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Having The Best Sleep EVER? Here's How To Drag Yourself Out Of Bed For A GREAT Morning!
In partnership with Dreams. Getting up in the morning can be tough but you can wake up on the right side of the bed with these 5 blindingly obvious things that WILL make the start to your day easier!
Whether you have a tiny bathroom, a small wardrobe or you're the most disorganised person on the planet there are no excuses for starting in chaos.
You probably already know which of your morning habits aren't working for you but you keep making the same mistakes. A stressful morning will affect the rest of your day and making a few simple changes will turn morning madness into a great day whether you are the most organised person or not. This is your guide to a better morning.
- WIN a Dunn Bed And A Kendall Pocket Sprung Mattress
1: Do have a routine
As dull as it sounds a morning ritual is the key to a calm, ordered and peaceful morning. Do you find yourself regularly hunting through the messy drawer to find the car keys or trashing your entire bedroom in search of a hairbrush? This is why you need a plan. Find a place for the essentials, things that will get you out of the house in the morning to live and put them back in the exact same place every single day without fail.
Put your keys by the front door but not visible from outside. Add a hook close by or place a decorative bowl on a console table or shelf so you can get into the habit of always putting your keys in the same place.
Do the breakfast prep before you go to bed. Fill the coffee pot so you only have to add water in the morning and place your cup right next to it, the less you have to think about the better.
2: Keep Your Boss Out Of Your Bedroom
Have a no screens rule for at least the first 30 minutes in the morning. This means no checking email when you wake up, keep this time just for you and you certainly don't want your boss in your bedroom issuing you instructions before you've even started your day! Resist the urge to check social media too, this might mean turning the sound down on your phone or getting a separate alarm clock so that you're not tempted to take a peek at your mounting email or the birthdays or play dates you've missed when you turn your phone alarm off.
3: Don't Let Your Wardrobe Stress You Out
Don't subject yourself to the indignity of hunting for your bra under the bed or rummaging through your knicker drawer for your favourite pair of Bridget's. Get your clothes ready the night before and hang up your entire outfit on the one hanger, bra, knickers, tights, dress/jeans and coat. Have it all right there in the one place and you'll be dressed in a jiffy. And No ironing anything in the morning!
4: Keep Beauty Simple And Stick To The Plan
While your brain is still catching up with the rest of you make sure that you don't over complicate things. Don't introduce anything new or any last minute moves into your beauty routine. Use 2 in 1 products and palettes rather than single eyeshadows or blushers so you don't have to scrabble around in the make-up drawer looking for them and a dash of shower oil will mean you don't have to moisturise once you get out. It goes without saying that you should save face packs, and fake tanning for the weekend.
5: Take It Easy
Do all of the above every single day especially after a big night out and you will thank yourself as you're guaranteed to glide out of the door lipstick in tact, no more doing your make-up in the car at the lights or on a train full of strangers and no snagged tights!
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Why do we wait when Cantronic's already has the answer?
The Department of Homeland Security was officially created on November 5, 2002. Their mandate:
The Department of Homeland Security works to anticipate, preempt, detect and deter threats to the homeland and to safeguard our people and their freedoms, critical infrastructure, property and the economy of our nation from acts of terrorism, natural disasters and other emergencies." http://www.dhs.gov/xprevprot/
Is this latest round of national emergency something that could have been prevented? Could we have, at least, been protected?
YES and YES
If you own Cantronic Systems Inc. CTS.V then you are already aware that they have the tools for early detection and ultimately, prevention of national emergencies such as a swine flu pandemic. Remember the SARS scare a few years back? That would have been a good time to think about installing Cantronic's technology at our airports and stadiums.
"Fever scanning systems were first implemented for use at airports during the 2003 SARS outbreak, and demand for this type of thermal screening has increased. Cantronic's FeverScan system is used in airports in Asia and the Caribbean, and the Salvadoran government recognizes the importance in preventing the possible spread of Swine Flu through closely monitoring the heath of travellers to and from the country." From the press release today (Tuesday 28, 2009)
. . . El Salvadore?
Cantronic's equipment has been deployed since the 2003 SARS event. Homeland Security has been in existence since 2002. Isn't it about time they look to Cantronic's technology?
In so far as preventative medicine goes - it's a really easy pill to swallow. It's not like taking your shoes and belt off and throwing away your fingernail clippers and your half cup of coffee or being pulled aside and hand scanned.
It's as simple as walking in line - which you have to do anyway when embarking or disembarking the plane. We experienced it on our trip throughout to China.
This is something we have needed in this country for a long time.
A WALL? Really?
Why, when we have technology? Cantronic's night IR system can see 6.5 football fields - at night - with clarity. (600 meters = 1985+ feet).
Not impressed? How about being able to see 2 kilometers or 21 football fields? (2 km = 6561 feet)
capabilities and high reliability in the field. The cameras can be integrated with pan and tilt positioning system to create a complete surveillance system."
Need to know more - it's on the data sheets.
Do we sound a little promotional?
Maybe it's because we really like this company. It's NOT a start-up or R&D or something with future potential.
There are so many reasons why we like CTS:
1. James Zahn is stellar when it comes to management and creating shareholder value.
2. Revenue generating company.
3. Global market.
4. Superior products - quality.
5. Superior patented technology.
6. Homeland Security.
7. Safe City Program China $43B (billion)
8. Insiders own 25% plus of shares.
Can you find a reason to own CTS? CTS.V
James Currie, as a financial advisor for Cantronic Systems, Inc., has been awarded 250,000 out of the money options at $0.50.

