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Last year, I attended Social Media Week Lagos and it changed my life. I knew that come 2018, I was going to have my own session or/and be on some interesting panels. Well Nene-Uwa Hub Ltd has not just one but two sessions on this year's Social Media Week Lagos platform! Excited much! 😊
I love this year's theme, CLOSER. When I got the mail announcing the theme and requesting for applicants, I smiled. I knew it was going to be a tough one because it is a very deep theme.
"Closer" will explore the intensifying conflict between community and individualism. The conversation will bring together a diversity of perspectives to discuss the most productive ways to harness these forces to drive innovation, improve consumer experiences and bring people together.
As Africans we know sharing our stories is important, we also know that we can do more together. Striking a balance is key. SMW Lagos will look at how our individual stories, experiences and competencies contribute to the whole. Investing in people and fueling their ideas gives them the capacity to do more. We understand that it takes a village, but we also know that every member of a community must add value for it to truly prosper.
SMW Lagos 2018 programming will in part focus on how technology drives individualism, while also looking at how platforms and apps bring people "closer" and foster community. As Africa moves rapidly towards digitization across sectors, we must ensure people remain a part of the equation. Inclusion is of the utmost importance our prosperity as a continent depends on it. – Culled from SMW Lagos
Our first session is on SUSTAINABLE TOURISM. The aim for this session is to educate people especially travelers/tourists on the reasons and benefits of being 'Responsible Travelers'. This is possible through using tourism activities and our way of life as a tool to developing the economy, society, environment and local communities. When individuals with the same Eco-Tourism interest come together, we create a community that will help build the tourism industry in Nigeria and the world. The use of social media platforms has given us the opportunity to share our travel and tourism stories of how we are working both as individuals and as groups to make impact in our communities through the Tourism industry.
When looking for speakers for this panel, I knew that my Eco-Tourism partner, Funmi Oyatogun of TVP Adventure was going to be my number one choice. We collaborated to organize the Beach Clean-up and Tree Planting project at Badagry, Lagos to celebrate World Tourism Day Nigeria last year.
Ugochi Oluigbo is an Environmental Journalist on TVC News. She was the one that inspired Funmi and I to do the Beach Clean-up project during our interview with her GREEN ANGLE program. She founded EcoNigeria, a Nigeria Green platform that communicates environmental issues, climate change and sustainable living.
I met Shikemi Ifederu at AKWAABA last year. During her speech, she talked about her love for traveling and giving back to the communities through her tourism outreach, Tambollo Cares.
David Atabo was one of the volunteers at our Beach Clean-up project. He is a Sustainable Tourism Evangelist. He explores untapped tourist destinations and looks for ways to give back and create sustainable living for local communities.
To attend for free, register on Social Media Week and add our Sustainable Tourism session to your schedule.
Our second session is on Postcards. My love for postcards goes back to my childhood. Whenever my dad traveled, he would send us postcards. I was always excited to receive and read them. I got to know about Postcrossing in 2014 when celebrating World Post Day. Postcrossing is a social media platform that redefines communication through the exchange of postcards. It encourages people to send handwritten messages in our digital era. The platform has also helped people learn about others' cultures through the eyes of locals without having to be there by exchanging postcards. It has bought people closer through appreciating and respecting other's cultures.
Pelu Awofeso makes postcards which he shares with his Travel Next Door clients when they embark on his local tours. I meet him at Social Media Week Lagos last year when he shared his postcards for free at the #TravelAfricaDay event. Last year, we collaborated and made postcards which we donated at NIPOST Marina office to celebrate World Post Day.
Last year, I was looking for quality Nigerian Made postcards when I stumbled on Chuck Nwachukwu's Lagos LaidBac on line. It is a merchandise company that make keepsakes and souvenirs such as keyholders, t-shirts and postcards. Most of the postcards I send to Postcrossers around the world are bought from them. He has fond memories of his dad sending postcards to him when he was a toddler…just like me
I met Dr. Raphael James during an event organized by Pelu for Nigerian's Independence Day. He is a postcard, stamp and coin collector. He has a library, CRIMMD, where he displays his stamps, coins, postcards collections and range of books.
One day, I saw on Funmi's Instagram page that she makes postcards from pictures taken at local destinations organized by TVP Adventures, her tour operating company. I introduced her to Postcrossing and she registered. So far she is enjoying the experience
To attend for free, register on Social Media Week and add our Postcard session to your schedule.


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As a group of UNC Greensboro students, faculty, and staff enter the Guilford Forest one beautiful winter afternoon, one of the group's faculty guides, Dr. Omar Ali, turns to everyone and requests that they remain quiet as they walk. Participants are encouraged to listen to their footsteps on the ground and pay close attention to their surroundings, the wind in the trees, and changes in the landscape as they move. The group is on a journey to see a great tree deep in the forest, one of the oldest trees in North Carolina…
In a special pop-up exhibition in downtown Greensboro, UNCG students, faculty, and staff reflect on the Great Tree and Guilford Forest as silent witnesses to the intertwined lives of those who have lived in or near the forest and those who have passed through it.
The show, titled "The Underground Railroad Tree: Explorations through Art, History, and Science," blurs traditional disciplinary boundaries of study.
The work displayed and performed in this exhibition is conducted at UNCG within the context of two classes: an honors history and methodology seminar co-taught by Dr. Omar Ali and Dr. Nadja Cech, and an organic chemistry course taught by Dr. Kimberly Petersen. Cech explains that through collaborative research and creative activity, their courses and approach to teaching "highlight the ways in which history, science, art, music, and dance are synergistic, complementary, and inextricable."
Ali highlights the historical significance of the Underground Railroad Tree as being "a marker of the southern terminus of the Underground Railroad, a living monument to the struggles of over 2,000 enslaved Africans and African Americans who found their way to freedom." At just over 300 years old and one of the largest trees in the forest, it is also a natural and scientific wonder to behold.
This project allowed students a chance to research, reflect, and make work that takes them out of the classroom and the lab and into nature to directly experience the Great Tree in its natural and historical setting. The students also visited related sites such as the Greensboro Historical Museum and the Quaker Archives at Guilford College to learn more about the people, events, and natural history related to the site.
The exhibition is hosted by UNCG's Medicinal Chemistry Collaborative and the Lloyd International Honors College, and is a part of A Week of the G.
