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Saturday 31 March 2012
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Friday 30 March 2012
Home Improvement Ideas | Heater Upgrades
There are several home improvement ideas that could be implemented to increase the value of your home while making it more beautiful. Putting these ideas into action will make your home more livable, enhancing the comfort you experience daily. More than this though, making use of home improvement ideas to make your home better is a prudent investment.
When the term ?home improvement? is used, the most common mental image people have Do ? It ? Yourself (DIY) package. While home improvement can be DIY, it goes beyond that to professional installations and repairs. Home improvement projects range from a simple paint job to complete remodeling.
There are a number of home improvement projects which over time have become the most commonly undertaken, they are: Kitchen remodeling; Bathroom remodeling and additions; heating system installation; and window replacement among others.
From these, there are countless ideas which you could implement to make your home more comfortable and beautiful.
The kitchen is a nice place to start when considering a home improvement project. Getting your kitchen to have that new and shiny look is a good start. The biggest challenge here would be the kitchen cabinets. To get around this, you could either remodel with new cabinets or reface the ones you already have; this will depend on your budget as remodeling your kitchen cabinets will cost twice as much as refacing the existing cabinets.
Another home improvement idea when working with your kitchen would be to change the kitchen flooring. The kitchen floor can make a world of difference to the overall look of the kitchen. Kitchen flooring comes in different selections these days.
You have a choice of hardwood floors, ceramic and stone tiles. You could also decide to use laminate flooring, which is a pretty new but increasingly popular option.
The bathroom is another prime area of a house when it comes to home improvement. If and when you decide to put your home on the market, the bathroom is one place that could easily put off a potential buyer. So directing some attention that way can only be an advantage, especially as you get to enjoy a more comfortable surrounding as a result.
When it comes to the bathroom, there are several home improvement ideas that could be applied. Here, a change of tiles could just be what your bathroom needs for a more modern look. Adding wainscoting or changing the one that is already there could give the bathroom a more finished look. You might want to change the bathtub or add another one; there are just so many things one could do to give added beauty to a bathroom and make it more upscale.
Changing your windows to sliding windows, picture windows, bay windows or any of the many window styles available can also make a difference to the look of your house.
Source: http://www.hechlersheat.com/2012/03/30/home-improvement-ideas/
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The Social Customer #SCRM12 | Our Social Times
Today we?re joined of the Our Social Times blog by Barry Furby who is Live Blogging at our ?The Social Customer? Conference at Prospero House. The event has a fantastic line up of speakers offering invaluable insights into the future of customer service and social media marketing. It will also highlight innovative customer engagement and social CRM strategies and techniques.
Barry be adding notes into the article below throughout the day? and follow the #SCRM12 hashtag for tweets!
The Rise of the Social Customer
Guy Stephens ? Technology Consultant, CapGemini
The rise of the Social Business, its a approach and culture that needs to be adopted, The Cluetrain Manifesto is a must read book if you?re going to attempt it. Guy Stephens explains how social media has been adopted by consumers and how this is changing their relationship with companies. Citing examples of how businesses are changing and adapting their internal structures and processes to enhance their services and meet customer expectations. Making your business Customer Centric is not about technology, but about a cultural shift in the business, this culture and approach will lead you to implement Social technology, but it must follow the shift?
Nice point: ?Before you make these changes for Social Business, ignore the technology, look at objectives for the business first? #scrm12
We?d make a huge step forward if we apply the Conversation Prism to Customer Service rather than just marketing #scrm12
How Marketing & Customer Service Can Work Together
Martin Hill-Wilson, Director, Brainfood Consulting
Businesses have a huge disconnect between departments, we still operate in silo?s despite working so hard (well at least talking so hard) for so long? We can only get get over this when we finally work as a business, together, with a single agenda. Are we finally over the bad old days of over promising and under servicing customers? When Marketing and Customer Service fail in this way, the value of customer engagement is lost. Why do we manage these two closely aligned activities separately? What does effective collaboration look like? And, can it really happen? Customer Centric might even allow the business to empower its customer to become a voice in the customer service department ? Consumer Managed Q&A forums?
Sky take 50-75million calls from it?s customers ? Its not hard to see the value of reducing the volume with Social #scrm12
Smart businesses map the customer journey, look at potential ?Social? touch points & develop a common single agenda #scrm12
Panel Discussion: Who Should ?Own? Social?
