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Children can either attend 5 morning or 5 afternoon sessions.
This term our theme is food.
We also use the children's interests, ideas and suggestions as to what we find out about and explore.
All children are able to borrow books daily from our class library.
Rhyme time bags are available to sign out on Monday, use at home then return on Friday. They help to develop communication and language skills.
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3-09560 Sledge Street Improvements Re-Bid
Bidding Closed
Bid Date12/3/19 1:00 pm
Company & Contacts
Cook Coggin Engineers
Josh Gunn 662-842-7381
Separate and sealed bids for the construction of SLEDGE STREET IMPROVEMENTS REBID will be received by the TOWN OF SLEDGE, LOCATED AT THE TOWN HALL, 400 MAIN STREET, SLEDGE, MS 38670 until 1:00 P.M, CST, ON TUESDAY, THE 3RD DAY OF DECEMBER, 2019 and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud.
The Contract Documents may be examined at the following locations: TOWN OF SLEDGE,
400 MAIN STREET, SLEDGE, MS 38670 and Cook Coggin Engineers, Inc., 703 Crossover
Road, Tupelo, Mississippi 38801.
Registering for a free account at www.cceplanroom.com will enable bidders to view and/or order Contract Documents online. The only requirement for account registration is a valid email address. Questions regarding website registration and online orders shall be directed to Plan House Printing at (662) 407-0193.
Contract Documents are issued to potential Bidders as paper copies from Plan House Printing and Graphics, 607 West Main Street, Tupelo, MS 38804. The non-refundable cost of the Bid Documents is $150.00. Bidders may opt to purchase Contract Documents online at www.cceplanroom.com. All payments for Bid Documents shall be made payable to Plan House Printing and Graphics, 607 West Main Street, Tupelo, MS 38804.
Bids will be accepted only under the name of the Bidder to whom contract documents have been issued by Plan House Printing, on behalf of the Engineer, and whose name appears on the official list of Planholders maintained by Plan House Printing.
Each bidder must deposit with this bid, security in the amount, form and subject to the conditions provided in the Information for Bidders.
No Bidder may withdraw his bid within 90 days after the actual date of the opening thereof.
Simultaneously with his delivery of the executed contract, the Contractor shall furnish surety bonds subject to the conditions provided in the Information for Bidders.
All applicable laws, ordinances and the rules and regulations of all authorities having jurisdiction over construction of the project shall apply to the contract throughout.
Each Bidder is responsible for inspecting the site and for reading and being thoroughly familiar with the Contract Documents. The failure or omission of any Bidder to do any of the foregoing shall in no way relieve any Bidder from any obligation in respect to this Bid.
A conditional or qualified Bid will not be accepted. Award will be made to the lowest responsible, responsive Bidder.
The Owner reserves the right to waive any informality or to reject any or all Bids.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. --- The Moravian College men's basketball team opened the 2019-20 season with a tough 95-87 loss to rival Muhlenberg College in Johnson Hall Friday evening in the first contest under new Head Coach Shawn Postiglione.
The Greyhounds had five players in double figures led by junior guard Matt O'Connor, who netted a career-high 21 points to go with four assists. Senior forward John Hargraves and senior guard C.J. Barnes each scored 14 points with Hargraves adding four rebounds and Barnes grabbing three boards. Junior guard Nick King contributed 13 points, two rebounds and a pair of assists in his first game with the Hounds while senior forward Addis Ralph had 11 points, a team-high six rebounds, two assists and two blocked shots.
Junior forward John Rigsby contributed nine points, three rebounds and a pair of steals in his first contest with the Blue and Grey while freshman guard Greg Eck had five points and two boards in his first collegiate game. Senior guard Mike Martino led Moravian with six assists and three steals to go with three rebounds.
Hargraves, whose 14 points were a career-high, opened the scoring for the season to give the Hounds a quick 2-0, and Moravian had a 19-15 lead with 14:37 left in the first half after a three-pointer by Barnes. King had the edge back at four points, 23-19, with a lay-up at the 11:34 mark before the Mules closed the game. A three-pointer from Ralph knotted the score at 35-35 with 6:27 until the intermission; however, Muhlenberg scored 11 of the next 13 points to take a 48-37 lead at the 3:07 mark. Ralph hit another three-pointer to cut it to a five-point game, 50-45, a minute and a half later but the Mules would head to the locker room with a 56-49 advantage.
Moravian scored the first eight points of the second half on two baskets from Hargraves and one each from O'Connor and King with Hargraves' second make giving Moravian a 57-56 edge two minutes into the half. The Mules answered with a 10-point run to go up 66-57 before the Greyhounds closed within a point, 71-70 on a jumper by Ralph with 9:30 to play. After Muhlenberg pushed the lead back to eight points, a three-pointer by O'Connor made it a one-point game again at 86-85 with 3:07 remaining. Muhlenberg scored the next eight points before a lay-up from Eck with 13 seconds left ended the run.
Moravian is slated to return to action on Monday, November 11 when the squad hosts the College of Mount Saint Vincent in a non-conference game beginning at 7:00 p.m. in Johnston Hall.


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The Latest: Von der Leyen ready for further Brexit extension
BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on the EU parliament vote on Commission President (all times local):
9:55 a.m.
Ursula von der Leyen, the candidate to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as head of the EU executive, says she would grant another extension to the Brexit deadline if Britain needed it to assure an orderly withdrawal from the bloc.
Britain is slated to leave the bloc on Oct. 31, which is already a half-year delay from the original departure date.
Britain, however, has been wracked by internal division over the terms of departure agreed with the EU.
"I stand ready for a further extension of the withdrawal date should more time be required," she told EU lawmakers Tuesday.
