Say It With The Hershey's Kiss Wedding Favors
The Hershey's Kiss has become an all time favorite choice of many brides seeking the perfect favors for their wedding.
Bigger than a chocolate chip but smaller than a candy bar, this perfect little teardrop candy packs a big enough bite to put a smile on the faces of chocolate lovers from one end of the country to the other.
These sweet bite-sized kisses can be packaged in every creative way imaginable to make a perfect wedding favor for the guests to take home with them.
Since this sweet little piece of American culture hits the century mark this year why not double your reasons for celebrating?
Use some creativity with the packaging of these sweet morsels. Some very easy and stress-free ideas is to fill small organza bags, or favor boxes of which you can attach a personal note thanking your guests for sharing in your special day.
If you want to go beyond the norm of the favor boxes and bags you might consider mugs, large spoons, flute glasses, small glass bowls or jars, small baskets and so forth.
Once you've decided on the perfect package for these little darlings it's time to figure out how you want to "Say it with a Kiss," as Hershey's slogan has it.
The little plume that extends from the noggin of the Kiss can be customized with your own messages. You might mix and match some kisses that display your names or initials, wedding date, and others that say "Hugs & Kisses" or "Thank You."
Another way you can have your Kisses personalized is to have a small photo of yourselves placed right on the bottom foil of the Kiss. Some wedding favor companies will offer this service. This is always a big hit with the wedding guests.
A sweet simple idea is to fill spoons with Hershey's Kisses and wrap tulle around the head of the spoon to hold the Kisses. Tie a ribbon around the tulle to complete the look and attach a little note that might say, "The sweetest kiss never tasted will be forever wasted" or "Taste your first kiss for a moment of bliss and a lifetime of happiness"
Place some kisses in a mug or small basket with a note saying, "Hugs and Kisses from the newly wed Mr. and Mrs."
Everyone loves something sweet especially if it's Hershey's chocolate kisses!
Many couples love the idea of using Hershey's Kisses for wedding favors because of the simplicity and versatility in which they can be distributed to the guests.
Remember to give yourself plenty of time when making your own favors so you will not feel rushed. Relax and have fun coming up with the perfect way to say it with these kisses and make your day a memorable event.
Say It With The Hershey's Kiss Wedding Favors
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
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Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
Barack Obama 2013 Inauguration Speech
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
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Hydro Power - How it Works and What We Need
Part of the beauty of hydropower lies in its simplicity. Moving water (kinetic energy) spins a turbine or wheel (mechanical energy), which drives a generator (electrical energy). Archaeologists have found evidence of water storage dams in Jordan, Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East that date back 5,000 years to 3000 BC. One of the earliest designers to document his plans was Vitruvius (c.70 BC-c.25 BC), a Roman architect and engineer, who described an undershot waterwheel that could generate power. The Romans built many waterwheels, with the most ambitious being the one is Barbegal, France, in the 4th Century AD. Connected to a large aqueduct system that fed water to the city of Arles, Barbegal was a massive flour mill with not one but sixteen waterwheels in two parallel rows. The water turned the first pair of wheels, then flowed downhill to the second pair, then downhill again and so on until it had flowed through and turned all eight sets, after which it ran into a runoff pool at the bottom of the hill.
Today hydropower generates about 15 percent of the world's electricity (about 6 percent of the total energy supply). Rather than using waterwheels on a moving river or through a duct, most hydroelectric plants extract energy from the potential energy that comes from the vertical distance the water drops (the "head"). The water is channeled through a sluice or gate, or through enclosed pipes that funnel the water down to the turbines; these channels are called penstocks.
Hydroelectric Plants The typical hydroelectric plant needs four things to generate power:
Dam - The dam holds back a river, raising the level, and controls the flow through the penstock(s). Dams create reservoirs that can be used for recreation, but it is the height difference between the stored water above and the turbines below that represents the potential energy.
Turbines - The water behind the dam is channeled through the penstocks past the blades of turbines, which spin. This converts the kinetic energy to mechanical energy. 2. Turbine. The force of falling water pushing against the turbine's blades causes the turbine to spin. A water turbine is much like a windmill, except the energy is provided by falling water instead of wind. The turbine converts the kinetic energy of falling water into mechanical energy.
Generator - The shafts of the turbines turn a generator, thus converting the mechanical energy to electrical energy.
Transmission lines - The electricity is transmitted to substations and transported to consumers through the power lines.
Microhydros Hydroelectrical plants are big and powerful, but did you know that you can have your very own microhydro plant? All you need is a stream or a river with enough water running through it at the right pressure, and you can set up a system that feeds into turbines and generators, and into your home or business. Just as you can with your solar and/or wind systems, you can design a system that is grid-connected with battery backup, grid-connected, or standalone.
Microhydros come in two basic flavors: low-head and high-head. Head, you'll recall, is the height differential between the water and the turbine. That corresponds to pressure. Think of a high-head system as one running off a waterfall, and a low-head system as one running off a fast-moving stream, although that isn't always the case.
In a quick search online for microhydro resources, the names "Don Harris" and "HarrisHydro Systems" turn up over and over, with good reason: Harris is a well known pioneer in microhydro. He designs and manufactures turbine and generator systems in a shop that he powers with a microhydro system of his own. His designed feature a Pelton wheel, a highly efficient tangential-flow impulse turbine with spoon-shaped blades that capture a jet of water.
Impulse turbines transfer energy according to Newton's second law of motion, which is roughly paraphrased as "the momentum of an object, or force, is equal to the object's mass multiplied by its acceleration. It works like so: first, the water's potential energy (the head) is converted to kinetic energy by being funneled through a nozzle to form a jet. The jet of water moves at a given velocity, but when it strikes the spoons/buckets of the turbine, it loses velocity or acceleration, so the momentum changes. That change in momentum translates to an exertion of force that turns the shaft. The water pressure itself doe not change. Impulse turbines are the most commonly used turbines in domestic systems, and those with high heads.
Reaction turbines transfer energy according to Newton's third law of motion, which is roughly paraphrased as "for every action force there is an equal, but opposite, reaction force." The water moves through the turbine, losing pressure, which forces it to give up its energy. The turbines have to be either encased (to contain the water pressure or suction) or be completely submerged by the flowing water. Water wheels are reaction turbines. Most turbines are reaction-type turbines. They are used for systems with low and medium heads.
