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Hometown, USA
Published on June 26, 2021 July 27, 2021 by Linda Mahkovec - Author6 Comments
My next book, And So We Dream, takes place in the summer of 1970 in a small Midwestern town, much like the one where I was born and raised — Carlinville, Illinois. So on a recent trip back there, I paid close attention to the sounds, scents, colors, and feel of summertime. The train whistle, the low hum of lawnmowers, the warbling of robins. The scents of freshly-cut grass, strawberries from the local orchard, and flowering bushes that perfume the humid air. The colors of summer — shades of green and blue.
My visit was in June, one of my favorite times of year back there. Everything is green and lush, and flowers grow in abundance — masses of wild honeysuckle, cornflowers alongside country roads, shady green meadows dotted with wildflowers.
Though it is now fifty years later from the action in the story, much of the town and countryside remain the same. Long stretches of country roads —
including a few parts of historical Old Route 66, just outside of town.
Tree-lined streets with beautiful old homes,
and small-town charm woven throughout.
Other places show the passage of time: the old wooden bridges that can still be found out in the country,
an abandoned farm house,
peaceful old cemeteries with tombstones leaning this way and that.
There's a sense of sky and openness that impresses with its beauty and grandeur. The sky dominates the landscape with every-changing drama
and stunning sunsets that are commonplace.
In my new book, a young boy remembers how they found pictures in the clouds, and I found myself doing the same: A lotus cloud! The profile of a lady? a Roman emperor? a marble bust? it shifts before I can decide.
A low line of clouds and trees that seemed to march on together in the same formation.
Storm clouds and rain over a farm in the distance, an illuminated puff over the grain elevator.
Though I left the Midwest many years ago, those formative years in small-town Illinois form the core of who I am. I am grateful to have been raised in such a specific place, so quintessentially American — though I imagine everyone feels something similar.
Wherever we end up, our hometown forms a part of us that no other place can fill.
(And So We Dream will be available later this summer.)
Categories My Books, Seasons - summer, the Midwest•Tags And So We Dream, beautiful skies, hometown, Illinois, June, loveliness, memories, middle Ammerica, Midwest, old-fashioned charm, small town, summer, summertime, sunsets, youth
The Asking
Published on August 26, 2018 January 13, 2019 by Linda Mahkovec - AuthorLeave a comment
Following is the shortest story from my collection, Seven Tales of Love.
It had been more than twenty years since she had danced. Dancing wasn't a part of her husband's character, along with many other things she used to delight in. In the early days, they had moved to music in her apartment. He had tried, for her sake. And yet, in him she had the security that she had never found with anyone else. Before him, there were always the betrayals, small or large, that spoiled her relationships and made her unsure of people. Her marriage was not what she had dreamed of in her youth – but then, neither were the betrayals. At least he was true, devoted, loyal. Rock solid. It had been easy to give up the superficial accessories of love.
So what was this desperate stirring inside her now? This night as she danced to the rhythms of the music, with the man whose hand gently held hers, moving together as if in long familiar ease? Delight, excitement, the thrill of the dance, as in her youth. That dream was supposed to be long dead, long ago replaced with more reassuring, dependable matters. What was it doing so achingly awake in her now – in all of its glittering, hopeful youthfulness?
An alarm shot through her. This feeling did not belong to her, the fiercely loyal woman of unshakable convictions. It was because of the music, surely, the warm breeze, the Old World balconies, the tiny soft lights in the night.
It wasn't the kindness in his eyes, the flashes of laughter, the protective arm around her shoulder, the earthy connection to the rhythms of life.
No, it was the soft crashing of the waves, the shimmering pink and melon sunset. It was the sly promise that night weaves into its beginning. It was all that – and he was just a part of it, surely.
Unexpectedly, life was offering her a choice. All she had to do was embrace it. The choice was there, offered to her with simple outstretched hands – no demands, nothing but the sweetness of human warmth. The choice to connect with life one more time before age and plodding routine took over for good.
Or, to stay true to her old self, to the woman she thought she was.
This sudden feeling was not part of her code of living. Such a breaking of that code would leave her unsure of anything ever again.
Or, would it open her up to a whole new way of being – once more connected, once more happy and hopeful, her old buried self awake again, bursting into blossom after long dormant years?
Would it be sadder to give in? Or sadder to deny?
Either way was crushing. The question kept rolling in the surf of her mind, along with the feeling that she had recaptured her beauty, her liveliness, the agility and freedom of movement that she thought she had lost.
Then, slowly, there in her mind, was her husband's face, there with his gaze – the eyes that always asked, that always expressed love and desire for her. Her heart was pierced with tenderness for him, for all their faults and failures over the years. They were bound, bound – no matter what dreams of beauty might cross her path.
Her excuse was sore feet and age when she declined to dance further, when she took her seat, and watched the other dancers dance under the tiny lights.
Rather than a vacation to a tropical location, as the story would suggest, the inspiration behind this tale came from a song. One cold winter's day, after a dull day at work and a frustrating commute home on the subway, I stopped by a Thai restaurant to order takeout. As I sat waiting, staring through the rain-streaked windows at the traffic on the boulevard and the hurrying figures under black umbrellas, a song began to play — Sea, Sand, and Sun (Arnica Montana). And it took me far away — stirring up feelings and images of younger days, beautiful beaches, and the romance of life.
Seven Tales of Love
by Linda Mahkovec
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The Dreams of Youth
Published on June 5, 2017 January 13, 2019 by Linda Mahkovec - Author2 Comments
The line above from Longfellow's poem, My Lost Youth, in large part, inspired the writing of The Dreams of Youth. It's a collection of six very short pieces that together tell the story of Maggie. Spanning over eighty-five years, the stories follow her from her youth in Depression-era Illinois to the time when she ventures forth to 1940's Hollywood and coastal California, and her return to the rural Midwest
I used lines from the poem to head the sections, amazed each time that the words so closely conveyed the main idea of the piece.
The first section is called "A Girl's Will." Though Longfellow's poem is about a boy, the line worked beautifully to capture Maggie's spirit.
"A [girl's] will is the wind's will." – Longfellow
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When her brothers and sisters staged a circus in the back yard for the entertainment of the neighborhood, it was eight-year-old Maggie who flew through the air on the handmade trapeze, her sense of adventure overriding any fear she might have had.
"One penny to see the Flying Wonder – Maggie!" they cried, drawing a sizable crowd.
Maggie loved the feeling of flying through the air and landing on the old mattress – the freedom, the thrill! It was the same feeling she had when she jumped from the hayloft onto the hay below, the same feeling she had when she rode her brother's bike and coasted with her arms outstretched.
Maggie was four when her mother Eileen died after giving birth to twins, the last of ten children.
Summers at home were magical. The rest of the year was spent in the orphanage, along with the twins and her sisters. Maggie came to love the nuns. They taught her how to sew and read, and told wondrous stories about the lives of the saints.
All the same, she was happy when she finally reached high school and moved back home.
(Madonna of the orphanage)
Maggie has always loved the idea of airplanes and flying, and she decides to become an airline stewardess in order to finally see the ocean and far away places.
She took her savings and journeyed by bus to Kansas City for an interview with TWA. Her dreams were finally going to come true; she could feel them tingling at her fingertips.
From the bus window, she imagined the miles and miles of corn as the wideness of the ocean, curving into the horizon. The golden wheat became the golden sand where she would soon stand and let the waves lap over her bare feet. When she closed her eyes, she could almost feel the salt spray on her face!
