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After a hard day it's completely understandable that you child might get on your nerves and rub you up the wrong way. However, the relationship between you and your child is the most important one of all, so instead of focusing on your frustration, why not focus on setting any negative feelings aside and reconnecting with your child instead? You'll feel much happier and calmer as a result.
Part 1 of 3:
Managing Your Emotions
1Take a break. When you've had a long, difficult day, sometimes the last thing you feel like is coming to house full of noisy, demanding or complaining kids. This can result in you becoming uncharacteristically angry at your kids, and even lead you to shout at them or say something you don't really mean.
- When this happens, give yourself a break for at least ten minutes, where you sit down and take a deep breath. It's not unusual to feel awful, upset, and frustrated after a hard day.
- Try counting to 10 to help yourself calm down or just remove yourself from the situation completely by going to your room for a few minutes. If you need to cry to release your frustration, do so.
2Forgive yourself. Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is that you acknowledge your bad mood and take ownership of any angry or hurtful things you said to your child while feeling low. Then you need to forgive yourself and forget about any feelings of guilt in order for you to heal, move on and reconnect with your child.
- Think of this as an opportunity for you to grow and improve. If you need to, call your partner or a friend to vent any remaining feelings of anger and frustration, so you can get them off your chest and move on
- When you have overcome all of your negative emotions, it will be much easier to reach out to your child and reconnect with them.
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Reconnecting with Your Child
1Use your magic touch. When you are ready to reach out to your child, start by gently touching him on the shoulder or hand. This forms a physical connection between the two of you and helps you to reconnect with each other.
- If your child has been crying, wipe away his tears and give him a hug. Show him how much you love him through your warm embrace.
- This is is especially important if you unintentionally hurt his feelings during your bad mood.
2Apologize to your child. If you spoke harshly or said something you didn't mean while you were in a bad mood, it's recommended that you own up to this and make an effort to apologize to your child.
- Make the apology as sincere and heartfelt as possible. Acknowledge that you hurt the child's feelings and express your desire to make amends. This sets a good example for your child, as you are owning up to what you did and making amends for it. Through this, your child will learn the correct way to deal with his mistakes.
- Young children will usually forgive pretty easily, but older kids or teenagers might need some extra time to think about things. Give them some space for a while, as long as you have apologized they will get over their anger pretty quickly.
3Explain what happened. After you have apologized, calmly discuss what happened and why you reacted the way you did. Explain that you had a bad day and that you were looking forward to coming home and relaxing.
- Explain how it made you feel when you came home and the house was a mess, your child hadn't done their homework and immediately started complaining about being hungry and asking what was for dinner.
- Gently prompt your child to suggest some ways in which he could have helped the situation. Could he have done his homework and chores before Mom got home, like he was asked? Could he have made himself a snack?
- Allow the child to see the error of his ways, and suggest that maybe next time you could both be a little more understanding of each other and help each other out.
- Do not forget to tell your child how much you love him despite everything that happened.
4Forgive your child. Your child did his part when he accepted your apology; it's now your turn to forgive him for his mistakes. When you forgive your child, it also means you accept him for who he is and give him the potential to be a better person.
5Teach your child about patience and responsibility. You can avoid future confrontations by teaching your child a few simple rules regarding patience and responsibility. For example, you shouldn't immediately give in to your child's whining when he wants something. Teach him patience by telling him, "Please wait for me to get this laundry done first (without hearing you whine) before we go out and play."
- In this way, you teach him how to manage his emotions while patiently obeying your instructions. You may also ask him to assist you with an easy task like sorting clothes by color, explaining that the more help he provides, the faster you will get through your chores and do something fun.
- For your teen, you can give him a list of daily chores to help you with your busy schedule, and assign a set amount of study time. You may motivate him by giving him a reward like a new video game if he gets high grades and finishes all the chores in his list. This teaches responsibility and rewards good behavior.
6Start over. With all of the things that happened, you both deserve some activities to help you restore the connection with each other. Think of the things that your child loves doing.
- Some activities you might want to try with a younger child include: story-reading, drawing/coloring, scrapbooking, finger-painting, biking, kite-flying, stargazing, doing origami, blowing bubbles, teaching a new song, playing with puzzles/building blocks, indoor treasure hunting, visiting a zoo/museum, walking your dog, horseback riding, going to beach/playground, eating ice cream together, etc.
- While some activities you might want to try with your teen are: movie-watching, baking/cooking, crafting, painting, knitting, shopping, swimming, fishing, skiing, bowling, skateboarding, dancing exercises, playing with musical instruments, having a picnic, planting a tree, visiting family/friends, going to a coffee shop/massage center together, etc.
7Laugh a little with your child. Joke around or talk about something funny. Laughter is healthy since it helps to fight stress and triggers the release of happy hormones in the body. By laughing with your child, you are actually encouraging him to enjoy your company and to have a sense of humor and a positive outlook on life.
8Lie down with your child at night. Taking a few minutes to lie down with your child in bed is a wonderful opportunity to have a more intimate conversation with him. Ask him about his day, look at the stars, ask him what he's going to dream about, or say some prayers together. This should be a pleasant, peaceful time for the two of you.
- This is more appropriate for young children than teens. For teens you could ask them if they'd like to join you for a cup of tea before they go to bed. You don't need to do this every night, but even a 15 minute conversation once a week can really help you to connect with your child.
- Before your child goes to bed, kiss him good night then tell him that tomorrow is going to be a better day for both of you.
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Becoming a Better Parent
1Don't label yourself as a terrible parent. Making mistakes doesn't make you terrible, as long as you use them as an opportunity to improve.
- You must remember that the more you call yourself names and put yourself down, the more you will start to believe it. Your character is defined by what you say you are.
