We all love well-put, colorful Instagram feeds, but also the ability to be ourselves - eat whatever makes us happy and enjoy life even when no one is watching! That's why KIKOINNE decided to talk with Milana Chigridow, an influencer behind the extremely positive and eye-pleasing Instagram account.
In general, I like Instagram pictures that have many dimensions or layers, as I like to call it. There's something in the foreground (like the motive or a person), there's something in the background (like a monument, trees, cool building, etc.) and also something in the middle (people passing by, cafe chairs, a lamppost). Plain and simplistic pictures taken in front of a wall are not for me.
Only on Valentine's Day it's possible to really fly away with a bunch of balloons just like the girl in the miss Dior ad 🎈now champagne breakfast awaits!
What would be your tips for Instagram - friendly outfits?
My best tip to get the best Instagram outfit photos is to concentrate on one item in your outfit that you want to highlight in your Instagram post. That way, it's easier to compose your whole outfit if you have one main thing to start from on, at least for me. If I need to promote a pair of shoes, I begin to pick out pants that'll fit the shoes, then a top that'll fit the shoes + the pants, and so on.
I use silk scarves all year around so that's a staple in my wardrobe, you can wear them on your neck, hair, bag, they're very versatile.
What would be your tips to add some chic to a casual style?
Again, scarves make any outfit Parisian chic in a second. My best tip, though, is to use hair accessories, headbands, ribbons, hair clips, just put something in your hair - it will make your outfit more interesting instantly.
full of colors as always at #stockholmfashionweek - what a great finale of the summer. Tomorrow day 2 will continue with styling and royal breakfast!


In the first Roll To The Rescue Bots interview, PecanCtMichael talks with Imari Williams. TFG1Mike interjects every now and then, but this is essentially Michael Wilson's interview. We talk about Imari's being a slight newbie in Voice Acting, TRansformers Rescue Bots, Kevin Michael Richardson stories, Steve Blum stories, and so much more. Towards the end of the interview we just ended up talking with Imari. Tangents are good people! So check out this first Roll To The Rescue Bots interview, brought to you by All Things Transformers.


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VHS SMASHES CANCER! Lunchmeat and Saturn's Core Audio & Video Team Up to Release THE LISA HAMMER COLLECTION on Limited Edition VHS for a Righteous Cause!
Heads up, my fellow Videovores! Legendary New York-based underground filmmaker Lisa Hammer (director of Pox, The Sister Plotz, and cult favorite Puss Bucket, as well as the voice of Triana Orpheus on the animated series The Venture Bros.) is currently battling cancer. In order to help raise funds for her treatment, the rewind-inclined analog enthusiasts at Saturn's Core Audio & Video and us here in Lunchmeat Land have teamed up to unleash a most radical, limited edition collection on VHS featuring Lisa's award-winning short films from the late 80's and early 90's! This hour-long collection will include (The Elaborate) Empire of Ache (1996), Not Farewell Sweet Flesh (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1992), Jorinda and Joringel (1995) and Adieux Dames (1987).
A mock-up of the upcoming LISA HAMMER COLLECTION VHS from Saturn's Audio & Video and Lunchmeat! Outstanding underground filmmaking on analog for a righteous cause. Dig it.
Absolutely 100% percent of the proceeds from the sale of this VHS release will go directly to Lisa and the "Lisa Kill Cancer" fund to help with her mounting medical bills.
A collection of stills from NOT FAREWELL SWEET FLESH which appears on the Lisa Hammer Collection VHS. Totally rewind weird and wonderful, man.
If you've seen Puss Bucket (originally released on Film Threat Video), then you're already familiar with the extraordinary brilliance of Lisa's early film work. Sexually charged gothic Grimm fables, 1920's silent cinema, and dime store German Expressionism converge in a surreal kaleidoscope that lands somewhere in the realm of works from Maya Deren, F.W. Murnau, Kenneth Anger, & John Waters.
A still from EMPIRE OF ACHE, which also appears on the Lisa Hammer Collection VHS. HEllOoO, Nurse.
The Saturn's Core A&V / Lunchmeat Lisa Hammer Collection VHS will be limited to just 25 hand-numbered copies, and will include some groovy Lunchmeat goodies. It will go on sale Sunday, August 7th 2016 available on the Official Saturn's Core Store. So, mark those calendars, Videovores. Grab a slab of incredible indie film and help VHS smash cancer for Lisa Hammer!
Click on this here link to reserve your slab and help the cause, Videovores!
Groove and Groove and Stay VHStrong.

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Fortunately for us Southeast Wisconsin parents, there are plenty of places to shop. Check out these toy stores in and around Milwaukee.
This family-owned business has been around since 1972, and they pride themselves on not selling toys just because they're trendy. They consider themselves to be the trendsetters.
Lake Geneva location: 720 W. Main St.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays; 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Sundays
Burlington location: 472 N. Pine St.
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays; closed on Sundays
American Science & Surplus
This is the place to go for weird toys, as well as all the little gears, gadgets and odds and ends that you need to build something cool.
Where to go: 6901 W. Oklahoma Ave., Milwaukee
Hours: Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Fridays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Board Game Barrister
Employees at these stores know all about games, and they're happy to show and tell you how to play them, as well as make recommendations for whomever you're shopping for.
Glendale location: 5530 N. Port Washington Road
Hours: Mondays through Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Fridays from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Greenfield location: 6120 W. Layton Ave.
Wauwatosa location: 2500 N. Mayfair Road (inside Mayfair Mall)
Hours: Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Cedarburg Toy Company
The best way to learn how to play with a toy is to have it demonstrated for you, and they're happy to do that at this store in the heart of downtown Cedarburg.
Where to go: W62-N583 Washington Ave., Cedarburg
Hours: Sundays through Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Fridays, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Fischberger's Variety
This store is comparable to the old Ben Franklin store lots of people remember — somewhere you can go to find old-school toys, or even just buy a treat.
Where to go: 2445 N. Holton St., Milwaukee
Hours: Mondays through Fridays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays from 12 to 4 p.m.
Gift of Wings
Gift of Wings is famous for hosting kite festivals in Milwaukee throughout the year. This is where to go if you want to buy those kites to fly, or anything else that flies.
Veterans Park location: 1300 N. Lincoln Memorial Drive, Milwaukee
Hours: closed for the winter
Franklin location: 9955 W. Saint Martins Road
Holiday hours: Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sundays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Greendale location: 5608 Broad St.
Little Monsters is a toy store, yes, but it's also a great place to buy adorable children's clothing, including fun stuff like unicorn headbands and bunny earmuffs.
Where to go: 2445 N. Farwell Ave., Milwaukee
Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; closed on Sundays
Ruckus and Glee
Sarah Fowles and her husband, Matt Poulson, co-own this toy store in Wauwatosa. Fowles is a certified play expert, and she trains the store employees to be able to understand the benefits of each toy.
Where to go: 805 N. 68th St., Wauwatosa
Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Mondays; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays through Fridays; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sundays
The Smiley Barn
Residents of Delafield can tell you where the Smiley Barn is. The historic barn was a landmark for years before the smile disappeared in the early 2000s. But now the smile is back — along with a toy and candy store.
Where to go: 2420 Milwaukee St., Delafield
Hours: 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays
RELATED:Playmobil is bringing toy showrooms to two U.S. stores: FAO Schwarz in New York and The Smiley Barn in Delafield
Tosa Block Party
Tosa Block Party is about all things Lego, and is mostly a place to have a party or drop in to build with Legos. But, while you're there, you can also also shop the showroom for minifigures, custom and hard-to-find Legos.
Where to go: 7251 W. North Ave., Wauwatosa
Hours: 10 a.m. to noon on Thursdays through Sundays; Opens one hour earlier, at 9 a.m. for members
Contact Amy Schwabe at (262) 875-9488 or amy.schwabe@jrn.com. Follow her on Twitter at @WisFamilyJS, Instagram at @wisfamilyjs or Facebook at WisconsinFamily.