Boris Johnson, the favorite to succeed outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May, has said that he wants to leave the EU on Oct. 31, with or without an agreement.
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Outgoing German defense minister Ursula von der Leyen is seeking to woo enough legislators at the European Parliament to secure the job of European Commission President in a secret vote late Tuesday.
The Christian Democrat of the European People's Party is promising the parliamentarians she will put climate and social issues at the heart of her program over the next five years as she seeks to gather the requisite 374 votes out of 747.
Von der Leyen was a last-minute candidate to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker that the EU leaders agreed on as part of a package of top jobs that were decided on early this month.
Under the package, the free-market liberal Renew Europe group got Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel as Council President and the Socialists won the top parliament job.


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On January 11th Charles Landeros, 30, went to a Eugene, Oregon Middle School where his child was enrolled as a student. He was there in a dispute with his child's mother. Police were called at approx. 10:30 a.m. and Landeros became disruptive, noncompliant and eventually combative with the officers as they physically removed him from the school.
One of the officers was the school's SRO. In the scuffle outside Landeros pulled a 9mm handgun from a holster on his hip, pointed it at the SRO and fired two rounds. The SRO responded by shooting the man in the temple killing him.
The shooting was ruled "justified." Landeros' child witnessed the entire event. Landeros had many more rounds of ammunition on him, in his backpack and in his car.
Someone using the name Charlie Landeros had made a number of anti-police comments online. "Time to start killing pigs," was one. He was a military veteran who had participated in protests at the University of Oregon, once interrupting a speech by the school's president.
"It is unknown why Charles Landeros chose to use deadly force in this circumstance, but he clearly had no regard for the lives of the police officers or the students or staff present, including his child," Perlow's report on the investigation concluded.
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Visa Launches Partner Program On Yahoo! Asia Shopping Guide
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Banking on a growing e-commerce trend in Asia, Visa has officially launched a preferential treatment program for online retailers in conjunction with the Visa Shopping Guide by Yahoo! Asia.
"Visa sees that it can have a significant role in helping to develop the Internet market place in Asia," said Jeff Perlman, director of electronic commerce marketing & product sales for Visa International Asia Pacific.
Perlman added that a second objective of the program was "making sure that growth goes in a direction that builds a good environment--good business practices from merchants, sensible shopping from consumers, migration towards the highest level of security for payments available."
The preferential treatment for merchants will include a listing on the Shopping Guide on Yahoo! Asia and other promotional and marketing services.
According to Perlman, the Asian Shopping Guide is projected to have between 50,000 and 100,000 visitors per month in its first year. The guide will also be promoted on Yahoo!'s Chinese-language online property and will acknowledge Chinese-language merchants.
"This is an Asia-Pacific program. Our different regional strategies fall under the same general objectives and goals [of the global program] but the way we carry that strategy out is specific to the region," said Perlman.
Visa's program featured in the Shopping Guide is specifically targeting South East Asia and the Greater China area while the international credit card corporation will have different programs for Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Korea.
According to Perlman, the main difference between online merchants in Asia and in developed countries like the US is where they are on the evolutionary path.
The most significant barriers to Asian e-commerce are comfort level and trust for both merchants and consumers who need to feel comfortable and familiar with the new environment.
Visa is trying to raise Asia's confidence in e-commerce by utilizing the new Set Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) standard which requires authentication in online transactions.
"Emerging markets have a distinctive advantage where we can leap frog existing technology like SSL (Secure Socket Layers) and go strait to SET," said Perlman. "That doesn't mean we skip SSL because it is important that SSL be part of the mix in the short term or longer because the entire world has to be on the same protocol."
"SSL provides reasonably improved security over in-the-clear transactions and SET addresses important issues that SSL doesn't address--which is authentication."


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Pure contentment₀ indulge yourself in this creamy smooth scent with hints of beautiful fruit blossoms. The traditional design of our signature classic jar candle reflects a warm, relaxed sense of style that's always at home. Convenient and easy to use, our large jar candle provides 110 to 150 hours of true fragrance enjoyment
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Lillie Rubin
Beaded Leaf Dress
Bent Knee Mannequin
-Size: 4
-Bust: 33.5"
-Waist: 25.5"
-Hip: 35"
-Inseam (to ankle): 32"
Extended Legs Mannequin
-Size: 2
-Bust: 31"
-Waist: 25"
-Hip: 34"
-Inseam (to ankle): 33"
Ornate beaded leaf dress by Lillie Rubin. Beautiful leaf motif with faux pearl beads, bugle beads, seed beads, sequins, and gems in a royal palette on a straight silhouette. Leaf-cut neckline and hem lend an organic, artistic feel in an easy, pull-over style. We would wear with a fabulous drop earring, or belted with a statement heel. Black, bronze, cream, royal purple, sapphire blue, iridescent emerald, ruby red. Matching jacket available.
-Condition: Very Good
*Two missing pearls at front right waist/hip area (pictured); easily replaceable, not immediately noticeable.
-Estimated Size: 6
-Material: Silk Body, 100% Rayon Lining (no fabric contents; label for lining fabric on matching jacket only)
-Made In India
-Bust: 36"
-Waist: 38"
-Hip: 41"
-Length (from Center Front): 30"
-Length (from High Point Shoulder to Longest Leaf): 45"
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Don't Miss the DC Jazz Fest events at BloomBars on June 18 and 19
While there's always something interesting going on at DC's BloomBars, music lovers will want to mark their calendars for June 18 and 19 when the DC Jazz Fest hits the stage.
Starting on Saturday the 18th at 8:30 pm, "Jazz in the Hoods" features the Ethan Mann Quartet — a soothing blend of jazz guitar and other twinkling instrumental sounds. Ethan graduated from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied guitar with Rodney Jones, Jack Wilkins and Chris Rosenberg.