A typical microhydro system, then, needs a stream, an intake system, a penstock, and a powerhouse. Although the actual components are much more high-tech and specialized, you can envision a high-head microhydro system as this as a box or funnel at the top of a waterfall, a garden hose or a trough running downhill from the intake, the water from the hose/trough shooting onto a turbine (probably Pelton-style), and the turbine turning a generator. A low-head microhydro system is equally simple. They have a screened intake (or a mini-dam), and this feeds into a settling basin or forebay for any silt to precipitate out; this empties into a short canal that feeds into a ten-foot draft tube. The water flowing through turns a turbine (probably Turgo-style). Note that in neither case do you block or divert the stream (for which you would need a permit anyway, even if the water is on your property, and which may turn out to be prohibited in your area).
Hydropower Advantages
1. As long as the water is there in sufficient quantity, hydro stations can generate power 24/7.
2. Large hydro stations can shift into maximum capacity to meet peak demands simply by controlling the amount of water released.
3. Microhydro systems produce no pollutants.
4. Hydropower is a renewable resource.
5. Most countries have access to waterways that can be used for hydro power.
6. Large dams can be useful for flood control.
7. Microhydro systems can provide power without affecting water quality, without affecting the habitat, and without altering the course of the river or stream. It leaves a very tiny footprint.
8. Large and mega-dams can create recreational lakes in areas where before there were none.
Hydropower Disadvantages
1. Large hydro stations that create reservoirs actually dump huge amounts of methane and CO2 into the atmosphere. When the area behind the dam is flooded, the trees and other plant material that get covered up rot and sift to the bottom where they continue to decompose without oxygen. This creates methane, which is released when the water flows through the turbines.
2. The reservoirs created by large dams and mega-dams destroy local habitats. When the area is flooded, plant life is submerged, and any animal and human life in the area must relocate or perish.
3. Large hydroelectric dams are expensive to build.
4. Large hydroelectric dams can only be used in a limited number of places those with large water supplies.
5. Damming rivers and streams changes the natural waterways, diverting water from areas that depend on it.
6. Damming rivers changes the quality, quantity and even the temperature of the water that flows downstream. This can have disastrous effects on agriculture as well as potability.
7. Changing the path of a river can cause serious disputes between neighbors, from individuals to nations.
8. Water moving over a dam can pick up nitrogen, causing fish kills downstream.
9. Many small and medium dams built in the past to power industries such as mills and factories are no longer used, and are growing unstable. Allowing them to self-destruct rather than removing them in a controlled manner can lead to serious flooding, including loss of life and property.
10. Dams alter the spawning patterns of the fish, and often result in absenting entire species from an area.
11. When large amounts of water are released from a large dam or mega-dam the shores of man-made reservoirs naturally recede, leaving behind mud flats and reducing the surface area leaving less space for fish. Sometimes Mother Nature plays a role, as with Lake Powell, created by the Glen Canyon Dam. With reduced flow of the Colorado River, evaporation, and seepage back into the canyon banks, Lake Powell loses an average of 860,000 acre feet of water each year about as much water as Los Angeles consumes annually. While it is perhaps one of the most beautiful lakes in the U.S. with its red-rock canyon sides, 150 feet below its 266 surface miles lie centuries of archaeological riches as well as the canyon itself.
Hydro Power - How it Works and What We Need
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
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Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
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Comparing Fein Tools Against Their Rival Multimaster Tools
Fein tools are acknowledged to be the best multi-purpose power tools in the market. Their multimaster tool used a special technology which enabled precise custom cutting and finishing of wood, drywall, as well as any other material you are likely to see in a house. Until their patents on this technology ran out a few years ago, they held a stranglehold on this segment of the home renovation tools market.
However, all good things end, and now there are rival manufacturers making and selling their own multimaster tools using this same technology. For the time being, the Fein Multimaster is still considered the best. However, its astronomical price tag of 0 for the basic tool or 0 for the basic tool plus a standard collection of blades and accessories puts it out of reach of many professionals and most DIY home remodelers. Fortunately for those who must have the best, it is possible to buy factory-reconditioned Fein tools for a 30% discount or secondhand on eBay and Amazon for even lower prices.
Even with a 30% discount, Fein power tools still remain out of the budget for many people. One strong contender trying to replace Fein tools as the king of the hill is the Bosch Multi-X. It costs about half as much as a Fein Multimaster, and cuts just as well. The only problem is that it is a cordless tool and has a short battery life. On the other hand, it IS cordless and can be used in places where Fein tools cannot reach.
Besides Bosch, there are only two other brands of multimaster tools which are reliable and work well in the US market - the Rockwell Sonicrafter and the Dremel Multi-Max. Both of them sell for a quarter of a Fein Multimaster's price and work well enough given their price. Neither one is as solidly built as the original and their quality control is nowhere nearly as good, but their low price makes them useful and affordable choices for most amateur home remodelers and craftsmen.
Two big problems with all four of these power tools - Fein Multimaster, Bosch Multi-X, Rockwell Sonicrafter and Dremel Multi-Max- is the short life of their blades and the high cost of replacing them. If you are a casual user rather than a professional, the replacement blades and accessories all practically cost the same, within 10% to 40% of each other depending on the blade and which retailer is currently offering a special discount.
Right now, Fein tools remains king of the hill for the premium market. However, once Bosch cleans up the mess with its batteries, many home renovation contractors will probably start using it for its increased portability and lower cost. Until they come up with better offerings, Dremel and Rockwell are only able to compete at the low-end of the market.
Comparing Fein Tools Against Their Rival Multimaster Tools
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
Video Clips. Duration : 19.97 Mins.