Moderator ? Neville Hobson (Communications Consultant), Katy Howell (Managing Director, Immediate Future), Nick Sharples (Corporate Communications Consultant), Martin Hill-Wilson (Brainfood Consulting), Aaron Stewart (Product Marketing Manager, KANA Software)
Moderated by Neville, the discussion floats around the topic of who owns Social. No single person in a business, or no single department should own Social, it should be a communication and engagement channel throughout the company. The higher you are in business the more you experience disconnect, a CEO may provide guidance of strategy, but every customer touchpoint can be empowered to use Social. In most organisations, Marketing has led the way in social media adoption and usage. Some would say, though, that ?social? is more attuned to the goals of Customer Services ? in which a focus on generating trust and delivering value is not polluted by a requirement to generate leads. I think the answer to the discussion results similar to a comment Neville experienced on his blog, We?re asking the wrong question! But there should be a department that take lead to pass things through the companies eco-system ? is this the Social Media command centre?
Social media needs someone to ?Lead? it not ?Own? it within an organisation says @nicksharples1 #scrm12 #custserv
Customers don?t own ur social media they inform it. Do you know ur customer journey via @katyhowell #scrm12
Insight is great, but it?s useless unless it is actionable, the business still needs the attitude & culture to make things happen #scrm12
Control never really there, a construct that orgs lulled their customers/themselves into believing. Customers finally waking up! #scrm12
Everything Everywhere Case Study: Leveraging Social Customer Service to increase Customer Loyalty
Ben Kay ? Head of Digital Strategy and Adoption, Everything Everywhere
A practical case study about the work of TMobile/Orange. Customers made 1.33Bn Calls, 5.5Bn Texts and used 326Bn Kilobytes of Data, they use the data services rather than a call even to ask about Customer Service problems. Listen, Listen, Listen and keep Listening. Everything Everywhere wanted to find out about the brand conversation ? who, why, where. Then look at how to we manage this? Ben has an interesting and rather conflicting statement to bust the myth of reducing calls ? he says when you have 27 million customers the phone will always ring, maybe we can marginally shift this. We enjoyed a rather honest and critical look at how and why Everything Everywhere participate in Social.
How do customers seek service? 77% search, 71% go to company site, 48% read reviews, 13% use social networks (Mintel) @Benjamin_Kay #scrm12
Some Orange/TMobile stats: Customers made 1.33Bn Calls, 5.5Bn Texts and used 326Bn Kilobytes of Data #SCRM12 << All about the data?!
Panel Discussion: Measuring the Value and Effectiveness of Customer Communities
Moderator ? Luke Brynley-Jones (Our Social Times), Bian Salins (Head of Social Media Innovation, BT Customer Service), Vincent Boon (Community Manager, GiffGaff/Telefonica), Guy Stephens (Cap Gemini)
Value and Effectiveness is one of those metrics that is hard to quantify. We look at cost reduction, renewals (sales), sentiment, net promoter scores etc. Customers are increasingly being asked to resolve their problems through interaction in communities, but do these really work? How can companies measure the effectiveness of their customer communities and what techniques can be used to ensure that knowledge is effectively shared and stored, that problems are resolved and that customer satisfaction levels are maintained? GiffGaff have achieved 85% of support successfully by use of Social and Web support. Again, clarification that Customer Services starts at Google? Your customer know so much about your products, more than you might yourself as a business. Bian almost wins quote of the day with ?I?ve leant more from customers than anyone In the business?.
Giffgaff originally started in social to reduce customer service costs. It has since evolved into a way of living! #scrm12
Frustrated community customers can end up being your brand ambassadors by getting the answers they need and being satisfied #scrm12
#scrm12 ?I?ve leant more from customers than anyone In the business?. Great quote from Bian Salins
The Future of Social Customer
Frank Eliason ? VP Social Media, Citi
We?re joined by Frank via Webinar (phew, the internet worked!), he?s the voice behind @ComcastCares he successfully demonstrated that social media could enable a large corporation to build genuine relationships with their customers. At Citi he says he is focused on ?building a lifetime of trust? between the bank and its customers. In this live video presentation Frank offers his insights into how large organisations should approach social customer engagement. In his whitty manner Frank talks us through the traditional process of customer complaints, it?s tough business. Social Media allows consumers to enthusiastically complain in a public domain, we?re connecting with frustration in a public environment so it has become a priority we need to tackle. Business want Social Service, Consumers want the product to work. For 20 years call centers have slowly become huge cost centers, and therefore sales centres ? consumer do not want to be sold to in this environment, but it happens ? these are key things to think about in Social Service. Social Media brings out Passion, so driving change in a brand that witnesses bad sentiment online can quickly turn it round and those same people that are passionate will continue to show their now positive passion. Start using a smart social listening program to drive change in your business and what you?ll find that you?ll dramatically reduce the need for Customer Service across the business regardless of if you participate in Social ? look at Apple.
