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Monday, April 9, 2012
Tervis Tumbler 24oz Water Bottle Review
I have loved?Tervis tumblers since discovering them during a vacation to Sanibel Island Florida one year. They have become my go to idea when I need to find a gift for someone and are pretty much all we drink from at my house. When the folks at Tervis contacted me to see if I might [...]
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Wild Dunes Vacation Rentals - Travel and Leisure Channel
Written By: Sarah?on?April 7, 2012 No Comment
Your vacation rental will near fully furnished, with linen service and a complete kitchen for grit -making. If you can?t beget grits on your occupy, there are plenty of restaurants nearby that will pick care of that for you. At Wild Dunes, the choice of amenities in your rental home are as varied as the wildlife and plant life that surround you. Some of those amenities include hot tubs, oceanfront balconies, gourmet kitchens and designer decor, maid service and private pools.
Wild Dunes enjoys an international guest list, which depart to this world-renown resort to retract a swing at the highly ranked golf courses and tennis courts. Wild Dunes is ranked by Tennis Magazine as one of the ?Top 50 Tennis Resorts in the Country.? You can even test your skills on a beach tennis court. The first Tom Fazio solo designed golf course is rated by Golf Magazine as one of the best in the world. His second course was awarded the ?Gold Medal? from Golf Magazine, earning Wild Dunes Resort a residence in the top 25 in the U.S. There is also, of course, miles of sandy beach on which to sit and daydream, shell search, or hump. The waters offer plenty of activity: from sailing to surfing to kayaking, even a cramped fishing. You will never be far away from anything you want to do in a Wild Dunes vacation rental home, villa or condo. accumulate your have of current seafood and local Low-country cuisine at one of the many restaurants. If you are bringing the kids, Duney?s offers a Discovery Club day camp that is filled with fun outdoor activities in a structured setting. There is also the Barrier Island Marine Bio-Camp, a marine biology introduction with loads of crabbing, collecting shells and fishing.
Edgar?s on the Links offers grown-up dinner and music with a separate region for kids to be kids. Leave the kids with a nanny and lift a Barrier Island Sunset fly. During the daylight hours, there are plenty of opportunities to learn about the local flora fauna on guided wildlife tours by kayak, or rob an eco-tour by boat. Have a guide expose you the best fishing spots, and effect positive to learn where the blue crab are, and how to come by and cook them. A Low-country specialty, blue crab for dinner is a must. If you crave a dinky culture, Charleston is lawful next door, offering big shopping, titillating tours and loads of history and glowing historic architecture. You can disappear the world, but the world loves to disappear to Wild Dunes in South Carolina.
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Many possible causes for interview cancelation - Business ...
I believe I have been discriminated against because of a plane ticket. After three phone interviews with an out-of-state company, I was invited to corporate headquarters to meet with the hiring manager. The human resources employee who made my flight arrangements asked for my date of birth, saying the airline needed it for security reasons.
The flight confirmation, which included my birth date, was sent to both me and the hiring manager. Shortly thereafter, I received an email saying the manager needed to cancel our interview. When I called to reschedule, I was told they were considering another candidate and would let me know if they still needed to talk with me.
Now I?m concerned that my age was the real reason for this rejection. Although I am in excellent health and have a very youthful appearance, that doesn?t help unless I get an interview. Should I just forget about jobs that require a plane flight?
Before restricting yourself to ground transportation, take a moment to reconsider your assumptions. Although age could have been a factor in your interview cancellation, it is equally possible that management discovered a more qualified applicant or found a local candidate who would not incur relocation costs.
Nevertheless, if revealing your age troubles you, try asking if you can make future flight reservations yourself. Some companies will allow you to do so within their travel guidelines, though others will prefer to maintain control of the process. In that case, you have little choice but to share your birth date if the airline must have it for security reporting.
Given your youthful demeanor, you might also consider using a webcam to turn phone screenings into video interviews. That would enable you to make a positive visual impression at the beginning of the process. Again, some companies may not allow this, but there?s no harm in asking.
