Hair Straightening ~ YouTube Videos

Just when you think it's impossible, these people show that it's possible. Note that these methods are not permanent but temporary. These methods cost nothing, but the time taken to achieve its objectives. Generally, hair is separated into smaller groupings to ensure that as much of the hair is given an individual treatment to straighten it.

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How I Straighten My Hair

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HouCe5CvLY

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Video 02:
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This video comes in 2 parts.
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Hair Tutorial: How I straighten my hair Pt. 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAB3l5e7OJk

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Hair Tutorial: How I straighten my hair Pt. 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzrcJIkwMy4

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Straightening natural hair- part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2uc7LYMszQ

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Straightening natural hair- part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MVotHc1qls

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A Driver’s Prayer

Dear God, 
Don’t let us hurt anyone as we drive;
Help us keep everyone alive.
Make our judgment sound as steel;
Be our hands upon the wheel.
Amen
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P4 Maths ~ 2011 Mar 02, 1804hrs ~ Mum bought some grapes

I've got another maths question from a colleague with a Primary 4 child.

Question: 
Mum bought some grapes.
She ate 1/10kg, gave away 2/10kg and had 4/10kg left.
How much grapes did she buy?

Here's how I got the answer...

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From: Undisclosed
Sent: Wednesday, 02 March, 2011 4:33 PM
To: Undisclosed
Subject: question

...just need to clarify on the model drawing:

Mum bought some grapes. She ate 1/10kg, gave away 2/10kg and had 4/10kg left. How much grapes did she buy?

How do I draw the model?

Thanks J

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Your Best Friend ~ Don't Fight Like Cats & Dogs

Best Friends...

Your Best Friend
Don't Fight Like Cats & Dogs

Pray for the Victims & their Perpetrators...

Although we pray for the victims, 

we must also pray for the perpetrators 

because effectively, the perpetrators' soul 

is in more trouble than the victims' health.

~ PGA

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Prayer, Victims, Perpetrators

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My BLOG Entry ~ Heat Stroke

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Date: Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Subject: Heat Stroke

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Heat Stroke

The common heat injuries are heat exhaustion - marked by symptoms such as headaches, nausea and fainting - and heat cramp, a painful muscle contraction in the thigh or calf as a result of excessive loss of water and salts. Heat stroke, which is potentially fatal, strikes when the body temperature shoots up beyond 41 deg C. The normal body temperature is about 37 deg C. Recruits have been told to drink beyond the point of thirst and/or until their urine is clear. Servicemen are also taught to watch out for their buddies and identify early signs of heat injuries and how to deal with them.

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News ~ SAF is winning the war against heat

The Straits Times, Monday, 2011 Feb 28, Page A3

Picture Caption ~ SAF Medical Corps members demonstrating on a dummy, treatment techniques used on soldiers with heat injuries at Nee Soon Camp on Friday. The 33 medical centres in camps and training schools - including the Basic Military Training Centre on Pulau Tekong - have body cooling units to deal with heat injuries. -- ST PHOTO: MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN

New rules, education see heat injury cases fall 90% from 1990s

By Jermyn Chow

WHEN it comes to heat injuries, Singapore soldiers are increasingly keeping their cool.

Based on statistics from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Medical Corps, the number of cases has fallen from about 200 per year in the 1990s to 20 per year now - a dip of 90 per cent.

New training regulations and education have helped reduce the number of heat injuries. The number of cases has stabilised over the last five years, during which the SAF stepped up training at home and overseas.

It also deployed a record number of servicemen in peace support missions in Afghanistan and the Gulf of Aden last year.

Each year, more than 20,000 male Singaporeans report for national service, introduced in 1967 to strengthen Singapore's defense capability.

Lieutenant-Colonel (Dr) Lionel Cheng, deputy chief army medical officer, said soldiers succumbing to heat are mostly full-time national servicemen.

The common heat injuries are heat exhaustion - marked by symptoms such as headaches, nausea and fainting - and heat cramp, a painful muscle contraction in the thigh or calf as a result of excessive loss of water and salts.

Heat stroke, which is potentially fatal, strikes when the body temperature shoots up beyond 41 deg C. The normal body temperature is about 37 deg C.

The SAF medical corps declined to reveal the number of heat stroke cases, saying only that they are "a small number". The last reported death in the military due to heat stoke was in 2008, when a 20-year-old trainee pilot collapsed during a three-day jungle course in Brunei. He died later in hospital.

Lt-Col (Dr) Cheng said the new training regulations and education are important because most of the new recruits, despite living in an equatorial climate, have a more "air-conditioned lifestyle".

"National service may be the first prolonged time during which they are doing physical activity outdoors," he added.

The moves, which have been in place since 2009, include putting recruits through a heat acclimatisation phase during the first four weeks of basic military training.

Training also includes "work-rest" periods to allow for adequate rest. This process, also known as periodisation, can range from 15 minutes of rest after a 45-minute workout, to a day of light activities such as indoor lectures after two of three days of outfield training.