As she waited in a long line with other hopefuls, eager for the interview, she heard the whispers.
"They don't hire girls with glasses. You must have perfect vision." Maggie took off her glasses and slipped them into her pocket.
Back home, Maggie found a job working in the veteran's hospital.
Maggie had not given up on her dreams of seeing the world. While she was working at the VA hospital, she learned that her vision was good enough to enlist in the Air Force Nurse Corps. She would become a military flight nurse.
When Maggie's best friend from nursing school offered her the chance to go to California, the land of dreams, Maggie knew that the door to her future had opened at last.
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Participants from West Garfield Park and North Lawndale are working with the Center for Public Safety and Justice to mend relationships within the communities. (Photo: Vibhu S. Rangavasan)
Groups gathered in Student Center East Oct. 27 to show that talking and breaking bread with communities breaks barriers within them, too.
The Building Blocks project, a civic engagement initiative with participants from West Garfield Park and North Lawndale, was designed to "look at issues related to health, energy and the environment, and then it evolved to public safety, which seemed to be sort of the key issue," said Juliana Stratton, the project lead and the director of the Center for Public Safety and Justice in the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs.
Stratton and her team used a restorative justice approach to inspire creative problem-solving and solutions among public safety stakeholders and community residents, including participants from the Cook County Jail Alumni Association who have been in the criminal justice system. Other participants were affiliated with United for Better Living, Chicago Park District, Uhlich Children's Advantage Network, Sankofa House, Congressman Danny Davis's Office, Circuit Court of Cook County and the Chicago Police Department.
"A restorative approach is really about…relationships that we have with one another, and how we maintain and sustain those relationships," said Vanessa Westly, a 25-year Chicago Police Department veteran.
Conflicts arise and create public safety issues when there's a breach in a relationship, she explained.
To begin mending relationships between public safety representatives and community residents, Stratton, her students and others attended four monthly sessions where they toured the two neighborhoods, visited community organizations, engaged in constructive dialogue, built relationships during peace circles and shared meals.
The process helped to establish values, bonds and trust that initiated community healing. Participants also became aware of community assets, concerns and proposals for solutions to public safety issues.
Meals strengthened relationships and fostered candid conversations, said Nikki Harvey, director of constituent development for Congressman Danny Davis.
"We shared intimate things at that table, and in the midst of sharing those things, you then turn to the next person and you would say, 'Well, I've never been through that, but what can I do to help you through that?'" she said. "That's what family does."
Those restorative practices can help public safety representatives better understand people and become more connected to communities, Westly said.
"We take this job to help and build," she said.
The project taught Jose Abonce, a CUPPA master's student and graduate assistant for the Center for Public Safety and Justice, the power of creating a climate where people build communities by supporting one another, too.
"Building Blocks expanded my horizons and allowed me to imagine ways in which civic engagement could encourage a shift in policies when given the opportunity to thrive and when community stakeholders are informed and consulted with, involved and collaborated with, and empowered," he said.
Francisca Corona
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Building Blocks, Center for Public Safety and Justic, civic engagement, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, Garfield Park, North Lawndale

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Andy Pevarnek had a feeling that his collection of baseball cards and record albums of pop groups would be of considerable value while he was growing up in Weymouth during the 1960s.
Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield is scheduled to sign autographs on Dec. 19 from 12:30 to 2 p.m.
The shop opened in mid-October inside a former general store near the Alvin Hollis Company.
Andy's Sports Cards Music and Memorabilia offers baby boomers a walk down memory lane where recording artists on phonograph record albums from the 50s and 60s greet them as they examine the artifacts inside the glass casings.
Pevarnek sells some of the tunes on vinyl records.
"Vinyl records are making a comeback," he said.
The LP covers and records are on display near a wall of framed Rolling Stone newspaper title pages that date back to the 1970s.
Pevarnek also has a box collection of CDs for sale that includes recording artists Bob Dylan, David Bowie, and The Doors.
The album covers available for purchase include various artists like The Moody Blues, The Fifth Dimension, Grand Funk Railroad, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull.
The sports memorabilia for sale includes baseball cards of Red Sox players that date back to the 1960s.
"So many kids threw their baseball cards out when they grew up, but today they are worth a lot of money," Pevarnek said.
A buyer can purchase a card with a Ted Williams photo that contains a piece of his bat for $100.
The card collection includes Boston Bruins Hall of Fame players Johnny Bucyk and Phil Esposito.
Some of the period cards are encased in a wooden case that contains 20 viewing frames.
The case is located next to two LP albums that include broadcast highlights of the 1967 Red Sox "Impossible Dream" American League championship and the Boston Celtics NBA championship season in 1976.
The LP of the Celtics championship in 1976 is especially memorable because the fifth game of the NBA playoff finals with the Phoenix Suns at Boston Garden included three overtime periods.
The Celtics defeated the Suns 128-126 and clinched the championship two days later in Phoenix.
Many sports historians consider the fifth game of the playoff series the greatest NBA contest ever.
"That team had Jo Jo White, John Havlicek, and Paul Silas," Pevarnek said.
Buyers can purchase-framed copies of the Boston Globe and Boston Herald front pages that proclaimed the New England Patriots's Super Bowl victories in 2001, 2003, and 2004.
Pevarnek said that the store's memorabilia has much appeal to customers of all ages.
"Andre Tippett (retired Patriots linebacker) came here and signed autographs," he said.
Andy's Sports Cards Music and Memorabilia store is open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 pm.
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Yahoo Inc. may finally be nearing a deal to sell a part of its prized stake in the major Chinese e-commerce provider Alibaba.
Bloomberg Businessweek is citing unnamed sources in reporting that the struggling U.S. Internet company could announce as early as Sunday that it has reached an agreement to sell half of its 40 percent stake in Alibaba.
The transaction could bring Yahoo $7 billion.
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Charles Katona, Shakopee. Katona led the way for No. 4-4A Shakopee in its 88-67 win over Burnsville on Jan. 4. The junior scored 29 points, hit the career 1,000-point threshold, and helped extend the Sabers' winning streak to four games.
Dawson Garcia, Prior Lake. Prior Lake's forward provided two big scoring nights in a pair of wins for the Lakers, who are ranked No. 2 in Class 4A by Minnesota Basketball News from Jan. 2. Garcia netted 35 points in a 92-62 win on Jan. 3 against Chanhassen and added another 26 points with 10 rebounds the following night in a 75-60 victory over Lakeville South.
Charlie Gorres, Park of Cottage Grove. In Cottage Grove's 84-60 victory over Woodbury on Jan. 4, Gorres recorded a triple-double to lead his team to its second win of the week. The senior had 20 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists in the win.
Mitch Hoistad, Maple Lake. Hoistad contributed 30 points in Maple Lake's 60-54 win against Kimball on Jan. 4. His contribution helped the Irish extend their winning streak to three games.
Jacob Donnett, Kaleidoscope Charter. A two-way performance by Donnett led the Comets to a resounding 88-29 throttling of New Century Academy on Jan. 3. He finished the game with 33 points, 11 rebounds and seven blocks.
Jon Stimmler, Princeton. The No. 2-3A Tigers had a good night with a big contribution from their senior forward. Stimmler produced in multiple ways, scoring 20 points, grabbing 12 rebounds, and snagging four steals in Princeton's 95-59 thrashing of Zimmerman on Jan. 4.


