Gubbio (PG) and the Christmas are a marriage that lasts from 1981, since on the slopes of Mount Ingino the eugubini decided to "build", in honor of the Patron Saint Ubaldo, an over 650-meters high Christmas tree with more than 250 green points of light, 300 multicolored lights and a 1.000 m² star on top of the tree designed by 200 lights. Such an achievement that could not go unnoticed, and in 1991 it entered in the Guinness Book of World Records as “The World's Largest Christmas Tree”. L'Albero di Natale più grande del mondo (The biggest Christmas Tree in the world) every year is switched on the eve of the Immaculate Conception, December 7th. Remains active throughout the holiday season, until the day of Epiphany, January 6th, or slightly beyond. Many important personalities (except the first mountings, from 1981 to 1987, ed) as the editions go by have had the honor to turn on the Gubbio Christmas Tree (also called Mount Ingino Christmas Tree). For example in 2011 to press the button was Pope Benedict XVI. During the 2013 edition was Don Francesco Soddu, Director of Italian CARITAS, who "light up" the Christmas Tree on December 7th, 2013. This wants to be a tribute to the valuable contribution that volunteering is giving in these difficult times to meet the emergencies of many Italian families and to welcome the thousands of migrants who arrive in our country. This year Francis Pope "lighted up" the The World's Largest Christmas Tree, on 7 December. During the usual lighting ceremony, the Pope will be present through a video connection and turn on the electrical circuit by the signal of a tablet, like it happened for Pope Benedict XVI in 2011, and the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, in 2012. On December 7, there was an official ceremony of ignition from 40 Martyrs Square, (Gubbio) started at 18.00. The tree will remain lit from dusk to late night for the entire Christmas season until January 10 of next year.
In just a few seconds, your entire life can can change. JIM DWYER FROM NEW YORK TIMES On a bright Friday afternoon in spring, Sumeja Tulic had every reason to relish walking the streets of New York, a city she’d moved to nine months earlier from London to attend journalism school. “When the weather is good, it’s very hard to find a reason to be melancholic or dissatisfied with the city,” she said. Yet her time in New York coincided with a season of ceaseless ugliness in politics and acts of terrorism around the world. “One day you laugh, and then you’re angry,” said Tulic, a Bosnian Libyan. As she walked toward the subway station, she thought, “‘Please, God, I want to see something nice,’” she said. “Enough of this craziness.” At the City Hall station, she settled onto a bench. It was just after 2 p.m. Only a few people were at the station. A man leaned against a pillar, the way anyone might, waiting for the train. The stillness was interrupted by an announcement that the next train was two stations away. Then Tulic glimpsed the man at the pillar collapsing forward onto the tracks. “This man waiting for the train,” said Rachelle Peterson, a researcher who was also on the platform, “ran over, peered over the edge, then jumped onto the tracks.” “One of the gentlemen was trying to wake him up, and he just couldn’t,” said an eyewitness. The man who had fallen was not moving. Two more men jumped down to help. “I don’t know where these men got the wit and the quickness,” Tulic said. “The man who fell was about six foot tall, a heavy man by default. He was kind of jammed in the tracks. It was nerve -racking to know that the train was coming. Will it stop? Will they succeed to pull him out?” On the tracks, the unconscious man was propped to a sitting position by the three men, who then lifted him from below to others who hoisted from above and rolled him onto the platform. Then the rescuers were themselves rescued, hauled back to safety by helping hands. As soon as they were all clear, the train pulled in. “People getting off the train walked around this unconscious man,” Peterson said. He was not, however, alone. Two of the men who had jumped onto the platform were holding his hands. “They were saying, ‘Buddy, you’re going to be fine,’” Tulic said. “This was an additional layer of goodness.” Paramedics arrived, and the man was taken to a local hospital with serious but non-lifethreatening injuries, officials said. One of the men who went onto the tracks, David Tirado, told gothamist.com that he had visited with the stricken man, who had no recollection of being in the subway or of a congress of strangers gathering to save him. “That is the greatest thing,” Tulic said. “The infrastructure in this city of millions is the people themselves providing, being there for others. Without even knowing the person, who he is, no matter what denomination he subscribes to. It was beautiful to see.”
