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I've been wanting to try out new and uncharted places in and around Pasig, and have been craving for shawarma for a while now. It was lucky that Uncle Moe's Shawarma Hub came up in my search for inexpensive places to try, and is conveniently accesible via public transportation, and a little effort walking.
We ordered our usual favorites, Kofta Balls with Pita Bread, Keema with Buttered Rice, and Extra Beef Kebab (2 pieces).
The Kofta Balls were really good, especially with the Pita Bread. However, the pita bread is thin, so you might want to slice the kofta balls to smaller pieces before wrapping it with the Pita Bread, or bite from the Kofta Balls first before eating the Pita Bread.
I love buttered rice! I'm not really fond of eating rice (I eat two tablespoons of rice per meal because of my diet) but I don't think I have the strength in me to resist buttered rice. And the Keema was especially delicious, with the shawarma sauces bring out the flavor of the dish. I really think that the sauces were responsible for 50% of the flavor I loved about Keema.
Last but not the least is the two pieces of extra Beef Kebab we ordered. Compared to Mister Kabab, which is one of my favorite Persian/Shawarma places, Uncle Moe's Beef Kebab was significantly shorter and less filling. It also doesn't help that the presentation was unremarkable. It was just two pieces of Beef Kebab placed on an empty plate, then served. As for the taste, the Beef Kebab won't disappoint. Best eater with rice and mixed with their shawarma sauces.
Budget: Your 200php will get you full at Uncle Moe's Shawarma Hub. Choice of affordable drinks include softdrinks in can, bottled juices, and beer.
Check out the rest of their menu and food offerings from their Uncle Moe's Shawarma Hub @ Munch Punch website.
Uncle Moe's Shawarma Hub in Kapitolyo, Pasig is definitely a good place to chill and eat. Inexpensive, yet delectable shawarma dishes which would leave you satisfied. It's very accessible with public transportation. It's something I would recommend to those who're craving for shawarma and flavorful dishes. And yes, will definitely come back for more. –HANA


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Today? I'm sore in my latissimus dorsi. For real.
How did I get sore here? Abs class. Whaa? Yeah. Like any good ab instructor, ours had us work specifically on our backs for a good ten minutes last night.
Why am I glad? My core is obviously in need of tuning. Also ... a stronger back is going to make my time on the bike easier.
Where am I not sore? So abs class made my back sore, but my abs themselves are in pretty good shape today. This means two things to me: I'm improving my core; and I need to push harder. I actually really loved doing straight crunches last night because of how easy they felt, as if I had actually gotten stronger. But I also noticed the instructor was stretching a little further than I was ...

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Clear Choice Staffing Solutions Has Found September Action In Houston
September 5
1510 Polk St, Houston 77002
The tour will feature a state-of-the-art, never before seen production from one of the most beloved voices in popular music, with Anthony set to perform songs spanning his career as well as new songs from his new album.
September 7
BARC Pet Adoptions at the Galleria
Houston Galleria – Westheimer Rd
Come adopt a furry family member and make memories for everyone! If you miss us this weekend, we are at the Galleria with more adorable adoptables waiting to go home with you!
September 12
6000 Hermann Park Drive, Houston 77030
Tad, a saxophone-playing frog, sets out to discover the sources of the faraway music that only he can hear. After many musical misadventures, Tad discovers his inner strength and brings the other frogs together for a spirited jam session.
September 14
One Reliant Park, Houston 77054
Run or Dye is the world's most colorful 5K! This is your chance to have fun, get fit, and get covered in 100% safe, non-toxic, powdered dye as you participate in the Houston area's favorite fun run.
September 17
6000 Hermann Park Drive, Houston 77030
This program is jam-packed with music, entertainment and education. Through classic and contemporary cover songs and original works, Ball in the House will discuss and teach many aspects of music and performance. Students will discover what "a cappella" is, the technology behind their sound system, the various voice parts and how they fit together to make harmony and songs, an interactive beatboxing demonstration, the history of a cappella singing from chant through doo wop, and have a chance to ask questions.
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September 20
Edvin Marton Stradivarius Show
501 Texas St, Houston 77002
Brilliant Lecture Series presents the internationally-acclaimed violinist and composer Edvin Marton's Stradivarius Show. He will be performing with a Stradivarius violin made in Cremona, Italy in 1697 and played by famed Italian virtuoso violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini.
September 23
501 Texas St, Houston 77002
Inprint Houston — A nonprofit organization founded in 1983, fulfills this mission through the nationally renowned Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, the Cool Brains! Reading Series for Young People, through literary and educational activities in the community that demonstrate the value and impact of creative writing, and through support for the UH Creative Writing Program.
September 22
18th Annual Texas Home & Garden Show
One Reliant Park, Houston 77054
Explore a wide range of the newest home and garden products – From windows and doors to ceilings and floors. If it belongs in a home you'll find it at the Home and Garden Show.
September 25
Swing, Jive and Pop! Into Dance
6000 Hermann Park Drive, Houston 77030
Houston Metropolitan Dance Company's "Swing, Jive and Pop into Dance" incorporates history, fashion, music and the arts into an interactive blast of excitement. The company dances through the eras of the 1930's Lindy Hop, bops into the 1950's, grooves into the 1970's and ends into the Hip Hop music of today.
And You'll Always Make Yourself More Marketable
Nobody the job title or position you hold in any company is to always be learning. Even those with the highest of college degrees, should never quit learning. From the newbie on the job scene to the most senior employee with the longest tenure, learning is the secret to being successful.
This doesn't mean to cross-train, which is always good for a company to implement that, or expand and sharpen the skills you have already. This also means you need to learn new skills too. Learn things that will aid you in transferring from one career to the next or from one position to another within the same industry. By always learning, you are making yourself more marketable. When you become more marketable, you become stronger competition in a very competitive job market, regardless your career, skills or talents.
Now, what new skills should you learn? What area should you expand your knowledge? Here is some information that can help you in determining just that. If it's going back to school full time, part time or just taking a class or two, any type of learning that can make you more marketable is worth the money and time.
Types Of Skills
Every job will have it's own specific skills to be learned. However, there are skills you can learn which you can take with you to any job. For example, the more computer knowledge you have, the more computer skills you can learn, are used in just about every job these days. If they aren't now, they will be most likely in the few years. So highly technical skills are a sure win in making yourself more marketable.
Troubleshooting is another skill that is high demand no matter the industry, product or service being offer. There is not one company in business that does not have customer calling in with problems or trouble. This is also a skill in customer service, because it takes a skill to know how to talk to people on a level they understand, yet they are being treated with respect.
Public speaking is another great skill to learn. You may not be a bashful, shy person, but knowing how to speak properly in public is not the same thing as chatting it up with family, friends and strangers. There are proper ways to speak in public and communicate with the public, and while it may come naturally for some, we can all learn the skill.
Marketing and Sales are both skills, while natural for some, can be learned by anyone. They are both skills that are essential for business today with an economy that is consumer-driven. It is not a skill to talk somebody into buying a product or service. It is a skill to know what product or service they need and know how to present your product or service to them that shows them you have what they need.
Get Trained
Now that you know what skill you want to learn, where do you go to learn it? There are college courses all around, on campus and on-line. Colleges are great now in having programs that work around the working student. With the flexibility that colleges offer now, the excuse you can't take a course because you're working, well, just isn't an excuse any more.
Training Benefits
Nobody will ever tell you that a formal education isn't important to begin your career. During the college years, you are dong much more than learning and preparing for a career. You are building a network that you can use the rest of your life. College Alumni are always quick to help their brother or sister over a newcomer. You also learn life lessons, for many that move from living under mom and dad's roof to living on campus or our own place is a learning experience all it's own outside the classroom.
Show Proof
However, research has show that if a person wants to continue growing career-wise and personally, they need to always keep learning. Never turn down the opportunity to learn something new. Never turn down the opportunity to learn to something you're already doing better. Staying up-to-date is just as important as learning something new.
When you choose to develop new and expand current skills, you are taking steps to make yourself more marketable and find career success, no matter what field you choose. Always complete a course and get that certificate. Whether you move on to another company or move up with your current employer, that certificate will show that you are able and willing to learn and help substantiate that you are the right person for the job, whatever the job may be.
P.S. Don't forget our featured Tumbleweed, Celina Dorzok and her need for help to pay mounting medical bills. Simply click here "Help Celina Back On Her Feet" and make any size donation you can. Thank you!
The job market today is tough. To stay competitive, employees know that the best way to stand out above the competition, is to stay on top of their career. More often than not, this takes continuing education, which in the past has always been done outside the workplace.
