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Sam became the third housemate to be evicted from the Big Brother house after receiving 53% of the public vote against perennial whinger Nikki Grahame.

Newcome Sam, who entered the house after a fortnight alongside Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace was available at 5/2 before nominations were announced as Grace Adams-Short was the early favourite to face the boot.

Public opinion on the 20-year-old dance teacher has changed dramatically in the last week or so after viewers have seen her two-facedness on the highlights programes.

On Monday 5 June, the day nominations took place, Grace was favourite to leave at even money due to the public likely to vote her out no matter who she was up against. Plus, her close ally Imogen Thomas was banned from nominating for the second week running. Lisa, who may also have supported her, was also banned after being caught discussing possible nominations.

The odds were as follows before the nominations were announced:

Grace – Evens

Sam – 5/2

Lisa – 10/1

Lea – 10/1

Aisleyne – 12/1

Richard – 16/1

At this point the 5/2 available on a Sam eviction looked exceptional value for money as he / she should have been odds on. Many of the housemates had confided in each other or in the diary room that they had grown tired of the gender bending unemployed nail technician (seriously) for a variety of reasons.

Grace and Lea both complained that Sam stands nearby when they are about to use the bathroom and Nikki expressed her disgust at it’s practice of taking the concept of “girls” going to the toilet together to an extreme level.

Glyn said he didn’t like the way Sam followed him around, that he’s too clingy and is desperate to get on with people. Sam always needed reassurance that she was close friends with the other housemates when they were not that interested.

The fluctuating odds on the betting exchanges while the housemates were going through the nomination process suggested Sam and Lea would be up for eviction as Grace’s price drifted further out.

The confirmed possible evictees were Sam who immediately plummeted to 1/4 while Nikki was available at 5/1.

There was no way that Nikki was going to leave and was shown in a positive light during the run up to Friday, being given the role as PA to Big Brother during a task while some unsavoury late-night footage of Sam was broadcast for viewers morbid curiosity.

Sam was favourite to leave from then on and was evicted with 53% of the vote, suggesting it was more closely contested than the bookmakers and weight of money against him / her suggested.

Ever wonder why some kids are the way they are? Ever wonder why some kids seem to lack the basics in true inner character? Well, just exactly how did we think children would ever get character – without being taught character. Long gone are the days when whole communities worship weekly. Long gone are the days when everyone in our small societal circles subscribe to the same exacting morals and principles to guide life and living.

I remember when my son was young we made a move to a new state. We left behind a community within a community. We left behind a large group of people (friends and neighbors) that subscribed to similar ethics and standards of behavior. Everyone we knew, predominantly, up-held the same guiding principles that our family lived by. Then that ever fateful day. It was during the first week at his new preschool & playing with his new neighborhood friends in our new state. My son walked in the house and I made a simple statement “because that is how we do it.” To which my son replied “well, Mike’s family doesn’t do it that way and they don’t even care about that stuff.” UGH ! We had come to another milestone in parenting: awareness of diversity within family styles and values.

The reality is that kids DO learn through osmosis; meaning, they will assimilate and become what they see around them. However, what is it that they see around them? Aside from home-schooled children (or those that attend private academies) children today are away from their families up to 12 hours a day in some cases including before and after school care. Being gone either 8 hours or 12 hours a day leaves precious little time for a family to model all the appropriate qualities they wish to instill within their children. Not to mention, these hours are relegated to EARLY morning hours (barely awake time) and late evening before bed hours (barely coherent time again).

Over a lifetime our children will spend the majority of their time away from us. They will be witnesses to their friends, their friend’s families, movies, worship communities, television shows, video games, scouting troops, music, sports teams, camps & conferences, etc. There will be an excess of information coming into your child’s awareness and all of it leading to who your child becomes.

There are many many places your child will observe character, some of it good and some of it not good. Besides what type of character– which attributes will your child randomly be exposed to? And will your child be able to identify them, understand them, and discern how to incorporate them in such a way to be a wonderful adult?

Here is a list of 52 qualities of internal character. You can take one item a week to fill up a year’s worth of character training within your own home. You can design the curriculum, buy the curriculum, or hire someone to work with your family to tailor content that reflects the lessons you’d like your child to learn along the way in life. As I said before, long gone are the days when parents can just trust that throughout the day their child is taking in the right information to become a responsible, highly functional, & happy member of society. Take the list. Tweak it to fit your lifestyle and preferences. Have fun with it. And enjoy knowing you are not leaving your child’s character up to chance.

