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How to make simple DIY spring carrots out of drawer liner

I bought this drawer liner about a year ago just because I loved the print.. please tell me you do that too, LOL?  Anyways, it has been sitting in my craft room staring at me and I finally decided to do something with it. With spring right around the corner, I decided to make a drawer liner carrot.

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How to make a jumbo carrot for your front porch

Jumbo Carrot

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Do you wonder… “where next?”

Strategy is about identifying what’s going on different fronts and then deciding how to position yourself to take advantage of the opportunities.

Our strategic review and planning process shows you how to identify:

  • The levels you need to consider;
  • Potential opportunities and threats;
  • Dealing with constantly changing information;
  • What you need to do to get there;
  • How to communicate your strategy;

To find out more or to arrange a free consultation, call +673 7222093 or email .

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If you’re like a lot of us, you get so much email every day that you might spend as little as 15 seconds scanning a message to determine how it applies to you. Now, imagine that other people are reading your email the same way. If they can’t quickly identify the purpose of your message, they’ll probably delete it or leave it in the Inbox for “later” – if later ever comes.

In this article, I give 6 tips to ensure that your email messages are read and get the attention they deserve.

  1.  Make the purpose of the message clear

When recipients receive your email message, they should be able to see at a quick glance how the message relates to them and why it’s important. They may be looking at a preview of your message in Microsoft Outlook or on a Windows phone or Windows Mobile device, such as a personal digital assistant (PDA). Or they may see only Subject lines in their Inbox. If your Subject line is confusing and irrelevant, your email will surely get deleted in a hurry. Here are some examples of what can be included in Subject lines to make sure the reader opens your mail:

  • A standard subject heading such as “Action Requested,” “Response Requested,” “FYI,” or “Read Only,” depending on the action indicated in the body of the message
  • The meaningful objective or supporting project that the message relates to, for example, “FY ’05 budget forecasting”
  • The required action if applicable, for example, “Consolidate departmental budget spreadsheets”
  • The due date if applicable, for example, “Due by July 7″

An example of an effective Subject line is “Action Requested – Consolidate all department spreadsheets for FY ’06 budget and return to me by June 15th.”

  1.  Tell recipients what action you want them to take

Be completely clear about the actions you want the recipients to take. Be specific and put all the material that is related to an action in one place. To get even faster responses, talk about how the action relates to the recipient’s objectives, and always give due dates. It’s also important to clarify what type of action you want the recipient to take. There are basically four types of actions you could request. If you make this level of detail clear, the recipient will be most likely to read the email and take the action right away. The four actions include:

  • Action: The recipient needs to perform an action. For example, “Provide a proposal for a 5% reduction in Travel & Entertainment expense.”
  • Respond: The recipient needs to respond to your message with specific information. For example, “Let me know if you can attend the staff meeting at 9:00 A.M. on Friday.”
  • Read only: The recipient needs to read your message to make sure they understand something. No response is necessary. For example, “Please read the attached sales plan before our next staff meeting on August 12th.”
  • FYI only: The recipient should file your message for future reference. No response is necessary. In fact, even reading the message is optional. For example, “Enclosed for your records are your completed expense reports.”
  1.  Provide the proper data and documents

Make sure you give recipients all of the information they need to complete an action or respond successfully to your request. Your co-workers shouldn’t have to come back to you asking for information, whether it is a supporting document or a link to a file on a shared website. You can include supporting information in the body of the message, in an attached file, or in an attached email. In Windows Live Hotmail, you can use the Quick Add feature, which lets you search for and insert content such as images, video, restaurant details, maps, and movie times into your email messages, without ever leaving Hotmail. In addition, if you want recipients to fill out a form, it’s a good idea to attach a sample copy of the form that shows how it should be filled out.

  1.  Send the message only to relevant recipients

Target your message to the appropriate audience. Only people who have to complete an action on the Subject line should receive your message. Be thoughtful and respectful when you enter names on the To line. People observe your thoughtfulness and the results are more effective. Here are two simple questions to help you filter the To line recipients:

  • Does this email relate to the recipient’s objectives?
  • Is the recipient responsible for the action in the Subject line?
  1.  Use the CC line wisely

It’s tempting to put loads of people on the CC line to cover your bases, but doing so is one of the fastest ways to create an unproductive environment. Here are some things to consider when using the CC line:

  • No action or response should be expected of individuals on the CC line
  • The recipient needs to only read or file the message
  • Only those individuals whose meaningful objectives are affected by the email should be included on the message
  • If you are not sure that the information is related to a co-worker’s objectives, check with that person to see if they want to receive your email on that topic.
  1.  Ask “final questions” before you click Send

The final thing you want to do is check your work to be sure you are supporting meaningful actions. Sending clear, well-defined messages can reduce the volume of email you send and receive, encouraging correct action, saving time, and limiting email trails. Make sure you ask the following questions before you send the message:

  • Have I clarified purpose and actions?
  • Have I included supporting documents and written a clear Subject line?
  • Did I write the message clearly enough that it does not come back to me with questions?
  • Am I sending the message to the correct recipients?
  • Have I run the spelling checker and edited the message for grammar and jargon?

Bonus: Don’t send junk email

One of the quickest ways to get onto your recipients’ “delete radar” is to overwhelm them with meaningless email. Responding to email with “I got your email, thanks,” or sending out lots of irrelevant data that you think they might want to know about is a quick way to create a track record of sending unproductive mail. To summarise, it is incredibly easy to create an unproductive culture using email. Follow these guidelines and you can be sure you and your team are able to keep focused on meaningful objectives and don’t create email overload.


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By 2015, it is estimated that shoppers around the world will spend about $119 billion on goods and services bought via their mobile phones, according to a study by ABI research. It is therefore incredibly important to ensure the level of sophistication, segmentation and personalisation that is now being achieved online, is mirrored in the mobile site.

Organisations are discovering the value of true personalisation online, leveraging real time insight into each customer’s known interests and needs to optimise content and offers and drive greater long term brand engagement and loyalty. However, creating the right mobile offer, with the same highly effective personalisation, requires more than simply translating the existing web site to support mobile devices.

Effective personalisation

Modelling is key to ensure organisations are really targeting customers with the right content at the right time and predicting what the customers will want to do next with the brand. However, with a smaller area of real estate – the screen size – than traditional web sites, companies need to be far more precise and accurate with mobile personalisation.

With traditional web sites, organisations can put up a great deal of information across different areas on each page – 90% of which can be irrelevant to the consumer, as long as the 10% that is relevant is in a prominent position and works effectively.

This luxury is not available on the mobile. With limited screen size, organisations have got to ensure the right content is put in front of the consumer in the right format, the first time – without being able to exploit other test areas on the page. There is zero room for guesswork.

There are also other considerations: page load times are generally slower on mobiles than on the web, so think about the timing of content and number of steps you put a visitor through. Companies also need to understand how the consumer is interacting with the brand – and whether that will vary from mobile phones to tablets.

For example, is it worth considering the development of a parallel site that takes into account the different functionality and features of the tablet over the mobile phone – from larger screen size to keyboard usage? The decision will depend on the brand and the sophistication of the mobile offer, but it is an issue that requires consideration and planning.

Brand consistency

Certainly, companies need to consider how and why the consumer will be using the mobile to interact with the brand – and how that may differ from the online interaction. For example, a consumer is unlikely to want to complete a loan application on the mobile, but will use the device to check account balances or find the location of the nearest branch.

In addition there are opportunities to add innovative services, such as location based services, which can enhance the customer’s experience. But use these functions wisely. Augmented reality using the mobile’s camera can be compelling – but how relevant is it going to be to the consumer audience?

Critically, the mobile must be approached as one of many channels to market: consumers now expect a consistent brand experience, look and offer irrespective of channel. Any personalisation on the mobile site must be mirrored on other platforms, including any tablet specific site and the web site– and vice versa.

So for example, a customer checking their flight details should receive the same offer of an upgrade, discounted hotel or car hire, whether via web site or mobile site.

Indeed, adding the customer’s mobile interaction adds further insight into behaviour which can be used to improve the modelling techniques which determine the next best offer, content or action. In essence, the mobile provides another channel that should be used by brands to enhance the customer experience.

With the mobile channel taking an ever increasing proportion of online revenue, it is essential for organisations to come to terms with the challenges and opportunities associated with mobile personalisation. The speed of development is far outpacing that of the online channel, putting greater pressure on marketers to meet the needs of an ever more demanding and sophisticated consumer audience.

Organisations cannot simply take the existing web site and offer that to the mobile marketplace; not only must the site reflect the advantages and limitations of the mobile platform but also take into consideration the very different ways consumers will interact with the brand via a mobile phone.