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
Barack Obama 2013 Inauguration Speech
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Humorous Marriage Tips - You Haven't Heard These Before... And They Work
oNever discuss sensitive subjects when you're hungry. On an empty stomach, we tend to be more irritable and cranky, compromising our ability to focus. If you need to discuss something serious with your mate, check his/her appetite first.
oEat marshmallows to improve communication. If you have a mouthful of marshmallows, the one thing you absolute cannot do is "talk." That's precisely the point. Communication is more about listening than talking.
oFamily gatherings can be danger zones. Make a list of what not to talk about at these events. Examples: Never use the word "older," as in "Aunt Mary is 'older' than Aunt Susan" or "For an 'older' man, Uncle Harold has a lot of hair." Also, never compare today with the "good ol' days."
oWhen there's a fork in the road... If there are two ways to interpret something your spouse said to you and one makes you unhappy or angry, pick the other one.
oHonor the "5-Second Delay." Wives, when you ask your husband a question such as "Where would you like to go to dinner?" or "What time do your football games come on TV?" or any other question for that matter, there's often dead silence after you pose the question. You wonder: Did he hear me? Should I repeat the question? Solution: After asking a question, countdown backwards and slowly to yourself 5-4-3-2-1. Then, and only then, should you repeat the question. Men just take a little longer to compute things.
oGive your husband a break! Women tend to be more sensitive than men. They over-analyze. Did he mean this or that, or something entirely different? Female inclination is to zoom in on the explanation that's most negative. Perception isn't always reality. Lighten up!
oLet him know that he's your hero. Generally speaking, household tasks that women consider ordinary to do, such as loading and unloading the dishwasher, folding laundry, wiping down countertops, vacuuming, etc., are quite extraordinary for men. On a point scale of 1 to 100, for a wife they are worth about 2 points. To a husband, each is worth about 99.9 points! Wives, find it in yourself to say "thank you," give him a big hug, tell him how much you appreciate what he did. You will get more in return than you ever imagined.
oMulti-task to "be together." Example: You're both exhausted and run down, and you have difficulty finding time to devote solely to each other. Take a nap together. Start snoozing while holding hands.
oTake a lesson from dogs. What happens when a dog spots you from about 10 feet away? He wags his tail. As you get closer his cute, little rear starts wiggling and his ears pop up. By the time you're right up to the dog, he's dancing and bursting with excitement. Dogs teach us to be lovable. We should all take a lesson from them. Be lovable to your spouse. Welcome your spouse with a big greeting upon arriving home after a hard day's work. Give him or her an unexpected hug, plant a surprise peck on the cheek, touch each other, hold hands, exchange eye winks. However you choose to do it: Hug and squeeze, aim to please.
oMimic your kids. Give yourselves a "time-out" when the "relationship" is misbehaving. Time-outs work equally well for adults. When the two of you are in the heat of a disagreement, one person needs to stay "stop." Set an alarm clock for 30 minutes. Go your separate ways. Cool off. Think about the problem. Re-focus. Regain your composure. When the alarm rings, sit down together and have a civil discussion, get to the root of the matter, find a resolution and move on.
oGive your spouse the last piece of pie. Think of a favorite dessert that everyone in your home loves. For example: Double-chocolate brownies. In most family households, family members hurry to get the last brownie left in the pan before anyone else can. Long-married couples report handling such "competition" another way. One spouse will say to the other "Honey, there's one brownie left. Would you like to split it with me?" or "Would you like the last brownie?" This is referred to as being "selfless" instead of "selfish." The wonderful thing about being selfless instead of selfish, is it's automatically reciprocated.
oForget the Norman Rockwell ideal. Scale down your expectations, and focus on what's right rather than what's wrong.
oAn occasional cocktail from time to time helps!
Humorous Marriage Tips - You Haven't Heard These Before... And They Work
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
Video Clips. Duration : 19.97 Mins.
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
Barack Obama 2013 Inauguration Speech
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
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Alternative Energy - Why do we Need it?
Why Do We Need Alternatives?
To answer that question, we need to start by discussing fossil fuels-what they are, where they come from, how they are used and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Within this context, the pressing need for alternatives becomes quite clear.
What are fossil fuels?
Most fossil fuels are formed from the remains of long-dead creatures and plants. Buried over the course of hundreds of millions of years, these carbon-based deposits have been converted by heat and pressure over time into such combustible substances as crude oil, coal, natural gas, oil shales and tar sands. A smaller portion of fossil fuels is the handful of other naturally occurring substances that contain carbon but do not come from organic sources.
To make more fossil fuels would require both the creation of new topsoil filled with hydrocarbons, and time-lots of time. Given estimates of current fossil fuel reserves worldwide, it's not possible we can wait out the problem, and continue our dependence on fossil fuels until new reserves are built. At current consumption rates, the reserves of oil and coal and other fossil fuels won't last hundreds of years, let alone hundreds of millions of years.
As for creating more, experts have pointed out that it can take close to five centuries to replace a single inch of topsoil as plants decay and rocks weather. Yet in the United States, at least, much of the topsoil has been disturbed by farming, leading still more experts to the disturbing conclusion that in areas once covered by prairie, the past hundred years of agriculture have caused America's "bread basket' to lose half of its topsoil as it erodes thirty times faster than it can form.
The Advantages of Fossil Fuels in Energy Production
There are many reasons why the world became dependent on fossil fuels, and continues to rely on them. For example, it has so far been relatively cost-effective in the short run to burn fossil fuels to generate electricity at strategic centralized parts of the grid and to deliver the electricity in bulk to nearby substations; these in turn deliver electricity directly to consumers. These big power plants burn gas or, less efficiently, coal. Since so much electricity can be lost over long-distance transmission, when power needs to be concentrated more in one region than another, the fuels are generally transported instead to distant power plants and burned there. Liquid fuels are particularly easy to transport.
Thus far, fossil fuels have been abundant and easily procured. Petroleum reserves worldwide are estimated at somewhere between 1 and 3.5 trillion barrels. Proven coal reserves at the end of 2005, as estimated by British, were 909,064 million tons worldwide. Coal, furthermore, is relatively cheap.
Perhaps the simplest reason why the world continues to depend on fossil fuels is that to do anything else requires change: physical, economical, and-perhaps the most difficult-psychological. The basic technology for extracting and burning fossil fuels is already in place, not only in the large power plants but at the consumer level, too. Retrofitting factories would be cost-prohibitive, but perhaps even more daunting would be replacing heating systems in every home, factory and building. Ultimately, however, the true resistance may be our nature. We humans tend to resist change in general, and in particular those changes that require us to give up longstanding traditions, alter our ways of thinking and living, and learn new information and practices after generations of being assured that everything was "fine" with the old ways.
Why Do We Need Alternatives?
If there are so many reasons to use fossil fuels, why even consider alternatives? Anyone who has paid the least bit of attention to the issue over the past few decades could probably answer that question. If nothing else, most people could come up with the first and most obvious reason: fossil fuels are not, for all practical purposes, renewable. At current rates, the world uses fossil fuels 100,000 times faster than they can form. The demand for them will far outstrip their availability in a matter of centuries-or less.
