and soffits so I’m just going with it. :)

  17. I love it so much that you consider the history of the house (i.e. the chimney) and don’t get all smash and trash to make things work. Love it. Love it. Love it. Houses that old deserve to have their stories preserved.

  18. I’m loving all the research and the pretty house pictures! It sounds like the existing window split in half would look about right. I’m just glad that the ‘door into nowhere’ will be gone. It gives me the jitters just to see it (though I know that room’s not in use and you don’t have any kids and nobody’s going to fall out of it — but still…..)

    I also love the idea of an old woodstove in the kitchen at some point.

    • Ha! You and my insurance company both!! That door has been locked since before I bought the house and I don’t have a key, so maybe that helps? It is, uh, unconventional though. :)

  19. What you’ve done by walking around the neighborhood and documenting the windows on other people’s houses is exactly what you should be doing – and what you have to do in most historic neighborhoods when submitting renovation plans for approval. Most require “model examples”, which are basically just photographic studies of other similar house types in the neighborhood.

    I agree with your decision – I think it’s the right way to go. The quarter rounds are cute, but I think they are too much for a rear facade. You have to be really, really careful with special windows like that – the proportions have to be perfect or it’s immediately noticeable. Just drive around any late 90’s subdivision and look at all the faux palladians. Shudder.

    If you do shutters – be really careful about the size. They should look like they could perfectly cover the window when closed, even when you know they won’t close. In the case of these windows, you probably just want one shutter on each window – like that model example in your post with the red shutters.

    • Quick turnaround on the mockup! Nicely done. Part of me wants those windows to be just a little bit smaller, so I’m not completely sold on using the larger kitchen windows. But another part of me doesn’t want to assume that you want everyone and their brother to weigh in on this. So consider or ignore at your leisure. I think you are on the right track though with the two windows.

      • I think I might have made them bigger in the mock-up than they’d be in real life, but I think this is pretty close? I’m guessing people think this wall is bigger than it really is…those windows would only be 18×36 inches, plus the 4″ trim around them. The width is only a difference of about an inch from the upstairs one, and I think the bigger height would be good…IDK, I gotta climb up there on a ladder and tape it out, I think. It has to stop raining first!

      • That makes sense – I was counting clapboards, but of course the kitchen windows will look larger because of the perspective of the shot – so they look stretched up above.

        Windows are my favorite part of historic houses, but they are a royal pain the neck to deal with.

  20. I like the idea of reusing the kitchen window and replacing that (maybe you will get lucky at a salvage yard). Will the new attic windows be operable? It probably gets stuffy up there in summer and having open windows on both ends of the attic would keep things cooler? Maybe?

    • Yep! At least the plan is to put them on hinges. It’s not actually an attic (it might even end up being my bedroom!) so I definitely want to be able to open them. There are other windows in the room but I still think it’d be nice if they opened. :)

  21. Ok, I may have a terrible eye but I couldn’t even tell your last photo was shopped! I had to read your description to realize it. So props on being better at photoshop than most teenage selfie overposters.
    How freaking cute would it be if your sashes and window/door frames were painted black?! I know your stress level is probably overwhelming but I think it would be very you and accent the black shed fabulously.
    Cudos, Daniel! Love it!!

    • Ha! That’s like the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me about my computer abilities!

      Yep—the sashes on my house are already black, and the plan is to add black shutters down the road! Right now the house is looking kind of kooky because it reads as very white and obviously the garage is very black, but I think adding more black accents to the house (which is totally in line with the style) will really tie everything together nicely. It’s just going to take a while to get there!

  22. Of course I read to the end. I can’t be the only one who went off on a two-ish hour image search of upper story windows on the rear of 100 year old houses after your last post about the windows cutting into the frieze. It was really important to me to find examples of it happening on a fairly regular basis since my last house, a 120 year old victorian, definitely had some of that going on. Though like you said, Victorians were crazy.

    • You are not alone. I went on that search, too. And I don’t even have a Victorian house.

      There is practically nothing in the whole world that I love better than obsessing about architectural details. Ok… husband, kids, etc. But after them……

  23. I have a balcony just like the one you’re describing and while I like the way it looks from the street, I really don’t find myself enjoying that space ever. It isn’t as private as a deck off the back of the house so it feels weird being up there. And you have the added fun of shoveling the flat roof in the winter. I always say I wish I smoked so I would have a reason to sit out there in the dead of night. Probably a good call to nix the idea :)

  24. I love your idea of splitting the existing windows. Small casement windows with reasonably sized panes are definitely the best option here. I’ll be interested to see how you deal with remaking the window frames, but I know it’s possible.
    Personally, I’m rather leery of your idea to use the larger kitchen window because I’m afraid that you’re already going to have problems fitting the windows and associated moldings inside the raking frieze. Measure, measure, and measure some more! Based on the picture of the exterior, and not knowing if you can get any closer to the chimney, I think it will be tight on width. If you move the windows down, you may be able to use larger ones, but if they then become misaligned with the other windows in the room, it may feel rally weird inside.
    Looking forward to seeing the result!

  25. I really love where you’re going from the photoshopped image in the addendum!
    I know you wanted to put the windows so the trim is close to the raking frieze, but honestly I think they need to be a little closer together based on the photoshopped picture. That area being taller than an attic just leaves the windows feeling too high and wide – and not in a good way like hanging curtains.

    I love the idea of re-using the kitchen window, and a stop-gap new window there sounds like a great idea. The windows themselves look to be the right scale. I’d just move them each in 3 or 6 inches.

    • Yeah, you might be right! It’s just a rough mock-up…I think it’s pretty close to scale but definitely in no way exact! The amount of space I have to play with here is tight though, between the frieze and the width of the trim around the windows and the location of the chimney, and trying to keep it looking good inside and out…I have a feeling the house will dictate a lot of decisions on this one!

