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For years, I have hung Mahatma Gandhi’s quote advising me to “be the change” I want to see in this world in the entryway of my apartment. After years of trying to make the world a better place through my work with Practice Makes Perfect (PMP) and hitting what at times felt like insurmountable walls, I started to heed Gandhi’s wise advice. Specifically, as our team has grown, and the impact of our work could no longer be driven by me directly, I found myself having to limit my reach only to things that were under my auspices.
It is an incredibly humbling realization when after years of dreaming of this big change I would create in the world, I came to understand that the only thing I have control over is myself. Explicitly, how I spent my time, how I communicated, how I interacted with others, how I reacted, what I wore, what I ate, what I recognized and what I was grateful for.
Despite my team’s sincerest efforts to build a workplace where people felt valued and providing benefits that only large companies that were wildly profitable or unicorn-like private companies could offer, we struggled to retain entry-level talent. If you asked me what my team’s biggest weakness was, I would posit it was our inability to retain for more than a year young, smart, passionate people who believed in our mission and wanted to make a difference.
What is it about me or my personality that it is driving this outcome?
What is it about my actions that have led me here?
What can I change about myself or influence within my environment that might impact this outcome?
A couple of years ago, I started to notice that my team and my work were slipping. We were not performing at the level at which I was hoping we could be performing. After finally pushing beyond the denial phase and accepting that we could do more, I started my process of deep self-reflection asking myself those three questions. It didn’t take me a long time before I noticed that my business was slipping because I was slipping. Our performance, or lack thereof, started with me.
I was not focused. In fact, I was starting to dabble in a few other ventures, committing myself to multiple communities, and occasionally popping out of the office during the workday to tend to my other obligations that increased in frequency with my new commitments. But, this lack of focus was not just impacting me. Others on my team were influenced by it, too. My expectations started to soften. I could not in good conscience hold others on my team to an expectation that I could not even meet.
Within a few weeks of achieving that consciousness, I re-focused my work and dropped more than half of my nonessential commitments to continue driving our business forward. The change started to happen almost immediately after I readjusted my routine. Everyone around me sensed that I had stepped it up and I was no longer settling for less than their all.
When it came to fixing the retention challenge, the self-reflection process was no different. Again, within hours, I learned what it was about me and my leadership style that was driving this outcome. Namely, I am impatient, and I have incredibly high expectations. While others may have been ashamed to admit that, I was not. I was more embarrassed that I had not understood the ramifications of those tendencies much sooner. For the people who report to me, they saw my personality and they felt like they could work in a high-pressure environment that would push them to do more for our country’s most vulnerable kids. In most cases, they shared the same tendencies I had.
Where this becomes problematic is when it starts to trickle down. Being that we’re a startup, things are always evolving. It also means that some things are still missing, like a robust training program for entry-level employees. I might be crazy, but I do not think that being impatient and having incredibly high expectations is necessarily a terrible thing -- especially when you are working towards improving educational outcomes in historically oppressed communities and every day counts. I also think being impatient and having incredibly high expectations works well when people have the skills they need to be able to deliver on those expectations. Where this does not work so well is when you impose incredibly high expectations and infuse impatience onto people who do not have the skills or are not trained to have the skills they need to succeed. Mea culpa. Completely my fault. And it starts at the top.
In our case, the solution is obvious. If we are going to continue to be impatient and have incredibly high expectations, then we need to hire people who have the skills to be successful. That might mean paying a premium. If we decide not to go that route, then the only other alternative is to hire entry-level people and make sure they are given the training they need to be successful.
Gandhi originally said, “We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.” Every now and again when I hit a wall or notice the outcomes I’m realizing are not the ones I’m intending, I engage in this powerful self-reflection process to ultimately modify myself in order to change the world.


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I know how you can get my best work every time. Do 10 things, and I can’t help but do a great job for you. Really.
The secrets work both ways, by the way. As a writer (or designer), you can use them to get the information you need. Here are the 10 secrets to get my best work. In other words, here’s how you and I should manage each other.
1. Make the work important. Let me know that the work is important work by the way you talk to me or write me about it. Focus me on the fact that the reason you’ve given this job to me is that you’re counting on me to do it well.
2. Spend time to show me you mean that. Too often we send or receive the wrong signal — “Here write this thing.” Even if you can explain the job in five minutes, take five more to explain its context and its relevance.
3. Start by defining as many terms as you can. Most miscommunication happens because what I called a list wasn’t what you called a list. That makes work and uncomfortable feelings for everyone. Let’s just agree before the work starts.
4. Be able to tell me what you want me to write. I’m going to ask you what you want to say. If I don’t know what you’re trying to say, I can’t find a way to say it for you. I’ll listen all afternoon if I need to, but if you don’t know I’ll never be successful.
5. Think about how you would approach the writing task if you had to do it. I’m going to ask you that question. It’s how I find out if we’re talking about the same project and seeing the same vision.
6. Imagine how I might go off in the wrong direction. I’m going to ask you that too. It’s another way that I find out what you want and don’t want from the project that you are assigning me.
7. Tell me where you want me to get creative. I’ll probably throw out some ideas. Please, tell me if they’re not what you want. That’s the reason I’m bringing them up. I’m trying to find the boundaries.
8. Estimate how long you think it would take you to do the job. I’m sure to ask you this one. It’s yet one more way to know if we’re on the same page. If you say 2 hours and I’m thinking 2 days, we’ve got a misunderstanding somewhere.
9. Ask for an early checkpoint or sample. A sample is a safety net to fill in the gaps in our initial conversation. Any details we missed will come out when you see what I do in the sample. It saves so much work to do one.
10. Write a quick bulleted list of what we agreed to. The list doesn’t have to be formal and we can write it together during the meeting.
PLUS ONE: Give me all of the information you can — Don’t hold back for fear of insulting me. You’d be surprised how often it happens that intelligent folks hesitate to give other folks information about work for fear of insulting a person’s intelligence. Not knowing is not the same as not being intelligent. Please tell me so that I can do well for you.
It’s no secret that writers love writing for clients who let us do a great job for them. In fact, the secret is that those clients end up paying less.
Of course, I really wrote this list so you can show folks the best ways to manage you and so you know the best ways to manage them.
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If I have anything to say its the title. Its a bit vague … makes me wonder if it has to do with getting the best work out of Liz Strauss, or getting the best work out of ME (the reader, not Liz Straus again … ;), or getting the best work out of hired freelancers.
Clearly, the article talks about getting the most out of a writer-as-employee, although the ‘voice’ of the article changes from employer to employee.
Perhaps another title would work?
How to Manage Freelance Writers — 10 + 1 quick tips.
I think you’re right, Tony.
I started there and I should have stayed there. I think I’ll change it now.
Hey, I like it better too!
Only if people in position to commission assignments know this. I have problem with # 4 (Be able to tell me what you want me to write.) My editors mostly assume that that “I should know what they mean,” even when I dont have a slightest idea what is on their minds. Great post.
Thank you for you comment today and for sharing your experience!
I often have to find 5 or 6 ways to ask the question in order to teach the client I’m talking to how to think through what it is he or she is trying to say.

