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The 63rd World show was held in Rosmalen, Holland from the 22/1/15 -25/1/15. Conveyors Richard Lumley and Chris Smith took a total number of birds from the UK of 187,with a few absent birds which would have seen a very good entry of 215 birds from 31 fully paid up IOA members, 3 NCA members and 1 from a affiliated society making a total of 35 exhibitors. Total number of birds entered for the show was 22,248 so a very good entry when you understand all the problems the show organisation had in the weeks leading up to the show are the out break of Bird Flu. Once again the standard of birds on show was of high quality and for COM-UK to win 10 Gold and 4 Silver was high praise indeed. The IOA feel that every one who partook was a winner with 6 first time exhibitors and as a thank you all IOA members were given a special Gold Pin badge, congratulations to all the medal winners but not every one can win from the IOA’s side its the partaking which counts.
This is the COM-UK president with fellow members at the flag ceremony world show gala dinner Bari.
The 62 nd World Show was held in Bari, Italy from 24/1/14 to 26/1/14. COM-UK conveyour’s Richard Lumley & Gary Mann took a total of 180 birds from the UK plus 15 birds from our members in Gibraltar making a total entry of 195 from 32 exhibitors. A total entry of bird’s for the show was 25,895 from 3340 exhibitors coming from 19 countries. COM-UK managed to win a total of 11 medals, of which 6 were gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze. All birds at the show arrived in good condition after a journey of 1,600 miles which took two days driving. The standard of all birds on show was a very high one so to win a medal you had to have a outstanding bird, and some of the COM-UK team just missed out on medals this time where as in past shows we would have won more medals. The main contributor’s to this show were once again from the IOA, out of the 32 who exhibited this year 29 were fully paid up IOA members, 1 was an affiliated society to the IOA and from our partners in COM-UK they managed to get 2 exhibitors.


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industry_corpus2: Subject Education


text: Traditionally, teacher educators provide structured lectures for their pre service teachers to impart knowledge of what will be encountered in the field once they begin teaching in schools. However, in this paper, two reading professors who are proponents of constructivist teaching, decide to provide choice in their seminars. Allowing choices provided an opportunity for students to encourage motivation, maximize performance, help increase independence and self-management skills and provide a feeling of control with their learning situation. Choices are evident in both informal and formal assignments throughout the semester. Pre service teachers who were able to share new knowledge in their self-selected forms, were able to show more critical thinking in their responses.


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Realise your vision with the perfect recording channel strip from legend Rupert Neve. A self-powered 2U channel module comprised of a fully-featured mic preamplifier, 4-band EQ, compressor-limiter, “texture”control and level metering, The Portico II Channel includes a bevy of new features including: Variable Silk / Silk+ Texture control, a fully tunable “de-esser”, multiple VCA filtering and detection options, a transient-optimized swept HPF and parallel compression blending. With its simple yet powerful topologies and extensive feature set, every element of the Portico II: Channel is geared towards empowering recording artists to realize these visions.
Input signals may be derived from any of three sources; Microphone, Line or DI. The Microphone input has a 10K Ω non-reactive input resistance that handles a full 26dBu signal without the need for a pad. A primary Gain control provides 66dB of gain in 6dB increments for easy recall with a +/- 6dB Trim for fine adjustment. A transient-optimized HPF continuously covering the range from 20-250Hz is included. In addition the usual 48V Phantom Power switch, Phase Inversion, Signal Present indicator and a Mute switch are included. The pre-amp is a TLA non-reactive design that precludes the loading of microphones with limited driving capability and which maintains a 2 dB noise figure over a wide range.
Inserting a plug into the DI input, selects a 3M Ω Discrete FET DI circuit that includes the transformer-coupled pristine topography that optimizes both the microphone and DI inputs, allowing low impedance microphones and high impedance sources like electric guitars and basses to deliver their optimum performance. Primary Gain and Trim controls are fully operational. A “Thru” jack on the front panel that duplicates the unaffected source signal allows the use of an external amplifier if required. A “Line” switch selects the independent Line XLR non-reactive input circuit that includes the HPF and Level trim controls.
One of the key developments in the Portico II is the new Texture section. Building on the “Silk” mode found in the Portico Series mic pre-amplifiers, Texture is designed to adjust the actual amount of harmonic music content from the source material, in effect, providing countless tonal options in one device. The texture section features distinct modes, controlled by a potentiometer from barely audible to dramatic! With that said, we have placed great care insuring that the musical integrity of source material itself will not be compromised by these harmonic controls (these are not to be confused with controls from other manufactures that may “incinerate”, “demolish” or “destroy” source material), and we believe they can be confidently modified to fit the personality of any song, instrument or engineer.
Like the original Portico, Silk mode works by reducing negative feedback on the output transformer and adjusting the frequency response to more closely resemble Mr. Rupert Neve’s vintage designs. “Silk +” mode pushes this technique still further, achieving a more harmonically rich sound.
The Low Shelf has an independent engage switch, Classic Peak/ Accelerated Shelf selection, with +/- 12dB level adjustment, and selectable turnover frequencies of 35, 60, 100, and 220 Hz. The Fully Parametric LMF and HMF bands have a joint engage switch, providing +/- 12dB level adjustment, continuously variable “Q” from 0.7 to 5 and continuously variable frequency ranges from 70 to 1.4KHz and 700Hz to 14KHz. In addition to its standard capabilities, the HMF band can also be used to precisely tune a new De-Esser circuit.
The De-Esser can be varied from off to full effect, and uses the Frequency, and “Q” controls to tame harsh sibilance in vocals and instruments with an independent high-mid limiter. Even when the De-Esser is on, the EQ level may still be used. The High Frequency shelf has independent engage switch, Classic Peak/ Accelerated Shelf selection, +/- 12dB level adjustment, and selectable turnover frequencies of 4.7, 6.8, 12, and 25kHz. When two Portico II Channels are used side by side, the EQ section can also excel at stereo material.
A further array of tools are used to craft dynamic response. The Portico II’s compressor section is exceptionally flexible. Like the Portico 5043, the VCA compressor has a choice of Feed-Forward / Feed-Back modes, either providing a transparent modern response (FF), or a smoother more vintage response (FB). Along with FF/FB modes, there are also 1:1 to 40:1 ratio controls and threshold from -30dBu to +20dBu, together with Attack from 20 to 75ms (.1 ms in Peak mode), Release from 100ms to 2.5s, and Make up gain from 0 to 20dB with a Stereo Link.
The Portico II compressor incorporates a number of new ways to tame and enhance dynamics. HPF to SC inserts the High Pass Filter into the side chain to deal with intense low frequencies that may skew the response of the VCA with certain songs and instruments. The “Peak” switch alters the compressor’s attack to react to transients with a roughly .1ms response time. When “peak” is disengaged, the compressor responds to the RMS signal in conjunction with the attack and release settings.
“Blend” works by creating a parallel mix between the compressed and dry signals. By mixing the compressed and dry signals, it is possible to increase the volume of quieter elements in the source material (for instance, delicate snare brushing on a track with much louder hits), while maintaining a natural dynamic feel for the louder elements.
To further control the side chain, there is also an insert “send” and “return” that may be paired with an external EQ or other filters for additional manipulation. The “return” may also be used as a “Key” input for ducking one signal under another. (for instance, a voice-over keying the compressor to duck a background music track). By connecting the “link” jack on the back of the Portico II to another Portico II link jack and engaging the Link buttons, the compressor section may be used for stereo material.
Unity to +66dB in 6 dB steps, Trim continuously adjustable from –6dB to +6dB Line Input: Trim continuously adjustable from –6dB to +6dB Maximum Output Level: Maximum output from 20 Hz to 40 kHz is +25 dBu.