Marketers must leverage iterative testing to ensure mobile sites are being developed correctly, utilising segmentation and personalisation techniques to maximise the usage of the mobile platform for consumers. If this is done correctly, then e-commerce businesses will be well placed to ensure a consistent customer experience across both web and mobile sites, reinforcing brand loyalty and engagement.


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Company owners gamble wealth on business

South west business owners are drawing modest salaries and eschewing lavish lifestyles in favour of investing heavily in their business, according to a new study by UK chartered accountants Haines Watts.

Business owners are “crossing their fingers and hoping” that their business will deliver the returns needed to support them and their families – despite certain major risks to their business that have been heightened by the recent Brexit vote.

The Haines Watts Wealth Survey is based on interviews with 514 owners of UK companies, which are at least two years old, between £1 million and £50 million turnover with between 10 and 249 employees. It reveals the earnings, wealth and spending habits of UK business leaders and is the first in a three-part series of studies aimed at exploring the purpose and motivations for running a company in the UK.

Risking it all

The study reveals that the average south west company owner earns £93,800 per annum (including salary and dividends) – below the national average (£95k) and less than half the average salary of the CEO of an AIM-listed company (£202k, Fast Growth Company, 2014).

Company owners told Haines Watts that they are instead investing their wealth back into their business or taking other risks such as gambling their financial future on a stock exchange. The average south west company owner has £109k in financial investments, such as stocks and shares.

Conversely, the humble pension has fallen out of favour with all age groups, and yet company owners attest to having significant amounts of property debt. Nearly a third (28%) of south west company owners do not have a pension fund, while business owners from this region have an average £228,500 combined residential and commercial property debt – higher than the national average (£222,800).

Haines Watts has four offices across Devon, and recently opened a new office in Launceston.

Ben De Cruz, managing partner at Haines Watts Exeter office, commented: “Our study reveals that company owners are gambling their wealth on their business, leaving their financial security hanging in the balance. This is surprising given how hard they work to generate that wealth in the first place and the obvious risks involved.

“As a busy business owner, it’s easy to believe that your company is a safe investment. But if I held up a mirror, I don’t think many owners – whatever their age or stage in their life – would be comfortable with what they saw. They would wish they had a contingency plan in place and spent more time considering their options.”

Blind faith

Not only are south west company owners putting all of their eggs into one basket, but they are also leaving their business open to significant risks. Nearly two fifths (37%) of south west company owners feel their business could not survive for longer than a week without them, while 16% believe it could only manage for up to three days.

Three fifths (60%) of south west company owners have a main supplier that they could not survive without, while 49% have a major customer that they rely on. In fact, 77% say their main customer contributes a third (30%) or more of their revenue. Furthermore, two thirds (63%) of South West company owners admit their business could not survive without a key member of staff.

De Cruz continued: “Not only are business owners putting all of their eggs into one basket, but that basket is riddled with holes. Our study reveals an alarming degree of risk of downtime in the event of an accident or disruption. As we have witnessed with the UK’s recent Brexit vote, the potential for significant market disruption is never far away and any company could fall to its knees if it doesn’t have the right contingency plans in place to deal with such an event.

“Wealth is about more than just the here and now; it’s about protecting your financial future, your family and your staff. As a business leader, it’s careless to cross your fingers and hope for the best; company owners need to realise how much is at stake, address their biggest areas of vulnerability and regain control of their future.”

All work and no play

Despite working tirelessly on keeping their business running, south west business owners are eschewing luxuries in favour of a more conservative lifestyle.

Fiat is by far the most popular car brand owned by south west company leaders (23%), followed by Honda (14%), Mitsubishi (9%) and BMW (9%). Just 16% of south west company owners drive a brand new car – despite the many financing options available – and 5% own a second home.

Three quarters (77%) of south west business leaders say they own designer goods, while 15% have or will send their children to a fee-paying school.


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Central NY's premier lakeside restaurant and banquet venue!

Great View, Waterfront View & Friendly Service for Lunch & Dinner.
Oneida Lake has long been an important part of history in Central New York, and we at Borio's Restaurant are proud to be a part of it. We are now in our third generation as a family-owned-and-operated restaurant, and though we have gone through many changes over the years, one thing hasn't changed—our love of life on the lake and the people who make it what it is!

- Chuck, Marty, & Tony Borio

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overlooking Oneida Lake...Lunch, Dinner, Weddings, Banquet Facilities and much more

Borio's Restaurant is located at the address 8891 McDonnells Pkwy in Cicero, New York 13039.

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Borio's Restaurant is located in Cicero on the beautiful shores of Oneida Lake. Since 1960 the Borio family has been catering, wedding receptions, bridal showers & rehearsal dinners. With our many options, and our talented chefs, Borio's can create your perfect wedding reception. We are a third generation, hands on family restaurant. We can only hope you care as much as we do.

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What can I say--Borio's, a central NY landmark, has an awesome family atmosphere with a "second to none" view and fantastic food and service! Love the perch.! Thanks Marty, Amy, chuck and staff...

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My daughter and son in law's flight back to California was cancelled so before we headed back to Ft Drum we looked on Yelp for a good place for dinner. We like locally owned places and boy did we...

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My bride and I were pleased with Marty and the rest of the Borios staff with how professional and skillful they were on the night of our wedding. July 25th, 2015 was a special day for us. Everyone knows that there is a high probability that your wedding day could be stressful, but ours was not that at all. We...

Great margaritas!! Great food and a great view of the lake, too

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This restaurant is on Oneida Lake....has indoor and outdoor seating The atmosphere is pleasant, great variety on the menu and we have never had a bad meal....consistently good with prices reasonable for the dish and the portions served. This place has the best frozen margaritas I have ever had!! Nice salad bar.

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Since Borios is on Oneida Lake, it is best over the summer for appetizers, drinks, and music. We have been several times for dinner and the food is very average but have always had great service. Can't recommend the fish but it's not bad. Shrimp chicken and burgers are good though. Great atmosphere in the warmer months and the outdoor...


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How to Unveil a Company’s Culture

Deciding on the company to work in is extremely important for your career, and this becomes more and more important if you already had some bad previous experiences with companies that weren’t up to your standard.

Thus, to be able to unveil the company’s culture, you should do some real investigation, combining both old and new research method. Here are a few things to consider:

1- Research: Make a research about the company, not only its products and services, but what is written about it in the press. Also check the videos, the tweets, the facebook posts to get an idea on what is important for the company and the employees

2- Inquire: Refer to Linkedin and facebook to know who is working at the company, and try to relate to one or two employees. They may be common friends or friends or friends you can communicate with and inquire about the company.

3- Observe: When they call you for an interview, come few minutes earlier to the meeting. In the lobby, you can observe and see how people act, respond and interact. See how the office is organized and decorated, and focus on some main points and see how employees interact with each other: Do employees greet each other? Do you see employees working together or everyone is working solo? If you ask for directions are people friendly? Observe the faces, are people angry or relaxed?

4- Ask questions: During the interview, ask smart questions to get a feel of the company’s attitude towards several issues. Inquire about the dress code, the kinds of behaviors that are awarded or punished and if the company offers any sort of reimbursement or support for training, seminars, or college tuition. Check if some employees are working from home and if there are flexible work schedule. Don’t forget to ask about promotions rules and the possibility of shifting from one department to another.

5- Decide: After you have gathered all that you can discover and observe, decide if this is a ﬁt for you. The only way you can decide is to know what is important to you. You should think about commute, colleagues, professional development and values.

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Printer Not Working Right? Talk To An HP Printer Maintenance Professional Instead Of Tossing It Out

Nothing stops your work in its tracks like a printer that isn’t working.

Maybe you’ve been given a sudden influx of new work and your printer isn’t equipped for the volume. Perhaps you have several color orders that aren’t turning out right and will reflect poorly on your business. HP printer maintenance is a reality many businesses today have to deal with. With today’s easy access to tech support, finding the necessary tools to bring your printer back up to speed is simple. Before you replace the printer outright, take a minute and look below.

From a new cartridge to new toner, managed print services are ready to go when you are. Let’s see what you need.

The History Of Printing Technology

It seems like the printer has been around forever. Over the years we’ve been gradually introduced to better versions, ones that can handle higher volumes and others that can provide incredible color. The very first copier was invented in the 1930’s, used primarily by newspaper outlets and gradually extending to personal use. HP printer maintenance is a natural outcome of a society constantly consuming new content. When your printer doesn’t work it will send your entire business into a tailspin.

Dispelling The Myth Surrounding Paper

Many think the advent of digital media has turned paper into an obsolete resource. This is far from the truth. The average office worker today prints over 10,000 pages per year — this adds up to an average cost of $725, which can go even further when you work with incompatible printers. Print and copier costs are generally the third largest office expense behind rent and payroll. How do you make sure you’re using every last dollar to the furthest of its ability? HP printer maintenance done yearly will catch small problems and ensure they stay that way.