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Back to School Picnic Friday Night
CPA Back to School Picnic this Friday, August 22 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM.
Games and activities, fun for all ages. CPA-PTA will provide burger, hot dogs, lemonade, and water.
Please bring the following potluck items:
A-C = Desserts
D-H = Beans
I-M = Veggies
N-R = Fruit
S-T = Salad
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NCP in India - Humanities and Social Sciences
Mumbai, India (Outgoing Program)
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New Colombo Plan - Humanities and Social Sciences in India
Location: Mumbai, India
Program dates: 15 January - 23 February 2018
Application deadline: 15 October 2017
Duration: 6 weeks
Places available: 30
The Australian Government's New Colombo Plan has awarded funding for students from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences to take part in this unique opportunity to study a custom-made program at St Xavier's College, Mumbai India.
Enjoy a truly immersive experience participating in classes and field trips to enhance your studies. Spend 6 weeks over the summer break studying a range of courses on India Past and Present: Art, History & Culture of India.
Find out more about Xavier College.
Academic Information
Academic credit
Upon successful completion of this program students will receive 12 credit points 2000-level Asian Studies OR unspecified Arts credit.
Program eligibility requirements
To be eligible to participate this this exciting opportunity you must have/be:
- currently enrolled in a FASS Bachelor degree
- sufficient room in your degree to receive credit for the program
- completed at least 48 credit points upon departure for the program
Please refer to the Finances tab for further eligibility requirements of the New Colombo Plan.
Useful Information
St. Xavier's College is one of the top ranking Arts colleges in India and has an student population of 3000. It is located in the Fort area of South Mumbai, and offers an interactive student experience with a vibrant campus atmosphere. It was founded by German Jesuits in 1869, and its heritage-listed campus is a classic example of Indo-Gothic architecture.
The city of Mumbai is the financial, commercial and entertainment capital of India. Home of India's Bollywood industry, its populous and bustling culture offers a blend of traditional festivals, food, music and theatres. Its history as a trading centre has led to a diverse range of cultures, religions and cuisines.
Group accommodation will be arranged by the Faculty for all participants.
If participating in this program you will be enrolled into a FASS unit of study and tuition is paid to the University of Sydney.
Program fee
This program requires a minimum of 10 students to run and can accommodate a maximum of 30 students. The final program fee is dependent on the number of participants. The following amounts are a guide price and the final amount will be confirmed once participanttion numbers are confirmed.
10 participants - around $1,200
30 participants - around $820
For full program costs email Gillian Wu
Coordinator of Academic Programs and Internationalisation
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Additional costs: airfares, accommodation, visa application, personal expenses.
New Colombo Plan Scholarships
The Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has awarded the University of Sydney 30 x $3,000 New Colombo Plan (NCP) grants for students participating in this program. These grants can be used to cover any costs relating to the program. To be eligible for an NCP grant you must have/be:
- an Australian citizen and not a citizenship or resident of India
- enrolled in an undergraduate program at the University of Sydney
- between 18 and 28 years of age at the commencement of the program*
*In line with the NCP Guidelines, at least 70% of students participating in this project must be aged 18-28 at the start of the program. Indigenous students aged over 28 are not subject to this requirement.
OS-Help loans may be available to eligible students enrolled in a Commonwealth supported place where the program is approved for credit prior to departure. Application required.
How to Apply
Application instructions for Dec-Feb 2018/2019 programs will be provided later this year. Applications are currently open for Jun-Aug 2018 programs!
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Doctor insights on:
Placenta (Overview)
The placenta is an organ that connects the developing fetus to the uterine wall to allow nutrient uptake, waste elimination, and gas exchange via the mother's blood supply.
What is a placenta?
Connects mom & baby: The placenta is the tissue that grows inside the uterus and connects to a developing baby. It is commonly known as "after birth.". ...Read more
Placenta (Overview)
The placenta is an organ that connects the developing fetus to the uterine wall to allow nutrient uptake, waste elimination, and gas exchange via the mother's blood supply.
Can you eat the placenta?
Yes,: I've also seen them used for plant fertilizer, different cultures think differently ...Read more
What causes placenta prevea?
Implant Location: Control of placenta implantation location poorly understood; complex mind, brain+body controls within mother early pregnancy. If placenta implants near uterine opening/cervix ; especially if it grows over the opening, then placenta previa (tearing ; bleeding; sometimes massive ; mutually fatal) of the placenta is probable in late pregnancy; one of the many reasons for prenatal screening ; care. ...Read more
Is a thick placenta healthy?
What does your drsay: Placentas vary in size all the time. A thick placenta may mean nothing right now. You should be asking your OB what it might mean. In severe rh incompatibility, the placenta gets very thick-but your OB can advise you on this. I'm not sure that I would worry about it right yet. If baby is growing well-be happy. ...Read more
What is a low-lying placenta?
If you have one: Your OB should have totally explained to you what that is and what you can do and not do so please call your OB and ask him or her that so they can explain that to you, it is a placenta that is close usually withing a few cms of the cervix. ...Read more
Is a low placenta dangerous?
Placenta praevia: Hi, it depends how long along you are, if you are before wk 20, then no worries as the baby grows the Placenta moves up, but if u r at wk 20 or higher then it's called placenta praevia which could be partial or complete, although still at this stage placenta could move away from cervix and allow for baby to be born vaginally if not then C/section needs to be done. Praevia increases risk of bleedin ...Read more
What does thick placenta means?
Good question: In general, great than 4 cm. It's thought to be due to various intrauterine infections and increased fetal morbidity and mortality. The literature is all over the place, however. If baby is growing fine, that's all that's important. ...Read more
Can the placenta move positions?
Uterus grows: The placenta is attached to the uterus in a specific location. It does not move. The uterus grows though throughout the pregnancy which will shift the location of the attached placenta relative to the baby and the cervix ...Read more
What causes a low lying placenta?
Random chance:
The embryo implants on the uterine lining, and at that location the placenta starts to grow. Usually, it is on a portion of the uterus that will stretch and thin during pregnancy, and is nowhere near the internal cervical opening.
However, sometimes the embryo implants very near the internal cervical opening, resulting in a low-lying placenta or even a placenta covering the opening, req. C-sec. ...Read more
Can I make my placenta healthier?
Cannot control: The placenta ; cord are organs that we really cannot control. So eat right ; take prenatal vits and you should be just fine. Baby often gives signs of healthy environment before delivery! ...Read more
Is it okay to have a fused placenta?
It is okay:
A fused placenta just means that both placenta's from each baby fused together (twins pregnancy).
There really shouldn't be a lot of problems with fused placenta, but there can be a small risk of ttts (twin -twin transfusion syndrome) with it. ...Read more
What to do if I have a low placenta?
Vaginal intercourse: With a low lying placenta there is a potential danger of placental abruption from deep vaginal intercourse. ...Read more
Any exercise to move up your placenta?
Kegel: Kegel exercises may help maintain the pelvic floor. ...Read more
What is minor seperation in placenta?
Placenta separation: How far along? Are you bleeding? Ask you doctor, if it is a minor abruption and how much. If it is a abruption you may need to be monitored carefully that it does not increase signficantly because the placenta is the source of the fetus food and if it separates completely it is a medical emergency and the baby may not survive. Ask about bedrest, activity, high risk pregnancy ...Read more
Must I worry if placenta is calcifying?
What did your OB say: That is not a good sign but depends on the severity, if you are at 37 weeks your OB can do an amnio and for lung maturity and get you delivered and if you are at least 39 weeks you should be induced the ideal time to deliver is 39-40 weeks least chance for fetal problems if u are already past your due date I rec immediate delivery but call your OB and I assume u are also being followed by perinato. ...Read more
What are conditions affecting the placenta?
Structural, function: Many problems involve abnormal location of the placenta (too low, too deep in uterine wall). Other less common ones are due to abnormal structure (eg, vessels from placenta unsupported by tissue, small or odd shape, tumors in the placenta). Some can develop in a normal placenta late in pregnancy (such as replacement of healthy tissue with fibrous tissue). Not all are detectable by ultrasound. ...Read more
What is the best placement of the placenta?
Anywhere: As long as it is not near or over the opening of the cervix or not over the uterine scar if you have has a previous csection. ...Read more
Why do some people eat placenta afterbirth?
Good?: It is disgusting, you will have to ask one of them! ...Read more
Is a low lying posteria placenta a concern?
Monitor closely: A low lying placenta can sometimes cause problems in normal and complicated pregnancies. It is something that your doctor will likely monitor closely and direct you on any changes to your pregnancy plan if applicable. Sometimes they can be of no consequence at all so just be sure to follow the direction of your doctor! ...Read more
When does the placenta start to deteriorate?
After delivery: As soon as the physician delivers the placenta is delivered ...Read more
What will happen if my placenta doesn't move up?
C/section: If the placenta is still covering the inner opening of the cervix to a degree that it may cause life threatening bleeding during delivery, the only remedy is delivery by c/section. ...Read more
Placenta anterior upper lateral grade 1means wat?
Normal: All normal findings with no concernsGet a more detailed answer ›
If placenta come out from body baby is die or p?
Placenta delivery: Is a normal part of a normal delivery. ...Read more
What is the definition or description of: placenta?
Food: The placenta is an organ that connects the developing fetus to the uterine wall to allow nutrient uptake, waste elimination, and gas exchange via the mother's blood supply. ...Read more
Is there pain when the placenta is being delivered?
Never heard that...: Or a women's clinic, or midwife or doula to find support groups and reassurance. Try the hollywood birth ctr or amazing births ; beyond. Even long-distance these people are likely to offer lots of that. Close-up would be best. No doubt, the physical feelings (even when all is normal) are powerful, but most feel it is quite worth it. Remind yourself that it is the most normal thing in life. Best! ...Read more
Are there any exercises to move a low-lying placenta?
No: In fact, it is best for a woman with a low-lying placenta to seek input from OB provider early about what to do and, above all, what not to do! ...Read more
Low afi and placenta fully aged- what does this mean?
Depends of GA:
In a term pregnancy, this should be interpreted as the placenta getting old and delivering less blood flow to the infant. It is a sign of a mature pregnancy that is near delivery, and in some cases may be an indication for induction.
In an earlier pregnancy, its gets much more complicated than that. ...Read more
Does the placement if your placenta determines sex of baby?
Pregnancy: Nope. Not in any way.Get a more detailed answer ›
Are there any chances of misscarreage if your placenta is low?
It depends: Miscarriage, strictly speaking, is an early pregnancy loss, which is not related to a low lying placenta. Most miscarriages are related to problems with the development of the pregnancy itself. Low lying placenta is common in early pregnancy and often will move as the uterus grows. If it persists, it can cause complications later in pregnancy. A follow up ultrasound should be done at 30 weeks. ...Read more


