?Let?s call this my ?Ode to Italy? Travel giveaway!
We met Mamas & Papas at last years ABC Kids Expo and we instantly loved the?atmosphere?they gave us. The ladies who run their social media & sales?departments?are really outstanding & knowledgeable.
They graciously sent me their 03?Sport Stroller to test out. It was actually easy to assemble, only having to connect the wheels, and hood. Its basically out of the box ready. I love that the front wheel is both fixed and swivel, one click chooses which way you want it. The padded handle is?easily? adjustable for different heights. It comes with a rain cover and tire pump ,the tire pump (for the?Pneumatic tires) is actually attached above the back brake for easy?accessibly. The padded seat is adjustable (simple one handed adjustment I might add) and has a 5 point harness.
The?03 Sport?is an off-roader with high performance tires and all round wheel suspension, perfect for the great outdoors. If your lifestyle demands a high performance stroller, then the?03 Sport?is for you. Roaming the hills or around the city streets, it?s designed to be extremely robust for you and give a safe and comfortable ride for your baby
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Features of the 03 Sport:
A great off-roader
High performance tires and all round wheel suspension, with wheel pump included
Extremely robust and gives a safe and comfortable ride for your baby
One handed seat recline, suitable from birth
Lockable front swivel wheel for easy maneuvering
Adjustable handle height for steering comfort
Sturdy aluminium frame
Large shopping basket and canopy pockets for all your essentials
Five point safety harness with adjustable height setting as baby grows
Breathable seat padding to help keep baby cool
Multi Position seat recline for sitting up or comfy naps
Pneumatic tires to give baby a smooth ride, even on bumpy roads
Sun visor, canopy ventilation panels and rain cover keep your baby comfortable, whatever the weather
Adjustable leg rest
Locks in place when folded for easy carrying
Travel system compatible
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The Mamas & Papas 03 Sport retails for $359.99 and can currently be purchased at Toys R Us. If you are looking for a great jogging stroller, that can have all the bells and whistles you are looking for in?safety, quality, construction and price, this is a great stroller. Its not a lightweight stroller, but it will fold up & fit in your trunk just fine. Fits children birth to 50 pounds.
Side note- Toys R Us offers this stroller shipped to Apo/Fpo address?s, and all 50 states!
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Mamas & Papas currently does not have the stock in the media department for a giveaway of this stroller, but still wanted to offer another item I liked which was the New Gingerbread Stroller Blanket . Also, I am moving overseas soon and I wanted to give something away that you could use to ?get away? as well. So welcome to our ?Mamas & Papas Ode To Italy Giveaway? :
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Do you or anyone you know have a gambling problem? As gambling addictions share many similarities with drug and alcohol addictions, compulsive gambling is also a progressive condition and without intervention it will, in time, get worse. A gambling addict is an addict for life; but through help and willingness to stop, a gambling addict may never wager again.
TWENTY QUESTIONS TO ACCEPTANCE
Here is a list of 20 questions that you can answer to determine if you have a gambling problem. It is estimated that a person with a gambling problem will?answer yes to more than half of these questions. Please answer each question yes or no.
TWENTY QUESTIONS
1.Did you ever lose time from work or school due to gambling?
2.Has gambling ever made your home life unhappy?
3.Did gambling affect your reputation?
4.Have you ever felt remorse after gambling?
5.Did you ever gamble to get money with which to pay debts or otherwise solve financial difficulties?
6.Did gambling cause a decrease in your ambition or efficiency?
7.After losing, did you feel you must return as soon as possible and win back your losses?
8.After a win did you have a strong urge to return and win more?
9.Did you often gamble until your last dollar was gone?
10.Did you ever borrow to finance your gambling?
11.Have you ever sold anything to finance gambling?
12.Were you reluctant to use ?gambling money? for normal expenditures?
13.Did gambling make you careless of the welfare of yourself or your family?
14.Did you ever gamble longer than you had planned?
15.Have you ever gambled to escape worry, trouble, boredom or loneliness?
16.Have you ever committed, or considered committing, an illegal act to finance gambling?
17.Did gambling cause you to have difficulty in sleeping?