Managed Print Services For Maintenance

Managed print services can take a look at your equipment and make sure it’s not costing you more in the long run. Among the printers purchased since 2012 — and later swapped out by their owners — nearly 75% were flat-out abandoned. This is due to them either not working to their expectations or just stopping working altogether. This is an expensive extreme you shouldn’t turn to, not when HP printer maintenance can often pinpoint the issue and reverse it easily. There are even day-to-day tips you can take advantage of.

Useful Tips For Saving Money

Your printer doesn’t have to be costing you an arm and a leg to use. There are methods you can turn to in order to reduce stress on your printer while still getting what you need. Some fonts, for example, are able to help you save ink — Times New Roman takes over 25% less ink than Arial, according to a study by Consumer Reports. The right type of paper can also go a long way. Copy paper is a useful basic for applications and documents, while cardstock should be used for cards, promotion, and catalogs.

When To Call For HP Printer Maintenance

There are more than enough supplies for printers to get you through this bump. That said, you should pay close attention to common warning signs. Printers that keep missing letters might have a cartridge problem, for starters. Washed-out or ‘stained’ color can also be a sign of incompatible paper or faulty ink cartridges. When you’re not sure where all this is coming from, just talking to an HP printer maintenance professional will avoid a lot of trouble.

Get your printer back up to speed. Look into a copier repair company so you can return to business as usual.

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Best Stethoscope of 2021

Maybe one of the most distinctive indications that the person in front of you is a doctor or a nurse, a stethoscope around one’s neck is a very important medical tool for both emergency situations of periodical medical exams. Known as a medical device used when internal listening is necessary, a stethoscope is one of the first medical devices that are required for a beginner nurse, even if they are still learning the theoretical part. Later, when completing residency and starting a career in the medical field, a stethoscope will be the first thing to grab after your scrubs.

Used for internal sounds and murmurs, it is very important for the doctor to have a stethoscope that manages to provide a clear and reliable sound even in rooms and environments that are noisy or total chaos because one’s life might depend on it. Airflow sounds differ depending on how serious the affection is and the doctor can immediately say if they are narrowed, blocked or filled with fluid.

Stethoscopes are not used only in a hospital. Vets also need one for every animal that seems to have an internal complication. So it is crucial for a doctor to have a good stethoscope that offers accurate sound.

When looking for a stethoscope, try to consider the following characteristics in order to find the one you need:

  • Quality
  • Affordability
  • Comfort
  • Dual Headed or Single Headed
  • Its Specific Usage

We present you the best five stethoscopes on the market and we hope you’ll find in one all the qualities you were looking for.

With a sound quality that is absolutely amazing and its tunable diaphragm technology, Littmann Classic III is a fascinating stethoscope for both a student and an experienced doctor. Its single-piece diaphragm is one of the newest models, easier to attach and also easier to clean due to its smooth surface lacking circles. This stethoscope’s main use is in non-critical care environments (for example a medical office) but undoubtedly it can do a great job in an ambulatory clinic or urgent care.

You should consider purchasing this stethoscope because:

  • It is used to monitor and perform general physical assessments on a wide range of patients
  • It can detect both normal and abnormal sounds
  • It has a high acoustic sensitivity
  • The stethoscope’s tubing it’s resistant to skin oils, stains, and alcohol, improving its lifetime and has a 5-year warranty
  • It can be used by beginners or doctors experienced in physical exams for patient monitoring, diagnosis and treatment instructions

What’s to like about Littmann Classic III?

Not only you’ll be able to get the best sound when listening lungs and hearts on adults, but also on children, infants and CHF patients that need special attention. And it even gets better: you can adjust the frequency of the sounds by easily adjusting the pressure on the chest: a light contact provides a low-frequency sound while a firm pressure provides a high-frequency sound. In order for the ear-tubes to stay fit and comfortable all you have to do is to squeeze together or pull apart. You’ll never lose the ear-tips because they require some effort to remove. Besides its resistance and flexibility, you now have a choice in a matter of color and finishes to match your everyday style.

What’s not to like?

Although considered a lightweight stethoscope, it is heavier than other models due to its sturdier tubing.

We present you the lightest off all Littmann stethoscopes, specially designed for those that have a work environment that demands wearing it all day long. Although it’s weighing just 118 grams, it definitely provides reliable acoustic performance and gives the best result when comes to physical assessments.

You should buy this stethoscope if you’re looking for:

  • An affordable yet qualitative stethoscope
  • A light medical tool that won’t give you sore shoulders and neck even after a 12-hour shift
  • Great acoustic performance when using it for blood pressure readings even in loud environments
  • Frequencies that are dependent on the amount of pressure you apply
  • A stethoscope that has no loss of sound identification
  • A headset that is anatomically designed to meet the path of the ear canal for comfortable usage
  • A stethoscope ideal for nursing assistants, medical assistants, licensed nurses and nursing students

What’s to like about this stethoscope?

To make it even easier for you to use immediately when there is an emergency, this stethoscope has a tear-drop shape that helps you get the best auscultation around blood pressure cuffs. Its rim and diaphragm are non-chill and provide comfort for patients, both adults and children. The diaphragm has a convenient ovoid form, perfect for getting in the right spot for blood pressure. The frequency of the sound it’s up to you forasmuch a light contact shall offer a low-frequency sound whilst a firm pressure gives a high-frequency sound. The tubing is made of a durable material, resistant to stains, easy to clean and the color won’t fade away even after years of usage.

What’s not to like?

Its quite large diaphragm may be not so suitable for pediatric nurses and doctors that have to look for abnormal sounds on infants.

While it comes with a classy color combination of white and rose gold, this model can be considered a fancy yet reliable stethoscope for a woman that works in the medical field, no matter if as a student or experienced doctor. Its rose-gold stainless steel construction offers both distinction and durability and its headset ensures a precise fit due to a 15-degree angling. Although it’s entirely made of light colors that seem to stain and that is surely not the case because it can be cleaned with alcohol pads or bleach wipes and it will look new.

Some of its main characteristics are:

  • It provides a reliable frequency for normal and abnormal sounds
  • It provides best results when listening to heart murmur or lung and bowel sounds
  • It has a durable bell and resistant yet not very stiff tubing for comfortable wear
  • Suitable for hearing heart murmurs on infants
  • It’s an amazing graduation gift for an ex-student that is beginning a medical career

What’s to like about MDF Rose Gold Dual Head Stethoscope?

Its acoustic performances make this model perfect for nurses that work with infants or older people who have imperceptible respirations and have to keep an eye on them all the time. Its tubing is made of a durable material but it is also lighter to prevent soreness around the neck. Equipped with a dual head chest-piece provides the best hearing: use the wider diaphragm for higher frequencies and use the bell side for checking lung and bowel sounds.

What’s not to like?

You won’t have difficulties with the white tubing if you’re wearing white scrubs but pay attention not to wear very dark scrubs or it may get stained.

This Littmann stethoscope help isolate subtle sounds, a fact that makes it perfect for usage in critical and challenging work environments such as an emergency room, step-down units, intensive care units, cardiac care units and other demanding locations. With its 5-year warranty, ergonomic and durable construction you won’t occur any obstacles in using it every day to its best performance.

The characteristics that represent the 3M Littmann Cardiology IV Diagnostic Stethoscope:

  • It ensures high-quality sound even in noisy environments due to an external noise reduction improvement
  • It is equipped with a thick and stiff yet flexible rubber tubing that stays comfortable and put around the neck
  • Its small diaphragm can be used strictly for children and infants
  • It has diaphragms that are versatile and responsive to low and high sounds
  • There are no rubbing tubes to interfere with auscultation

What’s to like about this stethoscope?

It has the option to convert the bell shape into a conventional shape for those who used it like that and find it more comfortable to consult with it this way. The tunable diaphragm technology allows you to adjust the frequency by simply adjusting the pressure on the chest-piece: a light contact provides a low frequency while a firm pressure offers a high frequency. Its unique color will bring a little sparkle during a tiring day and it also gives a subtle but serious kick to the pretentiousness of medicine attire.

What’s not to like?

Its 22 inches tubing is quite short if you don’t what to be too close to your patient (but you can opt for a 27 inches version).

This all-purpose stethoscope gives reliable results when comes to hearing normal and abnormal sound on both adults and children. Due to its long tubing and ergonomic design, this stethoscope offers integral and clear acoustic even in noisy environments. Its zinc alloy body and dense latex-free PVC tubing are considered to be premium quality, made and designed to contribute to the stethoscope’s durability, reliability, and efficiency.

Why buying MDF Acoustica Deluxe Dual Head Stethoscope?

  • It was clinically tested to ensure an accurate reading each time
  • It is perfect for both a beginner nurse and someone who needs a blood pressure cuff at home
  • The gauge is easy to read and the valve is stable
  • The stethoscope is affordable and a great option as a gift
  • It includes 3 sets of MDF ComfortSeal ear-tips: small, regular and large.