However, companies are changing gears and seeing the benefit of their employees knowing more about their job is not just for the employee. The more the employee knows, the better for the company. When their employees lack the right skills, it not only is holding the employee back, but can be a problem for the company too.
Investing In Valuable Resources
To that note, more and more companies are making an investment in their most valuable resource. Their employees. This isn't just offering paid tuition (which is dependent on passing grades), but workplace training too. By offering online learning, open access and part-time study, business can see where it is beneficial immediately as the employees put their new learned skill or subject to work right away. As well, it can be profitable for the company further down the road as well.
This concept has already taken off quite well in the United Kingdom. It has taken a hold so well, that the government has become involved. The government sets up funds to build partnership between businesses and higher education institutes with the hope of closing the gap in skills for small to medium size businesses.
Learning Is Nutritious
There are many American companies that have learn and lunch sessions, usually geared toward sales people and a product or service they are in charge of promoting and selling for the company. Often vendors participate by hosting the learn and lunch as they talk about their product. This should expand to the other departments as well, from manufacturing lines to purchasing to warehousing.
The learn and lunch shouldn't just be for when a new software is being implemented or a new procedure is being implemented. Department Manager and Human Resources should work together to design a continuing education learn and lunch monthly at the very least. Classes for the warehouse on how to do their current job more effective or how the product they pack for shipping is transported and how it is used once it arrives at it's destination.
The End Result – Everyone Is A Winner
The more one department can learn and know about another department's duties and responsibilities, the better for the company overall.
P.S. Don't forget our featured Tumbleweed, Celina Dorzok and her need for help to pay mounting medical bills. Simply click here "Help Celina Back On Her Feet" and make any size donation you can. Thank you!
What was your company's final amount spent on employee development and training last year? Did you get the results you were looking for? It is not unusual for employee development and training classes to not get the results they were aiming for, ie, information that the employee can immediately use in the work place.
Most companies will find that the behavioral change in employees, after training, is hard to predict. No matter how much money and time is invested in employee training, there is no guarantee that you will see immediate change in growth or use of that information. It can be discouraging, disappointing and frustrating. You can take steps to turn this around though so that the employee training your invest in can and will transfer to the workplace.
By creating a support process for development and training, you will see it being more effective within the company. Here are ten suggestions that can make employee training effective immediately and it can be transferable into the employee's work, thus giving you measurable differences for your bottom line.
Before Training Begins, Create Training Stickiness
By taking these steps first, you will increase the probability that the training will transfer to the workplace.
- Make sure development and training are what's needed: Do thorough analysis of employee needs and skills to determine if there is a real need for the training you're planning. Make sure that there is a training issue at hand. If you have provided all the time and tools necessary for an employee to learn their job and they are 100% clear on what is expected from them, and they are still not performing to the expectations set, perhaps the employee and the job aren't a good fit.
- Create a training environment: Provide employees the information that will validate how the new skills or skill enhancement will benefit them and they understand the connection between this training and their job. Help them see the connection how the more they learn from the training not only helps their specific job, but the company overall. Once they have completed the training class or session with success, give them proof such as a certificate and brag about in the company newsletter or on the break room bulletin board.
- Provide training that is relevant to the skill the employee needs: It is unproductive for an employee to attend a training if they don't connect the training with their job. They will see the time spent in a training session to be a waste of time, and they will have a validate point there, it is a waste of time. Make sure the connection between the training session and how it fits into the employee's duties is clear. If you are using outside sources for training and it doesn't seem to be working, create your own training sessions and customize them to the employee's needs.
- Have training with measurable objectives and certain outcomes: Make certain the employee training will have clear stated objectives and outcomes that are measurable. Determine that the content will lead the employee to gain information and skill is the the objective. When the employee knows what they are expected to learn, they will know ways they can apply what is learned to what they do every day.
- Provide information for what will be involved in the training session: Discuss and explain what is expected to be learned by the employee from the training. This will reduce any anxiety and turn the light on so they can see their way. When we know what is expected of us, we are more able to learn and then transfer that into our work.
- Make it clear that thetraining is to be taken seriously: Make certain the employee realizes and understands that the training is their responsibility to take something away from it and their responsibility to put it to good use in the workplace. An employee must understand that they will need to apply their self before, during, and after the training. Completing pre-training assignments, participate in the training and applying what is learned are responsibilities of the employee and they should have a clear understanding of this. Completing self-assessments prior to the training can create a need for interaction.
- Train managers and supervisors first: This is the first step in training the employee. If the manager or supervisor don't know or understand the information and skills that the employee will receive training session, who will the employee turn to when they need help? The manager or supervisor must be have appropriate behavior and learning and provide an environment where the employee can use the information and training they learn. When the manager or supervisor have taken the same training with success, it gives them the role of leadership that employees can respect.
- Train managers in their role of the training process: The average manager or supervisor will rarely experience effective training during their career, or even worked in an environment that put the training to wok the workplace. Provide information that explains the organization's expectations of the manager or supervisor so they can support effective training.
- Have supervisors and employees prior to training: This is essential for all the things that have been covered in this article to be accomplished. Talk with the employee on what they hope to learn from the training and ask about any concerns they may have in putting what they learn from the training into action.
Make certain prior to the training that the key learning points are what your company is expecting to receive for the money and time that is about to be invested. Identify obstacles and then create how to get around those obstacles so that the employee will have an effective and positive experience in the training so they can utilize what is learned to the workplace.
P.S. Don't forget our featured Tumbleweed, Celina Dorzok and her need for help to pay mounting medical bills. Simply click here "Help Celina Back On Her Feet" and make any size donation you can. Thank you!
You've met Celina Dorzok. Celina is a member of Summit Staffing and she has been such an inspiration to us that we want to share with everyone. Just like everyone, she's had her share of ups, downs, good times and bad times. Then the day of an ATV accident, her life was turned completely upside down.
We have introduced you to Celina. We have taken you to the day of that horrible ATV accident that left her disabled … for now. Today, we share with you what her life is like right now and how it has and still is affecting others.
Needing Help From Others
An accident like this can affect and involve so many people, way more than what any one may realize, until it happens to them. Celina is unable to care for herself 100% right now. So trips to her doctors and specialists require someone to take her, wait with her and bring her back home to Yankton, which really isn't home. Those appointments are frequent, the trips are long and grueling and Celina is still disabled, for now, she will continue to have to depend on others to take her to these appointments for another couple of months.
Those appointments are once, twice and sometimes three times a week, and most of them are 90 miles away, taking an hour either direction to get there and back. Her entourage of doctors and specialists keep check on her overall healing and progress, and because of the blood thinners she takes, they keep check on her blood counts as well.
Because she can't do everything for herself and for her own safety needs someone around, Celina is staying with Shaun's family and Shaun's mom Jackie, has been taking Celina to her appointments. Transporting Celina to her many appointments is not all she needs help with either. Remember she came home with that halo?
Jackie helps her with the daily routine of cleaning the pins and screws that hold the halo to Celina's skull. She helps Celina bath the parts of her body that she can't, such as her face and the vest that is attached to the halo. Jackie helps keeps track of Celina medications too and makes sure that Celina is on schedule with them. She massages her back, neck and shoulders with muscle cream to ease Celina's pain.
Then There's Jayden ….
Yes, not only does Celina need help in taking care of herself, she has to have help with Jayden, her 5 year old son. He's an active, average, happy, normal little boy that doesn't completely understand what happened to his mom, but he knows that she's hurt and can't take care of him right now.
Jayden started school this year. A child's first day of school is always exciting for the child and his parents, especially moms. Maybe even more so when you're a single mom like Celina; and there is only one first day of kindergarten. Because his mom is disabled since the ATV accident, Celina hasn't got to do as much of the school preparations as she would have liked. She can't be up for long periods of time, going from store to store.
Choosing the jeans, shirts and making sure he has enough socks and underwear may not have seemed like a chore just a couple months ago. Now, it's a period in Jayden's life that Celina had to depend on others to do those sorts of things. She did get to do some of the school shopping and get his backpack, one she knew he would love. She got him some new shoes too, lace up kind so he can learn how to tie his shoes.
She was able to give him his first hair cut and was able to go with him to his open house at the school. She overdid it though and wasn't able to take him to his orientation day. She woke up that morning with extreme pain in her foot and ended up going to the ER, so Celina's mom took him. Turned out it wasn't anything serious though, a change in her pain medication has helped, so she was able to go along on his first day of school. She took pictures and gave him lots of hugs, kisses, and words of motivation.
Since Jayden is living with Celina's mom Fran, the before and after school routine have fell on her. This entails getting him up early to get ready for school. Getting him dressed, fed then dropped off by 8:15. She spends her day working on projects at home while Jayden's at school to make make extra money since she's unable to work outside of the home. She then goes to pick up Jayden from school at 3:00 and does all the after school things that a mom does. Go over his school work and help him with his homework.