MELTED SNOWMAN BISCUITS INGREDIENTS:
125g butter, melted 1/3 cup caster sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla essence 2 ½ cups plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 cup Icing sugar (for decorating) Marshmallows, mini m&m’s & icing pens (for decorating)
In a large bowl, add melted butter, sugar, eggs & vanilla & whisk until combined. Stir in flour & baking powder until a soft dough forms. Tip out onto a bench and use your hands to bring it all together. If you are impatient, you can use the dough immediately or alternatively, you can wrap dough in plastic wrap & freeze for 30 mins. This will make the dough firm and a little easier to work with. Preheat oven to 200oC Line 2 oven trays with baking paper. Roll out dough onto a floured surface approx ½ cm thick. You want the biscuits to be fairly large since you want to give the illusion of a melted snowman on top. Cut circles using the rim of a glass (approx 9cm diameter). Don’t worry if your biscuits are not exactly perfect as you are going to cover the top of them anyway. DECORATING: Using the icing pen, draw little faces on the marshmallows. I used black pen for the eyes and mouth and pink pen for the noses. You can use one pen for both if you like. For the nose, I slowly squeezed the icing out as I pulled the pen away from the marshmallow to give a 3D effect. Mix 1 cup icing sugar with 3 tsp water. Stir until smooth. The consistency should be runny but thick enough to spread on the biscuit. Spread on the biscuit to give a melted effect. Place the marshmallow face into the icing. Add 3 buttons to each snowman. I used mini m&m’s but you can use whatever you have in the pantry. Set aside for the icing to set. Once hard, I then used the black icing pen to draw on the arms. I skipped the snowman scarf as it was an extra step that I didn’t think was necessary and they look great just the way they were. Feel free to add a scarf to your snowmen if you like.
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Dr. Stephanie Martin has worked for many years to deal with maternal cardiac arrest. Tracy Hermanstorfer’s case keeps her looking for answers. At lunchtime on Christmas Eve, 2009, Dr. Stephanie Martin was conferring with a patient in her office at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs. Lithe, with fine bones and long limbs, Martin, 42, looked more like a ballerina in scrubs than the head of high-risk obstetrics at a major metropolitan hospital. She was, in fact, a competitive ballroom dancer with the kind of energy and precision of movement that served her well during medical crises. Martin was expecting a busy but not unusual day when, during the conference, an urgent message sounded over the intercom: “Code blue, East Tower, labor and delivery rooms.” In hospital terminology, code blue signals the most dire of emergencies: A patient is in cardiac arrest and needs immediate resuscitation. To a layperson, it means someone is dying; in the labor and delivery rooms, it means both a mother and a baby are in peril. Martin ran down the hall to the labor and delivery rooms. Not on Christmas Eve, she told herself. I can’t lose anyone on Christmas Eve. Tracy Hermanstorfer, 34, had entered the labor room with her husband, Mike, a long-haul truck driver, early that day. She was in good health and was expecting a delivery as normal as her previous two. A routine amniocentesis had revealed that their baby would be a boy, and they had already picked out a name. She and Mike, 38, were excited by the prospect of a Christmas baby. By 12:30 that afternoon, after several hours of contractions, Tracy was growing tired. She had been given an epidural injection to ease the pain of labor and delivery, and her attending nurse was watching her closely. The baby’s heart rate was a little slow, and a fetal monitor had been attached to his head, but there were no major problems. “Rest, close your eyes,” Mike told his wife. “It looks like you’re going to have a long day.” Racing down the hall, Martin felt the familiar rush of adrenaline in her veins. With it came a memory that continued to haunt her whenever a code-blue alert sounded. Her thoughts flew back to the Fourth of July, 1997, her first time as attending physician on a maternity ward. Only a week before, she had been just another resident on the ward. Seven days later, as the doctor in charge of emergencies, Martin encountered a normal birth involving a healthy 21-year-old woman that had gone suddenly, horribly wrong. Amniotic fluid had escaped the placenta and entered the mother’s bloodstream, causing what looked like a massive allergic reaction. She began to bleed internally, a classic sign of an amniotic embolism. In minutes, the mother’s heart and lungs failed, and the baby’s heart rate plummeted. Despite performing an emergency C-section, Martin lost both mother and child. The two deaths sent the young doctor into an emotional tailspin. Martin took to her bed and stayed there for days. What good am I? she wondered. No one could talk her out of her depression—not even her neonatologist husband, Jeff.
