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Zoo Country – great for kids and animal lovers

June 30, 2008 by Tricia

I’ve just been browsing a site that I think would be perfect for kids and anyone in general who loves animals. The website is called Zoo Country and it’s chock full information and pictures of all kinds of Zoo Animals. Are you starting to see why I think kids would love this site?

It’s time to start summer vacations and I’m sure that some of you might visit cities with Zoos. Wouldn’t it be great to brush up on some interesting facts about some of the animals you might see at that zoo? Or perhaps you’ve just come back from a trip to the zoo or perhaps an exotic vacation and want to find information about that odd looking creature you saw – visit Zoo Country.

There are lots of Animal Activities and Crafts plus Animal books and toys on the site. Any of which would keep your child occupied for hours as they have fun playing games, creating an animal art project, reading an animal related book or playing with a stuffed animal toy.

I really like how they’ve organized their wild animal information and pictures. Rather than organizing the animal categories in a more traditional way they’ve arranged their animal categories based on animal characteristics like The biggest animals, the cutest animals, the ugliest animals and so on.

If you love looking at photos and reading about wild animals definitely check this site out.





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Shooting in Cleveland School

October 10, 2007 by Tricia

It seems that school shootings are becoming more and more common place. A sad fact indeed.

I’d like to say this kind of thing doesn’t happen here in Canada, but it seems to happen quite regularly here too.

It appears that a 14 year old male student has allegedly opened fire on his fellow classmates at Success Tech High School in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

At this time it appears that four people have been wounded. Two of the wounded are said to be teachers.

Filed Under: Culture, Education, Home and Lifestyle Tagged With: Canada, Cleveland school, Downtown, four wounded, gun fire, male student, news feed, opened fire, sad, shock, shooting, student, Success Tech High School, teachers, update

Learn to dance the Salsa, Merengue, Cha-Cha and Bachata

September 15, 2007 by Tricia

Have you ever wanted to learn how to dance the Salsa? It’s a lovely dance and it’s fun too.

Perhaps you experimented with Latin dance while on a vacation? Come on, you’ve tried it haven’t you? I was lucky enough to learn to Salsa and Meringue when I was only 12 years old as I got to spend two months in the Caribbean visiting my brother. He lived and worked on one of the islands and I have wonderful memories of that time.

Never mind vacations and dancing I’ve noticed that over the last few years there’s been a lot of interest in various types of dance. Look at shows like Dancing with Stars – doesn’t that make you want to dance too?

I think people have become more interested in dance because the television shows have made it so much more popular, and also because the stars in the dance shows really get themselves in good shape. Just look at how their bodies change from the start of the dance competitions to the finales? The stars are in fantastic shape after all those hours of dancing. If dancing will do that for me – sign me up!

If you’re interested in dance you should visit the Salsa, Merengue & Bachata Dance Bootcamp. It’s an online dance school. Imagine that.

As a member of the online Salsa BootCamp you can watch videos that will take you step by step through each of the Latin dances that they teach. Lessons start off with the most basic of steps and work their way through to advanced dance steps. As a member you’ll also receive free professional quality DVDs that you can use to practice dance steps anywhere.

Just think. You can learn how to do these beautiful dances in the privacy of your own home. It’s a fun way to get some exercise and you’ll be able to surprise your family and friends when you show them how well you can do the Salsa, Merengue, Cha-cha and Bachata.

When you sign up to learn to Dance with Salsa Dancing BootCamp you’ll get two free DVD’s right off the bat. You can start with a three day free membership if you want to explore the site and begin a few dance lessons in order to see if you’ll enjoy the courses. If you want to continue after your first free three day trial you can choose from a month, three month or one year membership. You’ll get free DVD’s and Salsa dance music with each membership.

It certainly sounds like fun and there’s plenty of lessons to take at the Salsa Bootcamp. Who knows, I might even sign up and brush up on my mostly forgotten Salsa and Merengue dance steps too.

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Visit TutorVista for online tutoring

August 28, 2007 by Tricia

if your child is getting poor grades and you’ve been thinking of hiring a tutor why not visit TutorVista and take a look at their online tutoring programs.