Everything about the call centre is about getting you off the phone via @frankeliason #scrm12
?CE (Customer experience) + P (Passion) = Social Media Success? > Formula by @askciti #SCRM12
Business want Social Service, Consumers want the product to work #SCRM12
British Gas Case Study: Implementing a Cohesive Strategy for Customer Engagement
Lloyd Salmons, Managing Director, Outside Line and Laura Price ? Social Media Manager, British Gas
In this co-presented session British Gas and agency, Outside Line, explain how they employ social media to generate conversation and social currency around their brand. They demonstrate how they brought together different platforms and teams to create one cohesive strategy, how they have tackled internal and external challenges, and how they use social media to try to mitigate negative sentiment, so prominent in the energy industry. The challenge was to create a eco-system of positive sentiment and perception around the brand, so that the customer journey through to support was one that was reinforced with positive messages about the brand. This calls back to the message from earlier talks where we discussed the customer journey starting more than often in Search, the first steps in this journey are just as important as the interactions later in the process whether they?re call center of socially enabled. British Gas have quantified each view of support YouTube videos to an ?80 saving (call time, home visits, parts). There is a huge process of learning to interact with customer via different means of technology.
Half of British gas mentions every day are #custserv issues. #scrm12
British Gas have quantified each view of support channel on YouTube videos to an ?80 saving (call time, home visits, parts etc) #SCRM12
Integrating Social Media into Traditional Customer Services
Carolyn Blunt ? People Development Consultant, Real Results
So how did we get here? Hear Carolyn Blunt explains how customer services has been organised, trained and managed for the past 10 years and how social media is starting to impact on it. She explores what this shift means and what can be done to stay ahead of the curve, to maintain and improve the customer experience and to keep staff working confidently and efficiently. The shift in Social Contact Centers represents a huge cultural change for the providers to the industry, they?re fighting for ownership of a platform and technology with the marketing folks. Its becoming a case of be pro-active or die. Goldern Rules: 1) Consistence across channels (Social and Calls) 2) Never Argue with customers 3) Avoid the Chardonnay Tweeters. Creating a sub-team for the Social task force is a great idea, look at Twitter / Facebook but also we?re seeing the rise of the forums.
Carolyn Blunt is gen X and still wants to phone. Give your customer choice in how they want to converse with you #scrm12
Three responses to social customer, passive, pounce or proactive. Latter is best says @CarolynBlunt #scrm12
Implementing Multi-Channel Social Customer Services
Richard McCrossan (Strategic Business Director , Genesys)
Richard is a huge advocate of Customer Service, ultimately we need to give our customers options. The do not necessarily want to develop a relationship with your brand, they want a good product and they want to quickly resolve any problems in a quick and efficient manner. Customer Service isnt a huge factor in Customer Loyalty, but it?s a major factor in Customer Dis-Loyalty. When we have identified a problem we need to leverage customer service tools, identify the relationship you have with that consumer, deal with the issue there or take it offline, then close the loop.
Being able to empower customer service to move between social and phone can be very powerful #scrm12
Instant messaging or ?Live Chat? customer satisfaction ratings much higher than traditional mediums such as the telephone #scrm12
Customers don?t want a relationship with an organisation, they want the benefits of it via @dossan #scrm12
Panel Discussion: Does Social Customer Service Improve the User Experience?
Moderator ? Maria McCann (Head of Customer Services, Spotify), Dominic Sparkes (Managing Director, Tempero), Amanda Brown (PR Manager, First Direct), David Hughes (Director of User Experience Expedia Affiliate Network), Charlotte Garfield (ACCA).
Nicely put together wrap up of the day. If we took a step back to no Social, would the world be a better place. Consensus on the panel is that we?re enjoying the changing market, brands enjoy the advocacy gained through social and as volumes grow for major brand divertative measures such as social media are ultimately making things possible. Predictions: Sentiment aware websites, faster product development, Mobile Customer Service.
@domsparkes ?Social media can make customer service unfair?watch what u put on trip advisor if you are still in the hotel?? #scrm12
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In the wish words of our ACME friends, Thats all folks?