Everyone has a dream destination. For some, it's standing on top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris while others think about strolling down Shrewsbury Avenue in London. How often do you hear people talking about the wonders of Romania?
While it is not as well-known as other European terrains, there are tons of things to see and explore in the country. Aside from Corvin Castle and Herastrau Park, Romania's hotels can be considered as architectural marvels that tourists all over the world visit, too.
Main photos from: Booking and Sarroglia Hotel.


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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as "Center for Global Research"
Progressive Commentary Hour – 04.12.16
GUEST 1: Ellen Brown
Ellen Brown is an economist and attorney in Los Angeles who is now the founder of the Public Banking Institute – a non profit economic venture to find viable, sustainable solutions to America's banking crises by promoting people-owned state and community banks. Last year she ran as the Green Party candidate for California State's Treasurer. Ellen has written extensively about the private financial cartels and the Federal Reserve. Her recent book, "The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity", introduces a safe soluble public banking alternative to the credit-based system of the current big banks. Her writings also frequently appear on the website of the Center for Global Research, where she is a research associate.
She is the host of the radio program Its Our Money, heard every Wednesday at 3 pm Eastern here on the Progressive Radio Network, and her website is WebOfDebt.com
GUEST 2: Guy McPherson
Dr. Guy McPherson is a professor emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He has specialized in forest resources, energy decline and climate change and its economic consequences. In the past he has also taught at Texas A&M and University of California at Berkeley. Having become disillusioned with the American university environment and academia, and after attempts by university officials to silence his outspokenness about the human causes of climate change, Guy abandoned his tenured position as a full professor for ethical reasons of conscience. He is the author of several books, the latest entitled "Extinction Dialogs: How to Live with Death in Mind." He is also the co-host with Mikey Silwa of the radio program Nature Bats Last heard every Tuesday afternoon at 3 pm Eastern time on the Progressive Radio Network. His website is GuyMcpherson.com
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MaxVal's E-Cigarettes report is now available through Patent LiveScape™, an analysis and reporting service that provides clients with interactive reports which extract actionable and predictive information. By leveraging data sciences best practices, MaxVal has constructed an interactive report that melds different yet related data sources into a comprehensive landscape, allowing the reader to dynamically explore relationships.
Following the publication of our recent Technology Landscape study on CRISPR-Cas9, MaxVal announces the latest advanced publication on the genome editing system, CRISPR, which has become an extremely important tool in medical research. The demonstration of the reprogrammable nature of Cas9 served as a catalyst to widespread adoption of CRISPR systems in biomedical and agricultural research. The potential benefits of CRISPR gene editing in several challenging diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer, and numerous autoimmune diseases are being explored by researchers.
MaxVal announces symphony® AI, the most advanced patent prosecution tool available on the market. It leverages the Salesforce Lightning architecture to integrate public and private data into a unique solution that provides decision guidance, predictions, and unprecedented insight into clients' portfolios.
MaxVal announces the latest upgrade to its information disclosure statement software, Max-IDS™, version 4.0.2.


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7.3 Challenges
With the recovery underway there is the challenge to ensure that the city centre remains the prime retail destination of the State. There remains the attraction of suburban and regional centres outside of the city's administrative area. It is vital, therefore, that pivotal sites remaining undeveloped are fully utilised to help maximise the city centre's competitiveness and that the city is made more attractive to shoppers.
Dublin's city centre shopping experience is currently heavily concentrated on the main shopping streets or spines of Henry Street and Grafton Street and there remains the challenge to expand pedestrian footfall beyond these immediate areas and to strengthen the cross-river links also. This will be vital as large sites are re-developed, particularly north of the River Liffey. A key challenge remains the strengthening of the pedestrian routes linking the north and south retail core areas to create a more cohesive retail core, notwithstanding recent improvements such as the Grafton Street public realm improvements that will improve the general retail ambience and experience.
The provision of units of adequate size for prestige brands in the Grafton Street/ Southern Retail Core area is still an issue, though this may be easier to alleviate as retail sentiment improves and investment in such development become more attractive.
There are areas where the city centre is succeeding in terms of a vibrant shopping environment with a successful mix of shops, bars and restaurants and other retail uses that provide a competitive edge, for example Capel Street, South William Street and Castle Market. The Business Improvement District Scheme (BIDS) (www.wearedublintown.ie), a joint venture between the city centre business community and Dublin City Council, is proving an effective mechanism to revitalise, manage and maintain the city centre environment. The scheme was instrumental in attaining for Dublin the prestigious Purple Flag designation for safe and vibrant night environments. However, the challenge is to expand this initiative across the city centre and tackle the perceived image of an unsafe night environment in certain areas of the city.
In the suburbs, there are challenges relating to the traditional street, the parade of local shops or older shopping centres that are no longer strongly competitive and have now to compete with the growing presence of discount retailers and e-commerce. These factors can lead to unsustainable travel patterns with people driving to more attractive centres at further distances for convenience shopping needs.
It is critical to ensure quality retail design in all areas of the city and especially those with historic streetscapes or otherwise high-quality visual domains. It is also equally important to ensure that emerging neighbourhoods such as Ashtown/ Pelletstown or Docklands broadly follow those objectives regarding urban design contained in LAP or SDZ documents. The challenge, therefore, is to ensure consistent quality and not allow any diminution as the recovery progresses.
The Living City Initiative is a scheme of property tax incentives designed to regenerate pre-1915 buildings within the canals (www.revenue.ie). The scheme applies to designated special regeneration areas (SRA). The SRA for Dublin City encompasses much the same area as the retail core and the retail market streets and is targeted at the substantial number of properties with vacant upper levels. It is anticipated that the refurbishment of such properties, including the ground floor retail element, will result in a larger residential population within the retail core and help create a livelier city, particularly in the evening. However, this will be an ongoing process and the challenge will be to make mass city centre residential habitation viable and popular again.
Book traversal links for 7.3 Challenges
7.2 Achievements
7.4 Retail Guidance
7.5 The Strategic Approach
7.6 Retail Policies and Objectives


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The MD500 Scale fiberglass fuselage comes in Camouflage and Army Green versions. It is specially designed for Thunder Tiger Raptor 60 & 90. Just like its real counterpart, this MD will make you stand out on the flying field!
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Former England and Bradford Dragon player Jason Swaine came in to deliver a basketball coaching workshop to Royds Hall. Students from every year group attended.
Jason has been a professional athlete for many years and been coached by some of the greats, and therefore had high expectations of our students and their attitudes towards learning. All of them rose to the challenge, and Jason left with nothing but positive comments to say about them.
If you have an interest in basketball, there is a school club currently running on Friday lunch times. In the local area there is Deighton Basketball Club who train on Thursday evenings.
We hope to welcome Jason again in future!


