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Dreamworks' latest animation about a time-travelling dog and his adopted son - how could you resist?
So I went to see this with not much expectation at all, the one trailer I had seen didn't really grab me but I decided to see it anyway and was pleasantly surprised. Mr. Peabody is this extremely intelligent dog who can talk and his adopted son Sherman is a 7-year-old boy who is a sponge for facts but quite slow practically. They go on adventures through time to learn about history. The movie sets that up in the first 15 minutes, which by the way it was done it looked like the movie was going to be some kids documentary about history but when it actually got into the story it was really fun. The comedy made me laugh, the visuals are stunning, I wish I could've seen it in 3D, the story is quite unique but also had similar elements of other movies, I got a Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure vibe and you get some pretty generic characters that you've seen in quite a lot of animated movies but the plot was't boring; I was interested to the end. The voice acting is pretty average but the way Mr. Peabody says things do add a certain something to the film. It's my third 8/10 this year: I'D SEE IT AGAIN.
Welcome to my website! Here I review mostly films and television series but also take a look at books and games when the interest takes me. I don't have any sort of schedule and my ratings are out of 10. I hope you enjoy reading my reviews but as with most things entertainment is subjective so you may disagree but I always welcome comments so feel free to leave one. Thanks very much for stopping by and I hope you visit again! - Oliver.
Monday, 3 March 2014
OJ's Movie Review - Mr. Peabody & Sherman
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OSAKA — Ogawa Securities Co., burdened with mounting bad loans, will halt operations May 27 and plans to go out of business July 31, the company said May 23.
President Tokuo Nanba told reporters that the firm reported the plans to the Kinki Finance Bureau earlier in the day, following the announcement May 22 by major shareholder Yamaichi Securities Co. that it cannot supply further financial assistance to rebuild the firm. It will be the first collapse of a brokerage since 1980.
"We have come to the conclusion to close the firm because we are having difficulty collecting funds from our debtors and we cannot expect Yamaichi to assist us," Nanba said. He declined to give the exact amount of outstanding funds. Nanba stressed that in the remaining months, he will make efforts to recover the funds and secure new jobs for the firm's employees. The Yamaichi group will assist Ogawa in finding new positions for the workers, which number about 70, he added.
The firm will stop conducting business but its offices will be open to refund securities and clear transaction accounts, he said. He said all deposits will be protected, adding that the brokerage has asked the Compensation Fund for Safe Keeping Securities Inc. to support it when necessary.

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St. Simon island oceanfront homes.
A tour of St. Simons just wouldn't be complete without experiencing a ghost walk to visit some of St. Simons Island's oldest and more illusive residents. One of the island's most famous resident ghosts is Mary the Wanderer, a beautiful young girl with long flowing hair and sorrowful eyes who roams the beaches at the south end of the island with a lantern in her hand, held high, still waiting and watching for her lover to return from the mainland. Sometimes appearing in a white shroud-like garment and other times on horseback, sightings of Mary have been reported by a number of eyewitnesses in various locations throughout the island. Another one of the island's more intriguing tales takes place at Dunbar Creek, where a boatload of slaves from Nigeria landed one fateful day. While chained together to be taken to the cotton fields for a lifetime of servitude, their leader rallied them to take extreme action by having them all turn toward the nearby stream and march in chanting, "the water brought us and the water will take us away." They all drowned themselves rather than be subjected to a life of slavery. Legend has it that you can still hear the moaning, chanting and rattling of chains there from time to time and there are those who make sure to avoid it altogether. But others are intrigued and drawn to the islands by the legends and lore that make the Golden Isles unique.
For more information about St. Simons Island, or the tours and activities it has to offer call toll free: 1-800-933-2627.
Sea Island may sound familiar from past news accounts of the Group of 8 Summit Conference held in June 2004, and it is no wonder Sea Island was chosen as the place to host and cater to distinguished guests from around the world. Sea Island is home to The Cloister Hotel and Resort, originally established in 1928 by industrialist Howard E. Coffin. This famous resort is renown for its first-rate accommodations and the prestigious clientele that includes many of the world's "Whos Who." Some of the special amenities and activities available include a full service spa, private beach (there is no public access to the beach), Shooting School, fishing, golf on world class professional courses, tennis, horseback riding, kids programs, and more. To find out more about a vacation on Sea Island and the special group and package deals that are available throughout the year call toll free: 1-800-SEA-ISLAND or visit www.seaisland.com.


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Deirdre Coakley takes a look at tutorial services offered in the area in a two-part series.
Reading and math are essential to every walk of life, but when children are stumped, tutors are necessary to help with the educational process, to do what busy teachers do not have the time to do - sit with children one or two at a time and help them along.
Some tutors are volunteers, some are doing this as part of work/study programs at college and receive minimum wage.
Oscar Adams and Donehoo elementary schools' kindergarten through third-grade students are the beneficiaries of America Reads, a federal program based at Gadsden State Community College that provides work/study college students to elementary schools as reading coaches.
GSCC's Service Learning director Beryl Odom praises the initiative.
"This is so important," says Odom. "It came about when Brenda Crowe applied for a (Housing and Urban Development) grant for East Gadsden. It's in the second year now."
Odom's Service Learning program is training volunteers for American Reads, which also has started up at Carver Recreation Center.
Administrator of American Reads is GSCC developmental reading instructor Meredith Tumlin.
"A wonderful thing about this," she says, "is that it's students teaching students. This inspires the children, makes them aware that college can be in their future, too. I can't say enough about the way this is received at the schools."
Tumlin also credits Tim Carter and Charlotte Goggins in the financial aid office for help with the grant.
"Without their funding for student-teacher training, this would not have happened," Tumlin said.
The America Reads team at Adams consists of GSCC students Sean McClure, 19, who is planning a career as a high school science teacher; Neana Cook, 19, a nursing student; and Delphine E. Blake, 44, who went back to school to study psychology.
"My grandson is in this school," Blake says. "That's why I wanted to help out here at Adams."
They each put in two to three hours a day during the school year, and appear to be as enriched by the experience as the children they help. In fact, Sean is enjoying the experience of teaching young children.
"I may decided to go into elementary education," he said.
And Neana, committed to nursing, is mulling the possibility of switching to education.
A fourth Adams tutor is 63-year-old John Krispinsky, a retired engineer, who spends four hours a day, five days a week at the school giving math instruction. Around there he's called "Mr. K."
Since retiring early, he has served with the Peace Corps in the African nation of Nami and alternated that with several terms of tutoring at Adams.
"Our tutors are very important to us," says Adams principal Hector Baeza.
With 415 pupils in grades kindergarten through 5, and not enough teachers, the school has a need for more volunteer tutors such as Mr. K.
Also, there's a need for more mentors. The Title I Resource Teacher in charge of tutors is Beth Webster; the mentoring program is headed by Leandra Bullock, who splits her time with Jessie Dean Smith Elementary.
