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Entertainment for an Employee Appreciation Event

I just had a BLAST yesterday doing magic for the employees of They produce very customized stationary, calendars, life planners, phone covers, etc.  Really great colors. Really fun and inspirational stuff.

On June 9, 2015 they launched their newest product and the employees had been working very hard for the last month or two so they could be ready for the launch. To say thank you the company hired me to perform inspirational magic for the employees. Magic with a message acknowledging the whole team for all of the hard work they had done. We also reviewed the key goals of the company during my performance as fun way to keep everyone on the same page as they move into their 3rd quarter.

At 2:00 in the afternoon, all 90 of the employees were asked to come out to the warehouse. Eric Condren started the program off by saying thank you to all of the team. She then commented that what they do may seem like magic to the customers, but we all know that it’s really a lot of hard work. So celebrate our success, I’d like to introduce you to the most magical man I know, Jeff Parmer.

I performed a 30 minute show for the entire group emphasizing key concepts for the company, then walked around the company offices and performed some of my favorite Roving Close Up Magic for the marketing team up stairs. We really had a fun time together.

So if you are looking for a fun way to acknowledge your employees, your management team, etc, consider my custom scripted magic as a way to not only acknowledge your team, but to inspire them and remind them of what your team goals are as well. If everyone is focused on the same goals and commitments the company will operate with a more healthy efficiency.

Best magic for Grad Nite

If you are considering hiring a magician for a Grad Night here are a few valuable tips.

Make sure that the magician authentically loves being around younger people. If he is a faker, they will be able to see right through it.

Make sure his/her magic is really good. There is nothing worse than a magician who’s magic is so weak that you can see what he is doing. The magic needs to really be powerful if you are going to hold the attention of high schoolers who are up all night.

Make sure your magician is flexible in his/her performance style.

I just performed for the Malibu High Grad Night on Thursday, June 4, 2015. We knew for sure that my Roving Close Up Magic was going to be a good fit. The parents also really liked my Magic Comedy Show, but we all agreed that there would never really be a time at this particular grad nite where we could gather everyone’s attention and have a full on show. So what we did this:  I had my favorite 5 routines from my Magic Comedy Show with me. And when ever the opportunity presented itself, and I had a pretty good crowd around me, I would perform one of these premium routines. I called it “Roving Close Up Magic WITH EXPLOSIONS”.  In this way, I was able to bring the best of my magic, and present it in a way that was flexible to fit the needs of the client in a venue that would not allow a stage show.

They loved it. Here is are two quotes from A.J. Steinberg, event planner at Masquerade Events

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The first email was sent to me the next morning at 10:00am:

“Jeff, you were amazing and totally made the evening perfect!   Thanks for the great magic and I look forward to working with you again!

Then she sent a second email to me at 4:00 in the afternoon

“Hi Jeff,

I just want to thank you again.   You were the total hit of the party!    All the feedback we got back was raving about you.    Thanks so much!!!!

So what is the point of all of this? Magicians, like other vendors can get stuck in a rut as to what services they provide. I could have just told the client that in order to have the premium routines, they would have to have a magic comedy show or else forget it. But by staying FLEXIBLE I was able to give them everything they wanted and make it work for their venue. So make sure that the magician that you are considering is open minded to your situation. That said, we magicians are experts at what makes our magic work. So you should find a nice balance between taking your professional’s advice, and keeping them in check about making sure they are serving your needs, for your event.

This is a very subtle point but I hope it helps you to plan for great magic at your next grad night.

Magician Jeff Parmer  Great Magic Productions


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Electra, a late work of Sophocles, written circa 412-411 B.C., dramatizes one of the bleakest episodes in the Atreidae mythology: the revenge for Agamemnon’s murder. The main character, Electra, constantly relives the murder of her father, imploring the gods to punish his murderers. Her lust for revenge is rekindled by the return of her brother, the exiled Orestes. Their plans of punishment will culminate in matricide. Sophocles’ drama focuses on Electra, eschewing the moral problematics of matricide. Revenge is a conscious choice of the characters rather than a mandate of the gods. Human emotions rule supreme, exposing the characters’ vulnerabilities and echoing the late 5th century mindset.Under the influence of the Sophists, the spirit of the era refrains from the type of certainties and simplistic interpretations that were so prevalent in the ancient world.
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A Shakespeare Garden

In a world where we are most often reflected in baseline demographics, gardening becomes a rare opportunity to express personal interests and creativity. Perhaps all that is wanted is a touch of inspiration. For that, what better source than Shakespeare? The bard’s works overflow with flowers and botanical allusions, with magical moonlit glades, and with gardens as both settings and metaphors.

Shakespeare’s lines have inspired composers, graphic artists, and garden designers for centuries. Today, Shakespeare Gardens appear across the globe, and in many forms, from the extensive 57,000 square foot garden at Wynton M. Blount Cultural Park in Montgomery, Alabama, to the more modest and secluded Elizabethan Garden on the east side of the Folger Shakespeare Library behind the U.S. Capitol and Library of Congress.

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Put Ophelia’s rosemary ("that’s for remembrance") in your garden and you are planting an herb valued by Egyptian priests, the classical physicians Dioscorides and Galen, monastic herbalists, and modern sous chefs. Each plant is endowed with centuries of meaning; let inspiration spring from Shakespeare and it will continue to flow into your garden.

To begin, select a basic design. For example, you could follow the lead of the Folger Library and create an Elizabethan knot garden: a formal arrangement, usually rectangular, with a bust of Shakespeare, a sundial, birdbath, or other sculptural component, surrounded by a interwoven pattern (a knot) of rosemary and lavender, with Johnny-jump-ups and other violet species, iris, saffron crocus, and chamomile filling the spaces between the knotted rosemary and lavender array. For a king’s ransom, you might also include a low boxwood border.

Alternately, you could develop a Shakespearean herb garden, using some of the herbs already mentioned, as well as calendula, rue, fennel, hyssop, lemon balm, parsley, mint (in pots), savory, marjoram and much more. Or you might prefer a sunny flower garden, perhaps designed as an old-fashioned rose garden, or simply incorporating bard-related plants into an existing border.

Favorite roses from Shakespeare’s period include Damask and Gallica (French) or "apothecary’s rose," and Musk and Eglantine (Sweetbriar) roses. Flowers include columbine, poppies, dianthus (clove pink or gillyflower), nasturtium, daffodils, calendula (pot marigold), and primula species, such as English Primrose and cowslips, which are often found throughout the works of Shakespeare.

For the truly inspired and literary-minded, you might want to develop a dedicated garden spot: perhaps "Titania’s Bower" from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Add a simple trellis, cover it with non-invasive honeysuckle (woodbine), some musk roses and other fairy plantings, and you’re ready to sit, read, and ponder with Puck over the meaning of life and love.

You might also consider a bitter-sweet "Ophelia’s Garden," focusing more on her bouquet of rosemary, pansies, fennel, and daisies (IV,v), than the crow-flowers and nettles of her fantastic, watery garland (V,vii). Though for good measure — and silver color — you could add Hamlet’s wormwood (artemesia).

For more of a kitchen garden, you might borrow from Perdita’s saucy lines at the shepherd’s cottage in The Winter’s Tale (IV,iv). The first several hundred lines are a pastoral shopping list, again reflecting some of the most common plants listed above. To add special meaning to your planting, you might even consider adding unique plant labels or homemade signs quoting from Perdita: for example, "Marigold [calendula], that goes to bed wi’ the sun/And with him rises weeping," "Rosemary and rue; these keep/Seeming and savour all the winter long," and so on. Such signage can make your garden a poem itself, or transform a school, church, or public garden into an inspired educational experience.