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Can employers demand to see an employee’s or applicant’s social-networking profile? To learn the answer to that and related questions, I hope you will join us for a free 90-minute webinar on Thursday, July 12, from 3-4:30 p.m. EDT.
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North Dakota's Republican-led Legislature on Tuesday repealed the nation's toughest Sunday business restrictions — rules that are rooted in religious tradition and that have been in place since statehood.
North Dakota has had "blue laws" restricting business on Sunday since it became a state in 1889. They stemmed from fears that visiting a retail store on Sunday morning would compete with church and leave little time for rest.
Fargo Republican Rep. Shannon Roers Jones, the bill's primary sponsor, had made a push through social media to have constituents urge their senators, including her father, Fargo GOP Sen. Jim Roers, to vote for the bill. Jim Roers voted against the repeal in 2017 when it failed by just two votes. He said he personally didn't like the idea of repealing the law but that he voted in favor of the bill Tuesday "because of my constituents, as well as my daughter."
Church groups, including the North Dakota Catholic Conference, had asked parishioners to lobby against the repeal. Director Christopher Dodson said the Sunday-closing law is "not about imposing times of worship." The intent is to set aside time for "rest and relaxation" that is "important to families and communities," he added.
The bill would leave in place the state's all-day ban on Sunday vehicle sales and half-day ban on Sunday alcohol sales. Shopping malls and building owners could not require that a business in the facility be open on Sunday.
The Greater North Dakota Association, the state's chamber of commerce, has long supported lifting the ban, while the North Dakota Retail Association has taken a neutral stance on it.
The state Supreme Court has twice upheld the Sunday shopping ban, once in the mid-1960s and again in the early 1990s, ruling that the law was not to aid religion, but rather to set aside a day for "rest and relaxation."
In 2015, the Legislature voted to allow restaurants and bars to begin serving alcohol at 11 a.m. on Sundays, instead of noon. Proponents said North Dakota's booze restrictions put cities bordering other states at a disadvantage because those states allow for earlier sales on Sundays.
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Dr Johnson once said, in relation to the death penalty being handed out for sheep-stealing, that if you raise sheep stealing to the level of murder, then you reduce murder to the level of sheep-stealing. The same could be applied to some of the sentences being handed out as a result of last week’s rioting and looting in England. One person, for example, was given 6 months in prison for stealing a few bottles of water.
A sense of proportion is being lost. In the same way that a collective hysteria resulted in looting by many people who would not normally have stolen, so is the judicial response also proving to be to some degree hysterical. The politicians gave the judges the nod to be harsh some days ago. Yet David Cameron is now saying he is glad the judiciary feels free to hand out extra tough sentences, as though there has been no political involvement.
You learn a lot about collective behaviour at these times of crisis, and also about the real positions of the politicians who lead us through them. When Princess Diana died, we saw Tony Blair’s populist genius in his ‘people’s princess speech’, and we saw collective grief on a scale we had never witnessed before (that Tony Blair also predicted), much of it because a symbol had been lost.
When 9/11 occurred, Tony Blair the religious warrior emerged, prepared to go to bed (in the passive position if necessary) with whatever politician shared his views on good and evil.
David Cameron’s right wing instincts are currently on display. He has unreservedly praised the tough sentences being handed out, and while there is a case for these, there is not for the disproportionality.
Boris Johnson, the Tory Mayor of London, is also behind the judiciary, but it has always been clear there is a nasty right-winger beneath the bluff, jokey exterior. As in, for example, his reference a few years ago to pickaninnies, which basically means the same as ‘wogs’. Being loveable, clowning Boris, he got away with it.
It’s difficult writing about politics, because as soon as you criticise a politician, a lot of people assume you are from the opposite party and are being biased, and shame on you for using astrology to justify your political leanings.
My position is that who I would vote for depends. Generally I trust the Tories more to balance the books, and Labour more with social policy. At present, our national debt is huge, and could still topple us a few years down the line. I trust the Tories more than Labour to ensure this does not happen. I also think something urgent needs to be done about welfare spending, and I think the Tories are more likely to do something about it, though I might not always like their methods.
However, just as left-wingers can be mindlessly anti-capitalist (and capitalism is just part of human nature: we need it but it has to be controlled), so too do you get Tories lacking feeling for their ‘inferiors’. This is the Tories as the ‘Nasty Party’ (an appropriate play on ‘Nazi’). I don’t think it would be politically too difficult for David Cameron to give out a message of ‘tough but proportionate’ on sentencing policy, but he is not doing this, and it gives the impression of a right-winger bashing his inferiors.
This is David Cameron’s Mercury in Scorpio square to Moon-Jupiter in Leo. Moon-Jupiter in Leo has natural leadership abilities but also, at its worst, a sense of entitlement to rule, a sense of superiority and lack of feeling for those seen as inferior. But it is concealed by Mercury in Scorpio. Someone I know has Moon conjunct Neptune in Leo, without the Scorpionic concealment, and they are straight up that there are superior and inferior classes of people, that is just how life is, and that the credit crunch was caused by the lower classes spending too much! In a way this person is right, in that humanity, like a pack of dogs, is hierarchical: we wouldn’t for example have celebrities without it. But that doesn’t mean it corresponds to anything real. Of course there is such a thing as superiority when it comes to e.g. talents and achievements (and this is classically Leo/Capricorn), and it’s important not to let tall poppy syndrome get in the way of that. But that doesn’t make one person ‘better’ than another, let alone a whole social class better than another.
David Cameron’s Leo Moon is ruled by his Libra Sun, and it is the approaching Mars square to his Sun, and more immediately to his Libran Venus (popularity in a politician) that is governing his actions. Mars is currently squaring his Venus, and he feels he has to be aggressive (Mars) to be popular (Venus).
Mars, unsurprisingly, has generally played a central role in the riots and their aftermath. Mars is in early Cancer, in a t-square with Uranus and Pluto. That is heavy and explosive. All the planets in that t-square are now separating from each other, so the intensity is easing; but at the time of the police shooting of Mark Duggan, and the beginning of the riots, the t-square was applying, particularly from Mars. Astrologically, it was a tinderbox, that hard-aspected the UK Uranus-Asc conjunction and Sun-MC opposition. Hence their national significance.
What seems to have been forgotten is that these riots were triggered by the police shooting dead a black man (who Boris Johnson might call a pickaninny). The police claimed the man had shot first, but people obviously didn’t believe them, and it turned out later that the police had indeed lied. They claimed the lie was simply miscommunication, but you don’t make a mistake about something like that. The police shoot dead a black man, lie about him having fired at them, and people riot because they rightly don’t believe the police. There was justified grievance on the part of the rioters here, and it’s the only course of action people have when the police are against them. Of course, the riots escalated into something else that the politicians can unreservedly condemn, but the part of the police in causing it has strangely been forgotten.
When Mark Duggan was shot, Mars had just changed signs and was moving through the 9th House of the UK chart. The 9th House is the Law, and Mars is aggression – an instinctive planet in the instinctive sign of Cancer. It was probably spur of the moment, unlike airy Mars in Gemini, under which the carefully planned Norwegian slaughter took place. A policeman felt threatened and opened fire without thinking: that is what the astrology is telling us, particularly when you see that Mars is also in an applying square to Uranus and opposition to Pluto. We do know that an illegal firearm was recovered from the scene, and if Duggan was carrying it, then I think it’s his look-out if the police shoot him. But the police have already lied in a big way, so did they also plant the gun afterwards? At the time of the shooting, Mercury was stationary retrograde closely opposite retrograde Neptune, with both planets about to change sign. Mercury is the planet of communication, and with this aspect it is very hard to know where the truth lies (no pun intended.) It is certainly the aspect par excellence under which to tell whoppers, like the police did.
In itself, the shooting chart has a Mars-Pluto opposition lying along the Asc-Desc axis. So death (Pluto) as well as aggression (Mars) was intended on the part of the establishment (Capricorn)/Police (Sagittarius). The North Node was also conjunct the Ascendant, in the sign of Sagittarius (the Law/Police). This adds significance to the event. And the Asc was closely opposite David Cameron's MC, suggesting an important moment for his career. So I think attention will focus once again on the shooting, once the bigger, morally more cut-and-dried issue of the rioting has died down.
The rioting began 2 days later. In a mundane chart, the Moon is the people, and here we see it in Scorpio in the 9th. Scorpio has a strong sense of justice/revenge, and in the 9th, it is the Law/Police with whom it has this grievance. Aquarius Rising shows the sense of rebellion. So this was how the riots began, even though they turned into something else. The actual aggression, Mars, was in the 5th, showing the part young people came to play. Being in Cancer, and opposite Pluto, reason was soon left behind.
The UK Progressed Sun/IC is closely conjunct Cameron’s Moon, so this is a time when he can take a lead. The UK has a Progressed Mars-Pluto opposition that will be applying until the end of 2012, so further protests and outbursts of violence and rioting are likely. Some have described the rioting as Cameron’s ‘9/11 moment’. He has seized it, just as Mars conjoins the UK MC, as an opportunity to promote the social transformation, the ‘big society’, that is central to his political philosophy. The focus will be on less government and more local community involvement, and active intervention at an early stage in families locked into welfare and criminality. It could be read as a restatement of traditional Tory policy: less government, ‘on your bikes’ to those on the dole, and boot camps for young criminals.
This is just as Neptune is entering Cameron’s 6th House of work. A leader is a public figure, in some ways they ARE the collective, and I think you can therefore give a mundane interpretation to their charts. In this case, one meaning of the 6th House is ‘the working classes’. This could be read in an appalling way as redeemer of the lower orders, and as a Tory there’s bound to be a bit of that flavour, but it doesn’t mean he won’t do a lot of good. Neptune may give a more compassionate flavour than we experienced under Thatcher. In the UK chart, Neptune is about to pass over natal Pluto in the 5th House of children: we saw this transit in the riots, where most of the offenders were teenagers and young adults, and we will no doubt see a response in terms of government policy and intervention in the next few years as the transit progresses.
In an individual’s chart, a Neptune to natal Pluto transit may not be personally very significant. But a country ‘lives’ for so much longer, and being also a collective entity, these collective planet transits acquire a lot more significance. Pluto is also the country’s power, and the sign of Pisces reflects Britain’s naval power in 1801. You can also, rather fascinatingly, trace the rise and fall of the British Empire – its time as a world power - by the long Direct and Retrograde periods of progressed Pluto. For example, Prog Pluto was stationing at the end of WWII, and moved to retrograde in the 1950s: this was the post-war dismantling of the Empire. The Neptune-Pluto transit over the next couple of years is also like to mark one more downgrade in Britain’s place as a world power, which will complete as Neptune also passes over Progressed Pluto at 5 Pisces in a few years time. Just as people are often more real in failure than in success, so too do I think it will do Britain good to wear shoes that fit.
We don’t know what David Cameron is like yet (just as we didn’t know Blair till 9/11), but with Pluto squaring his Sun over the next few years, and with the rioting providing an opportunity for implementing his social philosophy (which he has always said is his main political goal), we are probably soon to see what type of leader we really have. His Progressed Sun has just moved into Sag, trining his natal Jupiter: so his beliefs will be coming to the fore. And with prog Moon in the Prog 5th in Aries, these beliefs are likely to result in initiatives around young people.
So you think that the Courts should say to the convicted rioters and looters "There There...We understand - Now don't be a naughty little boy/girl - go away and sin no more"? David Cameron is right that tough sentences should be imposed so that a signal is sent out clearly that this kind of behaviour does not pay. That is not hysteria. That is common sense.
Oh, and for what it is worth - I NEVER believe that any human being is my "inferior" - however unacceptable their behaviour.
Hey! You didn't read me properly! I said there's a case for being tough, but not for being disproportionate. In the long-term, it undermines the justice system. There will be a backlash down the line.
Hi Great post as usual - love your work. This is just an astro question - I see you use the 5:50 time for Cameron but on the astrodb there was a 5:55 and 5:51 time from you. Doesn't matter for the article of course but just wondering why you like the Virgo rising one.
Thanks as ever for a such a reasonable, considered analysis of the events. At times like these I really value that Aquarian detachment.
Good to remember the spark was the shooting and killing of a (black) man by the police (in 2011). This is sure to bring toxicities to the surface. Right now those few days of cardinal cross are revealing some outrageous stories not just in Britain. I am humbled by the astrology of it all.
As others have said, a very good and reasonable analysis of recent events. One thing I'd like to add is that the late Sag asc when Mark Duggan was shot is very close to the Galactic Centre (with Mars virtually opposite it). This is a very powerful point in a chart and it's often prominent in disaster charts, either on an angle or through planetary placement. I don't think we've seen the last of these disturbances, either.
I completely agree with you about the lack of proportion, but I'm glad to note that the appeals system is kicking into action.
You may have seen this already, but here's a link to Tony Blair's analysis of the riots. Although, I kind of can't stand him, I think what he has to say on this occasion is useful.
Thanks Christina for the Blair link - most sensible thing I've read yet ( from a non astro then!) and someone who actually does know the problem.
I also completely agree with you on the lack of proportion. Instead of jail terms for these young people, Cameron should strike a deal with Harper, Prime Minster of Canada to send these youths to Canada.
Canada has a huge under developed prairie. These young should be given a parcel of land to farm producing food to feed themselves, the poor and generate revenue. Didn't England send people to Australia? How about Canada now.
They will have to stay on the prairies and not move to the big cities. My two cents worth. I am a big fan D. Keep writing.
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Customer experience is quickly becoming businesses’ next competitive battleground, expected to overtake price and product as a brand’s key differentiator by 2020. And while many organizations are making CX strides within their individual departments, adopting advanced solutions (CRM, Marketing Automation, Contact Center Solution, Billing Software, etc.) and business processes to help streamline customer data management and user activities, most are still lagging as it relates to cross-departmental collaboration and communication. In fact according to a recent survey by Fast Company, 70% of organizations believe that “Silo Mentality” is the biggest organizational hurdle to improving the Customer Experience.
These days, the customer experience is everything. In fact by 2020, customer service is expected to overtake price and product as a brand’s key differentiator. And according to a recent Gartner survey of senior executives, 89% of respondents plan to compete primarily on the basis of customer experience by next year.
Why has customer satisfaction fallen four years in a row for call centers?
The rise of the Internet and expansion of communication channels have given today’s consumers far greater power to explore alternative product/service options, putting customer experience at the forefront of purchasing decisions. In fact by 2020, customer experience is expected to overtake price and product as a brand’s competitive differentiator. And according to Dimension Data’s 2015 Global Contact Centre Benchmarking report, which surveyed 901 contact centers across 72 countries, 75% of contact centers recognize service as a competitive differentiator (up 18% over the past two years), and 57% say they can relate improving customer experience levels to revenue and profit growth. But despite the growing effort towards improving customer service to better meet rising consumer expectations, customer satisfaction levels have decreased for the fourth year in a row—which begs the question, where are businesses missing the mark when it comes to their service delivery?
It has been well demonstrated that Customer Service can affect a business just as much as catchy advertising slogans or the newest innovative product. Take the new Apple watch. It has been advertised as the next big thing to the point where it’s impossible not to be aware of it. But as with any new form of innovative technology, people are bound to have general questions, troubleshooting needs, and bug issues. This is where a strong and robust customer service platform comes into play.

