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Think about this statement by my Strengths Teacher, Curt Liesveld, for a moment: People get better by "working with what they've got rather than what they're not." Too often we spend our time focusing on what we are "not" at work, at home, and in our relationships. Sometimes, we get so caught up in areas of weakness, or "opportunities for improvement" as they're more politely and deceptively referred to, that we may even completely disregard our natural gifts, talents, and abilities leading us down the path to mediocracy. At Follow Your Strengths, we want to change your focus. Why? When you lead with your strengths, you're more likely to be engaged, productive, and have an excellent quality of life.
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So let's get back to the idea of working with what we've got. What if you could improve your performance in all the roles you play from employee or manager to mother or father to community member or spouse? What if there was a tool available to improve your engagement in whatever it is you do? What if learning more about yourself and how you are innately wired could give you additional power and edge? Of course, I'm sure you would say, "Yes, let's go!" Good, because there is such a tool and over 13 million people have embraced it to date. In less time and money than it will take you to develop six pack abs, perfect your golf game, or just lounge and watch an episode of The Voice, you can complete the 30 minute Clifton StrengthsFinder® assessment online and discover your Top 5 Strengths.
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Sometimes I wonder why we search for beauty treatments outside when we can get all the products of Beauty in the kitchen. Ingredients from your kitchen are a 100% organic and beneficial than the creams and lotion that you purchase from expensive shops. All you need is to go to your kitchen and look closely. It has all the ingredients that are required for you for making yourself beautiful. Chemicals found in beauty cream may damage your skin and at a later age will show the harsh effects. You can easily found so many ingredients in your kitchen which gives you the rapid result and better-looking skin just like high-end expensive beauty products. Let me present you beauty tips using kitchen ingredients for glowing skin.
1. Sugar
How can I glow my face? Mostly girls in their tweens frequently scroll this question through the Internet. Sugar scrub has been used for centuries to scrape off dead skin cells, as a result, a fairer and glowing skin emerges. You can easily create body and face scrub with the help of brown sugar or simple sugar. Sugar is known to give you a fine, smooth and softer looking skin. Sugar acts as an exfoliator. It is also super effective against chapped lips. It is one of the best kitchen tips for fair skin.
- Mix 2 teaspoon of essential oil in 2 teaspoons of brown sugar. You can add any essential oil like lavender, almond, argon or jasmine. Add few drops of lemon juice in it and make it into a paste. Scrub your face and body with this mixture for at least 15 minutes. Start with your toe and working all the way up.
- Mix white sugar with gram flour. Add rose water in it and make a thick paste. Apply this paste on your face, if you are left with some you can also apply it on your arms too. This mixture has a proven result. After just one application you will feel your skin spotless and glowing.
2. Coffee
Coffee is not just helpful in waking you up in the morning. Among all other natural homemade beauty tips, this one is my favorite. Coffee is loaded with antioxidants, it helps in the soothing puffy skin and works as the best exfoliator with some of the best skin whitening properties. Coffee beans are loaded with vitamin E and other quality enhancing agents for skin. Coffee also acts as an anti-bacterial.
- Mix three tablespoon of coffee with one tablespoon of sea salt and add few drops of water or milk. Apply this paste on your whole body before a shower.
- For more awaken look in the morning, you can add the coffee powder in your face wash and you get your own facial scrub.
3. Oatmeal
Oatmeal is not only good for your health as it is known to keep you in shape. It also helps in cleaning your skin thus making it youthful and glowing. It helps in removing dead skin cell from your face and work as an excellent scrub.
- For making a face pack mix ¼ cup of oatmeal with the ¼ cup of milk. Apply it on a face and leave for 15 minutes, when this paste gets dried slowly scrub it off in gentle circular motion. Then wash it out with water.
- Add 1 tablespoon of oatmeal in 3 tablespoons of yogurt and 1 tablespoon of honey. Apply this mixture on your face, leave it on your face for 10 minutes and wash.
4. Gram flour
Gram flour is used as a beauty ingredient since ages. It helps in deep cleansing as it ex foliates the dead skin.
- Mix 1 tablespoon of gram flour with 1 tablespoon of yogurt, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice and a pinch of turmeric. Apply it on the face and continue rubbing in slow motion for 15 to 20 minutes. After that wash it with water. This beauty tip is considered one of the best homemade beauty tips for fairness.
- For pimples, mix sandalwood paste, turmeric, and milk. Make a paste and apply on the affected area for 10 minutes then wash it.
5. Garlic
Do you know that garlic has been used as beauty treatment from 5000 years? You might not. Garlic is loaded with beneficial properties.
- Apply a fresh piece of a raw garlic on pimple or zit. Apply a bit of pressure on the garlic pod in order to release some juice from garlic over a pimple, leave for 5 minutes and then wash away. Garlic has a potential to reduce swelling in pimple area. It also waves off the remaining scars of a pimple.
- Consume a pill-size of garlic each night before sleeping, this will make sure that your skin age very slowly and it also protects your skin from environmental stresses.
- Add half a teaspoon of garlic powder in 1 teaspoon of honey. Apply this mixture and you will be amazed by the results. Your skin will look bright and shiny.
6. Cucumber
Cucumber is a vegetable full of water. It acts as a natural toner and skin lightener. Cucumber is too good to be true for your skin. It has a potential to reduce puffiness around and under the eye area. Cucumber extract is used in multiple creams as it hydrates your skin all natural and helps in unclogging your facial pores. Cucumber can also remove under eyes dark circle.
- For the face, crush one cucumber and massage your face with crushed cucumber. It smoothes out your skin by erasing all signs of aging like wrinkles and fine lines on the face. It also lightens up your skin tone because of bleaching properties.
- For the dark circle, cut a cucumber in round slice and place it on your closed eyes. Leave for 15 minutes.
7. Honey
Honey contains moisturizing property. Benefit of honey includes reducing breakout,acts as antiseptic, act as bleaching agent and reduce appearance of rash and scars.
- Take 2 tablespoons of honey on your hand and apply evenly on your face. Wash after 15 minutes.
- Mix a tablespoon of honey in 1 tablespoon of tomato pulp. Exfoliate skin gently, let this dry. Wash with water. Your skin will have fewer scars and it will shine bright like a diamond.
8. Potato
Aside from being used as a starchy source of food. Potato plays a very central role in skin care. By now potato is the greatest natural skin bleaching agent on this planet.
- Grind potato with rose water or simple water and make a thick paste. Apply on face and leave for 30 minutes. Wash with water.
- You can also rub potato slice on your face for 20 minutes. It gives an even and lighter skin tone.
- For dry skin, mix a boiled and mashed potato with 1 tablespoon of curd and apply this thick paste. Let it sit or 20 minutes and then rinse off.
