I like the word 'said.' I find it unobtrusive. When you're deciding upon a speech identifier, it's the default one. Now, as a teacher, we always try to get kids to use other words in their writing, such as 'mumble' or 'yell' or 'whisper.' Kids either don't do them at all, or go way too far, and every phrase has some sort of exciting descriptor glaring out at you. Now, I like a good alternative to 'said,' but don't go too far with it. It can get out of hand rather quickly.
Then, there's the conversation where some writers will put an identifier after every phrase, and as a reader it gets terribly tedious. Plus, most likely, we know who is speaking. It's nice when character's voices are so unique that you don't need to identify each phrase, but that's pretty uncommon. Conversely, I absolutely hate it when the writer has a long back-and-forth conversation, and they stopped using identifiers after the first phrase or two, and now, half a page later, you're sitting there thinking 'who's saying this?' Then you have to go back and reread, counting out the odds and evens on the page to figure it out. My wife says that as soon as that happens to her, it's a signal to put it down and get a new book. I'm not as cut and dry, but it does irk me.
Then there was a piece recently that attempted to bypass the identifier altogether, and it was a good attempt, but it didn't quite work for me. I'll present the following phrase (not exactly from the book, but you'll get the idea) and you can decide what you think.
Maybe that was all right for you, but in my mind she was knocking words out on the door, reminiscent of Morse Code. It just didn't jibe with me. You need a speech identifier. My edit was to say "Elanor said, knocking on the door." That way you get the whole idea in, plus the identifier.
So, while I applaud the author who didn't use the word 'said' in his novel, I still think it's more of a cool trick that a necessity. (I haven't read the book, yet, but my brother liked it, and I trust his opinion.) So my advice is to use the word 'said.' Try to find places where you don't need it, or can replace it with something more descriptive, but it's a nice, unobtrusive default speech identifier.
But, when you do use the word said, use it correctly, and use the quotation marks correctly. It's not hard to find a good guide online and edit your work so that you're using them correctly. I just googled one that looks decent.
In my experience, I would never capitalize the "T" in the sentence. Is it an American thing, like putting punctuation outside of the quotation marks?
Do you have an opinion on the word 'said?' Tell me about it in the comments below!


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You guys, this is going to be an expedition of conversation. It's going to keep you in thrawled it's going to give you a new lens, not only of entrepreneurship, but of relational, stewarding of community, of really saying yes to your mission and understanding that it is God above all. And oftentimes as Christians, we don't do that.
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And the community that you are likely cultivating. I was so empowered and so excited to get to know her on a deeper level. I was on her show, the wild and radiant podcast. So I encourage you to surely check that out as well. You can tag us both here and share it in your stories to say that you've listened.
Ultimately, I want you to know that we want you to step into the impact that God has planned for you, and that impact is associated with income, but you cannot be silent in the process. Let's get wild and ready.
Welcome to the fit and faith podcast fit is an acronym representing founders, innovators, and trailblazers who are looking to live a life fully, fully, authentically, and truly fit a space for us to connect on the raw real stories of mind, body, and soul alignment of entrepreneurs and kingdom leaders. I'm your host, Tamra and dress.
And this podcast, isn't like the cookie cutter interview experience. I've been coined the entrepreneurial rabbi. And so we do go there unscripted, no matter how far wide, deep or high there is. My desire is to see people rise from the inside, out, into their greatest calling, by sharing their truest stories, talents and tips as a purpose activator and brand builder.
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All right. All right. All right. You guys are doing us today in my new podcasting studio and I don't have my wall painted the way that it needs to be yet, but I'm excited for those that tune in live. You're going to see a little bit of a different storyline and of course, a brand new guest that I am so excited to introduce you to my friend, Ashley, June.
And y'all. I never like go to the script of what they provide in the bio's. I just give you the reference of, Hey, this is how we met. This is what you need to know about this person. And we dive right into the conversation, but this is way too good. Not to like literally directly read to you because her heart is so paralleled to the mission of fit and faith.
The mission of, uh, how I coach the mission of what my family and I do on a daily basis and specifically. For the wild and the radiant. And if that doesn't cut your spirit and get you up out of your seat, I don't know what will, because I want to raise my hand to the fact that I am that wild and radiant and not to Ashley June is so listen to this really quick and then we'll hear from her.
So she's a six figure online business owner and who shares her faith on the daily and nerds out. We're going to talk about this on funnels and strategy. I am all for it. Uh, she is a mom of three. She's obsessed with storytelling. She's a podcast or herself, which we just dropped our show together on her show today.
So you'll have to tune into that. She is a launch expert, which we all need the inside scoop for that. She's a lover of the mountains and the sea, me too. She's a wife to a ski bum. Mine's a surf bum, and she has and helps women entrepreneurs put on this is my favorite part. They're Joan of arc in the business world.
So they can make an impact and income and have a voice of truth in a world where culture has tried to silence. Me too. I believe God called us. I say, I, because that's what she said, but we believe that God called us into the business battlefield and he desires for us to arise as leaders and stewards in our communities and the online space while having the freedom and fun.
There's the wild and radiant to go after our dreams he gave to us. So Ashley, what a pleasure and what an awesome bye. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here today and yeah, it's been a heck of a journey to get to this place. So the coolest part, right? So we get the glimpse of the glam. We get the wild and the radiant, we get the taglines and the cool constructed bio statements.
But I want to know about the journey to get here, because that's what this show is all about. And the encouragement factor that I think our audience needs all the time. Yeah. Let's jump in wherever that well, it's so funny. Cause it's always so interesting to tell your own story, you know, like you always, you talked to your students or your clients and you always hear their stories, but when it, when it's your own story, you're like, ah, there's like this and this and this and this and this.
So, um, I will consolidate as best as I can. We've got a whole show just for you. That's the part about being in the hot seat instead of on the podcasting host side? Yes. Yes. So, I guess it kind of begins, um, you know, had my young adult life, childhood, all of that, um, grew up in a Christian family, but there was also a lot of chaos and, um, it was just interesting.
Like we're still kind of dealing with some of the pieces of, you know, growing up in a home where there was a lot of chaos because I had two parents who came from just very different upbringings, like perfect Christian home and like not a Christian home at all coming together. And, um, they had me and, uh, before they were married, so I kind of started the family dynamics.
So, you know, just young parents. And so you can imagine kind of growing up in chaos with young parents. Um, but, uh, a mother specifically who like really loves the Lord, you know, kind of guiding the family throughout the years. Um, and then a dad who, uh, slowly has caught up throughout the years. So, um, anyway, so my family was a family of entrepreneurs for the most part.
My dad owns an auto body shop and, um, his whole journey was basically, our family was just not making very much money and they were struggling. Their marriage was struggling, our family was struggling and he just decided to risk it all and start his autobody shop. And the Lord also did some like amazing work in our family during that season.
And that really started off. I guess you could say like this, this new life was kind of born. Uh, and our family dynamic just totally changed. And I was about maybe 10 years old or something like this. This was around 19 96, 19 95. And, um, throughout the years, like my family went from really struggling financially, you know, to really having this huge breakthrough through having this, uh, the small business, you know, like the small businesses, like you, your income is not capped.
You know, your potential is not capped. You're not working for the man and like struggling, you know, Friday. Oh my gosh. Yeah. It's like true financial freedom and like creative freedom, personal freedom. It comes through a small business. Um, so I ended up, you know, growing up, went to college, um, got my undergrad in business management and then actually proceeded to get my master's in business administration with a emphasis in managing forest sustainability.
