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Not quite the promised climate change post
I need to pause before I attempt the summation I promised yesterday, so below I will list some additional resources.
But first some preliminary observations.
1. While "MAGIC PUDDING POLITICS" (Rudd on Brer Abbott) is not nearly as effective a mantra as "GREAT BIG TAX ON NEARLY EVERYTHING" (Brer Abbott on Rudd) the greater truth is in the Rudd mantra. The idea of a costless response to climate change is a sick joke. I do in fact believe that nuclear power should be in the mix, siding to that extent with Brer Abbott (and James Lovelock), but that has to be seen in a context too.
THE Opposition's desire to embrace nuclear power in the absence of an emissions trading scheme or carbon tax would result in electricity price rises of between 10 per cent and 33 per cent, according to estimates by the Howard government's nuclear energy expert, Ziggy Switkowski.
In a report for John Howard in 2006, Dr Switkowski found nuclear power would never be commercially viable unless fossil fuel-generated electricity was made more expensive using an ETS or carbon tax.
This resulted in Mr Howard embracing an emissions trading scheme as a way to reduce greenhouse gases while keeping open the nuclear option for the future.
In a dramatic departure from policy, the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, has abandoned support for any market-based mechanism, such as an ETS or a carbon tax, as part of the Coalition's greenhouse strategy…
2. It is such a shame the whole issue has become politicised, but I suppose that is inevitable in a democracy. Fact is, however, that there are limits to what "debate" can actually achieve in the face of phenomena that really do not depend, in the long run, on our ideological positions or the wheelbarrows we choose to push. Dithering is one of the less savoury outcomes of a democratic process, not that I prefer the alternative really – but a country like China is actually better placed to act decisively, for good or ill. Such a shame we are mere humans and not gods, isn't it?
3. Given the abysmal level of much of our dithering both here and overseas, and given the importance of the issue, nothing is to be gained by censorship of the kind that apparently has happened at the CSIRO or by fudging data, as apparently happened at the East Anglia CRU. While we would all do well to forget unlikely scenarios like the movie The Day After Tomorrow and must all concede that Al Gore oversimplified in An Inconvenient Truth, we should also realise that what happened at the CSIRO or East Anglia does not invalidate the overall truth of the IPCC reports. The IPCC does not engage in research; all it does is weigh the research and gather together the implications of that research for our consideration. There was much more input to its reports than East Anglia.
Hence comments like this on the latest offering (for climate change action I hasten to add) of Sojourners, a "left evangelical" site, really are tragic.
I think it is useing a lie to push their ideas. there is no man made global warming. yes take care of the environment, being a christian this should be second nature, shouldnt need to push for eco-prophets. nature changes all the time. thats life. honesty is important and there isnt much of that in this environment "emergency" that is being pushed. The other point is that the UN has no concern for the poor. they people they have chosen to make us believe in global warming are liars. and the proposals they want to accomplish will Not help the poor but make it harder for them. If you cant see that then you have blinders on.
There are so many prejudices running through that comment one hardly knows where to start.
4. Check some recent stories in the Sydney Morning Herald.
- Global warming 'godfather' goes cold on Copenhagen
- Cold comfort: the psychology of climate denial
- At a glance: guide to climate change and ETS
5. Realise that there are left as well as right-wing critiques of "market strategies" like cap and trade or carbon tax.
- Carbon Trading – How it works and why it fails
- Contours of Climate Justice
- New Internationalist Climate Justice issue. From that issue:
The Same Boat
Imagine 10 rabbits lost at sea, in a boat carved out of a giant carrot.
The carrot is their only source of food, so they all keep nibbling at it. The boat is shrinking rapidly – but none of them wants to be the first to stop, because then they'll be the first to starve. There's no point in any of them stopping unless everyone stops – if even one rabbit carries on eating, the boat will sink.
This is the international climate crisis in a (Beatrix Potter-flavoured) nutshell: action by individual nations achieves little unless we all act together. Of course, reality is a little more complex. While it's easy to imagine the rabbits reaching a simple agreement where they all learn to dredge for seaweed instead, our situation involves massive global inequalities, differing levels of responsibility, and a history of exploitation and broken international promises.
Perhaps, then, we shouldn't be too surprised that the international climate negotiations – which began in earnest in 1990 with the talks that created the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – have not yet got us a workable global solution. The best we've managed so far has been the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, under which industrialized nations (known as 'Annex 1' countries) pledged to cut their CO emissions by a completely inadequate 5.2 per cent by 2012. The US famously pulled out of the deal, and most of those who remained in are unlikely to achieve even these small cuts…
Down with Kyoto
We shouldn't get too hung up on Copenhagen – we're far more likely to create lasting change by building powerful national and international movements than by pouring all our energy into specific summit meetings. But it's hard to deny that we need some sort of international framework for tackling this global issue. Despite its flaws, the UNFCCC is the only one we've got, and the urgency of the climate issue requires us to work with it.
However, the Kyoto Protocol has been a dismal failure. Should we demand that governments scrap it completely and start again from scratch? It's tempting, but would be unlikely to gain the crucial support of Southern negotiators, who fear that a brand new deal would see them lose their hard-won 'differentiated responsibility'.
A better approach might be to create space within the existing talks for alternative, fairer systems and ideas – such as GDRs, Kyoto2, community-led solutions, indigenous rights, strings-free clean development assistance, patent-free technology transfer – to get a hearing. Currently emissions trading, private financing and market-based mechanisms are seen as the only route to greenhouse gas reductions, and are crowding everything else out of the debate.
This suggests a simple, effective starting point for developing a successful – and just – global agreement: we need to get rid of carbon trading…
Confused yet? One tip though: if anyone has all their ideas on the subject from Quadrant or Ms Devine or Mr Bolt they aren't worth taking too seriously. The entries immediately above, on the other hand, are predicated on an anti "free market" perspective. They are putting their faith in sustainables as the answer. I don't really see either as being much practical help, though more is to be said for the New Internationalist stance than Quadrant's.
OK, I'll try again later on…
See also: entries here tagged "environment".
Apology to forgotten Australians
Yesterday was a great day in Parliament.
THEY were called the "forgotten Australians".
But the more than half a million state wards, foster children and former child migrants were renamed the "remembered Australians" yesterday by Kevin Rudd, as he apologised on behalf of the nation for the abuse and neglect they suffered in church and state care.
Mr Rudd and the Opposition Leader, Malcolm Turnbull, fought back tears as they delivered the historic apology in the Great Hall of Parliament House…
You can see a powerful documentary on these matters on ABC at 8.30 tonight.
Meanwhile I have been interviewing an old Darlington resident and activist, Bev Hunter, about the suburb a university swallowed – and I have been going down memory lane rather a bit myself in the process. That's the current South Sydney Herald project and the deadline is 24 hours off…
See you later.