Then feeds him supper, bathes him, and gets him ready for bed before reading him a bedtime story and tucking him in for the night. That can be a lot of work for a grandma that is disabled herself, it's not easy taking care of a 5 year old all week. She does get a break on the weekends when Jayden goes to his paternal grandparent's house.
Because he's staying with Celina's mom, which isn't close to where Celina's staying, so she didn't get to see him after his first day of school. She did get to talk to him though and hear about his first day and the new friends hemade. For now, while Celina is disabled, her and Jayden won't have the normal routine most mom's and kids have with going to school and coming home.
She only gets to see him for a few hours on the weekend when his paternal grandparents have him, unless she can get get a ride into town where her mom lives during the week. Sometimes, she may get a ride early in the morning and be able to ride to school with him. Or change her afternoon naps around to ride and pick him up after school. The afternoon trips are hard because of the medications she's on make her sleep.
It's extremely hard for Celina to be apart from Jayden. She has been the main person taking care of him his entire life. It's hard for not to have her son by her side all of the time. It's also hard on Jayden as well. He doesn't get to see his mom as much as he's used to and is shuffled between family members. Primarily, he stays with both sets of his grandparents as they are trying to keep him on a routine schedule to keep his life as stable as possible, considering the circumstances.
You can understand the emotional stress Celina's is going through. Next week, we will be looking at Celina's financial strains and stress. Medical isn't cheap and when you're not able to work, it can be a mental stress that can slow you healing process.
P.S. Don't forget our featured Tumbleweed, Celina Dorzok and her need for help to pay her ever mounting medical bills after an ATV accident that left her disabled … for now. Simply click here "Help Celina Back On Her Feet" and make any size donation you can. Thank you!
Give to Help Celina Back On Her Feet and help this young mother pay for her mounting medical bills as she is struggling to get back her independence and resume her life with her son Jayden.
We're all busy these days, right? When you're a business owner, you're even more busy. Not only do you have personal life busy stuff, but you have business stuff busy too. Where does it end? Or does it ever end? As a business owner, you hope it doesn't because the more successful you are, the busier you'll get.
Or do you think that the more successful you are, your schedule will empty out and you'll be less busy with fewer obligations? Most likely not. You'll have more to do and less time to get it all done probably. So if you don't have time management system in place, your life is only going to get even more difficult.
Lucky for you, with today's technology, there are millions of apps and online tools for time management. However, if you don't get the full scope on how to use them, every feature they offer, they really aren't much good. For those of us out there that are needing time management help but aren't a true blood techie, here are some tips that may help you, even though by today's standards, they are unconventional:
Lose the smartphone and pick up paper and pen. Yup, these can be cumbersome to keep up with and they aren'ttechnologically advanced. However, you can't ignore a pad and pen like you can an alarm on the smart phone. Nor can you put pad and pen on silent and stick in your pocket or drop it in your bag.
They are big and you can't ignore it. For many people, writing something down helps them to remember things too. The written list of things-to-do is more so they can mark it done and realize just how much they accomplished today. When they say "Where did my day go today?", they actually can look back and see what they did.
Create a template things-to-do list on that pad and pen you're going to start carrying. The idea of time management is to make sure you're getting must-do things done all the while fitting other things in during the day. So to be more effective from the start, you don't want to write down repetitive daily tasks over and over.
With a template that has your daily tasks already in place, you can simply fit the other things that come up within the template. In the daily tasks, make sure you list every single thing you do, no matter how menial or small it may seem. This means writing down "lunch", "drop off kids" or "pick up kids". Remember you aren't just managing your business time. You are managing your personal time to coincide with your business time.
Put the list order of priority. List the tasks that are necessary and in optimal order when they accomplished. You may be able to fit more things into a time frame where you have just one thing listed, simply because you have gave yourself a timeline.
Begin your list with the 5 easiest tasks. Many people will tell you just opposite and to put the most dreaded and hardest things first and get them out of the way. For some of us though, by starting with the easy tasks, gives us a sense of accomplishment.
Example: If you list the hard, long things first, and you have a total of 35 things to accomplish today. Three of the things you have to do each take an hour or more and you start your day with them. So by the time you get the first 3 things done, you are three hours into your day and still have 32 things left to do. How defeating is that?
However, when you start your day with five easy tasks before moving on to a harder task, when you look at your list an hour later, you've put a dent on list with 5 things accomplished already. When you feel like you're getting somewhere faster, you'll be more apt to work faster. Theory is list a few easy task, then a harder one, a few easy, a harder one. Alternate them so you have some feeling of accomplishment during the day.
Create a project management grid. A things-to-do list not help you to manage your time during the day and keep you organized, which in turn, makes you more productive. For a business owner, juggling various projects can be a challenge. Some people will tell you that it is more productive when you focus on one project at a time. Other will say by juggling more projects at the same time, you're getting more done in the same amount of time. Which is true and thus, why you need time management so that you can manage multiple projects effectively.
By including a grid with your to-do list, when you display the phase of every project you have going, from brainstorming, developing, outlining and testing, so you know at a glance where you are with a specific project.
Shorthand notes. Maybe you know old school shorthand or have a form of you own, but this is the best way to compile your to-do list. While it may not make sense to anyone else, it doesn't need to, to you, it is the secret code to a successful day. When you're trying to manage your time, shorthand notes are quicker than writing it all in full.
Set up tomorrow now. Before you end your day, make your to-do list for tomorrow. Since you'll have a template already, it will be easy to fill it in and the few things that didn't happen today can be added to tomorrow's list in shorthand.
So with this rudimentary way of keeping track of your day, you can use that fancy smartphone to call your folks or play games!
Welcome back as we continue following our Tumbleweed focus, Celina Dorzok. We introduced you to Celina Dorzok, her son Jayden as well as her mother Fran and sister Charissa. Life wasn't picture perfect for them, but life never is for anyone. We make plans. God laughs.
The Dorzok family has experienced many things over the years and still come out with a smile and positive attitude. What we can all learn from Celina Dorzok and her story here will be that even though bad things may happen in our lives, we can't avoid them. But we can get up, dust ourselves off and keep moving forward.
A refresher where we left off with part 1 ….
Life was looking up for Celina and her son Jayden. With high school behind her, an earned Associates Degree, a great job and had reconnected with an old classmate, she had built a foundation for a great future to share with her son, Jayden. Then, as a Tumbleweed often does, Celina met another rock in the road of life that knocked her off course yet again ……..
That Day, The Accident:
July 20th, just another day in a life of a young woman, who in spite of some interuptions and upheavals, had gotten her life together and was on track for what was looking to be promising future for her and her son Jayden. Shaun, her first love that Celina had recently reconnected with, were just spending a day together, hanging out, swimming and enjoying an outdoor type of day in South Dakota. They decided to take Shaun's parents ATV out for a spin and enjoy the beauty that South Dakota offers. They say most accidents happen close to home, which is exactly what Celina and Shaun found out.
A couple hundred yards from Shaun's home, on a gravel road, they hit a loose patch and lost control of the ATV. The ATV rolled and landed on Celina's side of the vehicle. Shaun, who suffered some minor cuts and scrapes, ran over to check on Celina and saw the large gash on her forehead. He asked her if should could get up and she began to cry when she realized that she couldn't move her arms, or any part of her body at all. Shaun ran back to his parent's house and called 911.
A New Chapter In Her Life Begins … Again
The ambulance arrived and took Celina directly to the hospital in Yankton. In route to the hospital the paramedics called ahead and advised the hospital that Celina's condition was critical and the air unit needed to be paged for immediate air lift to the larger hospital in Sioux Falls. Her mom and sister had arrived at the Yankton hospital emergency room and when the helicopter arrived, her mom rode with her while her sister and her boyfriend went in by car to meet them in Sioux Falls.
Multiple exams, procedures and testing were done by the medical staff to determine the extent of Celina's injuries. Between multiple CT scans, an MRI and x-rays, it was determined that she had broken nearly every bone in her neck down to between her shoulder blades andwould need surgery the next morning to replace a couple of crushed vertebrae and place a plate and screws along her spine. A halo was then placed on her head and held by screws to her skull to hold all of this in place. For the first day or two, Celina was not able to move her arms at all, then slowly after surgery, she began to get movement back in her arms little by little.