As a general rule, however, try to avoid obsessing about the age issue. Since applicants receive so little feedback, they continually speculate about the reasons for lost opportunities. This is simply a waste of emotional energy, because you will never know what really happened.
I disagreed with your column about the managers who failed to deal with a mentally disturbed employee. In today?s world, you can?t just have someone hauled away for being ?crazy.? This woman is probably harmless, so I believe you were wrong to call her ?deranged? and a possible danger to others.
Thank you for writing to express your concern. In my astonishment at management?s decision to ignore an employee who was clearly out of touch with reality, I may have used some overly colorful language to describe the situation. I certainly did not intend to be insulting.
But the other employees did have a valid reason to be fearful. People who believe they are being persecuted have been known to harm others in an effort to protect themselves from imagined threats. By disregarding this possibility, management was neglecting the welfare of both the troubled employee and the rest of the staff.
Marie G. McIntyre, a workplace coach and the author of ?Secrets to Winning at Office Politics,? takes questions and gives free coaching tips at yourofficecoach.com, or follow her on Twitter @officecoach.
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Do Positive Affirmations Actually Work? | Successful Hypnosis ...
People who are new to self improvement and are looking to shed some old limiting beliefs often encounter positive affirmations.. but they can seem a little too good to be true, so people often ask, ?Do positive affirmations really work??. A quick and simple answer is yes they really can.. but they still require effort and it is up to you to put the work in
Affirmations work by affecting your subconscious mind to rewire your unwanted idiosyncrasies. It encourages affirmative thought and better judgment to make you better suited at handling stressful situations. It calms the mind to gives you an unclouded view of everything. It leads to improved decision making skills and and a lighter more positive outlook in life.
Affirmations can be used to boost your self esteem and encourage optimism. Their use also helps with ending unwanted habits like smoking and it can also be used to ease pain and discomfort and even treat sleep disorders. It has a wide variety of applications that help liberate people from their problems and ailments.
Although very useful, the effectiveness of using affirmations relies on a person?s disposition towards self improvement. A person who shows no real interest in his personal development will not benefit from hypnosis. This is because hypnosis only works when a person is willing to make an effort to change. A person who has the will to make his life better will receive all the benefit ? if they persist and say their affirmations consistently, every day (ideally in the morning and evening).
Applications of Positive Affirmations
Affirmations have many applications and they can be very effective for those that have the desire to change. They can eliminate the negativity that limits people?s true potential, and again, when used consistently, they really out the best in people who have the right attitude towards self improvement.
Positive affirmations can be used specifically for weight loss, sports success, confidence, motivation, memory ? pretty much any area you want to improve in, you can use positive affirmations to enhance your mind and accelerate your path to success.
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
Lent End Means Hyena Free Lunch
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In northern Ethiopia, hyenas must hunt more during Lent, when local Christians give up meat and provide fewer scraps to the scavengers. Cynthia Graber reports
April 6, 2012
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Many Christians give up meat for Lent, a practice that indirectly affects?hyenas, believe it or not. [Gidey Yirga et al, Adaptability of large carnivores to changing anthropogenic food sources: diet change of spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta) during Christian fasting period in northern Ethiopia, Journal of Animal Ecology]
In northern Ethiopia, hyenas have become accustomed to scavenging meat that humans throw away. However, Ethiopian Orthodox Christians go vegan for the 55 days before Easter.
Scientists wondered whether the human dietary change affected the behavior of local hyenas. At three different sites where hyenas scavenge from humans, the researchers swept up hyena droppings. They collected samples as the fast began, when it ended 55 days later and then again 55 days after the regular diet resumed.
Based on animal fur found in the scat, the researchers discovered that the hyenas hunt more during Lent, when meaty leftovers from human meals are scarcer. Which is bad news for donkeys.
Before Lent, about 15 percent of hair in hyena scat samples came from hunted donkeys.? During Lent, the number more than doubled. And donkey meals decreased again after the end of Lent. That?s when the people resume eating meat and the hyenas go back to scavenging free lunches?giving the hyenas the last laugh, while the donkeys breathe a sigh of relief.
