New Year's day

The UK has eight permanent bank holidays per year: New Year's Day, Good Friday,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:02:15 GMT

Source: www.facebook.com --- Thursday, May 23, 2013
The UK has eight permanent bank holidays per year: New Year's day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May day, Spring Bank Holiday, Late Summer, Christmas day and Boxing day. But how much do you as an employer know about employment law concerning bank holidays? Here are five things you really need to know... Bank Holidays: five things employers need to know www.personneltoday.com ...

New Year's Earth Day Resolution

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:35:18 GMT

Source: gwacie.livejournal.com --- Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Every year on Earth day (April 21) I try to come up with a New small way to help the environment. This year I was stumped and so pardon the late post. In past years I've switched to re-usable ceramic and plastic cups for my caffeine habit, now use cloth grocery bags all the time and have started bringing shopping bags with me to the mall too; it gets harder to find ways to reduce, reuse and recycle, but by gosh, there are more! Enter this awesome Ted Talk about how to dry your hands with only one paper towel: http://www.ted.com/talks/joe_smith_how_to_use_a_paper_towel.html Watch it, watch it now! :) Ever since I watched it last week I've only used one paper towel when using the restroom here at work, it works! it is awesome! Shake and fold, people. Shake and fold. Also (I need to run this one by the husband before committing as it affects him too) I want to only buy meat from local butcher shops from now on. This has a two fold help; one, helps small local businesses, one hopes the meat is more local and it will further my secret hidden agenda of eating less meat by making meat less convenient to get ;) ...

Hump Day Hook 28 – Eve’s New Year

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:00:18 GMT

Source: redefiningperfect.com --- Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Another Hump day Hook! Just yesterday I signed a contract for my Christmas story – Santa, Maybe . Secret Cravings is going to publish it in December in time for the holidays. Something about that wonderful little story set in the idealistic small town has me itching to turn it into a series of shorties each set around a holiday. This week I’m bringing you a snip of the New Years story that I’ve titled Eve’s New Year . Dunc (not the hero, at least not in this story ) is a 21 year old that does odd jobs around town, including helping out at the antique shop Eve manages. Earlier in the chapter, Eve refers to him as ‘eye candy’…and so he is Right now, he’s on his way out the door and Eve expresses some frustration: Too soon Dunc disappeared into the front room and she was left in the store room with no more warmth than the light bulb he’d just screwed in. “Maybe I should have screwed that bulb in. It’s the only screwing I’ll ever get.” Her inner voice cackled at the horrible joke before she blew a raspberry at no one but herself. Such a loser . *~* Hump day Hook asks authors to post one paragraph of one of their stories, whether a WIP, one contracted, or already published. Please visit and comment on the participants – you might just stumble on the next great read for your library! To see more participants, click on the HDH banner below: ...

Henry Jaglom Collection vol. 2: Three Comedies (Sitting Ducks / Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? / New Year's Day)

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:21:14 GMT

Source: www.dvdtalk.com --- Tuesday, May 21, 2013
DVD Talk Collector Series The more Hollywood turns to comic books, board games, and Disneyland rides for story material, the more we need filmmakers like Henry Jaglom. Beginning with A Safe Face (1971), Jaglom carved a niche making smallish independent movies uniquely his. He's probably best known for his ensemble, female-dominated films revolving around a particular subject: women's relationship with food in Eating (1990), biological clock-ticking in Babyfever (1995), being single in Someone to Love (1987), recognizing a turning point and moving on with New Year's day (1989). His movies famously allow actors the freedom to improvise, drawing from their own lives and emotions, sometimes intensely personal raw material buried deep. Yes, they're still working from scripts that define character arcs and move their fictional characters from one place to another, but most of Jaglom's actors find wo... Read the entire review ...