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There are few places on Earth that inspire and touch a person's soul as Italy will. Home to the some of worlds greatest works of art, architecture structures, cuisine, wines, romantic cities, fashion trends and breathtaking landscapes. It's time to devote some time to yourself and to Italy!
doesn’t matter if it’s a happy event or a sad event. It’s just time to gather with the people you love. Besides embracing life Italy is home to some the world’s most impressive architectural structures and art that has mesmerized and awed individuals for centuries. If that’s not enough for you, then get your tastebuds ready as they are in for a real treat. There are no words to describe just how delicious the cuisine is so we just suggest helping yourself to more. Mangia Mangia!!

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We’re delighted to report that Rita Hamraj has joined our team at The PC Support Group (Harrow) office.
Rita Hemraj has joined the office as Regional Director. With a degree in Economics and Management and having worked as an accountant (ACA) for PriceWaterhouseCoopers (a “big four” firm) she brings a huge amount of knowledge and experience to the business.
More recently she was a Management and Systems Consultant delivering Prince II projects in a public sector environment before deciding she would like to take on a bigger challenge as a commercial business manager.
Rita said she is proud to be working with The PC Support Group: “They fit my ideals and ambitions perfectly, and I am looking forward to helping deliver the remarkable service that is central to the ethos of The PC Support Group”.
Despite the current difficult climate The PC Support Group continues to prove that there’s opportunities for businesses that provide a great service.
Their continued expansion has lead to the addition of a new IT Support Manager at their head office in Liverpool.
Bill Hayman joins the group after over 20 years in the IT industry including a number of years contracting and latterly running his own computer support business.
The PC Support Group has announced that it has now opened its first office in Scotland. The new office, in Edinburgh, will provide the high quality computer support that has become synonymous with the company, to the whole city and surrounding areas including Queensferry, Dalkeith, Currie, Penicuik, Lasswade and Musselburgh.
Angus Kerr, the 43 year old IT professional joins The PC Support Group as the Regional Director of the Edinburgh office following a successful career with the banking group HBOS where he gained a huge amount of both technical and business experience which his customers will now benefit from.
If you would like more information see IT Support Edinburgh or contact the Edinburgh office for advice or support then please call us on 0845 2233116 or e-mail info@pcsupportgroup.com.
Quality local IT Support is now available throughout West Manchester and North Cheshire thanks to Phil & Pam Case becoming Regional Directors for The PC Support Group Warrington area.
Phil and Pam will be managing this region, providing IT support to small businesses and home users in Warrington, Widnes, Altrincham, Northwich and all surrounding areas.
The PC Support Group is expanding quickly and we are pleased to add local support to the Warrington area, close to our Liverpool head office, at this early stage.
If you would like to discuss your IT requirements with Phil or Pam then you can contact them through our central number 0845 2233116 or simply click on Request A Service Call button (see top left) and complete the details.
On the 29th October The PC Support Group celebrated its first year of nationwide expansion throughout the UK by holding a comedy evening. Over 100 people enjoyed the fun filled evening at the Blue Bar on Albert Dock in Liverpool.
During the event The PC Support Group’s customer’s achievements were also celebrated with a number of awards.
Charlton Foxcroft, Mortgage Brokers from Liverpool won the award for ‘Most Improved IT Over 10 PCs’ for their proactive approach to IT enabling them to support their fast growth over the last couple of years.
The final category was ‘Most Innovative Use of IT’ which was won by Document Direct for their work with distributed home workers. Their clever use of technology allows them to have typists any time, any place, anywhere who can listen to and convert their clients dictations, uploaded via the web, and converted to paper documents in no time. Jayne Smith, Head of Operations at Document Direct, said “Technology is the hub of our business; without it we would have no business, without the internet our business couldn’t exist. With the fantastic support and help of The PC Support Group we are expanding rapidly and look forward to continuing our close relationship”.
Phil Bird, co-founder and owner of The PC Support Group outlined the achievements of the business in the last year which included: opening up 7 offices around the UK; being named as one of the top 100 Managed Service Providers by independent American company, MSPMentor; being nominated for the prestigious Channel Network Awards for best SME IT Solution and reaching their 350th customer.
Greg Pye from Body Solutions clearly enjoying the evening!
As does Laura Woods from Paver Smith… despite being picked on by the comedians!
The PC Support Group has been recognised yet again as a provider of first class IT support for small businesses by being shortlisted in this years prestigious Channel Network Awards.
Now in their 7th year, The Channel Network Awards are regarded as the Oscars of the IT Industry. The Awards have developed an undisputed reputation which is why being nominated is a huge accolade in itself.
The PC Support Group is one of only four companies shortlisted in the hotly contested SME IT Solution category.
This month sees the launch of a new service from The PC Support Group – BusinessCARE Backup is the ultimate data backup solution for small businesses.
We all know the information on our computer systems is important to our businesses, and in many cases vital. Despite this, the vast majority of small businesses do not have adequate backup and data recovery systems in place. Even when a solution is in place it is often fraught with problems; some of which are only discovered when it’s too late.
Backup solutions are notoriously difficult to run and manage reliably – no one wants to take day-to-day responsibility for them and all too often they are left failing for prolonged periods. On top of this, backups are rarely checked and little, if any, consideration is given to how the data will be recovered should a disaster occur.
BusinessCARE Backup is the perfect solution to address all these problems.
If you run or manage a small business and you believe that losing the information on your computers would cause problems then you need BusinessCARE Backup.
For more information see our BusinessCARE Backup page or simply contact us on 0845 2233116.

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Join Callahan’s AVP of analytics, Sam Taft, and VP of marketing, Alexandra Gekas, for this 30-minute webinar recapping our 2018 CRM survey findings.
At its core, a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tool is a way for businesses to manage all consumer interactions in one place and ultimately build loyalty. According to Gartner, CRM software totaled $26.3 billion in 2015 and they predict that that figure will continue to rise through 2018.
To help credit unions understand the current CRM landscape, Callahan conducted a multi-pronged survey. The survey uncovered CRM pain points, main consideration factors, primary use cases and more.
Join Callahan’s AVP of analytics, Sam Taft, and VP of marketing, Alexandra Gekas, for 30-minute webinar recapping the survey findings. Each attendee will also receive a complimentary copy of the survey.


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The Gubi A3 Stool is an innovative and stylish design. The frame of the stool is shaped like the letter 'A', adding an element of fun to this practical product.
The Stools frame is made from powder-coated steel and it has a black leather cushion pad. It is suitable as a desk stool or bar stool.
The rod structure is made from steel, powder coated in black and the seat is upholstered in black leather.

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ЄВС у Берліні – мрія? Реальність! Довгострокове волонтерство у найбільшому в Європі молодіжному / сімейному центрі можливе разом із НГО “Стелла”.
Would you like to improve your German skills, learn about project management in FEZ-Berlin?
We are looking for 4 volunteers interested in learning German and showcasing their creative skills while working with children.
FEZ-Berlin is Europe’s biggest Youth and Family Center. It offers creative games, fun and relaxation and the programme includes education, new experiences and culture.
The methods FEZ-Berlin uses to carry out its projects, are participation and inclusion-oriented forms of action which invite individuals to become actively involved and to gather authentic experiences of open dialogue and cooperation, of intercultural and inter-religious exchange. Our volunteers will become ambassadors of our work and after the EVS period they will have received concrete work experience for their transition on to a job. The volunteers will actively be involved in the planning, implementation and evaluation phases and will successively receive more responsibility and gradually become independent. Throughout the project the activities are carried on in tandem or in teams, thus the volunteers will acquire social skills, the ability to cooperate, compromise and solve conflicts.
Have a look at our website and send your application (a CV and motivation letter) to m.kunsmann@fez-berlin.de.
Don’t forget to indicate in the letter, that your sending organization is KHARKIV NON-GOVERNMENTAL ASSOCIATION FOR ACTIVE YOUTH “STELLA” with PIC number 947609200.

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The Brevard County Board of County Commissioners has issued a ban on open burning throughout the county due to ongoing drought conditions that are favorable to the eruption of wildfires. The ban is effective in both incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county and includes campfires, bonfires, trash burning and other incineration.
On Tuesday, Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency following increased wildfires across the state. The Keetch-Byram Drought Index currently averages in the 500-549 range in Brevard County on a scale of 750. There are currently more than 100 active wildfires across the state, including 4 active brush fires in Brevard County.
The burn ban will remain in effect until conditions change significantly. Most surrounding counties have also declared burn bans until drought conditions have eased. Little relief from the drought is anticipated prior to the beginning of the rainy season, which begins June 1.

