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Thursday, September 6, 2012
The Everyday Family Chore System (The Molly Crew) | Pioneer ...
The Molly Crew is a part of the Schoolhouse Review Crew. It is for products other then homeschooling. I am always trying to get my house in order so I am thrilled to be a part of it.
Product
The Molly Crew?s first review is The Everyday Family Chore System from Everyday Homemaking. The Print copy is $19.99 and the PDF version is $17.99. A sample of The Everyday Family Chore System is available. Vicki Bentley homeschooled 8 children and fostered 50! ?Her book ?The Everyday Family Chore Sytem? has three main sections. The first section talks about why you want to teach your children these household skills. The second section goes into the details of the System.?It gives a list of jobs children can do at different ages.??It also gives several different ideas on how to execute her ideas. The third section has the printable cards with step by step instructions for many jobs.
Experience
I have read so many books on parenting, chores, organization, routines, etc. I am always looking for something better, something I can tweak, something I can add to make it work better. I loved the ideas in this book. I especially loved chore cards that describe every step needed to complete the job. What a great idea!?I opted to use the Chore boards we already have. They are wooden pegboards with my childrens names on them. All required jobs are placed on the first peg each morning and they are flipped to the second peg as they are finished. These work great for simple jobs that my children are already used to doing such as get dressed, brush teeth, make bed, etc. They do not work very well for the family chores. They do not provide any step by step instructions. This is where Vicki?s system really came into play for me. In the past each of my kids were responsible for a room in the home. It was very difficult for them to remember the steps of that room and they would often come to me and ask what else they needed to do. I decided to use some of Vicki?s ideas and change it up. I chose four chores for each of my children to do daily and took picture of each of the steps. I made a ?laminated ?storyboard? with the steps typed under the photos and stuck them on the walls where they would see them while doing that chore. I then used a chore card for that job and added it to their peg. For instance when my daughter got to the dishwasher card on her pegboard. She could go to dishwasher and their posted on the wall was a laminated paper?with step by step photos of what she needs to do. I am working taking pictures of inside the kitchen cabinets and I am going to place them on the inside doors so that when she is unloading the dishwasher she will not just throw the stuff where ever it fits.
Pros
I found the list of appropriate duties for each age level very helpful. I also thought the step by step cards were very helpful as a guide while I made my own. I liked that I could read the entire book in one sitting. So often books like this take days to read and what you really want to do is just jump to the part about implementing the program. I didn?t feel that way with this one. ?I was excited to get started but I also wanted to read it all. 
Cons
I don?t really have anything other then it would be nice if the pdf version had a type it in feature so that you could modify the cards.
Verdict
Overall I enjoyed the book. I found it useful. It motivated me to revamp my current system and get back on track. I will not go so far as to say that my children enjoy housework but I will say that I think they are much more comfortable doing their chores as they know exactly what is expected of them. I think the book is worth the price.
Fine Print
I received this product free of charge in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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Source: http://pioneerjourney.com/2012/09/the-everyday-family-chore-system-the-molly-crew.html
Gabby Douglas, Fierce Five U.S. Gymnasts Want To Meet Miley Cyrus, Lil Wayne At VMAs
'I've always listened to him, and he's just awesome,' Douglas says of Weezy.
By Terri Schwartz, with reporting by Gil Kaufman and Christina Garibaldi
McKayla Maroney and Gabby Douglas
Photo: MTV News
Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1693179/video-music-awards-fierce-five-olympic-gymnasts.jhtml
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
"Gone With the Wind" trademark and literary rights gifted to Catholic ...
The Catholic Church has been given a large gift in another state. The nephew of "Gone With the Wind" author Margaret Mitch has gifted 50 percent of the rights to the trademark and literary rights to the Archdiocese of Atlanta. Although this gift doesn't include rights to the film, it could still be work hundreds of thousands of dollars each year.
The gift of these rights shows how people can gift more than just money in a bank account using estate planning. People in New Jersey and across the country can gift rights for certain assets that might have royalties associated with it, making its value undeterminable. These assets can even be gifted to institutions or organizations, not just individual people. They can also be placed in a trust, which is what happened to the other 50 percent of the rights to the works in this case.
Dividing up an asset in this way allows people to give to a cause or institution that a person believed strongly in as well as helping protect and ensure the financial future of a person's family. While these matters may seem complex, an experienced estate planning attorney can help New Jersey residents handle these matters.