In reflecting on your Shakespeare Garden, before selecting plants and garden motifs, remember that the experience will not only enrich your landscape and your appreciation of it, but will also, hopefully, introduce you to a larger cultural milieu. You should derive as much pleasure in thumbing through and reading the plays and poetry, as in actually planting the garden and enjoying its color, fragrance, and flavor. Understanding the plants in their literary context will help you better understand the civilization which created the literature itself. And suddenly, the Muses permitting, you will discover that your garden has become a doorway to a larger, older world.

Copyright 2009, Joseph M. Keyser

Shakespeare’s Plants

The following reflects plants cited in the Bard’s writings provided as either common or botanic names; (spp) indicates numerous species within a genus.

Aster (spp)
Basket of Gold
Climbing Hydrangea
Crocus (spp)
Curled Mallow
Dianthus (spp)
English primrose
Euphorbia (spp)
False Blue Indigo
Fritillaria (spp)
Fulvous Daylily
Ilex (spp)
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Meadow Buttercup
Mint (Mentha spp)
Narcissus (spp)
Oriental Poppy
Rose (Rosa spp)
Sage (Salvia spp)
Viola (spp)
Wood Fern
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Mourning in Mississippi

BudLiteGood morning, y’all. If you are like most of the Bulldawg nation you are waking slowly today. Whether the lethargy is due to the destruction of brain cells by the viewing of the debacle in Oxford, or the alcohol imbibed to make the images of the game go away, either way, the damage to the frontal cortex has been done.

I believe it was on Jacob Eason’s pick six that I jumped from my Barcalounger screaming “my eyes, my eyes”, causing my dear wife Mulva to think I had been struck blind like Paul on the road to Damascus. I guess she figured I was long over due for some sort of Divine Intervention, and being struck blind in the middle of a game was just as good as any other time. Would that it were true.

Instead, the Dear Lord kept me sighted for the entire train wreck, er, game. I do not use the term train wreck lightly. Normally I can find a bright spot to focus on during a defeat and dwell on that aspect until the next week. There was nothing from yesterday’s game that could be taken forward as a positive to give hope that the inbreds from Tennessee will not stomp a giant mud hole in our team next week in Athens. Nothing.

After a self imposed time out, and many hours of meditation, I have found one positive to the trip. Mississippi has one of the lowest incidents of the Zika virus in the United States. So I guess that while we can say that none of our players can catch a football, they probably didn’t catch the Zika either.

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January Guardian Angels collectively inspire: harmony, aptitude to success, well-being, understanding ability, renewal capacity, transformation skills, self-knowledge, inclination to science, patience.
Protection: from negative energies, explosions, fire, accidents.
Favorite Activities: Business, Astrology, Astronomy, Commerce, Communication, Philosophy, Physics, Teaching, Mathematics, Medicine.

Nemamiah – God Beloved – Archangels Choir- January 1 to 5
Prosperity and success. Know how to take the reins of situations and advise others.
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Yeialel – God Who Hears – Chorus of the Archangels – January 6 to 10
Healing from Psychosomatic Diseases. Protection from fraudsters and liars. docile and gentle character. Love for art and beauty. Success and fame.

Harahel – God Concious – Chorus of the Archangels – January 11 to 15
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Mitzrael – Rescuer God – Archangels Choir – January 16 to 20
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Umabel – God of Immense – Choir of the Archangels – January 21 to 25
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Iah-Hel – Supreme God – Archangels Choir- Jan. 26 to 30
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Anauel – God of Goodness – Archangels Choir – Jan. 31 to February 4
Protection from unforeseen events and accidents. Good health and brave character. Capacity of
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January is the month dedicated to the Child Jesus .

Prayer to the Holy Child to beg for help in the painful circumstances of life.

O eternal splendor of the divine Father, sigh and comfort of believers, Holy Child Jesus, of crowned glory, deh! lower your goodwill on all those who trust you.
Wonder how many calamities and bitternesss, how many thorns and sorrows intertwine our exile. Have mercy on those who suffer so much here! Mercy of those who weep for some misfortune: of those who languish and groan on a bed of sorrow: of those who are made a sign of unjust persecution: of families without bread or without peace; finally, pity of all those who in the various trials of life, in you faithful, implore your divine help, your heavenly blessings.
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If you want a stylish, classy, simple look from a nouveau brand that shines for less than four figures, the Gucci U-Play YA129502 is the way to go. Unlike the Gucci 1921 Quartz Women’s YA130405 which will drive you north of $10,000, you can rest assured that with a new Gucci U-Play YA129502 you will procure a few novice compliments without breaking the bank. If you have the dough and are looking for blingy diamonds or approval from the high end watch connoisseur, you’d be better off with a Cartier La Dona at $10,000 or for the true collector, perhaps the Cartier Paves Brilliant WE902006 drenched in diamonds for just shy of $200,000. Personally, as a high end shopper who still drives a Honda, I prefer a reputable women’s watch brand with a Eurpoean feel but I won’t lose sleep over what a collector thinks. I look for style, class, a reputable brand, form, function, and longevity and I happen to be a Gucci fan. Thus, the Gucci U-Play YA129502 offers the amenities that I respect sans the guilt. If you are a high end brand snob like me juggling a family, hobbies, and other financial responsibilities, the Gucci U-Play YA129502 is great find.

As far as watches go, with its stainless steel band and analog display, the Gucci U-Play YA129502 is pretty standard feature-wise. It boasts no significant extras as compared to any watch in its price range, apart from the Gucci name. You pay north of $30 because it’s a Gucci and south of $10,000 due to lack of diamonds as compared to some higher end Gucci models. As far as high end watches go, this is relatively inexpensive. If you are a pragmatic watch buyer looking simply to glean the time on occasion or you tend to lose, break, and replace watches on a regular basis, this is not the watch for you even at its relatively low price. Clumsy pragmatists, consider sticking with a Timex in the double digits.  On the other hand, if you are willing to step over $1000 and prefer a slightly blingier feel and more prominent brand recognition from afar, check out the GUCCI Women’s YA121505 121 Marina Chain Quartz Watch instead. You can purchase both the Marina Chain Quartz and the U-Play YA129502 on Amazon or some other sites at great discounts from their original retail prices at $1345 and $845 respectively, thereby narrowing the price difference from $500 down to $100 – $200. At that point, the desired level of bling becomes more of a style choice. Also to note, if you’re into stylish diving, the Gucci U-Play YA129502 is water resistant for up to 99 feet. In all honesty, I find the watch a bit mundane aesthetically. When I go Gucci, I tend to prefer something mildly more distinctive which is why I opted to pay the few hundred extra dollars for the Marina Chain Quartz. That being said, you won’t find many Gucci women’s watches for a lower price than the U-Play YA129502.

In summary, if like me you are a high-end brand lover who doesn’t want to choose between a watch and a new vehicle, a down payment, or a divorce, the Gucci U-Play YA129502 at under $1000 is a smart buy that is worth the price. If you don’t know what time it is, perhaps it’s time to get online and grab yourself a Gucci U-Play YA129502 guilt-free and flaunt that unassuming, sleek, silver (stainless steel) beauty on a trip around town foraging for the best college, car, or vacation on which to spend those additional savings.

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Guelph Politico is locally sourced and dedicated to covering the political and cultural scene in the City of Guelph. Est. 2008.

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Do You Miss a Daily Newspaper? Tell This Lady About It

Hard to believe, but it's been going on nearly a year now that Guelph has gone without a local paper. The Guelph Mercury-Tribune, Guelph Today, myself, and a few others have tried to fill the void of the old Guelph Mercury, but can anything really replace that hole left behind by a local daily newspaper, and how are we all coping with that? Well, I now know at least one lady who would like an answer to that, and she'd like your feedback as well.

