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LMNX has an average dollar-volume (as measured by average daily share volume multiplied by share price) of $8.0 million.
LMNX is making at least a new 3-day high.
LMNX has a PE ratio of 49.4.
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LMNX is currently in the upper 20% of its 1-year range.
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Luminex Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells proprietary biological testing technologies and products for the life sciences and diagnostic industries. LMNX has a PE ratio of 49.4. Currently there is 1 analyst that rates Luminex a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.
The average volume for Luminex has been 220,500 shares per day over the past 30 days. Luminex has a market cap of $845.4 million and is part of the health care sector and health services industry. The stock has a beta of 0.55 and a short float of 8.8% with 7.46 days to cover. Shares are up 1.9% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Thursday.
TheStreet Quant Ratings rates Luminex as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its compelling growth in net income, revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, good cash flow from operations and impressive record of earnings per share growth. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.
The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Life Sciences Tools & Services industry. The net income increased by 27.9% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from $3.70 million to $4.73 million.
LMNX's revenue growth trails the industry average of 21.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly increased by 2.5%. This growth in revenue appears to have trickled down to the company's bottom line, improving the earnings per share.
LMNX has no debt to speak of therefore resulting in a debt-to-equity ratio of zero, which we consider to be a relatively favorable sign. Along with this, the company maintains a quick ratio of 5.17, which clearly demonstrates the ability to cover short-term cash needs.
Net operating cash flow has significantly increased by 379.34% to $10.23 million when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, LUMINEX CORP has also vastly surpassed the industry average cash flow growth rate of 67.94%.
LUMINEX CORP has improved earnings per share by 22.2% in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, LUMINEX CORP reported lower earnings of $0.17 versus $0.29 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($0.50 versus $0.17).
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While a majority of the searches performed on Amazon during its 36-hour Prime Day event were for products in categories like Electronics and Appliances, over 7 percent fell into popular CPG categories such as Health & Household and Beauty & Personal Care. This represents a significant opportunity for FMCG brands that may have previously disregarded the shopping holiday as an event designed for doorbusters on products like televisions, refrigerators and video game consoles.
According to OneSpace’s analysis of the top 500 search terms on Amazon during Prime Day 2018, Electronics was by far the most popular category, accounting for 36.2 percent of total search volume. In second place was Appliances with 9.3 percent, followed by Video Games with 8.6 percent. The most searched-for products were the Nintendo Switch, the Instant Pot, laptops, headphones, TVs and Fitbits.
But not everyone who shopped on Prime Day was searching for kitchen appliances or fitness trackers. Our analysis found that over 7 percent of the searches that occurred on Amazon during the shopping event were for CPG products. Health & Household was the most popular CPG category, accounting for 3.23 percent of total search volume. In second place was Beauty & Personal Care with 1.98 percent, followed by Grocery & Gourmet food with close to 1%. The most searched-for CPG products included toilet paper, paper towels, essential oils, makeup, coffee and protein powder.
While these figures may seem low compared to Electronics and Appliances, they represent a growing opportunity for brands in the CPG space. According to Wedbush Securities Inc. analyst Michael Pachter, shoppers spent an estimated $4.2 billion during Prime Day 2018, an increase of 33 percent from last year. The fastest-growing categories include pet products, groceries and beauty.
This increase in Prime Day CPG spending is no coincidence and directly corresponds with Amazon’s efforts to dominate this segment of the market. This was the company’s first Prime Day since its acquisition of Whole Foods in August 2017, and it used the opportunity to push several deals on grocery and household items both online and in stores. Prime members who spent $10 at Whole Foods stores from July 11 to July 17, for example, received a $10 Amazon credit to use on Prime Day.
So how can CPG brands develop effective Prime Day marketing strategies? The first step is to understand exactly how consumers search for and purchase your products during Prime Day. Which of your products do consumers search for the most? How often do they search for your brand compared to competitors? Which search terms drive the most traffic to your product listings, and how often do shoppers convert once they get there?
Once you have access to these insights, it’s easy to predict which products and which marketing campaigns are going to drive the best results on Prime Day. When it comes to Amazon PPC ads, for example, consider creating a dedicated campaign for the shopping holiday based on your brand’s best-performing keywords from previous Prime Days. Run deals and discounts on the products for which you rank high in search results for popular keywords but have increased competition, and focus your content optimization efforts on the listings that have high click-through but poor conversion rates.
These are just a few of the ways consumer search insights can help you create a well-informed Prime Day marketing strategy. For more ideas, contact OneSpace’s team of e-commerce experts.

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In support of increasing the sustainability of Hawai’i’s long-term care system, Governor Neil Abercrombie today signed into law Senate Bill 2466. The measure establishes a nursing facility sustainability fee. Fees collected will go towards a Nursing Facility Sustainability Program special fund. These funds will result in matching federal dollars.

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The National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non formal Education (NMEC) has canvassed the intervention of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to spread mass literacy and non-formal adult education in the country, reports ITRealms.
Executive Secretary of the NMEC, Prof Abba Abubakar Haladu dropped this hint during a courtesy visit to the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of NCC, Prof Umar Garba Danbatta recently. They were received by Engr. Ubale Maska, Executive Commissioner (Technical Services) at NCC on behalf of the EVC.
For Prof Haladu, “literacy education is the bedrock of development because it assists in the improvement of the lives of the people through the provision of relevant skills, competences and knowledge which enable beneficiaries to take appropriate decision about their lives and families”.
He said that if quality education is provided to the citizenry, the impact will be obvious and society would benefit, it will fuel modernity, knowledge based economy and development.
He listed dangers of illiteracy to include but not limited to ill-health, population explosion, rural-urban drift, gang influence, ignorance, poverty and the culture of silence over sensitive matters among others.
He acknowledged however, that progress has been made in literacy education in the country but there is more to be done.
Prof. Haladu gave figures of mass literacy with a disturbing accuracy. “there are estimated over 60million adult and youth illiterates and 11.5million out of school children and this is a major challenge to the country”.
· Strengthening of NMEC Headquarters (HQ) with the necessary ICT facilities such as unlimited internet access, Desktop Computers, Inverter, Solar panels and batteries for uninterrupted power supply for the ICT facilities.
· Equip 13 community learning centres constructed by NMEC with Solar panels, inverter, unlimited internet access, Desktop Computers, including tables and chairs. The community learning centres are located in the following states: Edo, Rivers, Plateau, Katsina, Kano, Bauchi, Taraba, Imo, Anambra, Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara and FCT.
· Equip Kano Training and Documentation Centre and the Minna Resource Centre with Desktop Computers, unlimited internet access, Solar Panels, inverters, batteries and tables/chairs. This gesture will facilitate the effective take off of the ICT units in the centres.
· Provision of internet and ICT facilities for the smooth take off of NFE Education Management Information units in the 36 states and FCT Agencies for Adult and Non-Formal Education.
· Capacity building of relevant staff on ICTs at the NMEC headquarters, zonal offices, states agencies and at the community learning centres established by the Commission.
· Support the airing of jingles and Literacy campaigns through Radio Programme in select radio and television stations as means of sensitization, mobilization and advocacy in favour of mass literacy and non-formal education.
· Any other area of support not listed above that would assist NMEC in the task of eradicating illiteracy and the enhancement of lifelong learning amongst Nigerians.
In his response, Mr. Maska who stood in for Prof. Danbatta said “it is heart-warming to note that your organisation and NCC share a common education growth objective”.
ministration and General Services, Dr. Musa Gusau, Director of Literacy & Development, Dr. (Mrs.) Victoria King, Director Monitoring and Evaluation, and Dr. Matthew Onu (Director of Planning, Research and Statistics) among others.

