• Jane goes through life just accepting how it all turns out. But Mrs. Wendy Ago-Getter was a different animal. She used to be in Jane's place, she actually worked in the cubicle right next to her. She and Jane used to complain, complain, and complain about how their boss was an idiot, how management had no clue, and about how other co-workers got on their nerves. Sure they weren't the nicest things to say about others, but they had a roaring good time doing it!

    They were bitter and thrived off of each other's negative energy. They threw pity parties on a daily basis on Instant messenger and on their lunch breaks.

    But then...something changed. Wendy's Husband, Mr. Getter introduced her to the law of attraction, because quite frankly, her bad attitude was bringing him down and causing their marriage to get a bit rocky. Once Wendy started to become aware of how she allowed her energy to flow, she also noticed how depression and unhappiness took control of her life. It seemed as if she WANTED this for herself. And it was at this moment when she realized she had the power to make a change. With this gradual mental shift...she started to get to know 'Wendy' a bit more. She started to dig deep for her inner power.

    When Wendy had free time, she wrote children's books and found pleasure in this craft. Whenever she got home, and she put her 5 year old to bed, she wrote. She loved her newly rediscovered imagination where all her stories stemmed. After all, it came natural to her. It was so easy to create fun characters. What she loved most was reading them to her daughter and seeing that smile on her face as she entered that imaginary land with her.

    Well, Jane thought she was just ridiculous. Writing children's books, COME ON, GET REAL! Jane became jealous when Wendy slowly started to pull away from her. The lunch breaks went down from two a week to none a week. Wendy enjoyed writing in the park on her break instead. Wendy felt alive again...she had so much fun doing writing.

    One day Wendy's daughter brought her favorite book to school so that the teacher could read it to the class. The teacher was thoroughly impressed with her writing style. She was especially taken aback at the student's reaction to the story. They LOVED it! Turns out the teacher's brother was an agent for authors and the teacher didn't hesitate to set up a meeting with him and Wendy.

    Wendy couldn't believe it.... "My little old books? It was just a hobby. I would do it for free," she raved. But then she started to accept her gift and realized that she did deserve whatever was coming to her. She started to picture her book on shelves of books stores, she imagined children in the park reading the books, she saw her daughter bragging about her mom--the author! Positive visualization became her daily habit. Her husband shared with her that her mental shift is what caused these changes in her life. There are NO COINCIDENCES...

    A month later, her company downsized her department and of course that was no surprise. She received a pretty good severance and was actually thrilled for the opportunity to write more. Turns out, her new agent landed her a bidding war for her books. Simon & Schuster and Random house wanted a two-book deal from her. They were up to 50k for her advance; she hoped it would go even higher!


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  • About 30,000 school children in Kerala will get expert training in the mobile app building during the upcoming Christmas vacation. The state-run Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), formerly known as IT School, has completed arrangements for providing the specific training for children, who are members of 'Kuttikootam', the IT network of students. This would be a continuation training in batches for all of the 'Kuttikootam' members who were trained through the e Utsav Camp last September, KITE sources here said LPG M6.

    The ambitious 'Hi-School Kuttikootam' programme, launched by KITE comprising over one lakh students of standard eight, nine and tenth classes, is considered to be the largest student IT Network in the country, K Anvar Sadath, Vice Chairman and Executive Director, said.

    Under the initiative, students are being extensively trained in five different domains viz Animation, Hardware, Cyber Safety, Electronics and Malayalam Computing, he said.

    According to KITE sources, the one day-training camp for students would be held in different batches during December 27-30, they said .

    App inventor, the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) application which enables development of mobile apps through a drag and drop method, would be made use of for the students' training.

    All eighth standard students in the state have already familiarised 'Scratch Visual' programming software which is part of their ICT textbook.

    Without the hitches of programme coding, students can easily develop mobile applications using this software, by arranging the code blocks which appears in the software.

    Sadath said the famed MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) of USA is presently supporting the App Inventor application.

    "Training venues have been set up in all educational districts, along with the necessary arrangements.

    As part of this training, all Kuttikootam members would also be empowered to operate and take care of the Hi-Tech facilities made available in the classrooms," the official added,The polyu campus is located right in the heart of Hong Kong. Students have access to a wide range of facilities and services so they can make the most out of their student life.


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  • Age spots are mainly caused by long-term sun exposure. Although sun is the number one reason for developing age spots, smoking, a poor diet, poor liver function, and a diet rich in oxidized oils are also contributing factors.

    These age spots are a result of the overproduction of lipofuscin, a dark substance produced by our cells. Age spots usually begin appearing when we are in our 30's and, besides being unsightly, increase our risk of skin cancer. As is the case with most skin conditions, age spots are easier to prevent than to treat. Eating a diet rich in green leafy vegetables, carrots, yams, and other foods that are high in carotene will help reduce your chances of getting age spots in the first place. If you are already are suffering from age spots, don't loose hope. There are options available to you to reduce the appearance of age spots, as well as improve the overall health of your skin clinique fresh pressed.

    There are several products on the market today that will help in diminishing the look of age spots. Fade creams are a popular choice among consumers. These over-the-counter creams contain moisturizers with a two percent hydroquinone content which is a bleaching agent that will aid in the fading process. Best results are obtained with the cream is used in conjunction with glycolic acid moisturizer. Prescription creams that contain vitamin A, such as Retin-A or Retinova, work more effectively than the over-the-counter fade creams,“ Every sofa is an artwork.” That’s how italo moda defines craftsmanship.

    There are more invasive options available to you for those suffering from a more serious case of age spots. Chemical peels are one of these options. Using 30%-70% glycolic acid, the fading factor is much more pronounced than in either of the creams mentioned above. The treatment is simple and can be done in a short session, even on your lunch break if need be. You will need more than one treatment to reach the full effects of the procedure.