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person stand in front of the door in confusion, wow.
August. Even in June the streets and sidewalks are crowded.
park; when you do, it will most likely be limited to 2 hours.
park 4 to 6 RV’s depending on length.
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A CO Waterford tractor salesman will be hoping that his luck is in this week when he takes part in the National Lottery TV gameshow, Winning Streak.
Mark Hennessy from Kill in Co Waterford got a late birthday surprise when his name was pulled out of the drum as he watched Winning Streak last Saturday night. Having turned 35 at the start of the month, he is sure to continue the celebrations.
It’s been a lucky year for Mark who married his partner of five years last month, Elaine Brazil. The couple met in Australia while Mark was travelling and hit it off.
A cabinet maker by trade, Mark works for Kill Agricultural Services where he is a tractor and farming machinery salesperson. Mark is a keen sportsman himself, who has played hurling for Waterford at under 21 and minor levels. He plays for his local club Kill GAA and is a massive fan of the Waterford hurling side.
Mark has sought advice from a friend who appeared on the show in the past and hopes to do as well as fellow Waterford man, Brian Fleming who won €64,000 back in 2008.

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6PC 100g 50g 20g 10g 5g Precision Calibration Scale Weights Balance Test Set Kit.
This precession calibration set has all of the weights you will need and more! 6pc 100g 50g 20g 10g 5g precision calibration scale weights balance test set kit smooth surface the tweezers is convenient to hold all of the weights for quick easy access permissible error +/- 0.003g quantity 1 x 100g, 1 x 50g, 2 x 20g, 1 x 10g, 1 x 5g color silver total weight250g.


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All you have to do is ask..
Hold me close, Never let me go, My sweet love.
You will not be disappointed they are very talented writters.

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The Canvas.FramebufferObject render target utilizes OpenGL hardware acceleration rather than rendering into system memory, which in many cases results in faster rendering. Canvas.FramebufferObject relies on the OpenGL extensions GL_EXT_framebuffer_multisample and GL_EXT_framebuffer_blit for antialiasing. It will also use more graphics memory when rendering strategy is anything other than Canvas.Cooperative.


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There may be no structure for your yard that is more durable and low maintenance than a masonry retaining wall. It can provide protection from water and dirt run-off even during the worst weather. And it can offer much-needed connections between one section of a landscape to another. A masonry wall surrounding one side of a pool area, for example, could be constructed to set off the leisurely side of the landscape from an elevated outdoor dining area.
Masonry walls can also bring privacy to certain parts of your landscape. Because of the thickness of the concrete blocks that form the retaining wall, it can bring insulation from noises outside of your yard such as traffic and voices from neighboring yards.
With the diverse masonry stone choices available, as well as laying patterns and color combinations, a masonry wall can also be aesthetically pleasing. Think about adding a border of contrasting stones to draw attention to the rustic look of the wall. Or keep it clean and uniform with modern rectangular stones in the same color family.
A decorative masonry wall serves a different purpose than a purely functional retaining wall. A decorative wall is often of a low height and serves to create a visual divider for your backyard. Frequently attached to a pillar or constructed between pillars, a decorative wall can be a backdrop for highlighting landscape plantings or illuminated with spotlights to achieve nighttime drama.
Masonry pillars can form a gateway into your backyard from the driveway or front yard. They can distinguish one part of the yard from another, like the entry to a patio area. Instead of requesting posts that anchor a fence bordering your yard, you might choose to have masonry pillars form the posts for the wooden fence slats. This would be an elegant take on a fence.
Masonry pillars topped with an architectural lantern can bring light to a sidewalk or pathway for visitors as they arrive after dark. Or top a pillar with a decorative concrete finial. Pillars also offer the perfect height for climbing vines that will bring flowering color to your Hampden, PA, landscape.
Pillars, like retaining walls and decorative stone walls, can be fashioned from brick, natural stones, landscape stones, or slate. They can have a stacked stone appearance, or be crafted from river stones. Masonry pillars can even have built-in planters attached to become home to unique shrubs and flowers.
Masonry pillars and walls can bring a strong visual foundation to your Hampden, PA, backyard, allowing you to add landscape plantings, lighting, and interest to your home. The design possibilities will seem endless, as there are many choices for stones and bricks, laying patterns, and decorative borders for accents. The experts at Hummel’s Landscape Inc. can help you go over the many options.

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On the Road is for those customers who travel, yet would like to maintain their MCN services while doing so. Included here is "roaming" information including our 1-800 universal access number service (see details below), California Dialup number, Nationwide Dialup numbers and web e-mail service.
Remember that MCN has local numbers all over California!
As of March 1, 2012, MCN will no longer offering Nationwide dialup.


text: A value proposition helps define value for money, when people buy from you they do so because you offer value. That value could be price, attitude of employees, ease of purchase, convenience, clarity of offer, your distinguished capability, delivery time, post sales support, local supplier, finance and so on. The value you offer is your value proposition.


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Cremation urns are available in a wide variety of styles. If you are interested in reviewing additional options please contact us so that we can provide you with additional choices. Please call us at 215-659-0911 to order any of the items displayed here.
Keepsake urns are designed for display and can contain a small amount of cremated remains, a lock of hair, cemetery grave soil, or other appropriate small item. Each urn comes in a velvet covered heart box. Box color is set by the manufacturer and may not be as shown in the photographs.
Some cemeteries require the use of a burial vault when placing an urn in a cemetery grave.
MacKenzie urns are designed for display or for placement in a cemetery crypt or grave. MacKenzie Urns can be engraved with clip-art, personal information, or text selections.
The Bogati cremation urn is made from hand engraved rosewood.
Howard Miller cremation urns are available in several finishes. All finishes are select hardwoods or veneers. The urns come with brass hardware and functional lock. This type of urn is frequently used at a memorial serivce where cremated remains are to be scatterd afterwards and the urn can be kept as a memento box. All models are velvet lined.


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Thy remembrance to Thy lovers bringeth ease for every smart.
“Give me sight, O Lord,” they clamor, seeking to behold Thy face.
Stumbling on the way of anguish, “Allah, Allah,” loudly call.
And their eyes are wet with weeping for a love that gives not rest.
Gladly meeting men’s derision, letting all the world go by.
Khajah Abdullah Ansari of Herat (aka Pir-i-Ansar)(1006–1088) was a Persian sufi who spent his entire life in the town of Herat in modern-day Afghanistan. The author of several works on Islamic mysticism and philosophy, Ansari is perhaps most famous for Munajat Namah (“litanies or dialogues with God”), which is considered one of the highest achievements of Persian literature. Eschewing the life of wealth, he lived in a graceful poverty and was renowned throughout Persia for his preaching skills and depth of knowledge — especially of the Hadith.


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Browse the listings below and refine your search to help you buy Corporate Businesses for sale in Sutton, London. Alternatively, set up email alerts and/or start a new search. Daltonsbusiness.com is the UK’s largest online marketplace of businesses and franchises for sale.
A unique company specialising in Project Management and Control System Software.


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On our recent trip to Lady Elliot Island Emmie was exposed to a lot of new experiences - snorkelling, learning about sharks and manta rays and protecting the environment. The best part of this experience is that the people who were teaching her, and the people she was spending a lot of time with, were young tertiary educated women who were experts in their fields, involved in environmental research projects and passionate about the marine environment.
Have you ever had a holiday where it's just...right? It's not forced wonderfulness, it's not Bula every 20 metres, it's not taking pics of five star luxury to impress your friends. IT. JUST. IS. WONDERFUL. That's Lady Elliot. She is not out to impress. She is not out to show off. She is there and she is magical.
As one of the 7 natural wonders of the world, visiting the Great Barrier Reef has always been high up on my travel bucket list. I even went as far as exploring it on Google Street View Oceans when it first came out. But thanks to FlyScoot and Tourism and Events Queensland, I finally got the chance when they approached me after reading my story on how I quit my job to travel the world on a budget with 16k savings.


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Blushing or Erythrophobia often starts in the teenage years and adolescence when we become naturally more self-conscious of our bodies and the way we act, especially when feeling vulnerable or feel we are being judged.
Blushing is triggered by emotional stress, such as embarrassment, anger or an uncomfortable social situation.
However it can also occur whilst talking to a friend, bumping into someone you know unexpectedly, whilst paying for something in a shop, or many other inexplicable reasons. This feeds the fear and the anticipation of blushing, causing the problem to escalate, thus proving to the person that the anxiety was justified and the problem spirals.
Blushing is caused when the sympathetic nervous system, a network of nerves responsible for the ‘fight or flight’ reflex, perceives a strong emotion, embarrassment or anger as a threat or danger. It responds by dilating the tiny blood vessels just under the skin, causing reddening of the face.
People that blush often try and hide it, living with the constant worry of where and when it will happen next.
Another fear they face is people who think they are being helpful by pointing it out!
However you don’t have to live with this embarrassing and distressing problem.
By accessing the unconscious mind, hypnotherapy can get to the root cause, reframing negative thought processes, reducing anxiety and boosting self-confidence and self-esteem.