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Every year, the Ashbourne Drama department makes an average of 12-15 trips to various outstanding London theatres. This is an incredibly unique feature of Drama at Ashbourne as the college’s students see arguably the best contemporary productions in the world. The purpose of these regular trips to the theatre is to broaden and enhance the student’s appreciation of drama in all its variety. Ashbourne Drama students are asked to take notes in each production which they will discuss with their drama teacher in the following lesson. Drama students have found these trips invaluable and eye-opening. Below are summaries of some of the best productions seen last year.
An unexpected highlight for most students this year was our trip to the Arcola Theatre in Dalston to see a production of the 17th century play, The Spanish Tragedy. Doublethink Theatre’s production updated Thomas Kyd’s play focusing on corporate greed, corruption and violence in a tense and dark setting that felt like a bizarre, apocalyptic nightclub. Students were struck with how apt and knowing a play written four hundred years ago could be about life in the 21st century.
Including a six year old girl in a blood stained dress representing ‘Revenge’, a decomposed corpse hanging from the roof and a central character who bites off his own tongue…this wasn’t one for the faint hearted!
Chloe Wise, A2 Drama and Theatre studies Student at Ashbourne College.
Ben Hudson, AS Drama and Theatre studies Student at Ashbourne College.
The national Theatre’s production of Mother Courage and her Children this year took over the Olivier stage and provided students with a brilliantly creative example of Brecht’s Epic Theatre. Fiona Shaw gave a virtuoso performance as the itinerant saleswoman who travels over Europe making a profit from war.
Daisy Worth, Drama and Theatre studies Student at Ashbourne College.
Persephone Hulewicz, Drama and Theatre studies Student at Ashbourne College.
The Drama students walked up to the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill, only ten minutes from college, to watch this version of the Chekov classic Uncle Vanya. An excellent fringe, black-box theatre, The Gate was an excellent, intimate venue that made full use of it’s limited space to provide an emotionally truthful and moving production of this acclaimed play. Students were very impressed by the quality of the naturalistic acting.
The Drama students were fortunate enough to see a new play by Alan Bennett called The Habit of Art at The National Theatre, whose premise was in dramatizing a fictional conversation between the poet WH Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten. Richard Griffiths was astounding in the lead role as WH Auden, and although the play had notable weaknesses, it provided students a good opportunity to witness a very specific and influential style of theatre.
The Old Vic produced a version of this play starring Kevin Spacey. The Drama students were lucky enough to see this modern giant of stage and film at his best in this lead role. The play was appealing intellectually as it debated issues of evolution versus creationism. Students very much enjoyed this production which provided so much to think about.
The Drama department went to Ealing to watch Harold Pinter’s masterpiece. Despite being a small-scale production, the quality of acting alongside the visual design made this play an utterly enthralling to watch and students were very taken with this menacing, humorous and affecting piece.
A dramatic adaptation of George Orwell’s famous novel, the Drama Department went to The Battersea Arts Centre to see this piece. Captivating from start to finish, the production slanted the novel into an innovative example of Epic theatre incorporating puppets and humorous self-aware design elements.
Again, the Drama students went to The National Theatre to watch this modern interpretation of this Jacobean Revenge Tragedy. Beautiful choreography and a tirade of dark, powerful language made this long 3 hour tragedy a viscerally gripping watch. Some students commented that this was their favourite play of the year.
The AS and A2 Ashbourne Drama groups were fortunate enough to attend the National Theatre’s recent ‘Five Truths’ conference – a full day event examining the work of five key theatre practitioners through demonstrations, workshops, discussions and speeches.
Attended by a wide range of London schools, the event offered around 250 Sixth Formers the chance to take part in practical demonstrations with their contemporaries , while simultaneously advancing their knowledge of the theory behind the work of Artaud, Brecht, Brook, Grotowski and Stanislavski. Ashbourne’s group took centre stage on several occasions during the course of the day, showing their willingness to take part, perform and engage with the day’s events.
Immediately afterwards came a chance for the Ashers to see this theory in action during the Young Vic’s evening production of ‘Three Sisters’. Incorporating the minimalistic staging of Brook with the truthful scripting of Grotowski, the modern adaptation of Anton Chekov’s play bought the day’s events to life for Ashbourne’s Drama group.
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This book provides a guide to the use and meaning of toxicological and ecological information in the paper industry. For example, the information provided by suppliers of paper chemicals to paper mills is analysed in detail. This allows for greater understanding by users and therefore awareness of the possible implications of handling a given chemical with respect to its impact on the working environment, the final product and the environment beyond the mill. The information currently available is collected, summarised and systematised so that users bombarded with inconsistent Safety Data Sheets can make intelligent use of them or can ask sensible questions of their suppliers. Emphasis is on providing guidance on how to find a commercially realistic path between over evaluation and under evaluation of potential health and environmental risks.
Ian Thorn is retired from at Eka Chemicals in Weston-Super-Mere, UK. He previously worked in research and development and technical service and development.

