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Your personal life journey shouldn't happen by accident, and that is why we are all about providing career coaching, retirement planning and personal development training courses that help ignite your passion for future life changes, and lead you forward to a more fulfilling and rewarding sense of purpose.
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"Helping people to unlock their potential to achieve a higher level of performance and a deeper understanding of the learning and skills required to continuously grow, both as an individual, and as an employee, is the core of Career Coaching and Training. We are here to help you set new goals, renew your enthusiasm, and find new meaning and enjoyment in your life and future. With Career Coaching and Training, no matter what your needs, or learning style, we will tailor our approach so that you achieve the ultimate benefit of structured life lessons, retirement planning and career counselling that will give you the opportunity to access better career options, help you lift your game, and nurture untapped skills to live a more rewarding and fulfilling life."
Leah Shmerling (2019)
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Thank you for being such an engaging, dedicated and caring teacher. You made our weekly studies fun and informative, and I learnt so much. All the best and hope to cross paths again.
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Leah you are an awesome facilitator and a fabulous educator. I feel we all progressed so much over the 12 weeks, not only in knowledge but also in confidence. I wish all ACAP blended delivery classes could be conducted like this because you broke down the content for us and you were available to us to ask any questions we had about the content or our assessments.
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Thank you for the most amazingly wonderful introduction into the Bachelor of counselling. I enjoyed every class and reflected so in your units feedback.
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I want to express my appreciation for your brilliant training. I am thrilled with the experience you provided and the level of practical work and theory. Thank you so much, you brought theories to life…All the training that you do has been deeply rewarding. I've grown in unexpected ways not just personally but professionally in each. Your enthusiasm is infectious and highly appreciated.
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Dear Leah, Firstly, thank you for this course which I found excellent and which exceeded all my visions of what it would be like.
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Thank you so much for coming and training us in Conflict Resolution. The team got so much out of it, and still talk about tools they use.
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Thanks Leah for having provided fantastic training. I did enjoy the course and learnt a lot.
I am interested in continuing my study in this direction so I will think about taking up further study in Graduate Diploma.
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Thanks again for your patience and support throughout the duration of the course. I couldn't have completed without your support and assistance.
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Leah, this is awesome, something to be really proud of. I am so glad you are here but more than that, that you are offering yourself and your expertise to the world. The world is clearly a better place for your presence. Thanks again for everything.
Janette Brien
Rehabilitation Consultant
I would like to thank you for supporting me through your extensive supply of resources and experience in successfully completing the Foundations in Career Development Practice, CHCSS00005 Career Development Skills Set.
The facilitated delivery included a blend of monthly webinars, on-line resources and relevant workplace assignment tasks that have built my confidence to coach my clients toward achieving their desired goals.
Your feedback of my work was invaluable as it taught me to work smarter, more efficiently, providing me with more effective results and happier clients.
So, thank you very much for all your input over last 7 months!
Jack L. Harris
Prof Emeritus
With Leah's enthusiastic approach I was motivated to examine much more than the basic requirements of the course. Her depth of knowledge in this arena not only surprised me but empowered me to pursue all aspects of it to ensure I had a really good understanding of what it entailed. Leah had presented the course in a professional yet warm and personal way and which allowed her students to become closely acquainted with the subject. Her passion for helping others is highly evident and via this avenue she is able to encourage others to be the change they want to see in themselves and in the world around them.
Richard Fowler
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I have been able to demonstrate many of the elements of the course immediately, and see the results in provoking the right conversations, as well as providing areas of focus that aid in alleviating tensions, and pointing toward solutions. Leah has pitched the course to comprehensively cover pertinent topics with her own flair, in a manner befitting high quality professional development. I would recommend it wherever applicable.
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'The courses are good. I enjoy studying online in my home. It is easier and preferable to going to university. Staff are supportive, assisting me to succeed.'
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"I'm blown away! This is fabulous! The Foundations unit I looked at has so many great educational principles built in and all using that digital world so well."
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'Leah, you have assisted me to broaden my career options beyond what I was considering.'
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'Leah, you have been absolutely invaluable today. Worth more than your weight in gold.'
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Not since the late 1920's has a struggle been so important!
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This fight is not just a fight for the unions but for the middle-class—for the dignity of every hard-working, red-blooded, man, woman, and child in America.
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Walker, in the now viral phone call, is self-admittedly corrupt and protecting corporate power. His thought about bringing in the National Guard, his version of 'brown shirts,' as well as planting troublemakers to incite a riot to disrupt a peaceful demonstration, tramples their first amendment rights.
There is little doubt that the battle in Wisconsin is the first campaign for our precious freedom; a stand for democracy against a move to a fascistic Plutocracy—a fight for our children and grandchildren's futures.
What is most evident in the Wisconsin situation, and most scary for a nation, is the fact that lying has become the norm rather than the exception, and one party has truly mastered the art of lying. But even scarier is the number of citizens who, without question, accept these lies and misrepresentations as truth.
In the case of Governor Walker, though caught in numerous fabrications, he continues to lie about his true intent; to bust the public unions, becoming a conduit for the Koch Brothers and Republican corporatists.
The battle in Wisconsin is now a national conflict between every American that works hard for a living wage and the rich oligarchs who want to rule this country. Oligarchs cannot rule a country that is free and stands together!
If you're a hard worker and make under a quarter-of-a-million dollars a year you are middle-class; an American symbol of greatness that has been eroding for years.
This fight is your fight and if you don't believe it just look at the Republican voting record and the $60 billion in cuts the House Republican's just passed. Your rights and your ability to make a living are being attacked from the right; your freedoms are being stripped in broad daylight.
Yes, even if you're not from Wisconsin, even if you're not a member of a union, even if you're making over $100,000 a year, this is your fight, your battleground against oppression—a last stand against the fascism creeping into our busy lives.
Wisconsin is ground zero for middle-America.
Wisconsin, is the clash for our children and grandchildren; the fight for the American Dream.