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Snapshots in Crop Nutrient Usage
By Jackie Pucci|April 1, 2019
Editor's note: CropLife Senior Writer Jackie Pucci caught up with four leading companies — Compass Minerals, Actagro, Timac Agro USA, and Tiger-Sul — at the recent Commodity Classic event to learn how they are helping to move the needle on crop nutrition.
Compass Minerals: Make Your Gains Early
Have a nutrient deficiency? Not a problem.
Compass Minerals Senior Product Manager for Plant Nutrition Kyle Lilly.
Test your soil and go to your retailer to correct those deficiencies. It's modus operandi, but Kyle Lilly is trying to change this.
Lilly, Senior Product Manager for Plant Nutrition with Compass Minerals, explains that taking a proactive stance with system-applied nutrition will much more fully unleash the potential of your soil to grow healthy crops than any reactive approach.
"If all the nutrients are applied preplant, later in the season they can be tied up and not available or too slowly available. They might be there in the correct rate but not available to the plant. That's where I think the industry is going: to more of a focus on the correct time and what we call 'spoon-feeding' the plant over time," Lilly tells CropLife® magazine from Commodity Classic in Orlando, FL, where, in the background, workers at the Compass Minerals booth dished out free cookies from the mini-oven to a line of visitors.
As row crop growers grapple with low commodity prices and tightening regulations, their focus on nutrients intensifies. Purely looking at the results, it's an easy sell.
Distribution, Lilly says, is the trickier part of the equation, sometimes due to logistical hurdles.
"There's a built-up, preconceived notion of what crop fertility can be. In the Corn Belt, status quo is, spread all your NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium) fertilizer in fall and spring, and you're done. The big market for manufacturers like us is the untreated acre. That's not only in convincing the farmer that the products work but also convincing the retailer that the product works — so it's really two different audiences."
Zeroing in on crop physiology, the company works with phosphorus, manganese, and zinc to stimulate plant hormones like cytokinin and auxin to split cells and elongate cells. "This is relevant to farmers because of the visible difference in root surface area, which allows the plant to take up more water and combat early-season stress," Lilly says, demonstrating one of the company's newest products, PMZ Dry, aimed at boosting early-season root growth for corn, wheat, and other row crops.
"The genius behind the product is the combination of nutrients with the flow aid. The flow aid itself has the synergy with the nutrition, being a carbon source, to allow better uptake into the plant."
Compass Minerals' booth doubled as the official launchpad of its Rocket Seeds line, which includes PMZ Dry. There is also PMZ Liquid, and for soybeans and other pulse crops there is Moly Dry and Moly Liquid, which help to improve the nitrogen efficiency of plants, produce larger, more vigorous seedlings, and enhance nodulation.
Looking into the future, the company is seeking to work with precision ag companies to deliver even sharper insights on nutrition. "The hope would be that the data provided by precision ag companies would be closer in line to give better advice on the right application rates and timings for different nutritional products," Lilly says.
Actagro: Better Utilizing Nitrogen
"The crop doesn't talk to you, so you've got to tease it out," says Paul Reising, Director of Strategic Product Management with Actagro.
Paul Reising
He chatted about how the company's Proximus product increases nitrogen use efficiency while reducing nitrate leaching by increasing the natural microbial populations within the soil near the plant roots.
"When you apply nitrogen as a farmer, you're almost always applying luxury amounts than what the crop can consume today," Reising says, noting that in the company's replicated research trials on corn, Proximus decreased nitrate leaching by 69% during the season and translated to yield gains of as much as 15% vs. treated with UAN alone.
Reising adds: "Obviously, our product costs more on a per-unit basis than a commodity does, but if farmers know they can get more availability in their soil, and it translates to yield, they are becoming more efficient. They can also handle less product. If you can make things more concentrated, it goes a long way just from an operational standpoint.
"You're seeing new companies this year that in the last two to three years didn't exist. That's going to continue. I think we're going through (an evolution) in the sphere of soil health and biologicals and plant stimulants. Ten years ago people would look at you with a dumb stare and say, 'What is that stuff?' Progressive famers have tried enough on their field to say, 'I don't necessarily understand what's going on — I just know I can measure it. Measurement means yield.' I wish the universities would come along and help, because there is still some basic science that still needs to be associated with the products."
Timac Agro USA: R&D-Driven, Boots-on-the-Ground Approach
Timac Agro USA has deep roots in plant nutrition in Europe, which, notes National Product Manager Alexander Duffy, is "probably 25 years ahead of where we are now in the U.S. They've been using seaweed extracts and humic and fulvic acids for a very long time, especially in Spain and France, which are two of our biggest countries. These markets have very similar crops to here, and lot of times I look at European yield data, and they're using a lot less input, and they're still getting more yield than we are. So what are they doing differently?"
Timac Agro's Roullier Global Innovation Centre (top) and one of its R&D labs.
That is, in part, what Timac Agro has set out to determine via its $40 million R&D facility in France, 60 patents, and 100-plus peer-reviewed publications in plant nutrition, at the same time growing its U.S. business from barely there to 100 reps across 27 states and four manufacturing sites in the space of just a few years. For row crops, the company focuses heavily on patented nutritional humic/fulvic acid and seaweed extract formulations, fertilizer additives and seed treatments, aimed at maximizing nutrient availability, reducing plant stress and improving plant health.
"We take hundreds of different plant and seaweed species under very different extraction methods — extraction methods matter. We're not just throwing seaweed into a vat and stirring it and calling it a finished product. We're doing precision seaweed extractions and using chemistry to classify and isolate the bioactive compounds using HPLC or GCMS and then running screening on multiple plant species in our greenhouses and growth chambers. We have one of Europe's only plant phenotyping facilities for plant nutrition. By the time they get me a product to field-test here in the USA, it's gone through about three years of R&D. We get really high-quality finished material here."
"In order for products like ours to work really well — seed treatments, fertilizer additives, or patented liquid formulas — we have to have really good knowledge of the farm that we're working on. I think that the key to our field trial success is a consultative sales model. We have reps on the ground working to get to know the operation, so we can position the right product at the right time for that field that can then translate to really good success. As I've traveled around to almost 30 states in the last two years with our reps, that's the most consistent thing I've seen. My reps that really get involved on the farm have the best field trial results and get the best ROI for the customer."
Tiger-Sul: Better Understanding Sulfur
"Sulfur is becoming more and more prevalent as far as the understanding for the need. It's not cut as often as it once was," says Wesley Haun, Agronomist-Sales and Research with Tiger-Sul.
Wesley Haun
How to tell if your crop is deficient in sulfur? It's not always easy.
A plant will have a yellowing of the younger leaf, whereas a lack of nitrogen will trigger yellowing of the older leaf. The reason for the difference is that sulfur is not mobile in the plant.
"Oftentimes a sulfur deficiency is mistaken as a nitrogen deficiency. If you put on nitrogen, it doesn't totally correct," Haun says. "Nitrogen and sulfur actually work together within the plant for it to manifest itself, so it's important to have both, in the proper amount at the proper time."
Areas within a state, county, or even areas in the same farm will have a higher fertility level from the standpoint of sulfur that's in the soil. "The thing about measuring sulfur content in soil is there's no consistent method to make the measurement in lab procedures. So, we suggest doing a soil test and a tissue test so we can determine what's in soil and what the plant is taking up and compare the two. With a row crop like corn, I like to see, within the plant, a ratio of nitrogen to sulfur content of 10, 12 to 1."