Update 2.00 pm
Article done. Here is a sneak preview:
Shuffling the years with Bev Hunter
Like old Dan in Judith Wright's "South of My Days" John and Bev Hunter have seventy years of Darlington memories hived up in them like old honey. "It was a great place. We had the best of it," Bev recalls. "It was a really safe area. You could leave your key in the door, or leave it open, or the key under the mat. You never got shut out." …
Wait for the December/January South Sydney Herald for the rest.
Waltzing Matilda 21st century style – current reading
Circular Quay 1938
Illustration from A D Fraser This Century of Ours 1938
How the wool industry dominated this part of Sydney back then.
The past is another country,
I am in retrospect/introspect mode at the moment. My gut feeling about my country is very much this:
"For all their embrace of enterprise," writes Davis, "Australians want to live in a fair society — an Australian-style egalitarian society, not a US-style harshly competitive society."
Now that truly resonates. It comes from an Age review of Mark Davis's The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s (Melbourne, MUP 2008) which I am currently reading. Mark Davis hitherto has been best known for his spray Gangland published ten years back. It didn't impress me overmuch, I have to say, but his recent book certainly does. I'll have more to say when I have finished it.
Meanwhile there is an extract on Crikey.
Australians have always been dreamers and thinkers, who, over the past 200 years, have worked to make this one of the world's innovative democracies. One of the world's oldest continuous democracies, most Australians lived under democratically elected governments by the mid-1850s, and the nation as a whole has been a democracy since Federation in 1901. In 1856, three Australian colonies in Tasmania, South Australia and Victoria introduced the world's first secret ballot, a system that was known as the "Australian ballot" on its introduction in the United States in 1888.
In 1856, Australian workers were among the first in the world to campaign for an "eight hour day", a measure that was progressively adopted across various industries and states until it was formally granted to all workers in 1948. In 1899, Queenslanders gave the world its first Labor government, intended to represent ordinary working people rather than powerful vested interests. In 1902, Australian women became the second in the world to get the vote — New Zealand had led the way in 1893.3 American and British women had to wait until 1920 and 1928 respectively. In 1907, the "Harvester Judgment" helped enshrine the principle of a basic wage, a world first that laid the foundation for the wages arbitration system.
Progress continued through the twentieth century. In 1973, in another world first, the Whitlam government appointed an adviser on women's affairs, a lead that was followed after 1975 by all state governments. In 1982, the Fraser government introduced freedom of information legislation, the first of its kind for a Westminster-style government. In 1993, in another pioneering move, the Keating government legislated to ratify the overturning of the doctrine ofterra nullius, by which Australia had been considered untenured land pre–white settlement. In an innovative twist, white law was able to reach back before white settlement to recognise law that had come before.
Being Australian is an ethical project. It was in these pioneering moments that the specifi c combination of traditions and ideas that makes up Australian values — egalitarianism; the "fair go"; the idea that one person is as good as the next, irrespective of background — was founded. What all these reforms had in common was that they were levellers that sought to protect the small from the powerful. These ethics were to a degree oppositional. Australia, perhaps more than anything, offered the chance of an escape from nineteenth-century Europe and especially Britain, with its industrial squalor and workhouses, intractable class differences and rapidly worsening inequality, brought on by economic laissez faire.
This colonial outpost wasn't just a sunnier and more bucolic new beginning; it also gave a chance to a basic fairness and equality of opportunity at odds with the prevailing ethos at "home". Nor did these reforms simply happen by themselves, as if the universal pursuit of fairness is an essential Australian national character trait. Rebelling miners, small farmers, unionists, feminists, judges, politicians, intellectuals and others all played a part in struggles for social justice that have rarely been doctrinaire. Australian people, on the whole, haven't aspired to ideological purity. They've aspired to become middle-class…
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Part of the mix too are several of Jim Belshaw's recent posts, some of which are first-rate in terms of thoughtfulness. I am sure Jim would find Mark Davis stimulating if sometimes annoying.
A tale of two gay men
Fascinating column by South Australian conservative and former John Howard speech writer Christopher Pearson in Saturday's Australian. Full marks to him for frankness, but he encapsulates a syndrome I have seen in some others, including a noted Sydney literary academic and another very vocal supporter of the monarchy and the High Church.
At the time friends reminded me of how, in 1982, British author Malcolm Muggeridge had described his conversion as "a rat swimming towards a sinking ship", prompting a telegram from B.A. Santamaria: "Welcome aboard."…
Despite my apprehensions that Catholicism wasn't going to be a bed of roses, it was clear to me that if I wanted to return to the practice of the faith, there was nowhere else to go. I could never have been happy as a gay Christian — with or without a rainbow sash — because it always seemed to me a contradiction in terms.
There was no getting around the fact the New Testament said we were all meant to be chaste or monogamously married and I had reluctantly concluded that St Paul was right about homosexual sex.
In any case, prudence in the plague years meant I gradually became all but sexually inactive from the mid-1980s and no longer saw much point in defining my identity primarily in terms of sexual preference…
Some of my friends said at the time that I must have crossed the Tiber for the sake of beautiful music and ceremony. But as Gerard Manley Hopkins told his family in reply to similar charges, if it had simply been a matter of aesthetic preferences, the Church of England would always have been far more congenial. Hopkins deplored the kitsch that mostly characterised Catholic devotional life in England then. Heaven only knows what he would have made of the banality of the present-day English liturgy.
What I most wanted was not beauty, crucial though it is, but certainty: immutable doctrine and valid sacraments. As an Anglican, the closest I had come to "the peace which passes all understanding" had been through the sacraments: in the confessional and at the altar rail. By my late 40s it felt like time to come back to them…
Ah, the chimera of certainty! So much has been and is being wrought in this world by that particular phantasm! Had Christopher been born in a Muslim country, heaven knows where that drive may have led him – different outcome, perhaps, but the drive to abnegation is identical.
Compare a young man of note.
That is in today's Sun-Herald. Yes, it is diver Matthew Mitcham, Australia's pride at the Beijing Olympics.
In the seats high above the Sydney Aquatic Centre dive pool, Matthew Mitcham is wearing a printed white T-shirt and blue jeans, his blond hair neatly cut, and is pondering life beyond elite sport, with the caveat his ambitions are subject to revision week by week.
"I'd like to discover new things, help to change the world," he says.
Chlorine blankets the air and a coach's booming voice echoes from the adjacent swimming lanes, the water jets gushing and splashing. Mitcham's talking about a career in medicine, maybe, whenever he stops diving: "I think everyone deep down wants to do that; leave their mark."