Bad first impressions are a fact of life. The good news is, with hard work and consistency, you can recover and show the true you. Here's the first 6 how. (Continue next week) OFFER A SINCERE APOLOGY Bad first impressions happen for a variety of reasons; perhaps you were late for an important meeting with a new contact and came across as unprepared. Or perhaps you unintentionally said something offensive or told a joke that was taken personally. Whatever the cause, apologize as soon as possible. You can do this in person immediately or send a short email afterward. Apologizing is direct and will be better than ignoring the mistake. But don't overdo it; you may unintentionally make a sensitive situation awkward. Once you've sincerely apologized, move on. DON’T BE TOO HARD ON YOURSELF As a result of your nerves perhaps you didn't make as much eye contact as you could have. Or maybe you glanced at your cellphone expecting an important message to arrive. Whatever the case, don't beat yourself up over it. While the perceived mistake might be magnified in your mind, it might have barely registered in the mind of the person or group you're talking to. Take note of the situation and be mindful of it going forward; there's no need to draw attention to your actions. If you've learned from it, move on and let it go. BE GENUINE By being yourself you're more likely to come across as natural and less awkward and forced. It's OK to be honest and admit that you're trying to make a good impression or that you're a little nervous, but once that's said make sure the next time you meet, you act as yourself. This reassures your new contact that you were indeed being honest and are who you say you are. If you have a great sense of humor, let it shine through. If you're talkative, take a step back and listen attentively. (Related: These are subtle habits you have that make people trust you.) OWN YOUR MISTAKE We're hardwired to think other people see us the way we see ourselves but that just isn't the case. They're likely thinking the same thing we are and are focused on trying to make a good impression as well. If you've made an honest mistake, say, for instance, you're dressed casually for a business meeting, own it and feel confident in yourself. People will be less likely to pay attention to your mistake if you're comfortable and act like yourself. (Related: These magic phrases can make anyone trust you.) ADJUST YOUR BODY LANGUAGE Redirecting the situation may be as easy as changing your body language. Listen attentively and make eye contact, be more conscious of your body language, smile more, and avoid crossing your arms. Hold onto something (for example, a cup of coffee or notebook) if that helps. This will go a long way to showing people that while you may be shy, you're attentive and present in the moment. ASK FOR FEEDBACK If you have a trusted friend or colleague with you, ask them what they thought of the interaction. If they agree you made a bad impression, ask them to talk to the person on your behalf. Only do this if your friend or colleague knows your new contact well. The reason being, your friend or colleague's opinion is trusted and the contact is more likely to believe them when they say this situation isn't indicative of who you are. If successful, this approach could allow you to recover from your initial misstep.
THE NATIONAL MARINE AQUARIUM OF NAMIBIA Swakopmund Aquarium is the only aquarium in Namibia. Located at the Atlantic coast of the country. Open: Tuesdays - Sundays 10h00 - 16h00 Closed: Mondays, Christmas and New Year's days Feeding: Daily at 15h00 Feeding by divers: Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays Species that may be viewedin the Aquarium Galjoen, West Coast Steenbras, Baardman, Ragged-tooth Shark, Shyshark, Kipfish, African penguin, Cape cormorant, Blacktail, Redfingers, Horse mackerel, Octopus, Green turtle, Pipefish, hermit crab, kelp gull, White pelican, Anemone, Horseshoe sea cucumber, Spotted grunter, Mullet, Spotted gully shark, Blue-spotted ray, Sand shrimp, Crumbof-bread sponge, Silver kob, Barbel, Houndshark, Eagle, ray, Hawksbill turtle, Three-spot swimming crab, Red crab, Cape fur seal.