The show will be open April 5-7 from 1 to 9 p.m. in the UNCG Pop Up Shop at 300 S. Elm St. in Greensboro. A special reception will be held during the downtown Greensboro "First Friday" event on April 5, between 6 and 9 p.m., with readings and live music from students and faculty starting at 7 p.m.
All events are free and open to the public. Visit mcsquared.uncg.edu/underground-railroad-tree for more information.
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Cookie Cutter Reports, Red Tide, Dirty water, Fishing Challenges
Feb. 9, 2011
I know, I know I have not been putting up information on this blog like I normally do, but writing the same damn report on a different day is a brain eater for sure. Now that I have some information to put forward the time has come to share this with my 30 loyal followers. If you live here in Puerto Vallarta you have the luxury to wait for the conditions to change. If you are reading this from outside of Puerto Vallarta, then you can use this info to help plan or prepare yourself mentally for what you are heading out to…
For the person who wants to head out on the water, on a beautiful day with calm conditions and is wrapped around the axel (expecting) about getting a monster trophy fish in four hours. I will tell you now, you are setting yourself up for disappointment which is seldom restrained verbally. Telling the captain he is lousy or his boat is bad or what-ever is not going to change things and it is if anything, going to make the situation even worse. It always seems like the guy who has been counting the minutes to head out fishing with great and unrealistic expectations (thank you bloodydecks) puts off energy or vide that seems to work against them in the end and nobody is happy. Or the guy who gets this grand picture in his head of what they will catch in four hours on that cheap, cheap boat from an agent hungry for his deposit is almost a guarantee for angry disappointment. If you are that type of a person, then maybe you should be on the golf course. When you hang all your hopes and expectations on one day of fishing, then this can happen. In many ways it's like scheduling a skiing trip and the one day you are going to ski, it´s raining… what are you going to do?
Now if you are the kind of person who can enjoy a beautiful day on the water, enjoy the whales that may be around, the dolphin and turtles and hope to catch fish. This is like a guarantee you will come in with something surprising. It´s a positive attitude with no great expectations because the owner or agent who talked with you as you signed up told you the facts, straight up. You know things won´t be perfect, fishing never is. What worked yesterday may not work today. The location where you killed them yesterday will not be the hot spot it was yesterday. Fishing in a word is ¨Fishing¨. There are going to be times when you will not catch fish, plain and simple but people choose to ignore the negative when they have been dreaming or fantasizing about this fishing trip for the better part of the year. They head out and the rest is predictable.
Needless to say I have had more business walk out my door this week, just to see them head out fishing with the guy who told them what they wanted to hear. With tourism being down, the number of boats and companies are going belly up all over the place is scarey. The guy throwing you a cheap, cheap price is more than likely on the brink of going out of business and this guy is hoping for a fat tip. This of course never follows with cheap people. This means the boat didn't even make enough to cover his per trip expenses of maintenance and upkeep. To get you on that boat you may have only paid the cost of fuel. So this doesn´t help the guy trying to stay in business by throwing cheap prices at cheap skates.
Recently other fishing companies have given in to the Time Share Promotors. These time share guys pay their rent in exchange for the rights to approach their would-be clients and pay for a portion of their fishing trip if they attend a presentation. The company gets its rent and utilities paid, you get put on a horrible boat since the promoter has to pay for it and of course you don´t find this out until after the presentation. They may even show you a boat you are led to believe you´ll be on. But when the d ay comes to head out, after the pain of the presentation, it´s a different boat and they may want more money because the agent or promoter drank your deposit the night before. The boat owner won't head out unless he gets paid. That is when you see the side negotiations going as people are arguing prior to you heading out! In many cases the promoter will tell you the boat owner or captain wants more money. When in fact the boat owner just wants to get paid. So to cover this guys drinking problem, they tell you that you need to pull out another $125.00 dollar or so or you won´t be heading out. What do you do, pay the money and go fishing since you´re all dressed up and ready. Or do you not go out and demand your spent deposit back? What happens to me a lot is these folks have talked to me, decided to fish with others of this caliber, then want me to help them at the last minute in the morning which is very difficult at 6:30 in the morning! I do what I can, but the boats are still the prices they were the day before. Many times I will give you a huge discount since I feel bad for your screwed up situation and I want the fishing industry to flourish in PV. Actually, this is one of the ways I get my return clients and word of mouth advertising, buy helping those that learned the hard way. Don´t let this be you!
Why do I always harp on this with my readers and clients, because what you don´t know, or how you are thinking will determine your state of mind when you return. Come in with fish, even small fish, then things will normally be ok, maybe not great for the expectation guy. No fish and Mr. Expectation completely engrosses himself in his negativity he can´t enjoy the bay, or any of the spectacular sea life in out there, nope, he is going to be pissed off and that is how things are going to be. He didn´t go fishing, he went catching and all he caught was a bad attitude and made the whole environment negative and no fun! Is that you?
If it is, then what ever you do, don´t get on a boat and go fishing, with me or anyone right now. You see the guy who booked a trip with me six weeks ago today is heading out to a bay just full of red tide. You know, plankton that for some reason dies off, leaves their dead carcasses on the surface of the water, makes breathing difficult for fish, so they move out. If that isn´t enough, the water with the swirling and changing currents have stirred up the muck on the ocean floor so the water is coffee colored. Now imagine Mr. Negative as he heads out into those conditions that just spring up unexpected. You think this guy is going to be happy heading out that day?
Yet I put people out on a super panga today, they went fishing yesterday caught small fish and enjoyed the day, same bad conditions. Now they are out with another captain today and they are looking forward to the time out and enjoying the beautiful scenery, wild life and most likely will come in with desirable fish, I hope so anyway. But they have no illusions and are heading out anyway….. These guys know what to expect and they´re going ¨fishing¨…
Every year we hit a six to eight week period where the fishing is not its usual self and we are in the beginning stages of that time frame. With the La Nina conditions we have been seeing cold water temperatures well below what normal is and we know certain fish will be leaving the area. Sailfish, which we normally see for most of the year have headed south to warmer water. Black Marlin, Blue Marlin and Yellowfin Tuna are all in the southern waters of Costa Rica and Panama until mid July. Dorado will be back in the area in early May if we´re lucky and get a warm current, otherwise it was July when they appeared last year.