18.Do arguments, disappointments or frustrations create within you an urge to gamble?
19.Did you ever have an urge to celebrate any good fortune by a few hours of gambling?
20.Have you ever considered self destruction or suicide as a result of your gambling?
How did you fare after answering this questionnaire?? If you answered ?yes? to 10 or more questions, then you have a gambling problem.There is help, however.
Gamblers Anonymous is one of those programs that provide a road to recovery through a 12 step program of acceptance and willingness to change your life for the better. Gamblers Anonymous believes that through your commitment of working the 12 steps to recovery into your life , you can? recover and stay away from falling back into the destructive behavior of compulsive betting.
If you follow the Gamblers Anonymous 12 steps, you can achieve personal growth through recovery.
THE 12 STEPS OF GAMBLERS? ANONYMOUS
1.We admitted we were powerless over gambling ? that our lives had become unmanageable.
2.Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to a normal way of thinking and living.
3.Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of this Power of our own understanding.
4.Made a searching and fearless moral and financial inventory of ourselves.
5.Admitted to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6.Were entirely ready to have these defects of character removed.
7.Humbly asked God (of our understanding) to remove our shortcomings.
8.Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
9.Make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10.Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11.Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12.Having made an effort to practice these principles in all our affairs, we tried to carry this message to other compulsive gamblers
It is understood that this program may not work for some on their way to recovery from a gambling addiction, but always remember that there is help, and in order to find it, it must all start within you and the acceptance that you have a problem.
Provided below is the Gamblers Anonymous National Hotline Phone Number 1 ? 888 ? GA ? HELPS (1 ? 888 ? 42 ? 43577).
Gambling Anonymous is there to help you with your gambling addiction.
Please call them today if you need help and want to stop gambling! Take control of your life today with the help of Gambling Anonymous (1-888-424-3577).
Innovators funded to develop bold, out-of-the-box ideas to save lives in developing countriesPublic release date: 9-Feb-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Lyn Whitham lyn.whitham@grandchallenges.ca 647-281-7182 Sandra Rotman Centre for Global Health
Supporting Canadian rising stars in global health
Grand Challenges Canada today announced 15 grants valued in total at more than $1.5 million awarded to some of Canada's most creative innovators from across the country in support of their work to improve global health conditions.
"When you look at the range of innovations and the potential those creative ideas have to make a difference, Canadians can't help but be proud of our country's contribution to the health and well-being of the international community," said Dr. Peter A. Singer, CEO of Grand Challenges Canada. "Bold Canadian ideas with big impact can save lives."
The researchers are each awarded a $100,000 grant to further develop their innovations, which include:
Dr. Walter Karlen (Vancouver, BC) is developing a low-cost cell phone test to diagnose pneumonia in the developing world
Dr. Aman Ullah (Edmonton, AB) is developing a filter made from chicken feathers to eliminate the deadly carcinogen, arsenic, from drinking water
Dr.Karim Damji (Edmonton, AB) is developing methodologies for preventing and treating glaucoma, a major cause of blindness in poor countries
Dr. Karim S. Karim (Waterloo, ON) is working on a device for rapid TB detection through digital imaging, a low-cost and effective diagnostic
Dr. Jan Andrysek (Toronto, ON) is creating an inexpensive and effective artificial knee joint for disabled people in the developing world
Dr. Cedric Yansouni (Montreal, QB) is working on a diagnostic that is cost effective and non-invasive to determine whether a patient has visceral leishmaniasis, a deadly disease
Dr. David Richard (Quebec City, QB) is working on a low-cost vaccine for malaria, a disease that infects 216 million people a year and kills 655,000 annually.
Each grantee has created a two-minute video to explain his or her proposal. The videos can be seen at http://www.grandchallenges.ca/grand-challenges/gc1-stars/canadasrisingstars/round2grantees/
"Grand Challenges Canada is proud to be supporting these extraordinary ideas," said Joseph L. Rotman, Chair of Grand Challenges Canada. "Our Canada's Rising Stars in Global Health program is designed to tap into the creativity, skills and dedication of these early career innovators. Canada has so much talent and so much to offer to the world."
