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Remembrance Day</h2>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Every year on November 11th , Canadians pause in
a silent moment to remember men and
women who have served and still
continue to serve Canada during times
of war , during conflicts and even in peace
. We honour those who fought in the
First World War , the Second World
War and the Korean War and all
those who still serve since then .</span></strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">More than 1,500,000 Canadians have
served our country this way and more
than 100,000 have died . They gave their
lives and their futures so that we
may live in peace .</span></strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <strong>ODE OF REMEMBRANCE</strong> </span></strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> They went with songs to the
battle , they were young</span></strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Straight of limb , true of eyes , steady
and aglow </span></strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> They were staunch to the end
against all odds uncounted </span></strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> They fell with their faces to
the foe </span></strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> They shall not grow old , as we
that are left grow old .</span></strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> Age shall not weary them , nor the
years condemn</span></strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> At the going down of the sun
and in the morning</span></strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> We will remember them </span></strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> <strong>LEST WE FORGET</strong>....</span></strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Let us remember them in our prayers .
Let us pray for our country of
birth , and our adopted country ,. God
bless these countries ! ! ! God Bless us ! ! !</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Halloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival
of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the
area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated
their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest
and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often
associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new
year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became
blurred. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was
believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing
trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly
spirits made it easier for the Druids, or Celtic priests, to make predictions
about the future. For a people entirely dependent on the volatile natural
world, these prophecies were an important source of comfort and direction
during the long, dark winter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To commemorate the event, Druids built huge sacred bonfires,
where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to the Celtic
deities. During the celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically consisting
of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortunes. When
the celebration was over, they re-lit their hearth fires, which they had
extinguished earlier that evening, from the sacred bonfire to help protect them
during the coming winter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By 43 A.D., the Roman Empire had conquered the majority of
Celtic territory. In the course of the four hundred years that they ruled the
Celtic lands, two festivals of Roman origin were combined with the traditional
Celtic celebration of Samhain. The first was Feralia, a day in late October
when the Romans traditionally commemorated the passing of the dead. The second
was a day to honor Pomona, the Roman goddess of fruit and trees. The symbol of
Pomona is the apple and the incorporation of this celebration into Samhain
probably explains the tradition of "bobbing" for apples that is
practiced today on Halloween.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On May 13, 609 A.D., Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Pantheon
in Rome in honor of all Christian martyrs, and the Catholic feast of All
Martyrs Day was established in the Western church. Pope Gregory III (731–741)
later expanded the festival to include all saints as well as all martyrs, and
moved the observance from May 13 to November 1. By the 9th century the influence
of Christianity had spread into Celtic lands, where it gradually blended with
and supplanted the older Celtic rites. In 1000 A.D., the church would make
November 2 All Souls' Day, a day to honor the dead. It is widely believed today
that the church was attempting to replace the Celtic festival of the dead with
a related, but church-sanctioned holiday. All Souls Day was celebrated
similarly to Samhain, with big bonfires, parades, and dressing up in costumes
as saints, angels and devils. The All Saints Day celebration was also called
All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All
Saints' Day) and the night before it, the traditional night of Samhain in the
Celtic religion, began to be called All-hallows Eve and, eventually, Halloween.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Celebration of Halloween was extremely limited in colonial
New England because of the rigid Protestant belief systems there. Halloween was
much more common in <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/maryland"><span style="color: blue;">Maryland</span></a> and the southern colonies. As the
beliefs and customs of different European ethnic groups as well as the American
Indians meshed, a distinctly American version of Halloween began to emerge. The
first celebrations included "play parties," public events held to
celebrate the harvest, where neighbors would share stories of the dead, tell
each other's fortunes, dance and sing. Colonial Halloween festivities also
featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds. By the
middle of the nineteenth century, annual autumn festivities were common, but
Halloween was not yet celebrated everywhere in the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the second half of the nineteenth century, America was
flooded with new immigrants. These new immigrants, especially the millions of
Irish fleeing Ireland's potato famine of 1846, helped to popularize the
celebration of Halloween nationally. Taking from Irish and English traditions,
Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food
or money, a practice that eventually became today's "trick-or-treat"
tradition. Young women believed that on Halloween they could divine the name or
appearance of their future husband by doing tricks with yarn, apple parings or
mirrors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the late 1800s, there was a move in America to mold
Halloween into a holiday more about community and neighborly get-togethers than
about ghosts, pranks and witchcraft. At the turn of the century, Halloween
parties for both children and adults became the most common way to celebrate
the day. Parties focused on games, foods of the season and festive costumes.
Parents were encouraged by newspapers and community leaders to take anything
"frightening" or "grotesque" out of Halloween celebrations.
Because of these efforts, Halloween lost most of its superstitious and
religious overtones by the beginning of the twentieth century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By the <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties"><span style="color: blue;">1920s</span></a>
and <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/1930s"><span style="color: blue;">1930s</span></a>,
Halloween had become a secular, but community-centered holiday, with parades
and town-wide parties as the featured entertainment. Despite the best efforts
of many schools and communities, vandalism began to plague Halloween
celebrations in many communities during this time. By the <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/1950s"><span style="color: blue;">1950s</span></a>,
town leaders had successfully limited vandalism and Halloween had evolved into
a holiday directed mainly at the young. Due to the high numbers of young
children during the fifties baby boom, parties moved from town civic centers
into the classroom or home, where they could be more easily accommodated.
Between 1920 and 1950, the centuries-old practice of trick-or-treating was also
revived. Trick-or-treating was a relatively inexpensive way for an entire
community to share the Halloween celebration. In theory, families could also
prevent tricks being played on them by providing the neighborhood children with
small treats. A new American tradition was born, and it has continued to grow.
Today, Americans spend an estimated $6 billion annually on Halloween, making it
the country's second largest commercial holiday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The American Halloween tradition of
"trick-or-treating" probably dates back to the early All Souls' Day
parades in England. During the festivities, poor citizens would beg for food
and families would give them pastries called "soul cakes" in return
for their promise to pray for the family's dead relatives. The distribution of
soul cakes was encouraged by the church as a way to replace the ancient
practice of leaving food and wine for roaming spirits. The practice, which was
referred to as "going a-souling" was eventually taken up by children
who would visit the houses in their neighborhood and be given ale, food, and
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European and Celtic roots. Hundreds of years ago, winter was an uncertain and
frightening time. Food supplies often ran low and, for the many people afraid
of the dark, the short days of winter were full of constant worry. On
Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the earthly world,
people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To
avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left
their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for fellow
spirits. On Halloween, to keep ghosts away from their houses, people would
place bowls of food outside their homes to appease the ghosts and prevent them
from attempting to enter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Halloween has always been a holiday filled with mystery,
magic and superstition. It began as a Celtic end-of-summer festival during
which people felt especially close to deceased relatives and friends. For these
friendly spirits, they set places at the dinner table, left treats on doorsteps
and along the side of the road and lit candles to help loved ones find their
way back to the spirit world. Today's Halloween ghosts are often depicted as
more fearsome and malevolent, and our customs and superstitions are scarier
too. We avoid crossing paths with black cats, afraid that they might bring us
bad luck. This idea has its roots in the <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages"><span style="color: blue;">Middle
Ages</span></a>, when many people believed that witches avoided detection by
turning themselves into cats. We try not to walk under ladders for the same
reason. This superstition may have come from the ancient Egyptians, who
believed that triangles were sacred; it also may have something to do with the
fact that walking under a leaning ladder tends to be fairly unsafe. And around
Halloween, especially, we try to avoid breaking mirrors, stepping on cracks in
the road or spilling salt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But what about the Halloween traditions and beliefs that
today's trick-or-treaters have forgotten all about? Many of these obsolete
rituals focused on the future instead of the past and the living instead of the
dead. In particular, many had to do with helping young women identify their
future husbands and reassuring them that they would someday—with luck, by next
Halloween—be married. In 18th-century Ireland, a matchmaking cook might bury a
ring in her mashed potatoes on Halloween night, hoping to bring true love to
the diner who found it. In Scotland, fortune-tellers recommended that an
eligible young woman name a hazelnut for each of her suitors and then toss the
nuts into the fireplace. The nut that burned to ashes rather than popping or
exploding, the story went, represented the girl's future husband. (In some versions
of this legend, confusingly, the opposite was true: The nut that burned away
symbolized a love that would not last.) Another tale had it that if a young
woman ate a sugary concoction made out of walnuts, hazelnuts and nutmeg before
bed on Halloween night she would dream about her future husband. Young women
tossed apple-peels over their shoulders, hoping that the peels would fall on
the floor in the shape of their future husbands' initials; tried to learn about
their futures by peering at egg yolks floating in a bowl of water; and stood in
front of mirrors in darkened rooms, holding candles and looking over their
shoulders for their husbands' faces. Other rituals were more competitive. At
some Halloween parties, the first guest to find a burr on a chestnut-hunt would
be the first to marry; at others, the first successful apple-bobber would be
the first down the aisle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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trying to avoid seven years of bad luck, each one of these Halloween
superstitions relies on the good will of the very same "spirits"
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Today
