What's New in the Library ? mid October 2012

The following field guides have recently been updated on realtor.org:

Board Histories & Anniversaries
Just as the National Association of REALTORS? celebrated its centennial in 2008, many state and local associations are preparing for significant birthdays and events. The resources on this page offer ideas for recognizing and celebrating an anniversary and writing an organization?s history. State and local associations can also tap into the tap into the extensive resources of the NAR Archives for further assistance.

Marketing with Blogs
Blogs are a great marketing tool for your real estate business. You can provide a snapshot of your local market, have a forum for your thoughts about real estate and market yourself. Find out the benefits of blogging, getting started with blogs and see what real estate practitioners are writing about.

Homeowner?s Insurance
?Homeowners insurance covers the structure of your home and your personal property, as well as your personal legal responsibility (or liability) for injuries to others or their property while they?re on your property.? It is important to note that a standard homeowner?s insurance policy does not typically include earthquake damage or flood insurance. Learn more about this and more from the following articles, eBooks, and other resources in this updated field guide.

Social Networking for REALTORS?
Every junior high kid seems to have a Facebook page. Why should you, a real estate professional? Learn about social networking websites, see how other real estate agents have embraced social networking to increase their presence on the Internet to attract more clients, learn about the variety of social networking websites and much more.

Mold & Health Issues
In 2001, a family in Texas won $32.1 million (later reduced to an amount kept confidential) in a case involving extensive mold damage to their home. Even Erin Brockovich, Michael Jordan, Bianca Jagger and Ed McMahon have experienced mold contamination in their houses. The governor of North Carolina had to move out of the mold-infested Governor?s Mansion in August 2005. Mold is a health risk for children, adults, and even pets. Learn how to avoid mold, how to eliminate mold once it is discovered, and the health effects of mold, in these articles, book, Web sites, and Web videos.

Family Firms
Family firms, or ?family owned businesses,? have challenges unique from other types of business. Hiring successors presents the added challenge of balancing familial relationships with employee concerns of nepotism. Business planning brings forth added estate planning and tax concerns. Crisis and strategic planning may call for extra provisions, such as measures for death or illness in the family, among other things. Learn more about these issues from the following articles, eBooks, and other resources in this updated field guide.

Also new in the library:
New Books in the Library
What?s new in the Information Central library collection? This month you?ll find books on Urban Planning, Appraisal Standards, Marketing, Fundraising Basics and many more. Interested in borrowing any of these titles from the library? Simply click on the title to make your request right over the web!

New eBooks in the Library
What?s new in the Information Central eBook collection? This month our featured eBook section is REALTOR? Safety Month.? You?ll also find some of the following new titles in our ?just added? section on the eBook home page: Virtual Productivity Success, iPad 2 Manual, 8 Minute Organizer, Planning to Plan and many more. Interested in borrowing any of these titles from the eBook collection?? Simply click on the title to make your request right over the web!

Dave

Senior Information Specialist

Source: http://infocentral.blogs.realtor.org/2012/10/12/whats-new-in-the-library-mid-october-2012/

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Get Familiar With Detox from Alcohol | Article Directory

Alcohol rehab is the solely identified effective treatment to fight the drinking dilemma. Prevention of backslide is best obtained with the assistance of the proper alcohol treatment program. There are a lot of alcohol centers that offer numerous approaches on alcohol supervision and the choices develop each year.

Detox for alcohol is indispensible because it?s the sole method that can address cravings for the substance. Through detox, the body alleviates alcohol and also history of it in a continuous approach. The intake of alcoholic is decreased little by little in order to avoid the appearance of withdrawal signs and symptoms. The process can be performed both in the out-patient and in-patient therapy settings. The period of treatment would even be dependent on the client?s situation.

