SubscribeDecember is really the month for weddings here in the country. I remember there used to be a year when we had to attend to 10 weddings in December! That was around 3 years ago when most of our friends were like us, tying the knot. I had a lot of fun planning our wedding three years ago. Wow, has it been that long? Wedding Ideas are a lot more avante garde and dare I say, more modern but the appearance of silver in color motifs are beginning to look like a trend. Am I correct? I see silver paired with every color imaginable these days.
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Jacq’s little girl Iyah is turning two next Saturday. In celebration of her birthday, Jacq is running a little contest on her blog. Here’s what she wrote:
Here’s what you can win: I’m giving away $15 paypal money to two lucky people. $5 paypal money to two people who will give the best birthday wish/greeting to my little girl.
Now how can you win? Read below…
1. Subsribe to my feed via Feedburner – 1 entry
2. Add my blog to your Technorati Favorites – 1 entry
**You can do this easily through the widgets are found on my right sidebar**
3. Post your birthday wish/greeting to my little girl in this blog post and I will choose the best two to recieve the $5 paypal money.
If you are a blogger and you want to have more chances in winning you could blog about this contest post and you’ll automatically be entitled to 3 more entries.What you will write about is up to you, just link up this post and it will be qualified. If you have more than one blog (like me) you may do so in each blog (earn 3 entries/blog).
To help me keep up with all the entries (I’m hoping people will join this contest, lol) please leave a comment in this post with the following information:
1. your email address you used for the Feed subscription
2. your Technorati ID
3. Your blog URL of the contest post
You have until Thursday, October 16, 2008 to join.
Aside from the global financial crisis, the US Presidential elections is a most talked about topic everywhere. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama has had support from Hollywood and this time he has gotten the support of the maritime community as well. Mark & Associates, P.C., a leading personal injury law firm (which has one of the most reputable maritime attorneys), applauds Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama for pledging his support for a longstanding federal law which provides financial compensation to seamen who are injured on the job as a result of their employers’ negligence. In a letter sent to the president of the Seafarers International Union, which has endorsed him for president, Obama pledged his support for the Jones Act, a 1920 law which pays workers’ compensation benefits for seamen who are hurt while working on ships, oil rigs, and other ocean vessels.
I have proven that we might be needing another desktop computer or laptop soon. Yes, we are a family of four with two kids below ten and we have one desktop computer and a laptop – and we still need one more. I think that classifies us under the family of geeks.
However, it is simply not within our means to be able to get one so soon so I might as well get into wishful thinking and join the Charter Laptop-a-Day Giveaway contest. I wish I can though.
For those in the US, this is a fantastic deal that allows you to get a chance to win this laptop:
New HP Compaq Presario C770US Notebook Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor 15.4″ WXGA Screen 2GB RAM -160GB hard drive DVD Burner Built in Wi-Fi and Ethernet Plus a NEOtec Laptop Backpack!
All you need to do is sign up for one of the three Charter Communications services being offered: Charter High-Speed® Internet at $19.99/mo for 6 months, Charter Digital Home™ and High-Speed Internet at $69.98/mo for 6 months or Charter Digital Home™, High-Speed Internet, and Charter Telephone® at $99.97/mo. for 12 months. After purchase, the buyer will be sent a Free Shell gas gift card and is automatically entered to win 1 of 30 HP Compaq Presario C770US Laptops.
Is that a great deal or what?
You get high speed internet, a chance to win a laptop (30 laptops will be given away for 30 days) and you get a gas card free!!
My mom’s side on the family has a genetic tendency to be bald, especially the men. My mom has thin hair and she has always been conscious of her hair, never letting it go past her shoulders, always having full bangs because she thinks her forehead is receding. This worry extends to all her daughters’ hair. She always reminds us to not grow our hair long because it is heavy and will recede our hairline early, have our bangs all the time. In fact, she would even comment that we need a haircut every month.