Using THX Spatial Audio, Razer Nari wireless gaming headset lets you immerse in 360-degree positional sound. Like the idea? Let's continue checking.
Razer Nari Wireless is a pair of high-performance wireless gaming headphones that measures 7.29 x 8.61 x 3.94 inches and weighs 0.95 lb. As we can see from the images, the gaming headset delivers a low-profile and sleek appearance design, and the unibody aluminum frame not only provides a durable and lightweight construction, but also brings more modern aesthetics to the headset.
Meanwhile, the auto-adjusting headband delivers a self-adaptive fit, while the cooling gel-infused cushioned earcups ensure your ears stay cool and comfortable through long hours of gaming. The Razer Chroma LED lighting shows off animated RGB lighting effects with over 16.8 million colors.
The wireless gaming headset features THX Spatial Audio technology in order to create 360-degree positional sound, so you can experience more realistic and detailed sound effects and identify the sources of the sound from the hurried footsteps of the oncoming enemy to the roaring engine of a bomber overhead.
Furthermore, its plug-and-play wireless USB transceiver lets you enjoy a wireless range of up to 12 meters smoothly without disconnection. The retractable microphone lets you communicate with your team mates. In addition, built-in rechargeable battery offers up to 20 hours of playtime without Razer Chroma lighting, and its wired mode provides cross-platform compatibility for PC, consoles and mobile devices via a 3.5mm audio jack.
Razer Nari wireless gaming headset is priced at $149.99 USD. If you're interested, jump to the product page for its more details.


On 13 July 2017 the last Thursday Night Live! before the summer break celebrated past activities of Het Nieuwe Instituut with a Cocktail Dînatoire for old and new friends. It was an inspirational summer evening that featured food, conversations with design studio OK-RM, Monadnock, live mural painting by artist Thomas Trum, pedalos in the pond, pop-in expo 100 years De Stijl stamps and music!
'Welcome to a world where beauty is as fragile as night frost. Where a small scratch is enough to penetrate very deeply into the surface, where nothing is what it seems.' From the Designing the Surface catalogue. Lof der Zoetheid provided a unique dinner inspired by the exhibition Designing the Surface, revealing that the finishing touches to every product have a purpose, whether to tempt, protect or imitate.
Oliver Knight and Rory McGrath are the founders of design studio OK-RM. For OK-RM, design is a conversation. Since they were responsible for the graphic design and exhibition text concept of Designing the Surface, curator Toon Koehorst engaged in a conversation. Topics ranged from their diverse design practice and how they stretch the definitions of graphic design to the specific content of Designing the Surface and the choices they made regarding this multidimensional project.
Founded in 2008 by Oliver Knight & Rory McGrath, studio OK-RM is a collaborative practice engaged in ongoing partnerships with artists, curators, editors, architects, designers and institutions. Recent commissions include the exhibition design and campaign for Fear and Love (Design Museum. London), visual identities for Manus × Machina (The Met, New York), the British Pavilion in Venice, and Under the Same Sun (Guggenheim, New York) as well as book projects with artists Fos and Shezad Dawood.
Curator Toon Koehorst also talked with architect Job Floris who, with his agency Monadnock, was responsible for the spatial design of Designing the Surface. 'The mural', a way for artists and architects to make their mark on public space, is an important part of the exhibition concept. How do they see the relationship between murals and architecture, and how do they assess the impact of the representation resulting from this?
Monadnock is a Rotterdam design office specialising in architecture that was founded in 2006 by Job Floris and Sandor Naus. They are involved in designing, researching, writing and promoting discourse in the fields of architecture, urban design, interior design and staging. Their work encompasses the scale of the urban space to the interior. Monadnock makes contemporary buildings that are an integral part of the cultural production of this generation.
As part of the exhibition Designing the Surface, Thomas Trum has created a series of murals in Het Nieuwe Instituut's café, each of which is made with a different painting or ink technique. Thomas Trum graduated from St. Lucas College in 2010 and completed the Man and Leisure course at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2014.
This pop-in expo showed the new postal stamp that are designed as part of the celebrations of '100 Years of De Stijl: Mondrian to Dutch Design'. The stamps are designed by graphic design studio PutGootink and depict works by De Stijl artists and architects such as Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, Cornelis van Eesteren and J.J.P. Oud from the collections of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.


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he biographical notes about musicians composers are, maybe, stereotyped by the way in which the information about the life of these archetypes, that brought us this melodic music which we call tango, is given.
To speak of Don Alfredo is to remember one of the greatest names of the Guardia Vieja, today unfortunately forgotten, but we that love the authentic tango of yesterdays, cannot underestimate those values that now are the true history of the one and only music of Buenos Aires.
Bevilacqua was born in our city, in the neighborhood of Belgrano, but in fact, he was born on a train when his mother was traveling from Retiro to Olivos, on the railway that was then called Ferro Carril del Norte. It was on February 20, 1874.
He spent his child life like all the proletarian kids of that time. Yes, at age 14 he started his daily struggle to earn his living. He worked at a wood depot, but he also had an inclination for music and his piano teachers were Ángel Ratti and Brunetti Abnicari.
Bevilacqua had a musical intuition and a superior spirit. His soul was full of feelings connected with his great love for the land and, based on that, he created a music repertoire unparalleled in tango.
He wrote his first tango in 1902: "Venus", and it was a musical apotheosis, because after this piece Don Alfredo followed a path that led him to a great success. This composition was recorded by a group led by Bevilacqua and committed to disc by that system with cylinders.
We as well admire the printed sheet music of the tango "Venus", dedicated to «my friend Amadeo Bonetti». When we look at the cover we see a drawing and the title: «Venus, brilliant tango for piano, published by Casa Ortelli Hnos., Belgrano 2947, Bs. As.» Let us think of the art of the draftsman. It seems paradoxical that at that time everything was -including the graphic art- in the service of tango feeling, and of course, of the realism of the watercolors that portrayed the city.
Bevilacqua worked as piano player at various music centers, especially at the theater located in the capital Pasatiempo and also at the dancehall run by MaríaLa vasca, a notorious venue frequented by the tough guys of Buenos Aires.
In 1910, centennial of the Revolution of May, he premiered his tango "Independencia" with a music band. That was the year of greatest success for Don Alfredo because when Isabel of Bourbon visited us he gave her a copy of the sheet music of the abovementioned tango, as a testimony of recognition of the Argentines towards Spain.
As well Bevilacqua offered to the Chilean minister Cruchaga Tocornal the tango "Emancipación", dedicated to the Republic of Chile. So was maestro Bevilacqua, he dedicated his best pieces to declare the greatness of tango to other countries.
He was composer of many tangos: "Apolo". He published it in 1903 and was recorded by the Victor band in 1905; in 1906 he released "Minguito", a beautiful tango and, as corollary of his career as composer he dedicated to the jockey Torterolo the tango "La gran muñeca". He wrote as well: "Recuerdos de La Pampa", "Cabo cuarto", "El fogón", "Bar El Popular", "Marconi", "Primer junta", "Expresión criolla", "El orillero", "Reconquista", among others. His last work was "Brisas del sur" in 1933.
Most them were recorded by rondallas (a kind of brass band) and tango groups around 1910. For example: Juan Maglio, (Pacho) recorded several of his compositions.
In his latter years he worked as tuner of musical instruments.
Alfredo Bevilacqua won't ever be forgotten by the Argentine and Uruguayan tango fans. His figure had an outstanding worth, the was the maker of our popular folk city art. He died on July 1, 1942. His demise took place at the Hospital Italiano of Buenos Aires and, from these pages we tell you: Don Alfredo, we'll never forget you, because you belong to the history of tango.
Excerpted from Cuadernos de difusión del tango, Nº 9, directed and published by Salvador Arancio.


