Being
happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided
to look beyond the imperfections.
Contents
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Things I wish I knew at 25
- TV shortens life hour by hour
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Free childcare for all Australians
- Job of the Month
- Hang on Boss, my mobile’s ringing
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Work till you’re 100?
- Why don’t people listen well?
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Think to make it happen
Centenarian run
rings round record books
Fouja Singh, is a British man of Indian Sikh extraction, who
started competitive running at the age of 89 after losing his wife and son.
For a decade, he has been breaking records for veteran athletes in eight
sprinting distances.
Recently, Mr Singh became the oldest person to ever complete a
full-distance marathon when he finished the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in
just over 8 hours, 25 minutes. And no – he was not the last man in!
‘'I always wanted to be the oldest marathon runner,” said Mr
Singh. Go, you good man!
9-year old
drives Dad to shops at 3 am
In Michigan USA, a man stopped by police, told the officers his
9 yo daughter was driving him to the shops in his work van because he ‘had
been drinking’.
Apparently, the girl sitting behind the wheel in a child's
booster seat – no-one mentioned where her feet were – said to the officer who
pulled the pair over: 'What did you stop me for? I was driving good.'
The father told police he was teaching his daughter to drive. This,
mind you, was at 3 am!
Spider venom
may combat breast cancer
Spiders may hold the key to breast cancer cures. Already venom
molecules from the feared funnel web and tarantula spiders are used to
palliate chronic pain.
Now, a new trial, at UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience is
testing the spider's ability to combat cancerous cells.
Researchers hope the complex mix of molecules in the venom may
offer a natural solution to breast cancer treatment.
If the trial lives up to hopes, a new drug may be available to
help fight breast cancer within 5 years.
Junk food
halves sperm
No kidding!
If you’re aiming for a new baby in your family, back away from
the junk food.
Researchers at Harvard University, US recently surveyed young
men with diets high in trans fats. They found these ‘junkies’ had sperm
counts of half (or less) than the average young male with a healthy diet.
Do you know where we are?
Windsor Recruitment is on the 4th level of the lovely
old Queensland Government Centre's heritage building at 232 Adelaide Street
in the CBD.
Right alongside Anzac Square, this is convenient to
Central Station, buses and parking at Kings Post Office Square complex.
The phone number for Windsor Recruitment is 07
3211 0001.
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14 Things I Wish I Could Have
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Author – Jeff Haden
Here’s the stuff I wish I could have told
the twenty-five year-old me - assuming I would have listened.
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Each hour of TV shortens life by
nearly 22 minutes. ..
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Or so claims a new study from the University of Queensland where researchers say that TV viewing is as dangerous to your
lifespan as alcohol.
Working on data extrapolated from the
Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and
Lifestyle study (1999-2000) which involved over 11,000 Australians from 42
randomly selected regions, researchers calculated that people watching
television for 6+ hours per day could expect to shorten their lives by 4.8
years.
According to the British Journal of
Sports magazine, this meant (on average) that every hour spent watching television
after age 25+ would reduce the viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes.
Australians 25+ watch about 10 billion
hours of TV each year.
Now, we’re waiting for the study that
tells us how many years of life we’ll lose by being glued to our computers
hour after hour, day after day!
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Free
childcare for all Australians
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Author: Naomi Simson from Red Balloon
That would certainly make headlines,
wouldn't it? I wonder the impact such an initiative would have.
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Super Job
of the Month
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Now, here’s an interesting opportunity.
If it’s not for you, maybe you have a friend who would be interested. Put
that person in touch – and if they’re successful in winning the role, we’ll
reward you with a special gift.
Executive Manager – Fundraising & Communications
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Inner Brisbane location with Townsville connection.
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Competitive 6-figure package.
This organization empowers people who
have disabilities - often acquired through accident - to live fulfilling
lives.
In receipt of some government funding,
it has only recently begun to assertively build its fundraising capacity.
Already, some processes are in place with a dedicated team of professionals
keen to welcome an inspirational new leader.
This is a rare chance for a seasoned,
market-proven fundraising executive to shape the culture, fundraising and
marcoms strategies that will convey this farsighted enterprise into its
sustainable future.
Appropriately qualified, with a
background of success in fundraising, marcoms and events, you are an
impressive mentor, motivator, role model and advocate.
Visionary, creative and media savvy, you
bring sufficient seniority and presence to confidently provide considered
tactical advice to a supportive CEO and Board. Through your unique
combination of integrity, experience and business acumen, you are able to
balance fundraising ‘best practice’ with true commercial reality.
Understanding that adaptability can be everything,
you are avid in your conviction that everyone deserves a life brimming with
choice, dignity and respect.
Find out more at www.windsor-recruitment.com/hotjob
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Hang
on Boss, my mobile’s ringing…..
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We all have them. We can’t do without
them. And day by day, they’re become more intrusive and more troubling as more and more mobile phone users launch into
loud, often intimate phone conversations without stopping for second to see
whose human rights they may be violating.
Director of
the information center at the Society for Human Resource Management, Rebecca
Hastings is on record as saying: ‘Right now, cell phones are the
cigarettes of this decade.
It’s an addiction,’
she has said.
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How’s
this for an idea? Work till you’re 100!
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A world-renowned Oxford University professor, The Hon Baroness Susan Greenfield is also one of Britain’s foremost neuroscientists with a specialty in brain physiology.
Recently here for Alzheimers Australia, she was asked if there is a foreseeable probability that people will live longer
and be able to maintain better mental health through the ageing process.
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Why
don’t people listen well?
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Author – Eve Ash
Not many people are great listeners. One
of the main reasons people do not listen well is because of the tendency to
filter a lot of information that hits us. Maybe we think that what they are
saying is unimportant, or we do not like the person, or we simply have
other things on our mind.
Sometimes we will only take in every
fifth or seventh word, and believe we are taking in information
effectively.
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Think it to make it happen
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Positive thinking can change the
world
Optimism and pessimism affect our
entire worldview.Our whole approach to living is either empowered or
chained depending on which style of thinking we choose to adopt.
That’s something to ponder for the
New Year of 2012 when the hope is for a calmer, kinder and more
promising year for everyone.
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We wish you all the blessings of a
festive season enjoyed with friends and family
and a safe return to us next year.
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Dylys Bertelsen
CEO Windsor Recruitment
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Check it out at www.windsor-recruitment.com
Then call and tell us what we
can do for you on 07 3211 0001
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