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3 Ways to Empower Social Media Giving This Holiday Season
By Frank Barry 2010-12-03 15:14:40 UTC
Frank Barry, professional services manager at Blackbaud and blogger at NetWits ThinkTank, helps non-profits use the Internet for digital communication, social media and fundraising so they can focus on making an impact and achieving their missions. Find Frank on Twitter @franswaa.
Year-end preparation is in full swing for most non-profit organizations. The reason being that many non-profits receive as much as 40% of their annual donations during the month of December.
If you drill into that 40% number a bit, you'll see that of the $263 billion Americans give to charity each year, 5.7% is given online, according to the index of online giving study that my company produces; 46% of that online giving takes place in the last three months of the year, with 30% in December alone. Needless to say, non-profits all know that this time of year is critical to their overall fundraising success.
As the non-profit sector mobilizes, we're also seeing life in the non-profit technology world. What's interesting about the examples below is that they're all focused on helping the non-profit supporter — and not the actual non-profit — make a difference with tools to raise awareness and money through social media.
1. HelpAttack!
With social media at the very heart of its efforts, HelpAttack! is offering do-gooders all over the web a unique and social way to support the causes they love.
All you have to do is head over to helpattack.com, log in using your Twitter account and create a pledge. Essentially you'll be pledging to give a dollar amount for each tweet between now and 30 days from the day you make your pledge –- simple as that. According to Sarah Vela, the CEO of HelpAttack! "This new way to donate is quick, easy, fun and offers a layer of social responsibility to online activities."
The socially enabled pledge system offers non-profit supporters a quick, easy and fun way to support their favorite cause while also giving non-profit organizations a newfound funding stream that raises their visibility on social networks.
During the holiday season HelpAttack! invites "all non-profit organizations seeking new ways to collect funding through year-end campaigns to visit the site, add themselves if they're not already listed, and share this new way of giving with their supporters," says Vela.
Since its launch a few weeks ago, HelpAttack! has seen more than 5,000 causes added to the system with the average pledge amount hovering around $21.
2. Causes Charity Gift Cards
By now you've probably heard about, seen or used Causes.com. It's one of the largest applications on Facebook with more than 140 millions users who have given more than $27 millions dollars in support of non-profit work around the world to date. It has also become very well known for its birthday wish –- a simple way to donate your birthday to charity.
In an effort to help give people another way to support their favorite charity this holiday season, Causes teamed up with Easter Seals, Red Cross, UNICEF, WWF, and CARE to create $25 and $50 prepaid gift cards that can be found at Safeway and Vons supermarkets in California. "This is the only card in the world that says the person you are buying it for wants to do good for the world," said Causes co-founder and Chairman Sean Parker.
3. Skip1.org
Skip1.org is a very small non-profit organization focused on bringing food and water to those who need it most. To do this, the organization has come up with a clever idea: skip something else. Basically it's asking people to donate the money they would have spent on a meal, a coffee, a magazine, a haircut or anything else that could have easily been skipped to help support their cause. One hundred percent of the money donated to the organization goes to the charitable work it does.
This holiday season Skip1 and Invisible People are teaming up to bring you a special SkipDay™ focused on helping fight homelessness in the U.S. Instead of doing a traditional toy wrap, you can join hundreds of volunteers, physically and virtually, on December 12 in creating "GLove Bags" –- bags packed with clothes, food and much more that could fit in your car's glove compartment.
Instead of leaving empty-handed after the event, Shelena Bryan, founder of Skip1, will be asking everyone that participated to take a GLove Bag with them so they can personally give it to a homeless person in their area. According to Bryan, "The power is in the giving of the GLove bag, not just the creation of it –- will you step up and give out the bag, or will you just pack the bag and forget about it?"
Your Year-End Giving
Let us know if any of these campaigns have sparked your interest or if you're planning to give this holiday season. Share your thoughts in the comments below
More Social Good Resources from Mashable:
- Checkins for Charity: The Rise of Geo-Social Good - 10 Inspiring "Buy One Give One" Projects - 4 Real Challenges to Crowdsourcing for Social Good - 9 Creative Social Good Campaigns Worth Recognizing - 5 Easy Ways to Support a Cause Through Your Social Network
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, ideabug
Topics: causes, causes.com, Non-Profits, crowdrise, Facebook, helpattack, non-profit, nonprofit, skip1, Social Good, social good lists, Social Media, year end giving


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Singles in the News: 12/13/09-12/19/09
Okay, this is the last "Singles in the News" that I've completed. I'm taking tomorrow off for the holiday, and then we'll see about starting up again, maybe in a somewhat altered form, next week. (To read more about my recent dilemma with continuing "Singles in the News," see "Who Wants a Kalorik Sunny Morning Stick Mixer and...Where Is Singletude These Days?")
After giving it some thought, I decided to cut back today by eliminating 1) articles about nothing but dating, 2) articles from the non-English-speaking world (with two notable exceptions), and 3) articles about homeless shelters, transitional houses, and food pantries that primarily serve singles. I would've preferred not to exclude any of these categories, but if I hadn't, this installment of "Singles in the News" still would be unfinished, even with the extra week I allotted for it. So how did I arrive at the decision about what to exclude? Well, it was difficult, but my reasoning is that 1) articles about dating are a dime a dozen, 2) news from the international scene is fascinating and valuable, but this is an American blog with a primarily American audience, and 3) while it's important to be aware of the plight of homeless singles, their story is repeated in different pockets throughout the country every day.
I would love to continue publishing comprehensive coverage of all the most relevant weekly stories about singles, but right now there are just too many stories for one single gal to keep up with! (Sadly, for all the increased coverage we've been getting, much of it isn't too promising, as you'll see below.) Again, if anyone is interested in helping to make "Singles in the News" possible, please let me know!
"Sexist Comments of the Week: What Is Beyonce's 'It'?"
By Amanda Hess
Summary: An interesting though belated analysis of Beyonce's hit "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" questions whether the singer objectifies herself by reducing herself and her sexuality to an "it" that can be bought with a ring. A lively reader debate is included.