And I kinda went into my master's program because I didn't really know what to do. You know? Um, it was 2008. The economy was crashing. Everything was. You know, a mess then. And so I was kind of like, I don't really know what to do. So I went, um, got my master's. I did a hybrid program, so I finished, um, half of half of it online and moved up to the mountains for the second time up to summit county, Breckenridge, Colorado.
And I met my husband, skip him, husband. Um, we worked at a ski shop and, uh, got married after only knowing each other for 10 months. Um, I know it was like, God was just, it was just a funny, you have those seasons of just intense, you know, things are just happening, you know, like blessing after blessing after blessing.
And so I ended up, uh, we got married and then we moved to Nashville where he had been living previously for awhile. And he was flipping homes, uh, in like transitional areas and Nashville, um, which is so cool to see now, like 10 years later, these homes are just like, neighborhoods are just being transformed and homes that he was buying for like $50,000 to flip are selling for like 5,000 or $500,000.
The real estate industry right now. Yeah. So insanely different than happened in 2008. Right. And I was right there with you. We were like same exact age. I graduated in 2000. Had that like, did I get my master's or not? And I actually graduated with a business management degree as well. So I really cool.
Just wanted to throw that in there. Well, I love the parallel journeys, you know? Um, so anyway, I, we had moved to Nashville and he had actually started buying houses with his brother and about 2008, because of all the crashes. So he was kind of back and forth there. Uh, but we spent a year there and I was so aimless.
Like I just didn't really know what I wanted to do. And I had been, um, working on, uh, Photography skills. I had picked up a camera and had started to really develop a love of photography and thought about starting a business during that season. But then was like, I can't go start a business. You know, I just got a master's I need to go like do the corporate thing for awhile.
So I ended up getting a job back in Colorado, back in Breckenridge, Colorado, where my husband and I had like, lived and met and, um, our community was there and we were actually just really excited to go back and be in a place that we love and be closer to my family again. And, um, I ended up getting a job as a banking officer and it was great for about gosh, like eight months.
And I went through a management training program and it was like, you know, wearing heels and suits and all of the, just like the corporate, the corporate thing, you know, so outside of who I am, but, um, About eight months in a girl came in who, uh, like as my new manager and I had already been promoted through like this training program and everything was good.
And she came in and it just felt like she had it out for me. And, um, so I experienced workplace bullying, bullying. Um, I got, I got written up, no joke for writing. Thank you. Notes to my employees at 9:00 PM at night at my home, because I should have been working on other things. Like it was, I'm not like it's, it's insane.
And then she was telling me how I wear wore too much makeup. And like, and I'm like not a big makeup wear. So like, it was just so much. And so I remember just praying through that season of like, God, help me just have a good attitude showing up to this place every single day. Like, I don't know what. I don't want to quit, you know, like Twitter.
Yeah. Well, interestingly that you brought this up and I don't want it to delineate from your story, we're going to jump right back into it. But I was in a room the other day in clubhouse, and we were talking about this concept of bullying and women's specifically. Oh no, actually it wasn't in clubhouse.
My brain is reminding me that it was in a podcast on the technology of the future women's show leaders unite, basically. And it was all these women talking about. Do you think that women in the workforce are actually for each other and is there a community effort versus that competition? And everyone was shaking their head saying like, yeah, girls are like, we're in it together.
They've never experienced that bullying. And I was like, uh, raising and I was like, hold on a second. I'm actually experienced that firsthand. And while I do totally believe in the community over competition, hashtag that everybody is fronting. Is it actually happening? Is still my curiosity. Now this was about the same time.
So you were mid twenties at this point. I was the same thing with me and she actually the person who I experienced a similar thing with, she was in the company for like two decades before I got there. And she was a lot older than me. She was in a senior position, but it was. Actually very parallel, but in a different, in a different component that I still had to ask her, you know, assistance and support a lot.
And I was getting like the hate emails. The every single time I would send something, there would be an error to my grammar or my editing that she would say, you should have never sent that unless I did this, um, she would always undermine what I was saying or teaching or training the other people on from a marketing lens.
She didn't know any about marketing. She was like a dinosaur. And you had God, I did not add. I went, well, I shouldn't say I had, I did it. I had him, but I didn't know that I had, I didn't have the holy spirit drive by any means. So I was not praying God, let me be kind. Instead. I was like, what is wrong with this lady?
And then I would cry because I don't handle conflict. So I would just cry. And my husband was constantly. Soothing me and reminding me that it's just, it's just the way of the world and it's okay. Just kill her with kindness. They would say that's so hard to do when they keep kicking you down. So you're eight months in this experience happens.
And how did you handle it even knowing that you were pregnant? Well, it was just, it felt like a, uh, a period of just like long suffering sort of, you know, even looking back. It wasn't like that long. I know, but still I could feel like it well, and I'm a fi I'm feisty. So like, I'm, uh, I'm prayerful when I'm feisty.
So I, like, I like stand up for stuff and confront things when I feel like things are wrong. So, um, I ended up getting fired, documented out of the system. Um, because while there were multiple issues, like my thank you cards, um, she would actually keep like practice work. When I had questions to come ask her, she like, looked like she had like thrown it away and would like keep it and then keep them for my disciplinary.
So it was like, I'm like this girl was so, so off how. In her early thirties. You know, the funny thing is though, she, we went to a Christmas party and I remember this specifically, but her mom was like in town for the Christmas party. And I heard her mom like talk badly about somebody. And I was like, man, I get it now.
You know what I mean? Like she was raised by a woman probably who like beat down other women and, um, is it is well, and I'm with you on the community over competition. Thanks. Some of the people who preach that the most are the exact opposite of that. And I think it's kind of a front to like, hide that, that ugliness inside, you know totally.
Which is really sad and really hard. Um, and something for us to like continue to break through and really combat, because I think culture, and you said this kind of in your bio, like culture is trying to silence us so much that when we have a voice, it's like that one woman makes the breakthrough, she has the voice and everyone's cheering her on and then somebody stagnates her or comes behind their back and does the whole, let me stab you while you're, while you're up on your rise.
And it's just, it's so unnecessary and nasty. And if we could play nicer, like we learned a little play. Nice. You, you guys see kids jump on the playground and they are immediately make friends. They immediately know competition. Hey, you wanna play tag? Cool. Let's go. And they don't even ask questions.
They're not worried about what's the backstory. And I think if we came to things with that childlike faith in that child life belief that we're all in it for good. And with intent of good pleasure and good fun. It would change the dynamic so much. Oh, absolutely. Um, it's so huge. Um, well, anyway, finally, is there a final straw?
Yeah. Fired essentially. I got fired and, uh, I totally like walked out and like gave them papers on workplace bullying. Cause I kind of was like final stand, like, you know, and that's just like how I am, which is like good and bad. Well, it's, it's just so funny. And I mean, there's so many things I was so hurt.
Like I just felt a lot of hurt and pain, you know, for the years following, but that hurt and pain. And I think this is honestly like how, how God kind of works. Like he'll walk you through something really, really difficult and you think transitions are gonna like, feel good and be great, like perfect movies.
And often transitions are kind of ugly, you know, and hurtful and painful. And I've kind of started to adapt to this when I'm going through pain. I know I'm kind of going into a next stage of transition and it's typically better. So from that, um, I was just, I was so upset inside and I felt so thrown away cause I had never worked so hard for a job.
Like I literally, I had worked so hard just to be thrown away, misunderstood all of it. And um, and I've always been like, I hate workplace politics. Like I hate, like, I just want the truth to come out. Like I am so about the truth, you know? Let's have the truth. Um, and so I should've known that that was just, was not a good place for me anyway.