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by Hai Van
Two weeks after a passenger was brutally beaten up on a bus in Ha Noi, city mayor Nguyen The Thao on Tuesday ordered the Ha Noi Transport Service Corporation (Transerco) to take serious action against violent drivers and conductors.
What a relief! The city leader finally made himself accountable to the public by responding directly to the case. More impressively, it was the first time a senior official linked the work ethics of bus drivers and conductors to people turning away from the bus service and called for an immediate improvement.
Previously, most debates on ways to encourage people to use public transport blamed poor road infrastructure and the poor quality of the bus fleet as the main causes of its unpopularity.
Yet, it's not difficult to see Thao's ideas as "easier said than done".
After all, the case two weeks ago was not the first time a bus passenger was attacked and it would be silly to believe it would be the last.
Why would people choose to ride a bus? Every now and then, they have to see on the media a bloody face just like that of 34-year-old passenger Kim Van Chung who had to get 20 stitches for deep cuts near his eyes after the attack on March 28. Not to mention buses in Viet Nam have been notorious for poor punctuality, wanton skips of regular stops and a high rate of pick-pockets.
It seems it will be a long time before buses become a popular means of transport in Viet Nam, no matter how enthusiastic Transport Minister Dinh La Thang campaigned for it by riding a bus to work himself more regularly four months ago.
The attack on passenger Chung pointed out just how easy and simple one could fall victim to violence on the bus.
Chung told Lang Ha Ward police in Ha Noi that he was attempting to get off the bus at his intended stop when finding himself suddenly hit and stuck between the two automatic doors. Startled by such careless treatment by the driver, Chung angrily questioned the motive of the rude act.
Yet instead of receiving an apology, the ticket conductor immediately came over and punched Chung in the face before violently pushing him out of the bus. The driver subsequently joined in the attack before police were called in.
The attackers later admitted to police that they lost control on hearing the passenger blame them for poorly operating the doors.
The case reminded the public of a similar attack last October, also in Ha Noi. A male passenger was beaten up by both bus driver and ticket conductor because he wanted to get off after finding himself on the wrong bus.
Worse, the attackers refused to let him go unless he begged them on his knees. The poor passenger could not stand the humiliation and was given another shower of blows before some brave passengers intervened and threatened to call the police.
Stories of cruel bus drivers and conductors seem too many to forget and some may recall the case four years ago when a female passenger was given a really bad thrashing on the bus she was riding. The woman had to go through several surgeries to save her life due to her spleen being completely crushed. She was attacked because she refused to pay extra for an addition to her ticket.
Transerco, which manages the bus system in Ha Noi, said in the first 10 months of 2011, the company fired 183 staff, many of whom were drivers and conductors, for bad behaviour.
In a survey released last November by Dan Tri (People's General Knowledge) news website, 84,865 respondents out of 90,449 surveyed on-line, accounting for 94 per cent, believed that the bus service in Viet Nam fell short of people's expectations and that commuting by bus was not a good choice.
Yet, why are responsible people not getting serious about it?
Most public transport development projects currently focus on expanding the bus fleet and improve road infrastructure, ignoring better pay and work ethics training.
In the meeting on Tuesday with Transerco, Mayor Thao pledged to prioritise new buses to suit streets in Ha Noi this year and offered to subsidise interest on loans taken out to buy quality vehicles.
A two year public transport development project approved by Ha Noi last month includes investing a French grant of VND35billion (US$1.66 million) in upgrading roads and buying quality buses.
Why not spend part of the money on ethics improvement schemes for drivers and conductors?
The comprehensive public transport development plan by 2020 adopted last month by Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai also overlooked the ethics issue.
Curbing the ever-increasing traffic jams by encouraging people to use buses is no doubt the right direction for the Government to head in.
But they need to see that quality buses, nicer roads and even cheaper prices are not sufficient to win over new passengers as long as violence remains an issue. — VNS


