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When you own a beautiful watch, everyone notices it. They may remark on it and compliment you on this beautiful timepiece. Alternatively, they may simply regard you as a person who is quite successful. After all, a person with a great watch must be making a great living and doing quite well for themselves.

It is critical that you care for your watch properly to ensure that it lasts its full lifetime with you. When you care for your watch, you are giving yourself the guarantee that you will get a long life from that watch. Many people discover that simply by giving their watches regular maintenance care, they can have the same watch for ten or even fifteen years! Your watch becomes a real symbol that represents who you are. People remember you and your beautiful watch.

To be sure your watch runs well, any watch must be professionally serviced each year by a jeweler. When your watch is professionally serviced, they will check to make sure that each part of your beautiful timepiece is operating properly. They will confirm that it is keeping time appropriately. Your jeweler will also replace the battery and polish your watch to a fine shine. Along with a regular service appointment, take your watch in for cleaning and care as this is needed.

Most people discover that they can easily clean their watches at home. However a professional jeweler can supplement the cleaning you do regularly. Clean your watch with a cloth that does not shed or create any lint. These tiny particles can get caught in your watch and cause great havoc. Your jeweler may even sell appropriate cleaning supplies or have a suggestion as to where you can find them. When your watch is waterproof or water resistant, use a small amount of water and a gentle soap to clean your watch. Non water resistant watches can be polished at home, but for more thorough cleaning they will need to be taken to a jeweler.

A mild soap or baby shampoo can be ideal to use to clean your watch. Baby shampoo is well known for being quite gentle and having very pure ingredients. Another alternative is to look for a mild liquid hand soap without perfumes or coloring. The perfumes and coloring are unnecessary and you don’t need any excess ingredients interfering with your watch. Watches are very delicate instruments. Some get a bit over enthusiastic when cleaning their watch and their watch gets completely wet. Others may be distracted when they take on this chore, leaving the chore half done. It is best to take care of your watch when you have at least ten minutes of private time to yourself to focus on this task. Taking the time and being patient will show in the great care for your watch.

Any watch that you purchase will come with instructions as to how to care for it. Pay close attention to these instructions and use them as your guide. These instructions will help prolong the life of your watch.

Some watches have bands, which can be removed. When your watch band can be removed, such as a cloth or a leather band, then remove it before cleaning it. Use practical cleaning for leather or cloth without submerging the band in any liquid.

It is best to care for your watch as a regular habit. By marking a day each month as your day to notice your watch and to confirm that it is keeping time accurately and that it is polished and clean, you can prevent more serious chores for your watch that may need to be done. Many watches are so sensitive that when the watch battery begins to run, it will start to lose a few seconds. You can easily time your own watch and have a jeweler install a new battery before your watch battery runs down completely. There is almost nothing more frustrating than having your watch stop dead and have no idea what time of day or night it happens to be.

When we care for our belongings, they last longer. This has been shown time and time again. Learning about your watch and its needs will help you to care for it and let it last for as long as it possibly can. Fortunately many watches can last for twenty years or more. The watch you have today can easily be the beautiful timepiece that sees you through the next two decades. Take good care of your watch and your watch will take good care of you!

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Chicago, with a population of nearly three million people (roughly one percent of the entire nation’s inhabitants!) it’s not hard to imagine that many of America’s most famous people are current residents of Chicago homes or at least once had a home in the Windy City.

Here is but a small sampling of some of the more interesting Chicago homes ranging from minutely interesting to intriguingly gruesome.

Mae Jemison: First African-American Woman in Space

Mae Jemison grew up in Morgan Park, an upscale area of southern Chicago. There she attended Morgan Park High School. Mae was so smart, that she surpassed all the available math classes at her high school. Her thirst for knowledge drove her to show up to school before it started in order to attend Calculus tutoring, a class which wasn’t offered at the time.

Mae participated in several extra-curricular and was even student council president. But she was also a big Star Trek fan. One day, while watching Star Trek with her best friend, she revealed that she would one day, “…do that.” Though her friend thought she was speaking of becoming an actress, Mae’s sights were set on becoming an astronaut.

Hugh Hefner: The Man Who Never Gets Out of His Pajamas

It was in high school that Hugh Hefner was first given the nickname of “Hef,” given by none other than himself. Legend has it that while attending Steinmetz High School in northwestern Chicago, Hef was snubbed from an invitation list to join a hayride. The incident resulted in an image makeover by the future founder of Playboy Magazine.