Producers and consultants frequently talk about nutrients that are removed by the crop, which is only a portion of what the crop needs to grow, Haun says, "so I treat sulfur as if it's a nitrogen-type product. Nitrogen and sulfur have similarities in the way they react in the soil and the way they're taken up by the plant. Both of those are based on crop need rather than crop removed. We make sure we get enough on for the crop to manifest itself."
Jackie Pucci is Senior Writer for CropLife, PrecisionAg Professional, and AgriBusiness Global magazines. See all author stories here.
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Faint lights of Earth in the dark hemisphere. This unique view of Earth was obtained in 12 minutes beginning at 0222 UT on 16 February 1982 as the NASA/GSFC spacecraft Dynamics Explorer 1 traversed the umbral shadow cone of Earth at altitudes 3.00 - 3.17 earth radii. The active aurora borealis is observed over the polar regions and rises above the limb at local evening and morning. Equatorial airglow is particularly intense in the late evening hours as the upper atmosphere first enters shadow. Symmetrically located north and south of the magnetic equator, these emissions decrease in intensity as the atmosphere and ionosphere progress across the dark hemisphere. The airglow bands are seen to rise above the limb at local evening. Resonant scattering of solar Lyman-alpha radiation by atomic hydrogen in the Earth's extended atmosphere - the exosphere - creates the diffuse glow around Earth. Earth's limb and coastal outlines are overlaid on the image. The dark band encircling Earth above the limb is due to atmospheric absorption of solar ultraviolet radiation at low altitudes. Because the spacecraft is located on the morning side near local midnight, dayglow in the sunlit hemisphere is observed to the right of the dark absorption band at the morning limb. The sensitivity passband of The University of Iowa's ultraviolet wavelength auroral imaging photometer extends from 118 to 165 nm for this image.


Adult sizes for hands from 7" circumference to 10.5" Children's sizes 5.5" - 6.5". Ms Riley's note on cuff treatments: The garter stitch technique used for the cuff is found regularly on stockings and on the Gunnister glove, which helps prevent the edges of the knitted garments from rolling.
One of the mittens recovered on the wreck of the General Carelton of Whitby (1792) had a row of fringe around the wrist and a second row about 1.5 inches from the wrist, either as decoration or perhaps to help retain warmth.


World Heritage Cruises - Here's some of the recommended accommodation when staying on the West Coast of Tasmania. Strahan, Queenstown and Zeehan.
Situated in the heart of Strahan, Bushman's offers accommodation with views over Macquarie Harbour. The split level suites feature a sunken living area with queen size bedding on the upper level along with ensuite bathroom, limited kitchen facilities with continental breakfast supplied.
Bushman's also has a licenced restaurant.
Experience the beauty of Strahan in luxury Strahan accommodation at Aldermere Estate Apartments.
These Luxury Boutique apartments have the exterior appearance of turn of the century Victorian terrace homes and are situated amid green lawns and golden elms, They are fully self contained with a full kitchen, lounge and dining area. Situated just a five minute walk from the waterfront and the town center.
Aldermere Estate is the perfect place to unwind.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7418 or click here for their website.
Three 2 bedroom accommodation units and three, 3 bedroom accommodation units are spacious well appointed self contained family units.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7877 or click here for their website.
We offer a range of cabin accommodation. Our Standard 3 star self-contained cabins offer sleeping for 6 people and feature en-suite bathroom, TV, lounge/dining and full kitchen while our Economy Cabins offer sleeping for 2 to 4 and feature en-suite bathroom, TV, lounge/dining and kitchenette.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7468 or click here for their website.
Situated in a convenient and quiet location, only minutes from the Town Centre and Cruise Boats. Choose from 1, 2 or 3 bedroom self catering apartments, as well as two spa units.
Ground level access with undercover parking to most.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7618 or 0427 683 261 or click here for their website.
Warmth and hospitality blending with contemporary elegance. Franklin Manor is a boutique Hotel, originally built for the Harbour Master in 1896, with several room styles providing an exclusive wilderness retreat for travellers who can enjoy the many activities offered in Strahan.
The main house offers a range of elegant rooms, individually decorated, creating the perfect haven for those who appreciate comfort and relaxation.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7311 or click here for their website.
Glenaire Apartments are the ideal place for families or couples travelling together to relax and enjoy your visit to Strahan Tasmania, and all of the wonderful attractions of the west Coast.
Glenaire Apartments offersfully fully self contained 1, 2 & 3 bedroom apartments, with under cover parking, laundry facilities, lounge / kitchen, electric heating and all of those little extras that make your stay comfortable at an affordable price.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7027 or click here for their website.
Gordon Gateway has a relaxed, friendly feel and offers guests comfort, elegance, tranquility and magnificent views from any of our luxury or executive suites, chalets, or studio units. Relax and take in the views of Strahan and Macquarie Harbour. Sit back and watch as all the activities of cruise boats, sea planes, helicopters, yachts, fishing vessels and town activities unfold before your eyes.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7165 or click here for their website.
Strahan Retreat Cottages are an eclectic mix of 18 character cottages situated on 11 acres of tall trees and Platypus streams. Perfect for families or large groups. The cottages are larger than average with room to move. Fully equipped with everything you need for an overnight stay or longer. Ranging from Studio Cottages to four bedrooms our cottages can sleep up to ten guests. There is a shop and cafe on-site plus a tour desk offering activities hire including Bikes, Sandboards and golf.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7442 or click here for their website.
Strahan Holiday Park is a proudly family owned and operated Park situated amongst Tall Trees and Platypus Streams on 11 acres with 60 cottages and cabins with a wide variety of accommodation options to suit all budgets. From backpackers to fully self-contained cabins. Powered and Unpowered sites also available for caravans and campers. There is a shop and cafe on-site plus a tour desk offering activities hire including Bikes, Sandboards and golf.
Make yourself at home in one of their spacious self-contained two bedroom or studio accommodation apartments, all fully equipped with kitchen facilities and located in landscaped gardens in a secure gated are for your comfort while visiting Tasmania's West Coast.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7224 or click here for their website.
One of the newest motels in Tasmania, All rooms are designed to be spacious and stylish and offer 4 star luxury at great prices. Choose from standard motel accommodation or spa suites. Situated in a quiet residential area, Motel Strahan is within close proximity of the main township.
Booking enquiry Ph 0364 717 555 or click here for their website.
Beautifully restored, spectacular harbour views, friendly welcome. Ensuites, comfy beds, individual reverse cycle air-con, today's comforts. Ground floor accommodation, cosy lounge bar, off street parking, internet, cont. breakfast included.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7077 or click here for their website.
Piners Loft is a unique three bedroom pole house overlooking Strahan and magnificent Macquarie Harbour. With its spacious open plan design, recycled timbers and interesting architecture, Piners Loft is a special accommodation experience on the wild west coast of Tasmania.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7036 or click here for their website.
Enjoy all the character and charm of Strahan with all the comforts of home including; modern kitchen with all crockery, glass and cutlery supplied; beds which are complete with all linen, blankets and electric blankets; the lounge has a comfortable 3 piece suite, colour TV, and dining suite; and the heating is thermostatically controlled.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7103 or click here for their website.