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A future through adventure
Tired of the recession and juggling figures and business plans? All managers eventually need to find ways of motivating themselves. Entrepreneur and psychologist Steve Carter suggests going on a desert escapade.
Perhaps one of the hardest things we do is to decide what we want to do - with our careers, with our time, with our lives. We might reach for the self-help book, filling in a few checklists in search of a way forward. Perhaps we are lucky enough to receive executive coaching; spending up to £20,000 on support.
Monasteries, Buddhist retreats and so on all offer timeouts for those seeking or needing a change in direction. But, perhaps for some, these gentle, reflective approaches are too disconnected from their personal style. For such people, a surer sense of purpose can be a benefit of involving themselves in something more adventurous. In some cases, a purpose that is a radical alter-native to what has gone before.
It's 5.30am in the Sahara desert. The Sun is just about to crest the Abu Maharik dune - the Father of the Shifters - which runs 600km south west, turning the sky a sequence of colours from white-gold through pale yellows to eggshell blue.
I stir slowly in my sleeping bag on the sand, treasuring the unhurried progress from the deepest of sleeps to a brand new day. Around me sleeping, scattered like tree trunks, my fellow adventurers are still sleeping.
A good adventure
With a mixture of reluctance and anticipation, I roll out of my sleeping bag and stagger across to where Saleh has already made some coffee on a decrepit gas stove and is kneading flour, water and little salt in a metal bowl to later make flat bread on the revived embers of last night's fire. He grins and passes me a battered old tin mug. "Shukran," I mutter in one of my few words of Arabic. "You're welcome," he replies.
Here I am, 200km from Cairo and 50km from the nearest road. We spent the previous day navigating across the sands using low-tech navigation techniques, such as tracing the shadow from a stick in the sand as the Sun moves from east to west, giving us a line from west to east. We had discovered Palaeolithic tools on the shore of an ancient lakebed, we had crested the dune and gazed into what seemed to be infinity. Then, last night, we sat around the campfire, Westerner and Bedouin sharing food and singing songs. Not only your body, but also your mind is in a different place out here. I wander across to a slight escarpment of sand and gravel, and sit down on top of it, sipping the coffee. 'This is a good adventure,' I think.
Looking back over the shallow valley that dips away from me, I watch the others struggle randomly into life. One of the earliest risers spots me and wanders over, scrambling up the last few metres. John and I had spent two hours in deep conversation the previous day. We had been crossing a vast flat lake-bed punctuated at intervals by strange outcrops of harder rock, formed by the mineral bearing spring water that once welled up into it.
He sits down next to me. "I've been thinking," he says. Because that is what you do in the desert.
There is a quality to the thinking you get on an adventure. I had noticed it when I took myself with a Berber guide on a trek in the Atlas Mountains a couple of years ago. Three days in, huffing and puffing over the barren rowan-bushed mountain passes and deep green and fertile valleys often only reachable by foot or mule, something changed in me. I noticed that the screaming babble of goals and demands I had arrived with had faded into a barely considered murmur.
Psychologically, the challenge of coping and testing yourself with immediate and primitive challenges - get there, eat, sleep - reduces the insistent noise of a complex world, to something that is now literally and figuratively a thousand miles away.
Life remains challenging, but it is a new simpler sort of challenge. Will this body of mine take me up that hill? This distancing effect just seems to cut through to what really matters. And this is sharpened by the overwhelming inspiration of the places you find yourself. Eating a boiled egg as you lie on your back at the top of a mountain pass and watch a Golden Eagle soar over head is the perfect place to make the big decisions.
Adventuring seems to cut out the complexities from our thinking, allowing us to simplify our lives to a few clearer goals, albeit ones that may be bold and stretching.
Pushing back boundaries
An adventure isn't just the place. If you can get tour guides to take you up Everest, and companies that can take you anywhere with a clear itinerary and a tight schedule, then an adventure is not so much about where you go, but how you get there.
It's a subjective thing. Adventurous journeys are ambiguous, you don't know each night where you will stop and you can't guarantee to get to your destination. Most of all, there has to be a challenge you don't have the complete confidence you can meet. It's under these conditions you learn so much more about yourself, discovering and re-discovering aspects of who you are that open up new possibilities or allow you to engage with your professional circumstances in different ways.
I had always thought that 'adventures' were something other younger, fitter, braver people did. People who thrash themselves into shape in early morning gyms, have learnt to tie complicated knots and who go for weeks only eating witchetty grubs. But then, a few years ago, my father, a very competent sailor who had always planned to sail the Atlantic when he retired, died. One of the effects on me was an overwhelming need to re-order my life and put the outdoors somewhere into it. I looked for adventures; little adventures that I could manage. The trick was not to see myself in competition with super athletes, but with due care and preparation to find something that challenged me.
I learned to choose adventures with respect to my abilities, but not to be afraid to explore what is possible. The trek through the Atlas Mountains was tough, but took no special skills. The desert is hot and tough, but flat. Sometimes it's about self-talk.
Out of this experience grew the conviction that other people could really be transformed by similar experiences. Alongside my regular role as a consultant to corporate senior management, I developed a commitment to use adventure to help others, to find out who they want to be and how they might achieve that. My clients tend at first to hesitate. Sometimes this is because they feel unsure of themselves physically, or, more intriguingly, because all 'real' adventures have been done.
The leader of the Sahara trip, my friend, the poet turned writer and explorer, Robert Twigger, sees the search for adventure as vital to the successful realisation of who we are and is one of champions of small scale, low budget expeditions. Although he has caught the world's longest snake, was the first person to cross Western Canada in a birch-bark canoe since 1793, and has hunted for lost oases in the Sahara and bona-fide Zombies in Haiti (and found them), he is keen that adventures are seen as personal.
Sitting under an unbelievable heaven the previous night, we had talked about the unknown and the undiscovered.
"The desert isn't empty," he said, "except of people. There are masses of stuff to be discovered. People are always finding new sites. You never know what next. New cave paintings, dinosaur bones and, until very recently, camel trains used to snake across the desert meaning all sorts of stuff over thousands of years used to get dropped.
"There's plenty of adventures to be had and exploring is a great way of having them," he went on. "It depends how you look at it. Exploring is as much about recording a place with new eyes as anything else. Sometimes retracing another explorer's steps can be so illuminating. When I crossed Canada in the canoe, we got to one point described in the 1793 expedition - a logjam - where absolutely nothing had changed in 200 years. There so many possibilities - and you just never know what you will find and where it will take you."
As I sat on that ridge, watching the sunrise, John started to tell me his latest plans and I couldn't help thinking that Robert was right.


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This amazing terrace space is in the prestigious area of Causeway Bay. It is an ideal location for brands to host a photoshoot or outdoor event.
With an inviting entrance, there is plenty of natural light here, creating a lustrous atmosphere. The space is comprised of amazing wooden floors and an open plan, giving the venue an one-of-a-kind feel. This venue offers basic amenities including lighting and electricity, which can accommodate a variety of photoshoots and events.
This refined space is situated in the bustling area of Causeway Bay close to fashion retailers. It is an amazing space for an unforgettable event.


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Djokovic in winning start to French Open title defence
Novak Djokovic on Monday enjoyed a winning French Open start under new coach Andre Agassi as he cruised past Marcel Granollers 6-3 6-4 6-2 in the first round. The heavy favourite for the title looked in imperious form as he steamed through the first set. Rafa is playing on his favorite surface and playing with confidence, much better than a year ago."I love having Roger and Rafa back at the top of their games".


