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Top 10 Cancun Activities For Families
When planning a vacation to Cancun, there are many fun and exciting Cancun activities for families. Here we have compiled a list of the top ten Cancun activities for families.
1. Jungle Tours – This is a great adventure for older kids as you speed through the water on a speed boat as you explore the world's second largest coral reef. Take a swim or snorkel with tropical fish.
2. Laguna de Nichupte – Rent a wave runner and speed through this mangrove lined water jungle. You may also enjoy snorkeling and scuba diving.
3. Xcaret Park – This is an amazing place to visit for the entire family. This eco-park offers a raft tour through the jungle as well as a sea turtle nursery and many more family-oriented Cancun activities.
4. Zipline and Cancun Snorkeling Tours – Enjoy flying through the air on several zipline trails as well as snorkeling on the coral reef.
5. Sevatica Eco Park – This is a wonderful eco-adventure park with many activities for the entire family. Visitors are able to zipline over the jungle as well as swim in the cenote which is a freshwater sinkhole.
6. Deep Sea Fishing – This is a great activity for the entire family. Rent your own boat or charter one of the many charter boats and enjoy a relaxing day of fishing on the ocean. You will be able to fish for marlin, sailfish and mahi mahi.
7. Tulum – Visit these beautiful and majestic ruins of the ancient Mayan seaport.
8. Chichen Itza – Tour this capital of the ancient Mayan empire which has been declared one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
9. Dolphin Swim – No trip to Cancun is complete without spending some time swimming and interacting with these amazing gentle creatures. This is one of the best things to do in Cancun with kids.
10. Slan Ka'an Biosphere Reserve – This is a great place to enjoy nature and wildlife in its natural habitat. Visitors will be able to enjoy snorkeling and kayaking among many other Cancun activities.
When deciding what to do in Cancun, it's clear that there are many fun and exciting Cancun activities for the entire family to enjoy.


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New Hope Springs trailer appeals to the older cinema-goer
- Niki Boyle
- 27 April 2012
Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones star in this romcom
There's been a shift in Hollywood in recent years towards films which appeal to the older cinema-goer. The likes of The Artist showed that the classic ways of filmmaking are still relevant; The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was teeming with venerable British talent; and films like Tinker Tailor, The Iron Lady and Potiche showed that you can have older stars on screen and still attract an audience purely by having a good plot and some decent acting on show. To this list we can add Hope Springs, a romantic comedy starring Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones.
The pair play Maeve and Arnold Soames, a couple who have been together for the best part of their lives. When Maeve starts fearing that their relationship has lost its spark, she suggests they visit marriage counsellor Bernie (Steve Carrell) to help sort things out.
It's the sort of pitch that, in the wrong hands, could easily spiral into a bad taste farce. However, with Streep on board, the whole thing has an air of class (Jones is no slouch either, what with No Country for Old Men in his recent past), and Carrell has proved he can handle sensitive subject matter with appearances in Little Miss Sunshine and Dan in Real Life. And even if Marigold Hotel did feel somewhat like it was pandering rather than catering to 'the grey pound', films like About Schmidt in the past have shown that, when older people feature in comedies, they needn't be the punchline.

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Publishing in Scholarly Journals
As a researcher, sharing your work is essential to furthering the discussion, development and potentially even funding of your findings. The sheer quantity of guides available on "how to write" and "how to target X journal" perhaps signifying the impact of targeting the right place and the best audience for your research.
Before reaching the stage of submitting in the hope of publication, many publishers expect researchers to have already made some key considerations:
- Is your research original, engaging, innovative?
- Who do you expect to be the audience for your research?
- Which journal(s) do you think might be interested in accepting your article for publication and does your article fit with their aims, scope and style?
- What are your open access needs?
- Is your manuscript suitably and well written (free from grammatical error, solid narrative, clear abstract and conclusions) in accordance with the journal's style guide?
Your researching peers and foremost, your supervisor, are the best place to start for advice on where to publish and whether your manuscript is ready. Then, once you think you have found the right journal for your article, you should read their Author's Guide and make sure you can freely submit to them as some journals are invitation-only.


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Oh, oh, somebody's in trouble at HPD. Seems the Harris County District Attorney's Office just indicted HPD officer Jeffrey Larson and former officer Ronny Martin for theft. Who did Larson and Martin allegedly steal from? Wait for it...the Houston Police Officers Union. Well damn.
The two are accused of misappropriating cash, credit cards, even vehicles totaling more than $100,000 during a four-year period. The men face first-degree felony charges of Aggregate Theft by a Public Servant and second-degree felony charges of Misapplication of Fiduciary Property.
