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The one-minute meditation
The easiest excuse we conjure for why we don't do things that are good for us is time. Time is the ultimate scapegoat. We don't have time to go to the gym, practice yoga, stretch, eat healthy or meditate.
Real talk: You can meditate in one minute. You have time.
I'm a busy gal. I work a full-time job, teach yoga, blog and am training for a half-marathon. Sometimes I truly don't have 30 minutes to spare for meditation, which I used to beat myself up over. I thought I needed to meditate for at least 30 minutes a day in order to be an adequate yoga teacher. Silly me. That's not what yoga teaches us.
Some days, all we have is a minute. And it's those days that we need this minute the most. So get up one minute earlier, watch one minute less of TV or check one less email and do this one-minute meditation.
One-Minute Meditation
Sit tall with a long spine, reaching the crown of your head toward the ceiling. Draw your shoulders away from the ears, releasing any tension in the neck/shoulders.
Feel grounded in all four corners of both feet, feeling energy both pulling you down and lifting you up.
Close your eyes and breathe. Notice how this breath feels. Feel the belly rise as you inhale and the fall as you exhale.
Now start to take fuller, deeper breathes, filling your lungs like a balloon.
Take 10 breathes like this, focusing all your attention on the breath. Notice anything that comes up — outside distractions, wanderings of the mind or stress that you can't seem to release. Tense the whole body up, as if it's being coiled up into one ball, and then release with a big exhale. Let all of that tension go.
In one minute, you've practiced meditation and given yourself the gift of a clearer mind and more open body. And this is a present you can regift any time you need.
Meditation doesn't have to be hard and it doesn't have to take a long time. The one-minute meditation above is similar to how I start every yoga class I teach. I think it's important to spend 1–5 minutes preparing the mind, body and spirit to receive the most benefits from your yoga practice.
To put that in perspective: if we spend five minutes like this in a one-hour class, that's 8.3% of our practice. If we spend one minute of our day like this, that's only 0.069% of our day. I think we can all reasonably devote 0.069% of our day to presence.
Originally published at www.balanceintheburbs.com on February 23, 2015.


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A few days ago my friend posted a "throwback" picture of his sister in the hospital. The picture was pretty old (it was a scan), and in it his sister was sitting in a hospital bed smiling, surrounded by the members of the band NSYNC. And judging by their hairstyles it was during the peak of their popularity. I almost commented "Wow how did your sister get NSYNC to come visit her in the hospital?" but I decided I shouldn't pry. Well it's a good thing I didn't because because tonight I learned that...
His sister almost died. Because she was shot. During Columbine.
I can't believe it's been 15 years.


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I read this article from Anastasia today and its a good read but also a little tug back to the positivity path we can lose when 'that' time of the month arrives.
Body Checking – Anastasia Amour
It may not be universal, (as the tortures of having periods differs for us all) but personally I have noticed this month, more than ever before, just how much hormones distort my view of myself and blows my confidence to pieces.
Just two days ago the new wardrobe plan was working well, I was positive regarding my appearance and happy with my progress to being happy with me. Today I caught sight of my reflection and the old negative voice was screaming everything wrong with how I look! Too fat, disgusting, I should go home and eat because starving myself won't work fast enough! You name it was there! I was with my youngest at a school event and had to stop myself spinning on my heels and taking us home, his time was definitely more important, so we stayed and I did the last thing I wanted to do; I sat in a room full of people I don't know and forced myself to interact, smile and be present in the room.
It took some time to quieten the nagging voice shouting that I was 'too fat to belong' and get a grip on reality. I was the same size two days ago, two weeks ago even, all that changed was my perception!
No one in that room even considered my size, clothes or anything at all about me, it was just me! No one ushered me out the door for being an embarrassment or disgrace. I had to make the choice to ignore the self attacks and remember I can't trust my own mind when my hormones are raging. It was no easy feat and to be honest even though I shut it up, the low and inadequate feeling has lingered all day.
It will be gone in two days, just like the fact that; I won't be raging inside when I hear my husband eat or breath too loud (I swear I develop supersonic hearing each month!), I won't hate being touched or not feel good enough because I didn't empty the dishwasher last night (yeah, that renound activity we use to gauge our personal achievements, the bloody dishwasher, WTF mother nature???!) In two days, after my cramps, aches, pains, bleeding and exhaustion I can reverse the rage mutation and get back to being me!


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Senior Test Engineer
At TomTom
Youll move the world forward. Every day, we create the most innovative mapping and location technologies to shape tomorrows mobility for the better.