Now if you want to focus on the positive, which is always a lot more fun, then we do have very large Yellowfin Tuna. Now the Tres Maria Islands are a ways out there, but in reality your day is only a couple of hours longer than heading out to El Banco. Right now we don´t have the Tuna Hunters here at this time of the year so the perception is the fishing is slow or bad. Yet the guys stepping up and heading out for a long 14 hr day will tell you the fishing is great! The flip side of this coin is there are days when you can still come in empty handed after all those hours and all those dollars flew away. I have had this happen to me more times than I can remember, but I also remember days when it went the other way where our arms were like spaghetti from nonstop action. So I guess the bottom line right now is to be informed, open minded, flexible and positive….. Most importantly informed.
Changing subjects; A few weeks ago I wrote a brief thing about boats being black listed because they did not have the necessary documentation or operating licenses, insurance, safety certificate and licensed captains. The port authority gave a few of these guys some wiggle room last week by talking directly with the captains and boat owners of the black listed boats to let them know directly of what their clients will be forced to deal with. First, the navy is patrolling the area, I should say fishing grounds and checking boat names on the water. The boats like Anna Maria with Capt. Steve Torres are illegal and warned again last week about chartering a private boat. Guanatuna and Pecositas are two other boats that got this same warning. Yet if an agent books you on these uninsured, unlicensed, and unsafe boats, you are the only loser since the boat will be told to turn around and head into port where it will be confiscated by the Port Authority / Capt. Of the Port. You will lose your day on the water, most likely all your money unless you can get the cash back you paid prior to heading out. It is just an ugly scene and you as the client are the victim. The agent knew, the captain knew and the owner knew what they were doing. Did anyone tell you this?? These boats try to head out under cover of darkness and they hope they won´t be spotted in the morning as the navy watches all boats that come in and head out. So if the boat is trying to get you to head out early, very early before six in the morning and you´re not heading to the Tres Maria Islands, this could be a clue.
Now you take a guy like me, I have a shop and I am easy to find. So the Port Authority tells me things directly and more importantly they know where to go if I book an illegal and unsafe boat. I am in one place day in and out. But what if you book through a web site with no office and the guy you are dealing with is on a cell phone, but he has cheap boats. Well ask this guy if he has an office, if not, they can´t be tracked down and found. You have nothing but a web site address to go back to and in the end you get left holding the bag and little else for your time, efforts and money. Well before you fork out the money via credit card or wire transfer, make sure these guys you are booking with has an office and will have someone there in the morning to meet you and to load you on the boat. I find that a multitude of problems can be avoided if I am there in the mornings. Today for instance, I had a boat motor die on the way to pick up clients. It was a stupid and simple problem that was easily fixed. But I was there, upgraded the clients to a bigger and nicer boat then they paid for, all was good and everyone was happy! Imagine if I had not been there, a disaster in the making for sure!
Ok people, at the risk of sounding negative, please protect yourself. Every time there is a problem or some guy charters a boat through a person they were suspicious of and things go wrong, this affects the whole fishing industry here in Puerto Vallarta. We all get a bad rap for these low life promoters and agents. If you do a little research, check your sources, and think about your actions, there are reputable people you can work with out there. Look to sites that have actual fishing reports from real fishing publications like Western Outdoor news (www.won.com) or World Wide Fishing Guide (www.worldwidefishing.com) etc…These are good places to start your search for reputable companies. Unlike Bloody Decks, you have to be a real company to post on their sites and they control the content so you don't have to worry about your younger kids seeing something you wish they hadn't. For the record, the site BloodyDecks gets a lot of attention, but they post lies and it´s a free bulletin board that thinks it´s a fishing site. There is a limited group that post there and they all have an agenda to push their business at the expense of others. You will find Capt. Steve Torres there as well posting reports. Now remember, he is on an illegal boat (The Anna Maria) as he post his reports, this is one of the guys I just warned you about. There are others there as well. Just one example of who to steer clear of…..
Safety in Mexico seems to be a big question I get all the time. Let me tell you, Puerto Vallarta and all of Mexico as a whole is safe. The news reports about the border towns are nothing new and anybody that knows Mexico knows not to linger in Juarez! To be in Juarez is like visiting the slums of Detroit looking for crack. Do you think nothing is going to happen? The press forgets to print how the drug cartels are fighting for the top spots that have been vacated through arrest and deaths. The drug war is a direct result of the top guys being brought to justice. As long as the drug market and demand continues to grow, Mexico will have a cartel issue. No matter who is taken down, there are ten to take his place and they all have illegal weapons via the USA! So you have no worries and if you talk with a person who is familiar with Mexico and Puerto Vallarta in particular, they will tell you that Mexico is safe. The news stories you read are misleading and designed to keep the tourist dollars in the states. It´s just that easy. If I was to make a case like this against the United States, it would make what is written about Mexico look like they were talking about Disneyland! Be smart, be safe and be informed……
That is all for now… take care and don´t forget to kiss your fish!


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Two top notch albums in the last three years and a new one in the can. Surely most artists will settle for that scenario, but not Michael McDermott. Reflect for a few moments and realise there are still a further twelve songs floating around in your head demanding some outage. It is of good fortune for many fans out there that these vagrant songs were plucked from the ether as they have morphed into yet another provocative release from a singer-songwriter hell bent on pouring every sinew into his craft. Cleverly collecting these songs under the album title ORPHANS, is just another smart move as McDermott creatively cashes in on this rich vein of form.
This record did get a US release earlier in the year, but its mid-April UK bow does tie in with a disappointingly short run of dates on our isles in May. Compensation that these barely head out of London is delivered in the sumptuous quality of material flowing from a record aching to be heard.
While experiencing a Michael McDermott show in the flesh is a monumental experience for those who engage with a touch of passion, wrapping your ears around the recordings pulls up a close second.
The twelve songs that would not go away are all in the usual format of solo McDermott compositions, fired up by a stonking extolling of folk rock and served for a mixed palate in terms of straight rockers and some with more tender overtones. Although formed from an urban background, there is a heartland streak to the sounds and frequent leanings in the direction of The Boss would not be a too distant assertion. Opening track 'Tell Tale Heart' and popular 'first among equals' candidate 'The Wrong Side of Town' upheld this point of view and are as good a starting points as any to shed some light on the album.