Buckingham County Houses: Oakland | slate river ramblings . . . .
In 1937, Elizabeth McCraw surveyed the Holman dwelling house at "Oakland" for the Virginia Historical Inventory. She described its location as ".8 mile west of Andersonville, Va., on Route #640; thence north on Route #642 2.9 miles. East side of the highway." She went on to note that Tandy Holman was the owner in 1832, followed by Mrs. Mary L. Jones (1877), and M. T. Jones (1899, present owner in 1937).
The yard of this home with its large oak trees, extends to the highway. The house with heart pine beaded weatherboarding which has never been painted, is built in three parts—one part a story, one part a story and a half, and the other part two stories high. It was all built about the same time. One part was built new, another part was moved about one-quarter of a mile just as it is, and added, and the other was originally Tandy Holman's father's house. It was torn down and rebuilt into this house. The heavy timbers with mortised ends, shop-made nails and wooden pegs are noticeable here. A one story porch leads into the front hall.
A winding, partly cased-in stairway leads from the hall to the second floor. Under this stairway another one-flight stairway leads to the basement. The basement is really a ground floor, but is walled up with brick and has a brick floor. These brick walls are whitewashed. A few of the original locks are still on some of the doors. On one of the basement doors is a large wooden lock. Several inside doors are fashioned with hand-made wooden buttons, and one is still fastened with the peg attached to a leather strap. One room has a wide wainscoting made of three very wide planks, all fitted together without a nail. The other rooms have a baseboard and chair-rail. There are nine rooms, each with a fireplace, there being three large brick chimneys to the house. The floors are on different levels, uneven, with one or two steps between each room.
Now that's Buckingham County continuity!
I failed to correct the error made above in the original WPA account of "Oakland." The portion of the house which was thought to have been Tandy Holman's father's house is certainly not a part of this home because that house is still standing in its entirety on the original foundation. Tandy Holman's father was William Holman of "Humanity Hall," Buckingham County. He died in 1823, leaving the property to his children. They sold it to Col. Elijah Hanes in 1848. The children involved in the sale were Tandy Holman of "Oakland," the heirs of Elizabeth Hales Holman Ford, William Holman, who was preparing to move to Cumberland County, and Mrs. Virginia (Col. Richard H.) Gilliam of Buckingham. I descend from both of William's sons.
This was a very unique-appearing home with its three different levels of roof. Two massive oaks stood in the front when I was a child. Grandmother's sister, Mrs. H. C. Culbreth of Dillwyn, went with me to see this house on one occasion and recalled having to take two steps descending from the hall to the parlor. Dr. George Bagby of Buckingham County noted that it was a constant step up or down in these old Virgniia homes. The door at the end of the hall led to outside. With having taken three steps down, one stepped on to a porch which was flanked by the outside to the left and right but straight forward one went into another room. This was originally the sewing room–which was high up over another basement room. It was here that my Great-grandmother spent much of her day instructing the servants in sewing.
It was at this old Virginia home that a weary General Lee went after the surrender. My family invited him to dinner, but he requested only a glass of cream. The importance of education was strongly emphasized. The older girls attended college and most of them taught school. This was the case of Great-grandmother's two sisters who lived at "Oakland" after my great-grandmother moved to "Hooper's Mt." These two sisters were Martha E. Holman, who taught the servants, and Mary Lou Holman Jones Wood, widow of Capt. Wood, who taught public school. She died in the early twenties, and her son continued to live at "Oakland." He was Tandy Jones–father of Mrs. Connie Morgan, my father's second cousin whom I remember well. She was the mother of John Morgan, who recently died in Buckingham, and Mrs. Ernestine Holloman of Buckingham. Her daughter presently owns this property. She is the seventh generation owner from the original ancestor who owned this place. He was Moses Spencer–an old Revolutionary War vet, who died about 1829. He married Judith Ayres, eldest child of Col. Nathan and Mary Leake Ayres of Buckingham. Their youngest child, Judith Hales Spencer, married Tandy Holman in about 1834, and thus brought the Holmans into this picture.
Many, many thanks for this wonderful memory of your family's home.
I'm really enjoying your " Ramblings", thank you! This description of Oakland is so clear, you can just picture it.
Thank you, Celie. Good to know you are enjoying the posts. Another Buckingham County house coming on Thursday.


