Enjoy on Long Weekend

The Metro station is nearby and provides a fast service to much of the town. Lille had its early beginnings in 1030 as a little town surrounding the castle of Buc. It suffered hostilities during the 13th and 14th centuries having been destroyed, rebuilt, besieged and retaken. We made an early visit to the tourist office by Gare Rihour for maps and services. Alternatively a one day travel pass costs 3.50 euros. A two hour guided tour of the Old City leaves at 2.30 PM on Saturdays.

The Palais des Beaux Arts is a short walk away. A large collection of 17th and 18th century ceramics from many European countries is housed in the basement. A further gallery is devoted to 19th century French sculpture. If the cafes are full then the restaurants will serve you coffee except at lunchtime.

We had to wait for the riverboat tour, which was included in our City pass and so visited the nearby zoo, admission was free. The Conservatoire de Lille by Rue Colos is opposite the Palais de Justice. It now displays work by Flemish, Dutch and French artists.

There are numerous restaurants offering food of every nationality. The excellent guide to restaurants, bars and discothèques is free from the tourist office. There are many places just a few short hours drive from all capital cities in Australia where you can enjoy a relaxing long weekend away, and if you want it all planned for you why not enjoy a tour around the Blue Mountains or a Phillip Island tour.

The Blue Mountains

The Blue Mountains are a short easy drive from the centre of Sydney and the region is popular with many tourists as well as people just wanting a short break from city life. There are plenty of places to stay offering luxury accommodation, including five star hotels and relaxing bed and breakfasts. Daylesford

Home of the day spa and natural mineral springs, visit the Hepburn Springs Spa and have a relaxing massage, a facial or enjoy the therapeutic benefits of the underground water. The town itself has many lovely shops, the Convent Gallery full of beautiful art works and visit The Lake House for a delicious gourmet meal made with fresh local produce.

Barossa Valley

The accommodation on offer includes luxury hotels, cosy bed and breakfasts and self contained cottages. Enjoy visiting some of the ninety wineries in the region, visit the historic townships with their gourmet food, shops and antiques, or take a walk through the surrounding state forest.

Margaret River

Bright

Located in central Victoria, Bright is the perfect place to visit and stay, and have access to the Victoria snowfields. Visit the wineries or go antique shopping, visit the brewery, or a deer or emu farm.

Brunch Party is an excellent idea to enjoy a long weekend. Brunch Parties are linked to having good sleeping hours.

You can plan very interesting dishes and drinks so that all your guests really enjoy every single bit of it. The Brunch Party would be really dry if it is without a drink. The drinks that you can serve at your Brunch Party can be Frosty Sours, Strawberry Daiquiris. Happy Brunch Partying.

"Long Weekend" is the tenth episode of Mad Men's first season, featuring the various activities that the Sterling-Cooper workers engage in during a small vacation from work. Prior to the weekend vacation, Betty Draper's father arrives in town with his new girlfriend.

The weekend plans around the office range from Joan Holloway and a recently-fired secretary going out on the town to find an 'actual bachelor' (in other words, not Roger Sterling who's a married man), and Roger making plans to hijack two twin models from an ad campaign for alcohol and debauchery.

Rachel and Don spend the night together.

Mom,You Are so Perfect

Today we celebrate this holiday by giving our Mother's all sorts of gifts from flowers to jewelry. If your mom isn't the plant type then why not a spa gift certificate; a great way to show you love her with a little pampering. Personalized gifts are also a great way to show off your love. Personalized key chains that hold a picture are a great way for your mom to remember when you were little. Key chains aren't the only gift that can be personalized a personalized compact makes a great gift for a mom and a great reminder of how beautiful she is.

Moms love that sort of thing.

Do you want to prepare something special and sweet for your mom this coming Mothers Day 2012?

1. Bake a cake for her - you could always buy a cake for your mom but this Mother's Day, you should try and personally bake a cake for her. 

2. Create special video greetings for her - another sweet gift that you could come up with this coming Mothers Day is a special video for your mom. You could present this video while everyone is gathered in your living room celebrating Mother's Day.