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In spite of the fact that many small scale businesses use expressions “bookkeeper” and “accountant” conversely, these experts really give altogether different yet correlative services. Accounting points out to the action of recording, arranging and capturing financial matters, while the latter refers to the orderly procedure of characterizing, interpreting, summarizing, analyzing and recording financial information. Working together, these positions can provide better direction and clarity to leadership at decision making positions.
Bookkeeping services Dubai are required at the initial phases of the financial sequel. The responsibility of a bookkeeper is to oversee and log everyday financial exchanges of a business, which incorporate payments, sales, receipts and purchases. Be that as it may, a bookkeeper can likewise be in charge of different errands, for example, overlooking payroll and checking accounts receivables and working with controllers to finalize monthly financial activities. The responsibility of a bookkeeper frequently depends on the magnitude of the business and the complexity of daily transactions.
Accountants manages analyzing the information made by bookkeepers. The essential tasks of an accountant incorporate interpreting financial statements, managing income tax returns, and helping entrepreneurs make sense of all budgetary controls that apply to their organization. Controllers additionally help entrepreneurs have a superior overview of their business’ financial soundness. Controllers transform a bookkeeper’s information into different financial reports that detail the organization’s monetary standing, including its income and profit.
The choice to contract a bookkeeper, accounting firms or both is dictated by the magnitude of your organization, the intricacy of your operations and financials, and the requests of your industry. While these two tasks supplement each other, just the biggest organizations with complicated many everyday financials are probably going to require the services of a bookkeeper and an accountant. In case you’re depending on outsourced financial tracking to maintain your financial records, responsibilities of an accountant may not be many. A small scale company or startup may just not require the more propelled services handled by accountants. Contracting an accountant in time to manage taxes and handle audits might be the most advances financial record keeping assistance your organization need.
Conclusively you must to pick the alternative that is guaranteed to bring about detailed and correct financial reports, as these will help you to settle on educated business choices and secure the long term achievement for your organization. In spite of the fact that you can deal with your financials all alone, enlisting experts for this task will enable you to concentrate more on overseeing and developing your business.
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Countryside criminals are becoming more brazen and farmers are having to go to extra lengths to ramp up security and protect their livelihoods.
Some farmers are turning their farmyards into fortresses to ward off criminals and prevent tractors, quad bikes, power tools and livestock from being stolen.
While offenders continue to target traditional “hits” such as Land Rovers and older tractors, rural crime is now a serious and sophisticated business involving organised gangs operating across borders.
We look at some of the latest security measures and legislation, including advice on firearms matters, fertiliser security, fitting Datatag/Cesar security marking systems on machinery and the extensive equipment now available to help protect your farm and property.
When police find farm machinery they think is stolen but it has been stripped of its identifying marks, they often turn to equipment and security expert Nick Mayell.
Mr Mayell, Datatag’s police liaison and training officer, has more than 30 years of experience in tracing and identifying stolen plant and agricultural machinery.
Many years ago, nearly all machinery stolen from farms would be found in the same county, if recovered.
But these days, he says, roughly £1m of kit is being stolen from UK farms every week, and it is often destined for abroad.
Mr Mayell says about 60% of farm machinery theft is carried out by organised criminal gangs, who exchange stolen kit for cash, drugs and weapons.
Gangs are shipping tractors out of the UK to countries across Europe and further afield, including Africa and Australia.
Mr Mayell recalled being asked by police to identify a stolen JCB digger that had chassis, engine, pump, gearbox and axle numbers all either defaced, completely ground out or missing altogether.
The digger had its company branding missing and was showing only 88 hours on the clock. But because it was fitted with Datatag and Cesar’s unique layered security markings, with microdots scattered around the vehicle, he was able to identify it “within five minutes” and reunite it with the owner.
Mr Mayell urges all farmers to report tractor, quad and other machinery thefts to police and provide as much detail as possible, including make and model, registration plate, serial number, engine number and Cesar number.
He says it is vital that farmers use security marking technologies within the Datatag and Cesar schemes to enable the true identity of stolen machinery to be established.
“If you make sure everything you have is ‘Cesared’, it will go a long way to recovering your stolen piece of kit,” he adds.
Leading insurance companies can provide premium discounts for owners and contractors of up to 20% when registered with Cesar.
Farmers who fail to report either missing or stolen batches of ammonium nitrate (AN) fertiliser from their farms could be prosecuted under anti-terrorism laws.
“If your AN fertiliser goes missing, you have got to report it,” says Nigel Horton, Hampshire Constabulary’s counter-terrorism security adviser.
Store fertiliser inside a locked building or compound, wherever possible.
Don’t store fertiliser where there is public access or leave it in the field overnight.
Don’t store fertiliser near to, or visible from, the public highway.
Record any manufacturer code numbers from the bags and detonation resistance test certificate numbers (if available).
Report any stock discrepancy or loss to the police immediately.
Mr Horton says anti-terror police are trying to monitor about 3,000 terror suspects with “very limited” resources. So far, about 50 plots have been foiled.
Although terrorists appear to have “gone away”, it won’t be long before they return, and every farmer has a duty to ensure their AN fertiliser doesn’t get into the wrong hands.
Mr Horton showed farmers videos of horrific terror attacks around the world carried out using fertiliser-based explosives, including the Oklahoma bombing in 1995 and the IRA’s bombing of the Manchester Arndale Centre in 1996.
“You guys [farmers] out there hold the most AN. If it is stolen or goes missing, report it. We will check it out,” he told farmers.
Farmers and landowners also have a duty to report suspicious characters who turn up on farms and ask to buy AN fertiliser.
Murdered MP Jo Cox was shot with a gun stolen from the back of a pest control company vehicle in Thirsk, North Yorkshire.
Tony Hill, Hampshire Constabulary’s firearms licensing operations manager, said Mrs Cox’s tragic death should serve as a reminder to all farmers of the responsibilities around safe gun ownership.
There are 1.9m lawfully held firearms in the UK, and 28,000 firearms certificate holders in Hampshire.
Mr Hill said there was increasing concern about firearms and shotgun holders not ensuring the security of their weapons and ammunition.
The Firearms Rules 1998 require all firearm and shotgun certificates to be produced with the statutory condition that firearms and ammunition “must at all times be stored securely so as to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, access by an unauthorised person”.
The most common thefts are from vehicles, with domestic burglary second.
Mr Hill said farmers whose guns are stolen or lost could face prosecution and revocation of their certificates, if they have not taken reasonable measures to secure them.
If your gun is lost or stolen, you must report this to the police immediately on 101, giving details of bore, make, model, serial number, etc.
PC Andy Reid said: “We have seen a rise in reported criminal damage and associated rural crime in this area on farms and farmland.
“All the speakers are specialists within their own areas and I felt what they had to say would be of benefit to the farming community in this area.
Farmers who attended the crime prevention day told of the financial and emotional cost of rural crime.
Philip Talbot, a farm manager at a 405ha sheep and arable enterprise at Old Basing, near Basingstoke, said illegal hare coursing gangs were a constant menace.
Recalling one recent incident, Mr Talbot told how the estate’s gamekeeper spotted an unknown man walking across the field in the village of Cliddesden.
Police were called and the illegal hare coursers fled. A chase ensued around the nearby villages of Mapledurwell and Greywell.
Mr Talbot said police apprehended the illegal hare coursers and found they had travelled from Oxford.
Another farmer, Alex Batten, from Crondall, near Farnham, Surrey, said he has invested heavily in secure boundaries.

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Painful hip locking or reduced range of motion could be signs of a torn hip labrum, the cartilage surrounding the socket of the ball-and-socket hip joint.
Other symptoms could include pain in the groin, hip clicking, and stiffness. Causes of a torn hip include wear and tear often related to osteoarthritis, traumatic or high-impact injuries, and pre-existing abnormalities.
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View our extensive list of Jackson County Resources as well as several other great resources for Mental Health in our community.
Here you will find links to our National Mental Health America website, as well as the Mental Health America of Indiana website. Also find an extensive list of other national resources we have listed for mental health.
Need more information on paying for treatment? Here you'll find information about our local Family Support Scholarship.


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This class will be held on Sunday, August 5 from 3-6PM.
The class will be held in my home. Participants will receive hands-on knowledge about feeding a starter and baking with sourdough. We will bake that day as well as learn about how to succeed with sourdough in your own home. Attendees will leave with information, an arsenal of tried-and-true recipes, a sourdough starter, and a bag of the flour the starter is accustomed to (you can transition it to your favorite at home, but a gradual transition is recommended). Classes are limited to 4 participants so that everyone gets to be truly hands-on and involved in the learning process. If you have a group of 4 people and would like to schedule a different day for your group to come, contact us and we will find a day.
*All information is based on our experience and is not meant to be taken as medical advice. We will be cooking in a kitchen that uses allergens regularly, although it will (obviously) be clean for the class.
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The word “impact” is small yet powerful.
Defined as “a strong effect or influence on someone or something”, positive impact is a factor in shaping the wellbeing of a community. Community Foundation Grey Bruce takes seriously its responsibility of effective impact in Grey and Bruce Counties. The Foundation strives to help create healthier and supportive communities through endowment building, philanthropic partnerships, granting, and community leadership.
See what impact the Foundation has in your community!
Community Foundation Grey Bruce organized a Vital Focus on Youth Event on April 12th, 2019. The day consisted of a personal branding workshop courtesy of RBC Future Launch, a presentation by thought leader Erin Bury, and a panel discussion with local entrepreneures.
The Collingwood Collegiate Institute's Entrepreneurship class joined us at the Vital Focus on Youth event and one of the students provided great feedback on the day of events!
"Collingwood Collegiate Institute’s grade 11 Entrepreneurship class was given the opportunity to attend the RBC Future Launch Vital Focus on Youth event on April 12 in Owen Sound. This was a fantastic opportunity for our class and we all learned a great deal of valuable skills and information that we can apply to both our class and future business ventures.
Over the course of the afternoon, our class participated in a personal brand workshop, talks from influential members of the entrepreneurial community and a presentation by Erin Bury.
The knowledge we gained from the personal branding workshop put on by RBC Future Launch taught us all a lot about the importance of presenting ourselves well, managing our social media profiles in a professional manner, what a successful elevator pitch looks like, and much more, all of which we will be able to implement into our lives as we integrate into the working world.
After hearing all of the influencers talk about their involvement in the initiative, as well as how they hope it will benefit the community, it was very clear that everyone involved in this event was keen on seeing youth – the future of our world – succeed and we are very grateful for the opportunity to have worked with them at this fantastic event! Lastly, Erin Bury gave a fantastic talk about building your business, resilience, the key attributes of an entrepreneur and much more!
It was fantastic to learn about some of the steps we can take to become successful entrepreneurs, and I know that it will be beneficial and valuable to all of us as we make our way through the world.
Thank you for giving us this fantastic opportunity; we all really appreciate being involved in such a constructive and important project.
Ms Thomson and CCI’s Entrepeneurship class"
Thanks for the wonderful feedback from the Collingwood Collegiate Institute's Entrepeneurship class!