On a record where we call in on several cities likely to have played a part in McDermott's colourful life, 'Sometimes When It Rains in Memphis' probably tips the balance as the summit moment, with 'Los Angeles, a Lifetime Ago' settled nicely in the supporting cast. Whether you buy into the pumped up rousing moments like 'Givin' Up the Ghost' or wallow in the gentler or, at least, less frantic offerings like 'The Last Thing I Ever Do' or 'Black Tree, Blue Sky' rich pickings are aplenty.
Weighing in at fifty-three minutes, ORPHANS is in the realm of a meaty effort and as we have come to expect from his solo outings and work with The Westies format, an avalanche of industrious words goes a long way to define what Michael McDermott does.
Musically, the album is in conventional territory and it would not be truly hailed as a folk rock record without a blast of harmonica that is duly found here on 'Meadowlark'. Singer-songwriter makes a valiant stab at defining this artist, but is simply an understatement to how the vulnerabilities of one individual seek sanctuary in the body of an art form.
Tough as nails, pumped up and tub-thumping poetry are phrases jumping off the page as ORPHANS sinks in as a group of songs no longer possessing a homeless status. We know there is more to come, but for the moment Michael McDermott has turned out another gem, and complaints are absent from this direction.


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Recovering "Oh!" In Gospel Proclamation
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! (Romans 11:33) The word "Oh" is short, but weighty. Have you thought about it? It carries many connotations. "Oh" is sometimes a way of communicating surprise, for example. A waiter informs us they … Continue reading Recovering "Oh!" In Gospel Proclamation


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Crooked Shoes,
It means that there will be no single ethnic majority but whites will make up the largest minority group until mixed relationships start to break that down. It will take longer for economic and political power to be leveled out because of white entrenchment in the system. The social aspects should even out sooner. Sexism and…[Read more]
I'd lay blame on the lack of critical thinking, a lack of logic and the isolationist tendencies of those opposed to equality. Rural Americans do not mix with others… geographic separation combined with hostility towards outsiders. Not to say those in the city fail to mix, but it's more difficult with a larger base of minorities that can…[Read more]
I'd add John Carpenter's "The Thing" or "Super 8".
Fujikoma posted a new activity comment 3 years, 11 months ago
The table is a compilation of a sample group's perceptions of the effectiveness of the different methods… not actual scientific stats on effectiveness.
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I would imagine that burning wood offered far more benefits than hazards to humans. It helped to extend our range into colder climates. Cooked food is easier to process by the human body. Probably used as protection. I would bet that fires helped foster community, in that people socialize in close proximity. Given the average lifespan of our…[Read more]
Fujikoma posted a new activity comment 4 years ago
Is this another research project that hasn't been checked independantly? Not that I'm saying it's wrong, but there seem to be a lot of media driven scientific claims based off of one limited paper.
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A starter list:
Bad firmware (see smart phones as example)
Defective/damaged sensors (have them at work all the time… and they're very simple)
E.M.P. / static electrical damage (latent) at manufacturing origin
Entertainment systems, with apps, connected to core driving components… look at how apps affect cell phones and…[Read more]
Fujikoma posted a new activity comment 4 years, 3 months ago
Could they also add one to restrict 'gluten free' only to products that originally contained gluten or just require that gluten be in the ingredient list as 'gluten'. There are others also, but this one is a current irritation for some reason.
Fujikoma posted a new activity comment 4 years, 3 months ago
"This raises a serious problem that strikes at the heart of our understanding of science,"
No, it means that what you thought was true about something isn't true or that it's true under certain conditions. That has nothing to do with the scientific process. That would typically require the creation of a more robust system to observe, test and p…[Read more]
Fujikoma posted a new activity comment 4 years, 4 months ago
"I always notice that it's GUYS who leave "humorous" comments about PP and birth control."
Guess you've never seen the garbage that my conservative sister posts. She has the troubling habit of forgetting what she was like in her teens/twenties and feels that everyone should be 'responsible' in ways that she never was.
Fujikoma commented on the post, Lawrence Krauss Tweets about Insider Information That We Finally Found Gravitational Waves 4 years, 7 months ago
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How much money does a German party get for one vote?
Question by Little Tree | 23/04/2018 at 21:48
In addition to donations and membership fees, parties in Germany also finance themselves with money from the state. This money depends on how many votes the respective party has received in a poll.
Does anybody know how much money that is? I would like to know how much money a party gets for a vote if someone elects it.
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For each valid vote at the parliamentary elections (Bundestagswahl), the state legislature election (Landtagswahl) and the European elections (Europawahl), the parties receive one euro per vote. If a party gets more than 4 million votes, the party gets only one euro for the first 4 million votes, and 83 cents for all other voters.
In addition to these regulations, there are two caps: one party gets a maximum of 160 million euros per year and each party only gets as much money as by donations. For example, if a party were entitled to receive 2 million euros for the votes, but this party could collect only 1 million euros through donations, it will only get a maximum of 1 million euros from the state.
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Are you a newcomer to Twitter and are trying to gain more followers? Or have you been a longtime user but still can't crack the code on getting loyal followings? Well, then I have made this simple and easy 5 step guide that will allow you to acquire quality, loyal followers.
This happens to most first time Tweeters. Most of them don't know that there is a difference between Twitter and other social networks. Twitter is a messaging system that allows you to communicate with others in under 140 characters and they will see this and won't even attempt to break the limit, this is where problems occur most often. If another person comes across your Twitter profile and sees that all you tweet is that you're "taking the trash out" or "sitting on the couch" then they are going to be uninterested in you and your profile and they will not follow you. Try to fill out those 140 characters with as much information as you can, and don't waste it. One way to show that you present quality content is when you post links to websites that you find interesting or useful. This topic I will further talk about in Step 2.
You Don't Link
Say you have come across a website that has good legit content and you find it interesting, well then tweet about it. This is probably one of the best ways to produce distinctive followers. Links on Twitter stick out like sore thumbs, and they are everywhere. Now when posting these links, try to use a service like bit.ly or tiny.url to hide your link so that other users will have the incentive to click on the link to see the web page. Sales and deals are also good things to post on Twitter as well because users are always looking for them. Also, try to post links that you yourself think are interesting and not just interesting towards others.
You're Anti – Social
It is best to post at these once or twice a day on Twitter just to show that you are being active. If your last posts have been a couple of months ago then users are going to believe that your profile is a spammer or fake account.