we are going talk about cleaning your bathroom(the most dirtiest room in your home).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">The
bathroom is one of the most important places to keep clean.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think about it, it’s the place where you
expose your most sensitive body parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Weather your using the washroom, bathing or brushing your teeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your bathroom is not clean you have an
increased chance of catching an infection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bleach or toilet bowl cleaner depending on your preference or how bad the ring
in the toilet is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">First
thing we have to do is take anything out of the bathroom that will be in the
way, such as a garbage can, plunger, and anything on the counter or back of
toilet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just place them in the hall
until you’re done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Now
we are going to take the scrubbing bubbles and spray everything but the
mirror.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make sure you get the shower
tiles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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take your first wash cloth and soak it in the water and wash the sink down
including the backsplash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now you want
to have a soaking cloth so that it drips. Don’t worry if it gets on the floor that
will help you later. Now wash out the cloth and do the same to the toilet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take your dry cloth and dry the sink. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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take your other wash cloth and wet it, put a couple of drops of dish soap on
the cloth and scrub it together so it gets a lather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Use it to wash the mirror, the soap will get
rid of any grease or dirt on the mirror.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then rinse the cloth and wipe again, and finally dry with the dry cloth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Now
take the bucket and get into the tub with your first wash cloth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soak the cloth and start washing off the
wall, keep soaking the cloth during this process than wash the tub as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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get out of the tub and turn on the shower using it to rinse the walls and tub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Depending on the type of wall you can dry it
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mop the floor, all the soap and water that spilled on the floor from before has
soaked into corners making it easier for you to just wipe out with the mop or
you can just use one of your cloths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong>To wash nylons or tights, place them in a mesh bag and wash with other delicate items without hooks, eyes, or other metal parts that could snag the stockings.</strong></div>
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<strong>To get baby clothes their cleanest, treat in a pre-soak product, and then launder as usual. Soak items as soon after staining as possible and keep them wet until laundering.</strong></div>
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<strong>To remove rings around shirt collars, rub liquid laundry detergent into the stain or collect soap bits in a mesh bag and rub into the affected area. Wash as usual.</strong></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18261421956813008141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811799800273653547.post-50932409586690732502013-09-01T10:47:00.003-07:002013-09-01T10:47:59.780-07:00Clean your bathroom within a half hour- Cleaning services in Toronto<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Today
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expose your most sensitive body parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Weather your using the washroom, bathing or brushing your teeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If your bathroom is not clean you have an
increased chance of catching an infection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">So
Today we are going to show you how to clean your bathroom quickly but thorough<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bleach or toilet bowl cleaner depending on your preference or how bad the ring
in the toilet is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thing we have to do is take anything out of the bathroom that will be in the
way, such as a garbage can, plunger, and anything on the counter or back of
toilet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just place them in the hall
until you’re done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that everything is out of the way we want
to sweep the floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know people
usually sweep last but there is a reason for this.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;">Now
we are going to take the scrubbing bubbles and spray everything but the
mirror.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make sure you get the shower
tiles. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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take your first wash cloth and soak it in the water and wash the sink down
including the backsplash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now you want
to have a soaking cloth so that it drips. Don’t worry if it gets on the floor that
will help you later. Now wash out the cloth and do the same to the toilet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take your dry cloth and dry the sink. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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take your other wash cloth and wet it, put a couple of drops of dish soap on
the cloth and scrub it together so it gets a lather.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Use it to wash the mirror, the soap will get
rid of any grease or dirt on the mirror.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then rinse the cloth and wipe again, and finally dry with the dry cloth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dry the toilet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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take the bucket and get into the tub with your first wash cloth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Soak the cloth and start washing off the
wall, keep soaking the cloth during this process than wash the tub as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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get out of the tub and turn on the shower using it to rinse the walls and tub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Depending on the type of wall you can dry it
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mop the floor, all the soap and water that spilled on the floor from before has
soaked into corners making it easier for you to just wipe out with the mop or
you can just use one of your cloths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there you have it. You now know how to clean your bathroom within a half hour
and have it shining like new.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18261421956813008141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811799800273653547.post-709474674883648942013-06-27T10:36:00.002-07:002013-06-27T10:36:32.099-07:00All about Canada Day
<b>Canada Day</b> (French: Fête du Canada) is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act, 1867 (today called the Constitution Act, 1867), which united three coloniesinto a single country called Canada within the British Empire.[1][2][3] Originally calledDominion Day (French: Le Jour de la Confédération), the holiday was renamed in 1982, the year the Canada Act was passed. Canada Day observances take place throughout Canada as well as among Canadians internationally.
<b>Commemoration</b>
Frequently referred to as "Canada's birthday", particularly in the popular press,[4][5][6] the occasion marks the joining of the British North American colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada into a federation of four provinces (the Province of Canada being divided, in the process, intoOntario and Quebec) on July 1, 1867. Canada became a kingdom in its own right on that date,[n 1][8][9][10][11] but the British parliamentand Cabinet kept limited rights of political control over the new country that were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were surrendered in 1982, when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution.[n 2]
Under the federal Holidays Act,[12] Canada Day is observed on July 1, unless that date falls on a Sunday, in which case July 2 is the statutory holiday, although celebratory events generally take place on July 1, even though it is not the legal holiday.[13] If it falls on a Saturday, any businesses normally closed that day will generally dedicate the following Monday as a day off.
National Holiday of Canada, an amendment that effectively killed the bill.[34]
Beginning in 1958, the Canadian government began to orchestrate Dominion Day celebrations, usually consisting of Trooping the Colourceremonies on Parliament Hill in the afternoon and evening, followed by a mass band concert and fireworks display. Canada's centennial in 1967 is often seen as an important milestone in the history of Canadian patriotism, and in Canada's maturing as a distinct, independent country, after which Dominion Day became more popular with average Canadians. Into the late 1960s, nationally televised, multi-cultural concerts held in Ottawa were added, and the fête became known as Festival Canada; after 1980 the Canadian government began to promote the celebrating of Dominion Day beyond the national capital, giving grants and aid to cities across the country to help fund local activities.
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Canada Day fireworks in Barrie, Ontario
Some Canadians were, by the early 1980s, informally referring to the holiday as Canada Day.[n 4] However, this practice did cause some controversy:[40] Numerous politicians, journalists, and authors, such as Robertson Davies,[41] decried the change at the time, and some continue to maintain that it was illegitimate and an unnecessary break with tradition.[35] Proponents argued that the name Dominion Day was a holdover from the colonial era, an argument given some impetus by the patriation of the Canadian Constitutionin 1982, and others asserted that an alternative was needed as the term does not translate well into French.[35] Conversely, these arguments were disputed by those who claimedDominion was widely misunderstood, and conservatively inclined commenters saw the change as part of a much larger attempt by Liberals to "re-brand" or re-define Canadian history.[35][41][42] Columnist Andrew Cohen called Canada Day a term of "crushing banality" and criticized it as "a renunciation of the past [and] a misreading of history, laden with political correctness and historical ignorance".[43][44]
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The <b>Duke</b> and <b>Duchess</b> of Cambridge at the official Canada Day celebration in Ottawa, 2011
The holiday was officially renamed as a result of a private member's bill that was introduced in the House of Commons when only twelve Members of Parliament were present. (This was actually eight members less than a quorum, but, according to parliamentary rules, the quorum is enforceable only at the start of a sitting or when a member calls attention to it.[45]) The bill passed the House in five minutes, without debate.[40] It met with stronger resistance in the Senate—some Senators objected to the change of name; Ernest Manning, who argued that the rationale for the change was based on a misperception of the name, andGeorge McIlraith, who did not agree with the manner in which the bill had been passed and urged the government to proceed in a more "dignified way"—but finally passed.[35] With the granting of Royal Assent, the name was officially changed to Canada Day on October 27, 1982.
As the anniversary of Confederation, Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events, such as the first national radio network hookup by the Canadian National Railway (1927), the inauguration of the CBC's cross-country television broadcast (1958), the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway (1958), the first colour television transmission in Canada (1966), the inauguration of the Order of Canada (1967), and the establishment of "O Canada" as the country's national anthem (1980). Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916—shortly after which Newfoundland recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle[46][47]—and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923—leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.[48]
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Summer</b> is the warmest of the four temperate seasons, between spring and autumn. At the summer solstice, the days are longest and the nights are shortest, with day-length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice. The date of the beginning of summer varies according to climate, culture, and tradition, but when it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa.