What’s to like about this stethoscope?

Its ergonomic design guarantees comfort for both the patient and doctor; it suitable for hospital, clinic or home use. Some of its main characteristics are: a large bell that has on top a non-chill bell ring to ensure the best sound amplification, patient’s comfort, and, very important, to isolate low frequencies; a chrome plated brass that is hand polishes and pre-angles; full-rotation acoustic valve with a green indicator dot; an ultrasensitive diaphragm; a metal-alloy internal chamber that helps the tubing channel to stay open for optimal sound transmission. You are now ready to differentiate between wheezing, fine and coarse cracking and absent or abnormal sounds.

What’s not to like?

Although it has all it needs to identify all kind of sounds, it is not the best option when comes to perform a thorough physical exam.

When is a stethoscope useful at home?

Just like most people believe that it is important to keep a thermometer at home, there is a minority for which a stethoscope is a must. This medical device isn’t something that most people think about buying if they don’t have a cardiovascular condition history in the family or if a patient doesn’t live in the house. However, it is essential to own one when that is the case. At the same time, learning how to use a stethoscope and how to interpret symptoms that could predict a serious heart or lung condition is just like learning to give emergency first aid.

A stethoscope is used to pick up abnormal murmurs, to understand how serious a cough is or simply to monitor the BP of a family member. If a cardiac is present in your home, then owning such a device is essential. Otherwise, you will not be able to understand what happens in case of emergency. Contrary to the popular opinion, stethoscopes are not difficult to use. On the contrary, modern medical devices are equipped with all sorts of advanced features that will help you detect abnormalities fast. They come with clear instructions and you don’t have to be a certified nurse to use it.

Are home stethoscopes good enough?

Stethoscopes that you can find on the market nowadays are quite advanced, meaning that most models are electronic. The difference between traditional and electronic models is that the second category uses sound amplification hardware in order to help you detect the sounds of the heart and lungs. With traditional ones, it is very difficult to hear them, as they are very soft. A lot of experience and training are required to be able to recognize these sounds as soon as the device touches the skin.

Modern stethoscopes don’t only amplify sounds, but also cancels unnecessary ones, such as background noise. At the same time, it helps keep the original sound, if the device is high-quality. Some electronic stethoscopes can change the character of the sound, which makes it difficult to understand if it is normal or not. Especially in the case of home users, being able to hear clear sounds is crucial.

What is the difference between a professional stethoscope and one that you can use at home?

The basic features of a stethoscope should be the same, regardless of the purpose of use. They are meant to help you detect the soft sounds of the heart and lungs and determine whether they are normal or abnormal. The difference between the two categories goes way beyond these basic features.

First of all, a professional stethoscope should be extremely durable, as it is used every single day. At the same time, it should offer maximum comfort for the user. The ear piece should be soft and the whole device should be made of stainless steel or another durable, yet lightweight material. Depending on the technology it uses, a stethoscope will cost more or less.

When going to see your doctor for a physical exam he usually listens for normal or abnormal sounds in your lungs. Why for both types? Because he needs to compare the front of your chest with the back of your chest and detect any difference in the airflow sounds. In order to obtain a clear sound, the doctor has to ensure that he is using the right head of the stethoscope (in case it’s a dual head one) and to listen carefully, helping himself somehow by adjusting the pressure on the bell.

Stethoscopes are generally designed in the same way, with earpieces, chest piece, tube, and diaphragm, but that doesn’t mean that each brand has the same product to offer. On the contrary, there are constant improvements when it comes to stethoscopes: lighter ones for more comfort, dual headed ones, some models allow you to control the sound frequency by deciding what pressure to apply on the bell, ones that have longer or slightly shorter tube and so on. And more than that, as you may observe in our comparison, there are models that offer a variety of colors because it is nice to add a sparkle on a hard day, cheer up a dark-colored scrub or simply offer a touch of femininity if you wish so. Dare to put yourself in the middle of attention with both your medical wide knowledge and your bright stethoscope.


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Maurice Kirk: Conservative Party Office – 13 June 2021 + archive

Railway Hotel

13th June 2021

Dear Sir/Madam,

My Stolen G4S Property

  1. I have tried to make complaints to you, as per written advise from the Avon and Somerset Constabulary, concerning the robbery by G4S Custody Services when I was violently ejected from HMP Parc, Bridgend, South Wales so the South Wales Police could steal my records.
  • Exeter Crown Court, as the jury notes confirm, refused me the right to call the obvious two defence witnesses in the case, namely Alun Cairns MP and John Graham Esq who also had their property stolen whilst my letters to both of them were in transit from my prison cells.
  • Whereas my temporary MP for North Devon, Ms Selaine Saxby, was rudely ignored by the Welsh authorities, when seeking identification and recovery of my stolen property and my previous request to you is now admitted to have been stopped and confiscated by both HMP Cardiff and HMP Parc can you assist me, please, my area office of responsibility?

Maurice J Kirk BVSc

Copy to 10, Downing Street, Whitehall, London

A very short time after this pic was taken Maurice Kirk, now 77,  was jailed again for breaching a “restraining order” that was never served upon him according to UK law – since then too he has suffered abominable miscarriages of justice and total abuse of processes. Truly shocking to have to spend over 5 years in one of these dodgy prisons because of miscarriages of justice where even one’s vital medication is denied one de rigeur time after time each and every sentence. This is “torture” in it’s most unacceptable form, courtesy of HM Government!! A complete outrage!

Maurice Kirk: The Exeter Jury asked why I was Denied any Defence Witnesses? 06 June 2021 + archive

Not difficult to understand as welsh court pollution had drifted from across the River Severn.

Presiding Judge Peter Johnson

BUT the masonic devil worshipping administrators within Exeter’s Crown Court failed to block this prison officer witness statement, proving G4S criminal conspiracy. This but one of 50 plus buried favourable witness statements for the defence but by an outdated under staffed, under funded British judicial system are also devoid of the helpful elements within the ‘Code Napoleon’ now we exited the EU too quickly

While locked in F wing prison’s loo for 32 minutes, in my wheelchair , for the drug dogs and four prison officers to ‘spin’ my cell the prisoners had also witnessed and showed me , right under the prison staff’s noses , my over 30 unlawfully stopped prison letters both in and out.

Police repeatedly confiscating my my motor vehicles to stop my South Wales Police civil claims

Who Has the Power to Correct a Seriously Damaging Medical Report.

2th September 2016

Dear Ms,

HMC&TS Malfeasance

I have recently moved back to the West Country where I was born, educated, worked and incidentally, married at your own local church in Stoke St Mary.

My purpose was, primarily, to restore my failing health due to being unable to obtain proper medical services in South Wales owing to the intransigence amongst a string of NHS (Wales) doctors. Each refused to stand-up to either Chief Forensic Psychiatrist for Wales, now sacked or his co-conspirator, a Professor Rodger Wood of Swansea University, due his fabricated medical records as well.

They had been requested by a Barbara Wilding, the then Chief Constable of the South Wales Constabulary, following legal advice from Dolmans, solicitors, that her own fabricated soon to be heard ‘machine -gun trial, carrying in itself a minimum ten prison sentence, for me, was doomed and I needed, instead, to be incarcerated, indefinitely, in a high security psychiatric hospital in order for her to avoid the ongoing civil litigation from affecting her final pension.

Cardiff Court staff first fabricated evidence, as long ago as 2002, in that I was a potential ‘vexatious litigant’ and therefore the needing for HM Court & Tribunal Service (Wales) to send many, if not all, of my court files to HM Solicitor-General’s office in Whitehall for registration. The files primarily concerned my local civil and criminal litigation in the Welsh courts involving my suing the police for incessant bullying. This regime of theirs has led to the loss of many files being lost, some believe on purpose, in order to further frustrate and delay my right of ‘remedy’ through our UK courts of law.

I have also returned to Taunton to retrieve my ‘general state of mind’ in an environment more conducive to my up-bringing and life style and to finally get away from the twenty-four years of South Wales Police persecution following their apparent immunity to any form accountability as the result of their considerable fabricated prosecution evidence concocted over the years.

However, my need to contact my local Member of Parliament is for a more serious a reason in that I am now in possession of considerable evidence of wide spread malfeasance within the Cardiff’s judiciary which has implicated both the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, in the past and continues to have a such serious impact on my family wherever I or they should be.

HMC&TS (Wales) have ‘lost’:

1. Numerous Cardiff County Court files, court exhibits and court logs or refuse to disclose

2. numerous Cardiff Crown Court files with some also confiscated by the South Wales police

3. numerous Cardiff Magistrate’s court clerks’ contemporaneous notes, records of evidence, court exhibits, pages from the official court logs and the documentary evidence of both Crown Prosecution Service and Geoamey Custodial Services’ applications to confirm that would also confirm my never having received a ‘restraining order’ in the court cells of the Magistrates courts on 1st December 2011.