Strahan's only absolute waterfront accommodation. Facing due west across the tannin-stained waters of Macquarie Harbour, both accommodation and restaurant look over the shipwrecks of a bygone shipping era to the passage of the local fishing fleet and breathtaking west coast sunsets. Risby Cove presents a style of accommodation that is narrative of its rustic beginnings as a sawmill whilst offering the weary explorer such creature comforts as spa baths, sumptuous bedding and mini bars featuring the finest Tasmanian temptations. Risby Cove restaurant is open to the public and serves inspired Australian cuisine with an emphasis on the freshest local produce and seafood.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7572 or click here for their website.
Sharonlee Strahan Villas offers spacious fully self contained ground floor one and two bedroom villas with carports located in a garden setting close to shops, restaurants and attractions.
In a delightful bushland setting we have a variety of accommodation including multi-share dormitories, double & family rooms, as well as our very popular A Frame Huts, tent & van sites. 2 well equipped kitchens, BBQ areas and communal bathrooms. Pool table, juke box, internet access and laundry facilities. Walking distance to all Strahan activities.
Self-catering apartments, 4 star, modern, 2 bedroom apartments. Well appointed, spotlessly clean, tastefully decorated in a nautical theme. Your home away from home while exploring our beautiful part of the world. We go to great lengths to provide everything you may need on your holiday.Conveniently situated 2 min drive to town centre and major attractions. Only 300 mtrs to a safe swimming beach & 500mtrs to a beautiful 9 hole golf course. Locally owned and operated.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7268 or click here for their website.
Strahan Wilderness Lodge is a privately owned, family run business, offering unique & affordable B & B accommodation. Set on 18 waterfront acres overlooking Mill Bay and adjoining Smugglers Cove. Just 3 minutes drive from the cruise boats and Strahan town centre. Begin your day at breakfast by looking out across Macquarie Harbour and the wilderness to the mountains beyond.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7142 or click here for their website.
Olivia's Suite is a delightful historical cottage in the centre of town - opposite the cruise departures and adjacent to eateries and popular activities. Can sleep up to four, with cooking facilities, Foxtel, off street parking and lovely water views.
Ph: 0427 439500. Or click here for their website.
The Crays Accommodation offers fully self contained holiday units in 2 locations within a short 5 minute walk to the town centre, booking offices and departure points for the cruises to the Gordon River. All studios, 2 bedroom apartments, and the 3 bedroom house are ground floor, have undercover parking at your door, harbour or wilderness views and garden surrounds. All linen and crockery supplied. Built and operated by the owner.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7422 or click here for their website.
From the moment you arrive at the Wheelhouse Apartments, the Luxury Strahan Accommodation, you feel a sense of ease and serenity that only comes from being this close to nature. This true retreat is in harmony with the lush environment, magnificent views, inviting guests to relax in absolute comfort and style.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 7777 or click here for their website.
Silver Hills Motel will offer you a friendly, relaxed and clean environment for both the business and leisure traveler. The motel offers excellent affordable accommodation and country hospitality; enjoy stepping back in time at the Smelter's Restaurant.
Booking Enquiry Ph 03 6471 1755 or click here for their website.
Built in 1901 in the historic mining town of Queenstown, The Empire Hotel is a Tasmanian icon. With the magnificent National Trust-listed staircase forming the focal point the building, the hotel also offers mining-style accommodation and a restaurant set in a large traditional dining room, serving lunch and dinner every day The Empire Hotel is also ideally located, being directly opposite the West Coast Wilderness Railway Station.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 1699 or click here for their website.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 1332 or click here for their website.
The West coaster Motel is a family owned and run motel, situated in Queenstown on Tasmania's rugged West Coast. We have 60 rooms from Standard, Deluxe, Superior, kitchenettes and 2 bedroom family suites. Only a short stroll to the town centre, we have a large restaurant and lounge bar where you can enjoy a hearty home cooked meal or just sit back and relax.
Booking enquiries Ph 03 6471 1332 or click here for their website.
The Comfort Inn Gold Rush is well located to base yourself and explore Tasmania's West Coast region. 26 spacious rooms, queen size beds, Family Rooms, FREE Wi-Fi, separate on-suite bathroom with amenities, kitchenette, tea/coffee, crockery/cutlery, microwave. Restaurant on site offering breakfast and evening.
Bookings 03 6471 1005 or click here for their website.
Mt Lyell Anchorage offers comfort and style with a homely feel. Gorgeous bespoke bathrooms, comfortable beds, a stylish mix of period and new furniture, quality inclusions, well equipped kitchens and kitchen garden. The "Anchorage" main house has 4 individual rooms with private bathrooms communal kitchen and lounge/dining room with wood fire. Adults only.
We also offer 3 self-contained cottages, perfect for small families or groups. Free breakfast provisions for direct bookings.
For booking enquiries phone 03 64711900 or click here for their website.
Penghana Bed & Breakfast is an ideal base to discover Tasmania's Western Wilderness.
Zeehan caravan park is situated in a quiet bush setting 500m from P.O. 6 x deluxe ensuited fully self contained cabins, 6 caravans, 30 powered sites, unlimited tent sites, campers kitchen fully self contained. laundry facilities; gas refills, tour bookings; outdoor wood camp fires; gas and wood barbecues. office hours 8.30am to 8.30pm.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 6633 or click here for their website.
Offers comfortable quality accommodation with 1 and 2 bedroom motel style units with air conditioning, en-suites and tea and coffee making facilities right in the heart of historic Zeehan, Tasmania.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6471 6107 or click here for their website.
We offer a range of accommodation style backpacker rooms, Powered and unpowered sites. Basic and Self Contained Cabins, coin operated laundry facilities, covered barbeque areas-great mountain views.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6473 1366 or click here for their website.
Tullah Lakeside Lodge is situated on the banks of the beautiful Lake Rosebery. There's a choice accommodation from a twin share to much larger family rooms. The atmosphere is laid back and friendly yet the attention you'll receive is unsurpassed for comfort, friendliness from local staff, good rooms and great dining.
Booking enquiry Ph 03 6473 4121 or click here for their website.


Man is on a ceaseless quest to achieve greatness. In our pursuit to build the greatest structure of all time we often undermine the little skirmishes which actually make the design worthwhile. Hence we are on a journey to attain the world's worst skyscraper, an antithesis to the current architectural paradigms in every sense. By turning ourselves over to design for imperfection and unacceptability, we are attempting to explore this insane realm of poor architectural choices.
Through willful atrocious designing, we are delving into a passive exploration of what makes bad architecture bad: What is important to the end user? What will our priorities be in ensuring comfortable conditions for the inhabitants of the structure?
The para-scraper is completely a mess, overflowing with absurdity. A satire in a way to the recent situation in architectural design practices, particularly developer based because the bad architecture does exist in our lives. Perhaps, if we are forced to look the other way we may find the alternative.
The process then starts with this single approach, almost like a toddler playing with his blocks unknowing what he is doing, only driven by his extinct. The distinction between the primary(structural) and secondary mass(ornamental) is almost indiscernible.
Preparing the right methodology of architecture design building process including preparing a proper concept, site analysis, design formulation and then turning the list upside down.
A mix of primary(active) and secondary(inactive) masses. Here this is no concept of mass. The skyscraper has so much secondary mass, the primary mass is reduced to a role of filling the gaps.