Ah, but a year ago at the glowing blue Water Cube at the Olympic Games in Beijing, Brisbane-born, Sydney-based Mitcham left an indelible mark. He achieved the highest diving score in Olympic history with his back two-and-a-half somersault with two-and-a-half twists in the pike position.
Then, in the spectator stands before the world's media, he briefly kissed his Sydney-born partner, marketing strategist Lachlan Fletcher, and gave him his bouquet. No sweat.
"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree," declared his diminutive, beaming mother, Vivienne, who was also by his side as her boy earned a perfect score of 10, "I don't know who cried more, him or me."
Six months later he danced on the lead float as chief of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. At the time, the throng that turned out to line Oxford Street must have pondered that there were few secrets in the life of Matt Mitcham, now 21…
Does Mitcham, more than a year later, see his coming out as brave? "I don't see sexuality as influencing my beliefs or opinions or perceptions of anybody. Whether they're gay, straight, bi, trans, experimental, I don't care. I see it as a very uninfluential factor."…
Whose attitude is healthier, do you think? Pearson's or Mitcham's?
Sunday is music day 24: Click go the shears…
… or perhaps "Quick go the shears…"
Yes, that is SO Australian. But it tells of time past rather more than time present, and is more true of 1909, even 1959, than of 2009. All things must pass, as the article I linked to above in The Australian notes.
THEY are becoming icons of a passing era. As sheep numbers continue to plummet, so do the carloads of shearers crisscrossing the backblocks in search of work.
In Western Australia, where some of the big remote stations could carry up to 60,000 head of sheep in their heyday, the harsh realities of modern life are threatening to turn our most romantic profession into nothing more than a curiosity…
In 1971, there were 155 million sheep across the nation, propping up the long-held notion that the country had made its luck off the sheep's back. Today, there are fewer than 70 million, and that number has been dropping annually by anywhere between 5 and 8 per cent over the past decade. That trend is not expected to change…
Here is another rendition, in its own way a marker of how this country is changing.
Well, you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube…
Two works of fiction from my August reading
1. Tom Coffey, Blood Alley (The Toby Press 2008)
Blood Alley seeks to recreate post-war New York. It does so very successfully, the plot ultimately concerned with underworld and high capitalist shenanigans around the creation of the New York UN headquarters. The political incorrectnesses of the time on race and other matters are faithfully recreated, but there is a fairly subtle moral compass for the 21st century at work in the tone too, without losing the authenticity and, um, colour.
I really enjoyed this one.
Chapter One
The dead girl lay beneath me. The pale yellow streetlamps shed just enough light to let me see her feet and legs clearly. Black heels and flesh-colored stockings faded into a dark form that curled into a fetal position. I wanted to look away, but I was here to observe. I blew on my fingers to warm them and began to take notes.
Finkel turned on his flashlight.
"This is aces," he said.
She had sustained two bullet wounds, one in her forehead and the other in her midsection. Purplish bruises circled her neck. She wore a dark blue dress and a sleek, unbuttoned overcoat that I guessed was cashmere.
An open handbag lay a few feet from her body. Almost comically, her hat had remained on her head.
It was the middle of November in 1946. The war had been over for more than a year. With rationing at an end, people were buying whatever they could afford, although I suspected I was looking at a Manhattan society girl who was never denied anything.
She appeared to be in her twenties. The hair I could see was red, with permed curls that fell to her shoulders. Her features were pretty but too thin, as if she ate only half a meal a day. Her eyes were hazel and had the troubled glaze of a tortured soul who was, at last, at peace.
A smooth line of blood tracked down the alley toward the street. I wondered if I had stepped in it.
Finkel said he needed stuff from his car. This was gonna make a swell pitcher. He gave me his flashlight and told me not to move anything until he came back. Then he hurried away, threading through stacks of wooden crates stacked ten feet over his head…
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2. Iain Banks, Dead Air (Little, Brown 2002)
As Callum Graham says in the review linked at the title:
…The plot seems to move, not because of, but in spite of global terrorism. Iain Banks looks more at the effects, such as the media's caginess to deal with the issues of reporting the events on radio, the effects on the public and the general climate of Britain after the events, without getting wrapped up in the hysteria of it. Perhaps this is because, like many of Iain Banks previous characters, Ken is originally from Scotland and sees himself more as an outsider looking in.
By noting these little changes which appear to have happened to England over night Iain Banks captures perfectly a snap shot of every day Britain. He also creates a picture of the British relationship with America. If the planes had been flown into the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia would we have given it as much media coverage?
However, it is not just the above which makes Dead Air irrevocably the here and now of the 21st century. It is the way that Ken as a broadcaster lives and works. Iain Banks successfully contextualises our time period through the voice of Ken on his radio shows. This is done with mentions of the IRA threat from the 70's to the 90's, commenting on the now familiar removal of bins from train stations. Ken's radio tirades also cover the Israeli/Palestine conflict which although has been going on for centuries is just as relevant now as it has ever been. He even comments on his scepticism of those who are against the EU, or as he calls them 'Europhobes', and the infringement of CCTV into personal freedoms; all very current issues today…
Stephen Poole in The Guardian was less impressed:
… Dead Air is narrated by Kenneth Nott, a shock-jock on commercial radio who takes a swollen pride in his contrarian opinions. We first meet him at a drug-fuelled loft party in the East End of London, where everyone, for some reason, starts chucking fruit and furniture off the balcony. Ken's girlfriend, Jo, does PR for a snotty young British indie band called Addicta; he is also sleeping with a woman called Celia (or "Ceel"), who happens to be married to a dangerous gangster.
You probably wouldn't like to meet Ken. He is one of those annoying, professionally opinionated people who are never off duty. Large portions of the novel are dedicated to expounding his reactions to the latest topics of media discussion, whether he is on air or just chatting in a pub: gun control ("Guns for nutters only; makes sense"), American imperialism, CCTV cameras, Euroscepticism, the death of Diana ("put on a fucking seatbelt"), all get extended libertarian rants. It is a tribute to Banks's chatty prose skill that these discussions are largely entertaining, if superficially argued.
After hundreds of pages of colourfully diversionary drinking, shagging and talking, Banks eventually remembers that he needs a plot, and so Ken does something unutterably stupid with a mobile phone..
I didn't fret about the apparent lack of plot in those pages – even if Poole is exaggerating, I feel. I was caught up in the voice, which is brilliantly created; you don't have to like Kenneth Nott after all. And he is saved by his self-deprecation.