4. The latest, my reason for writing to you as it really is the ‘last straw’, is that the Cardiff County Court clerk is ‘unable’ to supply me with a copy of a purported October 2015 250 odd page ‘handed-down’ judgment, involving all the above nefarious activities and much, much more, besides, that had been, purportedly, emailed to me in order for me to immediately appeal its content.

5. As with the Magistrates public records needing to be disclosed, that will, alone, overturn well over three years of my prison sentences, likewise, the immediate disclosure of County Court logs, recovery of its exhibits and my police custody records will allow my being able to practice veterinary surgery once again as the truth will finally be revealed over ridiculous criminal convictions and fairy tale that two dogs had ever fallen over a cliff in the first place.

6. I seek an appointment, please, in order for that you may be made further aware, with Brexit now being a serious possibility and neither lawyers nor HM court staff any longer needing to be accountable for their actions.

7. This has partly come about due to politicians’ lawyers’ abusive 1989 Human Rights Act by someone, we know, deliberately having omitted both Articles 1 and 13 of what was original drafted to avoid ‘remedy’ for someone like myself.

Yours sincerely

Maurice J Kirk BVSc
Tel. 0770858620 —————–

It stinks, as Dad would obviously say!

I had told His Honour , more than once, that the South Wales Police had made a complete mockery of his criminal proceedings, by their usual lying through their back teeth. I told the court precisely why the completely fooled HM Crown Prosecution Service (England) had to withdraw the two other charges, of my sending suspect heroin or possible anthrax powder to both my last MP, then as HM Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns and 2) to my loyal helper, John Graham Esq., with the former ignoring my cries for help while the latter, John, even being refused my Cardiff prison ‘stopped letters to him asking to ‘find me a lawyer in England’.

Those in South Wales all appear ‘under the thumb’ of a thoroughly corrupt judiciary hell bent on autonomy and dam the consequences, not unlike the lawyer ‘nutter’ north of the border.

As the full responsibility for the prisoner’s mail , both in and out of the gaol to their MAPPA registered victim, lies entirely on both G4S HMP Parc governor and ‘black and white’ Whitehall controlled Cardiff prison governor then it is of no surprise to the readers of my publications, of past 30 years, that neither governor was allowed as a defence witness.

This wet another scandalously brought malicious criminal prosecution was again concocted to obtain for me the mandatory 10 year incarceration in order to block my civil claims for compensation just as in my blocked BS 614159 case, 40 plus failed welsh police malicious criminal prosecutions and equally disgusting illegally brought failed ‘trading in machine guns’ prosecution is now civil claim1CF03361 for £500,000.

Presiding Exeter trial Judge, His Honour Peter Johnson QC, HM Recorder of Exeter, is to now adjudicate, very shortly, for my alleged ‘contempt of court’ for publishing the following, BEFORE the jury returned with the obviously anticipated acquittal verdict.

I had, again, been violently assaulted by welsh prison staff on 1st November 2019 while ejecting me from Parc prison , Bridgend, simply to steal my Dr TW fabricated Caswell Clinic medical records for 2nd Dec 2009 secret Cardiff Crown Court

(3) 25 March 2021 – YouTube

Several lawyers have advised me since, short of all the facts like myself, this below, published on my website during a jury was out deliberating a verdict quite ‘unaware’, cannot be interpreted as a ‘contempt of court’ nor should I be subjected to any ‘restraining order’ at all simply because someone in a position of serious responsibility is ‘too bloody bone idle’.

…….. was bought on the ‘proceeds of crime’ by Greenslades’ boss (now changed to GTH estate agents of Hammet Street, Taunton, mum always called ‘rogues alley’!

Auctioneers’ names had to be changed from Greenslades, Taylor and Hunt, following criminal prosecutions from the successful police investigation of the 50 year running ‘price ring’ fraud involving property agents all over Somerset, Dorset & Devon

Come to a court near you shortly.

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Do You Learn Books?

For a lot of, books are a ardour that may not be handed up. These individuals face a problem, although. Positive, books can be found in most of the best libraries around the globe. However, do you know that within the hectic society that we live in that books which are present in guide shops are on their manner out? Sure, it’s true that an increasing number of guide shops are closing their doorways. This has grow to be a tragic testomony to the way in which we dwell our lives.

Typically, people who’re in search of particular books will go to the guide retailer, request it and both purchase it or go elsewhere to purchase it. People who browse from shelf to shelf, analyzing the bindings of a number of books, presumably studying the flaps of some, are on their manner out. E-book retailer house owners declare that persons are simply too busy to cease and browse the choices. They don’t have time to the touch the bindings of superbly certain books to find out if they’re value the associated fee. As an alternative, they need the books they’ve seen marketed or these which were talked about sufficient to the place they draw the eye in. Unhappy, however it’s oh so true.

Does this imply that much less and fewer persons are studying books? No, not essentially. Extra persons are discovering different avenues to get the books they wish to learn. In some areas, libraries have grown in reputation as the price of books has risen. It’s far more economical to attend a number of weeks to borrow a guide, learn it, then return it with out spending one pink penny (that’s in fact if you do not have to take care of late charges). Different persons are heading to low cost shops that carry most of the newest fads in books from youngsters’s to inspirational to classics. These shops can supply smaller costs than any of the guide shops we all know of.

In the long run, books are nonetheless books. They nonetheless maintain an journey inside their pages that brings life to our lives. We will nonetheless get carried away of their considerate _expression and complicated particulars. The worlds which are throughout the pages can nonetheless assist us to neglect about our personal world for not less than a couple of minutes anyway. Regardless of the place we get the books we learn, we all know that having a great one by our facet is crucial of all factors.


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New E book Reveals The World’s Biggest Gross sales Secret

In Why They Purchase: Cracking the Persona Code to Obtain Report Gross sales and Actual Wealth, entrepreneur Cheri Tree reveals her game-changing system that can assist any salesperson join together with his or her prospects in a manner that can seal the deal and create win-win conditions for everybody.

Being in gross sales is likely one of the hardest jobs on the market, however the fact is that we’re all in gross sales. If we’re not making an attempt to promote a product to our prospects, we’re making an attempt to promote our youngsters on consuming their greens or our employer on giving us a elevate. Each day, we’re confronted with conditions the place we have to “promote” (promote our agenda or viewpoint), and we are able to obtain extra success in all these gross sales conditions after we study the character code of the individual we’re making an attempt to promote to. How will we try this? Through the use of Cheri Tree’s B.A.N.Okay. system that she outlines in easy and sensible element on this e-book.

Relaxation assured, B.A.N.Okay. shouldn’t be a system to control folks into shopping for one thing they do not need. It is a system that will help you discover ways to join with folks utilizing the language they wish to hear. As Cheri factors out within the e-book, 66 p.c of consumers are turned off by shows given by salespeople. That is as a result of the salesperson shouldn’t be talking in a language the shopper needs to listen to or actually understands. As Cheri reveals, folks have completely different personalities, so if you wish to promote to somebody, you need to perceive that individual’s character sort. B.A.N.Okay. is an acronym for the 4 character varieties, and since there’s 4 of them, if you do not know the individual’s character sort, you solely have a 1 in four probability of creating the precise gross sales pitch.

Nonetheless, as analysis signifies, 82 p.c of individuals wish to purchase from their matching character sort. That signifies that if the salesperson does not match their character sort, the salesperson will doubtless lose the sale. B.A.N.Okay. helps the salesperson identification the shopper’s character sort in lower than ninety seconds so she or he can morph the shopper’s sort after which have a superb opportunity of closing the sale!

To elucidate all 4 of the character varieties right here could be to present away an excessive amount of information-better you examine them within the e-book. In actual fact, you may take a quiz to find out your personal character sort. I’ll simply say that Cheri walks readers step-by-step by way of the mindset behind why B.A.N.Okay. works higher than some other gross sales program. Then she goes into element in her description of every of the 4 character varieties so you’ll perceive the categories’ likes, dislikes, and idiosyncrasies and might tailor your gross sales presentation and all communications accordingly. When you do that, your prospects can be extra receptive to your message and you may enhance your gross sales and relationships.

Sure, B.A.N.Okay. actually works! In actual fact, Cheri resides proof of it. She may be very trustworthy all through the e-book in regards to the struggles she went by way of in gross sales earlier than she found this technique. She states:

“I began off on the backside… the very backside! My dream of being a profitable entrepreneur acquired crushed once I realized that I sucked at gross sales. I used to be so horrible that in my complete first yr in gross sales as a commission-only monetary advisor, I solely earned $700! I used to be the worst salesperson on the staff!”