"Tiger Woods: 5 Realities of Being a Mistress, How to 'Unmistress' Yourself and Exhibit Virtue with Married Men"
By Laura Trice
Summary: A self-billed "relationship expert" who seems to lack any qualifications for that title tries to discourage single women from getting embroiled with married men because, in her opinion, cheaters never change, and the "other woman" will always be "outranked." Although Singletude does not support infidelity, there is a glorification of marriage in this article that may not sit well with some readers of this blog. It also makes a lot of assumptions about what all women want out of relationships and about the outcome of all extramarital relationships. Nine times out of 10, Trice's predictions may be accurate, but it's her blanket assumptions, stated with unwarranted confidence, that are problematic. She also makes the dubious suggestion that newly single women should heal from an affair by dating a lot of men casually. How about learning to enjoy being single instead? However, she does make some interesting points about how single females should guard against biological programming to choose a partner based on material or physical safety concerns and should instead focus on emotional well-being.
"Although Most Unmarried Young Adults Want to Avoid Pregnancy, Many Don't Use Contraception, Know Little About It, and Think It Doesnt Make Much Difference"
Summary: In a survey of 1,800 single adults ages 18-29, 94% of men and 86% of women said that pregnancies should be planned, and 86% of men and 88% of women said that they wanted to avoid pregnancy at present. However, only half confirmed that they regularly use contraception when sexually active. In addition, 42% of men and 29% of women agreed that there was a chance they'd have unprotected sex in the next three months, and 38% of men and 44% of women endorsed this statement: "It doesn't matter whether you use birth control or not; when it is your time to get pregnant it will happen." A shocking 63% said they knew little or nothing about birth control pills, while 30% said they knew little or nothing about condoms. False beliefs about the efficacy of various methods of contraception were also fairly widespread. Half of all pregnancies in the US are unplanned, including seven out of 10 pregnancies among women in this age category.
"Home Buyers Likely to Buy Foreclosed Home Are Under 55 and Single, Report Says"
By Paul Ivice
TCPalm
Summary: A real estate web site survey finds that those most likely to take a chance on a home in foreclosure are singles under 55 who are currently renting. Interestingly, 50% of single and 40% of married respondents agreed that they were "at least somewhat likely" to purchase a foreclosure, but only 34% of divorced, separated, and widowed participants endorsed the same statement. This underlines the evidence that those who have always been single comprise a group which is uniquely different from those who have previously been married.
"I Think Cats Are Wonderful, But I Don't Want One..."
By Sathnam Sanghera
Summary: That's because the single male author is afraid to associate himself with a "mad spinster cat lady," which might lead people to question his sanity or, worse, his masculinity. Stereotypes of single women and single men, especially cat owners, abound here, and Sanghera concludes with this disgusting statement: "Surveys consistently show that owning a cat makes men more attractive to the opposite sex: it shows you have a kind, caring and sensitive side. But if there's one thing I've learnt in life is [sic] that, ultimately, the cool women out there don't want nice guys, even if they claim they do—they respond best to nonchalance and bastardry." Fantastic. Another guy promoting the mistreatment of single women under the pretense that they respond better to emotional abuse. This article is a hairsbreadth away from a Singleschmucker. But it wouldn't do to end this summary without mentioning that the article cites some interesting research on single male cat owners. Apparently, single men are more likely than single women to make a significant sacrifice in time or finances for a cat. In accordance with this devotion, they are also more likely to ditch their lovers than their beloved pets.
Singleschmucker Award
"Is Tiger a Representative for Us?"
By Dr. Wendy Walsh
momlogic
Summary: Walsh is right that married men aren't the only ones responsible for the collapse of their relationships; the single women they cheat with are to blame, as well. She's also right that the sexual revolution eventually resulted in the hook-up culture we have today. She even has some good insights into how our sex-saturated culture may pressure people to engage in sexual activity more often than they might otherwise. But she seems to wish unmarried women were still stigmatized for expressing their sexuality and clearly believes that children of single parents can't possibly grow up to have healthy relationships of their own. Her last, highly pejorative line is: "And single women will truly become like the men they wish to emulate when they learn to keep it in their pants and act like gentlemen!" Single women don't want to be men; we want to be treated like people, with the same rights that everyone else has, including the right to decide for ourselves how to conduct our sex lives. Typical smug married. Here, have a Singleschmucker.
"Single Ladies Lament"
By Starshine Roshell
Santa Barbara Independent
Summary: Another smug married vies for the Singleschmucker and almost scores! The columnist pities her "deserving single friends with no one to spoon on frigid nights." I guess Roshell has never heard of heaters, blankets, and pets. In any case, she marvels at the cruel world that has "blessed" her "with a guy who turns me on and tolerates my considerable freakiness when so many of my hotter, younger, and far nicer friends are still solo-and-searching." Then she bemoans all the single men who either don't want to date her single female friends of a certain age or are cheap dates who want to use them for sex. Hmmm...Wonder how Roshell would feel if one of her single friends wrote a piece about how much sympathy she has for Roshell now that she's locked up in her home every night with the same person and has to organize her life around him. What a pity she's going to miss out on all those nights out with the girls, not to mention all that creative solitude that every writer craves!
"Art, Power and Single Women in Pakistan"
By H.M. Naqvi
Summary: This is the first "notable exception" to my temporary exclusion of news from outside English-speaking territories. It's a report on the art scene in Pakistan and the surprisingly dominant role that single women now fill as its primary dealers and curators. The story was far too interesting to ignore.
ESPN Reporter Erin Andrews Calls for More Awareness After Peephole Taping by 'Sexual Predator'"
Summary: An ESPN reporter victimized by a peeping Tom who plastered the Internet with footage of her in a hotel room uses her notorious experience as a platform to make people aware of the dangers single women face when traveling alone.
"Heritage Building to Fall for New Highrise"
By Tiffany Crawford
Summary: Plans for a new apartment building in Vancouver, Canada are meeting with strong opposition. Residents would've preferred "a gay and lesbian centre" or a "petting zoo" but put their collective foot down at a high-rise with "mostly units for single people." Animal welfare? LGBT rights? Yea! Singles? Nay!
"Is John Mayer the New 'Lonely Guy' Celeb?"
By Niki Payne
Summary: John Mayer has stated publicly that he's taking a break from dating, but this rather disappointing piece frames it as just one stop on the road to re-coupling.