A quote:
… Maybe, even, some tiny little strand of [religious belief], like, for example, the Wee Frees, who are part of the Presbyterian movement in Scotland, which is itself part of the Protestant franchise, which is part of the Christian faith, which is part of the Abrahamic belief-set, which is one of the monotheistic religions … maybe they and only they – all few thousand of them – are absolutely bang on the money in what they believe and how they worship, and everybody else has been wrong-diddly-wrong-wrong all these centuries. Or maybe the One True Way has only ever been revealed to a one-man cult within the outer fringes of Guatemalan Highland Sufism, reformed. All I can say is, I've tried to prepare myself for being wrong, for waking up after I've died and finding out that – uh-oh – my atheism was actually, like, a Really Big Mistake.
… If people want to respect their environment by believing that the fish they eat might have been an ancestor, or learn to lower the toilet seats because their chi is leaking out, I'm happy to accept and even honour the results even if I think the root of their behaviour is basically barmy. I can live with that and with them. I hope they can live with me…


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August is the best month for working through a reading list. Sunlight continues to linger in the evening, but we've mostly left the sweltering weather of July behind us. With that in mind, we've made a short list of the books we've been burying our noses in lately. We've chosen these books because they offer an alternative perspective, or take place somewhere very different from Canada in 2016. Take a look at our picks! We hope you'll be inspired.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo
With dignity, the author shares the stories of the Annawadi slum dwellers in Mumbai. This book is based on interviews with the inhabitants over several years of daily visits. Despite lives filled with hardship, I was moved by their determination and tenacity. The book left me with a profound sense of the injustice the poor face due to the prejudice and misfortune that awaits them at every opportunity. Chosen by Rosie.
Literature from the Axis of Evil – Edited by Words Without Borders
First published in 2006 after American policymakers decided to loosen regulations and economic sanctions, this short story and poetry collection includes works from Syria, Lybia, the Sudan, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. As editor Alane Mason writes in the introduction, "Not knowing what the rest of the world is thinking and writing is both dangerous and boring." Despite its political-sounding title, the stories within this book don't engage much with the headlines, and instead tell stories that illustrate how human warmth, empathy and connection can thrive even in the most dire and repressive of circumstances. Chosen by Alex.
When the Moon is Low – Nadia Hashimi
Set in Afghanistan, this story follows the journey of Fereiba, a widow with three children, from Afghanistan to England. After her husband was murdered by the fundamentalist regime, Fereiba makes the courageous and risky decision to cross Europe with the ever-growing group of refugees sadly leaving their beloved country. The story is emotional and compelling – the mother and her teenage son are separated mid-journey and each must continue with the faint hope of being reunited. Against the backdrop of the current refugee crisis, I was moved to consider the depth of story that each new arrival to Canada will bring with them. Chosen by Rosie.
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
When I decided to tackle this novel, I didn't anticipate that it would relate so closely to my work at Ten Thousand Villages. I had just returned from a trip to Bangladesh a week earlier, and I was struck by the similarities between the plight of the working class in early 19th century England and the challenges factory workers still face today in countries like Bangladesh, particularly in the garment industry. Hard Times served as a reminder to me that the fair trade movement is one in a long line of humanity's attempts to fight back against exploitation and economic injustice. Chosen by Ryan.
Counting Cockatoos – Stella Blackstone and Stephanie Bauer
I bought Counting Cockatoos on Friday and read it with my almost-two-year-old daughter, Mikayla. And after reading it half a dozen times right away, I'd say it's a hit! She loved the bright colours, making animal sounds and of course squawking like a bird when we found the two cockatoos! I think this will be a good book for her to grow with as she learns to count the other animals. Chosen by Kristen.

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Amazing Ways For Using Apple Cider Vinegar
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If there is a natural food ingredient that can also prohibit many diseases, being our cheap health agent throughout life, that would be great, right? Apple Cider Vinegar is such a wonderful thing. Apple Cider Vinegar can cure colds, coughs, infections, kidney stones, high blood pressure, arthritis, allergies, and so many more.
As early as in 400 BC, people has known Apple Cider Vinegar for its healing and detoxifying benefits. The father of medicine, Hippocrates used Apple Cider Vinegar. Apple Cider Vinegar has also been used from ancient times by Japanese samurai, Roman soldiers and military groups for any kinds of health problems, because of its amazing antiseptic, antibacterial and energizing effects.
Tip: When you buy Apple Cider Vinegar, keep in mind to go for the natural and organic kind, in order to get the most out of it.
Here is a round up of 50 ways in which you can use apple cider vinegar for:
- Sore Throat
Mix about 1 tsp of Apple Cider Vinegar, 1 tsp of cayenne pepper and 3 tsp of raw honey in a glass of warm water. Apple Cider Vinegar and honey help you heal faster because of their antibacterial properties, while the capsaicin in the cayenne pepper will soothe your pain.
- Foot Odor
To make a natural deodorant for your feet and armpits, just pour Apple Cider Vinegar over baby wipes, put them in a plastic bag and keep it in the refrigerator overnight before using.
- Dandruff
Mix equal parts of vinegar and water in a spray bottle, spray it all over your hair after shampooing and leave it for about 15 minutes. Then rinse it with water. Repeat this treatment for a few days until your dandruff disappears.
- Gas and Constipation
Solve your digestive problems by mixing a tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar with a glass of water, and drinking it before every meal.
- Clear Skin
Put a little bit of Apple Cider Vinegar on a cotton ball and apply it on your face, your acne, acne scar, and oily face will no longer be an issue.
- Heartburn
Dilute one tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar into water and drink it right away if you get signs of heartburn. You can add a teaspoon of honey to sweeten the drink too.
- White teeth
Apply Apple Cider Vinegar on your teeth before brushing them. Your teeth will be whitened after several uses. Do not overdo it, since it may break down the tooth enamel.
- Sunburn
Add a cup of Apple Cider Vinegar to your bath to relieve the symptoms of sunburn. You will feel your skin is cooler, soothed and also with a balanced pH.
- Weed Killer
Apple Cider Vinegar is also a good weed killer.
- Odor Remover
Mix equal parts of vinegar and water into a spray bottle and use it in the rooms where there is bad odor.
- All purpose cleaner
Mix 1 part of water, 1 part of Apple Cider Vinegar and 2-3 drops of your favorite essential oil in a spray bottle to make an awesome all purpose cleaner.
- Condiment Enhancer
Add Apple Cider Vinegar to sauces, marinades and vinaigrettes, or make your own dressing for your salad or meat.
- Post Shaving Treatment
Mix equal parts of Apple Cider Vinegar and water and put it on your skin after shaving.
- Bad Breath
Dilute 1 tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar in a cup of water and gargle the mixture for about 10 seconds.
- Bruises
Mix a hot cup of Apple Cider Vinegar with 1 tsp of salt. Apply the mixture on the bruised skin.
- Burns
Just by applying ACV on the burn you will help it heal and disinfect it. Do not to use it on open wounds though.
