 and designer Moll Anderson says you can make the decision to have very happy holidays. Like anything else, it is a mindset. You can choose to be happy and enjoy your life and the same thing goes for the holidays. She suggests making things easier on yourself.
Start by simply slowing down a bit and not getting overwhelmed. Don’t let the preparation consume you. Don’t load your brain with negative thoughts about what you can’t do; start by making a list of what you can do!
We have these ideas in our heads that it’s not time yet to get ready for Christmas, so we wait until the last minute and then throw ourselves into major panic and chaos. Moll says it’s all up to you about how you’ll spend these fast-approaching holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. Here are a few ideas she has for a stress-free season…
If you’re having Thanksgiving at your house, let everybody pitch in and make this a “no-stress” dinner. Then you can spend more time concentrating on what that time together is supposed to really be about, which is giving thanks!
When Moll was growing up, the dining room was the place where the guests for those holiday happenings would converge. Moll believes this room shouldn't only be reserved for special occasions. Whether it's Chinese takeout or the Thanksgiving turkey, the key to serving any meal is presentation.
Serve your meal on that hardly used good china. While there is definitely a place in the world for paper plates, Moll says dust off your china, clean your crystal, and make them part of your everyday life. You are the special guest and you deserve to treat yourself.
Keep your formal dining room dressed. Then you will have a wonderful place to dine year round, and it is one less thing you have to worry about when you’re preparing for the holidays. It can be cost-effective and you can use the same table basics all year round.
Moll says you should invest in a set of classic bone China, good bone-colored linen table cloths, nice crystal, and a good set of flatware. This way you will have a good base to work from and you only need to change your table decorations, colors, plate chargers, etc.
The big trend right now in table decorations is glitter and glitz and taking traditional colors and vamping them up by getting slightly different shades than the traditional norm, like a different shade of orange or green.
If it is not as nice as you would like it, cover your table with a tablecloth made of gorgeous fabric. Moll also suggests you use a warm, rich colored scarf, or one with a classic print (like Burberry plaid) to lay across the table. You can use more than one tablecloth at a time and combine different lengths for a rich, layered look.
Make sure you have either an interesting or architectural piece sitting atop your table. An arrangement made of fresh (or realistic) flowers are also good. If you don’t have the time to get a nice arrangement, think of things around your house that could work in the place of a traditional arrangement. Try brightly colored fall leaves scattered down the center of the table, or fill several clear glass bowls with small pumpkins and gourds. Another great party-ready timesaver is a year round dried or silk arrangement. At the very last minute, toss in something you have around the house like pomegranates, artichokes, or earthy elements such as curly willow and branches-anything goes!
If you’re using candles on the table, never use scented ones because they interfere with the flavors of the food.
If you’re having a large group of people over, you can rent nice tables and chairs at a low cost.
Another tip Moll has for entertaining: pick a dinner music you can play from beginning to end without having to change it. Albums with classic songs, standards, or instrumentals are good backgrounds, which is what your music should be.
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A caring friend will be there to pray with you in your time of need.gedit is set by default to open about any source file. I've gone through the file properties and changed default application to VIM for C and C++ files.
I'd need to do this for any source file I open now, for python files, for text files, for ruby, any, since gedit is set to open all of them.
How can I change this to open with VIM without going the hassle of setting "open with" one by one?
This answer only works in Ubuntu 16.04 or prior; the comments have a link to a Xenial release of Ubuntu-Tweak. In newer versions of Ubuntu this will not work as Ubuntu-Tweak is no longer supported by the author.
Comments have suggested that Chris Marx answer below is the right way, but it does not resolve the answer of administrative management - for example, setting the type for many items.
The EASIEST way for you to do this would be to install the program Ubuntu Tweak.
Once you have it downloaded you simply open it up, change to Admins tab and then under System choose File Type Manager. Once in here select the file category Text and using shift-click and/or control-click select all of the file types you want, then click Edit on the bottom right.
This will allow you to multi-set the mimetype opener for all of the files.
which is the file that holds the associations between a given mime type and the application that is supposed to handle that kind of file.
text files, python scripts, web pages, usually any given file has its own mime type.
Now every file on your machine will open with gvim, by default.
Files (nautilus) >> select a file >> right click & Properties >> "Open With" tab >> select a program you fancy >> "Select as default". Done.
This method comes from this post on HowToGeek: http://www.howtogeek.com/117709/how-to-change-your-default-applications-on-ubuntu-4-ways/ where they also talk about how to change default Terminal programs.
Go to Details from Unity Dash, click on Default Applications on the left pane. Change the file associations as per your preference. No additional installation required and you can set all your default applications from one place.
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NEW YORK - Mets rookie right-hander Jacob deGrom is quietly making his case for NL Rookie of the Year honors.
Monday, the lanky hurler was named the NL co-player of the week, splitting the honor with Miami Marlins closer Steve Cishek.
DeGrom (5-5, 2.79), who has won four straight games, has been a real find for the Mets this season. He allowed just one run in 13 1/3 innings this week in starts at Seattle and Milwaukee during the Mets' just-concluded road trip.
On Sunday, deGrom pitched 6 1/3 shutout innings in a 2-0 victory over the Brewers. He yielded just four hits while striking out four and walking two in a 114-pitch outing. He became the first rookie in team history to win four consecutive games in one season while pitching more than six innings and allowing no more than one run in each game.
The Mets, however, may soon have to make a decision on deGrom regarding his innings count. General manager Sandy Alderson has set the ceiling at 185 innings. Adding in his innings in the minors this season, deGrom has about 60 innings remaining.
Alderson said the team has two options. It can let deGrom go straight through until he reaches his limit or he could skip him in the rotation.
"I think we have a couple of different ways of approaching that," Alderson said. "Now, I don't think we want to interrupt the flow that he has going, the success he's had."seobook on Thu, 2006-09-28 23:05.
seobook on Wed, 2006-09-27 23:15.
Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group pulled its music videos from Cablevision Systems Corp.'s Fuse network, and Warner Music Group Corp. told Yahoo Inc. to stop showing its music videos, in unrelated disputes over licensing fees and other issues, according to people familiar with both matters.
seobook on Sat, 2006-09-23 11:56.
Apparently censorship in China is just one of many cases of Google giving in to a government. Google just did an about face in Belgium. If you look at Google.be right now, you will see the recent court rulings on Google's home page.
graywolf on Mon, 2006-09-18 16:26.
seobook on Mon, 2006-09-18 04:55.
A newspaper company in Belgium challenged Google news's snippets and pictures as well as Google's's pictures from their news sites. The judge decided with the plaintiff.
seobook on Mon, 2006-09-18 01:52.
John Andrews on Thu, 2006-09-14 14:30.
Somebody tell the search engines that if a page is not linked from the site nav or elsewhere, it's private and accessing it via direct URL manipulation is "hacking". At least that seems to be what the Governor of California wants us to believe. Oh, and hackers are criminals, too. Funny, not