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There comes a point in the lives of many people that they must look for employment, often times they end up with jobs that are simply there to pay the bills. It's been said that no one decided to be a house painter, and so the same can be said for the profession of a window cleaner. Essentially, becoming a professional window cleaner means starting your own business, or recognizing employment that you find enjoyable and fulfilling. We spoke with NICK'S Window Cleaning from Toronto, Ontario to discuss matters and they shared with us some valuable insight.
Like many small businesses, which you are essentially becoming once you decide to be a pro window cleaner, perseverance is incredibly important to finding success in this line of work. This not only means understanding the most effective and efficient way to clean windows, but also how to manage your billing, tend to your accounting, manage your customer relationships, and last but not least market your services. Persevering throughout the learning process, and day-to-day operations of your business can be a difficult task for those who do not have the stomach for the roller coast ride of self-employment.
Having the skills required to clean windows professionally is very important to a successful window cleaning business. This should go without saying but there are those who simply slop dirty soapy water on windows, wipe it off and call it a day. These are the sort of operations that do not last, as many customers may decide to simply pay the window cleaner and never call them again rather than confront them directly. In order to have repeat business it's important that the job is done correctly and there is a minimum of mess and/or inconvenience cause to the customer.
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Regardless of what line of business you are in, providing good customer service is very important and is considered by many successful businesses to be the key to their success. Simply put, getting paid once is nice, getting paid over and over is great. Ensuring that your customers are happy and satisfied with your service is going to make sure that they keep coming back to you time and time again. Once you have a customer and an established relationship it's going to be tough for them to change service providers, and also the cost of retaining a customer is often much less than the cost of obtaining a new customer.
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Spanish Catholics stage prayer protest; after Muslim mass prayer at Christian landmark
Published time: 16 Jun, 2017
Catholics in the Spanish city of Granada struck back at what they described as a "provocative" decision to stage a Ramadan fast-breaking in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary, by arranging a mass public prayer at the same spot.
"We are here because we can't allow that to happen. They can't do it in Granada. They can do so in their place, but not in the Jardines del Triunfo that has been ours for so long," a Catholic at the event told RT's Ruptly video agency.
The present-day Jardines del Triunfo started off as 13th century Islamic cemetery during the Muslim occupation of Spain, but is now dominated by a 17th century statue of the Immaculate Conception, located atop a towering pillar.
The decision to stage a prayer to break the daily Ramadan fast on June 10 was taken jointly by a Socialist-controlled city hall and an Islamic group, the Euroarab Foundation.
Socialist mayor Francisco Cuenca said that the ceremony prove that Granada was a "city of coexistence and tolerance" and said that "people of all faiths were invited to participate" in a ritual that would serve as "an invitation to another culture." Another Socialist city official insisted that "multiculturalism can never be a threat, it is an added value."
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Senior year of college, I ditched my $10/hour work study job at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender to make $150 a game shaking my non-existent bon bons for the New Jersey Nets. I'd been a cheerleader since the 11th grade and, at 21, the next step was to either go pro or buy a house on Memory Lane.
Before I showed up for auditions, all I knew about professional cheerleading was that you had to be "pretty," perky and have a double pirouette. Nobody told me about the double Ds.
Lining up with the rest of the girls in the rehearsal studio in my basic sports bra, I missed a few steps staring at the other girls in the mirror. One of these things was not like the other. These bitches were serious. Everyone but me was bursting at the seams and all I could think was, "How do you dance like that? Where's your center?" Add to that the extra pounds of ponytail, eyelashes and fingernails.
I didn't belong. I was a flat-chested Waldo. And for a woman with confidence coming out of her sweat glands, it was one of the first times I felt deficient in some way -- as if my perfect A-cup, drugstore mascara and ballerina bun would never make the cut. The rest of the girls, who were mostly white, seemed like they were made for this, long-legged Legos. But not me. I didn't have the building blocks. I wasn't a Barbie. There was absolutely no way I'd make it past the first round.
Not only did I make it past the first round, and the second and the third (despite forgetting the entire routine), I made the squad eventually and spent the next year traveling three times a week from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to the Meadowlands arena in Rutherford, New Jersey. It was awesome and grueling and pretty damn bad ass.
A decade has stretched between then and now, but it's still a guaranteed conversation starter, being a former professional cheerleader. People often ask if I used to hang with NBA players (Nope! It's contractually prohibited.) or if I got hit on a lot by courtside ticketholders (Nope! I wasn't playing that.) or what it's like "backstage" in the arena (smelly, very smelly).
But rarely does anyone ask about the intersection of racial and gender politics on the pom pom circuit, because, um, who thinks about race when "Hey! Boobies!"
Recently Ebony.com ran a story, "Black Skin, Orange Shorts," about a black woman's experience working at Hooters where the buxom "all American," "cheerleader," "surfer girl" and "girl next door" memes reign supreme.
"My research found that, unsurprisingly, an African-American woman must go to greater lengths to conform to the brand's image than her Caucasian, Asian or Latina counterparts. Yet few, if any women, embody this ideal 'naturally,'" writes Rachel E. Cook who conducted her master's thesis "on being a Hooters Girl of color."
That's one of the things I found both comforting and confusing in the locker room when I was a Nets dancer; we were all expected to conform to an "ideal" none of us actually subscribed to no matter our color. Remember those double Ds I saw at auditions? They were deflated by our first official rehearsal. Nearly every single one of us had a custom-made padded bra, even the girl who had falsies already.
And the hair? The first order of business, besides weighing us and adding those numbers to our contract, was figuring out each girl's hair situation. Were you going to be a flat-ironed red head, a curly blonde or a brunette with a bob? None of those descriptors, of course, had anything to do with how your hair naturally grew out of your head. It was my fellow dancers who taught me how many bobby pins it took to secure a fake ponytail.
The point is none of us looked the part. Sure, as Cook suggests, as a black woman I had to work a wee bit harder -- keeping my non-relaxed hair straight after hours of dance sweat threatened to destroy what hours in the salon had done -- but it was smoke and mirrors for all of us.
Too often, the counternarrative about the Barbie image is that it's a mainstream ideal perpetuated by real life white girls. Black, Latina and Asian women are somehow then exempt from what's deemed in beauty salons as "white girls' stuff," even as those same women chemically straighten and synthetically lengthen their own hair. The thing is no one looks like Barbie, not naturally anyway. Even the girl next door doesn't look like the girl next door. So where do all the real bitches live?
For me, my time as a real-life Barbie Doll was eye opening in this sort of fucked up way. We walked in the locker room looking like ourselves -- freckled, stringy haired, flat chested -- and walked out after an hour of Frakensteining ourselves. At the end of the night, after the last shot clock had been struck, the dregs of our efforts littered the floor nearest the mirrors -- lashes, cheap mall-stall hair. No one would recognize the group of girls dragging huge duffle bags stuffed with costumes, make up and silicon across the dark parking lot.
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The Gervais School Board, which normally conducts the evaluation of a superintendent's performance, is looking to the community for feedback.
The school board, which is largely made up of first-year directors, decided to solicit staff and community stakeholders through a survey about the superintendent.
Superintendent Matt Henry has led the school district since July 2014.
Individual responses will be kept confidential and will be collected by the Oregon School Boards Association, a third party.
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text: Erich Staake, chief of ailing German private web Vox, is out effective immediately, the station's board announced Thursday.Bernd Schiphorst, president of Ufa, will take over Staake's job for the time being. Ufa, Bertelsmann's electronic media arm, is a major shareholder in the information-oriented web. Since startup six months ago, Vox's earnings and market share have fallen far short of expectations. Last month, program director Ruprecht Eser abruptly departed. Eser's successor, Klaus Klenke, assumed his post July 1. In addition to heavy losses, Vox is plagued by rumors that shareholders, particularly the Holzbrinck Group, want to bail out. The station is currently trying to boost ratings by acquiring rights to high-profile tennis matches.


