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CHIC Laser Centre, located at 1141 Maisonneuve west, is a modern medical aesthetic clinic serving Montrealers and visitors to Montreal. Our centre is equipped with world class technologies that ensure our clients get safe treatments from our team of experts who have decades of experience combined! At CHIC, we offer a range of face and body treatments that will make you look your best.
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Pain can take many different forms from migraine headaches, to arthritis, to cancer, to injury to soft tissue (including surgery), to bone fractures, to sciatica, to unexplainable pain with fibromyalgia, etc. No matter what kind of pain we are talking about, the simple presence of pain has a negative effect on the quality of our life and our ability to function – which makes the reduction of pain desirable.
The predominant mode of healing in our western culture for the last century has been disease management. Led by allopathic medicine utilizing surgery and pharmaceutical drugs there has been a strong focus on removal and alleviation of symptoms. This may be perceived as a crisis intervention model of healing. When symptoms are identified, the doctor will diagnose the condition and prescribe treatment to manage and eliminate these symptoms.
Aromatherapy is more than just lighting some incense or burning an oil candle and enjoying the beautiful smells that fill the room. It's a therapy, which means it has a higher purpose (other than smelling great) – and it can potentially aid healing strategies. This article will help determine if it's right for you.
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Greenhouse Gas Emission Verifiers
Different mechanisms have been put in place in the fight against climate change to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). To function correctly, many of these mechanisms require a reliable, internationally comparable process to quantify emissions. This activity is carried out by verifiers who must be competent in the performance of this task. The international standard established for accreditation bodies to evaluate this competence is UNE EN/ISO 14065 Requirements for greenhouse gas validation and verification bodies for use in accreditation or other forms of recognition.
One system intended to reduce GHG emissions is the European Union Emissions Trading System, which is a key element of Europe's climate change strategy and a basic instrument for achieving the aims of reducing emissions at the lowest possible cost.
Proof of the confidence that accreditation brings can be seen in the fact that the European Commission has made a clear bid for accreditation in GHG verification activities, establishing regulations whereby only verifiers accredited by a National Accreditation Body can operate both in the European Union Emissions Trading System set up a few years ago and in Verifications of Monitoring Plans and Reporting on Carbon Dioxide Emissions from maritime transport (Reg. (EU) 2015/757 to be introduced shortly).
A list of verifiers of greenhouse gases accredited by ENAC can be found in the accredited bodies section, together with all ENAC documentation relative to accreditation criteria and procedures for Verifier Accreditation in the DOCUMENTS section.
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I was raped when I was 12. I lived ashamed; terrified it would happen again. I didn't tell anyone. I kept my secret, letting the pain and trauma fester inside me. My story is not uncommon.
According to the CDC, 1 in 5 women have been raped at some point in their life and only 12 percent of sexual abuse against minors gets reported to the police. The numbers get worse for women of color and LGBTQ people.
Dr. Kathleen Young, PhD., a clinical psychologist that specializes in trauma, says that the trauma of rape causes a disruption in development. This reflects my experience; I took my anguish out on myself in incredibly unhealthy ways. I self-harmed and convinced myself that I was disgusting and unlovable. That old adage that no one will love you until you love yourself rang true. I didn't love myself and couldn't see how anyone would ever be able to. It didn't matter that the rapist was the one who had hurt me. I was, essentially, my own worst enemy and it stayed that way for several years, while I continued to live in denial about what happened to me.
It wasn't until I was 16 and a friend confessed a similar trauma that I began learning to accept what happened. The realization that I wasn't alone in my pain and that I hadn't asked to get raped had a tremendous impact on my self-esteem.
As monumental and freeing as it was to finally be able to live openly with my rape, damage and self-sabotage had a tremendous head start on my brain. I didn't realize how much I would have to work through or to what extent the pain had spread through my life. It was everywhere: in how I viewed myself, how I viewed others, and my relationships with other people.
For a long time, I suspected I was different from other kids my age and not just because of what happened to me. I lived with a deep anxiety that people would look at me and be able to tell I wasn't like them. I became acutely aware of everything I did in public and spoke carefully to portray the image of someone young and happy and straight.
I didn't realize until much later that my views of sex weren't healthy. My only experience with it was my assault, so I viewed sex as violent, dirty, and cruel. I overheard kids in my classes talk about it like it was this fun, incredible experience and I wondered how both could be true.
I covered up both my uneasiness with boys and sex by creating outrageous fantasies I laughed with my friends over. I told crude jokes about boys I pretended to find attractive while my mind remained in cloudy confusion. This continued through high school and into my first year of college, when I finally found myself in an environment where I felt comfortable to be myself for the first time.
Coming out as bisexual seemed to change everything in my life. I don't know if my transformation was as apparent on the outside, but my mind felt like a totally different place. I felt more at ease, like I was on the right path to becoming whoever I was supposed to be. It was a beginning.
While my mind felt like a different place, my actions weren't much different from before. I continued to let an emotionally abusive and manipulative ex-boyfriend remain in my life. Another replaced him as soon as he was gone. My first girlfriend also turned out to be a drain on my emotions. I felt compelled to say yes whenever they wanted to have sex, even if I really didn't want it. I was so hungry for a connection of some kind, for love, that I didn't want to say no; sometimes I didn't think I could say no if I wanted them to care for me. I was still equating sex with love and love with self esteem.
The small amount of progress I'd made in my relationship with sex after coming out unraveled and only got worse after I was assaulted again while in college—an experience that is, unfortunately, also very common.
Due to medical and financial reasons, I dropped out of college a few weeks later with only a semester left to go, moving back in with my dad. My dad lived miles out of town and, unable to have a driver's license because of my illness, I felt very isolated. The only people I saw were my dad and grandma and I kept from them that anything was wrong. I had trouble finding a job, missed my old life and my friends, and wanted to stop hurting. So I did, falling into a numb sort of depression that lasted the better part of a year.
A lot of work was involved in pulling myself from my funk. I moved in with my mom and got a crappy job at an amusement park where I was overworked to the point of making my chronic illness worse, finished my final semester of college online, and graduated. My second girlfriend was somewhat better than my past relationships at respecting my personal boundaries and mental health—but only somewhat.
I reached a point in my life where I could finally admit that, even after I'd come out as queer, I'd been falling into the heteronormative trap of elevating men in my life. I could admit that I wasn't sexually or romantically attracted to men and never had been. I was a lesbian. This revelation didn't throw me nearly as much as coming out as bisexual because I'd finally accepted who I've always been. I felt a calmness come into my life and unconsciously took a break from dating. Sometimes I'd lament to my best friend that I was going to be single forever and die alone but most of the time I was quite happy being unattached.
I needed the time to myself to get to know who I was as an adult, as a lesbian, as a survivor.
Eventually, I met a wonderful woman and quickly fell in love with her. She was everything I not only wanted but also needed in a partner—respectful, considerate, loving, gracious, caring. These words merely scratch the surface of describing what an amazing person she is.
For the first time, I have a healthy sex life with a partner that is as considerate of my needs as I want to be of hers. I feel relaxed and calm when we're together and can't wait to spend my life with her. It's been a long journey getting to this point. My experiences will always be muddied by my past. I want to say that's OK, but it isn't. No one should ever have to go through what I did. But I have learned to live with my past in a much healthier way, discovering a little more of myself each day. My past might not be OK but I certainly will be.
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A majority of the Missouri General Assembly and others have resorted to shameful shenanigans in an attempt to convince voters to approve a three-quarter-cent sales tax for transportation.
One of the worst shenanigans is the duplicitous ballot language.
Here's the language you're going to see on the ballot relating to proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 7:
Should the Missouri Constitution be changed to enact a temporary sales tax of three-quarters of one percent to be used solely to fund state and local highways, roads, bridges and transportation projects for ten years, with priority given to repairing unsafe roads and bridges?
This change is expected to produce $480 million annually to the state's Transportation and Safety and Job Creation Fund and $54 million for local governments. Increases in the gas tax will be prohibited. This revenue shall only be used for transportation purposes and cannot be diverted for other uses.
A voter looking at that language for the first time might say to himself, "Well it's only a temporary tax…looks like it's only for 10 years, so maybe I should vote for this."
That's exactly what a majority of legislators and the "concrete cartel" backing this unfair proposal want voters to think.
