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As the former owner of the import, retail, and wholesale distribution company GeOasis, Stacy Stine Cary enjoyed the opportunity to travel the world to acquire exceptional mineral specimens, wood, and alabaster for product creation. She has also served as a partner with the property firm Grogans Park Group, Ltd, and Family Focus, a legislative network that focuses on parental rights within the state of Texas. In recent years, Stacy Cary has worked on several state bills and acts designed to protect children, promote marriage, and generally further the causes of Texas families. She is also a life member of the Texas Home School Coalition, which is another large organization that works fervently for parental rights in all areas. Ms. Cary also supported her husband’s efforts as he wrote expositions on divorce and parental rights for the Collin County Observer. Furthermore, she has delivered key personal political comments in support of House Bill 3525, a Texas House of Representatives initiative in favor of equal parenting responsibilities. Stacy Stine Cary previously served area parents and their children as a member of the Highland Park Independent School District Parent Education Committee.

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Cumberland Gap

I love integrating history in with vacations! I have found my kids love it too.

Here’s a memorable walking tour that incites learning, discussion and spiritual empress.

  It’s hard for us to understand how humble the origin is of the United States. After the American Revolution, settlers began to pour across the Appalachian Mountains to the new land of Kentucky. Their technology consisted of the…

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PauseHawaii Once in the land of Puff the Magic Dragon, hitting the shores on a beach so private I’ve promised not to reveal it here, Shangri-La Kauai becomes a peaceful private paradise on 11 acres just for Pause Hawaii clients Pause Hawaii is the vision of owner Michael Solberg, of the Solberg Center for Structural Integration.

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Shangri-La Kauai Once in the land of Puff the Magic Dragon, hitting the shores on a beach so private I’ve promised not to reveal it here, Shangri-La Kauai becomes a peaceful private paradise on 11 acres just for…

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South Africa Winelands An African safari was on my To Do list, my bucket list if you will, even before I had a bucket!

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Pre Catalan Ah, Paris! The destination of a lifetime? Maybe, but if you are one of those that needs to plan everything ahead, be prepared to toddle off the beaten path when plans don’t fall perfectly into place…..like they did with us!

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The London Stone

We run to London, whether for business of pleasure, and we see the London Tower and Westminster Abbey and we are impressed. And well we should be, for we feel the centuries past roll into the present, and feel they will continue forever. All this is good but how many of us have visited the London Stone?

“And here, sitting upon London-stone, I charge and command that, of the city’s cost, the…

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The Adobe Walls

Quanah Parker

I am a small percentage Crow Indian. A picture of my half-blood grandmother and quarter-blood father would be enough proof right there! How many of you are aware if you have American Indian roots?

Everyone in Texas knows about the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto. How many people know about the Adobe Walls?

 If battle deaths make a ground scared, then the grounds around Adobe…

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The Adobe Walls

  Quanah Parker

I am a small percentage Crow Indian. A picture of my half-blood grandmother and quarter-blood father would be enough proof right there! How many of you are aware if you have American Indian roots?

  Everyone in Texas knows about the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto. How many people know about the Adobe Walls?

 If battle deaths make a ground scared, then the grounds around Adobe…

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Former inmate Dave Cary, 62, enjoys walking from his Lovers Lane home in University Park to Union Coffee on Dyer Street. On his laptop, he follows the news and blogs about wrongfully convicted people and such prosecutorial misdeeds as affairs with judges and distortion of defendants’ pasts. “T

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How Does SVP Dallas Support Nonprofits?

A mentor at the startup accelerator Tech Wildcatters, entrepreneur Stacy Stine Cary also founded the natural product distributor GeOasis. A patron of multiple charitable causes, Stacy Stine Cary is a supporter of Social Venture Partners (SVP). A Dallas, Texas-based philanthropic and social change organization, SVP consists of 3,500 members, a number that makes it the largest group of active donors worldwide. SVP has 39 local chapters around the world in addition to a network of community partners including Verizon and Texas Instruments. The organization not only gives charitably but also connects individuals with one another to advance social innovation, fund nonprofits, and maximize philanthropic efforts. SVP also offers nonprofits various organizational tools, including board governance, communications, financial management, and human resources. Moreover, as part of its commitment to partnership, it taps into its global network to provide expertise in several business disciplines with the aim of strengthening organizations in all of their aspects. In exchange for these services, nonprofit partners are expected to commit to an honest and flexible relationship.

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Essential Considerations for Startups Looking for Venture Capital

Stacy Stine Cary has a diverse professional and managerial background in real estate, oil and gas, and retail distribution. A mentor at Tech Wildcatters, Stacy Cary uses her experience to guide startups on finding venture capital. For growing startups, venture capital is essential to the company’s survival and growth. Here are a few things to keep in mind before setting out to find a venture capitalist: 1) Understand the size of your market Venture capitalists invest millions into a business and expect substantial returns on this investment. To do this, your potential market must be large enough to hold such promise of returns. 2) Know whether you want a high-impact business or a small business Here, the question is really how much control you want over your company’s operation. High-impact businesses have a significant growth trajectory and can create a lot of wealth for investors. However, in time and in line with growth, the founders tend to devolve management to seasoned executives. Small businesses offer stability and give founders full control over the management of the firm’s daily operations. 3) Build your team Venture capitalists are very interested in the team driving the startup; they don’t back individuals, they back teams. You have to demonstrate to the venture capitalists that your team is balanced by individuals who have diverse skills, are deeply knowledgeable of the startup’s domain, and are experienced and ambitious.         

