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Nurturing Creativity by Renee Tougas

Nurturing Creativity: A Guide for Busy Moms is a book to help you grow creatively. It?s about embracing the seasons of motherhood and appreciating where you are while helping you to make creativity a priority in your life. It will encourage you to let go of perfection, to start small, and to find inspiration in everyday living. This little book will challenge you to make the most of the time you do have to create?beauty and meaning with your head, heart, and hands.

Mindset for Moms by Jamie Martin

Mindset for Moms: From Mundane to Marvelous Thinking in Just 30 Days is Jamie Martin?s personal manifesto on positive thinking for mothers. It?s packed full of lessons she?s learned over the years in an easy-to-digest format that?s perfect for busy mamas, designed to help you transform your mind and change your life.

Parenting with Positive Guidance by Amanda Morgan

Parenting with Positive Guidance gives you the tools for understanding your child?s behavior and effectively teaching and guiding your child toward increased self-control while fostering a healthy parent-child relationship. No book you read will ever change your child.? But this book can change you and how you react to your child in daily situations.? It?s the difference in those interactions that will effect real change in your children and your family

4 Moms of 35+ Kids Answer Your Parenting Questions

4 Moms of 35+ Kids Answer Your Parenting Questions is a book packed full of wisdom from experienced moms who have been there, done that. They answer tons of common parenting questions on everything from nap time and grocery shopping with kids to keeping your patience and preparing for the s-e-x talk, all organized in 17 easy-to-read chapters.

Steady Days by Jamie Martin

Steady Days is a book about mothering with a focus, juggling your mothering career with other roles you may hold, and being mindful as you interact with your children. In the midst of potty training and temper tantrums, Steady Days takes you through the process of becoming a professional mother: one who is organized and excited to spend time with your young children.

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Venezuela plans "great function in honor of President Chavez," in lieu of inauguration

CARACAS, Venezuela Venezuela's government has organized what seems an alternative inauguration outside the presidential palace Thursday and is hosting regional leaders in an unusual show of support for ailing President Hugo Chavez, whose swearing-in ceremony has been indefinitely postponed.

Vice President Nicolas Maduro urged supporters to gather on a street outside Miraflores Palace to demonstrate their solidarity with Chavez, who remains in Cuba fighting complications after cancer surgery and hasn't spoken publicly or been seen in more than a month.

"Everyone to the street," Maduro said at a televised Cabinet meeting Wednesday night. "We're going to have a great function in honor of President Chavez."

Leaders from throughout Latin America and the Caribbean were invited, as they normally would be for a formal inauguration. President Jose Mujica of Uruguay arrived Wednesday, and other presidents expected to attend included Bolivia's Evo Morales and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega.

Maduro said heads of state, foreign ministers and other officials from 19 countries had come to Caracas. The vice president, whom Chavez designated his chosen successor last month, said that even though it wasn't an official swearing-in, Thursday's event still marks the start of a new term for the president following his re-election in October.

"A historic period of this second decade of the 21st century is starting, with our commander leading," Maduro said.

But glaring above all in the planned event was Chavez's absence from the presidential where he has so often spoken for hours on television, chided his opponents and called for a socialist revolution.

The opposition, limping from two recent electoral defeats, seems powerless to effectively challenge the postponement of Chavez's swearing-in, a legislative move that was endorsed Wednesday by a Supreme Court widely viewed as favoring the government.

Apparently clinging to life in Cuba, unable to travel home or speak publicly, Chavez remains fully and legally in power. The opposition has been left complaining that there are no independent institutions or courts inside Venezuela for them to appeal to, and the world appears to be giving a collective shrug to their plight.

The door to a court challenge was slammed by Supreme Court President Luisa Estella Morales even before the opposition could file one. Morales announced Wednesday that it was fine to delay the inauguration past the Jan. 10 date set by the constitution, saying the Supreme Court could handle the issue later, "at a time and place to be determined."

As for demands that, under the constitution, a caretaker should be named for the unseen president in Cuba, Morales said that so far, "there is not even a temporary absence."