The thing is, though, the legislative majority — as well as the heavy constructors, engineers and concrete and asphalt suppliers who badly want to see Amendment 7 approved — have no intention whatsoever of this being a "temporary sales tax" that would expire after 10 years.
Just as with almost every other tax that comes along, the framers want this new tax to go on indefinitely.
You have to dig into the guts of this pig, though, to find out the framers' true intentions. Those intentions are laid out in House Joint Resolution No. 68, which the General Assembly approved this year and which authorized the upcoming election on Amendment 7.
The resolution states, in part:
"Upon voter approval of the temporary three-quarters of one percent state sales and use tax in this section…this section shall be effective January 1, 2015, and shall continue for ten years. This section shall be resubmitted to the voters for approval at the general election in 2024…Every ten years thereafter, the secretary of state shall submit to the voters for approval the issue of whether the sales and use tax authorized by this section shall be imposed for another ten-year period."
You get the picture. It would be back on the ballot in 2024. If re-approved then, it would be back in 2034, and so on.
History has shown that once a tax is in place, especially a sales tax, it's very difficult to pull the plug. The voters just shrug their shoulders, essentially, and say, "Well, we've been paying it already, so I guess we can go on living with it."
Keep in mind that the ballot language, with that reference to a "temporary" tax, is not the governing language. The governing language is in the resolution, the legal document approved by the General Assembly.
So, when you see Amendment 7 on the ballot, just know it's not as innocent as it appears; it's a trick and a sham.
You might be interested in how the House and Senate voted on HJR 68.
On April 29, the Missouri Senate approved the bill on a 22-10 vote. Among area senators, Sen. Jolie Justus of Kansas City voted "no," while Paul LeVota of Independence and Shalonn "Kiki" Curls of Kansas City voted "yes." All three are Democrats.
The Missouri House approved the bill on a 105-43 vote May 14.


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November is diabetes awareness moth, and World Diabetes day is held on November 14 each year. The day aims to increase awareness about diabetes and its complications, and focuses on the need for more resources to fight the causes of diabetes and help fund research about improved treatment options, or even cures. The International Diabetes Federation predicts that by 2030 there will be as many as 552 million diabetics in the world. Presently, nearlyb8 percent of all Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes.
Diabetes doesn't visit every community equally. While 7.1 percent of all white Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes, 8.4 percent of Asian Americans, 11.6 percent of Hispanics and 12.6 percent of African Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes. Among Hispanics, more than 13 percent Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans have been diagnosed with diabetes. In total, nearly 26 million Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes.
I say, "have been diagnosed with" as opposed to "have" because diabetes is often described as a "silent" disease. You can have it without knowing. It can get complicated without your knowledge. You can find yourself dizzy, disoriented, or even just excessively thirsty and think its no big thing, only to find out that it is diabetes. Take it from me, I know. While I don't often use my column for testimony, this is an important enough issue to stop and testify. I was walking around with crazy high blood sugar levels (that I wasn't checking) thinking I was simply stressed, only to be stopped in my tracks when a routine check-up led to two days in the hospital. Talk about scared straight! Now, I'm taking my meds, watching my diet, and testing blood sugar at least twice a day. Diabetes is nothing to fool with.
But if predictions are correct more and more of us will have to manage it. The Centers for Disease Control and the National Instates of Health has issued a report called "The Diabetes Epidemic Among African Americans" that outlines the growing incidence of diabetes among African Americans, especially women over 45. And even in the overall population, diabetes is on the rise. By 2050as many as one in three Americans will be diagnosed with diabetes unless somebody finds a cure.
I had these facts in mind last Saturday when I had the honor of speaking to the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in St. Louis, Missouri. There were about 3000 undergraduate, graduate, and even high school students attending, many showing off their work in poster sessions that highlighted their research. There was a young African American from Tuskegee doing research on breast cancer, a Latino brother from Cornell University, a community college transfer, who was exploring his options in science, sisters from Spelman and Jackson State University, and of course Bennett College for Women was in the house, represented by students, faculty and alumnae.
The United States will continue to fall behind globally if we can't get more students of color focused on the sciences. In a report by the National Science Foundation called Gathering Storm, "For the US to maintain global leadership and competitiveness in science and technology that are critical to achieving national goals today, we must invest in research, encourage innovation and grow a strong, talented and innovative science and technology workforce." Further, "a strategy to increase the participation of the underrepresented must play a central role in our overall approach to sustain our capacity to conduct research and innovate because our sources for future science and engineering workforce are uncertain, shifting demographics are dramatic, and diversity in science and engineering benefits both diverse groups and the nation."
But people of color are woefully underrepresented among our nation's sciences, less likely to graduate from high school, from college, and less likely to pursue the doctoral degree that prepares one for key laboratory research. There are so many health disparities that cry out for motivated researchers. Why are so many African American women diagnosed early for breast cancer? Why are we less likely than majority women to recover? Why are there great disparities in life expectancy by race, socioeconomic status and region? And why do so many African Americans and Latinos, especially Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans have diabetes? I am counting on one of the young researchers that I met to figure out answers to these questions and to, perhaps, find the cure for diabetes. Meanwhile, in this month dedicated to diabetes awareness, let's make sure we share knowledge about this epidemic that visits the African American community more often than it visits others.
Dr. Julianne Malveaux is a noted economist and president of Bennett College for Women.


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Purchasing Division
(706) 225-4087
5th Floor
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Columbus, GA 31901
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Mission StatementTo provide professional procurement service, guidance and assistance to City departments in obtaining goods and services. To exercise ethical practices and fair competition in our dealings with vendors in areas of procurement. To continue to strive for the most economic, innovative, and expeditious methods to achieve the City's purchasing requirements through research and staff development.
Division ProfileThe Purchasing Division of the Department of Finance is responsible for securing all supplies, tools, equipment and services required for City operations consistent with the procurement ordinance. In addition, the division is responsible for the protection, preservation, proper storage and disposal of surplus materials and equipment. The Purchasing division acts as a liaison between the vendor and the City's various departments.
Purchasing ManagementThe Purchasing Manager reports directly to the Director of Finance, thus ensuring procurement techniques and strategies are consistent with stated management plans and directives of city officials and the director's office.
Surplus EquipmentThe City utilizes public live auctions and online auctions to dispose of surplus equipment. A live auction is normally held, during the fall season of the year. The date, location and other details of the live auction will be advertised on the City's website at the appropriate time. Additionally, on occasion, Govdeals.com is utilized to sell City assets deemed surplus, to the highest bidder, via online public auction. Anyone can register to bid on these items. VIEW ANY CURRENT AUCTIONS for CCG Surplus »»
Thank you for your interest in becoming certified as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) for Columbus Consolidated Government (CCG). CCG is committed to using DBEs to the fullest extent possible in all Federal Transit Administration (FTA) assisted procurement contracts, construction projects, as well as, the day-to-day procurement needs of the city.
In accordance with the Code of Federal Regulations, title 49 subtitle A, part 23 and part 26 and as approved by Resolution Number 373-99 and Resolution Number 209-13 of Columbus Council, the City is a participant of the statewide Unified Certification Program. As part of this program, the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is the certifying agency for Columbus Consolidated Government.
»» For more information and frequently asked questions (FAQ), click here.Follow this link to the State of Georgia to apply for certification as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise: http://www.dot.ga.gov/PS/Business/DBE
Thank you for your interest in becoming a vendor for the Consolidated Government of Columbus (CCG), Georgia. CCG utilizes The Georgia Procurement Registry as a means of distributing notices of bidding opportunities to prospective vendors. Suppliers interested in receiving email notification for bidding opportunities listed on this site, should register as a supplier with the Georgia Department of Administrative Services.
Please use the following link to register: http://doas.ga.gov/state-purchasing/suppliers/getting-started-as-a-supplier
Vendors can also use the following resources to inform themselves of Bid and Request for Proposal (RFP) opportunities.
- Legal Advertisements: Solicitations will be advertised in the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (The City's legal organ) on the following specific days: Wednesdays and Fridays. Solicitations will be advertised in the Columbus Times newspaper and the Courier Eco Latino newspaper, as available, on a respective weekly and bi-weekly basis.