Martin, who had been HPOU's secretary and was a member of the union's board of directors, is accused of "orchestrating the scheme." Larson, treasurer for HPOU, was his flunky, er, we mean, accomplice. (Allegedy, allegedly.)
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A Moment of Panic
I was preparing last minute for a local art show and ready to monoprint several backgrounds for cards. I have all my quotes printed and focal images ready...the time consuming part or so I thought.
I even made a pocket to protect the back/inside of the cards from stray paint. I folded a piece of cardstock and taped both sides with washi tape to create the pocket.
I had the camera ready to record and my plate out. I was ready to go...or so I thought. I couldn't get more than one pull off my 8x10 plate because the paints were drying way to fast. These are paints I use repeatedly without any issues, even the Golden Opens were not staying wet enough. I tried cleaning my plate, but no luck. I stopped recording out of total frustration. Eventually, I switched to my 3x5 and round plates which worked like normal but the size was limited.
After the weekend and art show were over, I began to investigate the problem. I discovered a break in the clamp shell packaging. On the Gelli Arts® manufacturer's website FAQ, I saw a recommendation to clean with mineral oil or baby oil. I immediately got busy putting a layer of oil across the top and letting it sit. I repeated this about 3 times on top and once on the bottom. I let it sit for an hour then rinsed with just water, lightly dried with paper towels and placed back in the repaired case (I put duck tape on outside and inside to keep it air tight again)
It worked! Here are the most recent prints I pulled.
6/17/2015 07:10:21 am
Wow...that's good to know, Debbie... I didn't realize that the plate could dry out. I'm happy that you were able to save it!
Deborah Bokamper-Epps
6/17/2015 07:13:47 am
They said it was not exposure to air, but could have been heat or maybe dried paint I couldn't see needed to be removed? My others were fine, so I don't think it had to do with any heat. I plan on cleaning mine with the oil occasionally.
Amy Bagley
6/17/2015 07:41:11 am
I try to make a habit of conditioning my plates before storing them at the end of each printing session. It helps keep them clear and pretty as well as helping with getting all the paint off the plate and around the edges! :)
Deborah Bokamper-Epps
6/17/2015 07:46:30 am
I am definitely adding it to my routine.
Sharon Field
6/17/2015 02:43:32 pm
I have had my plates for a few months, but due to illness have not used them but 1 time. Now that I am on the mend I plan to start playing and see what I can do, so this tidbit of info is something I shall keep in mind. Thanks for sharing and I really love your work!
Deborah Bokamper-Epps
6/17/2015 02:47:50 pm
Thanks Shannon! I love my gelli plates and the thought of it being damaged was unthinkable, lol. I use it to make all my backgrounds and accent papers. I have several youtube videos monoprinting, but also highly recommend you watch Patti Tolley Parrish and Gelli Arts, of course, but just explore & have fun.
Jinx Engstrom
6/17/2015 11:09:21 pm
I have noticed the metallic acrylics leave a residue on the plate. I am going to try the mineral oil.
Deborah Bokamper-Epps
6/18/2015 12:30:05 am
Yes, and I use metallic on a regular basis.
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My Workbench. The Finale
Over the past couple weeks I have finished the last little bits to my workbench. Added a shelf, center divider, small drawer, and added the holdfast.
I am sure I will add a couple other small things to the bench, namely a planing stop for one. But, in general the bench is finished.
The best part about this bench isn't that it is a "Roubo", which in a way it isn't, but that it meets my needs for a bench. I think that is the hardest part in designing and building a bench. It's not so much the type or style of bench you build, but the small things that you incorporate or don't incorporate that personalizes it to meet your working needs. I don't believe there is one bench to rule them all, but there is certainly the perfect bench out there for everyone. The hardest part is figuring out what you really need in a bench, once you figure that out you are well on your way to building something that will speed up your work and make things go smoother.
Hope you enjoy this little video.
1/1/2014 12:09:52 pm
Enjoy the new bench, you pretty much have it all covered.
Stan P
1/3/2014 05:46:34 am
Nice bench. Looks like you've got all the bases covered. Maybe in six months or a year you could let us know how it's working for you.
1/4/2014 02:32:07 am
I have really enjoyed the videos of the progress and the removable/flip over center in really nice. Thank you for posting all the details!
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The recent derailment of the Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic Railway train in Lac Megantic, Quebec, caused irrevocable damage on a small town just 10 miles from the U.S.-Canada border. The primary cargo of that train, crude from the Bakken region, has led to many questions regarding the practice of moving oil by rail. A recent report from Moody's Corporation (NYSE:MCO) says this accident could lead to several new restrictions that could drastically hurt rail shipments. This probably isn't a revelation, but let'slook at where the oil-by-rail story started and who will see the worst effects of a slowdown.
