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How These 7 Successful People Manage Their Time And What You Can Learn
If there is one problem common to most people, it is how to get the most out of our time.
If there is one habit common to all successful people, it's that they manage their time like a boss.
They take charge of their time and get the best out of it.
They understand how the usage of time dictates the level of their success.
When the unsuccessful people are busy spending their time on trivial matters, the successful ones prevent that by all means. They make time available for their most important tasks and choke the less important ones.
There are many things we can learn from successful people and the most vital one is time management.
In this post, I'll be talking about how these successful people manage their time to get the best out of it and what we can learn from it.
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy is a motivational speaker, writer and life coach who teaches people how to achieve the best they can.
He believes that time management is crucial to achieving success and living a fulfilled life.
Brian Tracy said: "Time is the most precious resource. It is the most valuable thing you have. It is perishable, it is irreplaceable, and it cannot be saved."
He also believes that to get the best out of your time, you must be able to define your most important tasks for the day.
When you define your most important tasks, he advises that you group them into buckets A, B, C, D, and E with the most important tasks in A and in descending order.
To get the best out of your time, you carry out your most important tasks first. He used the analogy of eating frogs in his book Eat The Frog to depict the most important and hardest tasks of the day.
He said: "If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."
To manage your time effectively, Brian Tracy says you must ask these 3 important questions:
- What is really important to me?
- What are my highest value activities?
- What is the most valuable use of my time right now?
The right answers to these questions will usually define how you spend your time and it will give you the best results for your time.
Brian believes you can get the best out of your time by having these 3 targets:
- Increasing productivity through your personal goals
- Making clear business and career goals
- Having personal development goals
He proposed the 10/90 rule. "one of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule," he said.
The 10/90 rule states that the first 10% of time that you spend planning and organizing your work before you begin will save you as much as 90% of the time in getting the job done once you get started.
Brian Tracy stresses that time management is not just a skill to develop by the side but something to be taken seriously to have the best achievements possible.
He said: "I learned that time management is not a peripheral activity or skill. It is the core skill upon which everything else in life depends."
Tony Robbins
Tony Robbins is a motivational speaker, writer, and life coach. He is the author of the popular book, Awaken the Giant Within.
Tony Robbins recommends 3 time management tips for anyone who wants to get the best out of their time:
- Rapid Planning Method
To implement the rapid planning method, you must ask some questions about your goals. What do you want? Why do you want what you want? What steps are needed to achieve the goal?
The key to defining what you want is not just to have a vague goal, but have specific goals with metrics you can use to define it.
For instance, saying you just want to graduate with good grades is vague. How do you measure the good grades? Your CGPA could be one way or the awards you win.
You should also be able to define why you want these good grades. Is it just to boost your ego? Or make a statement to your friends? Or use the good grades as a stepping stone to build a successful career in your field?
Through this, you also have plans to take care of your family and help them achieve their goals too. These are emotional and personal reasons that make your goals worthwhile.
The last part of the R. P. M. is to determine how you're going to achieve these goals. The action plan is integral to your goals as you can achieve nothing without taking the right actions.
- Chunking
Tony Robbins believes you can have too many tasks to perform which is overwhelming. Chucking these tasks into areas of your life gives you a more organized schedule.
You can chunk tasks into different areas like finance, family and relationships, personal fitness, etc.
After chunking, you decide the most important tasks in each area of your life and work on them. This makes sure that no area of your life lags behind as you're able to carry out tasks in all areas of your life.
- Utilize N. E. T. Time
The N. E. T. Time means No Extra Time Time. It deals more with how you use your mind during the course of a day. Most times, it is easy for our minds to wander while our hands are carrying out a task.
To manage your time more efficiently, you focus your mind on the best thoughts and information that will aid you in achieving your goals. Your mind can also be a source of inspiration to you to achieve your other goals.
This time, instead of being a waste, will lead to better motivation and more achievements of your goals.
This is one quote from Tony Robbins that highlights the importance of time management:
"Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!"
Bill Gates
Bill Gates is the co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft.
He is one of the people who led the computing revolution to make the computer accessible to most of the world's population.
He is now busy most of the time with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation aims to improve education by empowering teachers, reducing malnutrition and providing vaccination, especially in poor countries. Bill Gates had this to say about his time:
"I had every minute packed and I thought that was the only way to do things," Gates told Charlie Rose. "The fact that he (Warren Buffet) is so careful about his time. You control your time and that sitting and thinking may be a much higher priority than a normal CEO who always have to go and see people who demand their time. It's not the proxy of your seriousness that you've filled every minute in your schedule."
|Bill Gates. Source: Wikipedia
For someone as popular and influential as Bill Gates, he has to deal with many emails. He usually gets about 100 emails daily, after the less important ones have been screened out. He said about emails:
"We're at the point now where the challenge isn't how to communicate effectively with e-mail, it's ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most. I use tools like "in-box rules" and search folders to mark and group messages based on their content and importance."
Regarding his work at Microsoft and his foundation, he said:
"20 years ago I would stay in the office for days at a time and not think twice about it, so I had energy and naivete on my side."
That has now changed with his foundation work and his new role of Advisor at Microsoft. "My time will be about two-thirds foundation and one-third Microsoft. I will focus on product work mostly."
Although this may not be available to everyone, Gates also uses his private jet to save time.
"I do get to a lot of places for Foundation work I wouldn't be able to go to without it," he said.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is a revolutionary. And a celebrity as a result of this.
With his two companies, Tesla and SpaceX, he aims to revolutionize car transportation and space travel.
Through space travel, he also aims to make man an interplanetary being. In fact, he wants to retire on Mars. At Tesla, he has founded a company that builds fully electric cars. This will reduce the amount of harmful emission compared to cars that use fuel.
With OpenAI, he wants to make sure that we build an artificial intelligence that will be safe for the human population in the future.
Musk spends an average of 42 hours of his week at Tesla, 40 at SpaceX, 5 at Neuralink, 2 at The Boring Co and 2 at OpenAI. He spends his Mondays and Fridays at SpaceX while he works at Tesla on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
|Elon Musk. Source: Wikipedia
Elon Musk spends an average of about 12.1 hours daily to work, 6 hours to sleep, and 5.9 hours for non-work related activities.
When you consider that an average American spends 6.3 hours at work, 7.8 hours to sleep, and 9.9 hours on non-work related activities, it is clear that Musk gets more work out of his time to be able to manage his two biggest companies and three other initiatives on the side.