- City's Website: Solicitations are advertised on the city's website. Full specifications will be published on the Internet, whenever possible at www.columbusga.org/finance/purchasing/docs/Opportunities/Bid_Opportunities.htm
- 24 Hour Telephonic Bidline: A 24 hour telephone BidLine (telephone line dedicated to announce advertised solicitations) will be available to inform bidders of bid opportunities. The BidLine number is (706) 225-4536. The BidLine recording is updated each Friday. Vendors will be able to call at any time to find out about bid opportunities. Advertised solicitations will be announced on the BidLine until their due date.
- CCG-TV: Bid advertisements will be publicized on the City's TV Station CCG-TV
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Yankees 5, Tigers 4: If I told you that Mariano Rivera blew two saves in a three game series you'd probably assume the Yankees had a bad series. Except in this case they won both of the games Mo blew. Baseball is weird. Miguel Cabrera homered off of him again on Sunday — he's only the third right hander with two career home runs off Rivera — but the Yankees pulled it out in the ninth with a Brett Gardner walkoff.
Mariners 2, Brewers 0: King Felix was his usual dominant self, tossing eight scoreless and striking out nine. Wily Peralta was almost as good but he gave up one gopher ball and allowed a run to score on a wild pitch. The game lasted a mere two hours eleven minutes. It was like friggin' 1914 or something out there.
Reds 3, Padres 2: Joey Votto with a sac fly in the bottom of the 13th. It's gonna be awesome when Votto finishes the year with something like his current .322/.437/.509 batting line and gets almost no MVP love because he doesn't have 100 RBI.
Braves 9, Marlins 4: The wining streak ended with a 1-0 loss on Saturday but the Braves got back on the horse Sunday and handed Miami their sixth loss in seven games. Four hits for Jason Heyward, three for Evan Gattis, a three-run homer for Freddie Freeman and the go-ahead RBI for B.J. Upton. Just so many contributors right now.
Nationals 6, Phillies 0: Stephen Strasburg shuts 'em out on 99 pitches — it's a Maddux! In other news, is there anything more depressing than being a Phillies fan at the moment?
Rangers 6, Astros 1: The Rangers are surging. Seven straight wins, in fact. Martin Perez had a shutout into the ninth. It was broken up by a Chris Carter solo homer, but Perez still finished the complete game, allowing only four hits while striking out eight.
Royals 4, Red Sox 3: The Royals keep on rolling, upping their record to 18-5 since the break. They're 4.5 back in the wild card.
Twins 5, White Sox 2: Kevin Correia pitched seven shutout innings, Brian Dozier and Joe Mauer each homered and the Twins take three of four. They, like a lot of teams, admittedly, have owned the White Sox this season.
Athletics 6, Blue Jays 4: Bob Melvin picks up the 700th win in his managerial career thanks to Alberto Callaspo's tiebreaking, two-run double in the eighth. The A's stay a game back of the Rangers.
Indians 6, Angels 5: The Angels had a five-run lead heading into the bottom of the sixth and they woofed it away, thanks in part to a pair of two-run homers from two-run homers by Nick Swisher and Mike Aviles in the sixth. With it the Indians snap their six-game losing streak that put them way the heck back in the AL Central. An awful week but not a bad salvage job.
Cardinals 8, Cubs 4: St. Louis ends a four-game losing streak and avoids a sweep. Matt Carpenter and Allen Craig each had three hits and drove in a run. Jon Jay and David Freese each drove in two.
Rockies 3, Pirates 2: Chad Bettis allowed two runs early but settled down and the Rockies' pen pitched three scoreless. Jeff Locke walked four batters in five and two-thirds. He's not been going very deep into games lately. You have to wonder if he's getting a bit tired.
Dodgers 8, Rays 2: Clayton Kershaw is awesome, which, well, duh. But how come every time I click on a Dodgers box score there's some random Ellis doing cool things? Ellises are the new inefficiency.
Mets 9, Diamondbacks 5: This was an ugly-fest. Lots of unearned runs and a dude has his hip dislocated. But Andrew Brown had a three-run pinch hit homer, and that's uplifting, yes?
Orioles 10, Giants 2: J.J. Hardy hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the seventh inning, but then the Orioles piled it on. Ron-Burgundy-Boy-That-Escalated-Quickly-Dot-Tumblr.com.


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Maybe you've just moved into a new house that feels unfamiliar, or you're simply tired of living in a space that never quite suited you and have never figured out how to love it as your home, or you have a house that started to feel stale and boring after years of living in it. – I know all of these too well. – You might find yourself wishing for a newer, more beautiful home as I did. But the thing is that the grass always looks greener on the other side.
There might be many reasons that you struggle with loving and appreciating your Home. Maybe you've already changed your heart and mind about having an imperfect home and are searching for ways to improve it so you are determined to put the work and effort to make your home your haven. There are a few easy ways you can use to ignite the spark and love the home you have right now! With just a few simple changes, you can breathe new life into your home and fall in love with it all over again.
Some of the links in this post are affiliate links and if you go through them to make a purchase I will earn a commission.
1. Declutter Your Home
Clutter is responsible for some of the stress in your life. You may get stressed wherever and whenever and cannot do anything about it. Except in your Home. You can do a lot to avoid stress in your Home. Start with decluttering. Get rid of the things that you don't love, are broken, or been unused for years. Don't keep things around just to keep them around. Keep on top of the clutter and find a home for everything. Maybe you need to pare down to fit in all your stuff but simplifying your life can give you more time, space and energy. It's about embracing what you really love and learning to let go of the rest.
Check out this post for simple but great tips to start your decluttering and organizing challenge.
2. Organize Your Home
A neat and organized home is a must for peaceful, stress-free living. After you've got rid of the unnecessary items, you may start to organize the rest of your stuff. It truly makes a big difference in the atmosphere of your home. Also, getting your home in order will empower you in every other part of your life. Finding a storage space for everything can challenge your creativity but it's worth the effort.
The kitchen as the heart of the home especially needs to be well organized and designed for your family's needs.
3. Keep It Clean and Tidy
Keep your home clean and tidy, so it is welcoming for the whole family and for everyone who enters your home. Commit to spending time each day to tidy up and clean your home. Don't let things get out of hand. Do a little every day and do it with a good and grateful attitude. It will make you feel better about your home and your life! It takes effort and energy but it will also make living in your home so much easier and comfortable!
If you need some spark to feel grateful, watch this lovely video. Never mind that it's a Christmas video. It applies 24/7/365.
It was truthful, wasn't it?
Anyway, let's get back to the task: establish new habits to help you stay on top of keeping your home tidy. Like making your bed each morning, cleaning up the kitchen before bed, or putting everything in place right away. Help your family build those habits, too!
For awesome cleaning hacks, check out my Home Cleaning Pinterest board!
4. Light Up Your Home
Light makes a huge difference in any room. Lighting is a major element of design that can add character to any room. With proper lighting, rooms feel bigger and have a better ambiance. If your room has old, dated light fixtures, consider replacing them with fresh, modern ones. If you don't want to get a whole new lamp, try changing just the lampshade. It's an inexpensive update that can make a big difference.
5. Use Window Treatments
Having privacy is a large part of feeling comfortable in your Home. Consider putting up light and flowy curtains to make the space warmer and more inviting. Curtains and window treatments can be on the more expensive side of making a change, but you can surely find some sales and make a bargain.
6. Use Practical and Beautiful Accessories
It's the little details that can really make a room feel personal and inviting. Trays, baskets, mirrors, plants, and other smaller items make the job. Accessorizing a room is relatively inexpensive compared to some of the other makeover options. Refresh simply by swapping the palette of each room. Store the ones you're not using and rotate them whenever you feel the need for a change. This way you'll be able to refresh your home without the pressure of buying anything.
7. Decorate the Walls
Use your children's artwork and family photos to decorate the walls. It will help you build memories and remember the time when the kids made that picture or the photo was taken. Rearrange them from time to time to create a fresh feeling in the home. Move them around to see what looks good, and replace any pieces that are starting to feel "stale."
8. Decorate With Houseplants
Plants bring life – literally – into any space. They're simply beautiful and offer an organic design appeal. Through various studies, science has proven that florals have mood-boosting features. The kitchen, the dining room, even the living room calls out for greens but don't overlook the bedroom either. Waking up to fresh flowers in the morning is a great way to start the day.
9. Fix Minor Annoyances
Patch tiny holes, tighten fixtures, nail trim back into place, unplug the drains – do whatever needs to be fixed. You'll feel so much better when you eliminate those daily irritants. You will enjoy your home more. If you need guidance on how to do it look around on this site. They know all the answers you need.