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A Tale of Two Elizabeths
With the death of Queen Elizabeth II last Thursday, (September 8, 2022) the second Elizabethan Age came to a close. Elizabeth and her incredible seven-decade reign now belong to history.
While the world mourns the passing of this remarkable queen, I'd like to take a brief look back through the centuries at her predecessor, Elizabeth I, to compare and contrast the lives of these female monarchs who shared a name.
Age at accession
Both Elizabeth I and Elizabeth II were 25 years old when they became queens. A major difference is that Elizabeth II had been married for over 5 years at her coronation in 1953 and was the mother of two children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. Elizabeth I famously never married, which earned her the nickname "The Virgin Queen."
Elizabeth I died in 1603 at age 69. Elizabeth II made it to 96 - a number that's the exact inverse of 69.
Though at first glance it would seem that Elizabeth II lived much longer than Elizabeth I, the picture changes when you factor life expectancies for their time. In 16th to 18th century Britain, the average life expectancy for women was 33 years old, and only 34 years old for men. By that measure, Elizabeth I lived to an amazing old age, just like Elizabeth II did in our modern time.
Family troubles
One of the greatest threats to Elizabeth's monarchy was posed by her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, who was considered by many influential English Catholics to be the true Queen of England. Mary was suspected of being involved in plots to assassinate Elizabeth and take her crown, and the Scottish queen was popular enough that she just might have succeeded.
The threat Mary posed ended with her imprisonment and beheading in 1587, an execution ordered by Queen Elizabeth.
I suppose that's one way to settle a family feud.
In the 1990s another popular royal relative, this time the Queen's daughter-in-law, caused consternation in royal circles. Princess Diana's sudden, untimely death in 1997 became a problem for the reigning queen when the general public went into a massive nationwide mourning.
The depth of the people's grief was underestimated by the Queen and the royal family, who stayed mainly silent and secluded in Scotland while the public grieved. This seeming indifference to the death of a beloved princess was met with anger and hostility by the grieving nation, very nearly creating a crisis for the monarchy.
This crisis was averted when Queen Elizabeth made a widely televised speech five days after Diana's death, paying tribute to the late princess, calling her an "exceptional and gifted human being" who inspired others with her "warmth and kindness" and admitted to admiring Diana for her "energy and commitment to others."
In this speech the Queen tuned in to the overwhelming loss and grief her people were experiencing, and the Queen's well-chosen words went a long way towards defusing the volatile situation.
No beheadings were necessary!
Defining Quotes
Both Queens were dedicated to their jobs. Even before she became Queen Elizabeth II made her priorities in life clear in this speech she made in 1947 on her 21st birthday, during her first overseas tour:
"I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."
That was a promise she would remain unfailingly committed to throughout her reign.
Queen Elizabeth I had her defining moment as well, in the summer of 1588 when England was threatened by an invasion by Spain. She stood before her troops as they prepared to defend their country. Wearing a white velvet dress adorned by a silver breastplate, Elizabeth inspired them with these words:
"My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but I do assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people . . . I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm."
"Weak and feeble woman"? I don't think so. She was more like a Warrior Queen, a prototype for Xena, Warrior Princess.
The Armada never stood a chance.
Length of Reign
Queen Elizabeth I reigned for 44 years, a record that stood until Queen Victoria's 63-year reign. On the other hand, Queen Elizabeth II was on the throne for an astonishing 70 years, a record that's not likely to be broken any time soon.
The first Queen Elizabeth had a more ornate style. You can see that not only in her heavily decorated clothing, but in her signature as well. Just look at the flourishes and curlicues she adds to her name:
If her signature is anything to go by, Elizabeth II was much more straightforward and down to earth.
Now, I've written about Queen Elizabeth II many times in this blog, including posts about her Coronation (The Crown - Then and Now) and her and Prince Philip's 70th wedding anniversary (Happy Anniversary to the Queen and Her Prince).
I find it incredibly sad to be writing about her now in the past tense. She, and her reign, wasn't perfect - but then nothing is. However, throughout her long life she worked quietly and steadily to fulfill the vow she made as a young woman to dedicate herself to the service of her people, in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. Her life was never about her; it was always about them.
And now, Queen Elizabeth II has earned her final rest and a place in history as one of England's greatest queens.
I believe Queen Elizabeth I would be proud of her namesake.
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So how do you stay in the habit of Pilates / exercise during school holidays? No sooner have we got back into our routine, another school holiday is looming! Also the prospect of getting out of the habit of our exercise routine!
It doesn't matter how long the holiday is most of us get out of the routine! The thought of starting again after the holidays is daunting and it's easy to find excuses not too!
So how to stay in the habit?
When you started your current exercise regime no doubt you made a goal. Hopefully it was a SMART goal. If not then read our blog "New Year, New You – How to make a difference" to help you make a SMART goal! Up until now its been going really well. So focus on those feelings you gain from doing regular exercise. More energy and better moods?
What are your main concerns when trying to keep exercise going during the holidays?
The kids are around all the time so need to do things with them.
You can't leave them at home alone while you go for a run / class.
Finding the time to do it!
Firstly re evaluate your goals for the holidays. Still have your main goal in focus but make small changes to your weekly goals so they become more Realistic during the holidays. For example, if your goal was to exercise for 5 days a week why not reduce it to 3 days a week. This way you are still moving towards your main goal but not beating yourself up when you don't achieve the 5!
That doesn't help with my main concerns though?
So the kids are around. Why not involve them in your activity? If you are going for a run, take them on their bikes, its a win win! You are getting your run and they are getting some exercise and fresh air.
If you kids are too small to take out or involve and you wouldn't get a good work out. Well if you are lucky enough to have family around or good friends why not get them to help out? (if using friends you could reciprocate) If you plan your holiday exercise in advance then the kids can look forward to it as well.
During the holidays we tend to relax a lot more, maybe not watching what we eat and drink – even more reason to keep up an exercise routine!
I know time is an issue for all of us most of all during the holidays. So why not exercise at home? There are lots of resources online which could also help motivate you. Until you try it you won't know if it works for you!
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Listen: Chris Reining on Personal Finance Decisions & How to be Financially Free
"Get right to the post and start optimizing your life sir. I'm financially independent now. What by Chris Rining of Chris RINING DOT COM? Today's question comes. From David. He asks quote. I happened upon your site today and engaged in some Sunday morning. Binge reading very much enjoyed reading your articles and appreciate your efforts to help others and transform their lives in reading through the questions that have been posed to you. I noticed that most of the questions concern ways to save and invest of course amassing sufficient resources. Resources is a necessary. Step too early retirement but it doesn't address the harder at least me question of who wants to be nor of what one wants to accomplish in in retirement. I've been fortunate to have a successful career. As an attorney for the past sixteen years between a healthy income and a lifelong habit of saving. I can retire now at is still pretty. Youthful forty one. If I were to choose to do so while I enjoy the intellectual aspects of my job and the relationships that I have with many of my colleagues I find myself considering the same and thought that you mentioned that is there must be something more to life than doing this day. In and day out I would also enjoy reducing the stress and anxiety in my life that comes from my work. All of that said I'm not quite sure who I would be separate from my profession. My question for you is. What process did you go through to consider how you wanted to spend your life post employment point? I would imagine that it is a continuing process for you and others but I'm interested in how you approach the issue and quote like I always say early. Retirement has has nothing to do with doing nothing. It's about gaining control over your time. Time is your most valuable resource like mark. Cuban says quote. You can't buy it you can't find it you can't store it you can't trade it and quote and that's why people want to become financially independent. They realized that every day their life is getting shorter and wasting a single minute. Doing things they don't want to do is a waste of life. I was friends with an executive and he told me that he hated his job. And didn't WanNa keep doing what he was doing and then he said this. Is it it for me. Meaning he was going to keep doing what he hated for the rest of his life because he wasn't willing to give anything up which is typical for guys in their forties. They're working some high pay a high stress job thinking superficial things will make them happy measuring themselves against other people. I know because that's what I was doing. In my twenties I bought a BMW. A two hundred under thousand dollar CONDO and started flying smaller planes. If you never stop and think about any of this how you're living then you're destined to spend your life filling it with more stuff trying being to impress other people instead you can have a more meaningful life by filling it with stuff. That's important to you. That's the question you need to be asking yourself. What's important to me and if you ask people this question most of them will say things like freedom and flexibility great? But that doesn't mean anything you have to dig deeper so freedom becomes time and time turns into the question. What would I do with it? My answer one work on what. I'm passionate about to challenge myself. Alf continued to grow and three heaven impact on the greatest amount of people. Yeah pretty simple. And now whenever you're faced with some major life decision like quitting a fifteen eighteen year career. It's these little rules that help guide you. This is how to start optimizing your life for meaning and significance to stop measuring yourself against other people and start measuring yourself self against what's important to you. It's how to wake up. People would kill to be in your financial situation because people are always telling me that they want to be doing anything other than going to work. I mean seventy percent of workers hate their jobs. They're telling me if they were financially independent. They'd spend their time watching their kids. Grow up doing more meaningful work or taking a risk. Ask to try something new. The reason you haven't quit yet is because you're attached to work the nine to five routine the relationships with co workers your identity as an attorney. It's it's a dependency. Quitting means taking a big step from the known to the unknown. It means making yourself uncomfortable but you change and grow the most by making yourself. The the most uncomfortable and the best part of quitting is when people ask you what you do for a living. Someone asked me this the other day. Nothing really know like what do you do for work. This is always a hard question to answer because our ridiculous. Does it sound saying you retired in your thirties or forties. But it's true you no longer have to work for money. So I'm spending my time reading writing and thinking working out doing yoga meditating life slows way down and if you think having this level of freedom and control all over your time we'll make you happier or that. Your time is better. Spent some other way because you figure out what's important to you then quit. It'll be the greatest gift you ever gave yourself. And the worst I possible outcome"
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Get right to the post and start optimizing your life sir. I'm financially independent now. What by Chris Rining of Chris RINING DOT COM? Today's question comes. From David. He asks quote. I happened upon your site today and engaged in some Sunday morning. Binge reading very much enjoyed reading your articles and appreciate your efforts to help others and transform their lives in reading through the questions that have been posed to you. I noticed that most of the questions concern ways to save and invest of course amassing sufficient resources. Resources is a necessary. Step too early retirement but it doesn't address the harder at least me question of who wants to be nor of what one wants to accomplish in in retirement. I've been fortunate to have a successful career. As an attorney for the past sixteen years between a healthy income and a lifelong habit of saving. I can retire now at is still pretty. Youthful forty one. If I were to choose to do so while I enjoy the intellectual aspects of my job and the relationships that I have with many of my colleagues I find myself considering the same and thought that you mentioned that is there must be something more to life than doing this day. In and day out I would also enjoy reducing the stress and anxiety in my life that comes from my work. All of that said I'm not quite sure who I would be separate from my profession. My question for you is. What process did you go through to consider how you wanted to spend your life post employment point? I would imagine that it is a continuing process for you and others but I'm interested in how you approach the issue and quote like I always say early. Retirement has has nothing to do with doing nothing. It's about gaining control over your time. Time is your most valuable resource like mark. Cuban says quote. You can't buy it you can't find it you can't store it you can't trade it and quote and that's why people want to become financially independent. They realized that every day their life is getting shorter and wasting a single minute. Doing things they don't want to do is a waste of life. I was friends with an executive and he told me that he hated his job. And didn't WanNa keep doing what he was doing and then he said this. Is it it for me. Meaning he was going to keep doing what he hated for the rest of his life because he wasn't willing to give anything up which is typical for guys in their forties. They're working some high pay a high stress job thinking superficial things will make them happy measuring themselves against other people. I know because that's what I was doing. In my twenties I bought a BMW. A two hundred under thousand dollar CONDO and started flying smaller planes. If you never stop and think about any of this how you're living then you're destined to spend your life filling it with more stuff trying being to impress other people instead you can have a more meaningful life by filling it with stuff. That's important to you. That's the question you need to be asking yourself. What's important to me and if you ask people this question most of them will say things like freedom and flexibility great? But that doesn't mean anything you have to dig deeper so freedom becomes time and time turns into the question. What would I do with it? My answer one work on what. I'm passionate about to challenge myself. Alf continued to grow and three heaven impact on the greatest amount of people. Yeah pretty simple. And now whenever you're faced with some major life decision like quitting a fifteen eighteen year career. It's these little rules that help guide you. This is how to start optimizing your life for meaning and significance to stop measuring yourself against other people and start measuring yourself self against what's important to you. It's how to wake up. People would kill to be in your financial situation because people are always telling me that they want to be doing anything other than going to work. I mean seventy percent of workers hate their jobs. They're telling me if they were financially independent. They'd spend their time watching their kids. Grow up doing more meaningful work or taking a risk. Ask to try something new. The reason you haven't quit yet is because you're attached to work the nine to five routine the relationships with co workers your identity as an attorney. It's it's a dependency. Quitting means taking a big step from the known to the unknown. It means making yourself uncomfortable but you change and grow the most by making yourself. The the most uncomfortable and the best part of quitting is when people ask you what you do for a living. Someone asked me this the other day. Nothing really know like what do you do for work. This is always a hard question to answer because our ridiculous. Does it sound saying you retired in your thirties or forties. But it's true you no longer have to work for money. So I'm spending my time reading writing and thinking working out doing yoga meditating life slows way down and if you think having this level of freedom and control all over your time we'll make you happier or that. Your time is better. Spent some other way because you figure out what's important to you then quit. It'll be the greatest gift you ever gave yourself. And the worst I possible outcome