- Tell yourself that you're a good parent, then make an effort to live up to that statement. Realize your value as a person and understand that you need to respect yourself if you want your child to respect you as well.
2Know when you need to calm down. The ability to recognize when you need to step away for a moment and calm down provides you with a clearer perspective on how to react in a particular situation.
- If you are able to remove yourself from a situation and take a few moments to gather your thoughts, this is a positive development, as it will prevent you from yelling at your child and saying things you don't mean.
- Keep a stress ball with you. Squeezing it will help to release some of the tension and frustration that you're feeling.
3Avoid dwelling on your negative emotions for a long time. Instead, focus on thinking of what you need to do to turn the situation around.
- Practice writing positive things in a journal, like the things that you are grateful for or happy memories with your child.
- Then, when you have had a bad day and you're in a bad mood, think back to what you've written in your journal.
4Make an effort to be better everyday. Why not change the way you think about having a bad day? When you come home after a bad take, take it as a great opportunity for you to turn your bad day around by spending a fun evening with your child.
- When you do this, you are not only helping yourself but you are also building a stronger and happier relationship with your child.
5Be an inspiration to your child. Always remember that your child learns behavior by what he sees from you. For example, if you deal with a bad day by yelling, he will also deal with any negative emotions he feels by yelling (or whining).
- If this is not the type of behavior you wish to encourage in your child, then you need to work on your own responses to negativity.
6Stay connected with your child. It is your responsibility to make sure that the bond with your child stays strong. When you maintain this, it will be easier for him to respond positively to you and to listen to you more. You will notice that he will also be better in cooperating with you.
7Practice self-control. The next time you have a bad day, make an effort to practice self-control and avoid lashing out angrily at your child, as this will only hurt your relationship. Keep in mind that you always have a choice between controlling a bad situation and letting a bad situation control you.Advertisement
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When was the last time you felt really good? And I mean really good!
Do you remember the days when you bounced out of bed in the mornings, excited and energised? Have these been replaced with the desire for a really good sleep in? When did this change happen? Can you pinpoint the day you lost your energy?
For many of us, loss of energy is something that sneaks up on us. The reduction in our energy most often happens so gradually that we don't notice the change from one day to the next. The sad thing is that we actually get used to feeling low in energy and this becomes our new "normal".
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Fatigue is a common condition and is often misunderstood or even dismissed. This may occur if there is no identifiable 'cause' from diagnostic procedures, such as blood tests, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't want to strive to be, and feel, you're best.
Why am I so tired?
Within our cells are very small things called mitochondria. Mitochondria are like little batteries that provide energy for our whole body. These mitochondria require several specific nutrients in order to produce energy at an efficient rate. If any one of these nutrients is not available, or if the mitochondria are damaged, the energy we have available goes down.
What you can do to help boost your energy
Getting back to basic good living takes the load off your mitochondria and can really improve your energy. Try some of the following to help improve your energy production:
- Get adequate, regular and consistent amounts of sleep each night
- Eat a healthy, well-balanced diet and drink plenty of water throughout the day
- Exercise regularly
- Learn better ways to relax
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Most of us are comfortable with the fact that our bodies use the fat and carbohydrates we eat to produce energy. But how does this happen? Fat and carbohydrates cannot get into the mitochondria by themselves. They need other nutrients to open the gates for them, to allow them into the mitochondria where they are turned into energy. Two of the key nutrients that allow this to happen are N-acetyl carnitine and lipoic acid.
- N-acetyl carnitine acts like a shovel to transport fat into the mitochondria, while lipoic acid opens the gates for carbohydrates. As well as improving our energy, lipoic acid is also useful for balancing blood sugar and can be helpful in reducing cravings for sugary foods. You can see from the way they work why both of these nutrients are so effective at speeding up weight loss too!
- CoQ10 is also vital for healthy energy production in our cells. CoQ10 protects our mitochondria from day-to-day damage and acts like insulation around an electrical wire. Without insulation around the electrical wires in your house, energy does not reach its correct destination, and we would have no electricity to run our lights, fridges or computers! The same is true with CoQ10, if we do not have enough to insulate our "wires" we don't have enough energy to function properly, and we feel tired.
- Omega 3, or fish oils, are vital for keeping the membranes of our mitochondria stable and healthy. If our omega 3 levels are too low, the mitochondria can become damaged. Over time, this damage accumulates and gradually we produce less and less energy, making us feel gradually more and more tired. Over time this can make a big difference to your energy levels.
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Clear Bra Advantages: Why You Need One on Your Car
Your vehicle is your pride and joy, as it should be. It's a large investment and it can cost a lot of time and money protecting it from damage. Everyday wear and tear is always a threat, as well as the risk of cosmetic damage due to rocks, chips and acts of nature. Using a clear bra chatsworth ca coat on your car is one great way to protect it from cosmetic damages.
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How working with low income families can help insurers improve products and practice, and the financial health of communities
In this IIL inclusion & diversity lecture Jim Minton talked about the challenges faced by lower income families and communities, and how the insurance industry can use its commitment to inclusion to ensure its products and practices help those communities meet those challenges.
By the end of this lecture members would have gained an insight into:
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At one time or another in your cleared career, you may find yourself facing a job opportunity that constitutes a double-edged sword. On one side could be a promotion, increased pay, and/or family considerations like a flexible schedule. On the other side could be that the job does not require a security clearance. As soon as you leave your cleared job to take it, a twenty-four-month clock begins counting down – the conclusion of which means the expiration of your clearance eligibility unless reactivated by an employer prior to that time[1].
The loss of security clearance may sound like a relatively minor concession compared to the upsides of a pay increase or promotion. However, as most clearance holders know, a security clearance (or at least current eligibility for one) is a highly marketable asset that can, in-and-of-itself, be worth cash on the barrelhead in today's climate of lengthy clearability delays. As one client recently lamented to me, keeping his career options open by maintaining clearance eligibility was important – but so was the opportunity to gain expertise in the non-cleared, commercial side of his field. What is a clearance holder to do?