10. Get Some Throw Pillows and Blankets
They're inexpensive, colorful and cozy, and instantly transform a room. They freshen up the worn-out couch or armchair. If you ever get bored with them, move them to another room or make a pillow cover with different fabric. Learn more about the rules of mixing and matching throw pillows at The DIY Mommy blog.
11. Create a Conversation Space
Create a spot that encourages conversations and a close-knit relationship within your family. It may be the couch or the dining table or the porch. Just arrange the furniture and the accessories with the purpose of helping to pay attention to each other instead of the TV or something else.
12. Create a Personal Space
Everyone needs a place to get away to relax. Even if it's just to enjoy a cup of tea or read a book. It could be as simple as a beanbag in the corner, a rocking chair on the porch or a reading nook. Make it available for everyone in the family to enjoy as a way of escaping within the four walls of the home.
13. Paint Your Color
A fresh coat of paint is one of the most dramatic changes you can make to a room. Whether it's just one accent wall or the whole room, you can use paint to express your own personality and style without making more expensive alterations or additions.
If you're not up to painting the walls, revamp some furniture with some chalk paint to brighten up your room.
14. Rearrange the Furniture
If you want to update a room without spending a dime simply move the furniture around for a fresh look. You can make a room feel brand new simply by changing the layout of the furniture you already have. Keep large and tall pieces around the perimeter of the room, and don't forget to consider walkways.
15. Add an Area Rug
A properly-sized rug can add warmth and texture to any space. It has transformative power. A too-small rug can make the whole room feel smaller and cannot make the connection between the different pieces of furniture as it's supposed to. Choose the right size and the right color and pattern to create a warm atmosphere in your room.
16. Burn a Scented Candle
The power of scent is amazing. You don't have to wait for a special occasion to lit a candle. Burn candles that smell like food, fruit or flowers. Having your home smell good can lift your mood, comfort your soul and add an element of coziness.
17. Create a Purpose for Wasted Space
When you create a home you love, you want to fill in the space. Each room of your house should serve a purpose and be fully utilized. If it is not, consider rearranging items or reorganizing the rooms so that you get the most of your home. Giving a purpose to each room provides a new appreciation for your home, improves functionality and makes styling easier.
18. Upscale What You Have
Before shopping for your home, first take a look at what you have. Can a piece you loved once be upcycled with a coat of paint or slipcover? Can you have it reupholstered or reworked to become something entirely new? Add new life to your home by re-purposing a piece of furniture you already own to better suit your style and existing decor. Chalk paint and milk paint are good choices for furniture makeovers. Painting furniture gives you the opportunity to make all of your pieces look like they belong together.
19. Get Your Hands Dirty
Putting sweat and time into things that go into your home is very important. You need pieces lovingly worked into treasured items in your home. Make your own rugs, cushions or other decor items that your family will cherish and you'll feel proud of your efforts in creating that special look that is individual and your own. If you're into woodworking check out mamaneedsaproject.com. Emilee has some awesome projects for even beginners. Check out her freebie, too!
20. Buy New Things for Your Home
It's okay to bring new things into your home if they are going to help you cultivate experiences together and enjoy your home a bit more. Investing in your home and giving yourself permission to splurge every now and then are important. It doesn't have to be huge. Even a few new throw pillows can brighten up your rooms and put new pep in your step.
I hope you've found some useful ideas you can implement in your home to enjoy it more.
Thank you for being here!


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The fragrance of honeysuckle and gardenias, butterflies dancing on floral stages and the warm embrace of the sun can only mean one thing...that summer is in full bloom.
With the garden brimming with beauty, it becomes the perfect spot for a wedding, brunch or an afternoon tea party. So what to wear to such an occasion?
How about your very own garden inspired creation from Lela Rose or Carolina Herrera? Their 2018 Resort collections were full of fresh cut floral details.
Carolina Herrera's collection of dresses featured classic lines, including both full and tea length options, and feminine details such as sheer overlays and floral embellishments. The classic was balanced with modern design choices like bold colors and color blocking.
For a more whimsical take on the chic gardener, Lela Rose paired nostalgic hats with dresses, culottes and delicate floral fabrics.
Thanks to designs like these, green thumbs aren't required to showcase your best blooms this season.
From floral prints, cutouts and embellishments to gardener-style hats...the options for your summer wardrobe are blooming with potential.
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SC Supreme court overturns child death conviction
BEAUFORT — The South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a Beaufort woman serving 35 years for homicide by child abuse.
The Beaufort Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1aaPxqu ) the justices ruled this week that prosecutors failed to show that Paris Avery acted with extreme indifference in the death of her 15-month-old son, Ra'Saan Avery Young.
A Beaufort County jury convicted Avery in 2008 of giving the child too much prescription Atarax, an oral antihistamine used to relieve itching from eczema.
Showing extreme indifference to human life is required to convict on homicide by child abuse.
Beaufort County public defender Gene Hood had asked during the original case for a retrial, saying the prosecution had not shown extreme indifference to life. The trial judge denied the request at the time.
Information from: The Beaufort Gazette, http://www.beaufortgazette.com


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Children's Apparel Retailer Leverages Aptos' Proven Technology and Retail
Expertise to Improve Customer Engagement and Store Efficiencies
MONTREAL, July 15, 2015 – The $11 billion children's and infants' clothing segment is expected to experience steady growth over the next five years, and retailers in the space are retooling now to take advantage of this emerging opportunity. Case in point: Youngland Kiddie Shops has implemented retail technology solutions from Aptos, Inc., (formerly Epicor Retail) – via a Cloud delivery model – to support its retail operations.
With 17 stores under the Kid City banner, Youngland Kiddie Shops is a family owned discount retailer of children's apparel started in the Bronx in the late '50s. Kid City locations are found in regional urban malls, with the average store size spanning an impressive 10,000 square feet.
After a thorough evaluation and selection process, Youngland selected Aptos retail solutions – including Store and Mobile Store (Point of Sale), CRM, Merchandising, WebIM (Inventory Management), and Sales Audit – in a Cloud delivery model. Youngland selected Aptos™ due to its easy-to-use customer analysis, mobility and superior sales audit functionality. By leveraging mobility, the Cloud and Aptos' market leading solutions, Youngland is building the platform for future growth by engaging customers differently.
"We saw tremendous value in Aptos' expertise and its proven Cloud offerings," said Jack Shamosh, president, Youngland. "We're a small retailer looking to grow, and Aptos offers solutions I can use today and those I can 'turn on' tomorrow when I'm ready. The system is broad so my business can easily grow with the Aptos Cloud; this was a very important consideration. We also see the solid stability of the core system plus enhanced inventory management as being critical to driving business and profits.
"Each of our stores had its own databases running on antiquated systems, so we knew there was a lot of room for improvement, and we recognized the opportunity to learn more about our customers and move our business forward by improving our technology," said Shamosh .
Aptos is committed to helping retailers engage customers differently, and at Youngland, one of the most visible changes consumers will experience is an improved shopping convenience, as associates are now able to create and complete transactions from the sales floor, dressing room, or even the sidewalk. Fully mobile-enabled for easy deployment and use on Apple® iPad®, iPod® and Windows® mobile devices, Aptos Mobile Store brings information directly to sales associates' fingertips to better serve customers from anywhere on the floor. The solution also provides Youngland store personnel greater efficiency in day-to-day inventory management functions such as receiving, shipping, and physical inventory processing.
Further, to ensure relevant and informed engagement via more personalized service, Youngland is leveraging Aptos CRM to collect and track customer data and better understand customers' buying habits. This is important, says Shamosh, as it's not uncommon for a Kid City customer to span 10 to 15 years. To streamline the management of the 15,000+ SKUs carried by the retailer, Aptos Merchandising is giving Youngland advanced tools for ordering, pricing, distribution, and merchandise management as well as synchronizing and integrating purchasing, pricing, receiving, allocation, replenishment, and inventory management.
"The Cloud delivery model is ideal for retailers such as Youngland who want to focus on growth, as opposed to administering technology," said Noel Goggin, chief executive officer for Aptos. "With Aptos, Youngland now has the ability to nurture the business, leverage new operational efficiencies and make meaningful connections with Kid City shoppers, while harnessing the speed-to-market benefits of the Cloud."