And although technology has made extracting fossil fuels easier and more cost effective in some cases than ever before, such is not always the case. As we deplete the more easily accessible oil reserves, new ones must be found and tapped into. This means locating oil rigs much farther offshore or in less accessible regions; burrowing deeper and deeper into the earth to reach coal seams or scraping off ever more layers of precious topsoil; and entering into uncertain agreements with countries and cartels with whom it may not be in our best political interests to forge such commitments.
Finally, there are human and environmental costs involved in the reliance on fossil fuels. Drilling for oil, tunneling into coalmines, transporting volatile liquids and explosive gases-all these can and have led to tragic accidents resulting in the destruction of acres of ocean, shoreline and land, killing humans as well as wildlife and plant life. Even when properly extracted and handled, fossil fuels take a toll on the atmosphere, as the combustion processes release many pollutants, including sulfur dioxide-a major component in acid rain. When another common emission, carbon dioxide, is released into the atmosphere, it contributes to the "greenhouse effect," in which the atmosphere captures and reflects back the energy radiating from the earth's surface rather than allowing it to escape back into space. Scientists agree that this has led to global warming, an incremental rise in average temperatures beyond those that could be predicted from patterns of the past. This affects everything from weather patterns to the stability of the polar ice caps.
Conclusion
Clearly, something must change. As with many complex problems, however, the solution to supplying the world's ever-growing hunger for more energy will not be as simple as abandoning all the old methods and beliefs and adopting new ones overnight. Partly this is a matter of practicality-the weaning process would take considerable investments of money, education and, most of all, time. The main reason, however, is that there is no one perfect alternative energy source. Alternative will not mean substitute.
What needs to change?
It seems simplistic to say that what really needs to change is our attitude, but in fact the basis of a sound energy plan does come down to the inescapable fact that we must change our way of thinking about the issue. In the old paradigm, we sought ways to provide massive amounts of power and distribute it to the end users, knowing that while much would be lost in the transmission, the advantages would be great as well: power plants could be located away from residential areas, fuels could be delivered to central locations, and for consumers, the obvious bonus was convenience. For the most part our only personal connection with the process would be calling the providers of heating fuel and electricity, and pulling up to the pumps at the gas station. And the only time we would think about the problem would be when prices rose noticeably, or the power went out.
There are people who have tried to convince us that there is no problem, and that those tree-hugging Chicken Littles who talk about renewable and alternative energy want us all to go back to nature. More often than not these skeptics' motivations for perpetuating this myth falls into one of two categories: one, they fear what they don't understand and are resistant to being told what to do, or two, they have some political or financial stake in enabling our fossil-fuel addiction. (And sometimes both.)
The reality is that except for altering our ways of thinking, there will not be one major change but a great many smaller ones. A comprehensive and successful energy plan will necessarily include these things:
Supplementing the energy produced at existing power plants with alternative energy means, and converting some of those plants to operate on different "feedstock" (fuels) Shifting away from complete reliance on a few concentrated energy production facilities to adding many new and alternative sources, some feeding into the existing "grid" and some of supplying local or even individual needs Providing practical, economical and convenient ways for consumers-residences, commercial users, everyone-to adapt and adopt new technologies to provide for some or all of their own energy needs Learning ways in which we can use less energy now ("reduce, reuse, recycle"), using advances in technology as well as simple changes in human behavior to reduce consumption without requiring people to make major compromises or sacrifices
Alternative Energy - Why do we Need it?
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
Video Clips. Duration : 19.97 Mins.
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
Barack Obama 2013 Inauguration Speech
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
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Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
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Say It With The Hershey's Kiss Wedding Favors
The Hershey's Kiss has become an all time favorite choice of many brides seeking the perfect favors for their wedding.
Bigger than a chocolate chip but smaller than a candy bar, this perfect little teardrop candy packs a big enough bite to put a smile on the faces of chocolate lovers from one end of the country to the other.
These sweet bite-sized kisses can be packaged in every creative way imaginable to make a perfect wedding favor for the guests to take home with them.
Since this sweet little piece of American culture hits the century mark this year why not double your reasons for celebrating?
Use some creativity with the packaging of these sweet morsels. Some very easy and stress-free ideas is to fill small organza bags, or favor boxes of which you can attach a personal note thanking your guests for sharing in your special day.
If you want to go beyond the norm of the favor boxes and bags you might consider mugs, large spoons, flute glasses, small glass bowls or jars, small baskets and so forth.
Once you've decided on the perfect package for these little darlings it's time to figure out how you want to "Say it with a Kiss," as Hershey's slogan has it.
The little plume that extends from the noggin of the Kiss can be customized with your own messages. You might mix and match some kisses that display your names or initials, wedding date, and others that say "Hugs & Kisses" or "Thank You."
Another way you can have your Kisses personalized is to have a small photo of yourselves placed right on the bottom foil of the Kiss. Some wedding favor companies will offer this service. This is always a big hit with the wedding guests.
A sweet simple idea is to fill spoons with Hershey's Kisses and wrap tulle around the head of the spoon to hold the Kisses. Tie a ribbon around the tulle to complete the look and attach a little note that might say, "The sweetest kiss never tasted will be forever wasted" or "Taste your first kiss for a moment of bliss and a lifetime of happiness"
Place some kisses in a mug or small basket with a note saying, "Hugs and Kisses from the newly wed Mr. and Mrs."
Everyone loves something sweet especially if it's Hershey's chocolate kisses!
Many couples love the idea of using Hershey's Kisses for wedding favors because of the simplicity and versatility in which they can be distributed to the guests.
Remember to give yourself plenty of time when making your own favors so you will not feel rushed. Relax and have fun coming up with the perfect way to say it with these kisses and make your day a memorable event.
Say It With The Hershey's Kiss Wedding Favors
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
Tube. Duration : 19.97 Mins.
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
Barack Obama 2013 Inauguration Speech
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
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Hydro Power - How it Works and What We Need
Part of the beauty of hydropower lies in its simplicity. Moving water (kinetic energy) spins a turbine or wheel (mechanical energy), which drives a generator (electrical energy). Archaeologists have found evidence of water storage dams in Jordan, Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East that date back 5,000 years to 3000 BC. One of the earliest designers to document his plans was Vitruvius (c.70 BC-c.25 BC), a Roman architect and engineer, who described an undershot waterwheel that could generate power. The Romans built many waterwheels, with the most ambitious being the one is Barbegal, France, in the 4th Century AD. Connected to a large aqueduct system that fed water to the city of Arles, Barbegal was a massive flour mill with not one but sixteen waterwheels in two parallel rows. The water turned the first pair of wheels, then flowed downhill to the second pair, then downhill again and so on until it had flowed through and turned all eight sets, after which it ran into a runoff pool at the bottom of the hill.