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The GiveGetWin Summer Camp curriculum has been developed since 2012, and has helped dozens of of elite performers learn the skills to thrive in entrepreneurship and leadership, many of whom have gone on after graduating to start successful businesses ranging from lifestyle businesses that support the founder doing what they love, to fast growth startups (Zach Obront founded BookInABox, which did over $6 million in revenue in its third year of operation.) Attendees have also gone on to work in some of the most innovative companies in the world (Lisa Larbi from GGWSC16 now works at Facebook) and had success across a wide range of leadership and social activities in addition to business.
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PRISONERS OF HOPE, the third in the Amanda Doucette series, was released in October 2018 and can be found at your favourite bookseller or online.
After a busy fall of launches, signings, and festival appearances, Barbara has been hard at work on the first draft of the fourth Amanda book, entitiled The Ancient Dead. With spring not far away, however, the calendar of events is filling up again.
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Barbara Fradkin is a retired psychologist and multiple award-winning mystery author whose work with children and families provides much of the insight and inspiration for her stories. She has an affinity for the dark side and her compelling short stories haunt several magazines and anthologies, including the Poe-inspired nEvermore! Tales of Murder, Mystery, and the Macabre,.released in 2015.
She also writes an easy-read series for reluctant readers which features simple country handyman Cedric O'Toole, and is best known for her gritty, psychological Inspector Green novels, which have been nominated four times for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel from Crime Writers of Canada, and have won the award twice. She has more recently embarked on a series featuring Amanda Doucette, an adventurous, passionate but struggling international aid worker who is looking for healing and new direction. The second in that series, The Trickster's Lullaby, was released is September 2017, and the third, Prisoners of Hope, in October 2018.
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Volume 1: THE WORLD PLAN: (Russia, America, The Vatican, Israel, Canada/Britain published under the title The New World Order and the Throne of the antichrist, February 19th, 1993, 421 pages, 50 illustrations, $19.95 ($3 postage).
Volume 2: UNITED STATES: Published under the title: The New World Order in North America: Mechanism in Place for a Police State, 29 September 1993, 304 pages, 44 illustrations, $19.95 ($3 postage).
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Rewire: By Muddying On-Campus Sexual Assault Policies, DeVos Is Making Students—and Schools—Less Safe
Betsy DeVos is asking Trump to remove Department of Education rules that protect victims of rape on campus. DeVos claims that women are falsely accusing their rapists, but this statement couldn't be further from the truth. DeVos wants to make it even harder for rape survivors to come forward. About 25% of women are raped during their college career, and 2/3rds of rape cases go unreported. Only 2% of rape claims are proven false. Under President Obama, the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act was signed into law, giving victims of sexual assault on campus new protections. Unfortunately, given Devos' comments, and Trump's own history of sexual assault, these critical gains are in jeopardy now.
However, according to DeVos, those guidelines were too unfair to students accused of assault. "The truth is that the system established by the prior administration has failed too many students," DeVos said in a speech September 7 at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University in Virginia. In that speech, she promised the Department of Education (DOE) would replace the "current failed system" with a "workable, effective, and fair system" that does more for both sexual assault victims and the accused.
However, those who worked on the policy under President Barack Obama were disturbed by DeVos' remarks' implications. "The secretary's speech was incredibly damaging, and it returns us to the bad old days when we behaved as if we didn't know what to do as a country about sexual violence in school," said Catherine Lhamon, chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR), in an interview with Rewire. The USCCR is an independent agency charged with monitoring federal civil rights enforcement. Before working with the USCCR, Llamon was the assistant secretary for civil rights at the DOE and worked closely on the department's guidance on sexual assault.
"We had made so much progress in the past few years and the secretary's remarks set that progress back," Lhamon continued.
DeVos' announcement reflected previous rhetoric from the agency: Candice E. Jackson, acting assistant secretary for civil rights at the DOE, said in July that claims of campus sex assault are usually just a result of "regret" by the victim.
Llamon said that overall, such a shift deviates from the policy and comments of even previous conservative administrations.
"As early as the Reagan administration, the Office for Civil Rights issued guidance that discussed the ways in which the Office for Civil Rights would enforce Title IX to protect students from sexual violence in schools," Llamon said. "So the notion now as expressed in the secretary's speech that we need to essentially subject that question [of how to handle sexual assault] to popular vote sets us back in truly damaging ways and sows confusion where none had existed among the school community, now making sure no one knows that Title IX will be enforced."
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Today is my first day at the AIS base in Varese, Italy. I flew in early this morning with Shara Gillow and Carlee Taylor, both of whom have returned from the Tour of Chonming Island in China. We have joined Lauren Kitchen, Amanda Spratt and Kirsty Broun who have been training up a storm here in Varese.
The AIS base is a block of apartments that is home to a variety of bike-related athletes. At the moment, it's housing the Jayco-AIS boys, women's road, and a couple of BMX chicks. The apartments are pretty well set up with a bike room, gym/ergo room and office. There are Italian lessons for the athletes, regular massages and it's opposite what I'm told is the world's best gelati shop. It's a tough life. There are around 3 athletes in each apartment and I'm sharing with Lauren and Carlee.
It is very wet here at the moment - unusual for this time of the year. After we unpacked bikes we rode for 2.5hrs in the rain and got so cold that my fingers couldn't undo my helmet strap buckle or zips when we finished. Not quite the Italian summer I was hoping for but it can only get better.
The day after tomorrow we drive to Belgium for some kermesse racing and then a short 2-day tour in France. (The rain today was probably good prep for Belgium!) I spent some time living in Brussels in 2005/6 when I worked for Linklaters and I'm looking forward to going back... it's a very cool little country.
At the moment everything feels pretty new and there is a lot to take in but I'm looking forward to getting settled. And a good night's sleep after the 21hr transit wouldn't go astray, either!


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The House has passed its tax bill, and it's based on one organizing principle: that people with more money can do the most for the economy.
