Wise Words for You

Learning How to Say No You want to be helpful at work. People come up to you and ask for your help all the time. Your boss gives you tasks because she knows you'll get the work done on time. Your colleagues hit you up because you are one of the most knowledgeable people. The trouble is, you have a difficult time getting your work done. When this happens, you need to learn how to say no. There are ways to say no that won't make you seem like the bad person. One great way to do this is to let people know you have other tasks and that you can get to their tasks after you complete yours.  It's fine to help people out, but you should avoid doing their jobs for them. If someone asks you to do something simply because they don't feel like doing it, you need to stand firm in telling them this is unacceptable. You should first ask why they can't get to it. Perhaps someone else has given them more tasks to do. You need to show them how to say no to those...

If you think you can do something alone, either because you don’t trust others to do it or because you feel you are the most qualified… * you will always be busy doing everything * you will be unhappy with others because they are not doing what you want * you will be dissatisfied It is more effective to invest your time in training and developing others.  There is greater success in cooperation

We asked leading scientists to predict the future. Here’s what they had to say 1. Does humanity have a future beyond Earth? “I think it’s a dangerous delusion to envisage mass emigration from Earth. There’s nowhere else in the solar system that’s as comfortable as even the top of Everest or the South Pole. We must address the world’s problems here. Nevertheless, I’d guess that by the next century, there will be groups of privately funded adventurers living on Mars and thereafter perhaps elsewhere in the solar system. We should surely wish these pioneer settlers good luck in using all the cyborg techniques and biotech to adapt to alien environments. Within a few centuries they will have become a new species: the posthuman era will have begun. Travel beyond the solar system is an enterprise for posthumans—organic or inorganic.” —Martin Rees, British cosmologist and astrophysicist 2. When and where do you think we will find extraterrestrial life? “If there is abundant microbia...

New Leeds Euro VI StreetDecks in Service First Leeds, one of the city’s largest bus operators, has introduced their new  Wright StreetDeck  ultra-low emission vehicles into service. By 1st April 2018, 34 new ultra-low emission “Euro VI” vehicles will be seen along the Headingley bus routes (1 and 6 services). All new vehicles will incorporate enhanced passenger facilities including next stop audio announcements, USB charging points and free Wi-Fi – as well as a new “LeedsCity” external branding which was designed by Best Impressions.  The new vehicles form part of First Leeds’s commitment to invest £71m in 284 new ultra-low emission buses for Leeds by the end of 2020. Speaking about the new vehicles, Martin Hirst, Commercial Director at First Leeds, said: “As one of the major bus operators in the city we understand the vital role we play in helping to find solutions to reduce air pollution and so we’re proud to announce the arrival of the latest ultra-low e...

Humility puts a hand out to nothing extra, but simply takes what’s there. Whether that be food or clothing or understanding. Sometimes there is a lot available and sometimes only a little. It doesn’t matter. Even when you understand nothing, there is no worry, for in humility there is the trust that if a person feels themselves to be a child of God, everything will come anyway at the right time.

The Wikipedia article of the day for February 27, 2018 is Olivia Manning . Olivia Manning (1908–1980) was a British novelist, poet, writer and reviewer. Her fiction and non-fiction, frequently detailing journeys and personal odysseys, were principally set in England, Ireland, Europe and the Middle East. Her first serious novel, The Wind Changes, was published in 1937. She lived in Bucharest, Romania, and in Greece, Egypt and Palestine, as Nazi Germany overran Eastern Europe. Her experiences helped form the six novels making up The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy, known collectively as Fortunes of War. The overall quality of her output was considered uneven by critics, but this series, published between 1960 and 1980, was described by Anthony Burgess as "the finest fictional record of the war produced by a British writer". Manning returned to London after the war, writing poetry, short stories, novels, non-fiction, reviews, and drama for the British Broadcasting Corpora...