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The World Bank warned that the economic costs of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa will escalate to “catastrophic” proportions if the virus spreads, while Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama criticized the international response to the disease.
“If other countries in the vicinity in the subregion of West Africa fail to do what Nigeria and Senegal have done — which is to keep things under control — then the costs will become much much larger,” Francisco Ferreira, World Bank chief economist for Africa, said in a Sept. 19 interview in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital.
The spread of the virus may cost Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the three nations where most infections have taken place, as much as $809 million, the World Bank said on Sept. 17. Early findings of the lender’s research into the economic risks of the disease spreading to other countries show the damage could be more severe, he said.
Mahama said in an interview in New York yesterday that the Ebola outbreak may reduce gross domestic product in the region by about 3.6 percent. Funds pledged by international donors haven’t yet flowed in and a “panic response” by closing borders and airlines canceling flights are further damaging the worst-hit economies, he said.
“These resources should be fast-tracked so that the countries have the resources to be able to fight the disease,” he said.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


text: USA TODAY High School Sports begins its Best 2015-16 Team contest at 12 p.m. ET on June 29. 21 teams are vying for the top spot as America’s Best Team. The contest is one round and ends at 2 p.m. ET July 11.

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Nice and thorough, with each box sized in proportion of the use count of the word. Unfortunately, the average consumer of such analysis is struggling to interpret it, as this style of viz is probably not mainstream enough yet. It’s still way better than the dreaded pie chart, which is impossible to consume with more than 3 slices.
With one quick glance, one can clearly visualize that those reviews cover a German restaurant in Charlotte, NC, with a fairly positive tone.
Soon after I got started putting together the Word Cloud, I realized that Tableau offered little guidance on that topic. Word Cloud is not found in the Show Me tab for instance. I searched what fellow bloggers had to offer, and easily found some guidance, like here or there. These are all fine posts, with nice visual steps to follow, but they overlook a crucial point: they assume that the data set has already 1 word per column, which is highly unlikely to happen. It turns out that using a data source with sentences instead of single word, is a major road block to the use of Word Clouds in Tableau, as reflected in some help requests in the community. In order to feed Tableau with something workable, it requires to split the words of the reviews column. This operation implies breaking the granularity of the data source, which will expand the number of rows by the number of words found in each review.
There must be ways to code that conversion in Python, R, SQL or even PowerBI DAX. But as often for me, for a clean repeatable solution without dreaded copy + paste, whipped together in 10 minutes, I will use Alteryx!
Notice the granularity along the workflow: we start with 27,290 rows and after the split get to over 3 million rows! This implies that the average review comprises 123 words. That workflow takes 1 minute to complete on my laptop.
I load the Excel file, originally a CSV, then take out the Type field, since they are all reviews, and take out empty reviews by filtering them out, just in case. The blue box called All Sentences is a barely modified Tableau output I will use towards the end of that blog post, to use sentiment analysis. I will start with the Word Cloud fork which ends up with a pink box called Word by Word, my goal here.
by applying those 4 steps in succession, I obtain a Text cell which contains only lower case words surrounded by one space. If I don’t convert to lower case walking and Walking will get separate counts.
It will take every row and split every Text cell by the number of words, using space character as a delimiter, as highlighted above.
and proceed to drag the set into a filter for my viz, of type In/Out, which you will set to Out, to take out all of those meaningless words. The beauty of this approach is that you can easily tweak that list in the set, based on what you see, and play around with various lists. This is the artistic part of the analysis!
The results make a lot of sense, even though the integration of Python in Tableau is not for the faint of heart. Novices better keep out! I am looking forward to the implementation of Python in Alteryx, which will be smoother as the calculations will need to be performed only once during the workflow run, rather than waiting for 5 minutes each time the viz is modified in Tableau.
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Great article! I would recommend using a calculated field which replicates all of the cloud words but with leading and trailing spaces. Two spaces (or a different number as desired) on both ends will greatly improve the readability of the cloud.

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Dancing, falling, rising, like a silent thief.
A seedling sprouts, the joy flashes by.
Softly, carefully, carelessly, lovingly, more to be sure.
Where are you now, are you there at all?

