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Try Mapquest.com and put in the address from which you are coming.
Basically, the address follows:
Take I-93-N toward Lawrence.Concord. N. H.
Take the Rt.-110/RT-113 exit 46 toward Lawrence/Dracut
Enter next roundabout and take the 3rd exit onto RT-113 W/RT-110 W/Lowell Street
RT-113 W/RT-110 W/Lowell St becomes RT-110W
Turn right onto Wheeler Street
Take the 1st left onto Lowell St
Lowell Street becomes Methuen Street
Turn right onto Presidential Circle
to 8 Presidential Circle.
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Elegant home – beautiful drapes
On Saturday, April 27 from 10am-4pm and Sunday, April 28, 2013 from 2pm – 6pm you are invited to a wonderful Moving Sale with a Celebration at its end.
Come and see and buy from a carefully edited selection of items accumulated by one family over some 7-8 years, so most things are fairly new and very well cared for.
The address for this sale is 8 Presidential Circle, Dracut, MA. 01826.
You will find bark paintings from Kenya which tell of the traditional life of the people of Kenya.
You will see an elegant and very large chandelier for sale – iron and crystal – delicate and perfect for that entrance foyer. And you will see a nice selection of new oriental rugs in a home beautifully cared for so that the rugs look as if they were new.
beautiful iron and crystal chandelier
Some crystal – some gold rimmed china dishes – many lamps – and a room for just sitting and enjoying which could be purchased intact to be removed to your home to create a similar environment. All worked out for you with the right drapes – chairs – lamps – tables – pictures and more. Who could ask for better!
Drapes which will keep you from ordering those custom drapes into five figures – one pair long enough for windows two stories high and still in beautiful condition – in a very neutral color to fit any decor. – Window shades very soft with off white color and horizontal pleats which are not quite pleats, but beautifully rushed shades – wooden windows to fit a contemporary home in condition good enough to be transferred for their windows to your windows. Bring your window measurements. Beautiful custom cornices, well made and also in a condition good enough to just transfer to your windows.
A brown leather sofa, plus other sofas which just might be what you need for that empty space.
And tables to match everything – glass and brass – glass and wood – inlaid wood – marquetry round tables with lamps to upscale any space.
A round mirror for that hard to deal with space, tall vases with some over 3 feet
- and much more for those decorator touches that don’t cost a decorators budget.
And in the basement – start your own business with desks, tables, chairs, filing cabinets, safes, a gurney of all things – conference tables, and much of what is needed in a Nursing School, but which can be transferred to your office or school.
Need furniture for that new space in your office you have looked at but haven’t done anything about? There is a little of everything in that basement. Well kept, clean and ready for use, including chafing dishes and other serving pieces one would use in an office for entertaining.
Endless desks for a school
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And at the sales end – on Sunday from 2-6pm broken into two parts- from 2-4pm eveyrthing will be half price and from 4-6pm whatever is left will be given away to those who purchased during the sale. That is a gift of thanks from the home owners. The gift of thanks from the Bettina Network is a concert/recital by Albino Mbie. To learn more about Mr. Mbie check him out at this web site which gives a little preview of his music www.albinombie.com
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by: Marceline Donaldson
The hunt for the “terrorists” is over and we are all the poorer for it. Democracy and the United Sates Constitution went out the window and we justified it by claiming all in the name of “safety”. I guess that makes the real question, would you rather be free or safe?
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Lets put what happened in Boston in a more historical context. John King blew the horn at the starting gate – it was dark skinned males. And does that have a historical context? Does anyone remember the Carol Stuart case when the clarion call was to “get” those n…..rs. This time, enough people backed him down that there had to be other “suspects” and those turned out to be two young boys – white. Legal aliens, maybe next time they will call white and illegal aliens. And things like innocent until proven guilty went out the window and today the miranda rights are out the window and so will a proper and thorough criminal investigation be completely compromised. Try to get a just trial out of this fiasco and farce.
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The FBI and assorted other enforcement agencies pushed the fear by releasing the pictures of two young men who were immediately declared guilty. We need an independent investigation of what happened in Boston and soon. This was the Carol Stuart case on steroids – especially when a Congressman declared that suspect #2 – let’s not use names – we can dehumanize them by calling them titles – had come to this country to kill people. Put in the context of reality – suspect #2 was 8 years old when he came to this country. Not likely his motives were to kill people especially since it was probably not his decision to come, but his parents.