We are proud to be one team of more than 5,000 unique, curious, passionate problem-solvers spread across the world. We bring out the best in each other. And together, we help the automotive industry, businesses, developers, drivers, citizens and cities move towards a safe, autonomous world that is free of congestion and emissions.
What youll do
- Understand the test plan(s) and test strategy. Able to identify gaps in test strategy and test plan and knows how to improve this in close cooperation with the test architect/lead.
- Ensures efficient and effective execution of test activities for the project and assists the team and project manager to continuously improve the way of working.
- Define test requirements, write and execute test cases (manual or automated).
- Performs tests and reports side effects found and the path leading to the defects to reproduce them. Able to identify trends in regression.
- Clear understanding of the software architecture to find the root cause of the defect.
- Communicate and deploy test procedures to stakeholders.
- Maintain test requirements traceability.
- Participate in test engineering activities.
What youll need
- Experience with product development.
- Experience with services (backend, deployments, Azure, IAM).
- Experience with BDD Frameworks, such as Cucumber, JBehave, Behave.
- Advanced understanding of test management principles (ISEB/ISTQB accredited).
- Advanced understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery principles (CI, CD and DevOps).
- Ability to work with automated test frameworks.
Meet your team
Were Autonomous Driving (AD). Our product unit develops, delivers and maintains products for advanced driver-assistance systems and automated driving with the TomTom HD Map at the core of our work. Every day, we welcome new challenges, do world-class R&D and apply it using the latest machine learning and computer vision techniques. On our team, youll not only play a part in making autonomous driving a reality, youll transform the way people commute while boosting safety and comfort for everyone on the road.
Achieve more
We are self-starters who play well with others. Every day, we solve new problems with creativity, meet new people and learn rapidly at our offices around the world. We will invest in your growth and are committed to supporting you. In everything we do, were guided by six values: We care, putting our heart into what we do; we build trust (you can count on us); we create driven to make a difference; we are confident, but dont boast; we keep it simple, since life is complex enough; and we have fun because lifes too short to be boring.
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Our recruitment team will work hard to give you a meaningful experience throughout the process, no matter the outcome. Your application will be screened closely and you can rest assured that all follow-up actions will be thorough, from assessments and interviews through your onboarding.
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The Future of Packaging: Coronavirus Update. For more information click here
Ahead of his presentation at ENDS US 2017, we sat down with Azim Chowdhury, Partner at Keller and Heckman LLP, to discuss the impact of FDA's comprehensive regulatory plan for tobacco and nicotine, innovation in the ENDS industry and more.
What do you consider to be the biggest challenge in achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance in the ENDS and E-Cigarette industry?
Because the February 15, 2007 "grandfather date" remains effective for deemed vaping products, the biggest hurdle to regulatory compliance for the industry will be developing the scientific data necessary to navigate FDA's Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) process. Although FDA's new compliance policy extended the PMTA deadline for products on the market as of August 8, 2016 until August 8, 2022, developing the necessary non-clinical, clinical and population-level data needed to support that an individual vaping product is "appropriate for the protection of the public health" can take years, and companies need to start working on their PMTA strategies now. The industry was very glad to hear the new Commissioner announce that the agency would be publishing additional guidance documents on both the PMTA and Modified Risk Tobacco Product (MRTP) application processes.
What innovations or new technologies are being developed within the ENDS industry to develop safer products for the end user?
Device innovations that allow wattage and temperature control and enhanced battery reliability have improved the safety of vaping products remarkably over the last several years. Improvements in manufacturing processes and the voluntary removal by many companies of certain e-liquid flavor compounds that may present inhalation toxicity concerns have demonstrated the industry's ability to self-regulate in the absence of any meaningful FDA regulations or standards.
The problem, however, is that companies today are prohibited from making any changes to their current products that could make them safer because doing so would trigger FDA's onerous premarket authorization requirements. The August 8, 2016 market freeze has the unfortunate effect of preventing companies not only from innovating, but from making improvements to products that could reduce harm and improve product safety.
From your perspective, how does the FDA's new comprehensive regulatory plan for tobacco and nicotine regulation impact the ENDS industry?
