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Why I Became Interested in Mental Maths or Math

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At the age of 6 years old I developed a block for mental maths, math, or arithmetic.   There followed many of years of complete and utter bafflement about numbers on my part that is until 2002 at the age of 50! I had come across strategies to learn useful things, that we had strategies to avoid things, to do the wrong thing. That we could change those things that were wrong for us, if we wanted to. My prime interest in NLP has always been how we can use to improve our and others learning. How if want to, can we change or improve things for the better. In 2002 when I was training to become an NLP Master Practitioner we were learning about modelling.   NLP is based on the models of presuppositions or operating beliefs, three of which are – Modelling successful performance leads to excellence. If one person can do something it is possible to model it and teach it to others. Excellence can be duplicated.   Therefore by carrying out the modelling and distilling a model from it, we

Storks, Leylek, Adiba - bringer of babies (maybe)

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Whatever you call them they are fascinating large birds to those of us who don't normally see them. Storks are a common sight across Turkey between April and September. turkey is a stopover point between the birds’ winter quarters in Africa (we have seen them in December on the city walls of Morocco where they return from the Atlas Mountains to their nests around 6 pm local time each night. Curiously some information sites say that storks mate of life others say this is not so, but they are monogamous. Around thirty thousand breeding pairs are believed to visit Turkey, often returning to the same nest year after year to raise new chicks. Both Christian and Islamic beliefs consider storks lucky, in Turkish they are known as “pilgrim birds” in Turkish, they are rarely harmed. In some areas of Turkey special platforms are built I additions to the storks’ favorite nesting perches, which range from chimneys and minarets to utility poles. Locally we have storks not too far away an