It was at Steinmetz High that Hef was voted Most Likely to Succeed and Best Dancer.

After high school, Hef went on to serve in the Army during WWII then later graduated from the University of Illinois with a major in psychology and a double minor in creative writing and art. According to Hef, it was in college that he first conjured up the idea for Playboy Magazine.

After leaving Esquire magazine (because he was denied a raise) he decided to break out on his own. After raising $8,000 (including $1,000 from his own mother) he went on to publish his first famous issue of Playboy in 1953, featuring none other than Marilyn Monroe.

John Wayne Gacy: Chicago’s Least Favorite Homeowner

When it comes to Chicago homes, few may be more famous than the home of rapist and murderer John Wayne Gacy.

Raised by a father that was an abusive alcoholic, Gacy had always retained a strong relationship with his mother and sisters. Despite his father’s abusive nature, Gacy noted that he regretted never having the chance to grow close with his father before his death.

But it’s Gacy’s adult life that brings on the morbid fascination of the public. Through the late 1970’s and 1980’s, Gacy raped and murdered several young men. Gacy’s Chicago home is famous for being the location where he hid several of the bodies beneath the floorboards.

Other Notable Chicago Residents

Though Mae Jemison, Hugh Hefner, and John Wayne Gacy may be a few of the better known owners of Chicago homes, the Windy City sports a slew of famous residents and famous residents which include actors such as Lara Flynn Boyle, David Hasselhoff, and Harrison Ford.

Nancy Reagan also lived in Chicago during her teenage years, graduating from the Girls’ Latin School of Chicago in 1939. Donald Rumsfeld is another famous name from the arena of politics.

Though the list we supply here is a short one, even the long list is sure to pale in comparison to what one great city will provide us with in the future. There is no doubt that Chicago homes, right at this moment, are incubating a whole new line of future famous residents.

Remax Illinois (http://www.illinoisproperty.com/chicago-real-estate.aspx) specializes in offering Chicago homes as well other real estate throughout Illinois. The author, Art Gib, is a freelance writer.

There could possibly be no other thing in the world that holds a value of greater importance than that of time itself. Time ultimately affects every single thing that we do throughout our entire lives, and often times it can even affect when we do each thing that is planned out in our lives to be accomplished.

Every single one of us acquires a variety of different valuable assets throughout our lifetime, but time is possibly the most valuable one of all the assets that we could ever have.

Even in the very beginning times of civilization, everyone has had to have some type of a way to be able to keep time. Both the portable and the stationary sundials were more than likely the devices that were used by individuals so that they keep time during these earlier times of humankind. The archeologists and historians, who have applied a tremendous amount of research and time studied to time, believe that these devices that were used to tell time were more than likely developed in either Mesopotamia or Egypt. It is also known that the Egyptians would use the pyramids and the obelisks as a type of forerunner to the sundial that dates as far back as 1500 BCE.

One of the very first watches were have thought to of been created in Italy, somewhere around 1524 CE. When watches were made during this time however, they faced a big and frustrating problem. All of the watches that were created before the 1600s lacked enough sufficient driving power to allow them to be able to run correctly. The weights that drove the timepieces of this era, created a problem when it came to portable use, as in watches. A majority of watches that were made were only being constructed with the use of one hand. The watches would also have to be wound twice during each day, and this made the watches of this time extremely inaccurate.

The spiral balance spring was finally implemented into the world of making timepieces in 1675 CD. It would ultimately change the history of time forever. The way timepieces would be viewed from this point on would be with much more enthusiasm because of the better accuracy they could provide. The accuracy of time is extremely important, so this breakthrough was a very big accomplishment.

Instead of time ranging in accuracy to fractions of an hour, the accuracy changed to that of being fractions of a minute. During this time, the second hand was also added to the making of watches, along with the addition of Roman numerals to mark each minute. It took a little more time, but eventually, people would only have to wind their watches once per day, instead of once in each 12-hour period.

Of course much has changed since these times of very long ago. The fast paced and high tech world of technology that individuals of today have accessible at their fingertips, has drastically changed and greatly improved the making of watches of long ago.

There has been much better steel created that goes into their making, gears that are much more precise than they used to be have also been made, and springs that are crafted much more efficiently have been added to the quality workmanship that goes into the making of watches.

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Everyone experiences culture shock when they start university (especially international students). Whatever school or college you come from, it is all new and unnerving. Don’t worry, almost everyone quickly gets used to it.