If you need something relaxing to do on the evening of Sunday the 19th, the Tamika Love Jones Quartet will also take to the stage to provide an evening of smooth jazz.


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Nearly all employers in Washington have begun collecting premiums and tracking data on employees in accordance with the new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) law. Yet there are many unanswered questions that remain as the Employment Security Department (ESD) continues their work on PFML rulemaking. ESD has developed a useful PFML website to assist employers and workers with the new law. Additionally, PFML questions, comments, and concerns can be directed to ESD by email, phone (833-717-2273), and their PFML question forum.
ESD continues to provide opportunities for stakeholders to comment and help shape the program rules. If you are interested in providing comment to ESD on proposed rules for the PFML program, please visit the PFML Rulemaking webpage.
AWC has also created PFML resource page to help cities quickly find basic PFML information.
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Volunteer Opportunities
The Board Development Committee of the Greater Vernon Chamber of Commerce, in accordance with the organizations bylaws, seeks out qualified and interested candidates with established business, leadership and advocacy expertise, to join the Board of Directors. These candidates must be members of the chamber and must be nominated by another member of the chamber.
Directors play a vital and important role in ensuring the success and effectiveness of the Greater Vernon Chamber. Contact the office if you want to explore the possibilities.
The Chamber is always looking for members who have a specific skill set or a passion that they want to bring to the organization, and committee work is a great way to get involved. Among the committees seeking volunteer members are:
Advocacy - This committee reviews issues raised by members and considers steps that can be taken to speak on their behalf, whether it's developing policy, lobbying government or creating media awareness.
Business Awards - This committee works with Chamber staff to plan the annual Business Excellence Awards.
If you want to learn more about being involved with the Chamber, contact our office.
Are you proud to call Greater Vernon home? Do you sing the region's praises when speaking to colleagues from across Canada or around the world?
There is an opportunity for business leaders in our community to become ambassadors and help promote Greater Vernon as the place to live, work and invest. Your role as ambassador may involve mentoring new business owners in the community, introducing them to key individuals and helping them navigate challenges that may arise. And ambassadors can also help make contacts aware of the economic and lifestyle opportunities that exist in the North Okanagan.
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doing a comedy show at night and a craft fair the entire next day is a recipe for exhaustion. it made me feel like we were on tour again. as a result, i took about three pictures at yesterday's erotic arts and crafts fair. they were very weird. like this one depicting what looks like aitor slumped over at his booth:
although that could have happened, i think it expresses my lack of attention more than his lack of consciousness. maybe it is for the best that i put the camera away. i liked aitor's set-up because he had wall space, a rare treasure in our craft circuit. the erotic arts and crafts fair also offered him a space to sell the work of his collective without getting even one dirty look. this might be a new record.
for my part, the smuttons were a big hit. if it works out for me to return to the show next year (and they'll have me) i have decided to expand the series. i even got some requests and feedback from customers. suffice it to say that there is no shortage of smut to spread.
i also went home with some excellent zines by vicki nerino, a card of hers that even made the reverend blush, and a woolly undershirt from sartoria (i have been eyeing them for quite a while). the latter is keeping me warm right now.
all that and i got to meet the elusive and triangle spreading anna patchev. but more on that later...


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Scottish businesses call for common UK-wide standards after Brexit
Posted: 25 April 2018 | George Smith (New Food) | No comments yet
Scottish businesses have said they are ready to rise to the challenge the repatriation of regulation presents, but alignment in standards across the UK is critical.
UNITED: Regulatory powers will return the devolved governments of the United Kingdom as well as its central government once it leaves the EU, but will they remain aligned?
Three institutions representing Scottish businesses have issued a statement calling for alignment in nutritional labelling and standards across the UK after it leaves the European Union.
Food & Drink Federation Scotland, Scottish Bakers and Scottish Retail Consortium released the joint statement this week.
It addresses concerns over what will become of certain food regulation once it is 'repatriated' to the devolved governments that make up the United Kingdom.
Unity in nutritional labelling and food standards are, it argues, beneficial to Scottish businesses.
It said: "When the UK leaves the EU it is set to herald a fresh chapter of devolution with substantial additional powers and responsibilities for the Scottish Parliament as well as the assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland.
"This will lead to a more diverse and complex public policy environment for manufacturers and retailers – and their supply chains – to operate in. We are committed to responding positively to these changes, and will work to ensure that the powers repatriated from Brussels which affect our industries are implemented in a sensible and cost effective manner, in order to minimise administrative complexity, compliance and cost and to maintain the widest possible choice for consumers.
"Our concern is less about where these 111 powers being repatriated from Brussels ultimately reside, rather it is about ensuring that on a small number of areas in particular – such as food and nutrition labelling and food compositional standards – that there is the fullest possible alignment post-Brexit, with the devolved and UK administrations working together on a shared approach in order to minimise duplication and discrepancy for manufacturers and retailers.
"Scotland's businesses benefit enormously from the existing and largely unfettered UK single market. It allows manufacturers and retailers to capitalise on the efficiencies derived from regulatory consistency and economies of scale which in turn reduces business costs, increases productivity, and ultimately keeps down prices and provides more choice for customers."
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Economy, Food & Drink, Food Safety, Packaging & Labelling, Regulation & Legislation, Supply chain
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Hey, I was noticing you have your savings at $13K. It seems like no matter how much I put into emergency savings, I can't get it much beyond $500. What is your secret?