With the halo still in place, and expected to remain 8 to 12 weeks, Celina was eventually moved to the rehab unit where she would stay for around 2 weeks, going through grueling physical therapy. In time, her doctors felt that she was ready and strong enough to be discharged as long as she had people around to care for her and help her. She was slated to be discharged on July 30th, when another road block stopped this Tumbleweed from moving on with her life, again …. The doctors discovered Celina had contracted pulmonary embolisms which delayed her discharged to August 1st.
Celina is home now, well her home for the time being, until she is well and back on her feet again. Her medical treatments are far from over and won't be any time soon either. She was given exercises to do at home that will help build her strength and help her body relearn how to function.
And just as a Tumbleweed, Celina along with her son, mother, sister and Shaun and his family, they keep rolling on with the winds life deals them ……
Celina's medical expenses are astronomical already and they are still climbing. Clear Choice Staffing Solutions has set up an account and fund raiser. Click here Celina Get Back On Her Help Feet, if you are able and want to help raise money that will go towards Celina's ever growing stack of medical bills. Any donation is appreciated. Then check back here as we post updates to Celina's progress as she recovers and gets her life back on track.
Life is living the unexpected. No matter how much planning we do, the unexpected can happen. The unexpected can change things in a flash, for just a moment in time for a life time. It is how we deal with the unexpected that can make a difference in how we live our lives … for that brief moment, or for the long term.
This is the story of Celina Rose Dorzok. Celina is a beautiful young woman, who midst the troubles and woes she endured as a child, the troubles and woes she encountered in her youth, to where she is today, as a young adult that survived what could have been a deadly accident.
In Canada, on May 23, 1989, Celina Rose Dorzok was born to Fran Charlebois Sherman and a father she never knew. At the age of 3, she and her mother moved to South Dakota and her mom remarried then her younger sister, Charissa Hope Livingston, came along.
Her mom and step dad divorced when Celina was was 13 years old, and during Christmas break of that year her, her mom and sister moved to Louisiana. The teen years are difficult at best and for Celina, it seemed to be even more difficult. With her mom's divorce and sudden move to another state, she became a rebellious teen that got into trouble quite a bit and didn't have a good attitude about school.
After a serious car accident that Celina was involved in at the age of 16, she realized how precious life was andshe snapped out of it and decided to turn her life around and became an exceptional student with a better attitude and better grades. At an age that teens are working part time jobs, going to the lake, going hanging out with friends and sleeping in late, Celina moved back to South Dakota by herself at the age of 17 the summer between her junior and senior years of high school and lived with and Aunt from her step dad's family and finished her senior year of high school to receive her high school diploma a semester early.
She got a job and began working as she finished her senior year a semester early in South Dakota. Shortly after moving back, she met Adam through a mutual friend and shortly after they began to date. Soon after, she moved in with Adam and at 18 she became pregnant. Her mom and sister returned to South Dakota shortly after and one week before Jayden was born, Celina and Adam married.
The new family, Celina, Adam and Jayden moved to Colorado for new beginnings, a new life. After their move to Colorado, she enrolled and attended cosmetology school up until the point when she separated from Adam and could not afford school anymore and had to go to work to support her and her son. Soon after, she moved back to South Dakota with her son and they lived with her mom for a short time, then with friends and roommates until Celina could find a place of their own that she could afford.
While her mom watched Jayden, Celina worked full time job until she enrolled in college full time at Southeast Technical Institute. She then worked 2 part-time jobs to be able to support her and Jayden while attending college. She earned her Associates Degree in Health Information Services that May, found a job with Interim Healthcare in Sioux Falls as the scheduling coordinator/client services representative and a place to call their own.
Life was looking up for Celina and her son Jayden. She had a great job and her and Jayden had their own place just down the road from her work with the school that Jayden would attend kindergarten only few blocks away. During this time, Celina had also reconnected with a classmate from middle school, Shaun. The world was finally opening up so that Celina could find her oyster that she had been looking for. With a few rough years of high school behind her, a recent Associates Degree and great job all leading to a future that she would share with her son Jayden. But as a Tumbleweed often does, Celina met another rock in the road of life that knocked her off course yet again ……..
Celina Dorzok has incurred and continues to incur many medical bills. Clear Choice Staffing Solutions has a website in place, Help Celina Get Back On Her Feet, and appreciates anything that you can contribute to help Celina.
When you think about it, people and Tumbleweeds are a lot alike in many ways. We come in various sizes and from different places. We arrive where we are in life by the different winds that blow us along. As we tumble along through life, we keep moving forward. Sometimes, the winds of life may push us back a little bit, but we always get another wind and trudge on forward.
We grow, we learn. We find our core strengths and the tenacity to pull through the toughest patches of life. All so we can tumble on to the next destination that life has in store. Along the way, just like a Tumbleweed, we find more resources, gather more skills, pick up new tools.
Clear Choice Staffing Solutions has tumbled into the Houston Texas area, bringing the experience, resources, skills and tools of Jasmin Espy and her lead staff that matches quality candidates with quality employers. We bring to this area a clear, concise and consistent method of meeting the staffing needs of a company and matching them to the employment needs of the workforce.
Clear Choice Staffing Solutions offers you a partnership that will add value, variety and verification to your employment needs. No matter if you are looking for temporary, temp-2-hire or direct hire, we have the resources you need most. We offer you the experience of over 20 years that have deep roots in the staffing industry.
The Clear Choice Staffing Solutions brand will build on that experience and expertise that we have developed and commit ourselves to bringing Houston Texas the best staffing solution ever. We are poised to combine those opportunities with top job placements and recruit top talent as well as offering career profile services.
We invite you to visit our website daily for informative and interesting blogs related to the recruiting industry and things that can make you a better employer or a better employee. We will have feature stories of employees of Clear Choice Staffing Solutions, stories of encouragement and inspiration. We look forward to gaining ground in Houston and get Texans back to work and headed to that bright horizon that the Lone Star State has waiting.


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Oh, would you look that? I haven't blogged since September. [clears throat] If you know me in person, you'd know why I hadn't been blogging for so long. If you don't well then, buckle up, kids.
With the school opening, and my ex-boyfriend (God, that phrase doesn't sound as good as it seems.) trying to kick me out of his life, I tried my best to keep my emotions on a limit. But what does one do at point where they're failing at school, life, and mostly just about everything? Read on, and you'll know: The Art of Getting Your Shit Together.
No matter whatever grade I'm in, I always chill the fuck out during my first term and then start panicking towards the final term because my marks just don't seem to add up enough to save me to the next level of hell. This year was obviously no different. The first term went by like a breeze, and shit got legit from the second term onwards. So after summer, (Which wasn't particularly delightful as I thought it would be.) the reopening of school meant so much more than seeing teachers again, and facing exams again. It was getting back into the mundane, horrifying, robotic routine of schooling. September eventually dragged its way out of my life, rather slowly.
October seemed as though a happy month, obviously because of my birthday, and well, my birth should definitely be worth celebrating for. At least that's what I think. Then again, life decides to drop the ultimate poop on my life, (Like always.) and it was India. We took the randomest possible vacation to India for about two weeks. Trust me on this though, best two weeks of my life.
November was okay, I guess. Bad stuff happened as always. There were days that just seemed to drag on. And my teachers found the greatest joy in flooding us upon with projects for the winter break. Oh well, December is here at least. Fun fact: December. Favorite month of the year. After October, of course. December mostly means holidays, windy weather, more excuses to have hot coffee, fabulous year end movie releases, and my most fave; sweaters.
And so while, I told you part one of my reasons for not blogging about 3 months, here is part two: Boys. Boys are little shits, if you must know. They are like those really really good street food, which later give you the bad case of the tummy-aches. Summer began with me falling in head over heels with this boy, and obviously he left really really soon. Well, at least we lasted more than Kim Kardashian's wedding. Hey, I'm not one for bragging, but you should've seen that coming.
Alright, I'm not going to play it cool. [runs fingers dramatically through hair] It's never easy when a guy shits all over your life, and then one fine day, decides that it's okay to walk out. And so, 89% of my friends suggested that if I found a new guy to be infatuated with, I'd forget all about the bad street food. And well, you know me, I obviously didn't do it. For it was my life, and when something shits all over it, you kind of have to pick up the shit (It was messy as fuck, just saying.) and move on. The bad street food stopped talking to me soon. And I stopped too.
It took me a good 4 months of break-up songs, long advices from friends and strangers, hours of Walking Dead re-runs, a tub of ice cream and a dozen of Oreos to get over this guy. Moving on doesn't necessarily mean you're completely over the existence of this person. You'll still remember every single detail of their face. From the freckles to that scar they got from they were little. You'll still remember their birthday, and wonder why the fuck they didn't wish you on yours.