If you have not been targeted you might feel pretty smug and safe – I was targeted. It was not pleasant to see police cars come along and block off the streets in your neighborhood leaving you with the uncontrovertible view that you are the target. As it turned out – they were looking for a grey honda odyssey and one was parked in my driveway. They had a license plate number which didn’t even come close to mine, but there they were blocking off every ‘escape’ route and what if I had gone outside for any reason while they were doing this? My neighbor across the street did go out looking for her son. One policeman yelled at her to get back into her house – she tried to explain her son had gone out for coffee and hadn’t come back and she was going to look for him. The policeman didn’t care he just continued to yell at her to go back into her house. What was the great threat? My car, parked in my driveway. When I saw that and realized I had been targeted I remember Martin Luther King’s comments – if good people do nothing, they may come for me in the morning, but they will be back for you in the afternoon.
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I was really jolted when I saw the last press conference with the police head of this travesty announcing everything was going back to ‘normal’ and in the process with his zeal and high on testosterone treated Governor DeVal Patrick in a really disrespectful way. As Patrick tried to say something he was cut off and that policeman ignored him and kept the microphone. Whatever Patrick had to say was shoved aside.
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Bettina Network, inc. is looking for people who are passionate about estate sales and want to join our team a part time person working estate sales.
There is much space for progress up the ladder of a fun, demanding, exciting, innovative company.
We are also looking for people who code/program/web design/e-commerce. Same thing – start as a part time person and work your way up the ladder of success.
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PRESS RELEASE:
From Bettina Network, inc.
for release after July 30, 2012
Bettina Network, inc. announces the beginning of A Bettina Scattering Sale July 30, 2012 at 2pm through August 4, 2012 at 5pm. We chose this sale to roll out this new concept because it is small, but still has lovely items.; This sale gives us a chance to test the concept, structure and software. We can make adjustments as the sale progresses, if necessary, with a small sale to keep a close watch to make sure Bettina Network inc.s’ new and original way of handling estate liquidations works smoothly.
Bettina Scattering Sales are sales of the household and lifetime items accumulated by someone deceased who we memorialize by scattering back into the world, the worldly goods the individual left behind.
We ‘scatter’ items that she surrounded herself with to make life more comfortable, memorable, and meaningful, items which the family decided not to keep, but to offer to you.
Included in this sale will be Japanese, Korean and Modern furniture, jewelry (some handmade), furs, kitchen items, miscellaneous porcelain, glass, crystal and yards and yards of bookcases. It is the sale of an academic’s furnishings and the house was filled with hundreds of books. The bookcases range from very inexpensive to go in a basement, to the very modern, exceptionally good wood and some extremely well made. Many of the books were given to MIT, but there is a nice selection left for those who want to increase their library and/or find an unusual book as a gift.
If you would like to know more details about this sale, they can be found at bettina-network.com where you click on “Bettina Sales” and you will come to the section of the website which has more particular information about the sale. Bettina Network, inc. also conducts Moving Sales, Art and Antique Sales and Estate Sales in addition to the Scattering Sale.
Bettina Scattering Sales take place in two parts. One part – the first part – takes place online. This is the virtual part of the sale which happens on the internet as a Silent Auction. The second part is on location and this part happens where the items are located. All items are located in the same place for both parts of the sale. The items offered ‘online’ can be seen at the same location as the items offered ‘on location.’
The online part of the sale usually starts one week before the on location part of the sale, but both parts end at the exact same time. In this case both end August 4th at 5pm.
Items that may be hard to price because of a fast moving market or whose value can only be determined at an auction are put into the virtual “online’ sale and sold via Silent Auction to gain the best possible price, especially since many of the items in the ‘online’ sale will be those that are not readily available and pointed to the collector.
You do not have to visit the location to participate in the ‘online’ part of a Bettina Scattering Sale. If you are not in the same city or in the same country where the items are located, you may visit the items for sale via your computer or other web machine to see the items, read about them and register with Bettina Network, inc. to place a bid.
At the moment both sales end, the ‘online’ items are sold to the highest bidder.
A biography or other write-up of the person whose items you are purchasing is usually on the back of your sales slip so you will always have the provenance of your particular purchase no matter how large or how small the item.
One lovely part of what you purchase at these sales to carry home and share, is the story of the life of the person who owned the items you now own.
Some of the items in the sale were bought new, some were inherited from her mother, others were given to her by friends and family.
Information about the items in the ‘online’ sale will move to Bettina Network’s Research Library for your use after the sale. We hope, when membership in the Library opens to the general public you will consider taking out a membership and contributing information to the Library.