Today hydropower generates about 15 percent of the world's electricity (about 6 percent of the total energy supply). Rather than using waterwheels on a moving river or through a duct, most hydroelectric plants extract energy from the potential energy that comes from the vertical distance the water drops (the "head"). The water is channeled through a sluice or gate, or through enclosed pipes that funnel the water down to the turbines; these channels are called penstocks.
Hydroelectric Plants The typical hydroelectric plant needs four things to generate power:
Dam - The dam holds back a river, raising the level, and controls the flow through the penstock(s). Dams create reservoirs that can be used for recreation, but it is the height difference between the stored water above and the turbines below that represents the potential energy.
Turbines - The water behind the dam is channeled through the penstocks past the blades of turbines, which spin. This converts the kinetic energy to mechanical energy. 2. Turbine. The force of falling water pushing against the turbine's blades causes the turbine to spin. A water turbine is much like a windmill, except the energy is provided by falling water instead of wind. The turbine converts the kinetic energy of falling water into mechanical energy.
Generator - The shafts of the turbines turn a generator, thus converting the mechanical energy to electrical energy.
Transmission lines - The electricity is transmitted to substations and transported to consumers through the power lines.
Microhydros Hydroelectrical plants are big and powerful, but did you know that you can have your very own microhydro plant? All you need is a stream or a river with enough water running through it at the right pressure, and you can set up a system that feeds into turbines and generators, and into your home or business. Just as you can with your solar and/or wind systems, you can design a system that is grid-connected with battery backup, grid-connected, or standalone.
Microhydros come in two basic flavors: low-head and high-head. Head, you'll recall, is the height differential between the water and the turbine. That corresponds to pressure. Think of a high-head system as one running off a waterfall, and a low-head system as one running off a fast-moving stream, although that isn't always the case.
In a quick search online for microhydro resources, the names "Don Harris" and "HarrisHydro Systems" turn up over and over, with good reason: Harris is a well known pioneer in microhydro. He designs and manufactures turbine and generator systems in a shop that he powers with a microhydro system of his own. His designed feature a Pelton wheel, a highly efficient tangential-flow impulse turbine with spoon-shaped blades that capture a jet of water.
Impulse turbines transfer energy according to Newton's second law of motion, which is roughly paraphrased as "the momentum of an object, or force, is equal to the object's mass multiplied by its acceleration. It works like so: first, the water's potential energy (the head) is converted to kinetic energy by being funneled through a nozzle to form a jet. The jet of water moves at a given velocity, but when it strikes the spoons/buckets of the turbine, it loses velocity or acceleration, so the momentum changes. That change in momentum translates to an exertion of force that turns the shaft. The water pressure itself doe not change. Impulse turbines are the most commonly used turbines in domestic systems, and those with high heads.
Reaction turbines transfer energy according to Newton's third law of motion, which is roughly paraphrased as "for every action force there is an equal, but opposite, reaction force." The water moves through the turbine, losing pressure, which forces it to give up its energy. The turbines have to be either encased (to contain the water pressure or suction) or be completely submerged by the flowing water. Water wheels are reaction turbines. Most turbines are reaction-type turbines. They are used for systems with low and medium heads.
A typical microhydro system, then, needs a stream, an intake system, a penstock, and a powerhouse. Although the actual components are much more high-tech and specialized, you can envision a high-head microhydro system as this as a box or funnel at the top of a waterfall, a garden hose or a trough running downhill from the intake, the water from the hose/trough shooting onto a turbine (probably Pelton-style), and the turbine turning a generator. A low-head microhydro system is equally simple. They have a screened intake (or a mini-dam), and this feeds into a settling basin or forebay for any silt to precipitate out; this empties into a short canal that feeds into a ten-foot draft tube. The water flowing through turns a turbine (probably Turgo-style). Note that in neither case do you block or divert the stream (for which you would need a permit anyway, even if the water is on your property, and which may turn out to be prohibited in your area).
Hydropower Advantages
1. As long as the water is there in sufficient quantity, hydro stations can generate power 24/7.
2. Large hydro stations can shift into maximum capacity to meet peak demands simply by controlling the amount of water released.
3. Microhydro systems produce no pollutants.
4. Hydropower is a renewable resource.
5. Most countries have access to waterways that can be used for hydro power.
6. Large dams can be useful for flood control.
7. Microhydro systems can provide power without affecting water quality, without affecting the habitat, and without altering the course of the river or stream. It leaves a very tiny footprint.
8. Large and mega-dams can create recreational lakes in areas where before there were none.
Hydropower Disadvantages
1. Large hydro stations that create reservoirs actually dump huge amounts of methane and CO2 into the atmosphere. When the area behind the dam is flooded, the trees and other plant material that get covered up rot and sift to the bottom where they continue to decompose without oxygen. This creates methane, which is released when the water flows through the turbines.
2. The reservoirs created by large dams and mega-dams destroy local habitats. When the area is flooded, plant life is submerged, and any animal and human life in the area must relocate or perish.
3. Large hydroelectric dams are expensive to build.
4. Large hydroelectric dams can only be used in a limited number of places those with large water supplies.
5. Damming rivers and streams changes the natural waterways, diverting water from areas that depend on it.
6. Damming rivers changes the quality, quantity and even the temperature of the water that flows downstream. This can have disastrous effects on agriculture as well as potability.
7. Changing the path of a river can cause serious disputes between neighbors, from individuals to nations.
8. Water moving over a dam can pick up nitrogen, causing fish kills downstream.
9. Many small and medium dams built in the past to power industries such as mills and factories are no longer used, and are growing unstable. Allowing them to self-destruct rather than removing them in a controlled manner can lead to serious flooding, including loss of life and property.
10. Dams alter the spawning patterns of the fish, and often result in absenting entire species from an area.
11. When large amounts of water are released from a large dam or mega-dam the shores of man-made reservoirs naturally recede, leaving behind mud flats and reducing the surface area leaving less space for fish. Sometimes Mother Nature plays a role, as with Lake Powell, created by the Glen Canyon Dam. With reduced flow of the Colorado River, evaporation, and seepage back into the canyon banks, Lake Powell loses an average of 860,000 acre feet of water each year about as much water as Los Angeles consumes annually. While it is perhaps one of the most beautiful lakes in the U.S. with its red-rock canyon sides, 150 feet below its 266 surface miles lie centuries of archaeological riches as well as the canyon itself.