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Chapter One closed its doors on January 2nd 2019 for a major six-figure refurbishment which will see chef-patron Andrew McLeish and business partner Marcel Faulstich unveil a more modern approach with greater variety and quality when they reopen on January 21st. The new opening will also see a number of recruitment opportunities for both kitchen and Front of House staff.
Building on the site’s history as a popular place to dine and entertain since the 1930s, the new playful and confident interior created by Sherliker Design, whose clients include the French Laundry, RAC Club and the Corinthia Hotel, is inspired by the sophisticated elegance and convivial atmosphere of a bygone era. Stylish Art Deco influences and luxury furnishings include a bespoke reclaimed wood reception desk, monochrome sunburst design flooring and an eye-catching bar made from Portuguese pink marble. A relaxed all-weather terrace with comfy banquette seating will feature a retractable roof and outdoor heating for year-round dining.
In the kitchen, McLeish and his team led by head chef Dean Ferguson will continue to offer exceptional quality with regularly changing, seasonally-inspired modern European cooking. Classic dishes like Gin Cured Trout, Josper Grilled Australian Grain Fed Rib Eye Steak and Tarte Tatin will be served in the restaurant where a refined dining experience offers the ideal setting for special occasions and corporate entertaining with a choice of à la carte, menu du jour and a 5-course tasting menus. To complement the atmosphere of the new buzzy brasserie, there will be an informal menu of ‘favourites’ like burgers, battered cod and chips and bespoke house cocktails by mixologist Robert Cuvala.
Chapter One’s relaunch is the first major development since Andrew and Marcel Faulstich took ownership of the restaurant in August 2017. Having been a part of Chapter One’s story for nearly 20 years, Andrew is excited about breathing new life into the restaurant, he says, "The relaunch is an opportunity to showcase the versatility of Chapter One’s offering. Whether it’s entertaining clients, celebrations in the private dining room, a quick lunch in the brasserie or cocktails on the Terrace, our aim is to create an enjoyable and memorable experience with plenty of choice, fantastic service and quality that guests can depend on. Regarded as one of the finest restaurants in Kent, near Orpington Bromley and south east London.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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Order your own lab tests in Tarpon Springs. No doctors visit is needed, no insurance required. The labs we work with in Tarpon Springs are FDA and CLIA approved. Results come back in 1-2 days on most blood tests.
Other common lab tests ordered in Tarpon Springs are a complete blood count with differential. A CBC w diff is often ordered to determine if the body is actively fighting an infection. It can also highlight other concerns with having too or too few white or red blood cells.
A metabolic panel is another test frequently ordered in Tarpon Springs. A CMP includes many different markers and is often ordered every year as part of an annual physical or check up. The complete metabolic panel from HTC also includes a liver test (ALT). Other names of the CMP include "basic metabolic panel" or "comprehensive metabolic panel".
The most popular test we sell in Tarpon Springs is the Basic Health Check. This is a general wellness blood test panel. The combination of tests include a lipid Panel, CMP, CBC and Hemoglobin A1C. Our patients have depended on this panel for over 30 years. For $89 is provides an affordable snapshot or overview of your health status.
Below are the blood test labs in Tarpon Springs. Simply order your labs in advance and have the testing performed at the patient service center of your choice. Use our Lab Locator to search by zip code.
As a Health Testing Centers patient, you will be supported every step of the way through the blood test process. Our service can help with ordering the right tests for your needs, and our lab locator will help you find your most convenient option among our many quality blood test labs near Tarpon Springs, FL to have your testing done. Once your sample has been processed by one of the laboratories in our network, we'll provide you with a code for prompt, secure direct-to-you delivery of your test results and assistance, as necessary, in understanding those results.
Our goal is to make it easy for health-conscious people to take good care of themselves by providing them more budget-friendly and convenient access to high quality lab tests. Our service makes it easy to have routine blood work, keep up with preventive health screenings and/or monitor their own progress towards optimizing their health and well-being. In other words, our blood test labs near Tarpon Springs, Florida can help put you in the driver's seat when it comes to managing your own health and well-being.
As most health-savvy consumer most likely already know, blood tests are an invaluable tool for the ever-growing number of people who are keen on keeping track of their own health status. Blood labs screen for developing health issues, track health changes, detect infections and diseases, and aid in monitoring health progress and/or the effectiveness of treatments. What many may not know is that they don't have to pay their doctor for office appointments to have lab tests ordered. Health Testing Centers provides the means to purchase tests online, then walk into blood test labs near Tarpon Springs, FL to complete your testing.

