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She had made it her lifetime ambition to be a college professor. To her, there was no higher calling than to challenge and teach tomorrows future. Not only to teach them but to instruct them on how to care for the future. It was important for them to see that life was fragile but when handled with care and studied carefully, they could maximize the span of it. Of course, nursing wasn’t always her passion. There was a short stint in veterinary medicine and the even shorter playtime in creative writing. But those were past, thankfully. And now she has become what she’s always wanted, Dean of Nursing at Jackson University. She had arrived.

Classes for the fall semester were to begin in just a few weeks and it was time for her to start preparing for the task. There were the syllabuses and the tests along with the research projects that would be required to pass her class. She did not intentionally try to make her classes difficult, but by nature they were. Hematology and psychiatric care were her favorites as opposed to geriatric and oncology, which she found trying. Still, her grades never reflected so much as a flicker of struggle through any class. Perhaps her photographic memory helped.

Her three classes that she would be teaching, Microbiology, Pediatrics and Anatomy, were proving to be labor intensive on her part. Just the syllabus for microbiology took 3 days to write, never mind the tests and projects. One day she would learn that if she would just save her work on the computer and not make it date specific, she would be able to reproduce the same work each year, thus shortening her preparation time. Perhaps she should try that this year on the peds class. “It sure would eliminate a lot of hassle” she spoke out loud as she was feeding her cat “Tigger”. “What do you think? Do you think I should give it a try this year uh?” No response from Tigger was usual. The calico cat only cared about her stomach and her perch on the back of the couch.

Deciding that the pediatric class was the test bunny, she sat down and began to schedule out her class on the computer. The syllabuses were easy but the tests were challenging. Breaking open the folder that contained last year’s tests, she retyped them into the computer. Now for the research project, that was always a struggle. She tried to dream up new ones every year for a couple of reasons. First of all, so she wouldn’t get bored seeing the same thing each year, and secondly, students from prior years wouldn’t be able to share information that they’ve already researched. “Bilirubin!” she shouted. That would be the subject for the research this year. Each student would be required to pick an aspect of the condition and provide a ten page research paper back to her on a preformatted college flash drive that each student was required to purchase.

“There, we’re done Tigger!” she exclaimed. This year’s syllabus was now on her website. The tests would be put there as needed and each student would be able to access her site and take the tests as needed and view the syllabus. Technology has really empowered the educator, she thought. Thank goodness.

Have you as an adult always wanted to learn to play the piano? Did you think you couldn’t afford it or that you’d never have the time to practice? Or did you just think that maybe you didn’t have the talent for it? Or maybe you didn’t have a piano or keyboard?

Enter the Piano Party. Anyone can host a Tupperware or Mary Kay party. And the piano party is designed with that philosophy in mind.

Host a piano party in your home today! Gather at least 8 ladies or 4 couples interested in learning to play the piano. Miss Liberty Martin will do her best to persuade them to take Group Piano Lessons. If 7 people will do it, the hostess gets half price. If 8 ladies, she gets hers free! If 6 people or less, the one time fee will go up slightly.

There is a significant discount compared to individual lessons. The initial commitment is for 3 months, after which individuals have several choices: to continue group lessons, to commence individual lessons, or progress on their own.

Group lessons provide support and encourage practice as individuals are expected to perform for each other weekly. Groups will meet once a week for an hour. They may choose to meet in the same home every week, or in different homes. The group sessions can be combined with a time of food and fellowship afterwards, a workout or walk, or whatever they may choose.

There is a deposit required for new keyboard use; 80% of which will be returned unless the student chooses to keep it or there is damage. Learning to play the piano requires a minimum of one hour practice a week. That is three days of 20 minutes, or 6 days of 10 minutes each.

Miss Liberty has a unique sense of humour and guarantees a time of fun and learning. She can teach anyone the basics of beginning piano. She has a piano teaching studio located in Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania, and also teaches in Manchester, Maryland. For the group lessons, she is able to travel a wide range in the York/Adams County, Northern Baltimore County and North Carroll County areas.

To schedule your Piano Party or for more information; please email Liberty Martin at Lbelle5 at juno.com, or call her at 717.515.1037. Her web address is www.libertyspiano.com. Her studio is Liberty’s Piano Studio.

Though the housing market is not too good at present, there are always rich people who have money and want to build new homes. And there are still more than a few architects in business designing homes. There’s so much variety in what people might want in a house, depending on how much money they have to spend, how much they want to spend, what their tastes are, what designs they like. The list goes on and on.

An architect can advertise with pictures and designs of houses he has designed and had constructed in the past. But there’s only so much room to display images in advertisements. The best has to be there to pull people in, and then they can go to the architect and browse through designs once they are more serious about looking.

Perhaps he could place images and plans for houses on a promotional flash drive that he can distribute to potential clients. Then people can browse through and see if they find any designs that fit something close to what they want to build.

The choices abound. Do they want one-story, two-story, three-story? Do they want a garage on the same level as the rest of the house or below it? Do they want a garage at all? Do they want spacious picture windows a small windows? Do they want a flat roof, a gentle slope, or a steep slope? An architect must provide many conceptions so the widest range of people can find something that they would like to see in a house.

CFGear.com can help an architect get all of his images organized in a sensible layout on a flash drive. Then potential customers can easily navigate to categories that fit what they want to look at in a house. They can see materials and pricing for those materials, pictures of previously built homes, floor plans and conceptual drawings, whatever helps them make a decision about a new home.

An architect could also duplicate USB flash drives and distribute them to his employees who are working on designs. They could have one source to view previously used designs and plans. A contractor could also use the drive to see images of plans for a house before he builds it. He can have copies of them to store for future reference to print extras that he may need.

Perhaps the architect could buy two sets of flash drives, one as a resource for employees and contractors, and one for customers to use in reviewing potential home designs. CF Gear offers a wide selection of flash drive models that customers can choose from. They also offer color imprinting and laser engraving. Perhaps a wood-covered flash drive, engraved with the name and logo of the company, would be a smart and fitting look for an architect to pick.

An architect can give his company a competitive edge by using flash drives to store info and market housing plans to potential clients. And CF Gear can help, from designing the layout to copying the data to many flash drives to imprinting them.