"Power Disconnected for Flouting Housing Rules"
By Afkar Abdullah
Summary: This is the second "notable exception" from the international media because it was way too eye-popping not to get a mention. According to the article, Dubai, the port city in the United Arab Emirates famous for its material extravagance and embrace of things Western, can't seem to embrace the idea of equality; it relegates singles to a separate residential district apart from married couples and families. Now the municipal government is fining landlords and cutting off utilities to single people who live in the "wrong district" or in unisex housing. And we think we have it bad here in the US!
"Tax Reform Means Working Moms Do Less Housework"
By Belinda Luscombe
Summary: Proving that you really can't do it all, single moms enticed to return to work by the Earned Income Tax Credit are sacrificing housework instead, shows a meta-analysis of studies from 1975 to 2004 by the National Bureau of Economic Research. For every hour worked outside the home, time spent on housework decreased 47 minutes.
"'Upper Class' Housing Plan"
By Kelly Yates
Summary: Another plan to build affordable housing units with single people in mind, this time in Australia, meets with public disapproval. One resident even says she "'was devastated when I heard the news.'" The private development, she contends, is "'too close to residential houses and families.'" Oh, yes, single people mowing their lawns, walking their dogs, and getting their mail in plain sight of all those families! What is the world coming to?
"Phoenix Books Acquires 'The Single Man's Guide to Cooking with Beer'"
Summary: You have to love author Streeter McClure. In one of the coolest variations on the solo chef theme in recent memory, The Single Man's Guide to Cooking with Beer "aims to help single men incorporate beer into delicious dishes in the same way chefs use wine." Thirty-four "original and adapted recipes for appetizers, soups, stews and main courses" are included. Singletude is thrilled to see a practical book for single men that isn't focused on the pick-up scene and that helps to dispel myths by acknowledging that single men use the kitchen, too. Part of the proceeds from the book will be donated to breast cancer research in honor of McClure's late mother.
"Five Sexual Partners? You've Blown Your Chance with Matthew Morrison"
By Andy Wright
Summary: Actor Matthew Morrison has standards, ladies. He won't date you if you've slept with more than four men. As Wright correctly notes, that really narrows the pool of single women available to Morrison...or at least the pool of single women willing to be truthful in the face of his prejudice. Furthermore, he's touting ye olde double standard if he's had more than four partners himself, which, the article notes, no one has ever asked him about. While there's nothing wrong with holding out for someone who shares your sexual mores, it's a problem when you expect someone to "save him-/herself" for you when you haven't done the same. And how much do you want to bet Morrison is hoping the next woman he dates will make him her number five? If he resents dating women who've slept with other men, then he shouldn't expect the women he dates to sleep with him, either.
Singles With Singletude Award
"Let Them Watch Cake: The Class Problem With Kids-Only Broadcast TV"
By Linda Holmes
Summary: Finally, someone who gets it! In response to a recent suggestion that all broadcast television should be kid-friendly, Holmes says, "This is the 'every hour is the family hour' argument. Never mind that by 2010, more than two-thirds of households will be single people and couples without children at home....Wouldn't this create a giant class divide where, whether you have children or not, access to good television designed for adults is a privilege of wealth?....Why doesn't it make just as much sense to say that if you're in the minority of households where there are kids, and you want programming that's screened for them, you get it from a channel like Nickelodeon or Disney?" Thank you, Linda Holmes, for sticking up for the rights of single and child-free adults to not have to order our lives around families! This is, as Holmes correctly notes, not a nation in which couples with young children predominate. While public television should continue to provide quality programming for kids, adults deserve to have access to shows they can enjoy, as well. Parents need to accept their share of the responsibility for protecting kids from content they don't want them to see. Single adults shouldn't have to sacrifice their quality of life any more than they already do to accommodate families.
"Poll: U.S. Evenly Divided on Same-sex Marriage"
By Joel Connelly
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Summary: A poll by Angus Reid breaks down supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage by marital status. Interestingly, whether or not you wear a wedding band predicts which camp you'll fall into. On the "yes" to gay marriage side are 56% of the always single, 65% of cohabitors, and 51% of widows and widowers. On the "no" side are 66% of the married, 66% of the separated, and 62% of the divorced. Can it be any clearer that the married majority (including, in this case, separated and divorced people, who may still be reaping benefits from ex-partners) want to hang on to their exclusive legal and financial privileges? I can't see what else this could be about since it is so clearly the people who are benefiting from the system who want to keep others out. And they say marriage makes you more generous! So much for that myth!
"Senate Plan to Tax Health Plans Is Bad Policy"
By Jim Hoffa and Larry Cohen
Summary: This editorial examines one of the more troubling aspects of the Senate's health care bill, which will tax employers who provide more expensive health plans to their employees instead of taxing the upper class uniformly, as the House bill did. The problem is that 20% of employers participate with these so-called expensive plans, and in a recent survey by Mercer Consulting, 87% of them said they would circumvent the legislation by cutting benefits, while 86% said they would make their employees pony up more for their premiums. So why does this interest us? Based on one popular plan used by federal workers, the Blue Cross/Blue Shield standard plan, the journalists calculated, "Single people in the plan will get hit right away. They will pay an average of about $1,600 more per year for 10 years. Families will get hit in the third year, paying an average of about $2,000 more per year for 10 years. It gets worse. By 2022, the family plan is projected to cost $5,500 in taxes per worker, while single people could pay as much as $3,500 per worker." Never mind that this legislation is setting up workers to bite the bullet for their employers; look at how singles will, once again, be subsidizing families! Why should two or more people pay just 25-57% more than a single person? Shouldn't they be paying at least double what the single person pays since the family comprises at least two adults?
"Survey Says, Older Women Want Friends Over Men"
By Jane Glenn Haas
The Orange County Register
Summary: A California columnist asked her senior female readers which they'd rather have at their side, a date or the girls. About 250 single women responded, reporting that friends are more important. Unfortunately, Haas misses the opportunity to explore platonic friendships, and the article takes a detour into dating advice, interviewing Tom Blake, author of How 50 Couples Found Love After 50. It does nothing to inspire confidence that Blake has been married three times and met his current live-in love when he was "'between relationships.'" When Haas asks him point-blank why singles should try to be un-single in the first place, he says, "'Loneliness is really, really difficult for a lot of people.'" And yet we know that singles, especially single women, are not that lonely at all! Then, bizarrely for a dating guru, Blake says, "'It's tough but I wouldn't recommend too many [single men] to go out with. They are jerks. Egotistical with no consideration or appreciation women deserve.' Of course, not all women deserve special consideration, he adds. 'Many women project a desperate feeling. Women in longtime marriages didn't take care of themselves and developed an independence mode.'" Huh? Serious Singleschmucker contender here!