3. Come up with personalized greeting card - when was the last time that you created a greeting card for your mom? 

4. Give her some beautiful flowers - lastly, a beautiful bouquet of flowers will surely make your mom happy. The gift ideas presented in this article will definitely make your mom feel special on mother days on 2012. Are you wanting to give your mom something different this year for Mother's Day. Mothers today are smart, computer-savvy gals who love trying the newest gadgets. 

Education For Children

There are many special education courses offered in school today. Whether a child needs complete special education or just assistance in understanding one or two classes, special education can change the way that a child learns. Before you send your child to special education classes you need to determine what is best for your child using these five tips.

Does the special education class teach what your child needs? If the class is taught in the same way that the regular classes are taught, chances are your child will not benefit from this type of special education. If a child does not understand something, you need to know how quickly they respond and how do they help. Sometimes children learn more when they actually see it. You also want to see how often your child's teacher will be performing parent teacher meetings. It's important that you and your child's teacher work together to create a working plan for your child's education. There are a large number of students who have difficulty learning material using traditional teaching methods. Incorporating art into the curriculum of students with learning disabilities can be a useful tool. Students with disabilities are not students who are incapable of learning but instead are students who may need material presented to them using alternative methods. Methods that incorporate art can be very successful for these children.

Many students with disabilities are separated from regular students for either part of all of the school day. These students spend a great deal of time focusing on remedial skills and learning new skills to help them catch up with the rest of the class. Allowing children to be involved with art related activities also encourages creativity, problem solving skills, motor skills and other skills that are useful in all areas of academics like math, science and language.

Art lessons can be combined with traditional lessons and used as a teaching tool for these students. Children that have difficulty with verbal expression will often have more success by expressing themselves through art. Sometimes just holding a student's attention is half the battle especially for students with attention deficit disorder. Activities that encourage drawing and painting can help students learn about shapes, contrast and spatial relationships. Teachers can implement lessons that use these art activities to teach basic math skills like geometry and various other math techniques. Teachers are often allowed to use alternative methods to assess a students skill set in a certain area when teaching a student with disabilities. Allowing students to express creativity and learn about concepts using alternative methods is essential to development for those students who struggle in traditional settings. Computers have become a common and needed part of life in today's society, making computer education imperative for children. While it is may be a good idea to begin introducing your toddler to the computer in very short sessions, most children can began to learn and understand a computer's functionality by preschool age.

Preschool age children can learn to turn the computer on by themselves and will quickly learn to operate the mouse. Simple games that teach and reinforce basic school readiness skills are great for this age. Computer education for preschool age children should be limited to short sessions of about 30 minutes a few times a week.

Structured games and activities give young children an opportunity to explore the way a computer works. As children become more comfortable with the computer, more complex games and activities can be introduced. Games like Typing Instructor for Kids can help young children become fast and efficient computer users. Software programs that allow children to create, like an art or publishing suite designed specifically for kids, can boost creativity along with providing exposure to technology. Computer education for children should also include writing and creative writing activities. If you do not want a marginalized child in your local school; you must not be a marginalized parent. Schools are opportunity centers for the community and nation. Your ignorance is not your children's bliss. How old are the computers in your child's school? How does the level of learning compare to the norms for children in your child's age group?

Enjoy Old Age

From the recent surveys and research on old aged married couples, the negative effect of old age on sex life is increasing day by day. With time the lifestyles and healthy conditions have changed much that have resulted in this negative effect. But if you are really excited about the sex life and want to enjoy most during old age there are sex secrets that you can try out for enjoying those all fun.

Exercise is the real key to the health of your body. You should therefore focus on exercising daily so that you enjoy best and healthy sex life in your old age.

If you are very serious towards enjoying sex making in your old age, there is another best option for you. Old aged married couples just love these toys when they want to have more fun and pleasure during sex making.

This further increases the closeness and nearness and effectively help to enjoy love and sex life in your old age.