I know if she had the money she would invest on hair transplant or those procedures being offered today to let hair grow and thicken. However, there are reviews on www.hairlossreviews.net that natural products can help thinning and hair loss. There are top three hair loss products and all are natural supplements. Provillus, Procerin and Advecia are the ones that are highly recommended. I hope I can get some sample products here so I can let my mom try it.
Out of the three, Provillus is the most recommended because of its effectivity. I see that both men and women can use it and results are expected to happen as fast as 90 days – that’s just three short months. It is a topical solution, meaning it is not to be ingested – that is something that is really encouraging. My mom is scared of anything that needs to taken orally.
I have always loved to write – hence the many blogs I have. Writing is a creative outlet and stress release for me. It helps that I have an English teacher for a mom and a voracious reader for a Dad. In fact, my talent for writing isnt even at par with the talent my sister who is really into research and journalism. Id like to explore and enhance this talent of mine. Id like to take additional course or enrol in a school mba – all this needs to be done online of course. And I just found out Capella University, a fully accredited online university recently opened this course! Capella University makes comprehensive online academic writing center available to the public. The online universityís Online Writing Center features multi-media modules aimed at graduate level students studying in a variety of disciplines.
Some other topics covered on Capellaís Online Writing Center include:
ï Annotated Bibliography Guide
ï Grammar
ï Business and Technical Writing
ï APA Style and Formatting
ï Undergraduate Writing Resources
ï How to Get Your Work Published
ï Academic Integrity
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Matthew got obsessed with learning different languages last summer. I blame it on the All Around the World DVD from Sesame Street, kids were singing in different languages, and the kid got hooked. There was one day that he kept asking how to say this word in Spanish or Portuguese and a sentence in French that I was tearing my hair out already! It is a good thing that one of my sisters know a little Spanish and would set him straight and teach him a few basic Spanish words to soothe his appetite for learning another language.
While I have no objections to my kids being multi-lingual, I also know that enrolling them in language classes is not really feasible given the facts that we are not exactly located in a convenient location within the city and that I am not mobile, meaning I have no car and do not even know how to drive.
That’s where the internet and the world wide web would come in. Thankfully, we have working computers that we can let the kid use and the internet to find a self-study program. You can learn Spanish online! At www.transparent.com, they have over 105 languages you can choose from to study and different levels of Learning Software to choose from! I like their BYKI level – which means “Before You Know It”! It’s the starter and most basic level. And from there you can choose the level of mastery you want to have. For each language they offer, you can see their product software available, its own blog where they feature basic words. For example, they can feature how to count from one to ten using that language! Then, they provide general information about the language, some survival phrase guides, and downloads. I feel like I really learned a thing or two just by going through their site. Of course, I really would prefer their Everywhere Audio software package where everything really is hands-free, you just listen! They even provide flash cards (electronically) for you to review words! If Matthew wants to learn Spanish, I really would like to learn to speak French!
The software is not entirely limited to self-help learning people. This can very much help people who have learned the language and wants to brush up on their word skills. Classes can even get their whole package learning software to aid in their teaching. This is totally a unique concept to learn languages.
My father is a doctor and he still needs help with prescribing medicines! Most especially since the law that mandates they prescribe generic names of the medicines they prescribe. That is why an online medical reference is really handy for doctors – they can refer to it wherever they are. In fact, most physicians with a PDA has a medical software by companies, such as Epocrates, Inc.installed with it. Epocrates medical reference software is now used by over 500,000 healthcare professionals. With the Epocrates’ drug guide loaded on their PDA or smartphone, clinicians can immediately access the information needed to make prescribing decisions – such as drug dosing, side effects and health plan coverage.It is a free medical Pocket PC, medical Palm and medical Windows mobile software. The company also recently launched a free drug reference for BlackBerry devices. Additionally, Epocrates is working with Apple to develop a downloadable drug guide for iPhone devices. Clinicians with an iPhone or iPod Touch can currently access Epocrates content by visiting m.epcorates.com on their Safari web browser.
This announcement was paid for by Epocrates.
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