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text: If you didn’t watch the first season, fire up the netty right now and crush that first season out because it’s GOLD. This is a hot take on the original “Sabrina the Teenage Witch”, it’s a bit more unruly and just darker overall as a tv show. Keirnan Shipka is your leading lady, she plays the role of Sabrina! Check out her transformation in season 2, I honestly can’t wait.

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The short film TAKE ME HOME and documentary 76 MINUTES AND 15 SECONDS WITH ABBAS KIAROSTAMI as part of the Iranian Film Festival.
TAKE ME HOME is engaging as a film and satisfying as a multimedia piece of art. In Southern Italy, a little boy drops his football at the top of a narrow stone stairway outside his home, As the ball bounces downwards, our eyes are drawn along with it, in an endless rhythm from side to side, as it travels to the bottom. Each perfectly framed tableau could stand as an individual piece of artwork.
76 MINUTES AND 15 SECONDS WITH ABBAS KIAROSTAMI is documentary about the legendary film maker Abbas Kiarostami. A photographer and long time friend of Kiarostami, Seyfolah Samadian has put together some footage of his moments with Kiarostami, his travel photography, film making etc.


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• Potato pancakes are also known as latkes.
• Each 170g bag yields approx. 21 potato pancakes.
Potatoes, Potato Starch, Salt, Onions, Palm Oil, Cottonseed Oil.


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If thermal runaway occurs in a single cell inside battery assemblies, the heat generated typically cannot be easily dissipated and will lead to a temperature increase in adjacent cells. Such thermal runaway can cascade through the whole battery module or pack leading to significant heat and gas release. In this presentation, a model describing thermal runaway based on thermal data of reactions taking place in cells during thermal runaway is shown and thermal runaway initiation methods are compared. Finally, an overview of current standards on thermal propagation is given.
This talk will show how the calorimeters allow studying of the thermal runaway propagation to develop and qualify suitable countermeasures, such as heat protection barriers, which is currently becoming a very "hot topic." The acquired data are essential on all levels of the value chain, from safe design on materials level up to thermal management and adaptation of safety systems, or implementation into modelling and simulation tools.
Air and Liquid Cooling is required to keep Li Ion Battery Systems at the right temperature range to maintain system performance and to avoid system failure. The presentation will give an overview of the different cooling methods established - open and closed air cooling systems, direct and indirect cooling systems for battery systems. Failure modes caused by coolant contamination will be explained, and technical solutions for particle filtration, water adsorption and ion exchange will be highlighted.
The presentation will give an overview of products and approaches to improve battery safety. Beside cell separators, specially developed overpressure valves and heat shields, new concept ideas will be presented, which could improve battery safety on a higher level. Besides this, we will produce components enabling a reliable function of the batteries under normal operation.
Lithium-ion cells can unintentionally be exposed to temperatures outside manufacturers' recommended limits without triggering a full thermal runaway event. The question addressed in this paper is: Are these cells still safe to use? In this study, externally applied compression has been employed to prevent lithium ion battery failure during such events.
Since year's silicones are widely used in transportation assembly (OEMs and Tiers), and have met the required regulatory and EHS standards. With one of the industry's broadest portfolios of thermally conductive silicones, Dow Performance Silicones can meet needs ranging from standard to the most advanced applications.
A more effective battery thermal and structural deformation monitoring system by applying distributed optical fibre sensing techniques has been proposed and demonstrated in this paper, to meet the challenge hindering the mass adoption of lithium-ion or more advanced chemistries in future battery applications.
ANSYS battery tools range from 3D field simulation (in CFD) to Reduced Order Model (ROM) extraction to system simulation. In particular it is possible to calculate the distribution of ohmic and electrochemistry sources in the battery. This allows us to accurately predict the temperature distributions in the battery and to assess the performance and durability. In our presentation we will give an overview of the underlying techniques and comprehensive system simulation methods for electric drivetrain and battery development.
As global automotive OEMs race to electrify their fleets, there's a need for new electrolytes to enable safer, higher energy density batteries. In this presentation we will discuss how companies are putting together the data infrastructure and analytics environment that enables them to support electrification of the global automotive market.
In this work, the inhomogeneous distribution of lithium on the electrodes of lithium-ion batteries is assessed by analyzing the voltage response in half-cells, full-cells, and parallel connected cells. A set of experiments has been conducted ranging from differential voltage analysis to voltage relaxation measurements and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. This submission summarizes the former stated experiments, derives and explains the theory of homogeneity of lithium distribution.
Liwu Wang, PhD, Director, Business Development, Sales & Marketing, AEM Components (USA), Inc.
Monitoring and balancing is state-of-the-art in battery management (BMS) since decades. In fact, this means monitoring the death of the battery. Effective battery control (ebc) is controlling all cells according to their individual state-of-health (SoH) and aging parameters. This leads to a maximum lifetime and performance of the battery pack combined with highest safety.
The power loss in lithium batteries comes partially from poor electronic conduction and limited active surface area. A new electrode consisting of porous structure and silicon collector is used to enable effective and high-area three-phase boundary between active mass, electrolyte and electronic conductor.
Many so-called developments in the field of Li-Ion battery cells and batteries still rely purely on trial and error. The reason is that some currently present battery cell production methods are extremely challenging to digitalize. Both new and modified production methods as well as digitalization can change the game and tremendously improve high volume production. However, digitalization counts on measurable values as well as a constant and optimized production flow. We will report and highlight examples of improving battery cell production by digitalization as well as sophisticated production flows.
This presentation will explain a new way for lithiation of lithium ion battery anodes. This method that can result in significant battery performance improvements and its applicability to an industrial mass manufacturing process is already demonstrated. The roll-to-roll pre-lithiation technique can be applied to a wide variety of anode materials and offers opportunities to reduce lithium ion battery manufacturing cost, such as excess loading of cathode due to low first-cycle efficiency of anode.
The present production methods for lithium-ion battery (LIB) electrode slurries are largely based on batch processes. However, for the expected LIB market growth, especially in the automotive industry, these methods will no longer fulfill the requirements of the industry. Therefore, Buhler has developed a novel process based on a twin-screw mixer for fully continuous electrode slurry production. This process increases productivity per mixing line and eliminates batch-to-batch variations.
We will show that development time and effort can be drastically decreased by instead physically modelling a Lithium-Ion cell, proving the validity of the model in the whole operational range and subsequently using the model-predicted anode potential to investigate under which conditions Lithium-plating will start to occur. We will further show from that how charging strategies can be derived, that charge the battery truly as fast as possible while still avoiding Lithium-plating.
Constraining Li-Ion pouch cells extends their cycling lifetime. The literature reports mechanical defects like delamination of the active material layers and localized deformation of the separator as well as surface film coverages on the anode as effects affecting the aging. Appling a light stack pressure on the electrodes housing helps to prevent the layer delamination. However, too high stack pressure accelerates the cyclic ageing due to enhanced delamination. In the first part of our presentation, we discuss the electrical parameters like internal cell resistances, usable capacity, coulombic and energy efficiency of constrained Lithium-ion pouch cells at different temperatures. The second part of the presentation provides the interfaces kinetics of constrained Lithium-ion pouch cells. We discuss tracking systems for battery stacks and look beyond possibilities for fast charging concepts using these tracking systems based on the electrical parameters and the kinetics of constrained Li-ion pouch cells.