"The right number for me is around 6 to 6.5 hours per night," he said in an interview. "Sleep is really great. I find if I don't get enough sleep I'm quite grumpy… I could drop below a certain threshold of sleep, although I would be awake more hours I would get less done because my mental acuity would be affected."
Musk also admits that he works more on product development than other parts of his companies.
"A lot of people think I must spend my time with media or on businessy things," Musk said. "almost all my time, like 80% of it is spent on engineering and design. My time is almost entirely with the engineering team working on improving the Falcon 9. At Tesla, it's working on the model 3."
Elon Musk meets his 5 sons on 4 days of the week and they sometimes go to his companies.
Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio is the manager of the world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. Ray Dalio has grown this fund by spending his time to make the right decisions for his business.
Ray Dalio believes you should spend more time on the big problems.
"Distinguish big problems from small ones," he said in his book, Principles. "You only have so much time and energy; make sure you're investing them in exploring the problems that if fixed, will yield you the biggest returns. But at the same time, make sure you spend enough time with the small problems to make sure they're not symptoms of larger ones."
Ray Dalio also has an advice about thinking of a game plan to save time.
|Ray Dalio. Source: Fortune
"Don't act before thinking. Take the time to come up with a game plan," he said. "The time you spend on thinking through your plan will be virtually nothing in relation to the amount of time that will be spent doing, and it will make the doing radically more effective."
Ray knows that most people want more time that they can't have. How can they get more out of their limited time?
"Some people spend a lot of time and effort accomplishing very little while others do a lot in the same amount of time," he wrote. "What differentiates people who can do a lot from those who can't is creativity, character, and wisdom."
He advises that getting more rest is important as it allows you to get more done while awake.
"Allow time for rest and renovation," he said. "If you just keep doing, you will burn out and grind to a halt. Build downtime into your schedule just as you would make time for all the other stuff that needs to be done."
Stephen King
Stephen King is a popular author. He's also one of the best selling authors in history.
When Stephen King is working on a novel, he has a schedule that helps him to write in the morning. He also has a minimum word count that he must produce at his writing session.
One thing King also does with his time is read. In fact, he stressed in his memoir, On Writing, that any writer who doesn't have time to read doesn't have the time or tools to write.
Stephen King has a straightforward schedule when he's working on a book.
|Stephen King. Source: stephenking.com
"My own schedule is pretty clear-cut," King said in his memoir. "Mornings belong to whatever is new - the current composition. Afternoons are for naps and letters. Evenings are for reading, family, Red Sox games on TV, and any revisions that just cannot wait. Basically, mornings are my prime writing time."
King usually gets to the end of a project without many breaks.
"Once I start work on a project, I don't stop and I don't slow down unless I absolutely have to," he said.
When King is writing, he writes every day.
"The truth is that when I'm writing, I write every day, workaholic dweeb or not. That includes Christmas, the Fourth, and my birthday," he wrote.
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey is a media mogul and one of the richest women in the world. She is the founder and CEO of the Oprah Winfrey Network (aka OWN) television channel and is worth about $2.7 billion.
She is also the founder and publisher of O, The Oprah Magazine, which boasts a circulation of 2.5 million.
Oprah likes to focus on whatever she is doing and is not a fan of multitasking.
|Oprah Winfrey. Source: Wikipedia
"I have learned that your full-on attention for any activity you choose to experience comes with a level of intensity and truth," she said. "It's about living a present life, moment to moment - not worrying about what's going to happen at 3 o'clock and what's going to happen at 7 o'clock."
"That whole thing about multitasking? That's a joke for me," she said. "When I try to do that, I don't do anything well."
As with most things, no two people manage their time the same way.
But what you can see is that these successful people manage their time to get their most important tasks done as fast as possible.
There are also some trends that are common to most of these people. For instance, many of them believe you should always take some time off for rest as this will make you more effective while awake.
Another trend I noticed is that most of the successful people tackle their most important tasks in the morning when they are still fresh and have their brains working at optimum capacity.
What work (or job) are you involved in? What are the most important tasks you can perform that will lead to progress in your work?
You must structure your time to be able to perform these important tasks and stop feeding your time to the trivial things. To the time bins that turn your time to waste.
Take a leaf from these people's books and know that how you choose to spend your time will determine what you will achieve.
It's in your hands. Spend your time wisely and reap the gains. What have you learned from successful people about time management? Leave your comments.
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Wow it's been a busy week! So grateful to finally have time to relax!
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The Morfik team has written a letter to the Ajaxian community, discussing their new chess application, and a lot more:
Last week we officially opened the Morfik website www.morfik.com to the general public and provided for download a fully featured release of the WebOS AppsBuilder for evaluation. I would appreciate it if you could review this release and share with your readers your thoughts on the product. But I would like to quickly say that this not the assistance I am seeking, though it would be nice J.
On our website we have established 'Morfik Labs' where we and some of our test developers are placing AppsBuilder sample examples (with source). These sample applications cover websites, business apps, games, mashups etc. They are at different stages of development and are focused on pushing the edges of what can run in the current breed of browsers. The Chess program in Morfik Labs is an example of this.
We are developers, not chess engine experts. We have never written a chess engine before. The code is not yet optimized nor is it the most efficient way of writing a chess engine. Our source code is open and we hope interested individuals will take on the challenge to work with us to take this application or its descendants to the next level. They are also welcome to take the concept/code and independently develop a browser based chess engine/application. This is where we would like your assistance; to find people who would be interested in working with us on the Chess program to see how far browser based applications can be taken in the area of raw computing.
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- The mindset of developers needs to shift further towards the browser, i.e. it is not just a ubiquitous presentation level but also a ubiquitous OS layer. We may remember the days when developers were asked to move from DOS to Windows. How often the concern was raised that Windows based applications ran slower than those in DOS (and anyway it was only fancy graphics)….but as improvements were made the vision and reality of what could be delivered merged. We are today at the same juncture with regards to browsers. We need to change in order to meet the future. And the future is good.
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Jackson School of the Arts has grown into an organization with a reputation for excellence. We continually put a quality experience before profit which is why we keep class sizes small, frequently evaluate our programs and conduct research on best practices. We attribute our steady growth to the values we uphold as an organization.
The Jackson School of the Arts offers programs for all ages and levels in the visual and performing arts. We provide over 120 weekly classes on-site classes to over 700 students and partner with public schools and organizations to provide enriching out-of-school arts activities throughout the community. With on and off-site programs Jackson School of the Arts serves approximately 2,500 children each year. It's no wonder that Jackson School of the Arts has become the "go to" organization for arts education programs. Our staff of professional artists, actors and dancers are as at home in our studios as they are on stage. Click here to learn more about our classes and programs.