Opposition leader Henrique Capriles condemned the high court's endorsement of delaying the inauguration. "Institutions should not respond to the interests of a government," he said at a news conference.

He said the opposition had urged various governments not to send representatives to Thursday's event, and said he was grateful to presidents who had decided not to come to Caracas.

Government officials are at pains to insist that Chavez remains in command, even if unheard from. Pro-Chavez politicians have been wearing T-shirts with an image of the president's eyes. New murals with Chavez's smiling face have gone up on city walls.

Maduro on Wednesday reiterated hopes of Chavez eventually returning. Still, the long silence by the dominant Venezuelan politician of the past 14 years has fed speculation that he could be near death, raising anxieties and tensions.

Military leaders have sought to show they are in step with Maduro and the government. They appeared alongside ministers at Wednesday night's Cabinet meeting. A military commander, Maj. Gen. Wilmer Barrientos, also spoke on television saying that the armed forces were "very pleased" with the court's decision and were focused on providing a "sense of peace and tranquility."

Chavez has been fighting an unspecified type of pelvic cancer since June 2011 and has undergone repeated surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

Chavez said before his latest operation that if he were unable to continue as president, Maduro should take his place and run in an election to replace him.

The government said earlier this week that Chavez was in a "stable situation" while being treated for a severe respiratory infection. The government has hasn't said how severe his "respiratory deficiency" is.

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Kickstarter ends 2012 with $274 million in successful pledges, bigger projects

It almost goes without saying that we love crowdfunded projects. If we use Kickstarter's 2012 wrap-up as a bellwether, there's many others out there like us. The number of successful projects shot up 53 percent last year to 18,109, and generated $274 million from pledges to projects that met their targets -- that's about 2.7 times more just in successful contributions than was raised in total for 2011, It's not hard to understand why if you've been following along. Between projects like Double Fine's adventure game, Ouya and Sundance Festival movies, Kickstarter in some cases has generated several times the revenue that a given client needed to get going. We won't venture a guess as to whether or not 2013 will see fiercer competition from the likes of Indiegogo or Christie Street, but any surge in truly viable, indie-built technology is good news in our book.

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Study: Business travel spending should increase in 2013 | Lake ...

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By Charisse Jones, USA Today

U.S. companies are expected to spend more on business trips this year, a sign that they may be feeling more optimistic about the economy, a new business travel forecast being released today finds.

A pent-up need to sit face to face with clients, coupled with increased spending on international trips and off-site meetings, is projected to boost overall business travel spending in the U.S. by 4.6 percent this year, to $266.7 billion, according to a report from the Global Business Travel Association, a group of business-travel and meetings managers.

?At the end of the day, companies need to find ways to grow ? revenues and see their performance increase year over year, and quarter over quarter, ? says Mike McCormick, executive director of the GBTA. ?So there?ll be this pressure to make investments and spend on business travel.?

The GBTA estimates that for every $1 spent on corporate travel, companies on average have seen $20 in additional profits.

But he says the growth, expected to make its greatest surge in the last half of the year, largely hinges on the outcome of ongoing debates about the federal deficit, corporate tax rates and other economic issues.

?If we don?t see those resolutions happen, we don?t continue to build corporate confidence,? McCormick says, and ?we may revert back to the ? anemic growth rate.?

While spending is predicted to be up, the number of business trips is projected to be down 1.1 percent from last year, reflecting the desire by many companies to make the most of their staffers? time on the road.

?Companies, and generally the travelers themselves, are trying to find ways to be more efficient about use of time so that means adding more into a trip,? he says. It?s ?maybe doing multiple stops, to multiple cities in the same itinerary.?

GBTA?s forecast dovetails with the latest findings of a new survey by the Travel Leaders Group, a corporate travel management company.

Its survey finds that almost 80 percent of the groups? agents who deal primarily with business trips predicted their clients will be on the road as much or more than they were in 2012.

Being economical while on a corporate trip was also the No. 1 priority, according to the survey. In it, 42.1 percent of agents say cost savings was most important to their business travel customers, and 33.7 percent say the most critical issue was cost control.

The survey, taken between Nov. 19 and Dec. 16, polled 335 U.S. agency owners, managers and industry experts who handle a significant amount of business travel.