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Regarding your May 26 article "Whose edifice is this? Spain peels back the layers of its identity": I so appreciated your informative and open article on Cordoba's Mezquita in Spain. We visited this marvelous mosque last June and were awed at the acres of Moorish red and white arches, but we were disturbed by the Christian cathedral built inside that had destroyed much of the original mosque.
The fact that for 700 years three of the major religions of the world (Jews, Muslims, and Christians) lived in comparative harmony here is instructive in today's world. This incredible place of worship needs to be opened to all who would pray here in order to reclaim a sense of Andalusian roots and inclusion for all.
Your June 1 editorial "Cut the College Dropout Rate" offered some compelling statistics about this issue. It overlooked, however, a factor about the subject that many universities have inflicted on themselves.
I refer to the high percentage of freshmen who fail university-administered placement examinations in English and mathematics. These students customarily are then required to take no-credit remedial courses in these subjects as part of their "higher" education. In the California State University (CSU) system of late, as many as half its freshmen are found to have these academic deficiencies. Although the CSUs deplore current cuts to their budgets, they refuse to stop funding their remedial courses.
Your May 26 article "Making Them Talk" leaves out the "natural" tendency for brutality that always exists when we demonize people. European settlers and their descendants called the native Americans "savages" and butchered them, and called blacks "subhuman," and enslaved them or lynched them. In Vietnam, American soldiers sometimes "saved" villages by destroying them, or killed masses of innocent women and children. And now those in Iraq who fight us are denounced as Satanic warriors.
Psychological experiments have shown how "good" people can do evil. In Iraq, commanders should have kept a close watch on the Abu Ghraib guards. Evil triumphs everywhere that good men stand by.
Regarding your May 27 article "Not yet forgotten, the 'greatest generation' finally set in stone": I would like to express my shock that the "young" have no idea of what we went through in World War II. Neither will they have the perspective and vision to avert future disasters if they don't ever study American and world history in school.
I am a widow of that war - my husband was lost in the South Pacific. Wake up, America, to the realities of life and the value of history.
Regarding your June 1 article "The new deluxe travelers: Humans welcome, too": For every gourmet meal prepared for a canine guest, I suggest that the Loews Beverly Hills Hotel prepare and donate one nutritious meal to an area child in need. I have no quarrel with the growing tendency of folks to take their companion animals along on trips. However, the notion of serving filet mignon to an animal, no matter how beloved, is really way over the top in excess.


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So one day a month I get a day off (work-life balance…what’s that?).
It’s always the last Sunday of the month when operations is on its monthly break and the office staff who work Monday to Saturday are also off. Us expats shut up shop and attempt with all our might to trick our body clocks into sleeping through our usual daily wake up time of dawn. Just for the record…gin helps!
Last Sunday two of us decided we just had not seen enough off the wee peninsula we are living on so we jumped in the ‘Landy’ and went to be tourists for the day.
After a quick bite to eat from the local bakery and with burning mouths from the HOT sambol you get with your roti (basically just raw crushed chillis…divine!) we decided to visit the local library. Now I had seen this impressive building from the outside which had been burned down during the war and had been rebuilt and apparently restocked.
When you arrive you are greeted by a terribly friendly guard who asks you to turn off your mobile phone and take off your shoes!
I have to admit rather cynically as we went in I was expecting a beautiful but slightly empty shell of a building so I was absolutely shocked when far from seeing empty shelves I was confronted with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of books.
Just off the coast line there are several small islands and to get there you drive over a causeway. It’s a bit of an adventure because the causeway is literally a few feet above the water level and not really wide enough for cars to pass one another.
Anyhow after some slightly hairy edging slowly past one another we eventually crossed safely and went for a drive. The islands are a slightly odd place because the ‘islanders’ who live there are from Jaffna but have a definite ‘island mentality’ of being just slightly different to the folk on the mainland. The folk on the mainland, when asked about the islanders, simply shrug and with a sly wink dismiss them as ‘not quite as civilised as the mainlanders’.
I guess not so dissimilar to any island / mainland divide the world over!
As we explored the islands we kept driving past shacks on the side of the road selling what looked like pink popcorn. Not being able to resist investigating we pulled over. An old gnarly fisherman, who has one of those faces which just screams ‘I’ve got a story to tell’, stepped out from behind his stall and in unbelievably crystal clear English said “Good morning, how do you do?”.
Amusingly that was about the limit of his English but through a bit of sign language and my Pops’ way of speaking the local lingo (English but just v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y and VERY LOUD!) we were reliably informed that far from being popcorn it was sea water boiled shrimps!
Now I know the rules ok…wash it, cook it, peel it or don’t eat it….prawns left outside + hot climate = food poisoning….etc etc. So let’s face it this basket of shrimp had dodgy belly written ALL over it. But I reckon sometimes you’ve just got to take your chances and get down with the locals!
With there not being a dickybird chance of this lovely but slightly grubby stall holder having a nice antibacterial handwash in his pocket I did (briefly) think twice as he peeled one of the big prawns and handed it to me….yes, I ate it!
My friend by this point was being given a handful of the salty shrimp…yes, he ate them!
From the look on his face I couldn’t resist and tried one. They were absolutely delicious, SO moorish and totally addictive. We decided to throw caution to the wind and promptly bought half a kilo.
Heading back over the causeway we stopped at the local ‘beer shop’ and bought some of the local brew then back to the house for a Sunday afternoon movie and movie snacks of beer and salty shrimp.
After a day away from the office I think it’s called ”relaxing”, that evening (with total sodium overload from gorging on my shrimps) as I set my alarm for dawn I might even possibly have had what people with slightly more normal lives call ‘the Sunday night blues’??!!
p.s we lived to tell the tale post-shrimps…all those family camping holidays have obviously set me up with a strong constitution!


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KS/TT- not touching this game, KS should win by 20 but who knows if they come to play tomorrow. And I hate laying that much chalk.
Syr/Marq- I got Marq winning str8 up. I just hate how Syracuse lost on Saturday. Lean under also.
KU/ISU- I look for alot of the pub to be on Kansas. I may be wrong. I have this game at ISU -3. This is a big statement game for ISU.
Anyway, just my early thoughts on the games tomorrow.
I stayed away from all the games. Finally got ISU at +2.
6-2-1 +3.8 No posts the past two days was at work.
3-9-2 ouch....-6.9u's Rough day for me. Got a little confident. Onto tomorrow. Have Wil/CSU pending.

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The shortlisted artists have just been announced for the South West’s foremost contemporary art competition. As the only Devon-based competition that is open to artists from across the country and indeed the world, this year’s Exeter Contemporary Open promises to bring together a vibrant mix of disciplines and styles.
Now in its eighth year and attracting thousands of visitors every time, this exhibition, highlighting some of the best new talent, has established itself as one of the most exciting events in the South West’s cultural calendar.
The nine selected artists are: Rachel Busby, Malina Busch, Max Cahn, Anne Deeming, Hannah Mooney, Rebecca Ounstead, Julie Price, Oliver Tirre, Charlie Godet Thomas.
The Overall winner will be announced at a private launch reception on Thursday 12th September, hosted by Exeter Phoenix and the event’s main sponsors, Haines Watts Chartered Accountants. The winner will receive a prize of £1000 and an Additional Award of £500 will also be presented. Visitors to the exhibition will have the chance to select their favourite work and the artist with the most votes at the end of the exhibition will be presented with the Audience Choice Award of £200, kindly sponsored by Exeter Natural Health Centre.


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Name the Lower East Side’s new mascot angel fish, and win a book, bialys, doughnuts and pickles! Along with the Lower East Side’s rich historical history goes a forgotten history of Lower East Side mascots. Beyond the beloved bodega cats, there have been fire Dalmatians and even mascot felines that kept guard over prisoners. But now, the East Side will be getting three new library mascots in the form of three angel fish.
The judge for the contest will be Untapped Cities contributing writer Laurie Gwen Shapiro (Lauriegwenshapiro.com), a historian and lifelong resident of the Lower East Side. Shapiro will be showing a slideshow and reading from her bestselling book on Thursday, April 5 from 6:30-8pm at Seward Park Library.
Untapped Cities will announce the winner online just before Shapiro’s April 5 Seward Park reading. Leave your ideas in comments. Ideas must be submitted before March 31. Remember to include THREE names that go together. In the case of duplicate ideas, the first to get the idea in will be considered the entry eligible for winning.
Next, check out the Top 10 Secrets of the Lower East Side and the Top 10 Secrets of Eldridge Street.
The 3 streets of the 5 Points which no longer exist or go by those names.
Ralph, Rose, and Pete- who, for decades, were the driving force of Boys and Girls Republic (on E 6th) and Camp Wabenaki. Peter Doyle passed in 2012, Ralph Hittman in 2015, and Rose Hittman in December 2017. They lived around the corner on Grand St.
Isidor, Ida, and Strauss- after Isidor and Ida Strauss for their role in founding the Educational Alliance.
Ralph, Rose, and Pete. Ralph and Rose Hittman ran the Boys Brotherhood Republic (now the Boys and Girls Republic) on East 6th Street, and Camp Wabenaki in Harriman State Park, for many many years. Peter Doyle, who came over from England, was also involved with the BBR and Camp for over two decades. Pete passed in 2012, Ralph in 2015, and Rose just this past December. These three had a positive impact on thousands of LES boys and girls.
Sesame, Garlic, and Wheat — all bagel flavors of course!
After writers who’ve written about Angels. Dan Brown (writer of Angels and Demons), Tony Kushner (writer of Angels in America), and Cassandra Clare (after the writer of City of Fallen Angels).
I’ve already uttered bagel, bialy and babka, so i”ll stick with that.
Since March is Women’s History Month, in honor of all of the known and unknown badass ladies of the LES, I suggest naming the three fish Lillian (Wald), Emma (Goldman), Clara (Lemlich).


