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Cold Turkey Diaries

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Here's what happens when you stop smoking.

Within weeks you can breathe deeply and
Robert J. Wichlinski freely again, so you decide it’s important to look as good as you feel.

You dust off the treadmill, break out the free weights and begin exercising.  “One a day” workouts become “two-a-days” and exercising is no longer a chore.  It becomes a cleansing and enjoyable activity you actually look forward to.

You decide it makes sense to pay attention not only to what you’re working off your body, but what you’re adding to it.  You begin to read labels and eat healthy.  Antacids become unnecessary because your digestion improves.

You regain your sense of taste and smell.  Because you can actually taste and smell what you're eating, you don’t need to eat as much to become satisfied.  You also eat more slowly given you're not hyped on nicotine.

Your urge to drink disappears, as do the carbs and calories from your diet.  And when you do decide to drink, you actually enjoy it and drink small amounts.

Teachers: Unsung Heroes

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I know you will say that I’m prejudiced, but I would like to dispel some myths about teachers. First of all it is not an easy job. I wouldn’t do it for all the tea in CFred Ciccohina. They earn every penny they make. Actually they should be paid a lot more money. Just the thought of spending eight hours a day with all those kids would me crazy. Not only are they with them, but they have to try to teach them something.

The desire to learn has to be instilled in the home and in the school. The teacher can’t be expected to make the child learn without the help of the parents. It is hard to understand the expectations of some parents. They can’t understand why the teacher can’t get through to the child. Of course, they sometimes forget that they have a responsibility at home to help out the teacher.         

The first thing you always hear is those teachers have it so easy. They get three months off in the summer and two weeks off at Christmas. Boy, all that time off and they get paid for it. Most elementary teachers have the same schedule that my wife has. At school by eight or earlier. The kids leave at three fifteen, not the teachers. Most are there till five or after.

Law and Order by Chief Marco Kuyachich

The Internet: Educational, Yet Perilous

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Now that the school year is in full swing, your children are learning the skills that will benefit them in their future years and career. ThesLake County Police Chief Marco Kuyachiche skills are honed by teachers in classrooms throughout Lake County. The skills our children learn in the classroom and at home from their parents are of the utmost importance, as they will help to guide our children into their futures.

Parents and teachers work hard to insure their children (students) are safe and secure; the potential threats to our efforts are constantly changing and evolving.  We are living in a world that is increasingly driven through technology.  While the Internet is a phenomenal tool in assisting students with education, it is an unfortunate fact that sexual predators use it as an avenue to find and exploit our children.  The Crimes Against Children Research Center indicates that one in four youths in the past year have been sexually approached or solicited online.

Bits and Bytes by Greg Peiguss

Keeping Your Head in the Clouds


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Well, more to the point, keeping your PC in the cloud to be specific.  Yet another rage in the IT industry, Cloud CompGreg Peigussuting refers to a broad range of “services” that are available across the internet.  Some of those services may include servers, applications (programs), and networks.  Ostensibly, you are accessing a resource across an internet connection.  So why is this type of computing starting to take hold?  Well, there are a couple of very significant factors that are enabling users to operate in this type of environment. 

First, broadband access, or internet access at very high speeds, has become much more prevalent and the speeds keep increasing.  Not so much as 10 years ago, it was virtually unheard of if you had an internet circuit that exceeded the speed of a dial-up modem.  At 56kbps, you weren’t getting anywhere very quickly, unless you worked for a corporation that had the budget to afford a high capacity circuit.  Nowadays, affordable, fast internet connections are available to most home users via such mediums as your telephone lines, cable television, or wireless.

 


    
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