"Oshawa Man Heads to Malawi to Offer Credit Union Expertise"
By Jillian Follert
newsdurhamregion.com
Summary: In Malawi, single women aren't usually eligible for credit from big banks even though they're the ones who most desperately need it. A Canadian banker tries to help the country establish credit unions to reverse this situation.
Do you have thoughts on any of the stories above? (When commenting, please reference the title of the article.)
Want to stay current on changes in the world that impact singles? Read the latest news about singles every day! Check out the Singletude newsreader under Singles in the News on the homepage!
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Wag the Dog said...
Holiday season article on how mainstream culture conditions us to pity those being alone for Christmas: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/25/christmas-loneliness
Alan said...
I'm not surprised to find that married couples are less likely than singles and unmarried couples to support gay marriage.
Married couples are considered part of the norm and favored, and as a result are more likely to favor the norm. If the system favors you, you support the system yes?
And if you're not favored by the system you're less likely to support it, like singles, gays, umarrieds, etc...
Which when you think about it doesn't bode well for the GOP in its present form. There are increasing numbers of alternative family types, and they're likely to support things the GOP does not...
Wag the Dog: I decided to take off the week of Christmas for a holiday break, so there's no "Singles in the News" for that week, but thanks for the link. I read it and thought it was a lovely meditation on the different ways one can be alone and how we shouldn't dismiss all of them as unhealthy or undesirable. That theme has been in my thoughts a lot lately, so I could really appreciate it. I hope others will check it out, too.
Alan: I think what surprised me was that the singles were so overwhelmingly in favor of broadening marriage benefits even though, with the exception of LGBT couples, most of them would not benefit from it themselves. That seems pretty selfless.
The married couples, on the other hand, wouldn't gain or lose any of their benefits by broadening the definition of marriage but were still against doing so, which implies that their motivation was simply to keep others out. That seems pretty selfish.
The contrast between the selflessness of the singles and the selfishness of the marrieds was really interesting to see, especially since singles are usually the ones who get a bad rap for being "selfish."
Who Wants a Kalorik Sunny Morning Stick Mixer and....
Singles in the News: 12/6/09-12/12/09
Singles in the News: 11/29/09-12/5/09

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"Hi, I'm Chanteel. It's nice to meet you Susan," she said as she shook my hand and sat down.
More of the women started laughing. Chanteel just smiled, took the ball of paper and smoothed it out.
She smiled and nodded. She was, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful women I had seen. She was blonde with deep blue eyes and cheek bones that went on forever. Her hair was pulled back, but it was thick. She wasn't wearing make-up because when you are in jail, it's not something you are very concerned with. Your basic concern was surviving each hour, each day and each week until you got out. Some never knew when that would be as all of the women I was working with were in custody waiting for trial.
Some had been waiting for two years. All of them were overweight and lethargic from the food and being in their cells 23 hours out of 24. None of them slept because of the constant noise and stress and many spent most of their time lying in bed and crying. If they weren't crying, they just laid there, staring up at the ceiling or the bunk above them.
This was a new group of incarcerated and battered women I had been given to help. I was there to teach them about self-respect and learning how to get along better with people. Yes, it was a lot to do, but I found most of them receptive, needy and quite pleasant to work with.
Let's face it. Life doesn't get much worse when you are in jail and have lost your children to foster care. Any and all help is appreciated and it was a very rare occasion when anyone of them gave me any trouble. Those that did were usually just too stressed to do anything else but sit and cry.
Chanteel looked to be in her mid-30's but I found out later she was only 23. This was her third time in jail and her probation officer had pushed hard for her to get into my program. There was just something about her that made you want to help her even though you knew when she got out, she would most likely revert. He wanted her in the program so it would look good for the judge when she went before him. I don't even remember the charges that were pending against her but she was not violent. Just stupid.
She was as pleasant as could be until I started talking to her after class. She hung around to talk with me. I grabbed a cup of coffee and sat down to listen.
Within three minutes I could see she was way out of touch with reality. Her conversation with me jumped from one topic to another with no rhyme or reason. She would be mid-sentence and then start another conversation about something completely different.
But I sat and listened and became quite fascinated by her. She was a dichotomy of complete brilliance in her thoughts and observations and insane from the life she had led.
She was only 23, but she had been through more tragedy and heartbreak in those few years than anyone else I had known.
I worked with her as best as I could during the next few weeks. She was always pleasant and kind. Each week, she would tell me she had changed her name. I always made sure to call her by her new name. The other women would just snicker. This never seemed to bother her.
I asked her one day why she changed her name so often. She bit her lip, looked down and gave my question quite a bit of thought before answering.
I eventually got in contact with her Probation Officer because, quite frankly, she fascinated me. I never ask about a persons past when they start my program. It is not relevant. What is relevant is today and maybe tomorrow.
There wasn't much he could tell me but I was able to gather from him and my contact at the facility that this young woman entered the foster care program at the age of 6 months and it has been all she has ever known.
She tested highly on her IQ and she was literate and able to read and understood what she read.
That is all I will say about her, but trust me – you don't want to know. It broke my heart.
After one particular night with her, I left the facility sad. When I got home, I called my Mom, hoping she was still up.
As soon as she answered the phone, she asked if I was OK.
'You've been in jail again, haven't you?" she asked.
I never saw Chanteel after that. She had been released but had asked for my cell number. We don't give these out but the Program Director told me about it. He had told her he couldn't give that out and said she started to cry as she walked out the door with her suitcase and nowhere to go.
"If she calls again, give it to her," I said.
Every few months, I get a phone call from her. She told me the last time I talked to her that she settled on a name (which I am not going to say) and I liked it. It fit. She always lets me know how she is doing but never tells me where she is. That's OK. I don't want to know.
'Do you know why I call you Susan?" she asked the last time we talked.
Awwww Susan, this is just beautiful!! I'm SO glad that God blessed her with YOU in her life.
Sometimes we forget how we do touch people's lives and how important that is.