Most students do well when they work with tutors. Why not help your child with their studies or perhaps even help them get ahead and excel at their studies by signing up for one of the tutoring programs being offered at TutorVista. I think their best package is the unlimited monthly tutoring package that only costs $99.99 each month. Students can get help with all of their subjects and even get homework help with this package anytime they need assistance. Tutoring is offered 24×7.

TutorVista offers a range of subjects such as English, Math, Algebra, Sciences, and even prep assistance with SAT and other major exams. Subjects are available for students in K-12 to college course.

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Be sure that your articles are free from plagiarism use iPlagiarismCheck

August 14, 2007 by Tricia

If you’re a blogger or website owner I wouldn’t doubt that you’ve experienced plagiarism of some kind by now. Perhaps you aren’t aware that it’s happened, but there are people out there stealing our posts and articles and placing them on their own sites and calling the work their own.

Many years ago my exotic pet website – prints out to 400 pages! – was entirely copied by someone who at the time I thought was a friend. Well she was up until she pulled that move. I caught her quickly and got her to rewrite her site in her own words, but it was a terrible thing to have happened and caused me a lot of unnecessary stress.

I’ve heard it said time and time again that plagiarism is a form of flattery. I suppose in a very shady way it is, but it’s a crime. It’s theft. Someone has stolen another persons copy written work. That theft could result in loss of income for the original author and it can even cause problems when trying to verify who the original author was in the first place.

Plagiarism has been going on for centuries. It happens on the internet, it happens in music, song writing and with screen plays. It happens in the corporate world, and it happens in lower school, high school and universities. It’s serious!

People who’ve been caught plagiarizing an article can end up being fined, perhaps even jailed and when it happens in the school system students can end up failing their course or being expelled from the school.

I’ve been asked to tell you about a website called iPlagiarismCheck, you can visit the site by clicking the follow link – iPlagiarismCheck.com – Click here to visit us today!. This website offers a service that will benefit students and teachers alike.

I’ve already given you my opinion on plagiarism and the theft of copyright material. The iPlagiarismCheck website offers a solution to the problem of plagiarism. They’ve created their site in order to allow people to submit their documents and have them checked for even the most subtle signs of plagiarism.

Their software checks publications – soft and hard cover books, journals and articles, it also checks the internet by searching directories, online publications, blogs, websites, PDF articles and so on. The software has millions of places and articles to check, but it does so quickly. The software has a patented algorithm that checks the sentence structure and word synonyms in the submitted article against all those I’ve listed above on the internet and hard and soft cover publications.

I said earlier that the iPlagiarismCheck website will benefit students and teachers alike because it’s possible for a student to research an article and end up using work that was already plagiarized in their own work without knowing that they’ve accidentally used a research paper that’s been plagiarized.

I haven’t been in school for a long time, but I do remember that essays made up a large portion of a courses credit. Can you imagine accidentally using plagiarized work and failing? What if it was your thesis that ended up containing plagiarized work! A thesis would be one of the best examples of an important document to have checked using the iPlagiarismCheck website.

Students can protect themselves by opening an account at iPlagiarismCheck. I see that they currently have a special on their Startup Package. It’s only $5! The starter package allows you to have one document checked for signs of plagiarism. Other packages range in price from $20 right up to the unlimited submissions for one year SuperSaver package that costs only $65. I could see students signing up for the $5, $20 and or $35 packages, and teachers, professors, and other professionals signing up for the $65 supersaver package.

Once a document has been checked via the online plagiarism checking service an iPlagiarismCheck report will be provided. The report provides a list of all the external sources that have been included in the document. I suppose a student could even hand in a copy of the iPagiarismCheck when handing their article or essay to their teacher.

Visit the iPlagiarismCheck site to learn more about how the software works, to see an example of an iPlagiarismCheck report, and all of the options included in each of their packages.

I really do think this is a worthwhile service for students and teachers. I can also see how it can be used to benefit businesses, professionals and even website owners.

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