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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Disclaimer: This threads purpose is not to suggest Gameplay Mechanics/Potential rewards. This is to stoke excitement in peoples minds over the "Story" of what a 4th World Event could be, please feel free to contribute ideas to the latter but try and keep the former to the Developers.
Also I ramble on and on, so feel free to skip to the TL;DR.
So, as I'm sure a good portion of you are aware with the Stalker update alongside it was released a very, very, fascinating Lorebook by the ever popular author we know as Grondaban, who is NOT Skaldrun by the way.
I won't spoil all its details in its entirely, but it reveals "Ocularis" the very homeworld of the Stalkers, but it is much more than a planet, it's a living being, the first stalker you might say, and a part of its history dates back to Zamoraks time in Pandemonium/Infernus during the uprising against Hostilius.
But after witnessing that great battle, that display of chaos, that grand performance of Zamoraks anger and fury at work, Ocularis left quietly from the skies of Infernus/Pandemonium and went off in search of more insight, more opportunities to learn from observation..
But that was several hundred years ago, surely by now, he must be close?
So, why not have his next stop be Gielinor?
World events past have been a mixed bag that much we can all agree on, but I'm excited for more, to have this moon sized event that sees us all regardless of if you've chosen the right God to worship or not can band together and perhaps if need be put an end to this supposed new threat that on the surface only wishes to observe us..
TL;DR The Stalkers update released a Lorebook detailed Ocularis as a living Moon/Planet/Being that observes worlds, I suggest this be the front runner for the hypothetical 4th world event as I believe having it be a neutral opponent would be best for the narrative.
Could be interesting if Jagex were able to devote the resources to do it justice. It occurred to me only just now that the arrival of a second moon should have potentially devastating effects on the planet (never mind the fact the moon is actually alive and probably malicious in this case). Didn't the lore book mention that he warps the gravity of the worlds he observes?
Sadly I don't expect tidal waves to drown out coastal settlements or anything. "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you[...]For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have?
Obviously, I want 5th Age stuff all caught up, first, but once that is done, we can finally get into the cool stuff.
I wanted an Armadyl vs. Saradomin fight for a while, but given the events in SE, it is clear that that is not going to happen.
I would be interested to read more Lethal if you could tell some more details for you idea.
My initial idea is essentially having Ocularis observe our world at first, as a sort of "Pre event-event" sending down Seekers of all varieties to act as its eyes to wander around Gielinor harmlessly enough, it would grab the NPCs attention and it would certainly grab even the most oblivious players attention to see giant wandering eyeballs floating around out of place.
It would be cause for concern, but you can't defend against something just wanting to seemingly observe, so nothing will be kicking off thus far.
Special dialogue for those with the Sneakerpeeper and Baby Soulgazer pets too I'd imagine.
After that Ocularis would establish several fleshy links with our planet, embedding them in the world in order to send down his troops to begin his "Assault" whilst being inspired heavily by Zamorak during the Avernic rebellion, he has formed his own mantra of survival of the fittest and wishes to see this world benefit from its teachings, but this is a moon trying to hand down a philosophy to mortal beings, His true purpose is naturally going to be lost in translation and the Seekers are going to be seen as doing nothing but turning violent on the Landscape and populace.
My thought process here is that these "Linked Areas" will be under siege by the Seekers, positioning themselves to help strengthen and maintain the links that have been made, It's our duty to fend off these Seekers and to plan a full frontal assault on the Links whilst we've temporarily regained control of key areas.
Our Win/Lose condition will be determined by a HP meter that can be damaged by attacking the links, knock it to 0% more times than not in the given event period is how we'll claim victory and send him off back to the stars, but I'd like a "Healing" mechanic built in as not to make it so pathetically easy like Tuska.
Obviously this is a very rough first idea, edits will be made here and there. As always, contributions are appreciated.
As for your stalker concept idea... Meh.
I agree Armadyl Vs Saradomin would be fantastic, but that would be other players dictating my story for me, and I don't want that ever, ever, again.
Godless VS Qoa sounds better, I can't wait to see how they'll fail.
In all honesty, I'm not looking forward to another world event given how the others have turned out.
Our main complaint in WE1 was its lack of impact on the world.
WE2 saw the cutting down of a god we barely got to know. Too much impact.
WE3 introduced a god from Guthix's past, a god that should have stayed there. Where does one begin between the headspinningly poor gameplay mechanics, rigged outcome, lore fails, etc?
I left RuneScape because we were promised a grand 6th age conflict but nothing has come of it.
I like the idea. Unfortunately, the execution has never been satisfying.
Not currently playing, so I haven't engaged with this lore, but I'm curious - have they linked this 'Ocularis' with Seeker Synapse in the Wushankos? Perhaps Ocularis has been here before. That gives me a funny idea - aren't Faruq's wares supposed to come from the east? Maybe the Orb of Oculus is actually some eldritch artefact of another world!
Anyways, I'd love to see another event, but I'm not so sure about having everyone on the same side. Jagex has no way of realistically balancing it before the event's begun and they've seen how players engage, and any overadjustment will just end up making the results feel cheap and moot. I actually thought the way WE2 did it was particularly clever, putting players in a 'support' role to NPCs who were the primary 'point collectors' for the event - though that was somewhat undercut by the poorly-implemented morale system and, uh, pitting the 2nd most popular faction against the one in dead last.
I'd actually like to see something slightly more grounded (which is a trite desire for a fantasy game like RS, but w/e). Fremennik were stirred up into the RC crusades just cos wizards on the other side of the continent were producing runes that they thought were the sole purview of gods. Now we're literally draining the remains of Guthix and using it to make pogosticks, and we're supposed to believe they're cool with it?
The dumb idea I've had - Divination crusades. Spurred by some unseen firebrand, Fremennik are attempting to destroy div rifts across the world. Each god faction splits into two camps - the pragmatists, who've already seen divine energy's vast destructive potential, and believe in restricting rift access to scholars and trusted individuals, reaching some negotiation with the crusaders; and militants, who believe in brinksmanship, that open access to the rifts ensures the factions remains wary of each other's power while pursuing progress, and the crusaders must be thoroughly repelled.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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Discover a lot of information on the number 106: properties, mathematical operations, how to write it, symbolism, numerology, representations and many other interesting things!
How to write / spell 106 in letters?
In letters, the number 106 is written as: One hundred and six. And in other languages? how does it spell?

industry_corpus2: Math & Statistics


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Gorgeous deep orange baby carrots are loaded with flavor. A favorite of gourmets, 2-3" 'Caracas' carrots are container-perfect.
Carrot, Caracas Hybrid is rated 4.3 out of 5 by 8.
Rated 5 out of 5 by ilovehummingbirds from So cute I can't remember when I planted these so am not sure when to harvest - I took these out as testers. How do I know when they are ready? Also I have planted them very close together.
Rated 5 out of 5 by kallisti from Delicious and easy to grow I successfully grew a buttload of carrots in short window box planters. They were delicious and easy! I helped germination by spraying down the top of the soil every morning with a spray bottle.
Rated 5 out of 5 by FarmerJules from SUCCESS!! We harvested CARROTS for Mother;s Day!! My first attempt at growing carrots EVER. We planted these baby (Caracas) carrots AND the bigger Touchon variety. We planted them beginning of March (Zone 9b) into above ground planters my husband built. I tossed the thought of using fertilizer around a bit but in the end chose not to. NEVER even hadt ONE pest so didnt have to use any poison/spray whatsoever. It was SOO rewarding to harvest as a family (invited my parents over for the pickin' party) Picked em. washed em up quickly, and chowed down. Healthy snacks directly from the garden. The taste was phenomenal. I read some people complaining about an earthy flavor but that was just NOT the case for me. They were crisp, and very SWEET. I had plans for cooking some up however, we only have 6 left....the entire lot was eaten raw in a day !!! I dropped my seed in one by one (so i wouldnt have to worry about thinning later) 30 of these Caracas baby seeds were planted and we ended up with 28 baby carrots. Id say thats a FANTASTIC germination rate!! Im pleased ALL THE WAY AROUND! Doing it again in the fall!!
Rated 1 out of 5 by Josie54 from no luck The carrots are growing - the ferny things are on top so we will see - but I had no luck this spring/summer with growing carrots. That is why I am trying it again.
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Rated 4 out of 5 by SStephens from So far so good Have yet to taste these little carrots - have another couple of weeks to go before harvesting my first batch. I planted in a deep half barrel, about 20 seeds, and I'd say 80% germinated. My carrot tops are now 10-12 inches high after 5 weeks and seem very healthy. Will update when I harvest, but hoping for sweet results! I have started another barrel and seeds have just sprouted, so I hope my second go round will do as well!