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Well, although we have areas of overspending we still need to work on (eating out, gambling) in general we keep our costs down. We also have no debt other then the house, so that frees up a lot more cash for us, then if we had a car loan, SL or CC to make payments on. You have probably heard the saying "They nickle and dime you to death". My best savings "secret" is that we nickle and dime our savings to death. Everytime we get $5 in a birthday card, $10 rebate, or any kind of "unexpected/bonus money" I always try to put it in savings. I have many friends who only think if you have $100 or more that is what you put in savings. But that is silly, $5 adds up too, and if you only wait till you have $100 to put in savings you may be waiting a long time. If you find $3 in the bottom of your purse that you didn't know you had, put it in savings. Every penny does count, and you don't even feel the "Strain" of savings if you are constantly doing a little drop in the bucket here and there.
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March 19th, 2011 at 06:50 pm 1300560639Exactly! It took me awhile to figure that out. Little bits add up fast.
March 22nd, 2011 at 12:08 am 1300752523I have $10 going to three goals on SmartyPig.com.
I know it isn't much, but I have saved over $1,500 this way, and you don't even notice it missing. I hope to one day put aside $100 each month, but for now, I am chugging along slow and steady!
Thanks for the encouragement!


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(By Joseph Liu) "I feel happier when I have more time with people in my life like my wife, family, and friends. Yes, when I
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(By Nancy Collamer) "Most people have a far easier time knowing what they don't want as opposed to what they do want. Of course, dispensing with
4 Savings Strategies for Peace of Mind in Retirement
(By Tom Halloran) "As you near retirement, think about your withdrawal schedule for your savings and how to time receiving Social Security or pension benefits
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Maximising Nigeria's civil service for nation building
(By Goke Omolade) In the days gone by, the civil service was perceived as a big-hearted employer of both the employable and unemployable hands, irrespective
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Gold #12 - Talking to Crystals
30 days of Communicating with gemstones, jewellery, rocks and crystals
Every day for 30 days, you will receive a video and the audio of an energy exercise of around 5-10 minutes, using the frequency of gold energy which resonates with the physical body for health and relaxation, with the earth for healing, nurturing and creativity and with crystals.
We will take the gold vibration deep into the cells of the body for healing, to expand receiving of abundance and nurturing energies and to contribute to the earth.
This one month is $125USD (There's country pricing so please email if you are in Australia, for example) email@example.com
Gold! 11 - Talk to Plants
GOLD!10 - Access Your Power with Money.
If you don't have as much ease with money as you'd like, or if money always seems to be a struggle, you may not realise that you have a power with money. Frustration, anger, limitation around finances is energy you could be using to actually create what you'd like, rather than staying stuck!
A daily Energy Flows exercise to match the frequency of gold.
Gold is the essence of healing, abundance and possibility.
It has long been treasured for it's rarity, physical beauty and malleability for use in coinage, jewellery, clothing, and adornment of all kinds. It has been the standard of wealth on planet earth for many thousands of years.
But it is the frequency or vibration of gold that holds its true value.
Every day for 30 days, you will receive a video and the audio of an energy exercise of around 5-10 minutes, using the frequency of gold energy which resonates with the physical body for health and relaxation, with the earth for healing, nurturing and creativity and with MONEY!
We will take the gold vibration deep into the cells of the body for healing, to expand receiving of abundance and nurturing energies and to contribute to the earth.
If you can match the frequency of GOLD, you can have GOLD.
"Anything you can Be, you can Have." - Gary Douglas
Gold! Month #9 - Energy Flows with the Earth
Month #8 of the Gold Energy Flows series...
Female bodies are different!
Not better, just different! And they have different energetic capacities!
In month #8 of the GOLD! Energy Flows series, we'll be clearing and opening up the Female Creative Energy systems and flows of the body.
What does Female Creative Energy do?
* Enhances, expands and exponentionalises your creativity on all levels;
* Opens up your receiving;
* Revitalises the physical body;
* Expands "sexualness" - the pleasure of embodiment.
***Sexulaness" is a word coined by Gary Douglas of Access Consciousness to describe the healing, nurturing, creative, life giving energy found in nature - it is the energy of the earth. It includes sexual intercourse, but that is a small part of the joy or pleasure of embodiment.
Sexualness is about enjoying everything in life - the sun on your skin, the wind in your hair, being with friends, family, your pets, your work - your body. (* Female Creative Energy is not an Access Consciousness process)
Your *Female Creative Energy may have been supressed from childhood or from many other times and places - anywhere you have been judged as too much - too loud, too giggly, too smart, too attractive, too powerful, too naughty etc.
You may have learned to supress your natural vitality and vivacity because that's what the people around you did as you were growing up. But you can unlock it!
Here's an Energy Flows from the series - "Your Body Wasn't Designed to Age" - The Pineal Gland
Month #7 Your Body Was Designed to YOUTH!
Month Six: Super Powers!
Month Five:
Are you ready to ride the wild surf? "Big Wednesday" is coming!
In the surf culture there's a myth that all the great surf days of the year fall on Wednesdays. And sometimes there's a super Big Wednesday.
This 30 days is about hitching a ride on the energy waves - quantum entanglements - which is how all things are connected and how we can create what we'd like to have. Many people don't realise they are using the energy waves against themselves. For example, there are lots of people who moan and complain and that creates a energy surge or wave that you can connect with and ride. Not fun. Or, you can choose another energy wave. It may be the ride of your lifetime!
As any surfer knows, to catch a wave you have to paddle fast and match the speed of the wave before it can lift you for an exhilarating, joyous ride.
In this 30 days, practice the fast paddle, and what to do between waves when you're in the trough before the next surge, and it seems like nothing is happening.
Having more money is about enjoying life more and also being a greater contribution to other people and the earth. Money is about your body - you the being don't need food, clothes, a house or a car. Your body requires those things. And oddly enough, if you nurture your body more, more money shows up!