Ryerson journalism professor April Lindgren and professor Jon Corbett from the University of British Columbia are working together on a crowd-sourced map of news coverage in Canada. It's goal is to keep people updated on the job cuts at papers, or their outright closure, as well the map will identify the few newspapers that are adding staff, in addition to new ventures meant to fill the news void. You can find the map here.
“Access to local news is important to the democratic vibrancy and health of a community because people who have access to news are then equipped to participate in decisions that affect them,” Lindgren told j-source. “This project will examine the extent to which local news poverty is an issue outside of major cities where often there are still multiple newspapers and many other local news sources.”
In addition, Prof. Lindgren is looking to get feedback from local news enthusiasts in terms of how they feel about local news in their area. You can access the survey and fill it out by clicking here.

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"The Kill" (subtitled in its single release in America as "Bury Me" and in the UK as "Rebirth") is the second single from 30 Seconds to Mars' second album, A Beautiful Lie. Jared Leto described the meaning of the song as, "It's really about a relationship with yourself. It's about confronting your fear and confronting the truth about who you are." He has also said it is about "confrontation as a crossroads"—coming face-to-face with who you really are.

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"The Kill" on guitar is not very difficult even on hard or expert. For an easy player these notes might be difficult. The only real difficult parts are after Leto says "Ooooh!" because you have to hit multiple notes at a rather fast pace. It is also difficult when during the pre-chorus and when Jared says "This is who I really am inside."

On drums this song is very difficult especially when Leto says, "This is who I really am inside," where you have to play practically every note in a fast motion.

"The Kill" is not very difficult even on expert while playing bass. A medium guitar player should be able to get through the song with very little to no trouble.

On vocals this song is easy as its basic pitch dosent change. The entire song is only singing and for some people it might be a little fast. But for most this song should easy on almost any level.

Appears InEdit

Guitar Hero World Tour

Guitar Hero Live

  • Sounddial: Fire Pit (Our Pasts Collide)

Songs of Guitar Hero World Tour
Psi Psi Kappa (USA)
Livin' on a Prayer - About a Girl - Mountain Song
Wilted Orchid (Sweden)
Beautiful Disaster - Obstacle 1 - The One I Love
Bone Church (Poland)
Some Might Say - Today - What I've Done
Pang Tang Bay (Hong Kong)
Band on the Run - You're Gonna Say Yeah - Up Around the Bend - No Sleep till Brooklyn
Amoeba Records (Los Angeles)
The Joker - Freak on a Leash - Misery Business - Hotel California
Tool (USA)
Parabola - Schism - Vicarious
Swamp Shack (Louisiana}
Eye of the Tiger - Spiderwebs - One Way or Another - Do it Again - Stillborn
Rock Brigade (The Pacific)
The Middle - Hey Man, Nice Shot - Feel the Pain - Dammit - Everlong
Strutter's Farm (Kentucky)
Heartbreaker - American Woman - Ramblin' Man - Go Your Own Way - Stranglehold
House of Blues (Los Angeles)
L'Via L'Viaquez - Kick Out the Jams - Santeria - On the Road Again - Love Me Two Times
Ted's Tiki Hut (Tahiti)
Monsoon - Aggro - Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast) - Good God - One Armed Scissor
Will Heilm's Keep (England)
The Kill - Shiver - Rebel Yell - Demolition Man
Recording Studio (Canada)
Lazy Eye - Too Much Too Young - Float On - Nuvole e Lenzuola - Pretty Vacant
AT&T Park (San Fransisco)
Are You Gonna Go My Way - Sweet Home Alabama - Assassin - Escuela De Calor - The Wind Cries Mary - Purple Haze
Tesla's Coil (Australia)
Toy Boy - Hail to the Freaks - Vinternoll2 - Hollywood Nights
Ozzfest (Germany)
Love Removal Machine - Our Truth - Antisocial - Prisoner of Society - Mr. Crowley - Crazy Train
Times Square (New York City)
Re-Education (Through Labor) - La Bamba - Scream Aim Fire - Overkill - Trapped Under Ice - B.Y.O.B - Hot for Teacher
Sunna's Chariot (Asgard)
Love Spreads - Soul Doubt - Never too Late - Pull Me Under - Satch Boogie
Guitar Battles
Ted Nugent Guitar Battle - Zakk Wylde Guitar Battle
Downloadable Tracks
That Was Just Your Life - The End of the Line - Broken, Beat & Scarred - The Day that Never Comes - All Nightmare Long - Cyanide - The Unforgiven Ill - The Judas Kiss - Suicide & Redemption J.H. - Suicide & Redemption K.H. - My Apocalypse - Rock and Roll Band - Hot Blooded - Jessie's Girl - No Rain - Ted Nugent Guitar Battle - Zakk Wylde Guitar Battle - Anything - Electrorock - Horse to Water - Man-Sized Wreath - Supernatural Superserious - Bang it Up - Waiting for the Rapture - The Shock of the Lightning - If 6 was 9 - Little Wing - Fire - G.L.O.W. - 1979 - The Everlasting Gaze - Salute Your Solution - Hold Up - Consoler of the Lonely - The Turning - I'm Outta Time - (Get off Your) High Horse Lady - Falling Down - To Be Where There's Life - Ain't Got Nothin - The Nature of Reality - Soldier On


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20 april 2018

Happy Birthday in Dutch!

Hi there everyone!

Ow ow, Summer has arrived! It was about 20°C today here in Belgium, it was in 1 word... GREAT! So ofcourse I was inspired to make a bright birthday card! Let me explain you how I did it.

I started by die cutting some number dies that I wanted to use on my background (the card is for my colleague that teaches mat, hihi!). Then I applied some gesso and next some cheerfull and bright colors. After coloring the card with paint I added some background stamping (you can find the used materials on the bottom of this post).

For my focal element I used the sketched circle (ow gosh, I just adore this die!) and inside I put a Dutch quote stamp saying 'today is your day'. Yes, you read well, a Dutch quote! Those are new in the Gummiapan collection, and I can tell you, they are amazing! Here's a sneek of the stamps...

Okay, ofcourse I needed some more bright elements so I stamped the cute butterfly stamp to finish of my card. I made some splatters and did some border stamping and voila, that's it! I hope you like it!

Sunny Belgian greetings!
DT Carmen

Materials I used:
- stamp 'frayed net' 11050706
- stamp 'avisst gör det...' 11060301
- stamp 'splatter' 15100112
- stamp 'vandaag is jouw dag'
- stamp 'middle sized butterfly' 11050303
- stamp 'small chevron' 14090208
- die 'sketched circle' D160408
- die 'number' D180210

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Portable Solar Panels for Camping

Camping is a lot of fun, but in the 21st century it is hard for many of us to go without our electronic gadgets. We know that the batteries will never last for the whole trip, and we therefore fret about being without our electronic gizmos while we are out in the woods. Luckily, there is a smart solution for this problem. You can enjoy all of your electronic devices for the duration of your trip when you bring along portable solar panels for camping.

Take Power with You Anywhere

One of the best things about portable solar panels is that you can take them with your anywhere. Because they are so lightweight and portable, you can hike with them deep into the backcountry. You can set up your campsite with all the electronic gadgets you need for your camping trip.

For example, most of us use digital cameras to take our photographs these days. The only problem with digital cameras is that the batteries can run out quickly. Instead of having to buy a whole bunch of batteries to take with you on your camping trip, you can make the much more environmentally responsible choice of using portable solar panels to recharge your batteries.

Another way you can use them is to charge your GPS device. A GPS device is very handy to have with you when you are camping. You will never have to worry about getting lost when you have GPS guidance to help you navigate your way through the wilderness. When you bring along a portable solar panel to charge your GPS device, you never have to worry about it running out of power while you are deep in the woods.

The Eco-Friendly Choice

One of the most common ways people keep their electronic devices running when they are out in the woods is to bring along a lot of spare batteries. This is not the environmentally sound decision. The manufacturing of batteries is not the most eco-friendly process, and they are a nightmare to throw away due to their toxicity.

Instead of adding to the waste that is clogging our landfills, you should make the eco-conscious choice to charge your devices with solar panels when you are camping. This will allow you to only bring one battery along for every electronic device you bring with you. It will save you the hassle of packing a ton of batteries, and it will ease your conscience by allowing you to make the environmentally friendly decision.

