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If you're wanting to work with a company that does good removal work, here at Ceemac Removals you'll find the right professionals for the job. We offer removals in the Glasgow area and in surrounding areas. Here is more about what we can help you with so you can know if we're the proper people for the job.
You're going to want professionals to do removal work for you because they will be able to do it properly. If you try to, for instance, move a heavy piece of furniture with no help, it could cause you to lose your balance and damage a wall with a part of the furniture that is sticking out like a leg of a couch. When we do our work, we make sure that we do not cause any damage to the building we're working in so when we're done the place looks like it did when you first moved in.
A professional service like ours is going to be able to do removal work for a price that is more than fair. Try to think about how your time is worth money, and it makes sense to hire help in the end. You can focus more on other things that you have to do when moving like dealing with the paperwork you have to fill out to move from one home to another. We'll take care of the removal work and you will then have one less thing you have to worry about.
If you need assistance with moving office equipment from one building to another, we can help with that as well. We have people on our staff that are experienced and know how to move heavy objects from one place to another without anything getting damaged. Let us know, also, if you need anything thrown out that you don't want any longer because we do clearance work as well. But, if you want everything moved we can do that quickly for you so in the long run you are able to get this move done as fast as you can.
Ceemac Removals is here to help you get from one building to another whether you're moving houses or offices. Let us know when you need our help and we'll meet you at the scheduled time. Let us know if you need anything or if you have any questions by contacting us.


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Here you will find tons of information about healthy eating and incorporating the principles of healthy nutrition into your daily life. Built around Dr. Cederquist's nutritional foundation for healthy weight loss, these articles place a wealth of information right at your fingertips.
The benefits of ethnic foods go beyond health and nutrition. Ethnic foods offer a look into diversities and expand appreciation towards other cultures. Let your taste buds travel with these ethnic flavors!
Ever notice yourself passing by all those unfamiliar foods in aisles three and four? Filled with various spices, seasonings, and tastes, there are tremendous benefits of ethnic foods. So next time you find yourself at the grocery store, stop and explore the ever evolving ethnic aisle.
When you walk down the store aisle, you may notice the benefits of ethnic foods goes beyond health and nutrition. Ethnic foods offer a look into diversities and expand appreciation towards other cultures. Travel to these ethnic flavors just by stepping into your nearest grocery store!
Spaghetti and meatballs, lasagna, ravioli, and Italian bread... If you read that and thought, "No way that can fit into my diet!" ...Think again. Although pastas often have a bad reputation when it comes to health and weight loss, enjoying an Italian meal does not have to feel like a setback. Italian dinners are generally consumed at a leisurely pace, which can help improve digestion. Tomatoes, olive oil, and fresh herbs including oregano, parsley, and basil provide the dish with flavor and nutrients. If at all possible, try to avoid gooey cheeses atop of pizza and in lasagna. Stick to serving sizes if indulging in such dishes.
Like Italian foods, Americans are quite familiar with Mexican food items. Although Mexican foods (generally found at Mexican restaurants) are often filled with fat and sodium, the use of fresh ingredients creates nutritious Mexican meals. Ditch the fryer and aim for lean beef and chicken, vibrant peppers and onions, and low sodium or homemade salsa.
Traditional Greek food is highly abundant in nutrients and similar to the Mediterranean diet. Greek food is filled with fresh produce, lean meats and fish, beans, and healthy oils. Omega-3 fatty acids found in fish and olive oil provide anti-inflammatory effects. The fiber content from produce and beans along with omega-3's also promotes heart health.
Japanese foods go beyond a sushi roll found in the already prepared section. Explore some of the ingredients Japanese cuisine has to offer - seaweed, miso, edamame, tofu, bok choy, and shiitake mushrooms. Japanese dishes offer tremendous amounts of protein from lean meats or plant-based, soybean products.
Curries and other Indian foods are not only filled with bold flavors, but numerous health benefits. Turmeric, a main ingredient in curry, has anti-inflammatory properties that can reduce infection and inflammation. When choosing curries, try to stray away from curries prepared with heavy cream and butter. Choose lentils, leafy greens, and lean meats over deep-fried chicken dishes.
Shimmy away from fried rangoons, spring and vegetable rolls, and breaded chicken and shrimp and embrace the rich flavors of Thai soups and rice dishes. The spicy foods of Thai culture are extremely helpful to health, rich in antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that may combat chronic disease.
Choosing nutritious ethnic foods is similar to picking foods in other aisles. When choosing foods, it is generally recommended to stray away from foods with unfamiliar ingredients. But when it comes to ethnic foods, several of the ingredients may seem unrecognizable. Instead of missing out on unique foods, utilize the nutrition facts label. Look for items low in added sugar and saturated and trans fats. Enjoy the foods and flavors this world has to offer!
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Amazon Just Became The World's Second Trillion-Dollar Company
Just weeks after globe-conquering tech giant Apple reached its $1 trillion value milestone, Amazon has joined them in crossing the threshold.
It's been under 25 years since the company began selling books and CDs online, but the retailer now provides everything from retail, to groceries, to video streaming. Amazon's achievements can be read in terms of its shares: Wall Street valued the company at $1tn with shares at $2,050 in comparison to when the retailer went public at $18 a share in 1997.
With both Amazon and Apple leading a stock market value that beats the economies of Turkey and Switzerland, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is said to be the world's richest man.
However, Amazon's success hasn't emerged without its criticism. Figures like Donald Trump have threatened a wider investigation into its online dominance after Bezos bought the Washington Post in 2013: "Amazon Washington Post has gone crazy against me," Trump wrote on Twitter in July.
Questions have also been raised regarding Amazon's attitude to tax and workers' rights, with Phillip Hammond even urging temporary tax measures to, "make sure that taxation is fair between business doing business the traditional way, and those doing business online."
This story originally appeared on Esquire.co.uk. Minor edits have been made by the Esquiremag.ph editors.


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The recent heavy rainfall made Stock Ghyll Force near Ambleside look particularly impressive.
However the volume of water has caused many problems. For instance, the little clapper bridge over Wynlass Beck at Millerground became choked with debris.
The bridge was giving a good impression of being a weir.
Finally the debris was cleared away and the water could flow freely under the bridge once again.
Nothing to do with the above post, but I went to the Lakeland wildlife Oasis at the weekend and took this image of one of the magnificent snow leopards!


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Huge South Korea Drill Likely to Infuriate North
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea announced on Wednesday land and sea military exercises including its largest-ever live-fire drill near North Korea in a big show of force just as tension on the peninsula was easing after Pyongyang's attack on a southern island.
The land drill, involving artillery, fighter jets and the largest number of personnel in a peace-time exercise, will take place on Thursday, after the South's live-fire artillery exercise on Monday on the island of Yeonpyeong, and is bound to infuriate the North.
South Korea is also holding three days of live-firing drills off the peninsula's east coast starting on Wednesday, a media official at the Defence Ministry said.
He would not provide details. Yonhap news agency said the drills were taking place 60 miles south of the maritime border with North Korea and involved at least six naval boats.
North Korea this week offered to re-admit U.N. inspectors concerned about its nuclear-weapon programme, leading to speculation of a resumption of six-party disarmament talks and a general sigh of relief around the world that the crisis had passed.
"Yes, it will be a show of force against that," an army officer said when asked if the shelling of Yeonpyeong island last month was a factor in the land drill's planning.
He said similar drills had been staged previously on more than 50 occasions, but the scale this time was unprecedented.
"The scale of mechanised assets taking place is enormous. When we would normally have 6 K-9 mechanised artillery, we'll have 36. We'll have the F-15 jets firing. We'll have choppers. You can say most of the mechanised assets taking part will be firing live ammunition."
It will take place in Pocheon region, less than 30 miles north of downtown Seoul.
The latest crisis peaked when North Korea shelled Yeonpyeong, just south of the disputed maritime border, killing four people -- including two civilians -- in the worst attack on South Korean territory since the end of the civil war in 1953.
The South carried out live-fire drills on Yeonpyeong on Monday, which provoked only a verbal reaction from the North.
It had vowed to strike back if the South went ahead with the drills, prompting fears of all-out war.
China, North Korea's only major ally, has urged dialogue to resolve the crisis and urged the North to follow through on its offer to allow U.N. inspectors into the country.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry had no immediate comment on the planned drill.
Analysts say the North is unlikely to undertake another act of aggression like this year's attack on South Korea's Cheonan warship, blamed on the North by the United States and the South, and the Yeonpyeong shelling, at least in the near term.
Its most likely next move would be to conduct live-fire artillery drills or possibly a short-range missile test into its waters off the west coast.
Analysts have said its recent militaristic acts have served to bolster family rule as ailing leader Kim Jong-il grooms his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, as his successor.
The South's Joongang Daily said before the announcement South Korea should practice "nimble diplomacy" and forge a closer relationship with China.
"As long as there is a constant threat from the North to launch a surprise attack, we must be on high alert from a military perspective," the newspaper said.
"But such preparations should be combined with diplomacy. We should reduce our diplomatic dependence on the United States and strengthen our ties with China and Russia."
Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun, also speaking before the announcement of the drill, said domestic financial markets had weathered the crisis and the South Korean economy, Asia's fourth-largest, stayed on a growth track.
But he warned that the tension could still dent consumer spending with a key sentiment measure due on Friday.
"Financial markets have been absorbing the North Korea risk without big trouble but we can't rule out consumer spending getting hurt," Yoon said during a weekly meeting of senior economic officials.
The won edged down slightly while stocks and bonds were stable as traders shrugged off the North Korea risk.
Traders said earlier that the currency was generally being affected more by concern over the euro zone.
Consumers and businesses in South Korea say they have lived with tension on the divided peninsula for decades and markets do not always react although the recent crisis had rattled global markets and remained an underlying risk.