?Cynthia Graber
[The above text is a transcript of this podcast]
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Friday, April 6, 2012
Peter J. Woolley: Health Insurance and Strip Searches: The Public ...
As the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week on the Affordable Care Act, much was made of public attitudes toward the legislation, including people's assessments of the constitutionality of the health insurance law's "individual mandate." Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup Poll, asked ordinary Americans to judge the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, noting, "Americans are not constitutional law scholars."
Of course, he is right in a very narrow sense. Less than .5 percent of the public have a law degree. Only small segments of the public pay substantial, sustained attention even to high-profile cases like this one, never mind the particulars of the full reach of the interstate commerce clause, or whether requiring health insurance is akin to mandating consumption of broccoli. But such a caveat should not lead us to overlook the public's proper role in, and talent for, constitutional interpretation.
Over the past two Supreme Court terms, the Fairleigh Dickinson University poll PublicMind has asked voters their unconsidered legal opinions about cases being heard by the high court, testing the proposition that the public not only can be, but are, constitutional thinkers. Those results have already demonstrated that people's judgments of constitutional issues can be independent of their ideological positions. Similarly, Newport finds that in the health insurance debate a significant portion of the public separates its policy preferences from its legal judgment (with roughly equal numbers seeing the health law as a "good" vs."bad" thing, compared to 7 out of 10 saying the law is unconstitutional). For many jurists as well as scholars, this ability to distinguish personal preferences from legal judgment is the very heart of responsible constitutional interpretation. This ability to make such distinctions goes beyond the health insurance case.
Indeed, while both judicial experts and occasional Court-watchers focused en masse this past week on Florida v. Health and Human Services, the Court also announced its decision in other important matters, including a criminal law ruling in Florence v. Freeholders which had also been nationally polled. This case posed the question to the Justices -- and the public -- of whether jails can strip search any prisoner admitted to the prison population regardless of the alleged offense.
The back-story of Albert Florence is somewhat checkered: He had previous run-ins with the law, and on this occasion, troopers pulled his car over on the infamous stretch of I-95 known as the New Jersey Turnpike, where they quickly determined that Florence had an outstanding bench warrant for failure to pay a speeding fine. Florence produced official court papers showing he had in fact paid the fine. Nonetheless, lawmen, going with erroneous computer records, arrested, cuffed, processed, strip-searched, and jailed him in the county where he was stopped. After six days he was shipped to jail in the county that issued the bench warrant originally -- where he was strip-searched again. A state judge then released him on the grounds that, well, Florence kept more accurate records than the police. The bench warrant was an error.
When asked (long before the Court announced its decision), the public concluded, by two-to-one (65 percent - 31 percent), that automatic strip searches are unreasonable, a result that contrasted with the Court's ruling on Monday. By the narrowest five-to-four margin, the Justices held that the routine strip search was reasonable as long as the subject of the search was going to be placed into a population of prisoners.
The polled public had none of the nuances of the case to consider, nor did it have the benefit of training in jurisprudence, or years of experience issuing complex legal decisions. More than four of five admitted they had never heard anything about the case. Nonetheless, they offered a clear ruling on a significant question of civil liberties.
A skeptic might argue that the public's ruling was an artifact of question construction: Voters didn't really think these things about prison searches until they were forced to think, and even then they just made something up. But the most interesting numbers were those on the bottom line: Only 4 percent were unsure or had no opinion. The public did not express uncertainty or pass off the decision to someone else by giving "mixed," "don't know," or refusal responses.
Clearly, the fact that Americans are not constitutional law scholars is not enough reason to shy away from asking them what is constitutional and what is not. In important areas of public affairs, like voting, we do not consider the public's lack of training or technical expertise to be a knock against the inherent value of their judgment. Polling on Florence, the Affordable Care Act, and other cases, demonstrates that constitutional law -- which is fundamentally about contested values -- is a subject where the public's voice is vital, distinctive, and worth knowing more about.
Peter J. Woolley and Bruce Peabody are professors of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. Woolley directs the university's polling group, PublicMind. Peabody is the author of The Politics of Judicial Independence.
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