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If you never need to have to drop a ton of weight, it can take some time to properly lose it. This is because considerably of your body’s body fat will transform to muscle mass. Muscle mass weighs much more than body fat and therefore the scale will not adjust also significantly at first. This write-up will teach you all about shedding fat.
Have a journal to track your day-to-day calorie ingestion. This will help you eat considerably less, and make better alternatives regarding the food that you take in. Although exercise is crucial, eating a healthy diet regime is the amount one way to lessen your fat and maintain it off.
When you are doing exercises to lose excess weight, make confident to focus on aerobics. They will increase your coronary heart charge although aiding you burn extra unwanted fat far more speedily than exercise routines made for resistance. Anytime your coronary heart rate is increased and stays improved for a time period of time is regarded as cardio exercise. This is useful simply because any action that you enjoy can be regarded physical exercise as long as your coronary heart price is improved.
Start exercising when you want to shed weight. Be a part of a gym if you have the time and disposable income. You may also want to try jogging, Pilates or Tai Chi. Chat with your medical doctor ahead of beginning a overall health plan. There are a lot of workouts that you can do at home or function.
Get multivitamins when dieting to help with bodyweight decline. When we diet, we typically get rid of our amount of food. As a end result, we probably will not be getting some of the important natural vitamins and minerals that our bodies need to have. Using multivitamins corrects this dilemma and assures you get all the nutritional vitamins you require.
Creating muscle mass is a lot more important than getting rid of excess weight. Constructing muscle mass will enhance your metabolic rate. Apply these suggestions as before long as you can to your fat loss software.
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Losing bodyweight can be a quite tough process. As you age, dropping excessive fat turns into far more challenging. Building a healthier life-style to accomplish and preserve your body weight is the greatest method. Use the ideas from this report to do just that.
To lose bodyweight without producing sudden alterations, reduce your calorie consumption a small bit every working day. A good idea to follow is to reduce your normal caloric ingestion by about five hundred calories.
A great way to make bodyweight stays down is to not consume in the several hours directly previous bedtime. This may possibly appear like a difficult thing to steer clear of, but it is in your ideal desire to do so. The meals you eat ahead of laying down for mattress does not get burned as swiftly simply because your metabolic charge has slowed down in planning for rest. Try to eat a few several hours just before you go to bed and stay energetic during the night so you burn off these calories.
The people who have the most accomplishment in getting rid of fat are the types who know how to get pleasure from their exercise schedule. The connection in between exercising and fat decline is nicely identified, and the essential to sustaining an exercising software is keeping your motivation substantial. Get out for a stroll with a friend, engage in with your pet or play video online games that stimulate actual physical movements.
Never be ashamed if you have half a plate of food leftover when you are on a bodyweight loss program. Some folks had been raised to end every bite off of their plate, but this is just why several grownups have fat problems when they are more mature. There is nothing at all improper with using leftovers back home. Don’t really feel the need to have to consume every final chunk of foodstuff purely since it truly is on your plate. Pay consideration to what you eat and quit as shortly as you truly feel full.
Maintaining your fat is much easier than attempting to shed weight. When you have misplaced the bodyweight, stick to your healthy behavior, like operating out and ingesting greater. Use the guidelines above to aid you do just that!
These days, we all know how important it is to take care of ourselves with eating right and exercise. Tracking devices like pedometers from PEDUSA help monitor and motivate your physical activity throughout the day, but what can you do to stay on-course when it comes to your eating habits? Nutritionists and weight loss experts agree: tracking your food, or writing down what you eat, is an incredibly effective way to motivate you to make good eating choices. Here are a few reasons why you should be doing it.
A lot of us figure we eat all right. Sure, there’s a few margaritas during happy hour on Friday, and there was that delicious half-rack of ribs when you went out for your sister’s birthday, and then on Monday Helen brought those amazing cupcakes to work…oh wait. Your eating habits can get away from you, fast, and while non-trackers can convince themselves that they “haven’t been doing so badly,” people who write down what they eat every day are faced with the bald facts. And that is where making changes starts.
Once you have a pattern of your eating habits you can begin to make tweaks and adjustments for the better. If your pitfall is a highly caloric caffeinated bomb around 2 p.m., switch to a low-fat, no-whip, sugar-free vanilla latte with an extra shot of espresso instead. The more you make smart swaps, the more you want to keep doing it.
You can pay your electric bill and send flowers via your smart phone, so why not track your daily calorie intake, too? There are tons of apps – many of them free – that conveniently go where you go, enabling you to make those good choices even when temptation is staring out at you from behind the bakery window.
Like eating well, tracking your food is a healthy habit that takes some getting used to but helps you feel and look great.
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Are you carrying undesirable pounds? Becoming chubby is typical, but you do not have to reside with it. The tips in this article will help you in shedding lbs for the prolonged-time period. You can be productive at losing fat try out these guidelines and see for your self!
If you want to lose fat, cautiously evaluate exercise routines. This is particularly accurate for folks who do not like to exercising. The way to get your physical exercise is by performing other pursuits that mimic a work out, like puppy walking, actively playing ball, obtaining on a bicycle or even climbing in the woods. By carrying out anything exciting, you will look ahead to your exercise rather of dreading it.
A great way to lose fat is to simply continue to be active. Bicycle rides and going for walks can melt away far more calories than sitting down and viewing Television set. Action boosts your metabolic rate and your temper while it builds muscle mass and motivates you.
If you program on getting rid of any fat, you most absolutely have to incorporate exercising into your prepare. You never need to exercise for hrs to lose excess weight. A whole lot of men and women will not have time to physical exercise when they are hectic. Nonetheless, it truly is easy to do things like park farther away from operate or when buying in buy to enhance your mobility degree and melt away additional calories. Just going for walks one particular or two miles a day can support maintain the extra pounds at bay.
Stop obtaining three huge meals every day, and as an alternative try to eat 6 more compact types. It helps prevent starvation emotions and enables you to have smaller sized portions when taking in. You will also eat less energy every single day which will only aid you attain your health and fitness objectives.
There is no magic tablet for fat loss. You have to modify what you are doing bodily and tweak what you are putting into your physique. If you will follow our tips, you will find good results at effectively dropping the weight that you want to get rid of and keeping it off.


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So we were told by the IP that my husbands self assessment for 2017-2018 was to be paid direct to HMRC. Now we have had a letter from HMRC saying that they are sending us it all back including the on account payment that we made at the end of Jan! They said they are going to be in touch with the IP. What am I supposed to do with the money they return! Do I just wait to hear from the IP?! Honestly nearly killed ourselves paying that tax bill and ended up taking a payment break and now this!
Get in touch with your IP and explain this. Put the money to one side as you will need to pay it.
You will need to pay the monies into the IVA, once received.


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Men and women of Minnesota who have made a significant lifestyle change or in some cases undergone weight loss surgery, like gastic bypass, have succeeded in losing weight and are proud of their accomplishments. Often these women and men are left feeling torn. They feel physically better as their knees, ankles, necks and backs no longer strain under the oppressive weight, but they are often disillusioned at how they appear. The weight loss patient may have expected to return to their teenage body, not the one the looks back at them in the mirror.
Physical changes after dramatic weight loss include the obvious loss of fat but less is said about the fact that the left over skin remains - it does not melt away like the fat did.
The weight loss patient in Minnesota will likely deal with redundant skin at the lower abdomen that hangs over the beltline, loose skin and tissues of the upper arm that wave back at you, saggy breasts and rubbing skin of the inner thigh, and the development of a turkey gobbler neck that rivals your grandmothers.
Procedures that can be used to combat these problems include abdominoplasty, panniculectomy, breast lift, breast augmentation, brachioplasty, and a face lift.
Insurance usually does not pay for these interventions except in the rarest occasions. A breast lift, facelift, abdominoplasty, arm and thigh lift are typically never covered by insurance. Occasionally, a patient in the Twin Cities will get a panniculectomy procedure covered if certain criteria are met.
The one truth to all plastic surgery procedures is that elasticity of the skin is never restored. This is why repeat interventions are typically expected. This is in complete counterdistinction to the infommercials on late night television. Unfortunately, through time, genetics and environmental exposure (sun damage) our skin gets thinner and our elasticity wanes. This leads to wrinkles, skin that is more prone sheer injury and bruising, and inability to fight off skin cancers and other lesions of the skin.
The weight loss patient of the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota has much to be proud of but deserves to look as good as they feel. One of these body contouring procedures can help achieve that reachable goal!


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When planning for the arrival of a new family member, you will want to take some time to look over your finances. It is a good idea to think about reducing your spending now so that when your new addition comes along, you have already adjusted to your new financial plan. There are many items you can purchase but not all of them are essential; in fact, many people have raised children without all the gizmos and gadgets. Many items, like high chairs, can be purchased later on when your child is old enough to actually use it.
There are many changes ahead including some that you can't always predict – being financially prepared can help reduce some of the stress involved with raising a family.
The Manitoba Securities Commission has developed the Your Future Self web site to provide citizens with helpful information about investor education and fraud prevention. Whether you choose to shop, save, spend, or invest, these decisions will have an impact on your financial future.