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US President Barack Obama has said he will work with Congress to implement changes to the oversight of the National Security Agency. This comes amid a controversy over the NSA's surveillance activities.
President Obama told reporters at the White House on Friday that the new measures he hoped to introduce were designed to restore the American people's trust in the country's intelligence agencies.
"Given the history of abuse by governments, it's right to ask questions about surveillance, particularly as technology is reshaping every aspect of our lives," the president said.
He told the press conference that he would ask Congress to review a section of the US Patriot Act that was passed in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.
Section 215 of the Act gives US agencies the authority to conduct surveillance on internet activity and telephone records.
He said he would also pursue a reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which has to approve requests from law-enforcement agencies before they may being to target specific individuals for surveillance. Currently the secretive court only hears the case put to it by the agency seeking the approval. In the future, Obama wants the court to have to also hear a counterargument from a civil liberties group before deciding whether to grant the request.
"All these steps are designed to ensure that the American people can trust that our efforts are this line with our interests and our values," Obama said.
"And to others around the world I want to make clear once again that America is not interested in spying on ordinary people," he added.
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The proposals come as the US National Security Agency (NSA) has come under fire for mass surveillance activities revealed by former government subcontractor Edward Snowden, who has been granted temporary asylum in Russia.
Asked about Snowden, the president indicated that US authorities would continue to do all they could to bring the whistle-blower to America so that they can put him on trial.
"I don't think Mr. Snowden was a patriot," Obama said.
Asked about the chill in ties between Washington and Moscow over this and other issues, he denied that he had a "bad personal relationship" with Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite the fact that he recently cancelled a Moscow visit.
At the same time though, Obama said there had always been tensions between the two countries and that this was a good time to reassess where they stood.
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Not an expert with this, so would be grateful for any suggestions.
I use Windows Live Movie Maker for editing the videos I take
with my JVC Camcorder.
Really like the program a lot.
But, when I burn a DVD from the edited video, it will only play on my PC.
How, please, can I also burn a DVD directly from this program (and not have to use another one to change the format) that will play on my TV (and still on the PC) via my normal DVD Player ?
Hard to believe there isn't a way to tell it to use the right format so that it will play on BOTH a PC and a TV.
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"We can offer hope to those waiting for a transplant," Cindy Siljestrom, Chief Executive Officer for the California Transplant Donor Network.
Oakland, CA (PRWEB) January 24, 2014
California Transplant Donor Network completed its fourth year as a tissue recovery agency with a new high mark of 2,006 eye and tissue donors in 2013, helping to save and improve an estimated 83,000 lives.
Established for more than a quarter century as an organ recovery organization in Northern and Central California and Northern Nevada, the California Transplant Donor Network (CTDN) also successfully worked with 281 organ donors and their families in 2013, saving lives with 920 organs transplanted.
CTDN continued its robust program of aiding researchers focused on projects to improve public health and the transplantation process. In 2013, through the compassion of donor families, about 250 additional organs were made available for medical education research. About three-quarters of families asked agreed to participate in research.
"Our work is only possible with the cooperation of the more than 170 hospitals, dozens of coroners' offices and hundreds of funeral homes as well four transplant centers which partner with us to refer possible donors. Because of them, and a CTDN staff committed to maximize every donation opportunity, we can offer hope to those waiting for a transplant," Cindy Siljestrom, Chief Executive Officer for the California Transplant Donor Network.
The CTDN Operations Center – where calls to refer potential organ and tissue donors are first received – logged more than 500,000 calls in 2013, reaching a milestone only a year after it became fully operational.
Working in two states and serving 13 million people, CTDN pursues a mandate to educate the public about organ and tissue donation, in addition to supporting donor families and arranging for the recovery and placement of organs and tissues. CTDN is the third largest organ procurement organization in the country based on population in its service area.
CTDN set a goal to increase the number of people registered as donors in that area by 5 percent in 2013. Instead, the numbers of people who have said "Yes" to donation at the DMV in the CTDN service area increased by 13 percent in 2013, meaning 3.9 million people have now registered as donors.
CTDN's effort continue to focus on the needs of those who are waiting for an organ transplant --more than 23,000 in California and Nevada-- as well as those whose lives will be improved with a tissue donation, such as corneas to restore someone's sight.
Each of the nearly 300 people at CTDN work daily to provide expertise and exceptional service to the hospitals, coroners, funeral homes and transplant centers in support of families. Their work honors the gifts donors and their families place in our care.
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The California Transplant Donor Network saves and improves lives by facilitating organ and tissue donation for transplantation. The California Transplant Donor Network partners with 170 hospitals in 41 Northern and Central California and Northern Nevada counties to offer the option of organ and tissue donation to families whose loved ones have died, coordinates deceased organ and tissue recovery and placement to waiting transplant recipients. Through its public education efforts, the hope that every resident will chose to become a donor is possible. The California Transplant Donor Network is federally designated as the region's organ recovery organization. For information, call 888-570-9400 or visit http://www.ctdn.org.


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TALLAHASSEE · South Florida pari-mutuels stand to make hundreds of millions off slot machines and they've hired dozens of lobbyists to make sure they get the best deal possible from the state Legislature.
But while the battle over how to regulate and tax slots has turned into an economic boon for Florida's lobbying corps, the public will never know how much the lobbyists were paid or how much they spent to sway public policy and legislators.
That makes slots the perfect poster child in Senate President Tom Lee's campaign to reform Florida's lobbyist reporting laws.
"When there is an issue with the potential for that much money to be made, that's when you see them hire anyone who can help them influence the process," said Ben Wilcox, director of Common Cause of Florida, a nonprofit government watchdog. "But we'll never get a clear indication of how money was used to influence public policy."
Every time the slots bill is scheduled for a committee meeting, it's standing room only.
There are the dog and horse track owners who want low tax rates and moderate regulation. Horse and dog breeders want guarantees of better purses, while animal protection groups want high taxes and tough regulation. School officials want to know how much they will reap from the final deal. And the Seminole Indians, who publicly claim they have no position at all, want to know what kind of competition their casinos will have.
Their ranks include former members of the Senate and House, including a former House speaker, one-time political party powerhouses, allies of Gov. Jeb Bush and a former state education commissioner.
"This is the lobbyist relief act of the session," said Rep. Ron Greenstein, D-Coconut Creek, a member of the first House committee to pass a slots bill. "At the meeting, it was hard to tell who wasn't there compared to all the Class A lobbyists who were there."
Some get $100,000 or more to lobby an issue although talk among insiders is that fees on other issues have gone as high as $1 million. But when their job is done, the public will remain in the dark over how successful they actually were or whether they won bonuses to get amendments tacked onto the measure.
Lee wants lobbyists to disclose how much they are paid to sway opinions and how much they spend to wine and dine legislators in that quest. Similar laws already exist in 28 other states.
The Senate approved the lobbyist disclosure bill (SB 2646), which also calls for periodic auditing of reports, in a 39-0 vote on Thursday.
"Hundreds of thousands of dollars are being paid late in this process to put amendments on bills and you can't connect the dots," said Lee, R-Brandon. "Information is imperative for a free and open society."
According to state registration records, Hollywood Greyhound has 11 lobbyists this year compared with six during the 2004 session. Pompano Park Harness Track and Gulfstream Park in Hallandale are each represented by 12 lobbyists this year compared with seven in 2004.
