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How to Organize an Inclusive Hybrid Event in 5 Easy Steps
The flexibility to participate on one's own terms and in ways that are suitable for each person's unique requirements is one of the numerous benefits hybrid events give to both in-person and virtual attendees. Future's Past Events provides the expertise and training required to plan a diverse hybrid event that is open to all attendees, regardless of how they choose to attend. Here is where you should start. Here are the five processes we take while putting together a hybrid event.
By SEO Team3 years ago in Families
Moving Towards Positivity. Top Story - August 2022.
Introduction I see a lot of posts and memes that focus on negativity. Often people say they are done with being kind or giving second chances and they will only be happy with taking revenge for some wrong or another. This can even generate hate which is never a good thing. While I can become angry with some events and even people I never let it degenerate into hate because that is a destructive situation and usually I am not in full knowledge of all the facts behind what happened.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Families
For You, Money Grew on Trees and Time Stood Still
October 17, 2002; I had no idea that the birth of one life could drastically suck the soul out of another. Six-year-old me was overly excited for you to come. I had spent months watching our family prep for your arrival. We had a baby shower, tons of family members over all the time, and lots of shopping... all for you. Now that I think about it, I felt like I was beginning to lose them before you had even arrived. Your mom stopped playing with me. She was sick all of the time. Your dad's focus was all on your mom. Grandma's attention went towards helping your mom and since grandpa didn't have a mind of his own, his focus was wherever grandma's was.
By XX.DANAE3 years ago in Families
Split In Half
My biological father had this darkness about him that I can’t explain. It was perfect because it allowed everyone to love him and hide the darkness they couldn’t see. I thought I could cancel out the darkness I inherited from my biological father. When there is rage in your bloodline, sometimes all you feel is anger. I think that some men just shouldn't be fathers. It’s hard to fully understand how much of a bad person he was. I thought I was destined to be like him and my biological mom for a while. I thought that it was written in my DNA.
By Nat 3 years ago in Families
Things I Never Knew. Top Story - August 2022.
My mothers side of the family has always been a bit of a mystery for me, for a lot of reasons. One of the big reasons was divorce, both my parents divorce and my grandparents divorce. And if I'm honest my mother complicated things. She left our family when I was 5, then decided she wanted sympathy and child support so that is easier if you have at least one of your 4 children. I was the easy target being the youngest, a 5 year custody battle ensued that eventually ended in an airport with her saying "I never wanted you anyway". This is the very short version, it is actually what I usually write about, mostly telling some stories for my kids but you are welcome to check them out if you want.
By Heather Lunsford3 years ago in Families
About Winter Sanya Tour
During this year's winter break, our family took a trip to the paradise of Sanya. The air in Zibo is dry, plus the winter in the north is strangely cold, which is why our family decided to play in the warm climate of Sanya. The sky here is lower and bluer than Qingdao, and the grey weather in Zibo is more than you can hope for. I have only seen such beautiful skies in Japan. The sea water in Sanya is less polluted and appears extraordinarily clear and blue, just like being in a movie. And, the sea in Sanya is also very well developed, in the West Island, Wuzhizhou Island and other tourist islands, the sea can be seen everywhere, water skiing, banana boat (a small rubber boat needs to be pumped, very light weight, can take 4-5 people, pulled by a speedboat on the surface of the sea), by speedboat and sailboat tourists, the sky is also a lot of people playing parachute, the bottom of the sea is a lot of diving On the beach, there are sun loungers for rent, beach buggies and tandem bicycles. These excellent marine resources are not wasted, and the more advanced beach hotels in Sanya have their own beaches, and I saw banana boats for rent at the Sanya Mangrove Resort. Therefore, it is a very good choice to visit Sanya in winter.
By Bynun Broderson3 years ago in Families
Life Is Precious And Health Is Fragile
Life is precious and our health is so fragile. Don’t waste a single moment of your life when you can enjoy both. So many people take their health for granted and think they will live forever, and be forever young.
By John Whye3 years ago in Families
The Christmas Diary
December 19. Brrr, cold. I get dressed. Warm and comfortable underpants. (Read: capable of curbing any sexual initiative).
By Patrizia Poli3 years ago in Families
What is love?
What is love? The meaning of love is very broad, can be friendship, family, love...... Perhaps the most interesting of these is love? Then I might as well say love. Love is the most wonderful word, how many people are struggling to pursue, sometimes people put love more important than life. But what is love? How many people really have eternal love? How many people spend their whole lives looking for it? Love may be the feeling of love at first sight, love may be the feeling of body, love may be the feeling of life and death together...... Love is an endless topic. When you love a person, your heart is scared and uneasy, you do not know the feelings of the other side, you have to hide their feelings, because you are a reserved person. Maybe you had love is a shadow of your heart, you have to put on a dream of clothes, you revel in the illusion of the dream don't want to wake up, long lingering, travelling, when you know each other's feelings, all have the wind light cloud light, because you have walked out of his shadow, his coat and luxuriant, no longer love you embrace has lost its luster, Your life is now gray. When I don't have the experience of loving others, I think, "Loving others is really enjoyable." When I was loved, I thought: "To be loved is really a kind of happiness!" But whether love and be loved, are so sad, because the heart is always so unpredictable, desire is always so things for her, can only be passed by. Nothing can reach deep into her heart. Just like a decadent and dim flower, with a desperate gesture but a naive face, smiling at all the cruelty and humiliation. Deep dark green is no tears. Such a flower always open in the dark do not believe in tears, it is destined to be alone. Often, in a crowded sea of people, feel the extension, sound, smell of many strangers, chaos and noise. And calm down to see, to listen, to feel difficult to fill, with love and love there is a struggle in the vortex of emotion, with love and love is also more emotional world entanglement. The wrong car of love and being loved, the incomprehension of love and being loved, the restriction of love and being loved, the helplessness of love and being loved... The vast land, for a disappointed in the world and no love in the heart, where is not the same? Always walk in the road, all the love, suddenly will find that there is nothing here. Empty and silent. There are many people who are soulless. A mediocre life without a purpose.
