An Age of Magic

Combine career and study with an online university

Many people nowadays take the decision to pause during their careers and look at what options they have for improving their skills or even for changing direction completely with regards to their futures. The online university has become the most popular way to achieving this due to the numbers of online universities gaining nationwide accreditation for their courses and the acceptance by employers and businesses for their workers to take time out to undertake their studies – in fact some businesses now will even finance an employees degree study if it will enhance their skills.

Making the choice of where to undertake your studies can be a tough one but one such institution for this excellent opportunity is Western Governors University. Funding your online degree can often be the big drawback to taking this step but WGU offer assistance in this area and can provide financial packages designed to get you started. One of the fun parts of university life is the campus life where you get to interact with other students; even studying online means you get to do this and WGU attract a broad range of students from all walks of life – the average age is around 36 but you will find yourself meeting up with fellow students aged anywhere from their 20’s up to their 60’s. The university boasts an impressive alumni which maybe you could find yourself included in one day – make the choice and change your future.

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Get ready for Mega-Monday as online traders open their ‘doors’.

Are you ready to start your Xmas shopping for real…? if you are a dedicated online shopper then today is the answer to your dreams but you will need plenty of credit on your credit card to really take advantage of the great bargains that are out there today. Online traders are expecting their greatest takings of the year today and are calling it ‘Mega Monday’.They are all hoping that Xmas will come early in the shape of a multi-million pound trading bonanza. Maybe this is why there are not the crowds in the shops right now…

I will be doing alot of my own shopping for Xmas online basically because I do not get much time to get out to the shops on my own, and having several curious kids usually tagging along makes it even more difficult. Once again DVDs are predicted to be the most popular buy with an estimated 50 MILLION sales in the run-up to Xmas with more the unusual items such as buying cigars online making up the more unorthodox end of the market.

There still remains the problem of where to store all these bargains once you have bought them – we have a roof space where we store everything so it looks like we will be telling the kids that the big snake still lives up there looking for mice to eat…works every time.

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The river of no return – for the Brit’s and the French that is…

An ancient giant river that was created when a huge glacial lake in the North Sea overflowed was responsible for first dividing Britain from France. The ‘Fleuve Manche’ or ’super-river’ ran south from the area of the North Sea. Scientists pieced together the geological jigsaw behind these amazing events after studying samples of the sediment carried by the ancient river and deposited in the Bay of Biscay. This revealed that a massive flood ate through the chalky rock separating Britain and France around 450,000 years ago during an ice age.

The river receded enough to let people and animals cross from continental Europe into England at different times but filled up again during the ice ages 160,000 years ago and between 90,000 and 30,000 years ago. Eventually the melted ice filled up the valley and the ‘Fleuve Manche’ became ‘La Manche’ – the French word for ’sleeve’ that describes the English Channel.

This kept Britain separate from Europe even after the end of the last ice age around 10,000 years ago.

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