Recruits have been told to drink beyond the point of thirst and/or until their urine is clear. Servicemen are also taught to watch out for their buddies and identify early signs of heat injuries and how to deal with them.

Besides measuring temperature, Major (Dr) Jonah Kua, a medical officer in the Soldier Performance Centre, said the SAF also monitors wind movement, humidity and how fast human bodied conduct heat to ascertain whether it is safe to train.

He added that the 33 medical centres in camps and training schools - including the Basic Military Training Centre on Pulau Tekong -  have body cooling units to deal with heat injuries.

The military is sharing its winning formula, with the guidelines compiled in a 35-page dossier. It has been published and circulated since November to doctors in hospitals and clinics.

But Lt-Col (Dr) Cheng cautioned that as long as the SAF continues to train, it can only keep heat injuries low but not "down to zero".

Agreeing, housewife Clare Tan, 50, whose 19-year-old will be enlisted later this year, said: "Tough training is important to make a good soldier so long as safety is not compromised.

"But I'll probably have to get my song outdoors more often and get him used to doing things under the sun."

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 02, 2011

Labels: Army, Heat Stroke

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Heat Stroke

The common heat injuries are heat exhaustion - marked by symptoms such as headaches, nausea and fainting - and heat cramp, a painful muscle contraction in the thigh or calf as a result of excessive loss of water and salts. Heat stroke, which is potentially fatal, strikes when the body temperature shoots up beyond 41 deg C. The normal body temperature is about 37 deg C. Recruits have been told to drink beyond the point of thirst and/or until their urine is clear. Servicemen are also taught to watch out for their buddies and identify early signs of heat injuries and how to deal with them.

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News ~ SAF is winning the war against heat

The Straits Times, Monday, 2011 Feb 28, Page A3

Picture Caption ~ SAF Medical Corps members demonstrating on a dummy, treatment techniques used on soldiers with heat injuries at Nee Soon Camp on Friday. The 33 medical centres in camps and training schools - including the Basic Military Training Centre on Pulau Tekong - have body cooling units to deal with heat injuries. -- ST PHOTO: MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN

New rules, education see heat injury cases fall 90% from 1990s

By Jermyn Chow

WHEN it comes to heat injuries, Singapore soldiers are increasingly keeping their cool.

Based on statistics from the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Medical Corps, the number of cases has fallen from about 200 per year in the 1990s to 20 per year now - a dip of 90 per cent.

New training regulations and education have helped reduce the number of heat injuries. The number of cases has stabilised over the last five years, during which the SAF stepped up training at home and overseas.

It also deployed a record number of servicemen in peace support missions in Afghanistan and the Gulf of Aden last year.

Each year, more than 20,000 male Singaporeans report for national service, introduced in 1967 to strengthen Singapore's defense capability.

Lieutenant-Colonel (Dr) Lionel Cheng, deputy chief army medical officer, said soldiers succumbing to heat are mostly full-time national servicemen.

The common heat injuries are heat exhaustion - marked by symptoms such as headaches, nausea and fainting - and heat cramp, a painful muscle contraction in the thigh or calf as a result of excessive loss of water and salts.

Heat stroke, which is potentially fatal, strikes when the body temperature shoots up beyond 41 deg C. The normal body temperature is about 37 deg C.

The SAF medical corps declined to reveal the number of heat stroke cases, saying only that they are "a small number". The last reported death in the military due to heat stoke was in 2008, when a 20-year-old trainee pilot collapsed during a three-day jungle course in Brunei. He died later in hospital.

Lt-Col (Dr) Cheng said the new training regulations and education are important because most of the new recruits, despite living in an equatorial climate, have a more "air-conditioned lifestyle".

"National service may be the first prolonged time during which they are doing physical activity outdoors," he added.

The moves, which have been in place since 2009, include putting recruits through a heat acclimatisation phase during the first four weeks of basic military training.

Training also includes "work-rest" periods to allow for adequate rest. This process, also known as periodisation, can range from 15 minutes of rest after a 45-minute workout, to a day of light activities such as indoor lectures after two of three days of outfield training.

Recruits have been told to drink beyond the point of thirst and/or until their urine is clear. Servicemen are also taught to watch out for their buddies and identify early signs of heat injuries and how to deal with them.

Besides measuring temperature, Major (Dr) Jonah Kua, a medical officer in the Soldier Performance Centre, said the SAF also monitors wind movement, humidity and how fast human bodied conduct heat to ascertain whether it is safe to train.

He added that the 33 medical centres in camps and training schools - including the Basic Military Training Centre on Pulau Tekong -  have body cooling units to deal with heat injuries.

The military is sharing its winning formula, with the guidelines compiled in a 35-page dossier. It has been published and circulated since November to doctors in hospitals and clinics.

But Lt-Col (Dr) Cheng cautioned that as long as the SAF continues to train, it can only keep heat injuries low but not "down to zero".

Agreeing, housewife Clare Tan, 50, whose 19-year-old will be enlisted later this year, said: "Tough training is important to make a good soldier so long as safety is not compromised.

"But I'll probably have to get my song outdoors more often and get him used to doing things under the sun."