It's nice that she takes the time to let me know. Always makes me happy for a long time!
I'll keep posting, I promise.
This touched a nerve deep in me and now I can cry, something I haven;t done for a long time…strange the way words work sometimes. Thank you both.
Yes, words can be powerful. Chanteel and I thank you for reading and commenting.
Let the tears flow for as long as you need and then start again.
We all need to do that once in a while.
You sent me a "Wink?" Are you kidding me?


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You are here: Home / States / New York Fashion Schools
New York Fashion Schools
New York is home to New York City, one of the most important fashion cities in the United States. There are many opportunities for you to get involved in the fashion industry, starting with the 18 fashion schools in the state. There are seven postgraduate school options.
The average cost of tuition in New York City is $19,568, but tuition can be as low as $3,550 at less expensive schools. There are also a variety of scholarships in New York. LIM College offers a Honors Scholarship for strong fashion students. The YMA Fashion Scholarship is also available at Cornell University, one of the fashion schools in New York.
New York is one of the most fashion-conscious states in the country, so there may be many career options for you here. Most jobs are in larger cities like New York City. Major employers in this state include Maximilian at Bloomingdale's, Fox's Designer Off-Price, and The Limited. New York's economy is strong; its unemployment rate is currently 7.1%, although it has been decreasing since mid-2013 (BLS, 2013).
Salaries vary widely in this field; you are more likely to earn a higher salary if you have experience or if you live in a metropolitan area. Fashion designers earn an average salary of $79,270 per year and the average salary for merchandise displayers is $35,920 (BLS, 2012). The average salary for marketing specialists is $72,240 (BLS, 2012).
Fashion Schools in New York
About Fashion Schools in New York
Total Schools:17
Undergraduate Programs:17
Average Tuition Cost:$19,361
Cazenovia College
(Cazenovia,NY)
• Fashion Design
• Small Campus
• Suburban Setting
• $27,550 Tuition Cost
• $17,461 Scholarship and Financial Aid Awards
• Small Class Sizes
(Ithaca,NY)
CUNY Kingsborough Community College
(Brooklyn,NY)
CUNY New York City College of Technology
• Fashion Merchandising
(New York,NY)
• Fashion Design, • Fashion Merchandising
• $799 Scholarship and Financial Aid Awards
Genesee Community College
(Batavia,NY)
• Medium Campus
Herkimer County Community College
(Herkimer,NY)
• Rural Setting
(Poughkeepsie,NY)
Nassau Community College
(Garden City,NY)
Pratt Institute-Main
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Uncle Fester has been missing for 25 years. An evil doctor finds out and introduces a fake Fester in an attempt to get the Addams Family's money. The youngest daughter…
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CA - Off Duty Police Officer shoots man and parents after altercation in Costco, Corona, June 2019
Discussion in 'Up to the Minute' started by Wagtales10, Jun 16, 2019.
SuziQ Well-Known Member
jjenny said: ↑
I would think the person shooting in a crowded place would be a danger to everyone around that person.
i think you are confusing victim and perp.
SuziQ, Jun 18, 2019
Jessthinkin Well-Known Member
This New York Times article is the first I've seen with an eyewitness account (from ten feet away) of the (off duty) officer falling down, hard.
Costco Shooting Leaves Family of Man Killed by Off-Duty Officer Demanding Answers
Jessthinkin, Jun 18, 2019
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fannneee said: ↑
Exactly what I thought about most of the articles only biased mostly one way. They use the off-duty cops version as gospel truth. No qualifier like "alledgedly" (sp?)
To me it will matter if the gun is fired when Mr. French is attacking or aggressively coming toward the shooter or if the attack had subsided.
Eclipse, Jun 18, 2019
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jjenny On Time Out
SuziQ said: ↑
Not at all. I wouldn't care to be in that store if cop started firing multiple shots, whether he believed it be in self-defense or not. Would you have liked to be nearby? We already know he shot three people, when only one reportedly attacked him. Again, how many extra people do you think someone should be allowed to shoot in self-defense when being attacked by one person?
jjenny, Jun 18, 2019
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kaen Trying to be a good human.
Until we know more and see the tape, I don't think we can get to any answers. I can say that I am really tired and saddened by the number of victims of police involved shootings who have mental illness or disability. There has to be something that can be done to increase awareness of the issues some with mental illness or intellectual disability face.
kaen, Jun 18, 2019
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Curiousobserver said: ↑
I am shocked that there are no witnesses all over LA television.
So am I. This is such a hot topic, maybe no one wants to wade in.
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There's a witness quoted in this NYTimes article:
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Eclipse said: ↑
Agreed. And one thing that bothers me is that there are multiple people saying there was an argument. That the father was explaining the younger French's issues. If the younger French was non verbal it could not have been him argueing. Was the off-duty cop arguing so agressively with the Dad that the younger French felt his father was threatened and defended his father by knocking down the off-duty cop? MOO
fannneee, Jun 18, 2019
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It depends on the situation. Which we have no idea what happened. We don't know what the parents did after their son got shot. Did they react angrily? Dunno.
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Check out this eyewitness account:
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kaen said: ↑
Unless we make mentally ill people wear a scarlet letter, there is no way to tell by looking at them. In a fast moving situation, there's no time to ask someone about there mental health issues and de escalate.
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Jessthinkin said: ↑
Thanks for that. So according to that eyewitness, the cop was able to stand up before he started firing. Witness was scared for her life at that point, which is my point exactly.
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I am not sure what exactly needed deescalating. After cop was shoved/pushed and fell to the ground, he apparently stood up and started firing. What was he in danger of in that point is unclear to me.
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that's how I feel as well.
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I agree with you that the information released so far is incomplete, and video is sorely needed, to get a fuller picture of all the precedents, antecedents, proximity, etc.
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That's not the sequence of events as far as I can tell. As far as I understand it, there was no argument before the officer was shoved or pushed.
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Maybe it looked like whomever assaulted him was now going after his wife or child or (?) I agree this all sounds very hinky and terrible and thank goodness there does seem to be video, even if it's not released yet...
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Respectfully, there are multiple officer involved shootings where the issues of the person is known. In this instance the father of the dead man was telling the shooter that his son had mental illness. There is always time to deescalate if you know a person has issues as long as they are not harming someone else--- you can take a breath and begin to think. Grant it, someone may not be able to be calmed and may become a danger to others or the officers. There have been families who called 911 for help and saw/heard their loved one killed when officers rushed in. It is time for some new training.