Generally, detox arises from 3 days to a week. For severe alcohol dependency, it can be as short as 3 days and customers may then endure out-patient care. These scenarios are controllable and they may be told to go home as long as the whole family is accommodating and participative in the treatment plan. On the other hand, severe alcoholism would require a longer period of time to be detoxified. It is based on the alcoholic?s reaction on the procedure. Detox can be came to the conclusion when the customer will no longer experiences desires to alcohol.

Detoxification is then followed by counseling as well as therapies as adjunct procedures. Detox is performed ahead of the start of the routines to let the customer focus well on his objectives towards recovery. When he still craves for the alcoholic beverages, full concentration couldn?t be guaranteed while he is experiencing counseling sessions and therapy.

There are detoxification processes that would not call for medications to be provided to the client. Several solutions believe that the body has its natural ways of excreting the harmful toxins. This would work best for alcoholics in the early levels of alcohol dependency. Alcohol dependency is not as strong as the one experience in long-term or severe addiction to alcohol. There are methods too that would need the utilization of other medicines to control the problem. Anxiolytics are provided to reduce the stress of the client during processes. Antabuse is the resident treatment given to alcoholics which will produce worsened signs when the alcoholic ingests alcohol whilst under treatment.

Detox for alcohol should not be taken for granted, even if the dilemma is very light. It is always best to seek the advice of the medical authorities regarding alcohol treatment. Greater danger awaits if an addict attempts to resolve the condition on his own.

This editor understands a lot information on addiction. If you wish to gather more information, check this out.

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Are you a Midnight Writer? | Behind the Counter

Do you procrastinate by writing poetry? ?Do you write analytical essays with the flair of a novella? ?Dickens, Faulkner, Kerouac, and Twain are alright, but are you convinced that you?re the next big name in literature? ?(All four of them dropped out of school by the way. ?Just a thought.)

In short, are you a Midnight Writer? ?Prove it.

Midnight MUG is giving away scholarships to six Georgetown undergraduate students for submitting creative writing of any form. ?You may have some questions, like?

1. How do I submit?

There are two ways to submit to the scholarship.

To win $500 or $1000! Email a word document with your formal submission to marketing.midnight@thecorp.org.

To win $250!?Hand-write a 6-word story while in line at Midnight MUG, write your netID on the paper, and hand it to the cashier. ?We?ll take care of it from there!

2. When is the deadline?

OCTOBER 19, so get on it.

3. How many winners are there?

1 person will win $1000 for special recognition of creativity and effort in their formal submission, and 3 more people will win $500 for outstanding formal submissions. ?2 people will win $250 dollars for their six-word stories.

4. Are there any limitations as to length, structure, format, etc.?

NO. ?None. ?Seriously, none. ?If you think it?s worth reading and you put some creative thought behind it, send it our way. ?We think that having no limitations on submissions is the best way to foster creativity. ?Fun fact ? a few submissions last year were songs! ?With mp3s attached! ?That was awesome!

5. What should I write about?

Don?t ask me, I get inspired by weird things. ?You do you.

6. Can I submit something I wrote for a class?

Go right ahead!

7. How many pieces can I submit?

There is no set limit on how many pieces you can submit. ?That said, if you have a folder on your computer just filled to the brim with creative genius, I would recommend that you pick your favorite three or four. ?The readers on the judging committee (which we?ll get to in a second) won?t know who wrote the pieces they?re reading, but they will know which pieces are written by the same author, and your submissions of 58 pieces may not be very appreciated at that time.

8. What is this ?judging committee? of which you speak? ?How do you pick winners?

As submissions come in, the Midnight Marketing department (oh hey that?s me!) name-blinds the submissions. ?Once all of the submissions have been collected and name-blinded, a committee of readers will come together to read all of the submissions, both the formal and 6-word ones. ?Each piece will be read by at least three reading committee members, and after reading a piece, the committee member will rank it on a scale from 1 (ehhhhh) to 3 (I?ve died and gone to literary heaven). ?Once all pieces have been read three times, the scores will be tallied and the top submissions will be discussed. ?The committee will then send their top ten formal submissions and top five 6-word submissions to The Corp?s Board of Directors, with recommendations as to who should win the scholarships. ?The board will send their final decision to the Midnight Marketing department, and we take it from there. ?Yahoo!