More often than not, people blame the downhill trend their life takes to old age. At a younger age, your body was able to heal itself faster in spite of the reckless lifestyle you led. As you grow old, the number of hormones your body secrets gradually reduces. You know what to do to keep your body healthy: proper dieting, regular exercise, and a life style change. You need to live your life like an adult as you grow older. Whereas children still have the luxury of enjoying a sedentary life, older people have the obligation to their society. An inactive life will make your feel weaker. Look at old age as a time to explore, and try out new things.

The expectation in our society is to live until the ripe old age of 80, give or take a few years. This is considered a "ripe old age". The truth of the matter is that we in the United States don't really enjoy old age. No, man can't live forever. But, in certain parts of the world life spans well into the 100s is common and researches have discovered that the secret to what is truly a "ripe old age" rests in a large handful of lifestyle choices, or habits, that can help to sustain the human body well beyond our current expectations. According to Sally Beare in her excellent book, 50 Secrets of the World's Longest Living People, thirty-four Okinawans per 100,000 are over the age of 100 while only 10 per 100,000 in the United States. Scientists have identified specific lifestyle habits that can result in a longer life. Aging is part of the life cycle that is a natural process that incorporates changes to the entire human organism -every cell, molecule and organ in the body. The term senescence is defined as a slow decline in functions related to the aging process. There are many theories as to why we must grow old and why our bodies must age. 1. Theory of Programmed Longevity which says that aging is the result of the sequential switching on and off of certain genes, with senescence being defined as the time when age associated deficits are manifested. 
3. The Endocrine Theory says that biological clocks act through hormones to control the pace of aging. 
6. The Crosslinking theory says that an accumulation of crosslinked proteins damages cells and tissues, slowing down bodily processes. 
8. Somatic DNA Damage - Says that genetic mutations occur and accumulate with increasing age, causing cells to deteriorate and malfunction. Source: National Institute of Health, 2004

Beare describes fifty lifestyle habits that are common between the areas of the world with the oldest living people. The top six habits can start us on the path to a longer and healthier life.

One study found that people under 67 years old who ate an extra 500 calories a day increased their risk of colon cancer by 15% in men and 11% in women.

Fruits and vegetables contain many important nutritional benefits that help the body fight off diseases including cancer and arteriosclerosis. 3. Choose Buckwheat, Brown Rice and Other Whole Grains. While the average American eats 151 grams of meat protein daily, the people in the countries studied in Beare's book average only 50 grams daily. 5. Get Plenty of Aerobic Exercise. Exercise has many benefits including heart health and detoxification. Stress speeds up the aging process and causes disease. Among the countries with the longest life spans, the Okinawans have very low stress levels. They live life at a relaxed pace known locally as "Okinawa Time" and do not feel compelled to rush or be on time. This, along with their strong spiritual beliefs, reduces stress and the rate of aging.

Faithful To His Wife

I'd known Ben casually for many years. Most of the men had never met prior to our first meeting two decades ago.

At that meeting, Ben told a couple of raunchy jokes about women. There were nine men at that first meeting, and eight of us sat stunned and mystified by Ben's overt sexism. I didn't know any other men who shared Ben's sexist attitude. I asked Ben at one of our meetings, why he felt it was okay to cheat on his wife. His rationale was that men in Europe had affairs and mistresses all the time and that it was no big deal. He further added that there were no reasons to remain faithful to his wife because they had both grown bored with each other sexually. When I asked him about the level of emotional intimacy in his marriage, his reply was that he didn't trust his wife enough to be open and honest with her. Ben wanted to have his cake and eat it, his wife's feelings notwithstanding.

As the group found its footing and began talking about emotional intimacy, Ben sat quietly, not saying much, except to make jokes about women. He was becoming a distraction to the other men who wanted to deepen the intimacy in their relationships. Outside of the group, Ben surrounded himself with men who winked and nodded at his infidelity. He strutted like a peacock with his friends, never considering how foolish his behavior made him appear.

Ben hadn't ever cried before, in fact he'd never shown any emotions before, except anger. We waited patiently until he could speak, and what came out explained everything about Ben's behavior.