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Ok I was thinking about myself here: bills paid, only debt is a low interest mortgage, PM stored, some cash money saved.
2) Pick a spread of affordable and undervalued stocks etc to avoid having all you investment money in too few stocks?
I’ve been thinking the same thing, but I think it’s commodities not stocks that my money should go into because stock markets will crash at some point very, very soon because they are all drugged up on inflation, and of course that’s when one buys stocks: when there’s “blood in the streets”. With commodities, it’s still in the early stages of a bull market based on fundamentals. But this is just me talking; my own money is not presently in the futures market, so don’t pay too much attention to what I say.
If Rick Rule does another class here on L.me, I’d recommend attending it. The one I was fortunate enough to attend was very enlightening, and he went into a lot of stuff about the differences between investing and speculating, and when each is advisable or not. The man knows a LOT and he’s really interesting to listen to. Maybe he has some info available somewhere here on the site?
Martin, I agree with your take on the overall inflation if the stock market. However, there are many vechicals available to capitalize on various commodities and materials in the stock market. ETFs following commodities like wheat, gold, rice, silver, cattle, coffee, and such are traded. Additionally there are stocks of companies producing those commodities or other supporting industries that might not suffer the coming crash we both agree is imminent.
There are also “bargains” to be had in the stock market – undervalued companies or industries that are debt-free, well-managed, and waiting.
So I’m not ready to abandon stocks overall, but I certainly agree with your point that resources and commodities are the immediate future.
That said, would you rather place $500-$1000 on one commodity of your choice, or spread on a mix to hedge your bet?
Toni, yeah in totally hoping Rick Rule drops some wisdom in this thread. He’s the Boss! lol I really respect that guy’s word. I need to catch up on the uploads if his recent class but (this is for you, Toni) Alaska has a time zone issue that leaves me at work when a lot if this stuff happens live. It’s still great and I love Liberty. Me. Honestly, access to Rick Rule ‘s videoes and having him on the forum is worth the price of admission.
I just looked Rick up and on his member page there’s access to a lot of written stuff, but I’m not sure where the recordings of the classes hide. . . I know they are supposed to be available somewhere here.
I recently bought stock in a coal power company! The prices are down down down, as coal is so thoroughly hated by the powers and the intelligentsia. And I just don’t think coal is actually going to disappear as a power source. At the Rick Rule class, I asked if he thought there was a future for coal, and he agreed that there is! So I feel pretty good about the buy. But I don’t expect to make money off it any time soon. I think it’s a long term thing. . .
And re: the AK time thing. I KNOW!!! I’m a morning person, and my BFF in Douglas is a night creature. I’m on the CA/NV border, so she’s an hour behind me. I always have to stop myself from calling before she’s fully awake! And of course, she works on the Marine Highway, so she’s gone for weeks at a time, often with no communication at all. Life is definitely different up there. But SO good!
A d good for you on the power plant!
Thanks for the kind words and thoughts. I’d be happy to teach a liberty. U class on “starter” investing. The subject is quite nuanced, depending on individual circumstance, and the interest level and time available to the beginning investor.
If this thread and the rest of the liberty.me universe believe that a discussion of this sort would be valuable, just say so on this thread, I’m certain ” team Jeffery” will pick up on it, and cause it to occur.
I would definitely find such a U class valuable. I hope we can make it happen.
I would only buy individual commodities unless I know a lot about each commodity that I own. If I don’t know much about sugar, for example, I wouldn’t buy it, but if I know a lot about rice and I’m bullish on it (for the long-term) then I would buy it. With that said, I think I would prefer to buy through a well-balanced and consistent index because it’s the most efficient and a much profitable method because you’re joining the averages in the market (not depending on the wisdom of the manager of a fund) and thus you investment is on auto-pilot – travelling through all the market fluctuations.

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What shall we call this cute cat?
고객님들의 의견을 반영하여 저희 앱을 꾸준히 개선하고 있습니다.
지속적으로 더 좋은 모습을 보여드릴 수 있게, 작은 변화에도 응원을 주셔서 감사합니다.
최신업데이트를 통해, 더욱 안정화된 mit메신저를 만나보세요.