industry_corpus2: Health & Medicine


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We highly recommend most new users and trial accounts visit and use the Quick Start Guide to quickly get your account setup and customized to your business. Below are some supplemental documentation for industry specific businesses.
The product list is list of rows defining the products in your inventory. Each product is defined by a product ID that identifies the product, and a collection of properties that specify what it is. For example, the description, caliber, and weight per item are all properties of a product. There are about 30 pre-defined product properties.
The Import or update product list function deals only with the product list. When getting started this is usually the first import operation you do, because you need to define the products before specifying how many you have. A separate operation, Import stock change, is what you use to specify your stock levels based on a physical inventory count. But that comes later. To get started, first you need to define your products.
This simple import consisted of just three rows, but two of the rows had the same product ID. Multiple rows with the same product ID don't make any sense, because a product can have only one definition. The preview window shows you that the third row is ignored because it has the same product ID as the second row. The preview also shows in the summary that you are importing two newly created products, not modifying existing products.
The column drop-downs for columns #1, #2, and #3, allow you to pick the meaning of each column if your column names didn't match the list of supported column names. In the example above, the column names matched, so the drop-downs were automatically filled in to match the column names just below them. If you had a misspelling in a column name, then you could either hit the browser's back button, fix the misspelling, and paste again, or you could just change the drop-down.
Importing large product lists, of say more than 1000 items, is faster to do in sections. If your Excel product list is 5000 lines long, the quickest way to import it is to divide it into five sections of 1000 items and import each of the 1000 items.
The product ID is the unique database key identifying the product. It is the only field that cannot be changed once set. The field can contain ASCII characters not including whitespace, up to 191 characters total. Three common schemes for product IDs are: (1) simply number them starting at 10000 and counting up; (2) encode additional information in the product ID to idendify what it is, such as the caliber, manufacturer, effect type, and maybe year, e.g., 2CK-LID1001; (3) just use the manufacturer's product ID as your own.
The manufacturer mark text, if provided, is included verbatim on any acquisition and disposition reports. Per ATF regulations, the manufacturer marks of identification includes a variety of information that must be included on acquisition and disposition reports (the exact information required depends on the license type). If you are using Finale's data/shift code functionality to keep track of the date/shift code of product lots, then the manufacturer mark text is prepended to the date/shift code to create a the full manufacturer mark that appears in acquisition and disposition reports. If you are using different product IDs (i.e., multiple products) for the different date/shifts of the same product, then since each product ID has the same date shift for all of its stock you can simply set manufacturer mark text field to the full manufacturer mark rather than deal with date/shifts in your orders and stock operations. If your company does not sell product, or if you are keeping your acquisition and disposition reports outside of Finale Inventory, then you can leave this field blank.
Like item cost, the weight per item is the weight of each item, written as an integer or floating point number with a period decimal point, no unit of measure, e.g., "0.025" not "0.025kg". The unit of measure is specified separately as the weight unit (see below).
The hazardous material field is the UN classification number for the product, preceeded by "UN", e.g., "UN0335". The UN number must be listed by itself (don't include the proper shipping name, hazard class, or packing group).
The EX Number is a string of ASCII characters identifying the EX number or EX numbers associated with the product. This field can include multiple EX numbers separated by commas.
The CE Number is a string of ASCII characters identifying the CE number or CE numbers associated with the product. This field can include multiple CE numbers separated by commas.
The choreography tab is the type of the product from a pre-defined list of types used by Finale choreography tools and Finale Inventory. The set of possible values are the following seven strings: Shells, Comets, Mines, Cakes, Other, Candles, Non-Choreographed. If you set the property value to Non-Choreographed, then the product will not appear in Finale choreography tools. This is useful for items like e-match or racks, which you may track in inventory but do not want to use for choreography.
The caliber is a number string including the units, e.g. 3" or 75mm. The units are required. The double quotes or mm units are the only two possibilities. The caliber is used in combination with the description property and other fields to construct a default simulation for the product in Finale choreography tools.
The prefire time in seconds is an integer or floating point number using a period as the decimal point, no units. The prefire is used in combination with the description property and other fields to construct a default simulation for the product in Finale choreography tools.
The duration in seconds is an integer or floating point number using a period as the decimal point, no units. The duration is used in combination with the description property and other fields to construct a default simulation for the product in Finale choreography tools. With respect to the simulation, the choreography tools only use the duration for multi-shot products like cakes, candles, or chains. For such products the duration is defined as the time between the first and last shot ignition.
The chain number of devices, if provided, is an integer. This property applies only to chains, indicating the number of shells in the chain for use by the Finale choreography tools. If you are not using Finale choreography tools, you do not need to worry about this field; just leave it blank.
If you are using Finale choreography tools, then you can use this field to specify the number of shells in a chain if the effect's name or animation description does not specify it. If the number of shells is specified in the name, such as in Purple Peony (Chain Of 5) then you can leave this field blank or set it to 0, which is ignored. However if the number of shells is not specified in the description, such as in Blue Peony Finale Chain, then you should set this field to the number of shells in the chain so Finale can construct the correct simulation and allocate the correct number of mortars.
The effect height is an integer or floating point number using a period as the decimal point, no units. It takes on the units specified as distance unit (see below). Along with the description and other properties, the effect height contributes to specifying the default simulation for the product in Finale choreography tools.
The effect width is an integer or floating point number using a period as the decimal point, no units. It takes on the units specified as distance unit (see below).
The safety distance is an integer or floating point number using a period as the decimal point, no units. It takes on the units specified as distance unit (see below).
The distance unit is "meters" or "ft" (either of these two words, exactly).
Finale treats the description as a recipe for constructing the simulation, so the more descriptive the recipe is, the more accurate the simulation will be. For example, 49 Shot 20 Seconds Crackling Chrys w/ Red Tail Cake, Zipper 1.8s PFT, 300', 90 Degrees, 7 Rows is a thorough description. Simple descriptions, like Red Peony will work also.
Determines the size of the simulation and the size of mortar required. Can be in inches or millimeters, e.g, 3" or 75mm.
(for chains only) The number of shells in the chain.
The time in seconds, or blank or zero for automatic determination based on the effect type and caliber.
(for multi-shot devices and chains only; ignored for single shot devices) The period of time from first to last shot.
The prefire and duration can also be specified in the effect description itself. If specified in both the effect description and also independently, the independent property value applies.
If you fill in the four required fields above, then to script with your inventory you can login from choreography, switch to Inventory View (control-i), and change the selector from "All inventories" to "* YourAccountName". When you click on items from your inventory, simulations will be constructed based on your inventory information. After scripting the show, do "Show > Readdress and re-assign racks" and then "File > Print report > Site layout report > With pictures" and "File > Print labels" to get reports.
When you get a new account on Finale Inventory for a display or consumer fireworks business, the setup process is very similar to the general purpose setup process described in our main getting started documentation. This documentation describes the specific considerations for fireworks businesses.
List of locations and sub-locations.
List of users and access privileges.
Although it is useful and easiest to setup this information first, the information can always be added or modified later.
Here are some examples for these lists of information.
Setup your locations and magazines as described in the general purpose setup process, but be sure that that physical magazines where you need to be able to compute total explosive mass and create Daily Summary of Magazine Transaction reports (DSMT reports) or create as separate magazines within Finale Inventory.
Make a list of your locations and the sub-locations that are within each location. A locations is a physical location, such as would have a street address. Sub-locations are called magazines in Finale Inventory. A sub-location is a bay, shed, garage, or other area within your location in which product is stored. You may also have bins or boxes as a sub-sub-location, but you don't need that information initially. For now, just get a list of your locations and magazines.
If you don't need to keep track of stock levels at separate areas within a location, just create a single sub-location to represent the overall stock level.
Next, create a list of the usernames of the people who are going to be using the inventory system. There are two types of usernames: (1) people who do inventory and choreography, and (2) people who do inventory only.
For the first group of people, list their existing Finale Fireworks username, the username with which they login to the choreography product. If multiple people are using the same Finale Fireworks username, then now is the time to split that type of account into individual accounts, so each user of Finale Inventory has his own username. In this case, make up a new "free trial" username for the person or people who are splitting off the original Finale Fireworks username by running the choreography product and clicking the "Make new account" link at the base of the initial login screen. Then include this new username in the list and indicate that it is splitting off the original account. The Finale Fireworks service team will split up the original account and upgrade the new "free trial" account to Finale Business.
For the second group of people, just make up a new username and email for each of them. The Finale Fireworks service team will create their inventory-only accounts and assign them temporary passwords which you can change.
Separate from and in addition to these user-defined product categories, Finale Inventory and Finale Choreography also use a pre-defined list of seven product types to categorize effects: Shells, Comets, Mines, Cakes, Candles, Other, and Non-Choreographed. In both Finale Inventory and Choreography, you can filter by these pre-defined product types.