"There is a lot of opposition out there and there are forces in the unregulated and untaxed gaming world that would like to see what the people voted on not come to fruition," said Dan Adkins, vice president of Hollywood Greyhound and a leading force in the slots amendment drive.
The formidable lobbying force hired by those interested in the slots bill has helped draw attention to Lee's quest.
"When you start trying to hire a lobbyist for every member of the Legislature ... it gets to the obscene," said Jack Cory, who lobbies for the Florida Greyhound Association, which represents dog breeders. "There is a very, very thin line between consultant services and influence peddling. Hiring one lobbyist for one legislator, you're getting very, very close to that line."
Much of that lobbying clout is concentrated on the state House, where the leadership agrees with Bush on trying to restrict Broward County's pari-mutuels to electronic bingo machines. Classified as Class II gaming, they provide less profit for the owners and players than Las Vegas-style slot machines, which are labeled as Class III. Broward pari-mutuels and those in Miami-Dade who hope to someday win voter approval for slots along with other interests are battling to get Class III.
During his seven years in the state House, Speaker Allan Bense said he has never seen an issue that involved more lobbyists.
"I understand there are dozens and dozens and dozens," said Bense, R-Panama City, who concedes lobbyist reform isn't as much of a burning issue in the state House. "Turning me off isn't the right word. But, boy, they sure are getting their troops out there. But it's America. If they want to do it, they can do it."
Senate leaders, who claim they won't go home without some lobbyist reform this session, still hope to win over the House.
"Some will paint this bill as insulting, that no legislator will compromise himself over a dinner or a bottle of wine," said Senate Rules Chairman Ken Pruitt, R-Port St. Lucie, who is slated to become Senate president after Lee leaves in 2006. "To the public, perception has become reality. And the image of politicians and lobbyists is not a healthy one."
Mark Hollis of the Tallahassee Bureau contributed to this report. Linda Kleindienst can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 850-224-6214.
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I'm going to start by providing some background information. I'm going to explain how a certain belief (or policy) is One Of The Most Important Things, because reasons. I'm going to tell a tragic (or sentimental, or inspiring) story to help illustrate my point.
Now I'm going to write something funny, to gain the appreciation and sympathy of my audience. I'm going to quote Mark Twain, because everyone loves Mark Twain. My tone is still lighthearted, right now.
But now my tone isn't lighthearted any longer. I'm about to get very passive-aggressive. It turns out that you, Public Figure, have done something (or said something) that threatens the aforementioned belief (or policy). You have either forgotten or rejected the importance of this belief (or policy), and I have taken it upon myself to scold you.
I'm going to pretend that my intention in this paragraph is to persuade you to change your ways. Of course, I know that you aren't actually reading this letter. My real intention is to whip my audience into a frenzy of righteous indignation. You have done something despicable, Public Figure, and all of us are here to hold you accountable.
Now I will use the internet to dig up some of your previous statements and actions regarding This Issue. I will establish an Ongoing Pattern. I will casually question your motives and suggest that your empathy is clouded by some form of social or economic privilege. {My readers nod their heads in grim disapproval.} It also turns out that I found an inconsistency in your private life. This means that you, dear sir (or ma'am), are a hypocrite! You should be ashamed of yourself.
In this final paragraph, I'll return to a more lighthearted tone. This sentence, right here, is designed to make my readers chuckle. For the sake of symmetry, I'm going to once again explain how my beloved belief (or policy) is One Of The Most Important Things, because more reasons. I'll then close by cleverly making a reference to the story I told in the first paragraph.
Concerned Citizen


text: Atlanta (WAOK)- Atlanta's DJ Nando's life was remembered by family and friends in Northeast Atlanta on Friday. Co-workers of the popular DJ gathered in the parking lot of Club Onyx, where he worked, for a candle lighting memorial. DJ Nando, also known as William Fernando Barnes, wasn't thought to have any enemies so the reason behind his death has baffled many who knew him. "To speculate is horrible but the whole point is we want justice for our friend," said friend and fellow DJ Dante Williams. "It was just so out of the blue." The Club Owners of Georgia and Barnes' family have arranged a $10,000 reward for anyone who may have information or details leading up to the killer of DJ Nando. Relatives have also created a memorial fund for any monetary donations at Wells Fargo Bank. The monies received will go towards the funding of the funeral. A wake was held Saturday for the public to pay their respects at the Donald Trimble Mortuary in Decatur.


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Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. recently announced that it is developing the country's fastest high speed train! Named the "Environmentally Friendly Super Express Train" (efSET), the modern marvel will propel passengers along at 217 miles per hour, besting the record-holding Shinkansen's 186mph. The streamlined design also promises to be less noisy, more energy efficient, and will feature a state-of-the-art electrical control system.
The introduction of Kawasaki's new high-speed train stands to improve upon Japan's standing rail system, already considered to be one of the most efficient in the world. The efSET will feature an extremely lightweight and aerodynamic profile in addition to a regenerative braking system that will recycle the kinetic energy generated by its movement.
Kawasaki plans to finalize the design by March 2010, and the company has already announced that it plans to prepare the efSET for international release. They estimate that 10,000 km of high-speed railways will be deployed over the next 20 years – lets hope some of those lines fall within the United States!
+ Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.
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Evaluation of design parameters for TRISO-coated fuel particles to establish manufacturing critical limits using PARFUME
The success of modular high temperature gas-cooled reactors is highly dependent on the performance of the tristructural-isotopic (TRISO) coated fuel particle and the quality to which it can be manufactured. During irradiation, TRISO-coated fuel particles act as a pressure vessel to contain fission gas and mitigate the diffusion of fission products to the coolant boundary. The fuel specifications place limits on key attributes to minimize fuel particle failure under irradiation and postulated accident conditions. PARFUME (an integrated mechanistic coated particle fuel performance code developed at the Idaho National Laboratory) was used to calculate fuel particle failure probabilities. By systematically varying key TRISO-coated particle attributes, failure probability functions were developed to understand how each attribute contributes to fuel particle failure. Critical manufacturing limits were calculated for the key attributes of a low enriched TRISO-coated nuclear fuel particle with a kernel diameter of 425 μm. As a result, these critical manufacturing limits identify ranges beyond where an increase in fuel particle failure probability is expected to occur.
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- Journal of Nuclear Materials
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- Journal Volume: 469; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0022-3115
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- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
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- United States
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- English
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- 11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; inner pyrolytic carbon (IPyC); TRISO; silicon carbide (SiC); outer pyrolytic carbon (OPyC); PARFUME; Advanced Gas Reactor (AGR); Advanced Test Reactor (ATR)
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There are a multitude of documents that suggest there were plans for the systematic murder of certain minorities in countries under Nazi rule.
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6 million figure is pre ww2
Sort of. Lets have a look at where the figure of 6 million comes from.
Originally posted by Monts
I have often wondered how much is written and known about the holocaust was actually true. In my mind, I think it would be pretty easy to fake/grossly exaggerate the numbers of people who were killed.
However, ask any WW2 vet who liberated any of those death camps, and they will tell you that they were definitely death camps.
Originally posted by truthseeker1445How come nobody talks about the 100 million native americans thats were killed by white men
Originally posted by Mikeyy
So what are people who acually had family members executed in a death camps supposed to think of all this?
their family members are secretly alive, hiding somewhere to protect a POINTLESS secret?
their family members are secretly alive, hiding somewhere to protect a POINTLESS secret?
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In the world, one can question government, leadership, and God, but dare not question Zionism.