Fortunately, there are a few creative ways to have your cake and eat it, too. Here they are:
Military Service
Many cleared contractors serve in the Reserve, National Guard, or previously served Active Duty with a continuing obligation of Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) status. If one of these options describes you, don't overlook the fact that a cleared billet in the military will keep your clearance just as valid as it would if you were using it full-time as a contractor. If you aren't in a cleared billet, explore your options for a change of MOS or collateral duties that can get you a clearance. Alternatively, if you aren't serving at all, consider whether a part-time commitment as a Reservist or National Guardsman makes sense for you. Both programs are great opportunities to serve the country while simultaneously earning additional income and potentially advancing your civilian career by learning new skills.
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In today's "gig" economy, consulting and sub-contractor arrangements are becoming far more common. Posting your CV on Clearancejobs.com – and specifically indicating that you are seeking consulting or part-time work – is a great way to get noticed by recruiters seeking out applicants for such roles. If you have highly specialized expertise, you may find yourself in considerable demand. And, there are a plethora of smaller government contractors out there who might not be able to afford someone full-time, but who have work that needs to be done on a part-time or as-needed basis (e.g. computer technical support). Just be sure that the contractor is a cleared entity and willing to pick-up sponsorship of your clearance. Also, if you're not being hired as a W-2 employee, be sure to talk with an accountant about the tax reporting and payment issues involved with being a self-employed person.
Facility Security Clearance
The process for obtaining a facility security clearance (i.e. starting a business as a cleared contractor that would effectively enable you to sponsor yourself for clearance) is time-consuming, costly, and not realistic for most people. However, in rare cases, it may make sense for those of a particularly entrepreneurial outlook. Owning a cleared contractor means that you hold the keys to your professional destiny and clearance eligibility – an empowering, if not eye-opening, endeavor. I personally love being a business owner, but it has its stresses, especially when dealing with the government. If you're tired of the rat race and don't mind working 80 hours a week for yourself to avoid working 40 for someone else, this could be for you.
Life has a way of throwing curve-balls when you least expect it. A temporary loss of security clearance may have a major impact on long-term career outlook. But, with a bit of creativity, the obstacles are often entirely surmountable. Here's to outside-the-box solutions.
This article is intended as general information only and should not be construed as legal advice. Consult an attorney regarding your specific situation.
[1] During this twenty-four-month window, your clearance would remain "current" (i.e. eligible for reinstatement upon sponsorship) but not "active" (i.e. no continuing ability to access classified information until and unless reactivated).


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Not for nothing: If Larry Price tells you a turkey dips snuff, you'll find the can under the bird's wing.
Aside from accompanying his stepfather a few times in his youth, hunting never interested James Irvine until he moved his family from an urban to a rural setting almost a decade ago.
"It was just seven or eight years ago that I bought a shotgun and some slugs and started to hunt deer," he said.
But owning and knowing how to shoot a scattergun doesn't necessarily mean fewer trips to the grocery store to buy meat in foam trays. He learned a lot about deer and building stands, but he never shot a deer with it.
"I've got a favorite location where I built a permanent stand up in a maple tree overlooking a pawpaw patch," he said. "About three years ago, I had a real nice buck come by me, and I missed it at 75 yards with the shotgun.
"That really upset me," he added. "Right then, I decided to change guns. I went and bought a single-shot 7mm-08 with a 3X9 scope. I also purchased a scoped .50-caliber muzzleloader off my friend, Larry Price."
James has access to a couple of farms, about 400 acres total, near his home in Pulaski County, Ky. He and Larry also like to hunt the Barren River Wildlife Management Area, which is about an hour west of where they live.
While hunting the WMA in 2012, James finally collected his first deer, a 6-pointer. He dropped the little buck at 423 paces with the 7mm-08.
The following August, Larry had just left James' house for the 20-mile drive back home when a huge buck burst across the road 15 yards in front of his truck. The startled driver could only slam on the brakes and stare in disbelief as the huge whitetail, still in velvet, stopped and looked at him.
"It was at least 21 or 22 inches wide and bigger than anything I had ever seen," Larry remembers.
Larry reported the sighting to James and another guy, but James was the only one who really believed how big the deer was.
"I knew that Larry had hunted deer for a lot of years, that he knew what a big buck was, and that he'd had a close look at the rack," James said. "Knowing there was a really big one around added a little something extra to my season."
The place where James primarily hunts is all bottomland. It has creeks running in from every little finger hollow with lots of cover nearby. It's also close to a soybean field that gets a lot of deer traffic. James's favorite maple tree stand is near the tract's southern border.
"At times, I've looked out from that stand and seen as many as 21 different deer at one time," he said.
"I hunted that area during Kentucky's early muzzleloading season and again when the modern gun season opened. There was an 8-pointer that had a white stripe across its nose that was easy to identify. I saw Stripe several times, along with a lot of does, but no sign of the big deer that had crossed the road in front of Larry.
"Larry and I went to Barren River WMA for three days in the middle of the week, and I killed a doe there. On the way home, we caught sight of a deer at 500 yards off in a field close to the house. At first, it looked like a doe, but after it moved around a little, we could tell it was a really big buck. Both of us agreed, it could be the one from back in August," he added.
James was now looking forward to the late muzzleloading season with a different kind of anticipation: the knowledge that he could hunt where a huge buck was seen.
When he awoke on the opening Saturday, it had been raining and was 28 degrees. He managed to make it out to the pawpaw patch with his powder dry. Daylight came and with it a chill in the air. He pulled deeper into his jacket, sat for several hours in the maple tree stand and saw nothing.