For lack of a better form of transportation
The recent surge in rail shipments of oil got its start back in 2009, when EOG Resources Inc (NYSE:EOG) announced a deal with Burlington Northern Santa Fe to move crude away from the Bakken region to markets such as Cushing, Okla. At that time, only 110,000 barrels of oil per day could be moved away from the region through pipeline, and the expansion of production there meant that other methods would need to happen. While trucking to other markets was deemed uneconomical, the differences in spot prices between Bakken crude and West Texas intermediate made it worth the extra costs to ship by rail.
What several oil companies realized, though, is that moving oil by rail did one thing that pipelines could not: reach the East Coast and West Coast markets. Less than six months ago, the price spread between Bakken crude and imported Brent crude — the primary source for East Coast refiners — was over $20. So despite the premium to move by rail versus by pipeline, it was still well worth it for the refineries. Refiners and producers from the Bakken region have thus begun to move massive amounts of oil by rail. Continental Resources, Inc. (NYSE:CLR), the largest producer of crude from the Bakken, now transports about 80% of all its crude by rail, and Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX) signed on to a five-year contract to receive 50,000 barrels per day of Bakken crude that will get there mostly by rail.
ource: US Energy Information Administration.
Shipments of oil by rail have more than doubled in the past three years, and the inability of pipelines to keep up with production for regions like the Bakken have translated into a bright future for rail shipments. Then this happened:
Source: wikicommons.org/Personalmountains.
Where do we go from here?
The recent tragedy in Lac Megantic has exposed some of the rails' most glaring problems as a mode of transportation for oil. Not only does rail move through population centers, but it also has a higher frequency of spills in comparison with pipelines. According to the International Energy Agency, the occurrence of oil spills from rail shipments between 2004 and 2012 was six times greater than from pipelines.
To be fair, the volume of a rail spill is generally much smaller than a pipeline spill. But it's very likely that the Quebec incident will lead to investigations into how to make rail transportation safer, and increased regulations will also more than likely play a part in the rail business as well. For companies that have a stake in oil-by-rail, the viability of rail transportation will depend greatly on any new regulations. For example, to retrofit the existing U.S. tanker car fleet with additional safety measures would cost more than $1 billion, according to the Association of American Railroads. These kinds of expenses will lead to higher costs to move oil by rail, and regions that have relied on rail could lose their competitive advantage.


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Tomorrow is Woman's Day. Now is the time when many people try to show their respect for Women. Men and Women alike post videos and articles about how celebrated women should be. They are after all the Martyrs that sacrifice their life and hope and ambitions. For what? To be a dutiful wife, mother and daughter in law. And what do they expect in return, your respect, your acknowledgement, your time! But yet you want to watch your favorite sport on TV, or belittle their art, or sleep in on a Sunday! How sacrilegious of you to not notice her martyrdom!
Every year there is that one video, one Chetan Bhagat open letter or one picture that makes it to everyone's facebook page, or whatsapp group. There is one such video this year as well. Unfortunately it drives me up the wall. It shows me how little we think of women. How we have not moved forward at all over all these years! What is Woman's day about? Is it a day to thank the women in your life for all the sacrifices she has made? Is it a day to celebrate how truly great she is because she is such a door mat?
Now lets look at the other extreme? Is Women's day the day to celebrate the liberated woman who no longer cares for the family. Is it the day to declare she will no longer be solely responsible for raising her kids. She will no longer be the cook and provider in the household? After all we are all feminists now aren't we?
So when do we celebrate Men's day ? The other 364 days in the year?
Why do we need to "liberate" women? Why do we have to celebrate their "sacrifices"? Only because we suppress them. We expect them to give up their hopes and dreams for us right? Because we judge them, define what we term as success for them. Force fit them into these martyr shoes that don't want to fit.
You can be a woman or a man. If you are a parent, teach your kids about gender equality and not about liberating woman. Teach your kid that choosing a day to remember a woman is teaching him to forget the rest 364 days. Teach your son's that there will come a day to pick roles in the household. They should be picked because of interests and likes. Not because you are a man or a woman. Teach your daughter that she is equal to any man or woman. But that does not mean she needs to be a man. She needs to embrace herself and her uniqueness and be what she wants to be. If she wants to be a caregiver thats her choice. As is being a Corporate Moghul. Be comfortable in your skin that is what is important.
We dont need a day to be patronized or celebrated or validated. We need a day, every day to be who we are without being judged. Be empowered my dear girls. Conquer the world!
Starting today teach your son's and daughter's gender equality not women's liberation. Lets move towards not having to celebrate "Woman's Day". Every day is Human day!