Nevertheless, I don't hate him. I don't hate anyone, I just couldn't. Every single person that I meet, be it good or bad, teaches me something in life. When life gives you free lessons, you don't say no. I'm so happy that I even got to know so many people, considering the fact that all I ever do is annoy everyone around me and crack really bad jokes.
At the end of all of this, one question still remains. How exactly does one get their shit together? I'll tell you, grasshopper. One learns to get their shit together, only when one has failed and fallen many times into the arms of life. Sure, there is nothing greater than seeing you get that A+ on that exam you studied hard for, or getting recognized by that really popular girl at school. But if I didn't get a D on that exam I didn't study for, and if it weren't for the popular girl rolling her eyes at me, I don't really suppose I'd be here right now.


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Today, January 6, is the Day of Epiphany, or "Three Kings Day."
Three Kings Day celebrates the arrival of the three "Wise Men." Magi as Matthew's original Greek calls them. By tradition stretching back to the 4th century (or thereabouts) they are accorded royal status. How else could they afford to bear gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh? Long before Christmas became a holiday of any note, Epiphany was celebrated by the exchanging of gifts, in remembrance of the magi's gifts to the infant Jesus.
You'd think that a holiday marked by exchanging of expensive gifts would be a prime target for a consumerist culture like ours. You'd think that retailers, large and small, would want to make some commercial hay.
I have yet to see a "Door-Buster, Open at 5am, 20% Off, Epiphany Sale" advert. Strange.
I can only imagine that we have, somewhere along the way, without having realized it, lost (or won, depending on which side you were on) the War on Three Kings Day. I cannot recount any of the specific battles in that great war, for there are no storied events to tell. But we know by the absence of even a small blip on the holiday radar that it was an unmitigated success. Today, only the die-hard liturgically calendared folks (mostly clergy of various sorts), give a rip about Three Kings Day. Hardly anybody (in the US) knows that it exists.
The liberals and other nefarious forces making war on Christmas should take a lesson from the successful relegation of Three Kings Day to the island of misfit holidays. If they really want to destroy Christmas (as I'm sure they do because Bill O'Reilly says it's so), the best way to go about it is by completely ignoring it.
Instead of suing municipalities for erecting creches in their town square, the anti-Christmas forces should ignore the creches in the town squares. "What's that barn doing in the park, Daddy?" your child might ask. The anti-Christmas parent would answer. "Just an Occupy Wall Street shack, some hippies left there, Lucy. Somebody will probably clean it up soon." Sure enough, sometime in January, someone will clean it up.
Instead of changing the greetings in stores from "Merry Christmas" to "Happy Holidays," the anti-Christmas management ought to instruct their employees to stare at customers blankly and say, "Have a nice day," like they do for the other 10 months of the year.
That's how the war on Christmas would be won if anyone really wanted to win it, I feel certain.
But the anti-Christmas forces seem either completely inept, or not committed, to wiping Christmas off the calendar. Alas, it seems we'll have to endure it all again next year.


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By Vexen Crabtree 2017
#alcohol #democracy #environmentalism #health #mass_media #obesity #smoking
Several industries have been caught out producing fake and heavily biased science reports, orchestrating so-called "grass-roots" movements whereby they cast doubt on medical science, producing endless reams of misleading public-relations material and manipulating news outlets with fake think-tanks. They have well-practised and efficient methods for manipulating the news and public opinion and the money and effort that goes into these channels of deception are great. They produce "manufactured doubt" using scientific-sounding organisations as fronts, to try and discredit the mountains of evidence that stand against them. They are expert at getting this 'fake news' on to broadcast media and in every success they cause harm, ill health and long-term problems for all.
The worst culprits in spreading mass-lies in this way are: (1) the tobacco and smoke industry1,2,3, (2) the fast-food and junk food industries4, (3) those who sell most nutritional supplements5 and (4) the petrol and oil industries6,7,1.The worst outlets for promulgating rubbish without checking sources are the sensationalist, downmarket and popularist news bodies.
Modern journalists work at breakneck speed to process stories as fast as possible. Much of this news comes from trusted wire agencies, but these also rely on public relations (PR) material, as do the news outlets themselves. Most news services rely heavily on PR material in order to rapidly produce a stream of news. Because of these pressures, public relations firms and commercial companies are having a heyday and find it easy to insert material into news media. News outlets get cheap, professional-looking news at no cost. In general, over half of all news stories are mostly PR or contain substantial PR-sourced material8. Journalists themselves do not check the facts or figures of such inputs, nor admit in the articles themselves that PR material is the true source of the information, so the news often appears unbiased8. For example in 1991, CBS Evening News, USA, aired a video source from the Institute for Injury Reduction showing that cars' safety belts are actually unsafe and cause more damage than they prevent - an idea which managed to catch the attention of the public. Did the journalists of that news station check the source of this video to see who it was that was passing them the information? No. They didn't. And it turned out that the Institute for Injury Reduction is actually a lobby group supported by lawyers who make money from clients who were suing automobile companies for crash-related injuries9. Too many journalists are engaged in an unthinking, uncritical conveyor-belt of news, and old journalistic practices such as fact-checking and critical thinking have proven to get in the way of corporate efficiency. Powerful commercial lobbies use this weakness to pervert public opinion.
"Vice President Dick Cheney complained in an interview with conservative media commentator Armstrong Williams about bias in the press. Cheney was absolutely right about bias in the press. The Bush administration had paid Williams $240,000 to promote the No Child Left Behind Act in broadcasts and in print. Williams lost his job with Tribune Media Services when it was revealed that he was a hired propagandist producing covert puff pieces for the Bush administration. [...] Many bloggers and websites that appear to be independent are actually fronts."
"Unnatural Acts: Critical Thinking, Skepticism, and Science Exposed!" by Robert Todd Carroll (2011)6
In short, don't trust the news media directly even when they are reporting on scientific-sounding research groups. Always check facts with long-standing scientific bodies such as the Royal Society. The scientists and welfare groups who wish to get real scientific worries about certain industries out into the open are not funded or equipped to run public relations campaigns. Only multinational information campaigns, legal agreements and inter-national political bodies such as the EU have the oomph to be able to fight back against such powerful industries.
Edward Bernays is often described as the founding theorist of modern public relations. He had no doubts about the objectives of those with the money and power to influence the media:
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons ... who pull the wires that control the public mind."
Edward Bernays
In "Flat Earth News" by Nick Davies (2008)10
While what he says is true (that it is important in a democracy) because the populace must be informed, when the information flow is abused by commercial interests, democracy suffers because the truth suffers.
"The leading figure in the public relations industry, Edward Bernays [...] went on to develop what he called the "engineering of consent," which he described as "the essence of democracy." The people who are able to engineer consent are the ones who have the resources and the power to do it - the business community."
"Media Control: The Spectacular Achievement of Propaganda" by Naom Chomsky (2002)11
#health #politics #smoking #USA
In the 1950s the smoking lobby created a range of innocent-sounding and scientific-sounding groups in order to discredit government information about the dangers of smoking. They produced scientific reports engineered by their own scientists, which serve to boost their own industries by deceiving the public. The disinformation campaign spanned many decades. The vested commercial interests of the smoking industry provide an incentive to manipulate the public's understanding of the risks in order to keep people smoking. They concocted invented studies, fabricated doubts on health science, creating fake consumer-concern groups and poured great quantities of cash into misleading marketing. A few senior executes eventually found themselves stood before USA's congress. Clive Bates, Public Health Consultant, states very bluntly:
"The chief executives of the world's major tobacco companies stood up in front of congress and [...] lied, knowing that they were lying [and] deliberate[ly] misled people."
Clive Bates
In "Burning Desire: The Seduction of Smoking" by the BBC (2014)12
"... the tobacco industry previously poured huge sums into 'independent' research showing that the effects of smoking on health had been greatly exaggerated."
"Democracy: A Beginner's Guide" by Beetham, David (2005)1
"As a result of paperwork disclosed in US court cases, we now know that when the tobacco companies in the 1950s found themselves under pressure from the discovery of the link between smoking and cancer, they hired PR companies to create a network of pseudo-groups to massage public thinking on their behalf. Hill & Knowlton, who were then the biggest PR agency in America, duly created the Council for Tobacco Research and the Tobacco Institute as apparently independent organisations to produce research to defend their sales. [...]
A second PR agency, Burson-Marsteller, created the National Smokers Alliance as an AstroTurf group, to hold public meetings and hassle politicians, changing the tobacco story from a threat to health to a threat to freedom."