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Defender Demetriou looking for the team to bounce back after defeatsDefender Mickey Demetriou has challenged his Shrewsbury Town teammates to put back to back defeats behind them as they prepare for Tuesday night's trip to Accrington Stanley.
Town were beaten 2-1 on Saturday by Northampton - their first league defeat at Greenhous Meadow this season.
But Demetriou, who suffered a serious looking head injury in Shrewsbury's previous game at Tranmere, says there are 13 'cup finals' left for Town to seal the league title.
"We've had two losses now so have to go again," said the former Kidderminster defender. "We look at every game as 'must win.' We've got 13 matches left and they're big cup finals to win the league. We're good enough to do it. We can't dwell on defeats. I've never played at Accrington before but we know we can beat them as we did it at home earlier this season. We're going there to get 3 points."
A win at the Crown Ground would see Town return to the top of League 2 as leaders Burton Albion aren't in action. Saturday's slip-up against the Cobblers saw Demetriou head in his 3rd goal of the season, but it proved to be just a consolation.
"We may have deserved a point with our efforts in the 2nd half, especially in the last 20 minutes," he said. "We didn't play our own game though and in the 1st half we struggled. They came with a game plan and stuck to it well. A lot of teams are doing that at the moment and we have to find a way to play around that. After the break we came out a lot more positive but obviously the goal was disappointing to concede, straight after half time. It killed us a little bit. If it happens again, we need to calm ourselves down and not panic. We've got 13 more games to win this league and that's the plan."
Manager Micky Mellon admitted afterwards the performance in the first half was poor so made a double change at the break with Bobby Grant and Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro brought on.
"The subs made a difference," said Demetriou. "Jean Louis is someone who you can't knock off the ball, we aim for him and it's worked for us. Bobby gets the ball down and gets crosses in the box for our 3 forwards to go and get on the end of. It's disappointing to lose the game but we can still go top on Tuesday if we win at Accrington. We've got to look at the positives with other results going our way too. We'll go again on Tuesday.
"My goal feels like a consolation as it didn't help us get anything from the game. It got us back in it but we didn't take advantage. I'm happy that I scored but I'd rather have won 3-0, not scored and kept a clean sheet with 3 points. This is our first defeat at home in the league this season and we have go go again. If we only lose one game at the Greenhous Meadow this season we've got a great chance of being there or thereabouts in May."
Demetriou also paid tribute to the medical teams at Tranmere and Shrewsbury after a head injury at Prenton Park a week earlier left him needing an oxygen mask and a trip to hospital after a heavy challenge.
"I'm all good," he said. "I thank the staff at Tranmere who looked after me and our own physio Chris Skitt. I'd have been panicking a lot more without him. It was a lot worse than people said. I missed training on Monday and Tuesday as with head injuries, you have to be cautious. I hate missing games so didn't want to be out of the Northampton match.
"I remember it very clearly so if I was knocked out, it must have been only for a brief moment at the start. It was more shock and Skitty said I'd lost a bit of colour which is probably why they took me to hospital. I wanted to play on and didn't want the stretcher but thankfully I'm okay.
"I was in their physio room when we scored near the end. At the time I didn't know whether it was us or them. Our made our trainee physio get in touch with my girlfriend to let her know I was fine as I knew she'd be panicking listening to it on the radio."


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Western Craft Kit
Western themed craft kits, hats, boots and horse themes. Craft kits for kids.
Craft Kits
There are several different types of craft kits that kids can enjoy. Actually, they can be enjoyed by any age and I would recommend them for the elderly also.
Kits have everything included that you need to complete a project.
Some of the kits that I have here are for individual projects and some kits will make up to a dozen of each item.
Kits have everything included that you need to complete a project.
Some of the kits that I have here are for individual projects and some kits will make up to a dozen of each item.
Sewing Crafts
Colorbok Horse Learn To Stitch Needlepoint Kit, 6-Inch by 6-Inch, Blue Frame
Have fun with a small stitching project. Stitch by color to complete this horse pattern in plastic canvas.
Cowboy Boot Bead And Stitch Kit
A small western bead craft that won't take to long to complete. The finished size will be 2 x 2 1/2 inches.
The kit includes beads, perforated paper and floss, cross stitch graph and instructions need to make the boot project. Use it for a Christmas ornament or add a magnet to the back to display on the refrigerator.
Western Boot Beaded Counted Cross Stitch Ornament Kit Mill Hill 2007 Spring Bouquet MH18-7106
Jewelry Craft Kits
1 dozen wooden bead kits with 28 inch nylon cords to make western necklaces with boots, cowboy hats and sheriff badges.
Western Wood Necklace Craft Kits (1 dz)
Little cowgirls will like these pink and lavender beads combined with wooden wooden charms. The kit comes with enough to make 12 necklaces.
Dozen Pink Cowgirl Necklace Craft Kits
Shrinky Dinks are fun to make and turn into cute horse themed jewelry.
This is a 32 piece set that included 10 Shrinky Dinks, 8 colored pencils, 12 jewelry findings, chain bracelet and instructions.
This project does require use of an oven to shrink the pieces after they are colored.
Shrinky Dinks Pony Jewelry
Modeling Clay Craft
Kids can create their own western play pieces with clay. Djeco Critters are made with air dry clay modeling kits.
The kit comes with clay and cardboard shapes to complete the models. There is a step by step color picture instruction book included. After the clay has dries, they are ready to play with.
Light Modelling Clay Wild West Craft Kit
Cowboy Hat Craft Kit
Every cowboy needs a hat and they can create their own using this foam hat kit.
The kit comes with materials to make 12 kid size hats.
Foam Cowboy Hat Craft Kits (1 dz)
Western Frame Kit
Have some fun when a group of little cowboys and cowgirls get together. This is a fun craft kit that includes all the pieces for a western photo frame.
12 Foam Western Photo Frame Magnet Craft Kits
Western Boot Photo Frame Kit
This kit includes materials to make 12 cowboy boot photo frames. The boots are printed on card stock and ready to color. The markers are also included.
Stamp Set With Horses
Horse stamps can be used for creating or embellishing many types of craft projects.
This set includes a wooden box for storage.
Melissa & Doug Horse Stable Stamp Set
This looks like it will be a really fun kit to have. It is a horse and pony themed sketchbook that comes with silhouettes to dress, stencils to design clothes, textures and accessories.
Mandela Craft Kit With Horse Designs
This kit comes with 1 frame and 10 sheets of paper.
There is 1 large and 1 small mandala stencil, a felt tip pen and 3 colored pencils.
Ravensburger 2-In-1 Mandala-Designer Horses
Horse Themed Purse To Color
This bag is printed with a horse and related riding gear. There are 6 colored permanent markers to customize it. It is a Winner of Learning Express Best Toy Award . I have included a video below that explains how to go online and create practice designs before before coloring the actual bag.
Paint By Number Horses
Use the easy to follow instructions and 8 acrylic paints to complete this 9 x 12 paint by number horse and kitten picture.
Dimensions Needlecrafts Paintworks Paint By Number, Pony And Kitten
Mosaic Craft Kits
Make 4 pretty horse mosaic projects with numbered designs and over 2000 sparkling jewels and tiles.
The Orb Factory Sticky Mosaics I Love Horses
Make a sweet horse themed jewelry box to store jewelry from all your jewelry crafts.
this project includes 1 jewelry box and 1200 sparkling jewels and sticky tiles to decorate with.
The Orb Factory Limited Sticky Mosaics Enchanted Horses Jewelry Box