  26. I am a sucker for quarter-rounds but after seeing your mock-up, I think the larger casement windows look great! It will be a good compromise between time, money, and style.

    On a completely unrelated note, I have applied to some jobs in the Hudson Valley area recently, so if all goes well I could soon be a resident! Which of course means I have been browsing Zillow and Redfin way too much, looking at all the old houses in the area and dreaming of making them pretty again.

    • Oh, nice! There are SO many good houses up here…I stalk Zillow just to see what’s around all the time. Good luck with the job hunt!

  27. Have you seen this picture? One and half store with roof moldings/detailing like yours.

    • Ohhhh, so pretty!! This back section of the house is so narrow that I don’t think you could squeeze two six-over-six windows up there if you tried, but it’s nice to see how it’s handled there!

  28. “…sexual harassment target” BAHAHAHA. Talented builder men are so dreamy. <3

  29. Never think that we will not read the whole post. I love they way you write. Love all you have done to both this house and the little cottage. Keep up the great work.

  30. We are buying a house that has nearly the same facade layout with the windows/doors except our 2nd floor door that goes to nowhere is a Juliet balcony. I hate it. But with the other renos we’re doing to the house, I don’t think the money is there to change it to a normal window. Well, I just lied — the bottom right of our facade doesn’t have a window — it has double doors that go out to the front deck. Our facade is like doors on doors on doors + the one window at the top left. That said, I totally agree with your design choices. No one will ever use the balcony…or even an extra door to a deck, like ours.

  31. I’m now convinced that there is something in the joined chemistry between people who buy old houses to fix up and the houses themselves that brings on insomnia producing, teeth gnashing, research obsessing behaviors. Anyway, I’m heading out to find all of those houses in Kingston and thanking you more than profusely that you didn’t include that one with the worst possible of all colors of “olive” (diarrhea) green trim. Don’t you just love looking up at architecture and seeing how beautiful things used to be? I have no comment on your window dilemma because I know for sure you will do it right and all I’ll have to do is sit back and admire when you’re done.

  32. Hahaha – “Thanks for nothing stupid Senate House” – best laugh I’ve had all day. Keep it up!

  33. I really love this blog. Even when you’re talking about something so super specific and arcane as quarter-round windows. Which, btw, I wish you’d do. I wouldn’t, (I totally agree with every point you made), but I wish YOU would do them, so that I could read about them and enjoy them from afar.

  34. I think I’m a minority of one, but I was hoping you were going to settle on no windows. I know finding clapboards to fish into those slots would be difficult, but I think getting all the windows, doors and porch to scale right will be a challenge given how narrow your house is, especially with those cornices cut in like they are. Something about the image of just the kitchen door and window (and eventual porch) leading up to the triangle and capped with the chimney is very appealing to me. I don’t remember what the inside of this room looks like now, the last image in my mind is when you bought it. How will the casements scale with the existing street-side windows when you’re actually in the room? Having two sizes of windows in such a small room would drive me insane. Of course, you’re like Midas with this house, so I’m sure it’ll be beautiful whatever you decide.

  35. I just wonder, how the situation is from inside. How will the room feel an look with whatever windows or without? To me this would be the more important reason on that decision – do you need light and air, or better have a wall to put art or a sideboard. Did you think about that?

  36. I am another one who would spend an inordinate amount of time deciding exactly how to redo those windows. I spent at least as much time as you did here when I wanted to replace the 15′ sidewalk from our front door to the city sidewalk. Concrete or pavers? Concrete with paver edging? Replace exactly the same S-shape? Make it straight? Make it a wide swooping curve that narrows as it passes the front step and continues to the little sidewalk around the side of the house? I could easily have spent $15k on that little sidewalk.

  37. I think the size of the windows you drew in is perfect for the exterior and interior. You could put a bed under them on the inside, chimney and all, and have nice light coming in. I think they look great in your photoshop for the exterior proportions. I think quarter-rounds look better in attics – they make rooms look smaller on the inside, and with them being shorter and cutting off the top corner on one side, they let in less light. So I don’t think they’d look good here, inside or out.

    I wouldn’t add shutters to them – too busy a look on that small wall. (I’m not even sure I like the idea of adding shutters to the rest of the house – have to look at the photos again. In general, I think unless one is going to actually close them, they are just an old hold-over look. And I like the way old house window trim looks without the shutters. Sometimes with the trim painted to contrast from the clapboards.) But I digress.

    My real question is whether you really want those windows to be casements. I know you are thinking in terms of reuse of the current kitchen window. But think about casement windows in function. Is it windy up there? Would you want to leave them cracked open when the wind could grab the window and push on it? I have this idea that double hungs are more user friendly. You can also open them from the top, which is nice in a bedroom – to get air but not drafts directly on you. I go out and leave them open all the time, and not a a lot of rain comes in if it rains. You may not fit 6 over 6s there, but the squarish 4 over 4s shown in some of your photos might look really nice. I kept wondering how the photoshop would look with whatever windows are below, but then I realized that you won’t really see the lower floor windows much due to the porch.

    I also think double hungs are more likely to keep intruders out. I don’t know if you worry about that up there, but I’m a city girl. It is easy to prevent double hugs from being lifted very high – effectively burglar proof. And I could see someone breaking in standing on the porch roof. Maybe the casement windows are too skinny to allow a skinny human entry, but I don’t think so. I hate having to close and secure windows that aren’t at ground level when I’m out. But maybe this is more of a big city concern.

    The chimney is cute from the outside. Good to keep it if you have any idea of putting it to work. We haven’t seen the basement yet – no idea you had plans to use it other than to hoard building parts ;-) A wood stove would warm up your kitchen. If the kitchen was in the basement when the addition was built, what do you think the room that is your kitchen was used for then – does the house have any clues?