Jackson School of the Arts was established as a 501(c)(3) organization in 2001 by a woman named Leslie Montgomery who saw that many of her children's friends and peers had no access to arts programming because it wasn't offered during school, and they could not afford the high cost of after school classes and programs.
She believed that all children regardless of their financial means should have a means to discover and experience the arts. With this vision Jackson School of the Arts was created and it's mission remains the same today: to make the arts accessible to all children in Jackson regardless of their financial means. What started as a very small program serving 40 children has grown into a center for arts that serves 700 children each week with long term classes and is also a resource to the community for arts education programming.
Jackson School of the Arts enables children to discover their creative potential with out-of-school programs in dance, art and theater. Classes have always been taught by paid instructors, and we have always based class fees on income.
There is no other organization in our community that provides in-depth on going arts programming that is inclusive to all. Our organization has been successful to date because we focus on the people and the community we serve and also pay close attention to current trends both locally and at the national level.
Offered private piano lessons for 15 children at the Martin Luther King Center, the Boos Recreation Center and the Word of Light Outreach Center. Ballet for 25 students was offered at the McCulloch Elementary after school program.
The office moved out of the founder's house to 804 S. Milwaukee and an administrative assistant was hired. Partnered with the Martin Luther King
Center to put on The Wiz. The theater production included 50 children and 250 people attended the performance.
Ballet classes were offered at Northeast Elementary as part of the Jackson Public School Project Success Program and culminated with a ballet recital and spaghetti dinner. K.A.S.T was also offered (kids after school theater) at Northeast Elementary School and 35 children participated. A K.A.S.T. also ran at Hunt Elementary serving 17 students ages 6-10 and the group produced "Big Bad Wolf on Trial."
Jackson School of the Arts created a week-long summer arts camp for low to moderate income children the summer that ran 2002-2006. The cost per camper was $40. The camp grew from 48 children in its first year to 65 and served youth, ages 9 – 15.
The Jackson School of the Arts moved to an old elementary school building on Longfellow where it rented an office and 2 classrooms. Here the first dance classes outside of the school system were offered. Assistant Director Kim Hastings (Curtis) was hired.
The partnership with Jackson Public Schools continued wherein JSA provided before and after school arts programs at area elementary, middle schools, and the alternative high school serving approximately 100 kids each year. We formed new partnerships to provide arts programs to youth including the Florence Crittenon Services, the Court Reporting Program, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts
Founder Leslie Montgomery moved and Kim Curtis became Executive Director.
The Board of Directors adopted a "Renewed Plan-New Future Plan." In an effort to avoid duplication of efforts in our community, we consolidated our piano program with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra Community Music School. After a short and successful fundraising campaign we relocated the Jackson School of the Arts to the up and coming arts and cultural district next to Armory Arts Village. We renovated 2,300 square feet of an old factory space to include 2 studios suitable for dance and theater, an art classroom, a parent waiting room, reception area and administrative office. As a result of an effective marketing plan, we tripled student enrollment. Added a part time administrative assistant.
Tough economic years for the Jackson community. We saw many nonprofits close. Our enrollment was not affected and in fact we grew.
We added a third dance studio. 2 full time staff.
Expanded our waiting area to accommodate more parents and siblings.
Added Saturday programming to accommodate growth and demand for classes.
We added a 50 seat theatre and dance store. 3 staff (added receptionist)
Added a small café and a "mini museum."
Added a 4th dance studio, Friday and more Saturday classes to accommodate program growth. Hired a part time Assistant Director and a new Artistic Director. We added a pre-professional dance company. The board formed a relocation committee to address organizational growth.
In 2004 Kim joined Jackson School of the Arts as Assistant Director and became Executive Director in 2005 when its founder moved out of the area. In 2007, the Jackson School of the Arts relocated to Jackson's up and coming arts district near Armory Arts Village. She led the organization to consolidate its piano program with the JSO Community Music School to avoid duplication of efforts and has successfully added visual arts and theater to program offerings. Under her direction student enrollment for on-site programs has increased from 40 in 2004 to over 850 today and Jackson School of the Arts has become the leading provider of arts education in our community. The organization is nearing its capital campaign goal to relocate to the historic Masonic Temple to create a downtown center for the arts.
Kim has been working in the arts for over 28 years for nonprofits and in corporate philanthropy at the American Express Foundation where she coordinated the international cultural and historic preservation grant programs. While at American Express, she developed and wrote a grants manual for use by over 40 international offices containing information on giving guidelines and grant making procedures. She also evaluated proposals from organizations requesting funds.
When she moved to Michigan in 1994, she was hired as the first executive director of Dance Gallery Foundation, the umbrella organization for Peter Sparling Dance Company and Dance Gallery Studio in Ann Arbor. (Peter Sparling is a former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company and was Chair of the UM Dept. of Dance) Under her direction the organization received the 1998 Governors' Artist Award and was a nominee for the Nonprofit Enterprise at Work Excellence in Management Award. She also led the organization to establish an endowment fund.
Kim is the Chair of the Jackson Public Arts Commission, a board member of the Jackson Symphony Guild and is a member of Business and Professional Women. She also serves on the Baker Tea Committee and belongs to Women Who Care, organizations that raise funds for a variety of nonprofit organizations.
"Providing the arts for our children is vital to the health and development of our community. I'm honored to serve the Jackson School of the Arts as a community member and as a parent of a current student."
"I am passionate about the arts and am really excited by the mission of the Jackson School of the Arts and its commitment to accessibility. Additionally, as the father of a little girl who loves the arts, is taking a dance class at JSA, and happens to have special needs, I am extremely passionate about making the arts accessible to all children, not just those with financial constraints. Our community desperately needs the arts, and JSA provides it in a professional, friendly, and relationship-based approach. I have lived in Jackson for twenty years and have been in higher education administration and nonprofit management since 1998. I have deep and widespread relationships in Jackson County and can bring those relationships to the table to help advance the Jackson School of the Arts."
"In my role at JTV, I have been able to help shine a light on the great people and organizations in our community, and Jackson School of the Arts is one of my very favorites. I'm also a student of JSA, and so impressed with Kim Curtis as a leader, and with all their staff. This is my opportunity to give back, to an organization that has given so much to me. I look forward to doing my small part as JSA transitions into the historic downtown Masonic Temple Building."