9. Rice flour
Among all other homemade beauty tips for fairness. This is the most miraculous one. Koreans are worldwide famous because of their beautiful out of this world skin texture. If you ever wonder how they keep their skin so fresh and beautiful looking, rice flour is their ultimate secret. It has been used for centuries by Asian women as a beautiful skin remedy. Rice flour is a good skin-whitening and anti-inflammatory agent.
- For a natural exfoliator mix 1 tablespoon of rice flour with 1 tablespoon of gram flour, 1 tablespoon of honey, 2 tablespoons of milk and 2 tablespoons of coconut oil. Ex-foliate in a rubbing motion, leave it for 5 minutes and rinse of water. You can also use it as a body exfoliator.
- For glowing skin blend apple, cherries, yogurt and orange and 1 tablespoon of rice flour together. Apply this mask on your face and leave till dry. Rinse off the face. This mask with just one application will give you marvelous results.
10. Lemon Juice
You might love lemonade but your skin loves lemon even more." How do you get beautiful skin without spending too much money?" this is the question every girl on a budget has in mind. Look no further because lemon juice is all you need.
- Mix few drops of coconut oil with lemon juice and apply on your face, this mixture will give a bright, hydrated and dewy skin within seconds after application.
- Apply the raw lemon juice on the face, it will surprisingly fade all the blackouts before you know.
- Apply lemon drops along with a teaspoon of milk, your skin will glow within 15 seconds. This mixture is also known to reduce dark spot, wrinkles and fine lines on face.
Who among us would love burning their money on expensive beauty products when we have all beauty enhancing products right in our own kitchen. I have presented 10 most amazing kitchen beauty tips for glowing skin. These home remedies will help you in achieving that gorgeous porcelain skin you have always dream off. Have a look at these amazing which are not the only budget-friendly but also gives you excellent results within just one application

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Queensland's Natasha Roebig is a contender for the national 2019 Rural Women's Award title being announced in Canberra tonight.
Ms Roebig is one of seven State/Territory winners competing for the national prize of a $10,000 bursary to go towards their individual project.
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Sometimes clients say to me that they are recruiting friends to help them start their business or say that they have never had a staff problem so why go to the expense and formality of having an employment contract, particularly when they have either known each other or been working together for years without a problem.
Legally employees need to have a contract of employment within two months of starting work. It confirms what was agreed at interview so there is no room for doubt. This works both ways. Often nothing is written down at interview so 'promises' made can be conveniently remembered or forgotten. It also starts the relationship off on a professional footing.
Then an MD may source a standard employment contract from the Internet believing the job is done. This may be appropriate for a simple business but rarely are businesses simple and staff matters are often complex.
Thinking about what you want from an employment relationship is often time well invested and will resolve issues when they occur later. There will always be a 'when'.
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How will friends react when they are given an employment contract? Differently is the answer. This is not about being mates, it is about generating revenue for you and seeking 100% commitment from your employees. Often working for a friend doesn't quite guarantee that commitment when the business is not quite on track and then you get into a difficult grey area.
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Who's running for judge this year? A lot of men and women who are thinking very seriously about making a run came to Judge Moshe Jacobius' ceremonial courtroom on the 19th floor of the Daley Center last night to hear tips and advice about how to make a successful bid for the bench.
Pictured above are most of the speakers and some of the sponsors of last night's program. From left to right (first row), Kamilah Parker, Assistant State's Attorney Z. Williams (First VP of the Cook County Bar Association), Judge Marjorie C. Laws, Judge Patrick E. McGann, Judge Sandra R. Otaka, Associate Judge Mathias W. Delort, and Judge Sebastian T. Patti; second row, Associate Judge Leonard Murray, Matthew Jannusch of the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association and Carl Turpin (President of the CCBA).
Ms. Williams provided the welcome on behalf of the sponsoring organizations and Judge Murray served as emcee.
Judge McGann led off the evening's speakers with a talk about ethics and a friendly warning: Judicial candidates are subject to discipline for violation of the Cannons of Judicial Ethics (see Illinois Supreme Court Rule 67 and Rule 8.2 of the Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct). Judge McGann discussed the Supreme Court case of Republican Party of Minnesota v. White, 536 U.S. 765 (2002), and what sorts of opinion disclosures may be appropriate for a judicial candidate. I suspect that this will be a topic for future posts as various interest groups send questionnaires to judicial hopefuls.
Judge Delort spoke next about campaign financing -- and how to stay in compliance with the financial disclosure rules of the Illinois State Board of Elections. Full disclosure department: Judge Delort, while in private practice as an elections lawyer, represented me in my judicial campaigns. (My failures at the polls weren't his fault; his job was to help me get on the ballot -- which he did.)
Judge Murray stepped out of his role as emcee next and spoke about nominating petitions and other prerequisites for getting on the ballot. The large audience -- most of whom are circulating petitions right now -- had a great many technical questions for Judge Murray who, like Judge Delort, practiced as an election lawyer before going on the bench.
Judge David Delgado (who is not shown in the accompanying picture) spoke next about the passion that a candidate must have in order to succeed in the election process. "You have to want it," he stressed, repeatedly, "and you have to have a plan." And, he suggested, a candidate must be prepared for "moments of darkness" when things will appear very bleak to a candidate. A candidate must, he said, surround himself with "positive people."
Judge Delgado was elected from Cook County's 6th Subcircuit. Judge Marjorie Laws, who spoke next, was elected from the 2nd Subcircuit.
Judge Laws asserted that an extensive political résumé is not required before becoming a candidate -- she had no substantial political experience, she told the audience, but she sought out, and obtained, political support when she undertook her candidacy. You have to get close to the politicians, she told the group.
Judge Laws suggested that churches are wonderful places to get votes and taverns are good places to obtain petition signatures. With children at home, Judge Laws said, she was initially content to let her husband go to the taverns in the evening looking for signatures -- but he reported back that people wanted to see the candidate: She had to go, too.
One night, Judge Laws told the group, she was in a long, narrow tavern, shaking hands and greeting patrons and following her husband, who was holding the clipboard for signatures. Suddenly he doubled back. "We have to go now," he told his wife, and began leading her from the premises. Judge Laws was surprised; she thought that things were going well.
She asked her husband why they had to leave. "There's a guy in the back," he told her, "who said you sent him to the penitentiary." (Judge Laws had served as a prosecutor before seeking election as a judge.)
Judge Sebastian T. Patti was the only one of last night's speakers who'd been elected countywide. The audience gasped when he revealed how much he raised -- and spent -- in 1996. Campaigns are only more expensive now, he cautioned the audience, and the county has gotten no smaller. He suggested that a candidate would need a driver to maximize the ability to cover events on either side of the county in a single day; valuable time is lost while getting one's car from a parking garage. He suggested that a candidate might want to consider taking a leave of absence from his or her job to make the run; at the very least, he said, a candidate will need to take the last two or three weeks off before the primary.