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This hospital was officially opened by Archbishop Dr. Cyprian Kizito Lwanga on 21st March 2013. It was founded by Hope Medical Clinics Uganda, a private not for profit [PNFP] organization steered by Rev. Fr. Dennis Dease in St. Paul, Minnesota – USA and Mr. Charles Lugemwa. Fr. Dennis and Mr. Lugemwa raised money through friends in the United States of America to fund the project. This hospital is named after Ruth Gaylord who is a retired music teacher in Minnesota, in honour of her service to the people of God.
The hospital is run by the Institute of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Reparatrix – Ggogonya. The first sisters to work in this hospital were; Sr. Proscovia Nasejje as the administrator, Sr. Denis Bulya Nankya – Senior Nursing Officer and Sr. Immaculate Namujju – Cashier.
MISSION: To build community based self sustaining health facilities that are professionally run.
VISION: To provide affordable professional medical services to the people in need.
To provide and promote accessibility of health care service to all the people of God.
To carry out formal training, educational and training programs of hospital personnel with emphasis on in- service training.
To provide a center where some students from the United States of America can conduct medical research program in Uganda and in East Africa.
The installation of solar panels has reduced the cost of electricity and stabilized the power supply.
We have fully automated most of our transactions with medical audit and are in the process of automating the remaining service points.
There has been remarkable increase in the hospital revenue attributed to various factors.
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Getting down to brass tacks for purposes of making your first purchase or becoming a property owner: make the purchase as a homeowner. We want you to make your purchase as a homeowner because as a homeowner you get better access to financing, therefore, this the absolute easiest way to buy your first property.
You want a move-in ready property. It doesn’t have to be a new property but we want you to buy a property that’s move-in ready so that when you get that loan commitment, when you’ve made your down payment, when you close, all you do is move your things there. Stay away from those that cause you a lot of work.
Hi this is John welcome to today’s program. Today’s title is: The Absolute Easiest Way to Buy Your first property.
Now that may sound a little bit over the top. It may sound a little bit too easy but that’s the whole point. We want to focus on items that people can do themselves to purchase their first property without having to go through hurdles, hoops, barbed wire and everything else that people think is required of them to become a homeowner or a property owner.
At 21-years old I dropped out of college because I was making more money in real estate than I thought I could ever make by becoming an educated person which of course in the long run is not true. But at 21 I thought that was true. A few years later I’m 23 and I’m not making as much money in real estate and I come across an older man that’s looking at me and seeing potential. He asked me why I dropped out of school. I said because I’m making more money in real estate than I think I ever will by being in college. And he said, well how old are you now and I told him 23. He said, well, how old will you be in two years. And of course I said I’ll be 25. he looked at me sternly and he said you might as well be 25 with a college degree.
That didn’t settle very well with me at the time but I did take his advice to heart and I did go back to school. But I think the same rule of thumb applies to real estate ownership; if you don’t own any real estate now, two years from now will you own any real estate? And if the answer is no that’s fine. But if the answer is, yes, in two years I wish to own some real estate, then you probably need to start working on that now because working on it now will allow you to put that time in that’s necessary to meet a two-year goal.
In real estate things do not happen in a vacuum and they certainly don’t happen in a short period of time.
It’s a very time intensive business to get into the business of real estate and it’s a very time intensive business to stay and operate real estate and just as much to exit from a particular property. Time is not on your side when it comes to real estate. It’s really is a slow-moving asset class.
Real estate requires you to have a long glide path just to get into the business. If you’re thinking you want to be a homeowner or a real estate owner in one or two or three years you really need to start now preparing to make that occur because that’s the only way it will occur. If you wait three years to start it will be another year or two after that until you actually get into the business. Think about that as we go through today’s program.
I’m not trying to distinguish those that have purchased property before or if this is your first property. I’m just suggesting that the methods we’re going to go through here represent just an easy way to buy a property. I mean there’s all kinds of tricks and tabs and various methodologies for getting through the process of buying a property. No money down, low cash down payment, creative financing with lease option to buy- all of those require a high level of expertise and many of them require more financial accountability than people realize.
With this particular program, we’re discussing exclusively for my perspective, the absolute easiest way to buy your first property or to buy a property and have it in your name. And whether or not it turns into a rental or not at some point that is not relevant to the beginning of this process which is buying a home to live in or buying your first property that may eventually turn into a rental.
The easiest way to buy your first property is to buy it as a homeowner.
We want you to make your purchase as a homeowner. As a homeowner, you get better access to financing, therefore, this the absolute easiest way to buy your first property. And that would be to have your parents buy it for you. Now after the pregnant pause, we say of course that doesn’t happen very often, right? For the other 99.999 percent of us the likelihood that your parents are going to buy your first property for you- it’s not probable.
Another option is to crowd fund your down payment- another uncomfortable pause to say of course that doesn’t happen very often. It may, but the likelihood is not very high.
Getting down to brass tacks for purposes of making your first purchase or becoming a property owner: make the purchase as a homeowner. You and your family make the purchase as a homeowner. That gives you access to the best financing, the most normalized financing that’s in the marketplace which is 80 percent new first mortgage money which requires a 20 percent cash down.
If you have issues with garnering that down payment go to JohnWilhoit.com. There’s a free e-mail course called “10 Ways to Find Your Down Payment. Some of the methods we highly recommend and a few of the methods we suggest you stay away from. Get that free e-mail course to assist you in looking for ways to get you down.
First, make the purchase as a homeowner. Secondly, use regular (or straight) 80 percent new first mortgage money with a 20 percent cash down payment. Then move into the property yourself.
Don’t look to do this: garner home-ownership financing and flipping it into a rental. Just move in and stay a while. Your loan documents will likely say that you have to reside in the property for two years personally. So, meet the loan document requirements and move into the property.
Call it your own home with that two-year period. Make the purchase as a homeowner and then my suggestion is that you only purchase move-in ready condition because we’re trying to make this easy. We’re not asking you to look at fixing things that are broken, in need of repair.
You want a move-in ready property. It doesn’t have to be a new property but we want you to buy a property that’s move-in ready so that when you get that loan commitment, when you’ve made your down payment, when you close, all you do is move your things there. There are ample properties that meet that criteria.
Stay away from those that cause you a lot of work. My family is a good sample. I have a number of nieces and nephews that have tool belts- they can fix anything. Then there’s the rest of us that can’t hit a nail straight with a hammer. For making this purchase easy, only look at properties that are move-in ready.
Now the other part I want you to keep in mind, from a financial perspective, is to keep the purchase price at no more than two times your household income. People will often go higher than that because they can. The normal range is between one and a half and four times household income. But for purposes of keeping this purchase easy, we want you to stay under two times your household income for the purchase price.
Next, only buy in neighborhoods that you know, neighborhoods that you have experience with, neighborhoods that you know how they work, you know what happens there. You know who lives there already, in terms of the demographic profile of the neighborhoods. Don’t go out into the world and find a new place. Just focus on those places that you already have a high level of confidence in already. In that way, it makes it easier because you don’t have to figure out where things are.
Next, if you’re going to buy single family stay with a three-bedroom two bath or larger. Stay within that two times household income. That property will be easier to sell or rent when that time comes. If you’re buying a condo, try to purchase a property that’s at least one bedroom one and one half baths. Very often the one bedrooms will have just one bathroom. Try to stick with those that have that one and a half bath. It’s just that extra feature that allows the master bedroom to stay private because there is another half bath for use by guest.
Think about that when looking at a condo. Also, we want to look at properties that have low maintenance. We don’t want you to buy a small house on a big lot that requires hours of outside maintenance or hundreds of dollars to keep the outside of the property maintained. We want you to buy a property that’s a low maintenance place to assure its an easy first purchase.
As a homeowner, purchase only a move in ready property, live in the property yourself.
Plan on staying for a while; two years or longer.
Keep the purchase price at less than two times your household income.
Use straight 80 percent new first mortgage with 20 percent cash down payment.
Only buying neighborhoods that you have a track record with: places that you are familiar with and already know.
If a single-family home, make it a three bedroom two bath- minimum.
If it’s a condo preferably one and one half bath minimum and then also property this moment.
Look for a property with low maintenance.
When you put all these things together it may not necessarily seem like it’s any easier than buying any other property but those things that we just mentioned streamline the process. What I mean by that is it takes everything else out of play.
When you put all those items in the same basket you’re looking at a property that will be affordable and one that you can live in for an extended time. A home that will be the easiest in terms of processes in the marketplace where are you the buyer.
Please consider reading my book 12 Steps to Home-Ownership. I also have an online course. You can find the online course at JohnWilhoit.com. The book outlines these items in sequence and goes into far more detail than what we have here. For this episode, we’re trying to knock down even those processes further and make buying your first home or buying your first property the easiest that we possibly can.
What happens when we go through all these steps? What’s the next step after buying your first home? Well if you live there for two years or longer and have some appreciation then you have the option of potentially selling that property and buying another one. But if you want to stay for a while that’s all well and good. Most people stay in their home between five and seven years.
If you’ve had it for a while and you know what rents are, you’ll be able to determine if the rents that you can obtain for that property will pay the mortgage payment that is on the property. If that’s the case, then you have the option of going and doing the same thing again; buying another property and keeping the first one as a rental and then buying a duplex. That’s the segue with a duplex; getting into the property rental business along with becoming a homeowner.
With a duplex, you are becoming a homeowner and a property owner that has a rental. If it has been a short period of time you are not very likely to be in a position to refinance the first property and cash out. But if it’s been five years or longer there may be equity in that initial property where you can refinance that property and take cash out and use that cash to buy the second property.
This second property could be yours as a homeowner or it can be another rental property that you intend to live in for just a short time, two or three years, and then turn that one into a rental. If you want to know the next step in property ownership you can look at duplexes as your initial purchase or a duplex as your second purchase.
That way you’re buying a rental income property along with homeownership at the same time and you still have access to homeownership financing because you’re buying a property that’s non-commercial. By non-commercial it just means one to four units. Once you get to five units that would be considered a commercial property and it will require a larger down payment; 25 percent if not higher.
For purposes of making the absolute easiest purchase on your first property think about a single-family home or a condo. And then secondarily a duplex if that suits you. Once you buy a duplex you are now a homeowner and a landlord.
As you’ll hear throughout many of the programs, if you’re a small property owner, I highly recommend the first year of ownership that you hire professional property management because you need the folks around you that do this for a living. That first year as a rental owner is not the time for you to go through a learning curve. Why become a homeowner and concurrently becoming a property manager with all the things that requires?
Thanks for listening today. This has been John Wilhoit On Real Estate.