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Here are seven ways to incorporate more follow-up into your practices ? and therefore seven ways to increase your results.
1.	Say thank you. First and foremost, the must-do follow-up habit is to say thank you. Send an email, make a call, or best of all, send a hand written note. Tell the Customer thanks for the new order. Tell the employee how much you appreciate their extra effort (or their normal effort over the long haul). Thank a person for a referral. Thank a colleague for the book or website recommendation. We all sent thank you cards after receiving graduation and wedding gifts. And while you may have done it because it was expected, it was really good practice for the rest of your life. I have a recurring task on my task list. It reads "Who do I need to thank today?" Who do you need to thank today?
2.	Ask for feedback. After completing a project, meeting, training session, consulting engagement, or whatever, ask for some feedback. Preface your request by saying that you want to not only make sure that you have met their needs, but that you want to know how to continue to improve. Be open to what will be shared and show your gratitude, by referring to item 1 above.
3.	Keep track. You've given an employee some coaching or help on a specific issue, so follow-up to see how it is going and how you can help now. You completed a project for a Client six months ago ? so follow-up to see how it is going now and if the results match what had been expected. Follow-up isn't just a one time deal ? it is an on-going commitment. You likely are interested in the progress others are making. Let them know by staying in touch and seeing how things are going and how you might be able to help.
4.	Remain interested. This is one step beyond keeping track. It is remaining interested in the other person or group's progress over the long term. Continue to check back on progress. Remaining interested shows that you care and have made the effort to remember about events and goals important to the other person.
5.	Remember important events. Holly on my team calls friends and colleagues on their birthdays and sings them Happy Birthday ? live or on their voice mail. I have done this occasionally in the past ? but have made it a more normal part of my routine as well. Why? Because it makes people smile. Your kids and parents expect a happy birthday wish, but do your Customers? Your employees? Your vendors? Maybe you don't sing, but you can still wish people happy anniversary, happy birthday or happy St. Patrick's Day ? especially if they are Irish!
6.	Share information you know matters to them. Have a colleague who has a rose garden? Send them the article about roses that you read last week. Have a co-worker who graduated from a certain college? Congratulate them when his team wins the big game. Have a Customer who loves tennis? Send them a link to the website you heard about that helps people improve their game. You get the idea. Follow-up by giving people information or comments that they know is just for them.
7.	Have a plan. I have a process to call and track my conversations with my key contacts regularly. We have a process to connect with our most valued colleagues and Clients monthly. Our plan continues to be tweaked, but we have a plan because we know how important follow-up is. What is your plan?


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As a new Vermont resident, I assumed that the most difficult part of assimilating to life in the Green Mountains would be the weather, or perhaps the lack of public transportation. Desperate to fit in, I have made the rookie mistake of referring to myself as a “Vermonter” in a bar full of third, fourth, and even fifth-generation Vermonters who never miss an opportunity to remind me that unless my parents were born in Vermont, I must resign myself to the status of an outlander.
As an archivist and historian, I find myself eager to more fully understand and contextualize this hearty, proud and often cantankerous Vermont patriotism that seems to have started with Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain boys and has intensified with each new conflict Vermont finds herself confronting both directly and tangentially. Throughout the annals of American history, the eternal torch of patriotism shines brightest when the days ahead seem darkest. This quintessential paradigm has been especially true in regards to the stalwart and steadfast response of Vermonters during times of crisis, and perhaps never as dramatically as during the Great War.
In the spring of 1917 amid increasing hostilities between the United States and Germany, Vermont’s Legislature and executive branch began in earnest the anticipatory task of firming up her military and securing a commitment from all Vermonters that the state was ready to bear her share of the burden of war.
The War Department’s response faulted the failure of the 64th Congress to allocate funds before the closing session, but this explanation was quickly overshadowed by the news that Congress was also poised to pass the Selective Service Act, which would more than compensate for Vermont’s lack of troops and equipment.
As Congress debated the necessity and merits of relying on conscription rather than voluntary enlistment, German submarines attacked and sank three American ships on March 18, 1917, the City of Memphis, the Illinois, and the Vigilancia, finally constituting the “overt act” that would propel America into the theater of war.
Meanwhile, the Old Vermont First under the command of Col. Fred B. Thomas was ordered by Gov. Graham for initial muster at Forth Ethan Allen to commence training and await mobilization. Regimental records show normal camp activity between April and August with training beginning at dawn and lasting until the Fort was enveloped in complete darkness.
An unseasonably cold summer provided ample opportunity for Thomas, affectionately referred to as “Old Man,” to train his men in marksmanship, new bayonet combat, and the use of the regimental bugle. Allowing little time for idleness and demanding perfection, the “Old Man” ran a tight ship at Fort Ethan Allen but was deeply revered by all for his sharp wit and approachability.
As training intensified, efforts were made to secure enough recruits to fill the ranks of a regiment that was below the authorized strength of a war time organization. Recruiting parties detailed from the Fort visited towns and cities and the rattle of their drums on the quiet village squares aroused the citizens to a sharper realization of the fact that the war was not likely to be confined to newspaper dispatches. The Green Mountain State was calling her sons to gather again beneath her battle flags.
An urgent sense of duty combined with patriotic Vermont exceptionalism impressed upon the imaginations of Vermonters a romantic idea — that “The Old Vermont First” would be comprised exclusively of intrepid, rugged young Vermonters.
Thomas himself took great pride in the prospect of leading an all-Vermont regiment into the Great War, adding to the brave and valorous reputation of the Green Mountain State, all sentiments which were conveyed to eager young recruits who imagined themselves fighting alongside fellow Vermonters on the front.
However, history had other plans for the men of the Old Vermont First when on Aug. 18, 1917 a messenger from Department Headquarters at Boston delivered an order to designate 23 officers and 1,339 enlisted men to be scattered among four different organization in the 26th Division, also known as the Yankee Division, effectively dismantling the all-Vermont regiment and its hopes of Green Mountain glory.
Graham and Thomas were seeking a commitment that all drafted men from Vermont be assigned to the Old Vermont First. This request was met with a cool and indifferent response from Secretary Baker who explained that the policy would be, to the best of his ability, to assign Vermont men to the 1st Vermont regiment when the drafted men arrived. However, he also delivered a sharp reminder that there were always “unavoidable exigencies of the service.” Secretary Baker was not in a position to make any promises given that the need for fighting men so clearly overshadowed Vermont’s desire to perpetuate her time-honored traditions. Reputations be damned — the country was at war and Vermont would have to make sacrifices.
Despite concerns about defending the home front with depleted resources, Vermont turned her attention to following the fate of those men fighting in France. The Yankee Division arrived in Saint-Nazaire, France on Sept. 21, 1917, the second division of the AEF to arrive on the Western Front soon after the arrival of the 1st Division.
Much of the correspondence passed between state officials and the men in France pertained to the status of state pay, the safety of those soldiers formerly serving under the Old Vermont First, and the progress of recruiting more Vermonters for the newly created 57th Pioneer Regiment back home. Maj. Gen.Clarence Ransom Edwards, commander of the Yankee Division, frequently provided updates directly to Gov. Graham regarding the condition of his Vermont men and his own personal assessments of how the war was progressing.
Back home, stories of battlefield glory attributed to brave Vermonters spread like wildfire, increasing support and enthusiasm from all corners of the state. Local “Home Folks” clubs organized gift drives for the Vermont boys, sending Christmas gifts and cigarettes bound for France. A Relief Committee was organized in London to assist those Americans stranded overseas due to reduced travelling facilities for civilians. Cooperating personnel and local organizations tirelessly served the Federal Food Administration in an effort to increase the food supply and reduce consumption, including the Vermont Committee of Public Safety, Women’s Clubs, church organizations, labor unions, the State Hotel Association, restaurant owners, state merchants, the Vermont Bakers’ Association, Preserving and Canning Clubs, Baby Beef Clubs and even public libraries. War gardens became a familiar sight on lawns, in backyards, and on corner lots.
The Committee of Public Safety began work on March 22, 1917, recruiting soldiers, stimulating production, encouraging conservation, and protecting property – tasks which the committee carried out so efficiently that once the Armistice was signed, there was enough money left over to supply additional funds to the state treasurer, which was eventually added to the school fund. Women and children worked overtime in canneries and the textile mills in Winooski to keep up the demand for supplies when Vermont had lost practically one-third of her workers as men had either gone into the army or into the munitions plants and shipyards outside of the State.
Even though the hopes of creating a new all-Vermont regiment were never realized, the sense of Green Mountain loyalty and pride that was developed at Forth Ethan Allen persisted and became an indispensable sense of strength for Vermonters here at home and on the battlefields of Europe.
True, the Old Vermont First did not get its chance to deliver this Green Mountain punch alone, but the state of Vermont as a whole did more to combat Prussianism than one regiment would have been able to achieve alone.
So it seems then that this idea of indomitable Green Mountain spirit, this Green Mountain punch, has historically been more than just an idea, more than just a joke about the insufferable pride of being allowed to call oneself a “Vermonter.” Often, it has been an essential life raft buoying our collective sense of hope and faith amid a roiling sea of war and conflict.
Bethany Fair is an archivist at the Vermont State Archives. She has an M.A. in history and an M.S. in library and information science from Simmons College and a B.A. in English literature from the University of Florida.