Judge Sandra R. Otaka was elected from the 9th Subcircuit. She is proud to be the first Asian American elected judge in Cook County and she told the audience how all the politically savvy people told her that this was impossible. (The 9th Subcircuit has traditionally elected Jewish candidates.) Judge Otaka had some very practical, nuts and bolts advice about precinct analysis and organization and how to allocate resources.
The panelists thereafter fielded questions from the audience. Practical advice was dispensed in equal proportion with encouragement. Other organizations sponsoring last night's event were the Asian American Bar Association, Black Women Lawyers' Association of Greater Chicago, the Illinois Judicial Council, and the Puerto Rican Bar Association of Illinois.
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John Kay is, merely, the latest authoritative voice to make points that appear to "fall on deaf ears". We know they aren't deaf but they just aren't prepared to listen to anything that refers to "transparency" or otherwise threatens what has served them so well and that they control!
Can anyone else provide an alternative explanation as to WHY the following would not be a matter of historic record rather than a "plea"?
…We will succeed in managing financial risk better only when we come to recognise the limitations of formal modelling. Control of risk is almost entirely a matter of management competence, well-crafted incentives, robust structures and systems, and simplicity and transparency of design.


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Careless People by Sarah Churchwell
7th Jun 2013
In Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby, Churchwell turns her expert attention to the diverse influences behind F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece.
In September 1922, Scott – aged 26 – returned to New York with his vivacious wife, Zelda Fitzgerald, and their young daughter, after a year abroad. The idea for his third novel, The Great Gatsby, was taking shape. Fitzgerald's star was rising – his stories of the jazz age and its hedonistic lifestyle made him the spokesman for a new, bolder generation.
Churchwell focuses, in the main, on the last four months of 1922 – the year in which Gatsby also begins. Prohibition was in full swing – nightclubs serving illegal alcohol fed public demand. Bootleggers were among America's highest profile criminals.
Print journalism was still the leading source of news and information. Ulysses and The Wasteland were both published that year, while 'Hollywood', 'brand-name' and 'robot' were among the many new terms added to the lexicon.
Sarah Churchwell brings Fitzgerald's work to life with a wit, elegance and timeliness that The Great Gatsby, and its author, truly deserve.The most sensational news story of 1922 was that of the Hall-Mills Murders in New Jersey. In September, the bodies of Edward Hall, an Episcopalian minister, married to a wealthy heiress, and Eleanor Mills – the sexton's wife – were discovered in their hometown of New Brunswick.
Both victims had been shot several times in the head, and love letters exchanged by the doomed couple were placed between their corpses. An elderly woman claimed to have witnessed the murders, and the bungled investigation made headlines for years afterward, though the crime was never solved.
Fitzgerald didn't mention the Hall-Mills case as an inspiration for Gatsby, but themes of violence and class divisions permeate the novel. Through a series of vignettes, and with a keen eye for coincidence, Churchwell convincingly details the myriad events and personalities of 1922 that may have been on the novelist's mind as his story unfolded.
Nonetheless, she warns against taking these real-life parallels too literally, citing the ultimately fruitless searches for the 'model' of Jay Gatsby, his mansion and wild parties.
Fitzgerald was already a heavy drinker and Zelda's flamboyance enlivened any gathering. They moved to Great Neck, a fashionable suburb of Long Island, in late 1922. Their neighbours included writers and performers, while older, more aristocratic families lived nearby in their grand estates.
By 1924, the Fitzgeralds had moved to Europe to escape New York's decadence. Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby initially received a lukewarm response from readers and critics, who dismissed it as a 'novel of the season'. Fitzgerald's later years were clouded by alcoholism and Zelda's depression. He died in 1940, believing himself a failure.
The universal motifs of Gatsby are now more widely recognised, but its position on the brink of modernity has been neglected. Sarah Churchwell redresses the balance, bringing Fitzgerald's work to life with a wit, elegance and timeliness that the novel, and its author, truly deserve.


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#CTIJF2018 ends off with a bang and tribute to Hugh Masekela
Cape Town - It was a night of brotherhood, sisterhood and general "gees" as the jazz festival truly came into its own on Saturday night with a host of feel-good shows.
If Friday night was good, then last night topped it by being a true weekend night with a supremely relaxed crowd.
Moving from one stage to the next, there were many highlights and many proudly South African moments. Simphiwe Dana stunned with an amazing performance and a first - her 13-piece all woman band - which showed what woman power can do to up the music stakes - from exquisite flute playing; to supreme sax, drums, bass guitar playing - you name it - all beautifully orchestrated and synchronised.
The audience seemed to know every song by heart and sang and danced and clapped along to the many favourites. Dana also used the stage as a platform to make a call for woman's rights and heeding a call for peace and harmony in this centennial year of Madiba.
Award-winning British songstress Corinne Bailey Rae was absolutely spot on with her slick performance - with the audience eating out of hand as she delivered a stunning performance of the hits that have made her famous in that silky, soulful voice of hers.
There was an extremely moving tribute to jazz legend Hugh Masekela that produced many tears and strong feeling of emotion in the packed auditorium as Putuma Tiso, Tshepo Tshola and Selema Masekela among others performed in his honour.
Ethiopian Mulatu Astatke's unique brand of traditional music fused with jazz was well-received to say the least by an ecstatic audience; so was Claire Phillips and jazz veteran Feya Faku.
As festival director Billy Domingo said before the show, "music is the great narrator of the times".
Music is also the great equaliser and brings people together and the festival amply demonstrated this fact. Thousands came to the CTICC over the last two days to watch, listen and enjoy 41 shows. Roll on 2019 CTIJF!


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Here's one keyboard that a few of my new students have bought recently and been very happy with. It is made my Yamaha, the makers of my piano. It is called a 'portable grand piano' with the realism of a stereo grand piano. It also includes a Sustain Pedal for a realistic imitation of a piano. For the price of £89.99, this is our recommendation for the best keyboard for beginners.


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How to fix plugged in not charging Windows 10 you might be working, enjoying your time and effort watching a film when suddenly the thing is that the laptop just isn't chagrining though it may be connected. Isn't that scary? You are feeling troubled about what to perform, how to pull off it? Don't assume the worst. There might be a number of behind it, which explains why we now have prepared this short article that you should assist you with the issue. So, with no further ado, we should get to the crunch.
A laptop charger is definitely an important accessory that ought to work effectively all the time. It's crucial to not keep using the very same malfunctioning charger once more the way it seems to be working fine at the moment. Your best option that you're playing is of buying a brand-new charger from the very same brand. In this short article, we're going to share how you can Fix battery connected not charging windows 10 and connected not charging HP laptop problem.