If proper planning is in place, a person can gift these assets to a person or organization, even if they don't know they are to receive them. Proper estate planning can help ensure a person's wishes are fulfilled no matter who they intend to gift assets to.
Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Margaret Mitchell's nephew leaves estate to Atlanta Archdiocese," Sheila M. Poole, Aug. 16, 2012
-There are many different ways to set up an estate plan. To learn more about estate planning, please visit our website.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Israeli billionaire's company faces money woes
JERUSALEM (AP) ? One of Israel's wealthiest businessmen may quickly be going from riches to rags, and experts warn he could drag Israel's economy down with him.
Nochi Dankner, a favorite of Israel's business community who is often credited with helping rescue Israel's economy at the height of a Palestinian uprising, is struggling to keep his mammoth holding company above water.
IDB Holding Corp., which controls a large piece of the Israeli economic pie ? a large cellphone company, a major supermarket chain, an insurance company and a cement producer monopoly, among other concerns ? announced over the weekend that it may not be able to pay tens of millions of dollars of debts in the coming year.
The plight of Dankner has raised concern that his bondholders could lose on their investments and Israelis could see their retirement funds, heavily exposed to IDB investments, in danger.
"We are now going through difficult times. It's not easy for any of us," Dankner began a letter to employees last weekend.
Israel's finance minister, Yuval Steinitz, sought to douse the flames, estimating a "less than one in a thousand" chance that Israeli citizens' pensions would be affected.
Economists forecast a much gloomier picture should Dankner's company founder. Because so much of Israel's economy is controlled by Dankner's holding company, Israel is in more danger than the U.S. economy was in during the credit crisis of the late 2000s, said Daniel Doron, director of the Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress.
"It's a domino effect," said Doron. "Creditors would lose money. A lot of people would lose jobs. It would be a great tragedy."
The 58-year-old billionaire's downturn has come swiftly.
Born to an aristocratic Israeli family with a powerful investment firm, Dankner made a mark in 1999 when he sold his shares in the firm to his relatives for $100 million.
His timing was right. A year later, a Palestinian uprising erupted, paralyzing Israel's economy and causing the shares in his family's business to tank.
At the height of the uprising, Dankner and his partners borrowed millions of dollars from Israeli banks and bought IDB Holding Corp.
"No one understood who would buy during the crisis ... it was a deal that amazed everyone," said Stella Korin Lieber, a commentator at the Globes financial newspaper. "He signaled the end of the crisis."
Under Dankner's leadership, IDB became Israel's largest holding company, and Dankner became a celebrity. Last year, he garnered 11th place on Forbes Magazine's ranking of wealthy Israelis. He was known to travel in a private jet and to lunch with his longtime friend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
His public image was as a handsome, mild-mannered man with a spiritual side, traveling to Nepal to study Buddhism and forging a close relationship with a Kabbalistic healer in Israel known as the "X-ray Rabbi."
In 2006, as rockets rained down on northern Israel during its war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Dankner visited Israelis in bomb shelters and donated large sums for their welfare.
Then he became overconfident, Korin Lieber said.
In 2007, he and another Israeli billionaire invested in plans to build a Las Vegas casino when U.S. real estate prices were at their peak, and the project quickly tanked. From 2008-2010, a Dankner subsidiary bought shares in the Swiss multinational bank Credit Suisse, but last year lost millions of dollars in the deal. He also bought Maariv, an unprofitable Israeli daily newspaper, in what was seen as more of an ego trip than a smart business decision.
Then last summer, hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets to protest the country's high cost of living.
Dankner's picture was plastered on protesters' posters ? one of many business tycoons accused of monopolizing much of the Israeli market, keeping prices high.
Food prices came down, the government facilitated more cellphone companies to enter the market, and Dankner's supermarket chain and mobile phone company suffered losses.
"He didn't pay attention to the changes that were taking place in the business world," Korin Lieber said. "He had a lot of arrogance and conviction ? 'we will be fine.'"
Dankner has vowed to meet an $8.8 million payment to one group of bondholders this week. The company owes about $425 million to bondholders and $75 million to Israeli banks, Israel's Haaretz daily reported. IDB Holding Corp. is asking for more time to find another investor for the company.