  38. Read the whole post. All the way to the end. You are always interesting. :)

  39. you are awesome and I always love reading your posts.
    I love your home, your ideas, your humor…
    You’re comical & educational… you’re kinda inspiring :-)

  40. whoa! That is a lot of research pics. Maybe some of those houses have too many windows? Could you manage with no windows for the winter, at least? Then you would have more time to think over options and necessities. Just paint the green part white for now. And take out the door. It could be quickly patched,insulated and painted. If the back of the house is all white, no one driving by would even notice your windows. Sometimes, waiting makes solutions obvious.

  41. Yay! So glad you are saving the chimney! I don’t care if it functions right now or not, we are talking character people! I just hate it when people strip off all the good stuff and replace it with crappy modern stuff, don’t you? Your idea for the windows should look great by the way.

  42. For the love of Pete! Please say you painted the green and your just not ready to reveal. It makes me twitchy! Thank you and love you.

  43. Another thoroughly enjoyable post about something that would be boring if written by any other blogger. Thanks for the addendum – those windows look like a great fit. And seeing the mock up makes me think that splitting the window currently there into two would be too small. Can’t wait to see the next steps!

  44. Daniel, you should know the character of your readers by now. If we didn’t thoroughly enjoy partaking in the minutiae of your thought processes we wouldn’t be here. To paraphrase you, we are all the kind of people who enjoy obsessing a stupid amount over the handling of architectural details, but only you have the talent to express it in such an entertaining way. I’m sure the results will speak for themselves and I very much look forward to seeing them.

    • Ditto to all of this! I remember reading a piece Daniel did over on Design Sponge about cleaning marble thresholds that was completely fascinating and entertaining, beginning to end, and which brought me to this blog. I have never had a marble threshold. Such is the power of good writing! This entry was no exception.

  45. I love your posts.
    How I manage to read such lengthy posts on topics I could not care less about is a testament to something. You are adorable, that much is clear, and I find myself fascinated with how much you do and how you do it.

  46. Hi Daniel
    First post ever to a blog but I’ve been following you for years now. I am older than your mother and love you both! I am also an experienced restorer and totally appreciate all the obsessing you do to get it just right! I had a thought for the reuse of the kitchen windows. In Europe they have windows that tilt in from the top. They usually also work as swing casement windows as yours do now.Now all the major US lines offer them as well. They are called tilt-turn windows. This allows air to circulate without rain getting in and is safer because the space is too small for intruders. I am wondering if you could install your original ones that way? Of course they would swing into the room and you might not have space for that … just a thought.

    • Ro – Those are amazing windows – glad to know about them! They seal tight, they lock, and they solve the problems I noted with rain and security. Though I doubt you would be able to get his effect by hanging an old window in this fashion – they seem like they’d need to be purchased this way.

  47. Those quarter-round windows were super cute, but I agree that the casements probably make more sense and will look fine too. We’ll be looking at adding a couple of transom windows at some point down the road, and although I know it will be awesome, thinking about it makes my head hurt a bit. One of the biggest pain points for me is how I’ll dress them on the inside. Those quarter-round windows could be tricky that way, too. One more win for the casements, especially if you think it may be your bedroom someday!

  48. Ha, you always say that we must be bored but I think I can speak for everyone when I say that we are just as obsessed with your house and all of the minute details as you are. I really thought the photoshopped windows were real and looked pretty great in comparison, but I’m sure whatever you come up with will be great. Now if you could just remodel a room everyday for my blogging entertainment…. :) thanks for an interesting post. ~k

  49. The back of your house reminded me of a house I lived in while living on Minnesota Ave. in Buffalo. Off my bedroom was the tiniest balcony. It barely had space for one chair and the ceiling was very low. The air flow was nice as we didn’t have AC. I live in an house that is from 1898 at the moment. We have the eyebrow windows on the side of the house in the attic. Unfortunately they are fixed shut. I really enjoy your writing and ideas, thanks!

  50. I know exactly what you mean about obsessively looking at architectural details that never ever would have registered before – we’re building a new house that’s Greek revivial inspired, and I’ve been obsessing about the color of the window mullions – black or white. Most of the old houses around here have white mullions, but that’s only because they’re replacement vinyl windows. Found a few examples of black window mullions with white trim and light colored paint, and it looks fantastic, so that’s what we’re going with – but I keep looking for more examples to validate this choice. Before that, it was dormers – do we do shed dormers, peaked dormers, dog-house style dormers, one big peak – lots of rubber necking on back roads went into figuring that out. And roof color…so much “research” to do!

    Anyway, if you’re considering any new windows, do a little research beyond the stuff available from HD and Lowes – You have to do the work to actually get quotes from window dealers, which is annoying (windows and doors are such a racket – no one lists their prices anywhere), but we actually found the Marvin Integrity windows that we’re buying (wood interior, fiberglass exterior), were cheaper and more energy efficient than the Anderson quote that I got from Home Depot. So don’t just assume that the big box stores are the cheapest for this one – and you might find that for just one window, a nicer window is not that much more than a vinyl one. Check out all your options!

  51. Love your idea! one thing:
    1) I had to go research the Amityville Horror house like a total weirdo and now I may never sleep again.

  52. Yes, I am still reading – and will continue to do so!
    I love the examples you have and (contrary to your belief) do find it interesting. I like both of your ideas and I’m sure both will look great. However, if you think you’ll ultimately be happier with the latter, you gotta go with that.

    Can’t wait to see what you end up with – good luck!

  53. Go with the photoshop mockup! It looks beautiful and really suits the house!

  54. Waiting my turn to comment. Enjoyed the post so much. Couldn’t wait to get home to re-introduce myself to the little windows on the front and back side of my attic. They are in fact adorable little miniature double hung 6 over 6’s with wavy glass remaining in many of the panes. A big hug to you too! My suggestion is to work out the interior of the room and choose the closest window configuration you can install.