Connected, Not Charging issue on Windows 10
Laptop batteries get to various kinds and every one of options is depending on the brand name. Furthermore, a laptop battery may get used to the AC adapter and could not work as effectively since they did after they were new from your shop. It's therefore sensible to get rid of battery out of your laptop if you wish to be sure that it remains on for a long time directly with the AC mains. There isn't any real approach to tell exactly how long just one battery can last as even two batteries for both identical systems can be utilized at various rates in line with the settings and applications which are being run. A lot of users are facing connected not charging Lenovo and battery connected not charging issue after updating to Windows 10.
A second-hand battery could also be a feasible option, but ensure that it hasn't aged beyond 3 decades. The very best batteries are the types that may be recharged quickly. Every USB battery that features a charge status indicator already has a little micro controller, even straightforward Led lamps.
Solution 1: Check Battery
Should you face a challenge where your laptop is connected Not Charging Windows 10 only then do we advise that you look at the battery in the process.
Solution 2: Check USB-C port is working or otherwise?
Are you currently while using correct USB-C port? Those people who don't know this then he is a preferred cross-platform standard what's useful for charging, peripherals information transfers. Based on the latest standard, it enables for thinner devices but it really can also cause confusion. A few of the manufacturers have opted to create USB-C ports data only which is why it does not let you charge your device.
Solution 3: Look at the ends of the broken connections
One good reason for laptop battery not charging in Windows 10 might be as a result of breaks, burnout, and shorts. Will there be any discoloration? Is any kind warped or extended? If you're able to smell plastic you no doubt know in which the problem lies.
Solution 4: Update All Required Drivers
You may also decide to improve your drivers. For Windows Laptops:
- Open these devices manager
- Below the "Batteries" > find three items. One for your battery, other for that charger and third is going to be listed as "Microsoft ACPI Compliant Control Method battery"
- For Every, visit Properties > driver > Update Driver.
- Once Done, reboot a laptop >plug it again.
Solution 5: You are able to alter the battery and also the cord.
These parts would be the cheapest and also the easiest parts to swap in the laptop. Watch out for cheap product parts from third-party manufacturers. It does not carry exactly the same quality because the original.
Thank you for reading our important guide regarding how to Fix Connected, How to fix battery plugged in not Charging Windows 10. Comment your queries.


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Female lions, lionesses, are able to give birth to cubs all year round, usually from the age of about three or four years old. Pregnancy lasts for around 110 to 120 days. Eventually, when it is time to give birth, lionesses leave their family pride to find a private den in the shelter of bushes, or even a cave. This is where the cubs will be born and stay until they are old enough to join the pride.
When they are first born, cubs are very small. They have their eyes closed and don't open them until they are two to three weeks old. Even then, they can't see properly for another week or so, so need lots of care and attention from Mum. As they are unable to defend themselves, cubs are vulnerable to attack from large birds and snakes and even male lions. Lionesses usually have around three cubs, but can have as many as six, so they are kept very busy making sure they are all safe.
A lioness will keep her cubs hidden from other lions for around six weeks until they are old enough to follow the pride. Any younger and they wouldn't be able to keep up and could get lost. If there are older cubs already in the pride, the mother must wait until her young are around three months old before introducing them. Older cubs often bully the smaller cubs and steal their milk, so they need to be big enough to stand up for themselves.
Lionesses in a pride often have cubs around the same time as each other. They look after them in a group, known as a 'crèche'. This helps to keep them safe from predators – meat-eating animals, such as other lions and tigers – and also large animals such as elephant and buffalo. Lionesses can also control when they have cubs. If there is not enough food around to feed a hungry mouth, a lioness will wait until there is before giving birth.
Young cubs drink milk from their mother's teats. It is good for them and helps them to grow quickly. At around two to three months, they begin to eat meat as well with their small milk teeth. These are their 'baby teeth'. Like humans, lions are born without teeth. They grow small ones when still very young, which are then replaced with adult teeth as they get older.
At six to seven months old, cubs stop drinking milk altogether. By the time they have reached two years of age, they don't need their mothers to look after them anymore.
Cubs are full of life. It is important that they play with other youngsters and adults members of the pride, as this helps them to bond. When playing, a cub can often be seen leaping on another's back and biting their neck.
Although this looks rough, to them it is just fun. Although they don't realise though, this is all-important practice for when they grow up and begin to hunt large animals, like buffalo or zebra.


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My LifeVerse "And if Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your faith is useless." (1 Corinthians 15:14, NLT) My LifeNotes Believing in the resurrection of Jesus matters even more so than we may realize at first. Three truths emerged from the life and death ... Read More »
You Are Not a Failure
I walked confidently and relaxed into the hairdresser. It was time for a little relaxation. Being about ten minutes early, I was told by the other hairdresser that Jason would return in a few minutes. Enough time for a cup of tea, I thought. And proceeded to get one. Within minutes I was ... Read More »
This Is The Way; Walk In It
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." Isaiah 30:21 Have you ever felt like you weren't sure of where you were going in life, unsure of your next step? Have you ever felt like you were walking into a fog? A Day ... Read More »
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How to assign a new task?
To assign a task, click on the tab Assign Tasks> New Task and complete the following fields:
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Frikadeller are the Danish national dish and very easy to prepare and make. Frikadeller are flat, pan-fried meatballs. The base is pure pork minced meat. The pork makes the meatballs really tasty. But you can add or supplement with veal or beef too. A couple of popular version is 1/3 pound pork, 1/3 pound beef, 1/3 pound veal or just a pound of pork.
Our family eats frikadeller when we have Sunday dinners. What do we eat with Danish Frikadeller? A typical Danish frikadelle dinner has Danish red cabbage (Rødkaal), Danish cucumber salad (Agurksalat), sugar brown potatoes (kartofler) and brown gravy (sovs).
To prepare for our Sunday dinners we go out and buy the ingredients the day before. Sunday afternoons, starts with making the side dishes. There are usually extra hands to help with chopping, shredding and mincing. Sometimes it is easier to make the side dishes the day before which is fine. The Danish Red Cabbage and the Cucumber Salad both taste great the next day too.
Ready to make the delicious meatballs? Below are our ingredients, instructions and a YouTube video.
*1/2 pound of minced beef
*1/2 pound of minced pork
*1 cup of flour
*1/2 cup of oatmeal (breadcrumbs is another option)
*2 eggs
*1 minced onion
*1/4 teaspoon of pepper
*1 teaspoon of salt
*1 to 1 1/2 cup of milk
*allspice (optional)
*butter or margarine
Kitchen Tools
*mixing spoon
*measuring cup
*measuring spoon
*non-stick frying pan
First Step is to make the fikadelle mixture
There is a little prepping to do which is great! A few things you will need to do is buy minced meat. If you choose to use breadcrumbs, you will either need to buy or make your own breadcrumbs. Also, you'll need to mince one onion with a grater. Once you have all of the ingredients you are ready to make the frikadelle mixture.