Of the $1.5 trillion in deficit financed tax cuts in this bill, the overwhelming majority of the benefits accrue to corporations and the top one percent of income-earning households. Exact numbers vary, but some reviews suggest that as much as 80% of the benefits will accrue to America's wealthiest households. A recent analysis from the Tax Policy Center concluded that the after-tax income of the richest 0.1% will grow by 3% due to this bill, more than double the gains of the middle class.
This is not an accident. It is a critical element of supply side economics.
Supply side economics, a major plank of the conservative movement since at least the early 1980's, argues that production and capacity drive economic growth. As a result, policies which increase investment in and development of business will spur economic growth overall. On this basis conservative policymakers have put together a tax bill which grants the overwhelming majority of its benefits to the already wealthy. Here are five reasons why proponents argue that will work on everyone's behalf, and five reasons why most economists say it won't.
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If economic growth is spurred by business investment, one of the best things that the government can do is get out of the way of that investment. As a close second, the government should encourage and reward that investment as aggressively as reasonably possible. This is much of the basis behind the White House's famous prediction that tax cuts will boost incomes by $4,000 to $9,000 per household.
Based on this logic the tax cuts passed by House Republicans and those under consideration in the Senate will slash the corporate tax rate and, by restructuring pass-through income, will make it easier to profit as a private investor. The goal in both cases is to encourage companies and individuals to invest their money by increasing the rewards for doing so. Entrepreneurs will, proponents argue, spend more money developing new businesses if they can keep more of the money from doing so.
Investors are more likely to give those entrepreneurs and businesses money if they will get to keep more of the profits.
As a downstream result, workers across the country will benefit from the jobs and prosperity that come from new firms, studios, factories and other forms of productive enterprise built by this new business activity.
For the same reasons that investors will sink new money into the market, existing businesses are more likely to expand if they can keep more of the profits. The key notion here is elasticity of markets.
Reducing the corporate tax rate will make it far more lucrative to launch a successful business venture, because the company will get to keep more of its own profits. This creates a corresponding incentive, then, for companies to create more business ventures. Companies will expand elastically in response to new profits.
They will do so, in part, because the greater profit margins offset greater risks.
Although any company could today take out a loan or spend some of its own capital launching a new product or opening a new branch, every venture comes with a certain degree of risk. A company decides to act based on a calculation of capital, risk and reward. By raising the reward through lower taxes, Congress hopes to influence that calculation.
One of the great debates of our time is why wages aren't rising as much as they should in response to a near-historically tight labor market. Economists have a lot of theories, but proponents of the current tax cuts argue that reducing high-end taxes will help prod that process along.
By increasing the capitalization of businesses, tax cut proponents believe that companies will have more freedom to compete for talent. In addition, they will have the resources to improve training and skill development, raising employees' skills and general competitiveness in the marketplace. Finally, increased activity in the business environment will make the hiring market even tighter than it is right now.
All of these forces will work to push average pay up.
This is what's known as trickle-down economics.
When someone makes a small purchase its impact on the economy is limited. Buying a $1 product only moves that single dollar into and through the system. Therefore, rather than trying to encourage a million people to make single-dollar purchases, it's often more efficient to encourage a single person to make a million dollar purchase.
This pushes a large amount of money into the economy at a single time, and typically in a manner that touches many disparate parts. When someone buys a house or a boat, that purchase price hides all of the small purchases that go into building and transferring that product. A single house involves not only the construction crew which builds it, but also the realtors that sell the property, the electricians who wire the house, the manufacturers who make materials used to build the house, the companies which make the products someone fills that house with.
The list goes on, populated with workers and industries all enriched by single purchases.
American companies hold over $2.6 trillion in assets overseas that they could spend in the U.S. They are also eager for foreign investment as a source of potential new money. Reducing domestic taxes on corporate profits makes all of that more likely.
By making it cheaper to bring money back into the country ("repatriation"), Washington will encourage companies to do so. With that money, as discussed above, they can increase domestic investment, building new facilities and products on American shores, with American jobs. The same holds true for foreign investment. By making the United States a more lucrative business environment, foreign investors will be more likely to buy into domestic corporations and foreign businesses will be more likely to build here.
Both changes would lead to more jobs and a better labor market for workers.
Bringing money into the United States doesn't work the way tax cut proponents claim.
First, increasing foreign investment will create an enormous trade deficit. More than a third of the benefits from a corporate rate cut will accrue to foreign investors, leading billions of dollars to flow out of the economy. To the extent that this rate cut encourages additional foreign investment, the profits from that money will also flow back out of the U.S. economy to the original investors. This will help drive up the value of the dollar (as people need more dollars to invest in the U.S. market, our currency will get more expensive), creating a wider trade gap and hurting exports.
Meanwhile, taxes have not historically had much impact on repatriation. Companies have rarely responded to repatriation incentives, and when they have, they historically have used that money to issue dividends and stock buybacks rather than funding new investment.
The "end of repatriation taxes is not likely to boost investment much," wrote William Gale, Co-Director of the Tax Policy Center, in an e-mail. "Companies with a lot of funds abroad also have a lot of funds here and are already not investing those funds."
Rich people don't tend to spend new money.
Trickle down consumer economics is, at its heart, a form of economic stimulus. It argues that tax cuts can be used to drive spending which, in turn, will drive economic activity. In a consumer driven economy like the United States', this is not an inherently bad idea. However there is no observable evidence that it works.
To the extent that tax cuts do create new spending, they generally do so at the low end of the spectrum. The less money a household has, the more likely it is to immediately spend new income. By contrast, wealthy households tend to already have all the money they need. They're much less likely to spend new money because their wealth already exceeds their purchasing patterns. As a result, new income tends to go into savings. This can help investment (since banks will use that saved money to fund loans and make investments), but it does not substantially drive new consumer activity.
It isn't realistic to expect corporations to spend new money because they're not spending the money they already have.