- Warts, Moles, Skin Tags
Soak a cotton ball in Apple Cider Vinegar and put it on the wart, mole or skin tag, holding it tight with a duct tape. You should leave it like that overnight and repeat it until the problem is gone.
- Flea Repellent for pets
Apply it topically or spray Apple Cider Vinegar on your pet's fur.
- Soups
Add Apple Cider Vinegar for extra taste!
- Baked Goods
Add Apple Cider Vinegar to the baked goods for an extra lift.
- Mix with Fruit Juice
Add a tbsp to your juice.
- Anti-Itch
Just apply it on the skin and you'll see results immediately.
- Anti-fungal
Mix one part of Apple Cider Vinegar with 5 parts of water and soak the skin for about 30 minutes daily.
- Sore Muscles
Drink a tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar mixed with water, or rub it directly on your muscles.
- Lymph Circulation
Just dilute ½ tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar into a glass of water and drink it every morning.
- Clear Sinuses
Drink a glass of water mixed with Apple Cider Vinegar. The excess of mucus that is build up in your throat making your nose stuffy will be decreased.
- Insulin Sensitivity
Use Apple Cider Vinegar daily can balance your blood sugar levels.
- Facial Toner
Mix 1 tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar with a glass of water and use a cotton ball to apply the mixture on the skin to make it softer and glowing.
- Upset Stomach
Mix 2 tablespoons of Apple Cider Vinegar, 1 tablespoon of fresh ginger water, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, 8 ounces sparkling water and raw honey to soothe your stomach.
- Energy Boost
Add Apple Cider Vinegar in your morning smoothie to get an energy boost for the whole day.
- Wash Fruit and Veggies
Add a bit of Apple Cider Vinegar into the water you wash them with, can help remove all the pesticides.
- Detox Bath
Add 1 cup Apple Cider Vinegar to your bath along with ⅓-1 cup of Epsom salt and 5-10 drops essential oils.
- Stop Dogs/ Cats from Chewing on your Stuff
Clean your furniture with water mixed with Apple Cider Vinegar once a week and your pets will no longer chew on it.
- Urine Smell in Clothes
Just add ½ cup of ACV to the washing machine to eliminate the smell of urine from your clothes.
- Neutralize Spices
If you have added too much of some spice in your food (e.g. cayenne pepper) add Apple Cider Vinegar to neutralize it.
- Flytrap
Add a drop of Apple Cider Vinegar and some dish soap in a bowl to attract and kill fruit flies.
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I spent Sunday doing exactly what I wanted to do, which means absolutely nothing. After the 10K race on Saturday night, all I wanted to do was relax on the couch, drink plenty of water and since it was super hot outside, it occurred to me to make some Ice popsicles with some molds I got at Ikea forever ago.
While I was in Miami, I went to a restaurant that was selling a delicious cucumber cocktail that left me so hooked, It was the first thing that came to my mind for my popsicles flavor…They are literally the easiest and most refreshing lollies for the summer and this is how I made them:
-Pre make half a jar of Green Tea and let it cool down.
-Blend or Juice the cucumber and the ginger with the green tea liquid. ( I prefer blending because you get some texture and small pieces of the ingredients as well as the juice.)
-Add the Agave Syrup (or Sugar) to make it as sweet as you like.
-Pour the mixture in the containers and freeeeeeeze!!!!!
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Can you email me PLeaSe when you receive your bag so I can mark you off my list... THANKS!
I thought we could squeeze in ONE more alphabet challenge before the end of the year,so
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OCTOBER 23rd.
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At Rhema's neurology appointment last week I raised concerns about side effects she's experiencing from one of her meds.
Her doctor ordered lab work.
A few years ago Rhema suffered severe lead poisoning… most likely caused by her talent for eating lead paint off the window sills in her room. She had to go through two rounds of chelation, and she had lab work done every couple weeks for many months. That whole experience solidified her position on blood draws: She. No. Likey.
So when the phlebotomist called us in, I settled into the chair-o-torture and pulled Rhema onto my lap. I smiled sweetly at the phlebotomist and asked her to call for backup. She had no idea her day was about to go to Hades.
I'll spare you the gory details except to say that there was blood, and not all of it ended up in the little test tube thingys. And I lost half a head of hair. And, of the 4 adults that held her down, one got head-butted and one got bit.
When we finally walked out of Children's Hospital Rhema was thoroughly offended and I looked like I'd been in a street fight and lost. But I could not wipe this big, fat, silly grin off my face.
while we were trying to get that blood drawn my girl screamed, "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
I have proof. The entire first floor of the hospital heard it.
It was the most clear and articulate, appropriate, spontaneous, emphatic, un-prompted speech I believe I've ever heard in her 8.8 years of life.
Go Rhema.
Small victories! I mean, big victories!
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ASTON, Pa. - After earning a nail-biting win in their season opener the Wesley College Women's Basketball team could not come away with a repeat effort, falling to Neumann University 65-50 on Friday evening at the Mirenda Center.
Brionna Johnson led the team with 12 point while Monshea Newsome-Murray finished with 11 on 5-for-11 shooting. The sophomore point guard led the team with six rebound and two steals as well.
Wesley fell behind early as Neumann jumped out to a 6-0 lead with three straight buckets, but Brittney Kerns got the team on the board with a three to cut the lead in half. Back-to-back layups by Tiyanna Gibbs and Alexus Stroud gave Wesley a 7-6 lead but the Knights finished the quarter on a 10-4 run to take a 16-11 lead at the break.
In the second quarter the Wolverines stormed back to take a 21-20 lead midway through the frame. Once again Neumann responded finishing the quarter on a 7-2 run to take a 27-23 lead into the halftime break.
In the third, Wesley drew back to within one point but the Knights' offense was too hot to handle. Neumann shot 10-for-12 in the third quarter, scoring 26 points to open up a 53-39 lead heading into the final quarter.
Wesley attempted to rally in the fourth quarter, led by freshman Paige Hailstock who drilled two threes to open the frame. The comeback fell well short though as the Wolverines were held scoreless over the final 5:13 of regulation, falling 65-50 to the Knights.
Wesley moves to 1-1 on the season and will play again on Saturday in Neumann's consolation game. Their opponent is to be determined.


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Tuesday is Tiara Tuesdays. Bring or buy a tiara and get 10%
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Wednesday is our chicken pecan salad on an herb/cheese scone, served warm. Comes with your choice of soup, salad, or caesar, and tea.
All this for $13.95.
Thursday is our Golden Girls lunch special. Your lunch includes;
your choice of a half a cold sandwich, soup or salad, a pot of tea,
and topped off with a baked sweet. All this for $13.95.