Hydro Power - How it Works and What We Need
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
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Alternative Energy - Why do we Need it?
Why Do We Need Alternatives?
To answer that question, we need to start by discussing fossil fuels-what they are, where they come from, how they are used and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Within this context, the pressing need for alternatives becomes quite clear.
What are fossil fuels?
Most fossil fuels are formed from the remains of long-dead creatures and plants. Buried over the course of hundreds of millions of years, these carbon-based deposits have been converted by heat and pressure over time into such combustible substances as crude oil, coal, natural gas, oil shales and tar sands. A smaller portion of fossil fuels is the handful of other naturally occurring substances that contain carbon but do not come from organic sources.
To make more fossil fuels would require both the creation of new topsoil filled with hydrocarbons, and time-lots of time. Given estimates of current fossil fuel reserves worldwide, it's not possible we can wait out the problem, and continue our dependence on fossil fuels until new reserves are built. At current consumption rates, the reserves of oil and coal and other fossil fuels won't last hundreds of years, let alone hundreds of millions of years.
As for creating more, experts have pointed out that it can take close to five centuries to replace a single inch of topsoil as plants decay and rocks weather. Yet in the United States, at least, much of the topsoil has been disturbed by farming, leading still more experts to the disturbing conclusion that in areas once covered by prairie, the past hundred years of agriculture have caused America's "bread basket' to lose half of its topsoil as it erodes thirty times faster than it can form.
The Advantages of Fossil Fuels in Energy Production
There are many reasons why the world became dependent on fossil fuels, and continues to rely on them. For example, it has so far been relatively cost-effective in the short run to burn fossil fuels to generate electricity at strategic centralized parts of the grid and to deliver the electricity in bulk to nearby substations; these in turn deliver electricity directly to consumers. These big power plants burn gas or, less efficiently, coal. Since so much electricity can be lost over long-distance transmission, when power needs to be concentrated more in one region than another, the fuels are generally transported instead to distant power plants and burned there. Liquid fuels are particularly easy to transport.
Thus far, fossil fuels have been abundant and easily procured. Petroleum reserves worldwide are estimated at somewhere between 1 and 3.5 trillion barrels. Proven coal reserves at the end of 2005, as estimated by British, were 909,064 million tons worldwide. Coal, furthermore, is relatively cheap.
Perhaps the simplest reason why the world continues to depend on fossil fuels is that to do anything else requires change: physical, economical, and-perhaps the most difficult-psychological. The basic technology for extracting and burning fossil fuels is already in place, not only in the large power plants but at the consumer level, too. Retrofitting factories would be cost-prohibitive, but perhaps even more daunting would be replacing heating systems in every home, factory and building. Ultimately, however, the true resistance may be our nature. We humans tend to resist change in general, and in particular those changes that require us to give up longstanding traditions, alter our ways of thinking and living, and learn new information and practices after generations of being assured that everything was "fine" with the old ways.
Why Do We Need Alternatives?
If there are so many reasons to use fossil fuels, why even consider alternatives? Anyone who has paid the least bit of attention to the issue over the past few decades could probably answer that question. If nothing else, most people could come up with the first and most obvious reason: fossil fuels are not, for all practical purposes, renewable. At current rates, the world uses fossil fuels 100,000 times faster than they can form. The demand for them will far outstrip their availability in a matter of centuries-or less.
And although technology has made extracting fossil fuels easier and more cost effective in some cases than ever before, such is not always the case. As we deplete the more easily accessible oil reserves, new ones must be found and tapped into. This means locating oil rigs much farther offshore or in less accessible regions; burrowing deeper and deeper into the earth to reach coal seams or scraping off ever more layers of precious topsoil; and entering into uncertain agreements with countries and cartels with whom it may not be in our best political interests to forge such commitments.
Finally, there are human and environmental costs involved in the reliance on fossil fuels. Drilling for oil, tunneling into coalmines, transporting volatile liquids and explosive gases-all these can and have led to tragic accidents resulting in the destruction of acres of ocean, shoreline and land, killing humans as well as wildlife and plant life. Even when properly extracted and handled, fossil fuels take a toll on the atmosphere, as the combustion processes release many pollutants, including sulfur dioxide-a major component in acid rain. When another common emission, carbon dioxide, is released into the atmosphere, it contributes to the "greenhouse effect," in which the atmosphere captures and reflects back the energy radiating from the earth's surface rather than allowing it to escape back into space. Scientists agree that this has led to global warming, an incremental rise in average temperatures beyond those that could be predicted from patterns of the past. This affects everything from weather patterns to the stability of the polar ice caps.
Conclusion
Clearly, something must change. As with many complex problems, however, the solution to supplying the world's ever-growing hunger for more energy will not be as simple as abandoning all the old methods and beliefs and adopting new ones overnight. Partly this is a matter of practicality-the weaning process would take considerable investments of money, education and, most of all, time. The main reason, however, is that there is no one perfect alternative energy source. Alternative will not mean substitute.
What needs to change?
It seems simplistic to say that what really needs to change is our attitude, but in fact the basis of a sound energy plan does come down to the inescapable fact that we must change our way of thinking about the issue. In the old paradigm, we sought ways to provide massive amounts of power and distribute it to the end users, knowing that while much would be lost in the transmission, the advantages would be great as well: power plants could be located away from residential areas, fuels could be delivered to central locations, and for consumers, the obvious bonus was convenience. For the most part our only personal connection with the process would be calling the providers of heating fuel and electricity, and pulling up to the pumps at the gas station. And the only time we would think about the problem would be when prices rose noticeably, or the power went out.
There are people who have tried to convince us that there is no problem, and that those tree-hugging Chicken Littles who talk about renewable and alternative energy want us all to go back to nature. More often than not these skeptics' motivations for perpetuating this myth falls into one of two categories: one, they fear what they don't understand and are resistant to being told what to do, or two, they have some political or financial stake in enabling our fossil-fuel addiction. (And sometimes both.)