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Bitterness, Anger & Forgiveness

Just received this via email. It has some tips on handling 'Bitterness, Anger & Forgiveness'.

"My mother was a child of God and 

I needed to forgive her, he told me sternly."

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Leaving Bitterness Behind

How God allowed hope and healing to flower in my life

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By: Lydia Mendoza*  (*A pseudonym has been used at the author's request)

We pulled into the driveway of our "new" house on moving-in day, and my heart sank. I hadn't remembered that it looked so bad.

The cement driveway was badly chipped, and frost heaves had made the sidewalks bulge up dangerously. Debris and overgrown plants were everywhere. Like a creepy welcoming committee, five dead bushes lined the walkway to the front door.

Most overwhelming to me, though, was the dark and towering maple tree that loomed up over the house. It was enormous—its trunk more than four arms' lengths around—and it so dominated the front yard that our children couldn't play and run around there.

It would be a costly and difficult project, but I knew that tree had to go.

Tree of Bitterness. There was something else in my life that had to go, and the maple tree came to symbolize it for me: I was harboring a deep-seated hatred of my mother.

The hatred had its roots in the wounds and trauma I experienced growing up. These were not small hurts. My mother had a problem with substance abuse, and her neglect put me in situations where I was physically and verbally abused. As I got older, I went down many dead ends in an effort to deal with the resulting pain—drinking, drugs, sex, moving far away. In the end, God reached out and brought me to himself.

I thought God would also remove my pain and hatred, yet there it remained. I felt so guilty. Wasn't a Christian supposed to forgive and let offenses go? Hadn't Jesus said, "Love your enemies?" (Matthew 5:44). I had made an attempt to work things out with my mother, but it backfired. She was not at all repentant for what she had done and even accused me of "making too much of things"!

By the time that maple tree came into my life, I had decided to cut off all contact with my mother. God kept nudging me to forgive, but even the sight of her stirred awful emotions in me. I didn't want to deal with them anymore. I was pregnant with our third child, and it was time to put traumatic memories in the past and move on.

But it wasn't so simple. The hatred that had started small, like a maple sapling, had grown and grown. Now it was taking up space in every part of my life and thoughts.

"Timber!" A few months after our move, my husband and I hired a professional tree service to cut down the maple. It was quite a production.
Early one morning, a large truck pulled up in front of our house. Our two children watched intently out the window, fascinated to see workers swarming over the yard and up the tree with ropes and tools. The men cut huge branches, then the trunk. By late afternoon, they were swinging their pick-axes high and taking out the roots. Finally, they ground up the enormous stump.

It was fun to plant things where the maple tree had been—grass seed, tidy bushes, and a flower bed of purple and pink tulips. When spring arrived, though, the first flower to come up was a single purple crocus! I felt annoyed at first. It had popped up uninvited and didn't belong in my design. But the tiny flower was so beautiful and had such a rich purple color that it made me smile.

The First Crocus. I will call God's grace the tiny crocus in my life. It, too, popped up when I was not expecting it. I had gone to Confession for the first time in years, and was spewing out all the reasons why I hated my mother. Boy, did this priest give it to me! My mother was a child of God and I needed to forgive her, he told me sternly.

I left crying and shaken, but relieved that I had told God the worst and survived! (Maybe he needs to use a pick-axe too, sometimes.) Out of obedience to the Lord, and with a new reliance on his grace, I decided to forgive once again. It was the first deep cut to the trunk of my big tree of bitterness.

Tree removal is hard work, but God helped me by bringing wonderful things into my life—a healthy new baby, fruitful consultations with a priest and a therapist, and supportive friends who love the Lord. In time, I was talking to my mother again.

Not that it was easy. She hadn't changed a bit, and sometimes I still cringed or felt my heart race when I saw her. But God was changing me. "If you let this hatred go," he seemed to be saying, "I will bring so many good things into your life." And so every day, I would reaffirm that it was God's will to tear down this bitterness.

It was a gradual process, like bringing down the maple tree, but I can now say that my hatred is gone. Little by little, the Lord healed my crushed heart and filled it with his lush grass and purple crocuses.

In the Garden of Grace. One of the "crocuses" was meeting new friends. Once this tree of bitterness was down, my life—like my front yard—became more welcoming and open to others. Making sisters in Christ has been especially healing. It seems to me that even my physical appearance is being transformed!

Another purple crocus is the daily rosary. In the fourth decade, which I call my "dandelion patch," I pray for my mother and for all those who have hurt me, as well as anyone I have hurt. I ask for Mary's intercession to remove these big and little weeds and help me be good soil for the Lord. I don't want to harbor any more plants that might seem small and harmless but can grow to choke out the Spirit's life in me!

Truly, the Lord heals the broken-hearted and makes all things new. I am so thankful that he gave me the perseverance to obey, forgive, and do the hard work of digging up and cutting down my anger. He replaced my huge hurt with a new, full life. Like that maple tree, my hatred is a distant memory.

By grace, the Lord makes good things grow that I did not even plant! Now I look forward to whatever new purple crocus the Lord has waiting for me.

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