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In an era of virtually limitless choice, sustained competitive advantage only comes to retailers who engage customers differently – by truly understanding who they are, what they want and why they buy. At Aptos, we too, believe that engaging customers differently is critical to our success. We are committed to a deep understanding of each of our clients, to fulfilling their needs with the retail industry's most comprehensive omni-channel solutions, and to fostering long-term relationships built on tangible value and trust. More than 500 retail brands rely upon our Singular Commerce platform to deliver every shopper a personalized, empowered and seamless experience…no matter when, where or how they shop. Learn more: www.aptos.com.
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I photograph free sessions for a variety of different clubs / organisations including sports clubs, dance groups, schools charity organisations etc.
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I have 25 years experience and known for my dramatic lighting skills which create stunning images for people to enjoy.
10 reasons to hold an Event Photo Shoot
1 - You make money for your funds!
2 - No session cost at all to your club / organisation.
3 - I give a donation to your club funds based on the amount of images purchased.
4 - Studio styled sessions where your members can have portrait images shot in the comfort of a club, hall, hotel etc environment.
I can even set up a studio in your home for your family & friends! Fun or formal - dress how you like!
5 - I bring along a fully equipped studio with professional lighting, backdrops etc and photograph everyone in multiple mini sessions.
6 - There is no charge to your members at all for the photoshoot - participant's just purchase any images they like from a secure online gallery.
7 - Your own password protected online gallery is created so that participants, family and friends can order images and products conveniently. Products such as deluxe quality prints, albums, wall art, image music video's etc are available with prices to cover a wide range of budgets to suit everyone.
8 - There is no hard sell or 'minimum spend' - No emotional blackmail or sales tactics whatsoever. Participants just buy what they like!!
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You can find out all about myself and see examples of my work on my website.
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Holiday Homes In France
Air-conditioned Apartment in Nice, South of France
In an Art Deco building in the chic Musicians Quarter
1 bedroom, sleeps 2 to 4 people
The apartment is on the third floor of an Art Deco building in the Musicians' Quarter in the centre of Nice, minutes from the Promenade des Anglais and the beach. In a fabulous setting on the Mediterranean coast within easy reach of Cannes, Saint Tropez, Monaco, the Italian border and beautiful inland villages in the hills behind, Nice is everything you would want it to be; cosmopolitan, romantic, easy going and full of life.
Shops of all kinds, specialist food shops and others hidden away in the back streets where you can often find a treasure or a bargain, cafés and a huge choice of restaurants catering for every taste and pocket. The lovely old part of Nice and daily markets, are on the doorstep. The 'L'Occitane' restaurant is about 2 minutes walk from the apartment. Walk up the Rue Giuglia to Rue Rossini, turn right and stay on the right side of the road. It serves a good 3-course meal for about €16 not including drinks. Also, explore the food market in Avenue de Grasse (near L'Occitane), open in the mornings. The boulangerie and a Casino supermarket are on Boulevard Gambetta or try the "Huit à Huit" (open from 8am-8pm) in the Rue Verdi.
The apartment has been stylishly decorated and furnished with an attention to detail and is fully air-conditioned and centrally heated. There is parquet flooring throughout and French windows open onto balconies from the main double bedroom, kitchen and salon area. The kitchen is brand new and fully equipped with a dishwasher, fridge/freezer, oven and hob, microwave, washing machine, kettle and toaster among other things.
There is a comfortable double bedroom and two large sofa beds in the reception. A hairdryer is provided. The shower room is new, there is a separate wc and the apartment has an elegant dining suite, a large television, DVD and a hi-fi system.
If you want to have a lazy morning or afternoon at home, you can choose from a number of books in the bookcase in the bedroom and sit on the balcony reading and sipping a glass of wine, or after a hectic day out, choose a dvd from the selection of English dvd's catering for all ages.
The Area
Depending on your pace, it will take 8 to 10 minutes to walk to the Promenade des Anglais and the beach. Walk one block from the apartment, then turn right into the Rue Berlioz, following it all the way until you come out on the Promenade between the famous Hotel Negresco and the charming Place Masséna. To reach the pedestrian zone (Zone Pietones) with its multitude of restaurants, walk east (right) from the flat to the end of Rue Rossini, cross Bvd. Victor Hugo and carry straight on. It's about an eight minute walk. This also brings you to the edge of Old Nice, which has enchanting, winding streets, its shops selling art, crafts and boutique fashions and also great antiques and flower markets.
The Musée Matisse is surrounded by an olive garden and the museum has a collection of paintings spanning the whole of Henri Matisse's work. The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art houses a large collection of French and American art from the 1960's to the present. The Marc Chagall Museum has a large collection of works by the artist.
Nice is a town that likes to enjoy itself. The Nice Carnival that takes place in February is the most famous of the winter festivals, when the town celebrates for two weeks with parties, parades, concerts and spectacular firework displays. The Regatta at the end of December is an International event that has been taking place for more than forty years and the most important in France. The Jazz Festival in July attracts musicians from around the world and is famous for its breathtaking location and wonderful atmosphere.
After midnight, the Grand Escurial turns from a restaurant into the biggest nightclub in Nice. The beach has all kinds of watersports, there is an excellent golf course 30 minutes away and squash and tennis court in town.
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Nipsey Hussle's alleged killer indicted by grand jury
Hussle was shot dead in March outside his store here.
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Los Angeles: Rapper Nipsey Hussle's alleged Killer Eric Holder has been indicted by a grand jury.
According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, Holder is accused of two counts each of attempted murder and assault with a firearm and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon for the March 31 incident in which two other people were left injured, reports cnn.com.
The 29-year-old suspect pleaded not guilty to all the charges on Tuesday and is due back in court for a pretrial hearing in June. His bail has been set at $6.53 million.
If convicted, Holder will face life in state prison. The penalty for a conviction on an attempted murder charge is 15 years to life.
Hussle was shot dead in March outside his store here.
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Is your financial life a little out of shape? Do you want to make it strong, fit, and healthy this year?
This type of makeover doesn't happen overnight, but you can get started right away.
The start of a new year is always a good time to start new routines but anytime is the "right" time!
Think of improving your financial life as a staircase with many flights. You can't leap to the top in a single bound (unless you're Superman), but you can make it to the top step by step. That's why we've created the WIFE.org FINANCIAL FIT Calendar. Each month we challenge you to go one flight up the staircase by completing an action that will help you clarify, organize, and empower your financial life. Each activity is linked to a great article from WIFE that will show you how to get it done!
Here is a list of some of our top financial planning articles on WIFE.
We encourage you to bookmark this article and return to it each month to adopt a few more good money habits.
January – Create a Budget
Great financial fitness starts with creating and sticking to a budget. Think about your financial goals for this year, next year, and ten years from now. With those goals clearly in your mind, create a budget that will allow you to afford a comfortable life today while keeping enough in reserve to save for tomorrow.
February – Talk Money with Your Sweetheart
Love is in the air in February, but that love can quickly turn to frustration and regret if you and your sweetheart aren't on the same page when it comes to money! This month, sit down and talk money so you can keep the love alive.
March – Prepare for Tax Time
Yes, the least wonderful time of the year is quickly approaching – Tax Time. Don't wait until the last minute to do your taxes. A mad scramble may lead to mistakes or missed deductions. Make it a goal this month to prepare and submit your taxes ahead of the deadline. You'll get your refund earlier and save yourself a lot of stress!
April – Re-evaluate Your 401k Plan
If your employer offers a 401k plan, we hope that you are already invested. If not, now is the time to jump in and start saving for a happy and financially comfortable retirement. If you are already invested in a 401k, take some time this month to re-evaluate. Can you put a little more away each month this year? Has your risk tolerance changed? Make sure you are in the best 401k plan for your retirement goals.
May – Create an Estate Plan
May is the month of Mother's Day, and if you have children, it's critical that you plan for them in case you get sick, become incapacitated, or pass away unexpectedly. Even a simple estate plan can help your family follow your wishes, leave a legacy to your children and family, and protect your hard-earned assets from government taxes.
June – Vacation Smarter
Summer break starts in June for many students, which also means family vacation time! Don't let this year's vacation swallow all your hard-earned savings. You can plan smart, spend smart, and still have an awesome time on your travels.
July – Cut Your Credit Card Addiction
If you are like many Americans, then you have a problem. One you may have tried to keep hidden for a long time, but which is affecting your ability to cope with life. You might be addicted to credit cards. This month, it's time to sober up, cut the addiction, and finally live a life free of high interest rates.