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text: Gov. Jay Nixon appointed James M. Dowd to serve as a judge for the Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals last week. Dowd, an attorney who has practiced law in St. Louis for more than 20 years, will fill the vacancy on the appellate court created by the retirement of Judge Glenn A.

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Simple and industrial in style, this set is ideal for smaller dining spaces. An urban style is created with the use of metal and wood in the set. The counter height table promotes casual dining and features built-in storage for wine bottles and glasses. The legs of the stools have a metal ring stretcher that provides a place to rest your feet as you sit around the table.
The Rebecca 5 Piece Wine Storage Counter Table Set by Steve Silver at A1 Furniture & Mattress in the Madison, WI area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
The Rebecca collection has an industrial style. Fits great in smaller dining spaces and makes entertaining more convenient with its built-in storage. The collection features a counter height table with wine bottle and storage. The wooden table top and metal legs complement each other nicely and give a space a modern look. The counter stools have a similar style and the metal ring stretcher provides a spot to relax your feet. This urban collection will allow you to entertain guests without leaving the room.
The Rebecca collection is a great option if you are looking for Industrial furniture in the Madison, WI area.
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Based on how portable you need your house bar to be, you may choose a material which best suits your requirements. With space at a premium in many homes, selecting a house bar doesn’t need to be only a dream.


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text: Triune Specialty Trailers’ custom self-propelled trailers can be custom fabricated on a cab/chassis under 40 feet with the body at 30 feet in total length. These self-contained and self-propelled trailers create transportation options and versatility within a smaller vehicle. We offer a myriad of options to customize your truck for your marketing or functional needs.

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text: • FIFA 12 featured Arabic commentary and menus for the first time. EA Sports appears to be going a step further this year, releasing a version of the game for Arab fans, reports Reuters. It sounds like that means a cover specifically for the Middle East region release of the global best seller.


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The epileptic nature of power generation via hydro and thermal sources in Nigeria has given rise to source alternate forms of power generation. The power supply situation is so erratic that some communities are cut off for days, weeks, or months in a bid to ration the low supply from the nation’s grid. This gap, period of no supply or cut off from the grid, is what this paper will solve by way of designing and constructing an alternate source using solar power for household use. The design and construction of the unit, a solar powered 2.5KVA inverter was achieved by using a 21/400 turns wound transformer, an SG3524N PMW fixed frequency voltage regulator controller, MOSFET transistors,five80W/18Asolar panel, three200AH deep cycle battery, and a charge controller to monitor the output of the battery for safety. The battery is connected to the inverter circuit to generate 220V alternating current in its output via a step-up transformer. The inverter uses the SG 3524N IC chip fixed frequency Pulse–Width-Modulator (PMW) Voltage regulator controller. The designed oscillation period is set at 50% duty cycle or 0.02 seconds to match the frequency of loads connected to it. From table of results; the inverter was able to maintain stability for 4 hours when a refrigerator and other loads up to a 2000W were connected to it. But at peak sunshine and the solar panel tilted 0o relative to the roof inclination, the inverter output for the same load lasted longer hours.
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. (October 2015), pp. 0.001225, 1245; Vol. 6, Number 4 ITSEAJ (ISSN 1949-3029).
Longwap U. S., Usman I. H. et al. (2010): Design and construction of a 3KVA Inverter Using PWM-Scheme Incorporating Voltage Protection Circuits and Battery Level Indicator. Thesis presented to Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technology Department. School of Engineering Technology, Almadu Bello University, Zaria.