The Energy Flows™ - Shauna's unique form of energy exercises - a kind of guided meditation/energy exercise, is posted live daily to a private facebook group, and also emailed to you daily, as audio and video. You don't have to be on facebook to receive the Energy Flows.
Plus a one hour Zoom "Ride the Wild Surf"
Month 4 : Beyond This Reality Awareness
Month#4 Energy Flows to expand your Beyond this Reality Awareness
We are so often caught up in the awarenesses we are having about other people's thoughts and their bodies; about the politics of the day, the economy blah blah blah, that we often don't acknowledge that we are also having BEYOND THIS REALITY AWARENESS all the time! A BTR awareness is where you have a whisper of what else is possible, a nudge about a different future, a sense of energy to be followed. We'll take a month to explore and expand that! What might your future look like if you acknowledged the BTR awarenesses you have? It might be way beyond what you can conceive of or imagine!!!
Are you avoiding the pleasure of life? Pleasure is what you have when you connect with your body and with the sexualness of nature - the healing, creative, generative and nurturing energy.
The Pleasure of living includes the elegance of living, where you are willing to look at what is beautiful in life and have and be peace; it includes nurturing you and your body; using what you already have to greatest effect; adding to your life; and accessing a wealth of possibilities.
So in thse 30 days we will use Energy exercises - which I call Energy Flows - to expand our receiving of earth energies, and possibilities for healing both ourselves, the earth and others.
Pleasure is a big no-no, taboo word for many people. It has an immediate association with sex, indulgence, even laziness and selfishness. And then the guilt, shame and regret pop in!
But what if it's actually something completely different?
What if it's the joy of living?
Over the 30 days we will explore letting go of what prevents us having as much pleasure as we would like, and what that might create and generate in every area of living!
Here's a quote from Gary Douglas of Access Consciousness:
"When you are willing to live your life from a hedonistic pleasure place, your life begins to work in ways it never has before, because you are living for the joy of it, not for what you have to accomplish, what you have to do, or for the purpose of it."
GOLD! Month #2 - Being the Magic of Earth with the Spirits of the Sea and Nature
Each day for 30 Days, Shauna posts a live Energy Flows - a kind of energy exercise/meditation.
"In the past year I have visited many cities around the world - including Paris, Budapest, Prague,(all twice!) Tokyo (3 times!) and St Petersburgh. And in each place, I 'tune in' to the nature spirits and the earth there, by doing my Energy Flows. I use the frequency of Gold as it resonates well with both the body and the earth. These energies are waking up now as more people become aware and willing to work with them. This year, I've already visited the centre of my own country - Uluru and Kata Tjuta (those wonderful red domes in the picture above). Different awarenesses come with each place. While I'm home, I often post my Energy Flows from the near-by beach or my garden. We create a private facebook group, and I post a video live each day from wherever I happen to be. You're invited to join us."
Month #1 is Energy Flows for the health of your Mouth, Teeth and Gums.
Here's one you can experience The Deliciousness of Life
You can purchase the recordings of this one month of Mouth, Teeth & Gums. It's $125. Scroll down to register! The recordings will be sent one each morning in your time zone.
Some feedback from this series:
"Listening to the call is the very first thing I do when I wake up. It opens me to receive more with my body, allows to receive gold every where, my body is so happy!"
"The past few days have shown incredible lightbulb moments for me, already. I'm so excited about the changes being Gold is creating. My two children are now joining in with me and we are doing the daily meditation together."
Participants have had changes in their money flows, have had job offers, found lost jewellery and overall increase in peace and relaxation.
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Colonial Williamsburg's recent television ad campaign!
We here at the American Hysterical Society firmly believe that history doesn't sell. The History Channel is all the proof you'll ever need of that. Most Americans are not interested in pure history, research, interpretation, or historiography (we'd bet most of you were turned off just reading that sentence). This puts museums in an increasingly difficult position. We're trained to do that boring stuff, but boring stuff does not resonate with our potential visitors. So we turn to ad agencies, people experienced in spinning and selling, for help.
When these two worlds meet it can make for some awkward moments, as you can watch below.
This one is aimed at couples. We're not sure what kind of couples. The word boogie suggests it's geared for those in their 50s or 60s who fondly remember their courtship during the Bicentennial.
Then there's this one where a folk art "couple" discuss their possible vacation plans, which is exactly as exciting as it sounds (oh, and we hate to break it them, but folk art doesn't exist).
These next three are different cuts of the same commercial wherein your visit to CW will cause some stranger to invade your home, join you in the shower, spend time in the bathroom with your tweenage daughter, give your son the gift of sadism, and seduce your wife (by the way, we think they should have replaced the alarm clock buzzer with a crowing cock).
So why did Colonial Williamsburg commission these new ads? Sally McConnell, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's director of strategic communications, said they went in this new direction because, "It's time for us to break through the perception that this is just a fourth-grade field trip." It worked. It's clearly a fifth grade field trip now. And a disturbing one at that.


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The more we learn about sleep the more we realise how critical it is to our physical and mental wellbeing. The perfect bed means you wake up feeling rested and full of energy. But how do you find the perfect mattress? I often hearclients say that they are none the wiser after mattress shopping, as the industry is full of jargon seemingly only used to confuse.
There are a few key things you can do to make sure you get a great night's sleep.
When choosing a mattress and bed, look for one that:
1. Is made of natural materials
2. Is fitted specifically to your needs; and
3. Has good support.
It's also a bonus to shop where the staff is knowledgeable, and they can offer a free night's trial to see if the mattress works for you.
First of all, it is important to know that while you sleep, extraordinary things go on in your body to renew you:
During rapid-eye-movement sleep (REM), the biological processes that maintain your warm body temperature temporarily shut down, giving nature a chance to re-stoke your furnaces. During this re-charge, you miraculously move from being 'warm-blooded' to being 'cold-blooded.'