How Do I End Things With My Boyfriend?
I've been dating a guy for the past six months, and as of late, I've been getting frustrated at his lack of structure and his lack of ambition.
Now, in the beginning, it was great. We live in different states so to make up for distance, we FaceTime. He works from home and has a relaxed, spontaneous lifestyle. He's super laid back, and a genuinely wonderful person. He cares for me (although in the beginning, I think he didn't care too much). He isn't a guy who goes out to the club all the time and has to be all over with everyone.
However, due to his freedom with work, he has his friends (about five or six) over to his apartment anywhere from 10 pm to 7 am on any night. When they do come over, all they do is play video games, drink, play Yu-Gi-oh, and smoke.
I didn't notice this in the beginning, but it was only two nights per week. Now it's a constant thing, and he seems to not care about what time they're there until or what's happening the next day.
He's turning 30 next year, and I've just turned 25. I'm working on getting my MHA and furthering my career in the medical field. He simply wants to work from home and do nothing else throughout the day but watch TV and sit around the house or tinker on his car and motorcycle.
We have a lot in common but this lack of structure and ambition... it's driving us apart.
I feel like I can't see a future with him because of this. I've tried to end things but every single time, he starts crying, and it breaks my heart. I honestly think we were better off as friends versus as partners.
He doesn't want to further himself in the IT field because becoming a supervisor or manager means that it'll be stressful, and he doesn't want that, but he isn't doing anything to show me he's changing.
I need to end things, but I can't if every single time he starts crying.
How do I handle this? He's great, but he's not the fit for my future aspirations.
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Your question is not should you leave; it's how to leave.
As you said yourself, "He's great, but he's not the fit for my future aspirations." That's clear from your email. You want different things from life. You can see that his lifestyle doesn't mesh with yours all the way from another state! Can you imagine how clear it would be if you lived in the same state, let alone city.
Ah, emotional hostage-taking. Now, he might not even be aware that he's doing it. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on that. But, it's manipulative, nonetheless.
When someone we care about is hurting, our empathy kicks in. And when we are the cause of that hurt, our instinct is often to reverse things, even at the expense of our own comfort, feelings, etc.
But, staying with him a little longer to find the right time to leave is more harmful, for both of you.
Call him, FaceTime him, email him — just rip that band-aid off. Break up with him. Yes, in this case, I think an email breakup is okay; he knows it's coming.
Tell him a gentler version of what you told me: it's clear that we want different things out of life.
Also, you have only been together for six months. And, long-distance at that! Please don't carry around unnecessary guilt about this. You've dated for a few months. You've discovered you're not a good match. It's okay to want to move on. And, move on you should!
Those tears he has are about more than you. Set yourself free and you'll be doing the same for him, too.