Mishandling mental health crises to blame for spike in officer-involved shootings | National Center on Disability and Journalism
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Center for Problem Oriented Policing People with Mental Illness | Center for Problem-Oriented Policing
U of Chicago Pilot Program: Police Need to Work More with Mental Health Professionals | University of Chicago - SSA "This puts a huge burden on police officers," said Harold Pollack, the Helen Ross Professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA) and co-director of the University's Crime Lab. Pollack and SSA doctoral student Tonie Sadler organized the "Keep Calm and Evaluate: The Crisis Intervention Pilot program as a Case Study on Program Evaluation" on January 8 at SSA.
I work with young people with mental illness and have been in numerous hairy situations that could have escalated. I know how hard it is to de-escalate. But for people with mental illness or intellectual disabilities, they cannot think as fast or nimbly as needed for an officer's split second reaction to their illness. In 911 calls, officers do have options. In this situation, a moment of reflection would have saved one or (potentially) more lives. IMO.
Edited to add: links to studies and MSM on evaluative options in policing.
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I do believe the account that says the officer was struck from behind, in the head. It must've been a pretty strong blow to the head to cause him to fall down "hard, looking like he was having a heart attack" (per an eyewitness).
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I am not sure what difference would it make if he said he was a cop or not? He was off duty at the time.
I was just wondering in terms of what the cop said or did before he started shooting. For example, there's a difference between he stood up, held up the gun, said "I'm an officer - freeze", and KF still approached him vs he stood up and started shooting without saying anything, in which case people may think he is a civilian with a gun. [ETA - I don't know if the cop stood up or not; I'm just theorizing].
I feel that officers should be trained to de-escalate situations and they shouldn't fire without having a clear shot at the intended target (if the parents of KF are trying to intervene and are shielding him, I would say stop shooting). If the opinion is that these concepts don't apply to an off-duty cop because he's off-duty, well, then he should be considered a civilian and be treated as a civilian who fired his gun in a store.
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Studovala brněnskou JAMU, kterou v roce 1978 zdárně dokončila. Poté působila v Severomoravském divadle Šumperk (1978 až 1980) a v Národním divadle Brno. Od 1. ledna 2000 měla stálé angažmá v Městském divadle Brno.

Z prvního manželství měla dceru a dva syny, byla babičkou. Zemřela 20. listopadu 2015 v Brně. Pohřbena je na hřbitově v Brně-Komíně. Necelých osm měsíců před ní zemřel její druhý manžel, slovenský divadelník a politik Martin Porubjak, s nímž žila od roku 2006.

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 Smeraldina – Sluha dvou pánů
 Suchánková – Škola základ života
 Rusínka – Koločava
 Donna Lucia – Charleyova teta
 Dafné – Dokonalá svatba
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 1985 – Šahrazád
 1991 – Honzík
 2002 – Útěk do Budína … matka Jany Myslbekové
 2007 – Ordinace v růžové zahradě … Jiřina Ženíšková

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As I write this there are fires burning inside my Watch Zone (a 40-kilometre radius) to my north and to my south. The fire pump and hoses will arrive next week and we'll hunt up some protective clothing in the meantime. But I haven't bothered to pack the car. I'm just sitting here, surrounded by the things I thought I'd lost during the last fire - in 2018. I'd have given just about anything back then to save my home, and more particularly, the things in it that I treasure. But something's changed. For the 20 months after the fire that took 69 homes and another 100 buildings in my town of Tathra and surrounds, I've been talking about climate change, constantly, because it took a fire at my own door to understand how immediate the threat is, and how quickly we must act. And now I'm so tired, from the stress, from being told to shut up, that I'm not acting. Because that's 625 days on which the LNP was not prepared to talk to me, or anyone else, about climate change. 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So now I sit here wondering exactly when I should pack, given the fire season is likely to continue as a rolling series of alerts and warnings, and smoke haze drifts from as far afield as Queensland and South Australia. Because every day feels like the day my house will burn down. Every day I check for fire alerts on my phone 10 times. Every day I listen for sirens in between radio news of towns alight, homes gone, animals screaming in pain, and people dying. People dying. Quiet Australians. And where would I go with my car full of treasures? Not central, northern or western NSW, crippled by drought. Not Queensland, South Australia or Western Australia, all currently ablaze. Not the Northern Territory, where it's now too hot to live without airconditioning. Not Sydney, which has been choking on smoke for weeks now. Certainly not Tassie, where the forests are not fire-adapted at all. Not even Europe, where all temperature records were broken this summer, week after week. Eventually, on a blue sky day, with gusting winds and soaring temperatures, climate change catches up with you. At home, at the office, on the train, in the supermarket, or where our PM has been recently, at the Gabba in Brisbane, hanging out with some cricketers. He said the cricketers might help the people who've lost everything in the fires by playing cricket to cheer them up. Perhaps #PutOutYourBats or #TheyAreOnFire might make some amusing hashtags for his evening tweets. If he was also talking to Greg Mullins and his team of former emergency services leaders about all those things I listed above, I'd feel better. But he isn't. Because if you can't say the two words "climate" and "emergency", you can't have those conversations. Indeed, over my shoulder on the radio, the PM is telling us we must not link individual fires to climate change. Which would make sense if there was only one individual fire. But there are hundreds of fires today, and the trends are stark, with more record-breaking temperatures, hectares burned and extended fire seasons on their way. There are thousands of emergency services people who are too busy saving lives to even think about cricket. And there are tens of thousands of Australians standing in the heat and smoke today, wishing they could have a word with the PM. And if the savage tone of the Twitter response is anything to go by, a good number of them are also holding cricket bats. Smoke is building outside and my phone is only getting intermittent signal, so I can't check what those pesky local fires are up to now. I think I'll stop my "jabbering" and go and collect up the most precious things and stack them by the door. With the cricket bat. For bushfire survivors, it seems Canberra is a place our stories will be heard, but only once it's too late.
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What do bushfire survivors do when Canberra won't listen?