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In the hot Austin, Texas summer heat during 2000 the workers of Ecology Action, a recycling center, decided they had enough. The staff of twelve, many of them longtime employees, were working hard informally running the center doing both the manual labor, and much of the administrative functions as well as running it’s various programs all while earning on average $7 an hour while the largely absent executive director was pulling $40k salary. Their boss was taking vacations while the workers continued operations in all weather. Under mismanagement EA was quickly running out of money quickly. They hit on the idea of running it collectively, but how could they get that past an indifferent boss and out of touch Board of Directors. They needed to do something.
Austin’s Ecology Action had its humble birth on Earth Day 1970 by a handful of volunteers direct action to do something about the ‘garbage’ around them. They incorporated cooperative ideas into the nascent organization. Up until 1977-78 Ecology Action was largely run collectively by volunteers and some paid staff with no ‘boss’. In 1976 EA joined with other burgeoning coops (consumer, housing and worker) and businesses to form a mutual aid network dubbed Austin Community Project rooted in the ideas of direct democracy and cooperation. ACP only lasted a short time before it collapsed leaving only two surviving businesses. At the draw of the 70’s Ecology Action fell into a traditional non-profit model trap with a typical top down approach. Its only twist was that it generated a large portion of its money from being a business instead of donations. It remained this way until the millennium going through executive directors who took it through economic boom and bust cycles of business.
No one can say exactly when the change in the workers came, but it started in that hot summer of 2000 which would lead to historic changes over the next year at the little ol’ recycling center in Texas. The workers deciding they wanted collective bargaining to raise their wages to a living wage and to get some benefits. In the all too familiar cliché of labor, the director and board refused to recognize their grievances for months. The small staff first reached out to the ‘professional’ local unions for support, but were dismissed since it was a non-profit and their staff was too small. Once again giant union bureaucrats left workers on their own. Then the local IWW GMB, which had been quite active since the mid 90s on local campaign stepped in to help formally bring grievances forward with the NLRB.
In an all too familiar story the director continued to ignore the concerns demanding people return to work which lead to a work stoppage at the recycling center. Finally under the summer heat in 2001 it all erupted with the unmitigated/unfair? firing of an employee for helping to unionize. Most of the staff went on strike. Hot days were filled with picket lines of staff, Wobs in solidarity and supporters. Eventually some of the ‘management team’ joined the strike too. The center, normally open 24 hours a day for drop off, soon piled up in mountains of recycling materials edging towards the streets on all sides of the small corner lot. Scabs brought in were soundly blocked from entering by the strikers. As the strike entered its sixth week the board of directors finally fired the director and promised the workers they could run the center. Everyone returned to work diligently reducing the mountains to rubble again. A few weeks later the board sneakily rescinded and brought in another temporary ‘director’ to take the reins, fire disrupters, hire new employees and take control again. Texas is a ‘right to work state’ without much worker protection, so the workers did what they had to do--ultimately striking again. This time the board quickly caved to the demands under much controversy; with many resigning including the new director. The workers began to run Ecology Action returned to its collective roots for the first time since the 70s.
Now that the workers had self-management of everything they had to start asking hard questions: How do we run a cooperative? How do we equal out wage disparities? What does work sharing look like? This was in addition to all the ‘normal’ questions that all businesses have about their operations. There were more than a few anarchists on staff who brought some of the principles and practices to the organization including horizontal decision making.
They also looked to other horizontal worker cooperatives like Mondragon Café in Canada for inspiration and set out to write new policies based on and direct democracy with mixed success. The staff were able to give themselves benefits including health insurance for the first time, and vacations. They also raised the wages of those who had been at the bottom to a living wage, but there were still people who made more money from the old system(from being ex-management or seniority) and it was a constant thorn in sorting it out. Also there were vastly different interpretations of what self-management meant for those engaged in it. Some felt like everyone was a boss looking over their shoulder, others wanted it to mean that no one could tell them what to do and they didn’t have to be accountable to the collective, while still others tried to engage everyone in a path of power sharing that is really what cooperatives were about. Without the boss to hate they turned in on themselves while trying to sort it out.
In 2006 the question of how to make it horizontal entered the dialog. People were hired who had experience in cooperatives or horizontal organizing. The organization became rooted in set principles and guidelines and an experimental nature was adopted of consciously trying out different models , concepts and practices based on the values of shared leadership, power and voices. Over the next two years tough decisions were made. People were fired because they didn’t want to be accountable to the collective or weren’t willing to change. Others left because we still had the gnawing thorn of wage discrepancy to deal with. They were given a choice to take a pay cut or leave with compensation. It was a messy and rocky but we equalized the wage. An interesting thing began to happen on the road to power sharing; as some of the old guard left (which was largely white men) the collective evolved more diversity including more women and queer folks occupying roles that where they had only scantly done so before.
We continued to try different and new ideas as we struggled through not only the hard dirty work of recycling but also all of the internal work of creating a horizontal , sustainable workplace; ecologically, economically, socially and culturally. It’s a tall order to fill on any given day, but those were and are our lofty goals for creating just worlds. We continued to members of the IWW and became a job shop in 2009 as well as joining the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Our philosophy was that horizontal worker coops are an evolutionary step in workplace democracy. We wanted to have one foot in each. One was to union representation to support us if needed, and to support other workers if they needed it. Two was to continue to push horizontal worker cooperatives as the model to possibly adopt for future worker control. In a reductionist view of this we believe that to create new participatory economies we have to build businesses from the ground up if we want control and that is what we focused on in addition to the recycling. Two of us from Ecology Action co-founded another worker coop called Treasure City Thrift as a sister project (that is still thriving today also). Our evolving business models looked at multiple bottom lines and sometimes that meant making a lot less money or it meant dealing with the devil. Capitalism and its tentacles still reach every croner, but we have always strove to balance survival with principles to varying degrees of success. There are still many challenges to face and successes to be had, but we have lived first hand the closest thing to a fair blue collar business under capitalist system that I have ever been a part of. Ecology Action is still experimenting , still changing and hopefully opening doors for other workers to think about different strategies in creating democratic workplaces. The IWW was the engine of the catalyst that propelled us into becoming now the oldest worker cooperative in Texas (13 years as of this writing).


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Our company has a good top notch client all over the world and we have offices functioning from US, UK, Singapore and of course in India.
Please give me the URL for your company in India and a brief snap shot of your existing clients.
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this is my first post in this forum. Decided to put this thread in whole internet marketing section because I see Facebook ads more like PPC, not social media channel.
I don't want to be pesky or annoying, but I have been working with Facebook Ads for several years now, I'm running some really profitable ad campaigns and I see quite a lot of misleading information (some say FB ads don't work?) or misunderstanding in this forum.
First of all: if you try to invest 10 dollars in Facebook ads and try to get 20 back, nothing will happen. (I'm talking only about e-commerce advertising.) We should understand that at the moment we have quite a lot of competition in Facebook feed, so it's logical, that getting positive ROI isn't so easy. In order to make money, it's a must to know something our competitors don't. That's why, first of all, we should invest at least couple hunndred of dollars to get the information we could use for optimizing our campaign. It's unavoidable. Think about it as investment in useful information but not as losses. If you could be able to make positive ROI from 10 dollars all of us already would be millionaires.
Secondly: testing testing testing. If you think you know your customer the best, you are wrong . Let's use the raw data (we already spend some money on), but not our intuition or some kind of cosmic energy to optimize the campaign. That's why it's a must to create at least couple of ad sets, different ads and different target groups, but I guess you already know that. And it's a big job requiring knowledge and experience in this field to optimize whole campaign properly. So before spending dollars get really familiar with FB ads or lastly hire someone who knows how to do that. Save your money.
I haven't said anything spectacular. It's just common sense. However some people still believe they can start making a fortune with 5 bucks.
Dear people, if you want to earn a million or run successful e-commerce store, don't be afraid to invest and take the risk. Facebook ads at the moment, is wonderful tool to generate e-commerce leads (you have heard about new algorithms etc), some of my clients make 600% ROAD (return on ad spent) or even more.
Facebook ads really work, you just have to know how to use them.
In order to prove my knowledge in this field and for you to truly listen to my advice I'm adding some screenshots from my clients ad campaigns.
I hope this post will stimulate a dialogue. I would be happy to discuss or advise you if you have some questions.
The landmine that I fall into is that it costs money to do the A/B testing, and that's the prerequisite to knowing which ad campaign to invest money in! So it really irks me when marketing advice glosses over that as if it costs nothing to do A/B testing. In your opinion, shouldn't one invest at least a couple hundred for each test ad? And if so, can you then give us a hypothetical total spend?
Great stuff in here. Agreed. SM is a tool to tweak the machine (your business), not the machine itself. It's a funnel to pre-qualify and hopefully drive leads. You don't sell cars on FB, you buy vetted car buyer leads.
One of the biggest mistakes i see with both facebook and adwords is that one users do not track conversions a client is a client , you dont know if that client was organic or a 5 bucks click on your website. If you dont know your conversions how can you even know if you are indeed making money. You could be thrashing cash into facebook and get customers meantime they are all coming from somewhere else.
Dont ever put all your eggs in one basket, the online world and its rules changes so much your most profitable income will surely drop one day. When one revenue lags another will make up for it there are always people buying you just need to know where.
Testing i agree with you is vital, if you cant do that dont try marketing on your own. Get a pro. Testing costs but the returns are great in knowledge and experience, one ad will always run better than another and you can analyse why this ad was more effective and pit it against another test , and repeat. I remember some story about a bilionarre who was asked about how he alwys knew how to make the right business decisions , his answer was by making the wrong ones.
Everybody makes mistakes, its those that learn from them and persevere, knowing another lesson "mistake" will come, they are the ones that become successful.
Lastly you can expet that with the online world growing at such a rapid pace, that things will become more difficult as competition gets more. Funny thing is many times we forget the basics of business we get so caught up in roi's, data and so forth that we forget about good old service. Word of mouth is still deadly in business whatever you decide to to always keep that in mind with your clients.
The useful information from the OP's thread really shows the reality on how effective Facebook ads is from the proper implementations, research, strategy, testing and so on. It is true that you need to invest to be able to ride in the flow of competition especially on paid ads.