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Home › Amazon Prime › American Vandal Season 3 – Amazon Prime, Hulu or YouTube Red TV?
American Vandal Season 3 – Amazon Prime, Hulu or YouTube Red TV?
On October 27th, 2018 we learned that American Vandal has been cancelled by Netflix. The first two seasons were quite popular but Netflix has been slashing shows as of late. Both Luke Cage and Iron Fist were cancelled in the last 10 days and American Vandal is the latest to go. It has already been stated that American Vandal is being shopping around but it would seem that only a streaming service would be able to “broadcast” this type of content. One would guest Amazon Prime, Hulu and YouTube Red TV would be the top 3 when it came to this particular show.
Do you think anyone will take a chance with American Vandal for a season 3? If Amazon Prime, Hulu or YouTube Red TV picked up this show, would you subscribe to watch it? Would you be willing to pay $10 or $15 a month if one of the services picked up some of the other cancelled Netflix shows?
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Since that last post, I’ve spent a lot of time on Shopify and building a PBN network to finish off ranking some of my older sites that got neglected.
I love getting sites ranked and having organic traffic but Shopify has taken over all my time.
I’m not going to sit here and say it works for everyone because it doesn’t. However, there are people cranking out sales all day long and making a good living.
Over the last few months, I’ve started taking Shopify serious and the results are insane. When I first started it was really just part time because of other projects, I’ve now pushed them aside.
I want to take this time to go through some of my mistakes and cover questions I got emailed.
You might remember that email I sent out a couple weeks ago right? I got over 200 replies…..
So I’m not going to answer every individual question 1 by 1, that would take quite some time. I’ll go through the process of this Shopify method and constraint on the areas people need help with the most.
When starting out you should decide how much you want to put into this.
If you have a day job and only plan to do this after work then you shouldn’t invest much money just yet.
On the other hand, if you have all day to spend on this method then you can usually invest a little more. This way you have the time to sit down, optimize and scale.
I can’t stress this enough and I wish I did more of this before I started, I would have saved a lot of money.
It’s a good idea to see what’s working and a good way to do that is to join Facebook groups.
My Own Group Is A Good One!
These groups are filled with value that will help you succeed. Just a few days ago a single mother posted her earnings from her first store that’s only 24 days old.
That’s why I love Facebook groups and wish I joined them earlier. You can learn a lot from these groups, see how other people are doing things.
Some of us don’t want to spend money on courses, the reality is we need to spend money to make money.
Making money online to me is just a massive investment, most of my earnings get put back into new projects and the cycle goes on and on.
I’ve spent $1000s on courses and I can tell you now the cheapest ones are the best.
Some of you might remember eCom empire right? This is the first course I purchased and it’s the cheapest, that’s why I talk about it a lot.
The problem with expensive courses is they talk about how much money they make throughout the entire course… who cares right? You pay for results not to see their results.
eCom Empire, on the other hand, is the cheapest out of all the courses I’ve seen and they get straight to the point.
My point is, don’t waste money on expensive courses when these cheap ones provide the same content and in most cases even better content.
I recommend looking into 1 or 2 courses to see how others have done it and see it from another perspective.
It’s good to absorb as much information as you can before starting anything.
What’s the two ingredients you need to make this work?
The right product and audience, without these it simply won’t work.
This is what I look for when searching for products.
Is the overall niche popular?
Is anyone else selling it?
Things I will never sell and you shouldn’t either!
You see where I’m coming from? No one wants to buy a USB stick online from a random eCommerce store when they can just go to the usual big brand stores.
It’s pointless, hate to say it but people try to sell this stuff all the time and in most cases they fail.
This is something that’s worked well for me and it’s still a hot product.
That’s a console skin and quite a few designs are selling well right now.
This is just to give you an idea of what to sell. This is something unique and it’s not a general item.
First I decide if I want to do the free+ shipping method or sell a product with a markup. Usually, I do both when starting out.
I’ll find a product for under $3 and give it away for free then charge for shipping.
I do this for the first 500 orders to get people to my site and build an email list. I also make money on upsells but more on that soon.
I’m not going to get super detailed because most of you have seen the video I have on this, there isn’t much to it, this is how I do it.
Brainstorm ideas then searching online and finding what’s working. I spend days even a week or so trying to find a product that I think will work.
Once I have ideas I use Watch Count and start throwing ideas around.
I look for popular items that are selling well on ebay.
I use Aliexpress to find the suppliers. I haven’t used any other sources for drop shipping and don’t plan to since Aliexpress has everything I need.
When I was starting out with my new eCommerce stores I would add 5-10 products so I could use some of them for upsells.
I would use 1 product for the initial advertising to drive traffic to the site.
This video explains exactly how I find a niche.
There is no exact method I use each time I want to sell a product.
Sometimes I’ll start out with the free + Shipping or I’ll just go right into a product with a markup. You need to find what works for you and your situation.
How Did I Find The Console Skins?
Long story short by spying on what works.
I was browsing Facebook and an advert popped up for console skins.
I used the dark post engine software and found the post with the most engagement then sold the same item but in a different color.
This was the one that was doing well.
To find out what interest I should target I checked out the people who were commenting, they were all male and had the same interest or liked the same pages.
You can check this by checking out their profile.
Overall it took me about 2 hours to set everything up including the Facebook adverts.
If you stay vigilant when surfing the web you will find niches. They pop up all over the place.
At the end of the day finding a niche comes down to you. Take your time to brainstorm, write down ideas and see what’s working.
Another sneaky little trick to finding niches is using app reviews.
This is something I’ve been doing recently and it works well. I’ve explained it in this video.
Another way I go about finding niches is by finding the best Shopify stores that sell the most.
You can do this by doing a reverse I.P check on the Shopify I.P.
Here you go, another video for ya.
Why do we use Shopify?
You can use whatever you like really, I find Shopify works the best for this type of stuff and woo commerce can be slow at the best of times. I don’t know of any good Shopify alternatives.
Do you want to do a niche store or general store? I would recommend general then you can sell whatever you like without starting a new shop everytime you find a new product.
When it comes to naming your eCommerce store you can use the Shopify Name Generator or Flame Domain.
Before you create a Shopify store get everything you need before starting.
When you’re ready to start you can use one of the free theme Shopify provides, this is all you need for now.
I got quite a few emails asking me how you guys should set up your “About Pages” this is up to you how you do that, every store is different.
The process of creating the website is very easy and I’ve put together a video of the process.
This Shopify app would be my favourite so far, I’m talking about Oberlo.
The app is a must if you don’t have time to manually import products and fill orders.
You can import products straight from Aliexpress to your store just by clicking the extension.
Once imported you can edit a few things then add it to the store with the click of a button.
When an order is placed all you do is click a button and it will fill out all the details for you on Aliexpress. You literally do nothing but click a few buttons.
So to speed things up I would recommend Oberlo. It saves you the hassle of manually adding every single product then manually placing every single order.
I’ve been there and I hated it!
This is something I really hope gets fixed soon because I lose a lot of sales due to this problem.
If you live outside the USA and Canada you will have to use Paypal or something similar.
Right now you can’t take straight credit card payments from your store with the Shopify payment gateway unless you reside in America and maybe Canada? Not sure about Canada.
If you live outside these countries you will have to setup an alternative gateway. Shopify has a list in the payment sections of the store.
You can still take credit card payments right from the checkout however, an alternative payment system needs to be used.
Because we all live in different countries I can’t help everyone with this. If you go into Shopify payments it will show you what works in what countries then you will have to go from there.
You should also have business accounts or some sort of separate bank account set up for this if you want to take it seriously. Some of these payment gateways will require a bank account and in some cases, a business account.
I’ll talk more about that when we get to the legal area of this post.
This is a must! Especially if you plan on doing the free+ shipping method.
An upsell is when you offer another product before they check out. I use a plugin called Product Upsell. It has a 3 month trial and seems to be the best plugin for this so far.
Most free plugin will also work, I didn’t find them as effective though.
As for other plugin’s it comes down to testing. I try to use a minimal amount of plugins so I don’t clutter up the site with popups and coupon codes like I see others doing.
So this plugin and the one called Oberlo mentioned above help me out a lot.
I don’t want to confuse anyone with this section but there is a lot to over.
So, you’ve heard it before right? Traffic is easy to get….. Well, it can be if we stick to one method and grind.
Everyone wants to know the best traffic method, that was the most requested question in the email I sent out.
There isn’t any, every situation is different.
Sure Facebook is the most common traffic source for Shopify, then again I know of huge stores that turn over millions by using Instagram.
It really comes down to what you want to do and how you want to get traffic.
My aim is to get as many visitors as possible to my website with the free+ shipping offers and build an email list so I don’t have to pay for as much traffic anymore.
This works very well and I’ll go over what I do.
This is the main traffic source for this method and you’re going to hate me for saying this again….
It comes down to testing.
I often get people saying they followed my exact Facebook advertising strategy and it failed for them.
Well, the same things don’t just work all the time when applied to different niches or situations.
I’m going to give it to you straight, Facebook adverts are hard but once the winning ones start rolling in and you get the hang of it then it becomes easy.
This video will show you in detail how I generally do my adverts. I say generally because things change all the time and I’m always testing new ways to get the best outcome for my adverts.
Since things are always changing I like to look for new successful advert methods and one caught my eye lately.
I used to do a mix of Engagement Post (PPE) and Website Conversion (WC) adverts right from the start, I still do this but I’m testing something else and it’s working very well.
Once I have my general interest in place I start to stack up a big list of interest. I’ll spend a few hours inside audience insights just stacking and stacking on a notepad.
I then start 10 or more PPE adverts ranging from a few dollars per advert to $7 per advert depending on my budget for that project.
When creating the adverts I randomize everything like age, gender and use random sections of my interest stacking list. I’ll also throw up a couple adverts using the entire stacked list.
Now I let them run for my required testing time, that’s usually 4-5 days depends on how active they become.
After the testing time, I take the ones that have the most active engagement then copy down the advert copy like age, gender and the interest I used.
Now I start a Website Conversion advert for every good active engaged post and let that run.
If I’ve had sales from the PPE adverts I’ll let them run, if not I might still let them run for engagement and exposure but change down to a lower cost.
Now the Website Conversion Adverts will make me the money.
So what’s happened here is I’ve used the PPE ads to get an idea of what interest and age group are interested in the product. I then transferred the same details from the best ones over to a new Website Conversion advert.
This way I now have an active audience that will be optimized for sales instead of Post Engagements.
Remember you need to spend money to make money. It doesn’t matter if you spend money on testing (within your budget) because at the end of the day when you find a winner you will make that back.
This is something I’ve had a lot of success with!
When using Instagram with Shopify it’s actually a good idea to build a landing page that really optimized for mobile. I use a program called ClickFunnel and clickfunnels cost quite a bit but it is worth it.
Instagram can become really niche specific because some niches work very well on Instagram and will go viral overnight.
With one of my shops, I’m looking into ordering bulk with my own branding on the product then redistributing it from my country. I need to do this because the product just boomed.
This product is part of a hobby I’m passionate about so it makes it super fun.
I started selling them because I could only find a handful of people selling them worldwide and they retail for around $700! I can sell them for $350-$450 with a very good profit margin.
I already own the expensive version so I ordered one from Aliexpress to compare and the quality was very similar. The only difference is the expensive one is hand made but it still uses Chinese parts.
I’m going to talk more about this in the final section of this post.
Long story short, I’ve built up a very niche specific brand only using Instagram.
You can even have a go on Pinterest. I was reading an article recently where a guy called Ezra Firestone made over $40,000 using Pinterest.
eCommerce and Instagram were around long before Shopify and Facebook, It’s king when it comes to building niche specific brands.
These videos will show you how I use Instagram shoutouts and bots to gain followers.
This is the cream of the crop right? Everyone wants free organic traffic.
I haven’t done much to try and rank my store but I’ve noticed it’s easy to get natural backlinks.
Once I start advertising my audience will go on related forums asking members if they’ve used the product.
My sites also have very good backlinks from blogs who review the product, I notice these free links do more for me than building my own so I just roll with it.
At the end of the day, you can rank these sites just like any other site you work on if you like. For me, I find it easier to let the natural backlinks do the work for me since I’m getting traffic from other sources in the meantime.
Once the store starts getting popular you will be surprised at the good backlinks you end up getting and the organic traffic will just keep growing.
It’s still good practice to do On-Page SEO wherever you can to increase your chances of moving up the ranks.
This is where I made a good chunk of my Shopify income.
Have you noticed you get a lot of abandoned carts? A lot of visitors leaving your site without making a purchase?
This is normal but you should do everything you can to get them back.
This is something all eCommerce stores should be doing.
When people leave their cart without checking out you can send them an email reminding them about the items.
It’s good practice to get into the habit of doing this or setting up the automatic system if you upgrade with the extra Shopify fees.
This is super easy to do and will become a great money maker in the long run.
Collecting emails from buyers is simple, all you have to do is get them to consent to emails promotions.
For a full tutorial on this, you can check it out on the Shopify blog here.
When it comes to the visitors who don’t buy anything you can entice them to sign up for a Shopify email plugin.
One of my stores is in a sports niche and I give them a free PDF with spots tips in exchange for their email. If you can’t do anything like that you can simply ask them to sign up for the newsletter.
One of the Shopify apps I use is called Privy and it has a free version. I can also integrate this with my Get Response email marketing account for easy management.
Giving out a voucher also works great when collecting emails.
With Facebook Retargeting you place a pixel on your Shopify store and it will create a list of people who have visited your website.
Once you have a nice list of visitors you can then serve adverts to them over Facebook at a really cheap cost.
You may have already got them to the store through adverts but because your targeting them and they are super niche related the cost of the adverts are cheaper.
These are 2 custom audiences I’m building up from some new stores I’m testing. Under 20k isn’t a lot but it builds up fast.
Those are potential customers I can get back into the store.
I love doing this, it converts VERY well and not many people are doing it.
A large majority of your visitors will always leave your store and go to Google in search of a discount coupon.
You can bring them back by offering them a small Shopify discount code when they do the search.
There are two ways I do this.
Next, I submit my store to a coupon website like couponfollow.com.
Most of the time it won’t get accepted unless it’s a good looking store they think is worthy of getting added. When I started getting added to them I was getting results like this….
That’s 2,726 coupons used! 2,726 extra sales I would have missed out on.
The other method I use is creating a free website using sites like Weebly then posting a coupon code no that.
When people search for “your site coupon” in the search engine the idea is to get the coupon site or the free website you created to rank at the top so people can click on it.
It will rank without any work because there is no competition.
You will then have everything covered, you will get return customers coming back to use those coupon deals they found in the search engine.
This wasn’t something I was going to add to this post but It works very well.
When advertising on Facebook I’ll sometimes advertise competitions. Tell people they will go into the draw to win something at the end of the month if they purchase.
I then notify the winner by email, this is a great way to get buyers onto your email list.
This isn’t one of my campaigns in the picture but you get the idea of what I’m talking about.
This is something that was asked a lot and unfortunately, I don’t like giving out legal advice.
I can only tell you how I go about business and taxes because I have no idea how it works in other countries.
Where I’m from we pay taxes at the end of the financial year so all I need to do is track my spending and income then sort it out when the time comes.
In fact, I don’t even do that, everything that happens in my online business goes to my accountant’s software each month so I don’t do anything.
I run everything through one online business although, I will be starting a separate company for one of my most successful stores soon since I’m expanding it.
I think most people are worried they will mess up taxes and they need to sort out a company before they even start.
You should consult an accountant if this worries you.
Where I’m from you can earn money online as an individual or a company. So, when I first started online years ago I made money as an individual then went to an accountant about 6 months later with all my earnings.
I paid tax on that as an individual then started a company and became an employee of that company.
Basically, I was fine to make money online as long as I declared it when it came to do the taxes, I then sorted everything with an accountant when that time came.
This is how I do everything online when it comes to the earnings including Shopify.
Most shops that bring it large amounts of money end up using fulfilment centres to hold products for them.
They send their products to these centres in bulk then they get sent from there.
Drop shipping has long shipping times and isn’t something that I would like doing long term. Sure it works but there’s a bigger picture here.
In my sports niche store, I found a great product with good profit margins that sells extremely well on Instagram, I mentioned this earlier in the post.
I’m now moving to scrap drop shipping on that website and running everything from my own office. I’ve reinvested some profits into a large order with my own branding printed on the products.
I will also cut shipping times in half if I send from my own country.
My main traffic source for the store is just Instagram and email marketing. I built the customers up on Facebook but I don’t need to anymore.
This is what I mean when I say think big.
Build a brand and set a goal to have a well oiled machine that doesn’t need constant work to get traffic.
I did this because one of my items was selling extremely well, if I wanted to I could just bulk order and brand that item then drop ship everything else.
Seems to be something I got asked a lot in the email I sent out.
My biggest mistake was concentrating on niche specific stores when I started out.
I wasted a lot of time on failing products then starting new stores when I didn’t need to. It was a big learning curve.
Now I have a general store that I use to test products. When I have a winning product that sells well I’ll then create a niche specific store around that product to create stronger branding.
Don’t get me wrong general stores are fine for long term sales, I just find them a little spammy when it’s full of random products with no structure.
This is why I test by added products to the general store then move the product to a brand/niche site if it does well.
There will be a lot of questions I didn’t answer in this and I do apologize, there were so many and no doubt I missed some.
The aim of this post was to run through everything and help you get a better understanding of how this works.
My main goal is to always test products and scale the winning ones into niche stores. I currently have 2 niche stores that do very well and a general store for testing.
It’s a good idea to think big and to do that you will need some good start up money.
This isn’t really a get rich quick thing, you should have a plan in place with some good time spent on niche research.
I would rather spend more time finding good products that could do well than waste time testing multiple products with Adverts.
Shopify is still VERY profitable and when done right the end result always makes it worth it.