U.S. corporations currently have nearly $2 trillion in assets, more than the GDP of Canada or Italy. They're not spending this money. It's sitting in bank accounts and portfolios waiting for business opportunities worth spending on, because companies don't invest or expand until there's a reason to do so.
That's the problem with increasingly liquidity in a vacuum, and supply side economics in general. Businesses build capacity to meet demand, but consumers don't necessarily increase demand to meet new capacity. Just because a factory exists doesn't mean that customers will show up to buy its products. Corporate tax cuts won't create opportunities or increase the demand that drives business expansion, it will only add to the existing pool of held assets.
"Much of the corporate rate cut will benefit old investment -- it will provide windfall gains without commensurate increases in investment," wrote Gale. "Interest rates are already low and the effective tax rate on capital is already fairly low."
Overall, these tax cuts probably won't drive new investment because the market already has plenty of incentives for private investment.
Then there's the danger of crowding out.
The government will have to borrow an estimated $1.5 trillion to pay for this tax cut. The Treasury will issue bonds to raise that money, which operate as an investment vehicle competing in the marketplace.
Investors generally like Treasury Bonds because of their security, so the more of them that are available the more money they siphon away from private sector investments. Investors looking for a better store of their money than cash will buy Treasury Bonds when they would otherwise have found a safe mutual fund or something similar. This is "crowding out." Even to the extent that tax reform will create real, new investment activity, any of those gains will likely be offset by this phenomenon.
The chief argument that tax reform advocates make is that this plan will cause America's economy to grow faster. They're right that for years now GDP growth has been sluggish in the United States. They are wrong that tax cuts will change this.
Tax policy has no substantial relationship with economic growth.
Although there is some small amount of data relating low-end tax cuts with increased consumer demand, the bigger picture is that individual and corporate tax rates have never strongly correlated with GDP growth rates. Ronald Reagan cut taxes in the 80's, and the economy grew sluggishly. Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr. famously raised them, and the 1990's posted booming economic growth. George Bush Jr. cut them again, and his presidency was marked by multiple downturns.
That's not to say tax cuts are irrelevant as far as good policy goes. However they're only one part of a very complicated system of incentives and demands in our economy. Real, enduring economic policy is far more complicated.


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Recovering Lampard scores
Even with a recovering Frank Lampard, Chelsea looks potent heading into the English Premier League season. Lampard and Romelu Lukaku scored in the second half to lead Chelsea to a 2-1 victory over Roma in Washington, in the final friendly of its preseason US tour before its opening match at Hull City next Sunday. Lampard, who has been recovering from an Achilles injury this summer, scored on a 20m strike inside the left post to level the score in the 61st minute after Eric Lamela's opportunistic 21st minute goal put Roma ahead. Chelsea created chances throughout Saturday's match and was rewarded in the closing moments when Hazard rounded the Roma defense on the left side and drove a shot into goalkeeper Morgan de Sanctis' body. The rebound fell to Demba Ba, who found Lukaku in front of the net for the game-winner. Roma, playing its last friendly of a three-match North American tour, had previously defeated the Major League Soccer All-Stars and Toronto FC.
Another record for Cardiff
English Premier League new boys Cardiff City have broken their transfer record for a third time in a matter of weeks by striking a deal with Sevilla for Chile midfielder Gary Medel. Cardiff said the 26-year-old had agreed a four-year deal, subject to obtaining a work permit, but did not say how much they paid for their record signing. British media reported a fee of £11 million (US$17.08 million). The Welsh side, owned by Malaysian billionaire Vincent Tan, have been busy in the transfer market ahead of their first season back in England's top flight since 1962. The Bluebirds had already broken their transfer record with the signing of Danish striker Andreas Cornelius last month, before they landed Tottenham Hotspur defender Steven Caulker for an even bigger fee four weeks later. Cardiff begin their Premier League campaign away to West Ham United on Saturday.
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PSV Eindhoven's 17-year-old wunderkind striker Zakaria Bakkali capped an unforgettable week with a brilliant hat-trick as the 1988 European Cup winners thumped NEC Nijmegen 5-0 in the Dutch championship on Saturday. Three days after the Belgian scored his first goal for PSV on his senior debut for the club in a Champions League third-round qualifying match, Bakkali repaid the faith of manager Phillip Cocu by finding the back of the net in the sixth, 47th and 82nd minutes. Georginio Wijnaldum, who at 22 was the oldest PSV player on the field on Saturday, added the other two goals in the 61st and 75th minutes to leave the 21-time former Dutch champions on top of the standings with six points from two games.
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New funding secured for the development of Jeddah Tower
The Jeddah Economic Company (JEC) has signed a deal with Alinma Investment for more funding to enable the construction of the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah.
Thus, a 2.23 billion USD fund has been established by the Kingdom Holding named Alinma Jeddah Economic City Fund.
Initially the tower was estimated to have a cost of 1.12 billion USD but this new fund shows that initial estimations will be exceeded. Currently, 26 floors of the tower were already built totaling 85,000 square meters of built space.
While overall the Saudi construction market slows down because of the low oil prices, it is expected the Kingdom Tower will be finished on time, now that all necessary funds are secured.