Cheri goes on to explain how she spent years making an attempt to determine what she was doing flawed till she found the B.A.N.Okay. system. Then, she tells us, “Utilizing the B.A.N.Okay. code, I took my revenue in a single yr from $72,000 to over $500,000-a 695 p.c improve. Inside three years, my annual revenue surpassed a million dollars-and the remainder, they are saying, is historical past.”

However there’s much more to B.A.N.Okay. than simply gross sales and creating wealth. Not that cash is not important-money, as Cheri factors out, does deliver happiness as a result of it makes life simpler for folks; it permits them to satisfy their desires, have safety, and handle their family members. However extra importantly, B.A.N.Okay. will help us enhance {our relationships} with everybody from our family members to our prospects and strangers. Cheri states:

“You wish to know what Cheri Tree is absolutely about? I am about altering lives. I do not care in any respect in regards to the cash, however I do know that serving to you earn more money can change your life. Cash will help you obtain your actual desires. Certain, folks have informed me, ‘Cash does not purchase you happiness.’ However once they say that, I often reply, ‘Properly, I like to recommend you strive making at the least one million {dollars} in a single yr after which reevaluate that saying!’ That is one other foolish fantasy, proper? Cash undoubtedly should buy you a variety of happiness, however cash is not every little thing.”

Most of Why They Purchase is devoted to the ability of B.A.N.Okay. to assist folks in gross sales, however Cheri additionally affords examples of how studying one another’s B.A.N.Okay. codes has helped relations study to speak higher; it is even helped folks join with people who find themselves suicidal to save lots of their lives. It might really deliver world peace as world leaders discover ways to talk with one another utilizing this technique. That world peace dream is not even all that far-fetched contemplating that Cheri Tree has already launched B.A.N.Okay. to 1000’s of individuals and it is made its manner into greater than forty nations. With that form of success record-and growing-I can assure it is a system price trying into.

I not often get as enthusiastic about studying a e-book as I did whereas studying Why They Purchase. It is made me higher perceive myself-I am a Okay with B as my second character code. It is made me additionally perceive higher a few of my family members whom I’ve issue speaking with. It is a sensible, easy-to-use system that may undoubtedly make a distinction in your gross sales and your life. Attempt it out. You don’t have anything to lose and every little thing to achieve.


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The Quilted Heart Character Interview

24 Jan

I am thrilled that Mona has so graciously shared this character interview with us.  You will get to know Elsa Brantenberg through this delightful interview and you will love this special woman in The Quilted Heart!

 1. How would you describe yourself to others?

 A busy widow and Oma to my granddaughter, with no time to fuss over what was or could’ve have been.

 2. Do you have any favorite pastimes or special skills?

 I’ve got lots of experience at running a farm and tending an apple orchard. Some say I’m a fine quilter. Talked me into starting a quilting circle and teaching quilting in my home.

 3. How would the women in your quilting circle describe you?

 I’m a hugger. No woman gets past my porch, either direction, without a hug.

 4. What is most important to you?

 That my sweet little Gabi girl, my granddaughter, grows up knowing she is loved. The assurance that you’re loved and cared for can carry you a long ways.

 5. How do you face disappointments in life?

 I grit my teeth. Probably stomp my foot. Whisper or  shout a prayer. Then I embroider a tea towel, make apple crisp, for finish a quilt and take it to someone who needs the encouragement even more than I do.

 6.  What do you put off doing because you dread it?

 Explaining to Gabi that the war has been over for several months, and that if her papa hasn’t returned by now, he is dead, or alive without any intention of returning.

 7. You buried your husband then your daughter, and lost your son-in-law to grief, how did you keep going?

 I had a farm to run and a precious granddaughter to raise, and I knew the good Lord was at my side. Always is. It was after I buried Gretchen that I started the quilting circle out here on the farm. Many of those dear women are like daughters to me. A couple of them like sisters.

 8. What is the thing you love most about the Quilting Circle or Quilting Circle Thursday?

 The laughter and the tears. The smiles and the sighs. Hearing the other women grow in their confidence to share the Scripture with one another and their commitment to pray for one another.

 9. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

 My emotions can swing like the pendulum on that fancy clock at the bank. If I could change, I would not be so passionate. I’d rather my emotions be steady, unwavering. At least, slower so my brain can catch up.

 10. Do you have a life verse, a passage of Scripture that holds special significance to you?

 Yes, from Psalm 119:104. “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” I may not always be able to trust my feelings and emotions, or anyone else’s for that matter, but the Word of the Lord is completely and consistently trustworthy.

The Quilted Heart Omnibus

Like a beautiful patchwork quilt, the three novellas in The Quilted Heart tell stories of lives stitched together with love and God’s unending grace.

Once a week, Elsa Brantenberg hosts the Saint Charles Quilting Circle at her farmhouse on the outskirts of the riverside town of St. Charles, Missouri. The ladies who gather there have all experienced heartache related to the intense hardships of the Civil War, and together, they are facing their painful circumstances with friendship and prayer. Can the tattered pieces of their hearts be stitched together by God’s grace?

Click here to purchase your paperback or eBook copy of The Quilted Heart.

Mona Hodgson StandingMona Hodgson is the author of nearly 40 books, historical novels for adults and children’s books, including her popular Sinclair Sisters of Cripple Creek Series, The Quilted Heart novellas, and Prairie Song, Book 1 in her Hearts Seeking Home Series. Her children’s books include bestseller, Bedtime in the Southwest, six desert and princess Zonderkidz I Can Read books, Real Girls of the Bible: A 31-Day Devotional, and her six I Wonder books.

Mona’s writing credits also include several hundred articles, poems and short stories, which have appeared in 50 different publications. Mona is a speaker for women’s groups, Christian women’s retreats, book clubs and reading groups, schools, and conferences for writers and librarians.

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Giveaway Opportunities:

I am giving away one copy of The Quilted Heart here on my blog.  See Monday’s post for details and comment to win.

Leave a comment here, then comment on Mona Hodgson Author Page before Friday, January 31st to enter the BLOG TOUR DRAWING for one of three signed copies of The Quilted Heart. Tell Mona which blog you visited (Buzzing About Books) and commented on! You can enter once for each Participating Blog you visit and comment on.

Don’t miss Mona’s Facebook Release Party for THE QUILTED HEART!

The Book Release Party on Facebook is TODAY! Join Mona in the Notes Section on her “Mona Hodgson Author Page” from 4 pm to 6 pm (Mountain Time). To calculate what time this is for you, click here:

Mona will answer questions, give away prizes, and share photos and behind-the-scenes stories about the three novellas included in The Quilted Heart omnibus, set in Saint Charles, Missouri.

15 Responses to “The Quilted Heart Character Interview”

  1. Melanie Backus January 24, 2014 at 7:24 am #

    Elsa sounds like a beautiful lady. She freely gives her hugs and her love to those around her. I know Elsa and I would have been wonderful friends. I cannot wait to get to know more about Elsa. Thank you for the lovely interview Britney and Mona.

    • Mona Hodgson January 24, 2014 at 11:56 am #

      Good to see you here, Melanie. So glad you enjoyed meeting Elsa. 🙂 Blessings!

  2. Jan Hall January 24, 2014 at 8:45 am #

    I have really enjoyed getting to know the characters in The Quilted Heart. Tonight will be a lot of fun.

    • Mona Hodgson January 24, 2014 at 11:58 am #

      Hi, Jan. Glad you are enjoying the character interviews. Excited to see you at the Facebook party tonight! Blessings!

  3. sonja1971 January 24, 2014 at 9:11 am #

    I read your blog and follow and enjoy your interviews. It is fun to read about the characters in the book and also learn about the author. Great job!

    • Mona Hodgson January 24, 2014 at 11:57 am #

      Thanks for joining me here, Sonja. I appreciate your interest in The Quilted Heart novellas. Blessings! Mona

  4. Amyc January 24, 2014 at 9:31 am #

    Such a fun interview with Miss Elsa.

    • Mona Hodgson January 24, 2014 at 11:57 am #

      Hi, Amy. Glad you enjoyed “meeting” Miss Elsa. Blessings! Mona

  5. Jackie McNutt January 24, 2014 at 9:35 am #

    I loved meeting Elsa! How I wish I had someone like her in my life or that I could be like her to someone else in my life. the characters in this book are so very heart touching. Thank you for featuring the story post.

    • Mona Hodgson January 24, 2014 at 11:59 am #

      Jackie, good to see you here. Glad you enjoyed meeting Elsa. Blessings!

  6. Savurbks January 24, 2014 at 2:25 pm #

    The books become so much more meaningful when you meet the author and understand the back stories/ characters a bit more…thanks for sharing!!