Like that's just not where God has ever positioned me. Strength wise, you know, I never really connected with a certain click growing up. I was friends with everybody, you know, from the, the athletes to the church crowd, to the theater crowd, to the band crowd, to the popular crowd, you know, it's like everybody just kind of collected people like that.
Um, and didn't really feel like I was just belonged to one. Um, anyway, so I was so upset and I decided that I was going to start a photography business, literally like two or three days after I was like, this is what I need to do. I know we want to start a family at some point. I want the freedom. Like I don't want to work 55, 60 hour weeks and try to have children.
Um, and so we ended up moving back to my hometown in Colorado, which is Fort Collins, Colorado, and that's where we are now. And I started a photography business and did that for six years. Um, it was awesome. I just had a lot of, you know, business success in it. I got to do the, you know, the local service-based hustle in the technician world, sort of, you know, um, and I learned so much and I mean, there's a lot to that journey and stuff, but to kind of take us to where I am today.
And 2018. I had my third baby and I was going into my last photography season. I didn't really know it was my last photography season, uh, as a pregnant, you know, just pregnant. And I had walked through the other two seasons or others who pregnancies pregnant and like photographing weddings really late into my pregnancy.
And, you know, getting back like with newborn baby and trying to breastfeed and like all of that in the mix. And it was just, it was a lot, it was a lot. Um, but I felt like God was kind of, uh, transitioning my heart into wanting something more. Like I had kind of met all of the, the goals per se, that I had wanted to in my photography business and had grown it and become one of the top people in my area and had really consistent clients coming in.
Um, and I felt like, um, It was just kind of time for something else. And I had some really difficult clients that summer too, which was just really out of the norm for me. So it's kind of funny when I talk about like messier transitions, it was like kind of the, it just pushes you into something different, you know?
Yeah. I'm seeing a through line to your story here. You need to write a book on it. I know. Right? Well, I'm like, and I'm like a stander up person. Like I stand up and I confront it. And to be honest, like when Satan gets confronted, when the truth comes out, people get nasty, you know? And so, and I can, and I can always do better in my presentation being a strong willed person, you know, there's always, I am taking notes, do not get in a fight with Ashley.
Oh my gosh.
So, yeah, in 2018, I was like, I think I want to dive into the online world and I want to, I don't know why. Um, I had, well in, after I had finished or before I had gone into my MBA program, I'd always thought, what do I want to do when I older? You know what I would love to be maybe a college professor or a professor and teach people business because I love business.
I just have such a heart and a passion for business and. So in 2018, I was like, huh, I could, you know, go into the online education world and, um, just teach what I know, like teach, teach, teach what I know. And I thought I was best qualified for the photography industry because I had built a photography business and it was successful.
And so I literally was like, okay, God, like, I'm going to be obedient. I'm going to close down my business. Um, that next year I turned away over 250 inquiries without doing like an ounce of marketing. And I kind of went on a maternity leave that just didn't end. Um, good for you. I know it was. Point of transition.
So I didn't feel like I was just abruptly. I was still busy. Um, but I had made that decision. Like, I'm just, I'm not going back. And so that was hard because you built it, you built a business and one that's bringing in really good money and you just close the door and say, this is not where I'm supposed to be anymore.
And I'm building something new. So, um, right after that real quick, before you go on, were you youth funneling those inquiries to someone specific? Like, did you have friends in the industry or locally that you were like passing to somebody specific, did their business. Blooming because of your generosity and sharing.
Yes. So what ended up happening was when I decided to close it, um, I was like, okay, if I'm going to jump into the education world, like, God, like, I need you to just make it obvious, you know, like if this is what I'm supposed to do and his photography and whatnot, like, I just need you to like, make it obvious, you know, um, to make it, to make sure I'm doing the right thing.
Cause I was right in the middle of like literally like about to have my baby and all of it and just didn't want to like, you know, jump into a big project right away without knowing that was what I was supposed to do. So, um, I ended up, uh, I was kind of like a leader in our local community, you know, so, um, helped manage a Facebook group with local photographers and, um, Just was involved.
Like I would go to events and host retreats and people knew me in the community. And, uh, I basically posted in a Facebook group that I ran like, Hey guys, like I'm closing my doors and I am jumping into the online education world. Um, I am going to teach photographers how to run their businesses. Uh, I'm looking for essentially a cohort of group coaching clients to start out with that.
I can just teach everything that I did in my business. This is kind of the outline. I mean, I hadn't built any of the content, anything like it was my first time really breaking everything down. Um, and I ended up having five clients sign on with me and made about $20,000 from that first launch. Um, and I actually, I funneled them to a little Facebook group.
And so I kind of did like a little miniature launch, but it was literally. I think I was like doing this in the middle of like having my baby, like I started talking to them about it and then like had my baby and then like close the clients within like a couple of days after that. Like it was, so it was not no pressure.
Like, it was just like, I'm posting, I do this. Yeah. And you had already laid the groundwork. I think a lot of people forget that part when it comes to a launch, like get come out of nowhere generally and do that successfully from the same perspective. Um, we try and businesses come all the time and you're like, I want to do this thing, but, uh, like that effectiveness and that outcome doesn't happen unless you've laid ground work for the last six years with your name and with your community efforts and your relationships and things.
Oh yeah, it was, you know, if, if I could offer any advice to anybody who's wanting to step into maybe a coaching position or an education position or, um, anything like if you're in. I started a community somewhere, you know, and locally start a local community because just by showing up and creating a home for people, people will naturally see you as a leader in your community, which then those people, you know, have the know like, and trust factor to move on and work with you in some capacity.
And so it's just, it's a great start. And it was probably the easiest launch I have ever done. Well, it, it only gets harder. Like you realize how easy it is and they like, oh, I could do that again. Then you add something to it and you add something to your plate and the end, then it becomes this massive ordeal.
Um, but I, I value that you experienced it that way, that then continue to do it. And so I'll be curious what other launch strategies you have as we go. Yeah, well, that's actually a great, it definitely kind of, you know, uh, goes into just the element of launching. Like I've just been launching for a long time.
Um, and anyway, well kind of even proceeding that, that last year that I had run my photography business, I had, uh, launched a senior program cause I had stopped weddings. A year before that. Um, or maybe I shot my last weddings right before my last year, because I was like, my family is just changing. Like, things are changing.
Like I think God, you know, he pivots our businesses and he makes these changes during these different seasons. Um, but I had created a program for, um, high school seniors and I had a booked $43,000 worth of high school seniors in 15 days in my photography business for a program. And I, that was the first time that I had dove into this launch strategy.
I had read the book launched by Jeff Walker and it is still one of my go-to books sometimes when I just need to like simplify my mind and kind of think about the launch process. And I applied that to my local business, you know, and had this massive success. And so I had done that and then kind of that mini launch when I was closing my business and then I spent the next, um, gosh, like the next like six months just building out my course content because I was teaching it live to my students.
We would actually meet like once a week, we'd go to my little studio, spirit space, um, and meet and just kind of hang out and drink wine and talk about photography and go through lessons. And then I took all of that content and recorded it for an online course, um, and did my first official online launch in the month of May, 2019.
Um, and that went well. And then I kept launching and launching, and I actually spent, I think most of 2019. The rest of 2019 and the first part of 2020, just launching, launching, launching, launching, like just a lot of launch practice. I created some smaller programs. Um, I primarily did everything in a Facebook group.
That's kind of been the theme like of where I've done my launching and, uh, learned so much, you know, so I've kind of built launch structures and tested so much and just been through it so many times with little launches and big launches. And was in the photography niche for this selling my signature program as my main product.