Silkworms will weave a chaotic branch-like structure around an irregular array of blocks. Based on the principles of swarm behaviour, digital estimation of the paths produces such a result.
The project is modelled in a way that everyone seeks a different conclusion based on there inferences and experiences of a space.
Bedrooms shrouded in darkness, the circulations systems which are not completely discernable, individually some of the spaces are only accessible through the bathroom and there are very few windows, needless to say, the positioning is completely off.
A ludicrous journey is necessary for the inhabitants of the residential establishment situated at the very top of the structure.
The office spaces are unevenly carved out on the circular plan, all centred around the toilet, arguably the most used space in the office.
Though it might seem comical, the premise of the structure provokes some interesting questions regarding our perception of good architecture?
A crucial part of the scheme is to fade away the fine line between logical and imaginary. The appreciation of it is an affair of intellect and not of feeling. It is a world of intentional melancholy. A world without an organization that requires no solution. It serves as a high sign for urbanites to investigate their own established confines.
The idea behind the representation was to keep it comical yet a little pragmatic in the sense that even a layman could understand it. Plans and Sections that don't really convey much other than the absurdity. We wanted people to read between the lines (representations) because that is where the real fun lies. For example, the way out of the dining room leads you through the toilet, I mean sure that is not a bad option but you wouldn't really want to go through that?
How important was the drawing as a tool through which to develop and articulate the proposal?
Drawing was a very integral part of representing this antithesis, as it was the only way we could link the comic and logical explanations. The plans of different structures are meant to be criticized because these pointers of the criticism shall be the pointers for better architecture.
What inspired and prompted you to focus on bad architecture? How has this affected how you operate as an architect?
The obvious inspiration was my everyday experiences with, we are just surrounded by lazy and un-innovative architectural choices that have been imposed on us.
We also came across a few articles regarding 'world's worst buildings' which I thought were pretty amusing.
In a way, all these experiences will not matter until you sit and down and draw something intentionally bad yourself and realise how incredibly fun yet laborious it is.
Could you give us a list of examples of bad architecture for you and why?
I visited Tate Museum in London once, at the top of the newly built extension you have a viewing deck of sorts which gives you a 360 view of the London Cityscape but on the Southern West side it also opens itself to the expansive views inside the numerous NEO Bankside Apartments, which I thought was outrageous. Miscommunication or Architecture Rivalry but it was one the worst decisions I have seen by reputed architecture firms. No wonder there was a lawsuit involved.
The other example is the doors, I mean stop putting pull handles on a door which says Push. The most trivial of mistakes.
Can we avoid bad architecture? How can we be certain of making good architecture? What does this entail?
Oh yes! We can avoid bad architecture, we just need to discuss it in the open forum and in the architectural studios. Let everyone decide for themselves what is wrong or bad for them. Good Architecture is a result of calculative choices and shedding of the Housing Builder or Property Realtor mindset, square Footage shall be the death of good architecture.
Good architecture should neither be boring or alienating or wasteful, it should represent qualities which make us human.
What is your take on the contemporary condition of architecture competitions? Do you enter many? How do these sit in relation to the other work you do?
We occasionally enter a few, Architecture Competitions have increased thick and fast, there is something for everyone all the time, which is good but the only issue we have is sometimes the end product of such competitions is just a set of pretty pictures. We would love to see the involvement of the real decision makers in the government and or private who ensure that some of these projects see the daylight. This will in return help the architecture competitions churn out more new and innovative architecture firms.
These competitions have been a great experience and a learning platform all during my time in college.
Currently, I am writing my Undergraduate Architectural Thesis (5th Year), The project is an Eco Research Institute coupled with a Conflictorium on shores of a mountain lake (Prashar) in the Himalayas under the prerogative of eco-tourism projects in India. The idea is to make cave-like interiors on the cliff like site, using the stable temperature conditions required for the research laboratories, underground.


Trial installation and looking good.
"The two panels were purchased as a trial for a bigger installation and the results are promising. Initially there was a minor problem but the sales people were helpful and quickly supplied a replacement. The fixing kits are clever yet simple, and make installation easy.
The only comment (from the electrician) is that the mains lead to the transformer is too short. It cannot be changed. "


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After a life's work, a life in the Red.
Today, Council on the Ageing (COTA) Victoria Chief Executive Officer, Ms Sue Hendy, called on candidates for the November 27 state election to demonstrate how they will respond to the impact of the rapidly rising costs of life's essentials – food, water and energy.
"Over the past ten years, food prices have risen by 41 percent while electricity is up 52 percent, rates 83 percent and health services 64 percent," Ms Hendy said.
"We can expect significant price and cost increases in future, as the state modernises its energy assets, makes the transition to renewables and pays off costly water infrastructure."
"At the same time, the price of food and fuel will rise due to predicted global shortages."
Ms Hendy said the utility bills of pensioners and low income seniors make up a higher proportion of their spending because they can't afford energy and water efficient appliances, or access to government schemes to improve the energy efficiency of their homes.
"It's the low-income groups, such as pensioners, who are least able to cope with rising living costs."
With prices of many essential items rising significantly faster than CPI, concessions have never been more important to ensure pensioners and low income household can afford the basic necessities of life. Seniors in private rental accommodation are even more vulnerable.
"Last week the United Nations named Australia as having the second best quality of life on earth but, right now, low income seniors are being forced to compromise on life's bare essentials."
"After a lifetime's work to ensure Victoria is among the world's top places to call home, many older citizens are staring at the power bill with fear in their hearts."
In the lead up to the 2011 election, COTA is appealing all political parties to commit to an age-friendly Victoria. To ensure the needs of older people are addressed in policies and programs and to alleviate the cost of living pressures for people on low incomes, COTA is calling on politicians to:
Address the energy efficiency of older people's housing as a priority
Ensure affordability of essential services and, in particular, provide effective utility concessions
Increase the cap on rate concessions, so that older people can afford to stay in their homes and stay connected to their communities.
Ms Hendy said an ageing population is the biggest unprecedented demographic and societal change in Victoria this century.
"By next year, one in five Victorians will be aged 60 or over, a ratio which is expected to grow to one in four by 2021," Ms Hendy said. 'That's a lot of increasingly engaged, frequently overlooked voters."
For more information on age-friendly policy initiatives, or to join the campaign, Victorians can go to www.cotavic.org.au or call 9655 2127. Since 1951, COTA has been the voice of Australian seniors and the peak representative body of older individuals and organisations representing seniors. COTA is a non-profit organisation committed to human rights, social justice and the eradication of ageism – our mission is to mobilise older people and those who work with them, to age well in a just society.
Ellis Jones is assisting the Age of Change campaign by providing:
Political advice
E-newsletter campaign management
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Development Director Featured
To Educate All Children seeks an enterprising and bold Director of Development to support TEACH's robust fundraising function, including setting strategy, executing events and relationship building in the Houston community. Who We Are: TEACH is a community impact organization currently operating in Houston Independent School District schools located in predominantly low-income neighborhoods. TEACH focuses on empowering educators by helping them build safe and calm classrooms through intensive training and coaching on classroom management, which focuses on areas such as de-escalation, conflict resolution, building students' self-image, and nonverbal communication. TEACH is a 501(c)3, tax-exempt charitable organization. TEACH is on a trajectory of fast growth. We are creating a learning, growing, and thriving organization and need YOUR unique set of talents and skills to help us empower more educators. Click here to learn more about...