Harness the Power of the Sun

Using the sun to power your devices is the smartest decision you can make. It is good for the environment, and it assures you that you will always have all the power you need while you are out in the woods. Whether you want to charge your phone, GPS device or portable DVD player, you can get all the energy you need with portable solar panels for camping. They are the smart choice for campers everywhere.

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The Event Tent Business

for Business and Event

Product Overview
GYBE Event-Zelte mit Individualisierungsmöglichkeiten

It’s ALL inflatable!

GYBE® provides a wide range of inflatable products which creates an extraordinary space for Events, roadshows, incentives and product presentations.

Latest Developments

Connectivity is key! As all GYBE EVENT TENTS, the brand new 10FEET (3 by 3 m) can be connected to multiple other 10FEET EVENT TENTS or to the EVEN TENT 4000 ( 4 by 4 m) by using a FUSION panel.

Create your advertising space.

Get in contact with us now!

Alle Erweiterungen für das aufblasbare Event Tent von GYBE
Any Questions? Please Contact us:
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Faster and lighter

Due to the lack of heavy bars, the tent’s transportation is easy and it can be built up by one person in less than 5 minutes.

The unique GYBE® One-Pump-system easily allows to inflate the tent through a central inflation valve quickly.

Unlike other inflatable tents, our tent does not need a permanent fan working to keep it up straight.

Aufblasbare Zelte von GYBE brauchen kein Dauergebläse
Alle Erweiterungen für das aufblasbare Event Tent von GYBE

One set. A million possibilities

The extraordinary range of GYBE® products are perfectly combinable and creating a functional and visual unit.

The tent creates the room, the counter is the ideal presentation display and the sitting tube invites to take a seat.

In sum, the perfect Set to display and highlight your creative and individual design.

Alle Erweiterungen für das aufblasbare Event Tent von GYBE

Modular and extendable

GYBE® offers an unsurpassed selection of extensions for its event tents. With our Set Exclusive the GYBE® Event tents come with four freely selectable sidepanels. On request it is possible to use different versions.

By using the Sun Shade or the Shade Extender you cannot only extend the shadow-casting side but also enlarge the printable advertising space.

Tents of various sizes may be connected to cover a larger area and to create an impressive scenery of dome tents.

The Removable Roof offers highest flexibility: With only a minimum of installation work it is possible to take off the canopy and exchange it with one of a different color.

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Aufblasbare Zelte können leicht miteinander verbunden werden Mit dem GYBE Fusion Panel können große Flächen überdacht werden

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The inflatable event tents may be individually designed. The huge color palette allows for customizations of the canopy, the support structure, the side parts and the seam.

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Color palette

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Light Grey
422 C
300 C
200 C
2767 C
Cool Grey
7 C
Dacron White
Sea Blue
299 C
Deep Red
186 C
Side Panels
Light Grey
422 C
300 C
200 C
2767 C

* Colors on screen may differ from material colors. Use Pantone values as indicator

GYBE Event Zelte können individuell gestaltet werden

Additionally, it is possible to print on the roof and the sidepanels as partial or fullprint to use them as advertising space. Our printing process furthermore allows for individual colouring of the outer side of the roof and sidepanels.

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All printing options

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If the Design is real, then our Reality is brilliant

The GYBE® Event Tent is not only impressive because of its remarkable design. Thanks to a modern printing process the GYBE® Event Tent can be printed as of now photorealistic. By means of a new refining method your tent becomes a canvas of brilliant photos with impressive sharpness, high color intensity and captivating resolution.

The GYBE® Event Tent therefore attracts everyone’s attention and turns into a unique advertising space. Furthermore, the new printing process makes it possible to individually color the outer panels of the Roof and Sides.

4C-Color Print

Sublimation Printing

Sublimation printing is a process in which the color pigments are brought deeply into the printable material. A sublimation foil is digitally printed in photo quality and then with pressure and heat transferred to the material.

More about sublimation printing >

The printing result is extremely brilliant because the warmth gives the pigments a winning brightness and they durably adhere to the fabric. Sublimation printing is extremely suitable for large or fullprint designs. You can print over the complete length and breadth of the material, which enables the colorizing of the Roofs or Sides in your Corporate Identity colors.

Step 1

Firstly, the special foil is printed with the wished design on the reverse. The applied ink contains many chromophoric pigments and is highly concentrated.

Step 2

Subsequently, the material to be printed and the special foil are pulled together through a heating press. Here the colorant from the carrier foil is transferred to the material under high pressure and temperature.

Transfer Printing

As opposed to sublimation printing, transfer printing is especially suitable for small to mediumsized designs, which are to be shown advantageously on colored material.

More about Transfer printing >

Latex ink is digitally printed in photo-quality on the carrier foil. This foil is then cut to size according to the design and then transferred under pressure and heat on the surface of the material. Since the carrier foil is white, colored materials can also be printed. The printing result is absolutely brilliant, also on black materials.

Step 1

Firstly, the special foil (transfer) is printed with the required design.

Step 2

Subsequently, the transfer foil is cut to size with the help of the design. The cut-out material to be printed on is spread out crease-free on the transfer press and the transfer foil positioned on the material. Under heat and high pressure the transfer foil is transferred to the material.

Technical Details

The Event Tents are made of B1 certified material, as well as water resistant and UV-stabilized.

2.7 m
3.0 m
4.2 m
4.9 m
3.0 m
4.0 m
5.0 m
6.0 m
3.0 m
4.0 m
5.0 m
6.0 m
Floor area
10.2 m2
16.0 m2
25.0 m2
36.0 m2
Clearance height
2.06 m
2.20 m
2.45 m
3.27 m
13 kg
15 kg
19 kg
24 kg

Set Up Times

Double action hand pump
14 min
16 min
28 min
40 min
12 V battery pump
9 min
11 min
18 min
25 min
220 V battery pump
4 min
5 min
9 min
13 min
Fire protection classification
B 1
2000 mm
Aufblasbare Zelte sind leicht und trotzdem extrem belastbar

Set up of the supporting structure

The inflatable supporting structure consists of a high-strength Dacron-shell. We use an elastic PU-foil for the hermetical interior hose.

This construction has been tested under heaviest conditions in the Kite-sports thousands of times.

The One-Pump-System

The standardized One-Pump-System allows for inflation of the tent via electric pump or with battery powered pump through a central induction valve. This is done by splitting up the air streams into three air chambers through hoses. The tent is set up in under 5 minutes.

Mit dem One-Pump-System können Zelte in 2 Minuten aufgebaut werden
Das Event Tent von GYBE kommt mit dem größten Lieferumfang am Markt

Scope of delivery

The Set Exclusive includes the tent with 4 freely selectable side parts, sand bags and guy wires for fastening under windy conditions, a transportation-back-pack, a double-stroke hand pump and a repair set. In addition, this package may be extended by request.

The combination of quality, modularity and the largest scope of delivery available on the market allow for an extraordinary price-performance-ratio.

Delivery times

Although the high level of customisability GYBE® provides very short delivery times for all its products.

We are pleased to submit you a custom-made offer.
+49 (0)4421 / 987 88 92

Our products apply to the highest production- and quality standards. If your tent has been damaged it can be repaired at our german service departement, quick and efficent. An overhaul will always be done with original material and applies to the strict GYBE® production standards.

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See where GYBE® Event tents are used and be inspired by the endless possibilities ...


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Bremshey Ambition Home Treadmill

Bremshey Ambition Home Treadmill

Home Treadmills South Africa call 071 863 7398

New Bremshey Treadmills and Gym Equipment stock has just arrived.

10 year warranty on treadmill motor and frame .

10 Years on Frame and Motor

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New 2017 Stock is in!

Reserve your unit now. Call 071 863 7398 or email me.