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Author Notes: This is one of classic Kerala dishes that appear at every wedding and other special family gathering. An easy recipe only if you have the "Achappam" Mould. You may get this in Indian store .Or I can arrange one. Last weekend this pancake made for our son Joseph by his grandmother .Immediately, he took all to his hostel to share with friends. Usually he come home every weekend. —pauljoseph
Serves: 10
pound raw rice
cup Coconut Milk
tablespoons Sugar
teaspoon Sesame seeds
Salt to taste
- Soak the raw rice for one hour
- Powder the moist rice finely, add the half the coconut milk ,combine
- Beat the egg till frothy, add sugar, sesame seed, salt
- Pour the above with remaining coconut milk into the batter. beat well to obtain a coating consistency
- Heat the oil, dip the mould in the batter (take care the upper quarter of the mould Clean)to coat.
- Return to the hot oil ,fry a minute, tap gently to let the fritter fall gently into the oil. Fry to a golden brown. Drain.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Savory Rice Dish
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Charles Barkley Shoes
The animated action movie, Space Jam unleashes the creative powers combined with state of art technology. It was published in 1996 by Warner Bros. family entertainment and starred Bugs Bunny and the famed basketball player, Michael Jordan. The voice over was given by Billy West for the Tunes and the movie marks the debut of Lola Bunny, Bugs Bunny's girlfriend. The popularity of the film went beyond the normal memorabilia and Acclaim Entertainment produced a computer game while Sega went ahead to launch a pinball game based on the movie Space Jam. The storyline plays with the NBA superstar, Michael Jordan pursuing a baseball career after retiring from professional basketball.Charles Barkley Shoes
Based with animated alien characters, Nerdlucks minions to Mr. Swackhammer, who's a owner of'Moron Mountain ', an extraterrestrial theme park which is going bankrupt as a result of poor business. To gather more attractions, he sends the Nerdlucks to earth to kidnap the Tune characters. In the movie, the house of the Looney Tunes is deep below the surface of the earth. As a challenge the Tunes question them to play a game of basketball after seeing they are not so tall. But Nerdlucks are devious and to be sure that they win, they resort to underhand means such as for example stealing the powers of the NBA stars- Muggsy Bogues, Shawn Bradley, Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson and Charles Barkley.Charles Barkley Shoes
The stolen powers make the Nerdlucks powerful and they become gigantic creatures with super powers or Monstars that seem invincible to be defeated by the Tunes. To defeat the Monstars, Looney Tunes enlist the help of Michael Jordan and the game starts. The devious ways and tactics of the Nerdlucks, give Looney Tunes characters trouble leaving only Michael Jordan, Bugs Bunny, Lola Bunny and daffy Duck in the team. To simply help the Tunes, Bill Murray enters the game but it had been with the help of the animated extendable arm of Michael Jordan that the Tunes have the winning shots. After winning the game, Looney Tunes leave Michael Jordan on Earth and he gives back the stolen prowess to the players while Tunes return back for their homes. The exciting live animated movie was an instant hit and grossed over $330 million worldwide. The popularity of the movie gave the memorabilia industry a force and a large number of key chains, statues, soft toys and Michael Jordan shoes hit the market where eager buyers of most ages bought them.


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Join is for light refreshments, wine (available for purchase), lots of shmoozing, and of course, Painting!
The studio provides paint, a canvas, and an apron. Their trained artists will guide you, brushstroke by brushstroke, from blank canvas to masterpiece!
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Every single day when I walk down the street, I chuckle to myself thinking that 99 percent of the adorable dogs that live in my neighborhood look like their owners. Seriously. It's something in the face shape, some of the characteristics -- they're similar, I swear.
Which got me thinking, wouldn't it be funny to see dogs that look like celebrities? I mean -- celebrities are generally so distinct in their style, the way that they rock their hair, accessories, what clothes they wear ... what if there were dogs that were a perfect doppelganger?
Well get this: there are. And the best part? I've found 'em all for you. Check out these 9 celebrity dog doppelgangers that will make you LOL:
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I cannot describe the pain but one thing for sure that the sweetest rewards always come from the hardest struggles. I've suffered enough during my pregnancy and labor, but there are no words good enough to express the joy of motherhood.
January 27, 2012
Love our Mother
I cannot describe the pain but one thing for sure that the sweetest rewards always come from the hardest struggles. I've suffered enough during my pregnancy and labor, but there are no words good enough to express the joy of motherhood.
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Kudos talaga sa mga mommy sis. I know how painful it is kasi nakita ko kung pano ang hirap ng mga mother sa delivery room and I feel scared na manganak dahil mababa ang pain tolerance ko.ReplyDelete
this is so true sis, nagiging super woman tayong mga mommy when we're about to give birth. may pinanggagalingang inner strength. How I wish kahit konti nun nafi-feel ng mga daddy no,hehe. seriously,every mom's birth story is amazing talaga. :)ReplyDelete
jhaney - yan din takot ko kaya nagpainless ako. =)ReplyDelete
jo - kaya girl's talaga nakakaappreciate sa mom nila kasi nafifeel nila yung pain once na nanganak sila. so paano na ang anak natin, parehong boys, hindi nila mafifeel. hehe!
I agree with you. Childbirth was so painful. I was injected with an epidural but I still felt it when it started wearing off. Nanginginig pa tuhod ko nun. Really scared. I wished my hubby could have been there to hold my hand unfortunately, he was not allowed inside the delivery room. =(ReplyDelete
wala akong alam dito hahaha girl talk ata hahahaReplyDelete
Such a nice post dear! bringing back my memories when i gave birth to my first daughter.Its too painful and you don't know where to pinpoint and where the pain is coming from. though, when i'm in the delivery room i totally nvr felt any pain, and I'm wide awake until the next day after i gave birth. so heart warming post for me... god bless ~JANE~ http://tauyanm.blogspot.com/ReplyDelete
tin - my hubby also so next time, i will choose a hospital that allows husband inside the delivery room. =)ReplyDelete
JR - this will give you an idea so love your mother. =)
jane - thanks for the visit. wow, wide awake till next day, ako, tulog na sa pagod.
Superheroes talaga ang mga mommies! True! Yes! This! I love my mom! Kahit anong problema't pagsubok, matatag!ReplyDelete
We owe our lives to our mothers. For this, it's just proper to give them all the love they deserve. My salute to all mothers.ReplyDelete
My wife is pregnant and is due in July. Wow! I didn't know that bones are like being fractured really. An eye-opener post. Thanks!ReplyDelete
"the sweetest rewards always come from the hardest struggles". love this line! ay naku ayoko na manganak ulit heheheReplyDelete
sabi nga nila pag nanganganak tayo nasa hukay ang isang paa natin, i felt all the pain when i gave birth to my two sons, after the first one i just realize how important to me is my mother :)ReplyDelete
i love my mom.ReplyDelete
naalala ko yung sabi niya na dapat mahalin ang mga babae. ang sabi niya, pagka nanganganak ang isang babae, parang nasa hukay na ang kabilang paa niya.
mafifeel ko rin yan soon...
I so love my mom!!! And I applaud all moms! Grabe sacrifice nyo, I'm not yet a mother but I'm still hoping nd praying to be one soon... ;-)ReplyDelete
Trust me, I know what you went through. I almost died since my heart rate went to 120+ ... crazy no? Still, I love my baby and I'm glad I had him.ReplyDelete
I know pregnancy and going through labor is hard, but I didn't know that it feels as if bones are being fractured. This made me appreciate my mom and all moms even more. At the same time, it kinda scares me.. >.<ReplyDelete
"I cannot describe the pain but one thing for sure that the sweetest rewards always come from the hardest struggles" - Just before reading your last paragraph, this must be my comment but you have mentioned pala sa huli. hehe.ReplyDelete
Well, that's the essence of womanhood!