Litchfield High School students sometimes sign up as mentors for Adams youngsters in a program administered by Big Brothers/Big Sisters. It's called PALS - Partners and Littles Starting Friendships - and the older students help make the younger children progress faster.
One of the oldest programs for developmental reading and other subjects is the Gadsden Community Education Program directed by B.J. Reaves. It is housed primarily in Brown Hall on the GSCC Technical Campus, and also holds classes in the Family Education Center, Eighth and Broad streets, East Gadsden.
"Someone who's learning to read needs the undivided attention of someone else," Reaves says. "That's why we recruit volunteers to work one-to-one with reading students."
The Community Education programs include math, science, computers and other subjects. Tutorials take place days and evenings on East Broad Street or at the East Gadsden campus of the college.
"We try to place volunteers in whatever capacity they feel comfortable," says Reaves. "Our reading instruction is done with the Laubach Way to Reading system. It is used statewide, is a phonics system, and we train volunteers to do this. They work from a script. The materials are color-coded so they know which books to use."
The Family Education Center also provides classes in English as a Second Language. Programs are free and so are materials.
"We always need volunteers," Reaves said. "They don't need to come every day. Even a day or two a week would be a big help."
Call 549-2925.
As for Adams Elementary, when the adjudication committee went through recently, Baeza was told, "This school is Gadsden's best-kept secret."
Baeza praises the school staff and tutors for their contributions.
"You know," he says, "if you really want to make a difference by being a volunteer, this school is a good place to be."
NEXT WEEK: Tutors reach out into the community.


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Rahab - 5/29/2016
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What we can learn from the story of Rahab II Cor. 12:9 "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Matt. 19:26 Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." Heb. 11:31 By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies!


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I guess it is a matter of who you ask -___-
- YesVote A
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Someone who is optimistic will say yes, someone who is a pessimistic will say no, someone who is a realist would think it's possible, but would have to way out their options.
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Shunde Polytechnic
Shunde Polytechnic
Zhong W.-P.,Shunde Polytechnic |
Zhong W.-P.,Texas A&M University at Qatar |
Belic M.,Texas A&M University at Qatar |
Belic M.,University of Belgrade
Annals of Physics | Year: 2015
We present a class of exact solutions to the coupled (2. +. 1)-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with spatially modulated nonlinearity and a special external potential, which describe the evolution of two-component vector solitons in defocusing Kerr-type media. We find a robust soliton solution, constructed with the help of Whittaker functions. For specific choices of the topological charge, the radial mode number and the modulation depth, the solitons may exist in various forms, such as the half-moon, necklace-ring, and sawtooth vortex-ring patterns. Our results show that the profile of such solitons can be effectively controlled by the topological charge, the radial mode number, and the modulation depth. © 2014 Elsevier Inc.
Zhang Y.,Xi'an Jiaotong University |
Liu X.,Xi'an Jiaotong University |
Belic M.R.,Texas A&M University at Qatar |
Zhong W.,Shunde Polytechnic |
Wen F.,Xi'an Jiaotong University
Optics Letters | Year: 2015
We analytically and numerically investigate an anharmonic propagation of two-dimensional beams in a harmonic potential. We pick noncentrosymmetric beams of common interest that carry orbital angular momentum. The examples studied include superposed Bessel-Gauss (BG), Laguerre-Gauss (LG), and circular Airy (CA) beams. For the BG beams, periodic inversion, phase transition, and rotation with periodic angular velocity are demonstrated during propagation. For the LG and CA beams, periodic inversion and variable rotation are still there but not the phase transition. On the whole, the "center of mass" and the orbital angular momentum of a beam exhibit harmonic motion, but the motion of the beam intensity distribution in detail is subject to external and internal torques and forces, causing it to be anharmonic. Our results are applicable to other superpositions of finite circularly asymmetric beams. © 2015 Optical Society of America.
Zhong W.-P.,Shunde Polytechnic |
Zhong W.-P.,Texas A&M University at Qatar |
Belic M.,Texas A&M University at Qatar |
Zhang Y.,Xi'an Jiaotong University
Optics Express | Year: 2015
Nonlinear Schrödinger equation with simple quadratic potential modulated by a spatially-varying diffraction coefficient is investigated theoretically. Second-order rogue wave breather solutions of the model are constructed by using the similarity transformation. A modal quantum number is introduced, useful for classifying and controlling the solutions. From the solutions obtained, the behavior of second order Kuznetsov-Ma breathers (KMBs), Akhmediev breathers (ABs), and Peregrine solitons is analyzed in particular, by selecting different modulation frequencies and quantum modal parameter. We show how to generate interesting second order breathers and related hybrid rogue waves. The emergence of true rogue waves - single giant waves that are generated in the interaction of KMBs, ABs, and Peregrine solitons - is explicitly displayed in our analytical solutions. © 2015 Optical Society of America.
Zhong W.-P.,Shunde Polytechnic |
Belic M.,Texas A&M University at Qatar |
Zhang Y.,Xi'an Jiaotong University |
Huang T.,Texas A&M University at Qatar
Annals of Physics | Year: 2014
A general approach to generating three-dimensional nondiffracting spatiotemporal solutions of the linear Schrödinger equation with an Airy-beam time-dependence is reported. A class of accelerating optical pulses with the structure of Airy-Gauss-Kummer vortex beams is obtained. Our results demonstrate that the optical field contributions to the Airy-Gauss-Kummer accelerating optical wave packets of the cylindrical symmetry can be characterized by the radial and angular mode numbers. © 2013 Elsevier Inc.
Zhong W.-P.,Shunde Polytechnic |
Belic M.R.,Texas A&M University at Qatar |
Huang T.,Texas A&M University at Qatar
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics | Year: 2013
We investigate the propagation of localized three-dimensional spatiotemporal Airy self-accelerating parabolic-cylinder light bullets in a linear medium. In particular, we consider the effects resulting from utilizing initial finite-energy Airy wave packets to accelerate these localized beams in the absence of any external potential. A general localized light bullet solution with the joint Airy pulse characteristics and parabolic-cylinder spatial characteristics is obtained in the Cartesian coordinates, using parabolic-cylinder and Airy functions. Our results show that the localized wave packets can retain their intensity features and still be accelerated over several Rayleigh lengths. © 2013 American Physical Society.
Zhong W.-P.,Shunde Polytechnic |
Zhong W.-P.,Texas A&M University at Qatar |
Belic M.R.,Texas A&M University at Qatar
Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics | Year: 2010
We report on the nonlinear tunneling effects of spatial solitons of the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation with distributed coefficients in an external harmonic potential. By using the homogeneous balance principle and the F-expansion technique we find the spatial bright and dark soliton solutions. We then display tunneling effects of such solutions occurring under special conditions; specifically when the spatial solitons pass unchanged through the potential barriers and wells affected by special choices of the diffraction and/or the nonlinearity coefficients. Our results show that the solitons display tunneling effects not only when passing through the nonlinear potential barriers or wells but also when passing through the diffractive barriers or wells. During tunneling the solitons may also undergo a controllable compression. © 2010 The American Physical Society.