text: Atrial fibrillation linked to wider range of serious conditions 7 September 2016 BHF Press Office Category: BHF Comment The heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation is associated with a wide range of serious events, including heart attacks, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, and sudden cardiac death, according to new research. Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common abnormal heart rhythms and a major cause of stroke. However, the study, from the University of Oxford and MIT in the USA published in The BMJ, suggests that the risk associated with many of these other conditions and events is greater than that of stroke. As a result of their findings, the researchers are calling for new treatments and approaches to reduce the risk of non-stroke events in people with AF. An analysis of over 100 studies Despite it being well known that AF is associated with increased risk of stroke and death, there has been very little research into the association between AF and other heart and circulatory problems. The researchers therefore decided to analyse the results of over 100 studies involving over 9 million people to assess the association between AF and non-stroke events. They found that AF was associated with a 61 per cent increased risk of coronary heart disease, a 64 per cent increased risk of chronic kidney disease, an 88 per cent increased risk of sudden cardiac death and a 96 per cent increased risk of a major heart and circulatory event. While AF was associated with a 2.3-fold risk of stroke, the association with heart failure was even higher, fivefold. AF is more than an electrical problem The BHF is one of the major funders of AF research in the UK. At the University of Oxford we fund BHF Professor Barbara Casadei, who is a world-leading researcher of atrial fibrillation but not involved in this study. Commenting on the findings, Professor Casadei said: "We've known for some time that conditions, such as chronic kidney disease, are associated with a higher risk of developing atrial fibrillation and that people who have atrial fibrillation are more likely to have a heart attack, stroke, and heart failure. "This new study adds further strength to the argument that AF is rarely a pure electrical problem but can both be causing and be caused by a number of serious health conditions. Health professionals need to be mindful of this and people who notice they have an irregular pulse should consult their GP as soon as possible. "Over a million people in the UK have AF – the symptoms can be hugely distressing but the major concern is how much it can increase a person's risk of a stroke, heart failure and premature death. Our research is moving us towards better treatments that could reduce that risk and help us manage the condition better. But there's still so much we don't understand about atrial fibrillation so continued research is urgently needed." Find out more Our Heart Matters team met with Professor Casadei and interviewed her for our magazine. Read the interview


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IT is an industry that moves at great speed and one of the major benefits of its ongoing advancement is the ever better security options for business IT infrastructures. Today, working with the cloud not only means scalable platforms that offer better business continuity but enhanced security too.
Clear and accountable systems
The cloud now offers opportunities not just to engage in more agile business practices but to ensure that this more flexible approach to working also remains secure. For example, assigning responsibility in the cloud for specific tasks so that accountability lines are clear.
Better back ups
Regularly backing up critical business data ensures business continuity in any event. Private cloud infrastructures are now one of the most resilient options for safeguarding data, with regular backups creating a safety net for a business should any part of it be compromised. In many cases, the data security provided by a cloud solution is more comprehensive than the options for businesses doing this in-house, significantly reducing vulnerability to attack.
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Business infrastructures are now much more secure as a result of the ability to implement swift disaster recovery mechanisms that guarantee business continuity. For example, data can be restored from a cloud back up to any authorised device wherever it is located. The result is disaster recovery planning that is clear and effective and which ensures that there are no unnecessary delays or lapses that could cause further vulnerability.
Access restrictions
Critical business information exposure is a serious concern for any enterprise but improvements in IT now offer ways to limit this risk. Creating a comprehensive policy of access restrictions delivers a roadmap of users who have a genuine need to access certain information and restricts others from getting to it. Not only does this reduce the risks of potential exposure because fewer users have access but it also enables effective accountability should a situation arise where there has been an internal breach. Many business infrastructures are exposed simply by being available to all but with the advice and support of an IT specialist access can be restricted by need and security greatly improved.
Encryption is now widely available to all as a tool for ensuring the security of essential or sensitive information or data. Encrypted information cannot be accessed by anyone who does not hold the decryption key, ensuring that certain data is kept completely confidential.
Knowledge and training
Improvements in IT have made systems and procedures for ensuring security more accessible and clear. As a result, with the support of an IT specialist, it is now possible to create training programmes and educational schemes to protect a business from perhaps the biggest vulnerability: employees. IT specialists can deliver in-house training that is specifically designed to ensure that a workforce is educated about the risks and consequences of security issues at the firm, as well as developing policies that make consequences clear and set out steps to take in disaster scenarios.
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There is such a thing as nonnerdy applied mathematics: find a problem first, and figure out the math that works for it (just as one acquires language), rather than study in a vacuum through theorems and artificial examples, then change reality to make it look like these examples.
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I finally have an art studio!
It was a guest room, baby's bedroom, and now ART STUDIO! Yay! Can you tell I'm excited?! :)
Since our last post (building a farmhouse table) we've been busy selling tables, art, signs…on our Etsy shop: www.builtconcrete.etsy.com . We intended that Farmhouse Table to go to a customer but they changed their mind so I got to keep it…which makes me VERY happy. It's perfect for me to use as a BIG huge desk to spread everything out as you can see here:
I even got to stock the dresser in the corner full of art supplies and packing/shipping goodies.
Here are a few of my favorite parts:
A place to hang new orders, shipping labels, anything lighter than concrete :)
Quick Grip Clamps for Wood Art projects (also currently being used as a safety lock on our kitchen cabinet that little Ian keeps trying to get into!
I've been making new things out of some old 4×4 table legs. Like this kind of art (which I'll share in a later post!):
And these cute little reclaimed coasters which we simply coated with Poly and added felt circles to the bottoms:
And there were a couple newly ordered signs in process there too…gotta love new orders, right?!
So there you have it…my quick tour of my new room!
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Adding gluten free options to your restaurants menu?
I recently had a Twitter conversation between @Block1912, @macgyyver, and @taybad. It started off with @taybad seeking out gluten free beer in Edmonton, and turned into a discussion with Block1912 looking to add gluten free menu items. So that brought up the question, what advise do you give a restaurant or cafe that wants to add gluten free menu items?
I couple of @macgyyver tweets explained it best. Gluten free shouldn't mean just no sauce, it gluten free also shouldn't mean just salad. Amanda often says, that it is nice to have a gluten free menu, but often menu items that are naturally gluten free are left off the menu, making her second guess ordering the item. When it comes down to it, its a matter of knowing what the ingredients are, weather it is just a roasted chicken or chicken fingers. What is in it? Is it gluten free as-is? Can we modify the item to be gluten free without taking away from it. Once some of these questions are answered, then you can mark it as gluten free. Celiac's just don't want gluten free breaded items, they want to be sure they can have a roasted chicken with a gluten free sauce too.