During well-supported sleep, your spinal muscles will relax completely for a deep sleep. Your body then rehydrates and decompresses the spinal discs, leaving them revitalized.
Regulate Chemicals
Significant surges in hormones take place to regulate our metabolism and other bodily functions like growth and enzyme production. For example, your brain produces Serotonin and Melatonin while you sleep. Serotonin is known as the happy hormone. It modulates mood, emotion, sleep and appetite. A lack of Serotonin may result in depression. Melatonin resets the body clock to synchronize metabolic functions with times of activity and rest.
Normalise Blood Pressure
A fall in blood pressure and heart rate during quiet sleep and dramatic swings in these rates during REM are thought to be important in keeping daytime blood pressure normal. Hence some people who have difficulty sleeping will suffer high blood pressure.
Because of all these, you need to find the perfect mattress that will facilitate your body's natural processes.
1. Natural materials
Many beds and bedding materials available today are derived from petrochemicals and made using toxic or carcinogenic chemical processes. Since sleep is an active process, every movement compresses these materials and releases toxic fumes into the air.
It makes sense to sleep with pure and natural fibres surrounding you that will aid your breathing, maintain your body temperature and aren't full of unnecessary chemical treatments. Sleep the way nature intended.
Look for mattresses made of natural materials such as natural latex (be wary of synthetic latex!), bamboo, cotton, silk and wool. These natural fibres all breathe and maximise airflow in and around the mattress. Most of these materials are also naturally anti-bacterial.
2. Fitted specifically to you
Nowadays there is a tendency to believe that one mattress fits all. However, after many years in the industry one thing is very clear: we are have unique shapes, sizes, and our own sleeping preferences and health needs.
Your bed should be personalised to fit your body – not anyone else's. Some companies, such as Okooko, are able to customise your mattress to fit both you and your partner's needs.
3. Good support
Obviously if your back and neck aren't getting the appropriate level of support all other factors are irrelevant. The perfect mattress and bed is one that adapts perfectly to the contours of your body and gives you support, so you sleep with a perfect straight back. When lying on your back it should push into your lower back, and when on your side it should let your shoulder and hip sink sufficiently so your spine is always in a neutral position.
Sleep institutions have developed a "comfort Index" to determine the ideal sleeping comfort. Latex scores much better than springs, which become very hard when pushed deeply; or than foam, which 'breaks' at a certain moment.
Latex, as well as being 100% natural, has many amazing health properties, it reduces pressure points and prevents restricted capillary blood flow – the main cause of muscle aches and general restless sleep. It is naturally mould and mildew resistant; and resistant to dust mites. Due to its hypoallergenic qualities, latex is the perfect mattress for allergy sufferers.
4. Staff who know what they're talking about!
Nothing compares to having a sales person who can actually tell you whether a mattress is right for you when you're lying on it. They should also be able to tell you all about the contents of the mattress – if they can't, be wary.
5. Sleep on it
It is impossible to tell if the mattress in the showroom is the right one after lying on it for five minutes. Several mattress retailers, such as Okooko, now offer the option of free nights' trial,. To be honest, only in the comfort of your home after several nights, if not weeks, can you tell if this is the one for you.
There is an old adage, spend money on shoes and your mattress, if you're not in one, you're in the other. This is so true, unfortunately many people, especially in Hong Kong, spend on their shoes and compromise on their mattress!
Rochelle LePine is the Managing Director of Okooko Hong Kong.


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Now I'm not Starbucks' biggest fan, and they're guilty of many things - but somehow I doubt spreading Ebola and flavouring their drinks with the "semen of sodomites" are among them. Still, another reason to steer clear of their lattes.
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Finally finished the quilt for grandson Aiden. He picked out the floral print and the white fabric in the center of the blue blocks. Sense they didn't quite go together I came up with this design and used the fabrics Aiden liked. I hope that I will be able to get this quilted before christmas. I start this project using a light blue that I ran out of after making half the blocks I needed. Once I found the turquoise color I decided to start over and worked out the quilt below. As for the blocks that I didn't use, well I do have 2 grandsons so I've come up with an idea to use the other blocks. After all at their age of 6 and 3 you can't give one to one of the kids without having one for the other.
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Beautiful! I have discovered the "make one--need three" with my grandchildren as well. It is impossible for me to explain to a little one why one of the siblings is getting something special. Luckily I only have 3.
Very nice! Aidan will always remember that you used his choices, making this quilt even more precious to him.
Beautiful...it's fun to let them be part of a project!
Looks great! You are so creative with all your designs.
Aidan will love it.
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How and why the SafeSider approach to endodontics will allow you to do more with endodontics, making it safer, quicker and less expensive.
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Steun (U) limited is a proud distributor of a wide range of solar Products in East Africa. The company was started in 2016 and with a mission to bring high quality solar products to both rural and urban populations to improve family economy, education, health, and safety. It has created teams of operation in and South Sudan and Uganda and looking forward to works with partners to reach people in the region with smart, simple, and sustainable power solutions.More than 15 years' experience in research, consultancy, and activism to promote development in Africa. The company is thus based on in-depth knowledge about life, livelihoods, and aspirations in East Africa as well as on high competence in business operation.Supporting farmers as well.
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Our business model is premised on working with women, men and youth in organized groups like Village Saving and Loan Associations (VSLA); and, other Saving and Credit institutions which can lend money at affordable rate to the them start, build and grow a clean energy business. We advocate for the deliberate inclusion of women and vulnerable groups including child headed households to become economically empowered through operating a clean energy business. The women, men and youth then become last mile distributors of clean energy among their communities while improving on their socio-economic status.