That afternoon, he moved to the back of the bean field about a quarter-mile away and saw a couple of deer, but no shooter buck. The temperature had dropped throughout the day and continued to do so into the night, which bode well for the next morning.
"On Sunday, it was real cold, somewhere down into the 20s," James remembered. "The wind had changed and wasn't favorable to the stand I hunted the previous morning. So I decided to go to the other end of the field and watch a creek crossing. When I got to that end, I found an old hay bale that had been there a couple of years. I laid my grunt and can calls on top of it."
James settled in and waited for sunrise. He had hoped for a bit of warmth and respite from the chill. It was not to be.
The hunter leaned into the side of the rolled hay to escape the chill as a faint gray dawn illuminated the bottom. The .50 caliber — charged, loaded and primed with a number 11 cap — was resting against the bale.
He breathed in the cold air, and it stung his lungs. The faint smell of grease, oil and powder — a familiar one to those who hunt with cap and ball — mingled with the musty smell of the hay.
Snowflakes began to swirl around him.
"I had been there for about an hour when I saw a doe come out in the field across the creek," James said. "She came out about 20 yards from the woods line, turned all the way around and looked behind her. She was standing about 250 yards away from me, looking back.
"Suddenly, a buck took one step out into the field behind her. He looked like he had a bush on his head," he continued.
The two deer started across the field toward James. The doe stopped about four times along the way, but the buck never broke stride. They were headed for the trail that crossed the creek 78 paces from James' hiding place.
"My knees started shaking," he said. "When they were about 100 yards away, I reached for the grunt call and raised my gun.
"When I got it in the scope, the buck was facing me," he continued. "I didn't trust that shot, honestly, so I waited."
When the doe reached and began crossing the creek, the buck turned and offered a broadside target.
"It was still walking slowly, and I grunted once on the call," James said. "His right foot was on the ground, his left foot came up, and he just froze like that as he looked my way. That's when I squeezed the trigger.
"After I fired, I had to move my head up out of the smoke to see, and the buck was running," James said. "I grabbed one of the quick loads that I had made to carry with me, poured it in, started hammering the bullet in, got it about an inch from being seated, and the ramrod broke.
"I had lost sight of the buck while I was reloading, and I took off toward the creek to see where it went," he continued. "When I caught sight of it again, it was about 45 or 50 yards away and sort of sitting. I made sure I had a cap on, got the scope back on the deer and let loose."
That time, the softer kapoof of the gun testified that the bullet hadn't been completely seated. But it was still good enough to put the finishing touch on the big deer, which fell over and never twitched.
When James got over to the buck and lifted its head, he couldn't believe his eyes.
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From SAGE member Trevor Moore I have remarked in previous blogs about Leanne how happy she always seems to be and today was no exception. I found her weeding … and happy in spite of this Sisyphean endeavour. She had taken her eyes off the ball last week and, given the recent rain, she was […]Continue reading
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From SAGE member Stephanie Williams A vast array of food plants will be thriving in the soil over the coming months. Here's just a couple to get us started, and some nutritional facts we may never have known. Beetroots (Beta vulgaris) Right through spring and into early autumn these magical deep red globes packed with […]Continue reading
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From SAGE member Trevor Moore It was pretty hot this week when I turned up to see what Leanne was up to. She loves being her own boss and deciding her own priorities, even though the work never lets up. And she's outside. She told me she had spoken to her friend in Sydney who […]Continue reading


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ALLENTOWN, Pa. --- Moravian College Assistant Softball Coach Amy Rogers was inducted into the Lehigh Valley Softball Hall of Fame on Wednesday, June 14 at Patriots Park in Allentown for her career as a player at Liberty High School and coach at Notre Dame High School.
Rogers, who finished her eighth season on Moravian's staff in 2017, graduated from Liberty High School in 1988 and went on to Division I Indiana University on a full softball scholarship. She played four years at Indiana, earning Second Team All-Big Ten honors in 1991. Rogers, who is a science teacher and athletic director at Notre Dame, posted a 113-89 record as head coach at the school while taking the team to the District XI Tournament four times.
Rogers was a member of the 2016 Class for the Lehigh Valley Softball Hall of Fame but had a conflict with the induction date and received her honor this year with the 2017 Class of inductees. She joins Moravian Head Coach John Byrne, who was inducted into the Lehigh Valley Softball Hall of Fame in 2011.


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Bryan and I haven't gone anywhere or done anything since Hawaii and my soul starts to get a little twitchy when I haven't felt the freedom of the open road in too long. We decided that getting away for a night on the long Veteran's day holiday would be enough to save my sanity and get me through the next few months of work, school, family, holiday shopping and holiday events. We are hosting Christmas for the Vickers side of the family this year, so that's added stress. We've got to get the house in order and ready for a LOT of family members... which is terrifying. We are also having our first true Thanksgiving dinner with Bryan's cousins, which I am so excited about! But it's extra work for me to cook and stuff when I have so much going on. I needed a moment to decompress before things got crazy.
We typically take a photo before we get on the road so I had to follow the tradition. We were in line waiting for a coffee from Java Heaven, which is much of my whole happiness in a cup.
Shepherd was starting to get antsy in the car so we decided we needed to break up the trip a bit. We hit up the downtown area of Paso Robles, which is one of our favorite little spots! In the middle of the area is a huge, beautiful park with extremely tall trees! It was freezing and windy but that didn't stop my boy from loving the play time.
Finally, in an attempt to escape the chill, we went into the public library that is right across from the park. Shepherd got his first band-aid on his hand and he was pretty weird-ed out about it. He had scraped his finger somehow in the car, poor guy. There were tons of puzzles, blocks and books to look at, so he was distracted from his owie in no time.