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Do you feel that you need to see more information on gym equipment,exercise equipment, the best treadmill or home gyms? Call me to hear how else we can assist you in achieving your goals quickly and with the best combination of services and low price. You can call me now on 071 863 7398 or mail me immediately
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Daily Archives: January 3, 2017

Sigala & Digital Farm Animals. Only One. #GymJam #burn

Sigala knows how to craft a hit…just look at “Say You Do”, “Easy Love” and “Sweet Lovin” as proof of that. Now with Digital Farm Animals, another burning banger is born with “Only One”. This is sure to be a Gymjam that raises your HR!!!!

If you like it, check out the buy page to get this track, or our stream page to stream from Spotify.


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Eat Dark Chocolate, Lose Some Weight

Written by Gym Workout Routine on . Posted in Homepage

Gym workout routines for women

If you decide to exercise for a mere fifteen minutes a day, you would already lower your rate of mortality by 14 percent than someone who does not exercise at all. When you are considering gym workout routines for women you should remember this and just try to get in a little bit of time every day. It will change your life.

Setting up a few gym workout plans is a good way to get the ball rolling for your new attitude. Losing weight does not have to be as daunting as it seems as long as you pace yourself and set realistic goals. When they are setting up their gym workout routines for women, women should definitely be setting goals, but not outrageous ones. There is nothing more defeating than setting a goal for yourself and not being capable of reaching it. It will make losing weight that much harder.

When it comes to diet, it is important to keep an eye on what goes into your body. You might be surprised to find out that eating a reasonable amount of dark chocolate can actually increase your chances of losing weight. It just needs to be done in moderation and obviously, doing gym workout routines for women should also be included.

If you have been feeling down in the dumps, lately, think about working out. It might not seem as though it will help, but it definitely heightens your mood. Moving around and getting into regular gym workout routines for women can be helpful when they are active because they can improve their cognitive abilities.

If you feel like you get bored when you are working out, try listening to some music. When you find music you enjoy working out to, it can pump you up and get you excited to be in motion. If you go to a gym, occasionally they will have TVs that you can watch. Focusing on a TV show you enjoy can take the focus off all the energy you are expelling to be active.

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Owatonna Festival of Arts
Written by Hallmark Art Glass
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Owatonna Festival of Arts
Owatonna Festival of the Arts
July 27th & July 28th, 2013
Central Park in downtown Owatonna, MN
 Mark will be a participating artist at this fine arts festival.

Stop in to say "Hi" and see what he's been up to.
For more info & directions to the festival, check out:

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Truck May 2015: Two Poems by Albino Carrillo

Dear Tom: “ice age coming”

Shall I write to you
about the war
in 2001 words
or less, tell you
I can still
read your
dreams late
at night
when the
moon is down
and your soul
goes wandering
for a bit. The
words you’d
murmur under
the twilight
of beer perhaps,
or the literal
spells you’d cast
that one time
you came to
visit me in
Alamosa with
your new wife.
I’d been
your best man
the week
before and now
you wanted to see
the mountains
where I lived.

Back when you
lived in Berkeley
for a year they
say you cracked—
I wasn’t sure anymore
hoping you were
an agent of some kind
for the unknown.
Our lives for example—
fine tuned to a war
that didn’t appear
in your lifetime.
But now I
know the brave
ocean spoke
its truth to you
somewhere near
Dover in the late
summer and she
was holding your
hand as that’s all
she could do. To day
the rain is steep
steady, cold.  I watched
the last Morning
Glories unfold, light
blue white in a green heaping
bush on the fence.  In two
weeks they'll start making
seeds. I turn at

The reversal in weather—
now’s the time for looking
at what you see.
What I see is unencumbered
Crabapple sprouting
unperturbed Maple
making its way in the spring.
So what can I tell you of
the Maple sprouts, the propellered
seeds twirling like dancers
to earth, trapped in the sidewalk
some surviving to become little
trees in the grass. My pretty
face made of paint and ashes
is what I have left for you.
Plasticine pieces of a life to a
shuddering, curtain drawing
dream. That you are
alive somewhere and conquering
The South Peak one more time.

Man Reading (after the painting by John Singer Sargent)

What is he reading, what is he dreaming?
The thick blunt brush strokes
of his book lean out at us, dissolve
up close. So it must be,
for the text is about love, the story
is always a marriage plot woven
in the grim air he breathes. Slim
cheroot near his lips, and his eyes
closed or focused on the unknown:
there’s a planet in the one book
he’s reading, the streets and gutters
the homes are not unlike his because
they are ours, gnarly fractured old
farmhouses littering the suburbs.
And in a way he read the future
where some of us may fail and the story
of the great climb down to the green
dying metropoli of the Midwest
is a song to listen to, a song
the great trains carry at midnight.
Perhaps he is reading about Chicago,
perhaps he is reading of Philly,
the ballparks, the restaurants
the great chemical smokestacks
linear bridges and vegetable
stands. Perhaps the words
are drowning him like the great
green sea which surrounds him
nameless. Having read
and slept and smoked I would go
out into the pre-modern industrial night
where the sky is aglow, yellow ochre,
like the atmosphere of his room.
The text as blunt as breadsticks.

Albino Carrillo, a sixth generation native New Mexican, received a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Arizona State University in 1993, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of New Mexico in 1986. He has published poetry in many literary journals, including The Antioch Review, Puerto Del Sol, Blue Mesa Review, CALIBAN, The South Dakota Review, Columbia: A Journal of Art and Literature, Sou'Wester, and World Order. Carrillo's poems are anthologized in both Library Bound: A Saratoga Anthology (Saratoga Springs Library Press, 1996), and The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press, 2007). Carrillo's first book of poems is In the City of Smoking Mirrors (University of Arizona Press, 2004). Before teaching at the University of Dayton, Carrillo taught in the English Department at the University of Minnesota, and at Union College of New York, where he held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Carrillo is a Pushcart Prize nominee. His latest book of poems, Uranium Days, is available through Argus House Press.

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Russian biathlon two years left without a license

Photo: Alexey Filippov/ RIA Novosti

The Russian biathlon Union (RBU) will return the status of a full member of the International biathlon Union (IBU) only two years later. About it reports TASS.

On Saturday, September 8, IBU Congress amended the organization’s Charter, according to which only he has the right to return to the national federations with full membership. The Congress is held every two years. Thus, the question of obtaining SBR’s membership in the IBU will be considered only in 2020.

On 7 September, Congress refused to restore the SBR rights. In December 2017 IBU transferred the Russian side in the status of temporary member that does not give him the right to vote at the IBU Congress, to nominate candidates for election to the governing bodies of the organization and qualify for international competitions.

According to two-time Olympic champion Viktor Mamatov, who is at the Congress in Croatia, the failure of the IBU to restore full membership of the Union of biathletes of Russia due to new allegations the former head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory of Gregory Rodchenkov. He pointed to the collusion that existed between the heads of the organizations.

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FT232R USB to Serial/TTL Converter Module

FT232R USB to Serial/TTL Converter Module.

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FT232R is a USB to serial UART interface. A low-cost way to add USB capability to Arduino or other microcontrollers. Use this to give your own breadboard Arduino USB capability for bootloading or downloading sketches. This board includes a DTR pin needed to auto-reset Arduino when downloading to your device.

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Sunday, July 11, 2004

Celebrating 1st July in a New Light: a Somalilander's Perspective
Bashir Goth

"Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes" ~Jean Jaures

On July 1st 1960, the people Somaliland celebrated a day of destiny. They gave up their sovereignty which they had won four days earlier by their own will.

They had a mission to fulfill and a vision to achieve . Their mission was to establish a strong united government with the South and not to let such historical opportunity slip from their grasp. Their vision was to bring all Somali-speaking people under the blue flag. This day the Somalilanders realized of a much larger vision they shared with the remaining four parts of Greater Somalia; with Somalis in Djibouti, the Reserved Areas of Ethiopia, the Northern Frontier District of Kenya and of course Italian Somalis of the South.