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<b>Timing</b>
From an astronomical view, the equinoxes and solstices would be the middle of the respective seasons,[1][2] but a variable seasonal lag means that the meteorological start of the season, which is based on average temperature patterns, occurs several weeks later than the start of the astronomical season.[3] According to meteorologists,[4][5] summer extends for the whole months of June, July, and August in the northern hemisphere and the whole months of December, January, and February in the southern hemisphere. Under meteorological definitions, all seasons are arbitrarily set to start at the beginning of a calendar month and end at the end of a month.
This meteorological definition of summer also aligns with the commonly viewed notion of summer as the season with the longest (and warmest) days of the year, in which daylight predominates.
<i>Diferent placees different months</i>
The summer season in the United States is commonly regarded as beginning on Memorial Day weekend (the last weekend in May) and ending on Labor Day weekend (the first weekend in September), more closely in line with the meteorological definition; the similar Canadian tradition starts summer on Victoria Day one week prior (although summer conditions vary widely across Canada's expansive territory) and ends, as in the United States, on Labour Day
The meteorological reckoning of seasons is used in Austria, Denmark and the former Soviet Union; it is also used by many in the United Kingdom, where summer is thought of as extending from mid-May to mid-August. In Ireland, the summer months according to the national meteorological service, Met Éireann, are June, July and August. However, according to the Irish Calendar summer begins 1 May and ends 1 August. School textbooks in Ireland follow the cultural norm of summer commencing on 1 May rather than the meteorological definition of 1 June.
In Chinese astronomy, summer starts on or around 5 May, with the jiéqì (solar term) known as lìxià (立夏), i.e. "establishment of summer", and it ends on or around 6 August.
In southern and southeast Asia, where the monsoon occurs, summer is more generally defined as lasting from March to May/early June, the warmest time of the year, ending with the onset of the monsoon rains.[citation needed]
Because the temperature lag is shorter in the oceanic temperate southern hemisphere[11] most countries in this region, especially Australia and New Zealand, use the meteorological definition with summer starting on December 1 and ending on the last day of February.[12][13]
<b>Weather </b>
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Wet season thunderstorm at night in Darwin, Australia.
See also: Hail, Tropical cyclone, and Wet season
Summer is traditionally associated with hot dry weather, but this does not occur in all regions. In areas of the tropics and subtropics, the wet season occurs during the summer. The wet season is the main period of vegetation growth within the savanna climate regime.[14] Where the wet season is associated with a seasonal shift in the prevailing winds, it is known as a monsoon.[15]
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Image of Hurricane Lester from late August 1992.
In the northern Atlantic Ocean, a distinct tropical cyclone season occurs from 1 June to 30 November.[16] The statistical peak of the Atlantic hurricane season is 10 September. The Northeast Pacific Ocean has a broader period of activity, but in a similar time frame to the Atlantic.[17] The Northwest Pacific sees tropical cyclones year-round, with a minimum in February and March and a peak in early September. In the North Indian basin, storms are most common from April to December, with peaks in May and November.[16] In the Southern Hemisphere, the tropical cyclone season runs from 1 November until the end of April with peaks in mid-February to early March.[16][18]
Thunderstorm season in the USA and Canada runs in the spring through summer. These storms can produce hail, strong winds and tornadoes, usually during the afternoon and evening.
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Father's Day is a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June, but it is also celebrated widely on other days. Father's Day was created to complement Mother's Day, a celebration that honors mothers and motherhood.
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History
Father's Day was inaugurated in the United States in the early 20th century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating fatherhood and male parenting.
After the success obtained by Anna Jarvis with the promotion of Mother's Day in the US, some wanted to create similar holidays for other family members, and Father's Day was the choice most likely to succeed. There were other persons in the US who independently thought of "Father's Day",[1][2] but the credit for the modern holiday is often given to Sonora Dodd,[2] who was the driving force behind its establishment.[3]
Father's Day was founded in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA in 1910 by Sonora Smart Dodd, who was born in Arkansas.[3] Its first celebration was in the Spokane YMCA on June 19, 1910.[3][4] Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there.[3] After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them.[3] Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June.[1][2]
It did not have much success initially. In the 1920s, Dodd stopped promoting the celebration because she was studying in the Art Institute of Chicago, and it faded into relative obscurity, even in Spokane.[5] In the 1930s Dodd returned to Spokane and started promoting the celebration again, raising awareness at a national level.[6] She had the help of those trade groups that would benefit most from the holiday, for example the manufacturers of ties, tobacco pipes, and any traditional present to fathers.[7] Since 1938 she had the help of the Father's Day Council, founded by the New York Associated Men's Wear Retailers to consolidate and systematize the commercial promotion.[8] Americans resisted the holiday during a few decades, perceiving it as just an attempt by merchants to replicate the commercial success of Mother's Day, and newspapers frequently featured cynical and sarcastic attacks and jokes.[9] But the trade groups did not give up: they kept promoting it and even incorporated the jokes into their adverts, and they eventually succeeded.[10] By the mid 1980s the Father's Council wrote that "(...) [Father's Day] has become a 'Second Christmas' for all the men's gift-oriented industries."[11]
A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in 1913.[12] In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father's Day celebration[13] and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that it would become commercialized.[14] US President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924 that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation.[13] Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by Congress.[13][15] In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers, thus "[singling] out just one of our two parents".[15] In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.[14] Six years later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard Nixon signed it into law in 1972.[13][14][15][16]
In addition to Father's Day, International Men's Day is celebrated in many countries on November 19 for men and boys who are not fathers.
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A "Father's Day" service was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church.[1] Grace Golden Clayton was mourning the loss of her father when, on December 1907, the Monongah Mining Disaster in nearby Monongah killed 361 men, 250 of them fathers, leaving around a thousand fatherless children. Clayton suggested her pastor Robert Thomas Webb to honor all those fathers.[17][18][19] Clayton chose the Sunday nearest to the birthday of her father, Methodist minister Fletcher Golden.
Clayton's event did not have repercussions outside of Fairmont for several reasons, among them: the city was overwhelmed by other events, the celebration was never promoted outside of the town itself and no proclamation was made in the City Council. Also two events overshadowed this event: the celebration of Independence Day July 4, 1908, with 12,000 attendants and several shows including a hot air balloon event, which took over the headlines in the following days, and the death of a 16-year-old girl on July 4. The local church and Council were overwhelmed and they did not even think of promoting the event, and it was not celebrated again for many years. The original sermon was not reproduced in press and it was lost. Finally, Clayton was a quiet person, who never promoted the event or even talked to other persons about it.[17][18][19]
Clayton also may have been inspired by Anna Jarvis' crusade to establish Mother's Day; two months prior, Jarvis had held a celebration for her dead mother in Grafton, West Virginia, a town about 15 miles (24 km) away from Fairmont.[citation needed]
In 1911, Jane Addams proposed a city-wide Father's Day in Chicago, but she was turned down.[2]
In 1912, there was a Father's Day celebration in Vancouver, Washington, suggested by Methodist pastor J. J. Berringer of the Irvingtom Methodist Church. They believed mistakenly that they had been the first to celebrate such a day.[1] They followed a 1911 suggestion by the Portland Oregonian.[2]
Harry C. Meek, member of Lions Clubs International, claimed that he had first the idea for Father's Day in 1915.[1][2] Meek claimed that the third Sunday of June was chosen because it was his birthday (it would have been more natural to choose his father's birthday).[2]The Lions Club has named him "Originator of Father's Day".[1] Meek made many efforts to promote Father's Day and make it an official holiday.[1][2]
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The meaning of the spring season
Looking at the transformations in nature and ourselves during spring.
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NEW BEGINNINGS: With the changes the spring season brings, we learn to adapt positively to the changes in our environment and our health. (Photo: Leans/Flickr)
The spring season is full of transformations. The temperature rises to a more bearable degree, opposing Mother Nature's last few months of freezing surroundings. The leaves we saw fall and flowers we saw wilt are now budding into lush, green, picture-perfect plants. Aside from the weather's transformations that occur in the spring season, we are transforming our lives, too.
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The holidays are over now ... no more high-calorie foods loaded with carbohydrates and saturated fats that Grandma made for Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner. No more putting off that morning jog because the roads are covered in ice or snow.
When spring rolls into our lives, we start to pick up the slack that winter instilled inside us of becoming sloths. That new year's resolution to join the gym starts being enforced, so you're sure to have your bikini bod back in time for your beach vacation. No more lounging on the couch all day watching football — in the spring you can gather friends together at the park for your own game.