1. Accountability
2. Caring
3. Character
4. Charity
5. Compassion
6. Credibility
7. Desire
8. Determination
9. Diversity Awareness
10. Diversity Respect
11. Duty / Responsibility
12. Empathy
13. Excellence
14. Fairness
15. Flexibility
16. Following directions
17. Friendliness
18. Frugal
19. Fun
20. Generosity
21. Gentleness
22. Giving
23. Global awareness
24. Happiness
25. Helpfulness
26. Honesty
27. Honor
28. Hope
29. Humility
30. Imagination
31. Integrity
32. Judgment / reason
33. Knowledge / education
34. Logic
35. Loyalty
36. Obedience
37. Openness / privacy
38. Patience
39. Peace
40. Perseverance
41. Politeness
42. Respect
43. Self-control
44. Sharing
45. Sportsmanship
46. Strength (internal)
47. Team player
48. Tenderness
49. Tolerance
50. Trust
51. Trust-worthiness
52. Uniqueness

Until next time— all the best,

Kate

About The Author

Kate Hufstetler is a well established personal life coach and spiritual facilitator who has helped many individuals like yourself. Her clients come from both the United States and overseas. She offers coaching services via email and phone consultations Her specialty is to cut through delusions that keep people living a mediocre unsatisfying life, to get them to engage reality, initiate changes in order to propel them to the life they truly desire. http://www.comedreamwithme.com

kate@comedreamwithme.com

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A great number of gaming devotees may have learned of the phrase “offshore sports betting”, though some may not be completely assured what that signifies. An overseas gambling internet site in essence functions out of the administration of a specific country instead it could be a live gambling web site that has its central computers in a state where computer accessible betting isn’t currently banned. In summary therefore, it’s a gaming establishment operating independently of the rule of the state of the patron. Web based sports gambling websites are mostly governed through 3 institutions. These are titled OSGA (the Offshore Gaming Association), IGC (Interactive Gaming Council) and the Fidelity Trust Gaming Association FTGA.

The OSGA are an independent agency that keeps checks on the current overseas sports gambling industry, they intend to also grant sports gamers the capacity to find acclaimed companies to play betting games with. The OSGA endeavors to maintain customer’s rights, moreover they don’t charge any annual costs. The agency is a proficient and non-biased third party affiliation who voice nonpartisan opinions, suggested by your evaluations, unbiased inquiry, telephone conversations, insider advice and in addition offers industry information.

The Interactive Gaming Council is a nonprofit administration. The organization was created to provide an arena for worried people to address subjects and also to boost collective worries in the multinational online gambling industry, to establish impartial not to mention competent industry standard procedures and procedures which enhance client confidence in interactive gaming products and functions, also to function as the trade’s public policy counselor and the council also operates as an information base of operations.

The Interactive Gaming Council have developed a distinction for advocating safety, fairness and also plausibility through the criteria it demands, and its appeal to concerns of high ethics. The IGC governs overseas betting by advocating an original ten-point code of practise and in addition charges gaming internet sites a license fee to show the council’s logo. Displeased betters can additionally give an account of their conflicts to the Interactive Gaming Council.

The Fidelity Trust Gaming Association has been formed in an effort to generate a benchmark which will reform the transactions of world wide web based gaming internet sites. The authority suggest that by associating solely with respectable partners, they are able to establish a membership of the fairest and most professional cyberspace gambling companies multinationally.

To recapitulate, these are establishments that inspect the procedures practised by live sports gambling and which should function to take the edge off most if not all of the misgivings due to the insecurity held by doubters. Internet gambling websites are now absolutely trustworthy, since personal details should not be needed and the rewards not to mention the odds are usually as balanced and sportsmanlike as common Vegas-type sports bet. These sites do away with traveling outlay, but retain of a casino, but today you can gamble in your home.

People in Washington are always on the go, rushing to the next important meeting or appointment in their busy schedules. With today’s technologically-driven world, laptops have become part of the locals’ daily lives. These Washington-based individuals rely on their portable PCs for personal as well as professional needs. However, there may be times when lugging around a heavy laptop is more of a burden than a necessity. Gone are the days when there is no choice but to lug around that heavy bag with the powerhouse inside. Now consumers can opt for a lightweight laptop that will make their busy days that much easier.

Depending on what the laptop is going to be used for, there are a number of portable gadgets to choose from. There are units that are just for simple, basic processing needs; these are also the ones to look for when there will be minimal Internet connectivity needed. There are also gadgets weighing five pounds or less that pack awesome power and unbelievable features; these are the units one should consider for more complicated processes like doing presentations, extensive calculations, video editing and a whole lot more. Prices are commensurate to the features and portability that the units offer.

A lightweight laptop offers the same power and convenience as a regular-sized laptop without the sore shoulder/back muscles that result from lugging that monstrous gadget around during a busy day. These gadgets are designed to make life easier for an individual, not literally burden them with more weight than their backs are designed to carry for the duration of the day. Shopping around for the perfect unit that matches your needs (and budget) may take a while, but that will be easily balanced out by the ease with which you can carry that all-important gadget with you no matter where you need to go, any time of the day.

For those who on board of the online article writing train to propel your website traffic then you know that the more articles you write the more traffic you will get. I have discovered a secret way to Write 7000 Online Articles in 15 Months or Less and this is number 7000 to prove it. Want to know the secret? It is called busting your butt and pressing on, even when you are tired, worn out or just find your brain needing a rest.

You see in many endeavors in my life I have discovered that the only way to do anything or achieve your goals is to stick with the program and persevere. You must be dedicated, have a strong work ethic and maintain your strength of character. You must never let anyone tell you what you cannot do, who you are or what is possible. You must decide and only you can make it work.