Here’s some general advice to help you get started.

- Arrive in good time to settle into your accommodation and meet housemates etc before you have to register.

- Get yourself a diary and maps. A campus map is a must but you will need a city map too. Use them to make sure you know where you are supposed to be and when (don’t rely on other freshers having much more of a clue than you).

- Get yourself to induction meetings (IT facilities, library, students’ union etc), to enrolment, course briefings, meeting your tutors for the first time, at the right time and right place. Induction meetings can bore you to death, but you will see the faces in power and you might sit next to someone interesting.

- Find out where your lectures, seminars, tutorials and laboratory sessions are held and when; and where you hand in your essays etc.

- Start making your own academic timetable for the term or semester, noting dates that assessments have to be handed in (to avoid being penalised if it is late).

- Then submerge yourself in the first week’s entertainment, usually a Freshers’ Fair, endless discos, parties and bar promotion nights. This is also when all the clubs will try to recruit you but don’t be hassled and don’t waste money joining loads of ludicrous societies. Some people find freshers week seems to last for ever; but you can always use the time to explore the locality or do some background reading as well as party.

Once you have moved into your halls, settled into your bedroom and made friends with the people in your flat or on your corridor, you should consider how sharing the kitchen will work best. The kitchen is always the most social place in student flats. It’s important to make it a nice a place to be. Keeping it clean reduces arguments and tensions and cooking together is good for maintaining healthy friendships. Here are a few pointers:

- Find out what cooking facilities are available where you live (oven, rings, grill, microwave, gas or electricity?)

- How many others share them?

- Are there restrictions as to when they can be used?

- Make sure you know how to operate them properly.

- What about cooking utensils, pots, pans, cutlery, crockery etc?

- Make a list of things you know you will need and check whether they are provided. A basic list could start with:kettle, saucepan(s), frying pan, chopping, board/surface, sharp knife, bread, knife, wooden, spoon/spatula, ovenproof dish/bowl, dishtowels, tin, opener, jug, mugs, glasses, plates & bowls, cutlery, then add whatever else you, personally, cannot do without - fish slice, lemon squeezer, garlic press, potato peeler, cheese grater, sieve, corkscrew.

- What food storage space is available? Particularly, how big is the fridge and who uses it? It can make a big difference if there is somewhere secure for you to store supplies rather than shopping each day.

- Many students prefer to share buying and cooking food. It saves time and it’s good for bonding in a flat/house. It pays to be organised about it, especially where money is involved: set up a kitty, or a book where everyone writes down what they spend on communal food. And agree early what is communal and what is not: milk, coffee, cleaning stuff etc. Keep some sort of emergency supplies so that you will not starve if your cook gets a last minute invitation on the way home.

- If you have not done much cooking before, there are lots of student cook books. You’ll find them in supermarkets in university towns, or check out new and second-hand student cookbooks on Amazon.

Enrolment:

Put up with registration and enrolment, it only happens once a year (and the first year is the worst). It is vital to get your university (student card, which is your passport to libraries, the SU and maybe an actual key to the university buildings. Expect queues (take books, crosswords or try busking).
Make sure you take everything they ask for eg information about your fee status, original exam certificates. You will usually have to take all your certificates, including GCSE certificates, so get duplicates in advance if you have lost them (results slips are usually only accepted for the most recent exams). Take a pen and don’t lose your papers.

Take lots of passport photographs for ID, membership cards etc.

Have a good start to the year!

Student Book is a website for prospective and current students. It offers a university comparison tool and a wealth of information on the ins and outs of applying to university. The site is also a guide to student life with advice on finance, welfare, study skills, accommodation and a lot more. These are helpful, relevant and entertaining articles aimed at students and future students.

Record Keeping is a topic which is frequently bought up at homeschooling meetings and forums, and its importance in the homeschooling curriculum can not be overlooked. Record Keeping for homeschooling is not only legally required in various States, but also provides important goals in your child’s learning experience. An interest-initiated homeschooling approach means that the topic of studies is far ranging and diverse. It can become very confusing to write accurate homeschooling reports, due to the interest-initiated approach to learning being so difficult to classify and pigeon-hole.

Record keeping in homeschooling is vital not only for the sake of regulations, but is also an exciting way to record and document the learning process of the child. When most of the learning is done through play and there is no clear indication of topics that have to be covered, it becomes necessary for the parent to keep some sort of a log which records the child’s progress.