Thanks for reading
Barry Furby (@barryfurby)
Business Development Manager | Synthesio
Source: http://oursocialtimes.com/index.php/2012/03/the-social-customer-scrm12/
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Thursday 29 March 2012
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Importance of Unlisted Foreclosure | Boomerding Real Estate Blog
With the technology these days, dealing with foreclosure is not as hard as it was before. Now you can easily look for foreclosed properties even if they are not on the city where you live. With the technology being used these days there is no impossible things nowadays. A lot of people are dealing with foreclosure but it is not so hard to deal with it anymore. Even if you are opting to buy a property that is going through foreclosure stage, there is nothing to worry about because you can still find even those that are unlisted. There are methods that can help you identify how to buy unlisted foreclosed homes.
Here are some of the best things you can do:
You need to get help from a well experience broker. Through it you will be able to know how to get the right property you are looking for. Usually, qualified persons are composed of broker developers, real estate agents and mortgage lenders too. The process is quite troublesome but through the help of an expert, you will be able to find helpful tips as well. There are some real estate brokers who really specialize in helping people who wants to invest on foreclosed properties regardless of the reasons of their acquisition.
You can look for your regional office if you would like to get a foreclosed home. The US department is also offering help to people who wants to acquire a home loan through the unlisted foreclosure chattels. It will be best if you will look for foreclosed properties during the pre-foreclosure proceeding. It will save you from spending a lot of money and it will also prevent you from going through a lawsuit.
If you are using a personal computer, it will be best for you to know your options. It will be best if you will get notified all the time so that you will know how and where to find the right option. What you can do is to subscribe to the website of the local or regional office that offers notification to all interested investors. Through it you will get updates as to where you can acquire for unlisted properties.
You can hire a foreclosure expert or counselor. You can also look for resources online and these resources are typically known as the PreForeclosure. A lot of times unlisted foreclosures are hard to find but when you found them, you will not be charged for information you will find from them.
Foreclosure is a hard situation in life which you should go through when you don?t have enough resources to pay for your mortgages. Luckily, there are lots of people who benefits from the miseries of others because they can find homes that have been foreclosed at a very reasonable price. There are several ways to acquire foreclosed homes including those that are unlisted. The technology age truly brings hope and comfort to a lot of people that is why a lot of people are comfortable in looking for properties nowadays.
Source: http://www.boomerding.com/foreclosures/importance-of-unlisted-foreclosure/
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Wednesday 28 March 2012
Debt Management Information | American Financial Care for Credit ...
If your folks and you are crippled by debt than you know the stress that may bring to everyone. Many families have been torn apart by the discomfort and frustration of not being able to keep up with bills. It regularly leads to marriage issues and often even divorce.
And with our tough economy, and many of us being made redundant from roles, debt Problems are everywhere. This has helped fuel the foreclosure crisis here and around the globe.
And this real-estate and foreclosure crisis in addition has led on to intense trouble. Back when our homes seemed to worth much more than we owed, we all took out home equity loans for good, and sometimes, not so real reasons. When the real estate market crashed, that all changed. And now we often owe much more than our homes are worth. We are paying dearly for ours and mortgage lender?s mistakes.
And when we could not stay abreast of the bills we often turned to credit cards as a way to get money solely to survive. It all turned into a downward spiral into an abyss of debt and disappointment.
This has all led on to a debt crisis here in The United States. Many , many families and individuals are searching for answers for the best method to get their heads back above water so they can breath routinely again.
So what can you do to escape debt. What options have we got when we just can?t keep up with the bills anymore.
The first thing we want to do is admit we have a problem.
Then we must find help. That help can come in the guise of debt counselling, government help programs, and yes even bankruptcy.
Debt Counselling
There are many debt counselling corporations out there. Sadly not all are legitimate and many are outright swindles. A debtor must use caution. You?ll see advertisements in the paper and on television advertising?
- Credit Problems? No problem!
- We will remove bankruptcies, judgments, liens, and bad loans from your credit file forever!
- We will be able to wipe out your bad credit? 100% guaranteed [*T].
- Create a new credit identity? Legally.
Watch out when you see these types of headlines they almost certainly are cons. No one can get rid of debt easily.
The best place to find reputable help is through the government agencies The Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Protection Agency. They offer information on what to look out for. Here are their internet sites.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/boozers/consumer/credit/cre13.shtm
Hillsborough Consumer Protection Agency
http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/consumerprotection/
It?s good to know you have independent agencies that can provide advice when you're facing a debt crisis in your home.