"The range and diversity among Grand Challenges Canada's Rising Stars in Global Health demonstrates the depth of Canada's commitment to improving the lives of those living in developing countries," said the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Co-operation. "Throughout our history, Canadian ingenuity and innovation has made a significant contribution to advance global health. I have every confidence that through Grand Challenges Canada, our best minds will help further the progress achieved and help us realize a healthier world in the future."
The grantees were selected through a rigorous peer review process. Among the criteria the proposals needed to meet were Grand Challenges Canada's Integrated Innovation (TM) approach, which smoothes the path to implementation of the discovery. Innovators must consider ethical and cultural barriers, the health systems required to deliver the discoveries and the commercialization of their solutions so that they can be distributed to the people who need them, cost-effectively.
If their ideas are effective and proven, the innovators will be eligible for an additional Grand
Challenges Canada scale-up grant of $1 million. This is the second round of Canada's Rising Stars in Global Health grants.
Grand Challenges Canada is funded by the Government of Canada through the Development Innovation Fund announced in the 2008 Federal Budget.
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For more information, visit grandchallenges.ca
About Grand Challenges Canada
Grand Challenges Canada is a unique, independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the health and well being of people in developing countries by integrating scientific, technological, business and social innovation. Grand Challenges Canada works with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and other global health foundations and organizations to find sustainable long-term solutions to the most pressing health challenges. Grand Challenges Canada is hosted at the Sandra Rotman Centre. www.grandchallenges.ca
About Canada's International Development Research Centre
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) supports research in developing countries to promote growth and development. IDRC also encourages sharing this knowledge with policymakers, other researchers and communities around the world. The result is innovative, lasting local solutions that aim to bring choice and change to those who need it most.
As the Government of Canada's lead on the Development Innovation Fund, IDRC draws on decades of experience managing publicly funded research projects to administer the Development Innovation Fund. IDRC also ensures that developing country researchers and concerns are front and centre in this exciting new initiative. www.idrc.ca
About Canadian Institutes of Health Research
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the Government of Canada's health research investment agency. CIHR's mission is to create new scientific knowledge and to enable its translation into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system. Composed of 13 Institutes, CIHR provides leadership and support to more than 14,100 health researchers and trainees across Canada.
CIHR will be responsible for the administration of international peer review, according to international standards of excellence. The results of CIHR-led peer reviews will guide the awarding of grants by Grand Challenges Canada from the Development Innovation Fund. www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca
About Sandra Rotman Centre
The Sandra Rotman Centre is based at University Health Network and University of Toronto. We develop innovative global health solutions and help bring them to scale where they are most urgently needed. The Sandra Rotman Centre hosts Grand Challenges Canada. www.srcglobal.org
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Innovators funded to develop bold, out-of-the-box ideas to save lives in developing countriesPublic release date: 9-Feb-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Lyn Whitham lyn.whitham@grandchallenges.ca 647-281-7182 Sandra Rotman Centre for Global Health
Supporting Canadian rising stars in global health
Grand Challenges Canada today announced 15 grants valued in total at more than $1.5 million awarded to some of Canada's most creative innovators from across the country in support of their work to improve global health conditions.
"When you look at the range of innovations and the potential those creative ideas have to make a difference, Canadians can't help but be proud of our country's contribution to the health and well-being of the international community," said Dr. Peter A. Singer, CEO of Grand Challenges Canada. "Bold Canadian ideas with big impact can save lives."
The researchers are each awarded a $100,000 grant to further develop their innovations, which include:
Dr. Walter Karlen (Vancouver, BC) is developing a low-cost cell phone test to diagnose pneumonia in the developing world
Dr. Aman Ullah (Edmonton, AB) is developing a filter made from chicken feathers to eliminate the deadly carcinogen, arsenic, from drinking water
Dr.Karim Damji (Edmonton, AB) is developing methodologies for preventing and treating glaucoma, a major cause of blindness in poor countries
Dr. Karim S. Karim (Waterloo, ON) is working on a device for rapid TB detection through digital imaging, a low-cost and effective diagnostic
Dr. Jan Andrysek (Toronto, ON) is creating an inexpensive and effective artificial knee joint for disabled people in the developing world
Dr. Cedric Yansouni (Montreal, QB) is working on a diagnostic that is cost effective and non-invasive to determine whether a patient has visceral leishmaniasis, a deadly disease
Dr. David Richard (Quebec City, QB) is working on a low-cost vaccine for malaria, a disease that infects 216 million people a year and kills 655,000 annually.