Most of the people living in Namibia are Black Africans. As Namibia was a former German colony, there are still many Germans living in this Southern African country. In some towns like Swakopmund, Luderitz and Walvis Bay you will not only find German names on shops, menus and signs, but will also be able to hear many people communicate in German in the streets.
Commercial species of Namibia Chub mackerel, Horse mackerel, Deepwater hake, Orange roughy, Alfonsino, West Coast Sole, Kingklip, Cape hake, Mako shark, Red crab, Cape rock lobster, anchovy, Pilchard, Mullet, Silver, kob, Monkfish, Swordfish, Snoek, Yellowfin tuna, Blue shark and Cape fur seal. The National Aquarium in Swakopmund opens a window to the wonders of marine life found in the cold Benguela Current off the coast of Southern Africa. Seawater, drawn from the old jetty, is pumped through a series of filter systems before reaching the exhibition tanks. The main tanks has a holding capacity of 320 000 litres, is 12 m long and 8 m wide. An underwater walk-way allows the visitor to view sharks, rays and fishes from close range. The smaller exhibition tanks house organisms from the inshore waters, mainly found along sandy and rocky beaches. Numerous information posters line the walls of the Aquarium. Scientific information, regarding the rich resources of Namibia, is simply, yet comprehensively displayed. The functions of the National Marine Aquarium are to disseminate information about Namibian marine life, to enhance visitors about the sensitivity and complexity of the Benguela System and to serve as a place of recreation for those who merely want to put their feet up and relax. Feeding takes place each day at 15h00. Fishes in the main tank are fed 8-10 kg of filled hake. Special feeds are prepared for the filter-feeders (such as mussels and barnacles) and smaller creatures such as crabs, anemones, starfishes and sea snails.
There are many tribes sharing the land, of which there are the Herero (see in the picture with the interesting headwear and often wearing many layers of skirts), the Nama, the Himba and Kavango or the San Bushmen and many others. The Owambo which live mainly in the northern parts of Namibia, are the biggest tribe. More than half of all Namibians belong to the Owambo. More than half of the Namibian belong to this tribe.
Thirteen year old Tyler Wright from the USA is the proud owner of a head of hair that measures a whopping 25.4 cm (10 in) high, 22.9 cm wide and 177 cm in circumference. He was recently confirmed as having the world’s Largest afro (male) and as a result he has earned a place in the Guinness World Records 2017 Edition. Speaking about his extraordinary record, Tyler said: “It’s changed my life because I realise that I’m a thirteen year old and I’m able to get into a book for having the world’s largest male afro - and if I’m only thirteen and I can do that, I know I can do almost anything I want when I’m older.” Previously the largest natural male Afro on record was 14.6 cm in height, 21.6 cm in width and 154.3 cm in circumference. Tyler was inspired to grow his afro after seeing a photo of his father as a young boy in the 1970s. His parents are extremely proud and supportive of their recordbreaking son – but mum can’t wait to take him to a barbers to get it cut. Having the world’s largest fro does not come without its problems because kids at Tyler’s school have been known to lose things in his enormous hair.