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From the Ataxian
Some days I need to get some perspective, other days I have way to much. Earlier in the week you can read me moan about the how I didn't ride my bike into town (a distance of 12 miles) because I woke up late and it looked like rain.
Some of you are thinking "What kind of freak would ride their bike in the rain?" if you are thinking that, well I can understand it.
The rest of you are thinking "Mmmmmmmm Rain" if your thinking that, well, frankly, I'm jealous.
Now if you watch the video Above about Kyle Bryant and the RAAM (Race Across America 3000 miles in 10 days) you will begin to understand what I mean about perspective. It becomes difficult for me to balk at a 12 mile bike ride that I know I can do easily when confronted by that video. All my life I have suffered from an acute lack of perspective. I would get so wrapped up in my own problems, or more truthfully, so wrapped up in ignoring my own problems, that I would end up helplessly entangled in one problem or another.
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OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - May 1, 2017) - As their strike moves into its second month, striking workers at the Canadian Hearing Society (CHS), members of Local 2073 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE 2073) will today be joined by their allies in community and in the Labour movement for a rally in front of the offices of local MPP Yasir Naqvi.
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When French teenager Ady begins causing trouble in their neighborhood, his father sends him to visit his uncle Amadou in a remote village in Burkina Faso. Ady thinks that he's only going to be there for a week, but his father and Amadou have other plans. Forced to give up his first-world comforts, Ady will have to learn another way of living before he may return home.
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- Director: Berni Goldblat
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- Premiere Status: North American
- Country: Burkina Faso, France, Qatar
- Year: 2017
- Running Time: 84 minutes
- Producer: Nicolas Anthomé
- Screenplay: David Bouchet
- Cinematographers: Martin Rit
- Editors: Laurent Sénéchal
- Music: Vincent Segal
- Website: Official Film Website
- Filmography: Ceux de la colline (2009)
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Yamamotoya, the Oldest Ryokan in Kinosaki Onsen
Located in the northern part of Hyogo Prefecture, Kinosaki Onsen is a popular hot spring spot that is easily accessible by direct train from Osaka or Kyoto. Last year, the area was listed in the Michelin Green Guide and Lonely Planet, drawing visitors from around the world. Situated in the middle of this hot spring resort is Yamamotoya, a long-established ryokan with over 350 years of history where guests can enjoy views of Taiko Bridge over limpid streams of the Daikei River.
Getting There
- From Kyoto Station to Kinosaki Onsen Station: approx. 2 hours and 30 minutes by Limited Express Kinosaki
- From Osaka Station to Kinosaki Onsen Station: approx. 2 hours and 40 minutes by Limited Express Hamakaze or Kita-Kinki
Yamamotoya is 8 minutes on foot from Kinosaki Onsen Station.
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Most of the rooms face the Otani-gawa River, allowing guests peaceful views of yukata-clad people strolling along the willow-fringed river.
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The private bath use is limited to five groups per day, and costs JPY 1,080 per 40 minutes (advance reservation necessary).
If you're not too fussed about being alone, large common baths for men and for women are also available.
A short walk from the ryokan is Gubi Gabu, the ryokan's own brewery and restaurant where guests can enjoy a refreshing beer and Tajima beef dishes.
Speaking of beer, the ryokan also runs its own brewery, and guests can enjoy 4 different kinds of craft beer at the ryokan itself.
Tea Ceremony Experience
When you arrive at Kinosaki Onsen, you change into a yukata upon check-in, slip on some geta slippers and enjoy wandering around the onsen areas. Yamamotoya decided to add to the cultural experience by starting a tea ceremony experience workshop. You will participate in what is called 立礼 (ryurei), the technique of drinking tea using tables and chairs (as opposed to sitting on the floor).
After enjoying professionally-prepared tea and sweets, participants can try it for themselves. With the proprietress having 10 years, and the senior proprietress having over 60 years, of experience in tea ceremony, you can learn from the pros. You can also wear colored yukata just like your hosts.
The experience lasts roughly 30 minutes, and will surely leave warm memories as tea is one of the cornerstones of traditional Japanese culture, together with food, calligraphy, and architecture. An English-speaking staff will assist with the program, so participants can feel free to ask questions.
Why not add to your Kinosaki Onsen trip by enjoying an authentic tea experience?
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So i would like to advice my opponent to please come up strong points on why should south africans not embrace a productive culture.
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why should South Africans embrace a productive culture.
te importance of productive culture
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"Should," from what standpoint? Moral obligation? What does it mean to say, within the context of this debate, that someone "ought to do" something?
"Embrace," as in include productivity as a high priority in the culture's value system? What qualifies as "embracing"? ...especially when we consider the following question:
What does it mean to be "productive"? Isn't being productive completely variable based on the culture we are discussing? Things are considered productive when people contribute to reaching a certain end; this end, however, varies from one culture to the next.
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It just seemed ambiguous, and I couldn't imagine anyone being against productivity, so I wanted him to explain.
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Mining the Collection: A Look at Prints
February 3 - 27, 2015
Reception and Artist Talk: Thursday, February 19, 5:30 reception, 6:30 artist talk
This exhibit features works from the Permanent Collection highlighting various types of printmaking including collograph, intaglio, lithograph, monotype, relief and screenprint.
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Ben Herr: Condemned to Freedom
On View: April 25 - June 21, 2015
The Demuth Museum and the Lancaster Museum of Art will host a special retrospective exhibition focusing on Lancaster's own Ben Herr. Unique examples of Herr's work spanning his entire oeuvre are featured; from his teenage days in Lancaster through his time at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Art, which was a hotbed of Abstract Expressionist artists to pictures completed in January 2015. This expansive retrospective allows for the first time a complete understanding of Herr's work.
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Demuth on the Mad Cape - Cape Cod
On View: June 27 - August 30, 2015
This exhibition explores artwork created by Charles Demuth during his summer stays in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Scenes of the bay, the beach and sailboats, as well as the architecture of houses, rooftops and local landmarks inspired Demuth's masterful watercolors of this artist colony.
53rd Annual Community Art Exhibition
July 10 - August 23, 2015
This annual juried exhibition celebrates the vast amount of artistic talent found throughout Lancaster County. Artworks by over 100 artists will be on view, including paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculpture, metals, carved wood and mixed media. Awards include First, Second and Third Place as well as Honorable Mention and the People's Choice Award, voted for by visitors to the exhibit.
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Market Daze: Central Market in the '70s
On View: September 5 - 27, 2015
The Demuth Museum is pleased to present Gail Gray's pencil drawings of people in Lancaster's Central Market in the early seventies. This group of drawings captures a wonderful moment in time of this beloved city icon. A bustling hub of downtown activity continues to this day to thrive as a lively farmer's market. While stand holders change and the type of food and goods offered evolve over time, there are still many of the same stands and stand holders in 2015 as there were forty years ago.
Masks of Mexico
September 12 - November 8, 2015
The Lancaster Museum of Art is pleased to announce our next exhibition, Masks of Mexico. This exhibit focuses on the masks that are used in the many rituals and celebrations performed in the cities and small rural villages throughout Mexico's various states. The majority of states with traditions of using masks are represented in this exhibit through more than 200 masks. Grouping all these works together reveal the various forms, styles and colors that Mexican carvers employ. The masks are made from carved wood, papier-mache, leather, cloth, ceramic, metal and other materials and display the range in skill of the artists from untrained to professional carvers.
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John Weaver: A Morning Walk
October 3 - November 29, 2015
This exhibit featured the work of John Weaver, a Lancaster County native. Each day, Weaver sets out on an early morning walk armed only with canvas, paint box and brushes and creates a picture on 5 x 7 canvas. The exhibition also included examples of Weaver's use of the iPad brushes app, as well as ink drawings the artist created while on his morning walks.
14th Annual Art in a Box
December 6 - 27, 2015
This annual exhibit features student artworks from schools participating in the Demuth's education program, Art in a Box, which teaches these aspiring artists about Demuth's pioneering artwork and life in Lancaster. Over 115 student artworks will be on view.


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October 26, 2013 (CHICAGO) --A surgeon who died while rescuing two children from Lake Michigan was honored Saturday night in Chicago.
Doctor Donald Liu was recognized at the Celebration of Hope dinner hosted by the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America.
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ModoPayments is fresh off a string of new customer implementations with COIN, its payment "hub" approach for merchants and banks, and it's already looking ahead to bigger prospects with the emerging Internet of Things (IoT).
"COIN acts like a bridge, handling payments from the accounting and settlement to encryption and compliance, freeing companies up to work on their business processes without having to worry about deeply integrating payments into core functions," said Bruce Parker, a payments industry veteran who previously held senior executive roles at Fidelity National Information Systems (FIS) and ACI Worldwide, before launching ModoPayments in 2010.
It took many twists and turns for ModoPayments to hit on its current concept, Parker admits.The company was originally focused on developing broad mobile payment solutions, but two years ago Parker decided merchants' needs were too varied to corral in a single payments app.
The cautionary tale was the Merchant Customer Exchange, a multi-retailer venture with the backing of Walmart, Target and others. The MCX merchants wanted to build a one-size-fits-all mobile payment platform called CurrentC, but the app never made it past the pilot phase.
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ModoPayments shifted gears to devise COIN, a digital payments hub that aims to transfer monetary value to a destination that could be within the same room or across the world, without requiring either partner to modify their systems, according to Parker.
One of ModoPayments' first big deals with COIN was a strategic relationship announced late last year with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, enabling the bank to support cross-border corporate disbursements. BofAML sees many distinct uses for the implementation, such as enabling businesses to more easily pay freelancers and contractors in different countries.
Last year Sweden's Klarna also adopted COIN to enable faster e-commerce checkouts; and earlier this year Verifone and FIS rolled out Verifone Points Redemption, an app that uses COIN to connect payment terminals and merchant data, allowing consumers to pay with accumulated points from merchant loyalty programs.
Parker is now eyeing the IoT as a potential new frontier for COIN, meeting the needs of different organizations that will begin accepting payments for the first time.
"The IoT presents a huge opportunity for us because it's going to involve a lot of objects—vehicles, appliances, equipment—that typically have no payment terminal or card-swipe mechanism, ideal for a payments hub," he said.
Loyalty—an area where ModoPayments sees more opportunity for bridging technology similar to its recent work with Verifone—also offers rich possibilities as merchants work to embed offers in mobile and IoT e-commerce experiences, Parker said.
"Offers and loyalty are big themes this year for merchants and other organizations, and we're talking to many prospective clients for implementations that involve using our hub approach to business-to-consumer and business-to-business payments," Parker added, without disclosing companies' names.
Creating streamlined approaches to delivering special merchant offers is the holy grail many companies are grasping for, and no one has completely succeeded yet, said Richard Crone, an analyst with Crone Consulting LLC, who focuses on merchant integrations.
"ModoPayments has had to pivot several times as it works to develop a robust payments gateway that supports offers and loyalty, and COIN is its latest iteration," Crone said. "We're still a long way from reaching the point where merchant offers and loyalty are redeemed seamlessly as a byproduct of the transaction, but COIN is going a step in that direction with its latest implementations."
Still relatively small, with just 25 employees, ModoPayments raised more than $2 million last year.