The reality is that except for altering our ways of thinking, there will not be one major change but a great many smaller ones. A comprehensive and successful energy plan will necessarily include these things:
Supplementing the energy produced at existing power plants with alternative energy means, and converting some of those plants to operate on different "feedstock" (fuels) Shifting away from complete reliance on a few concentrated energy production facilities to adding many new and alternative sources, some feeding into the existing "grid" and some of supplying local or even individual needs Providing practical, economical and convenient ways for consumers-residences, commercial users, everyone-to adapt and adopt new technologies to provide for some or all of their own energy needs Learning ways in which we can use less energy now ("reduce, reuse, recycle"), using advances in technology as well as simple changes in human behavior to reduce consumption without requiring people to make major compromises or sacrifices
Alternative Energy - Why do we Need it?
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
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How to Shoot Video of Your Kids Sports Team So That Anyone Else Will Watch it!
Break out that video camera, there is a game this weekend!
1. You bought a video camera
2. You want to shoot sports of your kid
3. Here is how to do it right!
What a wonderful age of technology we live in. You can buy the greatest gadgets now days to record video and music and play them in all sorts of ways on other great technology gadgets from computers, DVD's, MP3 players, VCR's, and many more. It is all great stuff. But they all come with thick owners manuals that do not always get you going the right direction. You may eventually learn to use your great new camera for instance, but that does not mean you will necessarily take pictures that are worth looking at down the road. Rolling tape in your camera is one thing and creating video that is high quality and interesting is another thing. The goal of this product is to bring you up to speed with using your video camera (whatever format, and whatever brand) to get the best results for recording those precious moments of your kid's athletic achievements.
We as parents spend plenty of hours out on the field, court, pool, or track watching our kids take part in and compete in youth sports. If you have a video camera you are going to want to record some of these events for posterity and perhaps education. Following the simple steps in this guide will help you to capture them in the best possible fashion so that it is watch able but also usable down the road.
My video expertise stems from two decades as a network television cameraman and as a parent with several kids actively involved in youth sports. In my years of shooting video professionally I have been around the world and seen just about every type of news event. I also spent 15 years covering pro sports events for my employer. These were the best type of assignments as far as I was concerned. In my entire career the things I have enjoyed most is being able to go to places where the average person cannot. In sports that usually means being on the field, next to the court, in the press box, or in the pit. I have shot football games of all levels up to and including NFC and AFC championship games. Living in the Bay Area has allowed me to cover many baseball pennant races and several World Series. I was right behind home plate the night the earth shook in the 1989 World Series. Talk about a shock. I had to give up covering a World Series between the two Bay Area teams to go and cover a huge news event. Baseball seemed small for a while after the magnitude of the earthquake. The point in this is that I love sports, have been around sports my whole life and I know how to shoot video of sports. With that in mind I will do my best to give you advice on how to do the same.
Gear
Now whether you have the latest DV camera in your hands or an old VHS format camera there are basic things you will need to keep in mind if you are going to shoot sports. As we say in the video business your camera is only as good as the glass that you hang in front of it. The better the lens the better the results will be no matter what kind of recording format you use. Now you already have a camera in hand and may never have heard this particular bit of advice so it is too late to factor it into the equation. However if you have camera in hand and it has any limitations on what it can do due to the lens being less than wonderful there are things you can do to mitigate the situation. We will discuss those things in more detail later on.
The key factors before setting out on your game day video assignment are to make sure you know the operating functions of the gear, have a tape supply in hand (soon to be DVDs with the revolution in gear design that is taking place right now), and batteries fully charged. I know these may seem like the simply obvious things but even the pros have to constantly remind themselves to check and double check these items.
A little aside here about preparation. Over the many years of covering news I learned lots of little tips from other photographers in the field and applied them to my work regimen. In the early days of video we always had to carry around a portable hair dryer because the record decks would seize up if the moisture levels got to high. So in the winter time if you came in from the cold outside into a nice warm building the air would condense inside the machine and cause moisture build up. The warning light would come on and bang we were dead in the water. One of us would have to run to the car and get the hair dryer, fire it up and chase the water away from the record heads of the deck. It caused some very funny moments in public places I can assure you. (This by the way can still be a problem even today with electronics/VCRs/lenses. Too much moisture can cause havoc. So just remember a portable hair dryer can save your day)
Another thing I learned from others is the value of backup. A few years ago I was out on assignment and we had a young eager college intern along with us in the field. This young man wanted to learn all about what we did in our job. He was very interested in how to take pictures, unlike most of our interns who only wanted to become reporters or anchors. He asked many questions and after seeing that he was really paying attention I decided to take him under my wing and really fill him up with information. One tidbit that I shared with him was to always have an emergency stash of tape in his car when out on assignment. He didn't quite understand the importance of this at first since I had already drilled him about always bringing tape stock with him when going out on assignment. I filled him with stories of times when something or other happened and I'll be darned if you didn't need another tape and there under the seat of the car was that emergency spare. So anyway he went off to graduate from college and get a job in a small market TV station. He would send us progress reports from time to time, which I really enjoyed. Then lo and behold one day he sends me a letter telling me how he got into a jam one day on a story and needed that emergency tape. He had dutifully tucked one under the back seat and it was there to save the day. I hope that what you learn in this book will in some way keep you from having a video failure down the road. What I learned in my career is that video production is 80% of it is dealing with the curves and problems that are thrown at you and 20% talent. If you can learn to trouble shoot then you will always be successful.
My first suggestion for shooting your kids sports activities is to go watch TV. Yes sit down put your feet up and watch some sports on TV. Really watch how they make it interesting at the top level. Then watch the news and see how they cover the games from a news perspective. Don't pay attention to the content; just watch how it develops visually. Now of course you can never duplicate what the networks are doing with just your one camera. However if you can glean anything from watching it should be how they try to bring intimacy with the athletes out in the broadcast. All the new improvements in covering sports have to do with getting you the viewer as close to the athlete as they can. Bring you into their world. From cameras on wires overhead that swoop along the field to cameras in the net of a hockey game to cameras inside the cars at Daytona, it brings you into the game. Now you cannot stand on the pitchers mound at your kids' baseball game but you can learn some techniques that can make your baseball video more intimate and therefore more compelling to watch.
A side note here, if your task is to capture the whole game or sporting activity for review as a coaching tool you should focus mainly on getting a good high view and putting the camera on a tripod. Pan slowly to follow action and don't zoom in and out. My main goal here is not to teach you this skill since it is pretty darn basic. However if this is what you are doing you should do it right. Find the right framing to keep as much of the activity in the frame and follow it carefully. Some sports move quickly from one end to the other and you will have to be smooth. Resist the temptation to follow the ball on full zoom. You will lose. Those guys that shoot sports on TV are full on pros using much better gear than you will ever have at your disposal.
