In Perspective

https://pixabay.com/en/users/langll-822640/ Keep yourself warm and avoid sickness during winter or cold season. Here are some tips: 1. Layer with heat-warming and insulating materials. You can wear multiple layers of clothing but if the materials aren't right, layering would be useless. Some of the best cold or winter materials are fleece, wool, flannel. keep warm 2. Wear thick and moisture wicking socks. When your feet get cold, you'll eventually feel cold all over. Thick socks trap more warm air and moisture wicking socks eliminate sweating. This is important because sweaty feet equals cold feet.  keep warm 3. Use pool noodles and apply weather stripping to doors and windows. Block the draft out by putting  pool noodles under your door. Weather strip doors and windows to minimise heat loss.  keep warm 4. Do more baking and roasting during winter or cold weather. Naturally warm up your home by scheduling more use of the oven during winter or the cold sea...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5929423/Terrifyingly-narrow-passage-trapped-Thai-football-players-squeeze-through.html Photo from this article from dailymail.co.uk. Updated info 8:50 AM AEST: The weakest were extracted first. Latest from ABC.Net. au on the first rescue mission After 16 days of being trapped inside the Tham Luang cave, four youths of the Wild Boars Thai soccer player team were rescued last night. The official press conference informed the public that the next rescue mission attempt will start within 10 to 20 hours as oxygen tanks need refilling. We know that not one of them have had the experience of diving, with some who don't even kow how to swim. With the rescue operation, two divers are tasked for each child. thai cave rescue http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-08/live-thai-cave-rescue-imminent/9948472 Image provided by abc.net.au in this article here . Risks were laboriously evaluated and hard decisions had to be made. The ...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/calgaryreviews Here are 12 tips for better results with your slow cooker or Crockpot: 1.For stews and dishes that must turn out saucy or soupy, add at least .5 cup of liquid. Broth, water, sauces, some juice, or wine are some of your options. s low cooker 2. For baked dishes, remember to line the top with paper towels and secure with lid. This prevents condensation liquid to fall on your baked product. Take care when opening the lid. The tissue may fall and the liquids may spill onto your finished goodies. 3. Cut vegetables like potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots in larger sizes. This gives you rightly cooked veggies, not mushy, overcooked ones. s low cooker 4. Don't fill your ceramic pot. Maintain content to halfway or 3/4ths full for even cooking and better heat circulation. 5. Use slow cooker liner or baking paper for baking dishes. This makes for easy cleaning afterwards. Remember to grease liners with butter or oil spray....

https://pixabay.com/en/users/PixLoger-783453/ Some spectators deem it as Aussie's Big Fuss on the Plastic Bag Ban. Woolworths probably had no idea that going earlier than Coles in implementing the single-use plastic bag ban would create such a backlash on them. This environmental friendly practice is no stranger to many shoppers. Even in Australia, many shops have not been issuing bags for years now. ALDI is one of these. To regular shoppers of Woolies, it's a wonder how any of them would fail to grasp the information given by Woolworths months in advance. I've been seeing the signs in shops and online at their website. Stressing out on missing simple information like that is a wonder for me. Life and joy are too valuable to lose over flimsy matters like bans on plastic bags.  It's funny and sad to see headlines like this: Full article here . Updated news write-up here .(It's embarrassing.) Oh the minute issues people spend their energy and emotions ...

https://pixabay.com/en/users/Pezibear-526143/ Here is a piece I wrote for Godinterst.com: Biblical Principles on How To Reclaim Your Life

https://pixabay.com/en/users/4144132-4144132/ Here is a piece I wrote for Godinterest.com: What Does The Bible Say About Fathers?

https://pixabay.com/en/users/Free-Photos-242387/ Lost Once lost, can it still be found? I feel I've lost something,  Yet I cannot perceive what. It's formless.  It's faceless. I'm groping in the dark. I rack my brain trying to trace its existence. It's lost to oblivion. Emptiness, an evidence of its former presence. Something was there. Now, it's not. At the last, light flickers. Understanding comes. What's lost is not something but someone. What's someone is me. A new query arises. Once lost, can I still be found? - ©AnaMenez please reuse with  author attribution. Thank you.