Friday is Our Best Friends Tea. This is a three tiered tray for two; filled with three tea sandwiches, cake, assorted savories & sweets, and sorbet. Served with scones, lemond curd, devonshire cream, & jam, 2 pots of tea.
$38.95 for Two.
Sunday is our Sunrise special. A breakfast sandwich; made with egg, cheese, bacon, on a homemade herb scone...with a cup of fruit, a cup of soup, and a pot of tea or coffee. All this for $13.95
Every day we make our soups, scones, quiche, savories, and desserts fresh and different, so it's always a surprise on what you get to choose from.
We have created a new menu and is available now! We have added a new Roast Beef melt, Turkey Pesto melt, Quiche, a Roast Beef and a Turkey Pesto cold sandwich, Breakfast Burrito. We make everything here.
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window sill grow box lettuce
Grow your own organic lettuce right at home with the Potting Shed Creations Window Lettuce Box. With this kit, easily grow delicious salad greens and eat healthier without going to the grocery store! This simple garden is a classic window box with a green twist - it is made from recycled US steel! the kit includes everything needed to grow organic lettuce year-round indoors or out. Includes: organic seed, recycled US steel box, growing medium, directions.
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Organic lettuce is a versatile, nutricious ingredient and is a great way to start growing your own food. Simply pull the leaves from the stems, and make salads, add to sandwiches, or use for lettuce wraps! This kit includes: organic seed, recycled steel pot, growing medium, directions.
- Dimensions: 4.25" high x 18" long
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I am a recent graduate from Azusa Pacific University with a BS in Biochemistry. I am currently taking a year off from school before pursuing a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology. My long-term goal is to be a Biology Professor.
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I have been a tutor in a variety of capacities for five years. My tutoring experience includes five years of employment at Kumon Learning Centers as well as experience private tutoring for math up through Calculus, as well as college level Biology and Chemistry courses.
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Kumon of West Covina, Kumon Teaching Assitant
2013 - Present
Individual tutor for students ages 4-18 using Kumon or school curriculum.
Azusa Pacific University Department of Biology and Chemistry, Grader for General Chemistry
2016 - 2017
Grade the report sheets, post-labs, lab write-ups, and lab exams of students.
Azusa Pacific University Learning Enrichment Center, Supplemental Instruction Leader: General Chemistry
2015 - 2017
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Azusa Pacific University Learning Enrichment Center, Supplemental Instruction Leader: Nursing Microbiology Summer Session
2016 - 2016
Attend lecture; Lesson plan using activities corresponding to diverse learning styles; lead 90-minute group sessions with 10-15 students.
Azusa Pacific University Department of Biology and Chemistry, Peer-Led Team Learning General Chemistry Peer Leader
2014 - 2015
Lead groups of 8-10 students in two-hour weekly sessions for chemistry practice.
Kumon of Oceanside, Kumon Grader and Aide
2012 - 2013
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The Matrix Booking team is attending the Government Property and Estates Conference in Manchester on 26 April. The team will be joined by guest speakers from the Government Property Unit (GPU) and HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) who will be sharing their experiences on how success was achieved and challenges overcome in moving thousands of civil servants to the new flagship buildings of the two largest government hub programmes.
The annual event gives attendees the opportunity to explore in finer detail the public-private relationship – as the government is the most significant asset holder in the UK. It also delves into workplaces for the future, featuring initiatives and changes to local government and NHS workspaces.
"Our drive to modernise and improve the running of the government estate is reducing the cost to the taxpayer, giving civil servants the flexible and modern workspace they need and releasing much-needed land for alternative use."
The State of the Estate report
A new agency to manage the government property portfolio
In 2015/16, it cost £2.55bn to run the central government estate, and although the total was a seven percent reduction on the previous year, the public sector continues to seek ways to rationalise and streamline its property portfolio.
The One Public Estate asset management initiative, which was set up in 2013, has helped local councils cut costs by integrating services delivering an estimated £158m of savings by 2020. But despite this progress – a 2017 report by the National Audit Office concluded that the public sector needs to "make more headway to achieve a shared, flexible and integrated estate".
The new Government Property Agency is set to take over a £3bn property portfolio with the ultimate aim to deliver greater efficiencies. A crucial part of the strategy is to reduce costs and increase efficiencies by reducing energy costs via innovative technological solutions, with the desired effect of improving the sustainability of all properties and estates.
The Matrix Booking Public Sector Hub Network
Local and central government consistently seek out new ways to efficiently deliver better services, but every change comes with a new challenge. Civil servants, departments and solution providers all need to adapt and adjust to a new way of working.
There has been an unprecedented change to the way civil servants work and the estates and systems they use. Initiatives such as The Way We Work, the One Public Estate programme plus various 'hub' programmes have changed the landscape of the public sector estate. There is no one single approach to the changes being made by the vast number of projects currently in place, as all have subtly different requirements and timelines.
Matrix Booking has worked with all the major departments involved with these initiatives to understand current needs and future vision for the public sector, specifically around resource management with a strong focus on user experience. The result is the Public Sector Hub Network.
"There are now more than 100 sites currently operating on the Matrix Booking Public Sector Hub Network, using unique estate sharing functionality within Matrix Booking. The SaaS solution is used to book meeting rooms, desk and car parking spaces with some clients using Matrix Detect occupancy sensor systems."
The Government Hub Experience
Roseanne McGlade, Regional Project Officer at Government Property Unit and Jon Hewing, Estates Account Manager and Customer Insight Lead at HMRC will be joining Kieron Murphy, Managing Director at Matrix Booking to discuss the "GPU and HMRC Flagship Hubs – Moving Day". The session will review and address the following:
- How Matrix Booking connects to wider government estates and other hubs
- What it means for the user experience
- How we share resources in the buildings
- The future vision (user view)
- Key learnings
The event will also help attendees understand how collaboration and shared services can deliver savings, and see how new technologies can help make estates more efficient and anticipate how new policies will impact on your organisation.


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After his craft talk this morning, I am convinced that, if he wanted to, Marvin Bell could levitate a space ship with his mind. He used the alphabet (why not?) as a framework for rattling off his abecedarian thoughts on poetry, nugget after nugget of invigorating advice interspersed with his own quirky humor. He read two poems that had nothing to do with the basics of successful lyric poetry--image, language, attention to specific detail and scene--and everything to do with transmitting poignant sentiment through casual tone and nuanced observation. He described them as "poems which don't care if you think that they are poems." By that time, we had reached the letter "B." What followed were twenty-four equally subversive, insightful forays--all told with a twinkle in the eye. Having him act as my faculty advisor in the coming semester is nothing short of a privilege.