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Clerkenwell is a centre of the watch-making and jeweller's industries, long established here; and the Northampton Polytechnic Institute, Northampton Square, a branch of the City Polytechnic, has a department devoted to instruction in these trades.
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This formula is specifically designed for freshwater green algae grazing species of fish and invertebrates. It contains moderate levels of protein and the first two ingredients are Chlorella and Spirulina Algae. This formula contains no animal based ingredients and is Vegan. This makes it quite different from our “Soilent Green” formula which also contains high levels of green algae, but contains whole fish, squid, and krill ingredients.
True herbivores and algaevores have longer digestive tracts in order to break down plant cell walls and extract the nutrients they encapsulate. Specialized feeders like this can have difficulty processing animal proteins and fats, and they are by no means a large part of their natural diet. Tropheus, Petrochromis, Ancistrus, Otocinclus and many other species of fish, as well as specialized algae eating Shrimp and Snails, should find this an excellent staple diet. Omnivorous species will also enjoy this as part of a varied rotation.


text: Abstract: As the issue of recruiting and retaining quality law enforcement officers makes national headlines, this report helps fill the void by telling the story of how five sites selected to participate in a COPS-funded project entitled "Hiring in the Spirit of Service," implemented significant change into existing hiring processes to recruit and select law enforcement officers that reflect a more service-oriented field. This document has relevance for all practitioners seeking to enhance their department's recruitment and hiring practices. Specifically, this publication discusses how each site progressed to meet its goals of hiring service-oriented law enforcement recruits and it describes the challenges encountered along the way as well as lessons learned that other agencies and practitioners can replicate.


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TIME: Once trained, you will do sound engineering when needed. Usually 1-2 bands perform each week, mostly on weekends. You can also have a regular gig of doing sound for a live-recorded talk show. Live talk shows happen during the weekdays.
1) Tell us about yourself by filling out our volunteer application. Include your experience with sound engineering.
WRIR has as a group of volunteers who produce promotional spots for the station. Members of the production team learn digital editing, how to write for radio and how to record/produce radio spots. This is a great way to learn sound engineering through hands-on experience. We have weekly hangouts on Saturdays, 2-4 p.m. to produce promos and learn other skills.
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TRAINING: An extensive mentoring program with members of the production team; usually involves two or three classes to learn the basics of radio production and then 20 hours spent doing production projects for the station.
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text: Looking forward for HVS Image while each generation since the HVS Image 2100 has been simplified yet made more powerful we believe that the next generation of HVS Image technology can be a major step forwards both in ease of use and in quality of data - and from that the ability to effortlessly analyse every aspect of behaviour. Part of this means that we are going against designerist fashion trends by enhancing the skeuomorphic user interfaces that made Apple and Windows user friendly rather than forcing the user to learn new obscure symbols. This isn't twee - a well designed skeuomorphic interface element uses metaphors that are easier to operate and since the screen elements will be designed for touch screen in future they need not take up more screen space than standard interface elements. This is particularly the case if they work smoothly with the Metro and Windows 8 operating system interface design standards. And of course skeuomorphic interface elements are a metaphor - not a straitjacket. It doesn't mean that we need to put wood cladding on the side of the water maze - just that we have clearly labelled buttons with picture icons and the design can work alongside custom controls to incorporate numeric input and feedback for accurately setting a value.


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How to magnify the impact of your philanthropic efforts by defining a clear mission and maintaining your focus, including advice on how to govern your family foundation to maintain alignment with your goals.
One of the predominant trends in philanthropy over the past 20 years has been the steadily increasing focus on accountability. Donors, particularly major donors, are placing ever-greater demands on nonprofits to clearly define their specific objectives and to quantify their progress with hard data.
According to Morgan Stanley's Head of Philanthropy Management, Melanie Schnoll Begun, these are the right questions to be asking and should become the basis for in-depth discussions about what you want to accomplish as a family. She suggests that these discussions should lead to the creation of a formal philanthropic mission statement, a document designed to guide future decisions about the kinds of philanthropic investments you want to make.
Use powerful verbs and precise language. Jargon just gets in the way. Make your statement a call to action.
Be differentiating. Make it clear what sets you apart.
Keep it short. Ideally, your mission should be a single, declarative sentence. More than three sentences is almost always too long.
Make it sound like you. When you finish writing your mission statement, read it out loud. If it doesn’t sound like something you would say, change it.
A clear, well-crafted mission statement can guide your foundation’s efforts. Effective governance is needed to make sure that you stay on track. This is a significant challenge for virtually every nonprofit organization, and particularly difficult for private foundations where complex family dynamics come into the mix. As family foundations evolve over the years and over generations, how do you keep the focus on the mission?
Schnoll Begun suggests that several questions are at the heart of this matter. The first is whether you structure your foundation to be perpetual or to “sunset” by distributing the foundation assets within your lifetime. While many prominent families view their foundation as a cornerstone of the legacy they wish to leave, a perpetual foundation also ensures that you will place your philanthropic mission in the hands of people you will never even meet. You need to consider the extent to which you are willing to let them redirect the work of your foundation to focus on issues that are more central to their lives’ missions.
The next is who should serve on your board. If you decide that only family members will serve, you need to determine whether children automatically take their place on the board when they reach adulthood, or should they have to prove that they have something valuable to contribute. Schnoll Begun suggests that family foundations should consider adding outside board members to serve as moderators for family discussions and bring distinct skill sets the family does not possess.
The third question is how to measure your performance as a board and the performance of any professional managers you have retained. It’s essential to establish transparent processes to set clear performance goals so hiring and firing decisions can be made objectively. It’s also important to set time aside to discuss whether the board is communicating effectively with each other and their senior staff, and to make sure that the decisions you are making remain true to your mission.
The most effective philanthropists have hearts of gold and wills of iron. Their generosity inspires them to improve the world around them, but they also understand that they can magnify their impact by sharpening their focus. Guided by a well-defined mission, these families can more effectively determine how to use their time, their connections and their financial resources to make the difference they want to make in the world.
For further insight, or to speak with a seasoned Morgan Stanley professional in philanthropy management, please consult your Financial Advisor or Private Wealth Advisor.
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