  55. Cheap ($50!) quarter rounds (my personal fav) on CL:

  56. Daniel! I live in the Norfolk neighborhood you referenced! So neat to see it mentioned on your inspiring blog.

  57. I love it when you say you’re scared.

  58. The mock up you did in photoshop looks just right. Placement/proportion/etc. Can’t wait to see it finished!

  59. Not to make your life even crazier, but if you wanted quarter-round windows, a stained-glass artisan could probably make you something custom. (I know, bite my tongue, right?)

Comments are now closed for this article.

Back to Top


text:
Saturday, October 3, 2009

Take a light out of crime, too

Please, its simple. Lock your car and lock and light your house.

Help cut down on crime.

Police: Rise in burglaries is seasonal

Zack Atkinson returned from a weekend trip Sept. 27 to find the back door broken in at his residence on Ferguson Street. Among items stolen from his house were three TVs, a laptop computer, a DVD player, hardware, wine and liquor.

“It’s going to total up to about $12,000,” Atkinson said. “I would be taking it a lot worse if I didn’t have insurance. Luckily, I do. I doubt that I’ll get any of my stuff back. It would be great, but I’m not anticipating it.”

Atkinson moved to New Braunfels this past year from San Antonio, where he works as a custom homebuilder. He said he still feels the community was a safe environment and the burglary has not changed his opinion.

“I still like it a lot better than the big city,” he said.

Vehicle and building burglaries have dominated police reports the past three months, reflecting a rise in crime in New Braunfels since the past year.

However, police do not find the trend significant.

Despite a summer rife with vehicle and building burglaries, police say New Braunfels residents should expect to see a decrease in these types of crimes in the coming months.

In 2009, as in past years, burglaries increased in the city during the summer months, particularly in the downtown and Schlitterbahn areas.

Police have cautioned citizens that an increase in crime overall is one of the growing pains associated with a recent population boom, but say vehicle and building burglary is a seasonal crime, peaking in the summer as New Braunfels endures an influx of tourists.

City-wide there have been 808 motor vehicle and building burglaries from January to September of this year, with an average of 90 a month. In comparison, there were 882 burglaries reported for all of 2008, reflecting an average of 74 a month.

For both years, burglaries peaked from May to August. The rise in vehicle and building burglaries during the summer months parallels the increased traffic, especially in those areas near the city’s main attraction — the river, said Lt. Michael Penshorn of the New Braunfels Police Department.

While police routinely patrol these areas, motor vehicle and building burglaries are a crime of opportunity, and the burglars have often moved on before the crime is discovered.

“If somebody leaves valuables in plain view, or their vehicle unlocked, these are situations that invite the crime to take place,” Penshorn said. “The same thing goes for residences,” he said. “If someone leaves their garage door open all night long, this presents an easy opportunity for someone to enter, grab something and leave.”

Penshorn said residents reduce their chances of becoming burglary victims through simple steps. With vehicles, the two primary defenses are locking doors and hiding valuables from sight.

“When a criminal goes through a parking lot and is trying door handles and gets to the one that’s unlocked, that is the one they are going into to steal something,” he said.

Residents can protect their homes and businesses with similarly simple precautions.

“With buildings — lights deter crime,” Penshorn said. “The last thing a criminal wants is for someone to see them or to be visible and whether it’s street lights or outside lights left on at night, that is something that is highly recommended, as well as locking doors and windows.”

Atkinson said residents should get to know their neighbors.

“Keep an eye out for suspicious activity,” he said. “If you’re going to be out of town, have your neighbors look out for your home.”


text:
Thursday, July 8, 2010

What goes around comes around

Candidate Canseco made a huge deal out of his opponent's, Lyle Larson, family having paid a $950 tax debt from 22 years earlier during the 2008 primaries. He ran TV ads everywhere touting that fact.

Karma's a bitch, ain't it?

Candidate has faced $715,000 in liens
By Gilbert Garcia - Express-News

Republican congressional candidate Francisco “Quico” Canseco has been slapped with more than $715,000 in federal, state and mechanics liens over unpaid payroll taxes and contracting fees since the early 1980s.

The San Antonio businessman, who is challenging incumbent Rep. Ciro Rodriguez, D-San Antonio, said the mechanics liens, which make up the bulk of the total amount, involved disputes between contractors and tenants on his properties.

He said he didn't owe any money but, as the landlord of the properties, was named in the filings.

The rest of the story:


WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: application/xhtml+xml

text:
Encuéntranos en Google+.

sábado, 20 de abril de 2013

The Beatles - The Beatles At The BEEB - TV

  1. The Mersey Sound BBC TV
  2. It's The Beatles! BBC
  3. Paul McCartney London - David Frost (A Degree Of Frost)
  4. Not Only...but Also BBC TV
  5. John Lennon London - Kenneth Allsopp (TV, Tonight)
  6. It's The Beatles! BBC The Morecombe And Wise Show ATV

CONTRASEÑA / PASSWORD : www.manuelbeatlogs.blogspot.com

11 comentarios:

  1. This article will help you find the best tablet PC.
    The rival has been bundled with replaceable Li-ion battery of 1500 m
    - Ah with the music playback time about 60
    hours and also video playback time about 8 hours. It is
    priced at around $399 with a 2 year contract and $599 without one.

    my web blog: samsung galaxy tab 2

  2. For the better experience of audio-listening, HTC Desire C
    provides you with Beats Audio. The application Execution Environment provides an interface for application
    programming. However, they are less likely to
    say these tools helped them save money at a rate of
    44 percent to 49 percent.