Zhang B.,Shunde Polytechnic
Advanced Materials Research | Year: 2012
In this study, a 14×6JJ a-alloy automobile wheel was used as the object, the fatigue strength and lifetime of the wheel suffered from varying amplitude load were predicted with a cumulative damage theory (the modified Miner theorem), which was considered to be accurate and secure, based on the analysis of load spectrum. The predicted lifetime was verified using a reliability theory. The results showed that, the modified Miner theorem was reliable in the prediction of the lifetime of an automobile a-alloy wheel. © (2012) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.
Long J.,Shunde Polytechnic
Advanced Materials Research | Year: 2011
Nano-aluminum, which has high thermal conductivity and good compatibility, was added into paraffin to improve its thermal conductivity. Surface modified technology was adopted and dispersant was used to prepare uniform and stable organic phase-change nano-fluid of paraffin and nano-aluminum. Transient plane source method was used to test the thermal conductivity of the prepared organic phase-change nano-fluid. Results showed that the addition of nano-aluminum largely improved the thermal conductivity of paraffin. After the formula of Lu and Lin was modified, a calculation model for thermal conductivity of the organic phase-change nano-fluid was deduced. And experimental results showed that the results of calculation agreed that of experiment very well. © (2011) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.
Bo J.,Shunde Polytechnic
Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing | Year: 2012
We first introduce the searching mechanism in Gnutella peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, and then analyze the poor scalability in such networks. To improve the search performance of Gnutella networks, we propose a new method which is used to dynamically optimize the network topology. The simulation results show that the policy can effectively reduce the network resources consumption and optimize the load-balance between nodes, and then improve the scalability of Gnutella network and the search efficiency. © 2012 Springer-Verlag GmbH.
Luo Y.,Shunde Polytechnic
International Journal of Security and its Applications | Year: 2015
Information has become the important and strategic resource, and social informatization has become the developing trend and core.The information safety will play an extremely important role in the information society.It is directly relatedto the national security, business and the normal life. Wireless Public Key Infrastrcture(WPKI) is a technology of wireless networks security, which is applied to transform the e-business and the Internet for shopping, banking and transacting with one another in anywhere at anytime by using the wireless devices of mobile phone, PDA, IPAD and so on.Wireless application protocol (WAP) can ensure the secure e-business services and wireless applications.So the structure, principle, security infrastructure, application model and environment of WPKI are described in detail.Then the mobile e-business securitymodel based on WPKI Technology is proposed in this paper.It will analyze and demonstrate how the WPKI technology can provide the security services to mobile E-business with similar security requirements and provide the reader with a high leveltechnical application of the WPKI technology.And a application system provided an excellent example for demonstrating the effectiveness, and the secrecy, identity authentication and non repudiation are studied and analyzed. © 2015 SERSC.


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Get this error if try create Api rest extension:
I tried to measure the time it takes to load a form when the user finishes clicking the submit button. Is it possible to do with groovy script?
Since the time is needed to realize the ISO 9126 standard part of the efficiency according to the response time.


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RRB Steno Result 2016
Railway Board of Indian Railways has conducted the RRB Stenographer Exam soon 2016 for recruiting the candidates for the vacant job position & will be releasing the RRB Steno Result 2016. The authority will be publishing the RRB Steno Result 2016 just before the result declaration.
The Cut Off Marks will be declared on the authorized site only. So, the candidates who have filled up the application form & have appeared for the exam are advised to log in to the official website & get their results update from there.
RRB Stenographer Cut Off Marks 2016
Cut Off is the criterion which is set by the examination authority for the reserved category candidates as decided by the government. The government wants the Institutions/ Universities to give some leniency in the marks to the reserved class candidates.
RRB Stenographer Cut Off Marks 2016 also serves the same purpose as mentioned above. It aware the candidates of different classes about how much marks an individual need to score to be declared as eligible for the exam for which they have appeared.
Information about – RRB Steno Result 2016
Name of authority – Railway Board of Indian Railways
Type of Exam – RRB Stenographer
Date of Exam – Soon Release
Cut off Status – Awaited
Authorized Link –www.indianrailways.gov.in
Key points on the RRB Stenographer Exam Cut Off Marks 2016
A huge crowd of candidates has appeared for the exam of the Stenographer & now, the candidates are eagerly waiting for their Merit List. It is difficult for the authority to distribute the results individually to each candidate. So, it will be simply releasing the Merit list on the Authorized web portal.
Therefore the only means for the candidates is to log in to the official website & download their results as soon as it will be available on the site by following the steps given below because no candidates will be sent Performa Card through any mail or post. The cut off will be released before the results
Steps for downloading the RRB Steno Merit List 2016
- Surf on the official web portal of the Authority i.e. www.indianrailways.gov.in
- After that click on the Merit List section from the many options available on the site.
- Then, fill up the info. It asked from you to fill
- Once you fill up the details, press enter to submit it
- Just in a few seconds of entering your scorecard will be opened
- Save it/Download it as per the option available to you
POINT TO REMEMBER: Applicants' should visit the Authorized Link for the 2016 Stenographer Exam cut off & other regular updates.


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What's Happening Locally and Nationally
1. In the following scheme unless the context otherwise requires "the Committee" means the Local Optical Committee formed for the purposes connected with the National Health Service Acts.
2. The Committee shall be known as the Staffordshire Local Optical Committee.
3.1 To advise the NHS England Staffordshire & Shropshire Area Team and Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups on matters affecting optometrists and dispensing opticians undertaking general ophthalmic services in the area.
3.2 To enable optometrists and dispensing opticians undertaking general ophthalmic services in the area to formulate collective views on the administration of the services and in particular to make suggestions for their improvement and to transmit them to the NHS England Staffordshire & Shropshire Area Team and Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups.
3.3 To disseminate information about the general ophthalmic services among optometrists and dispensing opticians in the area to assist individual optometrists and dispensing opticians to understand and comply with their terms of service.
3.4 To consider any complaint made to them by any optometrist against any other optometrist practising in the area for which the committee is constituted involving any question of the efficiency of the general ophthalmic services.
3.5 To advise the NHS England Staffordshire & Shropshire Area Team and Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups on matters affecting optometrists and dispensing opticians in relation to the hospital eye services, the scope and efficiency of those services, and in connection with the provision of ophthalmic services from Health Centres, Clinics and the like.
3.6 To carry out such other advisory or consultative functions as may be incidental to or assist in the attainment of the above objectives, including liaison with patient representative groups within the area.
4.1 (a) The Committee shall consist of a maximum of 18 optometrists, all of whom shall be in practice in the area and whose names are on the local ophthalmic list. The membership must include at least one optometrist practicing in each PCT area.