The method for your record keeping can be as simple as a piece of paper and and as complex as a computer pro gramme- it is completely up to you to decide which method will be more effective. If you are participating in a support group, you most likely have set forms and requirements. However, staying on top of daily assignments and reports will make the process so much more efficient and easily achievable in the homeschooling environment.

The most popular record keeping methods used by various home schools are listed below.

Daily planner:

Lay out the plans and the assignments for the week in a teacher’s planning notebook. Check each item as it is covered, and make additional notes if issues arise which might be improved on in the next semester. Maintain a separate area where any additional things can be recorded. This may include educational trips, visits and videos, homeschooling online materials etc. Any extra topics that were covered should also be recorded in this area. Make sure you make a summary at least once every quarter.

Journal:

This can be maintained by either the teacher or the student. This basically aims to keep a log of what was learned and what was done in the homeschooling sessions. No only is keeping a journal of your homeschooling a fantastic way to reminisce in the future, it is also a means to monitor the effectiveness of your teaching and your child’s interpretations of the homeschooling process.

Portfolios:

This consists of a collection of diverse materials that display what the child has achieved and done during the course of his/her homeschooling study. Portfolio assessment is a very effective way to chart the child’s progress. It gives structure to the otherwise loose and flexible form of schooling called homeschooling. A drawing portfolio will consist of some paintings or sketches that are considered the best in that quarter. A language portfolio may consist of essays, stories, reading-logs, spelling samples or letters. Progress in subjects such as mathematics, fine arts, history, science and social studies can all be recorded in this manner. The biggest advantage is that portfolio assessment places control in the hands of the home schooled child. Having a tangible record of what they have achieved in their homeschooling will only serve to motivate them to achieve more and more.

Conclusion

Other than the above-mentioned systems, there are also purchased record-keeping systems that lay out a great checklist and help to automate the homeschooling process. There is now an abundance of homeschooling organizers and planners available online- do use due diligence when considering homeschooling products- preferable use a recommendation where you can see how effective the product is going to be. Whichever method of record keeping you decide on for your homeschooling, it is an essential part of the homeschooling process and will be beneficial to initiate from the start. You never know, your child’s future may depend on this system of record-keeping.

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How many years will this mark for you in the field of education? Are you a first year teacher nervously awaiting the first day, hoping your jitters do not surpass those of your students? Or perhaps you are a veteran teacher counting the years to retirement? And then there are those of us in between, perhaps switching grade levels or assignments within our field of early childhood development or elementary education.

Whatever the case may be it is always a big day when you welcome a new group of students. They lose sleep, we lose sleep and parents rejoice that a routine will soon enter their lives once again! How can we as the educators capture that feeling of rejoicing? I suggest one simple word my friends, and that is laugh!

Yes, you read correctly. Laugh! Did you know that laughing protects your heart? The increase of blood flow that takes place as a result of laughing will help the blood flow which in turn helps to protect your heart. Not enough you might say to convince you? How about the fact that laughing increases your tolerance of pain and boosts the production of infection-fighting antibodies? Now that is really something.

Bottom line is you can stay healthier and happier by simply adding laughter back into your day. And as a teacher, I know there are many opportunities to laugh no matter what grade level you are teaching. Whether it is the preschool aged child who is quick to let the entire group know about the cockroach in his bathroom this morning or the elementary school child who innocently relays information about the teeth he found in a glass that belong to his Grandma! There is always something that we can laugh at; sometimes we just get so darn busy we forget to seize those moments.

And just in case you are still not convinced that you need to lighten up and laugh more, I will be quick to point out that one minute of hearty laughter is equal to the same heart rate after ten minutes on the rowing machine. I am talking that deep belly laugh that children are so great at before society keeps their silliness in check. The laugh that starts at your toes and works its way around your body, making everyone stop and enjoy this deep laughter. I am not one for the gym, so any way I can find a substitute for working out, I am all over it!

These first weeks of school can be stressful, on us as educators and on the children. Try to lighten up the mood of the classroom or your own homeschooling environment and make time for laughing. Make a real effort to set aside time to just enjoy a funny story together or share a few minutes of a silly music video that gets you up moving and laughing together. You will find that everyone benefits from the moments spent laughing and stressing less.

Stress decreases your immune system. Humor boosts the levels of immune cells in your body. This is an easy choice my friends. Choose laughter to live longer and enjoy life more. You will be glad you did!

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