In every struggles, there is always a consequence of rewards. This is what I get as a gist from your blog, particularly this line: "The sweetest rewards always come from the hardest struggles." In other words, when there's no pain, there's no gain. But in giving birth to an infant where pain is unbearable so to speak, but after that is an endless happiness for giving life to a "spirit child" of God.ReplyDelete
Really true.. but I am thankful that I didn't experience it. Nakaschedule kasi ako ma CS so nakapili kami date and time. But I'm thankful and stand in awe to my mom who gave birth to 5 of us. LOVE OUR MOTHER! Cheers to all moms out there po! :DReplyDelete
I am normal I actually had a trauma getting preggy again if only my hubby will allow I don't want to because I labored for almost a dayReplyDelete
My mom is the best person I've ever known in the entire world. But, I'm always afraid to be a mother because I know I will never be a good mother. =(ReplyDelete
Wow, this made me appreciate my mom even more! Despite the ineffable pain of childbearing, it really is a wonderful gift to womanhood.ReplyDelete
i salute mothers not just for the childbirth but for the unconditional love...i love my mom!ReplyDelete
Lahat naman yata ay love ang kanilang mga mommy.ReplyDelete
for my 2 boys .natural birht talaga ako .normal delivery .walang painless .talagang puro ire kahit super sakit.ReplyDelete
I know a few people who didn't want to feel that labor pain. One is my mother, who is a doctor herself. She told me that she doesn't know the feeling of labor pain and she's happy that she never experienced it. Not sure how that goes but she said it was timing. They just decided to get me out on the day of the delivery using a c-section.ReplyDelete
^ayaw ko naman maCS, mas mahirap magheal ang tahi e. =)ReplyDelete
kathy - grabe yung experience mo.
chrisair - ako 10hrs lang pero on my 6th hr, hindi ko na kaya yung sakit.
stacy - ganyan din ako before, but you'll never know unless you become a mother.


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|Life: Is This It?
Jesus: Who is He?
Cross: Why Did Jesus Die?
Faith: How Can I Have Faith?
Prayer: Why and How Do I Pray?
Bible: Why and How Do I Read the Bible?
|Follow: How Does God Guide Us Into Full Life?
Spirit: Who Is the Holy Spirit and What Does He Do?
Fill: How Can I Be Filled With the Holy Spirit?Evil: How Can I Resist Evil?
Healing: Does God Heal Today?
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From the cult of domesticity to the Semiotics of the Kitchen, housekeeping has been central to both constructing and critiquing the role of women in American society. Frequently domesticity's style has been to make invisible the labor that produces it, allowing woman to be asserted or argued about in universal terms that downplay race, class, and material relations. American Domesticity considers this relationship in representations of domesticity and domestic labor over the last two centuries in didactic, cinematic, and feminist texts. While the domestic is usually conceived of as the antithesis of the public, economical, and political, Kathleen McHugh demonstrates how domestic discourse established the terms within which the most crucial national issues--the market economy, universal white male suffrage, slavery, the construction of racial difference, consumerism, spectatorship, desire, and even feminism--were conceived, assimilated, and understood. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the book investigates the historical roots of domestic labors invisibility in widely circulated didactic housekeeping manuals written by Lydia Child, Catherine Beecher, Mary Pattison, and Christine Frederick. It then considers how pedagogical discourses became entertainment discourses, their focus shifting from the silent era of film to the twilight of the classical period. The book concludes with an examination of the return of a pedagogical impulse within feminist film production concerning domesticity, comparing it to the concurrent rise of feminist film theory in the academy. Looking at this wide range of print and film texts, McHugh traces the outlines of a discourse of domesticity that claims to be private and universal but instead brokers difference within the public sphere.From How-to Manual to Hollywood Melodrama Kathleen Anne McHugh Associate Professor of Comparative Literature University of California at Riverside. ac FOUR*. Silent. Film, . Silent. Work. Early. Cinema. and. the. Domestic. Melodramas. of.
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Kathleen Polk, a retired T. Rowe Price vice president and activist for social issues who cultivated a wide circle of friends, died in her sleep Sunday at her Roland Park home. She was 65.
"She embodied the idea that strength and compassion don't have to be opposing values," said Dr. Daniel Munoz, a Johns Hopkins cardiologist and friend. "She was fiery, smart, but full of warmth at the same time."
Born Kathleen Louise Gelinas in New York City, she attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan and earned a bachelor of arts degree from Newton College in Newton, Mass. Early in her career, she became a financial analyst for Dunn and Bradstreet in San Francisco.
She moved to Baltimore with her husband, Dr. B. Frank Polk, a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health epidemiologist and pioneer in AIDS research.


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Students attend Palo Verde College in preparation for transfer to a four-year institution, to acquire entry-level job skills, to increase their vocational competency, or to participate in a variety of non-credit courses. The college also has distance education classes for students unable to attend regular classes in Blythe or Needles. Courses in Administration of Justice, Criminal Justice and Fire Science Technology are offered by Palo Verde College in Blythe as well as through the Ben Clark Training Center, Industrial Emergency Council and Riverside County Fire Department.
Palomar College is a two-year public community college located in North San Diego County, California. As an educational leader committed to quality learning, we provide our community with the knowledge, information, skills, and aesthetic appreciation necessary to live responsibly, effectively, and creatively in an interdependent and changing world. We serve approximately 30,000 students from a variety of backgrounds, and offer more than 300 Associate's Degree and certificate programs. The College is devoted to embracing diversity in all of its forms, and equal opportunity is offered to all students, employees, and employment applicants regardless of background.


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10 Mayfield Rd
Whalley Range
Greater Manchester
Great James St Practice
23-24 Great James Street
01618811677 / 02071128924 London Practice
I have been providing a caring, compassionate, non judgemental therapeutic service since 1989 and have conducted over 33,000 sessions. With practices in Whalley Range, Manchester and Holborn, Central London. I believe that before you consult a therapist it is always good to know more about him/her. In the following description I hope to give you a better idea of who I am and what I am about. If you would rather just check out my qualifications, please go to http://hypnomanchester.co.uk/about-shaun/cv/
In 2014 I launched a free app available on iTunes and Google Play.The app gives you direct access to Brookhouse Hypnotherapy including free hypnotic mp3's which are added to regularly.
My therapeutic approach is non judgmental and integrative which means that I utilise a variety of therapeutic approaches and philosophies in order to assist my clients to achieve their goals. I tend to be solution focused, which means that I primarily look at solutions as opposed to problems in order to help my clients move forward. This is not to say that I do not look at the problems or issues that are causing concern, but rather than to focusing exclusively on those, I believe that looking at the solutions rather than the problems makes the therapeutic experience more positive for the client. Rest assured, I only use approaches that have been proven to be effective. That proof is demonstrated in clinical and academic journals as well as through anecdotal evidence of over 28 years of clinical practice.
I have been a practising hypnotherapist since 1989 and a practising psychotherapist since 1995. Though I hold many accreditations I believe that accreditation with the UK Council for Psychotherapy is the gold standard for therapists. The training programmes they accredit are a minimum of 4 years in length at Masters Degree Level. I have completed two of these programmes, in 1995 with the Centre Training School of Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy and in 2007 with the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. I have been accredited by the UKCP since 1996.These qualifications are in addition to my hypnotherapy diplomas which I received in 1989 (American College of Clinical Hypnosis), 1994 (London College of Clinical Hypnosis) and 2003 from the Hypnotism Training Institute of Los Angeles. Additionally I hold a US Nationally Accredited Diploma in Hypnotherapy from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute (2010) and was the co-creator of the NCFE Accredited Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma (2002).