    Here is my weblog: samsung s4

  3. To make the things easier for you, it supports JPEG
    format and is compatible with Mac and MS Window.
    A few in-camera retouching options are also available,
    including image cropping and red-eye correction. It is owner by Matt Furer who has been
    fixing cameras for 22 years.

    Also visit my weblog: d7100

  4. If you'd like to indulge in some Hollywood style glamour, 3-D Glitz offers phone cases that are just right for you. This software can convert DVD to various video formats such as MPEG-4, AVI, WMV, FLV, 3GP, VOB, etc. In this day and age it is impossible to stay on top of all the latest pieces of technology.

    My weblog - apple tv

  5. For these prime functions, you'll should pay back about $1799. If you are a brand conscious person and wants to buy that laptop that reflects status and class, then going for apple brand is the best option. Go with the Pro if you need any kind of external connectivity options.

    Here is my web blog; macbook air

  6. 7 inches wide, the Nexus 7 is compact enough to slide into a
    jacket pocket. It definitely will be a major threat
    to Kindle Fire. You've got a dual core 1 GHz Tegra 2 processor, 1 GB of RAM, a 4 inch touch screen display with a resolution of 950 x 540 pixels and a 5 MP camera with 720p video capture.

    Here is my weblog ... nexus 7 tablet

  7. The Samsung galaxy note is available in elegant white
    and black colour. Most of the Android smart phones come with their own customized ring tones which can
    be set as ring tones and other tones but now in this article
    lets learn about something with which you can set the customized Alarm Ring
    tones to android devices very easily. The i - Phone's retina display is stunning: its ultra-thin, feather-light design and world class build quality are unequalled, and its excellent camera and software upgrade to i - OS 6 make the i - Phone 5 a top pick for 2012.

  8. otra ves hermano sale limite exedido ayuda

  9. Hola, a la fecha el link esta reestablecido. Saludos!


text:
Tuesday, March 29, 2005

March is a long month or it just seems long. I'm giving myself an A for effort this month as this is the eighth post in that span. Almost double my usual output. There may even be one more post coming, but I wouldn't count any chickens yet.

Still nursing the lingering effects of a cold, but I can function, at least. I'm less irritable and stubborn than I was yesterday.

Easter came and went without much of a flourish here, as you might imagine. Like a good American, the real meaning behind Easter for me has been replaced by the more commercially accepted practice. Believe it or not, that heathen known as The Easter Bunny, found his way into our apartment, depositing a chocolate rabbit before hopping off to the other foreigner's homes.

I heard once, on television, that the Chinese have a unique idea about religion. They tend to honor all gods or spirits. The idea being that it is better to appease all of them, rather than risk the wrath of one. Sounds good to me. Superstitious, perhaps, but some would argue that all religions could fall into that category.

No comments:


text:
May 25, 2011

A Beautiful Day !

God , don't you just love when you have one of those gorgeous days ? ..... Well I adore it ! My day started at 6.30am , I normally like to go to bed at this time  , not get out of it !
However I needed to write a fashion article for Suburbia  magazine hence copious cups of coffee were consumed .

I was looking forward to hitting the town . I dressed in my uniform black , with my comfy high -wedged trainers cause I was going to scour some of my favorite stores .

I was meeting my lovely new partner in crime Sinead Burke sometimes known as Lady Gaga . I 'm styling an ultra sexy shoot with Miki Barlok for his super cool magazine None .

One of the first things I said to Sinead was " We need a white horse ! " She replied "ok '" ! ... I was impressed , I kid you not , within 20 mins , we had a white horse , yes a live one , on board !
I met the talented Umit Kutleck and oh my god , he proceeded to pull out some absolutely fabulous feathered skirts , red leathers jackets and I went straight to heaven !
Umit asked me shyly if I wanted some of his shoes and I almost jumped out of my chair when I saw what he  had to offer .... vertiginous heels with feathers ... Umit , I adore you darling !

Sinead and I did the rounds and soon the day was over and I needed to relax, in my office also known as Cafe Novo ... the best cocktails in town !

Gary Connolly , one of my coolest mates met with me and I felt a sin coming on ..... we chatted and soon  the enitre world seem to have landed at our table . Two of my tallest and very beautiful model friends Asheena and Shireen appeared and I though to myself ... I can't mingle tonight  ... damn it !

However this was not to be , was'nt I meeting the charming Mister Frank from Bouchon and Emma , for surely he was arriving with some divine jewels that would be detrimental to my shoot ? Yes and then when the time comes to return them , my heart will ache oh so terribly ???  Qui !!!!
Frank has exquisite taste and his store in Malahide will drive you insane simply because one is spoilt for jewel choice when you enter this sparkly kingdom over-flowing with beautiful things !

After many hours discussing our love of fashion , vintage and all things marvellous , I decided to bid all my wonderful friends farewell ...... What a beautiful day ............

Love you all ridiculously darlings

Bisous .

Lindyloo said...

Maria, Its Lynda Wigwam, Call me its Urgent ....Left a message on FB XXXX

Lindyloo said...

Hey Maria, check your message from me on FB xxxx Lynda


text:
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

A Screech Mystery, a big owl Flyout and Donna's report

Last night after the GHO fly-out in the North Woods a small group of owl prowlers came across a gray Screech-owl looking out of a hole near the North Meadow. [See Donna's report below for detailed descriptions of both events.]

Though it was dark, and at least 1/2 hour past the usual screech-owl fly-out time, this owl was unaccountably staying put. Was it because of the presence of the larger owl in his/her territory? Or, could another owl have been sitting on eggs deeper down in the hole?

There is some similarity here to Bob Levy's report [see preceding post], of the known pair residing [I think there's no harm in saying] near the park's West Drive . For convenience let's call Bob's pair the West Drive Screech-owls, to distinguish them from the pair I once called the Riviera owls

Now I'd like to suggest a wild possibility. Everybody knows that the gray-phase screech has disappeared, the bird that once teamed up with the little redhead in the Riviera hole,. That red-phase Screech-owl [likely a female] is now regularly seen in her original Black Locust roost-hole up the hill from the Boathouse.