Executive Help
The US Government offers programs to help consumers who are facing debt Problems. These include programs to help with difficulty making home loan payments and also coping with bank card arrears.
A handy place to begin is http://www.mymoney.gov /. As it asserts on it?s website?
?MyMoney.gov is the U.S. Government?s internet site dedicated to teaching all USA citizens the fundamentals about monetary education. Whether or not you are purchasing a home, balancing your check-book, or making an investment in your 401 (k), the resources on MyMoney.gov can help you maximise your financial decisions. Across the site, you will find important info from 20 Federal agencies and Companies designed to help you make smart finance choices.?
If you are having issues staying abreast of your mortgage visit the government?s Making Home Cheap Program website.
http://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov
This is an excellent programme for leaving your home gracefully when you can't afford it and avoiding the negative impact of foreclosure.
And who announces our tax dollars are not being spent wisely. OK let?s not go there.
Bankruptcy
The concept of bankruptcy isn't a pleasant one. Most folks consider it as a stigma and something to avoid an all costs.
Yes bankruptcy isn't something you should take lightly, but relying upon your present position it may be an excellent option. If you really feel you can't stay abreast of your debts then bankruptcy is truly something you should consider.
It may be possible to have your payment requirements reorganized and can really finish up having to pay only a fraction of what's owed. And usually you may be back onto your feet, with a brand new start within 5 years, with little impact on your credit score.
If course you need to do it correctly by contacting a good bankruptcy attorney to talk about the best course of action for you. But the reality is bankruptcy can be an option. For relieving all that stress and perhaps saving your folks and wedding.
Whatever you do you have to take action to get out of debt, relieve that stress, and move forward. In action will only make things worse.
Rick Hart is an online business advisor. He provides tools for bankruptcy attorneys in Tampa that help with bankruptcy, debt consolidation and foreclosures.
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Tags: bankruptcy, Foreclosure
Source: http://american-financial-care.com/debt-management-information/
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Contracts for US homes dipped in February
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Sunday 25 March 2012
Cardinal Turkson: Praying for conversions and the touching of hearts in Mexico and Cuba
2012-03-23 Vatican Radio
Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, expresses his hopes for Pope Benedict?s apostolic journey to Mexico and Cuba.
Cardinal Peter Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, expresses his hopes for Pope Benedict?s apostolic journey to Mexico and Cuba.Speaking to Linda Bordoni, Cardinal Turkson says he is praying that this journey may touch the hearts and induce conversions as the Pope travels to two Latin American Countries with the same Spanish heritage, but with very different historical, political and economic developments.
He says that in both nations there are issues that are of particular interest to his Dicastery.
Mexico?s political history has seen periods of strained relations with the Church, but things have much improved.
As regards the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, generally ? he says - the human rights situation has improved in Mexico, but he points to the increase of violence and drug-related crimes.
He also mentions the effect of the drug trade on the United States because of the proximity of its border. And he points to the migration between the two country and ultimately to the security and stability in the country itself.
Cardinal Turkson says that ?certainly the Holy Father would have his own way of addressing these issues? through his own perspective as leader of the Universal Church
But Cardinal Turkson points out that Mexico is a profoundly Christian nation. And he speaks of his own experience of living the faith in the Latin American country.
He tells of when he participated in the Eucharistic Congress in Guadalajara. And then ? he says - he went to the Eucharistic Congress in Quebec. Quebec, he says, doesn?t compare to Guadalajara: in Mexico the whole population participated. During a procession everyone was hanging devotional items and religiously decorated items outside the windows. He says the people there participate with incredible warmth.
He says that probably, like in many other Latin American countries, ?the challenge is making something which is seen as traditions become a regular form of life?. It?s not enough to consider tradition as merely part of history, but people must reflect on ?what does it mean to be a Christian and bear witness to a Christian way of life?.
Cardinal Turkson says that especially in the area of crime and of the war going on between drug cartels, it is his prayer that the visit o the Holy Father touches hearts and induces some kind of conversion in those areas.
As regards Cuba, Cardinal Turkson says, the situation is quite different.
At the Council he says, as soon as the Pope announced the visit, ?we received some correspondence in protesting against the journey?. But ? he points out ? the Lord said it?I didn?t come for the righteous I came for the sinners?. The Holy Father, Cardinal Turkson says, doesn?t have to visit only the saintly places, but also those in which there problems are perceived. He says this visit for him is a joy.