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We were glad to be part of the 8th annual Sports Award affair by American Friends of Hebrew U. Baseball great Lee MacPhail, who has floated over the sports scene for over 40 years. What we found particularly laudable was that no-one of the least hosts, Howard Cosell, spoke of Russia or its pulling out of the Olympics along with the string of satellite lands that did the same.
Cosell’s love towards Israel, he notes, takes on a peculiar glory because AFHu has established the “Howard Cosell Center of Physical Education at the Hebrew U.” Sonny Werblin, head of Madison Square Garden, is the National Chairman and Bowie Kuhn, former Commissioner of Baseball, is the Deputy Chairman of the Cosell Centre. The dinner is always a fabulous, colorfully decorated event… Team pennants stained all around the room, real Yankee and Mets caps atop miniature baseball bats blazoned by guests of honor (MacPhail-Louisville Slugger).
Sanford Weill, President of the American Express Company, chaired the affair. Robert S. Savin, Westchester County business exec, heads the AFHU National Sports Committee. Beamon, an Olympic Champion, admitted to his guests that before his winning event in the history of sports,’ I ate a bagel and a lox breakfast, and they did wonders for me…’ Howard Cosell “kvelled” his arm around Beamon with smiles shining forth like he said: “Never allow them to downgrade bagels and lox. It’s an ethnic meal to be proud of!


text: Abamune® Abamune® is a potent medication used to treat HIV-1 infection in conjunction with other anti-retroviral drugs. Abamune® is not able to cure HIV-1 infection completely, it lowers the amount of virus in the infected body, and keeps it at a decreased level. Abamune® also promotes the white blood CD4 cells production, as they are important in fighting infection.

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text: (June 9, 2017) -- Today’s guest is Jonathan Prichard, the founder of Mobile Sleep Components, a company that makes mattresses specifically for RVs. Prichard encourages RV dealers to offer mattresses to their customers and he explains reasons why they make great aftermarket items. He also offers advice to dealers on what to look for when choosing a mattress supplier. Prichard even offers tips on ways to market and promote mattress sales while providing advice on how to close more mattress deals.

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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A Kenilworth barber has made great progress in a national competition to find the best wet-shave barber in the country.
Yucel Olmezkaya, 46, who runs Groom and Gents Barbers in Station Road, will compete against other barbers in the West Midlands during the regional final of ‘Britain’s Best Shave’, to be held in March.
Yucel, who won a British Barbers Association award back in August for his hair styling, said his heritage will help him win on the day.
He added: “Barbering and wet shaving is a big thing in my country, which is Turkey.
Yucel will be judged on several aspects of his barbering skill during the competition, including shave preparation, razor technique, post-shave routine, health and safety and overall efficiency.
If he gets through, Yucel will earn his place in the national final in May, held at the NEC in Birmingham.
Yucel learned how to barber when he was young, but only came back into the trade in 2013 after a trying a different career.


text: The police station is pretty crowded today and you will park the patrol cars that keep returning from their rounds. Do not hit any obstacles and try to move fast in order to park the vehicle in the spot indicated by this awesome police car game. Game Instructions: Use the arrow keys to drive the cars and the Space bar as your handbrake when you are parked or you need to slow down.

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Designed by Architect Roberto Innocenti, the TANGO series now has a brand new range of accessories which will complete your bathroom furnishings as they perfectly match all the taps and fittings in the collection.
The design that characterizes every element of the TANGO series, from the taps to the accessories, is a combination of complex geometrical shapes and references to nature that unite to form shapes to satisfy the creativity of any architect and the tastes of the most attentive consumer.
These accessories provide every type of furnishing solution: from triple version towel rails to toilet roll holders, from glass shelves available in two different lengths, to soap dishes and caddies.

industry_corpus2: Real Estate & Construction


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In addition to complete scores of the Liturgy of St. John , op. 41, the All-Night Vigil, op. 52, and ten additional sacred choruses, this 596-page volume includes the following essential facts for choral conductors: -- historical background of the works -- what the critics have said about them -- a movement-by-movement analysis -- crucial performance practice pointers -- critical notes EXTRA BONUS - An introductory article, "Russian Liturgical Worship," by Dr. Paul Meyendorff offers a detailed discussion of the Divine Liturgy and All-Night Vigil services from a liturgical standpoint.
Paul Meyendoff ~ "Russian Liturgical Worship"
Vladimir Morosan ~ "The Sacred Choral Works of Peter Tchaikovsky"
1. Peter Tchaikovsky After the exclamation "Blessed is the Kindgom..."
10. Peter Tchaikovsky After the exclamation "Thine own of Thine own..."
11. Peter Tchaikovsky After the words "Especially for our most holy..."
12. Peter Tchaikovsky After the exclamation "And grant that with one mouth..."
15. Peter Tchaikovsky After the exclamation "In the fear of God..."
Unison Chant Used in "We Hymn Thee"


text: You like puzzle solving challenges and that is the reason you have accepted this challenge of going inside the underground house all alone. Your task in will be to find a way to come out of the house. Let me remind you that it is not going to be an easy task. You must explore the place and click on the various useful objects in the surrounding to solve a series of puzzles. Having very good observational abilities will be handy in a situation like this because some of the useful items may not be very easy to spot. This is a fantastic point and click escape game.


text: After intense public criticism, Columbia University revoked its semester-long suspension of the Men’s Ice Hockey Club. Columbia suspended the club for the semester—effectively canceling the club’s entire season—for posting recruiting flyers containing language that some found offensive. FIRE, along with other groups and individuals both within and outside the university, vociferously opposed Columbia’s attack on free expression. Columbia’s Office of Athletics Communications issued a statement announcing a reduction in the club’s punishment. The club was allowed to engage in league play, but it remained suspended from its preseason and nonleague games. The club was also required to apologize for the flyer, attend “leadership training,” and remains on probation for one year.


text: Burgmüller’s 25 Easy and Progressive Etudes, Op. 100 have been a mainstay of elementary étude repertoire for many generations - and deservedly so. I cannot imagine any young pianist or elementary player who would not immediately engage with, or benefit from learning them. This series of videos will provide walkthroughs of all 25 of these études.


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Sorry, my weblog has been down for the past few days as my hosting service changed the location of my site and deked out the configuration settings. It's all right as rain now and I hope to be bringing you some good to great news in the next little while.
In the meantime if you are Canadian or interested in the great white north please consider reading and (hopefully) opposing Bill C61.
Here's a funny and illuminating video describing one of the flaws of such a bill.


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Labor Participation Brief | West Michigan Works!
Talent 2025 recently released their Labor Force Participation Rate research brief. The rate is an important measure of the health of the economy. While the unemployment rate measures the number of individuals who are not working and looking for work as a proportion of the number of individuals in the labor force, the labor force participation rate looks at the size of the labor force compared to the total adult population.
Historically our region struggles with a low labor participation rate (meaning people are voluntarily opting out of work or seeking work). The report puts together seven key recommendations on how employers can engage workers and pushes employers to think differently about their recruitment or hiring practices.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


text: I am looking for a place to stay until I get married in October. I’m 18 years old and mostly keep to myself. I keep my stuff clean and organized. I have a dog who is a German Sheperdmix. He’s 4 years old and very lovable. Not looking to pay more than $750 for a room.


text: Greetings from the Philippines….many, many years ago (1973/4), you had spoken in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania at our church, and Christian school. . I was a senior at the school. I have listened and followed your ministry since…1974. Thank you…tried, and tested in the Philippines. God remains faithful, as do you and your lovely wife. Blessings..