We already know better than to nuke plastic—or heaven forbid, aluminum foil—but certain foods can become downright toxic when blasted in the microwave. Here's what you need to know. - BY AUBREY ALMANZA Some 30 years ago, American kitchens received the gift of the microwave and quickly became dependent on it for lightning-fast heating. Younger generations can’t even imagine making oatmeal, hot chocolate, or popcorn without it. And yet so many of us are using the microwave incorrectly. Sure, we know to never zap aluminum foil, metal, or plastic, but there are equally dangerous risks involved in reheating certain foods. For starters, a microwave does not cook food evenly, which often means any bacteria present in the food will survive. Then there’s the problem of microwave blasts directly contributing to the production of carcinogenic toxins. To minimize the microwave risks, resist the urge to use to cook or warm these six foods:
Hard-boiled eggs: Shelled or unshelled, when a hard-boiled egg is cooked in a microwave, the moisture inside creates an extreme steam buildup, like a miniature pressure cooker, to the point where the egg can explode! Even scarier, the egg won’t burst inside the microwave while it’s being heated, but afterward, which means the scalding hot egg can erupt in your hand, on your plate, or even in your mouth. To avoid turning your egg into a steambomb, cut it into small pieces before reheating, or better yet, avoid putting it in the microwave all together.
Breast milk: Many new mothers for later use, which is great, as long wave. In the same way that microevenly, they can also warm a bottle “hot spots” that can severely burn a there’s the carcinogen hazard that FDA recommends that breast milk heated in a pot on the stove, or usaround, you could heat a cup of wadrop the bag or bottle of breast milk
Processed meat: Processed meats contain chemicals and preservatives that extend their shelf lives. Unfortunately, microwaving them can make those substances worse for your health. Reheating processed meats with a burst of microwave radiation contributes to the formation of cholesterol oxidation products (COPs), which have been known to be more damaging to arteries than pure cholesterol. COPs are also directly linked to the development of coronary heart disease. Compared to other meal-prep methods, microwaving processed meats is far more likely to introduce COPs into your diet.
Rice: Rice, really? Apparently, microwaving rice can easily lead to food poisoning, according to the Food Standards Agency. Uncooked rice contains spores of bacteria that can survive being reheated. Once the rice is taken out of the microwave and left at room temperature, the spores could multiply and cause diarrhea and vomiting.
Chicken: All poultry, including chicken, contains some salmonella contamination, so it’s necessary to thoroughly cook chicken to eliminate all present bacteria. Since microwaves don’t fully or evenly cook all parts of the meat, you’re more likely to be left with surviving bacteria, such as salmonella. What’s more, chicken has a very high protein density, and it’s important for the proteins to be broken down at the same temperature. When some reheated proteins are broken down more slowly or quickly than others in the same piece, you’ll likely get an upset stomach.
Leafy greens: No matter how much you want to save your celery, kale, or spinach to eat later as leftovers, it’s better to throw them out than reheat them in a microwave, because the high concentrates of nitrates in leafy greens turn toxic when reheated. When blasted in the microwave, naturally occuring nitrates become nitrosamines, which are carcinogenic. The same holds true for reheating nitrate-rich beets and turnips!
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Fear is an emotion that protects us from the threats in our surroundings, and which has evolved to become more complex; with our fears extending from the weird to the plain absurd, there are certain fears that the great majority of human beings share. I was searching around and found a lot of lists with common phobias and their explanations, but none where these types of fears were discussed. This is a list of 10 of the human fears that every member of a society deals with throughout their life. 10.LOSING YOUR FREEDOM While the exact definition of freedom and its value in a society are debatable subjects, the fear of losing your freedom has always been present in human minds because, even though it is not something that we think about every single moment, it has given us times of deep thought and wonder at what would happen if we were to lose the power to control our own lives. This fear starts with mundane things, such as that time you were grounded in your room by yourself without the possibility of leaving until you finished your homework, or our fear of the commitment that marriage establishes. But this raises a question, is absolute freedom the best thing for us? We have all seen people make bad decisions over and over again, and wondered whether having someone else make their decisions for them would make things better. 