Fireflies, airplanes and oceans
The essential innocence of electro-pop sensation Adam Young
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Why give gifts anyway?
Among all the frenetic activity of Christmas, do we ever stop to consider why we give gifts at Christmas time? Where did it originate from and why do we give gifts anyway?
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Cutting costs at Christmas
Family Finance
by Jill Hart
Though our budget is tight, I asked my children what they wanted for Christmas. My 6-year-old daughter replied, “All I want is a jump rope. And I think Grandma is getting it for me.”
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Escaped the institution
For 18 years, Kevin Mudford was in and out of 42 state institutions including boys’ homes, mental institutions and prisons, until one day he heard his brother in blood and crime was a changed man
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Inquisitive mind finds truth
Digging deeper for answers rewarded Lita with a certain future
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‘I love and forgive you’
“I can’t tell you the joy and love that I felt,” Robert says of the best Christmas present of his life
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The planet’s celestial visitor
Tips for Life
by Alan Bailey
UFOs and aliens are back in the news, perhaps more than ever. People in high places are giving a good deal of credit to alleged sightings and reports of alien activity at nuclear and military establishments. Are we being visited by completely unknown creatures? Are they going to do us good or harm? Or is it all hocus-pocus?
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Positivity not paralyzed
Keith Barton did not allow a tumour or paralysis to rob him of his joy
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Making a change
by Karl Faase
I once read an article which said that many people, “choose the certainty of misery over the misery of uncertainty”. In practice, this means that no matter how bad your life is, you won’t change because you can’t be sure what the change will bring.
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Save video files from the internet
Method 1 — One of the easiest ways to capture videos like KeepVid.com, SaveVid.com or SaveVideo.me, download-helper sites that do not require a software download. After you’ve found a video you want to save, enter that video’s URL at these sites and follow the prompts.
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Rescuing the helpless
By Peter Brain
The world watched the Chilean mine rescue with a sense of thankfulness and awe. We could feel the emotion as each miner was brought to the surface and embraced their waiting families and friends. Most human endeavors involve risk and mining is amongst the riskiest and there is an almost universal acceptance of the rightness of efforts made to rescue those in danger.
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How to stay in love
Tips for Life
by Alan Bailey
Families fall apart so often — statistics dictate that you either have experienced it, or you know someone who has. Dads or moms have gone missing. For some, raising children was too much, or they just tired of the relationship and wanted out.
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Moth eyes inspire anti-reflective surface — but difficult to copy
Believe It or Not
By Dr Jonathan Sarfati
Reflected glare is a problem for viewers of display screens, and it’s also a problem for solar cells — light that’s reflected can’t be converted into electrical energy. But researchers have noted that although moths see well at night, their eyes don’t shine in light, meaning that they are harder for predators to see. This is because the moths have orderly arrays of tiny bumps, or nipples, on the surface. They are smaller than the wavelengths of visible light, and they defle
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Folate — an important nutrient for women
Healthy Living
with Miriam Thyer
(BSc. Nutrition, BSc. Health Promotion)
Folate (also known as folic acid) is a vitamin that all women of child-bearing age should be aware of. Folate is crucial for the healthy development of babies in early pregnancy. Even if you are not planning on becoming pregnant, you should still think about Folate as around half of all pregnancies are unplanned.
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Someone in the stars
“Looking at the moon and stars, I wondered who had made everything” — sara san
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Suicide not the solution
Hoping to escape traumatic childhood experiences that he now believes were not anyone’s fault, Sean Zemunik tasted heroin for the first time at 16, and his ensuing drug addiction and deep-seated anger proved to be a deeply troubling combination.
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Could God love someone like me?
Yes, He LOVES you and has a plan for your life
We read in God‘s word: "God so loved the world
that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16)
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Making Christmas special
by Rob Furlong
From the time our children were young, we have faithfully kept an annual Christmas tradition in our household: setting up the Christmas tree on December the first!
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Good time to prune roses
Garden Time
by Hank Reeve
I have to say winter is not one of my favorite times in the garden. It is especially depressing when just about everything in the garden stops growing, except the weeds of course. Ironically, they seem to flourish in winter.
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If God Exists Why is there Suffering?
by Ian Coate
When disaster occurs, we naturally question why God allows it to happen.
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180 turnaround
Sport
As sporting legends go, Janna Meyen-Weatherby is one of the greats, quickly making her name in the snowboarding world.
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