If you have sandwiches, do you have a gluten free bread alternative? Alternative gluten free pasta and pizza crusts? Do you have a dedicated fryer for gluten free items to avoided cross contamination with deep fried breaded items? If you have soups, what do you use as a thickener? If it is flour, can you use something else?
We were recently on a Princess Cruise, and they would give Amanda the same sauce, they would just give it with no thickener to her (made a special batch). She liked it, she was getting what everyone else was getting, instead of "You can have the chicken but no sauce", because lets be honest, who wants no sauce?
Is your restaurant too busy to avoid cross contamination? Make some compromises to accommodate, it's worth it. Press'd The Sandwich Company offers gluten free sandwiches now. Which is great. There Jasper location you can order anything off the menu which is even better, but they had to compromise on their City Centre location which gets slammed at lunch time. They were worried about not being able to keep the work stations clean and uncontaminated. They decided for the City Centre location to have a feature sandwich of the day. So they only have to worry about prepping one type of sandwich for that location. I think everyone appreciates the effort.
Now onto desserts. Which is hard to come by, although we are seeing a few more places offering something besides a bowl of fruit or ice cream. But there is certainly limited choices in pastries. The only pastry chef I can think of that does gluten free is the owner of La Crema in St. Alberta. He sells for re-sale too. You can find his stuff in a couple of the gluten free stores. Kinnikinnick obviously also has great gluten free bakery items at their store. I heard Ed's Gluten Free store is opening up their own bakery inside as well.
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I just came back from spending a week in NYC. I had fried chicken and cheddar waffles, 4 different types of baked mac and cheese with bread crumbs, 3 different types of NY pizza, cheesecakes, banana cream pie, breadsticks, a pulled pork sandwich, tirimisu, beer, pasta with cream sauce, pancakes, and I could go on. And everything I ate was gluten free. Not once did any of our servers have a stunned look on their faces when I inquired about items being gluten free. In fact, the places we ate at had mostly gluten free items on their menus. Why? Because they understand that you don't need gluten or wheat to make a great tasting meal.ReplyDelete
I'm really tired of going to restaurants here that say they have a GF menu only to find out that my GF sandwich is actually just the meat sitting on a sad lifeless piece of lettuce.
I'm taking a trip to Calgary/Canmore next month and I already have a long list of restaurants that have great GF menus. Why is Edmonton so behind the times???
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That is an unfortunate experience you are having in Edmonton. We have had many positive experiences. Have you checked out the restaurant list on our blog?
I'd like restaurants to know that people who eat gluten-free like a choice of meals too. I don't want to be limited to one one entree choice (only the salmon or only chicken). Sometimes I feel like vegetarian other times I'd like meat, so there should be more than one gf entree choice.ReplyDelete
Hi Abisaac, please don't get me wrong, there are a few restaurants in Edmonton that I do enjoy and never feel like I'm being left out - High Level Diner, Next Act Pub, Red Robin, El Rancho, Tres Carnales just to name a few of the terrific restaurants. No, it's the others, which I won't name, that offer an actual GF menu only to have it come to the table deconstructed and bland. And those restaurants should know better - being that they are chain restaurants and some that are a 'group' of locally owned restaurants. Shame on them for charging us full price on a menu item but really only getting half the meal... no, shame on them for only offering that to us.ReplyDelete
And I always check here for recipes and restaurant ideas - thank you for that - you do a fantastic job!!
Angela, we are going to New York in May and would be really interested in any information you can provide on restaurants that are celiac friendly. Maybe other readers of this blog would find it interesting too!ReplyDelete
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Check our travel section. We have written about new York. If you email us we can tell you about more options.
- AnonymousMarch 26, 2012 at 9:26 PM
If you are headed to NYC be sure to check out mozzerllis pizza for amazing gluten free pizza, pasta and dessert! The owners are phenomenal and remember us each time we go back!ReplyDelete


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Real Property Investing
The real property market is the economic sector that entails the shopping for and promoting of infrastructure such as buildings either for residential functions, enterprise premises, and the industry segment. Simply embody your distinctive selling proposition in every advertising piece that you just ship out. For over 50 years, Carolina One has offered a full range of real estate providers to countless households within the Metro Charleston space. With higher income comes greater responsibility; however, commercial rental real property is extra heavily regulated than residential actual property and these rules can differ not solely from nation to country and state by state, but additionally by county and metropolis.
It might be part of the original sale agreement that the buyer is responsible for paying off any existing debt on the property and never the responsibility of the seller. Even though house costs have been up for the 12 months of 2006, the common asking value for properties in December was down about thirteen p.c compared to a 12 months ago. The person who spent 12 years of wheeling and dealing on this planet's hardest actual property market will be in Australia next month to share some stories.
-All earnest cash checks needs to be made out to a real property brokerage, not an individual. This is normally referred to by most individuals when they talk about real estate as, "location, location, location." The location of a preferred space, for whatever causes, is what makes values of properties larger. This sector has quite a few traits that are specific to it. Actual estate is durable for the reason that buildings can last for many years while the land it stands on is indestructible.
"In New York in 2008 and 2009 after the share market crash, prices turned low cost and it was straightforward for individuals to purchase," he says. Renters and leaseholders might have rights to inhabit land or buildings which are thought of a part of their private estate, however are not thought of actual property. Most houses for sale in Tacoma stay on the market for 25 days and obtain 2 offers.
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I've blogged in the past about sleep (click here for that post). I assumed this week I'd sit down and reiterate the importance of sleep and yadda yadda.
Just search "effects of not sleeping enough" on Google and you'll have plenty of articles to entertain yourself with. Yesterday I picked up a "PreventionGuide" from Prevention Magazine and read this on one of the pages:
Sleep loss is hazardous to your diabetes. After lack of sleep for two nights, people in one study had more of the hunger-inducing hormone ghrelin and less of the appetite-suppressing hormone leptin. That makes you more likely to overeat and crave refined carbs, which deliver a quick hit to your blood sugar.