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Dr. Michael Cummings has clinical and administrative oversight of the majority of hospital and forensic based psychiatric and chemical dependency treatment in Buffalo and its surrounding communities. This includes the busiest psychiatric emergency department in New York State. In addition to his clinical and administrative work, his major focus is on developing and integrating systems of care for individuals with mental illness and developmental disabilities who are at high risk of avoidable hospitalization or incarceration.
Dr. Michael Cummings grew up in Upstate New York and attended South Glens Falls High School. He completed his undergraduate degree in Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University and his medical degree and residencies in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Cummings has over 15 years experience treating children, adolescents, and adults for all major psychiatric conditions and developmental challenges in a wide array of community and institutional settings.


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View a selection of implementation strategies from educators who are successfully using ALEKS to achieve dramatic learning outcomes.
NEW College Preparatory Academy, Private
League City, TX
Grade(s): 7 - 12
Scenario: Online School, Home Access
Purpose: Core Curriculum
ALEKS Portion of Curriculum: 100%
Time Spent in ALEKS: 10 hours per week
ALEKS Course: Mathematics - LV 4 (with QuickTables), Essential Mathematics (with QuickTables), Middle School Math Course 2, Pre-Algebra, Foundations of High School Math, Algebra 1, High School Geometry, Algebra 2, PreCalculus
Robin Stowe, Mentor
Our school uses ALEKS as a primary math learning device for our students. I have found that my students who begin ALEKS at the sixth or seventh grade level progress through their math courses at a great speed. One of my students completed six ALEKS courses in less than 12 months. Another of my students who was severely behind in math was able to complete two ALEKS courses in less than a year and start on his third course.
What challenges did the class or school face in math prior to using ALEKS?
The challenge was not having anything we could provide to students who were at the levels below Pre-Algebra.
How many days per week is class time dedicated to ALEKS?
5 days per week.
What is the average length of a class period when ALEKS is used?
120 minutes.
Do you cover ALEKS concepts in a particular order?
We use the directed learning available through ALEKS.
How do you structure your class period with ALEKS?
My students work online from home. They are asked to work two hours per day, starting with a review of their notes. They then review previous topics, then do QuickTables (if assigned), and finally, work on as many topics as they can accomplish in the remaining time. We use this directed learning for all of our courses.
How did you modify your regular teaching approach as a result of ALEKS?
Our students are self-taught.
How often are students required or encouraged to work on ALEKS at home?
Students perform all of their work from home, so they are asked to work on ALEKS two hours per day.
How do you cultivate parental involvement and support for ALEKS?
Parents are only asked to make sure their student is working two hours per day. If we find students have issues with time, we send the parents the Time and Topic Report.
Is ALEKS assigned to your students as all or part of their homework responsibilities? If so, what part of the total homework load is it?
All coursework is done at home.
How do you incorporate ALEKS into your grading system?
When students complete a course, they are given an A.
Do you require students to make regular amounts of progress in ALEKS?
Students work at their own pace.
Learning Outcomes
Since using ALEKS, please describe the learning outcomes or progress you have seen.
Students who start ALEKS at the sixth or seventh grade level would not trade ALEKS for any other math curriculum. In the long run, all students proceed at a faster pace since they are able to pick up all of the idiosyncrasies they missed in their earlier education.
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Are there any best practices you would like to share with other teachers implementing ALEKS?
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It's beautifully 100% handcrafted 6m dia round space is enhanced through original hand-felted Kyrgyz hangings, and using this space with your group will enhance your community.
In order to maintain the Yurt and the Festival community we request that in return for using the Yurt contribute either £8 per hour donation or that you take a share of the volunteering jobs available, see list.
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Letter: Okay, so it ain't over till it's over
But in the meantime - barring any more dramatic changes to come via recounts, etc. - it appears that the Greens with three seats currently hold the balance of power. Andrew Weaver now has a historic opportunity to change the political landscape of BC permanently. He must insist that Green support for another party's platform will be entirely contingent on that party's active support for, and concrete action on, introducing proportional representation [PR] before the next electoral round confronts us.
It's interesting to note that in Weaver's campaign he placed PR front and centre before several clearly urgent environmental issues. I believe he was strategically quite right to do so. Based on the popular vote, under PR the Greens would now have ten or twelve seats, not three.
With that many seats under PR, the Greens would in subsequent elections attract yet more voters who had formerly been reluctant to do anything at all (under our antiquated horse race system), that might give The Plastic Smile another majority term with which to aid her predatory capitalist financiers in their frantic scramble to extract the last of our provincial resources and transmute them into private profit, before the political tide inexorably turns against them, as it will,
Under PR, the Greens could play a significant role in moving us away from further environmental degradation and destruction.
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Mae Sot Border Crossing 2016Border crossing Mae Sot 2016
WARNUNG - Fraud at the Mae sot/Myawaddy border crossing - Myanmar Forum
Part of the cause we were cheated is our own guilt, we've been traveling through Southeast Asia for 10 month now and usually the natives who are offering help are actually helping, trustworthy and real. We were just out of luck this year and it's in part our responsibility that we just put our faith in this fella.
It' a middle thirties Myanmar boy with a big scar/growth on his throat - don't dare put up with this one. But I just want to make sure other guys don't make the same mistakes, so if you see this bloke on the edge, don't confide in him and dual control when folks are offering you a prize for transportation.
Newspaper - Myawaddy-Mae Sot temporary border crossing permit prolonged from one to seven nights
The new treaty between the two states allows travellers crossing the Myawaddy-Mae Sot border to remain in Mae Sot for seven consecutive nights. This new treaty will enter into force on 1 October 2016. Burma's Ministry of Labour, Immigration and Population, the Ministry of the Interior and the Royal Thai Immigration Service have reached an understanding on the renewal.
