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Below you will find many memorial and remembrance ideas that you can use to keep the memory of your loved one alive. After the funeral, memorial service or life celebration, many people wish to have something permanent as a reminder of the person that they loved and lost. It may help to think about what was important to the person you lost. What did they value? What made them smile? Perhaps by beginning there, the appropriate memorial will present itself. Here are 10 ideas that may help to guide you.

– You can plant a tree in their memory. You can find tree seedlings on the internet. You could also buy a tree at a local nursery.

– Donate a memorial bench: if they loved golf, their favorite golf course may welcome the donation of a memorial bench. You may also consider purchasing a plaque or a brick in their name to help fund a community project.

– Have a star in the sky named after your loved one.

– Plant a section in the garden each year with their favorite flowers. You also may want to add a stepping stone or rock with their name on it in their special section of the garden. Consider each year sharing flowers from that section of the garden with the family and friends of your loved one.

– Start a college scholarship in their name.

– Create a video or DVD from photos and video or movie clips. This video can be …

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Whether it’s a residential garage door, massive dock door for a big box store or a roll-up door for a mall retail shop, one thing is certain: Without proper maintenance and repairs, overhead doors can be literal death traps. With reports peppering the nation about injuries from faulty sensors or outdated garage doors catching feet, children and pets, a subpar garage door is a huge liability. However, the actual injury statistics may surprise you.

According to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance Survey (NEISS), the most common type of garage door injury is “pinch/crush section joints” which happens to about 7,550 Americans each year. This includes “fingers caught between section joints, (and) includes amputations, avulsions, etc.” It’s no surprise that this is the most common, but what’s astounding is just how serious these injuries can be. All it takes is a few skipped maintenance inspections or a bad spring to bring a lawsuit to your family or business.

“Crushing” Reports

The second most common injury occurs from “falling doors,” with over 2,100 Americans falling victim to this each year. According to NEISS, this happens when a “door falls for any reason” and includes reasons like a bad installation, outdated and un-maintained doors, or any other number of things. However, a quality garage door with solid installation won’t fall “for any reason”, which is why it’s paramount to demand both top notch doors and installation.

“Sharp edges” account for over 800 injuries every year, with NEISS defining it as “lacerations from garage …

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Frank Vincent Zappa, born 1940 in Baltimore USA, died 1993 in Los Angeles, was a composer, guitarist, bandleader, film maker, entrepreneur and satirist who began his recording career in 1966 with the Mothers Of Invention double album Freak Out – an unheard of extravagance for a new band in pop music and a forerunner to the Beatles Sergeant Pepper album, of some twelve months later.

From the word go, Zappa was an edgy, provocative and somewhat exotic figure in the world of rock ‘n roll. His musical influences alone marked him out as a maverick, from the contemporary classical works of Edgard Varese, Igor Stravinsky and Anton Webern to rhythm and blues artists such as Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, Howlin’ Wolf and the esoteric records of vocal groups like The Channels, Don & Dewey, The Penguins and Jackie Dee and the Starlites. His command of these and many other different musical languages make him one of the significant musicians of the 20th century.

I’ve become familiar with a lot of his output over the past thirty years or so, and there is now a vast quantity of his material to evaluate. For this slightly morbid exercise of choosing one’s own funeral soundtrack, I’ve decided to whittle down to four those Frank Zappa songs I love and think best exemplify him. I’d be interested to hear the choices of any other Zappa fans:

*Strictly Genteel – the finale from the film 200 Motels, largely sung by Theodore Bikel. Several, alternate versions of …

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Accreditation as compared to education is a topic/situation that continues to germinate in our country today. Our future posterity is based solely upon the whims and needs of corporate America – so it seems.

Let’s take a look at the demise of our educational system as opinionated by several Philly college professors, shall we…

There is a lot of hope. “Something’s going to change,” says Randy LoBasso of Professor Debra Leigh Scott. “We’ve reached a tipping point – we’ve lost knowledge!” She says the ability to transmit knowledge is a huge thing to lose. No one seems to be able to grasp the importance of what it means to lose the ability to properly transmit knowledge to another – especially a younger person, students in particular. Is there a winner? Is there someone, something, some entity that will benefit from the death of education?

The American Association of University Professors, in a report, have found from 1975 to 2003, the number of tenured track positions in higher education have fallen from 56.8% down to 35.1%, according to LoBasso. About one million professors nationwide have the skills to teach up to eleven classes per college semester at any number of schools. The (aforementioned), number of classes may seem like one hell of an enormous workload – with the three thousand dollar a class pay check, could any teacher make ends meet? The decline of full-time professorships, since the 1970’s, have slapped many a teacher in the face with a reality check.…

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You happen to be household now. A limited even though back you stood over a hole in the earth. You blew a kiss, tossed a rose, sprinkled a shovelful of dirt about a casket, and mentioned goodbye to your husband, your soul mate, the best friend you at any time experienced.

As you move about greeting hungry strangers, a person whispers that the lady wandering about with mayonnaise on her chin is your mother’s sister’s up coming doorway neighbor’s cousin’s dog’s pet sitter. It is a scene right out of Star Wars, the one in the bar, and you feel trapped in it. In a minor although absolutely everyone is absent, even the filthy-confronted dog walker. The doorway shuts and truth sets in. He isn’t really coming household. At any time. And in those people early times following the funeral, doing the simplest of duties will look monumental. You will wonder can I make it – With no Him?

You can. And you will.

Right here are ten guidelines to aid you endure…soon after the funeral:

1. Do say yes to a close friend, close relative, or excellent neighbor, who gives to invest the night time (or a lot more), even though you slip into one thing not comfortable – Widowhood.

Really don’t be alone that 1st evening, not except if you do not have a alternative. To start with evenings without having Him sting like a bee and an angel to sit quietly at your kitchen desk, to turn …

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Origins of doorway titties

A door knocker is an product of door furniture that permits persons exterior a home to warn people inside to their existence. It has a section fastened to the doorway, and a portion (commonly steel) which is hooked up to the doorway by a hinge that is lifted and utilised to strike a plate fitted to the doorway, earning a sounds. The strike plate, if present, would be supplied and equipped with the knocker. Doorway knockers are generally ornate, but may possibly be no additional than a basic fitting with a metallic bob, or ring. Lots of older interval properties and mansions usually have intricate titties in the shape of human heads or mythical beasts. The previously styles had been primarily based on statues that would stand in entrance of historical Greek residences. These statues were made with distorted, grotesque characteristics and had been believed to be applied to ward of malignant spirits and witches. This is also accurate of gargoyles, which have very similar caricatured faces, in buy to prevent spirits and ghosts from getting into the house. There were being also ‘good luck’ titties, which ended up thought to have magical or therapeutic houses and ended up utilised to persuade very good luck into the home. These doorway knockers used a motif of great luck charms such as horse-footwear, stars, suns and flowers. The well known ‘hand shaped’ knocker is often found in Muslim nations, and was believed to symbolize the Hand of Fatima …

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