Um, but in 20 gosh, in the summer of 2020, when the world started to go dive into the chaos, it was not new to you that you were used to chaos, even operating in it since you were little. I know, I know it, it is the gosh darn theme of my life sometimes. And, um, like my parents will say, like, you've just been fighting from the beginning.
And I think I was just born a fighter, you know, I'm not a fighter. I am a fighter, you know, but good and bad, you know, because it's like, you're your greatest strengths can also create some of like the moments where you have your greatest weaknesses. Yeah. And I can give you all of the backstory to the flight experience for that right scenario and some not so good scenario because of that.
So we're just to be pod right here. Right. We're just like, uh, like peanut butter and jelly
we got it. Um, yeah. So in 2020, I felt like. The Lord was like really pressing it hard on my heart that like, things were just really changing, you know? Um, we were just seeing all of the racial stuff we were seeing. Um, all of the, just hate for people who think differently. We were seeing, uh, the pandemic stuff, you know, like all of, all of this stuff.
And I'm like, I want the truth to come out about all of this, you know, and something in my spirit just never felt right about what was happening, you know? It's like, why do these things happen during election years commonly? Why did you know, like, why do these things just pop up? You know, like it's all of, it's starting to feel kind of orchestrated.
And in June of 2020, I felt like the Lord just like smacked me down and like had this moment of like, I don't know, I just, one of the most intense, spiritual experiences that I've ever had, but I just felt like. Like, there is no more middle ground, you know, like we have to decide who we stand for, what we stand for.
And, you know, if we want to get through this pandemic or like, through all of this stuff, like the truth just has to come out. And, um, so I started speaking up and, um, about things that I saw happening and combating narratives and people really don't like when you do that, you know, once again, they don't like when you do that, because it, it affects, you know, how they perceive things and how they perceive you.
So I started speaking up just really openly about my faith, about what I saw in the world, which that brings politics to the picture, you know? Um, and not that I want it to be like Uber political, but it's really hard to separate your worldview and your faith from, you know, the system in which it is essentially operating.
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And so I ended up, uh, I mean, I got, you know, real, I I'm one of those people that sometimes I think I see the result of something way before somebody else does. Like, I, I tend to move very fast and I can see like the end result. And I don't know if it's like, you know, kind of. God just showing me these things earlier than most, or I just have eyes to see, you know, um, but for me, my life struggle is catching people up.
You know, you see this don't you see this? Um, so anyway, I started that summer. I was like, business feels kind of icky. Like I don't want to like really operate as normal. Like I just want to keep, you know, um, or I was like, I just feel like I just need to be a mouthpiece. Like I just need to spread the truth, share the truth, all of it.
Um, and that needs to be my focus versus, you know, promoting my products and my services and trying to like tiptoe around an industry that like, I mean, the photography industry, creative industries, like they're very secular, you know, you have, I think just a lot of, um, a lot of sin, a lot of just like boundaries being pushed, you know, on what is right.
And what. And so I started speaking up and had people like friends, um, people in my local community who were like in the photography industry, like, uh, old, old clients from my senior programs, just. Take me through the like raked me through the coals. Like it was because I had been speaking up and I was like, I really don't have an option.
I feel like, like, God has put it on my heart so much to speak up, you know? And so during that time I was like, you know what? Like, I, I'm tired of being quiet. I'm tired of living in the middle ground. I'm tired of staying quiet about my faith, you know, because I don't want to offend XYZ people and the choices that they make in their life.
And, you know, like, I, I don't want to, I don't want to be quiet anymore because I feel like our world is in this disaster place because you know, like people. They've been quiet cause they haven't wanted to hurt feelings, you know, but biblically speaking, you know, we're told to speak the truth in love and the truth is not always pretty.
And Jesus was, you know, not a, um, we kind of get like, I think the American Jesus is like, oh, he's just gentle. Yeah, no, you flip tables over
and he's very stern. Like he'll just kinda like. But kind of how it is like you sometimes don't get like the warm vibes. I think it's super important. I had a friend who read through the Bible front to back last year and her like revelation was that she was really learning the true character of God from old Testament to new Testament.
And that was really what she was seeking. Teach me more about who you are. And she understood, you know, God is love is what everybody preaches, but there's so much more to who God is and knowing the other side, no different than the, like the masculine and feminine traits of God, it allows us to be in entirety.
And when you think about a man, and this is very stereotypical, but you have that, like that stern, that fierce, that force, that strength, that Braun that muscle, and you think of a woman, you think of the femininity and the simplicity and the emotions and all of that. And people only put one element, generally, male, as we've experienced.
And you say this even in your bio, on the pulpit to speak, and there is no parallel. And so the emotions, the empathy, all of these other pieces that are so critical as the, we embody God are not, are being suppressed. And therefore what is happening, especially from a political front, in my opinion, is that it's so masculinely driven and therefore a lot of the things that are agreed, pride, hunger, all of that it's forcibly taken because that's their nature.
But if more women were to rise up in that experience, especially women like yourself who do have a voice and are willing to combat that structure, it changes everything well. And I think it's like, it's about, um, I think the overall theme of what I'm seeing just in our world and the faith dynamic and all of it is that we're seeing such an imbalance, you know?
So like, um, Growing up. My, my pastor from growing up, talked about the five fold ministry a lot. And to me it just makes so much sense because you have people balancing one another out. You have the pastors, the apostles, the evangelists, the teachers, um, the. Uh, the profits, you know, and in our world, you know, like we see, like we see these churches that are all charismatic with no truth.
Right. You know, and we see the fall of worship pastors there. And then we see all fundamental, you know, with like no holy spirit fingers and we just all need to come together, you know? And it's like, that's how we operate. And so like in, in the world systems, you know, there has to be that balance of the masculine and the feminine, you know, and, and then the masculine, they also have to like, understand their role.
Like your role is to, you know, love, love the wife, love the church, you know, basically as neuro. Yeah. Like there's a whole nother thing. It's so interesting that we're having this conversation yesterday. I was with a client who was a pastor for decades in our community and a sense left the pastoral realm, but still pastoring in his own perspective as an author and a teacher and things like that.
And we were having this very conversation with different language. And the one thing that I. I recognized in what he was saying was that these churches, these different denominational churches are these different belief systems though. All saying that they believe in Jesus as the one true way. Uh, they're operating in silos and they're operating simply within their four walls.
And if we are supposedly a part of an army and we're never joining forces, that means we're all individually fighting a battle. And the enemy is going to win every single time. But imagine if we did what God says, and we are the church, which doesn't have a four walls construct, it has a body construct.
And we were to all come together. We would literally take what was the valley of dry bones. And we would be trampling on top of what is supposed to be dead rather than what is currently existing in the battlefield, which is the. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I, I love that. Um, like that metaphor of the silos, you know, and just seeing like the individual and it's so true.
And I think too, it's like the, when you can just operate on your own with no checks and balances and you don't kind of have that. It's like nobody's really walking in accountability or authority, like in the proper authority. And so. Yeah. I mean, I just, I think that's really where we've seen just so much of the world kind of jumped into this chaos, you know?
And, um, and even, and even like in the business world, like I look back, you know, and I'm kind of like the world tells you, be quiet about your faith. Don't bring it into business. Don't mix, you know, any, it don't mix politics with business. Don't mix any of it with business and education with God. Like you can't talk about them anymore.
Yeah. It's your. But for like true believers, like if your worldview and like everything in your heart is like, like God isn't included in that we can't separate it. You know what I mean? And so I think for years and years, I just kind of operated from a place of separating because the world had told me to do that, you know?