Program Associate, Curriculum Featured
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION Mission: Pivot Learning is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to partner with educators to design and implement solutions to their greatest challenges in achieving educational justice. Vision: We envision a future where our public schools provide our most underserved students with an outstanding education. Our Work: In partnership with our subsidiary the Consortium on Reaching Excellence in Education (CORE), we work with educators to co-design strategies for great teaching and learning that are rooted in evidence; support implementation through high-quality, evidence-based, and experienced professional services and project management; and we design scalable solutions to develop sustainable practices for continuous improvement, and effective, ongoing management. ABOUT THE POSITION We are currently seeking a Program Associate to join the Pivot team. This role will be primarily responsible for supporting and coordinating...
Pivot Learning Partners Remote (Bay Area, CA, USA) Full-Time Remote/Virtual
Program Manager, Curriculum Featured
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION Our Work: In partnership with our subsidiary, the Consortium on Reaching Excellence in Education , we partner with educators to co-design strategies for great teaching and learning that are rooted in evidence; support implementation of teaching and learning support via high-quality, evidence-based, and experienced professional services and project management; and design scalable solutions to develop sustainable practices for continuous improvement. Mission: Pivot Learning is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to partner with educators to design and implement solutions to their greatest challenges in achieving educational justice. Vision: We envision a future where our public schools provide our most underserved students with an outstanding education. ABOUT THE POSITION We are currently seeking a Program Manager, Curriculum to join the Pivot team. This position will be responsible for managing projects in Pivot's Curriculum...
Pivot Learning Partners Remote (California, USA) Full-Time Remote/Virtual
Teacher - Autism Spectrum Disorder (2020-2021)
Estimated Start Date: Immediate Applicants must have a valid teaching certificate or current Statement of Eligibility issued by FLDOE. Recent college graduates may apply without having either document, but will be required to apply for initial certification prior to being offered a position. Open until filled. Click here for Job Description. Position Type: Full-time Job Category: Special Education > Autism Employer Description Pasco County Schools is located just north of Tampa, Florida. We are a thriving, growing, diverse community that feature 80+ schools including elementary, middle, high, charter, educational centers and a virtual school. Pasco County encompasses beach areas, rural, urban, and is continuously growing. We are looking for dedicated candidates to join our team and work towards our mission: to provide a world-class education for all students. Pasco County Schools promotes Equal Educational and Employment Opportunities. Learn more about...
TrulyHired Land O' Lakes Blvd, Florida, USA Full-time
Head Freshman Softball Coach (2021 Season)
N/A Position Type: Full-time Job Category: Athletics & Activities > Coaching Equal Opportunity Employer All employers submitting a job opening for posting on the Teach Iowa system will not discriminate in hiring on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, marital status, or status as a veteran. A bona fide religious institution may choose to exercise the allowances in Iowa Code section 216.6.(6)d. Employers may have additional developed specific equal employment opportunity policies and procedures; please check with employers. Contact Information Joe Stutting 251 E Iowa Street Eldridge, Iowa 52748 Phone: 563-285-4819 Email: click here
TrulyHired Eldridge, IA 52748, USA Full-time
CHANDLER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT JOB DESCRIPTION CLASSIFICATION: CERTIFIED CLASSROOM JOB TITLE: CLASSROOM TEACHER REPORTS TO: PRINCIPAL SALARY: CERTIFIED Notice of Nondiscrimination Notificacion de Non Discriminacion Job Goal The classroom teacher will lead students toward the fulfillment of their potential by translating the district curriculum standards and objectives into meaningful learning experiences through classroom instruction and indirectly through special area assignments. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's/Master's Degree AZ Teaching Certificate AZ IVP Fingerprint Clearance Card Appropriately Certified Core Job Functions Communicates learning goals to students in a well-planned, organized manner using clear and precise language Prepare and deliver instruction appropriate to the student population including curriculum that addresses learning styles, abilities, interests, behavior problems and student with special needs...
TrulyHired Chandler, AZ, USA Full-time
Ione Head Middle School Head Volleyball Coach
Ione Middle School seeks a highly qualified individual to serve as Head Volleyball coach. A successful candidate will possess the following qualities: • High ethical and professional standards. • The presence to be a role model for high school student athletes and the public face of the program • A commitment to the importance of academic excellence and achievement for all student-athletes in the program. • Demonstrated ability to lead young athletes • A highly tuned ability to communicate effectively to a variety of stakeholders • Skill in organization, time management, and public relations • A thorough knowledge of the game of volleyball, skill development, and coaching techniques All new hired coaches will need to complete the following prior to employment: 1. NFHS Certification. 2. First Aid/CPR Card. 3. District Fingerprinting/Criminal Check. 4. Completion of OSAA Concussion Test. 5. Completion of OSAA Steroid Program. 6....
TrulyHired Pendleton, OR 97801, USA Full-time
Ione Middle School Assistant Volleyball Coach
Ione Middle School seeks a highly qualified individual to serve as Assistant Volleyball coach. A successful candidate will possess the following qualities: • High ethical and professional standards. • The presence to be a role model for high school student athletes and the public face of the program • A commitment to the importance of academic excellence and achievement for all student-athletes in the program. • Demonstrated ability to lead young athletes • A highly tuned ability to communicate effectively to a variety of stakeholders • Skill in organization, time management, and public relations • A thorough knowledge of the game of volleyball, skill development, and coaching techniques All new hired coaches will need to complete the following prior to employment: 1. NFHS Certification. 2. First Aid/CPR Card. 3. District Fingerprinting/Criminal Check. 4. Completion of OSAA Concussion Test. 5. Completion of OSAA Steroid Program. 6....
Speech/Language Pathologist
Speech-Language Pathologist-This position is a school-based SLP position at Starmount Academy of Excellence and South Mecklenburg High School. The SLP will report directly to the schools and conduct therapy, complete evaluations and screenings, and attend meetings. The SLP will be expected to complete documentation of therapy and diagnostic reports in a timely manner. Prioritizing activities and scheduling services are the responsibility of the SLP. Valid or eligible for NC Certification. Position Type: Full-time Job Categories: Special Education > Speech/Language Pathologist Student Services > Speech/Language Pathologist Equal Opportunity Employer Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital/civil union status, ancestry, place of birth, age, citizenship status, veteran status,...
TrulyHired Charlotte, NC, USA Full-time
General Cook
Mid-Prairie Community Schools is looking for a General Cook to work at our High School from 7 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. You will be paid for your hours over 12 months, but would have the same breaks as the students. IPERS eligible Position Type: Part-time Job Category: Support Staff > Food Service Equal Opportunity Employer All employers submitting a job opening for posting on the Teach Iowa system will not discriminate in hiring on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, age, physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, marital status, or status as a veteran. A bona fide religious institution may choose to exercise the allowances in Iowa Code section 216.6.(6)d. Employers may have additional developed specific equal employment opportunity policies and procedures; please check with employers. Contact Information Carmela Ulin 1635 Highway 22 Wellman, Iowa 52356 Phone: 319-646-6093 Email: click here
TrulyHired Wellman, IA 52356, USA Part-time
6.5 Hour Cook
Position Available: •6.5 Hour Cook at Gomes Elementary School JOB GOAL: To serve the students, staff, and guests a nutritious, safe, and attractive meals in a friendly and efficient manner. SUMMARY DESCRIPTION: Responsible for the preparation and service of meals for students and adults following a monthly menu under the direction of the Cafeteria Manager. Tasks may include but not be limited to food preparation, meal service, manual and automatic dishwashing, cashiering, overall sanitation of the kitchen and relief of the cafeteria staff in their absence. PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES: ?Cook and Serve meals to students and staff as efficiently as possible, maintaining adequate portion controls. oEnsure proper portioning of food oEnsures that all reimbursable meals include the required food items on the tray oProficient in "offer vs. serve" and USDA reimbursable meals oKnowledge and awareness of in food allergens ?Ensures proper serving temperature and palatability of food...