For those of us with allergies, spring is also a wake up call for our immune systems. The ever-changing weather and excess pollen leaves the allergy-ridden population with running noses and sore throats when not prepared. To fight these transformations affecting our bodies negatively, loading up on vitamins like Vitamin C or bee pollen, and allergy medicines like Sudafed or Tylenol Cold is essential.
Those who know their immune systems to be out of whack during the spring season are more inclined to protect themselves from all threatening situations. Spring is a season in limbo between the winter and summer months, so nothing is absolute about the weather. You should keep an umbrella, rain jacket and coat with you in your car at all times, ready for whatever weather situations spring may throw your way.
While these changes can be frustrating and tiring for your health and yourself, they are good for the economy. In order to have all your allergy remedies ready for spring, you have to purchase them. I find myself going to the local CVS pharmacy at least once a week in the spring for some more cough medicine or decongestant when feeling under the weather. I'm also inclined to take a lot more trips to the car wash to get all the pollen off my windshield or to polish off the rain spots from my windows.
Spring may have its drawbacks to our health with fluctuating allergies in the changing of seasons, but overall it is a positive season of new beginnings in weather, agriculture and self-awareness to take care of ourselves, and our surroundings. For the same reason that our bodies are temples we must preserve, our earth and environment need constant surveillance and the utmost care, too. Spring helps us to realize lessons as precious as this, where we learn the importance of embracing and adapting to change over time.
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Take this spring season as a chance to participate in some community service, tending simultaneously to your environment as well as yourself. Help write the chapter of new beginnings this spring in creating positive outcomes for all areas of nature, and our health.
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Saint Patrick's Day
Saint Patrick's Day or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, "the Day of the Festival of Patrick") is a cultural and religious holiday celebrated on 17 March. It is named after Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461), the most commonly recognised of the patron saints of Ireland.
Saint Patrick's Day was made an official feast day in the early seventeenth century and is observed by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion (especially the Church of Ireland),[3] the Eastern Orthodox Church and Lutheran Church. For Christians, the day commemorates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland.[2] However, it has gradually become more of a secular celebration of Irishness and Irish culture.[4]
The day generally involves public parades and festivals, céilithe, and wearing of green attire or shamrocks.[5] Christians also attend church services[4][6] and the Lenten restrictions on eating and drinking alcohol are lifted for the day.[4][5][7][8]
Saint Patrick's Day is a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland,[9] Northern Ireland,[10] Newfoundland and Labrador and Montserrat. It is also widely celebrated by the Irish diaspora around the world; especially in Britain, Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand.
<b>Saint Patrick</b>
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According to legend, St. Patrick used the 3-leaved shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity to the Irish people.
Main article: Saint Patrick
Little is known of Patrick's early life, though it is known that he was born in Roman Britain in the fourth century, into a wealthy Romano-British family. His father was a deacon and his grandfather was a priest in the Christian church. At the age of sixteen, he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and taken captive to Ireland as a slave.[11] It is believed he was held somewhere on the west coast of Ireland, possibly Mayo, but the exact location is unknown. According to his Confession, he was told by God in a dream to flee from captivity to the coast, where he would board a ship and return to Britain. Upon returning, he quickly joined the Church in Auxerre in Gaul and studied to be a priest.[citation needed]
In 432, he again said that he was called back to Ireland, though as a bishop, to Christianise the Irish from their native polytheism. Irish folklore tells that one of his teaching methods included using the shamrock to explain the Christian doctrine of the Trinity to the Irish people. After nearly thirty years of evangelism, he died on 17 March 461, and according to tradition, was buried at Downpatrick. Although there were other more successful missions to Ireland from Rome, Patrick endured as the principal champion of Irish Christianity and is held in esteem in the Irish church.
<b>Wearing of the green</b>
Originally, the colour associated with Saint Patrick was blue. Over the years the colour green and its association with Saint Patrick's day grew.[12] Green ribbons and shamrocks were worn in celebration of St Patrick's Day as early as the 17th century.[13] Saint Patrick is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pagan Irish, and the wearing and display of shamrocks and shamrock-inspired designs have become a ubiquitous feature of the day.[14][15] In the 1798 rebellion, to make a political statement, Irish soldiers wore full green uniforms on 17 March in hopes of catching public attention.[12] The phrase "the wearing of the green", meaning to wear a shamrock on one's clothing, derives from a song of the same name.
<b>Ireland</b>
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A St Patrick's Day religious procession in Downpatrick, 2010
Saint Patrick's feast day, as a kind of national day, was already being celebrated by the Irish in Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries. In later times he became more and more widely known as the patron of Ireland.[16] Saint Patrick's feast day was finally placed on the universal liturgical calendar in the Catholic Church due to the influence of Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding[17] in the early 1600s. Saint Patrick's Day thus became a holy day of obligation for Roman Catholics in Ireland. It is also a feast day in the Church of Ireland. The church calendar avoids the observance of saints' feasts during certain solemnities, moving the saint's day to a time outside those periods. Saint Patrick's Day is occasionally affected by this requirement, when 17 March falls during Holy Week. This happened in 1940, when Saint Patrick's Day was observed on 3 April in order to avoid it coinciding with Palm Sunday, and again in 2008, where it was officially observed on 14 March. Saint Patrick's Day will not fall within Holy Week again until 2160.[18][19] However, the secular celebration is always held on 17 March.
In 1903, Saint Patrick's Day became an official public holiday in Ireland. This was thanks to the Bank Holiday (Ireland) Act 1903, an act of the United Kingdom Parliament introduced by Irish Member of Parliament James O'Mara.[20] O'Mara later introduced the law that required that pubs and bars be closed on 17 March after drinking got out of hand, a provision that was repealed in the 1970s. The first Saint Patrick's Day parade held in the Irish Free State was held in Dublin in 1931 and was reviewed by the then Minister of Defence Desmond Fitzgerald.
In the mid-1990s the government of the Republic of Ireland began a campaign to use Saint Patrick's Day to showcase Ireland and its culture.[21] The government set up a group called St Patrick's Festival, with the aims:
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Traditional St Patrick's Day badges from the early 20th century, photographed at the Museum of Country Life in County Mayo
• To offer a national festival that ranks amongst all of the greatest celebration in the world
• To create energy and excitement throughout Ireland via innovation, creativity, grassroots involvement, and marketing activity
• To provide the opportunity and motivation for people of Irish descent (and those who sometimes wish they were Irish) to attend and join in the imaginative and expressive celebrations
• To project, internationally, an accurate image of Ireland as a creative, professional and sophisticated country with wide appeal.[22]
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Girls playing Irish folk music during a St Patrick's Day parade in Dublin, 2010
The first Saint Patrick's Festival was held on 17 March 1996. In 1997, it became a three-day event, and by 2000 it was a four-day event. By 2006, the festival was five days long; more than 675,000 people attended the 2009 parade. Overall 2009's five-day festival saw close to 1 million visitors, who took part in festivities that included concerts, outdoor theatre performances, and fireworks.[23] Skyfest forms the centrepiece of the festival.
The topic of the 2004 St. Patrick's Symposium was "Talking Irish", during which the nature of Irish identity, economic success, and the future were discussed. Since 1996, there has been a greater emphasis on celebrating and projecting a fluid and inclusive notion of "Irishness" rather than an identity based around traditional religious or ethnic allegiance. The week around Saint Patrick's Day usually involves Irish language speakers using more Irish during Seachtain na Gaeilge ("Irish Language Week").[citation needed]
As well as Dublin, many other cities, towns, and villages in Ireland hold their own parades and festivals, including Cork, Belfast, Derry, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick, and Waterford.
The biggest celebrations outside Dublin are in Downpatrick, County Down, where Saint Patrick is rumoured to be buried. In 2004, according to Down District Council, the week-long St. Patrick's Festival had more than 2,000 participants and 82 floats, bands, and performers and was watched by more than 30,000 people.[citation needed]
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Sign on a beam in Dublin's Guinness Storehouse, a commercial museum promoting the drinking of Guinness stout on St Patrick's Day
The shortest St Patrick's Day parade in the world takes place in Dripsey, Cork. The parade lasts just 100 yards and travels between the village's two pubs.[24]
Christian leaders in Ireland have expressed concern about the secularisation of St Patrick's Day. In The Word magazine's March 2007 issue, Fr. Vincent Twomey wrote, "It is time to reclaim St Patrick's Day as a church festival." He questioned the need for "mindless alcohol-fuelled revelry" and concluded that "it is time to bring the piety and the fun together."[25]
<b>Canada</b>
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Children watch the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Montreal.