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The mission of GS1 Healthcare is to lead the Healthcare sector to the successful development and implementation of global standards, by bringing together experts in Healthcare to enhance patient safety and supply chain efficiencies.
GS1 Ireland has been working with the healthcare sector for a number of years and our Healthcare Committee (chaired by Michael Kelly) was set up to co-ordinate activities in the sector. The Committee is made up of representatives from across the Irish Healthcare sector.
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Secret World Legends is the reboot of The Secret World and launches on 26 June (unless you want to play through Steam, in which case the launch is delayed until late July due to crowded market conditions). The original TSW will be kept around on life support for those who prefer tab targetting but will not get any further updates.
The changes include making the combat system more action oriented, doing away with the ability wheel and going to skill trees, and a revamp to the item system.
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Gabriella Jordan
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Spring 2009
Undergraduate / Graduate
This course provides an exciting, eye-opening, and thoroughly useful inquiry into what it takes to live an extraordinary life, on your own terms. The instructors address what it takes to succeed, to be proud of your life, and to be happy in it. Participants tackle career satisfaction, money, body, vices, and relationship to themselves. They learn how to confront issues in their lives, how to live life, and how to learn from it.
A short version of this course meets during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month. Then this semester-long extension of the IAP course is taught to interested members of the MIT community. This not-for-credit course is sponsored by the Department of Science, Technology, and Society. A similar, semester-long version of this course is taught in the Sloan Fellows Program.
The instructors would like to thank Prof. David Mindell for his sponsorship of this course, his hopes for its continued expansion, and his commitment to the well-being of MIT students.
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Everyone would like to find a cure for chronic fibromyalgia-like pain. No one magical treatment is going to work for everybody because everyone is different. Are you searching for your cure? Here is a story about a woman who found her cure:
A 58 year old woman returned to me after seeing another doctor for the past two years. The last time I saw her, she was struggling with fibromyalgia and headaches despite my best efforts to treat her with medications and exercise. Since then, she has lost nearly 60 pounds in two years and is feeling much less pain. Obviously, her time with another doctor did her a whole lot of good ( more than I did) and I wanted to find out what made the difference in her life. She told me that the other doctor discovered that her pain was being caused by food. After eliminating dairy, wheat, peanuts, "nightshade" foods (tomatoes, potatoes, etc), cantaloupe, and bananas, this woman who had suffered with fibromyalgia for years was finally cured. Wow, that got my attention and I wanted to learn more
Currently, the research about the link between fibromyaligia and food is inadequate to draw many conclusions. Yet, nearly 40% of people with fibromyalgia believe that diet influences the pain. The lack of research is not helping anyone. Results from poorly designed studies have suggested that restricted diets such as the "Hallelujah Diet" or a raw, vegan diet can substantially reduce the pain. However, even with good pain reduction, no one continued the special diet after a treatment period ranging from three to seven months. If a treatment is too difficult to continue, then it is really not a good solution. So, researchers are going back to the drawing board to find out what foods can be eliminated easily without using drastically restrictive diet plans that nobody can tolerate.
The elimination of certain foods is centered on a concept that certain foods excite the nervous system. These "excitotoxins" give the brain a source of excitatory neurotransmitters like glutamate and aspartate. An increased level of glutamate has been linked to fibromyalgia; thus, the elimination of MSG (a source of glutamate) seems to be essential. Furthermore, a popular flavor enhancer called aspartame (a source of aspartate) should also be eliminated from the diet of those with chronic pain.
The elimination of these possible causes of pain shifts the advice focus away from weight loss and towards the reducing chemical triggers that sensitize the nervous system. An excited, sensitive nervous system is the root cause of not only fibromyalgia, but also irritable bowel syndrome and migraine headaches. Those with any or all of these conditions should consider a change in diet. Other possible foods that cause pain in certain individuals include: caffeine, food coloring, chocolate, dairy, shellfish, the nightshade family (potatoes, pepper, eggplant, tomatoes), red meat, wheat, sugar and alcohol. All of this elimination sounds drastic. However, if it results in being pain-free, then it is probably worth it. And that is exactly what many people are finding including the above mentioned woman.
Like any story, this one has a couple of morals. First of all, if you quit searching for a solution, then you will not find one. This woman was not improving with my care and found a better solution with a different doctor. She kept searching for answers and I am glad she found a cure. The second moral of this story is that food can be a source of pain. Everyone is different. Some people react to certain foods while others do not. Finding the right food combination for your body could be your magical cure. No one combination will be right for everybody. Treating pain is and always will be an individual road of discovery with no magical wands that work for everyone.


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Jazz Festival & Events Calendar
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