And, um, and then I felt like I had to be a part of systems, whether it was the corporate world or whatever it was, um, and just kind of settle for the truth, not coming out to some extent, you know, or just kind of subtle, you know, I just had that complacency factor of just, this is what is normal. This is what everybody does.
This is how it should be. And because like you said, it's almost. It's like there's an elephant in the room and everyone is just hanging out with the elephant, but nobody wants to actually like peek under the rug, see if it's actually an elephant or if it's a pile of shit, it's probably shit in the room and it smells.
And no one wants to say anything and I'm cussing on my podcast, but that's just a word y'all get over. It. Don't be too religious. It's this knowing though, like, this is truly how everyone is operating. And so when people talk about being woke right, and, and being aware, or truly being in relationship with Jesus and actually having the ability to lean in and vision cast with him and see through his lens versus trying to see with our own eyes.
It's like the rug doesn't exist anymore and we're not willing to allow any rugs. And that's funny that I'm saying this analogy. It was, my husband would be so proud of me. We had to get rid of all the rugs in our house because I have a little cute puppy. He likes to pee on them. And so he's like get rid of the rugs.
It's, it's just, it's the problem with the situation, because otherwise there's no accidents and the dog knows to go outside, but when you keep peeing on the rug, it has a scent. And so it's just interesting to know that the simple analogy can allow people to realize, oh wow, I'm standing in a room with a pile of dung and I've just been sitting there.
And now, because it keeps smelling like that, it's the normal. Complacent place that I'll hang out. Yeah. A room full that smells like that. And we've just, I think we've just lived in that and so long. And I think part of what the Lord has been doing in the last couple of years with all of this is all of this has been happening for a long time.
It's not new. Like it's all, I mean, I mean, it's been happening since the old Testament it's been happening, but we kind of like lived this life of just thinking, oh, you know, America is, you know, um, we're just 50. Yeah. And then the fifties, like the Pleasantville, you know, perfection and my eyes were just open to like, oh my God, I, my eyes were open to all of this has been happening this whole time, but like now we just see it, like it's being revealed, but, you know, for God to like come and like overcome these things and like create true change and like deliver us, like sin has to be exposed, you know?
And so we should actually be excited about that. You know, even though I'm kind of daily terrified about communism and all that stuff. Absolutely. It's true though.
oh my gosh. It totally is. But, um, yeah, so I, I mean, I have a questions because I have a lot of friends who are, um, very good at using their voice. And I think a lot of them are also in that fight perspective versus flight. Right. And I never want my, uh, My normal tendency to be, uh, a tool that the enemy uses to suppress.
Right? And so voice for me is very, very important sharing my story, talking about shame that is blanketing society, rather than from necessarily like a political lens or the wrongdoings. I think that there's different ways that we, as a, as a kingdom need to operate and instill truth. Um, but I have a lot of friends who have been like shadow banned because of the things that they're talking about in the same vicinity of what you're saying.
And I haven't seen that happen to me. They don't have that component of fear of what if I say this wrong thing. I mean, simply speaking around vaccinations, one thing, right? They have to use other words. They have to use other symbols. They have to use other emojis. They have to have all of this. Um, hidden experience, it's almost cryptic and how they show up so that they're not getting shadow banned.
So I know shadow banning happens in social media. For those of you who guys who don't know what that means, it basically just means that Facebook or Instagram or any social media, they red flag what you're saying, and then no one can see that you even exist to the point that they could even strip and take your account.
And so has that happened to you at all? Or, you know, people like, yeah. Yes. So, um, my Instagram reached six specifically in my stories is really, really low and doesn't really recover. Um, I mean, I also don't, I don't love social media in the sense that I'm not a super organized Instagrammer per se. Like I'm not always thinking about business on there, you know, but I share a lot of things because I feel like I just feel like the truth, like somebody has to share the truth, you know, like the truth is so powerful and that's exactly why they try to suppress it because they don't want people to know the truth, you know?
Um, and. Anyway, all that being said, kind of, I'll finish a piece of my story and then answer your question about what happened. Cause it goes into my story. Um, I decided last, you know, like last summer I was like, I am just kind of done doing what the world does and I am going to work with faith-based photographers.
Like I'm like, I'm just done. I'm going to speak openly about stuff. I'm going to do my next launch, just structured around faith and just kind of let the Lord do what he's gonna do. Um, and I had a huge, like a huge launch. Like it was super successful. I went through that. I could share my heart. Um, I had also just gone through something really excruciating in my family.
Um, and so I was like probably like the most broken that maybe I've ever been. And then it was so crazy to go into this and have this like massive business success. And once again, like didn't feel. Not that I didn't try. Cause I did try, like there was a lot of work to kind of organize stuff, but it's like the Lord just kind of gave me that direction.
Um, and I use a model, uh, I use a lot of paid advertising to funnel people into my funnels for live launches, you know? Um, and then I do evergreen, like on the backend and going to be working more on my evergreen strategy in these next years. Um, with Facebook ad craziness, after I did this big launch, my Facebook ads account was shut down for 30 days because of something I had shared.
Oh my God. Yeah. And so, yeah, and now I have, like, I have like restrictions on groups. Um, I, um, yeah, I'm like slowly kind of getting knocked down in my account and I honestly I'm like, am I just going to disappear, you know, one day? And so, you know, try to kind of have some backups in place, but just really trying to think about the long-term strategy of like, what will I have to do if I don't really have social or I'm not allowed on Facebook or Instagram?
Or what does that look like? You know, what would you say? Have you, have you formulated any answers to that question? Um, how, how, so as far as what are you, what are you doing to kind of set a pathway, a new path that is outside of. Mm. Yes. Um, so I mean, I've been podcasting, so I've, I've been podcasting for coming on a year.
So like January. Yes. It's, it's been so cool just to kind of see my whole goal. Like last year for the podcast was like, I just want consistency. I just want to show up. I just want to have consistency every week for, um, for that year. And I'm excited just to grow it in this next year and kind of really work on that and that long content or long form content.
Um, I think diversifying, you know, some different platforms. Um, I did try to go on a platform called mighty networks for awhile, which is kind of like having your own little Facebook. It was kind of hard though, because I felt like I grew up for about six months and I just didn't feel like the interaction was there.
Cause that's an extra step for people to log into. Yeah. I had the exact same situation. I kept with it for about 18 months. I actually had several of my clients launched their apps and programs on there with that thought pattern because if we have a very shared experience and mentality as you, and, uh, it was really difficult.
Really difficult. We ended up switching off of it, going into a new program, and then I'm in the process of developing an app, um, which I think is going to really be rad for all of the interaction actually has live features just like Facebook and stuff. So I'll pass the info. Yeah, no, I would love the info.
Um, cause I do think we have to kind of start thinking about this, you know, and I also kind of want to start really considering taking some of my time off of social media, you know, just the amount of scrolling, the amount of all of it. Like it just, it is kind of overwhelming and I think it takes away from family and from purpose and it's distracting.
Um, so I'm excited to go into this next year and kind of really think about what that's going to look like, you know, um, So you're serving these faith-based photographers. At this point, you've got obviously kind of a trajectory path of staying in truth and staying in service. Uh, one of the things that you mentioned in your, in your bio was that being the Joan of arc of their business, I really love that.
I want you to unpack it for a minute and they talk about business as a battlefield because I really believe that's, um, something I'm really passionate about and I believe in as well. Totally. Um, so, uh, kind of where we are, story story hit, my Facebook ads account got shut down for 30 days, you know, because of something that I shared and it wasn't even like that bad.