(b) The optometrists to be elected under 4 (1) (a) shall be elected by and from the optometrists practising in the area and whose names are on the local ophthalmic list.
(c) In addition, the Committee shall include where possible, one optometrist elected by and from optometrists employed as such by the NHS Trusts situated in the territory of the Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups.
4.2 (a) The Committee shall also include a maximum of 4 dispensing opticians including a representative of ABDO.
(b) The dispensing opticians to be elected under 4 (2) (a) shall be elected by and from the dispensing opticians practising and registered within the area covered by the Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups.
4.3 Whereby the normal process of election representation to reflect corporate practices has not been made, a place shall be specifically reserved for a representative of FODO.
4.4 Provided that the Committee so elected shall have power to co-opt one or more optometrists or dispensing opticians, who shall not have any voting rights.
Term of Office
5. The term of office of members shall be 4 years, (half the members to be elected initially for a period of 2 years) provided that at the expiration of this term of office a member shall be eligible for re-election.
Vacancies etc. not to invalidate proceedings
6. The proceedings of the Committee shall not be invalidated by a vacancy in their membership, or by any defect in the appointment of any member of the Committee.
Proceedings of the Committee
7.1 The Committee shall hold meetings at least twice per year, at such time and place as shall generally be agreed.
7.2 The Committee shall create such sub-committees as it deems necessary to deal with implementation of strategy as identified by the main Committee.
Officers of the Committee
8.1 The Committee shall elect a Chairman, 3 Vice Chairmen, a Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, and a Secretary from among their number, all of them normally hold office for one year, provided that the officers of the Committee shall be eligible for re-election.
8.2 The Committee shall elect one optometrist from each Clinical Commissioning Group locality to represent the profession to that locality. The Committee shall nominate one deputy per locality (not necessarily practicing in that locality or necessarily a member of the Committee).
8.3 Alternatively the Committee may appoint a lay Secretary.
9. One third of the number of members of the Committee, or if one third is not a whole number, the next number above one third shall form a quorum of the Committee. Provided that where the full Committee numbers five or less than five members, the quorum shall be not less than 2 members entitled to vote.
Disqualification or Resignation of Members
10.1 A duly elected optometrist or dispensing optician who is no longer practicing in the area, or has ceased to be employed by an NHS Trust in the area shall vacate his/her seat on the Committee and a casual vacancy shall be deemed to have occurred.
10.2 Where a member of the Committee has been absent from 3 consecutive meetings of the Committee to which he/she has been summoned, the Committee may, unless they are satisfied that his/her absence was due to illness or other reasonable cause, declare that his/her seat on that Committee has been vacated, and thereupon a casual vacancy shall be deemed to have occurred.
10.3 A member of the Committee may at any time, by notice in writing signed by him/her and delivered to the Secretary, resign his/her office.
Method of filling casual vacancies
11.1 Where by reason of the resignation, death or disqualification of a member of the Committee, a casual vacancy in the membership of the Committee occurs, the Committee may appoint an optometrist or dispensing optician on the local ophthalmic list and practising in the area of the Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups or as appropriate, an optometrist or dispensing optician employed as such by NHS Trusts whose premises are situated in the territory of the Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups.
11.2 The person so appointed shall hold office for the remainder of the term of office of the member in whose place he/she is appointed.
11.3 The Secretary shall maintain a list of all changes to the Committee structure.
12. The Committee shall be empowered to make such financial arrangements either by compulsory levy, as provided for in section 45 (2) and (3) and Schedule 6 (para. 5) of the NHS Act, 1977, and/or by voluntary levy, to cover the working expenses of the Committee as shall be generally agreed by the optometrists on the ophthalmic list and practising in the area. Provided that the Committee shall be empowered to raise funds by voluntary levy for such other purposes as the Committee may approve. The financial year should coincide with the tax year.
Records and accounts
13. Minutes shall be kept of each meeting of the Committee as well as an account of the income and expenditure, such account to be examined annually by two persons, not being members of the Committee, appointed by the Committee. These shall either be optometrists or other persons of relevant experience.
Notice of meetings
14. At least 14 days notice shall be given before each Committee meeting. In the case of the Annual Meeting, at least 21 days notice shall be given.
Annual meetings
15. On 30th June each year, or the next nearest prior convenient day, a meeting shall be held at which all optometrists and dispensing opticians on the ophthalmic list and practising in the area of the Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups shall be invited to attend.
The busness of the meeting shall include:
(i) a report of the year's working and the presentation of the examined accounts;
(ii) the election of the examiners;
(iii) (every 2nd year), the election of half the members of the Committee.
Variation of Constitution
16. The Committee may, where changes in the National Health Service Regulations or where local circumstances require, vary the constitution. Proposed variations shall first be circulated to all optometrists and dispensing opticians whose names are included in the ophthalmic list for the area and then submitted to the Annual Meeting of the optometrists and dispensing opticians practising in the area and if adopted, shall be notified to the NHS England Staffordshire & Shropshire Area Team and Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups. The Strategic Health Authority and Primary Care Trusts will then inform the LOC concerned whether the proposed variation would be consistent with continued recognition by the NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB) under the National Health Service Act 2006 sction125(1).
Method of election of optometrists and dispensing opticians
2. (I) The Returning Officer shall be appointed by the Local Optometric Committee. In the event of the person appointed as Returning Officer being unable to act, he shall appoint some person, other than an elector, to act as deputy in his place.
(II) The Returning Officer shall be reimbursed all expenses properly incurred by him in the conduct of the election.
3. The electors present at the meeting shall appoint a Chairman to preside at the meeting and two scrutineers to assist the Returning Officer in counting the votes.
4. Any optometrist or dispensing optician whose name is on the ophthalmic list and is in practice in the area of the Staffordshire Clinical Commissioning Groups may be a candidate for election to the Committee.
5. Every candidate shall be nominated by at least two electors either personally at the meeting, or by written communication delivered to the Returning Officer at least 48 hours before the meeting. The Returning Officer shall not accept any nomination unless the candidate has intimated before the time of voting that, if elected, he/she is prepared to accept office.
6. If the number of candidates does not exceed the number of vacancies to be filled, the Returning Officer shall declare those candidates to be elected; if the number of candidates exceeds the number of vacancies, a vote shall be taken in the manner hereinafter provided for the purpose of filling those vacancies.
7. Each elector shall be entitled to cast a number of votes equal to the number of vacancies in respect of which the vote is taken, but he/she may not cast more than one vote for any one candidate.
8. Voting shall be in accordance with the following rules:
(I) The Returning Officer or his deputy shall prepare a list of duly nominated candidates showing the names of the electors by whom each candidate has been nominated.
(II) The Chairman shall in such manner as he thinks fit, inform the meeting of the names of the candidates and the number of vacancies.