Don't include #hashtags
Hashtags are almost a secret to tweeters out there and are rarely used but they help share your content with more people. When you are posting a link, say its about marketing, at the end of the tweet you would put #marketing and then when you tweet the message, it will be put with the rest of the tweets out there that have #marketing in them. So this means people will be able to see your tweet without actually having to look at your profile.
Not @replying on other Tweets
Be friendly. This is the quickest possible way of showing that you care for your followers. Treat them the way you would want to be treated. Followers like it when you reply asap, so do so, every little bit counts. Also, comment on others posts saying positive things about their selective choices in tweeting certain subjects, and they may find you gratifying and sincere and may check out your profile and follow you.
That's it. They are my 5 reasons why you are not getting followers and how you can improve on them. Whether or not you receive more followers from this advice, don't be discouraged. Getting followers can be tough especially when you are not famous or are new to social networks and media. It can only get better as it goes on.


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Pier 1 Announces Leadership Appointments
Douglas Diemoz Named President; Robert Riesbeck Appointed as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Diemoz, 51, will be responsible for day-to-day operation and performance of Pier 1's business, including merchandise buying, planning and allocations, marketing, field and e-Commerce operations, global supply chain, information technology and human resources. He joins Pier 1 with more than two decades of retail industry experience with over half of that focused on home décor and furnishings. He most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of
Mr. Riesbeck, 55, will be responsible for financial operations and accounting, including financial reporting, planning and analysis, treasury, tax, procurement and investor relations. He is a seasoned finance executive with more than 25 years of experience in retail and consumer goods. He brings to Pier 1 expertise in both growth and turnaround situations and has served in Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer roles, most recently as Chief Financial Officer of
"Doug's and Bob's appointments are the result of two successful searches to strengthen our leadership team at a pivotal time for our company," said
Ms. Bachelder continued, "With the addition of Doug and Bob to our management team, we have assembled a strong group of leaders – each contributing the essential capabilities in their individual areas of responsibility – to help drive Pier 1's transformation. Further, the creation of our
"Pier 1 is an enduring brand with loyal customers and numerous opportunities to be captured in an ever evolving retail sector," said Mr. Diemoz. "Throughout my career, I have focused on transforming and growing businesses while preserving the authenticity and unique brand experience customers love. I am excited to work with Cheryl, the senior leadership team and all of our dedicated store, distribution center and home office associates as we position Pier 1 for the future."
"I am pleased to be joining the Pier 1 team at such an important time in the Company's history and believe this opportunity is perfectly suited to my background," said Mr. Riesbeck. "I look forward to leveraging my finance and operating expertise and partnering with Cheryl and the other members of the leadership team in executing the initiatives in our fiscal 2020 plan to drive improved financial results."
Ms. Bachelder concluded, "I also would like to thank
In connection with the leadership appointments announced today, Pier 1 is also creating a new
Mr. Diemoz most recently served as Chief Executive Officer of
Most recently, Mr. Riesbeck served as Chief Financial Officer of
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Founded with a single store in 1962, Pier 1 is a leading omni-channel retailer of unique home décor and accessories. The Company's products are available through more than 965 Pier 1 stores in the U.S. and
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Nachiyarpuram: Will Karthik Muster Courage To Propose To Jyothi?
Dear fans of Dinesh and Rachitha starrer Nachiyarpuram, here's something exciting for you. The makers of the show have shared a new promo that suggests Kartik may take the initiative to propose to his ladylove. It's been a while Karthik has realised he loves Jyothi, but will he muster the courage to profess his love to her? You will see him making up his mind, but there's a twist. To know what it is, check out the promo shared below.
Will Karthik propose to Jyothi and will she accept it? To know what happens, keep watching Nachiyarpuram.
For the unversed, Nachiyarpuram is Dinesh's debut production venture. He romances his real-life wife, Rachitha in this action-romantic drama. Interestingly, Nachiyarpuram marks the first on-screen union of the real-life couple. The show has garnered rave reviews since its launch in July this year.
A week ago, Rachitha shared a pic on Instagram stating that fans can look forward to new twists and turns in the upcoming episodes.
Now, to know what these twists and turns are, you need to follow the show religiously. And for those who joined in late, here's a synopsis — Karthik and Jyothi hail from families that have been arch-rivals for decades. The two families can't see to eye and have been at loggerheads over a piece of property.
Karthik runs a sweet shop while Jyothi is an advocate. How things folds after the two come in contact with each other, forms the crux of the story. Will Karthik's love for Jyothi end the enmity or will it flare things up? Will Jyothi and Karthi unite to put an end to the decades-old dispute and bring the two warring families closer to each other?
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Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Cy Carter
Olive: I love you.
Dax: I love you too.
Olive: I'm sorry I gave marijuana to my cat…
Dax (Carter) and Olive (Ellis) are a married couple who long ago decided they didn't want to have children. Now Olive is having second thoughts, and she secretly takes steps to make that happen. When Dax discovers her plan, he takes countermeasures to thwart it.
Sometimes there's a fine line between heavy drama and dark comedy, and this movie tightropes that line, seemingly never sure which way it wants to lean. I hope they were going more for a dark comedic tone, otherwise it would all just be depressing. Though, the only plot line with any comedic element to it is the main one featuring the two leads. We see Olive intentionally sabotaging birth control, and then Dax reciprocating by secretly crushing up birth control pills and putting them in Olive's coffee.
The other plot lines, featuring Dax's alcoholic brother and Olive's Alzheimer's suffering father, have nothing much funny about them. They're just sad. In fact, the problems, sadness, and the anger that is built up by all of these story lines was too much for me to get much enjoyment out of.
The acting is adequate, but nothing particularly special, and the ending felt contrived beyond belief. Actually, I'm not sure if the end is meant to be a happy ending or just another log to throw on the depressing fire. Either way, I can't help but think there's still troubled times ahead for these characters.
There are some good moments in the movie, and a basis for a better movie, but overall it just didn't work well for me as drama or as comedy. If they had just leaned more in the comedic direction, I think it would have been more successful.
Ya probably wanna get that kids or no kids question worked out early in a marriage.
10 – 1.8 for having problems picking a general tone – 1.1 for being overly dramatic and depressing – 1.2 for the contrived end = 5.9


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I'm curious to know how UX teams are structured in situations like these:
- An organization has multiple physical locations, with multiple UXers at each location.