We weren't able to get an early check-in at the hotel for Shepherd nap. We ending up taking a scenic drive up to Lopez Lake and that whole area so Shepherd could get a few uninterrupted hours of sleep. On our way back, we figured we'd stop at the outlets and do a little shopping. By the time we got to the hotel it was dark but Pomeroy street and the pier were lit up and it sure was pretty. We walked over to Brad's Restaurant for dinner, took a stroll on the pier and then came back to the hotel to hang and put Shepherd down for bed.
As usual, I woke up extremely early on Veteran's Day so I sat, people watched and listened to the waves. We were so close to the beach, it was the perfect alone time to reflect on my life and what the hell I'm doing. I didn't figure anything out but it sure was nice to have an uninterrupted moment to process.
Once they woke and we had ourselves a continental breakfast, Bryan took Shepherd to the beach to play while I got ready. I joined them shortly before a huge wave caught Bryan off guard and completely soaked them. Bryan didn't have any other shoes or pants so we had to rinse and blow dry them as much as we could and then buy him some flip flops. Luckily, we had other pants for Shepherd (always prepared for a blowout) and we found some sandals in his diaper bag. Score!
I woke up in a weird mood and I just kept doing stupid things! For example, we got a late checkout from the hotel and as we were leaving, I realized I forgot my purse in one of the drawers. So, I go back up and figure I should go to the bathroom. I take off my jacket, use the restroom and wash my hands and grab my purse. I figured I'd just leave the key cause why not? I meet Bryan and Shepherd and we walk halfway to Pomeroy when I remember that I forgot my jacket in the hotel room. I had to walk back, wait in line to get a key at the front desk, go back up to the room and grab my jacket. I don't want to wear it because the sun is now shining brightly, I'm in a sweater and hot as balls from walking all that way. I look in the car to get another shirt and I realize I don't HAVE another shirt. I only have the sweater because we packed so light. The only shirt I have is a black wife-beater shirt and I don't know the technical name so DON'T JUDGE ME. I put that on under my jacket and leave the sweater thinking maybe it'll all balance out in the end.
As I'm walking, I'm boiling hot and I'm too fat to just wear the black shirt. I meet up with Bryan and Shepherd on Pomeroy and Bryan has shoes on his feet so that's good. I go straight into a shop to buy a t-shirt. I take off my sunglasses to try a bunch of them on, pick one that is something I'll wear again but is also cheap, I pay and leave. I get halfway to the restaurant when I realize I FORGOT MY GLASSES. At this point, I'm ready to rage all around Pismo, I'm so irritated with myself. Bryan goes to get us a table and I walk back to get my glasses. I finally join Bryan and when the waitress asks me what I'd like to drink (at 12:20pm) I say "A Lavaflow, please."
You should have seen the look on Bryan's face. Sure, I rarely drink...but I do drink now and again. Something I NEVER do is drink during the day. Ever.
But I didn't even care. I drank that Lavaflow and got a little tipsy and Bryan drove us home.
All's well that end's well.


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A coral scientist has warned that early official optimism that the Great Barrier Reef will be spared the worst of a predicted worldwide coral bleaching event is misplaced.
The Queensland minister for the environment and the reef, Steven Miles, announced on Thursday that signs of only minor damage through the Australian summer to date had raised hopes the reef would not fall victim to its third major bleaching episode in two decades.
More than 200 surveys of the reef – which stretches 2,300km along the Queensland coast – had not detected "any significant bleaching" despite warmer than average sea temperatures, Miles said.
Miles said this was encouraging given the worst effects of heat stress on corals were predicted to soon wane in line with the El Niño weather system.
"We're not out of the woods yet but I am crossing my fingers that we will not see any broadscale bleaching events like those that endangered the reef in 1998 and 2002 and an intense event in the southern part of the reef in 2006," he said.
However, Terry Hughes from James Cook University's ARC Centre of Excellence said it was "basically too early in the season for bleaching to happen".
"[The minister] is being a little bit optimistic to say 'so far, so good' because it wouldn't happen now anyway," Hughes said.
The risk of major bleaching event would likely present when temperatures peaked "March into April" – more so in the event of heatwave and less likely by if cooling monsoons or a cyclone swept the north Queensland coast, he said.
Hughes said scientists shared Miles' hope major bleaching would elude the reef and agreed that tourism operators should not be concerned about the bleaching.
The US government agency the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in October warned of the third ever global coral bleaching event as record temperatures threatening coral from Hawaii to the Caribbean spread to the south east Pacific and the Indian Ocean.
Severe bleaching can be lethal to reef systems, triggering long-term degradation through the erosion of underlying structures generated by corals.
Hughes said the NOAA's October prediction was a "fairly brave statement to make given it would apply to what happens the following summer in Australia, the Indian Ocean and elsewhere".
He noted the agency had since downgraded its forecast for the Great Barrier Reef and this "hopefully" proved more accurate.
Hughes said Miles' observation about the greater future risks to the reef amid climate change pointed to an obvious "disconnect" between conservation efforts and present government policy – specifically Australia's abandonment of a carbon price and renewable energy targets and the Queensland government's own support for development of one of the world's largest proposed coal export operations in the Galilee basin.
Miles said that while news of minimal bleaching to date was "positive for the Great Barrier Reef and Queensland's fishing and tourism industries – unfortunately predictions in a warming climate are that bleaching events, like bushfires, are likely to intensify in the future as levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases and, consequently, sea temperatures, increase".
Indian mining conglomerate Adani this week urged the state government to press ahead with approving its Carmichael coalmine and expansion of its Abbot Point export facility to head off more legal challenges from environmental activists.
"Further delay to these job-creating projects will only incentivise activists by providing further opportunities for legal challenges in what is now a six-year long approvals process," the Australian chief executive of Adani, Jeyakumar Janakaraj, told the Courier-Mail.
