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Summer is the perfect time of year for new adventures and challenges and with so many ways to expend energy during the summer months, there’s no shortage of creative ways for kids to exercise their bodies and imaginations. To help parents keep kids excited about reading this summer, Indigo, Chapters and Coles offer the following tips:

• Take weekly family trips to your nearest bookstore or library and go for a family picnic with your selections. It’s a great way to spend quality time together and enjoy the fresh air too.
• Lead by example: When perusing the newspaper in the morning, read a couple of interesting stories aloud to inform your kids. Then have them read a few pages from the kids section of the newspaper to you.
• Have every member of the family write a short story about their own summer adventures - share them with each other by reading them aloud.
• Find a selection of books dealing with summer activities, such as family trips, camp and sports. Choosing timely topics with familiar subject matter will keep kids interested in connecting with books and inspire a love of reading to last a lifetime!
• Read between the books: If your family is heading for the open road this summer, make reading a memorable part of your vacation. Encourage kids to read road signs, bumper stickers, funny names of passing towns, and menus when you stop for a quick bite as a family.
• When planning your summer vacation, provide your kids with a stack of brochures highlighting potential stops on the trip. Allowing them to help plan the trip by reviewing the brochures will get them excited about the vacation and brush up on their reading at the same time.
• Encourage the kids to keep a journal or a scrapbook and fill it with all of their summer memories - great for their first back-to-school projects about “What I did during Summer vacation”

Kids between the ages of 10 - 16 can enter Indigo’s 2nd annual Junior Booklover contest. All they have to do is write and submit a short book review on one of the titles listed in Indigo’s Summer Book Scene for a chance at fame and fortune as the next Booklover apprentice. For complete contest details and tips on writing a review, visit your local Indigo, Chapters or Coles store or log on to www.juniorbooklover.ca

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While war and poor economic conditions begin to affect people all over the world, more and more people suffer with depression. The more we focus on news events and the business climate, the more we are depressed. Whatever the reason you feel is the cause of your depression, the following five simple tips guarantee you reduce it significantly. Read the rest of this entry »

The enormously wonderful thing about social networking and passionate Teacher Librarians is the ease with which they can source just the right information for your daily needs.

OK, I’m smiling as I write this But I do want to bring another blog to your RSS reader - especially if you are looking for quick hits of useful bits and pieces related to learning and literacy in schools.

Joan joined me at St Joseph’s College just a couple of weeks ago in the role of Teacher Librarian - and is already a hit with her wonderful enthusiasm and depth of knowledge. She keeps us all on our toes! Read the rest of this entry »

Are you looking for stress relief ideas? Do you have about five minutes to spare in your busy day? There are many effective stress relief methods that only take minutes to do. In our hustle and bustle world, we are caught between a rock anda hard place. Lack of time is causing us stress yet we don’thave the time to destress. Try these four techniques right now and you will feel instantly relaxed. Read the rest of this entry »

A large percentage of my current caseload consists of shoulder pain. Often these referrals come from family practice physicians or other generalists who utilize physical therapy as a conservative precursor to an orthopedic physician. As a link in this referral chain, I look at early establishment of a appropriate rehab prognosis to be an essential function of my job.

Physical therapists are not diagnosticians, but the use of clinical diagnostic testing can give us some indication of the patients potential to respond to conservative care. A 2005 article in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery attempts to determine which of the numerous clinical tests of rotator cuff disease has the most clinical utility. The tests were investigated to determine their utility in assessing three degrees of rotator cuff pathology: bursitis, partial-thickness rotator cuff tear, and full-thickness rotator cuff tear. The following eight clinical tests were examined: Read the rest of this entry »

I have a long way to drive from Tambaram to Guindy on a daily basis for work. I love the drive. But when some one says “Tambaram?” and/or “So far!” is a disgusting and discouraging tone, I really want to give them a kick. People should encourage others and never ever try discouraging them in any point of time. Recently a friend of mine was telling me that he felt tensed while in buses. Quite curious, I was asking him why. I told him that let me do a simple research on the topic and try to share with the world too. Read the rest of this entry »

Time and again there is a big hue and cry from the Corporation, the municipal authorities and other NGOs regarding the reckless banners and hoardings that are put across every nook and corner of the city. It is true that banners and hoardings have the following disadvantages: Read the rest of this entry »

People are fickle beings. I just have to smile watching how others respond to my antics or musings…As a Taoist Teacher I do an excellent job of being not what people expect of me…

It’s enjoyable work from my view point…

Interesting thing from a business point of view: people sell expectations… Read the rest of this entry »

I would like to thank you for visiting and reading this article.
The substance has been cautiously researched and attested for
your benefit. Headaches in any form are very unspeakable to
the sufferer. Some headaches like migraines can cause more
problems than just a headache. These problems could be nausea,
light sensitivity and a throbbing pain in the head. Sometimes
the headache pain is felt on one side of the head. At others you
can feel the hurting on both sides of your head. The factual
causes of migraine headaches has not been found as of
yet.

There are a few theories as to why we experience migraine
headaches. The most common possibility is that a change in the
blood flow within the brain is one of the trip causes of
migraine headaches. The other theory about migraine
headache is thought to be a pain sensing nerve releasing
chemicals named neuropathies.

Many medical checkup professionals speculate that the
neuropathies relaxes the smooth muscle that surrounds the
cranial blood vessels. This rest causes the blood vessels to
dilate or get constricted. This blood vessel relaxation
increases the flow of blood and other cranial fluid to the
brain. These fluids are thought to be the causes of migraine
headaches.

These cranial fluids cause inflammation, painfulness
sensitivity, weave and blood vessel swelling during the time of
migraine headaches. Some people think that the aura that is seen
during a migraine headache is caused by the constriction of
blood vessels that became dilated during the beginning phase of
migraine headaches.

Another possibility as to the causes of migraine
headaches has been linked to genetics and inheritance.
These theories state that a child of migraine sufferers will
have a 50% chance of acquiring migraine headaches. The chances
go even greater of inheriting migraine headaches if both parents
are known to sustain from this afflictive headache.

Should both parents be known to have frequent migraine headaches
the chances of the child inheriting migraine headache symptoms
is about 70%. Now even though some professionals think that
inheritance plays a large part in megrim headaches the genes
that may be wise as the causes of migraine headaches have
not been identified or even isolated.

When we begin to experience migraine headaches the only word of
advice signs that we may receive are a throbbing hurting in the
temple area and light nausea. As the migraine symptoms pass on
the pain of the headaches become much worse. Unfortunately since
the causes of migraine headaches have
not been found and we don’t know what can trip these attacks,
the medications to address these headaches have not been
developed.

I love how it’s possible to get so….

Entwined , en-wrapped and finally entrapped into a blog.

Taoism teaches to let go of ego… and it’s easy to use a blog to re-enforce ego.

Blogging is a great experience. I use this blog as a sounding board to work on material and think out loud.

However, attention has a down side of artificially pumping up ego. I was going to post a “I will be away for a few weeks post” and I thought.. how silly.. the larger world doesn’t truly care if I am away for a few weeks… This was just my ego trying to get attention. Ego sneaking in at that moment.. working at getting some recognition. Read the rest of this entry »