- Completely remote organization - UXers collaborating across time zones and projects.
- A mixture of physical location(s) and some individuals that work remotely.
So what are the reporting hierarchies? Are there more management and leadership positions involved to facilitate communication and strategy? Are the tools the same? Does the UX team operate as a single large unit, or as many individual units? If this is the case how is that managed from a leadership perspective (e.g. training)?
I have had the opportunity to work with multiple scenarios mentioned above, albiet at small companies. I've seen many different therorerical ways to approach larger UX teams and am curious to hear what anyone else has experienced.


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The variety – and having a strategic overview across the entire business.
What do you enjoy about working at Victoria Gate Casino?
I still get a buzz walking through the doors of the casino and seeing the reality that we have planned and worked on for seven years now, being delivered. I am very proud of what we have created at VGC and of the customer experience and level of service that the VGC team provide. Our staff are engaged and passionate and it is great to see the results of that being delivered on a daily basis.
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When your Dragon obsessed daughter insists you draw a Dragon, what can you do, but do as she says! My Dragon obsessed daughter for her birthday, asked for all things Dragon related, and she got them. A Dragon bracelet made by my friend Sylvie, Dragons books, Dragon mug, pen, bookmark, etc. Her passion for Dragons is something I don't share, but, fully support and encourage. The sketchbook is handmade and includes paper of different tones, weights and thickness. It was made by my friend Helen Smith on Etsy.Read More
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Ode to turquoise, teal and mint. Featured here are my new Leuchtturm1917 journal, Kaweco Sports fountain pen and a little Angie Lewin notebook. Featured with are a couple of stones I painted a couple of years ago and a little toy Corvette my hubby gave me. If you are interested in purchasing any original pieces, postcards and prints then please visit my ART SHOP.Read More
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Using the Family and Generational Blessings Flash Cards, and some snacks to share or a loaf of bread (or even pretend food or modeling clay if you prefer), tell the children that we all are part of God's Big Family! Then, ask them if they would like to sit at Father God's family dinner table.
Invite them to come and sit at the table, and explain to them that they are going to share Father God's meal together as a family. Then ask them who would like some of the meal (whether a piece of the bread or a portion of the snack). As you give them their portion, read a statement from the Flash Cards over them, and you can even have them repeat it back.
This is a great way to utilize even snack or meal time as a demonstration of the Father's heart over them, and to recognize their identity as part of God's big family!
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Math vs. English. English vs. Math. Which subject is more important? The debate has gone on for years and will continue for years to come. Stephen Ford doesn't worry about arguments like that, however, because he knows how important this subject is. You might ask, "What does he teach?" And you'd be shocked to learn the answer: he's a PE teacher at Farmersville Junior High School in Farmersville, CA
"What?!? PE?!?"
That's right. But Stephen isn't one of those "Let 'em play dodgeball five times a week" types of PE teachers. He works hard procuring funds from multiple sources and he's created a fitness class that is data driven and full of various technologies . One of the various pieces of technology that he uses is a Prowise interactive flat panel. All of Stephen's data over the years has shown him that the students who are physically fit have higher GPAs. Maybe Stephen's right…the most important subject is PE because it shows who will be successful in other classes.
ELB: "Stephen, is there anything you'd like to add to what's written above?"
Stephen: "Check out my website at moverefit.com and view the vision for the future of my program as well as the various projects, articles, collected data and other interesting information."
ELB: "Could you explain a little more the correlation between physical fitness and success in school?"
Stephen: "According to several studies conducted by neuroscientists, there is a neurological change in the brain due to physical exercise. The body and brain together construct learning pathways and as a result, students generally experience academic achievement. My research and data collected with the Movere Fit program indicates, on average, that athletically fit students show a higher GPA by being in the fit zone."
ELB: "You've created an app to help students and parents track the students' fitness performance. Could you tell us a little more about that app?"
Stephen: "The data app I developed (Movere Fit) tracks performance indicators such as GPA, SBAC results, fitness levels, and analyzes them with the app's assessment scoring system. These performance indicators are retained in the student's profile page for teachers, administrators, parents or other professionals to review and analyze to determine that the students' performance goals and overall health are being met. It also evaluates and ranks groups, classes and individuals for a detailed analysis and comparison for all students participating in the program. The element of competition within the program encourages top performances and is used as a tool in determining the fittest groups and students as well as the scholar athletes of the year. The app also automatically calculates student assessment percentages along with a bar graph analysis and prepares it for PE teachers to submit for student grade. In conclusion, this curriculum has shown that GPAs increase, fitness levels increase, energy, motivation and confidence increase and body fat decreases."
ELB: "You have a Prowise interactive flat panel in your fitness lab. Are there different ways that you use the device? How does it add value to your class?"
Stephen: "The Prowise interactive panel is a must in our fitness lab. It allows me to connect and display the data from the Movere Fit app to students as we analyze data. It also allows the students to work on those projects as they interact with the unique feature of placing the panel in a table position so groups can work on it simultaneously. The ProQuiz software feature is a handy tool where I can quiz students as I check for understanding. If that wasn't enough, I like the option that students can use their own devices while they interact with the panel and the Prowise tools for extended learning in math, science, history, etc. Lastly, the collaboration feature Prowise has developed is important as I seek teacher feedback and lesson plans within my own discipline."
ELB: "What is it you like most about Prowise or ELB?"
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The Sky This Week, 2011 May 17 - 24
Saturn and its large moon Titan, 2011 May 12, 02:27 UT
The Moon wanes from Full to First Quarter this week, scudding low above the southern horizon during the early morning hours as she moves from the summertime to autumnal constellations. Last Quarter occurs on the 24th at 2:52 pm Eastern Daylight Time. Look for Luna's Full disc just northwest of the ruddy bright star Antares in the constellation of Scorpius on the night of the 17th/18th. In the early morning hours of the 20th she is parked just above the "Teapot" asterism in the constellation of Sagittarius. From there she spends the rest of the week drifting through the star-starved constellations of Capricornus and Aquarius.