"Flat Earth News" by Nick Davies (2008)3
Oil and petrol lobbies have spent fortunes on PR tricks. They produce scientific reports engineered by their own scientists1, which serve to boost their own industries by deceiving the public. The Global Climate Coalition was founded in the around 1990, and funded "scientists and writers who would provide disinformation regarding climate change to anybody who would listen. For more than ten years they supported 'research' that would cast doubt on scientific reports" about the dangers of burning fossil fuels6. Basically, their reports were distorted lies, pretending to be science. Who funded this maverick outfit, which received a lot of media coverage each time it produced a report? "Exxon, Ford, Texaco, General Motors, British Petroleum, and DaimlerChrysler"6 yet there was no indication in the mass media that these "scientific" reports were funded by the oil lobby - it was all presented as unbiased research, and has damaged the USA's population knowledge of climate change in the long-term.
"Reminiscent of the way in which the tobacco industry previously poured huge sums into 'independent' research showing that the effects of smoking on health had been greatly exaggerated, so now the oil and energy industries are supporting science to challenge research about global warming and its effects."
"Democracy: A Beginner's Guide" by Beetham, David (2005)1
"Within months of the UN producing its first report endorsing the idea of man-made climate change, in 1989, Exxon and other big corporations started setting up pseudo-groups. The first and biggest was the Global Climate Coalition which was soon lobbying in the corridors of power [...]. As a single example of its activities, the coalition made a classic appeal to the subconscious feelings of its American audience before the Kyoto conference in December 1997, when it spent $13 million on TV advertising, aimed at reining in the Clinton administration. It pitched the whole issue as a matter of freedom and patriotism. 'America has signed many treaties... but never a treaty of surrender,' was the key line in one advertisement, over a photograph of the Japanese surrender at the end of the Second World War.
When Kyoto nevertheless produced an agreement to cut emissions, Exxon, in early 1998, helped to set up a new front group, the Global Climate Science Team. [...] Between 1998 and 2005, ExxonMobil alone spent $15.8 million on forty-three different front groups, according to research published in January 2007 by the Union of Concerned Scientists, who described this as 'the most sophisticated and successful disinformation campaign since Big Tobacco misled the public. [...]
A columnist at the Daily Mail [...] Melanie Phillips [wrote] a series of outspoken columns denouncing the whole concept of man-made climate change. 'Global warming is a scam,' she wrote in February 2002. 'The latest evidence is provided in a report published today by the European Science and Environment Forum, in which a group of the most eminent scientists from Britain and America shred the theory.' However, the forum whose work she was quoting was, in truth, yet another pseudo-group, created with the help of two PR agencies (APCO Worldwide and Burson-Marsteller) with the specific intent of campaigning against restrictions on corporate activity; and the report to which Phillips referred in such glowing terms was recycled work which had been funded by Exxon."
"Flat Earth News" by Nick Davies (2008)7
You cannot trust much of the news when it comes to issues that have commercial impact, not even when it comes to the reporting of scientific studies on nutrition and food. Some of these studies were funded and managed by scientists supplied by the food industry itself!
"The food industry in Europe recently has been funding groups to protect its position against public and government alarm over obesity, junk food, misleading food labelling, diabetes and the advertising of fatty foods to children. British newspapers routinely carry reports and quotes on diet from the Social Issues Research Center, the British Nutrition Foundation and the International Life Sciences Foundations and routinely fail to point out that all three have received significant funding variously from Cadbury Schweppes, Nestlé, Kelloggs, the Dairy Council, Kraft and the Sugar Bureau. In 2003, Fleet Street reported the comments of a nutritionist called Dr Susan Jebb who attacked the Atkins Diet as 'a massive health risk', without explaining that her research into the low-carbohydrate diet had been funded the Flour Advisory Bureau. This kind of research may or may not be accurate; but it is the hidden hand of PR which is paying for it to happen and promoting it into the news."
"Flat Earth News" by Nick Davies (2008)4
#bad_science #diet #food #health #pseudoscience
"Diet has an impact on health and affects the risk of disease13. Over the last few decades biochemical and other sciences, from neural to gastric, have made impressive contributions to our knowledge14. Never before have scientists known so much about food and nutrition. Unfortunately much of this knowledge is not reported by the popular press and news outlets because it is technical, mundane and statistical in nature. The average consumer mostly hears only the sensational claims of pseudoscientific sham researchers and promoters, which are often paid for and orchestrated by the rich food industry itself. The two most misleading sources of information are reports based on single-studies and TV adverts. Most people are ill-informed about diet and health as a result of this.
There have been a long series of temporarily popular fad diets which limit food intake to a specific range of items, sometimes cutting out essential fats and proteins completely. They emphasize rapid short-term change at the expense of medium and long-term issues. Of the independent scientific studies on fad diets, supplements, mega-vitamins and similar highly-hyped abnormal sources of nutrition, all have found them to be useless and sometimes actually harmful. The National Health Service (UK) warns that "many fad diets are based on dodgy science or no research at all, prescribing eating practices that are unhealthy and can make you ill"15. The boring truth is that only well-rounded diets are truly effective at long-term weight management with only the very basic advice being effective: cut down on fats and salts, cut down on sugary and fizzy drinks, and eat plenty of wholegrain food, fruit and vegetables (5 portions a day), and drink ordinary water.16,15
Fads rely on testimonials and public-relations tricks to make themselves sound effective and claims are often based on (easily biased) single-studies rather than on independently verified and duplicated scientific trials. The mass media love reporting on these single-studies as their claims are often outlandish and celebrity endorsements boost a fad diet from time to time. Fad diets distract people from sensible eating habits. Rather than accept enthusiastic praise from soap stars, models and newspaper advertisements, it is doctors and the medical profession that we should trust to keep us informed. Let's stop falling for these tricks!"
"Fad Diets and Pseudoscience: Let's Stop Falling for These Tricks" by Vexen Crabtree (2014)
Current edition: 2017 Jun 29
Parent page: The Worst of the Modern Mass Media
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Skeptical Inquirer magazine. Published by Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, NY, USA. Pro-science magazine published bimonthly.
BBC. The British Broadcasting Corporation.
(2014) Burning Desire: The Seduction of Smoking. A two-part television documentary first shown on 2014 May 29 featuring the veteran journalist and investigator, Peter Taylor. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045qf9q.
Beetham, David
(2005) Democracy: A Beginner's Guide. Published by Oneworld Publications, Oxford, UK. A paperback book.
Carroll, Robert Todd. (1945-2016). Taught philosophy at Sacramento City College from 1977 until retirement in 2007. Created The Skeptic's Dictionary in 1994.
(2011) Unnatural Acts: Critical Thinking, Skepticism, and Science Exposed!. Amazon Kindle digital edition. Published by the James Randi Educational Foundation. An e-book.
Chomsky, Naom
(2002) Media Control: The Spectacular Achievement of Propaganda. 2nd edition. Originally published 1991. Current version published by Seven Stories Press, New York USA. A paperback book.
Davies, Nick
(2008) Flat Earth News. Published by Chatto & Windus, Random House, London, UK. A hardback book.
Gardner, Martin. Died 2010 May 22 aged 95.
(1957) Fads & Fallacies in the Name of Science. Originally published 1952 by G. P. Putnam's Sons as "In the Name of Science". Current version published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York, USA. A paperback book.
Peters, Michael Dr
(2011) Family Doctor Home Advisor. 4th edition. Published by Dorling Kindersley Limited, London, UK. Published for the British Medical Association. A hardback book.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
BMX Bandits. Listen To Some Music (2012).
Let's never overlook how wonderful BMX Bandits are. Kurt Cobain said they were the only band he would ever join if he were not already in Nirvana. And he was dead serious.
Still led by Duglas T. Stewart through various personnel changes, the Scottish band has been in business for over 25 years. A documentary, Serious Drugs, was made about them a few years ago. The title comes from one of their most famous songs (which actually refers to the antidepressant variety, not the recreational).
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Join us for a dynamic, fun weekend of musical inspiration, creativity, empowerment and community!
Whether you've always wanted to sing but haven't given yourself the chance, or you've been writing songs and singing for years and want to hone your skills, Women's Music Weekend is for you. Whatever stage you're at, you will be supported and guided to explore your musical side.
Choose from workshops that include: freeing the voice, lyric writing, jamming, creating melody, how to sing harmony, restorative yoga, and vocal improv. Join the weekend chorus, play in a pick-up band, write your own song, or share a song in the open mic or song circle. Women's Music Weekend has a range of options for you.
No matter your age, musical ability or background, come and create, share, listen, learn, play, harmonize, heal, and sing with us. Sing your heart out. All weekend long.
"I would call it intensive TLC for mind, body and soul, infused with a beautiful, powerful, collective energy. You won't want it to end."
—Mary Marcolin
"Joyous, empowering, enriching—the Women's Music Weekend was one of the most wonderful experiences I have had. I arrived as a virtual novice with an interest in learning about writing music. I found the environment that welcomed me was designed so everyone feels at home, no matter their age or ability."