The Yoda of Poetry
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I hear a LOT of bad advice in the run of a day. I'm on a lot of different channels where people are trying very hard to present their opinions and push their ideas as a legitimate option for the future. And there's one thing that I've noticed that I feel like I have to point it out.
Enthusiasm is a very poor indicator of a good idea.
There are lots of great ideas out there. Lots of them. And sometimes they're put forward by incredibly positive people. Sometimes those people are super excited and confident about their ideas. And sometimes they're not.
And that's ok.
There's a guy I play hockey with. Let's call him Ryan.
Every week someone on our team brings beer. After the game, we each have a beer and talk about how most of us (me) are too old (me) or too out of shape (me) to be hockey players.
But Ryan makes his own beer and when it's Ryan's turn to bring beer, he often brings something that he's brewed.
Now, Ryan is in sales. Ryan is very good at sales. He knows his product. He knows his customers and he knows how to connect those two things. Ryan can sell things veery well.
Except beer.
This week Ryan brought a beer that he described as "a failed attempt at an amber ale that kind of turned brown and wasn't very good."
As you can imagine, this didn't elicit a particularly excited response from the team, but every grabbed a little plastic cup and soldiered on anyways.
And it was delicious. I don't even like browns (I'm a terrible beer critic) and I thought it was delicious, as did most of the people that were in the room.
Now what does this have to do with anything?
Well, Ryan wasn't particularly excited about the beer. He wasn't brimming with enthusiasm. Conversely, I've heard people tell me how AMAZING something was only to be categorically disappointed.
What I've learned it this.
Enthusiasm is a very poor indicator of a good idea.
I've had some ideas I was VERY excited about that went down in flames and some very casual ideas that blew up (and not in the bad way).
The point is that our excitement level and whether or not we can pitch "the thing" can all come later.
Start with the work. Work on the enthusiasm when you NEED to convince someone else that "this thing" is great.
And don't believe the hype.
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After secretly reading Fifty Shades of Grey on the subway, we decided to give in to all our not-so-guilty pleasures. Next on our list: this bold perfume, which practically begs to be paired with a curve-huggin outfit (whether or not you're dating a mysterious billionaire). A feminine chypre floral, it contains an unusually high concentration of rose, in addition to seductive vanilla and patchouli.
I really like the packaging. I think its super cute and simple. But thats where it stops. I'm just not into that smell. I prefer a fresh or citrus smell not so much rose or vanilla so this just didn't work for me. I bet it would be great for someone who digs the rose and vanilla notes.2
I am completely addicted to Lady V. It is my every day scent. I get told by everyone how incredible I smell, waitstaff, bartenders, teachers, cashiers, it doesn't matter where I go. I will ask, "is it too much?" And they always say no, it is fantastic. Men buy me drinks, want to buy me dinner, ask me out, say, "there is just something about you", it all happened after Lady V. I swear she gives me so much confidence. I even have men stop me and ask me to write down what it is so they can buy it for their wives.5
I just checked reviews when I went to purchase after receiving a sample in my Birchbox. I LOVE this smell and was shocked to see so many people dislike it. I never ever wear perfume (because I think most perfumes smell like bath & body works), but I truly could sniff this stuff all the time. It's not too strong in my opinion, but it is distinct. However like the description says it does act as a canvas for your natural scent. Maybe those negative reviewers just smell bad?5


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He knew the unknowable: the human heart and all things;
He loved the unlovable: the human sinner;
He did the impossible: He died and rose again;
He was the impossible: a sinless character.
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He knew the unknowable: the human heart and all things;
He loved the unlovable: the human sinner;
He did the impossible: He died and rose again;
He was the impossible: a sinless character.
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The Redeemer, then, is like all men in virtue of the identity of the human nature, but distinguished from them all by the constant potency of his God-consciousness, which was a veritable existence of God in him.
Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith
A denial of Christ's divinity but yet a desire to retain a unique place for Jesus. Yet once you create a Jesus divorced from Scripture subjectivism inevitably enters. Who is to determine what 'God-consciousness' is in its highest form? Why is this the determining, even if subjectively defined, criterion?
I see the Nazarene as intensely and overwhelmingly conscious of the reality of God. His spirit was open to God and his life a continuous response to divine love, both gracious and utterly demanding…Thus in Jesus' presence, we should have felt that we are in the presence of God. – not in the sense that the man Jesus literally is God, but in the sense that he was so totally conscious of God that we could catch something of that consciousness by spiritual contagion.
John Hick, Myth of God Incarnate, 1977, p.172
A view that refuses to take Jesus' own words seriously (or at least presupposes that he 'couldn't' have made claims to deity for himself)
'Ultimately the historians' answer to the question about the miracles of Jesus will depend upon his answer to the prior question, what he thinks of Christ.' (Alan Richardson)
If Jesus were a mere man, it is incredible that he should have stilled a storm or fed a multitude with a boy's snack lunch. But if he were the incarnation of the Supreme Being…
Raymond Abba, The Nature and Authority of the Bible, p.159
Jesus of Nazareth is a controversial as well as an attractive figure. But the controversy that surrounds him is not like the controversy that surrounds other famous men and women. In the latter case, the controversy rages over the content and relevence of their teaching. So today, the debate over darwin in modern biology concerns whether or not the neo-Darwinian paradigm…is sufficient to explain the origin and behaviour of all living organisms. Gandhi is still a figure of controversy in India today: Brahmins and Dalits argue over whether Gandhi himself sanctioned the caste system, and political activists disagree as to how far his principles of non-violent resistance are applicable under regimes more brutal and repressive than the British Raj…
Not so with Jesus. The controversy that he attracts has relatively little to do with his moral teaching…
The controversy over Jesus concerns who he is. For the historic Christian claim regarding Jesus of Nazareth is that no human category…can do adequate justice to the evidence of his words and actions. No category short of deity itself is sufficient.
Vinoth Ramachandra, Revovery of Mission, p.181
…if He is not God, He is a deceiver or is self-deceived, and in either case, Christ, if not God, is not good.
A. H. Strong
(if we deny His Deity then) we must conclude that, with all His moral beauty and excellence, Jesus was a pitiable failure as a teacher if He did not succeed in guarding His message against corruptions which have led to His own exaltation as God, and to the existence through eighteen centuries of a system of idolatry of which He is the center.
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Potty Training Guide
Toilet training (also known as "potty training") is an exciting time for parents and children, as the child takes the next step to becoming a "big" girl or boy. While parents usually start this adventure filled with the anticipation of being able to cross "diapers" off the shopping list, their toddlers can make them wonder if this will ever happen.
Successful potty training requires a positive attitude and tons of patience. More importantly, it requires cooperation and readiness on the part of the trainee. Attempting to train a child who is not physically or emotionally mature will not only be unproductive, it will cause unnecessary stress.