    • Mona Hodgsonm January 25, 2014 at 10:18 am #

      Hi! So glad you enjoyed the post and meeting Elsa Brantenberg. Happy Reading! Mona

    • Mona Hodgson January 25, 2014 at 10:21 am #

      Hi Savurbks! So glad you enjoyed the post and meeting Elsa Brantenberg. Blessings! Mona

  7. Elizabeth Dent January 24, 2014 at 8:21 pm #

    Love the interview with Elsa . She sounds like a good lady . I injoyed reading about her and loving the book . Love that she has her quilting circle every week . I am loving all the characters in this awesome book . Thank you Mona .

    • Mona Hodgson January 25, 2014 at 10:20 am #

      Hi Liz! So glad you’re enjoying The Quilted Heart. I had fun meeting the characters and writing their stories. Blessings and Happy Reading. Mona

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How to Integrate Amazon and Shopify in 12 Easy Steps

Amazon to Shopify Integration Made Simple

It can be intimidating to think about moving everything from Amazon to Shopify – products, payments, domains, order fulfillment, ALL THE THINGS! But selling on both platforms is a great idea because:

+ you don’t go out of business if Amazon shuts down your account, and
+ it will help you make more sales since you’ll have your products in two places instead of just one.

Basic setup can be completed in just a few minutes, and you can have your store up and running in an afternoon if you’ve got all your ducks in a row.

Step 1: Sign Up for Shopify

Go to Shopify, enter your email and click on the Get Started button. Fill in your desired password and store name, then click Create your store. Shopify will then ask you a few questions about your business. Here you can tell Shopify that you currently sell on Amazon if you like, although it’s not necessary. Once you enter all your info, click on the Enter My Store button and get ready to create an entire website the quick and easy way.

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Shopify will automatically start you out on their 14-day free trial, but in order to complete all the steps in this article, you’ll need to choose a paid plan. To do that, click on Settings in the menu on the left side of the dashboard (at the very bottom), then Account. In the Account overview section, you’ll see a link to Compare plans. Click it and then select which plan you’d like. The basic plan is $29/month and will work fine for our purposes.

Step 2a: Import Your Products the Hard Way

If you told Shopify during the setup process that you currently sell on Amazon, you’ll see on your dashboard that you can use a CSV file to import your products. This is NOT what you want to do. Shopify won’t get high-resolution images for your products, parent-child product relationships don’t always translate well, and your product info has to be PERFECT in your CSV file before you import it. Otherwise, you’ll be stuck editing and formatting tons of product data. We’ve been there and it sucks.

Step 2b: Import Your Products the Easy Way

Instead of all that mess, we’re going to use the ByteStand app to import our products automatically. It will pull in high resolution images and import all the details and information in the right format, saving you a buttload of time.

In the menu on the left side of your dashboard, click on Apps. This is where you can find the list of apps added to your store (once you get some added), as well as a button that will take you to the Shopify app store. You can navigate to ByteStand from there or just follow this link.

On the app page, click the big green Get button, then Install, then Let’s Get Started. From there, choose what plan you need based on how many products you have at Amazon. Don’t worry if you don’t know exactly how many products you have. You can always upgrade or downgrade later. Plus, there’s a 7-day free trial so you can try it out and see how it works. The app will walk you through how to connect your Amazon account to your Shopify store (here’s a video showing how it’s done), then it will start pulling all your products over. Let it do the heavy lifting while you finish setting up your store.

Step 3: Setup Your Payment Provider Settings

If you want to get paid, you need to setup your payment system. Most people accept payments using Shopify Payments since it comes fully integrated with your store. To set it up, click on Settings in the menu, then Payment Providers. In the Accept payments section, click Complete account setup. Enter all your details and banking information, then click Complete account setup.

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Step 4: Setup Your Checkout Settings

Here you’ll choose whether or not you want to allow customer accounts and how to process customer orders (save yourself some time and choose the automatic option). You’ll also want to setup your policies for returns, privacy and terms of service. You can generate samples right in Shopify or look at Amazon’s policies to see examples of what language to use and how to structure your policies.

Step 5: Setup Your Shipping Settings

You’ll need to setup a couple of things to get Amazon to automatically fulfill your Shopify orders. First, you need to enable carrier calculated shipping rates. What this means is that when the customer enters their address during checkout on Shopify, Amazon will calculate the shipping rates and pass them through to the shipping section of the checkout. So you don’t have to worry about guessing how much to charge for shipping.

To enable carrier calculated shipping rates, you have to call Shopify. 100% of the time they will tell you that you have to upgrade to an advanced account, which is $299/month. You DO NOT have to do that. It’s free if you paid for your Shopify account for an entire year or you can add it a la carte for $20/month. Tell them you just want to add it a la carte and they will do it. Here are the Shopify contact numbers:

North America:: 1-888-746-7439
United Kingdom:: 0800-808-5233
Australia:: 03-8400-4750
New Zealand:: 07-788-6026
Singapore:: 800-181-1121

Next, you’ll install the FBA Shipping app to automatically send Shopify orders to Amazon for fulfillment. You can find the app here. Click the big green Get button, then Install app. The app will walk you through how to connect your Amazon account, then let you decide which Amazon shipping rates to enable (Standard, Expedited, etc.). Just enable each rate and click save. If you want to charge more or less than Amazon’s rates or offer free shipping, you can also do that on the same screen.

Finally, if you’re in the US you’ll need to do one more thing. Go into your Shipping settings and scroll all the way to the bottom. In the dropshipping and fulfillment services section, click add dropshipping service. Then find fulfillment by Amazon in the list and click Activate.

Booyah, shipping rates are done!

Step 6: Setup Your Pages

It’s a good idea for most stores to have these three pages: About Us, Contact Us, and Store Policies or FAQ.

To create a new page, click on Online Store in the menu, then click Pages. Click Add page to be taken to a new page editor. Enter your page title and content, then click save. You can copy your store policies from what you entered in your checkout settings.

Step 7: Push Your Products Into Shopify

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You’ve been letting the ByteStand app run in the background this whole time, and unless you have a ton of products, it should be finished now. If it is, you just need to “push” your products into your Shopify store. Click on Apps in the menu and choose the ByteStand app. Click on the menu button in the app and select Push all products.

You can manually update your products any time you like (to keep inventory and other details in sync) by “pulling” and “pushing” again, or setup the automatic Scheduler to do it for you. You’ll find it in the menu.

Step 8: Customize Your Site

Now the fun part! Go back to the main dashboard, and select Customize theme. Scroll down to the bottom to find Shopify’s collection of both free and paid themes. Pick the one that’s best for your store.

Once you’ve selected a theme, you’ll want to customize it. Pick your colors, upload your logo and get everything looking the way you want it.

Step 9: Organize Your Products

It’s a good idea to organize your products into collections so your customers can find what they want more easily. You can create collections based on item type, size, color, sale items and more.

To create a new collection, click on Products in the menu, then Collections, then Create collection. Enter your collection title and description. Then choose a sales channel and whether products will be added to the collection manually or automatically. For manual collections, you will need to add each product to the collection manually (duh). For automatic collections, you’ll setup conditions products must meet to automatically be entered into that collection. Be sure to click save after making your selections.

Step 10: Update Your Menu

You need a menu to help your customers find things in your store. By default, the main menu links to the Home page and the Catalog page. The footer menu links to the Search page. To update these, click on Online Store in the menu, then Navigation. Select the menu you want to edit.

To add a page to the menu, click Add menu item. Enter the name of the link you want to add (which will show up on your store’s menu), then select the page you want to link to in the space below. Click Add and then Save.

Step 11: Setup Your Domain

To make your site official, you’ll want to setup a domain. Go back to the Shopify dashboard and click on the spot that says Add a Domain. It will prompt you to either buy a domain or connect an existing one. Make your selection and it will walk you through the steps to set it up.

You can then go to your new domain and see how your website will look to customers. Go through all the pages and make sure everything works and looks good.

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Step 12: Launch!

When everything is setup the way you want, you can officially launch your store by removing the password. Click on Online Store in the menu, then Preferences. Scroll to the Password protection area at the bottom and uncheck Enable password. Once you click Save, your store is live!

Migrating from Amazon to Shopify may seem overwhelming, but if you follow these steps it can be done in just a few hours. This guide will help you get your store open for business, but you can take things a step further by browsing Shopify’s app store for add-ons and additional functionality. One app we recommend (because we made it) is FreshCredit, which allows you to give store credit to your customers. Pretty much any options you want to add can be found in the app store.

If you need help at any point in the process, Shopify has great support. Plus, we’re happy to help you setup our apps. You can contact us here.

About the Author

Gennifer is the Customer Support Magician at ByteStand, where she lives and breathes customer service education while sipping coffee in her pajamas.

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A Gift Idea For the Writer

Have you ever noticed that the writing process includes a ton of road metaphors?