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The deal includes an end to 24-hour on-call shifts plus other measures to reduce workloads and improve work-life balance. A committee will be set up to monitor compliance.
At the same time, Dutch water board workers have voted to accept a new collective agreement with a 3.5% pay increase backdated to 1 January 2018 and a further 3.25% as of 1 April 2019. It includes a €500 lump sum payment and improvements to the individual choice budget, which gives workers the option of choosing between other benefits such as increased leave.


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Which online gambling site has the new Thor slot machine?
I saw an ad for it early and I should have clicked on it because I haven't seen anything about this slot machine anywhere else? Does anyone know where I can play this or any similar slots online?
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Sticky: Feeling Suicidal, PLEASE Dial 911 or Crisis Hotline!!!
Symptoms on day 1 from anti dep??
How do I avoid overwhelming myself?
article about depression links between Fathers and Daughters.
Is it weird that thinking about someone keeps me from being suicidal?
What do you do when you want to give up...but can't?
Do you guys think virtual reality can help reduce depression?


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According to the group OurDC, grade schools in the nation’s capital are suffering from a lack of technology. Having set up a candlelight vigil this weekend at Turner at Green Elementary School in Southeast, they are campaigning for more iPads and high-tech schooling equipment, mentions an editorial from the Washington Times.
“My school needs the other apples,” protestors chanted. They were there to demand additional federal stimulus money be poured into the educational system.
But the amount of money the District spends per pupil is already considerable — especially the amount devoted to school administrators.
OurDC orchestrated the protest to push for a particular passage of President Obama’s American Jobs Act, which includes an $85 million handout that would allow schools to purchase electronic products from Cupertino.
But the Washington Times isn’t impressed.
The editorial points out that former D.C. schools chief Michelle Rhee showed that “writing a fat check to the existing bureaucracy” isn’t the key to success.
The Times editorial believes Rhee boosted test scores by shoving underperforming teachers and principals out the door, which annoyed the unions and entrenched bureaucracy to the point of her being forced to resign after the election of Mayor Vincent C. Gray.
Having accountable teachers devoted to instructing children on the fundamentals of reading, writing and arithmetic is what matters, not high-tech gizmos, writes the editorial.


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Spiro Agnew served as vice president under President Richard M. Nixon. Prior to becoming vice president, he served in other elected positions, becoming governor of Maryland in 1967. During his terms in other offices, suspicion grew that Agnew committed illegal acts that included bribery, income tax evasion, and other accusations.
The ensuing investigation essentially left Agnew little choice but to resign and admit to wrongdoing. In this post, Ira Riklis delves into the resignation that allowed Gerald Ford to become the 38th President of the United States.
After serving in the U.S. Army and then entering the political arena, Agnew won the election as Baltimore County Executive and then won the 1966 election to become Maryland’s governor. By this time, his presence started receiving notice from the Republican Party on a national level. Asked to submit the nomination of Richard M. Nixon as a presidential candidate, Nixon in turn named Agnew as his running mate during the Republican National Convention in 1968.
Demonstrating a hard-nosed attitude towards law and order and calling liberals “Un-American” appealed to Republicans at the time. After winning the Republican nomination, Nixon and Agnew defeated Democrats Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie. They then won re-election in the 1972 race for the White House.
Agnew likely had no idea that before he entered the White House, federal officials had already started formal investigations into suspected wrongdoing that dated back to Agnew’s days in Baltimore. In fact, The Nation points out that he allegedly accepted “Thousands of dollars” in bribes that not only dated back to his local and state office terms, but also extended to after he became U.S. Vice President.
The scandal and allegations also included charges of income tax evasion. The New York Times reported that Agnew failed to report nearly $30,000 in income on his 1967 income tax return. Information released included that the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Justice had obtained “incontrovertible evidence” as reported by New York Times.
Faced with the facts at hand, on October 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned his position. Just days earlier, he proclaimed that he “Will not resign if indicted!” yet he did just that.
His resignation did not come voluntarily, however. It was part of an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department. Agnew’s resignation avoided a potential prison sentence for his illegal activities. Although some likely expected it, the resignation still sent shockwaves through the White House and the country.
His resignation prompted Richard Nixon to start the search for a new vice president.
Richard Nixon selected Gerald Ford to fill the vacant seat of the vice president of the United States after Agnew’s resignation. Little did Nixon know what laid ahead for himself.
After Richard Nixon later resigned due to the Watergate Scandal and other controversies, the path to the White House became an easy one for Gerald Ford. On August 9, 1974, Gerald Ford became the 38th President of the United States, being next in line for the office of U.S. President.
Interestingly, Ford is the only individual to serve as both U.S. Vice President and as U.S. president without ever being elected to either office. Gerald Ford died December 26, 2006.
The FBI released detailed records from the FBI Vault regarding the investigations into wrongdoing committed by Spiro Agnew.