Ego finishes regard Worry eats away your life Bribery finishes all justice Greed finishes all honesty Fear eats away a human being The greatest jewellery in the world is your own nobility Your own best companion in the world is your determined thought Those who do not wish for anything receive everything Renounce that happiness in which there is sorrow for others

The Wikipedia article of the day for February 26, 2018 is Stegoceras . Stegoceras, a pachycephalosaurid (dome-headed) dinosaur, lived in what is now North America during the Late Cretaceous period, about 77.5 to 74 million years ago. (This genus is unrelated to Stegosaurus, which lived more than 70 million years earlier.) Small and bipedal, Stegoceras was about 2 to 2.5 metres (6.6 to 8.2 ft) long and weighed around 10 to 40 kilograms (22 to 88 lb). It had a rigid vertebral column and a stiffened tail. The pelvic region was broad, perhaps due to an extended gut. The skull was roughly triangular with a short snout, topped by a thick, broad, and relatively smooth dome. The skull jutted out in the back over the occiput, and had a thick ridge over the eyes. The teeth were small and serrated. The skull is thought to have been flat in juvenile animals, growing into a dome with age. The dome may have been used for combat, display, or recognition. Specimens have been found in the Din...

The majority of  anger  and frustration in life, no matter what the situation, has at its basis one simple thought…. It shouldn’t be this way.  We all go through life with our own personal set of ideas about how we think things  should  work out, how we think people  should  treat us, how other people  should  behave etc.  I like to refer to this personal sense we all of have of how the world should operate, as our personal rulebook. This personal rulebook incorporates our beliefs, perspectives, likes, ideals, and values. It is something that we acquire through life from our experiences, what we learn, the other people around us, and the preferences we have developed. We tend to surround ourselves with other people who have similar rule books because it is more comfortable to be around others who view the world in a similar way, and it reinforces our beliefs that our own set of rules are correct. For example, in general, Democra...

If you take your responsibilities not as a burden but as a game, you will play with them with lightness and cheer.

The Wikipedia article of the day for February 25, 2018 is USS West Bridge (ID-2888) . USS West Bridge (ID-2888) was a cargo ship during World War I, one of the steel-hulled West ships built for the U.S. Shipping Board on the West Coast. Launched in April 1918, the ship joined a convoy of cargo ships headed to France in August. After the convoy was attacked by two German submarines and West Bridge was torpedoed, a salvage crew from the American destroyer Smith and four tugs dispatched from France successfully brought the ship into port. After seven months of repair, West Bridge resumed Navy service until December 1919. The ship was laid up for nearly seven years from 1922 to 1929, when she was sold to an intercoastal cargo service under the name SS Barbara Cates. By 1938, the ship had been renamed Pan Gulf for service with a subsidiary of the Waterman Steamship Company. During World War II, Pan Gulf made nine round trips across the North Atlantic without incident in convoys. In May 194...

Click-bait is a both an old and a new concept. While it's relatively young, low-brow, grocery-store-aisle tabloids have been employing similar tactics to sling their rags for decades. “Guess who's baby bump this is!” “10 Ways to Please Your Man!” “Doctors Hate This New Miracle Berry!” We've all seen these before, and we've all rolled our eyes at them. That is, until we see the one that actually grabs our attention. Who is the top choice to play Luke Cage?! What are the top 10 coolest video game easter eggs?! So why is it an effective tactic for grabbing a person's attention, even when they're aware that it's a cheap manipulation and intentional obfuscation of content? It's simple. Click-bait tricks the reader into playing a game with the article by asking the reader to make his or her own list of top 10 Interspecies Sci-Fi Kisses in Movie History, or guessing just what Johnny Depp wore on the red carpet. And once we start playing that game, well,...

A brand new Class 345 train has run into Paddington for the first time and testing will now take place as far as Reading and Maidenhead. TfL tweeted the news from the Elizabeth line's official Twitter account on Tuesday. The line, named in honour of the Queen, is expected to open in phases just before Christmas with passengers set to use 10 new state of the art stations across London and the south east. The first stage will see Paddington’s new Elizabeth Station open and link with Abbey Wood via central London. The first Elizabeth line trains came into service in east London between Liverpool Street and Shenfield in June last year. The first Elizabeth Line Tube roundels were recently installed at stations across the capital. New images were released of the purple TfL signs at Custom House, Farringdon and Tottenham Court Road stations ahead of Crossrail’s launch in December. Crossrail, Europe’s largest infrastructure project, is 85 per cent complete and will...