Worse, lack of sleep makes you less able to process glucose. After just 6 days of sleep restriction, people develop insulin resistance, say researchers at the University of Chicago.
Now while it's hazardous to diabetes, I mean, the results of poor sleep sound hazardous for EVERYONE.
And it's because they are.
There's also spiritual ramifications. I'm going to let C.J. Mahaney break it down for you:
Another significant end-of-the-day entry to put into practice before you doze off: Receive the gift of sleep from God and acknowledge His purpose for sleep.
My wife, Caroyln, and I have been married for thirty grace-filled, passionately romantic years, and for the first twenty-seven of those years we slept on the original bed frame and box springs that we started with. At night we just kind of tumbled in together and met in the middle; it was like a water bed without any water.
Before we finally got rid of it, there were moments when I stopped and stared at that bed. I knew that on average we all spend nearly a third of our lives asleep, and so I was struck by the fact that about nine years of my life had been spent in that bed. Nine years!
I was struck also by the fact that Scripture talks about those nine years. Do you realize how often sleep is referred to in Scripture? We shouldn't be surprised at this, because God is sovereign over all of life, as David declared: "The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof" (Psalm 24:1). God created and provided sleep. So for the remaining years that I'll spend in bed, I am determined to keep a biblical perspective of sleep; therefore, I want to glorify God each night as I close my eyes.
Too many Christians fall asleep night after night without being informed and inspired by what Scripture teaches on it. Many of us have never considered our sleep from God's perspective, though we profess to love and serve Him; our practice and perspective regarding sleep are no different from that of non-Christians. This needs to change.
A Christian, informed and inspired by Scripture, views the cessation of work each day, the limitation God places upon work each day, and the laying down of sleep each night, as altogether a gift from God. A gift so graciously provided in His lavish generosity. And those who neglect this gift will inevitably suffer consequences.
The benefits of sleep are obvious. As we sleep, strength is restored, the mind is cleared, and we're prepared to serve God another day – to rise and experience His mercies that are new every morning. What a wonderful gift to be given on a daily basis!
The fact is, God could have created us without a need for sleep. But He chose to build this need within us, and there's a spiritual purpose for it. Each night, as I confront my need again for sleep, I'm reminded that I'm a dependent creature. I am not self-sufficient. I am not the Creator. There is only One who "will neither slumber nor sleep" (Psalm 121:4), and I am not that One.
Sleep is a gift, but it's a humbling one. It's a matter of only hours, at most, before you're ready to again receive God's gift of sleep. When that time comes, let me encourage you to pray something like this: "Lord, thank You for this gift. The fact that I'm so tired is a reminder that I am the creature and only You are the Creator. Only You neither slumber nor sleep, while for me, sleep is something I cannot go without. Thank You for this gracious, humbling, refreshing gift."
A gift from God.
I'm going to end today with my personal thoughts/truths on sleep/tired.
And a Challenge.
- I choose to not get enough sleep. I choose to overbook my schedule and stay out late, or I choose to be on Facebook, or I choose to watch TV, or I choose any number of things and justify it with any number of excuses. The bottom line is that I choose to stay up late, knowing full well what my life commitments are that will require me to be up in the morning at a certain time. My lack of sleep and all the consequences thereof are my choice 99% of the time.
- When I choose to not get enough sleep, I am choosing to set myself up for hardship and suffering. It's silly when I sit here and type this out because as a believer and follower of Christ, I already KNOW I can expect suffering. I can expect trials. So why in the world would I willingly choose to also self-inflict this through something as simple as just going to bed? Being tired is hard on my mind, my body, and my emotions. Fact.
- The enemy and his forces do not want me to sleep well. He wants me to selfishly waste my time at night so I'm less effective the next day. He's good at convincing me (and/or I'm good at convincing me) that it's not "selfish". I call it "me-time" and "deserved" time. Isn't my time always better after a good night's sleep? When I have energy and focus?
- Getting appropriate sleep in a culture that no longer values it is a battle. This lack of sleep does matter. It probably matters more than you or I can fathom or put into words. It doesn't take a lot of looking to see how the culture I live in no longer values sleep. Between demanding jobs and every gadget imaginable with a screen attached to it, it's easy to see how sleep gets put on the back burner night after night after night. It's a battle, I need to stand firm in the fight and stop getting knocked over.
The question is, are we willing to admit our need for sleep, the gift that it is, and make the changes required to have it?
My challenge to myself and everyone this week is this: For ONE WEEK make sleep a priority. Give up or do whatever you need to do to ensure you are getting healthy amounts of sleep. Research what healthy sleep is. Research ideas of how to wind down and be prepared and ready for sleep at the end of the day. For one week make this commitment, and see what difference it makes in your overall day by the end of the week. I believe the Lord will prove what a wonderful gift sleep is to His people, His creation.
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Lets start again shall we, tut tut..
Every day I pretty much wear my makeup exactly the same, throw on some concealer, bit of powder, a truck load of blusher, eyeliner and some mascara and bish bash bosh, job done! But sometimes I get a bit bored of doing the same old thing so this year I plan to branch out a bit. Now I'm not saying that it will always work, but by damn I will give it a go!
you think, will you be rockin' this look any time soon, and if you do, please send me a pic, I'd love to see it!!


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Now the original Betacam video from the Senna's camera car is available. The movie shows the movement of the steering wheel when the Brazilian entered the famous bend, the Tamburello, causing him to lose control of his car.
Let's look at trackable objects on the wheel:
On the video you can recognize the yellow button at 83mm from the center of the wheel and its normal trajectory (the green line on the sequence).
The red line on the video is the normal trajectory of the serigraphied "V" white-reflecting at 55mm from the wheel center.
Both objetcs have been tracked in the sequence of the safety-car lap. They exhibit circular shapes according to the wheel structure.