In addition to UKCP, I am an accredited psychotherapist with the European Association for Psychotherapy, European Association for Hypno-Psychotherapy, and World Council for Psychotherapy, and a CNHC and NSHP Registered Hypnotherapist. I am also a UKASFP Accredited Solution Focused Practitioner and a UKCP Registered Clinical Supervisor and a trained EMDR(Eye Movement De-sensitisation and Reprocessing) Therapist and am a UKCP Registered Psychotherapeutic Counsellor. Since 1989, I have undertaken over 6000 hours of clinical training in addition to conducting over 32,000 client sessions.I am recognised by BUPA, PruHealth, and WPA for psychotherapeutic referrals.
Additionally, I am the co-founder of the National Society of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy a professional association recognised by the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council and the current Principal of the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, the oldest hypnotherapy/psychotherapy training institute in the UK. I am the 5th Principal since the College was founded in 1977.
Qualifications: (Academic)
GCGI, Graduateship Diploma in Counselling and Hypnotherapy, City and Guilds of London Institute. Graduateship is equivalent to a first degree at a recognised European University. Thesis: Counselling Skills in the Hypnotherapeutic Profession
MA , Education Studies, Liverpool John Moores University. Dissertation: Hypnotherapy Training in the UK: An investigation into the development of Clinical Hypnosis training post 1971
PGCert, Clinical Supervision, University of Derby. Final Project APT Model of Supervision
CertEd, Post-compulsory: Further, Adult and Higher, University of Manchester
Course assignments based in part on hypnotherapy training course written by Shaun Brookhouse
ACoT, Associate Diploma, College of Teachers. Thesis: The Importance of Counselling Skills in the Training of Hypnotherapists
LCGI, Licentiate City and Guilds of London Institute, Training and Development
Qualifications: (Professional)(Selected)
DHyp, Diploma in Hypnotherapy, American College of Clinical Hypnotherapy (1989)
DHyp, Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy, London College of Clinical Hypnosis (1993)
DHP, Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy, Centre Training School of Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy, UK (1995)
PGDHP, Post Graduate Diploma in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy, Centre Training School of Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy, UK (1997)
DipProfCouns, Diploma of Professional Counselling, Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors (2002)
CertSup, Certificate in Supervision, Centre Training International School of Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy, UK (2002)
HPD, Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma, National Council for Hypnotherapy/NCFE Awarding Body (2002)
DHP(NC) Diploma in Hypnosis and Psychotherapy (Distinction) National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, UK (2007)
ADHP(NC) Advanced Diploma in Hypno-Psychotherapy, National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, UK (2007)
DEHP(NC) Diploma in Ericksonian Hypno-Psychotherapy, National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, UK (2007)
CEHP(NC) Certificate in Ericksonian Hypno-Psychotherapy (Distinction), National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, UK (2007)
Diploma/Certification in Clinical Hypnotism, National Guild of Hypnotists (2004)
Diploma in Advanced Hypnotherapy, Hypnotism Training Institute of Los Angeles (2003)
Certified Hypnotherapist CH, National Guild of Hypnotists USA, (1993)
Master Practitioner of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, International Hypnosis Institute USA
Certified Practitioner/Master Practitioner of NLP, NLP Associates UK (1996)
Certified Trainer of NLP, Advanced Neuro Dynamics, USA (1998)
Certified Master Trainer of NLP, National Federation of NLP, USA (2000)
Certified Instructor ,CI, National Guild of Hypnotists USA (2000)
Mind Body Therapist Level 2, Minnesota Institute of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy (2001)
Board Certified Hypnotherapist BCH, National Guild of Hypnotists, USA (2000)
Master Hypnotist, National Guild of Hypnotists, USA (2001)
Certified Professional Coach, International Institute of Coaching, US (2002)
Certificate in Hypnotherapeutic Supervision, National Council for Hypnotherapy/NCFE National Awarding Body (2003)
Certified Practising Counsellor, Australian Counselling Association (2003)
Certified Five Phase Abreactive Therapeutic Hypnosis Practitioner, Banyan Center of Hypnosis, US (2004)
Board Certified Hypnotist, Omni Hypnosis Training Center/NBHEC (2004)
Certified Master Instructor, National Guild of Hypnotists, USA (2005)
Certified HypnoCoach, National Guild of Hypnotists, USA (2005)
Diplomate, National Guild of Hypnotists, USA (2006)
Certified Master Coaching Consultant, Intenational Guild of Professional Consultants and Coaches, USA (2006)
European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP), European Association for Psychotherapy Vienna (2007)
European Certificate of Clinical Hypnosis European Association for Hypno-Psychotherapy Netherlands (2007)
Especialista en Psicoterapia e Hypnosis Ericksoniana, Instituto Erickson Madrid, (2009)
Diploma in Hypnotherapy, Hypnosis Motivation Institute, USA (2010)
Diploma in Handwriting Analysis, Hypnosis Motivation Institute, USA (2010)
Accredited Solution Focused Practitioner, UK Association for Solution Focused Practice, UK (2011)
Part 1-4 EMDR Certificate, EMDR Works, UK (2011-12)
ECC(ac) European Certificate of Counsellor Accreditation, European Association for Counselling (2013)
DIC(MT) Diploma in Individuals' Couples' and Corporate Mindfulness-based Therapies and Mentoring, National College of Clinical Mindfulness (Formally ELK National College For Integrated Group Practice Healthcare, UK (2014)
DPC Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling, Northern Guild of Psychotherapy and Counselling, UK (2017)
TITC-CT, Traumatology Institute Training Curriculum, Clinical Traumatologist, Canada (2017)
Special Awards:
Rexford L North Memorial Trophy, The National Guild of Hypnotists
The Hartland Memorial Award from the National Council for Hypnotherapy
Ormond McGill Chair, (Top Faculty Member at 2005 International Conference The National Guild of Hypnotists
International Visionary Award, The National Guild of Hypnotists
Order of Braid, The National Guild of Hypnotists
President's Award, The National Guild of Hypnotists
Hypnotherapist Sealah Award, Induction into the International Hypnosis Hall of Fame
Honorary Service Award, International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association,
Outstanding Contribution to Complementary Medicine Award-Highly Commended from the Institute for Complementary and Natural Medicine
Hypnosis Research Award, American Association of Professional Hypnotherapists
Special Commendation Award, Centre Association of Psychotherapists
Full Clinical Member, United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapy
Registered Member, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
Accredited Member, European Association for Counselling
Fellow, National Society of Hypnosis, Psychotherapy & Mindfulness (Honorary)
Fellow, European Association for Hypno-Psychotherapy(Elected)
Fellow, Central Register of Advanced Hypnotherapists (Elected)
Board Certified Diplomate, National Guild of Hypnotists (Exam)
Member, International Society of Hypnosis
Member, Northern Guild of Psychotherapy and Counselling
Accredited Member, UK Association for Solution Focused Practice
Selected Articles Written:
PRACTISE MAKES PERFECT.....BUT MANAGEMENT MAKES A PRACTICE European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis Jan 1994.
STATE OF THE UNION IS NOW IMPORTANT FOR HYPNOTHERAPISTS European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis July 1994.
NON TRADITIONAL EDUCATION FOR NON TRADITIONAL PEOPLE Choices Magazine Dec. 1994
HYPNOTHERAPY AND SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION Cahoots Magazine Publication Date July 1995.
LEGISLATIVE OPINIONS NCP&HR Journal Publication Date July 1995.
A HISTORY OF HYPNOSIS Positive Health Magazine Publication Date September 1995.