August – Become a Savvy Investor
If your money is sitting in a low-interest savings account, you could actually be losing money due to inflation. Get your money working for you by investing your savings into mutual funds this month.
September – Teach Your Kids About Money
It's back to school in September. While your kids are filling their heads with math, literature and history, make sure to take some time this month and give them the gift of financial literacy.
October – Face Your Money Fears
A lot of our money troubles come from the way in which we view money. This Halloween month, challenge yourself to discover and face your money fears.
November – Shop Smart for the Holidays
Deals, deals, deals! Holiday shopping has officially begun. Are you shopping smart or getting swept up in the fervor? Make a goal to be a savvy shopper this month.
December – Help Others
Your money doesn't just have to help you. If you stuck to your budget, then you should have a little left over at the end of the year to help the less fortunate. Give a little away to a good cause this month (whether it's money, time, or advocacy). Now, onto next year!
Need help implementing the advice in these great articles? One of the smartest money moves you can make in the new year is to start your own Money Club. It's fun, easy, and free. Anyone can do it, even if you've never taken a money class before. Learn more about starting a Money Club with your favorite gal pals.


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After we traveled around Hakone. Now it's time to take a rest at Japanese style hotel or ryokan in Japanese
This is our room. It has the Japaneses traditional feeling. I do some research later and found that this hotel has opened for almost 400 years.
Although the hotel is old. Its facility, amenities and accessories are up to other hotel standard.
When we came to the room, the manjuus are on the table as welcome gift with the guide how to live in the hotel.
If you see Hanasaku Iroha which is the anime about ryokan, you will know what make each ryokan hotels unique from each others. Good room, good hot spring bath and delicious meals. Ryokan hotels usually serve the dinner around 6 – 7 PM. If you can't make it, they will clean it up.
The ryokan I lived serves the dinner at their restaurant. Not in the room as we see from media. They will place each room names on each tables because some room may make the special order such as sashimi, boiled fish etc. which must be prepare beforehand.
Ours is just the standard meal that is hot pot of Hakone pork. They had already put anything in the pot. Just ask staffs to light the fire, wait it to hot and enjoy. They prepared 2 sauces to eat with it. The sesame mizo sauce which its taste is like the condensed mizo soup and sour and little salty ponzu sauce.
Appetizers are look good. I eat all of them except the smoked duck which my sister also can't eat them in this state. So she put them in the hot pot instead.
Steamed tofu eat with japanese pepper and yuzu sauce. When I opened the lid to take this photo, the staff take the lid from me, closed it and say "This is my work!" in English. It seems that it is the duty of staffs to prepare our food in every steps except one. Eating. Really appreciate their service.
The grilled dish is roast squid on magnolia leaf. The outside is very delicious but inside is too raw for us. It's only the dish that we don't really like.
The last dish is deep fried sole with various vegetable and starchy sauce. It's really our life saver for this meal.
The dessert is sherbet. It's very good taste after eating a lot of food in this meal.
Overall the taste is very Japanese traditional like. Although we love it but we can't take of that raw squid. Some dished need a little of soy sauce. It will help the taste better for our mouths.
After we finished our dinner. It's time to take a bath. Our hotel has 3 bathrooms. 2 are public bathrooms where are for each genders and family bathroom (Like the one in LOVEPLUS+ when we go to the Atami trip.) that need the reservation before using.
Luckily there is an open air bath in our room. So we don't need to take a bath in them. The water inside is from the hot spring and is also the same one they use in all bathrooms. However the temperature outside is very cold which we don't like to go outside naked.
It would be good if we can jump into the tub directly but in the guide given to us said that we need to wash our bodies first. So I washed myself by hot water and then jump into the tub. It's very comfortable when in the bath tub. Love it.
After took a bath, it's time to sleep. In many Japanese media, the hotel will prepare mattress or futon for guest but this hotel we need to prepare them by ourselves.
The view from our room in the morning.
The view from an open air bath.
You will see the river when look down.
Now i's time for breakfast. If we go to the restaurant late, they will clean up your meal. The breakfast is is fried dried Japanese house mackerel.
The stream rice in the pot for 2 persons.
There is the egg in our meal so I asked the staff what is it. It's is soft-boiled egg. Eating it with sauce.
Miso soup in hot pot. Forget the ordinary miso you found in Japanese restaurants. This one is better.
Hotel prepares the beverage for breakfast. They have western tea, coffee, orange juice, Japanese green tea and mineral water which we think that they may take it from their hot spring. The same one they used in their bathroom.
We opened our room windows and take the photo out side before checkout.
We saw some kind of tubes that connect between this hotel and its branch where is on the mountain.
Now it's time to leave the hotel. I really need to be here more but we have the place to go.
We took the slow Hakone Tozan Bus back to Hakone-Yumoto station.
We came to the station early so we had the time to take some photo here.
Station staffs bow to the incoming train. Maybe they give the respect to passengers.
We took the Romancecar back to Tokyo. This time train is Model 30000 EXE. Not so luxury like Type 50000 VSE but it's better than taking the normal train.
The seats are still the romance seats.
The table for the front row seat is hidden in the armrest.
Although we didn't take luxury VSE, but we are lucky to sit on the front row of EXE. We see how train conductor operate the train. He is very careful and always speak all step he did loudly.
Finally we are at Shinjuku station.
Now it's time to explore Tokyo. Please look forward to it.


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Leader: Do no fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.
People: Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck.
Leader: When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
People: I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me.
Leader: When you pass through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you.
People: I am weary with crying; my throat is parched.
Leader: When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.
People: My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God.
Leader: Do not fear, for I am the Lord your God, the Holy one of Israel, your Savior.
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ESU adds $840/semester fee to nursing program
The cost of being a nursing student at East Stroudsburg University will increase in the fall at the start of the 2014-15 semester.
ESU's Council of Trustees and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's Board of Governors recently approved an $840-per-semester fee for nursing students participating in clinical rotations.
Nursing students are required to participate in clinical rotations each semester starting in their sophomore year, for a total of six semesters worth of clinical experience by the end of their senior year.
The fee increase means ESU nursing students will end up paying an additional $5,040 during the course of their four-year degree.
"The clinical experience in nursing provides students with the opportunity to go out to regional hospitals and gain real-world experience," ESU said in a statement.
In addition to being a vital part of the program, however, clinical rotations are also very expensive to provide, costing the university four to five times the amount of a regular lecture class, university officials said.
"During clinical rotations, students are off site and a faculty member is assigned to go with them off site," said Ken Long, ESU's vice president of finance and administration.
If a faculty member is off-campus at a clinical rotation, the school needs to "backfill" and hire more adjunct professors to teach nursing courses on-campus, he said.
Every semester, the university has at least 12 clinical groups of up to 10 students each.
In 2012-13, the university paid $843,000 in instructional costs for the nursing program, Long said. The program only generated about $520,000, however.
"You are looking at about a $320,000 loss for direct tuition costs only," Long said.
The additional fee is anticipated to generate about $204,000 when it's implemented, meaning the program will still operate at a $119,000 deficit.
However, ESU officials hope the rest of the cost may be offset by other majors or courses that are less costly to run.
Up to this point, no programs have been singled out, with all undergraduate students paying the same base tuition of $6,622, despite how much money their particular program brings in.
"There may be another class like history, which has 40 students assigned to one faculty member. Additional savings from other programs might offset this one," Long said.
"We could have said, 'Let's cap the number of students in our nursing program so we can keep costs down.' Given our need in the community for health care, however, we decided a fee was the best approach."
Not all students agree with that approach.
Freshman nursing student Zachary Craver spoke out about the fee during last month's Council of Trustees meeting, where it was unanimously approved.
In addition to attending ESU full time, Craver works part time every weekend at a local restaurant to help pay for his education.
"You just added $840 per semester, and that's over $5,000 on top of everything else. So, that's netting me an extra 600 hours of work just to get through college," Craver said.
The Feb. 27 Council of Trustees meeting was the first time Craver heard of the fee being imposed.
"I was very surprised. Most likely I won't be able to continue through the program," he said.
The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education in January approved differential tuition and fee pricing, giving the 14 state-owned universities the go-ahead to charge rates based on demand and the cost of delivering instruction in certain majors.