First, mix the beef and pork together in a bowl. Stir in milk, onion, and eggs. Add oatmeal or bread crumbs into the meat mixture. Sprinkle in flour, and knead well to mix. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and mix well. Some people enjoy the taste of allspice and it is optional. A tip is the frikadelle mixture gets better the more you mix the ingredients together. Also, the mixture should be very moist, but not dripping. If it is too moist, add more flour and use less milk.
Second step is to fry the frikadelle
Now you are ready to shape the meatballs. A tip is to dip your large tablespoon into the melted margarine. Then, scoop the tablespoon into the bowl to form the meatball. A helpful trick is to take the tablespoon mixture and smoothen it against the wall of the bowl. The mixture in the spoon should look slightly flattened oval meatball about the size of a small egg when placed in the pan.
One-by-one place the oval flat shape frikadelle into the heated skillet. Don't put too many frikadeller in the pan at once and they should not be touching. Fry the meatball for about 3 to 5 minutes on each side until they are well-browned and no longer pink in the center. Also, it depends how big the meatball is on the pan and how hot your pan is too. If it is still pink, fry for 3 or more minutes. Then, remove the frikadelle to a separate platter.
If you have a more frikadelle mixture in the bowl, add more butter in the skillet and then fry another batch.
If you have leftover frikadeller, it is great to eat the next day. The Danish Frikadelle tastes great cold. A popular way to eat the frikadeller cold is on a Danish open face sandwich This is made with rugbrød with red cabbage or pickles slices. Danes don't waste their food. So, the side dishes from the evening before usually gets used on the open face sandwich.
Trivia: Did you know that the Danish Frikadelle is about 250 years old as we know it today. In the mid 1800's, it was wood-fired ovens and meat grinders that contributed to new dishes including the Danish frikadelle.
We hope you enjoyed our video and recipe! If you like this danish frikadelle recipe as a meat dish, please be sure to subscribe to our YouTube Channel Scandinavian Today. Our channel has videos including
*how to make Danish Christmas rice pudding with cherry sauce dessert recipe (Risalamande med kirsebærsauce)
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*how to make aeblskiver (æbleskiver)
*how to make Danish Christmas Klejner
*how to make easy Danish cucumber salad (arguksalat)
*how to make Danish sugar browned potatoes (brunede kartofler)
*how to make Danish red cabbage (rødkaal)
These recipes are perfect for the holiday season. Please let us know what you think! Glædelig Jul and Merry Christmas♥ !
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Non-Store Small Business to Benefit from Yahoo Commerce Central Now Onwards
Yahoo Commerce Central has always looked forward to serve customers in new ways possible. This time, Yahoo Commerce Central hit a new milestone – this time Yahoo! has extended its services as well as solutions that extend beyond the universe of online store. Now, Yahoo Commerce Central is available to most small businesses with a website – not just those small businesses which are transacting online. Yahoo! now welcome in particular Yahoo Web Hosting customers.
The free Live Web Insights app is now accessible by logging into your web hosting acount. This provides the insights you need to find as well as engage new customers. Thereby, you can also stay at the helm of your business ad even improve your online business. Live Web Insights is now already in use by online retailers. This allows small businesses to:
1. What is exactly happening on your website in real time:
With Live Web Insights, you can obtain real-time information about current site visitors, which lets you see how your visitors are browsing your site for information on which products and services you provide.
2. Convert visitors into customers
With the help of Live Web Insights, you can request a chat with your visitor on your site via just one click. This makes it possible to answer questions, as well as provide recommendations on your products as well as services, that go way ahead in increasing sales.
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With the help of Live Web Insights, you can find your top keywords, referring sites, and other information such as where your customers are coming from, your website's growth, as well as industry benchmarks, which go a long way to highlight new opportunities as well as other areas that provide more room to exploit for further improvement as well as growth.
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As part of Aqueduct Marina's commitment of creating more time for you, we are delighted to now offer three levels of membership to support your boating experience. Our knowledgeable team have designed these packages to include a mixture of essential services and services which enhance your boating enjoyment. Aqueduct members will also benefit from exclusive discounts.
Anyone who purchases a boat through our brokerage or comes to moor with us for 6 months or more will be automatically entered into this free prize draw*. The winner will be drawn at the Aqueduct boating event on the 11th July 2020.
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The age of connected and intelligent systems has been a subject of intense media coverage and hot debate, but the implications will be much greater than many have forecast. Most predictions paint a rather bleak picture for lower-income blue collar jobs.
Many will be replaced with automation resulting from the combination of advanced sensor, connectivity, processing, robotics and artificial intelligence technologies. However, the impact on white collar jobs and communities may be even more significant.
To be fair, every advancement in technology has been met with alarm bells. Everything -- from textile machines to the automobile to advancements in manufacturing -- has sparked resistance and fear of lost jobs. What typically happens is that new jobs are created in place of old jobs, but those new jobs require different skill sets, and there may be a downturn in some professions before there is an equal upsurge in others.
The personal computer changed and ended many data entry and secretarial jobs, for example, but it created a plethora of new technology jobs. Technology historically has displaced many traditionally human, often labor-intensive, jobs. Robotics has been displacing human labor in automotive and equipment manufacturing for more than 40 years. Now technology is displacing food service and warehouse workers, cashiers and even writers, among many others.
Read more about how artificial intelligence will impact industries and society in the original article on the E-Commerce Times by Tirias Research principal analyst Jim McGregor.
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Its 993.75MB and 2400 Microsoft points.
Enjoy Oblivion fans.
You might have to go to "All downloads" Section.
Be nice if you approve this news article so more people are aware please :)
Thanks for getting it up.
Enjoy people.
Think i was the first to actually download it and get the first acheivment :P
With Heroes on Hiatus there's nothing on TV tonight so I've been checking every half hour in the new releases section.
Nothing there.
But it definitely is there in the All Downloads section.
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I can see how its going to offer at least 40 hours.
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Welcome to the Rambler Writers Group
The Rambler Writers Group was established to give Callahan Middle School students that are interested in creative writing an extra opportunity to interact with others who share their interest and learn more about the publishing field.
The Rambler Writers meet after school to workshop original poems, fiction, and non-fiction. Students learn to give and receive constructive criticism and dive deeper into the literary analysis. Students gain confidence in their work and experience the commitment one must have to be an active writer while establishing a writing community.
The Rambler Writers also edit and publish Callahan Middle School's Galaxy Literary Magazine. This gives students the opportunity to learn more about the process of publication. The Rambler Writers are assigned publication roles of Managing Editor, Fiction Editor, Visual Arts Editor, and Poetry Editor. Students organize all student submissions, read the submissions, discuss the merit of each submission and ultimately select which pieces will appear in the magazine. Rambler Writers copyedit and arrange the layout of work that is selected for the journal. Galaxy Literary Magazine will be available on the Callahan Middle School website in the spring of 2018. There will be a limited run print version as well.