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Superior cowhide crazy horse leather masterfully sewed with durable and rugged wash canvas fabric to ensure long lasting durability (leather surface have disorderly wrinkles, scars, scratches that present the style of retro and wildness).
Compared with other briefcases, this updated briefcase's inner foam paddings and bottom foam paddings protect notebook computers by absorbing impacts that can be inflicted in daily life. Carrying handle made of the same cowhide and fixed by high quality hardware, which brings comfortable feeling and makes the bag durable.
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The Zebrafish may have found their very own fountain of youth, or at least part of their brain has. Neurobiology and Anatomy research professor Richard Dorsky, at the University of Utah, is studying how the Wnt pathway in Zebrafish can grow new nerve cells in the hypothalamus. Researchers have found that Zebrafish can keep on growing new nerve cells even into adulthood. Dorsky's work understanding this mechanism of regeneration in the adult brain could ultimately offer insight into our own neuro-cognitive decline as a result of aging.
In the United States there are approximately 76 million baby boomers, and each year more and more are turning 65 years old. This means that maintaining a healthy functioning brain is becoming a higher and higher priority to a large portion of the population. At this time it seems inevitable that as we age, the normal brain will change physically and cognitively. This year it is estimated it will cost the U.S. $200 billion dollars to care for our 5.4 million Alzheimer's patients, and the figure is expected to climb higher. In fact, by the year 2050 it is estimated that the cost of Alzheimer's and other dementias will reach $1.1 trillion dollars. Add the devastating emotional impact on families faced with an elderly parent suffering from the disease, and it's clear why research into neuro-cognitive decline is so important.
It seems that the Dorksy lab is bringing us one step closer to being able to turn back the clock on the human brain. According to Dorsky, "Our research represents a significant contribution to the field because it ... can be used to shed light on the plasticity of the adult brain." Unlike humans, adult Zebrafish have a built in repair system for hypothalamus tissue damage in their brains. The fish's neural stem cells lie in wait ready to respond to chemical signals of cell damage or death. Part of what makes the Wnt pathway so interesting is that it changes from its embryonic to adulthood. At the embryo stage, Wnt signaling is essentially an on switch that tells the neural stem cells to rapidly grow. This causes the rapid increase of progenitor cells. The progenitor cells arise from neural stem cells. With more development the progenitor cells differentiate into the brain's structures. But this changes in adult Zebrafish when the Wnt pathway becomes radically different.
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In a recent article by Dorsky, Wnt signaling regulates postembryonic hypothalamic progenitor differentiation, he describes how his lab research determined how the Wnt pathway in adult zebrafish signals cell regeneration. In adults, the Wnt has to have perfect timing in order for the progenitor cells to grow and differentiate. The Wnt pathway has to first turn on to start the growth and differentiation, then later turn off again to grow properly. It can't just stay on.
Moreover, the lab studied mice in order to see how the Wnt pathway translates in other animal models. The researcher found that the wnt pathway in mice acts to stop the differentiation of glial cells. Moreover according to Dorsky: "In adult mice, hypothalamic neurogenesis seems to be significant in the regulation of feeding behaviors due to environmental changes."
So, the sooner we can find a cure for Neuro cognitve decline and turn back the time on our aging brain the better we will all be. So, with the help of a little fish, in the future we might be able to grow new neuro tissue in the hypothalamus. Who knew that the Zebrafish light lead us to our own neuro fountain of youth.
Members of the Dorsky lab include:
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-Lisa Benko- Graduate Student-Characterization of Multipotent Spinal Cord Progenitors
-Rob Duncan- graduate student- Identification of Neural Stem Cells in the Zebrafish Hypothalamus
-Hyung-Seok Kim-Postdoctoral-Fellow-Tcf3 Targets in Spinal Cord Development
-Adam McPherson-Graduate-Student-Functional Analysis of Post-Embryonic Hypothalamic Neurogenesis
-Xu Wang-graduate student-lab manager- Wnt Signaling and Post-Embryonic Hypothalamic Neurogenesis
The Dorsky lab is part of the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy which is located in the Wintrobe building adjacent to the school of medicine. The department occupies 17,000 square feet and has 13 department faculty researching: developmental biology, neuroscience, stem cells and regeneration, and neural disease and repair. The department currently uses several different animal models in its research: mouse, chicken, zebrafish, xenopus, and planaria.
Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. will be holding its 13th Annual Salt Lake BioResearch Product Faire Front Line event next on August 15, 2013. This professional show is an excellent opportunity for life scientists and lab equipment specialists to come together and discuss lab technologies to make every lab run at maximum efficiency. If you are unable to make it to our Utah show, these are other shows you might me interested in attending.
- 02/01/2013 13th Annual Houston BioResearch Product Faire™, located in Houston and situated at the Texas Medical Center.
- 02/06/2013- 8th Annual Mission Bay Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ located in San Francisco and situated on the UC San Francisco Campus
- 06/20/2013 - 4th Annual Denver BioResearch Product Faire™ at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus.


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Merrill briefs: Free lunch, rummage, rain barrels
Local churches offer free kids lunch
MERRILL – Two local churches will offer free lunches for children through the summer. The meals will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 11 to Aug. 28 at Stange's Park Picnic Shelter off Third Street.
Christ United Methodist Church will serve on Wednesdays, and Trinity Lutheran Church will serve on Thursdays. Lunches are offered for free with no questions asked. Adults also may eat and are encouraged to give whatever they can in the donation box.
Organizers hope more churches and organizations will become involved to cover more days of the week or possibly different sites. Those interested may contact Shiela Drury at 715-218-3459.
Trinity School to host brat fry, rummage
MERRILL – Trinity Preschool day care will hold its annual rummage sale from noon to 8 p.m. in the Trinity School cafeteria, at 611 W. Main St.
A brat fry, run by the Trinity student council, will be from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. outside the school. The brat fry will feature deliveries to local businesses. Call 715-536-7501 by 3 p.m. June 10 to schedule your delivery.
Plant exchange, rain barrel class set
MERRILL – Live Sustainable, Lincoln County will host its first plant exchange and sale from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 10, at the Lincoln County Services Center.
People can bring "extra" perennials to exchange for new ones or just come by to find that special plant missing in your garden.
A rain barrel workshop will be offered as well. Come and learn the basics of rain barrel use and maintenance and build your own rain barrel.
This workshop has limited seating and pre-registration is required. Fee for the workshop is $25 for Live Sustainable members and $35 for nonmembers.
Call the Lincoln County UW-Extension Office at 715-539-1072 for more information and to register.
EBook and Computer Coaching at T.B. Scott Library
MERRILL – Looking for classes on downloading e-books to your smartphone or tablet, or using a computer? Come to a Coaching session at T.B. Scott Library, 106 W. First St.
E-book coaching is scheduled at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 12, and Computer Coaching is scheduled at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 10, 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 11, and 10 a.m. Thursday, June 12.
Wood stove exchange program offered
GREEN BAY – Wisconsin Public Service Corporation is promoting a program to exchange older wood-burning appliances with cleaner, energy-efficient heating appliances.
The program offers rebates of $1,000 to $4,000 for qualifying appliance upgrades. Income qualified residents may be eligible to receive rebates of $3,000 to $10,000.
Eligibility criteria, as well as a list of participating retailers and instructions for applying are available on the website of the American Lung Association at www.lung.org., which is administering the program for WPS.


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Keeping a well-stocked pantry is critical to pulling off dinner on those nights when you have nothing thawed, haven't been to the grocery store in a week or everyone's whining has reached a decibel level that makes you physically unable to take more than 20 minutes to slap together a meal.
Ceci, chana, garbanzo beans — chickpeas. Whatever you call them, a can of these cute little legumes provide a protein-packed dinner in minutes. Add them to a warm-grain salad along with vegetables and a bright, lemony olive oil dressing, simmer up a tomato and curry chana masala or take literally 12 minutes to boil pasta and put together pasta e ceci.
And if you're coming up dry for a weekend lunch or snack, blend chickpeas for a creamy hummus or roast them for a crunchy bite to nosh on, or top a salad or soup. And if you really want to have your mind blown, do an Internet search for "aquafaba." This is the brine left over from canned beans or cooking beans. It can be used as an economical and vegan egg replacer, and even whipped into a meringue.
I always advocate starting with dried beans, but canned chickpeas and those soaked and cooked at home are more closely matched in flavor and texture than most, which is why you will always find several cans on my pantry shelf.
After trying a new recipe this weekend, I may be adding a new staple to my cupboards — chickpea flour.
Gluten-free flours have increased in popularity as more people are avoiding grains, whether they're paleo or gluten-intolerant or have allergies. I like to vary my diet and make sure I'm not leaning too heavily on any one ingredient, so I make dishes without gluten from time to time.
But many grain-free recipes rely on nut flours, which my children are allergic to. And no matter what type of flour is used, you can usually guess from one bite that the recipe was not made with wheat flour.
In "Always Hungry!" (Grand Central Life & Style, 2016), David Ludwig advocates that simply counting calories is not an effective way to lose weight. He recommends eating low-glycemic foods with higher protein and fat content. These foods satisfy and don't contribute to increasing insulin, which sends the message to the body's fat cells to store calories. Eating the right foods allows fat cells to release calories back into the body, helping to end the cycle of hunger.
The book comes with a detailed three-phase plan and a bunch of recipes. I've read a lot of diet and nutrition plans, and typically the recipes included with these books are lackluster. Not so with "Always Hungry!" While I haven't jumped into the plan with both feet, I like the philosophy and have loved the foods I've tried so far.
These grain-free waffles were one of the most pleasant surprises. Made with chickpea flour, they are easy to put together, and not a single member of my family detected that they did not contain a single grain of wheat. They cooked up light and crispy with a naturally sweet aroma and flavor.