Each grantee has created a two-minute video to explain his or her proposal. The videos can be seen at http://www.grandchallenges.ca/grand-challenges/gc1-stars/canadasrisingstars/round2grantees/
"Grand Challenges Canada is proud to be supporting these extraordinary ideas," said Joseph L. Rotman, Chair of Grand Challenges Canada. "Our Canada's Rising Stars in Global Health program is designed to tap into the creativity, skills and dedication of these early career innovators. Canada has so much talent and so much to offer to the world."
"The range and diversity among Grand Challenges Canada's Rising Stars in Global Health demonstrates the depth of Canada's commitment to improving the lives of those living in developing countries," said the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Co-operation. "Throughout our history, Canadian ingenuity and innovation has made a significant contribution to advance global health. I have every confidence that through Grand Challenges Canada, our best minds will help further the progress achieved and help us realize a healthier world in the future."
The grantees were selected through a rigorous peer review process. Among the criteria the proposals needed to meet were Grand Challenges Canada's Integrated Innovation (TM) approach, which smoothes the path to implementation of the discovery. Innovators must consider ethical and cultural barriers, the health systems required to deliver the discoveries and the commercialization of their solutions so that they can be distributed to the people who need them, cost-effectively.
If their ideas are effective and proven, the innovators will be eligible for an additional Grand
Challenges Canada scale-up grant of $1 million. This is the second round of Canada's Rising Stars in Global Health grants.
Grand Challenges Canada is funded by the Government of Canada through the Development Innovation Fund announced in the 2008 Federal Budget.
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For more information, visit grandchallenges.ca
About Grand Challenges Canada
Grand Challenges Canada is a unique, independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the health and well being of people in developing countries by integrating scientific, technological, business and social innovation. Grand Challenges Canada works with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and other global health foundations and organizations to find sustainable long-term solutions to the most pressing health challenges. Grand Challenges Canada is hosted at the Sandra Rotman Centre. www.grandchallenges.ca
About Canada's International Development Research Centre
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) supports research in developing countries to promote growth and development. IDRC also encourages sharing this knowledge with policymakers, other researchers and communities around the world. The result is innovative, lasting local solutions that aim to bring choice and change to those who need it most.
As the Government of Canada's lead on the Development Innovation Fund, IDRC draws on decades of experience managing publicly funded research projects to administer the Development Innovation Fund. IDRC also ensures that developing country researchers and concerns are front and centre in this exciting new initiative. www.idrc.ca
About Canadian Institutes of Health Research
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the Government of Canada's health research investment agency. CIHR's mission is to create new scientific knowledge and to enable its translation into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system. Composed of 13 Institutes, CIHR provides leadership and support to more than 14,100 health researchers and trainees across Canada.
CIHR will be responsible for the administration of international peer review, according to international standards of excellence. The results of CIHR-led peer reviews will guide the awarding of grants by Grand Challenges Canada from the Development Innovation Fund. www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca
About Sandra Rotman Centre
The Sandra Rotman Centre is based at University Health Network and University of Toronto. We develop innovative global health solutions and help bring them to scale where they are most urgently needed. The Sandra Rotman Centre hosts Grand Challenges Canada. www.srcglobal.org
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On to the Plan Phase. ?This phase can be slightly frustrating for Change Managers, because so many of the activities we do are dependent on the activities conducted by the other project teams. ?It's very difficult to plan when you'll conduct training if you don't know when the system will be built and stable. ?Because of this, I typically recommend that Change Managers add their team's activities to the plan after the technical and functional teams.
There's also an ongoing debate as to how much of the Change Management plan should be included in the overall work plan. ?I've met a number of Project Managers who don't want to see every single planned communication cluttering up their work plan. ?