9. THE UNKNOWN The fear of the unknown is easily explained like this: the mind tells us that in order to move forward, we must know what is waiting for us there, because “if I know, then I can control the situation, and if I don’t know, then I am not in control”. This second part is what scares us the most, because control is what establishes a measurement that we can use to manipulate the result of our actions. And when we don’t like what is different, this is simply because we can neither understand it, nor have a plan to control it beforehand. This fear has been with us for thousands of years, and it is a great part of what has helped us survive as a species. Many of us, when we were kids, were afraid of the dark, mainly because we didn’t know what might be hiding in there, and similarly when we didn’t know what might be at the end of the hallway we felt the need to pull ourselves away from it. However, this fear of the unknown often stops our progress and makes it harder for us to discover and understand new things, encouraging rejection and closed mindedness. 8. PAIN Since the intensity of physical pain is a purely subjective feeling, which is sensed differently by each individual, it is quite hard to make generalizations of what causes people pain. But physical pain can be described as an unpleasant sensation, generally caused by damage to a certain part of the body. Aside from a few exceptions, most of us are intolerant or afraid of physical pain, this can be noted in the fact that there are a great amount of medications related to pain relief, with different levels of strength and related to different types of pain. The rejection of pain is caused because we associate physical pain with illness and bad health, in general. This fear can be linked with the fear of losing your freedom, such as in the case of people that suffer from chronic pain and usually see their physical freedom limited because they want to avoid doing the actions that cause, or increase, the pain sensation. Let’s face it, pain is not a good sensation (although, as stated before, some people believe otherwise), and like animals do, we tend to keep away from that which causes us pain, as it is one of the key elements in survival instinct, as well as the way our brain tells us that there is something wrong with a certain part of our body or that the action we are doing is causing a negative effect on it. In this case pain in itself is not a bad thing, but a way to let us know that we must stop doing what we are doing to avoid further damage to our body. 7. DISAPPOINTMENT This fear is somewhat hard to explain, since there are two different fears that are related to disappointment – one of disappointing others and one of suffering disappointment yourself. We all, as kids, lived that awful experience in which we did something wrong or misbehaved, and were expecting a punishment or at least some screaming from our parents. But, instead we got the unpleasant sight of our parents just staring at us with sadness in their eyes, and saying “I am disappointed in you”. That single sentence hurt a lot more than any other punishment would have. The fear of disappointment is part of the reason we avoid the unknown, disappointment is that feeling of dissatisfaction when our expectations do not match what actually happened. It is obvious that we make our best effort to avoid that, and, like pain, disappointment is a negative feeling that sometimes is followed by regret, in which a person wonders if their choices contributed to the outcome. “If I had done things differently, would it have made a difference?”
6. MISERY Poverty is defined as a situation that comes from the lack of the resources needed to completely fulfill the human needs. But misery is what we see as a more extreme case of poverty. It is the inability to cover our own basic personal needs. No one likes seeing or feeling human misery, because we know that the worst of human actions come out of the desperation caused by misery. It is what we consider as the lowest point in what comes to human needs, and that is why we fear it so much. No one wants to feel that absence of things, and this has caused the media to feed us more of this fear in advertising, telling us that we need more things than we actually do. And, even though we all know how bad a habit this actually is, at the end of the day we can all acknowledge how hard not having basic goods to back you up is. As it was expressed in the 2006 movie “The Last King of Scotland”, when Dr. Nicholas Garrigan tells Ugandan dictator Idi Amin that “money is no substitute for anything” he replies saying “[you say it because] you have never been poor”.
5. LONELINESS The fear of being alone is that dreadful feeling of emptiness caused by the absence of interaction with another human being. This fear has also evolved from one of our early survival instincts: we fear loneliness because it is more likely that we would survive if we live in group. The fear of loneliness is related to doing something and no one noticing. We often feel that in order for our actions to be meaningful, someone has to notice them. This relates to the philosophy quote “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”. If you make a groundbreaking discovery but no one else ever finds about it, does it still count?