One of the longest-running Saint Patrick's Day parades in North America occurs each year in Montreal, whose city flag includes a shamrock in its lower-right quadrant. The parades have been held continually since 1824.[30]
In Manitoba, the Irish Association of Manitoba runs an annual three-day festival of music and culture based around St. Patrick's Day.[citation needed]
In 2004, the CelticFest Vancouver Society organised an annual festival in downtown Vancouver to celebrate the Celtic Nations and their culture. This event, which includes a parade, occurs the weekend closest to Saint Patrick's Day.[31]
In Quebec City, there was a parade from 1837 to 1926. The Quebec City St-Patrick Parade returned in 2010 after an absence of more than 84 years. For the occasion, a portion of the New York Police Department Pipes and Drums were present as special guests.
The Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team was known as the Toronto St. Patricks from 1919 to 1927, and wore green jerseys. In 1999, when the Maple Leafs played on Saint Patrick's Day, they wore green St. Pat's retro uniforms. There is a large parade in the city's downtown core on the Sunday prior to 17 March which attracts over 100,000 spectators.[citation needed]
Some groups, notably Guinness, have lobbied to make Saint Patrick's Day a national holiday.[32] Currently, Newfoundland and Labrador is the only jurisdiction where Saint Patrick's Day is a provincial holiday.
In March 2009, the Calgary Tower changed its top exterior lights to new green CFL bulbs just in time for Saint Patrick's Day. Part of an environmental non-profit organisation's campaign (Project Porchlight), the green represented environmental concerns.
Approximately 210 lights were changed in time for Saint Patrick's Day, and resembled a Leprechaun's hat. After a week, white CFLs took their place. The change was estimated to save the Calgary Tower some $12,000 and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 104 tonnes.[33]
St. Patricks day occasionally turns violent due to the large number of intoxicated individuals celebrating in Canada. This was seen, for example, in the 2012 in London, Ontario area, where college students lit a TV van on fire then threw bottles at firefighters (attempting to put out the fire) and police officers in the area.[34]
<b>United States</b>
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The Chicago River is annually dyed green on St. Patricks Day
St. Patrick's Day, although not a legal holiday anywhere in the United States, is nonetheless widely recognised and celebrated throughout the country. It is primarily observed as a celebration of Irish and Irish American culture; celebrations include prominent displays of the colour green, feasting, copious consumption of alcohol, religious observances, and numerous parades. The holiday has been celebrated on the North American continent since the late eighteenth century.
<b>Shamrock</b>
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This article is about the plant that is a symbol of Ireland. Many places, organisations, businesses, products, creative works etc. use the shamrock in their names. For other uses, see Shamrock (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with four-leaf clover.
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Image: Mathieu Da Costa (courtesy Dr. Henry Bishop/Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia)
Mathieu Da Costa is one of the most fascinating (and elusive) figures in early Canadian history. We don't know a lot about him. But we do know enough to know that he qualifies as the first Black known to have visited Canada. Da Costa was a free Black African who in the early 1600s was employed as a translator by French and Dutch traders and explorers.
It was not unusual for Africans to act as translators for Europeans as it had been going on for 100 years before Champlain's time as Europeans explored their way down the African coast. This explains why Da Costa spoke French, Dutch, and Portuguese. But it is a mystery how Da Costa knew how to be an interpreter with the First Nations of America. He might have used "pidgin" Basque (a mixture of Basque and local), commonly used for trade in the Americas. (The Basques of northern Spain were frequent visitors to the fishery along the Atlantic coast.) This dialect was understood by the Mi'kmaq and Montagnais (who lived along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River). But it is also possible that Da Costa had previously spent time in the Americas and had learned the languages of one or more of the Aboriginal peoples.
The only real historical "fact" that we have about Mathieu Da Costa is a document showing that he was in Holland in February 1607. Apparently the Dutch had kidnapped him from the French. The following year, 1608, Da Costa signed a contract in Amsterdam that committed him to sail with or on behalf of Pierre Du Gua de Monts as an interpreter on voyages to Canada and Acadia.
Da Costa's contract with Du Gua de Monts was to last for three years and it paid a considerable salary. We can thus assume that Da Costa accompanied Du Gua de Monts and Samuel de Champlain on one or more of their voyages to Acadia and the St Lawrence area.
The next bit of information that we have is evidence that Da Costa was put in prison in Le Havre, France, in December 1609. We don't know why but there were references to "insolences" suggesting that Da Costa had an independent spirit and spoke his mind.
Da Costa's appearance in Canada is commemorated at the Port-Royal National Historic Site, in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. The Mathieu Da Costa Challenge is an annual creative writing and artwork contest launched in 1996. The Challenge "encourages youth to discover how diversity has shaped Canada's history and the important role that pluralism plays in Canadian society."
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The History of remembrance Day
In Canada, Remembrance Day is a public holiday and federal statutory holiday, as well as a statutory holiday in all three territories and in eight of the ten provinces (Ontario and Quebec being the exceptions).[8][9][10][11] From 1921 to 1930, the Armistice Day Act provided that Thanksgiving would be observed on Armistice Day, which was fixed by statute on the Monday of the week in which November 11 fell. In 1931, the federal parliament adopted an act to amend the Armistice Day Act, providing that the day should be observed on November 11 and that the day should be known as "Remembrance Day".[12]
The federal department of Veterans Affairs Canada states that the date is of "remembrance for the men and women who have served, and continue to serve our country during times of war, conflict and peace"; specifically, the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and all conflicts since then in which members of the Canadian Forces have participated.[13] The department runs a program called Canada Remembers with the mission of helping young and new Canadians, most of whom have never known war, "come to understand and appreciate what those who have served Canada in times of war, armed conflict and peace stand for and what they have sacrificed for their country."[14]
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Poppies are laid on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Remembrance Day in Ottawa
The official national ceremonies are held at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, presided over by the Governor General of Canada, any members of the Royal Family (such as Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, in 2009),[15] the Prime Minister, and other dignitaries, observed by the public. Typically, these events begin with the tolling of the Carillon in the Peace Tower, during which current members of the Canadian Forces (CF) arrive at Confederation Square, followed by the Ottawa diplomatic corps, ministers of the Crown, special guests, the Royal Canadian Legion (RCL), the royal party (if present), and the viceregal party. Before the start of the ceremony, four armed sentries and three sentinels (two flag sentinels and one nursing sister) are posted at the foot of the cenotaph.
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The Guard of Honour (a member from the Royal Canadian Navy at left and from the Royal Canadian Air Force at right) at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Remembrance Day, 2010
The arrival of the governor general is announced by a trumpeter sounding the "Alert", whereupon the viceroy is met by the Dominion President of the RCL and escorted to a dais to receive the Viceregal Salute, after which the national anthem, "O Canada", is played. The moment of remembrance begins with the bugling of "Last Post" immediately before 11:00 a.m., at which time the gun salute fires and the bells of the Peace Tower toll the hour. Another gun salute signals the end of the two minutes of silence, and cues the playing of a lament, the bugling of "The Rouse," and the reading of the Act of Remembrance. A flypast of Royal Canadian Air Force craft then occurs at the start of a 21-gun salute, upon the completion of which a choir sings "In Flanders Fields". The various parties then lay their wreaths at the base of the memorial; one wreath is set by the Silver Cross Mother, a recent recipient of the Memorial Cross, on behalf of all mothers whose children died in conflicts in which Canada participated. The viceregal and/or royal group return to the dais to receive the playing of the Royal Anthem of Canada, "God Save the Queen", prior to the assembled Armed Forces personnel and veterans performing a march past in front of the viceroy, bringing about the end of the official ceremonies.[16] A tradition of paying more personal tribute has emerged since erection of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the War Memorial in 2000: after the official ceremony the general public place their poppies atop the tomb.
Similar ceremonies take place in provincial capitals across the country, officiated by the relevant lieutenant governor, as well as in other cities, towns, and even hotels or corporate headquarters. Schools will usually hold special assemblies for the first half of the day, or on the school day prior, with various presentations concerning the remembrance of the war dead. The largest indoor ceremony in Canada is usually held in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with over 9,000 gathering in Credit Union Centre in 2010;[17] the ceremony participants include old guard (veterans), new guard (current members of the CF), and sea, army, and air cadet units.
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15 Ingenious Uses for Baking Soda, Beyond the Kitchen!
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Baking soda is great for cleaning
Ever find yourself searching for secret tricks to get something clean? Well, I do. I found myself wondering a few weeks ago how to get the metal smell off of costume jewelry and how to get the stains off memory foam mattresses. In my searching I ran across secret formulas using baking soda as the cure-all. I gave both recipes a shot and to my surprise my problems were solved. So I hit the world wide web to find out what other uses good ol’ baking soda had. Here are some ingenious uses that have me wanting to load up on baking soda. Here’s the kicker … it’s green!