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Since then we have expanded to offer ongoing LEGO Engineering and Studio Art programs. ACCPF subsidizes and coordinates these programs while working with professional partners that bring enrichment classes directory to school sites.
We are proud of our current partnerships with Brickspace STEAM Lab and LEGO Learning Center, Nimbus Arts , the California Institue of Music & Art (CIMA), and Mr. Scott Thomason. We are in the process of expanding programs to offer after school and in school Environmental Programs.
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This homemade butterscotch pudding is rich and delicious with a creamy, buttery smooth flavor combined with just enough bittersweet to create a pudding that is nothing like the boxed mix. This recipe starts out with a homemade caramel made from butter and dark brown sugar.
By bring the caramel up to a rolling boil then gently simmering it for around 15 minutes helps to insure an even cooking with less chance of burning (a common complaint with homemade caramel). After the caramel is mixed with cream and milk its heated to around 185 degrees then it is combined with the egg yolks and cornstarch.
A splash of vanilla and dark rum round out the flavor components. I prefer to strain my finished pudding thru a fine mesh sieve to ensure a completely smooth texture. The pudding is chilled for 3 hours and served with lightly whipped cream. Here is how you can make your own.
You can find the entire recipe here. Start by bringing the butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, water, corn syrup, lemon juice and salt to a boil. Cook until the temp reads 240 degrees on a thermometer. Reduce heat to medium low and simmer the caramel, stirring frequently, for 12 to 16 minutes until the temp reads 300 degrees.
Remove from heat and carefully whisk in 1/4 cup of the cream. Return pan to heat and whisk in remaining cream and 2 cups milk until smooth. Set aside.
Microwave remaining 1/4 cup milk for 30-40 seconds. In a large bowl whisk together the egg yolks and cornstarch. Gradually whisk in the hot milk. Set bowl aside.
Return saucepan with caramel mixture to medium high heat and whisk frequently until mixture is boiling rapidly and the temp reads 185 degrees on thermometer. Pour hot caramel mixture over egg mixture and whisk thoroughly for 15 seconds. Whisk in vanilla and rum.
Press hot pudding thru a fine mesh sieve into a bowl and cover surface with plastic wrap. Chill in fridge for 3 hours. Whisk chilled pudding and serve with lightly whipped cream.


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2 live men found tied to bridge in Mexican border city
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — In a rare occurrence, two men found beaten and tied to a bridge Tuesday in the Mexican border city of Reynosa turned out to be alive.
Reynosa and other border cities wracked by drug turf battles have seen the lifeless bodies of drug gang victims hung by their necks from bridges.
But this time, the bound men were tied to a bridge's railing, apparently not by their necks. Accompanying the men was a banner signed by a reputed drug capo promising to catch common criminals and leave them for police.
An official with the Tamaulipas state prosecutors' office said the two men were being treated for their injuries. The official was not authorized to talk to the press and insisted on speaking on condition of anonymity.
At the other end of the country, authorities in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero reported that a German man was killed in the resort city of Acapulco.
Guerrero state security spokesman Roberto Alvarez said the German was slain along with his Mexican brother-in-law in the city's red-light district. The killing is under investigation.
The German Embassy did not immediately respond to requests to confirm the man's name, nationality or hometown.
On Friday, an American man and a Mexican woman were found murdered in a condominium in Acapulco. The bodies of the 70-year-old man and 65-year-old woman were discovered in the morning in the fourth-floor apartment with wounds on their necks consistent with strangulation.
The U.S. Embassy identified the male victim as Stanley Enders, with no hometown given.


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Jøtul F3
Jøtul F3 is the advanced model of the popular Jøtul F3 TD, with cleanburn technology for greater efficiency and controllability and an integral ash solution for ease of use. Cast with clean classical lines, the Jøtul F3 is offered in traditional Matt Black or with one of Jøtul's iridescent enamel finishes, Blue-black, Pewter or Ivory.
Adaptable with a short leg option, the Jøtul F3 and Jøtul F3 TD make an elegant focal point in any room. An environmentally friendly woodburning stove, the Jøtul F3 is also capable of burning a mixture of wood and selected smokeless fuels.
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This is a true multi-fuel version of the iconic cast iron Jøtul F3. Available in Black paint only, the plain door gives an uninterrupted view of the fire. With primary air control on the ash pan door and secondary air via the control at the top of the stove, user friendliness comes as standard with this model. It comes complete with an easy to remove bottom grate. The Jøtul MF3 redefines the word classic.


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The thing about snuggling on the couch as a family is that regular blanket just aren't big enough. And when you get yourself covered up, people are always pulling your piece of blanket off. Well, problem solved. I think. This is the Big Blanket.
As its name says, it's big and it's a blanket. This $150, oversized blanket measures 10-feet by 10-feet, which is just a little bit bigger than a California King-size blanket or comforter, which measures about 9-feet wide, so you are only gaining an extra foot here. So why not just buy one of those and save yourself more than a hundred bucks? Maybe that's just me.
Still, if you need a giant blanket to keep the whole family cozy on movie night, it's not a bad idea. Just don't act like you've reinvented the wheel, Big Blanket guys. Sure, it's much bigger than an average throw, but you're basically selling a slightly larger bed blanket. Sorry, but hyperbole makes me want to rant. Now if it were double the size of a California King, you might have something to brag about, but then it really would be impossible to wash.
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The calendar is just days away from turning to 2013. With that, the book will effectively be closed on the 2012 season as we look ahead toward the year to come in MLB.
But 2012 provided several memorable performances that won't be quickly forgotten.
Obviously, some players were recognized for their achievements with MLB's individual awards, honoring the best hitters and pitchers in each league. Their place in baseball history is assured.
But plenty of other stars had great seasons, the kinds of seasons that they surely wish would never end. For some, 2012 was a breakout year. For those who already established themselves, this year provided affirmation of their greatness.
Here are 12 MLB stars who may not want to let go of 2012 and move on to the new year just yet. They might want to savor their great season a bit longer.


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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. – A Port St. Lucie boy says all he wants for his birthday is a friend. His mother said he has Asperger's and has been bullied at school. Now, she's working with a non-profit to ensure people show up at a big birthday bash!
I asked William Morales what his biggest wish for his birthday party was, and he responded, "That I could at least make a friend I guess because I really don't have any,"
Those are hard words for anyone to hear.
"Not a lot of people at my school like me," he said.
I told him I thought he was pretty cool and I'd only known him a few minutes. "Yeah, I guess," he said.
Source: Port St. Lucie boy on the Autism spectrum just wants friends to show up at his birthday party


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We provide the highest standard of care with the latest cutting-edge technology. Here are some highlights. Feel free to click on the links below to get more information about some of the technology we use to serve our Austin area patients with the best eye-care possible.
Our Optomap retinal imaging system provides an alternative to dilating the eyes, so we can avoid the side effects commonly experienced with dilation, such us blurry vision and sensitivity to light. As a result, disease states that cannot be diagnosed with the dilation method are found with the Optomap, allowing us to create digital retinal images. These retinal images of the back of the eyes are saved in your permanent electronic file for future reference and comparison, which is an excellent method for detecting glaucoma, retinal detachment, diabetic eye retinopathy, and many other eye diseases. Our OCT instrument is the standard of care in detecting macular, retinal, and glaucomatous pathology.
Our new Spectral Microscope is the best instrument for detecting corneal pathology connected to contact lens usage. We can now check if your contact lenses are treating your eyes well or if we need to change them for you.
Our brand new Corneal Topographer helps us provide you with the best and most accurate contact lens fit.
Below you will be able to read about some of the state of the art technology that we utilize within our office.
Simply click on one and learn more about it and how it is used in our practice.