A HISTORY OF HYPNOSIS PT2 Positive Health Magazine Publication Date October 1995.
HYPNOSIS-DEBUNKING THE MYTHS Beta Health Publication Date May 1996.
ITS ALL IN THE MIND(HYPNO-GOLF) Golfers Chronicle Publication Date July 1996
HOW TIME LINE THERAPY CHANGED MY PRACTICE AND MY LIFE! Time Line Therapy Association Journal Vol 10 Winter 97-98
TRAVELLING THROUGH TIME: THE TIME LINE THERAPY WAY Centre Journal of Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy Issue 4 Spring 1998
THE RISE OF THE HYPNOTHERAPY PROFESSION:1957-1997 NCH & NCP Journal Spring 1998
THE NEED FOR FURTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPY Empathy Vol2.1
PROFESSIONALISM IN ADVERTISING Hypnogenesis On Line E-Zine 2000 Reproduced in the Journal of the National Council for Hypnotherapy 2000 and The International Hypnotherapist (In Press)
HYPNOSIS IN EUROPE Journal of Hypnotism (In Press)
IT IS TIME TO STOP APOLOGISING FOR WHO WE ARE Journal of the National Council for Hypnotherapy Summer 2000
DEGREES OF VALUE Journal of the National Council for Hypnotherapy Autumn 2000
HYPNOTHERAPY PROFESSION OR TECHNIQUE: Co Author Fiona Biddle, Hypnotherapy Journal Spring 2002
Books Published:
Hypnotherapy Training: An Investigation into the training in Clinical Hypnosis Post 1971. Crown House Publishing Co. Camarthen, Wales. (ISBN 1899836179)
Building a Successful and Ethical Therapy Practice. UK Academy Publishers, Loughborough. (ISBN 09554460405) co authored with Fiona Biddle
Motivational Hypnotism, Co-Author Fiona Biddle (ISBN 0-9544604-1-3)
Hypnotic Coaching, Co-Author Fiona Biddle (ISBN 0-9544604-0-5)
Therapeutic Inspirations Vol 1, Co-Author Fiona Biddle (ISBN 0954460448)
Contributing Authorships:
The Clinicians Complete Reference to Complementary and Alternative Medicine Mosby, St Louis, (ISBN 0-323-00755-4) NLP Chapter
Official Consumer Guide to Hypnotism, NGH Press, New Hampshire, (ISBN 1-885846-06-1) Hypno-Analysis Chapter
Member organisations
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Manchester Fees
General Therapy £70 per session
Smoking Cessation One Session Protocol £120
To Book an Appointment: https://hypnomanchester.co.uk/book-an-appointment/
If you would like to see my information about my Manchester Practice then please visit my website here: https://hypnomanchester.co.uk
London Fees
General Therapy £90 per session
Smoking Cessation One Session Protocol £175
To Book an Appointment: http://www.psychotherapywc1.co.uk/book-a-session/
If you would like to see my information about my London Practice then please visit my website here: http://www.psychotherapywc1.co.uk/
We assist our clients to reach resolution as soon as is appropriate for them. We believe that our fees are competitive based on what is being charged in the area.
It should be noted, that for clients in need, who lack the ability to pay the full fee, will be accommodated for. Difficulty or inability to pay, should not be a deterrent to receiving professional therapeutic services.
In addition to being Director of Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Ltd, Shaun is also Principal of the National College of Hypnosis and Psychotherapy (one of the longest established training institutes for hypnotherapy/hypno-psychotherapy in the world) He is President of the European Association for Hypno-Psychotherapy, Past Chair of the National Council for Hypnotherapy, and Founding Chair of the UK Confederation of Hypnotherapy Organisations.
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(Transactional) X Matrix
If you were to survey the employees with the following questions would you get the same responses? Would you get any response?
- Where are we going?
- How do we measure success?
- What are the major corporate initiatives for this year? Next year?
- How does my job connect with these priorities?
What if you were to extend these same questions to different department managers? HR, CSR, Engineering, Operations, IT, Sales, Maintenance. How widely would their responses vary?
Most organizations have anything but 'a shared vision' of the future; There is little definition of how planned improvement activities 'fit together' to form a comprehensive plan. Metrics on the floor are not linked, or understood, to corporate objectives. Typically there is little shared vision on where the company/organization is going.
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Annual Priorities
How these link together and all on a single page of paper
Policy deployment, or development of an "X" matrix is defined:
Used in policy deployment and has (5) primary areas. The "south" is the 3 – 5 year break through goals. "West" is the on year step-down goals. "North" is the AIP's or annual improvement priorities. "East" is both the a) targets to improve (also known as KPI's) and the b) champions that support the AIP's. Most targets turn into 'bowlers' that are measured monthly.
Let TGG professionally facilitate this vision sharing session with your executive team. We can help you identify and measure performance gaps in all areas of your business and then put this new-found-employee-based strategy on a single sheet of paper. After the goals and annual priorities are established, TGG can use the following tools that will be used to execute the road map that links to your goals:
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- Identify and define 3 to 5 year goals for the organization
- 5 to 7 AIP's
- Measurements or KPI's for each of the AIPs


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From the creation of legislative single-member districts for Tarrant County more than 35 years ago, District 90 was designed as a minority-opportunity seat in the House of Representatives.
But except for the first four years, the district has been represented — and represented well — by Anglo legislators, including incumbent Lon Burnam who is in his ninth term in the Texas Legislature.
Burnam's challenger in the Democratic primary this year, businessman Ramon Romero, thinks he can be a more effective voice for the mostly inner-city areas that make up District 90, including Worth Heights, Polytechnic Heights, Como, Edgewood and parts of Oakhurst.
Romero, who has lived his entire life in Poly and located his tile and stone businesses and a restaurant in the area, notes that he doesn't want to be a representative only for Hispanics (who make up 76 percent of the 85 percent-minority district), and is counting on a "tri-ethnic coalition" to get elected.
He has an impressive background of community service, having served on the Fort Worth planning and zoning commissions. Romero, who wants to bring more jobs and economic deveopment to the area, also ran for City Council in 2012, losing in a runoff by only 78 votes.
But Burnam's experience, and his current status as a "dean" of the Tarrant County delegation, gives him the edge in the race.
Although known as a maverick much of his tenure, Burnam has been a fighter for the issues he thinks count most for a district that has the most uninsured people of any in Tarrant County, and where 60 percent of the residents have incomes below the poverty line.
Since October, his office has helped organize 17 workshops on the Affordable Care Act. And, in his efforts to mitigate the effects of a new voter ID law in Texas, he worked with Tarrant County Commissioner Roy C. Brooks to get a new driver's license office in southeast Fort Worth, the first inside Loop 820.
Burnam has long been a champion of more funding for public education, a supporter of better public transit and an advocate on environmental and conservation issues. And in recent years he has partnered with Republican leaders in the House on civil liberties matters in particular.
The Star-Telegram Editorial Board recommends Lon Burnam for State Representative District 90.


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EDISON – The Edison Recreation Department will present the 17th annual Adult Co-Ed Softball League season this fall.
There will be an entrance fee of $200 per team, and the league is open to everyone. League play will begin on Sept. 7 and end in early November.
Team applications will be available at the Stelton Community Center, 328 Plainfield Avenue, Edison, beginning on Monday, July 12, and will be due back by 4 p.m., Friday, Aug. 6.
For additional information, contact the Recreation Office at 1-732-248-7313 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Famous Movie Quotes
How well can your guests match up famous movie quotes to their respective horror film? For that matter, how well can you? The answers are at the bottom of the page so if you too would like to play, be my guest. Add your own favourite movie quotes to the list. Make them as easy or difficult as you like. If you think the people in your group of friends are extremely savvy movie connoisseurs, often bantering about lines from horror flicks, delete the list of movies to choose from and let them fend for themselves!