Critical Illness Insurance-Critical illness insurance covers you should you be diagnosed with a covered critical illness. The carrier typically pays a lump sum benefit to the insured in the form of a check instead of to the doctors. Coverage is meant to fill the gaps of what traditional or conventional health insurance does not cover. Monies can be used for anything without limitation rules restrictions or guidelines. Typical premiums are affordable and one of the most important coverages you can have.
Cancer Insurance- This is a Cancer only policy as it has been also known. There are two basic kinds of policies. An "expense benefit" plan covers a certain amount per month for a treatment or procedure, as well as a certain amount for hospital stay or confinement, as well as possible transportation. There is a limit monthly on most plans and a cap overall. It does pay over an existing health insurance policy as a supplement and can be a stand alone which can be gotten though work or perhaps a lower rate on an individual policy where it can also be portable due to job loss. A "cash cancer" or "lump sum benefit policy" (variation in word) pays a fixed amount upfront upon the diagnosis of a cancer. In most cases it must be a malignant or the "availability of spreading" this is mostly all cancers internally, but may not be covered outside of the body such as under a simply removal of basal cell or skin cancer.
Critical Illness Terms/Conditions -CII,-critical care insurance, Critical illness cover, critical health insurance, also under the supplemental or supplemental health insurance umbrella. Often confused with cancer insurance while nearly all carriers plans follow the same general coverage, critical illness covers more than cancer (heart attack, stroke etc). Some other carriers will provide more coverage and also depending upon the state in which you reside. Coverage additional that may be included could be blindness or deafness, loss of limbs, major burns (usually 20% of body) coma, Advanced Alzheimer's disease, Paralysis to name a few.
Supplemental Health Insurance-May refer to a host of about 10 different types such as Cancer insurance or its parent critical illness insurance. It may also refer to other ancillary or secondary products like Long term Care (LTC), Medicare or Medigap, Accident or accidental health insurance. Supplemental is a secondary policy often needed to take over the financial burden of what their primary insurance will not cover. Example: $10,000 deductible and 80/20 co-insurance = at least $10,000 supplemental insurance.
Insurance-Is a purchase of protection and transferring the risk onto another party will ing to accept or assume that financial risk. This is insurance known as an event that may or may not happen opposed to assurance.
Assurance-While often inter-changeable with the term insurance it is not in the technical sense that assurance is something that is going to happen rather than a risk of some event that may occur. It is within a time line which is why life insurance albeit death insurance and certain to occur, may not occur in the time of policy.
Deductible-The amount you need to pay or satisfy, usually yearly on health insurance, before the insurance company pays out any benefit. There is no deductible(s) to satisfy with supplemental critical illness insurance policies. In this case if you have a high deductible insurance a person would look to get critical illness coverage to offset the cost if some critical condition was to occur under its' covered conditions.
Policy- Plan -Coverage-Benefits– Inter-changeable words in context of insurance. Policy is the contract in which you are covered under by the insurance carrier. It is your benefits under the policy and it explains your benefits (EOB-explanation of benefits) and coverage amount. One might say critical illness policy the same as critical illness coverage or critical illness plan.
Return of Premium( ROP)-Some options for a return of premium may actually different from one carrier to the next. Surprisingly some Critical illness companies will provide you your paid in premiums if pass away at a certain time frame such as less than a year after the policy began and considered a return of premium such as a graded life policy may have. Most will pay minus any benefits paid and again if you are deceased goes to beneficiary or estate. Most often in critical illness insurance or cancer insurance, it refers to the amount of money(ies) in premium you have paid in as an option. The option or return of premium would be granted all back due to the client or insured if he or she maintained the policy in good standing and not having a claim for a period certain such as 20 years. Most that choose this option can not maintain consistently for said period and lose the option. ROP option does cost you more, and if can maintain the plan would be worth it making it a no premium risk policy. The risk is do not maintain. Check the definition with you carrier.
Pre-screening– Is a call to the underwriting department of carriers to efficiently save time filling out applications. This is good also so that when filling out another application to a carrier more willing to accept your condition(s) when asked on the application have you ever been turned down or rated up for insurance you wont need to answer negatively. Everyone can have a pre-screen if it is warranted.
Underwriter– The person(s) that reviews your application for coverage. It is the underwriters that way your application risks to determine whether or not you get your policy issued. Risks they may look at could be your height way ratio with BMI (body mass index) or what medications you take and if have a condition is it considered under control by physician. There are many behind the scenes agents themselves do not see but answering the application honestly with full information will help the underwriter. Speculators who omit information might not get underwritten simply because they have not given information enough to ascertain they are in fact healthy by addressing it and being under control. Ask an agent or Critical Illness Resource Department for further questions to see if a pre-screening is necessary to save time.
Simplified Underwriting– Is a shorter question application and faster underwriting process. If you pass the first basic questions often about 6 or so, then you can qualify. This is not guaranteed, as guaranteed issue has no underwriting, simplified may decline you. If healthy as high as 90% will be accepted others may have extenuating conditions that may be considered too much a risk. These conditions may be, but not limited to Insulin Diabetics or Heart disease or obesity since these factors are one of the highest causes for a critical illness.
Guaranteed Issue– This is a(n) insurance policy that accepts all individuals regardless of medical condition(s). The insured may be accepted in a group insurance if offered at work which may be accepting, but not always since supplemental insurance does not fall under the same applicable rules as group major medical health insurance. Some companies that offer coverage with more than 1000 members are usually guaranteed issue.
Uninsurable / Decline– Those individuals that are considered uninsurable or normally declined by carriers based on that typically may be considered a risk or severe or have chronic medical conditions are deemed "uninsurable". Health care reform is to be in effect by 2014 and must accept all individuals regardless of conditions. These individuals can get a guaranteed issue critical illness insurance policy. There is generally a one (1) year exclusionary period.
Quote Engine– Is a software platform in which to run multiple quotes, with many different companies or carriers, and many different plans and plan options offered, without having to run each carrier separately. More popular quote engines used by consumers are travel such as Orbitz or Priceline (ref. only/not endorsement) but are also used for other industries such as insurance quoting.
State Coverage Areas– All states in the USA (United States of America) Has a Critical illness insurance policy for individual coverage. More difficult, or less option states would be CT New York and Florida) Plans however are available.
Accelerated Benefit Rider– Critical illness policy may be attached to another policy such as a life insurance policy. If the benefits of that policy can be paid out earlier than death, rather upon diagnosis of a critical illness, this would be an example of accelerated benefit as a rider to life coverage.
Guaranteed renew-ability/Renewable- At end of term or length of policy the insured has availability to option renew at new policy face amount but can not be turned down. Some policies continue for life and have no term length as long as premiums are met. Other CI policies can go to age 70 or 75 and not be renewed past that point due to age others still willing to accept new apps at age 80. Check with insurance Resource Center for defining carriers.
Covered Conditions: Medical diagnosis by physican that is paid out upon claim at amount stipulated on Explanation of Benefits or policy.
Benefit amount- The amount payable in the face amount of the policy or portion of that amount in the case of a covered condition which is payable to the insured directly.
Assignable- Means that the benefit paid amount for critical illness insurance policy can be paid to another party such as a doctor, hospital or other provided if designated by the insured. This is known as an assignable benefit.
Agent- is a lose term generally referred to by one who acts in a broker capacity, a go-between, or an intermediary to act on someones behalf typically for purchase of items or negotiating a deal or contract, agreement or terms. In this term agent is interchangeable with broker. One who is an agent or broker in insurance must be licensed first having taken the appropriate courses and certification or passing of exam and recognized by the state department of insurance.
Agency-is a filed for and run by insurance agents or a field for name of a company whereby other agents may also be appointed to work either captive or non captive.
Captive/non-captive-Meaning whether or not an agent is either captive or non-captive, is merely if the producer or agent is allowed by the agency they work for to provide only the agency products or allowed to sell others carriers and agencies products which is known as non-captive. An example of captive may be if a person works at Humana and can not sell an aetna policy due to their captive status.
Waiver of premium, is a rider to the policy typically for health or ancillary insurance such as a supplemental health insurance or critical illness insurance, whereby the client would choose to pay extra if offered. In such an event should befall them and are out of work and can not make the premium payment the policy would still remain in force where a waiver of premium rider kicks in and takes care of the premium. Purpose for a WOP, is meant to protect the client and keep in force the policy do to unforeseen events that a client is unable to make payment. WOP riders definitions or policies vary from carrier to carrier and should be researched first before relying on one generic definition as to the lengths of time or events can vary.
Pathologist/pathology Specialized field of study and research on a specific and diagnosis of a disease. The medical doctor performing is known as a pathologist which will typically make the determination and diagnosis from a surgical removal of a lesion or biopsy from pollup or tumor. The result will be an outcome of benign or malignant and refers to cancer.
Oncology/Oncologist is a specialized doctor that handles patients that have been diagnosed as having cancer versus a pathologist which only diagnoses the patient. It is a skill of study that has increased its need and importance over time.


A trip across Beijing on Thursday to the corporate offices of Intel and Lenovo provided a look at the rapidly changing city. Beijing is pulling out all the stops to get ready for the 2008 Summer Olympics, which is just 477 days away, as this sign on the highway near Intel's offices reminds passersby.
A large banner just outside Lenovo's offices reminds workers heading to and from the lunchroom why people buy PCs. Gaming is a huge part of PC use in China, as the thousands of Internet cafes around the country serve as social outlets and even dating destinations, said Jane Price, head of Intel's marketing efforts in China.
An example of the symbiotic relationship between the new high-tech Beijing and the old ways of doing business. This gentleman was taking a nap in the middle of a bustling high-tech district in Beijing, home to dozens of multinational and local tech companies but ringed by poorer areas full of run-down housing and street vendors.
Down the block from the main offices, Lenovo employees eat lunch in a cafeteria complete with waiters. The change in Chinese workers from a decade ago has been truly amazing to behold, said Duncan Clark, an analyst with BDA China. Ten years ago, workers were assigned jobs and virtually everyone wore the same drab clothes. Today, workers have the ability to choose their jobs and have discovered the fine art of fashion.
One of the more interesting buildings in the area around Lenovo's offices. "This is a country that's kind of in future shock," Clark said. He was trying to explain how China is racing ahead with development--there's a construction project every mile in Beijing--but the government still maintains tight control over the media and tries to push a friendly authoritarian Father Knows Best-type of agenda.
Lenovo's corporate offices could be at home in any suburban office park in the U.S. When it acquired IBM's PC business, Lenovo moved its corporate offices to the U.S., but it's still at home in Beijing, where its roots run deep as the first company to make a PC that could understand Chinese characters.
One of the PCs developed by Lenovo's engineers is a dual-boot system that can run either Microsoft's Windows Vista or LEOS, a Lenovo-designed operating system. This particular unit fits into Intel's Viiv concept of living room PCs that can be operated from the couch and used to manage a library of songs and videos.
Lenovo is a big corporate sponsor of the 2008 Olympics, and is joining forces with Coca-Cola on this particular laptop. It's a marketing pro's dream synergistic branding proposition.
This aerial view, complete with smog, shows the Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium (left) and the warm-up hall (right) under construction. These venues will host badminton and artistic gymnastics for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
For all the high-tech glitz and glamour of Beijing's growing sophisticates, there is the day-to-day reality for the majority of the city's residents. There are about 1.3 billion people in China. About 100 million of those are at the top of the economic ladder, with an additional 400 million or so designated as the "urban mass market," Intel's Price said. Intel believes all of these people are potential PC customers, but they live in very different worlds.
Beijing is pulling out all the stops to get ready for the 2008 Summer Olympics.