As the Moon drifts into the morning sky we find last of winter's stars setting in the west at the end of evening twilight. Sunset now occurs at around 8:15 pm, which places the end of astronomical twilight at around 10:00 pm. At this hour the only bright stars left from the once-dominant Great Winter Circle are Procyon, Castor and Pollux, and the third-brightest star in the northern hemisphere sky, golden-hued Capella. This star is closely associated with our celebration of Thanksgiving some six month hence, when it transits the meridian at around midnight. The Capella system actually consists of four stars in two binary pairs. The first of these is a pair of nearly identical evolved yellow giant stars that orbit each other with a period of 104 days. The second pair, only discovered in 1936, is a pair of very fait red dwarf stars that orbit the larger pair with a period of some 400 years. The Capella system lies just over 42 light-years away from us.
The spring sky holds only one first-magnitude star in the form of Arcturus, which is high in the east as twilight ends. Arcturus is the brightest star in the northern sky and fourth brightest in the heavens. It is a single star with a rosy tint that indicates that it, too, is an evolved star beginning its long evolutionary decline to a "white dwarf". Arcturus lies just under 37 light-years from us, and it has a very high proper motion through space. This motion has led some astronomers to believe that Arcturus was once part of a small dwarf companion galaxy to our Milky Way which was destroyed by gravitational interaction with our home Galaxy.
Much closer to home, and forming the western apex of a triangle that includes Arcturus and blue-tinted Spica, is the golden glimmer of the planet Saturn. The ringed planet has been putting on a good show so far this year, at least on the nights when we can see him. Our cloudy and turbulent weather of the past several weeks has limited me to one or two good views each week, but in those times Saturn never fails to delight. There is something about seeing the planet's tan disc, faintly streaked with cloud bands, surrounded by the nestled arcs of the ring system that gives the observer the sense that Saturn is really "out of this world". While we now know that all of the solar system's outer giant planets have ring systems, only Saturn's are easily observed with earthbound telescopes. They have delighted and mystified astronomers for nearly 400 years!
The pre-dawn sky is still the scene of much planetary jockeying as Venus and Mercury overtake and pass ruddy Mars. They have already left bright Jupiter in their wake as they race their way toward conjunction with the Sun. You can spot them about 20 minutes before sunrise a few degrees above the eastern horizon. Use binoculars to first track down Venus. At a dazzling -4.0 magnitude she should be easy to find. Now look just over a degree below Venus for the dimmer glow of Mercury. Toward the end of the week, look a degree above Venus to see if you can detect the faint ruddy glimmer of Mars. All of this action occurs within a few degrees of the horizon. Don't be confused by the bright glow of Jupiter, who will be some 10 degrees above the horizon at this time.


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The Prussian model of historical scholarship, and Ranke's fame with it, did not stay confined to Germany. For several reasons German scholarship had a strong attraction on foreign students. German professors enjoyed higher prestige than their foreign colleagues, mostly due to their high salaries that were made possible by state funding, which also made student tuition much lower than elsewhere. Furthermore, German universities were religiously neutral institutions with the focus on scholarship. English universities, on the other hand, for a long time were concerned with the upbringing of good Christian gentlemen rather than the training of scholars, and up to 1871 required their students to sign the thirty-nine articles of the Anglican Church.[1] German universities also offered the possibility to earn a degree, which wasn't yet possible in other Western countries such as France and the United States. In contrast to some places, the German institutions of higher learning also stood out by the mere possibility for foreign students to go there. The French Grand Écoles, for example, did not allow foreign students to enrol until 1896.[2]
Foreign students came to Germany in the hundreds, especially from the United States. It is estimated that in 1895 half of all American professional historians had studied in Germany.[3] When these foreign students went back home, they took the Rankean methodology with them. From the late 1860s to the beginning of the twentieth century, students from the Rankean school introduced the seminar in universities all over Europe, the United States, and even Japan. Although by the end of the nineteenth century few historians still had been taught by the master himself, Leopold von Ranke remained to be honoured internationally as the father of modern historical scholarship.[4]
Also France, Germany's fiercest political rival, would eventually adhere to the German example of higher education. In 1893, the German philosopher Friedrich Paulsen (1846-1908) suggested that because the Germans lagged behind France and Britain on the international political stage, they had been encouraged to seek for development within instead.[5] What Germany lacked in global political power, he argued, it made up by the spiritual upbringing of its people. Whether or not this analysis was accurate, it were the German universities, not the French schools and faculties, that were the leading European intellectual institutions in the nineteenth century. In France itself, it was already noted in the 1860s that the country was falling behind the German lands when it came to education, but governmental financial backing for reform was not yet granted.
The French call for educational reforms only became urgent after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, as France's military defeat was considered to be a reflection of moral and intellectual inferiority to the German enemy. Government funds for higher education now became widely available. German education subsequently formed the standard after which the French schools and faculties were reformed. Student scholarships were widely granted and the institution of the thesis was installed. The national government backed numerous professorships, among which several dedicated to La Méthode historique. The defeat of 1871 left French intellectuals with a certain degree of fascination for their German rivals, and many French historians went to study at a German university. Also Ernest Lavisse (1842-1922) and Gabriel Monod (1844-1912), prominent figures among the first generation of French academic historians who would become instrumental in establishing academic historical education in France, received their training in historical source study in German seminars.
When French historians from a new generation criticized the reforms that had been taken place from the 1870s onwards, it was because it was not following the Prussian model close enough. In 1910, the medievalist Ferdinand Lot (1866-1952) stated that French education and research kept lagging behind Germany, which he explained by the near absence in France of seminars according to the Prussian model. It had taken a French victory in a Franco-Prussian war to establish the 'Prussian model' in the German lands. It took a Prussian victory in a Franco-Prussian war to install that model in France.
Despite his renown, Ranke's international followers did not always interpret his ideas correctly. In the preface of his 1824 history of the Roman and Germanic peoples, Ranke famously noted that it was the historian's task to reconstruct wie es eigentlich gewesen. This line was initially translated to English as "how it has actually been", and in this form it became the credo of the modern historian in the English-speaking world. More recently, however, historians have pointed out the ambiguous meaning of the German term eigentlich in the nineteenth century and have argued that "how it has essentially been" is a more accurate translation of Ranke's most famous phrase.[6] Also Ranke's call to turn history into a Wissenschaft was subject of misinterpretation. In nineteenth-century Germany, the meaning of this term resembled that of the English word "discipline" rather than "science", yet it was in the latter way that Ranke's colleagues from the Anglo-Saxon world understood it. Ranke was seen as a champion of pure empirical research who refuted any theory and speculation. Ranke was identified with positivism, the philosophy that claimed that the humanities should follow the way of the natural sciences: seeking general laws by the method of mere empirical research.