Previously, persons crossing the Myawaddy-Mae Sot border with their passport were permitted to spend a one-day stopover from 6 am to 6 pm. In order to maintain the border crossing, according to officials, they must hold the Burma NRC membership cards and must register 1,500 Kyats with Burma's migration authorities and 20 Bahets with Thailand's INS.
Passport holder are permitted to travel to Phop Phra and Mae Ramat districts in the Thai Mae Sot area. Crossing with their own vehicles, they pay 25,000 Kyat and are permitted to enter the city of Mae Sot, but are not permitted to go to Phop Phra or Mae Ramat.
Whilst there are many different types of individuals who are crossing the Thai-Burma Friendship Brigde to work in Mae Sot every day, there are many others who are crossing the border through several illicit passages under the one.


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Asked to come up with a mock title for a surefire best seller, the legendary publisher Bennett Cerf (1898-1971) is said to have replied, sticking a finger into the prevailing winds, "Lincoln's Doctor's Dog."
As far as I know, no one's come up with a similarly incisive formula for placing an article on The New York Times's most e-mailed list. But one way to appear there is to have something new or smart, or furious, or funny to say about college admissions and their attending agonies. It's a topic that roils the collective gut.
The admissions process, as Andrew Ferguson puts it in his new book, "Crazy U," entangles not just our pocketbooks but everything else that, besides world peace and cocktail hour, matters to parents: "our vanities, our social ambitions and class insecurities, and most profoundly our love and hopes for our children."
Mr. Ferguson is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine, and he's a valiant guide through this emotional territory. He's got a big, beating heart, but he tucks it behind a dry prose style that owes a little bit to Mark Twain and Tom Wolfe to name the first two white-suited writers who come to mind and also to Dave Barry (who I suspect wears Dockers).
He made me laugh early, and often. Why do high school kids look so disoriented on SAT day? It's not the test. It's that their cellphones have been pried from their clammy fingers. "None of them had gone four hours without sending a text message," Mr. Ferguson writes, "since middle school."
"Crazy U" is a chronicle of Mr. Ferguson's attempts to help place his son, who is 16 when this mini-odyssey begins, in a decent college. Mr. Ferguson's boy (he is never named) is only an average student, and his father fears for him in a process that's become a nationwide talent hunt favoring teenage extroverts and self-marketers. "I wasn't sure," he writes, "my son had the personality for it." He means that as a compliment.
As this story moves forward, Mr. Ferguson makes short, shrewd detours into areas that include: the history of American education, how college guidebooks compile their rankings, the SAT tests and its critics, and the headache-making intricacies of college loans and financial aid. He talks to an expensive admissions guru who learns of his late start and fumbling progress and says, smiling: "Oooooh. Baaaaaaad Daaaaaad."
These detours might have been, as they often are in memoirish surveys like this one, potted histories: breaded, deep-fried, dead on the palate. Mr. Ferguson's taste buds are wide awake as he samples this material. His chapter on the SAT is a fine, provocative example. It may invite some flaming e-mail into his in-box.
He reminds us that the SAT was viewed, upon its introduction, as a liberal reform a breakthrough for meritocracy, a way to jettison the old-boy network that fenced out minorities and nonlegacies. "The SAT was thought to democratize and objectify what would otherwise have been a chaotic and arbitrary process of selection open to favoritism and corruption," he says.
The test, while imperfect, does a decent job of predicting a student's grades in college, he notes. He takes seriously complaints that the test favors wealthier students. But he quotes one education professor who says, flatly, that for a million reasons all of them unfair it is "impossible to find a measure of academic achievement that is unrelated to family income."
He agrees that more African-American and Hispanic students need to be enrolled in good colleges. But he is wary of those who would concoct tests simply to favor desired applicants. About one well-meaning psychologist who is attempting to do this, he writes warily, as if he were describing the experiments of Soviet-era scientists, "It's a kind of reverse engineering: he knows the results he wants, he just needs the right test to give them to him."
"Crazy U" is not, for the most part, political. You read this thing for Mr. Ferguson's frazzled observations about every step of the process. He learns to fear "that feral look of parental ambition." He observes the hypocritical way colleges pretend to loathe the guidebooks that rank them; yet if they get a good write-up, they "wave it around like a bride's garter belt." He disparages, tongue only slightly in cheek, "the poetry-writing ganja heads who slump out of Brown."
He is bitterly funny about the (sometimes very) personal essays students are forced to include with their college applications. These essays are "a relatively new idea, and very baby boomerish," he says. He asks: "Who are they to force a catharsis on 17-year-olds?"
Students who dislike talking about themselves, whose every sentence is not "a little stink bomb of braggadocio," are at a disadvantage. "Once the larger culture considered reticence a virtue," he writes. "Now it's cause for suspicion or evidence of derangement."
Mr. Ferguson is a graduate of Occidental, a liberal arts college in Los Angeles. His son, after a few nail-biting moments, gets into an institution he likes, a big place that Mr. Ferguson refers to only as BSU, for big state university. His son seems to love it, even if his father is less sanguine. Mr. Ferguson describes BSU's graceless dorm architecture this way: "DMV, Provo, Utah, 1972."
Let me not overpraise "Crazy U." But its slimness and modesty are what's winning about it. It's a calm, amusing, low-key meditation on a subject that is anything but calm, amusing or low key. Many parents will grip it, I suspect, as if it were a cold compress they might apply to their fevered foreheads.
Mr. Ferguson is the kind of father who fears and maybe hopes a little too that his son's college years will "be as reckless, wasteful, and thrilling as mine." Bad dad? No way.


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