Kohls 20% Printable Coupon good for an entire week!

Kohls is giving us another opportunity to save… without the charge card!

I got this in my email from Kohls and I thought I’d share it with you.

Kohls now has a 20% off printable in-store coupon that lasts an entire week.

Good from Thursday, April 26, 2012 through Thursday, May 3, 2012, you can print the coupon and take it with you when you shop.

Print your Kohls printable coupon (aka “shopping pass”) here:  Kohls 20% off printable coupon

This time you don’t even have to spend $100 or more to get the 20% off either, so print your Kohls in-store 20% shopping pass and save!

Finally!  For those of use who like to shop at Kohl’s but don’t want to shop online or use their credit card, the Kohl’s printable coupon shopping pass (aka: Kohl’s yes pass) is back.

Print your Kohl’s 15% off in-store  coupon good February 24- February 26 here:  Kohls 15% off Printable Coupon

Shopping online?  Use code: LEAPYR15

Expired Coupons and Promotions:

Beginning Friday, February 10 through Tuesday, February 14, 2012, you can use the Kohl’s printable coupon to shop in-store and save 15% off everything.  Spend $100 or more in that trip and the coupon  bumps you up to 20% off everything.

It’s been a long wait since the last printable coupon, so print your Kohl’s 15%-20% off printable coupon and get shopping!

Others find freedom in it. There are no demanding supervisors to report to, no annoying colleagues to deal with and certainly a total avoidance from endless office gossip talks. Imagine those wasted minutes and sometimes hours being stuck in heavily congested traffics as dust and dirt piles up on your hair. Yes. Work from home, I dream of it too. It is never impossible but there are also challenges to beat.

The Advantages of Work at Home Jobs

Being able to work in the comforts of your home offers a lot of benefits for home employees especially for moms or parents with kids. Freelancing at home gives them ample of quality time to spend with their family. Since this type of job offers time flexibility, you get to schedule your personal appointments and household errands without losing an hour off work while developing a healthy bonding time. Although isolation posed as a challenge, you can still properly address it by catching up with friends every now and then.

Time management would be a lot easier as you get to schedule days off, or vacations at your convenience. Others tend to claim that they became more productive working at home than being tied up in the office. This is because the environment where you work is less stressful. It contributes in creating a healthy perspective thus; it encourages you to do more. If you are a mom, this setup would greatly work in your favour. What you will love most about it is how you get paid by simply doing what you love to do.

The Challenges of Working from Home

When you decide to work at home, you isolate yourself as it pulls you out of the scene. Nobody will be around to dictate you on what to do. You are on your own. At some point, it might mean going on hiatus as corporate parties and out of town team buildings suddenly face its end. Your work discipline will be put to test as you work with minimal to no supervision at all. Here, you are paid and judged based on the quantity and quality of your product. If you do not work, you do not earn. And if your computer crashed, you also do not have IT personnel to run over and fix it. Distractions inside the house like TV, social sites, noisy kids and the people you live with might add up to these challenges as you strive to find focus on what you do.

About the Author: Marj Licos is a financial blogger/writer and is a regular contributor for Chris Collins’ service advisory at chriscollinsinc.com. She is also a home-based professional, favoring to work on her own time and in the comforts of home.

So why all the praise about such a “fantastic” performance?

I’ll give the Material Girl the fact that, for the enormous number of people involved, it was well choreographed and went off relatively without a hitch.  But it was still boring.  Slow dance moves, very little energy, lip synching.  Totally boring.

Then the time came when Madonna sang with MIA (the infamous part where she gave the camera the bird).  Madonna sang, “I’m a different kind of girl” complete with gold pom poms.  Get real Madonna, you’re no kind of  girl, you’re 53 years old!   I know Madonna looks pretty good for her age, but she looked ridiculous singing that song.

The Super Bowl is an energy filled, monstrous performance opportunity that should be filled with an equal amount of energy.  Just being Madonna isn’t enough.

Fail!

BabySense Sleep Apnea Monitor

Does Your Baby Have Sleep Apnea?  Its Not Just for Adults

Sleep apnea is often associated with overweight adults, particularly men, but babies can have it too.  In fact, parents spend so much time researching devastating tragedies like SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), but no one ever talks about sleep apnea when an infant stops breathing.  For the parent who has a baby with sleep apnea, it can be a horribly exhausting experience losing sleep every night as you check on your baby.

Sleep apnea in babies most often occurs in premature babies,  – but it can happen to anyone.  There are three types of sleep apnea, of which obstructive apnea is the most common.  There is also mixed/complex and central apnea, but the obstructive apnea most often occurs in babies.

With obstructive apnea, your baby may experience gasping, snoring, restlessness and discoloration.  While most people have episodes of apnea, those who suffer from it recurrently know that controlling it can be complicated.  Luckily, obstructive apnea in babies may be as simple as getting their tonsils or adenoids checked for inflammation – but if its not, you may want to check out some other options to make sure your baby is safely breathing.