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What are the Presidential Candidates Proposing to do about Affordable Housing & Community Development?

Presidential Campaign 2016

It is the summer of 2015 and I am already tired of the campaign season. Why do the campaigns start almost two years before the election? And there is so much money involved that citizens can easily become cynical. However, instead of tuning out, it might be the time to ask the candidates some hard questions about housing and community development. The only way the people take back their democracy is by participating and holding candidates accountable!

If you witness a debate among the candidates or attend a speech, ask the candidates questions about affordable housing and community development. See if their webpages have emails to which you can send questions. Read position papers of the candidates. Do they say anything about housing and community development and is it thoughtful?

Housing and community development is often overlooked and neglected. This is the case, I think, because these programs are perceived to be for poor/undeserving people. Most candidates think that housing and community development are not politically popular. They need to be educated. While most beneficiaries of housing and community development are low- and moderate-income, the entire country benefits if thoughtful and effective housing and community development programs can improve the economic well-being of low- and moderate-income people. If low- and moderate-income people live in revitalizing neighborhoods, they are more likely to be employed at livable wages. They are more likely to have access to good education. In the aggregate, if effective housing and community development programs improve the wellbeing of hundreds of thousands of people, then consumer demand increases, economic output increases, and unemployment decreases.

The following are some housing and community development positions. Observe how close the candidates come to these positions:

Restore Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) budgets: As reported in a previous blog, as housing needs have increased, HUD budgets have been slashed. The budget for Section 8 vouchers to help very low income households pay the rent has not kept pace with rising rents while housing cost burdens for renters have increased. The HOME budget that provides subsidies for housing and homeownership programs has been cut by more than 60 percent between 2005 and 2012. The District of Columbia Department of Housing and Community Development has used HOME funding for, HPAP, its low downpayment program. Which candidates are clearest about the needs to increase HUD’s budget?

Strengthen the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA): As described in previous posts, CRA requires banks to meet the needs of communities. Federal agencies produce reports cards for banks that are publicly available and which rate banks on their lending, investment, and services in low- and moderate-income communities. CRA needs to be strengthened as applied to banks and needs to be expanded to cover other financial institutions including mortgage companies, insurance companies, and Wall Street investment banks. Do the candidates discuss CRA in their speeches and websites?

Foreclosure prevention and mediation: Frankly, one of the biggest policy failures of the Obama administration has been its foreclosure prevention program. While I agree with a number of the policy approaches of this administration, foreclosure prevention was not a large enough endeavor. The major program was the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) which offered banks financial incentives and subsidies to rework loans and reduce interest rates for homeowners facing foreclosure. Recent reports by an independent inspector general found that only 1.5 million people were assisted by HAMP but that 6.1 million experienced foreclosures during the time period. In addition, HAMP has $21 billion in unspent funds.

Some may say that the distressed homeowners brought this upon themselves by spending too much on housing and stretching their budgets too thin. However, when a problem reaches this magnitude, a more likely explanation is a rotten industry that was pedaling abusive loans on a large scale. Since homeowners were more sinned against than sinning and since the foreclosure crisis continues to impede the overall economic recovery, a fair question for candidates is will they continue this effort and make it more effective.

Promote neighborhood integration and revitalization:  Recently, a columnist suggested that efforts to revitalize economically distressed neighborhoods should be abandoned in favor of using housing subsidies to move minority and lower income households to more affluent neighborhoods. This is a false choice. Over its 30 year history, Manna has pursued both neighborhood revitalization and integration. Do the candidates recognize the complexity of housing and neighborhood development and will they pursue policies and approaches that promote neighborhood integration and revitalization.

Secondary education that benefits all citizens: Various candidates have announced ambitious plans to provide subsidies and aid so that students do not confront high debt after they finish college. President Obama has proposed free community college for students that maintain acceptable performance. The President’s approach is a step forward. Post-secondary education policies and subsidies must include community colleges and vocational training as well as colleges. Otherwise, a large segment of the population served by Manna will not benefit and will still confront high housing costs because more opportunities to earn higher wages via education and training will not be available to them.

Granted, it is hard work to hold the candidates accountable and you may base your voting decisions on many factors in addition to housing and community development. I took a quick glance at some of the candidate websites and they do not seem geared at this point to stimulate dialogue between the citizens and the candidates in the manner of Congressional websites (you can at least send an email to a member of Congress asking them to respond to your opinion). Yet, keep these issues in mind as you evaluate candidates and take advantage of opportunities to ask them hard questions. It is the only way in the long run to hold them accountable for promoting a more prosperous future for everyone.

Josh Silver is the Development Manager at Manna, Inc. Prior to his time at Manna, Josh served as Vice President of Research & Policy at NCRC. Josh is an avid District sports fan and loves spending time with his daughter.

The Banks Are Back At It

Here we go again! Banks are back at it, crying foul to new regulations, in return telling some of their largest clients to take their money elsewhere, or be slapped with huge fees. The large financial institutions, including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc., HSBC Holdings PLC, Deutsche Bank AG and Bank of America Corp, have stated that the new regulations have made some of these deposits less profitable. For most banks, deposits have been the usual catalyst for driving growth: more deposits allow banks to loan out more money and bring in more profits. However, with tighter regulations and a smaller amount of loans being generated, banks are beginning to see large deposits as dead weight. This mindset has led to these decisions, decisions that have taken a turn away from some of the fundamental principles and actions typically associated with banking. First and foremost, deposits have usually been seen as the key driver for banks since there is a lower interest rate on money kept in-house and then loans can be made at a higher interest rate. The new rules given by regulators to make our financial systems safer require more cash on-hand so that banks are more resistant to shocks like those seen during the financial crisis of 2008. Many banks feel as if these regulations carry too much liability.

Historically, banks’ fundamental purpose was to serve the credit and banking needs of local communities. While things have changed such as the services offered or the speed of these services, the principle responsibility still remains. Banks put a community’s surplus funds (deposits and investments) to work by lending to people to buy homes and cars, to start and expand businesses, to put their children through college, and for countless other purposes. While times have changed, the central focus shouldn’t. We must develop comprehensive strategies that allow maximum community development, while ensuring our communities are safe guarded from predatory practices or financial crises.

Last week, the Community Development Amendment Act of 2013 passed the District Council; this bill encourages banks who do business with the District to make plans to meet the banking needs of all District residents. There will be a chance for the public to weigh in on banks’ plans and progress once implementation begins in early 2016. We hope for good faith banking partners in the District and a chance to champion improved banking services and products for District residents and neighborhoods that need it the most.

Ownership is still cheaper

According to recent data released by Trulia it is still significantly cheaper to own in the DC region then to rent, 34% to be specific. This has been consistent all year and is slightly below the national average of 38%. Jed Kolko, chief economist for Trulia provides in-depth analysis providing further breakdown. For instance, it is 25% cheaper to own in Fairfax, VA than it is to rent, while it is 33% cheaper to own in the District of Columbia.

Trulia calculates this by using several factors, which includes average utility bills and tax deductions amongst other things, but one very important factor that was discovered was that the owner must remain in their home for at least 7 years. Trulia used many different variables to make these calculations like changing the length of the mortgage or type of loan, and every time ownership beats out renting.

This data lends significant strength to the solution of homeownership as a vehicle to help low-to-moderate income individuals achieve economic mobility. The District of Columbia already has programs in place to help lower income individuals purchase homes, like the HPAP program and development subsidies, but more can be done on the side of our financial institutions. A piece of legislation, the Community Development Amendment Act of 2013 would incentivize community development by evaluating the community development plans of financial institutions that apply for financial contracts with the city, and assigning contracts partly based on those plans. Now is the time for the city to lead the way in promoting economic mobility and holding financial institutions accountable!