By xiehanxing3 years ago in Families
What kind of family can be a housewife
Is not myself, but I have relatives, her husband do business of oil, from the nineties was done (I don't know, anyhow is very early to do the dial), then in addition to oil, they also runs a hotel (very big, when a very high level of the sort of, is still open), and other real estate company, There are agents of luxury brands catering brands and so on in short involved in the field is quite wide... I don't know how much money, but in the past ten or twenty years, it was just some of the top local rich people, who were very well connected locally and in various ways. This brother-in-law is the only child in the family, he is the only one, because his parents are busy making money, so only this one child. Both he and the sister was born in the 70 s, is a key university student, he is a high level of brother small primary school sister, she is graduated from the school sister was married, I remember correctly, should be 98. At the time when I go to their wedding, I was only ten years old, my memory is that I have participated in the grand wedding, then we have MC presided over the wedding there still is not popular (home small town, she was going to marry to the provincial capital), the general is the toast the bride and groom worship accomplishment, their home from other place please MC, she changed two wedding dress alone. At that time, it was good to refresh my understanding of weddings. After that, for a long time, I would fantasize that I would be a bride in the future and wear a wedding dress. Then again! I this distant sister, that call a beautiful that call an excellent ah! She is more than ten years older than me, because her father and my mother work together, so we live in the same compound. I remember her since she must have been in middle school or high school, and they had a wall, and it was covered with all kinds of awards from her brother and sister. Her dad is my mom unit of leadership, and measurements are better at home, when I was a little boy, I often go to his house to play, there is always a lot haven't eaten snacks, haven't seen gadgets, I remember the most is clear that she has a small wooden bench, I especially like, every time I go to sit down, then her mother to me directly. The elder sister is particularly beautiful, big eyes high nose bridge, eyebrows curved smile eyes like curved moon, mouth small special logo, oval oval face, complete combination of her parents in the appearance of the advantages, even now she is overweight, temperament is also first-class. I heard that there were a lot of advertising companies to look for her to shoot advertising, were her boyfriend is later her husband rejected. In my impression, she is always gentle and gentle, and her speech is not slow, and her actions are gentle and elegant. In addition, her family is strict, and her parents are also knowledgeable and cultural people, so she has a kind of ladylike temperament in everything she does. Really not I blow her to the sky, is she really worthy of such praise, may be her shortcomings will be similar to the foot odor of this kind, we usually can't capture the defect, in short, I see her is how to see how perfect. She is married, graduated from were indeed class haven't been a day, when they got married in the home is bought villa in the provincial capital, employed a nanny in the home, access is a luxury car, this is another sister listen to me say, they are two Cousins), but their humanness is very low-key, every time I open are ordinary cars, Just like we drive a regular Volkswagen. After four years of marriage, she gave birth to her daughter in 2002. Her husband is very handsome and very tall, typical tall, rich and handsome, but their daughter is really so-so, and does not inherit the advantages of either of them at all. The last time we met was 16 years ago, a family reunion. The girl was 14 years old and about to take the high school entrance examination. I grew quite tall, about one meter six at that time, very small face inherited mother's oval face but face is smaller than mother's circle, sporadic acne on the face and some acne prints, wearing gold frame glasses, originally small eyes appear smaller, nose bridge is straight, teeth are also very neat. Very ordinary is not a beauty, compared with the mother is really too much, but estimated to grow up will be beautiful, because her face is really small face. But also because of that time, I just know her early divorce, now the husband is her high school classmate, in an important unit in the province is a serious official. Words and phrases from the extended/priest asked adjusted, the cause of her divorce, because two people less and less, if she had a pretty good graduates became a full-time wife, and they are no longer the same professional provinces and turned to become the big boss, broke away from each other's circle, gradually did not have the intersection. I think it's a pity that the story of the princess and prince didn't have a happy ending... But the sister is also starting her own business and is doing well! I think my daughter went to college
By ggsfhgr3 years ago in Families
Company is the longest confession of love
He said to the guest: My girlfriend is still at home, give me a Kung Pao chicken, fill a box of rice, pack. Before the meal was over, he got up and said goodbye to everyone. "Take your time," he said. "I have to go back to love."
By pomfret wise3 years ago in Families
Borrow abdomen parturient (2)
After returning to the dormitory, Dong Ni tossed and turned, but couldn't sleep. Half a million yuan is not a small amount. In the county where he lives, he can buy a commercial house and a car to drive, and his wife and son can eat and drink without worry and live a rich life... Dongzi is tempted, for the sake of home, he wants to try.
By Ivan A Jaramillo3 years ago in Families