Cardinal Turkson also points out that the situation in Cuba has undergone change through the years. He says it?s not the same Cuba of the Cold War of the Missile Crisis.
For example even this nation, with its meagre resources, shares what it has. And he speaks of all the medical doctors from Cuba who travel to other nations to give of their service.
Generally, Cardinal Turkson says that in many Cubans the faith is still there. ?This is a positive choice the Pope has made?
And the Cardinal says that he prays that whatever message the Holy Father chooses to deliver, it will be well received.
He also hopes there may be some conversions and prays the Lord may have his own way.
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Source: http://www.news.va/en/news/cardinal-turkson-praying-for-conversions-and-the-t
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Saturday 24 March 2012
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What are some ways that Japanese culture is different than American culture Has anybody been to Japan or lived thereIve always been really interested in Japan and want to learn as much about it as I can.
In terms of family it is tradition in Japan that the elderly parents live with their children. It is the childrens responsibility to take care of their parents when their parents are old. But there are some elderly parents who live alone and away from their children and continue working. My grandparents are living away from us because they are still working and do not want to retire. They are 80s. In USA as far as I know elderly parents are either put in to retirement or nursing homes and their children visit them during holidays or special occasions only.
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Those Who Stay
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Kentucky Fair Board president announces retirement
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Posted on March 22, 2012 at 8:12 PM
?? LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Harold Workman, whose job status as president of the Kentucky Fair Board has been in question, has announced he is retiring at the end of the year.
?? Workman has been involved in controversies recently over the firing of the general manager of the KFC Yum Center and reports that he had fallen into disfavor among some board members.
?? The Courier-Journal (http://cjky.it/GGbWMT) reports the board also suffered a revenue drop in recent years with the razing of the Executive Inn, closure of Kentucky Kingdom and move of the University of Louisville basketball teams from Freedom Hall to the Yum Center.
?? Workman, fair board president and CEO since 1993, makes $249,260 a year, according to a state database. His contract was set to expire at the end of June.
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Friday 23 March 2012
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10 Great Streaks That Came to an End
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Thursday 22 March 2012
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Just about everyone does one craft or another.? Knitting, scrapbooking, card making? What?s the one thing they all have in common?? They can easily take over our living space with their various tools, supplies, and materials.? Keeping your craft supplies in order not only helps maintain your sanity and the appearance of your home, it also helps keep your materials in good working order.? In addition, it allows you to sit down and complete a project without having to dig out first.? The best part is getting your craft area organized doesn?t have to take a lot of time or money.
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Keep reading for some quick and easy tips and tricks to help you maintain order wherever you complete your craft projects.
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Here are a few questions to consider:
- Do you have adequate workspace?
- Do you have adequate storage space?
- If you can?t finish your project today, do you have space to leave the project out?
- How easy is it to access and put away your supplies?
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Storage and Work Space:? Start by assessing the amount of space you have to work with.? If it?s just a closet, consider installing a closet system with a workspace so that you can craft and then simply close the doors to have it all out of sight.? The Container Store (www.thecontainerstore.com) sells Elfa systems that can be customized to your space and craft.
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If you have a whole room, picking out storage products is a little easier.? Browse design websites for inspiration, and if your hobby has a magazine, purchase a copy or two for ideas.? Consider purchasing some repurposed furniture such as library catalog card files to house your smaller tools.? Visit yard sales, flea markets, and browse Craigslist for used furniture you can refinish and recycle.
Consider browsing your home for furniture.? A hutch from the dining room can be turned into a craft supply cabinet, an old kitchen table can be used as a work surface and even rolling tool carts can be used for portable supply storage.
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If at all possible, look for solutions that allow you to put uncompleted work away.? But furniture pieces aren?t the only way to accomplish this task. Having the right storage pieces for similar items makes cleanup a cinch!
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Storing Your Supplies:? Once you have your basic furniture structure in place, and then consider your organizational accessories.? Again, these don?t have to be specialized or expensive items.? These products will be the key to keeping your space organized.
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Visit your local dollar or superstore to find items that can be used to store craft supplies. Here are some ideas:
????? Pails-Hang from the bottom of a shelf with a mug hook for marker/scissor/pen storage.
????? Garbage pails-Use to house rolled wrapping paper, or rolls of fabric.
????? Tackle Boxes-Use to hold beads, thread, buttons, etc.