To this day I am so thankful for being involved in dance from the age of four on. I am passionate about dance as dancing taught me:
Why would I not be passionate about sharing these types of lessons and experiences with the World?
"I first became involved with JSA as a parent looking for a fun activity for my child. I am honored to now be a part of providing an artistic outlet to many more children in our community!"
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Sarah Ermatinger
CP Federal Credit Union, Vice President of Marketing
"Growing up with a crayon always in my hand and a love for drawing and art I'm honored to be a part of the Jackson School of the Arts and to serve an organization that provides such meaningful and accessible programming to our community. I feel as though I get to be a part of coloring brighter futures for our kids!"


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Except for ferries and feet, nearly all other forms of transportation around the metropolitan region failed miserably yesterday.
Traffic jams grew to dozens of miles long, stranding buses and even emergency vehicles, as police officers and platoons of well-meaning citizens tried to control the streets with hand-lettered stop-and-go signs. Hundreds of subway and commuter trains were paralyzed, some in tunnels, including a Long Island Rail Road train that was trapped beneath the East River with no air-conditioning for almost two hours.
Amtrak service rolled to a halt along almost the entire Northeast corridor, stranding as many as 18,000 travelers, according to Clifford Black, a spokesman, who added that trains from Washington and other parts south could go no farther north than Newark.
''You get off at Newark,'' Mr. Black said, ''and you're on your own.''
The region's three airports remained partly open throughout the power failure, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, but many departing flights were canceled, leading to huge, hot, angry crowds in the terminals.
''They actually told us to go home, but you can't get home,'' said Leah Bramson, who is six months pregnant and was supposed to be on a flight to Italy. Instead, she sat on a suitcase at Kennedy International Airport, being spritzed with cool water by a relative.
Even as power began to be restored late last night, transportation officials warned that trains and traffic lights would not immediately return to normal. In fact, just after midnight, New York City Transit officials said that subway service would not be restored in time for the morning rush.
''It's not as easy as flipping a switch,'' said Paul Fleuranges, a spokesman for New York City Transit. He said that it could take six to eight hours after full city power was restored before the subway returned to regular service.
The biggest obstacle is the signal system that governs train movement. As many as 12,000 signals along the tracks have to be checked, Mr. Fleuranges said, many of them by hand.
Despite the heat and confusion that continued into the night, officials reported very few cases of heat exhaustion or other injuries suffered by people stranded in trains or cars.
More than 70 children traveling home to the Bronx on the No. 4 train from a roller-skating trip in Brooklyn were trapped in Midtown, causing three to faint from heat exhaustion, said counselors for the camp, New Settlement, in the Bronx.
But the Long Island Rail Road reported no injuries among the 1,000 passengers trapped in the 4:04 to Babylon, which left the station just minutes before the power failed. Brian Dolan, a spokesman for the railroad, said the train was stalled under the East River with no cool air until 6 p.m., when a diesel train was able to tow it back into Penn Station.
Donna Romano, a passenger, said it felt like a sauna. ''But we couldn't open the windows,'' she said, ''because it was worse outside than it was inside.''
Perhaps the only good thing about the failure was that it occurred before the evening rush had begun in earnest. In Times Square, a few minutes after the power went out, subway platforms were only sparsely filled. At first, emergency electricity kept many banks of fluorescent lights on, blinking eerily. But then all power went out.
Many stations were enveloped in complete darkness, pierced only occasionally by transit workers' flashlights. ''It's still daylight outside, thank God,'' said Edward Rivera, a conductor, who joined a train operator, James Woodruff, and helped lead hundreds of passengers toward the stairs to the street.
Transit officials said they estimated that 350,000 people were on the subway when the power went out, stranding 8 trains on bridges and 19 in under-river tubes. The entire subway system was evacuated by 6:30, the officials said, with thousands of people being led along darkened tracks into stations and out of escape hatches into the streets.
With no trains running, cabs almost nonexistent and buses moving only a few blocks an hour, people around the region schemed to get home any way they could. Eugene Siterman, who works at a bicycle rental shed along the West Side Highway, said that office workers rented all 25 of his bikes within 30 minutes of the power failure. ''Every bike was gone,'' he said. ''Adults were renting kids' bikes.''
The Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges were packed for hours with pedestrians streaming away from the island. Ferry lines grew to a third of a mile in Lower Manhattan, and though boats were running, many would-be passengers waited in line for more than two hours.
On Second Avenue, a city bus allowed passengers on for free, but then went pretty much nowhere. In half an hour, the bus managed to crawl two blocks. ''It's very unlikely this bus will make it all the way downtown,'' said the driver.
As the power failure dragged on, tempers began to grow short and community spirit scarce.
At the Port Authority, waves of confused commuters pushed through the glass doors into the darkened terminal only to be confronted by a contingent of harried police officers trying, vainly, to push them back out. ''Where are we supposed to go!'' shouted a man who waved a briefcase angrily at the officers, his buttoned-down shirt drenched with sweat. ''There are 100,000 people out there on the street.''
An officer wiped at his brow and then blew his cool.
''What do you want from me!'' he shouted, leaning into the man's reddened face. ''I didn't cause this blackout. Now turn around and get out of the building.''
In contrast to the good will shown by drivers after the Sept. 11 attacks, some drivers yesterday refused requests for rides from weary pedestrians. A cab with a single passenger sped toward Brooklyn across the Manhattan Bridge about 5:30, the driver and fare ignoring the shouts and waving hands of people walking on the road. Others pedestrians were more successful, but only by waving crisp bills, $20 and higher.
At La Guardia, at least one passenger was demandinged an explanation. Clutching a stuffed Minnie Mouse, Alia Rosario, age 11, explained that her plans for a trip to Walt Disney World had been spoiled and she was not happy.
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On the set of the Missing movie
We had a lot of fun on the set of the movie 'Missing' written and directed by John Bradburn and filmed by Nadine O'Mahoney, they can both be seen in the photo.
My youngest daughter, Cat, seen below with her bright peach coloured Kanken bag, had a role as an extra. She can be seen in the photo with other movie extras, and the actors Laurence Saunders, Kayleigh Cottam, and Natalie Waterson.
She was in the film for much longer than me and spent most of that time being outstanding in her field. No, really, she was stood in a field for most of the day.
I spent most of my time sitting down indoors. Well someone had to.