Hughes said that "building the world's largest coal port at a time when the reef is, according to the minister, more and more likely to be affected by global warming – there's obviously a disconnect there".
He said Australia's long-term conservation plan for the reef – which helped avert an "in danger" listing by Unesco last year – remained the subject of criticism by the scientific community because it was "basically a plan to deal with run off" and ignored climate change.
"The fact we could have a third [worldwide bleaching event] this summer basically demonstrates why Australia shouldn't have taken a price off carbon or cut its renewable energy target by 30%," Hughes said.
"Hopefully after COP21, where Australia committed to no more than a 2C temperature rise, they'll get a bit more serious for the sake of the barrier reef and other places."
The Great Barrier Reef marine park authority conducted the reef health surveys at 29 of the more than 3,000 individual reefs that make up the natural wonder, although these were concentrated in the warmer waters of Queensland's far north.
Miles said low-impact coral bleaching was detected in 12 per cent of northern reef surveys and it was localised bleaching "not unusual for warm summers".
Reef health impact surveys are scheduled for every month until April, alongside an "Eye on the Reef" citizen science program that meant there were "even more eyes out for bleaching events", he said.


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We behave outside of the counselling environment in a 'conditioned' way. We perform to societal expectations and to those of our peers, family, work colleagues, customers or whomever we serve and this, as we get older, really can interfere with an understanding about who 'we' really are, what our values might be and how we want to live.
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To state the obvious, yet frequently forgotten, we are all human spirits with minds and bodies of flesh and blood. We are all, without exception, born, we exist and then die.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - A brother-sister duo secured FDA clearance for a new medical device that uses honey for wound care.
From the Sweet Bio hive at the edge of the University of Memphis campus, Isaac Rodriguez and his sister, Kayla Rodriguez-Graff, are celebrating a major milestone.
"We were all here in person and we just screamed and celebrated, and I think the whole university heard us," said Rodriguez.
"Wow, what a journey. It's actually several months ahead of schedule for us and we are thrilled about that," said Rodriguez-Graff.
Roughly a week ago, their company called "Sweet Bio" received clearance from the FDA to begin marketing a new product for wound care.
The device uses a medical grade honey from New Zealand to help spur safer healing.
It dissolves in the body over a period of weeks. The pair says it meets a need, a more natural way to heal wounds.
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Isaac co-invented the product in 2015, as research faculty at The University of Memphis.
Shortly after, the two started their company and raised their first $1 million.
At the end of 2018, they filed their application with the FDA.
This year, they have raised $3.1 million in total with 95 percent coming from Memphis.
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The pair is getting national attention, as well as a write up in the recent University of Memphis magazine.
They hope to bring at least one local hospital system on board in the coming weeks and are in talks with others across the county.
The brother and sister say there are other uses for the product outside of wound care, like in dentistry or veterinary medicine.
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (AP) — A 61-year-old man from Greeley is dead after falling while climbing Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park.
The accident happened Saturday after Scott Corliss apparently slipped on ice and fell about 100 feet on The Narrows section of the Keyhole Route, one of the mountain's most popular climbing routes.
Park officials say visitors called rescuers by cellphone about 10 a.m. to report the accident. Rangers were flown by helicopter and recovered the body later in the afternoon.
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Punish teachers who torture pupils
News that a teacher has been charged for beating a girl into a coma should wake us up to the evil of corporal punishment in our schools. Of course, the teacher has denied the charge but has been locked up in Ndorwa Government Prison until November 26.
But the senseless beatings of pupils in schools go on, despite the law banning the practice having been in place for nearly eight years. So teachers continue to torture children with impunity because none of them has been punished harshly to serve as an example to stop the abuse of pupils.
In this particular case, the victim's only crime was reportedly entering the school library with a jacket and a cap. But this simple breach of school rules must not provoke a teacher into fits of uncontrolled anger. Children are often likely to make errors. But their teachers as mentors are expected to be calm and collected and exercise maximum restrain.
It is, therefore, unethical and criminal for a teacher to torture a child, sometimes to a point of crippling them. As child rights agency, Plan says, this blatant violence against children must not be disguised and accepted as "discipline". The violence must be treated with the same disgust as other forms of cruel and degrading punishment of children.
There are ideal anti-corporal punishment models Uganda can implement. A notable best practice is the Philippines model, which spreads awareness among parents, teachers, community service providers and leaders so that they change their attitude and adopt positive disciplining instead of punishing children. The two-year action plan aims to reduce the widespread practice of corporal punishment in the Philippines.
The model encourages positive non-violent approaches to child discipline in homes, schools, and institutions. It has eight community-based groups and at least 100 local and national policy champions that lobby government to stop corporal punishment. It has also pushed for the enactment of eight local ordinances and discussion on one national Bill on positive discipline. The model also seeks to develop training modules on positive approaches to child discipline in the home, school and communities.
None of us should accept corporal punishment in our homes, public and private schools. Similarly, parents and school inspectors should do more to monitor, protect, and promote the wellbeing of our children. Indeed, a violence-free childhood should be our obligation to all children.
And it should be now that the Ministry of Education and Sports steps in to end this evil practice in our schools. One way is to enforce the Alternatives for Corporal Punishment, introduced in 2008, and or punish teachers who torture pupils and schools on whose watch the torture thrives.
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On Aug. 13, 2010, President Obama signed into law Public Law 111-230, which contains provisions to increase filing fees for certain H-1B and L-1 petitions. Affected employers are those whose U.S. workforce has 50 or more employees, of which more than 50 percent are H-1B or L-1 workers, including L-2 spouses with an EAD. Such employers must pay an additional filing fee of $2,000 for new H-1B petitions and $2,250 for new L-1A and L-1B petitions postmarked on or after Aug. 14, 2010. The new filing fees apply to all cases in which the $500 fraud fee is also payable, and is in addition to all other existing fees. The new fee will remain in effect through Sept. 30, 2014. No guidance is yet available as to how the new filing fee will be applied to blanket L cases filed at consular posts.