When we smile sweetly from the heart and then speak to others, not only do their hearts become happy, but our hearts also become happy

The Wikipedia article of the day for February 24, 2018 is Pyxis . Pyxis is a small and faint constellation in the southern sky. The name comes from Pyxis Nautica, Latin for a mariner's compass (as opposed to a draftsman's compass, represented by the constellation Circinus). Introduced by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in the 18th century, Pyxis is counted among the 88 modern constellations. In the 19th century, astronomer John Herschel suggested renaming Pyxis to Malus, the mast, since it appears near the old constellation of the ship Argo Navis, but the suggestion was not followed. Pyxis is completely visible from latitudes south of 53 degrees north, with its best evening-sky visibility in February and March. The plane of the Milky Way passes through it. Its three brightest stars—Alpha, Beta and Gamma Pyxidis—are in a rough line; the brightest of these is Alpha (magnitude 3.68), a blue-white star around 22,000 times as luminous as the Sun. Near Alpha is T Pyxidis, a recurrent nova...

When I grow, I automatically change. If I fear change, how will I be able to grow?

The Wikipedia article of the day for February 23, 2018 is A Cure for Pokeritis . A Cure for Pokeritis is an American short silent film starring John Bunny and Flora Finch, released on February 23, 1912. A domestic comedy, it depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on his weekly poker game. It was one of many shorts produced by Vitagraph Studios, whose popularity made Bunny and Finch early film stars. Although its style of humor is dated, it is a historically important representative of its period and genre. The film was an early example of efforts to move beyond the conventions of stage plays: during the police raid, action took place in both the foreground and the background, with the actors moving between them. This cinematography technique improved the realism and pacing of the scene. A Cure for Pokeritis may be the first depiction of poker in film. Like Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's Dogs Playing Poker paintings, i...

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People look for love through relationships. Yet this love is coloured with expectations. When these expectations are not fulfilled there is a tendency to get upset. Before we can love others we need to learn to love ourselves.

The Wikipedia article of the day for February 22, 2018 is Æthelflæd . Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians (c. 870 – 918), ruled Mercia in the English Midlands from 911 until her death. The oldest daughter of King Alfred the Great of Wessex, she married Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians, who ruled western Mercia when the eastern part was occupied by the Vikings. After her husband's death, she ruled Mercia and played a leading role in recovering southern England from the Vikings in cooperation with her brother, King Edward the Elder. She fortified many towns, sent an army to capture Derby, and secured the surrender of Leicester without a fight. The Viking leaders of York offered her their loyalty, but she died before she could take up the offer. Her daughter Ælfwynn briefly ruled Mercia, but was seized by Edward, who took her into Wessex and brought Mercia under his direct rule. Historians disagree whether Mercia was an independent kingdom under Æthelred and Æthelflæd, but they agree that ...

Introduction  There has been a recent surge of interest in using signing with all babies and young children, not just those with special needs. This can be viewed as positive in terms of making signing more acceptable and supporting integration. This paper will look at some of the research into the use of signing and report on findings from pilot studies carried out in 2005 by the Makaton Vocabulary Development Project (MVDP), which have demonstrated the benefits of using Makaton signing to enhance communication between parents and their babies.  What is Makaton?  Makaton was developed in the 1970’s by Margaret Walker, a Speech and Language Therapist, working in a long stay hospital. A small number of signs were introduced to a group of deaf adults who also had severe learning disabilities. It was found that all members of the group were able to learn and use the signs. The same signs were then taught to an adult population of hearing individuals with s...

Please note this blog may contain words that may be upsetting For Baby Peter, the revulsion and shame of a nation have come too late. Now, says Esther Rantzen, we must confront the truth about his killers if we are to protect other children from a similar fate. Every few years, a case of child abuse creates headlines so horrific that it is tempting to turn the page, shut our eyes and block our ears. And yet over the past 50 years we have witnessed a catalogue of horror; a child under five, according to the NSPCC, is killed every 10 days by a parent or carer. Jasmine Beckford, Heidi Koseda, Kimberley Carlile, Tyra Henry, Tommy Lee Bannister, so many more. The list of names should be read out once a year to keep the memories alive. At the time each one is reported, it seems uniquely awful, we react with disbelief, and then do our best to forget it. Baby Peter's death, in spite of 60 visits by social workers and health visitors who should have saved h...