Failure By Flagstaff

In recent months many factions of the financial industry have been penalized for the participation in the mortgage crisis of 2008, but in recent news the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has narrowed its scope and taken aim at the mortgage servicing firms who play a large role in whether struggling individuals either lose their home or receive extra time to rectify their situations.

In its first act of enforcement under new mortgage servicing rules that began this year, the consumer financial regulatory bureau and Flagstar bank reached a $37.5 million settlement because of accusations the bank prevented thousands of people from accessing tools that would have helped them escape foreclosure. Flagstar has been accused of withholding information from clients, stringing clients along for months, then wrongfully denying them loan modifications, they also failed to inform clients that documents critical to the approval of their modifications were needed. Richard Cordray, the director of the consumer protection bureau said “Flagstar took excessive time to process borrowers’ applications, did not tell them when their applications were incomplete, denied loan modifications to qualified borrowers, and illegally delayed finalizing permanent loan modifications”

One of the biggest concerns generated from this situation is the lack of options or even community oriented departments in these large financial institutions, focused on helping clients find the best option. Here in the District we have an opportunity to provide an incentive to some of these financial institutions. The Community Development Act of 2013 would incentivize more community development from financial institutions, by evaluating their community development plans and factoring those evaluations into which banks secure financial contracts with the city. This latest settlement by Flagstar shows our financial institutions need a little push in the right direction; a Responsible Banking Ordinance seems like the perfect start.

Financial Crisis Conundrum

There have been many long term consequences following the financial crisis of 2008, but recently, one that has taken the forefront of the discussion is the growing divide between economic classes and the disappearance of diverse communities. One of the largest contributors to this issue is the severe credit crunch that followed the crash. Today, black homeowners in America are so likely to return to renter status that all the gains made by blacks in homeownership since the 1970s have been wiped out. Black and Hispanic households have gained the least from the recovery, making it all but one-sided.  While the credit squeeze has significantly contributed to the overall problem, individuals of color already lagged behind due to factors like lack of access to good schools, which in large part reside in more affluent communities, etc. This greater economic stratification has only widened the gap.

In a paper released earlier this year, researchers Amine Ouazad and Romain Rancière show that the credit boom leading up to the crash allowed many families of color to move into more mixed-income and culturally diverse areas, but that also caused white borrowers to move out as well, which lead to more isolated black communities. The paper details how people of color tend to become homeowners in their current neighborhoods or diverse communities, while white individuals usually use homeownership as an opportunity to move into predominately white communities.

The District is very special in this regard. Due to a cultural and economic boom, the city has become a melting pot filled with homeowners from all walks of life. However, in order to maintain diversity, the city must be very strategic and targeted with its resources, ensuring an adequate amount of affordable housing is available. In an article written by Cheryl Cort for Greater Greater Washington, the author speaks on the city’s history of using public land for affordable development, and how this practice has waned. She references a current development proposal that would require no affordable development in a more affluent area of the city, but allow the developers to produce the units in a more distressed area of the city. While this allows the developer to develop more affordable units, it strips potential affordable owners of the access to transit, employment, and education opportunities that are more plentiful in more affluent areas of the city, and are critical to economic mobility. The choices in this situation are not easy, and the District also needs to be mindful of enacting policies that allow lower income and minority homeowners to have access to good credit as well as access to growing equity in their homes. The District is in a great position and must leverage all of it resources to produce as much affordable housing as possible. If not, it runs the risk of ending its cultural and economically diverse renaissance.

The Future of Community Wealth Building

Since the financial crash of 2008 many low-to-moderate income families have had a hard time getting back on their feet during these years following. One city is taking an innovative approach to helping families in their community build wealth. Founded on the rich legacy of Maggie Lena Walker, the first woman of any race in the nation to charter a bank, the City Richmond is trying an innovative approach called the Maggie L. Walker initiative for Expanding Opportunity and Fighting Poverty. The main focus of the program is developing an Anti-Poverty Task force comprised of key administrators, issue experts, non-profit and business stakeholders, and community leaders to oversee the development and implementation of programs such as an Affordable Housing trust fund for the development of more affordable housing and a revamped workforce development program. There will also be a focus on developing rapid bus transit and the establishing of a citywide scholarship program to increase the access to college and vocational education. A Citizen Advisory Board will also be assembled to ensure poverty stays at the top of the agenda and that persons living or working in or near poverty have a seat at the table.

According to columnist Michael Paul Williams, this innovative approach aims to “undo centuries of Richmond history, including a poverty infrastructure built by ill-advised or malevolent public policies and sustained by latter-day indifference.” Policies like redlining and discriminatory housing covenants made it difficult for people of color to become homeowners following WW!!, hampering their wealth creation. Although this initiative has yet to fail or succeed, fresh ideas like these are needed to truly combat the current economic crisis. The District of Columbia is currently facing a homelessness crisis, as well as an affordable housing crisis. In addition to common sense policies focused on wealth generation for low-to-moderate income families and the development of more affordable housing, fresh ideas like the ones in Richmond are key to addressing these crises. DC is way ahead financially and programmatically (we have a huge Trust Fund, Workforce Development programs funded, etc.), but what’s unique is a stated focus on wealth building and the connection between all of the issues and a board of leaders and citizens to push the initiative forward. The resources are in place, but a commitment to fresh ideas and community development are needed to ensure the District’s sustained economic and cultural boom.

Mounting Frustration

The District’s plan for revitalized mixed-income public housing through the New Communities Project has not moved forward, and this has frustrated residents. The New Communities project was first developed in 2005 as a way to redevelop aging public housing facilitates into mixed-income developments, two of them being Barry Farms, located in Ward 8, and Park Morton, located in Ward 4. None of the four projects are close to completion, and the developer originally assigned to the Park Morton project was given the boot this past spring. These deficiencies have led to a high level of frustration among residents. This situation has been especially disruptive because many residents have been displaced or relocated due to the development, leaving boarded up apartments in its place. In the past, meetings between developers and residents have been very tense. In a meeting last summer about the Barry Farms project, developers were met by protesters and tired residents, and police intervention was called to bring peace. Because of these events, meeting rules have been changed and very little details are now disclosed early on – meetings have simply become a meet and greet between residents and prospective developers, with plans for a panel to choose a developer and hammer out details with residents and others afterwards. Other issues, particularly with the Lincoln Heights development in Ward 7, include inappropriate financing assumptions and timelines. The New Communities Project needs a revamp, and there is no time to waste. Perhaps a Council Committee dedicated solely to housing, as Councilmember Grosso suggested last week as well as other actions from the DC Executive would help move this and other affordable housing processes along.

Rapid Solutions

As the city continues to grapple with its affordable housing crisis and the sharp rise in the homeless population, rapid rehousing has been one of the few bright spots. However, a recent change in how the program is administered could create a self-re-enforcing system of continued homelessness and a growing homeless population. Due to a recent change all rapid re-housing subsidies end after one year; prior to this change the subsidies where reviewed by a case manager every three months.

In a Washington Post article shedding light on this issue, the author spends time with Nkechi Feaster, someone who would be considered a rapid re-housing success, but is currently on the brink of homelessness. As a recipient of the District’s rapid re-housing program Ms. Feaster was given a full housing subsidy to cover her monthly rent of $950 and her case was reviewed every three months. The next year, after she found a temp job as a community organizer paying $1,000 each month, the city asked her to put half of her income toward rent.  Shortly after she began paying her rent in full, her temp position expired and she was once again facing financial hardship. Instead of helping families break the cycle of poverty, the program can contribute to very briefly delaying it. A program first developed in Los Angeles and Minneapolis in the 1980’s, rapid re-housing was intended as a crisis intervention program, not a tool to break generational poverty. Next year the city has appropriated $20 million to rapid re-housing, while funding for homeless family services is being reduced by $6 million.