If you allow others to convince you that you cannot accomplish your dreams or fulfill your destiny then in fact you only have yourself to blame. As I finish up this article number 7000 I have been awake for now for 31 hours and it is interesting while I am extremely fatigued and trying to watch my spelling and grammar errors, I can tell you this…

If I had to run a marathon right now and then walk another 100 miles before I slept or write another 116 articles like I did during this last 31 hours I would. Now then, this is what you are capable of, but even more, don’t waste your abilities, do not surrender your dreams. I know because I have done it in every endeavor I have ever worked at.

I know you can do anything and the Movie Rocky is not a dream or an inspirational tale, well it is but let it be known right here and right now that this human spirit and intent is an incredible power. You can do anything you want in this life, just name and go do it. Nothing is impossible you are only limited by your acceptance of limits, yet there are none, these are barriers you create, they are false realities.

Believe it and you will achieve it, persevere and never ever ever ever ever ever give up. You owe it to your genetics, your family heritage and yourself to press on. Well that is it really, that is how life works, in everything I have ever done and if you want the most out of your life experience then read this article again, as they told me I could not do it.

They said no one could ever do it, they told me it could not be done, they were misinformed when they told me there was no way in hell I could write that many articles. And yet this is; Article Number 7000 and it is completed!

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You have a non-fiction book in mind. You know it’s going to be great and it’ll help a lot of people. But you also have mountains and mountains of material–so much good information! So much excellent research! How do you organize it all to create a powerful book? Here are the basic building blocks of a non-fiction book. Keep these in mind and you won’t get overwhelmed by your material.

1.) Think About Your Reader

When you think about your reader you’re thinking two things: “What does the reader get out of my book?” and “What kind of relationship do I want to establish with the reader?” One of your duties as an author is to offer your reader something of value which could even change their life for the better. Ideally you’ll make it clear what this value is when you title the book. It’s pretty clear, for instance, what you’ll get when you pick up Stephen Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. This could also provide the structure for your chapters. If you’re teaching how to improve your golf stroke in 10 steps, you could include a chapter on each step. You don’t have to make it more complicated than that.

As for your relationship with your reader, what do you want it to be? Will it be a teacher/student relationship? Peer-to-peer? A storytelling relationship? If you’re writing a biography, you may want to be a storyteller and have your reader be a listener. Will your voice be friendly and homely? Or authoritative and formal? The point is that you’re always asking yourself “To whom and I speaking and how do I want to be heard?” What choices will best suit your audience?

2.) What’s Your Theory?

Theory is how the writer is proposing to make his ideas play themselves out. It’s how it all works. In Anthony Robbins’ book, “Awaken the Giant Within”, he’s making the point that you are in control of your decisions and you can really tap into your human potential. Well, how do you do that? His theory of how you do that is to become aware that you are in control of everything that happens within you. You are in control of your emotions, of making choices, of creating what he calls “neuro associations” that will draw you towards a positive behavior or help you move away from a negative behavior. That’s his theory.

I’m assuming if you have already decided to write a non-fiction book that you have a plan that you’re presenting to the world. Non-fiction books are often the result of what you do in your everyday life; you may notice that things could work better if people did things in a different way. Maybe your how-to just makes more sense, or it fits your readers better than someone else’s theory. That’s why it’s important for you to have your own ideas. It truly is about what you’re bringing to the book, how much you’re putting yourself into it, because that’s what brings energy and vitality to the work and makes a lasting impression on the world.

3.) What Stories Will You Tell?

Stories are a crucial ingredient in non-fiction books. They are what will help bring your points home to the reader and make them real. Most writers use anecdotes from their professional lives. Life coaches use stories from clients, real estate brokers use stories from people they’ve worked with. Stories help the reader see that 1) other people have dealt with the same problems and 2) the writer has direct experience and knows how to bring about a successful solution.

When you use stories you’re also using an ages-old technique–it’s even used in the Bible, where stories (or parables) are told to educate the reader on complex concepts. I think our brains still respond positively to this technique. Stories can be a softer way of taking medicine–that spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down!

4.) What’s Your Call to Action?

When you craft a call to action for your reader, you are designing a way of telling them, “Here’s what you do now that you have this information, here’s how you make it work.” Let’s use a weight loss book as an example. Maybe the theory is about overeating. If you were writing this book, you might want to include calls to action throughout the book giving the reader different strategies about how to avoid overeating. You’ll include how not to overeat in restaurants, how to avoid overeating at bedtime, how to avoid overeating while traveling or at buffets, whatever.

In some books the author will present questions and exercises. That’s part of a call to action because it makes the reader stop and absorb what they’ve just learned and even to design their own action plans based on their own unique circumstances. In our example above, you might challenge the reader to choose two alternative things they could do instead of overeating.

What’s Next?

Now you have to write the book! Keep this structure in mind and you’ll be well on your way to creating a powerful book that will inform, educate and–in the best of all possible worlds–change the way we live for the better.

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