(III) Each elector shall indicate on a voting paper the names of those candidates for whom he desires to record his vote and shall sign his name at the foot thereof.
(IV) A voting paper shall be invalid if:
(a) it contains the names of more candidates than there are vacancies to be filled
(b) it is not signed in accordance with these rules
(c) in any other respect it does not comply with these rules or is marked in such a manner as to cause any uncertainty as to the candidate for whom the elector desires to record his vote, provided that the Returning Officer shall, if he thinks fit, treat a voting paper so marked as valid for the purpose of any vote other than that in connection with which the uncertainty arises.
9. The Returning Officer shall examine the voting papers and, after rejecting any that are invalid, shall count the votes recorded on the remaining papers and shall prepare a list of the candidates according to the number of votes which each has received, the person receiving the greatest number of votes being placed highest on the list.
10. Provided that the Chairman may on a resolution duly proposed, seconded and passed by the meeting prior to voting, declare that voting shall be by a show of hands for each candidate separately. Paragraphs (8) and (9) shall then operate only insofar as they can be made applicable.
11. If the votes received by any two or more candidates are equal and the addition of a vote to any one of such candidates would enable that candidate to be declared elected, the Chairman shall take a vote of the meeting, whether a show of hands, or in writing, as he thinks fit, to decide which of the candidates shall be placed highest on the list; or if the meeting has been declared at an end before the count is completed, the Returning Officer shall decide by lot which of the candidates shall be placed highest on the list.
12. The Returning Officer shall declare elected such number of optometrists and dispensing opticians highest on the list as will fill the vacancies to be filled at the election.
13. Where the number of persons elected is less than there are vacancies to be filled, the Committee may appoint one or more optometrists and/or dispensing opticians to fill the vacancy or vacancies, and the person or persons so appointed shall be deemed to be elected members.
14. (I) Where a Deputy Returning Officer has acted at a meeting, he shall forthwith give notice in writing of the result of the election to the Returning Officer
14. (II) The Returning Officer shall forthwith give notice in writing of the result of the election to each of the persons elected.
15. Where any document is, under these Rules, required to be sent to an optometrist or dispensing optician, it shall be deemed to have been duly sent if it has been delivered or posted to the address of the optometrist or dispensing optician in the ophthalmic list.
16. Any question as to the validity of any nomination, ballot paper, or otherwise, in connection with any election shall be determined by the Returning Officer.
17. The secretary of the Local Optical Committee shall write to all, optometrists and dispensing opticians employed by NHS Trusts within the area of the Committee inviting nominations, from among their number, to serve on the Committee.
18. In the event of more than one optometrist or dispensing optician being nominated, a simple ballot shall be held among the hospital optometrists and dispensing opticians to elect one optometrist or dispensing optician.
19. The Chair/Secretary should satisfy him/herself that there shall be appropriate representation to fulfil the requirement for PCT leads.


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Since I moved everything was so fast paced and I was on this world round of organising sorting out lots of bits and pieces, but now the rhythm slowed down. And it starting to feel weird, I need to get back, or actually create my own life routine, or what to do in the day to day. Of course I am looking for jobs, some days are easier other less, I am still getting the hang of it all. I need to find my place here in this new city in the world.
Bom aside some philosophical talk, I have been watching lots of film recently, maybe to get inspirations and I especially loved this film, called Brooklyn, the best part is the end but it's worth watching the whole film to get that end quote but I want to share it here with you.
I am going to add the trailer so you can get a better idea of the rest of the film, but it's such a lovely story with lots of layers once you start looking at it, and great actress, you can see her transformation, it's such a beautiful film.
I think I am also going through this transformation at the moment, I am trying to recreate my self, in a new place although not completely unknown it's still a challenging process / journey and I am growing a lot as a person, but I am not out of the woods yet… let's see where life will take me…


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Forgive Others for not Being Kind
Written and Posted By: Margie Babon
To understand people of how they act and misbehave is the kindest thing we do to ourselves. I repeat, it is the kindest and most beautiful action you will do to yourself by not going down to their level and get reactive of the negativities they are flagging on you. Relationship always start in ourselves and if we want to be at peace with our own self, then we must be at peace with others. I know it is difficult to practice this thought but this is proper thing we should do. Understand. Forgive. Let go.
When we try to make sound observations on how people act, speak and treat others, we will arrive in the conclusion that they act according on their own belief. If they believe that people will compete them, will take something from them—they start to act full of insecurities by throwing anger and hatred on you for no logic reason at all. If they believe that people are dishonest, they start to act full of doubts. If they see others as enemy, they they act the same full of angst, rage and bitterness. But then if a person believes in love and kindness, then in whatever circumstances, whatever hardship, challenges, difficulties of the situation, he/she will practice love and kindness no matter what. In short, people act according to what they believe 'coz belief is the basis of action.
As what James Allen wrote in his book "As A Man Thinketh"
"…belief lies at the root of all human conduct. Every thought, every act, every habit, is the direct outcome of a certain fixed belief, and one's conduct alters only as one's belief are being modified."
It is such a heroic idea to change other people's attitude but it is not a realistic solution. The best action is to ignore them without being attached to your emotions. Let them act who they are. And never get reactive, it is not your responsibility to catch their bad behaviour and stuck it in your chest. No one truly says, "I forgive you." It's not in words but through action of
(1) Let the bad experience go,
(2) Let the memories dissolve,
(3) Never be attached with your emotions, never carry it for days, weeks, months or years.
(4) Understand them,
(5) Get the lesson and
(6) Move forward
and this action is what we call Forgiveness.
No emotions attached, no anger, no revenge, no hatred. This way, you choose to love yourself instead of wrapping yourself in the heaviness of stress.
We have to face the reality that not all people have the same intentions of being kind, loving and understanding. The reason we get hurt, we expect others a mirror of who we are. Not all people have good intentions and that we must forgive them. Instead of getting frustrated, just focus on what is important to you. It is such a waste of time to put your attention to them. It will just cause leak in your energy and not worthy to think about.
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."-Mahatma Gandhi
"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."-Bryant McGill
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Continue that Dream! Happy 2017!
Written and Posted by: Margie Babon
Life without a dream is nothing! It is the fire that keep us going. It gives life to the soul. It is the breath of our purpose and intentions. To feel alive, we must keep on dreaming. Without any dream inside our hearts and mind we feel empty. We feel we are nothing. We feel we are only wandering without any directions at all. To make life on earth meaningful and full of excitement and adventure, we must dream! But if we dream, of course we want to make it real and that is the hardest part of it.
To make things happen, we should work hard and take that desire to the deepest part of our hearts. We should see our dreams in front of us like real. And if we see it real, it makes us smile giving us huge hope that we can do it. And that we should not give up whatever happens always there must be no excuses! Having a dream means agreement that we owe to our higher self. Not only for our own happiness but for the happiness of people around us. There is no easy way to make dreams come true. The path is full of challenges, bitter, pain and sometimes guilt that's why only few people achieve it. This is where the test comes on how tough we can be, on how brave we become.