In addition to the fee increase for ESU nursing students, half a dozen pilot programs involving price were approved.
Those pilot programs also included fees for high-demand, high-cost nursing programs at Clarion and Edinboro, which implemented a similarly priced fee for nursing students, Long said.
He noted that Kutztown used to have a nursing program, but did away with it about four years ago due to increased costs.
The PASSHE schools are facing a 6 percent decline in enrollment since 2010 while grappling with a 19 percent cut in state funds that took place in 2011-12.
PASSHE spokesman Kenn Marshall said the pilot pricing programs will allow schools to bring in additional money.
According to Long, the fee is still considered a pilot program at ESU and will be re-evaluated annually, with a more extensive review to come two years after implementation.
At this time, ESU is not examining fees for any of its other program offerings, he said.


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Google Hangouts now lets you drag and drop images to the chat window
Google has announced that it is rolling a minor feature update to its web version of Hangouts, as well as the Chrome app.
The Mountain View company's instant messaging service, now lets you drag and drop images to the chat window.
Prior to today's update, the only way to add an image to a chat, was by clicking on the "Add a Photo" button, on the bottom right corner of the conversation window. And then you had to browse for a picture on your computer, or from the photos you have uploaded to Google. Finally you have to click on send, which will upload the photo to Google's server after which it will be sent to your contact.
Quite a fun routine, isn't it? Google's new change will help you save a bit of time.
How to drag and drop an image to Google Hangouts?
1. Login to Gmail or Google+ or the Hangouts Chrome App in your desktop browser.
2. Resize the browser window, to allow screen space for another app to be opened. Aero Snap will be very handy for this purpose.
3. Open File Explorer and navigate to the folder where the image is stored.
4. Click and drag the image from File Explorer to the Chat window in Hangouts. (Refer to the above image)
5. The image should be attached to the conversation, and you should see a small preview of itt in the chat window. It will also have a large arrow icon, signifying that you can send the picture to your contact.
Unlike the regular uploading of images, which automatically sends it to your contact, drag and drop had a small advantage. You can remove an attached image, before sending it. To do so click on the small x button in the top right corner of the small send attachment window, which appears after you drag the image to Hangouts.
Google Engineer Mayur Kamat posted the announcement on Google Plus. His post also says that copy-pasting into the chat windows, will also add the image to the conversation. But I could not get it working in Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. And commenters, at his post also say the same.
But drag-and-drop works well, and is available for all web browsers on Deskstops.
Google Hangouts on the Web was recently updated on the server side, and now allows users to send stickers to each other. Read more about it from my previous write up.


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QTLs associated with dry matter intake, metabolic mid-test weight, growth and feed efficiency have little overlap across 4 beef cattle studies
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BMC Genomics 2014, 15:1004 (14 pp)
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Background: The identification of genetic markers associated with complex traits that are expensive to record such as feed intake or feed efficiency would allow these traits to be included in selection programs. To identify large-effect QTL, we performed a series of genome-wide association studies and functional analyses using 50 K and 770 K SNP genotypes scored in 5,133 animals from 4 independent beef cattle populations (Cycle VII, Angus, Hereford and Simmental × Angus) with phenotypes for average daily gain, dry matter intake, metabolic mid-test body weight and residual feed intake.
Results: A total of 5, 6, 11 and 10 significant QTL (defined as 1-Mb genome windows with Bonferroni-corrected P-value
Conclusions: This GWAS study, which is the largest performed for feed efficiency and its component traits in beef cattle to date, identified several large-effect QTL that cumulatively explained a significant percentage of additive genetic variance within each population. Differences in the QTL identified among the different populations may be due to differences in power to detect QTL, environmental variation, or differences in the genetic architecture of trait variation among breeds. These results enhance our understanding of the biology of growth, feed intake and utilisation in beef cattle.


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Any savvy inbound marketer "gets" that once you've done all that hard work to get visitors to your website, the next big step is to convert them into leads for your business. But what's the best way to get them to convert? Landing pages , that's what!
Unfortunately, there seems to be a major disconnect between the importance of landing pages and their use by marketers. According to MarketingSherpa's Landing Page Handbook (2nd edition), 44% of clicks for B2B companies are directed to the business' homepage, not a special landing page . Furthermore, of the B2B companies that are using landing pages, 62% have six or fewer total landing pages .
Landing pages are the heart and soul of an inbound marketer's lead generation efforts, so why are they still so underutilized? MarketingSherpa cites that the number one reason businesses don't use landing pages is because their marketing department doesn't know how to set them up or they are too overloaded.
But let's put a stop to this, shall we, marketers? Landing pages are much too critical to the success of your lead generation efforts to sweep under the rug, and here's why.
First, let's start with a simple definition:
A landing page is a web page that allows you to capture a visitor's information through a lead-capture form (AKA a conversion form).
A good landing page will target a particular audience, such as traffic from an email campaign promoting a particular ebook, or visitors who click on a pay-per-click ad promoting your webinar. You can build landing pages that allow visitors to download your content offers (ebooks, whitepapers, webinars, etc.), or redeem other marketing offers such as free trials, demos, or coupons for your product. Creating landing pages allows you to target your audience, offer them something of value, and convert a higher percentage of your visitors into leads, while also capturing information about who they are and what they've converted on.
For a more complete understanding of how landing pages make visitor-to-lead conversions (and reconversions) possible, let's talk through a hypothetical scenario that will help demonstrate the simple pathway of a visitor into a lead through a landing page.
Let's say you own a professional painting business, and your services include a variety of professional indoor and outdoor paint jobs. You're a savvy inbound marketer, so you maintain a business blog that features articles about painting tips and tricks. You also have several more premium marketing offers like free educational ebooks on painting and free, no-obligation painting consultations.
Now let's say a mother was looking for a professional painter to paint her new baby-to-be's nursery but was first doing some research into color schemes. She comes across your blog post entitled "10 Popular Nursery Room Color Schemes for 2012" as a result of a Google search, and she clicks through to read it. When she reaches the bottom of the article, she notices a call-to-action (CTA), which is essentially an ad, for one of your offers -- a free painting consultation to help her decide which color scheme would work best with the size and type of nursery she's working with. "That would be valuable," she thinks, clicking on the CTA and visiting the landing page where she can sign up for her free consultation.
The landing page provides some additional information and details about what she will get out of the free consultation, convincing her it's worth providing her contact information on the landing page's conversion form in order to take advantage of the offer. She submits her information, and voila! -- she's now a viable lead for your painting business with whom you can easily follow up! What's more, she wants you to follow up with her. How fantastic does that sound?
And this isn't the only pathway through which a visitor can travel to convert into a lead. In addition to search, visitors can find your site and its landing pages through a number of marketing channels including email, social media, PPC, direct traffic, or referral traffic. Furthermore, they can find your landing pages through calls-to-action you place throughout your website, or directly as a result of you sharing the link to those landing pages in these other marketing channels.
They key, as a marketer, is to create these landing pages in the first place, and make it easy for potential customers to find them in your various marketing efforts.
Still not convinced that landing pages can make your marketing and lead generation efforts more effective? Here are 6 more compelling reasons:
1) Easily Generate Leads! If you could do one thing right now to drastically improve your lead generation efforts, it would be to use landing pages on your website. As we mentioned earlier, too many companies send their email, social media, and search traffic to their homepages. This is the equivalent of throwing leads away. You could capture these leads at a much higher rate simply by sending them to targeted landing pages. Landing pages provide a very easy way to generate leads for your sales team that you can then easily segment, nurture, or distribute to your sales team.
2) Give Your Offers a Place to Live: Marketing offers and landing pages go hand in hand. Just think back to our painting business example. Without being gated behind landing pages, your offers will do nothing to support your lead generation efforts. The idea is to require your website visitors to 'pay' you in contact information for something valuable like an offer, and your landing page is the collections tool.
3) Collect Demographic Information About Your Prospects: Every time a lead completes a conversion form on a landing page, your marketing and sales team is collecting valuable information about your leads. Your marketing team can then use this information to understand what types of visitors or marketing personas are converting, and your sales team already has a baseline of information about a lead before they reach out.
4) Understand Which Prospects Are More Engaged: Landing pages not only enable you to generate new leads; they also allow you to track reconversions of existing leads, which you can then use to identify which prospects are more engaged with your business. This also enables you to collect better intelligence on your leads' behaviors and activities on your website, which your sales team can use in the sales process.