Many observers have speculated that the Riviera Gray was done in by the Great Horned Owl. [Nature red in tooth and claw, remember?]

O.K., here comes my flight of fancy:
Since there have been many occasions when only one screech-owl has been seen exiting the West Drive hole at fly-out time, maybe the gray Riviera owl has been doing a bit of wandering about --not necessarily hanky panky, mind you, because the breeding season has not really set in. Maybe he wandered as far as the West Drive hole, which is not, after all, so very far from the Riviera hole. Maybe the times only one owl came out of the West Drive hole were the very times a gray owl was seen at the Riviera hole, sometimes alone, sometimes with a cute redhead.

It's just a thought. . .

Now, here 's Donna's report from last night:

Great Horned Owl Field Notes 23 Jan 2006

Sunset: 5:02PM EST
Temperature: 37 F
Humidity: 82%
Wind: Calm

All times PM unless otherwise noted.

4:46 Central Park, North Woods, west side entrance , I see as I enter that the Master Owlers have begun to gather.

4:51 I almost miss the GHO as I'm walking north, though he's in the same tree [an ash] he was in yesterday. He's tucked in, and perched in a slightly different branch position, with a backdrop of other thick branches that mask his shape. Perfectly still he's much harder to see and I'm struck that when disturbed and awakened in the daytime as he was yesterday, just those slight movements make him more vulnerable to detection.

5:02 GHO is settled onto his feet and they are completely covered by abdominal feathers. Anterior facing south. Head tucked. "Horns" lying on top of head.

5:09 Both wings extend sideways in a long lateral stretch.

5:10 A raptor flies from north to south just east of the roost tree. ID is difficult, with the back light.

5:11 Left wing stretch. Preens mid back. The head turn has such ease a passing birder is confused and thinks the owl's anterior side is facing north.

5:12 A birding couple arrives from the south and asks if the GHO has just arrived at the tree in the last few minutes, as they had seen what they took to be a GHO perched to the south, watched him, and then saw him take off and come this way. No, no, this bird has been here all the time.

5:13 GHO works the oil gland in lower back with beak, then preens abdomen and breast. Sparrows chirp, possible Towhee calls several times [Wheet, wheet].

5:14 Long right wing stretch.

5:16 The big overhead double wing stretch, then the trademark one wing perpendicular stretch. He triangulates southwest, then more posterior preening.

5:18 He's up and flies to the tree adjacent to and over our heads. The mallards in the loch start quacking the alarm.

5:20 Horns lateral, he takes another short hop. He shakes out and shivers every feather on his body in one move.

5:21 Big triangulation.

5:22 GHO stares at Owlers.

5:25 He's up again and now perches high in tall oak. Another short hop, this time near the trunk of a tree, very difficult to see. Then flies to a tree nearer the east edge of the woods.

5:29 The minute Jim goes into the arch to cross under to the GHOs side, the owl is up again, I place his landing and go into the tunnel myself. When I exit the arch, after no more than 15 seconds, the owl is no longer where I saw him land previously. My suspicions are once again aroused that the reason few if anyone in the park have seen the owl take prey is because he just waits until he's intentionally ditched the watchers before doing any serious business.

5:30 We search. Quacking. Ducks begin to fly from the east, from the far side of the ball fields toward the west. Small birds call as if disturbed but we don't see the owl.

5:33 Jim says he wants to show me something. A few steps to the south, there is a hole in a tree he's been watching, which is periodically mobbed by birds in the daytime. He's never seen what might be in the hole because after all it's a hole but let's go take a look. When we get there, now keep in mind Jim has some of the sharper night eyes in the universe, it's pretty darn dark up there in the North Woods, he exclaims quietly, "There! Its a gray phase Screech!" After some triangulating of my own in a vain attempt to see the owl, finally, it's little face completely filling it's hole, perfectly matching the color and texture of the bark around it, is a Gray Phase Eastern Screech Owl. DISCOVERY! We motion the rest of the group over. Look! They, like I, have to do some looking before they see it but very soon there are smiles of excitement all round.

Then the whispered questions begin. "Why hasn't she flown out? Must be the Great Horned Owl. Would you fly out? Wait, maybe she has eggs! No, she'd be sitting on them way down in the hole. Maybe she IS sitting on them but it isn't a very deep hole. Do they sit immediately upon laying an egg or wait for the full clutch?" Pause. " Isn't it too early for Screech eggs? Yes maybe for regular Screechs but remember last year the Screech pair up here had young at a record breaking early date for New York."

5:40 Yes, the Great Horned Owl had ditched us and though ducks quack, bird cries erupt from the bushes cueing us most assuredly that the Great Horned Owl is hunting and we might just get another look at him if we try, his little cousin the Screech has made sure that the Big Guy will hunt in privacy tonight.

Thoughts now have turned to the whinny sounds of baby Screech Owls calling to their parents for food, learning to hunt for insects, and to spy the earthworms that come to the surface of moist earth at night.

5:50 We turn and walk toward the park exit.

Perhaps Spring isn't really that far away after all.

Submitted: Donna Browne


text:
Friday, June 18, 2010

He's late, he's late, for a very important date.

Parula Warbler -- May 9, 2007.
photo by Lloyd Spitalnik

May is the month Central Park birdwatchers expect to see Northern Parula Warblers. Since they do not nest in Central Park, by the end of May parulas are a rare sight, and after the second week of June a very, very rare sight indeed.