And I don't feel like I go crazy, crazy conspiracy, you know, like I'm not, I don't think I'm like so far, you know, like I'm not on like the Q Anon side of things. Um, so I try to be somewhat discerning of what I post, you know? Um, but again, like you said, truth is truth and people don't know. And so regardless of what degree of truth that is, it's still capital.
Exactly. Yes. Yes. Um, anyway, so I was just kind of thinking, I was like, so when I first had started my education business, I went into photography because I felt like that is where I'm most uniquely qualified. So I feel like this is where I need to start, but long-term, I really have a dream of just helping, you know, just like women business owners, you know?
Um, and I think my story is playing out throughout the years of what this kind of looks like, but there's elements of courage and, um, elements of like the, like being in the battlefield and, you know, just kind of showing up and going through the hard stuff, you know, and speaking truth and being brave, like in our businesses.
And so I really think that's kind of longterm where I'll be. Um, but now my next step was kind of like, you know, Uh, starting the podcast. So I would have a place where I could just really speak openly. That's really what I love about podcasting, because it's like, you can just speak, you know, it's, it's wonderful for that, for that.
Um, and so I started my podcast and then, um, I ended up launching a, a monthly membership site for women entrepreneurs. Um, and it's kind of like a business. Uh, membership, but we all, you know, are on like similar tracks regarding faith and values and, you know, um, but stepping in when it comes to bravery and being outspoken, um, and then this fall, I ended up launching, um, another signature program for, uh, online coaches and course creators.
So now I'm teaching them how I grew my online coaching and course creator business, you know? And so a lot of where we go, I think, is teaching people where we are, you know, like what we just did and like the previous years. And I'm so excited about it. Like, it's awesome. And I have amazing students who just came in this fall.
Um, but long story short with the battlefield side of things, I just truly believe that, like, we can't separate God from our business. You know, we all have these strengths, my strengths are in bravery and courage and kind of like, you know, hold the line. Or like, you know, first, first round, like I got beat up kind of early, you know?
So I'm kind of like.
But, uh, one thing that I like kind of thinking back to, and this is controversial in the, um, in the faith world, I guess you could say, but, uh, there is something called, um, there's different names for it, like the seven mountain mandate and, um, Yeah, there's differences. So good. I know exactly what you're talking about.
So it's basically saying that like, Christians have a responsibility to hold leadership positions and be influencers, you know, in different Spears of, of the world. So like the political scene, education, business, media, and entertainment. And some people like to take that and like turn it around and say, oh, it's like this weird thing that like, blah, blah, blah.
To me, it's absolute common sense of Christians don't arise in these places, then what's going to happen. Like people is going to take over. And ultimately, I know we can't like stop the world from going down the path that it's going on. Like it will, you know, Jesus will come back someday, but we, we can live our life.
Like there was in the old Testament where, you know, there are falls and rises, you know, and we can attribute to the timing of that. I think, you know, Yeah. I mean, we, entertainment is a really great one because everyone understands what's going on in Hollywood. Right. And people don't feel threatened by that when you talk about it.


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Q: Inverse of a function which is not one-one I found a question in a book as:
If $f: \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ ($\mathbb{R}$ is the set of real numbers) defined by $f(x)=x^2+3$, then
find $f^{-1}(7)$.
My question is:
Here $f$ is not 1-1. Then inverse of $f$ should not exist. Then why is it asked to find the inverse of $f$? Is the question incorrect or do I have some problem in understanding it properly?

A: In this case, the notation $f^{-1}(7)$ does not mean the number obtained by applying the inverse of $f$ to 7; what it actually refers to is the set
$$f^{-1}(7) = \{x \in {\Bbb R}: f(x) = 7\}$$ (which would be, as suggested, better denoted by $f^{-1}(\{7\})$).
If $f$ is 1-1, then in particular there is one and only one element in $f^{-1}(\{7\})$, which is then given - perhaps a little confusingly - the name $f^{-1}(7)$.

A: The restriction of your function to $f:[0,+\infty) \rightarrow [3,+\infty): x\mapsto x^2+3$ is bijective and for this function you can determine $f^{-1}(7)$.

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Sporting temporary tattoos on the face has become very popular with today's youth. Faces are painted for Halloween, football games, birthday parties but stick-on tattoos have become more popular than paints. Here is some background on temporary face tattoos along with instructions on how to apply them properly.
Temporary face tattoos are extremely popular among kids, youngsters, teens, twenty-somethings, and even a few grown ups.
Cheerleaders, almost always, are seen sporting one (or more) of these, and that too in varieties of shapes, sizes, designs, and colors. They are also a hot favorite with loyal fans and supporters of sports teams at various sporting events. Temporary tattoos are also a big hit at kids birthday parties, slumber parties, theme parties, etc.
Halloween is another occasion when one gets to see a large number of temporary face tattoos, and that too in a plethora of scary patterns and designs.
Also, with the holiday season just round the corner, you will no doubt, witness a lot of kids and young children running around with a few seasonal designs plastered over their faces (Christmas and New Year's Eve being prime time occasions for the same).
They are commonly used at fundraisers, product promotions, marketing campaigns, etc., as an innovative way of grabbing eyeballs and of spreading product awareness.
So now that you have been introduced to the concept, how do you go about applying one of these? Well, it's extremely simple. You may well have come across a few of those stick-on tattoos (which you get as a freebie gift with chewing gums, bubble gums, etc).
Temporary face tattoos are nothing but a bigger and a better version of those primitive freebie stick-on tattoos. Here is how to apply one. First, wash your face and dry it properly. Then, wet one side of the paper (instructions for doing so are provided along with the tattoo).
Peel off the protective covering and press the exposed tattoo on the desired part of your face (cheeks, cheekbones, forehead, etc.). Hold it in place for a few seconds (again, the exact time duration is mentioned as part of the instructions).
While you've held it in place, once in a while, gently slide your finger with uniform pressure over the surface of the paper (this can help to ensure that the tattoo affixes itself to your skin in a uniformly). Finally, at the end of the recommended time duration, gently peel away the remaining piece of paper and presto! You've got your fancy new tattoo!
As mentioned earlier, face tattoos like these come in many sizes and shapes. You can choose from coin- to medium-sized tattoos, to full-face (face mask type) tattoos.
Some popular designs include sports team symbols, animals, slogans, paw print tattoos, mascots, cartoons, animated figures, zodiac symbols, ghosts or horror movie characters, famous Hollywood characters, etc.
Also, there are quite a few manufacturers which make customized removable face tattoos based on the customer's specifications and requirements. This is highly beneficial to advertising companies, social awareness groups, marketing firms, etc.
Before applying a removable i.e. temporary face tattoo, make sure that it is FDA approved. Almost all FDA approved temporary stick-on tattoos make use of approved inks and vegetable dyes. Also, the adhesive used is similar to the one used in regular band-aids.
Once applied, most of these tattoos tend to withstand the sun, sweat and outdoor weather conditions for about 2-3 days. For removing these tattoos, you need to wash your face with soap and warm water. Rubbing a bit of baby oil (or using scotch tape) can also help in removing the last remaining bits of tattoo that otherwise stick stubbornly to your skin.
Well, this was a short introduction to the concept of temporary face tattoos. The best thing about these tattoos is that if you don't like them on your face, you can very well remove them, unlike permanent tattoos.


the 18/02/19 : To take care of a six month old. Feeding and putting him to bed.
the 07/01/19 : Care from 9- 5pm for three days a week.
the 22/11/18 : Looking for someone to look after my little kid at home.
the 04/09/18 : We need one day childminder for our 3 year old daughter.
the 04/09/18 : We need ine day chuldminder for our 3 year old daughter.