TrulyHired New Bedford, MA, USA Full-time
Substitute Custodians - Various Shifts/Various Schools
1. Clean and maintain all assigned work areas and equipment. 2. Assist in building and grounds security by locking all doors after use and at end of work day as scheduled. 3. Assist in snow removal around school facilities. 4. Perform routine maintenance and repairs on buildings, equipment, and grounds. 5. Follow safety procedures as provided by the district or by state/federal law. 6. Perform other duties as assigned. Position Type: Part-time Positions Available: 1 Job Category: Support Staff > Custodian Location Description Welcome to the Lincoln Public Schools. The Town of Lincoln is located in the northeastern corner of Rhode Island. It is approximately 12 miles north of Providence and 30 miles south of Worcester. In a town of just over 22,000, Lincoln was recently named by Fortune Small Business Magazine as #60 of the Top 100 Best Places to Live. Lincoln has a total school population of 3,437 students supported by a professional staff of 323 teachers. We...
TrulyHired Lincoln, RI, USA Part-time
Per Diem Substitute Secretary - Districtwide
Lincoln Public School District is accepting applications from qualified candidates who are interested in working within our district schools during the 2020-2021 school year. Associate's degree and successful completed BCI check are required. All Schools - $12.60/hr. For immediate consideration, please forward the following: 1.Associate''s degree. 2.An updated resume. 3.Successfully pass criminal history background check. 4. Prior secretarial experience preferred. Position Type: Part-time Positions Available: 1 Job Category: Support Staff > Secretary Location Description Welcome to the Lincoln Public Schools. The Town of Lincoln is located in the northeastern corner of Rhode Island. It is approximately 12 miles north of Providence and 30 miles south of Worcester. In a town of just over 22,000, Lincoln was recently named by Fortune Small Business Magazine as #60 of the Top 100 Best Places to Live. Lincoln has a total school population of 3,437 students...
ELT Program Teachers - Internal Only
Expectations of Program Teachers/Staff Will facilitate Meets/Hangouts with students between 2:30 to 4:15 each day Will facilitate both synchronous and asynchronous learning Will maintain a Communication Log Position Type: After school/Evening Positions Available: 4 Salary: $30 Per Hour Job Category: Athletics & Activities > After School Programs Equal Opportunity Employer Woonsocket Education Department is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital/civil union status, ancestry, place of birth, age, citizenship status, veteran status, political affiliation, genetic information or disability, as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally, we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation. Job...
TrulyHired Woonsocket, RI 02895, USA
Maintenance Custodial Training Specialist
OPEN UNTIL FILLED PRIMARY PURPOSE: Provide training for all district custodians. Conduct interviews for custodial staff and orientations for new maintenance employees. QUALIFICATIONS: Minimum Education/Certification: High school diploma or equivalent preferred Valid Driver's license Bilingual- preferred Special Knowledge/Skills: Moderate computer skills including developing and interpreting Excel spreadsheets Possess strong organizational, communication, and customer service skills required to achieve departmental goals Ability to communicate in writing to other staff concerning requirements of the job and other information important to the job Basic understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to know the proper dilution of chemicals Ability to train and direct other employees to insure the completion of all assigned Custodial tasks Knowledge of routine custodial practices and methods Knowledge of...
TrulyHired Amarillo, TX, USA Full-time
Administrative Assistant (B Schedule) - Long Term Substitute
Perform all receptionist and secretarial duties. Exhibit a personality that demonstrates enthusiasm and interpersonal skills to relate well with students, staff, administration, parents and the community, including difficult and emotional situations. • Help maintain a secure building by managing visitors who enter the building. • Register new students, secure appropriate student records, maintain confidential student records, and transfer records for students moving to other schools. • Manage all data associated with the Aspen system including registration, transfers, withdrawals, updates (data changes, discipline reporting, grade changes, and transcripts), and schedules of all student information. • Coordinate and input all information required to be updated in SIMS and/or the DESE security portal. Work in conjunction with the Office of Information Technology to update and verify any information related to State and Federal data submissions. • Possess knowledge of computers...
TrulyHired Wilmington, MA, USA Full-time
Adaptive and Functional Middle School Special Education Teachers (SPED) 2021-2022 School Year
Reports To: Director of Special Education Position Purpose: Provide direct instructional services for students with exceptional needs. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in education with appropriate Kansas licensure in Special Education or be interested in becoming certified/licensed to teach special education students in the State of Kansas on a waiver. ESOL Endorsement preferred. Physical/Emotional Requirements: The incumbent may be required to use the following skills and abilities during any part of the working day: speaking, hearing, visual, reading, writing, word processing, mobility, consistency of temperament, ability to work with a variety of problems at the same time, stamina for working long hours and in stress-producing environments. Performance Responsibilities: Assists the Individualized Education Planning Team in designing an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) for students with exceptional needs. Provides direct instruction and services...
TrulyHired Topeka, KS, USA Full-time


Bankruptcy is devastating because it puts all of your life plans on hold for quite a while. Getting a new loan, approved for new credit cards, or even renting a new apartment may pose challenging. But what about a house? Many Americans wonder how many years they must wait until they can submit a loan application to purchase a home.
The exact amount of time depends on many factors, so it is actually very difficult to say. Some may bounce back faster than others and be able to get approved sooner. The most important thing you can do in this situation to get back in the game is to get your credit score straight. While it does take about a decade for the bankruptcy to fall off of your credit report, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can or will take ten years for you to be approved for a new loan.
Be sure that you monitor your credit scores from the three credit bureaus, which are Transunion, Equifax, and Experian. You should always be monitoring your credit report to be sure that no one is using your identity. You may have to start brand new with your credit by getting a secured credit card in order to prove to the banks over time that have learned to manage your finances in a responsible manner. This is actually the fastest way toward re-building your credit.
There are two different types of bankruptcy filings; these are Chapter 7 and Chapter 13. Borrowers who have filed Chapter 13 bankruptcy are usually able to apply for a government-backed loan after about a year and a half, assuming they meet specific requirements. Be realistic when looking to apply for the home loan.
Just because enough time has passed doesn't mean you're ready. Aside from the fact, that applying too early will ding your score again by five points! Do you have a job? Did you previously pay off a loan? Have most of your inquiries fallen off of your report?
Look honestly at all of the documents and decide if you feel you'd be a good candidate for a loan before you go to the bank. The most important goal here is to not let yourself get too down, as there is always hope that you'll be able to buy a new house after filing for bankruptcy if you are willing to be patient and do the work.
Mmm, if you've just filed bankruptcy, buying a house would be the least of my concerns. If you've just filed for bankruptcy, your best bet is to focus on the present rather than the future.
No joke. I think if someone in real life asked me this question I would stare at them blankly and then walk away.