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Vladimir Putin’s Ban on Russian Adoptions for Americans

In 2002, Stacy Stine finalized her adoption of two Russian babies. It took nearly a year, but, when she was able to bring home her 10-month-old baby girl and her six-month-old baby boy, Stacy (Stine) Cary said the wait and the effort were worth it. Some 10 years later, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Dima Yakovlev Law, which outlines various sanctions against America and American citizens. As a result, Americans have been unable to adopt children from Russia since January 1, 2013. Now that hopeful adopters like the Stine Carys cannot become parents to Russian children in need, American and Russian citizens alike are concerned about the well-being of orphaned Russian children. In the 20 years preceding the ban, American families adopted more than 60,000 children from Russia. America has historically given homes to more Russian children than any other nation. Adoption advocates are especially concerned about orphaned children with disabilities. Roughly 2,500 Russian children are born with Down syndrome every year, and as many as 85 percent of them end up in an orphanage. The United States is the world leader in adopting children with special needs. Adoption and human rights advocates worldwide are hopeful that the ban will be overturned soon in order to save as many children as possible from being institutionalized. Russia currently houses more than 600,000 children in its orphanages.

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Dallas Startup Panamplify Closes Successful $1.1M Funding Round

Stacy Stine Cary is a respected Texas entrepreneur who led the nature-made products firm GeOasis for more than a decade. Stacy Cary gives back to her community as mentor with the Tech Wildcatters, which offers startups technology and funding support. One major recent success story in the Dallas-Fort Worth community involves Panamplify, which completed a $1.1 million seed funding round in December 2015. Panamplify designs intelligent systems that automate marketing endeavors and minimize the labor involved in setting up, configuring, and managing complex analytics platforms. As Dallas offers a broad spectrum of “enterprise class” businesses that is needed to facilitate growth, the company remains deeply committed to the community. When asked to describe Panamplify’s strategy, cofounder Michael Pratt emphasizes its focus on bringing simplicity to marketing analytics capacities. Over the past year and a half, Panamplify has folded 15 distinct feature sets into four refined offerings in ways that benefit the end business user.                            

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Tech Wildcatters Accelerates Multiple Startups

An experienced business leader in several fields, Stacy Cary serves as an investor in Tech Wildcatters, a company that accelerates the development of new companies. Stacy Stine Cary has mentored several recent Texas startups through her association with the company. Among Tech Wildcatter's clients is DineMob, makers of an app designed to draw customers to quality restaurants during non-rush hours. The app alerts diners to special off-peak promotions. The system rewards users not only with deals but provides credits for future visits. Users can also arrange rides through a link to Uber. Another app, GameTime Giving, offers a new venue for charitable contributions. Aimed at millennials, the application accesses virtual games to play while potential donors are at sporting events. When the app's game finishes, it gives users a chance to donate. GameTime Giving has already signed partnership deals with the Dallas Stars, with other potential partners including the Frisco RoughRiders and FC Dallas. A third startup is the team behind Capparsa, productivity technology currently being marketed in the business-to-business environment. It helps users increase efficiency by directing teams and handling tasks. Capparsa's founders foresee some 54 million freelancers using its software.                            

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Modern Scouting in the Dallas Area

With a background in real estate, oil and gas exploration and extraction, and importing and exporting, Texan Stacy Stine Cary is well acquainted with business and entrepreneurism. In addition, Stacy Cary is a tireless volunteer who supports several cause-oriented organizations, including the Boy Scouts. When the Scouting movement began in the early 20th century, its emphasis was on outdoor skills, such as camping, hiking, swimming, and rowing and canoeing. Modern Scouting continues to emphasize those skills, but with a distinctly 21st-century flavor. One indication of how Scouting has worked to stay abreast of a changing world is the merit badges Scouts earn to demonstrate their proficiency in various skills, as well as to advance in rank to the coveted Eagle badge. In 1910, only 13 badges of merit were offered, including Ambulance, Fireman, Electrician, and Stalkers. The list gradually grew and some of the badges were renamed; for instance, the Ambulance badge became the First Aid badge in 1911, and it has remained the most popular merit badge today. The Fireman badge became the Firemanship badge. The Stalkers badge was renamed Stalking and in 2010 was again renamed Tracking. Throughout the years, the Scouts have been offered a total 261 merit badges, of which 134 are still available. Modern merit badges that reflect the Scouts’ efforts to offer American youth meaningful skills and interests in an evolving world include Sustainability, Programming, Moviemaking, Orienteering, and Snow Sports. Boy Scouts in the Dallas, Texas, area belong to the Circle Ten Council, which comprises Dallas, 10 neighboring counties in Texas, and Bryan County in Oklahoma. The council was chartered in 1913, although troops of Scouts formed in the area as early as 1910, the year Scouting came to the United States. The Council serves more than 55,000 Scouts.