FDA's new comprehensive regulatory plan is definitely a step in the right direction, and a signal that the agency may finally be focusing on tobacco harm reduction. The first step in achieving harm reduction requires recognition that a continuum of risk exists between nicotine product categories. If FDA wants rapid, significant impact on tobacco related disease and death, FDA must focus on the most harmful product – cigarettes – and allow safer alternatives to remain on the market. The public health impact of reducing nicotine in cigarettes is not yet clear, but the goal is to help prevent the next generation of potential smokers from becoming addicted. But current smokers should not be forgotten, and will need to have reduced harm alternatives available to turn to so that they do not simply smoke more cigarettes or seek black market products. Vaping products offer that alternative.
What are you most looking forward to at ENDS US 2017?
Presentations from various members of the ENDS community, networking with industry leaders, and hearing about FDA's progress – in particular, identifying solutions to the many regulatory hurdles the vaping industry is facing!


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A little bit about us!
We've been together 6 1/2 years. We recently got married in July of 2015 on our 6 year anniversary. That way he can't forget the date. 😉Emma works in Finance currently and Aaron is an Auto Technician at a car dealership. We just bought our first home this past November and what a whirl wind that has been!
I've fallen in love with cooking, baking all kinds of sweets and crafting! I'm still a beginner, so I'm learning through trial and error! It's become fun for me to do and I love trying all kinds of different things! Aaron loves breaking things, just to fix them. Especially things like cars! He has started having an interest in woodworking and plan to build our own king size bed and farmhouse table! Hopefully if we're not too terrible, we can venture out into different projects!


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If you're looking for a great afternoon out with the family; you should definitely spend some time at the Albright-Knox museum in Buffalo. The Albright-Knox Museum is one of the oldest art institutes in the country. The building's neo-classical design features beautiful greek columns and was designed by Edward B. Green with updates designed by Gordon Bunshaft.
The Campus sits on the edge of Deleware Park where you can visit and even have a picnic lunch or dinner after your tour of the museum.
The museum has been collecting works of art for 156 years and includes works by such famous artists as Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Camille Pissarro, Jackson Pollock, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, and many more.
Fun Fact: This museum still works directly with artists which allows it to showcase wonderful collections of contemporary and modern art.
The museum also offers great classes and activities that are available to both children and adults. If you're going to be staying in the Buffalo area for a while then you can sign up for classes. If you're just visiting then you can drop in for art activities. These activities take place on the first Friday of every month and on the second Sunday of every month. The activities available are always different and are inspired by the themes or artwork that are currently on display at that time.
Enjoy a day of art and a picnic in the park. To find out more about schedules and times, please visit the museum's website at www.albrightknox.org


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CHAI works with many other service providers and state agencies to provide services to those in our community with intellectual disabilities. We receive funding from Home and Community-based Services (HCS), a Medicaid waiver option, Texas Home Living, Dallas Metrocare, and Department of Assisted and Rehabilitative Services (DARS). We also accept private pay for all eligible services.
Our Admissions Criteria
CHAI Specializes in serving adults (men and women) age 18 and over with intellectual disabilities. In order to participate in our Wolens Programs Services or Day Habilitation participants must live in Dallas or Collin County. Applicants should have a primary diagnosis of intellectual disabilities, in the mild to severe range, and should be capable of exercising some self-care skills (dressing, bathing, toileting, etc.) In order to live in our group homes priority is given to those that live in the DFW Metroplex. If you live out of state, please contact our office at 214-373-8600 or send us an email.
CHAI contracts with specialized therapists such as speech, nursing, occupational, physical, behavioral, and dietary. The cost of services varies depending on program of choice. We accept Home and Community Based Services – a Medicaid waiver option (HCS), Texas Home Living, Dallas Metrocare, and Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) and private pay.
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Europe is experiencing the worst refugee crisis since the end of the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing war-affected countries (Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and others), risking their life crossing Mediterranean in order to reach Europe. Even when they reach Europe, refugees and migrants are still facing problems. Cold weather, rain, closed borders; but many people are trying to help them by donating clothes, food, and all other necessary things. And we learn a lot of things related with refugees and migrants thanks to brave photographers who create touching images of people in need. Of course, a professional photographer has to be very ethical in these circumstances. Photography is important, and has a very important role in contemporary society. And, of course, it's also one of the main art mediums. For everybody who likes photography – prepare yourselves! The most important photography fair in the world is about to start – Paris Photo 2015 opens on November 12! More than 140 leading galleries from 33 countries worldwide will participate at this great art fair! But, that's not all – Paris will host one more photography art fair – FotoFever art fair - that will begin on November 12.