While writing my last post for The Muffin, I literally came up with a dozen phrases I could’ve used. It was a good reminder for me, that writing is a journey. Sometimes, yes, it can be a short little trip from idea to words on a page to publication. But more often, it takes time to produce, to polish, to sell.

2015-11-07 12.11.47Lots of time. Lots of words. And in this world of hurry-up and multi-tasking, time is something of a premium. Still, if you want premium publication, I think you have to be prepared to put in the time, and to give yourself time. It can take a while, The Publication Path, First to Last Draft, as my friend and author, Heather Montgomery shared at a recent writer’s workshop.

Maybe this holiday season, you can give yourself the gift of time: time to think, time to write, and time to appreciate the journey. Because as the song goes, “the road is long, with many a winding turn, that leads us to who knows where. Who knows where?”

But when you get there, oh, boy. It’s worth it. (Just ask any writer.)

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  1. You are so right about the time component, Cathy. I have a friend who said when her first book was published: “My overnight success only took me fifteen years.” I really do believe that writing takes a lifetime. Not only to learn the craft and polish your skills, but to find your voice and your place in the writing world. Thanks for this insightful post.

  2. Isn’t that the Holly’s that did that song? Or (gasp!) the Osmonds? Or am I totally screwing it up?

    Yeah, the gift of time is a great one to give to ourselves. (And it’s easy to wrap!) It’s just hard to find sometimes… It’s scarce.

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Acidic oceans prompt evolution

Posted on EPOCA: 18 Oct 2012

 It’s no secret that greenhouse gases warm the planet and that this has dire consequences for the environment — whole islands swallowed up by rising seas, animal and plant species stressed by higher temperatures, and upsets in ecological interactions as populations move to cooler areas. However, carbon dioxide has another, less familiar environmental repercussion: making the Earth’s oceans more acidic. Higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere mean that more carbon dioxide dissolves in the ocean. This dissolved carbon dioxide forms carbonic acid — the same substance that helps give carbonated beverages their acidic kick. While this process isn’t going to make the ocean fizzy anytime soon, it is introducing its own set of challenges for marine organisms like plankton and coral. Recent research suggests thatevolution may have the power to temper some of this shake-up …

Where’s the evolution?
Ocean acidification certainly sounds like a nasty environmental challenge to face, and it is — but not for the reason that might first pop to mind (instant ceviche!). Lowered pH causes a shift in ocean chemistry and ties up a material (carbonate ions) that organisms like algae, zooplankton, coral, sea urchins, and mollusks use to build their cell walls, skeletons, and shells. Since algae and zooplankton form the basis of marine food webs and since coral reefs provide critical habitat for tens of thousands of other species, biologists are concerned. Will ocean acidification destroy the foundations of marine diversity?

This past summer, a group of researchers from Germany reported on a study that aimed to determine how one particularly important algae species might respond as the oceans continue to acidify. Coccolithophores are single-celled organisms with a calcium carbonate skeleton that live near the surface of the ocean, soaking up sunlight and carbon dioxide. They are so abundant that their blooms can be seen from space, and they seem to play a similarly over-sized role in biologic and Earth systems processes. As photosynthesizers, coccolithophores provide food for many other species — and thus, indirectly for the predators that feed on those species. Furthermore, when coccolithophores die, their skeletons settle to the bottom of the ocean, moving carbon from the surface of the ocean to the sediment. Unfortunately, these roles may be compromised by ocean acidification. Experiments have shown that under increasingly acidic conditions, coccolithophores grow more slowly and build flimsier, malformed skeletons.

Researchers wondered if these negative effects of acidification on coccolithophores would continue for the long term. After all, species are not fixed entities, but evolving populations that can interact with their environments and change through time. Perhaps, over many generations of natural selection for higher acid tolerance, coccolithophore species would adapt in ways that dampen or cancel out the worst effects of ocean acidification.

Evolution via natural selection requires four ingredients: variation, inheritance, selection, and time. It seemed likely that acid tolerance varies among coccolithophore individuals and is heritable. The selection component would be provided by increasing ocean acidification as humans continue to overproduce greenhouse gases. And since some important coccolithophore species have a generation time of less than a day, adaptation could occur on relatively short time scales. All in all, the idea that coccolithophores species could evolutionarily adapt as oceans acidify seemed plausible.

To test this idea, the researchers set up an artificial selection experiment. They started 35 separate populations of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi, which can reproduce asexually. To provide some initial genetic variation (as would be present in the wild), each population was begun from six different genotypes. These populations experienced conditions mimicking different degrees of ocean acidification. Some were kept in conditions with the current atmospheric level of carbon dioxide, some were kept in conditions with more than twice that level of carbon dioxide (the projected level in the year 2100), and some were kept in conditions with even higher levels. The populations were then allowed to reproduce asexually for one year — about 500 generations.

Of course, the populations evolved over the course of the experiment — genetic drift and mutation act on any reproducing population, even those not undergoing natural selection — but did they actually adapt to the different carbon dioxide levels? To test for adaptation, the researchers examined how the different populations performed when exposed to the same carbon dioxide levels at the end of the experiment. The graph below summarizes some of their results.

First off, compare results from the three different test conditions. You can see that all the populations (even those that experienced high levels of carbon dioxide over the course of the year) grow more quickly under normal levels of carbon dioxide than they do under higher levels. This confirms what was already known: a more acidic ocean means slower growing coccolithophores. Now, focus on the two test conditions with higher carbon dioxide levels. In both cases, the population that experienced selection for survival in a more acidic environment grows faster than the population that experienced a normal level of acidity. This indicates that adaptation didoccur. A year’s worth of selection for acid tolerance leads to populations that grow better in more acidic conditions.

What does all this mean for the future of our oceans? While it is good news that at least some species may evolve as oceans acidify, there is still much uncertainty. How will the complex environment of the real ocean with its multitude of interacting species affect this process? How many species will experience adaptive evolution? Will the adaptations that come about be sufficient to maintain key ecosystem processes? Will slower-reproducing species experience any adaptation at all? Unfortunately the answers to these questions are not nearly as clear cut as the changes that are taking place in ocean chemistry. Since before the industrial revolution the ocean’s pH has dropped from 8.21 to 8.10, with an even larger drop expected over the next hundred years. If our carbon dioxide production continues without change, we have only seen the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
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Primary literature:

  • Doney, S. C., Fabry, V. J., Feely, R. A., and Kleypas, J. A. (2009). Ocean acidification: the other CO2 problem. Annual Review of Marine Science. 1: 169-192.
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  • Lohbeck, K. T., Riebesell, U., and Reusch, T. B. H. (2012). Adaptive evolution of key phytoplankton species to ocean acidification. Nature Geoscience. 5: 346-351.
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Discussion and extension questions

  1. In your own words, explain what an evolutionary adaptation is. Give one example of an evolutionary adaptation not described in the article above.
  2. Review the process of natural selection.Use the four steps described on that page to explain how a coccolithophore species might evolve the ability to grow at a faster rate in acidic ocean conditions.
  3. What is the key difference between natural selection and artificial selection? In what ways are the two processes similar?
  4. Advanced:In the experiment described above, each population began with the same six coccolithophore clones. In a parallel experiment, the researchers started each population with a single clone. How would you expect this to affect rate of evolution in the population over the course of a year? Explain your answer. What “ingredient” for natural selection differs between these two experimental designs?
  5. Advanced:Would you expect the level of genetic variation to be higher, lower, or the same in natural coccolithophore populations compared to the experimental set-up described in the article above? How would expect this to affect the rate of evolution in natural populations as the oceans acidify in comparison to the experimental condition?
  6. Advanced: E. huxleyi is also capable of reproducing sexually. If the populations in the experiment above were allowed to reproduce sexually as well as asexually, how would you expect this to affect the outcome of the experiment? Explain your answer.

Related lessons and teaching resources

  • Teach about natural selection: In this classroom activity for grades 9-16, students simulate breeding bunnies to show the impact that genetics can have on the evolution of a population of organisms.
  • Teach about the process of artificial selection: In this classroom activity for grades 6-16, students learn how artificial selection can be used to develop new dog breeds with characteristics that make the dogs capable of performing a desirable task.
  • Teach about studying evolution in the wild using artificial selection: This research profile for grades 9-16 follows scientist David O. Conover as he investigates the impact of our fishing practices on fish evolution and discovers what happened to the big ones that got away.

  • Doney, S. C., Fabry, V. J., Feely, R. A., and Kleypas, J. A. (2009). Ocean acidification: the other CO2 problem. Annual Review of Marine Science. 1: 169-192.
  • Lohbeck, K. T., Riebesell, U., and Reusch, T. B. H. (2012). Adaptive evolution of key phytoplankton species to ocean acidification. Nature Geoscience. 5: 346-351.

Understanding Evolution, October 2012. Article.