Potty training a child who attends day care requires a team effort. Parents and Providers should discuss and agree on the planned potty training process. A consistent approach and common encouragement techniques can minimize confusion of a child during this time, and help to set the environment for a successful transition.
The American Academy of Pediatrics advises that between 18 and 24 months, children often begin to show signs of being ready to begin training. Some children may not be ready until 30 months or older. Since children under the age of 18 months have little to no control over their bladder or bowel movements, beginning before this time is not useful.
The American Academy of Pediatrics advises that between 18 and 24 months, children often begin to show signs of being ready to begin training. Some children may not be ready until 30 months or older. Since children under the age of 18 months have little to no control over their bladder or bowel movements, beginning before this time is not useful.
Some of the signs that indicate a child is ready to be trained are:
Steps to Potty Training
Step 1
Get Rid of the Diapers
Put on the underwear and be prepared for accidents!
Step 2
Drink Lots of Fluids
Give the child plenty of fluids to drink. The sooner she has to go potty, the sooner you can begin potty training.
Step 3
Go to the Potty
Ask the child if he needs to go potty. He might say no and that's OK. Because you've given the child plenty of fluids, he will soon need to go.
If the child has an accident in his underwear, don't scold him. You want this to be a positive experience. Instead, take the child to the potty, pull his underwear down, and have the child sit down. Do this ten times. This builds muscle memory and your child will eventually go. And don't forget to keep up the positive reinforcement!
You can also have the child sit on the potty during times she is most likely to urinate or have a bowel movement, such as in the morning, before and after naps or after mealtimes.
Reading a book, talking, or singing songs will encourage the child to sit on the chair, longer. Avoid trying to force the child to sit for long periods of time or against her will.
Don't be surprised if, after sitting on the potty without result, the child stands up and begins to urinate. This is often perceived as stubbornness. The fact is, the child may not have mastered the skill of relaxing his bladder muscles. If this happens frequently, it may be a sign that he is not, yet, ready.
Step 4
Let the Celebration Begin!
When the child, successfully, goes potty, throw him a potty party, cheer, jump up and down – make a big deal of the success!
What should Parents and Providers discuss to help ensure a successful toilet training experience?
Other Tips for Parents
Training Pants
You may want to consider purchasing cotton training pants use (thick cotton underwear) for day time. Disposable training pants are convenient for outings, but cotton training pants will allow the child to be more aware of when they are urinating, encouraging them to use the potty instead. Plastic diaper covers will help protect your home from accidents.
Night time
Some children, simultaneously, learn to stay dry during the day and at night. For others, it can take several months, even a few years. Allowing your child to wear a diaper at night and at nap time until she begins to, consistently, wake up dry, will prevent feelings of shame and failure.
A new baby, changes in routine, family crisis or putting too much pressure on your child, can cause him to regress in the toilet-training department. Avoid making your child feel bad during this time and encourage him to keep trying.
Keep in mind that your child's dynamic might change, depending on who she is with, or where she is at, particularly in a day care setting with a different adult and with other children in care. Children may not want to leave what they are doing because they are enjoying themselves or they may have concerns about someone else "taking over" what they were playing. Potty training may be super-smooth at home, but simultaneously, less successful at day care, due to the change in dynamics. This is no one's fault, but rather a fact to keep in mind.
Every child's body is different. Some catch on quickly, while others take much longer to recognize the signals their body is sending them. Lavish praise on your child when she is successful, and reassurance when she has an accident.
Avoid comparing your child's potty-training progress to that of another child's. Mastering the use of the toilet is not an indication of a child's intelligence. It is dependent on their physical, physiological, and emotional maturity. Have patience and eventually, your child will be a "big" boy or girl!
Compiled from the following sources:
Karen Bianchi at AwesomeMomsNetwork.com.
Robin McClure at childcare.about.com


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Most recently, goals from Kermit Erasmus and Craig Martin sealed a scrappy but vital victory for City over Bidvest Wits at Cape Town Stadium, helping lift the mood at the club after a dismal recent run under the former Ajax Amsterdam mentor.
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• The long-awaited SFJAZZ Center opened in Hayes Valley with a debut concert that featured jazz greats McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, and more. Thanks to live radio broadcasts and an NPR web stream, the sound of the center's opening was heard around the world — as was Bill Cosby's cheeky emceeing.
• The annual Red Bull Thre3style DJ contest pitted many of the Bay Area's best DJs against each other in genre-spanning 15-minute sets. The hands-down winner was J. Espinosa, but Oakland's DJ D-Sharp showed himself to be the finest turntablist in the room and came in second.
• Veteran S.F. punks Swingin' Utters are coming back with a new album, Poorly Formed. We premiered the band's new song, "Suck in a Circle," which matches their racing pop-punk choruses with wistful, acoustic verses. Catch 'em at Slims on Feb. 24.
• The Walkmen proved why co-headlining concerts don't really work: Father John Misty, who played first, utterly showed them up, with more energy, more jokes, and better dancing. As we clapped for the encore, we hoped it wouldn't be The Walkmen.
• Starting in May, the Embarcadero will host the new America's Cup Pavilion — a 9,000-seat outdoor concert amphitheater that will host concerts all summer long, including Sting on June 2. Our complaint: S.F. needs a big outdoor venue — so why isn't this one permanent?
• The real inauguration travesty wasn't Beyoncé lip-syncing, but Alicia Keys reworking "Girl on Fire" for Obama, with lyrics evoking America's wars and killer drones. "He's got both feet on the ground and he's burning it down" doesn't sound celebratory to us.


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Though most investors know that a cash dividend is the distribution of money to shareholders, dividend terminology is not as well-understood. Terminology such as ordinary dividend, special dividend, ex-dividend and record date has unique and important meanings investors should be aware of.
Though certainly not as sizable a contributor so far in the 21st century, dividend income and its reinvestment has comprised a significant portion of long-term stock gains over time. Even better, over the long term, dividend-paying stocks have delivered relatively better total-return performance than non-dividend-payers and generally have done so with lower volatility. While these stocks are not quite the Holy Grail, higher returns, relatively lower risk and generous income can make for quite a powerful combination no matter the direction of interest rates.
With so many companies of such diverse types paying dividends, even investors who don't necessarily focus on dividend policy as part of their strategy should stay updated on dividend plans and announcements. Whether dividends are currently part of your strategy or will prospectively become part of your strategy, you need solid go-to resources online where you can find valuable dividend information.
Covered call writing is one of several ways options are traded. While often done on an ad hoc basis, one can assemble and manage a portfolio of covered call option positions as either a part of a larger portfolio or on a stand-alone basis. Dividend-paying stocks are attractive option writing candidates since the goal of a covered call portfolio is to generate income.
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