1. Removing the Metal Smell From Jewelry
Add ¼ cup baking soda and hot water to a medium-sized mixing bowl and soak jewelry for 24 hours. Smell is gone and jewelry has a new shine!
2. Removing Urine Stains From Mattresses
Add ¼ cup baking soda to 1 quart hydrogen peroxide. Add one squirt of dish soap to a bowl. Mix gently to avoid creating bubbles. Pour mixture into a squirt bottle and spray mattress stains. You don’t need to scrub: as the solution dries, your stains disappear! We tried this trick on our memory foam mattress after failed attempts to scrub with various cleaners.
3. Polish Silver
Using three parts baking soda, one part water, and a clean sponge, rub mixture onto your silver and flatware. Rinse and dry thoroughly.
4. Coffee Pots and Tea Pots
Use ¼ cup of baking soda in 1 quart warm water. Soak or scrub coffee/tea pots, cups, and machines to remove build up and stains. Nothing like a fresh (and clean) cup of coffee!
5. Remove Crayon From Walls
Sprinkle some baking soda on a damp sponge and gently rub on walls. Can also be used on furniture to polish and remove grime … and it’s nonabrasive.
6. Enhance Laundry Detergent
Add ½ cup of baking soda to your washing machine along with your normal detergent for an extra boost in cleaning, freshening, and brightening your clothes.
7. Oil Stains on Concrete
Remove light oil spots in the garage or driveway by sprinkling baking soda and scrubbing with a wet brush.
8. De-stink the Sports Gear
Using ¼ cup baking soda and 1 quart warm water, you can deodorize sports equipment. Rub or squirt mixture on and rinse thoroughly.
9. Deodorize Almost Anything
Sprinkle or place open box of baking soda in refrigerator, freezers, lunch boxes, shoes, closets, drains — you name it — to help remove unwanted odors.
10. Carpets
Help eliminate the odors and freshen the carpet. Sprinkle liberally and let sit for as long as possible — hours or overnight — then vacuum. Try this on your kids’ mattresses, too. Just sprinkle and vacuum!
11. Toothpaste Boost
Sprinkle baking soda on your toothpaste before brushing for an extra boost, or just brush with pure baking soda to help whiten.
12. Body Scrub
Use three parts baking soda and one part water for a gentle exfoliator on your face and body in the shower.
13. Hair Cleanser
Add a pinch to your shampoo once or twice a week to remove product buildup.
14. Drain Unclogger
Pour ½ cup baking soda and ½ cup vinegar down a clogged drain, cover with a wet cloth, and wait five minutes. Then flush with steaming hot water.
15. Linen Closet Freshener
Store a box or two of opened baking soda in your linen closet to ward off the mustiness caused by time.
These are just a few of the many uses for baking soda beyond the kitchen. I’m always curious to hear about more. What cleaning secrets do you have?
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7 Things Parents Say (You’ll Say Them, Too!)
You will be surprised at what comes out of your mouth sometimes
Before I became a parent, there were so many things I swore I’d never say to my child — many of which I’ve already uttered, even though my child just barely turned two. Below is my list of clichéd things parents say, coming soon to a home near you
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1. “Mommy loves/wants/would like you to” etc. Ah, yes — speaking in the third person. It’s not just for Bob Dole anymore.
2. “See, that’s why I told you not to…” Because after-the-fact rationalizations are so effective with a toddler.
3. “Do you want apple juice, orange juice, or grape juice?” This one is a two-fer in that I always swore that a) I wouldn’t give my children oodles of choices about what to eat and drink, and b) I would largely keep them away from the intensive sugar delivery system that is a sippy cup full of juice.
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4. “Do you want to pick up your toys now?” Shockingly, the only answer I ever get to this one is “no.”
5. “We don’t hit.” I guess I thought I’d get a perfectly behaved child for whom this admonition wouldn’t be necessary — or maybe that I’d just hypocritically smack her across the bottom if she smacked someone else. Not sure, really, but this statement is part of my repertoire now.
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7 Reasons a 1950s Housewife Had it Made
Petticoats aside, it was definitely a simpler motherhood
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Recently on this very site, a blogger buddy of mine waxed philosophic about how she would have stunk as a 1950s housewife. I totally agree. I definitely am happy to see my husband when he gets home. But as a steeped-in-feminism Gen Xer, the daily lead-up to his arrival, as if he were some combination of George Clooney and the Pope, makes me want to throw up a little.
Still, lipstick and petticoats aside, being a housewife back then seems like a far simpler life than now. There are some definite pluses to the 1950s housewife thing.
Big ones like these:
1. Letting Yourself Go
While I’m sure there was a 1950s-housewife version of letting yourself go, it was nothing like today’s model. If you walked around in a tracksuit the sausage casing industry would envy for its hold and stretch properties, you’d be brought up on indecency charges.
2. Discipline and Spanking
Mrs. Fifties Housewife did not agonize over discipline. No poring over the child-rearing literature of the day. No wishing she had a Ph. D. in child psychology. Johnny did something bad. Mommy got pissed off. Johnny got a spanking, either from Mommy, or it was a “wait until your father gets home” kind of deal. All Johnny’s friends got spankings and grew up to be normal men with normal issues. Period, end of report.
3. Simple Food
Food was way simpler for our ’50s counterparts. They went to the grocery store and bought food. No worrying about killing the fam with processed food. No need to take out bank loans to eat organic. If they lived a farm-to-table lifestyle, it was because they lived on a FARM, went out back and picked or killed something, and put it on their TABLE.
Even the Martha Stewarts of the time didn’t make a home-cooked meal look like something from a Civil War prison camp.
4. Going to Bed Hungry
Mrs. Fifties Housewife served her family their simple food. Everyone was expected to eat it (except, presumably, the King of the Castle.) If a child was sent away from the table, he went to bed hungry. If a child refused to eat, she went to bed hungry. No confusion and delay for a 9 p.m. snack. If a kid made his hungry bed, he lay in it. All night long. Because it was that or else he got one of those definitely-not-a-catalyst-for-therapy-in-20-years spankings.
5. Being Honest With Your Child
If your kid did something bad, wrong, or stupid, you said it was bad, wrong, or stupid. And while this might have been bad, wrong, and stupid parenting, no one did any differently. You just told your kids the God’s honest and went off to play canasta with your buddies Joyce, Myrtle, and Phyllis. There were things to stress over, but this wasn’t one of them.
6. Men and Housework
Back then men and housework were like oil and water — they simply didn’t mix. Men weren’t expected to do much in the way of housework, so most didn’t. No cooking, no cleaning, and very little childcare. Many contemporary women are seething because they expect so much from their husbands.
The 1950s housewife knew it was all her show — she wasn’t expecting a co-star. Way easier on the emotions. You can’t be disappointed when you don’t expect anything, right?
7. Supermom Had it Easy
To the 1950s housewife, being Supermom would have meant keeping her house clean, and keeping herself, her children, and her husband well-dressed, well-fed, and well-groomed. Supermom led a simpler life.
It did not mean keeping a home worthy of HGTV, while rocking the body of a 19-year-old. Nor did it mean having having an income generating “hobby,” and gorgeous, designer-clad, organically-fed, involved-in-a-minimum-of-five-activities kids. That was science fiction.
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The History of Father’s Day
It would be interesting to know how Father's Day came into practice and celebrated worldwide with an equal sincerity and respect as any other significant holidays. Here's a short history on the holiday, and meaning of the different colors of roses to be worn that Day. You may even refer the page to others to share the information by clicking on the link given below.
About 4,000 years ago a young boy named Elmusu wished his Babylonian father good health and a long life by carving a Father's Day message on a card made out of clay. No one knows what happened to Elmesu or his father, but the tradition of having a special day honoring fathers has continued through the years in countries across the world.
The Countries, where the Catholic Church were of significant influence on the culture of the society, Father's Day is celebrated on St. Joseph's Day (March 19). However, a more secular celebration which is not associated with any religion is followed in recent times to highlight the increased diversity among people from all over the globe coexisting together in one place.
Father's Day is celebrated popularly on 3rd Sunday in June in many parts of the world. The idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Having been raised by her father, Henry Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Sonora's father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.
In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. President Nixon, in 1972, established a permanent national observance of Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday of June. So Father's Day was born as a token of love and gratitude that a daughter cherishes for her beloved father. Roses are the Father's Day flowers: red to be worn for a living father and white if the father has died.