A screenplay in pre-production…
During my break from University, while having surgery and treatment for cancer, I saw a post online from Sonder Pictures UK, they were looking for screenplay submissions. I had a radio play completed and with only one day to submit before the deadline decided to forward it, even though it wasn't a screenplay. Sonder Pictures selected it, and I've been rewriting it to convert it into a suitable screenplay ever since.
We plan to film Bread and Jam in 2018, we're currently in the pre-production phase. I'm feeling rather excited and quite scared too because the owner of Sonder Pictures, Nicole, has asked me to direct the movie. It's about a couple, Hector and George, who move from a City to live in a small rural town, the people in the new community, the heartache and the joy they experience.
To gain some experience I've worked as an actress a few times now. Nothing physically demanding, my health won't allow for that. I've loved every single minute of it and wished I'd done it years ago as a career. My favourite work has been as a voice actress, and so far I've recorded fifteen monologue pieces for fifteen writers.
I've started casting actors for the roles, and I'm working with two excellent script editors, Louis and Bradley. The situation feels like a dream right now, and I'm afraid of waking up, just in case it is a dream. I feel like we're on an exhilarating roller coaster ride at the moment, and I plan to enjoy it for as long as it lasts.
Cancer shows no respect for plans
Unfortunately, at the end of semester one in year two of my degree course, on 22nd Dec 2016, my Doctors told me that I had advanced breast cancer.
I didn't return to University for semester two in January 2017 but restarted year two in September 2017 instead. Its been surprisingly tough.
I'm still recovering from Cancer, and I'm missing the people I studied with at the start of my degree course.
Next steps as a screenwriter
Writing for HHTV (Hip Hop TV) was the first time I'd written screenplays, and I enjoyed it immensely but knew that my skill set was pretty low level.
My local University had an open day and my youngest daughter convinced me to visit, I chatted to the course leader for the Screenwriting degree.
She looked at the sample scripts I'd taken with me (the HHTV ones) and at my published illustrator award book, and signed me up straight away with an unconditional offer.
I started my degree course three days later.
It took a while to recover from the shock.
How did I start out as a screenwriter?
A Californian production company, HHTV, saw tweets about the award I'd started for student illustrators and contacted me. They asked me to write a screenplay, specifically to help young black actors, so I did. They loved it and gave me the opportunity to write a second one.
After I'd volunteered to write the two screenplays for HHTV, I thought long and hard about my future career. I declined the invitation to write a third, free, screenplay. It's a lot of hard work, two feature-length scripts were, in my opinion, more than enough to offer in return for no pay. We parted ways amicably.
After receiving the two confirmed, signed contracts, and script option agreements, from the American company I was able to upgrade my membership of the WGGB to the status of full member. I'd heard about The Society of Authors, and applied to join them too, as a full member.
It was a day for celebration when both of my membership applications were approved. Validation can be beautiful.


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Born in Greece, educated in the United States, a Canadian citizen since 1985 and a Professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto since 1995, Christos Hatzis is one of Canada's most important composers. Christos' eclectic and powerful music is captivating audiences internationally and has been awarded several coveted Canadian and international awards, like the Jean A. Chalmers National Music Award, the Jules Legér Prize, the Prix Italia and the Prix Bohemia, in addition ...
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On the bright side, the Kansas University volleyball team's match with visiting Texas could have gone much worse.
For one thing, the Longhorns entered as the country's No. 3- ranked team. For another, they feature four all-Americans and a bench full of players that would not look out of place in the starting lineup of the New York Knicks.
But following Saturday's outing -an encouraging, if not spectacular, 14-25, 25-20, 20-25, 23-25 loss at the Horejsi Center - Kansas coach Ray Bechard took no solace in his team's moral victory.
"We're not taking a pat on the back for taking Texas to four games," assured Bechard, whose team fell to 7-6 this season (1-3 in the Big 12). "That wasn't our goal tonight. Was there some good volleyball on our side of the net? Yes. But our goal tonight was to extend the match and beat a ranked team on our floor."
Despite an encouraging second set, in which Kansas scored six straight points to turn an 11-13 deficit into a 17-13 lead and eventual victory, and a near-victory in set No. 4, the Jayhawks were stunted by a slow start - a persistent problem that has plagued the team on multiple occasions this season.
In four Big 12 games this season, the Jayhawks have never won the first set, and on Saturday, they fell into an early 4-10 hole to open the match and spent the rest of the evening attempting to play catch-up.
"We have this thing where we just don't jump out and attack teams," said freshman setter Nicole Tate, who finished with 33 assists and three service aces.
And against a team like Texas, that lack of early attack proved costly. Longhorns outside hitter Destinee Hooker finished with a match-high 20 kills, although a good majority of those could be more aptly described as first-degree murders.
The 6-foot-4 junior, who is also a two-time NCAA champion in the high jump, spent most of the evening at high-altitude, pounding volleyballs into the opponent's terrain at a significant clip as she recorded kills on two of the Longhorns' final five points of the evening to prevent a fifth set.
The glass-half-full analysis? Saturday marked the second straight match Kansas has won a set against a Top 3 opponent - the Jayhawks took No. 2 Nebraska to four games earlier this week - and came within a whisker of forcing a fifth set against the Longhorns, battling back from a 15-20 deficit midway through the fourth set to pull to within 23-24.
But the reality is that the Jayhawks now find themselves in a fairly significant conference hole, while facing the prospect of a home matchup against No. 17 Kansas State on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
"These kids are trying," said Bechard. "Obviously, trying very hard. But our goal is to beat ranked teams, and we know if our long-term goal is the NCAA tournament, we know that's what we're going to have to do."
Ray is a good coach, and we have some young talent, but what is it going to take for us to really compete in the B12. Our women's sports are just not talented enough year in year out.
Nebhawk77: Ray Bechard isn't a good coach, he's one of the best! Think back to Jayhawk volleyball before his arrival. It was Ray that took the hawks to two appearances in the NCAA tournament, along with unprecedented victories over such opponents as Colorado, all the Texas schools, Pepperdine, etc. Take it easy....Ray and his staff will get us there.
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The United States has moved more warships and aircraft near the Korean Peninsula, expanding its military presence in the region as South Korea prepares to host North Korean athletes in Winter Olympics next month.
The USS Wasp, an upgraded US Marine Corps amphibious assault ship that can carry troops and a crop of fighter jets including the F-35, arrived in southern Japan on Sunday.
The US Pacific Air Forces announced last week that it had deployed three B-2 "Spirit" stealth bombers along with some 200 personnel from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to the Pacific island of Guam.