—Heather Nicolson-Morrison
Our 2019 Weekends
May weekend
will be led by
Katherine Wheatley
Jane Lewis,
along with special guests
Eve Goldberg
Laura Bird.
September weekend
will be led by Jane, Katherine,
Linda McLean,
and special guest
Suzie Vinnick.
Our guests are all fantastic Canadian musicians, and we are very pleased that they will be joining us!
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Our 2019 retreats
will be held at Loyola House, Ignatius Jesuit Centre, located in the beautiful countryside 2 km north of Guelph, ON. The Centre is the perfect setting for Women's Music Weekend, known to be a place of beauty and sustenance, 'where nature gives strength to mind, body and soul.' The estate is home to the internationally acclaimed Loyola House, and surrounded by the Ignatius Farm, 650 acres of hiking trails, ponds and streams, fields and forests. Loyola House is spacious and comfortable with private bedrooms and spacious meeting rooms. The kitchen serves fabulous organic food, most of which is grown on the property, and alongside delicious meals, the kitchen is always open for snacks and refreshments.
Fees & Registration for 2019
Early bird fee:
$545 (until March 1, 2019)
Regular fee:
$575 (after March 1, 2019)
Please get in touch if you're interested in attending. We have started a waiting list in case of cancellations.
Early bird fee:
$545 (until July 15, 2019)
Regular fee:
$575 (after July 15, 2019)
Your fee includes all workshops plus accommodation (private bedroom), meals from Friday night to Sunday lunch, snacks and refreshments throughout the weekend, and full access to Ignatius Centre grounds.
New WMW Bursary Fund - Application info & Please Donate Here
A Glimpse of Past Retreats
"Wonderful. Incredible. Beautiful. Delicious. Inspirational. Educational. I'd say more but you need to go and find your own words and melody. I did. Deepest gratitude to Katherine, Jane and Linda..."
—Ingrid Philipp
"F***ing miraculous"
—Vera Dyck
"What a life affirming weekend. I've come home renewed."
—Barb Smith
This resourceful women's trio will stretch and challenge you through an unforgettable weekend, hand-crafted to deliver a rewarding, enlightening, and fun-filled experience. You'll leave nurtured, inspired, and with a song in your heart!
Geologist-turned-folk singer
Katherine Wheatley
is one busy musician. In addition to her solo performing singer/songwriter career, she's half of the duo "Wendell and Wheat," a third of the trio
(with Jude Vadala and Tannis Slimmon), and is one of the founding members of the Toronto All-Star band "Betty and the Bobs." Her song "Hallelujah" won a 2009 Porcupine Golden Quill award and has become a standard in sing-along circles. Her 2010 solo show in Charlottetown was selected "Performance of the Year" by the Guardian. Two of her songs were selected for the new Rise Again songbook (30th anniversary publication of Rise Up). She writes and records songs with kids through her Youthsongs program and has produced over 30 CDs with schools across North America. She works as a singer/zodiac driver on board the ship The MS Expedition as it plies the seas of Antarctica and the Norwegian Arctic. When she's not on tour, Katherine presents songwriting and choral workshops in her home town of Guelph, Ontario.
"It is rare that one can find a singer/songwriter who nails guitar licks while at the same time dazzles you with emotive songwriting and perfectly pitched vocal prowess."
—Todd MacLean, THE GUARDIAN, Charlottetown, PEI
Award-winning, critically acclaimed singer songwriter
Linda McLean
has released four albums to rave reviews across Europe and N.America. Her vocal stylings and finely crafted tunes are compared to Joni Mitchell, Lucinda Williams and KT Tunstall, among others, and our own CBC says she's part of the holy trinity of Canadian songwriters, a trio that includes Kathleen Edwards and Sarah Harmer. Linda's also a writer, teacher, has a Masters Ed in holistic arts learning, and is a certified yoga instructor. She is Festival Director and co-owner of Muskoka Sound Music Festival, and in her spare time, moonlights as lead singer in the rockin' Linda McLean all star Band. A major talent with songs that both entertain and challenge an audience, McLean justifiably finds herself bracketed alongside the very best of today's singer songwriters.
"...these tunes have the ache and retrospective wisdom of a dame in her prime, and McLean's unafraid to root her writing in specificity or add political heft..."
—SL, Music Writer, TO
Jane Lewis
is a strong believer in the power of music and singing to bring people together. She founded the
All Together Now
workshop series in Guelph, and leads workshops on "the Joy of Singing," finding your voice, singing harmony and more. Jane is a published author, and she harbours a deep fascination for words and poetry. Her debut album
Stay With Me
was released in 2014 to critical reviews. She performs as a solo artist and in the folk duo
Gathering Sparks,
which was nominated for a 2014 Canadian Folk Music Award for Vocal Group of the Year.
"Everything about this record from the gorgeous songs, crisp lead vocals, stunning harmonies, creative arrangements, the stellar band accompaniment and its production are top drawer.... Sure to be one of the best albums of 2014."
—Jan Hall, Folk Roots Radio
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"What a way to treat yourself, lift your spirits and get creative! ... A unique opportunity to write, sing and share music and more in an atmosphere of inspiration and friendliness."
—Connie Murch
"Women's Music Weekend offered a great opportunity to explore many areas of music in a supportive and creative environment. There were so many different workshops to suit everyone's interests, comfort, and skill levels. The song-sharing circles were a highlight."
—Ryder Ball


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Kebbek Skateboards – El Bueno Freeride
Tenerife is a well known downhill skateboard paradise in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. We were so exited to hear that Big Mountain Skate was trying to host a world class event there. Kebbek Skateboards knew that they had to get involved. Riders from all over the world flew to the exotic destination for 5 days of bliss to kick of the season. Sit back, enjoy, and get ready for next year.
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The Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo spoke on Sunday, blamed the continued BH attacks witnessed in the North-East geopolitical zone on the massive size of the vicinity.
The Vice President said the Nation will be witnessing more these insurgent attacks as a result of the large areas involved. He made this when he played the part of President Muhammadu Buhari during the Eid-al-Adha lunch which was held in the presidential villa in the Fct, Abuja.
According to Vice President Osinbajo, policing the North-east is like policing the whole United Kingdom and Denmark put together.
The Vice-President said, "I was speaking to the UK Foreign Minister (Boris Johnson) a few days ago and I explained to him how it is so difficult to police the North-East.
I said that this North-East that you speak about, over the past two years, we have managed to ensure that Boko Haram does not hold any territory, but there are still opportunistic attacks here and there.
So, I explained to the Foreign minister that we are still going to experience these attacks because of the vast area that we are dealing with.
I said that the North-East is equivalent of the whole of the United Kingdom plus Denmark or Switzerland. So, we are dealing with a vast country.
I have seen the vast farmlands of Kebbi, Jigawa, and Kano. The other day, we were in Taraba, a place that is already producing vegetables, cucumber, pepper and supplying the major supermarkets in Lagos, Abuja
and Kaduna that used to import these vegetables.
Just five hectares of greenhouse in Taraba State is producing the needs of all the major supermarkets in Abuja, Kaduna and Lagos states.
An Israeli farmer who works in one of those greenhouses, on getting to Jalingo for the first time and seeing the beautiful hills, sent a message to his wife saying, 'we are close to heaven .' But by the time he got to Mambilla and got to the Plateau, he sent another message and said, ' we are now in heaven !"


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I can't quite believe December is here. Can you? Are you like me and don't feel quite ready for the year to end? I guess I have to buckle up and get my to-do lists in order!
Currently | Packing my bags for Bali! We leave tomorrow at 7am!
Watching | Doctor Who 50th Anniversary episode. So mind-blown by it! I also keep re-watching for the interactions between the three doctors. They are adorable together! I am simultaneously excited and dreading the Christmas episode because I don't want Eleven to go!
Reading | Home + Bound.
Enjoying | Spring cleaning. I am determined to start 2014 with a neat desk and a clean room.
Trying | VSCOcam. They finally launched it on the Android platform and I couldn't be happier!
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This great lot is close to several parks. Including Seahawk Park, Giuffrida Park and Burton Memorial Park! Schools nearby are Diplomat and Island Coast High!! This lot is also close to shopping, the beach, canals, and restaurants!! Live out your dream in southwest Florida!!!
Listing courtesy of Land Wealth Realty. Selling Office: Florida's Link Realty, Inc.
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Build this project at our next weekend-long Arduino workshop!