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The birth of Mother’s Day in our country came about following the culmination of the Civil War. Mothers at that time were distressed having witnessed the brutal wartime slayings of men and boys on both sides of the battle. One woman, Julia Ward Howe, was incensed by the countless deaths of sons of all mothers, Confederate and Union alike, and she was outraged at the futility of it all.
In 1870, she called for a Mother’s Day Proclamation in the United States for the purpose of celebrating peace and motherhood. June 2 was designated as the day and for the following 10 years she funded and celebrated this day in several east coast U.S. cities.
Ultimately, the holiday died out, but another woman, Anna Reeves Jarvis, began to celebrated an adaptation of Julia Ward Howe’s day, calling it Mother’s Friendship Day. Her purpose was to create peace and help unite families and neighbors in West Virginia who lived in the same communities but had been on divided sides during the Civil War.
She was successful in her own small town bringing together people who had once been firmly divided in their political views and social opinions. Following Anna’s death, her daughter Anna M. Jarvis began a long campaign petitioning government, civic and business leaders in an effort to secure an official Mother’s Day as an honor to her mother and in honor of peace. In 1912, West Virginia became the first state to recognize Mother’s Day and in 1914 then President Woodrow Wilson signed it into National Observance.
Since then, Mother’s Day has lost much of its original meaning and purpose. Consumerism has taken over the holiday and much of it has to do with buying gifts, flowers and dinners for our mothers and grandmothers. As a mother, it is wonderful to be honored in this way. Nonetheless, I think I can say for most of us mothers, what we desire more than anything else is the implementation of the principle these women from our past so strongly desired and fought for -- peace in this world for our children and grandchildren.
So maybe for the mothers of America, this year on May 8, all of us can take a moment to envision how our own God given talents can be used to accomplish a more peaceful existence for the children of every mother on earth. And perhaps, we can take a moment to say a prayer for peace in our neighborhoods, towns and schools. I know myself and the mothers of America would be truly grateful.
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FREDERICTON -- In just a few weeks, Erica Richards has been transformed from a vibrant 23-year-old who loved nature into a woman who's battling for her life.
In early January, Richards contracted a potentially fatal condition called cryptococcal meningitis, a fungal disease carried in the feces of pigeons.
The debilitating illness attacks the spine and the brain, causing severe swelling. It left her confined to a hospital bed in a state of delirium for weeks.
But the most devastating consequence of the sickness is that Richards is now blind.
"Be aware of this disease. It could kill a child in a heartbeat," Richards said from her hospital bed.
"It could kill a senior in a heartbeat without you even having to worry about the symptoms. It comes on that fast. If you don't realize the symptoms, it could kill you, too."
Richards' warning comes on the heels of Fredericton city council's approval earlier this month of a recommendation it toughen its animal-control bylaw to make it illegal to feed pigeons.
The new law will give the city's bylaw enforcement officers the power to ticket and fine offenders.
"Please don't feed the pigeons," Richards said. "Try to shoo them away, if you see them... It (the disease) is horrible. The pain that you get from this disease is crippling.
"The after-effects are with you for life and you just can't stop thinking about it. I just want other people to know and try to stay away from pigeons."
Oddly enough, Richards said she has no recollection of ever being anywhere near pigeons.
"I am still wondering to this day where I got it. I could have stepped in it and brought it into the home. I just don't know."
Richards said the symptoms started with a migraine headache -- one that wouldn't go away.
Richards was admitted to hospital Feb. 10 after many days of intense head pain. Shortly after, she went into a coma-like state.
"When I woke up, I thought I had a mask over my eyes, but I was wrong. I was blind. I was recently told that I will be blind for the rest of my life. This is a tough thing for a 23-year-old to go through... My world crumbled around me."
Richards said the odds of surviving the disease are 50-50.
Dr. Cristin Muecke, a New Brunswick Health Department's regional medical officer, said the disease is often associated with pigeon droppings.
While not being able to speak about a specific case, she said the illness can't be spread from person to person and is more common with someone who has immune problems.
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Part 1.
Facts and Opinions:
One of the most powerful questions you can ask an “opinionated” person that is driving you crazy is:
Is that a fact or an opinion?
I love this question. It is the clear way for you to tell the person you are talking to that what they are saying is just their opinion. People seem to throw opinions around more and more these days. And often, they are speaking as if what they are saying is a fact, when in FACT it is just their opinion.
Another statement that you can say that is not so polite and a little more blunt is:
Opinions are like A/.>,<holes. Everyone’s got one, and some are bigger than others.
This statement you may find useful in a more personal environment. But it definitely does a good job at getting your point across.
Beliefs
The dictionary defines Beliefs as:
beliefsplural of be•lief (Noun)
Noun:
1. An acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.
2. Something one accepts as true or real; a firmly held opinion or conviction.
Your belief system is a powerful tool that affects business owners from achieving their goals. What I am referring to is not a religious, spiritual, or political belief. It is an internal beliefs that we have developed over the years, that affects the way we lead our Service businesses. The reason that many of us are stuck in a rut or unable to achieve our business goals is because of our belief system.
The number one reason that many business owners are not able to achieve their goals is because their beliefs are getting in the way. Their beliefs are in fact the opposite of their goals.
An example of this would be the business owner whose primary goal is to create passive income from his/her business. Are you burned out with nowhere to go? Does this sound familiar? Some of the beliefs that might be getting in your way are:
• the belief that they have to work in the business because they are the owner.
• the belief that they are the only one that can do the technical part of the job properly.
• their personal identity is strongly tied to their day-to-day activities within the business.
• some owners may even feel that they don’t deserve to have a passive income stream(this belief goes deep into their limiting beliefs around money).
If you believe something to be true. then how can it be any different? In the picture above you see a great example of a belief. The baby turtle truly believes that it can eat that strawberry in one bite. For the turtle, this is definitely an unrealistic goal. However, there is no doubt in my mind that the turtle will eventually finish eating the strawberry. Don’t let your beliefs get in the way of you achieving your goals. Just go for it and eat the strawberry.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18261421956813008141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811799800273653547.post-86667322761085226232012-02-07T19:03:00.001-08:002012-02-07T19:03:14.962-08:00Improving your Memory
Tips and techniques to help you remember...
...you know, that thing... I forgot.
Having problems forgetting appointments, to-dos, errands, feeding your children and pets, picking up after yourself, getting out of
bed... not to mention forgetting birthdays, and even anniversaries?
If you are like many people, you will often find yourself forgetting something. In an age of computers, PDA’s, and many other devices
- this my be ok for some folks, unless you forget where you put those devices. Others may want to increase their ability to memorize
things - luckily there are a few creative ways you can improve your long and short term memory.
Use your Senses & Be Aware
Practice creating vivid images/concepts in your head - using all of your senses. Analyze your surroundings by sound, sight, smell, taste,
and touch. Being aware all of your senses will give your mind more ways to associate (and thus remember) when it is time to recall something.
This is like form of meditation -- which is good for your brain in a variety of ways. (see our article: Interesting Ways to Improve Your Brain
for more info).
Practice this tip of simply being more aware of your surroundings everyday and you will find your general memory greatly improved.
Humor & Vulgarity
If you need to memorize something specific try using humor or vulgarity as a memory aid. Make a nasty or funny limerick about something
that needs to be remembered and you'll have a hard time forgetting. (Great tip for students).
Don't worry, be Mindful
There has been a lot said about the power of positive thinking. Recently, a huge bandwagon of new-age positive thought = positive
outcome theories have been on tips of everyone's tongue from Oprah to your local convenience store clerk. Just do a google search
for "Law of Attraction" or "The Secret" if you aren't in the cult loop.
Negative thoughts fog our minds, but clearing out the negative and focusing on the positive also improves memory & concentration.
Stress is a big brain buster, so minimize stress and negative thoughts to keep your wits.
Apt Quote: “What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of
rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given
your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.”
See the Future
Have trouble remembering to-dos, appointments, meetings, deadlines, birthdays and other future events?
Here is the secret: When you know you have an upcoming event you don't want to forget, picture yourself at the event. What are you doing,
who is there, what does it smell like? Imagine the event...even better: imagine yourself taking the steps that lead to the event.
For example... let's say tommorrow you have to call the someone. Picture yourself in your home/office, picture yourself picking up the
phone, imagine dialing the number and talking to the person of the other end.
Associate
Association is among one of the easiest and most used tools in learning. This is the process of taking the information you wish to memorize,
and linking it mentally to something else that is natural to you. When learning something new, try to associate the new concept with one to
which you are already familiar.
Couple association with being aware using all of your senses and you will have a higher rate of successful recall.
Chunky like your mom
Chunking information is a great mnemonic method to remember multiple items. Many people naturally use chunking to remember phone
numbers: Instead of thinking "17342876642" we chunk it as 1-734-287-6642.