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Unfortunately it's not me... Nobody hit the $425 mega million dollar jackpot this past Friday. A ticket sold in South Jersey is now worth a million bucks!The million dollar ticket was sold at Gibby’s Village Tobacco on Clementon Road in Berlin. Nine lucky winners from around the country are holding a million dollar megga million ticket. The winning numbers on Friday were 19-24-26-27-70. The Mega Ball was 12.
Will you participate in Holiday Mega Mania?


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Y.K. Almoayyed & Sons (YKA), the exclusive distributors of Nissan in the Kingdom of Bahrain, have launched a ‘Cash Back Campaign’ at their Arad showroom.
During the campaign, the first 50 customers at Nissan’s Arad showroom will be eligible for BD 200 cash back on purchase of any Nissan model, above the offers currently provided. The offer is valid until 31st August 2017. For more information, please call 17221555.


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Hey guys. Wanted to post a build I completed last year. One of my favorite golf cart builds. I used a 2014 rear body EZGO TXT with the existing pre 2014 front cowl.
All bushing replaced, painted Dodge Viper red with new white seats. Added new chrome wheels, led lights. I think she turned out great. I really like the rear body.
Nice job the cart looks great. I'm going to move this to the EZGO Drivers Club build section of the forum.


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Because people often seek health care when they feel unhealthy, poor self-perceived health can be associated with burden on the health care delivery system.
The information provided above is from the Department of Health's Center for Health Data IBIS-PH web site (http://ibis.health.state.gov). The information published on this website may be reproduced without permission. Please use the following citation: " Retrieved Sun, 21 April 2019 2:09:43 from Department of Health, Center for Health Data, Indicator-Based Information System for Public Health Web site: http://ibis.health.state.gov ".


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What Will be the Next Major Wireless VR Headset?
It has become apparent the virtual reality industry will need to head in a very peculiar direction. Enticing more consumers to try out this technology will require a wireless approach first and foremost. A lot of work lies ahead in this department, although there are some positive developments taking place behind the scenes as well.
No one likes to wear a device on their head which is connected via a physical cable to another device. That whole idea is what makes the first generations of VR headsets so unpopular. Although the hefty price tag also leaves much to be desired as well, it is evident wireless VR is the right way forward. Unfortunately, very few proper headsets exist in this department.
So far, the Oculus Go may be the only approachable and affordable wireless virtual reality headset consumers can get behind. It is a relatively new device, even though VR is still an industry which severely lacks content to keep users engaged for extended periods of time. Until that problem is resolved, the VR market will remain niche first and foremost.
There are a fair few mobile VR headsets on the markets which can be classified as wireless. The big difference is how mobile virtual reality lacks the quality and sharpness of regular, more expensive headsets. Bridging the gap between the two industries is another ongoing struggle which might not be resolved anytime soon.
A lot of industry experts have high hopes for the next Oculus Rift. Although the originally envisioned device has been scrapped, an unknown unit is still in development. A wireless approach is mandatory to gain any sort of traction right now. For now, it remains unclear which direction the company will be heading in.


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Get away from it all and have a wonderful Gold Coast holiday. Our resort has everything you need to have a relaxing holiday. Our resort is ideally located on the Gold Coast. Close to some of the most popular attractions, have a wonderful holiday at our resort. Enjoy everything that the Gold Coast has to offer. Book your stay at our Centrepoint Resort Apartments and make the most of your holiday.
If you’re travelling on your own, we have one bedroom which are perfect for you. The apartments feature feature a fully equipped kitchen, laundry, TV and a private balcony.
If you’re travelling with a larger group, we have two bedroom apartments. Bring your families, friends and colleagues and have a wonderful holiday.
Aside from our apartments, we also have fully functional guest facilities such as an indoor heated pool, a sun-deck outdoor pool, a spa, a sauna, a tennis court, a games room, tour desk and many more.
Our resort is within minutes from the shopping centres in the area. Splurge on clothes, gadgets, groceries and other must-haves. Spend a fun-filled day at Pacific Fair Shopping Centres, The Oasis, Marina Mirage, Australia Fair, Harbour Town and many others.
Enjoy sumptuous food from fine dining restaurants. Sample the wide array of food options close to our resort. After a delicious meal, grab a cup of coffee and some dessert. Choose from the range of cafes.
A trip to the Gold Coast will not be complete without visiting the Gold Coast theme parks. Visit Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary and see amazing animals in a natural rainforest setting. Head over to Dream World and dare to try the thrilling rides. Movie World brings your favourite hollywood movies to life. Sea World lets you see fascinating sea creatures up close.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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Are you a Cash rich Businessman?
Cash rich gives different meanings. Having lot of cash to spend, Having lot money as cash, Having enough money to do whatever we want, whenever we want.
But here the cash rich means, The money that you have should be available for your use. Many businessman, lock all the available money in stock, assets, investments. Cash is the king in business, Having enough cash, liquidatable cash, makes you more powerful in negotiation, it makes you more comfortable, keeps you in clarity to take decisions.
People do business in lakhs and crores sometimes struggle to clear few thousand rupees, Basically a simple budgeting and little prudence in managing funds makes you cash rich, cash rich ensures the good cash flow. Good cash flow enables you to honor the commitments all the time, Honoring commitments gains the greater reputation in the market and the industry.
It`s not the balance Sheet, your net worth, your assets that keeps you powerful all the time, but the cash rich state and a healthy cash flow makes you a powerful businessman anytime.


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B.S. Information Systems and Communication Studies (UW–LaCrosse); more than 10 years software development, database administration and project management experience, including more than seven years administering Salesforce.com.
Works with clients to analyze business functions and operational needs; identifies requirements for large and small systems and develops automation solutions; supports software and database administration and software development for WARF and WiCell; assists with user support and training.


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Up to $2600 per sweep. First wave of sweeps on December 17th.
Place your entry form in the entry form box and SWEEP!
Massy Stores (SLU) Ltd. Promotions Term & Conditions Apply. This promotion is approved by the St. Lucia National Lotteries Authority.


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How do I experience God’s precence in my everyday life?
Lord, your presence has brought great joy and fullness to my life. Help me to understand how your presence effects my life on a daily basis. Never let me forget that it is through your presence that I have great joy.
Jesus tells us to love both God and others. Do I always follow this golden rule?
Lord, loving you is not a problem, but sometimes it is very hard to love my neighbor. Sometimes my neighbor hurts me, is mean to me, and degrades me. Help me to overlook these faults and to respond in love to my neighbor.
What, in my life, do I want to rejoice and praise God for?
Lord, there is so very much that you have given me. Help me to discern those things that I am most grateful for and wish to praise you greatly for. Grant me a grateful heart to always remember to thank and praise you.


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Hi I am trying to find out if buses run from Barcelona Airport on Saturday 2nd September to BEGUR please?
The bus from Barcelona airport to Begur goes 3 times a day on 2nd September.
8:30, 12:45 and 20:15. The journey takes 2.5 hours. The price for one ticket is €19.50.
The bus stop in Begur is at Plaça Forgas.