Electronic Etch-a-Sketch™
The Electronic Etch-a-Sketch™ uses two rotary potentiometers as inputs, and a Processing sketch as an output. The Arduino coninunously sends an X and a Y coordinate over the Serial interface. The Processing sketch uses these coordinates to move a draw pointer around a window, tracing as it does so, just like an Etch-a-Sketch™.
- 1 Arduino. We use the Arduino Uno, but any standard Arduino is appropriate for this project.
- 1 breadboard.
- 2 10K potentiometers.
- Wires for wiring.
Wire up your Arduino as shown in the image below:
The colors of the wires are purely cosmetic; you don't need to match the colors shown in the diagram.
Download Processing, an easy-to-use graphics programming development environment.
Upload the following code to your Arduino:
int x; int y; void setup() { Serial.begin(9600); } void loop() { x = analogRead(A0); y = analogRead(A1); Serial.print(x); Serial.print(" "); Serial.println(y); delay(50); }
Verify that your Arduino is sending frequent X and Y coordinates by clicking on the Serial Monitor button in the Arduino window.
Close the Serial Monitor and open Processing.
Copy the following code into a new Processing sketch:
// Etch-a-Sketch // based on a sketch by Trevor Shannon import processing.serial.*; Serial port; String serialInterface = "/dev/cu.usbmodem-blah"; int lastX = -1; int lastY = -1; int x; int y; String nextXY; void setup() { size(512, 512); background(255); port = new Serial(this, serialInterface, 9600); port.bufferUntil('\n'); } void draw() { String[] parts = splitTokens(nextXY); if (parts.length >= 2) { x = int(parts[0])/2; y = int(parts[1])/2; if (lastX >= 0 && lastY >= 0) { line(x, y, lastX, lastY); } lastX = x; lastY = y; } } void mouseClicked() { background(255); } void serialEvent(Serial p) { nextXY = p.readString(); }
Replace the string:
/dev/cu.usbmodem-blahwith the serial port that appears in the lower-right of your Arduino window.
Run the Processing sketch, and rotate the potentiometers!
- Use a different input to control the paddles. Perhaps an Ultrasonic distance sensor, using the NewPing library? Or a membrane potentiometer or a flex sensor?
- Modify the Processing code to use a different coordinated system: Use the first coordinate as the distance from the center of the output window, and the second coordinate as the angle from a vertical line up from the center.


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Chelsea to table final Rooney bid, £40m!
According to Mirror Sport Chelsea are set offer Manchester United an audacious £40m and move on if they are not willing to sell Rooney to their title rivals. Londoners will switch their attention to Robert Lewandowski if the champions stick to their stance that striker's not for sale. Lewandowiski wants to join Bayern Munich next summer after his contract at Signal Iduna park ends but, BVB might sell him to Chelsea in January not to lose him to their arch rivals.
Jose Mourinho will make a final bid of £40million for Wayne Rooney within the next 48 hours, Chelsea boss Mourinho wants Rooney as his new No.9 and owner Roman Abramovich will back him up with a stunning four-year contract worth an incredible £300,000 a week.
But if Manchester United manager David Moyes maintains his stance that the England striker is not for sale then Mourinho will use the money to fund a bid for Borussia Dortmund superstar Robert Lewandowski.
The Chelsea boss is hoping the sheer size of the Rooney bid will make the Old Trafford giants and the club's American owners the Glazer family see it makes financial sense to do the deal.
Rooney's value will drop after the transfer window closes as he has just two years left on his current United contract.But Chelsea know that Dortmund WILL sell at £40million – it's great money and a huge snub to their hated rivals Bayern.
The snag is persuading Lewandowski to move to England, but they plan to throw so much money at him that it turns his head.
Mourinho desperately wants Rooney but will go elsewhere if he has to.
Samuel Eto'o is also being considered, but only as a short-term solution. Chelsea have also been given encouragement to bid for Liverpool's Luis Suarez by his camp. The Uruguayan is a long-shot option but could yet move up the wish list. Rooney came on for 28 minutes in United's 4-1 demolition of Swansea yesterday and had a hand in two of the goals.
But he noticeably did NOT celebrate with his team-mates and is clearly desperate to get away. Rooney earned a standing ovation from the England fans for his 67 minutes against Scotland at Wembley on Wednesday but knows he needs more games.


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Welcome to Pendleton Parks and Recreation
2019 Winter Spring Activity Guide Out Now
The weather has started to cool (for the most part), school is underway, the Pendleton Round-Up festivities are underway, which means it is that time of year for the Fall Activity Flyer!
The 2019 Winter/Spring Activity Guide is out now. It has information about what's happening in November and December.
Digital copies can be found:
Ice Rink Closed for the season
Come down to Roy Raley Park and beat those winter blahs at Pendleton's ice rink! Hours are Monday through Thursday, from 3:00-6:00 pm; Friday, from 3:00-8:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday from Noon to 8:00 pm.
During school holiday break, the ice rink will be open Noon to 8:00 pm each day (closed Christmas Day).
2018/2019 Season: Closed
Admission with your own skates is $2.50 or admission plus skate rental is $3.50.
Tobacco-Free Parks
City of Pendleton Parks are now Tobacco-Free!
Ordinance (PDF)
Pendleton Parks and Recreation is excited to join other Oregon park systems in becoming 100% tobacco-free. This policy supports our mission to promote healthy lifestyles and environments for residents and park visitors in Pendleton.
Current Restroom Schedule
During the summer, we open as many restrooms as possible. However, please note that it is not currently possible to open every restroom in our entire park systems. This is due to several reasons including staffing, vandalism, maintenance, and so on. We make every effort to open as many restrooms as possible. One of the methods we use to keep as many restrooms in service as possible is to open only one side at certain parks. This allows us to repair any damage or vandalism if it occurs while opening the other side.


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V1 Technologies is a leading iPhone app development company that has been developing bespoke iPhone apps for clients in Leeds and across UK. Bring your ideas to life with our best-in-class app development services. Whether you are looking for native iPhone apps or cross platform apps, our iPhone app developers in Leeds can build the most intuitive apps for your business.
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Having a mobile app is not enough. Only highly functional and user friendly mobile apps will help you cut through the noise and reach out to your targeted audience. At V1 Technologies, we have employed the best iPhone app developers Leeds to make sure we deliver mobile apps that resonate with your targeted audience.
Many of you would ask, why choose to develop mobile apps when you have a nice and compelling website? The answer is simple:


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PlayStation Network will go offline for scheduled maintenance later today.
While the downtime was originally planned from 4pm GMT today until 3am GMT tomorrow morning, it has been rescheduled and extended.
Sony's US arm now says the maintenance will take place between 5am and 9pm Pacific Time (1pm to 5am GMT).
During the maintenance period, players will be unable to access the following services:
Online play should still be accessible if you log in before the maintenance begins, while in-game trophies collected during the downtime will be updated on your profile once PSN is back up and running.


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Goods delivery is provided by DHL, cost of delivery is calculated individually.
Delivery in Estonia is provided by ELS courier service and costs 5 EUR for up to 5 kg order.
Delivery of the order in Estonia takes 1-3 days from the moment of payment if the goods are available in the store.
Courier brings order right in your hands.
If the client is not present at the specified address, then the order will be waiting for the client at the nearest post office of Eesti Post.
If the selected item is not available in the stock, the order will be completed within 2-3 weeks.
Period of manufacture of individual orders is up to 4 weeks.
Also we send the goods by international courier services.
Calculating the cost of shipping is done individually for each country.
If you are interested in this method of delivery, please contact us directly firstname.lastname@example.com
For large orders and repeat customers, we are ready to consider other methods of delivery that will be convenient for you.
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Delivery (Estonia)
For the shipment of the purchased goods are 4 ways:
- via Estonian Post post office
- via Post24 automated post office
- via ItellaSmartPost automated post office
- using courier service
After receipt of payment on the bank you assemble and dispatching the products ordered. Delivery times are shown in the order confirmation to be sent to you by e-mail.
Omniva outdoor ATM-based parcel delivery 24 hours a day from your. Omniva parcel terminals are located at all major shopping centers all over Estonia. If you have chosen the types of supply module delivery Omniva way, the package reaches the chosen machine package arrives to your mobile phone as an SMS message notifying the door code. Read more about the service here.
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Receiving the parcel
As soon as the parcel arrives at the destination terminal, we send the receiver an SMS with all the necessary information for pick-up.
Our map of parcel terminals (see above) will help you locate the terminal where your parcel was delivered.
To receive the parcel, all you need to do is enter the code sent to you via SMS into the screen on the parcel terminal – after that, the locker door will open and the parcel is yours!. Read more about the service here.
Our couriers
Distribution of goods carried out by:
|ELS Courier
|Itella Logistics