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I can name that tune in two notes.
It doesn’t take any notes, really – just those two words will work just fine to cue the Pat Benatar song in my head. I wanted to put the next word in the title, too, which is of course together, but it turns out that you can only put a song title in your blog, and not song lyrics, and also you have to put those quotes around it. In other words, there are a lot of rules and, as a first child and lifelong rule-follower, I can’t be too careful. But we have enough to get the ear worm going; you remember how the song goes. If it’s been a while, do yourself a favor and put it on. Turn it up to eleven.
I love that song, in part, because of the way it starts out, so timid and small, as we all do, so different from how we know that it, and we, will end up. The quiet strings pluck shyly at the beginning, the plaintive love-song lyrics venturing bravely out. Then the melody gathers strength, rising on the giant heartbeat of the distant drums until it becomes an anthem. And when it crescendoes, all the voices and instruments coming in at once, then we are all in it together, belonging to the light, and of course to the thunder, too.
But it is the part when the children’s choir joins in that is my favorite, and sometimes – depending on what I have going on at the time – even makes me cry a little. Their youthful voices sound so earnest, so unfettered by life, when they sing about our belonging together. It reminds me, too, of what both Mother Teresa and Glennon Doyle are known for saying: that “we belong to each other”. Something in that always touches me, and the tears that fill my eyes are neither happy nor sad but of a new and increasingly familiar type that did not often fall on my smooth, young, either-happy-or-sad skin but now often drop onto my lined and wrinkled face. They are the tears that come as a signal, these middle-aged days, of a deep vibration of truth. And when I hear the children sing it, I feel that: I know that it is true, that the children have always known that we belonged together. That we must have all started out knowing this. I cannot help but wonder when we forgot.
It was a long time ago, in nursing school, that I first learned about the human need for belonging in the clinical sense; that is to say, in a less acutely painful way than in fourth grade when one of our trio of friends informed me that I was no longer a part of the group, while the other one scratched my forearm with her fingernail until it bled. So I already knew plenty about the deep desire to belong, how elusive it could be, how awful it felt when I got it wrong. Anyway, in college, we had to study Abraham Maslow and his Hierarchy of Needs, the triangle depicting these innate human needs in a progression from the most basic (food, water, safety) to the most complex (reaching one’s true potential). Maslow’s theory asserted that these were not more true for fourth-grade me, or college me (which seem, in retrospect, to be shockingly similar people) than for everyone else, that they were innate and universal, which meant that everyone wanted desperately to belong, that it wasn’t just me. You’d think this might have helped.
But I took this information forth as if I had found Maslow building his Need Pyramid in one of those handsy, faceless Facebook recipe videos, where everything happens in orderly fashion and fast motion and with jaunty music in the background, successfully convincing you at its finish to confidently declare: I can totally do that! The busy hands would have spread out evenly the most basic of physiological and safety needs at the bottom, then quickly and successfully added the love and belonging layer, a flawless layer of self-esteem ganache, and finally, a little triangle of self-actualization garnish at the top. That’s all there is to mastering the human condition, I would say? I can totally do that!
As always, mastering the recipe is harder than such a video might suggest, and it takes way longer than you expect. For me, it is never orderly and directed but scattered and crazy and messy and in this, as in the kitchen, I keep having to go back and start over – every time I think I’ve got food and water covered, for example, I find myself back at the grocery store. And Maslow’s damn second step, the belonging one, was sometimes so overwhelming that I sort of just skipped ahead to the next ones, devoting myself to the self-esteem layer, for example, or making the dollop of self-actualization look absolutely perfect on the top.
As if skipping steps in a recipe has ever ended well.
Lessons have a way of coming back around, though, so I should not be surprised to find so many memories and thoughts of belonging – and of not belonging – cross my path this week, showing up in the most unexpected of ways, more than enough to make me realize that I am back, like it or not, in life’s classroom.
I thought about what it means to belong as we shuttered our church sanctuary this week, and dedicated a bright and welcoming new one. I remembered how my husband and I had arrived in that parish after a painful parting of the ways with our old one, a place we had hoped and planned to belong forever. But we’d ended up reluctant warriors in a battle for what our family would stand for and what it would not, and we were faced with two paths, stay or go, each threatening its own brand of not belonging. We knew we had to choose, and we did the only thing we felt we could, leaving behind our neighbors and friends, people we loved, and a place which had been sacred to us, which had seen and held important events in the life of our family. We left behind a whole community; we felt like spiritual refugees. We wondered endlessly what the meaning was, what the hell had been the point? It was a deeply sad and lonely time. But we made it through. And this week, with all the celebration and all the promise, all of that felt far away. It felt like we no longer had to choose. And when I looked around and all the other people in our church, I knew well that many of them had traveled sad and lonely and difficult conundrum-paths, on their way there. And as we all sang together, our voices rising, it just felt like we belonged. It felt like we all did.
Also, I was reading Brene Brown’s new book this week, and came across this bit. Honestly, I had to just stop for a minute.
Ooooohh. Game changer. Truth. And also: I can totally do that.
It is our birthright. It is our connection to our truest selves. It exists even when we have to make hard choices, when we are alone, in the wilderness. It is sacred there, too. We belong.
And maybe, even if we start out shy but a little plucky, tentative but also a little bit brave, if we join enough of our voices together, we, too, can rise up on giant heartbeats echoed in distant drums. We can end up so much bigger than we started out. Maybe together, those voices can even become an anthem.
And that sounds so true to me that – well, y’know – it kinda makes me cry a little.
Great post and I LOVE that song!!