If your baby seems to wake frequently, has brief pauses in breathing or snores, you may want to consider that it might be sleep apnea. Your physician can give you more information, including suggesting a baby sleep apnea monitor.

Until your baby gets a little older, a monitor designed for sleep apnea may help because, unlike regular baby monitors, baby sleep apnea monitors are specifically designed to monitor breathing.  There are several different kinds on the market, with some even having a heartbeat monitor as a back-up in case the monitor misses any change in breathing patterns.  Nearly all activate an alarm when the baby stops breathing and, just like standard baby monitors, there those that come either wireless or not wireless, and with the option for rechargeable batteries.

When baby suffers from lack of sleep, parents do too – and that’s not healthy for anyone.  So check with your doctor and ask if the symptoms your baby has could be related to a case of baby sleep apnea, and find out what can be done to help.

Do you know what ‘bath salts’ are? Popular with teens, it nearly kills New Orleans woman

Last October the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a temporary ban on a new popular drug, bath salts.  Like most other illegal drugs, however, that didn’t stop one woman from recently injecting them into her arm, causing infection and cellular death so severe that they amputated her entire arm and did a mastectomy.

This extreme action was necessary to save the life of this 34-year-old New Orleans woman who was at least smart enough to seek help in an emergency room when her arm became infected.  Flesh-eating bacteria that had taken over the injection site and spread rapidly through her arm, killing all kinds of tissue, including her muscle.  Doctors not only amputated her arm and did an emergency mastectomy, but they also removed her shoulder and additional damaged skin.

All this came to light after a publication by Dr. Russell Russo, lead author and third-year orthopedic resident at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, appeared in the January 2012 edition of the journal, Orthopedics.

In this case, the rapid flesh-eating problem known as Necrotizing Fasciitis was caught within 48 hours of the injection.  But the problem is that teens are more likely to hide a problem if it happens to them.  If it’s your child, they could easily die.

I don’t know about you, but I had never even heard of bath salts until recently, and I certainly would not have thought of talking to my child about them.

Bath salts became popular in late 2010 after making a splash across Europe in 2009.   Comprised of mephedrone, methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and methylone, the bath salts are particularly popular among teens because they are easy to get and are often sold as plant food in packaging marked “not for human consumption.”

The highs from baths salts are said to mimic that of LSD and cocaine, with the users of baths salts reporting effects such as extreme paranoia, episodes of violence, reduced motor skills, impaired perception and disorientation.  They are consumed in many ways, including snorting, smoking, taking them orally and injecting.

Despite the fact that the DEA banned three chemicals used to make these bath salts, it’s obviously a new problem.  Flesh-eating bacteria and losing an entire quarter  of your body within two days of taking the drug would be enough to keep a lot of teens away from drugs, but parents should never assume that their kids “know better” than to try it.  After all, how serious does “bath salts” sound?

Flesh-eating bacteria and psychosis are some serious conditions to consider.  Maybe this story is just what some parents need to start a discussion about the dangers of drugs and whatever the “drug du jour” is.

The migration of workspace means that even more than ever, keeping on top of old and new technologies when it comes to software is paramount to ensuring their business’ customer satisfaction, growth and profit.

Utilizing companies like Alliance Global Services or other software and product development services can help with staying on track of up-to-date technologies.  When deciding whether or not its time to upgrade your software, you have to analyze multiple factors – and having a test data strategy is part of it.

For instance, does you current software work with cloud operating systems and mobile technology?  What about performance and content testing? Does your software provider assess risks or take steps to provide the best software at a low cost?

Working at home can be great, but you can’t let the business get left behind by technological advances.  Getting custom software for your business can not only improve customer satisfaction and profit, but can continue to build on your business for the future.

New hormone revealed to fight fat effortlessly

There are many perks to having a child, but the weight accompanying most women’s pregnancies isn’t one of them.  It’s a problem we have all dealt with at one time or another, and the struggle to lose weight is an ongoing process – especially those with multiple children and multiple pregnancies.  But now there is a solution coming that is reportedly really safe.  It’s just too bad most people aren’t going to be able to afford it.

It turns out that researchers have discovered that a naturally occurring hormone in the body helps to fight obesity.  This hormone, which normally increases in the body on its own when people exercise regularly is now being duplicated.  Named irisin, after the Greek messenger goddess Iris, this new hormone can help fight obesity without exercise – mimicking the benefits of exercise without actually doing it.  The only problem is that since only one company has the rights to it, when it does become available it’s going to be really expensive.

This new hormone that’s coming was presented in the journal Nature this past Thursday, but considering the prospect of actually obtaining it, I guess we’re all doomed to do things the old fashioned way for now: make time for ourselves and eat right. Easier said than done.

But the next time someone who has successfully lost weight tells you how easy it is to find 30 minutes a day for yourself, just keep your head up and tell them you’re glad it worked out for them, and then find what works best for you.

Weight loss tip for the new year: Making a schedule can help you.  Make a fitness schedule – even if it’s only 3 days a week – and then make a back-up schedule for when the first plan fails you.   Kids are unpredictable, and time for ourselves can’t always be an exact science.