5) Provide Fuel for Other Marketing Channels: A successful inbound marketing strategy relies on content -- and lots of it. Landing pages are a great addition to any marketer's content arsenal since they can be shared in social media, used as the focus of dedicated email sends and in lead nurturing campaigns, be linked to in PPC ads, and get found in organic search.
6) Offer Insights Into the Effectiveness of Your Marketing Offers: Every time you create a landing page, you're creating another data asset for your marketing program. By tracking and analyzing the metrics associated with your landing pages , you can collect a lot of insight into your marketing performance, such as how your various marketing offers compare, how visitors and leads are converting on your landing pages over time, and more . This gives you powerful insight that can help you optimize and improve your marketing.
Okay, so now you understand what a landing page is, how they work to facilitate lead generation, and why you absolutely, positively need them. But what does a landing page look like? We have a full blog article that dives into a more detailed anatomy of a successful landing page based on industry best practices, but for now, let's just briefly review a landing page's main components. Refer to the numbers in the image below:
Landing pages should always be followed up by what's called a 'thank-you page,' that confirms receipt of the lead's information and either provides the offer, or details the next steps for receiving the offer. For example, if the landing page was offering an ebook, the thank-you page might provide the link to access the ebook. If the offer was the free painting consultation we discussed earlier, it might provide a message that someone would be in touch with the lead to schedule the consultation.
Thank-you pages can also be accompanied by an automated email response that sends the offer or next steps in an email message triggered by the landing page form completion. This is especially helpful if the offer is something like a live webinar that will take place at a later date/time, and you want the lead to easily be able to save information such as log-in credentials.
The critical role of the thank-you page and the email response is to make sure the lead is never left hanging or wondering what will happen next.
We mean it! Put simply, the more landing pages you create, the more opportunities you'll have to convert visitors into leads.
So what about that ominous MarketingSherpa stat we mentioned in the very beginning of this article, which states that the number one reason businesses don't use landing pages is because their marketing department doesn't know how to set them up or they are too overloaded ... ?
Luckily, there are a number of marketing software solutions available to marketers, like HubSpot's Landing Pages tool , that make landing page creation and setup quick and simple for any marketer. No waiting days or weeks for your webmaster or IT resource to do it for you; you can easily create landing pages in minutes!
How much are landing pages a part of your business' marketing strategy?
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Originally published Apr 27, 2012 9:00:00 AM, updated June 10 2021
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Alabama outlasts Mississippi State, 82-80, in OT
Four Crimson Tide players score in double figures to lead balanced attack in the road victory
The Alabama men's basketball team (12-9, 3-6 Southeastern Conference) defeated Mississippi State (9-12, 2-7 SEC) in overtime by a final score of 82-80 Tuesday night in Starkville. It is the sixth consecutive win in the series for the Crimson Tide, the longest streak in the series since winning six straight from 1985-87. It is also the fourth victory in the last five trips to Humphrey Coliseum.
Alabama shot a blistering 15-of-29 (51.7 percent) in the first half; however, the Tide committed a total of 10 turnovers. Mississippi State suffered a 1-for-10 stretch midway through the half to fall behind by eight at 26-18 with 6:50 remaining. The Bulldogs closed within two (36-34) in the final minute, but sophomore Riley Norris connected on a pair of free throws to give Alabama a four-point margin going into the locker room. Senior Retin Obasohan led all scorers with 16 points.
Mississippi State was able to pull within one point at 43-42, but sophomore Justin Coleman drained a trey, igniting an 8-0 run to give the Tide its biggest lead of the night, 51-42. The home team responded with a 14-0 run, taking their first lead of the game at 53-51 after Fred Thomas made a three-pointer with 9:53 left. The Bulldogs led by as many as seven, but Alabama rallied back, tying the game 65-65 at the 1:43 mark on a layup by Coleman. The teams traded baskets from there, and each had a possession in the final 30 seconds, but neither could score to take the win in regulation.
To begin the overtime period, Mississippi State scored four straight points, but the Tide evened the score at 73-73 and went up 76-74 thanks to a three-point play by Obasohan with 2:05 to play. Coleman made another shot from deep after the Bulldogs tied the score at 76-76. Alabama went 3-of-4 from the free throw line in the last nine seconds to ice the victory.
Obasohan paced the offense with 25 points, the 10th time this season the senior has scored at least 20 in a game. Norris finished with 16, Coleman added 15, and Arthur Edwards chipped in 12.
Alabama returns home for its next game, playing host to the Missouri Tigers on Saturday, Feb. 6 at 2 p.m. CT. The contest will air live on the SEC Network.


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Patañjali as an incarnation of Adi Sesha (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Patanjali, a yogi who probably lived in the 2nd century, is considered the most studious and the primary compiler of the system known today as Raja Yoga. In his writing "Yoga Sutra", he described systematically the eight phases towards self- realization, the path which every practitioner has to walk, from the outer to the most inner stages until achieving an understanding of his own "I".
According to Patanjali's writing, a scholar proceeds step by step from what is immediately perceivable – the body, to the understanding of what is usually unknowable; he merges himself, progressively, into the deepest fields of his being: from the manifested, through an exploration of his mind, intellect, will, the discriminating consciousness, and awareness, until he achieves the awareness and understanding of the true self, or "I".
The following are the eight steps articulated by Patanjali:
- Niyama: abstention from offenses, greed, squandering, falsity, robbery;
- Yama: observation of pureness of thought, moderation, study and devotion;
- Asana: stable and comfortable position;
- Pranayama: breath control;
- Dharana: concentration on only one object;
- Dhyana: meditation, the conscious focus on the object of concentration;
- Samadhi: merging with the object of meditation, pure awareness;
The scholar's mind, initially confused and untamed, can be purified through the phases of Niyama, Yama, and Asana, so that the intellectual field could be stimulated to an intentional activity; through the stages of Asana and Pranayama, mind could become more stable and, successively, (through Pranayama), the senses are retracted inward, and this is the stage of Pratyahara; the mind becomes more attentive, able to focus intentionally on its own energy. Through the Dharana, mind becomes motionless, unflappable, and the consequential increase of attention brings the scholar to the stage of meditation- Dhyana. Once this stage is maintained for enough time, the scholar will experience the final step of his path, Samadhi.
Taking a deeper look at the brief explanation of the above mentioned stages, it is evident that, before realizing the higher stages of awareness, one must first learn to know and understand the body and its functions, besides learning to manage the vital breaths, the energy, mind, intellect, and ego. Only after the exploration of the "manifested" fields, he will be able to enter the realm of the "non-manifested" – the part of every human being which is usually hidden from his eyes – the unknown.
Such as a stream pulled by the necessity to find the sea, the student, once having overcome the rough obstacles, will be pulled towards the unknown. The moment of flowing in the deep seas will produce the experience of fusion with the whole, the most elevated state of joy a human being can experience. This state is called in Sanskrit Ananda.
This is the path described by Patanjali, a way able to bring a practitioner from the state of identification with his body, to the realization of his True Self. A system which has been tested by millennia, that begins from the body, the nervous system, to the sensorial perceptions, proceeding until the mind, the intellect, goes deeper toward the inner "I". A path to return to ourselves. A path which leads from ignorance to a true understanding.
I would like to say, here, that the stages of Yama and Niyama must intentionally be in a modern, contemporary language, so as to be understandable to modern men and women, as an education to a universal ethic, free from cultural contents that belong to other ages, so no more actual in ours. Indeed, the habit of literally transcribing the observances and the abstentions suggested in the ancient texts is useful from a point of view of a translator, an anthropologist, historian or a scholar committed to the analysis of ancient Hindu society, but it's less useful for someone who would like to approach this tradition in a practical way. We don't live in India, and even if we live there, we don't live in the third, eighth or the second century B.C.
The real meaning and sense of Yama and Niyama lies in the fact that everyone who wishes to undertake a path for self- development must develop in itself a greater sensibility towards not only others, but also the whole life, educating one's mind to ethical values that bring intellectual honesty, kindness, and self- integrity.
This has to be "translated" in a way which is in accordance to the intellectual development of contemporary men and women, so that it could become possible to dedicate ourselves to a protocol of altruism and mental "cleansing", and all this in a modality that is compatible (therefore, effective and useful) with the age in which we live.