4. RIDICULE The fear of ridicule is related to the fear of getting bad criticism, and is also caused by our social fear of not projecting a good enough image of ourselves to others. This fear is most often experienced in what is called “stage fright”. We all have felt it at least once in our lives, having to speak or perform in front of an audience. We fear that we might mess up and cause the audience to respond negatively, either by mocking us with laughter or, in the worst cases, booing. Even though some people practice hard enough to not feel stage fright, or have a well built self-confidence that helps deal with the effects of being laughed at or criticized, the fear of ridicule never really leaves us because we don’t like the feeling of being in the spotlight for a negative reason, and being at the mercy of the opinions of others. 3. REJECTION This social fear is one of the main reasons people act the way they do. We tend to (sometimes blindly) follow the actions of others, because it helps us avoid dealing with rejection from the society. We fear rejection because, like the fear of being alone, most of us can only justify our existence through the acknowledgement and acceptance of others. There are people who argue that acceptance from society is a mere illusion, and that there is no such thing as “normal” behavior from an individual within a society – if this is the case, then why do we fear not behaving “correctly” and in accordance with the cultural norms? This really puts into perspective our whole ethical infrastructure as a society; is something really good or bad just because society says so? 2. DEATH This fear is not no. 1, because, even though it is the main reason our instincts tell us to act the way we do, it is a well known truth that we all in the end will kick the bucket. But that doesn’t mean we have death as our worst everyday worry, because we avoid the thought of it as a near future occurrence in our lives. The fear of death is tightly tied to the fear of the unknown; we don’t know for sure what will happen to us when we leave this world. In fact, we are so interested in death that we have even developed whole cultures and religious beliefs that have tried to give an explanation to death since the beginning of time. Almost all ancient civilizations have a godly form or a method of worshiping death in some way, and we’ve all learned to respect it and eventually accept it. 1. FAILURE This fear deserves the top spot because it rules over all our actions and decisions. We all do, and don’t do, things in order to avoid failure. Failure can be a lot of things; realizing you don’t live your life the way you wanted to, not succeeding in your plans, finding yourself helpless, or in the worst cases even hitting rock-bottom. Failure is a very ambiguous and subjective term because failure is not on the same level and perspective to everyone, what counts as failure to one might not be even halfway there to another. To some, failure is actually a way to learn lessons and try again, so it is not really an end, but a tool for future reference. The main fear of failing comes with the disappointment that follows, that feeling that despite your effort, nothing seemed to go as you wished it did, and it causes a feeling such that you might not even want to try again. That is why this is the worst fear of all, the fear or failure is very often used as an excuse to procrastinate, or not do anything to make situations better – “why bother?” and “I’m just not good enough”.
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The holiday season is filled with happiness and celebration, but it can also be a time of danger for road users. it seems everyone is in a hurry trying to wrap up their shopping and enjoy festive celebrations. But as you’re dashing around town, it’s important to keep road safety top of mind, as the streets are busier and drivers are distracted by their holiday to do lists. People are urged to to be more careful on the roads. Here are a few friendly tips to ensure your Festive season is a safe one:
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-Don’t drink and drive Drunk driving is a major contributory factor to road crashes and road deaths. If you going to a Christmas party and plan to indulge in a drink or two and get merry, don’t drive. Stay the night or plan a safe alternative to get home such as a cab or designated driver. -Slow down In the rush to get to a Christmas party or do your Christmas shopping before the malls close, you may be tempted to speed. But police presence is greater on the roads both day and night throughout the season, and a speeding ticket and possible accidents are not likely on your holiday wish list. -Wear your seat belt Always buckle up. Wearing your seat belt can reduce your risk of dying in a crash by about half. Also, make sure young passengers are buckled into appropriate safety seats. -Watch for emergency vehicles In an emergency, every second counts. When you hear a siren, be sure to pull off to the side of the road to allow the ambulance, police car or fire truck to pass. -Obey road rules Always obey the rules of the road. They are there for a reason. Stay within the speed limits at all times. -Carry an Emergency Kit Always be prepared. The kit should include items that would come in handy if you are stranded on the side of the road or involved in a vehicle accident. -Pull Off the Road if You Feel Tired Please don’t try to drive when your eyes are shutting; you could kill yourself or others if you fall asleep. Have turns driving if there is another licensed person in the vehicle. Stop regularly to take breaks.