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Introduction: EL Wire on Bike Tire
This is how to add EL wire to your bike tire. Fairly simple and very straight forward.
el wire with battery pack
electrical tape
zip ties (cable ties)
hot glue and hot glue gun
Mount the Battery pack on the center part of the tire, stringing the lead out to the edge. Secure the pack with the clip, if it has one, and cable ties. Wrap the lead around a spoke, and tape the end to the spoke, leaving enough room to plug in the EL Wire.
String the EL Wire between the spokes, hot gluing along the way. Glue the wire to the spoke and the rim. I found it easiest to glue one side completely, and then flip and glue the other. If you have extra wire, as I did, you can either choose to double it up on the rim, or loop it in the middle.
If done properly, it should look really cool and even help improve your visibility! Enjoy getting looks while riding at night!
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We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it, i.e. for the recruitment exercise for which you have applied.
However, if your job application is unsuccessful, the Company may wish to keep your personal information on file for in case there are future suitable employment opportunities with us. We will ask for your consent before we keep your personal information on file for this purpose. Your consent can be withdrawn at any time.
Your personal information may be shared internally within the Company for the purposes of the recruitment exercise, including with members of the HR department, members of the recruitment team, managers in the department which has the vacancy and IT staff if access to your personal information is necessary for the performance of their roles.
The Company will not share your personal information with third parties during the recruitment process unless your job application is successful and we make you an offer of employment or engagement. At that stage, we may also share your personal information with third parties (and their designated agents), including:
We may also need to share your personal information with a regulator or to otherwise comply with the law.
We may share your personal information with third parties where it is necessary to steps at your request to enter into a contract with you, or to enter into a contract with you, where we need to comply with a legal obligation, or where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party).
The Company has put in place measures to protect the security of your personal information. It has internal policies, procedures and controls in place to try and prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost or destroyed, altered, disclosed or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, workers, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know in order to perform their job duties and responsibilities. You can obtain further information about these measures from Gillian Hayes or Lore Emmerson.
Where your personal information is shared with third parties, we require all third parties to take appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal information and to treat it subject to a duty of confidentiality and in accordance with data protection law. We only allow them to process your personal information for specified purposes and in accordance with our written instructions and we do not allow them to use your personal information for their own purposes.
The Company also has in place procedures to deal with a suspected data security breach and we will notify the Information Commissioner's Office (or any other applicable supervisory authority or regulator) and you of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
The Company will only retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected and processed.
If your application for employment or engagement is unsuccessful, the Company will generally hold your personal information for six months after the end of the relevant recruitment exercise but this is subject to: (a) any minimum statutory or other legal, tax, health and safety, reporting or accounting requirements for particular data or records, and (b) the retention of some types of personal information for up to six years to protect against legal risk, e.g. if they could be relevant to a possible legal claim in a tribunal, County Court or High Court. If you have consented to the Company keeping your personal information on file for in case there are future suitable employment opportunities with us, the Company will hold your personal information for a further six months after the end of the relevant recruitment exercise, or until you withdraw your consent if earlier.
If your application for employment or engagement is successful, personal information gathered during the recruitment process will be retained for the duration of your employment or engagement and in accordance with the privacy notice for employees, workers and contractors.
Personal information which is no longer to be retained will be securely and effectively destroyed or permanently erased from our IT systems and we will also require third parties to destroy or erase such personal information where applicable.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal information so that it no longer permits your identification. In this case, we may retain such information for a longer period.
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If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact Gillian Hayes or Lore Emmerson. We may need to request specific information from you in order to verify your identity and check your right to access the personal information or to exercise any of your other rights. This is a security measure to ensure that your personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.
In the limited circumstances where you have provided your consent to the processing of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. This will not, however, affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact Gillian Hayes or Lore Emmerson. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your personal information for the purpose you originally agreed to, unless we have another legal basis for processing.
If you believe that the Company has not complied with your data protection rights, you have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at any time. The ICO is the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.
The Company will not transfer your personal information to countries outside the European Economic Area.
Automated decision making occurs when an electronic system uses your personal information to make a decision without human intervention.
We do not envisage that any recruitment decisions will be taken about you based solely on automated decision-making, including profiling.
The Company reserves the right to update or amend this privacy notice at any time. We will issue you with a new privacy notice when we make significant updates or amendments. We may also notify you about the processing of your personal information in other ways.
If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal information, please contact Gillian Hayes or Loredana Emmerson at Coolkit Ltd, Unit 6, Farrington Place, Burnley, Lancashire, BB11 5TY.


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China started deploying hundreds of troops to South Sudan earlier this year to bolster the UN peace mission in the country – the first ever Chinese infantry battalion to be sent on external peacekeeping operations.
As Africa's biggest trading partner, China is perhaps more associated with deal-making rather than peacekeeping in the continent.
The country's oil interests in South Sudan, the world's newest state, are vast and largely kept hidden from view.
Nevertheless the Chinese presence in the troubled country is developing a distinctly "blue" hue to it.
The 1,031 blue-helmeted peacekeepers consist of medics, infantrymen and engineers.
For a nation hesitant about talking to the Western media, it took us months to secure access to the battalion's main base in the capital, Juba.
Their presence in the city is low key, save for an imposing gate adorned with blue Chinese characters and standing about 30ft (9m) tall at the entrance.
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The BBC is running a series of pieces about China's role in Africa ahead of the China-Africa summit on 4-5 December in South Africa.
Inside, troops – many of them experiencing their first time outside China – stand to attention during their early morning drill.
Most have left behind families who like many others, still consider Africa the "dark continent" of a Joseph Conrad novel.
"My family can't understand how people holiday in Africa," one of them confided.
Like other outsiders, there is perhaps little understanding of the vast tourism or economic potential that many African countries enjoy.
Power of selfies
Known as CHN-BATT, the Chinese battalion was keen to show us the human face of its peacekeeping operations.
It has been called upon to settle violent disputes inside the vast displacement camps that still provide sanctuary for more than a million people, but the focus was not on the guns that sit heavy on the soldier's shoulders.
We are taken to see water being delivered by Chinese peacekeepers to a group of villages who have been forced to flee their homes, not because of brutal conflict but the violent banditry that has followed the recent troubles.
The Chinese medics break away to tend to a group of elderly men and young mothers, eager to seek some health advice and a fist full of pills.
China is here to win hearts and minds.
The selfies the soldiers capture on their mobile phones as they stand casually next to South Sudanese children, who show off the few words of Mandarin they have picked up, suggest that the tactic is working.
"These people remind me of my children at home," one of the soldiers whispers discreetly (they've been forbidden by their bosses in Beijing to talk formally to the press) and indeed the shroud of mystery that surrounds the Chinese peacekeepers, begins to fall away.
'Natural evolution'
But arguably, until recently China has been playing a "double game" in South Sudan.