Earlier, the US Navy's USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier departed for the western Pacific on what the Pentagon said was a routine mission. The strike group is expected to arrive in the region before the Olympics begin on February 9.
North Korea, which has been engaged in a long-running standoff with the US over its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, blasted the move as an attempt to derail recent talks between the two Koreas.
"Such moves are an unpardonable military provocation chilling the atmosphere for improved inter-Korean relations," the North's ruling party said in a commentary.
Seoul and Pyongyang held their first formal talks in over two years last Tuesday after Pyongyang said expressed willingness to send a delegation to the February 9-25 games in Pyeongchang.
The two neighbors held a new round of talks on Monday, trying to hammer out the details of Pyongyang's plans for the upcoming sports event.
Following Monday's discussions, the South Korean Unification Ministry said in a mobile text message that the North had requested working talks to be held on January 17.
Washington has welcomed the talks, unnamed officials within Donald Trump's administration said, noting that the increasing US military presence off North Korean territories only represented routine training and scheduled upgrades.
After failing to stop the North's frequent test-launches of ballistic missiles, Washington has stepped up military drills off the Korean Peninsula. American military forces have even simulated capturing North Korea's nuclear weapons in one of the war games, which involved troops from Japan and South Korea as well.
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A lot of people are nervous when they arrive at their first physical therapy session. You might have heard rumors about PT being "Pain and Torture" and have a false sense of what to expect. Here are some tips to make your first PT session go smoothly.
1. Your first visit is the initial evaluation. The therapist will talk to you about your symptoms, when they began, and how you are feeling now. If you have had surgery, they will ask about your recovery so far. At this visit, the therapist spends time getting to know you and your personal goals for recovery. Take the time to talk about what you are feeling and what you would like to get back to doing.
2. Dress comfortably. Wear clothes you can move around in without restriction. If you are coming for knee pain, they will need to see your knee. Pants will be fine as long as you can pull them up and expose the knee. For your shoulder, a short sleeve or sleeveless shirt should be fine. If you are coming for your back or neck, loose and comfortable clothes might be fine or you might be asked to change into a gown.
3. Remember, you are in control. The therapist's job is to evaluate your symptoms, develop a plan of care, and use the appropriate treatment techniques. Treatment techniques can include manual therapy (using their hands to mobilize and stretch) and exercise therapy. It is important to remember that you are in control. Be sure to communicate what you are feeling and let your therapist know if an exercise is causing you pain.
Physical therapy is a collaborative effort between the therapist and the patient. You will work together to set reasonable and personal goals so that you can get back to life with as little "Pain and Torture" as possible.
Cynthia York King, DPT
Physical Therapist
OrthoVirginia/West End Orthopaedic Clinic
To improve the musculoskeletal health and well-being of those who live in our communities


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Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga S1 on CentOS 7.3
Through an odd sequence of events, I own a real odd-ball of a laptop: The Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga S1. Through an even stranger sequence of events, the only OS I can get to reliably run on it is CentOS 7.
(Well, it will run Ubuntu as well, but the wifi is less reliable.)
The good news is that, stock, RHEL 7/CentOS 7 runs pretty much perfectly. No tweaking needed. The touch screen works great, so does the palm rejection and the Wacom stylus.
So, now that I've salvaged this machine, I have to say that it's growing on me. The keyboard is great, as is the 12.5" 1920×1080 IPS screen. In fact, as a laptop, I find it nicer to use than my much-loved Dell XPS 13, though I can't put my finger on why.
There's something just really nice about the machine. Under Windows it dragged, and wifi was unreliable in Ubuntu. However, everything is just right in CentOS. With XFCE it feels light and fast, and I know that I'll have patches for another 7 years. I'll be very pleasantly surprised if the laptop is still running then.
This machine is beginning to feel like it may be my "main" laptop for 2017 at home. Go figure. A machine I didn't want running an OS I'd never planned on using. CentOS, no less, having managed to avoid Red Hat for years.
2017 is really shaping up to challenge my technology opinions. I'm gaining a new found respect for both Red Hat/CentOS and Solaris, and am doing so on a newer Lenovo machine that I'd previously written off. Sure, it isn't as flashy as Ubuntu, but man, it feels solid.


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Huge swathes of land to be opened for resource exploration
THE State Government has outlined its plans for the release of land for coal, gas and oil exploration licences over the coming year.
More than 19,000 sq km of land, the vast majority located in south west Queensland, has been flagged for gas, oil, mineral and coal exploration over the next 12 months in the Queensland Government's Annual Exploration Program 2017-18.
Apart from one parcel of coal seam gas land 30km north of Miles, for which tenders were called in early September, the rest consists of conventional gas and oil exploration around the townships of Surat, Charleville, Tara and Quilpie.
The township of Quilpie sits in the middle of a 5266 sq km parcel of land which will be tendered for convetional gas and oil exploration purposes between October and December this year.
The town of Quilpie itself will be excluded from the exploration area.
Three areas located 17km north-west, 27km west and 31km south-west of Taroom will also opened up for thermal coal exploration, though the area is "unlikely to support a stand-alone operation", according to the report.
Queensland Natural Resources and Mines Minister Dr Anthony Lynham said the exploration licences would give Queensland a front row seat in delivering the next generation of projects and the energy needs for the future.
"With almost 18,000 sq km for petroleum and gas exploration, this is good news for the local manufacturing and electricity consumers as more gas supply means downward pressure on energy prices," he said.
Dr Lynham said two sets of competitive tenders would be called: for petroleum and gas and minerals in the current quarter and for coal in April-June 2018.
"Many of the petroleum and gas blocks are greenfield sites, and I encourage new and local players, as well as junior explorers to enter the Queensland market," he said.
"The solution to gas shortages is more gas and Queensland continues to do the heavy lifting on supply and policy initiatives, like our pilot of land for the domestic market only."
Queensland Resources Council chief executive Ian Macfarlane welcomed the release of the program, saying Queensland "is continuing to lead the way in responsibly developing the resources sector".
"The economics of supply and demand are simple, if demand for gas is strong you need to increase supply to put downward pressure on prices. Queensland's latest exploration program includes almost 18,000 square kilometres for gas and petroleum exploration, which builds on the state's advanced gas industry," Mr Macfarlane said.
Queensland Exploration Council (QEC) Chair Brad John said investors from around the world would be interested in these new Queensland exploration opportunities.
"There's nothing like greenfield land releases of premium coal and gas provinces and the world class North West Minerals Province to catch the attention of investors, geologists and explorers," Mr John said.