industry_corpus2: Transportation


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As Grinnellians, we all deeply cherish Grinnell College’s commitment to academic excellence, educational equity, social responsibility, and self-governance. Despite claims by Grinnell College and its attorneys, UGSDW expansion will not harm the core mission of Grinnell College. In fact, we seek to build a lasting structure for mutual cooperation and accountability between all student workers and the College, and we will continue to realize and effectuate Grinnell’s core mission.
I. Expansion would have an extremely limited financial impact on Grinnell College.
Due to inflation and tuition increases, real wages for student workers have been consistently decreasing for almost a decade.
Most student workers rely on their campus jobs to finance their Grinnell education. In 2008, if a student worked a job that paid the campus minimum wage for 8 hours a week, their annual income from campus employment would equal roughly 4.4 percent of the comprehensive fee.2 Today, income from the same job would only equal roughly 3.1 percent of the comprehensive fee—a 30% decrease.3 In addition, the campus minimum wage in 2008 is worth more than $8.50 per hour in 2018 dollars, compared to the current campus minimum wage of $8.00 per hour.4 In essence, the college has been saving money (in real terms) on student wages each year. It is disingenuous for it to claim that it could not afford a higher (real) level of wages.
Grinnell College has the financial capacity to pay student workers a fair wage.
II. UGSDW has a positive influence on student workers’ education.
We have always actively emphasized our role as students of Grinnell College.
However, Grinnell College has charged that UGSDW expansion would “impede learning” by “fundamentally changing the educational relationship between the College, faculty, and students.”15 This simply has not been the case, during the over two years that UGSDW has represented student workers in Dining Services. In fact, UGSDW’s current Dining contract reads, in part, “The College and Union mutually agree and acknowledge that the employees covered by this Agreement are, first and foremost, students” (emphasis added).16 Student workers having a powerful say in our workplace by no means hinders the rigorous academics Grinnell is renowned for.
Research finds no evidence that unions of student workers harm education.
A union of student workers can facilitate academic learning.
The same 2013 study discussed above shows that student workers in unions report a higher level of personal and professional support.19 Furthermore, regardless of potential educational benefits of campus employment, working too much hurts the learning experience of student workers. Around 1250 of Grinnell’s 1700 students work each year.20 Many of our members work 20 hours a week to be able to afford tuition, fees, and living expenses—time they cannot spend on academics and extracurriculars.
Better working conditions are better learning conditions.
Like any life experience, campus employment involves an educational aspect, but student workers cannot fully realize these educational benefits if they are underpaid, if they fear discrimination, if they fear inadvertently hurting themselves, and if they fear being fired without just cause. UGSDW embraces the educational value of campus employment, as well as the flexibility of Grinnell College in creating and improving job opportunities locally, but we maintain that everyone deserves a fair wage, that everyone deserves a fair discipline policy, that everyone deserves dignity at work, and that everyone deserves a say in their own workplace.
III. UGSDW is committed to student workers’ privacy.
Indeed, effective advocacy requires sufficient evidence and information. The National Labor Relations Act does require employers to provide unions with information relevant to collective bargaining. However, the vast majority of information UGSDW needs, such as how many student workers are in each pay category, is not individually identifiable and thus not confidential. In the rare cases where individual information is necessary, such as wrongful termination, UGSDW will never pursue any individual information without the affirmative consent from the student worker in question. Student workers own their privacy rights; Grinnell College does not. Privacy rights should not be weaponized as an excuse to deny student workers their rights to organize in unions.
As one commentator on student worker struggles noted, “It’s telling that professional academics, committed to ruthless empiricism and logic, are reduced to mystical, even spiritual platitudes when pressed to explain their opposition to [student] unionism.”27 Since October, UGSDW has demanded to meet the senior leadership of Grinnell College so as to reach a swift and fair resolution, but the administration refuses. To this day, UGSDW remains willing to an open dialogue and a compromise with the College, and our fight for all working students carries on.
Learn more about our expansion, and our Nov. 27 election.

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MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) are becoming more prevalent. They seem to be the new “thing” in learning. Zac over at Autodizactic is asking folks to help him think about MOOCs.
I’m not sure I even know what I think about MOOCs. Like Zac, I have signed up for MOOCs that I have then abandoned. It seems easy to both sign up for something that sounds interesting and that you can “attend” asynchronously. And then when it actually begins, it seems easy to let it go when life gets too busy or the tasks seem too arduous or mundane.
I’m currently signed up for a MOOC, led by people whose work I admire, focused on academic language development for English language learners…and I’m very interested in the subject matter. But already I’m having trouble finding time to do the readings and complete the tasks assigned. I’m pretty certain I won’t be completing this MOOC.
This summer I had a completely different experience with the Connected Learning MOOC, clmooc, through the National Writing Project. And maybe the most important difference was in the way the acronym “mooc” was defined. Instead of being a “Massive Open Online Course”, the clmooc was defined as a Massive Open Online Collaboration.
There were still facilitators. And instead of assignments, there were make cycles. And participants were invited to add to make cycles, interpret them in their own ways, create totally new makes…generally make the experience work for them.
I found the experience exhilarating! I expected to “lurk” around the edges of this experience. I knew when I signed up that this would be an extremely busy time for me. I was coordinating the SDAWP Summer Institute, starting a new grant-funded project, and supporting resource development for another project. But, because I found it relevant and because of the interaction with facilitators and participants, I was compelled to continue and experiment and learn and grow.
Drawing on Connected Learning principles, my learning was interest-driven, peer supported, and openly networked. It was also production-centered, academically oriented, and had a shared purpose. And best of all, it was fun. Each effort made me interested in trying something else.
I was both connected and learning…and I have a badge to show for it!
I have many reservations about MOOCs, especially those that are trying to be courses. I am all for open learning opportunities–I’m just not so sure that we need “courses,” in the formal sense of the word, to achieve the goal of opening access to learning. And for me, the “course-ness” is the very quality that causes me to “drop out” of MOOCs.
So, Zac (and anyone else who is thinking about MOOCs), I’m not so sure my musing are helpful here…but this thinking is helping me understand why the CLMOOC worked for me and these other MOOCs haven’t.
Here’s my other one. It was awarded me by a peer for being a connected educator.
What are you thinking about MOOCs…and about badges?
This entry was posted in Connected Learning, thinking and tagged badges, clmooc, connected learning, connected learning principles, Massive Open Online Course, MOOC, National Writing Project, thinking on October 28, 2013 by kd0602.
I too enjoyed the CLMOOC, but it is my only experience with MOOCs. I have an open mind to others, but I am not sure that a “course” is what I need or want right now. I never bothered to get my badge. Do you think it’s too late?
Thanks for this post, Kim. It certainly resonated with me (and made me feel yet another wave of #clmooc happiness).
To me, MOOCs shouldn’t be about plowing through assignments on a pre-determined schedule. They should be about learning at your own pace, in community, in a way that meets your unique needs.
But come to think of it, I think that’s what all learning should be, I guess.


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South Carolina DE Jadeveon Clowney finished his college career on a high note in Wednesday's Capital One Bowl.
He produced several quarterback pressures despite facing consistent double-teams/chip blocks and he also made a handful of plays against the run. I attended two South Carolina games this season -- the first and the last. There was a noticeable improvement in Clowney's conditioning and effort. He was gassed in that opening game and he was a complete non-factor in the second half. On Wednesday, he did the majority of his damage late in the game, collecting at least three pressures to go along with two tipped balls (one of which led to an interception) in the fourth quarter.
He made a couple of freaky plays that won't show up in the box score. In the first half, he had an explosive inside counter move and split two blockers to force a quick throw. In the second half, he utilized a stutter/bull rush to knock the Badgers' left tackle right back to the quarterback. He also showed off his burst/range by tracking down ball carriers from the backside.
While this was one of Clowney's best games of the season, there is still plenty of room for improvement. As a front-side run defender, he continually tries to swim (arm-over move) over the top of blockers instead of shooting his hands and holding the point of attack. Also, his awareness vs. down blocks is poor and he gets washed down the line of scrimmage too often. As a pass rusher, he doesn't really have much of a gameplan. He doesn't set up moves and he plays too high at times. He relies solely on his raw speed and power.
For those wondering if Clowney could play outside linebacker, I don't believe that would be a good fit. He has very stiff ankles and he struggles to change direction in space. He was matched up with the Wisconsin tight end in the red zone and he looked like a fish out of water. He was called for a holding penalty and still gave up the touchdown.
I do believe Clowney has the most potential of any player in this draft class. He has a rare combination of size, length and explosiveness. He is just scratching the surface of what he could ultimately become as a player. His overall performance this season might have failed to meet the expectations of NFL scouts and personnel executives, but I do believe he achieved the main goal he set for himself during his junior campaign -- stay healthy. Mission accomplished.
Now the debate will begin about where he lands in the upcoming NFL draft. I don't know if he'll go No. 1 overall (Houston is desperate for a quarterback), but I will be very surprised if he isn't the first defender to be picked.