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Rosetta Code Submission
Hopefully they stay for a while as I'd hate to get credit for someone else's work. The Erlang Merge Sort was fun as I have the shortest implementation on the page! Of course, it helps a lot that the Erlang standard library had both a split and a merge function. However, I did create a multi-process version. I could only try it on a dual-core machine with little improvement. I'd love to know what it could do on a larger box.
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Hello, everyone!
I'm so glad I'm making a new travel post. I love talking about my adventures. I went on a ten-day trip with my school where we traveled to some of the most beautiful cities in Italy. The first two days, we visited Firenze and Fiesole. If you haven't read that post yet, you can do it here.
On day three, we got on the bus and drove to Siena. It was a ride of approximately 2 hours. It was a great opportunity to rest. We had toured a lot in Firenze, and we didn't get much sleep either. We had to be quiet at midnight, but you know how it works: we were way too cool to follow the rules.
At about 11 o'clock, we arrived in Siena. The sun was shining, and the summer vibes were surely there. Traveling when the weather is nice makes the trip so much better, don't you think?
We took our bags and walked into the city. The Domo of Siena is the first building we visited. It is the most beautiful church I have ever seen in my life. Inside and out this church was fantastic! Like many other Italian churches, this was made of marble. I'll let you see its perfection for yourself.
Have you ever seen something more beautiful? I was in awe the whole time I was inside this church.
A little tip I can give you is to look up once in a while when you are visiting buildings in Italy. A lot of the ceilings are very impressive. This next picture I took inside the same church.
Can you imagine looking up and seeing something so magical? It felt like entering an entirely different world. It almost seemed like magic.
After this visit, we were free to eat something and discover Siena on our own. If you are looking for food in Italy, definitely check out the more quiet streets. Most of the time you can find way cheaper restaurants or pizzerias there. At busy places, you can easily be charged €15 for a pizza. Also, watch out if they aren't charging you extra for the service or the cutlery!
My friends and I enjoyed some delicious Italian pizza and sat down in a quiet alley. We also met other students who were on the same trip as ours. The Italian road trip is a very popular in Belgium. I bet I heard more Dutch than Italian during my journey, haha.
Siena isn't very big, but it's surely worth visiting! Make sure to go to the Piazza del Campo when you're there! It's a square in the shape of a shell. It was hard to photograph it, but with a little imagination, you can see it. 😉
At 14:00 / 2 pm, we gathered on this square and unfortunately, this was our last moment in Siena, a 5-hour drive was patiently waiting on us. There are more points of interest to visit in Siena. We just didn't have much time to visit them all.
At 20:00 / 8 pm we arrived at our next stop, Napoli. But those stories will be for my next Traveling through Italy post. Stick around because I have a couple of funny stories about my days in Napoli!
Thank you so much for reading! I'll talk to you soon!


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It's true, there are stores out there that have lower prices than Fred Meyer. My husband likes to remind me of this on occasion and then I remind him of the topics below. I am on a tight budget as a SAHM so there are many things that I consider when I choose to shop at a certain store. Below are my 5 reasons I choose to shop at Fred Meyer.
1. Free fruit for kids. Right when we walk in the door there is. Little bin full of fruit and my kids can take their pick. It keeps them busy and it keeps those little mouths occupied if mommy needs to shop and the childcare isn't open.
2. Rewards program is absolutely fantastic. There's just something about pulling up to the gas pump and the attendant (you can't pump your own gas in Oregon) asking ""would you like to save (insert amount) per gallon today?" That gives me a nice, happy, warm feeling as a budgeting momma.
3. Coupon program. Not only do they accept manufacturer coupons but they also have their own coupon system that is open for you to use when you sign up for their rewards card. True, it does take a little effort to actually go into the Fred Meyer app and download the coupons but once you hit the (+) to download it is automatically downloaded to your card. I figure I can take some of the time I spend scrolling through Facebook every day and download some coupons from Fred Meyer in anticipation of my next shopping trip.
They also track my purchases and send me even more coupons in the mail for the products I have already bought with them. I don't have to clip my own coupons they send me coupons to use at their store as well as any cash back dollars I earned from the month before. This saves me money and time. SCORE!
4. Click List! I just used this for the first time yesterday and it was amazing! You order their groceries the night before, choose and hour window the next day to pick them up, employee's do the shopping and deliver your groceries to your car. You don't even have to get out of your car! An amazing service for the busy mom!
5. Free childcare for ages 2-5 for ONE WHOLE HOUR. Yup, you say "free childcare" and I just may bend over backwards for you. I'm a SAHM with no family in the area and a few friends who are willing to help me but people work during the day. Usually ""free childcare" during the day is unheard of unless you shop at Fred Meyer. Amazing! This point especially makes me wonder why I don't go to Fred Meyer every day? (Check the hours this is open. It is not always open during store hours.)
I love shopping. I think one way my husband and I balance each other out is that I like to spend money and he likes to save it! It's an excellent give and take that makes our relationship awesome!


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From Copenhagen, Denmark:
A research programme has just been launched within the Nordic countries. The programme amounts to around 13 million dollars and the focus is on diabetic complications. Novo provides the programme. Newspaper articles connected with this news say that 50 percent of all diabetics will experience complications later in life. That's not a very good prospect for my girl aged 7 and diagnosed one year ago. We maintain her at a HbA1C in the range 6.6 - 6.9 and are quite happy with it.
My questions are:
- Is the 50 percent probability correct in general?
- Is it correct for our girl, with the HbA1C quoted?
Diabetes is associated with a very high morbidity otherwise there would not be such a huge effort put into managing it better. However it all depends upon what you call complications. You will be aware that the DCCT proved conclusively that good blood sugar control reduces the rate of problems with small blood vessels by 60-70%: i.e. eye, kidney and nerve damage. People with diabetes are also at higher risk than average of stroke and heart attack but again, we believe that care with diet and prompt treatment of high blood pressure ameliorates these risks.
I often tell parents of new patients that the figures in textbooks are necessarily out of date. After all, we have only had home blood sugar testing and HbA1c analysis for a relatively short time and there is plenty of evidence that these have reduced morbidity.
You are doing a great job with your daughter and if you (and she) continues to have such good control, she eats a healthy diet, takes exercise and doesn't smoke, she has an excellent chance of a long healthy life.
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- Calories 239
- Fat 8.7g
- Satfat 3.3g
- Monofat 3.3g
- Polyfat 1g
- Protein 24g
- Carbohydrate 18g
- Fiber 2g
- Cholesterol 1mg
- Iron 1mg
- Sodium 605mg
- Calcium 19mg
- Sugars 6g
- Est. added sugars 0g
Chicken Chowder
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A generous splash of light coconut milk enriches this dairy-free chowder, making it creamy while offering a faint sweet flavor that enhances the sweetness of the corn. A spoonful of flour also helps to thicken the broth; for a gluten-free version, you can try substituting 1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch (you might need to simmer longer to get it to thicken). If you have leftover chicken or a rotisserie bird on hand, you can always use that instead of starting with raw chicken; you'll want to use about 2 cups shredded or chopped chicken.