9. Who?s on the reading committee?

Members of the Midnight MUG upper management and members of CPC (Corp Philanthropy Committee). ?While Midnight?s upper management is, as you may imagine, all Corp employees, CPC is comprised of both Corpies and non-Corpies alike, so the judging is sure to be fair.

10. What happens if I win? ?Excuse me ? when?I win?

A few very fun things.

1. You get a check from CPC!

2. A post will go up on Behind the Counter with your piece and a little information about you!

3. You will be invited to participate in a live reading in Midnight MUG!

4. Your work will be published in The Anthem, Georgetown?s literary magazine!

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11. Why are you doing this?

The Midnight Writer Scholarship was introduced in Fall 2011 as a way for Midnight to give back to the students that visit us every day. ?It was conceptualized and developed by Alex Mark, Margaret Delaney, Emily Coch, and Ellie DiBerardino (oh hey that?s me again). ?As we are located in cozy, friendly, fun Lauinger Library, we wanted to target our scholarship to the book-ish types, and thus the Midnight Writer Scholarship was born and became the most successful scholarship campaign in Corp history in its first year. ?Click here for info on last year?s winners.

12. Wait should I do this? ?Really?

YES. ?Do it.?Don?t be afraid. ?In the words of Kurt Vonnegut, ?Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.?

13.?What if I have a question about the Midnight Writer Scholarship that didn?t appear on this oh-so-helpful list?

Email marketing.midnight@thecorp.org!? You?ll reach either Ellie DiBerardino (again, that?s me), Gillian Spear, or Katy Donahue. ?We?re fun. ?We?re friendly. ?We love emails. ?The response may come from midnightarts@gmail.com ? that?s still us, don?t worry.

There you have it friends. ?Show us what you?ve got!

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How many in your Home Exchange Family? - Home Exchange ...

by John Mensinger on October 11, 2012

The house swap system meets the needs of small, medium, or large families. Some home exchange agencies allow you to search for partners based on the size of their home exchange group. I went to www.HomeforExchange.com, which has a search engine that makes this easy. 39% of their members are parties of two, presumably couples, though there are other possibilities. Folks traveling on their own make up 4% of the membership. The 43% in this group are usually free to travel anytime of the year, though if they are French may prefer July or August.
Families of four make up 28% of the membership, with families of three or five each accounting for 11%. Groups of six or more are 6%. The chart below shows these figures graphically. Most of these groups are families with kids, they need to swap during school holiday periods, though this isn?t necessary if the children are very young or adults.
Our experience is that singles and couples usually trade amongst themselves, probably because children are not involved. We have never traded with a couple or single though we have had friendly discussions. Our group is usually four to six; we have swapped with families of three, four, five, six, and seven (which is the maximum number our minivan accommodates.) We will consider an exchange with any family as long as their house and car meets our needs and our place can comfortably host them.

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Source: http://homeexchangeuniversity.com/2012/10/how-many-in-your-home-exchange-family/

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Armorama :: German Communications Truck

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ICM continue to expand the number of soft skin vehicles in their range with a Krupp L3H163 Kfz.72, WWII German Radio Communication Truck in the works

ICM must be on a roll at the moment with a large number of soft skin vehicles either newly released or in the works. This time around it is a product in the works in the form of the Krupp L3H163 Kfz.72, WWII German Radio Communication Truck. While so far we only have an artist?s impression of this new model it should prove popular if it lives up to the image. Armorama would like to thank Anna of ICM for providing this information.

35462 - Krupp L3H163 Kfz.72, WWII German Radio Communication Truck ? 1/35th scale

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With Beyonce Out, Who Will Step Up To Clint Eastwood's 'A Star Is Born'?

From Barbra Streisand's biggest fan to Beyonce's own sister, MTV News suggests who should fill the empty seat.
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