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Here are some of the more cogent considerations I noticed swirling around in the back of my mind as I was developing the tokens (and I’d think they’ll also apply to most of the components).
– To be conscious of production costs, aim for minimum fiddliness and no unnecessary bits. Tokens should ideally make the game easier to play.
– To be able to read and also see clearly what the token is communicating. This can be as simple as just being able to read the text, but can also extend to illustrative and symbolic meanings that communicate the purpose of the component in the context of the game.
– Boardgames are a tactile experience, its a large part of what makes them different from other games. I like the idea of it feeling different when you pick up and play different tokens. Small World is a great example of a game with irregular shaped tokens that inspire you to feel different as you play them. When you play a Troll lair its sharp corners feel more appropriate than if it had just been printed on a circle.
– This isn’t just about illustrating the historic setting of the game, but blending the abstract and thematic facets of the game into one pleasing experience. Island Fortress works as an abstract game and as a thematic story driven game, but there are elements and choices to be made in the components which will better meld the abstract mechanics and the feel of the storyline and setting.
I felt like having the different value treasure tokens (1 and 3) the same size and shape but with a different number wasn’t quite right – perfect for coins, but not very illustrative of a stack of treasure. At the same time the 3 token couldn’t be so different it wasn’t immediately apparent it was a treasure token; or be so cumbersome you may as well just have 3 x 1 tokens.
We could have simply made it a slightly larger circle, but I wanted something that said “3” treasure in a more visceral and perhaps intuitive way. So I figured I’d literally merge three circle shapes into one, so it has a different (though similar) tactile feel while still being practical and an obvious variation on the 1 treasure tokens. It takes up less space than 3×1 tokens, but is larger to visually communicate its extra worth to players.
Using a reinforcement token blocks a wall tile from being moved by another player and is a fairly confrontational move in the game so I want picking one up to feel a lot different than picking up the other more reward based tokens.
The reinforcment tokens need to be placed on the wall block tiles; so they need to fit over them and let some details show through. Because of this I’m developing them as I develop the wall blocks and will post some pics of them when I write about those bits in a future post.
Here I used two hands in a ying-yang, recycling type pose to communicate the purpose of the chip – to return a previously used role card to your hand. In the game you can also buy back yout taskmaster card by paying three jade, so I wanted to include that on the token to relate that to the token’s purpose. I’m considering slightly modifying the shape and will make the decision with Bryan and the guys at some point before publishing.
With this token Bryan suggested the oval shape (which was very appropriate as it was a common shape for seals from the time of the game) and I just set about trying to make it look like you’d want it sitting in front of you. The highest bidder gets the seal and the power that comes with it so I wanted to make it nice and golden and tempting. I added a couple of bits of jade to it as the island is so rich in it and the latin phrase, which I wanted to have something of a gamerish undertone to it. It will also be nice and large and placed on an illustrated stone stand in the final game.


text: *Extended Digital Edition* The man from Mountains channels his energies into four majestic pieces of post-Kosmische wonder on 'Motion', his 2nd solo side for Thrill Jockey. As part of the ongoing refinement of his analogue, digital and acoustic palette, 'Motion' plays with ideas of scale and space, tempering each instrumental source's unique spatial and textural qualities into what we perceive as dynamic, sublimely fluid environments. If you're ready and willing, 'Motion' will transport listeners to the lushest new places. RIYL Emeralds/Steve Hauschildt, Motion Sickness Of Time Travel, Popol Vuh, Alice Coltrane.


text: Erasmas, 'Raz', is a young avout living in the Concent, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers. Three times during history's darkest epochs, violence has invaded and devastated the cloistered community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe. But they now prepare to open the Concent's gates to the outside world, in celebration of a once-a-decade rite. Suddenly, Erasmas finds himself a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world - as he sets out on an extraordinary odyssey that will carry him to the most dangerous, inhospitable corners of the planet...and beyond.