A recent report by a UN sanctions committee claimed that Chinese companies supplied anti-tank missiles and launchers, rifles, ammunition and rockets to South Sudan to the tune of $20m (£13m).
Weapons sales are reported to have stopped before the recent rebellion ignited at the end of 2013 but China has major economic interests here that it is keen to defend.
South Sudan's elusive peace:
- A tentative regionally backed deal to created a power-sharing government was signed in August
- At least seven ceasefires agreed and broken since conflict started in December 2013
- Nearly one in five South Sudanese displaced by the current conflict, from a total population of 12 million
- Almost four million people are facing severe food shortages
- South Sudan gained its independence in 2011, but the region has been at war for 42 of past 60 years
Malakal: The city that vanished
China is taking on a broader strategic role across Africa – the continent's largest trading partner.
Its naval ships have already supported counter piracy operations in the Indian Ocean.
Africa's wealthy Asian friend has confirmed plans to establish a military re-supply base in Djibouti and an ambition was recently announced to supply 8,000 police for peacekeeping duties at the UN.
This enhanced role for China beyond the marketplace, is seen by observers such as Jakkie Cilliers from the Institute of Security Studies not as an assertion of its military might but a "normalisation" of China's role in Africa.
This "diversification of dependents" as Mr Cilliers describes it, is a natural evolution for an economic powerhouse with new found interest in Africa.
So it is not surprising that Chinese troops are taking on roles that hitherto have been largely done by African forces or funded by Western interests.
In the past few weeks the discussion has rapidly switched from peacekeeping to China's response to the war on terror.
Three Chinese citizens were killed in the recent siege at a luxury hotel in Mali, one was injured during last months multiple attacks in Paris and the so-called Islamic State confirmed that it had killed a Chinese citizen it had been holding hostage.
China is what the experts describe as a "status quo" power which hitherto has favoured a non-interventionist strategy.
That may mean that we are unlikely to see Chinese boots on the ground as part of counter-terror operations but economists like Kenya's James Shikwate sees the economic positioning of China in Africa as being "inextricably linked" to its wider strategic interests.
Take the example of Chinese warships being used to help rid the East African coastline of Somali pirates.
Mr Shikwate believes China has plans to expand the number of "friendly ports" in Africa in order to protect its growing economic interests from bandits and "terrorists".
"The security angle to the relationship is already becoming evident although it looks like diplomacy focused on commerce and trade," he said.
So the deployment of Chinese peacekeepers may signal the start of a deeper engagement by the country in global security issues.
Certainly President Xi Jinping has issued stern warnings in the wake of recent terror attacks and the issue will almost certainly be raised at this week's Africa – China summit in Johannesburg.
But despite the robust language coming out of Beijing we are unlikely to see unilateral action by the most populous nation in the world.
Instead China looks set to embed itself deeper into UN operations.


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By Rob Davignon, Project Manager for Rose-Hulman Ventures
Engineering prowess: Mechanical engineering majors and Rose-Hulman Ventures interns Nate Montgomery (left) and Andrew Kneppers tweak their latest design using 3D printing technology.
Much has been said about 3D printing in recent years with some claiming that the technology will become so pervasive that we will all have printers at home for kids' crafts, and will be able to run by the corner health center for a replacement organ or two. At the same time, frequent users of the technology undoubtedly will have had experiences where 3D printed parts were more trouble than they were worth. So is 3D printing the future, or just something that will soon be in our past?
Rose-Hulman Ventures has been a heavy user of 3D printing technology for nearly 16 years. In that time, the staff have become experts on when, and how to use the various 3D printing technologies for success. While Rose-Hulman Ventures maintains an in-house system that covers most daily 3D printing needs, it is still necessary to work with various external service providers when special materials or other circumstances require it. Working with the vast array for 3D printing providers out here can be daunting, so this article will discuss "Dos and Don'ts" associated with 3D printing.
First, what is 3D printing? 3D printing is the common term for a number of additive machining processes. Whereas traditional machining involves taking a piece of stock material and removing what you don't need, additive processes start with nothing and build the part up one thin layer at a time.
There are a number of different 3D printing technologies in common use today. Some start with powdered materials that get melted together with a laser. Some use spools of plastic rod stock that gets extruded out of a heated nozzle much like a hot-melt glue gun. Others use liquids that turn solid when exposed to lasers or a flash lamp. The materials vary greatly as well. Most 3D printers work with polymer materials, but directly printed metals are becoming more common. Additionally there are options for directly printing wax parts that can be used for investment casting, and even systems that will directly print sand molds for sand cast parts.
Here are a few common pitfalls that first time consumers of 3D printed parts may run into:
Having your parts 3D printed is very simple. There are a number of service companies out there that utilize all of the technologies available. It is simply a matter of finding one that provides the technology most applicable for your application. Most of the providers utilize an automated quoting and ordering system where you simply upload your part, select the materials and part quantities, and pop in a credit card number. STL files are the normal format for submitting parts, but these days it seems most providers are able to take the native files from your CAD software. This info will help those that are new to 3D printing technology take their first steps into the world of "Grown" parts. Used the right way, the technology can reduce iteration times on designs form weeks to hours. However, it is easy for some of the issues listed above to become red herrings in your development process when prototypes fail to function, not because of design issues, but because of part quality.


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For four days every June, the beautiful town of Bevagna goes back in time. A medieval market takes over the streets and offers visitors the opportunity to discover more about the town's history. The evening of the opening ceremony, the whole town gathers in the square to watch the archery tournament, which kicks off the festivities and is the only the first of many events taking place throughout the festival, including dance, music, theater and panels. In addition, the local taverns offer original recipes from the middle ages, in complete accord with the setting.