Now in order to get a good video of your child's game you need to find that emotion and excitement that exists in any game. Think of it as capturing a few of the things that occur and making those golden. Does the team do a pre game cheer? Get up close, stick your camera wither way up high over their heads looking down or get underneath looking up and shoot it in a way that takes the viewer where they can't go. Capture an at bat in baseball by taking a full pitch cycle in close-up of the pitcher, and then one of the catcher and then as close as you can of the hitter. Show their face if you can. If they get the big hit don't go crazy rushing to zoom out. Follow the runner down the line. It will be almost impossible to follow the ball so stay with the runner. Look for the angles that will give you these emotional shots.
Some sports are more of a challenge due to the size of the field and the amount of movement up and down the field. Take soccer of instance, if you follow the ball the camera is moving all over the place and the viewer gets queasy. To capture some good video of your kid playing you need to focus on specific shots and not try to follow the play. Look for moments such as throw ins, free kicks, kick offs when things are predictable and you can get closer to the action. Walk down the sideline and wait for the action to come to you. If you child is playing right forward then get ahead of the play and when you see the ball moving towards you then you can find you child and roll tape in anticipation of them playing the ball. Be sure to get some shots of the crowd cheering, the coach watching (not yelling I hope) the goalie waiting in anticipation.
Hold your shots steady for 6-10 seconds at a time. If you are taking a shot of someone watching the game actually count it out in your head (thousand one thousand two...) This will ensure that you get good solid shots and that you don't run on and on with the shot. Brace your arm against your chest for stability and use your other arm across your belly underneath to create a stabilizing platform. This is in lieu of a tripod of course. If you have a tripod it can always be a good thing to use if it does not get in the way.
Use creative angles as much as possible. Get down low and wait for the action to run by you. Don't pan with it but rather let the action race through the frame. At a swim meet get the camera down on the deck for more of a swimmers perspective of the action. Of course you may not want to stay there when the swimmers approach for a turn. Digital electronics do not like water inside them. I was getting the most awesome low angle shots of some open water ocean swimmers one time and the boat lurched on me and salt water sprayed over the camera. I had a cover on the camera but salt water seeped into the crannies and it caused us much grief getting it cleaned out so as to avoid damaging the electronics of the camera.
How to Shoot Video of Your Kids Sports Team So That Anyone Else Will Watch it!
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
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Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
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Humorous Marriage Tips - You Haven't Heard These Before... And They Work
oNever discuss sensitive subjects when you're hungry. On an empty stomach, we tend to be more irritable and cranky, compromising our ability to focus. If you need to discuss something serious with your mate, check his/her appetite first.
oEat marshmallows to improve communication. If you have a mouthful of marshmallows, the one thing you absolute cannot do is "talk." That's precisely the point. Communication is more about listening than talking.
oFamily gatherings can be danger zones. Make a list of what not to talk about at these events. Examples: Never use the word "older," as in "Aunt Mary is 'older' than Aunt Susan" or "For an 'older' man, Uncle Harold has a lot of hair." Also, never compare today with the "good ol' days."
oWhen there's a fork in the road... If there are two ways to interpret something your spouse said to you and one makes you unhappy or angry, pick the other one.
oHonor the "5-Second Delay." Wives, when you ask your husband a question such as "Where would you like to go to dinner?" or "What time do your football games come on TV?" or any other question for that matter, there's often dead silence after you pose the question. You wonder: Did he hear me? Should I repeat the question? Solution: After asking a question, countdown backwards and slowly to yourself 5-4-3-2-1. Then, and only then, should you repeat the question. Men just take a little longer to compute things.
oGive your husband a break! Women tend to be more sensitive than men. They over-analyze. Did he mean this or that, or something entirely different? Female inclination is to zoom in on the explanation that's most negative. Perception isn't always reality. Lighten up!
oLet him know that he's your hero. Generally speaking, household tasks that women consider ordinary to do, such as loading and unloading the dishwasher, folding laundry, wiping down countertops, vacuuming, etc., are quite extraordinary for men. On a point scale of 1 to 100, for a wife they are worth about 2 points. To a husband, each is worth about 99.9 points! Wives, find it in yourself to say "thank you," give him a big hug, tell him how much you appreciate what he did. You will get more in return than you ever imagined.
oMulti-task to "be together." Example: You're both exhausted and run down, and you have difficulty finding time to devote solely to each other. Take a nap together. Start snoozing while holding hands.
oTake a lesson from dogs. What happens when a dog spots you from about 10 feet away? He wags his tail. As you get closer his cute, little rear starts wiggling and his ears pop up. By the time you're right up to the dog, he's dancing and bursting with excitement. Dogs teach us to be lovable. We should all take a lesson from them. Be lovable to your spouse. Welcome your spouse with a big greeting upon arriving home after a hard day's work. Give him or her an unexpected hug, plant a surprise peck on the cheek, touch each other, hold hands, exchange eye winks. However you choose to do it: Hug and squeeze, aim to please.
oMimic your kids. Give yourselves a "time-out" when the "relationship" is misbehaving. Time-outs work equally well for adults. When the two of you are in the heat of a disagreement, one person needs to stay "stop." Set an alarm clock for 30 minutes. Go your separate ways. Cool off. Think about the problem. Re-focus. Regain your composure. When the alarm rings, sit down together and have a civil discussion, get to the root of the matter, find a resolution and move on.
oGive your spouse the last piece of pie. Think of a favorite dessert that everyone in your home loves. For example: Double-chocolate brownies. In most family households, family members hurry to get the last brownie left in the pan before anyone else can. Long-married couples report handling such "competition" another way. One spouse will say to the other "Honey, there's one brownie left. Would you like to split it with me?" or "Would you like the last brownie?" This is referred to as being "selfless" instead of "selfish." The wonderful thing about being selfless instead of selfish, is it's automatically reciprocated.
oForget the Norman Rockwell ideal. Scale down your expectations, and focus on what's right rather than what's wrong.
oAn occasional cocktail from time to time helps!
Humorous Marriage Tips - You Haven't Heard These Before... And They Work
Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
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Barack Obama's Complete 2013 Inauguration Speech
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