We also hope others who research these items, in the years to come, will contribute to the breadth and depth of the Bettina Network’s Research Library’s information. It is our way of democratizing the things with which we live and the art and antiques which we all so enjoy.
The story going down the generations will be the story of all of us – those who could afford to buy art in the millions of dollars – which we will sell – and those who bought much smaller items for which we will also create and carry forward its provenance in just as serious a vein, so this Library will reflect the story of us all.
Bettina Network, inc. is still the Network of bed & breakfast homes which has been in business for some 20 years. It still maintains Bettina’s Menu of Events – which is sent to those making reservations to stay in one of the homes in Bettina Network, inc. giving them events happening over the dates and in the city of their stay. And Bettina Network, inc. still maintains Bettina Network’s Blog which currently has a number of visitors to its blog ranging from apx 300 to apx. 1200 on a daily basis.
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Over the breakfast table we heard about cinnamon and weight loss. We tried it and amazingly it works. We tried the suggestion which said have a cup of warm milk (whole milk – preferably non-homogenized and non-pasteurized, but if you can’t get that the regular pasteurized milk is fine. The non-homogenized is available under the “Sky Top” brand available at Whole Foods and possibly other places.
Make sure the cinnamon is the real cinnamon or Ceylon Cinnamon. After trying it for a couple weeks I am down 6 pounds.
I would suggest you try this for a few weeks and then go off the cinnamon. The body is an amazing thing – it acclimates to what you are doing very easily so to keep the cinnamon for weight loss viable, give it up after a few weeks and take it up again later.
You might try raspberry ketones as a substitute for the cinnamon in warm milk when you give it up. We have not tried this, but I heard about it on Dr. Oz. He said his “medical group” looked into this and found it effective for weight loss.
We also ‘googled’ cinnamon for weight loss and found many articles saying how great it is – so our bed & breakfast guest who talked about this and got everyone excited about the possibilities knew what she was talking about.
We also understand it might be effective against diabetes because of how Ceylon cinnamon acts in the body relative to your blood sugar levels.
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Friends are people who were and are there when no one else is …………………
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Ed. Note: Because we had so much response to the Bettina Network Blog on Whitney Houston and because we had questions we couldn’t properly answer and comments we didn’t want to put in the blog – there would have been many by now – mostly repetitive – we decided to reprint (with permission) – this article written by Marc Morial, who has written a fantastic column which covers it all and we commend this to you without reservations or further comments.
“The Incomparable Whitney Houston
To Be Equal #7
Syndicated Weekly Column by National Urban League President & CEO Marc H. Morial
“To me Whitney was THE VOICE. We got to hear a part of God every time she sang.” – Oprah Winfrey on the death of Whitney Houston
FEBRUARY 15, 2012 – Billie Holiday was 44. Judy Garland was 47. Dinah Washington was 39. Michael Jackson was 51. Jimi Hendrix was 28. Janis Joplin was 27. Amy Winehouse was 28. And Whitney Houston lived only 48 years on this earth. I was one of millions of people around the world who were stunned to learn of the untimely death of pop-music queen, Whitney Houston last Saturday. Like so many other entertainers who died too young, Whitney was blessed with a divine talent but also haunted by a heavy load of troubles.
Throughout much of the 1980′s and 90′s, Whitney Houston reigned as the undisputed queen of pop. With songs like “The Greatest Love of All,” and “I Will Always Love You,” she set a standard as an octave-shattering virtuoso who brought both elegance and a gospel-tinged intensity to her work in studio and on stage. That was surely a natural outgrowth of her church choir roots and being the daughter of classy gospel legend, Cissy Houston.
Whitney got her start singing in the junior choir of Newark, New Jersey’s New Hope Baptist Church, where her mother has served as Minister of Music for decades. Whitney also undoubtedly benefited from the influences of other great musical talents in her family. Dionne Warwick was her cousin. And Aretha Franklin was her Godmother. But, Whitney was a pure original.
In addition to setting the music world on fire and influencing such performers as Mariah Carey, Beyoncé and Jennifer Hudson, Whitney also excelled as an actress, and had starring roles in such movies as “The Bodyguard,” “Waiting to Exhale” and “The Preacher’s Wife.” Her final film, “Sparkle,” a remake of the 1976 movie about three sisters from Harlem who form a singing group, is set to be released in August.