Game Play
Simple. Print out the list of movie choices and quotes (see pdf at the top of the page). Have your guests see if that can match them up.
Movie Choices
Prom Night
The Omen
Amityville Horror
Children of the Corn
28 Days Later
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Friday the 13th
Lost Boys
Rosemary's Baby
A) "The ground was soft. I looked down and I was standing on all these people. Like a carpet. People who had fallen and... some were in the crowd."
B) "Can it, Cochise."
C)"Somebody broke into the hardware store. Probably kids."
"You blame everything on kids."
"Well now, all they took was some Halloween mask, rope and a couple of knives."
D) "Tina honey, you gotta cut your nails or you gotta stop that kind of dreamin. One or the other."
E) "If all the corpses buried around here was to stand up all at once, they'd have one hell of a population problem."
F) "He's killed before. He'll kill again. He'll kill until everything that is yours, is his."
G) "What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs?"
H) "They're all gonna laugh at you!"
I) "What I saw was not a cat!"
J) "It's not who you go with, honey. It's who takes you home"
K) "And He who walks behind the rows did say, 'I will send outlanders amongst you'."
A) 28 Days Later
B) Friday the 13th
C) Halloween
D) A Nightmare on Elm Street
E) Lost Boys
F) The Omen
G) Rosemary's Baby
H) Carrie
I) Amityville horror
J) Prom night
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Phil Fish lashes out at 'anti-indie' Xbox One policies
The creator of Fez says the game's sequel will not return to Microsoft consoles.
Fez was one of the most highly anticipated indie releases on the Xbox 360 for several years, but after launch the game fell victim to a game-breaking bug that couldn't be patched without paying a hefty fee.
After this experience, Polytron founder Phil Fish told Polygon that he's not interested in the Xbox One as a potential development platform.
"I hope it's a joke," said Fish in an interview hours before Microsoft did a u-turn on some of its most controversial policies.
"I hope Microsoft is pulling a New Coke on us, announcing a shit console nobody wants, only to eventually announce the Xbox Classic and winning back everybody's hearts. Microsoft is making a console for itself. Not for gamers. Not for developers. Just for its own, greedy little Orwellian self. I'm not interested."
Fish isn't known for pulling punches, and he still kept to his "Not Xbox" stance even after Microsoft announced its policy changes.
"I don't think it changes much for me," he said.
"They didn't change anything about their anti-indie policies."
This anti-Microsoft atitude is a growing trend among many indie developers, who are currently migrating to Sony's PlayStation Network, Mobile, and Valve's PC Steam platform in an effort to escape what they see as unnecessarily restrictive policies.
While Microsoft hasn't given much attention to indies at either its Xbox One reveal or E3, Sony had Braid creator Jon Blow on stage to introduce his next game, The Witness, as a PS4 title.
"PS4 seems to be doing everything right," said Fish.
"It's too early to tell how everything is going to unfold but their heart definitely seems to be in the right place. Which is a weird thing to say when talking about giant monolithic corporation, but there's a handful of people working at Sony today who are really trying to do some good. And whether or not I would develop for it comes down to how the platform holder treats me."
For Fish, the fact that Microsoft has kept its no-self publishing policy for indies was a deal breaker.
"With Microsoft they've made it painfully clear they don't want my ilk on their platform," he said.
"I can't even self-publish there. Whereas on PS4, I can. It's that simple. Microsoft won't let me develop for their console. But Sony will."


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Today at Forest School Matilda class have been looking closely around the woods to find sticks ready for our Christmas craft activity.
The children were also encouraged to look at the different plants and trees around the woods to see if they could identify them.
We found a tree with big spotty leaves which were really good for counting and adding up the spots. Can you remember the name of the tree they belonged to?


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Market Overview
The Group is in a strong position to gain significant share of the fast growing mobile gaming market, underpinned by its focused strategy and end to end gaming platform and content portfolio specifically designed for the mobile channel.
Nektan's considerable market opportunity is driven by the increase in ownership of smartphones and the reshaping of the internet by mobile devices. Within the gaming sector, mobile is the fastest growing segment, reflected by the estimation that mobile gambling – including betting, gaming and lottery – will generate just over €19 billion of gross win by 2018, reflecting a CAGR of 29.5 percent (source: H2GC).
Forrester Research predicts that there could be 3.4 billion smartphones and 905 million tablets in active use worldwide by 2017, implying 46 percent and 30 percent year on year ('YOY') growth in smartphone and tablet adoption respectively. A study published by Deloitte estimated that smartphone penetration is at 66 percent, while 54 percent of UK households now own a tablet (source: Ofcom). This has driven consumer demand for all forms of mobile entertainment, including RMG.
Growth in RMG is also clearly evidenced by the fact that many of the established betting operators have been building up their mobile offerings in recent years and are exhibiting strong growth in their mobile channels.
Drivers for mobile gaming include convenience, privacy, an improving user experience based on user interface enhancements, and content configured specifically for mobile consumption. Consumers have also become more accepting of mobile based payments. These drivers underpin the H2GC forecast growth of the mobile based gaming market from €0.95 billion in 2014 to €2.25 billion by 2018 and to €2.81 billion by 2020.
Nektan is well positioned within the expanding mobile market, with its content being built in HTML5, a mobile development technology that allows games to be built once and then deployed across multiple devices, from mobile phones to tablets, laptops and desktop PCs. In addition, to fully leverage the opportunity, its end-to-end platform, Evolve, simplifies the route to mobile RMG revenues for partners, by managing the full customer experience and back-office operations for the partner.
The US casino market is estimated to be worth c.US$66 billion in 2015 and is the second largest gambling market in the world, after Macau in China (source: Statista 2015). There are two distinct types of casino in the US: tribal andcommercial. In 2012 the split between commercial and tribal gaming revenues was 57 percent/43 percent.
There are 39 states that have some form of legalised electronic gaming device – including traditional slot machines, video poker and bingo – at tribal casinos, commercial casinos, racetrack casinos, and/or bars, restaurants or other licensed establishments.
The Group's Respin joint venture is a genuinely disruptive business in an estimated potential market of $3 billion. 40 percent of slot machines on casino floors are estimated to be unsupported by the original manufacturer, based on the 2013 figure of 775,000 slot machines in commercial and tribal casinos.
An opportunity has arisen, on which Respin is capitalising and has gained first mover advantage, as a result of casino operators' reluctance to purchase new machines from manufacturers. Respin offers casino operators an innovative and capital efficient way of refreshing their customer offer and increasing revenue from unsupported end-of- life slot machines whilst providing players new and innovative content to play which includes functionality on mobile devices.


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May 15, 2012
BOSTON — Massachusetts House leaders unveiled plans on Monday to boost funds for universities and local infrastructure programs as part of an omnibus economic development bill. One part of the bill would direct $50 million in matching grants to research and development projects sponsored by universities in the state, with half of the money reserved for the University of Massachusetts.
House speaker Robert DeLeo said investing in research and universities will grow jobs and improve the economy.
"I am proud this bill targets many of the areas where state government can make a difference. We take steps, important steps that Massachusetts is still the home of invention and innovation," he said.
The bill would also increase state funding for a program called I-Cubed to $400 million, an increase of $150 million. The program gives developers state bonds funds to build public infrastructure like roads and sewers. In return, they agree to create a certain number of jobs and generate new tax revenues. But there's a catch that might not sit well with municipal officials: If the new project fails to generate enough taxes to cover the state's costs, the host town could be on the hook for the money.
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