"Big goals are always a summation of small goals that no one ever notices according. There is no success overnight." -Brian Tracy
For us to be more inspired and continue the journey, we have to accomplish small things on a daily basis with consistency. Focus is the power word which is the greatest tool to do things we said we want to be done. Distractions are a lot that even our own thoughts can distract us if we won't focus on what is important, on what is priority. We unnoticed time are wasted. Days are wasted. Months are wasted and so does year. You think of your age looking back having regrets why you didn't start that dream when you were young.
Frustrations are unavoidable that even me get frustrated of my own dreams. It is like I accomplish nothing, it is like I don't see any fruits yet. And when examining myself where this irritation of mine come from, I still lack of that passion, commitment, sacrifice and hard work. Which means I haven't given my best yet. I haven't given all that are needed. To cut that feeling of having defeated, I have to start again and recharge that excitement I had when I got that dream for the first time by finding inspirations—read books, evaluate my positive side of life, recalling the reasons why I want that dream to happen and most thinking of my family and others to make them happy. I think of the charity that I want. I think in a long-term where I want to see myself and what accomplishments I have created.
Each day as we wake up is a new beginning. We must keep going by taking actions towards the manifestation of our dreams. We must remember that life is not about attaining perfection but achieving the dream of a balance life–having food to eat, having good health, shelter to live, providing the needs of our family and loves ones, securing our future while spending time for ourselves to make us happy and most we to be involved in the service of others through our time, resources, skills, and talents.
Life on earth is a package of stress and happiness and we all know that. One cannot attain victory without hardship and pain. Goals in life and dreams in our heart are what separate us from the rest. Having that courage and obligation of not giving up to see results and continue to improve, develop and grow is life's greatest challenge. Never give up, days will pass by anyway, so live and continue to work hard, dream, achieve and remembering the reasons why we have started.
To end this post, let me share to you a beautiful New Year's poem written by humble human being under the name anonymous.
New Year's Prayer
May God make your year a happy one!
Not by shielding you from sorrows and pain,
But by strengthening you to bear it, as it comes;
Not by making your path easy,
But by making you sturdy to travel any path;
Not by taking hardships from you,
But by taking fear from your heart;
Not by granting unbroken sunshine,
But by keeping your face bright,
Even in the shadows;
Not by making your life always pleasant,
But by showing you
When people and their causes need you most,
And by making anxious thoughts to be there to help
God's love, peace, hope and joy to you
For the year ahead.
Happy 2017 full of love, wonder and sunshine!
"Never give up. Today is hard. Tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."-Jack Ma
Small Note
Written and Posted By: Margie Babon
While going to the vet clinic to pick-up my rescued cat after his neuter, a man approached us with his small note written "Apology for my time, I'm doing this to support the education of my kid. Thank you."
Written at the bottom of the note are:
Sign pen 20 pesos (half a dollar)
Ball pen 10 pesos (few cents of a dollar)
More than four people buy including me who believes in the intention of this man. To support hardworking people like him selling a product is far better than giving money to people who are handing you a small envelope begging for pennies. Like other third world country, Manila has a lot of beggar roaming the streets even outside the mall or other office building. And what is too bad, most beggar are obviously strong enough and young to find job and get some work. Before giving money to these beggar, think of old people that are more than sixty years old working in the market or selling in the street that are not begging but doing their best to earn. I totally disagree to those who are giving money even how small the coins are, still, the more you give the more you support them to become a beggar for their whole life. You support them to be more irresponsible and lazy not to work hard and get some sweat!
It is always better to support street vendor by buying their product. Even how young or old the street vendor still their intention is to survive, to buy food, to make them feel they have still hope to earn and to live.
You never know how much gratitude they feel every time you buy product from them.
So thank you for this man selling pen. At last for the first time I got apple logo!!
Earth's History by the Number
Written and Posted By: Margie Babon
Right after the formation of planet Earth 4.54 billion years ago, it faces different periods from the occurrence of large meteorites, asteroids and comets, the rising of the ocean to the age of freezing ice, earth is so tough having potent tolerance to bear these changes. The altered processes of atmosphere, temperature, and chemistry brought tremendous impact on earth's geology. The different life forms that goes through a process from born, reborn, death to decay transformed earth's surface and underneath it and that transformation act as the only response to adapt changes. Never forget to include other natural calamities that the Earth undergone through like tsunami, flood, earthquake, etc. that cause remarkable effect on evolution and mass extinction until now and in the coming future.
Here are some of the notably 20 sketches of the Earth's history according to numbers.
115,000 years ago: Ice age starts. The most recent ice age, which turns out last for more than 100 years begins. Sea levels drop.
74,000 years ago: Humans almost wiped out by volcanic eruption. Massive eruption of Toba supervolcano in Sumatra blasts huge amounts of ash into the atmosphere, causing a big drop in global temperatures for several years.
85,000-65,000 years ago: Early modern humans migrate from Africa
55,000-30,000 years ago: Human migration continues. Groups of early-modern humans spread to South Asia, Australia, Europe and East Asia (in that order); they are hunter-gatherers.
32,000-10,000 years ago: Human Creativity develops. Examples of cave art (by early-modern humans) in Europe.
24,000 years ago: Extinction of Neanderthals (relatives of modern humans).
5,000 years ago: Indian Ocean Cataclysm. A large meteorite hits the Indian Ocean and causes gigantic tsunamis that may be the origin of various flood stories.
20,000-14,000 years ago: Anatomically modern humans first reach the Americas.
18,000 years ago: Maximum extent of ice of last ice age. Ice-sheets extend deeply into North America, Europe, and Siberia. South of the ice-sheets, mammoths, giant deer, horse, and wooly rhinos graze.
12,500-12,000 years ago: End of last ice age. Ice-sheets in full retreat; many continental shelf areas such as the North Sea are flooded as the ice melts and sea levels rise.
12,000 years ago: First settled agriculture in Turkey, Middle East, and Mesopotamia.
12,000-5,000 years ago: Many large mammals—for example wooly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, and cave bears—become extinct, possibly as a result of hunting by modern humans.
c. 11,500 years ago: Beginning of Neolithic Age (New Stone Age) in Middle East.
c. 10,000 years ago: Recorded human history begins.
8,200 years ago: Major Earth cooling lasting for several centuries.
c. 5,500 years ago: First city-states in Mesopotamia.
c. 4,500 years ago: Great Pyramid of Giza built.
c. 3,000 years ago: Beginning of Iron Age in Middle East.
400-150 years ago: Little Ice Age, a cooler period in many parts of the world.
1883: Krakatoa Erupts: Eruption of the Indonesian volcano causes up to 230,000 human fatalities as a result of ash falls and tsunamis.