Ben had served in the Air Force in his early twenties and had been stationed in Korea for two years, during which time he'd met a beautiful young woman, Kim, who was studying English. Now we understood why he held such anger in his heart for women, and we also understood why he felt women were untrustworthy. During those decades when he thought he had the pain safely locked away, it was actually eating away at his heart and destroying his ability to feel anything for women except contempt. I was proud of Ben for finally sharing the feelings in his heart and suggested he might want to share that story with his wife, who he'd married on the rebound from Kim when he returned to the States. Ben's story turned out to be a good news/bad news scenario. The good news was that Ben figured out why he felt as he did about women. Perhaps because I think men's work is all about becoming a better man, Ben's behavior seemed sad to me, especially since he had succeeded in setting his heart free, but failed to implement the lesson. The point of Ben's story, however, isn't whether or not he decided to change. Men carry around their past pain in gigantic steamer trunks that are locked and sealed in their hearts. Ben's story is a recruiting poster for men's groups, but it's also a wake-up call to every man whose behavior reflects some past pain. I was an angry man until I was pushed to talk about the reasons for my anger. Most of the other men discovered the roots of their dysfunctional behavior, and were able to let go of the pain that they'd locked up. Men can do better, much better, and sharing their stories is the first and best step towards becoming better men. It doesn't take any courage for a man to inflict his pain on those close to him. In the final analysis, "life" proves time and time again that a man SHOULD remain faithful to his wife and a wife SHOULD remain faithful to her husband.

And, when a man and woman are happy in their marriage relationship, it's relatively easy to be faithful.

However, in order for a marriage relationship to be happy, EFFORT - that is, management effort, maintenance effort, support effort, and giving effort - is required by both the husband AND the wife.

Soon enough, it becomes easy for a man to look about and see attractive women all around. What I want you to realize is that we men can get so NARROW - so SELF-CENTERED - in our thoughts, viewpoints, and interests that we are often "blind" to the TEMPTATION we PUSH our wife into.

Consequently, we often don't even realize just how tenuous our marriage relationship really is.

Here's the thing...a wife wants and NEEDS her husband directing attention and desire towards her. Your wife drives to a nearby town to spend the night with a childhood friend. Soon, another man asks her to dance with him. Shortly thereafter, a couple of guys "move in" to your wife and her friend's space and start up a fun conversation of jokes and interesting stories - all while covertly - yet clearly - expressing a sexual interest in your wife and her friend. Stop!

How confident are you that your wife will remain faithful and loyal to you?

Have you given your wife the kind of time and attention she needs such that you know your relationship is safe?

Have you directed MANLY desire at your wife such that she ALREADY feels desirable, attractive, sexy, and pretty and isn't interested in some other man trying to give her something she already has?

Is your marriage relationship such that your wife has "done without" for so long that she would be too weak to resist the temptation?

I don't think there's any need to go further with this "test" as you probably already realize there's some effort you need to go put into your marriage relationship.

If you're already meeting your wife's needs, it'll be hard for some other man to sell her on him meeting her needs.

Special Note: If this raises feelings of jealousy within you, you're already pushing your wife into the arms of some other man. The Almighty God who created the universe including all creatures therein demands absolute faithfulness from his children. Can you be trusted? The big question is: can God trust you to do what is right? Faithfulness is directly proportional to success and wealth creation 
When an individual is found to be faithful in business and dealings with others, it will reflect on the overall success rate achieved. The higher the level of faithfulness an individual exhibits, the more the possibility to achieve a higher measure of success and wealth. When Joseph was sold to slavery according to the book of Genesis chapter 37, he remained faithful to God and refused to sleep with his maters wife. God saw his level of faithfulness and blessed him with tremendous wealth and success.

When you are faithful to God, favor and wealth will come naturally 
The Almighty God knows the heart of every man and the degree of faithfulness each individual is capable of achieving. When we decide to ignore the temptation to take the easy option to creating wealth and achieving success and decide to remain faithful in the business, job or endeavor God has placed in our hands, success and wealth will eventually come. It may come from unlikely sources we never imagined or thought about. Faithfulness will open the door for men to favor us for good. In a single day, an individual's faithfulness can attract unquantifiable wealth and blessings from strangers sent by the Almighty God.