Yesterday, June 17, well into the Parula breeding season, regular birder Rebekah Creshkoff reported a Northern Parula singing at the garden path of the Great Hill, in the northwestern end of Central Park. Could that be a new Central Park record?


text:
I have danced many dances within this world of form, including that of student and teacher, artist and researcher, healer and patient, spiritual seeker and spiritual guide, theorist and practitioner.

For most of this multi-domain dance I have been a filmmaker, having made my first film when I was 16 years old. Prior to this I began my lifelong experimentations with various forms of artistic expression, from drawing and painting, to photography and architectural design, to writing and poetics. My early explorations in these artistic domains were deeply driven by my search for a way to speak without using my speaking voice, since I was haunted by a severe stutter through these formative years.

When I created and projected my first film, I knew I had finally found my voice. This lead to my sojourn away from my Midwestern home to California for film school, where I learned the craft of filmmaking from some of the great Hollywood masters. I made several award-winning films and graduated with a B.A. in Motion Picture and Television Production from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts; and an M.F.A. in Motion Picture Directing from the American Film Institute. After film school I worked professionally in the entertainment industry as a motion picture producer, writer, director, editor, researcher, and consultant.

During my quest through film school and the entertainment industry, I also began my search to heal my stuttering, which lead me down the paths of psychology and spirituality. Eventually, my dance took me back to school for an M.A. and Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology; and a Certificate in Integral Studies from Fielding Graduate University and Integral Institute.

Along this path I have had the grace to have studied with many great teachers and mentors; conducted and published personally transformative research on the integral and transpersonal dimensions of the cinema and the experience of divine guidance across religious traditions and cultures; and had my creative works recognized with various awards and honors, and exhibited in schools, colleges, festivals, conferences, expositions, theaters, and broadcast media around the world.

My current dance within this world of form is that of an transdisciplinary artist, researcher, consultant, educator, and spiritual director. One of my current projects is the development and application of Integral and transdisciplinary approaches to cinematic media theory, development, production and distribution. I was recently honored with the 2008 Integral Life Award from Integral Institute in recognition of this work.


text:
Social Media Marketing: The Path To Success

Social networking sites are perhaps the hottest and most viable channel for online users to connect with others. This is great news if you have a website, product, or service to promote. Social media marketing helps you discover new customers and stay in touch with the ones you already have. The following tips will offer some great ideas for utilizing social media marketing in your business.

One way to expand the visibility of your business is to include a share link for Facebook on your site. Readers can quickly click and share the post with members of their network. More people read your articles, develop an interest in your products and visit your website.

Utilizing a Twitter account could be very beneficial to creating business contacts. You can reach thousands of people through Twitter, if you know how to use it in the right way. Familiarize yourself with the use of effective keywords and hashtags to generate traffic for your Twitter presence.

If you want people to follow you on social media marketing, offer exclusive deals that may only be taken advantage of by doing so. If they are seeing deals in their Facebook feed they cannot get anywhere else, they are more likely to pay attention to your marketing and even spread word-of-mouth advertising for you online for free.

Inform your customers that you are utilizing social media. If they choose to join your page, many social networks can let your connections know that they’re following you. This form of advertising is free and accessible to a broad range of people. Referrals like this carry more weight that traditional advertising.

Always give the visitors to your site a way to follow you on a social media site by subscribing. Many individuals use Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin on a regular basis, meaning that you can use these sites as a valuable way of promoting your business. Just provide easy access to your daily posts and your consumers will easily be able to stay up to date on your products and business.

YouTube is a great way to target a large audience through social media marketing. YouTube users are generally better leads because they have generally already seen a video you have posted, and won’t click on your links unless they like what they see. The more you market your site the more potential visitors will come to it, and the more potential your videos have to gain attention.

All social medial profiles should have buttons included, along with RSS feeds of any updates you would like people to see. At a minimum, these buttons should appear on your company site, your blog, and email and forum signatures. Also, link between profiles for maximum exposure.

Don’t go off half-cocked and start Facebooking and Twittering like mad until you have established a marketing plan. You will have to determine how you want your page set up, how often you can work on it, and who will do the work. Like with any promotional campaign, it is best to set up a timeline to achieve your marketing goals. Always follow the plan as closely as possible and you will win with SMM.

Create vibrant titles for your YouTube or network videos. You should also incorporate relevant keywords into the title. Using relevant keywords in your titles will help to identify videos and attract more views.

Social Media

When utilizing advertisements to market on social media websites, you should take steps to make certain that the ads appear in locations on the website where they will get attention. Unless your ad is placed in a prime location, it may be absolutely worthless.

Offer special opportunities and discounts to those who follow you on social media. The key is to offer something exclusive that they won’t find on your main webpage. You can also include a contest for all the fans on your social media site. If that is not feasible for your business, offer a coupon or unique item. You also can post your announcements on social media pages.

Put your blogs on your personal LinkedIn page with the application for blog feeding. Therefore, every time you create an article, it will help you gain double exposure. This will allow you to save time and you’ll enjoy more exposure on LinkedIn.

One of the best ways to attract your target market is to promise incentives and offers exclusively to those who follow your business on social media. If the only place to get these special deals is though a specific social media site, the information will rapidly spread.

It is essential to determine your target audience before you begin your social media marketing efforts. Your best bet is to learn as much as possible about your target market, including their social media preferences and behaviors.

Social Media

Holding contests with sought-after prizes on social media sites, like Facebook and Twitter, can generate positive publicity. Getting the news out about your contest will be a snap, thanks to the audience participation encouraged by social media. The contest should be fun, and related to what you sell. One contest instance would be letting individuals create the logo or emblem that represents a soon-to-be-released product.

It is important that site visitors can easily subscribe to you via social media sites. Most people visit social media websites daily, so give them a quick way to access you via Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.

Studies show that the most popular times for people to read your social media posts are during business hours during the week. This does not mean that you have to compose your messages during these times; you can put them together whenever it is convenient and then use automatic updating tools to post them at the best times.