At a meeting of bondholders Monday, one bondholder told Israel's Channel 10 TV that Dankner should dip into in his own wealth to repay his debts.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-billionaires-company-faces-money-woes-174030862.html
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droopyyoupi: Positive thinking can help you cope with chronic illness
http://www.drruscio.com/articles/60-positive-thinking-helpful-in-coping-with-but-perhaps-not-banishing-chronic-illness
When a chronic health issue has you feeling like crud, few things are more insulting than someone telling you to ?keep your chin up? or ?think positive.? Such advice sounds like a brush-off from someone who has no idea what it is to struggle with pain, fatigue, depression, and other frightening, life-altering symptoms.
Today, one in two people suffer from a chronic health condition in the United States. Although researchers point to the more well-known illnesses of diabetes, arthritis, cancer, and heart disease, many others suffer from conditions doctors treat with little more than a psych consult or antidepressants: fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, Lyme disease, persistent hypothyroidism, and irritable bowel syndrome are among these.
Positive thinking can help you cope with chronic illness
The research regarding positive thinking during illness is mixed. But it does suggest while positive thinking can?t guarantee a cure, it can help you better cope with your illness and comply with your treatment plan.A study published in early 2012 showed subjects with chronic disease who thought of something that made them feel good each morning and who used self-affirmation techniques when encountering obstacles exercised more and were better about complying with their treatment plan. Older studies show patients with a positive spiritual belief system suffer from less depression and are better able to handle their medical situation.
Don?t pressure yourself to be positive
Conversely, some studies show no correlation between positive thinking and health outcomes, such as in the case of cancer survival rates. If anything, the pressure to ?be positive,? which has become trendy in some circles, can be stressful or make one feel like a failure if the illness progresses.Taking action to lower stress can increase positivity
The truth is, a chronic illness is difficult and involves emotional lows. And while stifling emotions to appear positive is unlikely to be helpful, plenty of evidence shows lowering stress with a positive outlook improves overall health and well-being. The same techniques that lower stress can also foster a more positive attitude, hence improving your resilience in the face of chronic illness.If anything, coping better is more about positive doing than positive thinking. Adopting a few small and seemingly meaningless strategies can add up to significant gains in well-being.
For instance, in the study mentioned earlier, researchers asked participants to think of something that made them feel better?a sunny beach or a proud moment?upon waking each morning and when experiencing a setback. Participating in a spiritual, religious, or philosophical practice has been shown to help many, and social connections improve the odds of survival by 50 percent. Although Crossfit or Zumba may not be in the cards for someone struggling with a chronic illness, research nevertheless shows exercise relieves anxiety. Exercise can be as gentle as a half-hour walk several times a week or some time in the pool.
Look at brain chemical or thyroid imbalances to boost positivity
Also, when you have been struggling with a chronic health condition, other health factors, such as poor brain neurotransmitter activity or low thyroid function, may also play a role in depression, anxiety, and a generally negative outlook. In these cases, natural remedies for symptom relief may be appropriate. Ask my office for suggestions. Read more?Source: http://droopyyoupi.blogspot.com/2012/09/positive-thinking-can-help-you-cope.html
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Monday, September 3, 2012
Yemen: Drone kills alleged tanker attacker
SANAA, Yemen (AP) ? A U.S. drone strike Sunday killed a top al-Qaida militant wanted for allegedly masterminding a 2002 attack on a French oil tanker, Yemeni military officials said.
In a separate incident, Yemeni warplanes killed 14 civilians in an errant airstrike, officials said.
The Defense Ministry said in a statement on that Khaled Batis, wanted in connection with the attack on the Limburg off the coast of Yemen that killed one person, was among five militants riding a vehicle struck by a drone Friday in the southern city of Hadramawt.
Military officials said the drone was American.
The U.S. frequently targets militants in Yemen with drone strikes and also advises the country's ground forces, though it rarely acknowledges its role.
In the other incident Sunday, Yemeni fighter planes mistakenly hit vehicles carrying civilians traveling south of the capital, killing 14.
Military officials said the airstrikes in Radda in the province of Bayda were based on faulty intelligence that the passengers were al-Qaida members. Missiles fired from the warplanes hit two vehicles carrying local residents returning to their villages.
Tribesman Sheik Ahmed Ali said the dead included three women and three children.
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