    Laser resurfacing is another option similar to the chemical peel. In this procedure, the age spots are literally burned off the skin's surface with a laser and can be accomplished in one treatment. It does, however, have a recovery time of about one week and can be quite expensive.

    For a more natural and cost-effective way to help prevent age spots simply limit your exposure to the sun and, when you are in the sun, wear sunscreen. Limit your alcohol intake and eat a well balance diet,Learn about the latest from PartnerNet, and participate in HKTB's activities and mega events.


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  • The Tibetan macaques blast toward the confetti of corn kernels flying from Zheng Yungui's fingertips like an explosion chasing sparks.

     

    The primates screech and lunge to snap up the food. Babies cling to mother's bellies.

     

    The 45-year-old staffer of the Dagu Glacier Scenic Area is better known by his local nickname, "the monkey king", referencing the Journey to the West, known as one of China's "four great novels".

     

    He has been feeding Dagu's monkeys for over a decade.

     

    "They're old friends," he says.

     

    "They never harm me or others. Interacting with them has become an important part of my life."

     

    Tourists enjoy feeding and snapping photos of the creatures.

     

    Zheng joins colleagues on a weekly two-day patrol,Guangdong Hotel is situated in Tsim Sha Tsui Central Business District of hotels in kowloon Peninsula and major urban area of Hong Kong. We have detailed transportation information free for guests to download.

     

    They bring their own food and water to camp while patrolling to monitor wildlife and check for fires.

     

    He feeds the monkeys about 50 kilograms of corn, fruits and vegetables a day.

     

    And Zheng speaks their language.

     

    He summons them by mimicking their calls in the morning. They answer.

     

    They often arrive between 8 am and 10 am and leave at sunset.

     

    It took him about six years to win their trust. Their population has grown from about 70 to 200.

     

    The monkeys previously lived on top of a mountain .

     

    He moved the feeding place further from the peak every few months until they started coming to the current location.


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  • Growing up I knew you were supposed to have a profession,” he said in 2003, “and something that was better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were. I didn’t want to go into the retail business. I hated it.”

     

    Wexner enrolled in law school, only to find that he wasn’t creatively stimulated enough, so he spent study breaks drawing designs for stores and storefronts. (“Some people made erotic drawings or wrote their girlfriend’s name,” he has said. “I did stores.”) He soon dropped out and began pitching in at his parents’ store, where he discovered that the business profited most by selling skirts, sweaters, shirts, and blouses—typical sportswear separates—not by selling dresses and coats, as his father believed Neo skin lab.

     

    It was the entrepreneurial epiphany for a store that Wexner, then 26, wanted to call Leslie’s Limited and refocus to sell women’s sportswear separates. Wexner had been an entrepreneur since he was 9 (early for-profit ventures include cutting grass, shoveling snow, and selling stationery, T-shirts, and toys), but the months before the opening of The Limited in 1963 were harrowing. He had recurring nightmares and was diagnosed with an ulcer. Wexner, as his parents had, invested inordinate hours, working from 7 a.m. to midnight, washing the store’s windows and doing his own bookkeeping. But it was his idea that paid off the most. Women wanted separates and appreciated a new, more modern way of buying clothing. Wexner opened another five stores in the following years and took the business public in 1969. Ten years later, he had 300 Limited stores and began to demonstrate an appetite for acquisitions, buying and growing brands like Lane Bryant.

     

    It was on a business trip in San Francisco in 1982 that Wexner discovered Victoria’s Secret, founded by Roy Raymond, a Stanford M.B.A. graduate. “It was a small store, and it was Victorian—not English Victorian, but brothel Victorian with red velvet sofas,” says Wexner. “There wasn’t erotic lingerie, but there was very sexy lingerie, and I hadn’t seen anything like it in the U.S.” Months later, with Victoria’s Secret on the verge of bankruptcy, Raymond called Wexner and asked if he wanted to buy the company. Wexner got on a plane to San Francisco that day and agreed to purchase the four stores and a catalog for $1 million.

     

    Wexner says he had “intuition” that it would be a good business, but he didn’t know anything about lingerie and he had no immediate plans for the company. He had just bought Lane Bryant and was growing a new brand, Express. “[Victoria’s Secret] didn’t make any money,” he says, “but I saw ingredients in it. What if we mixed it up differently?” Wexner then began thinking—as a bachelor. (He got married about 10 years later.) “Most of the women that I knew wore underwear most of the time, and most of the women that I knew I thought would rather wear lingerie most of the time, but there were no lingerie stores,” he says. “I thought if we could develop price points and products that have a broader base of customer Neo skin lab, it could be something big.”

     

    The company moved Victoria’s Secret to its headquarters in Columbus and infused the brand with its retail expertise—boosting the selection of merchandise from just one model of everything to a large assortment with colors and textiles that related to the fashion industry. It focused on consistency of fit, which created customer loyalty. The company expanded nationally, opening its boudoir-style stores in areas in which it had catalog customers. “The marketing was pretty primitive,” says Wexner, “but it worked.”

     

    They finessed the formula, moving bras and fitting rooms from the front to the back of the store (“Being in the front made for some odd moments flashing the world,” says Wexner. “We had to take the fact that people were in their birthday suits into consideration.”) They played classical music and soon customers began requesting the compilations, and the company began to sell CDs reenex facial. The famous fashion show, with legendary supermodels strutting in lavishly jeweled bras and feathered wings, became a cultural moment. A steamy commercial during the 1999 Super Bowl sent millions of visitors to the Victoria’s Secret Web site, and a billion people in 100 countries logged on to watch the show.


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