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Days with Nora just get more and more fun as the months go on. I can't believe she is almost 18 months old already. She will officially be closer to 2 than 1 pretty soon! She continues to change daily and do and say new things all the time. I just can't put into words how fun she is to watch.
She has many words now and is trying to say almost everything all the time, but to often just comes out as a grunt or an "ah ah ah". By far her favourite word is DA for Daddy. She says it ALL.THE.TIME. But the funny thing about it is that she doesn't just say Da, she says Daaaaaaaaa every time with a surprised intonation that makes it sound like she is saying it for the first time, or seeing him for the first time every time! It's so funny! She says it every time she sees something of Tom's, a picture of him, his name is mentioned, or she remembers something he did. Daaaaaaaaa! MA? Forget it! In fact, she pretty much NEVER says Mama!
Another new fave is singing and saying nursery rhymes. As you know, she has always loved books and we have one full of simple nursery rhymes. She has that book memorized now and she loves flipping to each page and saying a few words to herself from each rhyme. She says "rock, rock" in a soft voice and rocks back and forth on the Rockabye Baby page. She claps and pats her legs and says "pa pa cake" on the Patty Cake page and she says "go go" for Rain, Rain Go Away. She also LOVES Old MacDonald right now and we have been singing it 8 million times a day! E-I-E-I-O!!!! All day long! Other faves are Itsy Bitsy Spider, Wheels on the Bus and the ABCs. She does the actions for Isty Bitsy and Wheels on the Bus and I die over the cuteness every time!
She just loves helping us with anything and everything we do. On the weekend, we cleaned the whole house together and she didn't get in my way at all. She had her own cloth and helped me dust and wiped every surface. She did some sweeping and mopping with me and I also gave her a spray bottle with just water in it and she "helped" clean the bathroom! She even knows how to clean the filter on our vacuum. She pushes the right button when I am done vacuuming and carries the canister to the garbage and dumps it out! I hardly even ever do that! She also loves helping with the laundry and I'll say " go get your dirty laundry" and without skipping a beat, she does! She puts it all in the washer, and then pushes every button 18 times until the settings are messed up and then protests when I try and fix it! ;)
She understands and remembers so much it is scary sometimes! I had an old magazine laying around from December and she was flipping through it. She stopped at the Dove soap ad and brought it to me grunting and pointing and mimicking washing, and then ran to the bathroom to show me that I have the very same body wash in the shower that was in the ad. The next page she stopped at was a picture with a bunch of different Christmas decorations. She pointed out the very same nutcracker that we had out at xmas! Is she a genius or what?! She also loves finding books where you have to hunt for little objects. The other day, we had to find "dice" and she pointed right to it! How the F does she know what dice are?! We don't have a single thing in our house with dice in it, nor has she EVER seen anything with dice on it on my watch....!!!
Speaking of being on my watch... She still spends 2 days a week with her grandmas and they play all kinds of interesting things with her that I may not. They are kind enough to do things like let her have her own basket at the grocery store and follow her around and watch her put things in and take things out for as long as she likes. They both always take her out and about to do errands around town, which she loves. Those kinds of things are becoming harder to do with her these days as she wants to be so independent and walk/run everywhere herself. She has definitely started to practice the selective listening skill!
I just love watching her play. She just mimics everything we do all the time which seriously cracks me up. She "cooks" in her play kitchen and the latest obsession has been trying to flip things with her little flipper. She is actually getting it and she can balance pancakes or bread on the end of the flipper and walk with it. She loves to pour imaginary tea from her teapot into every container she can find and she will stop every now and then to pour some of it right into her own mouth!
We haven't been lately, but she started to skate a little bit on her own, kind of.... she was able to take about 4 short little gliding steps before falling down the last time we went. She doesn't mind the cold or the falling in the snow or getting wet AT ALL. She loves being outside, but is REALLY starting to hate the snow pants. If she catches a glimpse of me getting them out, she runs away or throws herself on the floor in a heap. I have to fight her and struggle to get them on, and then she is fine! I am looking forward to not having to wear those! We won't be able to wear them soon anyway, as she is growing like a weed!!!
I just can't believe how much she has grown! She is now wearing all 2T clothing and it fist just right. Her 18-24 month stuff has long been packed away already. We will have her 18 month shots next week where we will see how much she weighs and how to tall she is now. I am very curious!
I could keep writing for days about all the cute and funny and smart things my little monkey does all the time, but I won't continue to bore you with all this mom stuff.
|These are pictures of me at 18 months! Pretty darn similar to Nora!
Thank you for sticking around for 18 whole months of updates! Happy February!


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Family in Mississauga
We are looking at two potential options for childcare, full-time, live out nanny or a babysitter/nanny for only after school care. We have had a full time nanny for the last three years and are open to continuing with the same childcare. We are also thinking of putting our younger child in school for the whole day, so we would only need babysitting/nanny care for after school. We are waiting to see what kind of response we get and want to find the right person, so we'll likely decide once we've had a chance to meet some potential nannies/babysitters. For full time nanny the job would be: Serve children breakfast and take my daughter to school for 8:55, son to school for 1PM. Both kids finish school at 3:30. My daughter is in grade 3 and my son is in SK in the afternoon, so some light housekeeping, errands, meal prep in afternoons. Children's school is a short walk, less than 10min. Pick kids up from school and get homework started if possible. My husband and I both work at home once or twice per week, so we take the kids to school and pick them up whenever we can. Usual hours are 8-5:00PM. We are very close to the Port Credit GO station, or the Mississauga bus route for Lakeshore Road, however a car is nice for errand, if possible. For babysitter/nanny role, we are thinking of hours such as 3PM to 5PM, but are open to an earlier start if you are intersted in some light housekeeping eg. laundry or tidying up. Will adjust pay accordingly. The kids need to be picked up at 3:30, provided a snack and homework started if possible. This would be Monday to Friday, paid by the hour. Thanks, Laura Our son has Cystic Fibrosis. He needs to have medicine given to him with every meal, which requires a bit of training. He is very comfortable with it and cooperative.
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- Small grained rice (Basmati won't do) -1/4 cup
- Full fat milk 1.5L
- Sugar 8-10 Tbsp (we like it sweet, so adjust as per taste)
- Green Cardamom 4 (use only the seeds
- Dark chocolate 75gms.
- Granulated sugar for the caramel 4 tsp
- Ghee/ Clarified butter 1 tsp
For garnish:
- Pistachios – handful
- Almond Flakes – handful
- Fresh mango sliced thin
- Fresh cherry
- Chocolate shavings
- Clean the rice thoroughly and set it aside soaking in water for 30 mins.
- Boil the milk in a heavy bottomed pan. Make sure its a heavy bottomed deep pan.. Mine is the typical milk boiling pans with a copper bottom.
- Once the milk has boiled, add the crushed cardamom seeds to it.
- Next add the washed and drained rice to the milk and give it a stir.
- Leave this on a low flame for about an hour..remembering to keep stirring every once in a while.
- While stirring make sure you do it from the bottom and the sides as well.
- After about an hour, the milk would have begun to thicken and the rice cooked.
- Now add the sugar and stir really well.
- Leave it on for another 30 minutes till it reaches a creamy consistency..
- Taste for sweetness.
- Remove half of this into another pot.
- Immediately add the chopped dark chocolate to this half of the kheer. Stir till the chocolate melts and is mixed thoroughly.Set aside to cool completely.
- Next for the caramel rice pudding :
- In a small tempering pan, add the ghee and the granulated sugar. Put it on medium high heat and let the sugar caramelise. It should turn brown at the edges first, Slowly shake the pan , dont mix with a spoon.
- Keep shaking till the entire sugar has caramelised and reached a deep amber color. DO NOT let it burn!! Be careful and dont leave this unattended.
- As soon as the sugar is amber colored, pour into the other half of the kheer and stir vigorously till the caramel had mixed. The kheer turns into a nice pinkish color.
- Leave aside to cool.
- Set in fridge till cold.
- For serving:
I like layering dessert glasses with this rice pudding , adding some almond flakes to it. Garnish with a mango rose (slices of mango arranged in a rose like pattern), few fresh cherries, chopped salted pistachio and a few chocolate shavings.
Serve cold!
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Images That Power Your Business
Setting Standards in Commercial Photography
Professional Property Photography
A picture is the most powerful property marketing tool available to sellers, agents and landlords and in a market where most searches are done online, a high quality image is paramount. Potential buyers and tenants are looking for good representation of a home they have interest in. The initial image offered of any home has to speak for itself, as a vendor you on average have around 10 seconds to encapsulate your viewer, poor quality images will loose that viewer. Creating a lot of interest with amazing images will win the viewer.