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Wowzers. I'm overwhelmed by how many mommas are reaching out looking for next steps. So here are the first 5 things that I think you should stop purchasing. Took me plenty of research to get here. Hopefully it saves someone a little time. If you suspect (even an unvoiced fear in the back of your… Continue reading 5 Things to stop buying Today if you suspect ADD/ADHD/Autism Spectrum in your family
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5 Tips for Moms at the end of their Ever-Loving Rope
We've all been there. Done. Fried. Pissed. Those of us that are parents of neuro challenged kids probably spend more time there than others. It's not that we're bad people, it's hard to work with and communicate with someone that is on a TOTALLY different planet than you are. And we're human. We had a… Continue reading 5 Tips for Moms at the end of their Ever-Loving Rope
Top 3 things to Eliminate from your diet TODAY
Some people are overwhelmed at the thought of elimination diets. There is so much to know, where do I start? Start simple, so you don't resent the cut from your diet. Figure out what you won't miss that much and gradually shift your shopping habits. If you find it hard to cut something completely… Continue reading Top 3 things to Eliminate from your diet TODAY
Top 5 Mommy Ninja Tricks for Sore Tummies
Some kids have worse tummy issues than others. Mine, have a LOT. There are more and more kids with nuero challenges (autism, ADD, Aspergers, bipolar, etc.) and they are consistently finding a connection between gut health and nuero health. So if your little person (or your big person) is struggling, here are a few tips… Continue reading Top 5 Mommy Ninja Tricks for Sore Tummies
The *&(^ Dentist.. I mean seriously? And a Mommy Ninja Trick for unruly kids …
Yesterday, Avani had a dentist appointment. Anyone with special needs will tell you that dentist appointments are a special kind of torture. Seriously, I got karma points yesterday for sure. See, although we don't eat sugars or drink juice she has a mouth filled with cavaties - go figure. She has a phobia to needles… Continue reading The *&(^ Dentist.. I mean seriously? And a Mommy Ninja Trick for unruly kids …
Create a Sunshine Life – Why I do it
wow, this was probably the hardest truth I've publicly faced. Go big, or go home, right? It's time to drink the kool-aid and BURN Plan B to the ground. So why, does a woman who has been successful in the corporate world, that admittedly HATES MLM's (selling to friends just seems WRONG on so many… Continue reading Create a Sunshine Life – Why I do it
Create a Sunshine Life Day 3 – Find a Mentor
Do not underestimate the power of a worthy mentor in your life. Once you have decided what you desire, what you want to change, and what your life could look like, start looking for people that have achieved it. They don't have to "actually" be your friend. Read books, watch videos, read blogs and surround… Continue reading Create a Sunshine Life Day 3 – Find a Mentor


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I kneel before you, thusly knighted, Betwixt slick, smooth thighs I dine delighted,
Past's Plea
Though my scars knit together with reluctant ease I must consider which drive within myself I must appease Be it lust, wrath, or self destruction All must be fulfilled within mine minds construction Droplets of blood spilt here and there Hold but a knives edge to true despair What darkness lurks beyond belief Hold me … Continue reading Past's Plea
Chapter One: The Ranger Apprentice
Wet foliage slapping at her face, the young, half-elvan ranger dives through the underbrush near the western eaves of the Wood of Sharp Teeth. She is in her element, lithe and quick. She knows the terrain and how to maneuver in it. She does not get caught on stray branches, or tripped by fallen debris. Her woodland cloak whips behind her, shadowing her every move as if it has a mind of its own. Her tight leather armor hugs her closely, accentuating every dip and curve of her well formed fisique. Her name is Lystra Silverdragon and this is the start of her tale.
Chapter 2: Grey Rain, Dark Deeds
The rain came pelting down in angry sheets as the hooded figure approached what could only be described complete carnage. Several wagons sat positioned haphazardly along a small stretch of the east-west running road known as the Tradeway, their beasts of burden collapsed in the mud, their bodies pierced with arrows. The wagons themselves had fared little better but it was the caravaneers who had taken the brunt of the assault.
Chapter 3: Baldur's Gate
It did not take Jaryn long to cross the further distance between the site of the ambush and his destination, the city of Baldur's Gate. It was a journey that would take most a near half days travel but astride Sundril it had taken him a mere few hours and by noon the high walls rose before him across a stretch of flat, muddy moorland.
Lupine Kisses
Lupine kisses, feathered touches Be my sunset, bathed in russets Hear my cries to braided cords Hear my worship of the lords Of shadows rising, night unending Of pleasure bated, pain withstanding Proof that angels do wear leather Take me ever for your pleasure Wrench from me the lion's roar Birth from flesh the open … Continue reading Lupine Kisses
Sun's Last Rays
My mind is frantic, Only more frantic with age, My soul is fragile, A piece lost every day, How do we cling to a life? So determined to pass away. How do we keep a good marching order? When the last horn's blare has faded to gray? Just grab a stick and pick a trail, … Continue reading Sun's Last Rays
Gettysburg: The Opening Salvo
On this day in history, July 1st, 1863, during the American Civil War, the first engagement would occur in the Battle of Gettysburg. The battle most historians consider marked the major turning point in the war. Although the Civil War would continue for another two years following the three day clash, this would mark the … Continue reading Gettysburg: The Opening Salvo
The Battle of Gettysburg, Day Two: A Test of Will With Blood
Battle Lines Drawn. Image courtesy of Wikipedia. The morning of July 2nd, 1863 would dawn with the battle lines clearly drawn to the south of Gettysburg. Throughout the night, and much of the morning, the full might of both the Army of Northern Virginia, and that of the Army of the Potomac, reached the battlefield. … Continue reading The Battle of Gettysburg, Day Two: A Test of Will With Blood
The Goblin Queen
See her there, the Goblin Queen, See how she sits in the hollow of her tree, See how she calls upon magics of green, See how she waggles her fingers in greed, See how she pulls from forces unseen, See her there, the Goblin Queen.


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This season always fill me with a beautiful reminder: We are meant to let go everything that surround us. I love the fact that in Houston I have had the experience of observing year after year how trees changes their leaves to receive new ones. My first realization was during a retreat at the Houston… Continue reading Are you holding back from shining?
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Wellnessabroso is a Lifestyle
If you've been around for a while, you might already know that Wellnessabroso is not just a bunch of recipes, a meal prep protocol or a specific diet. I always try to share other perspectives around food because I am truly a believer that we connect with food through emotions. And how do we… Continue reading Wellnessabroso is a Lifestyle
A Fit Body Begins with a Fit Mind
Recently I was scrolling through my phone and found a quote that said, "I don't think six pack abs are wellness." I related to it so much! I think out of my whole body, my abdomen was my obsessive challenge. Every time I was exercising or watching myself in the mirror, I needed to confirm… Continue reading A Fit Body Begins with a Fit Mind
Why is Feminism in the Kitchen?
Lately I have read or heard the word Feminism in different environments. From the group of people (men and women) who "support" the movement, and the group of people (men and women), who are against the movement. This brings my attention to how important it is for us, as a society, to have thoughts… Continue reading Why is Feminism in the Kitchen?
This Is Why I Love My Jobs
When I was in high school, my father always pushed us to find a summer job. He used to say, "I don't want you to be here watching the TV for two months." Now I applaud the initiative. I worked in different places making cookies and pizzas. The experience made my summers so much fun… Continue reading This Is Why I Love My Jobs
My relationship with the TV
Trying to find a balance between motherhood and my personal project called Wellnessabroso I found TV as a good parter. I was confident because of the variations I was doing comparing when I was a kid. At my parents home, we used to have a TV in each room including the kitchen. I… Continue reading My relationship with the TV
Elimination Protocol, when to use it?
Bloating has been a concern in my body even after I changed my diet. Getting in touch with my body has help me to identify the different type of bloatings. I know, it sounds bizarre but it happens. When I was studying at IIN (Institute for Integrative Nutrition) I learned from Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD and… Continue reading Elimination Protocol, when to use it?