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Introducing Brokers
An Introducing Broker (IB) is an individual/company that has a direct relationship with a client. IB acts as a middleman by matching an entity seeking access to markets with a counterparty willing to take the other side of the transaction. Generally speaking, IBs make recommendations while delegating trade execution and back office operations to others.
Proton Capital Markets offers an outstanding opportunity for qualified professionals to become Introducing Brokers (IB).
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Seeded with $2.5M, Sales Tech Firm Polis Is Coming for Your Front Door
There's at least one thread tying together clean energy providers, former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, and home security systems, and it runs through a small Cambridge, MA, startup founded in 2015 by Kendall Tucker.
Her sales and political canvassing technology company Polis has helped sell all three of them by sending people to residents' front doors, knocking (or ringing a bell), and striking up a conversation. And the startup is coming soon to your front door (if it hasn't been there already.)
"Our goal is to knock every door in America in the next two years," says Tucker, a Columbia University undergraduate and political campaigner herself who founded the company after being frustrated by existing campaign software. After designing the platform to address political canvassing—and its use in many campaigns including O'Rourke's run for the U.S. Senate—her team shifted onto another aim: door-to-door sales.
Her answer was Polis' software. Its data analytics engine starts by giving sales employees and campaign volunteers optimized routes through the neighborhoods they are assigned. At each home, it guides the user through scripts that, for example, can help the sales person sell a clean energy plan to the resident, or if there's little interest in that, just a cheaper energy plan. New branches sprout on the script as the conversation continues. When all's said and done, the outcome is logged (be it a sale, a stern warning not to come back, or a no answer), and the user moves on to the next house.
Polis also lets companies track their sales workers in the field and respond to how they are selling (or not). The company boasts that businesses using the Polis system close 8 percent of homes visited, versus the 2 percent average in the industry.
Polis, based in a Verizon-operated co-working space in Cambridge, says it has raised $2.5 million in a seed funding round led by Haystack VC. Joining in the round are Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian's and former Y Combinator partner Garry Tan's firm Initialized Capital, former NFL hall of famer Joe Montana's firm Liquid2 Ventures, Fathom Capital and Background Capital. The funds put Polis's total capital raised at $4.5 million.
Polis primarily works in three industries: energy, telecommunications, and home security—all home-based products and obvious candidates for door-to-door sales. Customers include NRG Energy (NYSE: NRG), Rogers Communications (NYSE: RCI), and Telus (NYSE: TU), Tucker says. Polis has seen interest from two NBA teams about selling season tickets, realtors, insurance, pest control, and other home services companies.
Polis has 19 employees split between sales and marketing offices in Utah and engineering and customer success in Cambridge. Tucker says the investment will help Polis grow "as quickly as possible," and it plans to hire 30 to 60 more people in the next year, including engineers, data scientists, customer success, and sales.
The funds will also help the startup branch out into training an on-demand staff of door-knockers who can be hired to take on sales jobs for clients without a staff of their own, Tucker says.
A business's decision to launch a door-to-door sales campaign can be a sort of crystal ball for what kind of customer it should target through other forms of marketing.
In one case, a home security company launching a door-to-door sales run using the Polis system had thought its products would sell well to tech-oriented people because it always had sold well to that segment when advertising online, Tucker says. The sales visits, however found the products were selling far better with low- and middle-income homes.
Other insights were less expected.
"One of our energy partners did some data analysis after a few months of using our product and found that their door knockers were having consistently better results when they pitched people who supported casinos, versus those who didn't," Tucker says. "They took that information and decided to up their marketing spend at casinos to better reach their end customer. They're making a lot more money because of that realization."
For all the focus on door-to-door sales, Polis hasn't left politics behind. Its platform is still available for campaigns, and Tucker hints she'll have big news on the political front in a few weeks.
"Our organization continues to be focused on how to empower all Americans to have a voice in elections," she says. "We think a crucial part of empowering the American citizenry is talking to all people in-person."
Tucker says teams using Polis have visited 10 million U.S. households so far, and it only needs the other 110 million to reach its lofty goal.


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The School surveys students about their teaching experience in the Michaelmas and Lent Terms. The surveys provide an opportunity for students to share their opinion of the courses they have taken and to inform the School of what works well and of areas where improvements can be made.
We no longer administer paper surveys, all surveys are delivered online. For further information on the process, please see the section on 'Conducting the Survey'.
There are two types of surveys. One for classes and seminars (PDF) and one for lectures (PDF). The questions ask students about their class/seminar teaching, about their lectures, and about their courses as a whole. Students are also invited to provide overall comments on the positive and negative aspects of the teaching they are receiving.
The results from these surveys are used in a number of ways. They provide teachers with feedback on strengths in their teaching competencies; and they flag those areas in which they might improve.
Heads of Departments receive the teaching survey results of their staff members. Where individual teachers score poorly, the Head helps to put support and development arrangements in place. This can include coaching and mentoring from the Teaching and Learning Centre for example.
Survey results also help the School to reward teaching excellence. For example, a teacher's survey results are an important set of evidence considered by the Promotions and Review Committee.
The Education Committee also reviews course survey results. Survey results form part of the data set departments are asked to consider as part of the annual programme monitoring exercise and are also included in the evidence base when departments undergo periodic review. In this way, student feedback can influence how a course is delivered and how taught provision and particular programmes of study evolve over time.
Previous teaching survey results by department can be found on the survey results page.
Students can view departmental results on the survey results page.
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Igor Melnikov's illusory paintings employ tropes of landscape painting and portraiture in order to convey ambiguous emotional states. An underground painter during his time in the Soviet Union, he was constantly confronted with a paucity of materials, and so developed an economical approach to painting, reflected in the spare directness of his work. Melnikov paints in a technically precise manner, creating dream-like spaces inhabited by childish figures bearing indeterminate facial expressions, which lend the work an aura of emotional instability. "The most important thing to me is to catch the uncatchable expression on the face," Melnikov says. "There is an instant when you don't know whether it is going to be a smile or tears."
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In a time plagued by sugar-free diets and the rejection of any food rich or processed, chocolate has become the enemy of many otherwise sensible people. Chocolate's bad rep is unfair—after all, not all chocolate is created equal. That sumptuous dark chocolate confection shouldn't be reviled like its 99 cent liquor store candy bar companion—not only does the luxurious dark chocolate taste incredible, but it contains antioxidants, it widens arteries for healthier blood flow, and reduces the risk of heart disease. If you ever needed a reason to add chocolate to your daily diet, there it is.
The next step is finding the best chocolate for you, and that's where Sacramento Chocolate Salon steps in. On Jan. 25, more than 20 different chocolatiers, confectioners, wineries and other food industry hot shots will be coming together at the Citizen Hotel to put on Sacramento's first luxury chocolate show. The list of guests includes Amano Artisan Chocolate, Oscura Chocolate, 24K Chocolate Cafe at Ancient Future, Raffine Chocolates, Rosa d'Oro Vineyards and more. Chocolate insiders and addicts alike will have the chance to sample chocolates from the various vendors, try out wine pairings, attend chef and author talks, demos, and interviews, and buy gifts for chocolate-loving friends. This salon is a rare chance to test out some of the finest gourmet chocolates in the region. For more information on this event, see here.
What: Sacramento Chocolate Salon
When: Saturday, Jan. 25, 11 a.m–5 p.m.
Where: The Citizen Hotel, 926 J St., Sacramento
Cost: $10–$25 (children under 6 free)