Stop killing. If you need to kill, kill yourself. The world would be a better place without you.
These beautiful souls don't deserve to die because a human loves and enjoys killing. This is not conservation, this is murder.


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Q: Using ArcGIS Desktop to calculate Conversion Probability certain land use to other land use? I am doing dissertation about [predicting future urban expansion for Shannon River Basin In Ireland using Cellular Automata model and arcGIS] so at this stage I would like to calculation the conversion probability factor (Land use transitional probabilities), as it is advised that the value of this probability can be generated fixed by overlaying two land use maps, so it can see the value of conversion rate of a certain land use to other land use. so that I enter it into the model.
I am kinda stuck on which arcGIS tool of OVERLAYING should I use (union, erase,identify etc), knowing that I have two landuse/landcover maps from EPA website ready with almost 32 different landuse classes for the years 2000 and 2006
and how can I actually calculate the conversion rate ?


Happy April! It's Rachel and I am on the Cocoa Daisy Blog today sharing my weekly planner spread for the first week of April.
One of the things I like most about planning is trying out different weekly formats. While this b6 insert is intended to be set up at a horizontal layout, it doesn't have to be! Last month, I set up this insert with vertical Week on 2 pages and daily pages in the back. This month, I decided to change things up!
First, I pulled a few of the "blank" pages out of the insert and punched these to go inside my mini happy planner. Then, I set up the insert to be a week on 4 pages, with Monday through Thursday on the first two pages, Friday through Sunday on the next page and all of my to-do's and trackers on the final page.
I think this setup will work well; it is a perfect combination of what I did last month. Each daily column has plenty of room and the dedicated "to-do's" page frees up daily columns for more documenting.
I love this month's kits! The colors are so ME and I love the beautiful cherry blossoms and paper crane elements. The cherry blossoms remind of my time living in DC, and the paper cranes make think of serenity and peace — something I need during this busy time of year!
This week is a little different from most weeks because I will be traveling for most of it. I am heading to California to help a friend and her shop's booth at a planner event. It should be really fun!
I tried to keep a lot of open space on my daily columns to document the trip. I love the b6 size because it is so compact and easy to travel with. Plus, it is so much easier to "fill" the page.
When I travel, I tend to pick up memorabilia along the way. To make sure I actually document with this memorabilia, I have added a sheet from the notepad as a tip-in on the 4th page and reserved a two page in the middle of the spread for any photos and other documenting I want to do on this trip.
I hope you enjoyed this peak inside one of my weekly spreads for April. Make sure to check out my Plan With Me Video for this week's set up. Until next time!


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GoAnimate for Schools friend and evanglist Olga Schrivner recently presented "Fun and Motivation through Animation" at the World Language Festival at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
We are thrilled to share this blog post covering her presentation by James Scrivner (NortonHealthcare) and Olga Scrivner (Associate Instructor in French, Indiana University).
For Olga's complete presentation, please click here.
Four weeks ago, the 'World Language Festival" was held at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. A workshop called "Fun and Motivation through Animation" was intended for language teachers. To demonstrate the importance of animation in the 21th century's education, the classroom was compared to a living being, taking on traits such as breathing (student awareness) and having a heart-beat (class engagement). First, the audience (high school teachers and IU language teachers) were asked to repeat a few words in French that were written on the chalk board. As the participants monotonously repeated the words, the assistant (James Scrivner) stood up wearing a physician's lab coat and stethoscope and began checking the heart beat and pulse of one student. He instantly shouted, "No pulse, Non responsive", "You must do something different." Immediately the vocabulary words were changed into still pictures and then into a basic animated text. The assistant quickly assessed another student. With the stethoscope he again checked the heart and the pulse and exclaimed, "Pulse getting stronger, you are on the right track." Finally, the audience was shown an animation in French, created by GoAnimate (Silvia Duckwort). Very quickly the participants were enthusiastically engaged in this lesson. They witnessed how animation turned education into EDUTAINMENT (education + entertainment) (Boswood 1997).
In fact, Walt Disney once said: "Animation offers a medium of story-telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages." Since we, teachers, live in the 21th century, a very interactive and visual world, we must "understand the importance of graphics, music, and cinema, which are just as powerful and in some ways more deeply intertwined with young people's culture" (George Lucas). By replacing a still picture (or no image at all) with animation, we not only improve students' conceptual comprehension, but also lower their anxiety level (Butler-Pascoe et al. 2003). After all, students feel more fun and learning becomes a happy process (Hoogeven 1995).
Hoogeveen, M.J. (1995). Towards a New Multimedia Paradigm: is Multimedia Assisted Instruction Really Effective? In: ED-MEDIA 95 Proceedings, June, Graz, Austria.
Boswood, T. (1997). New Ways of Using Computers in Language Teaching. New Ways in TESOL Series II Innovative Classroom Techniques.USA: TESOL, Inc.


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Very dark (opaque) ruby in color, the 2014 Bosché has rich, dusty blackberry and cassis aroma, with immense depth and complexity. The sweet oak spice is well integrated with spice nuances of cinnamon, clove, aromatic cedar, black pepper and dark cocoa powder. The flavor is big, voluptuous, soft and velvety, with rich great depth of black fruit. With balanced acidity, good body and texture, the tannins are well integrated providing a very long fruitful finish.
Very deep garnet-purple colored, the 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Bosche Vineyard, composed of 94.1% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5.9% Merlot, has an expressive, savory nose of black olives, roasted nuts and sandalwood with a core of cassis, blackberry pie and unsmoked cigars. Medium to full-bodied and laden with black fruits, earth and baking spice notions, it has a firm structure of grainy tannins and lovely freshness, finishing long. Forget it for 2-4 years and drink it over the next 25+.
The history of Freemark Abbey began in 1886, when Josephine Marlin Tychson became the first woman to build and operate a winery in California. The historic site where Josephine's winery, Tychson Cellars, once stood is now known as Freemark Abbey.
Josephine, a native of San Lorenzo, California and her husband, John Tychson, a Danish immigrant, moved to St. Helena in 1881. For $8,500, they purchased 147 acres north of St. Helena, which later became known as "Tychson Hill".
Shortly after her husband's untimely death, Josephine began construction of a fifty square foot redwood winery which would grow to hold a capacity of about 30,000 gallons. In addition, she hired Nils Larsen, an experienced vintner, as her foreman. Josephine successfully produced wine for the next eight years and then sold the winery to Larsen in 1894. In turn, Larsen leased the winery to Antonio Forni, a good friend of Josephine's. Forni later purchased the property in 1898. Forni is responsible for building a new winery on the old site of the Tychson structure.
In the years that followed, Freemark Abbey went through a period of several different owners until 1966, when a group of partners purchased the winery. In 1993, Winemaker Ted Edwards became a partner. Edwards assumed the role of managing partner in addition to maintaining the responsibilities he has held as winemaker since 1985.
The Rutherford sub-region of Napa Valley centers on the town of Rutherford and covers some of Napa Valley's finest vineyard real estate, spanning from the Mayacamas in the west, to the Vaca Mountains on the other side of the valley.
Inside of the Rutherford AVA, bordering the Mayacamas, is a stretch of uplands called the Rutherford Bench. (These bench lands technically run the length of Oakville as well). Mountain runoff creates deep, well-drained, alluvial soils on the bench, giving vine roots plenty of reason to permeate deep into the ground. The result is wine with great structure and complexity.