According to the Interagency Council of Homelessness families displaced are expected to increase 16% this winter and there is still huge demand for affordable housing in the city. Rapid re-housing is a phenomenal tool for quickly assisting displaced and homeless families, helping them find housing in difficult times, but to truly curb homelessness it must be paired with complementary programs that helps move families out of poverty and into stable housing. The city needs to continue to focus on funding the Interagency Council on Homelessness’ plan to end chronic homelessness by 2020, creating new units through the Housing Production Trust Fund (HPTF) whose rents are supported by the Local Rent Supplement Program (LRSP). As CNHED testified in May 2014, “ If we instead continue to focus our attention only on the “crisis” of homelessness and fail to increase the stock of affordable housing, we continue to fail these families and individuals, providing them with only an overcrowded shelter system, and no real strategies to prevent homelessness or provide permanent affordable housing.” Rapid re-housing is a great tool if used strategically, and can only work alongside these other production tools.  All of these tools, used correctly, will be greatly needed in the city’s battle to curb the homelessness crisis.

No More Poor Door

As demand for housing continues to rise in more economically emerging areas, public and affordable housing continues to dwindle, soon becoming a thing of the past. In an attempt to curb this crisis Mayor Bill Deblasio has commissioned the development of 80,000 new affordable units in NYC over the next 10 years, but this hasn’t come without its fair share of problems. One of these problems has been the “Poor Door”, separate entrances for affordable housing recipients in market rate building in NYC, which began to cause widespread outrage among residents and city leaders. This problem stems from indirect policies that allow developers to have multiple entrances on developments that feature a variety of housing options-like condos and rentals in the same building. What has been more difficult than managing the bad publicity, is finding a clear cut solution to the problem. Market-rate buildings in high priced cities typically offer concierge service, entertainment rooms, and breathe taking views, amenities that are not necessarily requested by affordable residents or even expected. So, how do meet your affordable housing goal of creating 80,000 new units, a large amount that will need to be developed alongside market-rate development, while ensuring market-rate residents get the amenities they pay for without offending affordable residents. This is the question that has many stumped.

There are solutions, one being offsite development. This would require developers to still develop the same amount of affordable units, and likely more than they would have developed in their market-rate buildings, but at another location. This would remove the economic totem pole that is mixed-income development, and in condo developments avoid some of the economic issues that have resulted from escalating common fees and a minority of affordable owners at risk of getting priced out.

Aside from policies, cities like New York and even Washington, DC use a variety of tax breaks and subsidies to encourage more affordable development, often times providing tax relief or allowing the developer to build more square feet then typically allowed. Many developers prefer to develop the affordable units offsite, because it allows them to maximize profits at the most desirable locations. Gary Barnett, the founder and president of Extell development in NYC says, that affordable developments incorporated in market rate buildings means “giving away” the most valuable units. “We wouldn’t be able to do affordable,” he said. “It wouldn’t make any financial sense.”

While there is some backlash to this approach, most affordable housing supporters agree that the development of affordable units is much more important than where they are located as long as the alternate location is reasonable, and hopefully close by. “It’s so important to build as much affordable housing as possible, and you always have to compromise,” said Carol Lamberg, co-chairwoman of the New York Housing Conference, an affordable housing coalition. “I just think the need is so great, you don’t need a fancy lobby.” Currently, the New York city council is working on past policies that have allowed the “Poor Door” to exist. “It’s such a visual separation,” Assemblywoman Rosenthal said. “It gets at people when they see two separate doors. It’s no longer theoretical. It looks and smells like discrimination.” While New York works to add its 80,000 units of affordability through private developments so the city can remain home to individuals from all walks of life, the District of Columbia already has policies in place requiring the development of affordable housing in all new developments. The city can also use government owned land for increased affordable development. We continually need to find ways to creatively maximize our production and provide quality affordable housing in as many neighborhoods as possible.

No Refuge For The Homeless

Homelessness has steadily risen throughout the United States. While many of the District’s homeless population have found refuge on the streets, even this is becoming increasingly difficult. In many places being homeless is now a crime, possibly being arraigned or imprisoned for simple standing, sitting, or sleeping in the wrong areas.

While there are many laws specific to homelessness, many laws affecting the homeless population are often hidden or blended in with other laws. Park or public area curfews are often used to regulate the homeless population. In high-priced cities like the District of Columbia where affordable housing options are in high demand, there simply aren’t enough places for the homeless to go.

Recently, in March of 2014 a homeless man in New York died due to the criminalization of the homeless. A former war veteran, he was imprisoned for trespassing because he was unable to find shelter. He was sent to Rikers Island because he was unable to post the $2,500 bail set for him; he was place in a hot cell and ignored for days “basically baking him to death”.

Since 2011 there has been a great increase in the laws affecting the homeless, even prohibiting individuals from feeding the homeless. As homelessness continues to steadily rise in the District we must begin implementing creative solutions to solve this crisis. Would you be able to survive if there was no place to go and you could be jailed simply for asking for help? There are many better solutions than these and we should start looking at them.


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by: Molly Beckwith

Your parents meant to take a photograph. You stole
your brother’s light and so he shoved you, shoulder-first.

Girl in the cactus, pain will taste like the whiskey
you’ll shoot one summer in a stretch of empty field.
You are stronger than its burn
or the cigarette smoke clung to your collar. For now,

the green suits you, little dragon spines
tangling in your blood as you perch on the tub.
When you pull them, the cactus claws,
from your thigh, lay them on the counter
in order of size, and then trash them. Later
wish you hadn’t. Tisk your tongue
against your teeth as air fills in your holes.

In your mother’s circle you are the one
with bad breath, dirty fingernails, red stripes on your shoulders
from climbing too many trees. Keep digging your lair,
little Komodo, and find what it is you’ve been missing.
Eat flowers and peppers until you turn lovely, hot.
Know your parents never took the picture.
Dear fire-eater, beat your arms until they grow heavy,
and do not stop. Dear little dragon, swallow light so it shines

in your chest. Dear girl in the cactus, you’d do it again.


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3 Most Effective Teaching Methods

Every generation has a way of absorbing information and applying it in their lives. However, no one teaching method fits all. Every couple of years it is necessary to evaluate the teaching methods as an educator.

The Classic Approach

An adage goes that you can take a horse to the river, but you cannot coerce it to drink. The same way, most educators still hold dear the classic ‘About the Topic’ method of teaching. The problem is that students in the modern age have a reduced attention span, out of the need to get to the next interesting thing.

The aim is to hold the attention of the student, captivate them, and inspire them to learn more. The era of force-feeding information down and a cane in hand is long gone, and it is time to adopt teaching methods that will work to prepare the next generation of leaders.

Let us look at some of the latest and efficient teaching methods today.

Desire Method

A proven solution is the desired method of teaching. It works by rousing interest in the student beforehand, so that they understand the benefits of whatever you are about to teach. By showing the benefit, you create a desire in the student, and you will have their undivided attention.

Preview Strategy

The aim of this strategy is to create a level of anticipation for your students before the commencement of a lesson or curriculum. Educators can step off the podium and let the students in the class have a discussion of how the curriculum will shape their lives depending on their career and life goals.

Through the facilitation of a discussion, you will be able to build up the value, benefits, as well as the pains of the course. At the end of the study period, summarize the views from the students and give a preview of the curriculum and watch as the anticipation grow for them to take the curriculum.

Metacognitive Strategies

By providing the student t the power to organize through planning and monitoring their work and direct their learning, you are bound to have a more attentive student body. There are three kinds of students, and they fall under the acronym of ‘VAK.’ This means Visual, Audio, and Kinesthetic. This is to suggest that they learn through seeing of the materials, hearing, and listening to the materials, and feeling of the material.

Teaching Methods

This has seen the introduction of technology in classrooms where educators are using PowerPoint presentation and videos as the latest medium for transferring information. By adopting the above teaching methods, your curriculum will make more sense to your students, hence achieving the effectiveness desired.