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Happy Thursday!
We are hip hopping today, so glad you joined in on the fun. If you didn't start at the beginning of the hop, you will want to hop on over to the Unity blog.
I feel like I have been away for EVAH! Ha. The hubby and I took a trip to Miami, FL to visit his family and friends. TEN days full of food, Cuban coffee, visiting, FUN, hugs and sleeping in! Ha.
We had such a wonderful time, but I missed home and my girls.
Plus, I'm so happy to get back into my craft room. I missed out on all the new {ippity} release fun, so I just had to break out my new set again for today.
You can get this or any of the new releases from ANY of the {ippity} chicks. To find one follow the link below.
I have a ton of thank you cards to send after our trip. We have the best bunch of friends in Florida. The kind that will always be there for you even though you may not see them all the time. We had a wonderful time visiting with them and miss them already.
It is SO true… true friends are priceless.
I couldn't decide if I wanted to stamp the flowers directly onto the card front or to pop them up. Well, I stamped all my stems before I decided and realized I wouldn't be able to do any masking at that point. Oops. So they are all stamped, cut out and popped up. Ha. Just a little glitter glue to the centers help them SPARKLE just right.
Ready to head over to Maren's blog next? I can't wait to see what she is up to this week!
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Rehat Maryada: Section Five
Chapter XII - Altruistic Work
Article XXI - Voluntary Service
Voluntary service (Seva) is a prominent part of Sikh religion. Illustrative models of voluntary service are organized, for imparting training, in the gurdwaras.
Its simple forms are: sweeping and plastering the floors of the gurdwara
[In olden times, buildings, particularly in rural areas had mud and not brick paved or cement floors. To give to these floors firmness and consistency, they were thinly plastered with a diluted compound of mud.],
serving water to or fanning the congregation, offering provisions to and rendering any kind of service in the common kitchen-and-eating house, dusting the shoes of the people visiting the gurdwara, etc.
a. Guru's kitchen-and-Eating House.
The philosophy behind the Guru's kitchen-and-eating house is twofold:
to provide training to the Sikhs in voluntary service and to help banish all distinction of high and low, touchable and untouchable from the Sikhs minds.
b. All human beings, high or low, and of any caste or colour may sit and eat in the Guru's kitchen-with-eating house. No discrimination on grounds of the country of origin, colour, caste or religion must be made while making people sit in rows for eating.
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Retailers are running out of time to sell drop-side side.
The Consumer Protection Safety Commission last year to ban cribs with a traditional drop side in the United States. The ban is to address the high number of infant deaths in connection with the cribs
The mandate declares more than 100,000 cribs must be thrown away, unless they are sold by June 28. Retailers must sell the affected cribs by the mandatory deadline. Institutions such as child-care facilities and homes, along with hotels, are particularly feeling the burden of this deadline. Many cribs are not being sold and some commissioners have voted in favor of extending the date.
"Although some have argued that our treatment of childcare facilities, places of public accommodation, and now rental companies is inconsistent with the Commission's decision to not allow retailers more time to sell noncompliant inventory, this argument ignores a clear distinction between these two groups that was key in my decision to allow these service providers an extended compliance date," according to news reports.
From November 2007 to April 2010, there have been 36 deaths associated with the drop side crib designs from infants becoming entrapped and suffocating.
As a Beaufort personal injury attorney , I think it's about time this dangerous crib design has been phased out. I have reported about these crib recalls in the past, and I'm surprised we are still using these dangerous cribs. I urge you to stop using these drop side cribs to ensure child safety.
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Childhood trauma. Working on trauma from your childhood. Healing this together with your inner child.
Childhood trauma
I think all of us encountered things in their childhood that didn't go ideally. Some experienced more of this than others. Childhood trauma. We are often not aware that experiences in our youth can stay with you for life. They can even define your whole life. Childhood experiences, the relationship with your parents and the things that happen in school have a large impact on the way you approach life at a later age.
Childhood trauma and parents. If parents insufficiently see the needs of their children, psychological problems may occur and an emotional burden accumulates.
Childhood traumas and traumatic experiences that are not fully processed can bring about unpleasant consequences and symptoms you may still suffer from today, such as: physical, mental and emotional impairments, posttraumatic stress disorder and other psychological symptoms.
When emotions are blocked, it's often because we experienced events during which these emotions were too intense so process all at once. The emotions that remain in our body form an emotional blockage. When emotions are blocked, other feelings take their place. Sadness can for instance transfer to self-pity, shame, bitterness, depression, anger and worrying. Anxiety can turn into panic, phobias, avoidance, denial, a fear of future things, and so on.
If you are experiencing this, it's important to do something about it. Naturally, I recommend going to your physician. There are many different specialists and treatment methods that could help you. I will describe a ritual you can do yourself below. See it as a supplement. Anyone can do this. It is harmless. The only important thing is that you carry it out with love and respect and with the right intention.
Childhood traumas and inner child
The following ritual is a variation of the Ho`oponopono ritual. I do it regularly and find it very pleasant. The Ho`oponopono ritual stems from a shaman from Hawaii. It involves making contact with your inner child. Your inner child is formed based on your experiences in your childhood. You develop all sorts of skills during this period you will need in life. Your inner child is housed in the bottom three chakras.
Exercise to heal childhood traumas with your inner child
Childhood trauma. You can do this exercise for instance before going to sleep, so while you're in bed. Each time you do this exercise you pick a theme you want to receive healing for. The theme of this example is not receiving enough love during your childhood.
Try to relax. Try to breathe calmly. Make sure you take your time for this. Try to relax your mind and thoughts. Just let everything go. Don't pay any attention to the thoughts that come to you.
Your heart is your centre. We will first connect the heart and energy with each other in preparation for the ritual. Try to let energy ascend from your feet. This is earth energy that offers safety and security. Feel this energy crawling up towards your heart. Feel how your heart is being filled with this energy. Try to feel incoming energy through the crown of your head. This is cosmic energy that increases your intuition and brings you inspiration and wisdom. Let this energy enter your heart. If you have difficulties doing this, try giving the energy a colour. Give the earth energy a red colour and the cosmic energy a blue/violet colour. Try to feel and visualise how these energies come together in your heart and for instance create circles in your heart and mix with each other. Feel that it's good!
Making contact with your inner child
Now place both hands on your body. Place them on top of each other, with the palms facing down between your belly button and your private parts. This is the spot of the inner child. Now try to make contact with your inner child. Ask lovingly if you're allowed to make contact, start talking with it. If you have the right intention and you do it with love, it will work. The inner child is not going to talk back and even if you feel nothing at all, trust that it's working and that she's listening! Take your time making contact.
Now tell your inner child you want to remove all blockages you have in the area of giving and receiving love. Talk about and describe that you didn't receive enough love from your parents during your childhood. Don't do this with any resentment, because that's not what it's about right now! Do it with respect and understand that your inner child carried this with her all this time. Take your time doing this.
Now turn your hands around so the palms are facing up and invite your inner child to place a package of a shortage of love, pain, sadness and negative experiences on your hands. Now say these four short phrases:
Inner child, I'm sorry
Inner child, forgive me
Inner child, I love you
Inner child, I thank you
Repeat this as long as you're thinking of negative experiences. You can do this as many times as you want, as long as it feels right.
Try to feel and visualise
There's a big chance you feel a package placed on your hands at a certain point. Even if you're not very sensitive to energy. Know and trust this is the case! Now put this package between your hands. Bring your hands towards your mouth and powerfully blow this package into the universe. Try to visualise all this negative energy disappearing into the universe. Then thank the universe for taking this negative energy.
Then extensively thank your inner child. Put your hands back on the same spot and send love to your inner child. If you for instance practise reiki, you could send her some reiki. Otherwise, just try to send her love. Practice makes perfect! You can do it! Finally, agree that you'll be back to work on the same or on different issues.
Repeat the theme as many times as you want. You can also do it with other themes that didn't go well in your childhood. The inner child has carried these bad experiences all this time. So be thankful and loving. Repeat this ritual as many times as feels right! Your inner child will be happy and you can now shine together!
We are all different, and especially at the start it might be difficult if you don't feel anything is happening. You will have doubts on whether it will work. This all has to do with sensitivity to energy. Trust that it will happen. If you do it with the right intention, love and respect, it will definitely work!!
Good luck
I`ve developed apps you can use to make changes to your own life. For instance using the help of angels or requesting the assistance of ascended masters. Or using affirmations. Now, there's an app with guided meditations combined with visualization and feeling. Feel free to check the spiritual apps page to see if something speaks to you…
Paul Wezenbeek
Other items for spiritual help and growth.
The self-help apps for spiritual growth and help:
Guided Meditation and Visualization App – Guided Meditations including Visualization and Feeling
Animal Messages App – Messages from animals
Ascended Masters App – Help from risen Masters
Positive Affirmations App – Using affirmations
Spiritual information:
Reincarnation. Why are we on earth, what is the purpose? What happens between the lives?
The fifth dimension, what does that mean? What is it really…
Ascension: Higher energy/vibrations on earth. How do you notice them?
Chakras: what, what for and why….
Buddha. A lot of people have a Buddha statue. When and where did he live? Who was he?
Why meditate? What is it? Why and how do you do it?
Third eye. What is it? What does it do? Where is it?
Spiritual help:
Archangel Michaël and his protective pillar of light.
Goddess Lakshmi and attracting abundance.
Sleeping well. Going to sleep in a positive way.Requesting energetic help to guide you in your sleep.
Help of angels. Ask them for help! Right now! Angels are love and there's nothing wrong with love…
Affirmations: Nine golden rules for using affirmations successfully.
Unconditional love. The road we all get to walk. Unconditional love is like the sun.