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Flashback to high school days when buying a new razor every month was totally normal and tossing it in the trash when you ran out of blades was totally normal too. To think that every single razor I’ve used since I was a teen still exists and is sitting somewhere on the earth doesn’t make me feel too good.
A stainless steel razor does the same job if not shaves even closer than plastic razors. It’s a simple swap for disposable razors and it can be used for life! The cost of a stainless steel razor is more expensive in the beginning but you save money overtime compared to a disposable blade that you have to replace entirely.
Since stainless steel razors do give you a close shave so you want to be careful when shaving making sure you take your time and lather with soap to create the gliding effect that protects your skin.
The only part of the razor you need to replace are the blades and they are 100% recyclable. The blades are pretty inexpensive selling at $12 for 100 blades on Amazon. Right now, it’s 3 months into 2019 and I’ve been using the same blade since the beginning of the year. It really goes to show how long these blades last and how much money you could save by making the switch.
You can store all of your dull blades in a glass jar or aluminum can and wait until you have a good amount. Do some research to see if your local recycling center will take your stainless steel blades. Depending on the recycling center, you may be able to recycle the loose blades or bring your blades in a sealed container, such as a glass jar to prevent injury.
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Two years into his administration and President Kushner is once again in the news, a little.
Trump ordered his chief of staff at the time John Kelly to grant Kushner security clearance despite warnings from intelligence officials and White House lawyers, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
According to NBC News, two White House security specialists rejected last month Kushner’s application for a top-secret clearance after a FBI background check raised concerns about potential foreign influence on him, but they were overruled by their supervisor, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
By dismissing Tillerson, Trump has demonstrated that “blood is thicker than water” and that he will protect his family at great political cost, even if Kushner continues to generate negative media coverage.
Kushner is the embodiment of foreign influence in the White House. Negative jew influence, driving an agenda completely divorced from what Trump told his thirsty supporters they’d be getting. It’s a big, controversial story, and understandably it is taking time for the jewsmedia to settle on a way to jewsplain it. So far they’ve mostly just ignored Kushner, compensating by loudly and quite consciously shifting attention and blame to Russia instead. Likewise, and for the same reason, they’ve been screeching continuously about WHITE supremacism and WHITE nationalism, as jew-first governments across the West are literally making it illegal to oppose jewing.
I’m glad I took the time to write at least a little about the White-washing of Trump, and the petty intrigues which so characterize his 6000000% jew-first administration. At this point there’s not much more that needs to be said about the kikeservative-in-chief’s latest ever more jewy antics than, what’s President Kushner up to now?
“Anti-semitism” is defined by jews. In practice the term denotes anything one or more jews don’t like, as jews. They have difficultly acknowledging this, but it’s not because they can’t agree on what they don’t like. The difficultly arises from what they do agree on, which is that “anti-semitism” is entirely a goyim malfunction and has nothing whatsoever to do with jews jewing. This assertion of theirs is both essential to and contradicted by the way they acutally brandish the term, like a weapon, using their imagined victimhood to justify their aggression, to excuse whatever harm jewing causes non-jews.
Kadar is an excellent example. Jews screeched and jews profited, non-jews weren’t involved except as subordinates. The “anti-semitism” was nothing more than a supposed failure of the kikeservative-in-chief to service the jews when and how they expected. The only question jews ask is how far they can ride their loxism.
Left-leaning groups — on campus and on the outside — worry that labeling even hostile political rhetoric as hate speech puts Jews on the wrong side of the free speech debate. They say that a tool that has only recently been applied to anti-Semitic activity on campus — Title VI of the Civil Rights Act — takes too broad a brush in defining anti-Semitism and ends up blaming legitimate critics of Israel of creating an “unsafe” environment for Jewish students.
Two of the most active groups in promoting the use of Title VI — the Zionist Organization of America and the Lawfare Project — are on the right.
The jews define “hate” too, primarily as a pretext to restrict what anyone else can say or do about what they don’t like. The cry-out-in-pain-as-you-strike nature of jew aggression becomes obvious whenever they try to formulate a precise meaning for “anti-semitism”, and especially when they read it into ostensibly secular liberal law.
The pantomime of left-jew versus right-jew serves as a thin disguise for the fact that Title VI is simultaneously promoted and exploited by jews. The upshot is that the supposed anti-discrimination law is interpreted to discriminate jews from Whites. Organized jewry wants Whites trying to be White criminalized as “hate”, while at the same time they demand their jewing be specifically privileged and protected. The courts, the schools, the corporations, all dance to jewry’s tune.
On the political front, the jews kick and the kikeservatives lick. White voters, deracinated and demoralized, too forgiving and forgetful, get only disingenuous dog-whistling. The jews, hyper-ethnocentric and ever-moralizing, never forgiving or forgeting, swiftly swarm to pillory any figurehead who steps over one of their many semitically correct lines.
Charlottesville demonstrated that Whites cannot freely assemble and speak, as Whites, in public. The swift and hysterical reaction from the local, state, and federal governments, officially condemning Whites because “anti-semitism”, demonstrated that Whites and jews are poltical opposites. Decades of phoney judicial dancing around race and privilege have suddenly been supplanted by explicit executive and legislative proclamations that the regime is officially anti-White out of deference to jews.
The ongoing chutzpathic attempt to invert this reality, to portray the kikeservative-in-chief as a tool of “anti-semites” rather than jews, merely reflects how thoroughly jewed the media and current political system are. Trump viciously counter-attacks anyone who attacks him. Everyone but the jews. When the jews kick, Trump licks.
Their toxic “communal narrative”, their hoax culture, their intersectional jewing, their left-vs-right dissembling, their constant screeching and gesticulating. No, none of this is new, only more blatant. To jewsplain their virulent collective behavior jews pretend it’s more complicated than it actually is, moaning about the divisiveness they themselves manufacture. Behind it all is the same old game – two jews, three opinions how to jew.
That Miller operated largely out of view was by design. Multiple sources in the Trump White House tell The Daily Beast that he is acutely aware of how other senior Trump aides—including former chief strategist Steve Bannon, another immigration hardliner—have been banished to the doghouse by President Trump for assuming too large a public profile.
Miller worries about being portrayed as the true master of Trump’s immigration policy—a “President Miller” capable of vetoing any “deal” the actual president might strike with Democratic leaders—and has operated more carefully and less ostentatiously than someone like Bannon.
Perfectly typical jew behavior. Miller hasn’t been hounded with the same loxist gusto as Steve “GOY BYE” Bannon or Sebastian “NAAAAZI IN OUR WHITEHOUSE” Gorka. Rather than admit Miller is treated differently because he’s a jew, the pretense here instead is that he just cleverly avoids attention.
In reality, the use of the “President X” meme to goad Trump into firing someone has been driven exclusively by the jewsmedia, which has conspicuously passed on using it against Miller or the gaggle of influential jews who supposedly fear Trump. Again, the reality is that the jews around Trump are taunted primarily by their own tribemates, who want them to more emphatically speak and act for the benefit of jews, against Whites. And unlike the string of non-jews whose heads jews have demanded and Trump has consequently dumped, the jews whom jews screech at have a tendency to retain their positions of power and influence.
The irony in all this is that while the screeching about “President White Supremacist” grows ever louder, the true master is President Jew, and the kikeservative-in-chief is totally OK with that.
Reagan, Thatcher, Schwartzenegger. Now Trump. More demonized by the jewsmedia, because his supporters are White. More supported by Whites, because dog whistling. The most “White supremacist” administration ever, more kikeservative than any before.
Like cuckoos, non-Whites screech. And like mindless reed warblers, Whites follow their cuckoo-loving misleader, because he makes the cuckoos cry. This is parasitism, no paradox.
Like generations of immigrants before, including millions of Jewish parents and grandparents, the parents of these kids have made enormous sacrifices, not for themselves, but in the hope that their children would have a chance at a real future.
This moment should feel scary, disturbing and eerily familiar to all Jewish Americans.
HIAS is the global Jewish organization that protects refugees. We stand for a world in which refugees find welcome, safety and freedom. Guided by our Jewish values and history, we bring more than 135 years of expertise to our work with refugees. But our work is just one piece of the larger culture of equality and welcome we strive to create together with our supporters in the American Jewish community. Threats to the DACA program are not only threats to immigrants, but to justice, fairness and the longstanding values of our country.
This country’s history of accepting refugees and immigrants has offered generations of Jewish Americans the opportunity to recognize our full human potential and become part of the fabric of America.
If jews actually believed their lies they’d be filling the jew state with these “immigrants” and “refugees” – instead they treat the wretched refuse like bioweapons, and deliberately aim them at the Whitest parts of dar-al-goyim.
Stephen Miller’s family came from my dad’s village, in Belarus. Immigration is why Steve and I are both alive; now it’s his job to help kill the program protecting young immigrants to the U.S.
Helping to kill DACA and curb immigration are why Steve is a disgrace to the memory of that town, to the memory of what the Nazis did there to the people who couldn’t escape and immigrate to the United States.
Durbin, in an interview with Reuters, described Kushner as a conduit to his father-in-law, President Donald Trump, and open to the idea of doing something to help the 800,000 Dreamers brought illegally to the United States as children.
But Trump may have stumbled upon a realization this week: If the Republican Party is now a cult of personality, and his base is going to like him whatever he does because of who he is, the most plausible path to increased popularity is doing substantive things that Democrats want.
The cuckoo cries out in pain, trusting the warblers will imagine this makes even the blackest suppository some kind of white pill. Trump, like other White misleaders, is no bird brain. He is where he is because he sided with the jews.