The concept of chunking comes from a famous 1956 paper by George A. Miller: The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some
Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information. If you are a sucker for classic works in the history of psychology (I know, who isn't?)
you can read the whole original paper here.
Write it Down
We generally think of "writing things down" as a means to NOT have to remember something. The paper does the work for -- we just need
to remember where we put that piece of paper...
But, writing things down has another effect: you clear your mind and take away the stress of "having to remember", and by doing so you
actually have more room in your noggin for remembering stuff. I know that explanation wasn't scientific, but it works.
To-do lists are championed by business gurus and soccer moms alike. Try writing everything down for a week or two and see how much
this improves your memory & focus. A great digital tool for "writing things down" is provided by a website called Nozbe.com -- I recommend
it for clearing your head and also organizing your thoughts.
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Memory and Concentration Games on Blifaloo.com:
Memory 3
Memorize color patterns to test your short term memory.
Music Memory
Test your memory while training your musical ear with this game.
Balls & Boxes Memory Game
Use your memory and put the balls back into their original boxes.
Classic Memory Game
Old-school card matching memory game.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18261421956813008141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811799800273653547.post-11236676565455232412011-12-14T21:10:00.001-08:002011-12-14T21:10:18.527-08:00Become a Whirlwind Cleaner Now
MULTI SERVICES shows you how the right products and a few insider tips from the experts can make every cleaning job easier and quicker.
Keep a cleaning carry-all (available at dollar stores or hardware stores) or a simple plastic bucket pre-packed with cleaning supplies to take from room to room. Ensure you have the right products on hand for the cleaning jobs you face around your home. We suggest this selection:
Power Cream Degreaser for tough grease, sticky residue and burnt-on food.
Power Cream Lime & Grime to make easy work of limescale and soapscum buildup.
Bathroom Spray for shower doors, walls, shower cutrains, tape and tiles.
Thick Bleach for toilet bowls, tubs and sinks.
Multi-Surface Cleaner for glass, mirrors, counter tops, sealed wood furnishings and sealed granite.
Gel with Baking Soda for stovetops, sinks, faucets, chrome fixtures and stainless steel appliances.
Cream Cleanser for countertops, pots and pans, casserole dishes and BBQ grills.
In addition to these cleaning products, the whirlwind housekeeper also keeps some secret tools on hand, including:
Snuggle Fabric Softener Sheets
Q-tips Cotton Swabs
2 to 3 small sponges
a dry cloth
a small brush
a discarded tooth brush
latex gloves
Where to Start - Where to Finish
Start in the kitchen. Clean your laminate counter tops, around your cook-top rings, food-spattered backsplashes, the fridge door and the sink. Moisten a damp sponge. Do your cabinet doors, drawer pulls, light switches and the telephone next. Check the shelves and door slots in your fridge, too. Peek in the microwave. Is the lunch-time pizza welded to the roof? Here's a trick: Half fill a cup with water and add a squirt of Cream Cleanser. Place in the microwave and run on high for 60 seconds. Wipe clean with a damp sponge. Wipe down the kitchen table and chairs. Then clean the floors last with diluted Vim Floors.
Move on to the bathroom. Spray the shower walls and bath tub with Bathroom Cleaner. Leave it while you wipe down the counter and sink with Vim Gel with Baking Soda. Use the tooth brush in your carry-all to scour around the drain hole. A Q-Tip Cotton Swab dipped in Vim Gel will make quick work of grunge around the taps. Wipe all surfaces with clear water. Return to the shower and tub. Turn on the shower and watch the cleaner and the scum disappear down the drain. Apply Vim Thick Bleach to the toilet, let sit and flush. Voila.
And finally the rest of the house. While moving from room to room, keep a look out for finger marks on doors and door frames and for sticky door handles. Clean with All Purpose Spray. Is the picture on your TV or computer screen looking foggy? See it brighten before your eyes when you gently dust the surface using a Snuggle Fabric Softener sheet.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18261421956813008141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811799800273653547.post-45924883947676809472011-10-16T11:23:00.000-07:002011-10-16T11:23:59.916-07:00Halloween in CanadaHalloween is celebrated in Canada on or around October 31. It is a day to mark the single night in the year when, according to old Celtic beliefs, spirits and the dead can cross over into the world of the living. Some people hold parties and children may trick-or-treat in their neighborhood.
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Black cats are part of the Halloween superstitions.
Some people put a lot of effort into decorating their homes, yards and drives. They may even construct life-size replica graveyards or dungeons and invite people from the neighborhood to view their creations or hold a themed party. Other people may organize fancy dress parties for adults or children. Popular activities at parties include watching horror films and trying to make fellow guests jump in fright.
Many children go out to play trick-or-treat. They dress up as ghosts, witches, skeletons or other characters and visit homes in their neighborhood. They ring doorbells and, when someone answers, they call out "trick-or-treat". This means that they hope to receive a gift of candy or other snacks and that they are threatening to play a trick if they do not get anything. Usually, they receive a treat and tricks are rarely carried out.
There are special types of food associated with Halloween. These include candies in packets decorated with symbols of Halloween, toffee apples made by coating real apples with a boiled sugar solution, roasted corn, popcorn and pumpkin pie or bread. Halloween beer, which is made by adding pumpkin and spices to the mash before fermenting it, is also available in specialist stores.
Children also take part in a long-standing Canadian tradition of "Trick-or-Treat for Unicef". Pumpkin-carving contests, pumpkin art tours, a reading marathon, and symbolic Walks for Water are just a few examples of the educational and fundraising activities schools and children develop to help provide thousands of children developing countries with basic quality education.
Public life
October 31 is not a public holiday. Schools, organizations, businesses, stores and post offices are open as usual. Some organizations may arrange Halloween parties, but these do not usually disrupt normal affairs. Public transport services run on their regular timetables. If people are driving around the neighborhood in the late afternoon or evening, it is important to be particularly aware of children, especially those wearing dark costumes, who may be unfamiliar with traffic conditions.
Background
Halloween has Celtic origins. In pre-Christian times, many people believed that spirits from the underworld and ghosts of dead people could visit the world of the living on the night of October 31. These spirits could harm the living or take them back to the underworld. To avoid this, people started dressing up as ghosts and spirits if they left their homes on October 31. They hoped that this would confuse the ghosts and spirits.
Halloween was also a time, when spirits might give messages to people. In some areas, it was traditional for unmarried girls to poor molten lead into water. The shape that the lead took when it hardened was seen as a clue to the professions of their future husbands. Halloween traditions were brought to Canada by Irish and Scottish immigrants. Halloween is now celebrated in a range of other countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Australia.
Symbols
There is a wide range of Halloween symbols. Symbols include animals, such as black cats, bats and spiders, and figures, such as ghosts, skeletons, witches and wizards. Pumpkins, graveyards, cobwebs, haunted houses and the colors green, orange, grey and black are also associated with Halloween. These symbols are used to decorate homes and party venues and are seen on costumes, gift paper, cards, cookies, cakes and candy.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18261421956813008141noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811799800273653547.post-69284033615671517882011-10-09T12:43:00.000-07:002011-10-09T12:43:35.651-07:00The Real Meaning of ThanksgivingThanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Thanksgiving is celebrated each year on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving in Canada falls on the same day as Columbus Day in the United States. Because of the longstanding traditions of the holiday, the celebration often extends to the weekend that falls closest to the day it is celebrated.
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The Order of Good Cheer, 1606 by Charles William Jefferys, (1925).
The origins of the first Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean. Frobisher's Thanksgiving celebration was not for harvest, but for homecoming. He had safely returned from an unsuccessful search for the Northwest Passage, avoiding the later fate of Henry Hudson and Sir John Franklin. In the year 1578, Frobisher held a formal ceremony in Newfoundland to give thanks for surviving the long journey.[3] Years later, the tradition of a feast would continue as more settlers began to arrive to the Canadian colonies.[4]
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Oven roasted turkey
The origins of Canadian Thanksgiving can also be traced to the French settlers who came to New France with explorer Samuel de Champlain in the early 17th century, who also took to celebrating their successful harvests. The French settlers in the area typically had feasts at the end of the harvest season and continued throughout the winter season, even sharing their food with the indigenous peoples of the area.[5] Champlain had also proposed for the creation of the Order of Good Cheer in 1606.[6]
As many more settlers arrived in Canada, more celebrations of good harvest became common. New immigrants into the country, such as the Irish, Scottish and Germans, would also add their own traditions to the harvest celebrations. Most of the U.S. aspects of Thanksgiving (such as the turkey) were incorporated when United Empire Loyalists began to flee from the United States during the American Revolution and settled in Canada.[5]
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