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Anyone know what's going on with jk3files.com? I can't access it anymore. Are they redesigning their site?
They're switching hosts or something like that.
Do you know when would they start again? Two days? One week?
Here is an easy solution . . .
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I have been absent for a few days (sad face). I have been working so damn hard on my blog, & focussing on the consistency of writing. I really enjoy it, & it's been a goal to improve it. Like any task in life, if you want to improve that muscle, then use it. Same goes for writing.
As you know I work from home around the kids. That act of juggling is a job within itself. My hours are not regular, & I work in chunks of time, an hour or two here & there, & most of the time at night. The last month my routine has literally been thrashed around left right & centre. It's been a real challenge I am not going to lie. I never sugar coat my life, it is what its is, & I am sure, actually positive it's similar to other mums who work from home.
About 2 years ago I sub contracted my sewing out to another wonderful mum, who also works from home. She is the back bone of my business when it comes to getting it all together for me. She is the angel that comes every Wednesday to drop off & collect. We have become quite the team & have worked together on several different projects o keep generating income for the both of us.
Well my back bone has gone to Canada for a month to visit her family. When she goes there is no good time, some times are worse than others, like Christmas trading, a big no way! In her absence I have been left with all of the sewing. Now she subcontracts to me because I don't have time to do it, I just have my hand in to many pies so to speak. So you can probably imagine how swamped I have felt these last 3 weeks. I have literally printed, prepped & sewn non stop. I have become this well oiled machine that just keeps going. Sounds great, but very little creativity, writing & web work has been happening.
As hard as it's been I just keep thinking of every positive I can. Another thing I have been focusing on lately, when things aren't going your way, look on the bright side! I can definitely say thank goodness I can sew, & sew well for that matter. I would have no idea how I would have coped, or how any customer would have receive an order if I didn't. It's a lovely wake up, & great to remember to where everything I have learnt began. At one stage of my life all I did was sew, making my clothes was heavenly!
I basically wanted to let you know I am here, just running a little behind.
I have a couple of new designs to share with you.
Foxes are still loitering around, so felt the need to create some of my own. I actually really loved drawing these, so much cuteness & fun.
Both are available in my shop.
Sometimes when we work work work, we forget about the simple things. I am so incredibly guilty of this at time, & the last few months I have really been making a conscious effort to slow down a tad. With the kids increasingly busy schedules, & trying to fit in all the hours of work I do, & do the daily mundane necessities, it can get exhausting & time just flies around you.
Sometimes it can be the smallest of comments from your kids that literally hit you for six & wake you up. This happened the other day to me. I had got home from school & Hudson asked me, "why don't we play & be silly anymore mummy?" I had to ask him to explain. He said when "we get home from school you're always so busy & we don't play anymore, you are either in the kitchen (cooking), or in your work room, sometimes I wish we could just have fun". Ummmmm hello, my heart ripped open & I was so flooded with mummy guilt. After some explaining to him that life has changed now that he is at school, he won't get to be with me everyday with me like he used to.
He reminded me that our time together is far more limited than it used to be. Generally after school they have activities on, so even though we are together it's not that quality 'together' time. It's so bloody hard!! As much as he was so spot on, I must be clear though, when we are home he is happy & has a million of things to occupy him, including a sister, but obviously more time with me is what he wants.
After thinking about this I was wondering how to fix it, as I was feeling awful, & yes the mummy guilt was spreading all over me. I have had to keep it simple as I do not have the time to spend hours playing with him, but absolutely we have the time to on the days we come home straight after school to play. Going outside with him to kick the footy, watch him ride his bike, he loves hides & seek around the house (even though he laughs the whole time so there is no challenge), & he is a big fan of lego, & challenging me on mario cart!
By making these little changes I have noticed he is smiling more than normal! Thank goodness Charlotte is happy to join in as I don't know what I will do when she starts with this!
I am wanting to ask again a very BIG favour. I am really very excited about the work I am doing behind the scenes here in order to make my online store an even better place to shop.
I am at a point where I need to know more about my customers. What you like about my products? How you use them? Was your purchase everything you expected? Did you buy it for you or as a gift? What would you love to see in the collection.
I am also in the middle of developing a new product & would like you thoughts & if or how you would use them. To get this golden knowledge I need to call you, & would appreciate it if you allowed me to do so. I would take no longer than 5 minutes of your time. That's it....I promise.
As a thank you I am offering a big thank you.
You can help me two ways by emailing me at tigesandweince@gmail.com with your name & phone number. Or you can click on this LINK & fill your details in online.
At this stage I can only offer this to Australian residents.
Thank you so much & I really look forward to chatting with you all very soon.
This weeks Tuesday Treasure are super girlie, cute, aimed at the little girl, around the toddler age to pre-school. It is a very pretty combination & one that I know would make little ladies squeal with delight.
I have chosen my most loved cushion design. I call it the pink classic & it's the very first girls cushion design I ever created, & is still to this day one of my best sellers. I sell it in several colours now, but the design is still the same. I have also added my doorstop & print to coordinate with the other lovely treasures I have found.
I have just had a weekend I will never forget. My baby girl did her very first dance cabaret on Saturday night. This was a first for me to as I have never done anything like this myself. I should let you know I never danced when I was younger, only at disco's, at home, with friends at parties, & clubs as I got older. I was very sporty, lots of softball, netball, running & I loved girls cricket. My daughter Charlotte has entered a field so foreign to me, it's almost laughable. Actually my friends who know me well, or who I played those sports with, think its random to.
Anyway a quick background story, I started Charlotte in mummy & me ballet at 2yrs old. At home she always bounced to the music, & there was no much else around for "us" to do together. I couldn't stand Gymbaroo, so this was something we could do together while Hudson was at kinder, she loved it SO much. I eventually pulled her from it to follow her current teacher at the time to start ballet, she was opening her own dance school, & was a professional prima ballerina herself. I must add she was such an adorable person herself. It was such a magical school I adored it, it was very musical theatre based. Can I tell you I ADORE the theatre, & once dreamed of being a costume designer.
Charlotte was quite confident there & she enjoyed it, but a lot of mums still danced with their kids, I had a feeling, call it mothers instinct that she needed to do this alone. So I took her to her now current dance school. I had to stay close to her for a couple of weeks for her to warm up to everyone, & a very new routine, but after that she hasn't looked back. It's great I get to sit & watch her behind a glass wall. She thinks of nothing else but how many times I can take her there in a week, & is always looking up to the older girls.
She has been practising for 6 months for Saturday nights show, she did 6 dances which blew me away. I wasn't sure she would do it, & I felt really nervous for her as she didn't really stop very much, as after each dance there wasn't a huge amount of time to rest. I completely underestimated her & felt a pang of annoyance at myself for thinking it. Charlotte can get stroppy when she is tired & she rehearsed the Friday night before & the Saturday morning. I couldn't get her to nap on Saturday which is why I was worried. But she did it & I couldn't be more proud of her.
It's been a real learning curve becoming a "dance mum', something I would never have predicted in a million years. I do love it as having a background in fashion I love the costume, hair & make up, I love the creative side of things. The dance side, well I just keep asking questions, thats just me though if I don't get it I ask & ask until I do. I have met some great girls also from students, teachers & mums just like me, but with load more experience.
It's been such a magical ride & I have enjoyed every moment, there is so much for her to still learn, I forget how tiny she is sometimes, she only turned 4 in May this year. It really feel like she has been doing this forever. I am not sure how long this dancing will last, I will never push her, just encourage her & tap her along, but as long as she is loving it so will I.
Yay you have made it to the final step. I am assuming you're feeling proud, excited, pumped and so incredibly eager to share your work with the world.
If you have several collections within your online shop, it would be a great idea to now categorise them into their collections. For example if it's called "summer Lagoon", group it together. I love the brand Mozi, & they do this really well, have a look at how they group their collections together.
It isn't essential to do that if it doesn't work for your brand. I personally just categorise each of my different products together under one shop category within my store. So all of my personalised cushions are together, door stops, heat bags are together and so on. You can have a look at how they are placed just below.
Although I have categorised them like this, if you look within each area of my products they have been given product name that will automatically identify them as their own mini collections. For example my new Sweet Fawn collection, is called Sweet Fawn personalised cushion, sweet fawn door stop, sweet fawn clock & so on. So they are still together as a mini collection but just separated for cataloging reasons.
It really is important that the consistency previously discussed in the past steps is followed. It's always going to keep your collection tight look and looking sharp in your shop, which is really important when current & new potential customers visit your store. The goal is to make coordinating and shopping as easy as possible.
You have worked really hard on your collection and it's really important that everything looks professional an that customers will take your shop seriously. Be very clear in your product area so customer can easily navigate from item to item, making it clear and simple. that last thing you'd want is confusion, as lets me honest they will leave very quickly.
Putting collections is one of the most exciting things I love to do. It really is like creating a baby, from the initial ideal to growing it carefully with care & attention to detail. Once it's born, enjoy every moment of it, maintain it and proudly show your passion to everyone.
I hope you have enjoyed this series. It's been a thrill writing it.
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OPPO, a leading global smartphone brand, dedicated to providing products infused with art and innovative technologies, today, announced the entry of K series with the launch of OPPO K1. The OPPO K1 will be available on Flipkart from 12th February for INR 16,990 and will come in two color variants- Piano Black and Astral Blue.
The OPPO K1 is a competitively priced smartphone, which comes with an in-display fingerprint scanner and 6.41- inch screen with AMOLED display, ensuring the consumers enjoy their favorite shows/movies in higher definition. The new device features a 25 MP front-facing camera and is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 Mobile Platform, making it ideal to support heavy applications. The OPPO K1 uses Corning Gorilla Glass 5 and comes with a 4GB RAM + 64GB ROM memory, improving the speed and performance.
OPPO K1 comes with a 6.41-inch AMOLED Full HD + display with screen resolution of 2340 x 1080 pixels. The OPPO K1 uses Corning Gorilla Glass 5, which will provide more protection for mobile phones as it can survive 1.6-meter, shoulder-height drops onto hard, rough surfaces up to 80% of the time. The device offers a higher screen-to-body ratio of 91% and features a waterdrop notch on top of the display where you will find the front-facing camera.
Based on Android 8.1 Oreo, OPPO raises the ColorOS 5.2 Operating System to a new level with an overall smarter interactive experience for users. The new OPPO K1 is powered by the Snapdragon 660 and has a 4GB RAM and 64GB ROM which is expandable to 256GB with the help of a dedicated memory card slot.


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When Mary gave birth to her firstborn Son, the promised Redeemer, she wrapped Him in swaddling cloths and laid Him in a manger, "because there was no room for them in the inn". (cf. Luke 2:7). What a tragedy: upon His entry into His earthly life, the Son of God, the King of all Kings, could find room only in a stable!
How do things look today, 2000 years after the Christmas story that was so vividly described by Luke? Is there room in our heart for God the Father and the Son, room for the activity of the Holy Spirit? We want to make room in the inn of our hearts, so that the Lord can be welcomed at all times and can feel at home there. May it never again happen that there is not enough room for the Lord!
Let us never forget that God, our Father, and thereby also His Son Jesus Christ, always have enough room for us in their immeasurable love and compassion. In the Holy Scripture we can read where God spoke to Moses: "Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock." (Exodus 33:21). This has not changed to this day. Also for us, His children, God keeps room available upon His rock. This rock is the symbol of the ministry upon which the church of Christ stands, and thereby a connotation of life, peace, safety and security. The Son of God said to the Apostle Peter: "you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it." (Matthew 16:18). Thereby, as Christ's congregation, we have rock under our feet, and room is made for our soul.
There is light, warmth, peace and security in His house. Here, through His Word, knowledge is imparted, joy, faith, love and hope are strengthened and renewed. In this room upon the rock that is given by the Lord we can receive everything that our soul needs to ripen and mature. Let us accept this offer of God, for this will create a structure in our souls that will enable us to have the fear of God, to love our neighbour, to prove our strength to carry on and to strive for righteousness.
Above all, our soul will feel a homesickness for our Heavenly home, and will joyfully await the coming of the Lord. Eternal life in glory with God is the room of our future!
We wish all of our readers an Advent filled with peace and a blessed joy of Christmas.