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Talk of a film on the disabled or 'differently-abled', and we all know that it is one subject our industry is never comfortable with. Mostly, our films end up showcasing only their physical constraints and their struggle with a prejudiced world that is out there to humiliate them.
Margarita With A Straw has none of these. Shonali Bose, who debuted with the critically acclaimed Amu in 2005, makes another lovable young woman, Laila (Kalki Koechlin), hold her second film together.
Laila is differently-abled, but that's not what defines her. She is a young woman with very 'normal' aspirations, confusions and apprehensions, and like any other normal person, is ready to experiment. Shonali's narrative is not about whipping up sympathy or compassion. Rather, it is a succinct reminder to all of us to correct our mindsets and be more human.
That Laila is not here begging for our sympathy is made clear very early in the film. And Shonali minces no words, or even sequences, to drive home her point. Here's how she goes about it: Laila's band is awarded the top prize in a college festival, and the emcee says: "Jab humein pata chala ki is gaane ke lyrics ek disabled person ne likha hai to hume ye award isi group ko dena pada. Laila, aapki problems normal logo se alag rahi hongi. Will you please share your experience with us?" A fuming Laila shows her the middle finger and leaves the stage.
The three women actors in the movie are just brilliant. Kalki makes her character look convincing and endearing, while Revathy is amazingly strong as her mother. And the third, Sayani Gupta's portrayal of a blind woman who becomes one of the most important characters in Laila's life, is touching.
Khannum (Sayani) is a strong girl, whose blindness does not stop her from braving through the wrath of police while protesting on the streets of New York against the cops. She also introduces Laila to her sexuality. At the same time, she is also the person who cries her heart out when she discovers that she has been cheated on. Sayani makes all these aspects very believable.
Margarita with a Straw, in fact, is not a story of the struggles of its characters. Rather, it is one that tracks the self-discovery of a young woman, who happens to be a patient of cerebral palsy.
The one-hour-forty-minute-long movie, however, does distract the audience at times. There are sequences which appear rather disconnected. The first one hour of the film is engaging, but beyond a point, Margarita With A Straw appears badly chopped. There are a few random sequences that don't actually add up to anything in the narrative at all.
Still, what stands out the most in this film is Kalki's acting, and Shonali's courage to discuss disabled people and their desires, aims and sexuality.
Should you go watch this film even if you don't know of any differently-abled person in your life? Yes, of course, mainly because this film reminds us that as a society we shy away from way too many things - be it desires of our differently-abled kids or the sexual orientations.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter ... - Rev. MLK Jr.


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Student Contract
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Ajax and ArcIMS, ArcView, and ArcGIS
Anyone have success implementing Ajax into ESRI products? I'm in process of taking on the GIS specialist position at the lab I work at and looking to start implementing Javascript and XML into our applications and projects. I've heard of some working on some AJax applications that allows you to send and receive information from an mxd file from the client side straight to a webservice like arcweb services, and receiving the results asynchronously into your arcmap server. Anyone have success with it?


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Although I do not consider myself to be in any way old, I was actually allowed to play outdoors without adult supervision and climbed trees, I can remember a time before the letter 'e' was added to everything. Ebooks, Email, Elearning, Ecommerce, Epublishing, Enewsletters and much more. The the letter 'E' seems to have permeated the English language and indeed modern cultures to mean easy, new or convenient – BETTER? A more in depth analysis can be found here.
The marketing hype and developing cultural understandings of 'E' can easily fool teachers into believing that the simple act of turning on a laptop, handing out an iPad or loading a website makes Elearning, and this is new, faster, BETTER. Simply put this is not so. Doing something because it is new does not make it better, or indeed necessarily faster. Every teacher needs to consider the true impact of implementing or using any technology on the learners in their room. Fortunately the SAMR model is an elegant way of considering the impact of technology.
The SAMR model is not new to me and I regularly consider it when I'm choosing which tech tools to use in the classroom. If I'm being honest, I don't frequently hit the redefinition end of the scale and I will sometimes be at the substitution end. I would say I generally hang around the augmentation stage. The important issue is that I have thought about the value of the tech to my children and this is something all teachers should be doing whilst planning to use any technology.
Redefinition can happen, and when it does it is wonderful. This year I have had two such lessons. Teaching in Ho Chi Minh City can be limited and with the rather hectic traffic, nearly impossible to take the children out of valuable field trips. There are tool great tech tools to combat this. One is Google street view. The list of amazing places that google adds increases daily but the one place I always use with my year children is in Antarctica. My class are currently learning about explorers and the moment and one we study in depth is Ernest Shackleton. The hut that he built over 100 years ago is still there preserved in perfect condition and thank to Google you can actually walk around it. My children were blown away!
The other place I like to visit is the Smithsonian museum. Their virtual tour is amazing. It is inconceivable that my children could walk around a museum like the Smithsonian. This site enables so much extra learning that would not really be possible without the use of technology. Seriously, you have to click this link. I dare you not be amazed!


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Big K.R.I.T.- Rich Dad Poor Dad [Video]-Hip Hop NC
Hip Hop NC- Hip Hop artist, Big K.R.I.T. released his latest visuals for a powerful song "Rich Dad, Poor Dad".
When I saw the tracklist, from Live From The Underground, this song is the first one I checked out.
In the track K.R.I.T.'s has a reflection of his personal life and his relationship with his father and the idea of kids.
Its a great song, take a listen and leave a comment!
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What is Corndogging? Well, aside from looking at the hashtag on Instagram to reveal some weird photos, it's the act of wasting (valuable) resources such as daylight, money, etc., in the pursuit of  incongruous or curious and/or seemingly pointless endeavors.
Synonyms: Fucking Around, Killing Time, Dicking Around, Chilling, Fucking Off, Dilly Dallying, Fartin Around.
This t-shirt features Bojangle, the Patron Saint of Corn Dogging and is in stock now at Yonder Journal. The dudes also have stock of other randomness, so head over and check it out.