????? Ball Jars-Use to house anything small.? (Then store the jars on a small shelf with a tiny ledge to prevent jars from falling off.? This gives you a visual of the items in the jars and easy access.)
????? Food Storage Containers-Great to for preventing paints from spilling and making a mess.
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Keep the Best:? Once you have all of your organizational pieces in place, make sure that you get rid of any supplies that are too old or too small to use (such as scraps of paper).? Donate anything that is usable, but you no longer want or need to a local school art department.? Then categorize, contain and label the remaining items.? Purging the items that you are keeping ?just because? gives you the space for new and better items.
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Other Things to Consider:? Safely is an important issue when designing and organizing craft spaces.? Make sure you have adequate light to see what you are doing.? Adhesive LED lights are an inexpensive option for adding light where there are no existing fixtures.? Also, make sure that any sharp tools like scissors or craft knives are well out of reach of children.? If you are using knives or needles in your craft make sure to have a first aid kit nearby.
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You want your craft space to make you happy.? If possible, paint it a color you enjoy.? Frame or display some of your previous masterpieces in the space and put up a bulletin or magnetic board to capture inspirations from magazines or photos.
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A craft space can be located any where in your home.? The most important thing to remember is to make it functional and FUN!? If you just don?t think you have the time or inspiration to create your perfect craft space contact a professional organizer who will assist you with the task.
Source: http://thejoyfulorganizer.com/2012/03/20/craft-room-organization/
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Wednesday 21 March 2012
Parents seek control of failing Calif. school
By msnbc.com staff and news services
Desert Trails Elementary School in the town of Adelanto, Calif., has been failing local kids for years, many parents say. At least a third of the students?are unable to pass state math?and reading tests.
On Tuesday evening, the school board will be hearing about a radical fix: a parent takeover of the school.
For the moms and dads, it's an intensely personal debate. But their little school at the edge of the Mojave Desert has also become a flash point in a high-stakes national struggle over the future of public education, one that pits powerful teachers unions against some of world's wealthiest philanthropies.
Desert Trails, with children in kindergarten through sixth grades or roughly ages 5-12, could be the first school in the?nation to invoke the concept known as "parent trigger."
A 2010 California law permits parents at the state's worst public schools to band together and effectively wrest control from the district. The parents can enact dramatic changes, such as firing teachers, ousting the principal, or converting the school into a charter institution run by a private management firm. Several other states -- Mississippi, Texas and Connecticut -- are considering similar laws.
Desert Trails has had high turnover in the principal's office. Parents complain about difficulty getting their children extra help when they fall behind. Just 31 percent of third-graders are proficient in reading and 14 percent score in the lowest level, "far below basic," in state testing.
"We feel like we haven't been heard," said Doreen Diaz, an Adelanto mother of two. "Unless we stand up and fight for our children's education, no one else will."
Several attempts by msnbc.com to reach?the school?superintendent or members of the school board by telephone were unsuccessful Tuesday.
'A positive change'
A determined group of Desert Trails parents is leading the charge, with substantial help from a well-funded activist group, Parent Revolution. The trigger advocates say they have collected signatures from a majority of families in support of closing down the school this summer and reopening it as a charter school in the fall, to be run by a partnership of parents, teachers and the school district.
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"Parents want to see a positive change for Desert Trails, which is the worst school in the county,"?Linda Serrato, spokeswoman for?Parent Revolution,?told msnbc.com on Tuesday. "Parents want the school board to hear about a proposed partnership, a partnership where parents work directly with the board, teachers and community."
She said the trigger plan will be presented during a closed hearing late Tuesday.
In Adelanto, a fast-growing community of 32,000, Parent Revolution rented a house to serve as trigger headquarters and sent staff to help organize. Many parents were receptive to the campaign. Some said they had been trying for years, to no avail, to get improvements at the school, where nearly all the students are low-income minorities, mostly Latino and African-American.
"Parents are clear about wanting a positive change for their school," Serrato said, adding "They were told to create a PTA, which they did in 2010 and still didn't see positive changes."
An equally determined group of parents, supported by both state and local teachers unions, say Desert Trails can be improved without being destroyed. They plan to stop the trigger plan.
"Where are their lesson plans?"?said Kimberly Smith, a former teacher at Desert Trails who now sends her two children there. "What is the curriculum?... How is it better?"
The parent-trigger battle is perhaps the most dramatic yet in an intensifying fight over the nation's $500-billion-a-year investment in educating kids.