Ironically, in Germany the Rankean school of history was considered the very opposite of positivism. Ranke himself had renounced that history could be modelled after the natural sciences. The individuality and uniqueness of all historical subjects excluded the possibility of constructing general historical laws. Neither was Ranke hostile to theory or speculation, because he saw empirical research only as half of the historian's task. The deviant reception of Ranke in North America and the United Kingdom had much to do with the dominance of an analytical tradition in the English-speaking world, which went back to Bacon's inductionism. Theory was considered a pointless distraction. Truth could be found in direct and undistorted observation. The strong position of this philosophy was due to the many tangible results of scientific endeavour in the United States and Great Britain, which very early on in the nineteenth century enjoyed a high level of technological and industrial development. The idea of progress, as it unfolded under one's very eyes, was far from dead. Further, inductive methodology produced great scientific results throughout the nineteenth century in the works of Charles Darwin, Alfred Russell Wallace, Charles Lyell, and James Clerk Maxwell. The ideas of Ranke were – unknowingly – distorted to be incorporated into Anglo-Saxon philosophy. The extent of Ranke's influence on historians in the United States and Britain was comparable to that in Germany, yet the Ranke in his native country was very different from the one across the seas.
The Rankean school (or the distorted perception of the Rankean school) delivered the founding principles of academic history in many countries. State support, community building through the seminar, and (assumed) scientific pretensions by empirical research, made it a very attractive model for the establishment of a discipline that was academic, professional, and relatively independent from other branches of knowledge. Academic history thus internationally was established on ideals and ideas that were hostile to macro-scale and supra-national historiography.
[1] Peter Novick, That Noble Dream: the "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession (Cambridge University Press, 1988) 22.
[2] Pim de Boer, Geschiedenis als beroep. De professionalisering van de geschiedbeoefening in Frankrijk (1818-1914) [History as profession. The professionalization of the practice of history in France (1818-1914)] (Nijmegen: SUN, 1987) 254.
[3] De Boer, Geschiedenis als beroep, 160.
[4] After Ranke died in 1886 one of his former students from the U.S. purchased his library, his portrait and some objects from his study room. He used these to set up a shrine for his former teacher at Syracuse University. See: Novick, That Noble Dream, 26. Although not having been his student, Ghent historian Paul Fredericq equally admired the "prince of history". Among Fredericq and his colleagues there existed the practice to collect and exchange portraits of famous historians . The portrait of Ranke was the most valuable of all. See: Jo Tollebeek, Fredericq & Zonen. Een antropologie van de moderne geschiedwetenschap [Fredericq and Sons. An anthropology of modern historical science] (Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2008) 174-175.
[5] De Boer, Geschiedenis als beroep, 227.
[6] Iggers and Von Moltke, Leopold von Ranke, xix. Woolf, A Global History of History, 372-373.


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According to Gwen, if you find yourself at the pearly gates and are asked, "why should we let you in?", you should respond with some report about how well you managed your personal responsibility. However, if this is an appropriate response, then you are The Good News, not Jesus Christ. Either you are the good news or Christ Alone is.
(Tip: If this happens, you better silently point to Christ. Let Gwen Shamblin point to herself by herself.)


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Confessions of a first-time mummy: My baby shower!
Baby showers; some people love them and some people loathe them. But either way, they are bloody good fun and it's a great way for your girls to see you looking semi-normal one last time before you hibernate for the next year buried under shitty nappies and baby vomit.
I think a lot of people miss the point of baby showers and accuse you of throwing a party to get gifts for your baby. But that couldn't be further from the truth – in my situation anyway – as my daughter already has everything she needs as I bought most of it around the 20-week mark.
My baby shower was a celebration. I haven't had the easiest of pregnancies (I promise I'll stop writing that in every blog post as soon as she's here) and I never in a million years thought I would make it past the 12-week mark let alone hit 34 weeks because of how poorly I felt.
I'm also not planning on having anymore children after my little girl – although let's be honest, I wasn't planning to fall pregnant with her so let's take that with a pinch of salt – so I think my friends and family just wanted me to be able to experience the whole shebang.
Regardless of your opinions on baby showers, I'm so incredibly grateful for everyone who came along for an afternoon of silly games, yummy calorific grub and lots of catch ups!
My mum and best friend Katherine did an amazing job of bringing it together – The decorations were beautiful, the food was displayed perfectly and I felt so calm and elated to be around people who I know will be a positive influence in my daughter's life.
The afternoon kicked off at 2:30pm with non-alcoholic champagne upon arrival. Everyone was then given baby prediction cards to fill out while we had a catch up and settled down in our seats.
We then played How Big is Mummy's Tummy and realised that China's inches are actually half the size of the UK measurement. I was also forced to come to terms with how much my belly has grown over the past four weeks. One minute I was 36 inches, the next I'm 39! I can't wait to get back to my pre-baby weight and have a nice slim 26 inch waist again (here's hoping!).
After that we tucked into some delicious food – pizza, garlic bread, fruit, cake you name it – before we played a game of Baby Trivia, Baby Animals and did a baby-themed Word Search.
We finished off the games with the Smelly Nappy Game in which players are blind folded and made to guess what is in the nappy just by sniffing it. This one wasn't overly pleasant as Katherine had used ketchup, washing up liquid, ginger and all sorts to throw us off scent!
The final game was Baby Charades and this was hilarious as we were split into two teams and we each had to act out a phrase – giving birth, breast pumping, sleepless nights – for our teams.
I'd told people I didn't want any presents for my daughter but the girls were so sweet and they all came with a little package under their arm. I'm not going to list all the things she got because she honestly was spoilt rotten by every single person but let's just say I'm going to have the world's most stylish baby!
So, as you can see, baby showers are super fun and if you want to have one or someone wants to throw you a surprise one then do it! I don't think anyone has a right to judge you on throwing a baby shower. It's your baby, your pregnancy, your experience and your friends!
I'm now on the final stretch of my pregnancy and it's time to unwind – although not before I sort out her nursery! It's so jammed with stuff I can barely get in there!
Keep your eyes peeled for next week's post as I'll be showing you the outfits I've packed for my little one's hospital bag and all the essentials I need for her impending birth!
Peace and love always x