Jo Dodds
As I write this there are fires burning inside my Watch Zone (a 40-kilometre radius) to my north and to my south. The fire pump and hoses will arrive next week and we'll hunt up some protective clothing in the meantime. But I haven't bothered to pack the car. I'm just sitting here, surrounded by the things I thought I'd lost during the last fire - in 2018.
Cr Jo Dodds outside Parliament House on Monday. Picture: Dean Sewell/Greenpeace
I'd have given just about anything back then to save my home, and more particularly, the things in it that I treasure. But something's changed. For the 20 months after the fire that took 69 homes and another 100 buildings in my town of Tathra and surrounds, I've been talking about climate change, constantly, because it took a fire at my own door to understand how immediate the threat is, and how quickly we must act. And now I'm so tired, from the stress, from being told to shut up, that I'm not acting.
Because that's 625 days on which the LNP was not prepared to talk to me, or anyone else, about climate change.
Not about the risk it poses, not about our contribution to it, not about how we might limit our emissions, not about how to prepare our urban, regional and rural communities, or our state forests and national parks, for the fire season. Not about funding emergency services fully, paying firefighters, resourcing local governments, reinstating national parks employees, or funding and supporting initiatives to develop Indigenous traditional burning practices.
Indeed, people like me, who sought to raise the issue of the climate emergency starting to bite communities such as Tathra, have recently been savaged for our impertinence.
Ministers and MPs, all from the right, queued up to slander us as "bloody disgraceful" (NSW Nationals leader John Barilaro) and "raving inner-city lunatics" (Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack). And, true to form, Barnaby Joyce contributed a blazingly bonkers statement that invoked the political leanings of two people who died in the fires in NSW.
RFS firefighters protected houses from the Tallaganda forest fire in Bombay on the weekend. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos
That's why I stood in solidarity with Melinda Plesman and Dean Kennedy on Monday in front of Parliament House. They'd brought the charred ruins of their beloved, hand-built family home - some scorched ornaments, melted glass and metal - and piled it all on the footpath. They lost their home in Nymboida, south of Grafton, on November 9, but found the energy and the courage to pack up the remnants and come to Canberra with a message for the Prime Minister: we've lost everything because you value coal more than you value communities and people like us. Thoughts and prayers are not enough - we need urgent action from our state and federal leaders on reducing greenhouse emissions.
After standing for hours in the wind and cold, repeating their message to journalists, and being moved on by police, they packed up the remains, swept up the charcoal and returned through the smoke-choked atmosphere of Sydney to the motel room that is now their home.
So now I sit here wondering exactly when I should pack, given the fire season is likely to continue as a rolling series of alerts and warnings, and smoke haze drifts from as far afield as Queensland and South Australia. Because every day feels like the day my house will burn down. Every day I check for fire alerts on my phone 10 times. Every day I listen for sirens in between radio news of towns alight, homes gone, animals screaming in pain, and people dying. People dying. Quiet Australians.
And where would I go with my car full of treasures? Not central, northern or western NSW, crippled by drought. Not Queensland, South Australia or Western Australia, all currently ablaze. Not the Northern Territory, where it's now too hot to live without airconditioning. Not Sydney, which has been choking on smoke for weeks now. Certainly not Tassie, where the forests are not fire-adapted at all. Not even Europe, where all temperature records were broken this summer, week after week.
Eventually, on a blue sky day, with gusting winds and soaring temperatures, climate change catches up with you. At home, at the office, on the train, in the supermarket, or where our PM has been recently, at the Gabba in Brisbane, hanging out with some cricketers.
He said the cricketers might help the people who've lost everything in the fires by playing cricket to cheer them up. Perhaps #PutOutYourBats or #TheyAreOnFire might make some amusing hashtags for his evening tweets.
If he was also talking to Greg Mullins and his team of former emergency services leaders about all those things I listed above, I'd feel better. But he isn't. Because if you can't say the two words "climate" and "emergency", you can't have those conversations.
Indeed, over my shoulder on the radio, the PM is telling us we must not link individual fires to climate change. Which would make sense if there was only one individual fire. But there are hundreds of fires today, and the trends are stark, with more record-breaking temperatures, hectares burned and extended fire seasons on their way.
There are thousands of emergency services people who are too busy saving lives to even think about cricket. And there are tens of thousands of Australians standing in the heat and smoke today, wishing they could have a word with the PM. And if the savage tone of the Twitter response is anything to go by, a good number of them are also holding cricket bats.
Smoke is building outside and my phone is only getting intermittent signal, so I can't check what those pesky local fires are up to now. I think I'll stop my "jabbering" and go and collect up the most precious things and stack them by the door. With the cricket bat.
For bushfire survivors, it seems Canberra is a place our stories will be heard, but only once it's too late.
Jo Dodds is a bushfire survivor from Tathra, NSW, the president of Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action, and a councillor with Bega Valley Shire Council.
This story What do bushfire survivors do when Canberra won't listen? first appeared on The Canberra Times.
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Lawrence Kasdan On Han Solo Project and Sequel Trilogy
Posted by Ciaran on 5/30/2016 1 comments
By Ciaran Duggan,
Last week revered film writer Lawrence Kasdan received the 'First Icon Award' for 'Contributions to the Cinematic Arts' at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival on May 22. After receiving the award, Kasdan answered some interesting questions about the Han Solo Anthology film and the Sequel Trilogy.
The 'First Icon Award' is accorded to artists who have showcased artistic excellence in film and inspired pre-eminence in film-making on a global scale. Undoubtedly Kasdan represents as a credible candidate for receiving the award. Kasdan's most famous contributions to the movie industry have included co-authorship of the The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi & The Raiders of the Lost Ark.
In his Q&A session after the award ceremony, Kasdan discussed his excitement for the Han Solo anthology film, disclosed the release date for the film and also announced the month and year in which production for the new Han Solo movie would commence.
Q: What can you tell us about the Han Solo project?
Lawrence Kasdan: Young Han! (Laughs).
Q: For the fans, generally speaking, should they be excited?
Lawrence Kasdan: Oh, I think so! You know, Chris Miller and Phil Lord are going to direct it. They're great, funny and imaginative and we've had a great time together. My son [Jon] and I wrote the script and Chris and Phil are working on it and they're about to move to London to start shooting in January. And it should be fun.
Q: 2018 is the release date?