Big names, big money
Over the past decade, several of the nation's wealthiest philanthropists, who see public schools as needing transformative change, have shifted the terms of the education debate. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Los Angeles developer Eli Broad and the Walton family, heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune, have poured billions of dollars into promoting aggressive reforms. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal)
Their prescriptions, many of which have been adopted by the Obama administration, include expanding charter schools, tying teacher pay to student test performance and making it easier to fire teachers.
Unions see many of those reforms as a threat not only to their members but to the very nature of public education. Charter schools are free public elementary or secondary schools that operate independently from the local school district. They often do not employ union teachers, and are typically run by a private management company.
Critics note that some charters are run by for-profit companies that don't open their books to show the public how they're spending tax dollars.
"There's an agenda that basically wants to take apart public education," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
Union leaders complain that the reformers have little research to prove their overhaul tactics will work -- and that existing data show less-than-stellar results.
Nationally, studies suggest that charter schools rarely outperform regular public schools of similar demographics.
"Too many people on the outside are advocating for things that don't change student learning," said Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, which represents 3 million public-school employees.
But to the outside reformers, it's the unions who have their heads in the sand, blocking efforts to remake a public education system that for too long has left too many kids behind. Teachers unions spend tens of millions a year on campaign donations and state and federal lobbying, giving them considerable clout among politicians, especially their traditional allies on the Democratic left.
The Gates and Broad foundations continue to pour huge sums into improving existing public schools; the Gates Foundation, for instance, has pledged $100 million to revamp teacher training, evaluation and pay in Hillsborough County, Fla. Foundation officials say they have no intention of destroying teachers' union or privatizing public schools en masse.
At the same time, however, they say they are committed to experiments like parent trigger.
Seat at the table
Trigger backers say the mechanism isn't intended to convert local schools into charters in every case. Parent Revolution is working with several parent groups in California that have used the threat of pulling the trigger as leverage to negotiate more modest changes, such as cleaning up filthy school bathrooms.
At Desert Trails, the trigger team is negotiating with the district in hopes of reaching a solution that stops short of moving to a fully independent charter school.
"When big decisions about schools are made, there typically are only two players at the table, the teachers union and the district," said Ben Austin, executive director of Parent Revolution. "What we're saying is, we need a third seat at the table for parents. Before, when they complained, they'd be told to go do a bake sale. Parent trigger utterly changes the game."
Parent Revolution started small, reporting assets of just $91,000 at the end of 2009, the year it began pushing parent trigger in California. When the law passed in early 2010, major philanthropies, including the Gates, Broad and Walton Foundations, pledged substantial donations.
Parent Revolution reported nearly $4 million in grants in 2010, the most recent year tax records are available.
The group has used the money to rally parents to consider using the trigger at low-performing schools across California. "At every step of this process Parent Revolution is here to support you," the group promises in a 12-page parent handbook.
Parent Revolution has also expanded to promote trigger laws nationwide. The group recently flew several parent activists from Buffalo, N.Y. to Houston, Tex., for a training session.
Members were also in Florida earlier this month, mixing it up in a bruising political battle over a trigger bill. The mostly Democratic activists at Parent Revolution teamed with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, along with parents and lobbyists representing charter schools to promote the law.
Lining up against the parent trigger law in Florida were the teachers union, the Florida PTA and a rival group of fired-up moms, including Rita Solnet, a mother of three who says she distrusts charter schools. Solnet co-founded Parents Across America, an activist group that has received $25,000 from the nation's biggest teachers union, but says she spent her own money to fly to Tallahassee and knock on lawmakers' doors to lobby against parent trigger.
"These schools were built by the taxpayers of the past to support the taxpayers of the future," Solnet recalls saying. "You have no right to turn them over" to for-profit charter school corporations.
The Florida parent trigger bill narrowly failed.
Msnbc.com's Sevil Omer contributed to this report from Reuters.?
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Omega-3 fat tied to less cancer-related fatigue
[unable to retrieve full-text content]NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Breast cancer survivors who eat a healthy dose of omega-3 fats may have some extra energy throughout their day, a new study suggests. Many people treated for cancer have lingering fatigue, even years after their therapy ends. There's evidence that good sleep habits and regular exercise can help, if people can keep those things up. But there's still a need for other options, experts say. Exactly what causes cancer survivors' long-term fatigue is unclear, according to Dr. Rachel Ballard-Barbash of the U.S. National Cancer Institute, who worked on the new study. ...
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/omega-3-fat-tied-less-cancer-related-fatigue-205806911.html
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