According to QRC, in 2015/16 Queensland coal, gas and metal industries contributed $55.7 billion to the state's economy, supported more than 275,000 direct and indirect jobs and paid $2.2 billion in royalties.
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Download Live Interior 3D Pro For PC
Hello everyone, you can download Live Home 3D Pro(formerly Live Interior 3d) for Windows 10 I hope you are all having a great week, my week has been up and down but I am hopefully things will turn around as soon as possible, anyway, please read on…
Today we will highlight an awesome app for Windows 10 that a lot of you will love especially if you are interested in interior design, home design or basically just like to envision how your house should or will look like. It's a really simple but feature packed app that is worth your time to at least try, let's find out why.
What Is Live Interior 3D Pro About?
Powerful yet intuitive home and interior design software. Draft detailed 2D floor plans and watch as the structure is automatically built in 3D. Design and decorate the interior, optimizing the furniture arrangement and making smart color decisions in fully functional 3D environment. Use the results in real life by sharing your interior and taking it with you wherever you go on your Windows device.
Build and design anything, from a forty floor skyscraper, to your apartment, kitchen or even an office space. And it doesn't matter whether you're a homeowner planning some upcoming home improvements or a professional interior designer trying to bridge the gap between ideas and visualization.
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The first phase of your personal injury claim is treatment. Your health care providers expect you to give them complete and honest information when receiving treatment. You need to keep our office informed of any treatment or tests conducted as a result of your injuries. Most importantly, we need you to advise us when you see any NEW provider and when your treatment has concluded. At the end of your treatment, we will need to know how you are doing: Are you 100% recovered? Are you still having problems as a result of the accident? Are you going to need surgery in the future as a result of the accident? Hopefully, you make complete recovery from your injury.
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January for adults is much like September for the kids. We're getting back into routines, looking back on some of those piggy-bank-purges from over the break (how can we not—those bank statements are just starting to roll in), and beginning to once again be able to recall what day it is when asked. We'll have that last one nailed by February.
We're also reflecting on all that we've learned over the last year, setting goals to crush this year, and mapping out our ambitions with greater swing, confidence, and courage than ever before (thank you, holiday eggnog). With that confidence in mind, here are this week's top reads for women and money from around the web.
Editor's picks of the week
- What Canadian women feel about work, money, relationships and more.
- Here's how one woman is closing the "financial gender gap".
- New employment trends put the onus on being even more financial savvy than ever before.
- Only 170 more years to wage parity. Bring it on!
- Compassionate capitalism: Traceable milk…from happy cows.
- You don't need to make more in order to earn more. Make 2017 your most tax-efficient year yet with these four tax-saving (and income-boosting) tips.


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If you're looking for Google AdWords management in Bedford, Level Up today and get in touch. We'll happily offer advice, help or quotes on any of our PPC services.
You may need a mixture of Search and Display Network campaigns, or even Shopping and Video campaigns. Either way, drop us a line and we'll be in touch.
Learn more today about AdWords and what it can do for your business by visiting our case studies or contact page.


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Hi, everyone!!
Today I will share an example of how you can use my tomato sauce paste.
First, I will explain how to finish tomato sauce. Like I said in the article "Lovely tomato sauce paste", this paste is not tomato sauce. To complete making tomato sauce, all you have to do is add 2-3 tbspoons of paste into the300-400g of tin tomato and cook. You can use this for soup and pasta sauce, or it is also good to cook fish in this sauce.
The reason I think it good is, you can always cook with this paste in a little time. If you feel too busy to cook by yourself or too tired after working all day, this tomato sauce will help you to stay healthy and save money!!
[Ingredients] for 2
- 1/3 of aubergine
- a handful Brussels sprouts
- 200 g of spaghetti
- 300g of tin tomato
- 100g of original tomato sauce paste
- 30ml of olive oil
- Cut aubergine into the shape you like, and leave them in the cold water for a few minutes.
- Marinate the aubergine with 3 tablespoons of olive oil in a bowl.
- Pan fry aubergine on a frying pan.
- Boil the water and cook Brussels sprouts.
- Boil the water in a tall sauce pan and cook spaghetti.
- Pour tin tomato into a frying pan and cook it with high heat until the colour become vivid red.
- Add the tomato sauce paste into the frying pan. When the sauce gets too dry, add some water from the sauce pan of spaghetti.
- When spaghetti is cooked, add spaghetti, aubergine and Brussels sprouts into tomato sauce. (If you can finish cooking all of those, it would be good!)
- Mix well and plate your spaghetti.
- Dress with olive oil on top.
Then, here is the spaghetti!
It was amazingly simple and so tasty. Please try once!
Now, I am thinking to make video to show the recipe more simply. I am preparing for the camera or equipments etc at this moment. I will let you know if this plan goes well.
I hoe you enjoyed this article too.
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Can you believe it. it's already December and the holiday season is upon us. It can be such a magical time of year, yet it can also be an extremely stressful and overwhelming time as well. I wanted to share 5 secrets with you. 5 Secrets that will help you combat Overwhelm & Exhaustion.
By practicing these 5 secrets you'll have more energy, vitality and be a lot less stressed out. You'll even be able to be around that family member that you're so not looking forward to seeing this holiday season… : ) Let's make this holiday season a special one, filled with less stress, overwhelm and exhaustion.
BONUS! I've added a little video bonus on this weeks Vlog too. I was busy making a music video and I PROMISE you, you will laugh hysterically once you see it. Just click this link to start your December off with a laugh. Click Here
Have an awesome week,
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Using Bentonite clay for detox purposes has been a natural therapy in numerous cultures around the world for thousands of years. And now, thanks to the availability of information over the internet, this humble healing product is regaining a top spot in the world of natural healing. It is time to bring back this incredible substance, with its numerous healing capacities.
Pure bentonite clay has many practical applications, and because of its powerful natural properties, it has been referred to as "healing clay" thoughout the ages. One of the main uses of the clay is as a detoxifying product, for the simple reason that it can help the body get rid of toxins while providing nutritional benefits. Clay can be used both internally and externally, but it has to be the right type of clay to be both safe and effective. Humans are not the only species on the planet that eat clay. Many different types of animals regularly eat bentonite clay for both preventing and relieving themselves of illnesses; illnesses mainly caused by eating toxic substances in the wild, such as plants, seeds, and nuts that contain harmful poisons. The clay works by both absorbing and adsorbing the poisons that can otherwise cause health challenges.