Hang-up Gallery in London is organizing an exhibition of The Connor Brothers, entitled So It Goes… The exhibition will feature a special appearance by Nadya Tolokonnikova, and will also feature an installation which depicts their documented work in the refugee camp in Calais named The Jungle. The opening is scheduled for November 13. An amazing show is organized by art is just a four letter word Gallery in Soest – the exhibition of the Serbian duo Sobekcis entitled Shape Shift opens on November 14. Finally, let us remind: NOME Gallery from Berlin organizes an exhibition of Matthew Plummer-Fernandez. Opening took place on November 7. Enjoy!
Scroll down and see what's in focus in the week of November 9-15.
Under the direction of Christoph Wiesner, the new Salon d'Honneur gallery sector will give Paris Photo visitors a unique opportunity to see exceptional photographs in all their large-scale glory, as well as works produced in series. Taking part in this program will be 10 international spaces, each presenting a photographer in a solo show. Among them, Daido Moriyama, presented by Akio Nagasawa and Jean Kenta Gautier, Nobuyoshi Araki with Taka Ishii, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander and Walker Evans with Thomas Zander. As part of the usual gallery solo shows, there will be a spectacular choice of artists, from Jacques Henri Lartigue (with Alain Gutharc), Nick Knight (with Christophe Guye), Brassai (Karsten Greve), Guy Bourdin (Louise Alexander), Bernd and Hilla Becher (Spruth Magers) and many more. Galerie Lelong will showcase the images of Jean-Baptiste Huynh, who is exploring the double theme of nudes and plants from France and Vietnam, and young Chinese photographer Maleonn will exhibit at Galerie Magda Danysz.
The Platform, Paris Photo's discussion platform, will present a series of talks dedicated to three topics: The collection, with a focus on J. P. Morgan's exhibition for the fair; After the Crisis, about the medium's evolution and problems, and The relationship between the book and photography, discussing the possibilities of the dissemination of images today. Also on view there will be over 1000 photographs from the Collezione Enea Righi, featuring the likes of Cy Twombly, Nan Goldin, Hans-Peter Feldmann and many more. The 2015 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards will be given out for First Photobook ($10,000), Photobook of the Year and Photography Catalogue of the Year, also showcasing 35 shortlisted titles.
To accompany the program, there will be official partner exhibitions (Acqua #6 presented by Giorgio Armani, On Time JPMorgan, featuring photos and films by 13 artists taken from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, and Coup de Foudre / At First Sight by Natasha Caruana, presented by BMW Art & Culture), associate partner exhibitions (J'Etais La, presented by Leica, Li Wei's Vision, presented by Pernod Ricard), as well as the Paris Photo Agenda, established in 2013 with Leica to select the best of photography throughout the year from more than 200 galleries and institutions around the world.
The organisers of fotofever have introduced a number of projects, many which focus on the collecting of photography. There will be the fotocollection, a thematic exhibition the chair, lent from a private collection of Galila Barzilaï Hollander; the collectfoto, a free public guide and a proper "how to" for collectors; the fotoprize contest, which will reveal new talents from a French art school and this year's winner, Juliette-Andrea Elie, with her Fading Landscapes series, and the fotoweb, offering a lifetime visibility to 250 fotofever galleries and their 890 artists. But surely the highlight of the fair, especially for young collectors who are only starting to collect, will be the selection of artworks under 1000€, ranging in topics, size and style. You can find them at the entrance and on each exhibitor's booth.
This way, we are the generation that has been protecting our own culture from ourselves – not a single artwork made in our time will become public property during our lifetime. Now, just take a look back and remember all art pieces throughout the history that are now in public property, and see what a shame would have been if they too were copyright protected (and what a shame is that copyright is prolonging for decades now). Perhaps these questions of copyright and where the original ends and a newly formed art based upon the original begins could be the central motifs of Matthew Plummer-Fernandez' first solo show named Hard Copy, that will take place at NOME Gallery during November and December.
Mike Snelle and James Golding, men behind the name of The Connor Brothers, have perpetuated the hoax of being escapees from a religious cult living in Brooklyn for 18 months. Their fabricated background generated much attention and even reached a point where the disguise became an encumbrance. After a year and a half of maintaining the false identity, they came clean and admitted their true backgrounds, saying that they used the Connor Brothers as a cloak to cover the "shame" of their past lives. Although not everyone online bought into their story, claiming they are well familiar with the art game and know how to "bid up their own work for hype", one thing is sure, works of The Connor Brothers sold in auctions among the pieces of established names like Damien Hirst, Mat Collishaw and Banksy, garnering much success. Their own quote at the end of the artists' biography on the website readsThe Connor brothers are fictional characters created by the artists known as The Connor brothers, and it may be the best pointer to the actual mind-game they're playing.
