Looking Beyond The Horizon

The risks and opportunities of climate change for agriculture can be effectively dealt only by aligning policies, developing institutional capabilities, and investing in infrastructure and farms, as per the experiences of Albania, FYR Macedonia, Moldova, and Uzbekistan.

From the insightful philosophers and educators of China in the East to the distinguished thinkers and mentors of the West comes wisdom that varies as greatly as the expanse between these continents. In Look beyond Your Horizon, author Ho Nee Yong provides a versatile form of motivation in order to help you become a high achiever in your career while retaining your morals. In this way educated individuals with wholesome personalities can become the movers and shakers of the world. You are responsible for your own life. You can look beyond your horizon by having a specific goal and a plan for achieving it. You can fly the extra mile when you are confident, have a sustainable effort, and are fearless and upright in your thought, speech, and deeds. Your only enemy is your negativity. The desire to look beyond your horizon can be a natural inspiration for your progress with innovative ideas, knowledge, or expertise. Your goals can serve as a sterling support in catalysing your effort to meet your full potential in both life and career.

When Gail McWilliams lost her sight, she began to see clearly for the first time in her life. "You will see blindness in your lifetime," the eye specialist told Gail when she was twenty-one years old. She would have no warning. The storm in her eyes was coming, but no one knew when. And her wedding day was only three weeks away. Would her hope of marriage and children be destroyed? Would she lose her independence and career? The prospects were terrifying. On Christmas Eve Gail's vision was 20/20. On Christmas morning she was completely blind. Her world had gone from beautiful light to pitch black while she slept. Seeing Beyond is the astonishing true story of Gail's journey into shadowy darkness. It's a touching story of total blindness and perfect vision, a powerful story of engulfing fear and freeing faith, and an inspirational story of crushing personal loss and great spiritual gain. Some people see life a lot more clearly than others, and my friend Gail McWilliams is one of those 'seers' I love listening to. Gail (has) extraordinary insight into the way things are, and the way things should be. -Joni Eareckson Tada, Best-Selling Author/Radio Host You will weep with Gail as her life is turned upside down and she sinks into despair and depression. And you will celebrate with her as she learns truly to depend on God, who guides her to amazing success as an author, singer, and international speaker. As Gail says, "When you choose to look past the horizon, the sky is the limit!" Join Gail on this eye-opening venture of seeing beyond your worst nightmare to the divine dream God has waiting for you. It's the adventure of a lifetime--an adventure you don't want to miss!

Written in poetic form, this book presents a fresh idea to devotionals. Pain and trials do not discriminate and everyone is tied to that reality. However, many are unable to smell, hear, see, taste and feel beyond the pain. Often the blessings are bountiful when we push through the pain and discover what lies on the other side. This book reminds readers that they are not alone or forgotten in their trials and/or pain and offers opportunity for reflection and introspection.

May you paint a portrait of who you see Or write some words of what you hear. Do not allow yourself to be judged by the thoughts in your head, Nor hang on your walls slanted biases. This collection of free verse poetry explores the versatile expression of the arts. Its depth, richness, colour, and style reach out to everyone trying to preserve culture and art and who wants to present their style to the world. Today's young adults are trying to achieve change on a different level—this book guides that transformation. Poems You’ll Love are divided into themes, allowing readers to first dig into the topics that capture their attention. The simplicity of the collection’s structure also encourages readers to create their interpretations of the poems and to try their hand at the art of writing poetry. This collection was inspired by the themes and prompts assigned by the Passion of Poetry team as part of their twenty-four-hour challenges. Many poems were judged by professional judges, teachers, doctors, social workers, and others. One set of poems written during a twenty-one-day streak even won the Emily Dickinson Award.

"Stressed!" - "No time!" - "I don't know where my head is!" Stress is familiar to almost everyone, and many suffer the negative consequences of constant stress. So what to do? This book shows a variety of possible courses of action and encourages you to find your own way to a calm and healthy way of dealing with stress at work and in everyday life. It is written for stress sufferers for self-help and as comprehensible accompanying reading for stress management courses or in the context of a consultation, for personnel managers and executives in business and administration, for consultants and therapists who support stressed clients, and for everyone who wants to further develop their personal stress competence. From the contents: Instrumental stress competence: making everyday life less stressful, actively meeting demands - Mental stress competence: developing beneficial attitudes and evaluations - Regenerative stress competence: creating balance, relaxing and recovering - With checklists, exercises and numerous tips. The author: Prof. Dr. Gert Kaluza is a psychological psychotherapist and works as a trainer, coach and author in the field of individual and workplace health promotion. After working at various universities for over 20 years, he founded his own continuing education and training institute, the GKM Institute for Health Psychology, in 2002.

In June, 2004, Colin Angus left Vancouver on his bicycle. Nearly two years later, he rolled back in, looking like a castaway, and having completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. Angus cycled, skiied, and rowed a route that took him to Alaska, across the Bering Sea and the Siberian winter, across Europe from Moscow to Portugal, then across the Atlantic to Costa Rica-a 156-day rowing odyssey. From there it was a short 8,300 kilometre ride back to Vancouver. Along the way he burned through 4,000 chocolate bars, 72 inner tubes, 250 kgs of freeze-dried foods, 31 dorado fish (caught from the sea), 2 offshore rowboats, 4 bicycles, 80 kgs of clothing. And he showed the world that if he can travel 43,000 kilometres without polluting the planet, then the rest of us can get off our butts, and clean up our own acts. "We lay in the rowboat cabin as the seas swelled and the sky boiled like a devil's cauldron. Slanting yellow sun beams cut between black squalls, and corrugated cirrus clouds interlaced the remaining areas of blue. Huge anvil heads roiled and billowed, like slow-moving atomic explosions. Flashes of lightning illuminated the IMAX screen of the horizon. Such energy and volatility would have been breathtakingly beautiful, if we had been watching from nearly anywhere else, and if it weren't for the fact that it was all just a prelude to a killer storm. It was hard to believe that yet another tropical cyclone was heading our way. We had chosen the worst hurricane season in recorded history to make our five-month, 10,000 km unsupported rowboat crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. Now, two months into our voyage, it looked very likely our expedition might come to an abrupt end. Our voyage across the Atlantic was only a part of a much larger expedition: an attempt to complete the first human-powered circumnavigation of the planet. So far we had trekked, skied, cycled, canoed, and rowed non-stop across three continents and were half-way across our second ocean. Now, as I huddled in the dog-house sized cabin with my fiancée waiting for the Hurricane Epsilon to reach us, I cursed myself for ever believing I could achieve such an impossible quest." --From Beyond the Horizon

The Gold Coast is a well-known and loved destination for local and international tourists, a city of surf and sun, pleasure and leisure. However, it is also one of the fastest growing cities in Australia, occupying the largest urban footprint outside the state capitals.