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Zhou Dong Yu attended the closing ceremony of the 3rd Beijing International Film Festival held at the China National Convention Center in Beijing, China yesterday evening.
She stunned wearing a Giambattista Valli Spring 2013 Couture dress.
You can't help but be enchanted by this breathtaking sunshine-yellow dress with a layered skirt, intricate tonal embellishments and embroidered details – even those of you who dislike rise-and-fall hemlines.
The actress styled her look with Rupert Sanderson off-white pumps, a purple Olympia Le-Tan clutch and Pomellato jewels.
This is a BDOTW contender for me. Do you agree?
Credit: Style.com & Sina


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Making Senses
Winnipeg architects Kyle Janzen and Chris Burke have happily found themselves in the land of synaesthesia. In collaborating on a light piece for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra's 2015 New Music Festival, they discovered that what they thought would be a device for projecting images onto the ceiling of the Centennial Concert Hall was taking on an aural character. Their device is a rectangular column with a tray of water and vibrating motors, which disturb the water and create a rippling effect. "We realized there was a sonic presence because of the vibrations," Burke says. "We could tie a sound to what was happening to the surface of the water and it was very direct." They call their piece Hearing Eyes.
The initial idea of working with water and vibrations came from music. They had been listening to Become Ocean, the Pulitzer Prize winning work by American composer John Luther Adams. "We liked the idea of working with water as an analogue means of registering a sound as a visual thing," says Janzen. "All sound is some form of vibration."
The form of their piece has changed, moving from a mechanism that would project images upwards to a stand-alone piece that will contain and reflect the visual patterns within its own dimensions. So has the number shifted; now the artists are thinking about a small orchestra. "Ideally we would have at least three to capture a low, medium and high range," says Janzen. His collaborator adds, "When you walk towards it you might see some light leaking, but the first thing you hear would be sound coming from these wooden pedestals. You can look inside and see the machine working. It's as immersive as the viewer would be willing to make it. The more you get into it, the more you'll understand what is going on."
They have approached Hearing Eyes with an eye towards refinement and simplicity, and what they both call "honesty." There is no decoration; everything is there because it needs to be there. The design aesthetic came directly from each piece being necessary. They were also "super-concerned and attentive to craft," so the box contains three high-powered LEDs, each of which is made from three colour channels; the technology will allow them to control the intensity of the colour, as well as which lights are on and off.
Janzen and Burke were taken by an observation made by Alexander Mickelthwate, the Music Director and conductor of the WSO, when he talked about the joy of "hearing something you haven't heard before." This pair of collaborating artists intends to go beyond that singular exploration; in wanting one sense more, their purpose is to show us something we haven't heard before. ❚
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Following on from this post I discovered that I did, indeed, have a recursive reference in my game file. After a little searching, I found this excellent article on how to prevent this error, and to make the Json serializer behave rationally.
In MVVMCross, the code to serialize JSON is based on a standard plugin; it looks like this (or at least this is how I am saving my game):
public void Save() { var jsonConv = Mvx.Resolve<IMvxJsonConverter>(); string text = jsonConv.SerializeObject(this); FileHelper.SaveGameFile(text); }
The type is registered in App.cs like this:
Mvx.RegisterType<IMvxJsonConverter, MvxJsonConverter>();
What's the fix?
The above article says the fix is this:
Settings = new JsonSerializerSettings { PreserveReferencesHandling = PreserveReferencesHandling.Objects
(it does go into more detail and I encourage everyone to read it).
So this is a change to MVVM Cross
Might be.
However, you can always use your own Serializer. One of the things that I've come to really like about MVVM Cross if that if you don't like something, just write your own and override that specific thing. I stole this code, verbatim, from MVVM Cross, with the single exception of the one line above:
public class MyJSonConverter : IMvxJsonConverter { private static readonly JsonSerializerSettings Settings; static KMJSonConverter() { Settings = new JsonSerializerSettings { ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Serialize, Converters = new List<JsonConverter> { new MvxEnumJsonConverter(), }, DateFormatHandling = DateFormatHandling.IsoDateFormat, PreserveReferencesHandling = PreserveReferencesHandling.Objects }; } public T DeserializeObject<T>(string inputText) { return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<T>(inputText, Settings); } public string SerializeObject(object toSerialise) { return JsonConvert.SerializeObject(toSerialise, Formatting.None, Settings); } public object DeserializeObject(Type type, string inputText) { return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(inputText, type, Settings); } }
Now, in App.cs, just change how it is registered:
Mvx.RegisterType<IMvxJsonConverter, MyJSonConverter>(); //Mvx.RegisterType<IMvxJsonConverter, MvxJsonConverter>();
Job done. It now works!


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School Games Mark
Lakenheath Community Primary school is part of the Mildenhall SEND Hub, a group of local schools working together to support inclusion. This year, together with our parents, we created a set of FAQs about how we support the learning of all our children. This information can be accessed via the school website, using the 'Schools Offer' icon or following the link above.
In September 2014 we were asked to join CASSA, an alliance of schools in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk who are working together to raise standards for all of our children. The alliance is based at the teaching school, Linton Village College. This alliance will allows for the opportunity for staff to work closely with other schools to improve their practise and access high quality professional development.
Since September 2013 we have been working with the Primary Advantage Federation in Hackney to develop and improve Maths Teaching and subject knowledge across the school. Two of our staff spent four days in Hackney Schools and have come back to work with our staff on improving Maths across the school. We are now starting to support other schools in Suffolk, whilst maintaining regular links with Hackney.
The Fiveways partnership consists of four local primary schools who meet on a regular basis to share ideas, provide experiences for pupils and to enable staff to work closely together.
Recent examples of Fiveways activities include shared PD days on raising standards in Maths, a joint Lesson Study for the the year 3 teachers in Maths and a University Challenge competition for year 6 children.


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I promised more posts and didn't deliver. I have no excuses - I have been lazy. That is all.
Me too, Sylvester!
For a while now I've wanted to get back into the challenges that have been left unfinished
(being a type A personality, this bugs me tremendously), so I started by re-visiting
Day 10 of the BATTLE Nail challenge holo vs matte.
Using China Glaze Infra Red, Peita's Polish Razzamatazz and Dance Legend Teleportation
For the stamping I used the DRK-B plate
I enjoyed wearing this very much - and I loved getting back into the challenge!
Thanks for stopping by today!


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Singing the blues about Chesapeake's crab numbers
Crab cakes.
Crab soup.
Crab imperial.
Encrusted with a favorite seasoning or lightly broiled as cakes, by the pound or by the bushel, crab meat is a great love.
Blue crabs are one of the tastiest and more resilient species that come from the Chesapeake Bay, and their fate is the hands of Pennsylvanians.
The good news is total numbers of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay are up slightly this year, after the 2012-13 survey indicated a drastic loss down to 300 million.
The 2015 Chesapeake Bay winter crab dredge survey shows populations of juvenile and adult blue crabs have gone up to 411 million. Most notable is how adult females have clawed their way from 68 million to 100 million.
Blue crab populations fluctuate because of a witch's brew of factors like severe winters, the harvest and pollution. Chesapeake Bay watermen supply as much as one-third of the nation's blue crabs each year. About 75 percent of the bay's adult blue crab stock is harvested.
As for Mother Nature, there is little any of us can do to control the weather.
But pollution control is within our grasp. Driven by our commitment at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to improve water quality in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania as well as the bay, we cannot think of delicious crab meat without also thinking of crabgrass.
A dense lawn is one of the more effective barriers against what many Americans consider intrusive and offensive crabgrass. Applying lawn fertilizer can help get the job done.
But the runoff of nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment is the leading cause of impairment of 19,000 miles of Pennsylvania waterways. Agriculture is the largest source of that pollution. Urban and suburban runoff are also key sources.
The commonwealth delivers half of the fresh water that flows into the bay. It's easy to see how what we do in Pennsylvania, through agriculture and what we put onto our lawns, affects the health of the bay and its blue crabs.
The presence of nitrogen and phosphorus in the bay encourages the explosive growth of algae. Algal blooms darken the water and block light, killing underwater grasses that re-oxygenate the water and provide critical shelter for crabs.
"Dead zones" are formed when blooms fed by polluted runoff quickly die and decay, sucking up oxygen. In order to find oxygen, crabs move to shallow waters, where they are caught more easily. "Dead zones" also destroy or inhibit the growth of clams and worms, an important food source for crabs.
The Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint is a plan that sets pollution limits for the commonwealth and the bay. Pennsylvania has developed an individual plan to achieve those pollution reduction goals and committed to two-year milestones that outline the actions it will take to achieve success.
Achieving pollution reduction goals and improving water quality in Pennsylvania, with a sensitivity toward how we handle pollution, can ensure an ecosystem in the Bay that supports a healthy blue crab population.
Campbell is the Pennsylvania executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.


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LA GRANDE, Ore. – For the second time in as many collegiate seasons, sophomore Willie Spurr (Seattle, Wash./Roosevelt HS) has been named First Team All-Cascade Conference, as announced by the conference office on Sunday. The Geoducks also landed three on the second team.
Spurr led the Geoduck offense with five goals and three assists this season as he was directly responsible for three game-winners this year. He was one of just two sophomores on the team, joining Corban's James Williamson.
A trio of seniors were named Second Team All-CCC as defenders Greg Wolfe (Oak Harbor, Wash./Oak Harbor HS/Shoreline CC) and Brady Espinoza (Pasco, Wash./Pasco HS/Walla Walla CC), as well as midfielder Joseph Ademofe (Ifon, Nigeria/Shoreline CC) all earned recognition by the coaches.
Concordia senior forward Septi Danciu repeated as CCC Player of the Year while Northwest keeper Joe Galbraith was named CCC Defensive Player of the Year. Corban's Kemar Prince was named Newcomer of the Year while Aaron Lewis earned Coach of the Year after leading the Warriors to the regular season and tournament titles.