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Resolutions for Business in 2013 : HRVoice.org

By Robert Smithson

In the weeks before the end of 2012, I had been mulling over the phrase ?do better? as a way of capturing a different approach to doing business for human resources staff. The purpose of the phrase was clear to me but I felt I would have a difficult time getting my meaning across.

Then, the horrific tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, occurred and that led to President Barack Obama?s comments when spoke at a vigil. He said, ?Are we prepared to say that such violence visited upon our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom? We will be told that the causes of such violence will be complex and that is true. No single law, no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society. But that can?t be an excuse for inaction. Surely we can do better than this.?

Upon reading those words, what I wanted to say became apparent. Just because you?ve always done things a certain way, and just because there will be obstacles in the path of doing them differently, is no reason not to make changes for the better.

The first thing that I think human resources staff could do better in 2013 is to gain a greater understanding of how the law impacts the employment relationship and, particularly, its termination. In my experience, the vast majority of legal actions arising out of employment occur at or after termination of the relationship.

In most, if not all, cases the employer was in a position to have taken steps which would have avoided the need for any form of litigation. I would be hard pressed to name any employer I?ve ever dealt with which believes the costs of litigation (and lawyers) contribute in any positive way to their business, so why not avoid these problems altogether?

That is perhaps easier said than done. But, without a doubt, the first step in that direction is having an understanding of the legal framework within which the employment relationship fits.

Second, I wonder if businesses would consider whether to stop wasting time and resources trying to turn poor employees into good ones. It may, after all, be true that you cannot turn a sow?s ear into a silk purse.

Is it possible that, in your particular industry, it makes better sense to invest your time and effort into weeding out and replacing poor performers? The costs of replacing an employee are well known but it may be that it?s even more expensive to retain underachievers.

?Fit? is an elusive quality in an employee and, ultimately, my own sense is that it isn?t something that can be taught. Skills and knowledge can be taught but ?fit? is, in my experience, something that either is there or isn?t there from the outset.

Third, work on changing the perception that your department is just another typical bureaucracy. This label, obviously, isn?t applicable to all human resources departments but there is a persistent view out there that human resources people are slaves to administrative processes.

So, learn (and take to heart) that your role is to advance your employer?s primary business objective. In everything you do, ask yourselves, ?How are we assisting this business to achieve its primary objective??

Donald Keough is a former President of the Coca-Cola Company. In his book, The Ten Commandments for Business Failure, he commented, ?There must be rules and routines in every business to maintain the proper rhythm in everything. Over time, however, it seems that inevitably the rules and routines become more important than the ends they were designed to serve.? Don?t let this become the way your h.r. department is perceived ? following rules and routines is, surely, not your company?s primary business objective.

Fourth, and this is closely related to the previous point, apply some ?what if?? thinking. One frequent criticism of human resources departments is that they demonstrate a closed mind to fresh ideas and that things are done a certain way solely because that?s the way they?ve always been done in the past.

A ?what if?? approach means contemplating the possible, approaching familiar problems from an unfamiliar direction. It?s sort of a first step, or a halfway point, between ?can?t? and ?can? and requires a mind that is open to new concepts.

Finally, do the easy things that advance your employer?s business interests, like implementing employment contracts. Properly implemented employment contracts are a critical mechanism for controlling and eliminating employee-related liabilities.

It is inconceivable to me that there is a trained, experienced human resources person out there who doesn?t recognize the value of properly documenting the employer-employee relationship. Yet, many employers forego this simple, valuable tool.

If the only things the employment contract contains are a properly structured probation clause and an enforceable severance clause, you will have greatly contributed to your employer?s business.

These are five steps any human resources person would be well-advised to consider as he or she embarks on 2013. Doing better is the objective and it may be more easily achieved than you think.

Robert Smithson is a labour and employment lawyer, and operates Smithson Employment Law in Kelowna. For more information about his practice, or to subscribe to You Work Here, visit http://www.smithsonlaw.ca. This subject matter is provided for general informational purposes only and is not intended as legal advice.

This article was originally posted on You Work Here.

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