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Mike Peters of the band The Alarm, founder of the cancer foundation Love Hope Strength as well as a cancer survivor himself, will headline an acoustic fundraising concert Sept. 13 at the Hamilton Stage of the Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway.
Titled Rahway Rocks, the event will also feature Robin Wilson of The Gin Blossoms, Pat DiNizio of The Smithereens and others, and be hosted by comedian and "Saturday Night Live" alumnus Jim Breuer. (SEPT. 5 UPDATE: Richard Barone, Joe D'Urso and Ray Andersen have been added to the lineup as well.)
Tickets are $75, with proceeds going go to Love Hope Strength and its partner organization, Delete Blood Cancer. Visit lovehopestrength.org.
The concerts takes place in conjunction with Love Hope Strength's Rock the Skyline charity walk being held earlier in the day along the Jersey City shoreline.
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The single years tend to be the most selfish years of our lives. Many singles spend their time being self-serving rather than serving those around them and the church.
Selfishness begins in childhood. The more our parents coddle, accommodate, and center their lives around us, the more selfish we become. For those who were an only child, this propensity toward selfishness is often higher, as you didn't have to share your toys, room, and life with siblings who inconvenienced you. As we grow older, selfishness is often mastered during singleness. Then when we do marry, we expect our spouses to serve us humbly, only to find they were expecting the same thing. Conflict ensues along with disappointment and frustration.
As a single person, if you're planning on marrying, the best way to prepare for marriage is to use your single years as an opportunity to stop being selfish and start serving. Here are five practical ways you can begin moving from selfishness to servanthood.
1. Get Involved with a Jesus-loving, Bible-teaching Church
First and foremost, be part of a Jesus-loving, Bible-teaching church. Serve that church, humbly learn from those who have more life experience than you and who have developed a life-long relationship with Jesus, and grow as a disciple of Christ under solid, qualified elders and leaders.
2. Honor Your Family
If you have a family, honor them. Though you may be no longer living at home, the opportunities to serve your family still exist. Help you family out with projects around the house, offer to babysit siblings, cousins, and nephews and nieces to give your married family members time out together, and find other ways to love and serve. Also, allow healthy and wise family members to speak into your relationships and your life.
This is doubly important for young women who have Christian parents who love them. Any man who wants to be with you should want to get to know your church friends and your family, live openly before them, and gain their approval. Any guy who takes a woman away from godly community and family is dangerous and up to no good.
3. Men, Serve and Honor the Women in Your Life
Men, do you have a mom? Stepmom? Sister? Cousin? Serve and honor them. Here are some practical things you can do now to discipline yourself to serve and honor the women in your life: walk them to their cars, open doors for them, get their coats, pull out their chairs when eating, and more.
Serving the women in your life will best prepare you for serving your future wife. These are simple things that we can do, and even teach our sons, when we have them, to do for their moms or sisters.
Further, the Bible teaches us in 1 Timothy 5:1–2 to treat Christian women as sisters. This means that men should respectfully get to know a woman they're interested in without any sexual pressure and contact and to serve other women in the church as they would a sister.
If you know how to serve and honor the woman in your life now, then you will be well prepared to serve your wife and children when you have them.
4. If You Don't Have a Godly Dad or Mom, Seek Out a Mentor
For singles who do not have Christian parents, I encourage you to seek out older, more mature Christians from the church you are a part of to learn from and serve. We see this precedent clearly spelled out in Titus 2:1–10.
The older women of the church are to train the younger women (Titus 2:3–5), whereas the older men are to encourage the younger men (Titus 2:6–8). God, through Paul, is telling us the importance of training up the men and women of our churches to live godly lives as a man and a woman.
At Mars Hill Church we encourage singles to join Community Groups. Being involved within these groups gives singles an opportunity to meet other singles, serve the church together, get to know others on a personal and spiritual level, and have great mentors to speak into your life and—if you do begin a relationship—speak into that as well with godly wisdom and counsel.
If such groups are not available at your church, then I suggest seeking out the leadership and asking for their help to point you in the right direction to someone who may be willing and available to mentor you.
5. Examine Yourself
Too many singles have a list of what they're looking for in a spouse instead of a list of what they're looking to be for a spouse.
There are many problems with this, which I've laid out elsewhere. As a single person in the church, one of the most important prerequisites to dating and marrying is being the right person for your future spouse rather than worrying about if they're the right person for you. This means having your identity firmly rooted in Jesus rather than in your identity as a single person, what the culture says about being single, or what the culture says about marriage.
Singleness is not a disease to be quickly remedied. Rather, singleness is a gift that should be stewarded well until the time comes when you begin another stage of life as a married person. Accept that singleness affords you freedom and benefits you won't have when married, and use this time of life wisely to finish your education, travel for missions, serve the church, establish your career, and create a solid financial base free of debt.
Until you are ready to marry, focus on those issues, and then pursue a relationship. Live your single years to God's glory to grow from selfishness to servanthood. Don't waste them.


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BASEL: April 23, 2019. Panalpina has acquired Colombia-based CargoMaster, one of Latin America's largest flower exporters to the US, and its subsidiary Laseair based in Ecuador. Terms of the purchase, which is subject to regulatory approval, are not disclosed.
"The acquisition will make us the undisputed perishables market leader in Colombia and Latin America and strengthen our position in Ecuador," said Panalpina CEO Stefan Karlen. "As we continue to expand the perishables business in this part of the world, we also see great development opportunities for our charter network with its gateway in Huntsville, Alabama."