Lawrence Kasdan: Yes. They're actually scheduled for May. The [other Star Wars films] are falling on Christmas -- Rogue One and Episode 9. Han will come before Episode 9.
Kasdan then went on to discuss his role in the upcoming Star Wars Sequel Films: Episode VIII and Episode IX.
Q: Are you aware of the complete story arc of the new trilogy? Are you involved with that too?
Lawrence Kasdan: (Laughs) I have a little information!
Q: Are you helping steer that story?
Lawrence Kasdan: [Star Wars Episode 8 Director] Rian [Johnson] is a friend of mine. I'm getting to know Colin Trevorrow, who is going to direct Episode 9, so I feel very involved with it.
Q: Did you think there would be a Star Wars Episode 9 when you were doing Episode 2/5?
Lawrence Kasdan: By the time I came on for 2... you know, it was already the biggest picture in the world, so it wasn't a shock that they were going to do more. But yeah, it's amazing... that was 40 years ago!
His final remarks about the 'Star Wars' franchise centered around his appointment as co-writer in The Force Awakens.
Q: The Star Wars movies that you had your hands on seem to have more emotional depth and they really resonate. We've all watched them thousands of times and it seems like Han Solo really shines in the ones that you've got your hands on.
Lawrence Kasdan: Well, I love Han.
Q: Is he what brings you back?
Lawrence Kasdan: Well yeah, I was originally going to just write Han, but I had contracted to be in the story group on Episode 7, which became "The Force Awakens". And then there were problems. A wonderful writer, Michael Arndt, just couldn't do the time pressure, and people were being hired in England and it was enormous pressure and he stepped away. We stayed in contact and he's a lovely man, then J.J. [Abrams] and I took over, and now I found myself instead just doing Han and consulting on "Force Awakens," we were actually writing Episode 7 together and it happened very fast.
Some interesting reveals from Kasdan. I find it particularly fascinating how closely connected he has become with all of the major Star Wars movie projects, from anthology movies to the Sequel films. Arguably, Kasdan is the most experienced expert on the Star Wars films that is currently working for Disney.
Will his involvement help Disney continue to expand the Star Wars film franchise and make amazing Star Wars movies? Or are there certain caveats attached to his ongoing presence? Do fans give too much credit to Kasdan's involvement in the films?
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I think it's great that Kasdan is still working with Star Wars because he can keep the classic feel of it. Glad Disney recruited people like him.
And also I want his job
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Dovetail drawers are found in high quality furniture pieces like chests, bureaus, and other items that have drawers or exposed compartments. The dovetail joints have been created by fine craftsmen for many years to make the drawers stronger and long lasting. No one knows exactly when carpenters began to use the dovetail joint to create pieces of furniture, however, archeologists have found furniture in ancient Egyptian tombs with drawers that were crafted using this method and still intact! For a long period of time, the dovetails would be covered by a wood veneer when the carpenter completed the object. Today people recognize the dovetail as being a high-quality joining technique, and they are left uncovered. This enables buyers to examine the joining in order to judge whether the furniture is likely to last many generations.
To create a dovetail joint, the wood at the end of the board is cut to complement the board that it will be connected to. The pieces fit together making a solid joint that resembles a dove's tail with its triangular shape alternating between the two boards. The triangular section is known as the "tail", and the space between the sections is known as the "pin". The "tails" and "pins" that can be cut by high-powered equipment are cut just as precisely as the hand cut versions that came before them. The "tail" must fit perfectly into the "pin" or the piece will not be as strong as it can be. Picture how your hands interlock when you slide the fingers of one hand between the fingers of the other hand. After the pieces are put together, the craftsman uses glue to hold the sections in place. Together, the use of glue and interlocking pieces creates one of the strongest joints that can be crafted from wood.
A specialized dovetail joint called the "secret mitred" dovetail can be found in some of the highest quality cabinets and furniture pieces. This technique is also called a "full-blind" dovetail. This type of dovetail has the strength of the common dovetail joint with the advantage of the joint being completely hidden from view once the piece is finished. This type of joining is often referred to as a "French Dovetail" when it is used to create drawers. This joining type creates a drawer of incredible strength and exceptional beauty.
In the beginning, a carpenter would painstakingly cut the triangular dovetails and matching spaces into the edge of the wood using wood chisels and precision saws. The process of making the joints was time consuming, but once created, the joints held the piece of furniture firmly together so well that the pieces often lasted through many generations before weakening.
This handcarved process continued up until the 1890s when American furniture was in high demand, and the craftsmen could not keep up with the orders they were receiving. A steam powered carving machine and a steam powered router were invented revolutionizing the furniture industry. Though hand-cut pieces are primarily a thing of the past, the mechanization of dovetailing has done nothing to diminish the strength and beauty of the dovetail.
When you buy a piece of furniture that has drawers check to see if it has dovetail joints holding the sides of the drawers in place. These joints will mean the difference between a product that lasts a few years and a product that lasts many lifetimes. Check out some of our dovetailed furniture on Interior Clue!
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In honor of the London Games starting tonight – USA time – I will devote this post to the Olympics and dedicate it to the athletes from around the world who are gathering to compete and bring honor to their countries.
The Olympics have always thrilled me. I love everything about the opening and closing ceremonies, the games, the individual events, and I even watch things I normally would not, like basketball. The only events I don't watch are the boxing matches. Never could get my mind around two people punching each other and calling it sport.
A long time ago I wrote a column about how the Olympics brings the world together in a special way that the idealist in me wishes could happen all the time. Why are so many countries "friends" every four years, then enemies the rest of the time?
No matter your thoughts about that, or your take on boxing, I know that many other people share my excitement about the Summer Games starting and will be watching as much as possible. If you would like to follow the games online, here is a link to the official London Games site.
I like the fact that I can go online and follow the equestrian events. They do not get much prime time coverage as more people are interested in the gymnastics, swimming, track and field, and diving. But I am a real horse-lover, and even though I have never done show jumping or dressage, I love to watch it. I found this cute graphic on the London Games site.
Here is a picture of my horse. He doesn't do dressage, or jump, or anything else of much interest, but he is a good pasture ornament.
Will you be watching all the events? Which ones are your favorites?
Good pasture ornament – LOL!
I'm a gymnastics watcher mostly.
Does your horse know he's nothing but an ornament to you, LOL.


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