During the last seconds the yellow button falls down below the red line, 55mm below its normal position (the blue line).
Bologna, 16th December 1997


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Welcome once again you hard core fans! I have a treat for you today! This album has been out in Europe for a couple of weeks now but North America get ready for another British invasion from a band called Evile!
For the rest of you who are scratching your heads wondering who they are. Quick history as per usual!
Evile started in jolly ol' England back in 2004 with members Matt Drake, Ol Drake, Mike Alexander and Ben Carter. Where they brought out two EP's in limited quantities: All Hallows Even EP in 2004 and Hell Demo in 2006. From there they took their show on the road for a couple of years getting their name out to England and parts of Netherland while supporting Exodus. In 2007 they brought out "Enter the Grave" which sold over 30, 000 copies worldwide. However in 2009 shortly after they had "Infected Nations" come out they lost their long-time friend and bass player Mike Alexander to an illness. With strong support from the Metal community, they kept plugging on but never forgetting about their fallen member and brought in a new bassist, Joel Graham to the fold.
With another album that came out in 2011 called "Five Serpent's Teeth" it seems the Evile still was on top of their game and rightfully so. Hitting the top 40 in the US Heat charts Evile seemed they could do no wrong. Which brings us to today where June 11th we will see their next album come out in North America? Already making huge waves in Europe where to date it has hit the 61st spot on the UK charts.
I can see why! This album is fucking amazing! I have been listening to this album nonstop and all I keep thinking is that if Slayer ever retires, there will be no shortage of music that has a sound like them and other metal bands out there if Evile comes out with more material!
From the start to the finish of this album it is so polished I'm truly at a loss for words. However I'm going to try to explain it! All intros of the songs are tight that it leads perfectly into each transition of the main guts of the song. The vocals really flow and perfectly mix in with all the instruments. Each song has about three to four transitions of either speed or different riffs or even solos. You will not only be screaming out the lyrics which can be perfectly heard, but you will find yourself banging your head with the solos, and wanting to bang on air drums in time with music! Extra portions are perfectly timed into the songs like background vocals whether they are supporting the chorus or "moans or screams" in the background to give the song a little bit more is well received to the ears.
They even slow down a bit for "Tomb" which is also the longest song on the album coming in at 7:26, leading you to believe it will be a slow song throughout it, also bringing in some acoustic guitar. Then pick it up with such ease that in a way you don't expect it, but when it happens it really takes the song to a new level! Then they bring it back down for some fine solos! SO Amazing to hear!
Evile has brought the level up on their stuff that this album may even make it to an album of the year contender in the Metal world. I've enjoyed this album that has such passion it is refreshing to hear. Even it coming in with only nine songs it still is a solid 48 mins long! None of the songs seem like they go on to long or too short.
So what are my favorite and least favorite songs on here?
This is a tough one, however one of my most favorite songs on here, and trust me it beats out the others just by a hair is "New Truths Old Lies" they bring in the acoustic and slow paced guitar and bass for the first little bit then 35 seconds later they harden it up and bring in the heavy stuff making for an awesome intro to the song! Slowly picking up the song more and by the chorus they have everyone backing up the "New Truths" words and it feels like a perfectly matched song for what they wanted. Building up to the solo, they jumped the speed to another level and this is 2:30 into the song, so we have had three transitions in one song! Some days you don't hear of that with a 13 min song! This one is only 6:36. After the solo they change the tempo yet again. It is like four songs in one, which honestly is brilliant!
My least favorite song has to be "Outsider" it is still great, but I had to pick one song that isn't quite like the rest it would be this one. A lot of the songs as I have said have so many different transitions this one is solid and one pace, it still is fucking great, but just a hair less than the other ones.
So with that I honestly have to give this album a 9/10 this album is almost flawless that I have had people rock out beside me while I have it blaring in my vehicle with my windows open on a sunny day!
I can see why it is coming up quickly in the UK charts and if it doesn't go up on the US charts I'm going to wonder what the fuck is wrong with the metal heads out there! PICK this up June 11th! You will not be disappointed!
For now this is PK saying ROCK ON and we will see you on the next review!
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On 27 March NISB held a summit on Making Safeguarding Count. The aim was to identify and consider information sources which will allow Regional and National boards to reach stronger conclusions about the impact of safeguarding. We were delighted with the breadth and depth of the discussion and the commitment of those who attended to – Read more..
In early 2017, the National Independent Safeguarding Board decided to begin Safeguarding Week in Wales with a focus on Sport. This is because, even this year, all sporting activities have had to consider topics which are familiar to safeguarding practitioners, such as: – the poor handling of allegations of harm, most particularly sexual assault; – – Read more..
The death of Dylan Seabridge raised questions about whether existing safeguarding mechanisms are sufficient for children who are home educated. In February 2017 the National Independent Safeguarding Board (NISB) commissioned Cascade, Children's Social Care Research and Development Centre, at Cardiff University to explore the possible risks in relation to safeguarding, health and well-being of children – Read more..


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That's how I'm looking at it, anyway. I've always asked Him to make sure I accomplish my Purgatory on Earth so I can greet Him right away upon death. Things like this just let me know my prayer was heard. Ha ha!
In brighter news, Auggie's still making incredible progress! Here's the newest comparison pictures. The day-by-day is fabulous!
That's right, Auggie! I'm glad to see him with the strength to play. :)
Again, thanks to everyone for the notes and messages of love and prayers for him. They've done wonders in helping him heal. Thank you!!!


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The couple, who are both ambassadors for the charity, apologised, blaming London traffic for their delay in getting to the new office, which is based near the City of London.
When the Prince asked how the singer's voice was, Stewart replied "improving with age" and his wife quipped "like a lot of other things".
Stewart said afterwards that he always tells his children to be on time: "We have a place over in Wapping and it took us three-quarters of an hour to get here."
He added: "I wish I had my own police escort, I would always be on time."