Rutherford Cabernet Sauvingons and Bordeaux Blends garner substantial attention for their enticing fragrances of dusty earth and dried herbs, broad and juicy mid-palates and lush and fine-grained tannins. The sub-appellation claims some of the valley's most prized vineyards today, namely Caymus, Rubicon and Beckstoffer Georges III.
It is also home to Napa's most influential and historic personalities. Thomas Rutherford, responsible for the appellation's name, made serious investments here in grape growing and wine production between the years of 1850 to 1880. Gustave Niebaum purchased a large swath of land and completed his winery in 1887, calling it "Inglenook." Today this remains the oldest bonded winery in California. Georges Latour founded Beaulieu Vineyard in 1900, making it the oldest continuous winery in the state. Latour also hired the famous enologist, André Tchelistcheff, a man credited for single-handedly defining the modern Napa winemaking style.


Initially trained at the Welsh College of Horticulture, Craig then studied art and design for landscapes at Glyndwr University and completed a BSc (Hons) in Landscape Design and Management through Harper Adams University. Craig also holds a PGCE in Post Compulsory Education from Glyndwr University.
Craig is an experienced designer who has been creating inspiring spaces for both domestic and commercial clients over several years.
Craig is a full Member of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture and acts as its education representative on the North West and North Wales Committee. He is also Academic Member of the Landscape Institute.
Bailey, C. T. (2012), The Funding of Public Parks and Urban Green Space in England: How the effect of potential cuts being made to their provision and management could have on their quality. Nantwich, United Kingdom: Harper Adams University.
Craig is an RHS Gold Medallist and a Best in Show Award Winner, he also holds RHS Silver-Gilt and Bronze medals.
As well as lecturing at UCR, Craig still operates a landscape design and landscape management service.
In his spare time Craig enjoys volunteering in his local community, where he is a local councillor and Chairman of his local in Bloom campaign. In 2018 he was elected as Vice-Chairman of the Council.
His hobbies and interests include gardening, local politics, design, performing arts, history.
Sarah completed BSc Biology and Environmental Science at University of Leeds, and MA Landscape Design at University of Sheffield. Following this Sarah completed a PGCE in Further Adult and Higher Education at Manchester Metropolitan University. Sarah is also a qualified member of the Landscape Institute and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Lis was awarded a BSc (hons) in Plant Science after studying jointly at Newnham College, Cambridge, and University of Manchester. Lis continued onto an MPhil degree in Plant Pathology, which resulted in the publication of her thesis. Lis is an Academic Member of the Landscape Institute.
Morris, E.A (2000). 'Etiology and biocontrol of Phytophthora infestans Mont.deBary'. MPhil Thesis, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
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There isn't a corner of Ann Arbor, Michigan that isn't touched by the University of Michigan. From the big block "M" on the Diag, the campus weaves through town like tangled yarn.
When I started college there, my dorm held more residents than a lot of small towns. I learned a lot in those first few years. I made my first Jewish friends. I learned to use public transportation, and ate shrimp for the first time. I hunted out the best places to study, in the dental school library or small classrooms that weren't used much at night. I fell in love. I learned to be a little careful, too, and to follow the cardinal rule of dorm life: Don't scream unless you really mean it.
I didn't know, though, that I would live for a few years without what I considered "regular" lettuce. I guess what they served in the cafeterias at Bursley Hall was romaine, or maybe endive. I was never sure. It was most often served at room temperature and felt dry when it rested on my tongue. It left a slight bitter aftertaste.
In those years, I learned, the University, major religious groups, and national political figures boycotted iceberg lettuce to show support for the United Farmworkers Union. Those who sought to improve conditions for farm workers were organized with a capital "O." They had passionate leadership in Cesar Chavez, who founded the AFWU. During the lettuce boycott, and later during the grape strike, Chavez followed the example of nonviolent protest exemplified by Gandhi and Martin Luther King. He endured multiple hunger strikes that lasted over 25 days at a stretch. Senator Bobby Kennedy joined him in his fast shortly before his assassination.
I don't know anyone personally who resided at an Occupy site, but I have seen those sites in five different cities. In December, my cab driver in Washington, DC told me that at night, the DC Occupiers went home. The tents were turned over to the homeless. On that night, Washington was awash in cold torrential rain. I quietly bet that every one of those tents was filled with at least 3 inches of standing water . It's not likely that many of the homeless found much comfort there that night. In Detroit, Occupy set up space in a park area often frequented by the homeless, and just blocks from the bustling theater district and sports fields; I am not sure if the homeless got to use the tents on cold nights or not. In Lancaster, PA, Occupy took on the tone of a street fair, especially on busy "First Friday" nights. I never saw it in the paper, but I wondered if they went home too, the first night temperatures dipped to 17 degrees.
Now, I certainly don't want to leave my readers with the notion that I support corrupt banking practices, or that I have somehow escaped the economic crunch that plagues our nation.
But I have been thinking about the differences between the Occupiers and those of us who ate a lot of bad lettuce back in the 70s, and who skipped grapes altogether for a good long while.
From the get go, as I watched news footage of OWS, I wondered about the clarity of the movement. The Occupiers are certainly as entitled as anyone to exercise their first amendment rights. But I saw mixed messages right from the start. It didn't make sense to launch an anti- corporate movement and document the cause on a MacBook via an AT&T or Verizon data plan. Ditto to doing so with a Starbucks latte in hand, or even a McCafe coffee.
Could a nationwide boycott – like the one against lettuce and grapes – happen in America today? Would a systemically planned boycott of certain targeted corporations (or banks, or products, or whatever) work in the 21st century the way it did in the 1970's?
Would we, as a country or as individuals, be willing to do without lettuce or grapes or anything at all for an extended period of time?
Are we willing to take a stand in a way that touches our personal lives and lifestyles? To change the clothing we wear, or bypass our favorite stores, or do without some of our favorite products?
Or is that sort of thing passé?
After all, Occupy supported a nationwide boycott of Black Friday shopping to let the wealthy magnates of corporate America know where the rest of us stand. But you know what happened.
We didn't stand on principle. We stood in line at Target and Toys R Us and Best Buy and WalMart to get great deals on HDTV and XBox.
We want a great deal on it.
And we want it. now.
The first time I saw the Rocky Mountains, I knew I couldn't have been a pioneer. I certainly couldn't have done what my husband's ancestors did, walking west as part of the Mormon handcart companies. But as he often says, those people didn't consider themselves "pioneers" at the time. They were everyday people, doing what they had to do. They did it a step at a time, even in winter. They bore children and buried loved ones along the way, without stopping. They sang every night.
Could have risked my life with the Freedom Riders in the 1960's?
Could have endured being taken a prisoner of war in Japan, or Germany, Korea or North Vietnam?
Could I have done that? Could I do it now?
How willing am I – or any of us – to change my habits and step out of my comfort zone for a principle I claim to believe in, or for the well-being of others? Will we still buy those nice underpants at Victoria's Secret, even knowing that the cotton is harvested by slave labor? In these days of counting our cash a bit more carefully, are we willing to spend more for slave-free chocolate bars, or would we rather just grab what's closest at the checkout counter when we want a treat? Genetically modified produce sounds rather like "Brave New World" – but can I afford to buy heirloom tomatoes every single time I want a sandwich? I mean, it's January. If I want a tomato, I have to take what I can get.
Cuts a little close to the bone, you know?
But oh, so very important to ask the questions.
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Your blog of January 8, 2012 concerning your early memories at Michigan: I would send this blog to the University of Michigan relating all the thing that come to your mind so they will have it for their records and, at the end of your blogs, say: my mind goes on and on!


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