It is a sad irony that Whitney Houston died on the eve of this year’s Grammy Awards. The winner of six Grammys herself, Whitney was preparing to attend a pre-Grammy party given by her mentor, the legendary music producer, Clive Davis. Her body was found Saturday afternoon in the bath tub of her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. As of this writing, the exact cause of her death is still unknown.
In her 2009 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Whitney revealed for the first time, some of the most intimate details about her troubled marriage to Bobby Brown, the deep feelings she had for her mother and her daughter, Bobbie Kristina, and her struggles with drugs. She candidly admitted to Oprah that at times “It was too much. So much to try to live up to, to try to be, and I wanted out.” Through it all, Whitney said she was constantly reading her bible and trying to get back to God. While we are all shocked and saddened by her death, I am hopeful that Whitney Houston’s life and incomparable musical gifts will inspire others to let nothing stand in the way of the full and healthy expression of their God-given talents. Our thoughts and prayers are with Cissy, Bobbie Kristina and the entire Houston family.”
And from the Bettina Network:
May the Lord Bless and Keep you Whitney,
May God’s face shine upon you and be gracious unto you;
May God lift up that exquisite, peaceful and loving countenance upon you and give you peace
Now and forever….Amen and Amen!
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Walnut Oil on Furniture?
Sunday, December 16th, 2012copyright 2012 Bettina Network, inc.
From a guest and blog reader:
Thanks for your blog on using Walnut Oil on wood furniture. I tried it and it works phenomenally! I used the Olive Oil and Walnut Oil – half and half. A friend of mine used Walnut Oil straight from the Spectrum bottle. She loves her way, I love mine.
She uses hers on her wood chopping block and wood bowls she uses for mixing salads. The Walnut oil dries hard – but you have to let it sit a couple days – and it lasts awhile. She used to use Mineral Oil and I gave her a hard time about that because Mineral Oil is a petroleum derivative (ed note: from Wikipedia “mineral oil is a liquid by-product of the distillation of petroleum to produce gasoline and other petroleum-based products from crude oil.”)and I don’t think it should come in contact with food. Although with all the medicines made from petroleum derivatives and other things we use coming from distillates of petroleum we should be immune – still, I tried her straight Walnut Oil on my chopping block and it was great.
I used the mixture of Olive and Walnut Oils on my antique wood furniture and the shine is unbelievable. It also looks as though nothing will penetrate or cause the furniture harm. I even used it on my grand piano. I did take an additional step. After I oiled the furniture – which was rubbing in a half and half mixture with a few drops of an essential oil – I let it sit for a couple days and then rubbed it again with just Olive Oil.
I did this by accident trying to undo what I thought was a great mistake. The furniture was very sticky and yukky after oiling it and days later it was still sticky and yukky. I didn’t know what to do and thought I had ruined my furniture. I went back to the Olive Oil, rubbed the furniture with Olive Oil on a soft rag and couldn’t believe the results. The furniture is beautiful. The shine is incredible and old looking furniture now looks soft and with a beautiful sheen.
I put essential oil in the mixture because I would like my house to have a faint smell of lemon oil and essential oil of lemon does the trick. I might try organic rose oil next time – even though it is wickedly expensive. The smell of roses through the house should be great.
What fun to experiment like this. I lost interest in cleaning and caring for my house. I have now regained that because it has become a creative endeavor and with the products you are talking about I am not worried about giving myself a serious disease from my cleaning products. I wouldn’t even let the woman who helps me clean use products she has been using for years. She thought I was being silly, but has since changed her mind and won’t use anything else. I am sure the other people she works for are happy with the change.
I don’t know where you get his stuff from but wherever, keep those great tips coming. I am guessing, from breakfast conversations.
When I stayed at XXXXXXXXXXXX in the Bettina Network we talked about recipes for making banana bread. I expected to talk about solving the huge problems in the world. Maybe next time. My banana bread, however, is great! Your guests were right about the ingredients making the difference. I used the same ingredients that I used before that conversation, in the same amounts, but they are now organic and the best I can find and the difference is astounding. Worth the few extra quarters. I eat less of it because the taste satisfies and doesn’t leave me craving white sugar, lard and flour. We didn’t solve the worlds’ problems at the breakfasts I had in the Bettina Network, but the new discoveries around banana bread is a start. And – my now using Walnut Oil instead of XXXXXXXXXXXXX means a minute amount of petroleum is no longer being used and maybe that is also a different kind of start to solving some of the world’s problem. Who said to the flower “bloom where you are planted.”
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