What is Bentonite clay? Bentonite, which is sometimes referred to as Montmorillonite is a naturally-occuring substance that is the product of ancient volcanic eruptions. It can be used externally for skin care preparations in the form of mud packs, poultices, wraps, masks, and for bathing in as well. This special clay is becoming known as the best facial mask for acne for those who want to address their skin challenge without the use of chemicals or pharmaceuticals. Many types of clay can be used externally, but for internal use, it is best to find a true Montmorillonite clay that has been tested for purity and potency. Look for a quality product that is grey or slightly green in color, and be sure to deal with a company that has customers who are getting real results.
What does it do? When researching the vast array of bentonite clay benefits it quickly becomes apparent that this is truly a versatile substance. The clay's unique ability partly comes down to the fact that it contains a powerful negative electrical charge. This charge allows the clay to attract to the positively charged toxins that can cause challenges for the skin and other parts of the body. When clay mixes with water, it has a powerful all-natural ability to absorb toxins both inside and outside the body. One of the most powerful detoxes that one can do is a high-quality bentonite clay detox for a wide variety of ailments. The clay can remove impurities, chemicals and metals not only from the skin, but also from the inside the body when taken internally.
Bentonite clay also has unqiue swelling properties. Due to its structure, the surface area of the clay is surprisingly large. The best way of thinking about healing clay is as a sponge, which can attract toxins, hold them in suspension, and safely carry them out of the body through absorption and adsorption. Here are some of the main bentonite clay benefits that can be noted:
In addition to using bentonite clay as a facial mask for acne, it can be used externally for many other types of skin challenges, such are eczema, enlarged pores, uneven skin tone, insect bites, and even to speed wound healing.
In preparations for oral health care. Some people find that it helps heal their gums.
For regular internal detoxification and cleansing
To assist in recovery from diarrhea and vomiting
To help correct mineral imbalances within the body
For addressing sleep challenges such as insomnia
To treat digestive disturbances such as constipation, gas and bloating.
When purchased from a reliable source and used as directed, bentonite clay can provide a multitude of benefits that must be truly experienced to be believed. Used by humans and animals worldwide for thousands of years, this safe, natural product could be the key to addressing even the most stubborn skin challenges.
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I would like to apologize for not writing for the last 7 months, and even before that for not writing so much around here.
I started what we can call university in January, and it has been consuming my time, energy and creativity to write. I am a Culinary Student in Switzerland. I go to this hospitality school that has even more rules than my former high school. We wear uniforms, in university, and they have to super neat at all times, we must wear stalkings, doesn't matter if its 35 degrees outside and its hotter than an oven, we must be properly groomed everyday, wear a name tag, the school scarf and the school pin. It kinda sucks most of the times, but I really wouldn't have it any other way. Its an amazing experience, and what better place to learn about the food industry, that's often linked to the hospitality industry, than an hospitality school? Its just amazing, to the point, that my way to give it back is by being on the student council and doing the best work I can.
The culinary world is amazing, so many things to try, explore, cook and think about. Before coming here, I'd never thought that I would be mesmerized by the vegetable sections on supermarkets, because the peppers look super big, or the tomatoes kinds they have, or just look at different kinds of salts and analyzing them and taking pictures of it. Before I would just have the thought of how big those peppers are, but never actually analyze and enjoy looking at them. I mean, I just realized that the things I talk about the most now is food. I might be on a date or something and start describing all the things I learn or that I want to try. Guess that is what my life is now.
Don't know if anyone could ever relate to this. But there's more about culinary than a kitchen, and that's the direction that I find myself looking at it at the moment, I still want to study and learn as much as I can, I mean, I have so many things that I would like to learn, such as Italian cuisine, more about baking, Thai food, the art of sushi, seafood. So many things.
I am trying to create a new idea of the blog, sure I will still try and talk about make up, because I really enjoy that, but I want to bring this idea of how the culinary world is, specially on a student perspective.
I am having an amazing time in here, meeting people from all over the world, trying new foods, traveling a little, partying, shopping and freaking out over midterms and finals.
Hope you stay tuned to what I will try to bring on the future and my sincere apologies about being MIA.
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Pink Pirate Stickers
Pink Pirate Stickers for all swashbuckling girls. Every sheet of stickers includes 14 pirate themed stickers. The pirates may be wearing pink, but they can be just as ruthless as any boy pirate.
The stickers are very popular for pirate themed parties, we also have some more hairy pirate stickers and a selection of party bags and gifts with a pirate theme.
Wild Animal Stickers
16 wild animal stickers, that younger children will instantly recognise. A popular choice for younger children's party bags.
Butterfly Stickers
12 butterfly stickers per sheet. Very popular with girls of all ages.
Superhero Stickers
A sheet of 12 Superhero Stickers. The stickers are great for decorating pencil cases, lunch boxes and personal belongings.
Superhero Stickers – Further items in this range.
The stickers are part of a range of party bag gifts we have with a traditional superhero design. Further items in this design include superhero tattoos, pencils, notebook, EVA face masks, party boxes and party bags.
We also sell a superhero-themed pre-filled party bag and party bag filler. Our Superhero themed pre-filled party bag includes a party bag and a selection of party bag gifts combined together and sold at a reduced price.
Christmas Stickers
A sheet of Christmas themed stickers, great for decorating children's belongings and gifts.
Little Fairy Stickers
Fairy Stickers for younger children, each set of stickers includes 10 cute fairy stickers, they are great for personalising items.
Ben 10 Foil Re Usable Stickers
Ben 10 foil, re-usable stickers. Suitable for books, folders, pencil cases, gifts, bikes and bags.
Foil Spider-Man Stickers
A sheet of Foil Spider-Man Stickers. Every sheet of stickers includes 13 foil stickers featuring Spider-Man and the Spider-Man logos. The stickers are foil which allows you to easily remove and re-use the stickers
The stickers do vary in size. Stickers are always a popular item, foil re-useable stickers are useful as they reduce the risk of damage to furniture and personal items. The stickers can also be re-used which means the owner received a greater play value than the traditional stickers. You can use foil re-useable stickers to personalise items, they are particularly useful for school or nursery items.
Paw Patrol Foil Re-Useable Stickers
A set of 15 Paw Patrol Foil Re-Useable Stickers. Re-useable stickers are easy to remove from places you may not have wanted decorating.
Thomas and Friends Foil Re-Usable Stickers
A sheet of 21 Thomas and Friends Foil Re-usable stickers per sheet. Perfect for your little one to decorate their favourite things if they decide to decorate other areas they are easy to peel off and relocate!