Here's my recommendation. ?It's good to have as much of the Change plan in the overall project plan as possible, so that the integration between the teams is clearly visible. ?The functional and technical teams should understand how changes and delays in their activities impact Change Management activities. ?If that's not possible, however, the project work plan should?at a minimum?include Change Management milestones and the activities that are most impacted by other teams, such as training development.
If the Project Manager doesn't want any Change activities in the overall project work plan, you have bigger problems on your hands, and I suggest you set up a meeting immediately to discuss.
But enough of the introduction. ?It's time to discuss:
Practical Steps to Develop a Change Management Plan
Training:? Training is perhaps the most critical Change activity to plan well. ?You may not know exactly how many training courses you're going to develop or how many people you're going to train, but here are a few guidelines to get you started. ?(A quick disclaimer that will apply to the rest of the post: Work plans are living documents. ?You will constantly need to go back to update and refine your plan as you get new information. )
Build some time for training into the Analyze, Design, and Build phases. ?Training developers who spend some time in business requirement meetings, system demonstrations, and testing will be better prepared to develop training...and will reduce the amount of time required from Business Analysts.
The industry standard for the time required to develop training is this: It takes 40 hours of development time to create 1 hour of classroom training. ?It takes 200 hours of development time to create 1 hour of fully interactive computer-based training. ?Everything else falls somewhere in between.
The level of expertise of the people developing training impacts the amount of time they require for development. ?Take this into consideration.
During training development, Business Analysts should expect to devote 10% of their time to working with the training team. ?This is extremely important and often overlooked.
For training delivery, assume that for the first time someone delivers a course, they will need 1 hour of preparation time for every 1 hour of training they are delivering.
During training delivery, the technical team needs to devote a portion of their time to addressing technical issues and performing activities such as training instance refreshes.
Training doesn't end at Go-live. ?There will be people who need to be trained in the 1 - 4 weeks after the system is implemented. ?Plan to have one or two team members stay around to deliver this training.
Communications:? Although you might not know exactly what communications you need to send each week throughout the project, assume that you will be busiest starting about a month before training delivery and lasting until about a week after Go-live. ?Also consider how many people will be impacted by the project and how geographically diverse they are. ?Finally, talk to your leadership about their expectations for communications. ?I had one client who wanted marching bands and giveaways. ?I had another client who thought it was excessive when I wanted to send out training reminders.
Change Management:? Change Management is more than just training and communications. ?As appropriate for your project, build into your plan activities such as Super User Networks, Executive Sponsorship activities, Stakeholder Management tasks, Change Readiness Assessments, and Change Impact Assessments.
Project Management:? Now is the time to have a frank conversation with the Project Manager about where you want to draw the line (or not) between Change Management and Project Management activities. ?This is an ongoing debate that I won't address here. ?Suffice it to say that you should determine what will work for your project and plan accordingly. ?Discuss who will conduct activities such as project and phase kick-offs, lessons learned sessions, and presentation development and delivery for Sponsors. ?These activities take a lot of time, and it's important to know who will be responsible for them.
Administrative Tasks:? Finally, if you've planned all of these activities and they will require every second of every day for every Change Management team member, you need to stop and re-evaluate. ?First, remember that everyone needs a bathroom break at some point. ?Second, keep in mind that unexpected activities will arise and you need the flexibility to absorb those that fall to Change Management. ?Third, you need to build in time for administrative tasks. ?They may not be high on your list of fun things to do, but you still need to take the time to update your work plan, review and approve work done by other people, and attend meetings. ?If you forget to plan in time for these activities, you will quickly find yourself falling behind or working a lot of overtime. ?I've heard people say that a good rule of thumb is to expect administrative tasks to consume 10% of your work hours. ?Unfortunately, I find it tends to be more.
Contingency:? Most projects build some amount of contingency into their work plans. ?It never hurts to build a little into your team's plan, as well.
A final note: ?One of my favorite phrases comes from the world of SCUBA...Plan your dive. ?Dive your plan. ?Finding the right balance between this philosophy and being flexible enough to roll with the punches that are part of any project is the true test of anyone responsible for managing part of a project plan.
Let me know: ?How much time do you devote to administrative tasks each week?
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