There is help available for your social networking campaign. You have access to a multitude of people who are capable of helping you with your social media endeavors. This can be costly, but will be well worth the expense in the long run.

It is imperative that you proofread anything before you add it to your Facebook page, or post it through Twitter. You should make sure your work looks professional. Though some Twitter abbreviations are fine, remain cautious when using them. Try to produce interesting content which makes you look good!

Keep in mind that you need to be active in your social media marketing efforts. If you want to be successful, you have to be social! Membership will fall off quickly as your audience loses interest in old content and sees the lack of participation on your part. However, having a campaign that is full of interaction and activity could possibly have lots of success.

Share content which is useful to your readers through social media, and avoid the silly quizzes and fluff content. Do not just share content to do it. If you have things that are interesting or exciting, make sure you share them. Make sure that it’s something which your readers will enjoy seeing! Avoid sharing pointless quizzes that will only distract or annoy your customers.

Start a Yahoo! account for your company and visit Yahoo! Answers. This feature on Yahoo enables users to ask questions, and then receive answers from fellow users. Provide useful answers to questions about your products, focusing on demonstrating your expertise rather than trying to sell. If you can provide quality-answers in a particular niche, you can quickly get a reputation as an authority in the field.

Take advantage of the profile function on Facebook. When someone comments or asks a question, pay attention to it. Engage in conversations and answer all questions that come your way. This helps to create a sense of credibility and comfort with your product.

Build excitement about products by giving them away through your social networking profiles. Everyone loves a freebie, so this is a great way to get more people on social media sites to follow you. Choose a product or service you want to highlight, then post your free offering to the most popular freebie pages and forums.

Be active and comment on other people’s posts. Social media is all about interacting, being social and visible. A great way to promote yourself is to engage others in dialogue that blog within your niche. Doing this will quickly increase the number of social connections you make.

Consider adding an employee blog to your company’s website as an important part of your social media marketing campaign. Let potential customers see some of the inner workings of your business. They can get a better understanding of how your business works, what its values are, and how it produces the goods and services they buy. If you let customers into your world they will trust you more.

You should always talk up your friends using social media blogs and profiles. This idea is called “social proof.” People are more likely to interact with you if they perceive you as being popular. You can blog about the people you know to people that follow you on Twitter or Facebook. Include links to your other pages as well.

Social Media

Think about fun content that your followers will enjoy the next time you update your Facebook page. Schedule time each week to come up with fun and exciting new content to keep your readers interested. You have to figure out a balance, so you’re not messing up your professional image.

Photo contests are a good way to get the followers you have involved with social media. Inform your followers that whoever submits the most unique photograph that somehow incorporates your brand into it will win a prize. When your customers upload photos of your products on social media, their friends may see the photos and become interested in your company.

It’s crucial that your headline is a catchy one. The headline is your readers’ introduction to your content. You want to make the headline interesting so they keep reading. So be sure to put some thought into coming up with a good one.

There are many different services you can use to automatically handle a Twitter account. The actual features of these services vary, but the majority of them will automatically manage following and unfollowing individuals for you. Services such as these can assist you in managing lists and finding new consumers who might be interested in your product.

Demographics are a key factor in determining the success or failure of social media marketing. Research them thoroughly. If you notice that most of those clicking through on your ads are among a certain demographic, then you will be able to gear your ads or messaging to draw them in more effectively.

When using social media to market your company’s products or services, make sure that you provide some incentives, but don’t be pushy. Consumers are turned off by pushy or forceful sales tactics. Put up a discount, sale or perk about once a week, particularly when you know folks will see it. This way your customers receive some discounts, but don’t feel spammed or forced into a sale.

Make your YouTube account automatically put some social websites on the channel when you upload a video. After you have a YouTube account built, when you wish to put up a video, you may want to auto-post it to your external social websites as well. To do this, go to the account settings and choose the service that will add posts automatically.

Social Media

Advertising offers that are limited is something you can use Twitter or Facebook for. Find a balance between giving your potential customers enough time to cash in on the deal while still letting them know that the deal is time sensitive. Your readers who regret missing the bargain will read your updates more frequently, so that they get a deal the next time. Write this on your site to get more subscribers to updates.

One of the most beneficial decisions you can make for your company is marketing your business on social media websites. Integrate the tips you’ve just learned into your strategy so you can gain confidence with the medium. As you start achieving a higher level of success through social media marketing strategies, you will quickly become motivated to invest more into it. Social media can be very profitable for your company.

Keep an eye on your traffic every time you try something new. Be careful to interpret results appropriately. It’s very important that you don’t make assumptions based on one really good or one really depressing day of statistics. It is however, crucial that you are able to spot a trend in movement and know when to move on to the next option.

Gode links


text:
Still Think You Can Manage Time?

The time management material starts about 2 minutes into this 7 minute video.

(This is an excerpt of module 6 – from the IT Career Engineer Special Report. Now available on CD (This post updated Oct 2011). But it’s very relevant to anyone making choices over how they spend their time each day. The fundamentals of time management are the same everywhere.)

Questions from watching the video:

1- What’s on your DoTO list right now?

2- What’s your current IHTD project?

3- What is your Project1 ?

I will return to these questions in a later post.

– Mark McClure

Posted in Life
Tags: ,
About the Author
Author: Mark McClure writes fiction about life, reality and worlds unknown. Based in Tokyo, Japan. My work embraces elements of (hard) science fiction, space opera, science fantasy, quantum fiction and speculative fiction. Click for info: My Books

Mark’s Mailing List

  • Access to exclusive previews.
  • New book offers.
  • Special deals on previous releases

My Book Progress

The Zelkova Sphere
Due:1 month
Lunar Blackout
Due:4 months
Neural Dust
Due:7 months