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ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 31, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT:RNN), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing best-in-class therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, today announced that Dr. Peter Suzdak, Ph.D., the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, will present at the 17th Annual Rodman and Renshaw Global Investment Conference sponsored by H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC.
Dr. Suzdak is scheduled to present at 11:40 a.m. EDT on Thursday, September 10, 2015 in the Louis XVI A (2nd Floor) conference room at the St. Regis Hotel, New York City.
A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available and can be accessed through the following hyperlink: http://wsw.com/webcast/rrshq25/rnn/index.aspx or from the Company’s website, under the “Investor Relations – Events and Presentations” section. An archived version of the webcast will be available on the Company’s website for 90 days.
Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NYSE MKT:RNN) is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing novel, best-in-class therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. The Company’s mission is to improve the lives of cancer patients by developing next generation cancer therapies that are designed to maximize efficacy while minimizing the toxicity and side effects traditionally associated with cancer treatment. Rexahn’s product candidates work by targeting and neutralizing specific proteins believed to be involved in the complex biological cascade that leads to cancer cell growth. Pre-clinical studies show that certain of Rexahn’s product candidates may be effective against multiple types of cancer, drug resistant cancers, and difficult-to-treat cancers, and others may augment the effectiveness of current FDA-approved cancer treatments. The Company has a broad oncology pipeline that includes three anti-cancer compounds currently in clinical development: Supinoxin™, RX-3117, and Archexin®, and a novel nanopolymer-based drug delivery platform technology that may increase the bio-availability of FDA-approved chemotherapies. For more information about the Company and its oncology programs, please visit www.rexahn.com.

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Such a lovely, gentle book. At first, I took issue with it that almost half of September had passed before I turned the last leaf. But then I was reminded, by wise readers with whom I blog, that good books take the time required. It is bad books that ought to be rushed through.
Trollope writes with the wisdom of an omniscient narrator, able to disclose the weakness of his characters with a discerning and gentle eye. He uses a term – hobbledehoyhood – to describe the stage of a boy growing up, and while this book may have been written in 1864, I can clearly see my own beloved son just now leaving this stage at 24 years of age.
Ah, but Johnny Eames is my favorite character in all the book. He thoroughly thrashes Adolphus Crosbie at the Paddington Railway Station, and well he should for all the wrong Crosbie has done to the lovely Lily Dale. Yet he saves Earl De Guest from the attack of a bull in his very own pasture, thereby earning himself an abiding affection from the earl. It takes a lot of work to grow up, apparently, to become a man, and John is not to be rewarded with Lily’s hand in this particular book. It’s enough to make me buy the final book in the series, The Last Chronicle of Barset, to see if they do in fact get together.
I leave this novel, and my post, with favorite passages I highlighted on the way. Perhaps they will give you an idea of the charm within its pages.
And here, I give a heartfelt thanks to Audrey, JoAnn and Lisa who kindly invited me to join their read-along. It was enriched on Twitter with so many comments and exclamations of surprise, as well as tender remembrances of fond characters met in the earlier novels. I came to the party late, but it was good to be included in the festivity, and to have my first taste of Trollope. What a sweet soul he is.
As are you, and it was so nice to have you with us! (I first read this book when I was 40 coincidentally, and it’s mortifying to realize that that first quote is about the only thing I remember about it – so it’s all fresh.
I bought the house we now live in at forty, and can hardly believe that it’s now fifteen years later. Another fifteen years and I’ll be…never mind. Still, isn’t it lovely to revisit a favorite book? I’m seriously tempted to carry on with you all into book six.
Oh, I so hope you will koi us! I’m closing in on the 70% mark of Small House now and am loving every moment. What a lovely time we’ve had on twitter this month!
the quotes are so intriguing. am I to understand there are prequels and sequels?
This book sounds truly wonderful, Bellezza. I’ve wanted to read something by AnthonyTrollope for some time now. I will keep an eye out for this one. Thank you for a superb review.
I had wanted to read Trollope for awhile as well, and this was the perfect opportunity. Now I’m “afraid” I’ll have to go on and read the last book of the series because I want to know what happens to everyone! By page 780+ the characters become friends. I hope you have the chance to read him soon.
Thank you, Bellezza. By the way, I like your new blog design. It is refined and elegant.
Sounds like you’ve been pleasantly surprised… I’ve been meaning to go back to Trollope at some point. I’ve only read one or two of his books and that was a long time ago, when I was nostalgic for England but before I was mature enough to really appreciate him.
What? You mean you don’t ‘do’ proper grammar in your part of the world? Ah, yes, crumpets for tea and the gorse-bush on either side of the twisty country lane… there are still some small parts of England like that.
I am not so sure about the condition of Trollope’s soul. He has an acid side, too, like his mentor Thackeray. You got a taster of that with Crosbie’s marriage. Small House is likely the sweetest of the Trollope novels I have read.
His acid side is so clearly represented in Crosbie, but it isn’t unwarranted. And I was touched by his gentle side in creating brave and true Lily, as well as Mr. Dale who can’t really say to his sister-in-law that he wants her to stay in the Small House in gentle terms. He must convey his want/need gruffly, but she is astute enough to see his heart. I think that for me, overall, Trollope must own a sweet soul as well.
Now I’m anxious to get to the last book and see how it all concludes. Thank you, too, Tom, for reminding me to take it slowly. Sometimes, I am like one of my third graders.
I am glad that you liked this so much. I loved this book too.
Johnny Eames may be my second favorite character in the The Chronicles of Barset after Mr. Crawley. I have an entire post dedicated to him and Lily. However, as he returns in the next book, it contains major spoilers.
I think I must go on in the Chronicles of Barset, now. It’s been fun to have your exchange of tweets with the others as we read, and thank you for commenting here. How lovely to get to know an author all of you are already well aware of.
I’m just starting with The Warden now. It is my choice for bookclub this month. I’m hoping to read some of it for the readathon tomorrow.
Oh, the read-a-thon! And somehow I’ve completely forgotten about it this year. Well, perhaps I can squeeze some time in tomorrow. At any rate, I hope you enjoy your Trollope choice. It will certainly take most of the read-a-thon hours, but is well worth the time spent.


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Title Itinerarium Symonis Semeonis ab Hybernia ad Terram Sanctam / edited by Mario Esposito.
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FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski gave a shout-out to Fox and Dish Friday for coming to agreement on a new retransmission consent/carriage deal, including restoring some Fox cable nets (including regional sports nets) that had been off Dish.
He called on Fox and Cablevision to follow suit.
"I welcome the news that Fox and Dish Network have agreed to extend their contract for carriage of Fox TV stations on Dish's satellite system," he said in a statement. "Their current contract was slated to expire at midnight this Sunday, and the extension ensures that there will be no interruption of Dish subscribers' ability to view the programming of these Fox stations.
"I am pleased that Fox and Dish have kept in mind their responsibility to protect consumers from blackouts when they negotiate carriage terms," he said, "I urge Fox and Cablevision to complete their negotiations and end the impasse that has disrupted service to viewers."
Fox stations have been off Cablevision systems serving New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia since Oct. 16.

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11 So the Lord said to Solomon: Since this is what you want, and you have not kept my covenant and the statutes which I enjoined on you, I will surely tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
30 Ahijah took off his new cloak, tore it into twelve pieces, 31 and said to Jeroboam: “Take ten pieces for yourself. Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I am about to tear the kingdom out of Solomon’s hand and will give you ten of the tribes.