Other earlier history of Earth:
- Dinosaurs—the only dominant life-form on Earth had become extinct (although they left descendants that we know today as birds)
- Large meteorite hits Earth, probably contributing to the extinction of the dinosaurs
- Modern human evolved, almost certainly somewhere in Africa
- Ice age extend throughout most of the period
- A big drop and later a rise in sea level, the spread of modern humans across the world, and the extinction of many large mammals, quite possibly as a result of human activity.
"The earth history over the past several million years is that for every 100,000 years, we go through a dramatic climate cycle where we get 90,000 years of ice age and 10,000 years of a warm period. I think people today just have the expectation that we deserve a perfectly benign climate forever." -Hugh Ross
Source: Bite-Size Science and Wikipedia
Illustrations by: Margie Babon
"Supermoon"- (November 14, 2016)
Written and Posted By: Margie Babon
I didn't get the chance to take photos of this stunning Supermoon yesterday since it was traffic going home. So I thought of writing a poem about this supermoon and this took me less than 15 mins. to finish this inspiration. Enjoy!
A giant balloon floating
Everyone's watching
Across the night sky
Half of the world
Standing by
A symbol of feminine
Coming out of nowhere
Though rising from the mountain nor ocean
You enter so grandeur
In the naked eye too beautiful
Super moon grant me
A power no one can own
Instill in my heart
A courage I can carry on
To be strong while getting old
To be humble like the creator
Getting close to the Earth
What might be the effect
Will you bring more fertility
Or to make people super moody
Hope there's no catastrophe
Coz its frightening to see
Super moon still so romantic
Yet today very powerful
Too brilliant to comprehend
The magnification
Too huge behind my lens
Each day and each month
Different faces of yours
Regardless of location
Of race and nation
Still you are a moon
And we are a speck
Three hundred eighty-four thousand kilometers
Away from you
Photo credit:
Clayton Anderson (taken from Houston in 13th Nov. 2016)
Axel Elfner (Supermoon over Sonoran Desert)
Smile Don't Cost a Thing
Written and Posted By: Margie Babon
"Good morning ma'am," the lady security guard says to the staffs of women who pass by at the x-ray security machine at the entrance of a large office building. I was standing at the last line waiting for my turn. None of them greet back. Every morning that I go to work, I keep noticing a lot of people don't response back when the guard greets them good morning. As I noticed, If some greet back, the lady guard feels happy, if none, it's just okay. This is my common routine in the morning before going to work; I witness a lot of people who are snobbish and numb that doesn't care at all.
Why not greet back and give smile to a person who happily greets you? Why is it so difficult for them to be generous in return? Why is it so hard to be kind?
If we are grateful about life, if we feel grateful towards ourselves, it's easy for us to give gratitude to others. The way I observe life, if we start our day feeling happy by being thankful for the brand new day that has given to us, it is easy for us to share to others that happiness within us.
Giving smile doesn't cost a thing but it means a lot to others who appreciate it. Giving smile means giving kindness in return. It is a signal that you welcome people to appreciate them even in just very quick encounter. For those people who are so difficult to greet back or to give a warm smile, it is a reflection of how they treat themselves. It is a mirror of bitterness the way they see life. We cannot give to others what we don't have. Being so hard, stiff, and strict doesn't give positive effect to others and you draw people to be away from you. Being unfriendly creates distance and if you are in the workplace, people find you heavy and difficult person. Others consider this kind of behavior as honest without faking who they are. That it is the reality of who they are whether others see it as rough behavior it doesn't matter to them. Each of us has individual attitude and characteristics on how we flag our personality to others. And we were raised in different geographical locations having different culture and it is understood that there are huge differences among us. But as we age, we tend to realize, life should not that be heavy. And it feels light if we share to others even a small portion of who we are by sharing smile.
Putting a smile in our face can make us more beautiful. It brings joy and sunshine to others esp. to those who need it. Life is tough and that is the reality but there are ways how to handle our day to day lives by not becoming so heavy towards ourselves and towards others. Giving a smile don't cost a lot of penny but it means a lot to people for smile brings appreciation and acceptance to people around us and most towards ourselves.
Happy Monday and don't forget to give smile and be kind starting today!
"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."-William Arthur Ward
Meaning and Poetry
Words by: Roy Austin
Sharing a set of poem full of meaning, curiosity and wonder from our contributor writer who is a retiree named Roy Austin. His style of writing holds deeper meaning about life and the mystery outside yet such an inspiration to read with over and over…
Rumination at Aphelion
She will pay her penance
for her obtuse offspring,
their exploitation at large
that has wounded her so,
her long, sacred passage
she does not forsake,
as each her nascent children
she must leave in her wake,
through her endless orbits
with her troubled youth
she whispers unto space
our moment of truth;
how should one say it,
again and again,
the earth is our passing
and a sweet amen.
Ode to Grandeur
Grandeur is the rolling earth
turning to a morning sky,
the gliding eagle grips my question-
does not the dawn imply the eye!
Do those sun-rays strike a chord
to fill the mountain air with song!
Are these vibrations from 'the ground'
reminiscent of a Gong!
where that sheep-dog with the sheep
is running foothills to the scar,
are those ripples in the rock
the fluid echoes of a star!
A clutch of eggs the hue of sky
as if the sky had learned to fly
until the sun descending low
leaves Glory in it's afterglow!
Not to Know
Some thoughts are certain
like those stubborn pack mules
that stop to graze on grass,
I hope they make it there
over the mountain pass,
to look conspicuous
as smuggled contraband,
bound for the soul's plateau
with their swag in hand!
Then thoughts of the soul,
how does that star- dust
connect man to the whole,
the finite, seeking the infinite
'til the void of nothing, is found,
as the face of transcendence
will surely show
the meaning of faith
is not to know.
About the Author:
Roy K. Austin writes poetry and article but he enjoys studying 20th century sage / philosophers and drawing on Vedanta and mystical insights, he enjoys writing poetry that points to the non – dual vision of life, that it might just strike a light in someone's darkness. He also writes with gratitude and love for these sages, who, in Ken Wilbur's words, are the spiritual avante – garde who 'rode a beam of light' at the head of the evolution of human consciousness. He has 2 books published now out of print. He has rural pursuits and enjoys walking his Labrador. He resides in Dorset England.
See more works of Roy Austin by visiting his website: http://roykaustin.weebly.com/
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"I am Brave, Bold, and Courageous"- Artistic Self-Portrait Int'l. Call for Submission 2016
Inside me is a strong force to live and survive. I have the strength to face life may it be an obstacle, hardship or triumph. No one can ever pull me down for I know myself more than others. I have been through tough times that no one has ever helped me and stood with except my own self. I am strong, courageous and independent.
I am brave to face the unknown, to go out for daring adventure and choose the path that only few people travel through. I am not afraid of life on what will be the next as long as I am doing my best. Without regrets, I know I am guided to every decision, choices and desires I want to create. I am brave that I take out fear and surrender everything to the mystery for I know the process of life is working according to my present actions, thoughts and deeds.