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The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) are pleased to introduce the Future Strategy Forum, a new initiative to connect women scholars who research national security with its leading practitioners.
U.S. national security would be better served if all talent were empowered to contribute, regardless of gender, and if cutting-edge academic research spoke directly to practitioner communities. And yet, women remain underrepresented in national security research and policymaking, and national security academics remain siloed from policy. The Future Strategy Forum confronts these two challenges by bringing together female scholars and practitioners to address critical challenges and advance women in national security.
Open to all, the inaugural conference, “The Future of Force,” will feature all women-panels devoted to the changing character of warfare and potential new strategies for the United States and its partners.
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Panel 5: "From the Situation Room to the Seminar Room"
This event is made possible with support from Smart Women Smart Power Initiative, the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and co-creators Sara Plana and Rachel Tecott, Ph.D. candidates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).


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Vocabulary in Use: Wortschatz effektiv trainieren, für Selbstlerner und den Einsatz im Unterricht.
I’ve always been interested in language, languages and language learning, ever since an uncle lent me his Teach Yourself Serbo-Croat. This book seemed extremely exotic in 1950s south London, and was one of the things that got me interested in languages at school. In our first year French coursebook, I was intrigued by a certain Monsieur Oublietout (Forget-all) who was asking his way to, of all places, the barracks. Memories of this has meant that, in my own materials writing, appropriate language input for the level has been one of my aims.
A Spanish degree at Edinburgh University followed, and then a gap year travelling around Latin America. On returning, a year of teacher training, specialising in English in UK secondary schools, persuaded me that adult ELT might be more in my line, and I joined an adult education organisation in Sweden called Folkuniversitetet.
My first sight of a Cobuild dictionary was a revelation – the examples were taken from large databases of actual language use, rather than coming off the tops of lexicographers’ heads. I was inspired to contact Cobuild and to start writing corpus-based books for them, including Key Words in Business. These books launched me on a writing career, and for the last 20 years I’ve been living in Bristol in the west of England, working as a full-time writer, producing course books (including Best Practice for National Geographic/Cengage, with Jeremy Comfort), teachers’ books, self-study vocabulary books and contributing in various ways to business dictionaries (for both Pearson/Longman and Cambridge University Press).
I’ve always thought that in the language teaching business we should continue to try to learn other languages, if only to remind ourselves just how difficult the process can be! I go back to France several times a year, and it’s fascinating to see how French is evolving from the language that I discovered at school. And every year I go camping and walking in Scotland, where part of the pleasure is to get your tongue round those beautiful Gaelic place-names. But I never did learn Serbo-Croat.


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We are a small sewing studio set in the fabulous market town of Hitchin, Hertforshire. We offer sewing classes, workshops and events for children and adults of all ages and abilities.
Our classes are small, very friendly and affordable allowing you to indulge in an amazingly addictive hobby!
The love of sewing and all things handmade is something that I have had from a very early age. Even as a small child my favourite toy was my Mum's old button tin! I grew up in a very creative family. My three sisters and I would spend many happy hours making clothes for our dolls, creating costumes and putting on shows for our parents. My Grandmother was a seamstress and a milliner and at the age of 5 she taught me how to use a sewing machine, a simple hand-powered Singer, which I still use today and features in my logo.
My love of dressmaking grew and I made clothes for myself, wedding dresses for friends and a christening gown for my godson. Years later, having trained as a lecturer, travelled the world and had two children of my own I am still happiest when I am making or crafting something!
In the last 7 years I have been involved in teaching children sewing and creative textiles in local primary and secondary schools as well as privately at home. I am passionate about passing on the skills of sewing to the next generation. Sewing is good for children in so many ways. It is an important lifeskill which teaches fine motor skills, dexterity, patience, bulids confidence and provides a social outlet to make new friends!
My reputation has expanded recently and I have grown out of my old space. I now have a brand new shiny studio which allows me to teach more students, including adults. I would love you to join me on my crusade to bring back creative lifeskills such as sewing.
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Should I Let Them Sleepover?
Why is it, that without fail, every time my kid’s have a play date with a friend, within ten minutes or so they’re running over to me to ask, “Can we have a sleep over, please?” It happens so often that I sometimes tell my kids whether it’s an option or not prior to them starting their play date. For some reason, it doesn’t deter them from asking again if they don’t get the answer they like. I guess they figure they have strength in numbers or perhaps eventually I’ll give in, which does not happen.
I’m often torn as to whether to let them sleep over or not. I’m surrounded by friends with varying opinions. Some make it a rule to never let any of their children sleep over a friend’s house while others are more “kick back” about it and just let their kids pretty much go anywhere. I’m sort of torn in the middle and can see both sides of letting them go. The benefits are that they would have fun, develop their social skills, and learn to be independent. While the down side, of fearing for their safety is flat out scary. I believe both extremes aren’t healthy and I want my kids to experience life and take advantage of opportunities. Therefore, I came up with a checklist I use before I make a decision, which gives me peace of mind and let’s my children know what to expect.
Don’t be afraid to ask – Find out who’s in the house. Both who lives there (mom, dad, siblings, aunts/uncles, and etc) and who comes over to visit. You’re not saying that that you can judge high risk families, but their comfort level in answering will help you get to know them and make an informed decision.
See for yourself – Invite them to come over or meet them somewhere for a play date. This is a great opportunity to see your children interact and get to know the parents.
Case by case basis – Each child is different regardless of their age. Someone can be younger and more responsible and vice versa. Do they know how to contact you if they want to come home or need comforting?
Educate your children. – Teach them to recognize and speak up about what’s right or wrong. If they want to go, then they should demonstrate they understand and are able to describe appropriate and inappropriate touching and what to do about it. Make sure they know to scream stop, get out of the situation, and notify an adult immediately.
Did they earn it? – This is definitely a reward for children so use it accordingly. If they’ve completed their homework, chores, and other responsibilities, then this would be appropriate. If not, then they’ll realize that they have to have these things completed prior to asking in the future.
Safety in numbers? – While some parents feel safer with sleepover parties, since there are more people in attendance, it’s not always true. On some level there are benefits to it, but you have the same risks when they fall asleep or perhaps one person may get picked on by the others. Walk inside to drop them off at the party and observe your child’s comfort level with the group. If you’re not comfortable and have to pick them up later that night, then so be it.
Have them call you – This is part of demonstrating that they’re responsible and gives you a chance to check in with them to say goodnight and gauge how they’re doing.
You don’t have to reciprocate – Although etiquette would lead you to believe this is the protocol, with sleepovers there’s such a variety with family dynamics that you can simply say that you don’t allow it for personal reasons. People will understand even if they’ve observed your child sleeping over another friend’s house. It’s your decision and sometimes you have to go with your gut instinct. After all, it’s a safety issue and it’s your job to protect them.
Don’t waiver – Your child will pester you to no end, and possibly have his/her friend join in, if you show uncertainty. It’s worse to say yes, and then change your mind after you think it over. Be prepared with your list of requirements and discuss them with your children prior to letting them have a play date. This will let them know what to expect and motivate them to present some of the information to you prior to making a request.