CargoMaster was founded in 1987 and has facilities in Bogota, Medellin, Quito, Santiago de Chile and Miami.
"In the last 32 years we have catapulted ourselves to the top of the Colombian air freight market and built a very strong brand in the region and our industry. I am very proud of these achievements and the employees that made it all possible," said Felipe Sanchez, CargoMaster founder and CEO. "By going together with Panalpina with its strong heritage in Latin America, we have the opportunity to become part of an even bigger success story in the perishables industry."
Panalpina aims to be the preferred global supplier of perishables logistics by 2020, offering customers in both origin and destination countries complete end-to-end solutions on a global scale. The company's perishables network originated in Latin America and now spans 30 countries.


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Calculating a reliable number for a segment of the population that generally wants to hide from officials is very difficult, but it's politically very important to know more or less how many illegal immigrants there are, and whether their number is increasing or decreasing. There's a whole lot of populist rhetoric floating around, especially regarding jobs and crime, and passions are often inflamed. Knowing how many illegal immigrants there are – more or less – allows us to quantify the real effects on employment and crime, and to deflate some of the rhetoric.
Immigration is a human rights issue in several respects. Immigration is often a way for people to escape human rights violations (such as poverty or persecution). And upon arrival, immigrants – especially illegal immigrants – often face other human rights violations (invasion of privacy, searches, labor exploitation etc.). The native population may also fear – rightly or wrongly – that the presence of large groups of immigrants will lower their standard of living or threaten their physical security. Illegal immigrants especially are often accused of pulling down wages and labor conditions and of creating native unemployment. If we want to disprove such accusations, we need data on the numbers of immigrants.
So how do we count the number of illegal immigrants? Obviously there's nothing in census data. The Census Bureau doesn't ask people about their immigration status, in part because such questions may drive down overall response rates. Maybe in some cases the census data of other countries can help. Other countries may ask their residents how many family members have gone abroad to find a job.
Another possible source are the numbers of births included in hospital data. If you assume a certain number of births per resident, and compare that to the total number of births, you may be able to deduce the number of births among illegal immigrants (disparagingly called "anchor babies"), which in turn may give you an idea about the total number of illegal immigrants.
Fluctuations in the amounts of remittances – money sent back home by immigrants – may also indicate trends in illegal immigration, although remittances are of course sent by both legal and illegal immigrants. Furthermore, it's not because remittances go down that immigrants leave. It might just be a temporary drop following an economic recession, and immigrants decide to sweat it out (possibly supported by reverse remittances for the time of the recession). Conversely, an increase in remittances may simply reflect technological improvements in international payment systems.
Perhaps a better indicator are the numbers of apprehensions by border-patrol units. However, fluctuations in these numbers may not be due to fluctuations in immigration. Better or worse performance by border-patrol officers or tighter border security may be the real reasons.
So, it's really not easy to count illegal immigrants, and that means that all rhetoric about illegal immigration – both positive and negative – should be taken with a grain of salt.
More posts on this series are here.


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University Of Delhi Assistant Professor Recruitment 2017 – 378 Vacancies
The university of Delhi has recently published a notification on its website for recruitment process for various openings in contract basis.
If you are the one who is keenly interested in working in this organization in Delhi, you are on correct site. We have compiled all the foremost data about the enrolment procedure that will definitely help you apply for the post.
The University of Delhi, established in 1922, informally known as Delhi University is a public central collegiate university, located in New Delhi, India. The University of Delhi was established as teaching and residential university by an Act of the then Central Legislative Assembly of the British India.
The Department is inviting postgraduate candidates for the recruitment procedure. All the interested, enterprising and work enthusiastic aspirants who are the citizen of India can apply for these posts.
Candidates must read the original advertising, the link of which we have provided on this page.
Candidates have to fill up the application form properly as mentioned in the notification else incomplete form may get rejected.
For the further information about the number of posts, job description, eligibility We recommend you to go through the data that we have provided below. Candidates must precisely read the whole information before applying to the post. Ensure that you should meet all the qualified criteria identified with these occupations.
Vacancy details
Name of Post:
- Assistant professor.
The number of vacancies is tentative and subject to change in future.
Pay scale:
- Rs. 15600-39100, AGP Rs. 6000/-
New Delhi
Important Dates of Application:
- Last date of applying online: 16th February 2017
Educational qualification:
- Candidates must have passed post-graduation or equivalent from a recognized university.
- Other professional experience. kindly read the advertisement thoroughly.
Age limit:
Not mentioned
Selection procedure
Candidates will be selected by strictly on merit basis on the written exam and personal interview.
Application fee:
Not mentioned.
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The procedure for applying these employments in India Candidates need to log on to the official site of the University of Delhi in online mode only. There is no other approach to applying for this job. We advise all the interested candidates to click on the following link for further queries.
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I had the TTT on Tuesday and I don't know what the official conclusion of the test was (Cardiac doc doesn't like to label) but this is what he said. "The results show your condition (I'm guessing he meant PD) but you are maintaining a decent BP so I don't see any need to change any of your medication. " Or at least that is what I understood him to say. He did say if I'm cutting out salt - don't anymore, and if I am restricting liquid intake - don't anymore.
The numbers went like this.. laying down my BP was 144/69. At least that was the first test when laying down I don't know the others after that. Then when I was stood up the lowest it went was 112/84. I really don't understand what it all means, but basically he said my blood pressure is not going down enough to worry about it. But I don't understand why the top went down and the bottom actually went up? Maybe my Neuro will shed some light on it when I see him next. Or maybe someone here knows if that is normal.
I did not pass out during the test but wasn't feeling so great by the end of it. The whole time I had a saline drip going.


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