Though there are times I become weak and uninspired almost giving up still the force inside reminds me to thrive.Up and down, up and down, the journey of life even if I stumble and get tired, I must keep going for life is more meaningful by moving towards the direction that we want…. by moving forward.
Without difficulties, I won't be able to understand fully what life is about. Without hardship, I won't be able to test my tolerance, I won't be able to learn to sacrifice, and I won't be able to learn accepting and loving more of myself.
Like a well-rooted tree grounded to the earth, I can stand still under heat and rain and no matter how many storm may pass, still braver and stronger. I can raise the level of my tolerance if required so. Training my mind to be tough when criticism strike and knocking me down; to learn how to ignore people that treat me like non-living things without feelings and emotion; and to be brave enough to face difficult people and situation without losing my identity and ambitions. My faith is high and I know I can overcome everything as long as I am confident, determined and brave.
I believe that there is no loser when it comes to life for all of us are struggling to live, learn and survive.
What separate us from one another is the courage to face life by being responsible on who we are. It's the bravery of the heart that don't gives up is what we need. A heart that never ever gives up no matter what!
"Be bold; be brave enough to be your true self." –Queen Latifah
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September 16-18 Lunar Eclipse Harvest Full Moon
Written and Posted By: Margie Babon
Have you seen and experienced a lunar eclipse full moon? If you like astronomy or just having a simple curiosity what's on the sky at night or love to stare at the stars and moon, I'm pretty sure you really want to experience it yourself seeing a lunar eclipse.
Last September 16-18, it was my first time to see such amazing lunar eclipse from a full moon called Harvest Full Moon. Using my telephoto lens, I could be able to see two different lights yet I cannot see the moon. The tricky part is if you look at the sky without any telephoto, it appears as normal full moon except that the lights around it change a bit fast. It was also my first time to see a huge circle around the moon and the effect of the eclipse on the lights surrounding the moon creates a different look. It creates texture and some like an explosion of a nebula aside from interesting colors of a rainbow.
What more is amazing? The infinity symbol in the full moon that both appear in different days except I did not have chance to capture and take photos on the 17th of September 'coz it's raining and it is cloudy in Manila.
To share my personal experience on lunar eclipse, here are some of the amazing photos I have recorded for two days of September 16 and 18.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in wild flower holds infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour. -William Blake
Photos copyright 2016 by Margie Babon
Day 30 –"I am a Fully Pledged Vegetarian"
Written and Posted By: Margie Babon
30-Days No Meat Diet Challenge
We have now reached the final post for 30-Days No meat Diet Challenge.If you have put heart into it and challenged yourself not to eat meat, big congratulations to you!! Wow, you made it!! You are now a fully pledged vegetarian!! You are making this world better place to live with by bringing peace especially to animals who wanted to live. You are making great impact to the environment by conserving what is left behind through the awareness and knowledge that what we eat impact this planet and other web of life.
Congratulations that you are now "Real Environmentalist!" That you live having this advocacy for the animals that they are born not to be eaten and consumed by humans but to let them be free and live the way they wanted to live. And you are a proof that people can live and survive without relying on eating meat and other animal products.
As a fully pledged vegetarian, you will no longer go back on the habit of eating at the fast-food that serves parts of dead animals. That you honor your sacred self, your spirit and soul that cannot stand eating corpses and remains of animals that was terribly and brutally killed and abused. That you will bring more love to yourself by feeding your body colorful fruits and vegetables that are good for your entire body, to your digestion system and most plant-based food that is good for the heart.
That you will not demand too much of artificial and processed food and other products that can destroy your body and that destroy the environment as well. That you will choose to eat natural food rather than junk food and [processed that contains preservatives and chemical that you do not even know where it came from. And because you overcome the 30-days challenge of not eating meat, it only means you take the challenge to be creative in preparing your own food. You take the challenge to survive by cooking your own food and willing to learn to have the skills to be a chef right at your own kitchen!
A fully pledged vegetarian is an advocacy itself! It is your responsibility that you share what you know by planting awareness to other people on why they too must choose to eat vegetables over meat. That you have to "walk the talk" and educate others on why they must become vegetarian!Try to influence others that being a vegetarian is
great choice for their health especially in their digestion since vegetables are fiber and 75%-95% water that supply electricity that turns into energy in our body.
Not only you will be against in eating meat when you become committed vegetarian but you are also against products that are tested on animals. You have this awareness that you will never use products that are from animal cruelty like leather shoes and bags and other made of animal skin. You will not also adore using clothes or scarf made of animal wool and wearing a coat made of animal fur. You won't also cannot stand and having this guilt of using commercial products like soap, shampoo, perfume that were tested on animals. And you will find yourself supporting animal shelter or supporting animal advocacy or even adopting stray animals. Being a vegetarian is having that kind of love to animals especially towards stray animals who cannot have the ability to have proper food, a good shelter and has difficult to find loving human.
As vegetarian you are an activists fighting for the rights of the animals and you have this huge heart for the planet that you want to make this world a better place for the next generation to come.
So never be ashamed that you are a vegetarian. Never get offended when average and common people are laughing at you that you are a person eating grass. Every vegetarian and vegans are being mocked and it is usual. Never get hurt instead ride the joke and understand them.
Vegetarian people are tough and too brave to live in this world and have huge compassion towards pure love for the animals and for the mother earth. They live selflessly that they each day they live on having huge consideration giving respect and love to the animals that they can live and survive without eating animal meat.
So huge congratulations that you are now vegetarian! Welcome to the world of people who truly love animals and honor other life form. Welcome to a vegetarian lifestyle!
Always remember that "Your body is like a colorful garden of green plants and beautiful flowers and not an extension of slaughter house."
Grateful to all of you who become faithful followers of our campaign "30-days No Meat Diet Challenge.
Will make a pdf compilation of this advocacy that you can download and serve as a guide and inspiration to educate others on why they must become vegetarian.
Love, peace and joy!
Margie Babon
Author, 30-days No Meat Diet Challenge
Famous People who are Vegans and Vegetarians
Start educating others on why they should become vegetarian like you do!
Give pure Love and kindness everyday and that's what VEGAN and VEGETARIANS do in their entire life! Be counted!
To all our faithful followers of 30-Days No Meat Diet Challenge, BIG THANK YOU for your time and patient. We did it!! All of you inspire me not to give up on this challenge! That we have reached almost 1,200 readers for each post. Thank you that you have this confidence and strength that you can try to become vegetarian and do good for this planet! Love…Joy…Peace….
"The Gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies; they are the trees and the plants and the seeds." –Plato
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." –Thomas Edison
"By eating meat we share the responsibility of climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian make a difference in the health of our planet."-Thich Nhat Hanh


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