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Biggest whiners in pro sports
Posted by shambo as Baseball, Culture, Football, Golf, Nascar
Tiger Woods - master whiner
Let me say this about that.
whine: [hwahyn, wahyn] – verb. To utter, in a nasal tone, unfounded complaints. To snivel in a peevish and self-pitying way. To accuse, without basis, someone else for one's own self-created problems.
They have been with us all our lives – WHINERS. In grammar school there was always some kid who complained: "…. somebody pushed me …. the dog ate my homework …. he doesn't play fair …. she's the teacher's pet". When you became an adult, there was always someone in the office complaining: "…. I didn't get the promotion because of office politics …. she slept her way to the top …. he's a brown-noser …. he got promoted because he's a minority".
But, let me set you straight folks, and this is the truest thing you will ever hear. There are no bigger whiners anywhere than in professional sports. If you are looking for a tried and true formula in pro sports it looks something like this: "The bigger the income and the lower the IQ, the bigger the whiner".
Next to pro athletes, Charlie Sheen looks like… John Wayne. One would think that pro athletes, with their big bucks, adoring fans, and hot trophy wives would be the happiest people on Earth. But noooooooo. They have all kinds of problems and it's somebody else's fault. Let me take this opportunity to point out some of the most culpable.
Barry Bonds: I don't mean to pick on a guy who is so lame that he escorted himself into irrelevancy, but screw him – he's a whiner. No one would argue that Bonds was a great hitter …. perhaps just a mediocre all-around baseball 'player', but unquestionably a great hitter. But, Mr. Bonds was not happy with zillions of dollars, a good looking wife and a great looking girlfriend, he wanted to make history. He watched on the sidelines as Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa chased the single season home run record that he wanted for himself. To kick things up a notch, and in the opinion of most baseball fans, he started taking steroids and human growth hormones. After a couple of years of juicing, the man's head looked like a freakin' jack-o-lantern. Yet Bonds continued to deny he was taking steroids. When he was caught being injected by a trainer in the locker room, he claimed he didn't know what was in the needle. QUESTION: Would you let a 'gym rat' inject something into your veins without knowing what it was?
Bond's got caught – was indicted for lying to a Grand Jury about it – and blamed someone else. Barry Bonds – forget the Hall-of-Fame. You'll always be remembered as a WHINER.
Terrell Owens: You can always tell a narcissistic gas bag when he refers to himself in the third person. Terrell Owens never refers to himself as "I" – it is always "T. O." T.O. do this, T.O. gonna do dat, T.O. da man. Wasn't it Owens that was quoted as saying during a contract negotiation: "I can't feed my family on $9 million" ? Experts disagree on the quote, but it would be classic Owens. The man is a self-made lighting rod because he cannot shut up. And when faults are pointed out, predictably, he blames the coaches, the referees, the owners, his fellow players, the press, and anyone else who pops into his pea-sized brain. There is no question about the validity of one of his most famous quotes: "I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports". Well, how about compared to someone like, oh, say …. a SOLDIER …. you egocentric punk?
Now playing for the Cincinnati Bengals, Owens was quoted by the Kansan City Star as blaming the 2010 Bengals dismal 4 – 12 season on "under-performing coaches". My opinion: "T.O. be a WHINER !!!"
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.: I'll confess it may be insensitive to point out the faults of someone who is so dimwitted that he speaks like the dialogue coach for the "Beverly Hillbillies". "Little E", as he is affectionately called by his fans, is the poster boy for today's upcoming crop of new-age whiners. Out of the last 100+ plus NASCAR Sprint Cup races, Earnhardt Jr. has won exactly (wait – let me count them up quickly) ZERO races. The fact that he has been selected the most popular driver in NASCAR for 8 years in a row simply proves incest is still a problem in the deep south. While driving for Earnhardt Racing (a team previously owned by his late father) he blamed his lack of success on the new owners. When he switched to a new racing team, he blamed his losses on his car, then his crew chief. When his car and crew chief were changed, he blamed failings on the new crew chief. Now he has yet another new crew chief (his 4th in 5 years) a new car, a new crew, and he still hasn't won a race. After another one of his recent poor performances, a reporter asked him about it. He articulated his response in the most intellectual language at his disposal: "I don't give a sh*t!" Ahhh, the eloquence of 'Little E'.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. – most popular driver - icon of the South – role model for youth – and big ass WHINER!
Roger Clemens: Oh, we're getting into some major league whiners now. Clemens may be the worst kind, if you believe, like many others, that he faked injury when his pitching went to hell. Evidence? You decide: 1999 ALCS Game #2, Clemens gives up five runs in the first inning before leaving with claims of a 'bad back' …. 2001 ALDS Game #1, after giving up two home runs, Clemens leaves the game with a 'pulled hamstring' …. 2003 ALCS Game #7, Clemens gives up four runs, including a home run before leaving the game with yet another 'ham string pull' …. 2005 World series Game #1, Clemens gives up three runs in two innings before leaving the game with 'leg problems'. Roger will never admit to a poor performance – his problems are always because of injury. Perhaps his upcoming trial for lying to Congress about steroid use will give him a chance to prove he was a great pitcher with injuries that only appeared when he pitched poorly.
Roger Clemens – Mr. Roger ('I don't feel well') Clemens, future Hall-of-Fame WHINER.
Tiger Woods: Never has an athlete with so much talent, with such bad judgement, with such a propensity for lying, with such a giant ego, with such a giant fortune, had to resort to faking injury to account for poor performance. Proving an athlete is faking an injury is almost impossible. Poor 'ol sports fans like us can only use our common sense to determine is something is awry. Ponder recent 'injuries' sustained by Tiger Woods ….. Achilles tendon – bad knee – bulging disc – leg pain – calf cramps – neck injury. What I find interesting is that NONE of these ailments are obvious to the casual observer. In other words, there are no outwardly observable signs of proof. We only have the word of a guy who has proven to be one of the world's most talented liars. And secondly, Woods never seemed to have any of these injuries before he got caught playing 'hide-the-sausage' with half the hookers in Las Vegas. Woods is too ego-maniacal to ever admit his game is slipping. His problems are always due to factors beyond his control – injuries (sure they are), birds chirping while he is on the tee, airplanes flying over the course, cameramen snapping photos while he is playing, the press, his ex-wife, his dead daddy, the wind, lack of play, too much play, poor swing coaching, hookers going public, and on and on and on. We've heard them all at one time or another. Is there nothing that happens on the planet Earth that doesn't impede poor Tiger's play? His plan seems to be to convince his fans, who are not much brighter than those of Dale Earnhardt, Jr., that his main problems are due to injuries that have a convenient way of appearing on-demand.
Tiger Woods, I ain't buying it. You may never win another 'Major", but in my book, you'll always be a Major WHINER.
And, that's all I have to say about that.
Shambo
Tags Barry Bonds• Dale Earnhardt Jr.• pro sports whiners• Roger Clemens• Terrell Owens• Tiger Woods
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