Those who had the opportunity to see the previous Sobekcis exhibition in Copenhagen, might have already noticed the transition in the work of the duo. Focus on the more abstract forms, intricate compositions and concentration on the vivid coloring came to dominate the style of the artists in the recent past. Entitled Shape Shift the exhibition in Soest will underline that change of direction, the shift from figurative forms to abstract influences. The shifting metaphor is also incorporated to include a more general orientation of the artists, whose complete oeuvre can be seen as constantly changing, moving further from the past inspirations and exploring the widest artistic horizons. Fluctuating between their graffiti background and fine art prospects, Sobekcis duo reconstructs their graffiti aesthetic making the marvelous works which harmoniously unite all their creative impulses.
Images in Slider: Paris Photo, 2015 (courtesy of Paris Photo); The Connor Brothers - Liar Paradox, detail (courtesy of Hang-Up Gallery); Sobekcis 1 1, 2015, Acrylic and acrylic spraypaint on canvas, detail (courtesy of Art Is Just a Four Letter Word Gallery); Matthew Plummer-Fernandez - Every Mickey Render, detail (courtesy of NOME Gallery and Matthew Plummer-Fernandez); Sobekcis 1 1, 2015, Acrylic and acrylic spraypaint on canvas, detail (courtesy of Art Is Just a Four Letter Word Gallery); Fotofever Photography Fair, 2015 (courtesy of fotofever photography fair)
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Just before Christmas the lovely folk at Vax sent us one of their Dual Power Pro Carpet Cleaners. So you may be thinking I've just told you I have laminate all on the lower floor, but this isn't just a carpet cleaner but a hard flooring one too.
Previous to receiving this we had another carpet cleaner so kind of knew what we were doing. Ashley couldn't wait to begin and no sooner had it arrived he was opening it and ready to get cleaning. The instructions didn't really get a look in, there was a few pieces additional to the main hoover, but assembly was self-explanatory and we were ready to go within 10 minutes. In an additional bag were some of the accessories such as the hose, the attachment for hard flooring and two other brushes.
One thing about this cleaner which instantly caught our attention was the different tanks. Of course we knew there would be a waste water and clean water, but our previous cleaner had the solution in with the water where as this one has a separate cleaning solution tank. The idea behind this is any unused solution is able to go back into the bottle for another use. The solution tank holds around 1.4L, whilst the clean water tank holds around 4.5L and finally the dirty water tank holds around 3.9L. This cleaner features an 'Auto-Mix Technology' which ensures the correct amount of solution is mixed with the water which I really like.
So onto the actual machine, when looking underneath it looked a lot more powerful than our previous cleaner. The Vax featured various brushes which seem to go deep into the carpet and lift deep dirt, whilst also having a roller with various bristles on too.
Now, I'm not joking when I say, we cleaned the entire floors within the house in a day. Ashley became obsessed with this new toy we had and decided to do the entire house, I'm not complaining. Initially we began with the downstairs so for this we placed on the hard floor piece and away we went. So normally we would mop the floor, but when the sun shines through you can see all the marks from where the water has dried and your mop lines. I expected the same from using the Vax but pleasantly I was surprised. As it was initially being cleaned the floor seemed to turn into an ice skating rink with all the water coming out, then as we went back over the Vax sucked a lot of the water back up and then we just waited for the remainder to dry. I didn't think it would make too much difference to the downstairs floors as they are cleaned regular but even so there was some filthy patches and we got the grimy water.
Next up the stairs, now these were disgusting, we have cream carpets throughout the stairs and all the upper floor so you can imagine the colour these get in, even with a no shoes upstairs rule, which no one listens too. We added on the attachment and started away at the stairs, whilst the lower step didn't come out as new it was so much better than it was before. The colour of the dirty tank when doing the stairs was actually an embarrassment, but afterwards when it was dry you could tell the amazing difference which had been made.
Overall, we have had some amazing results using this cleaner and it didn't seem to take half as much time as it did with our previous cleaner and even gave much better results. If you are after a cleaner which can tackle numerous jobs such as carpets, hard floors, stairs and upholstery the VAX Dual Power Pro Carpet Cleaner is the one for you. It's priced with an RRP of £329.99 but you certainly won't be disappointed after purchasing.
Please Note: I was sent this product in exchange for an honest review, all words and opinions are my own and not influenced in any way.
Please Note: I was sent this product in exchange for an honest review, all words and opinions are my own and not influenced in any way.