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"One of the best pieces I ever wrote in my life, which no one ever heard of," as Gay Talese put it on his recent Longform podcast, has been republished on longform.org: "Mr. Bad News," Talese's 1966 Esquire profile of the Times obituary writer Alden Whitman. Talese says that, despite the fame of his larger-than-life portraits of larger-than-life people (Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio), he has often preferred less exalted subjects. You also get the sense that Talese derives a quiet thrill from exploring a great literary theme by way of the everyday: "While death obsessed Hemingway and diminished John Donne," Talese writes, "it provides Alden Whitman with a five-day-a-week job that he likes very much…"
In the November/December issue of Washington Monthly, Stephanie Mencimer pieces together the saga of Jamie Leigh Jones, a former Iraq-based employee of a Halliburton subsidiary who, in 2005, began an advocacy and litigation campaign based on allegations that she had been gang-raped. Her story eventually drew members of Congress, documentary filmmakers, ABC's "20/20," and the federal-court system into its orbit—yet as Mencimer's investigation demonstrates, the disturbing story masked a tangle of conflicting accounts, rooted in everything from a lack of physical evidence to Jones's history of questionable rape claims.
The worlds of brain science, cryptography, and crime form an unlikely network in Virginia Hughes's feature in the latest issue of the online science magazine Nautilus. A couple of University of Pennsylvania neuroscientists, Hughes explains, are adapting a Second World War-era code-breaking algorithm, which the British once used to counter the Nazis' message-scrambling Enigma machine, to their own research, alongside a mathematical sequence frequently used to break into cars.
With the World Series upon us (and Roger Angell blogging about it), it's worth returning to a surprising baseball-related read: "The Woman Who (Maybe) Struck Out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig," from the July/August issue of Smithsonian. Tony Horwitz uncovers the mostly forgotten story of a seventeen-year-old named Jackie Mitchell—described in newspapers as "organized baseball's first girl pitcher"—who pitched against the Yankees on April 2, 1931, allegedly striking out the team's two biggest stars. "Mitchell's story," Horwitz notes, "was even stranger than I supposed, with subplots involving donkeys, long beards and a lingering mystery about what transpired when she took the mound."
A more sobering sort of mystery—what is it like to regularly kill from afar while operating an American drone?—is the focus of GQ's new "Confessions of a Drone Warrior," in which Matthew Power profiles Airman First Class Brandon Bryant. From a dark room in Nevada, Bryant watches suspected insurgents through an infrared camera, their warm, white bodies standing out against the black earth. "His blood is hot," Bryant tells Power, describing his first shot. "But when it hits the ground, it starts to cool off; the pool cools fast. It took him a long time to die. I just watched him. I watched him become the same color as the ground he was lying on."


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"The word of Yahweh
Came to me.
'What do you mean
By repeating
This proverb
The land of Israel?
'The parents have eaten
Sour grapes.
The children's teeth
Are set on edge.'
As I live,
Says Yahweh God!
'This proverb
Shall no more
Be used by you
In Israel.
That all lives are mine!
The life of the parent
Is mine.
The life of the child
Is mine.
It is only the person
Who sins
That shall die.'"
Yahweh was talking about personal responsibility rather than suffering for the sins of one's parents. This proverb about parents eating sour grapes, while the effect would be on their children's teeth is also found in Jeremiah, chapter 29. Here Yahweh asked them why they were repeating this proverb, because he wanted them to stop using this proverb in Israel. Yahweh, via Ezekiel, said that all lives, both the parents and their children, belong to him. The person who sins will die. No one else will die. There is no collective guilt passed on from father to son.


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Cookie :
- 150g of white flour
- 50g whole flour
- 90g cane sugar semolina
- 25g ground almonds
- 100g butter (room temperature)
- 1 egg
- 1 pinch of salt
Chocolate ganache:
- 5 squares of dark chocolate
- 150g of dark chocolate
- 150g of cream
[directions title= »Directions »]
- In a bowl, combine flour, sugar and almonds.
- Add the butter and egg. Mix with the hands until a paste is obtained.
- Form a rectangle about 3cm high and film on contact. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Roll out the dough and cut out the desired shapes using a cookie cutter.
- Bake for about 10 minutes, let cool.
- For the chocolate ganache, break the chocolate into a bowl.
- Boil the cream. Pour 1/3 on the chocolate, wait 2 minutes. Mix with a scraper from the center to the edges (incorporate as little air as possible). Add the 2nd third of the cream, mix. Finish by the last third, mix.
- If there are pieces of chocolate remaining in the ganache, put it in a water bath for a few minutes.
Protect with a greaseproof paper and store at room temperature.
- Place 1 tbsp of ganache on each biscuit which will serve as the bottom and then add the top part by pressing gently.
For decoration, melt the dark chocolate and put it in a plastic bag with a small corner cut off. Decorate according to your desires.
Tip: Cookie dough can be prepared up to 2 daysin advance.


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Elliott wave analysis appeals to the instincts and to the intellect, but sometimes it's difficult to see how to trade using Elliott waves. The beauty is that the practical application is within anyone's reach. In today's Market Perspective, we'll see how Bob Prechter explains the Wave Principle and its application. (This excerpt is taken from the latest edition of Prechter's Perspective, published 2004.)
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You've said that the Wave Principle is relatively easy to understand. How about application?
Bob Prechter: The basic idea is easy to understand. The intricacies can take a fair amount of time to learn. Once you've learned them, it becomes an easy step to recognize forms in the market. When you can recognize five wave moves, A-B-C corrections and Elliott triangles, a glance through your commodity charts will show definite buys and sells with no additional work whatsoever. It offers the best reward-for-the-effort-expended ratio I know.
On the other hand, you've also said that it is mastered by a relative few. Out of all investors, how many do you think the Elliott wave method is geared for?
Bob Prechter: Only people who want to put in the extra effort. That's frankly a very small group. I think everybody will find the idea of the Wave Principle fascinating. People who aren't even in the market find it an interesting concept. But the people who should actually apply it are only the people who want to make the market a very large part of their lives. You can't make money at something without working at it. The Wave Principle demands that much, because the market demands that much. They are one and the same.
It's deceptive - a construct that is simple and easy to understand, but because of the inherent uncertainty, it demands rigorous and disciplined application.
Bob Prechter: Well, the rules of chess are simple, but winning the game is not so easy.
So the essence of the task is to order the probabilities correctly. How is this accomplished on an ongoing basis?
Bob Prechter: The first thing you have to do is eliminate the impossible by applying the rules of wave analysis. At any market juncture, there are certain events that are impossible. Remaining may be a formidable list of possible interpretations. However, each possible interpretation must then be judged according to its adherence to the guidelines of the Wave Principle, including alternation, channeling, Fibonacci relationships, relative sizes of waves, typical targeting methods based on wave form, and volume and breadth, if appropriate.
The interpretation that (1) satisfies the most guidelines and (2) does so the most satisfactorily is the one that must be considered to be indicating the most likely path of the market. The next most satisfactory interpretation indicates the next most probable path, and so on. These are sometimes referred to as preferred and alternate interpretations.
The analyst must then monitor the market closely to determine if and when any one of the less probable interpretations becomes the most probable due to the elimination or decline in probability of other interpretations.
This sounds complicated.
Bob Prechter: Not really. Often, the best interpretation is so clearly superior that an investment decision is easy. Similarly, sometimes, the top two or three interpretations have the same implications regarding market behavior, also making an investment decision easy. At other times, interpretations with different implications carry nearly equal weight, dictating a "stand aside" posture. In the latter case, sooner or later the scales always tip in favor of one particular conclusion.
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TRISTÁN DE ESCAMILLA, Luis
(b. 1586, Toledo, d. 1624, Toledo)
The Adoration of the Magi1620
Oil on canvas, 232 x 115 cm
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
Around 1600 the dominant influence in Toledo was that of El Greco. The link with the master was strongest in the distinguished painter Luis Tristán, who stressed the Tenebrist aspects of some of El Greco's work. Tristán's development was interrupted by his premature death, but not before he had completed work of such merit as the altarpiece in Yepes (1616) and that of Santa Clara de Toledo which was finished in 1623.
The Adoration of the Magi probably formed part of an altarpiece in the Jeronymite Convent of the Queen in Toledo, together with an Adoration of the Shepherds (now in Cambridge), Pentecost (now in Bucharest) and Resurrection (lost). It has the same composition as the Yepes altarpiece, however, the faces of the figures are different.


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Acting students at the Los Angeles departament of the New York Film Academy were able to ask questions to one of Hollywood's top agents, Jennifer Boyce, who has been heading the casting department for commercials at The Savage Agency for over 22 years. The Savage Agency has been one of
Motivation to improve yourself
As an introduction to this section, I will give three reasons why you should read these articles: When a person begins the path of self-improvement, his motivation is high, and it seems that such an interest in the field of self-development will be endless. However, this is not always the